Tom Curtis
Born: March 27, 1953 Elk City Oklahoma USA
Education
AA Rose College Oklahoma City, 1973
Midwest City High School 1971
Selected Exhibitions and Performance / Installations
"2 Pi r" Somarts Main Gallery, SomArts Cultural Center San Francisco, July 2007
Art SF "Hell Iz Other People" Group Show 2005
Fruitful Grounds San Francisco Solo Show 2003
Terrain Gallery "Ha!" Selections from the Mirth CollectionGroup Show 1997
Terrain Gallery “Pedagogical Practices 125:” 1996
Copperfield’s Gallery One person show, Petaluma, California 1996
"Futuretribe" at "Gathering of the Tribes" Installation performance Shoreline Amphitheater 1990
"Museek" performance at Bill Graham's Wolfgangs Feral Theatre1986
"Return of Tut" Installation at the Art Hotel 1985
“Working Live" Installation and performance Emmanuel Walter Gallery SF 1985
Mill Valley Film Festival video "Skeptical Vessel" 1984, "Happenstance" 1985
"Sexual Hysteria" ATA event "Take a Look" video at Club 181 San Fran. 1983
"Siege of State" Installation sound sculpture performance SF State Univ. 1981
ARE "Artist's Revolution in the Eighties" Gallery 1980 and 1982 '
"Chopsticks and Sauerkraut" performance w/ rock band "Ultrasheen" @ the Savoy Tivoli 1981
Solo Art Exhibit Redmoon Gallery San Francisco 1980
Diego Rivera Gallery Sept. 1979
"Discovered in New York" Solo multimedia Performance San Fran. Art Institute Theater 1978
Numerous works and exhibitions in collaboration with performance art group "Sonezone" and the art band "The Cooties"1979-1990 "Massa Confusa" performance San Francisco1983
"B'Wana Breath" performance San Francisco1982
Teaching experience
Teaching Assistant to Ivan Majdrakoff and Tom Akawie San Francisco Art Institute 1980-81
San Francisco State Univ. Creative arts dept. "Multimedia Art" 1987-'88
Awards
San Francisco Art Institue Painting Award 1979
Sony "Visions of US" Video Competition American Film Institute 1983-84
Political Cartoon Award, Oklahoma Collegiate Press Assoc. 1973
"Young Artist Award" Oklahoma Art Center 1969-71
Special Projects
San Francisco Art Institute Alumni Website "The Internet as an art medium" '96
"Love Bomb" Art direction for rock band "The Tubes" 1993
"Earth Versus the Flying Saucers" Video animation for the Residents CD ROM "Freak Show" 1986
"Skidzone" Ambient video art for nightclubs 1984
"The Desert Project" Black Rock Desert Nevada with Ann Lorraine Labriola 1978
Saks Fifth Avenue Construction Wall Mural Project 1980
"Ethnic Notions" video project, Digital graphics; director Marlon T. Riggs 1986
