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blake boyd

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BORN: October 1, 1970, Slidell, LA

EDUCATION: Memphis College of Art

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2003 Cheekwood Botanical Gardens and Museum of Art, Nashville, TN 2001 Galerie Simonne Stern, My Pinocchio Syndrome for Abigail, New Orleans, LA 2000 Barrister's Gallery, New Orleans, LA 1997 Contemporary Arts Center, Blake Boyd: Instant Pop, New Orleans, LA 1993 Hall-Barnett Gallery, Icons, New Orleans, LA

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2003 Carnegie-Melon University, Comic Release: Negotiating Identity for a New Generation, Pittsburgh, PA (traveling exhibition including Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA) 2000 Contemporary Arts Center, Under the Influence: Artist Reflect on the 20th Century, New Orleans, LA 1998 Gershwin Hotel, MA/13, New York, NY 1996 Contemporary Arts Center, The First New Orleans Banana Festival, New Orleans, LA 1995 Contemporary Arts Center, The Body Photographic, New Orleans, LA Contemporary Arts Center, Under Your Skin, New Orleans, LA 1994 Hall-Barnett Gallery, New Orleans, LA, June 4- August 6, 1994 Hall-Barnett Gallery, New Orleans, LA, December 4, 1993- January 4, 1994 1996 Hall-Barnett Gallery, New Orleans, LA, October 2- November 27, 1993 Hall-Barnett Gallery, New Orleans, LA, December 10, 1992- January 10, 1993 1992 Contemporary Arts Center, Discovering Columbus, New Orleans, LA Hall-Barnett Gallery, New Orleans, LA, September 24- October 24, 1992 Hall-Barnett Gallery, New Orleans, LA, June 27- July 27, 1992 Hall-Barnett Gallery, New Orleans, LA, May 21- June 21, 1992 Hall-Barnett Gallery, New Orleans, LA, March 28- April 28, 1992 Hall-Barnett Gallery, New Orleans, LA, November 21- January 1, 1992 1991 Hall-Barnett Gallery, New Orleans, LA, October 17- November 17, 1991 Hall-Barnett Gallery, New Orleans, LA, September 14- October 14, 1991 Contemporary Arts Center, Artists On War: An Open Forum, New Orleans, LA 1990 Miriam Walmsley Gallery, New Orleans, LA, July 12- September 8

HONORS

Percent For Art, Purchase prize, Arts Council of New Orleans

ARTICLES AND PUBLICATIONS

Roger Green, Review, The Times Picayune, September 22, 1991 John Kemp, Review, The Times Picayune, January 16, 1992 Carol Wolfram, The Times Picayune, February 13, 1992 Michelle Dugan, Where Magazine, New Orleans, LA, March 1992 Terrington Calas, Review, The Times Picayune, September 4, 1992 Terrington Calas, Review, The New Orleans Art Review, September/October, 1992 Lily Jackson, Review, The Times Picayune, October 3, 1992 D. Eric Bookhardt, Review, Gambit, June 1, 1993 Lew Thomas, The Body Photographic, (Exhibition Catalogue), New Orleans, LA, Contemporary Arts Center, 1995 S. Jason Prohaska, Featured Artist, Honcho, August 1997 Honcho, featured Artist: Billy Name, Photo Credit, October 1997 John Good, Prophecy of Pop, (Exhibition Catalogue), New Orleans, LA, Contemporary Arts Center, 1998

FILM VIDEO AND PHOTOGRAPHY

Photobooth Project on Taylor Mead, October 23-30, 1995, New Orleans, LA,-With Film and Video Photobooth Project on Billy Name, March 11-18, 1996, New Orleans, LA, -With Film and Video Photobooth Project on London, June 23-August 7, 1996

SELECTED SUBJECTS IN PHOTOBOOTH

Peter Blake, Billy Name, Derek Boshier, John Scott, David Bradshaw, Andres Serrano, Tracey Emin, Tom Sokolowski, Ivan Karp, Georgina Starr, Ronnie Kole, Wolfgang Tillmans, Edward Lucie-Smith, Gillian Wearing, Taylor Mead

SELECTED COLLECTIONS

Arts Council, New Orleans, LA Drs. Wesley and Theonia Boyd, Northampton, MA Jeff Cook, New Orleans, LA Robert Craddock, Memphis, TN Jeff Diller, Los Angeles, CA Carol Ann Dunn, Jackson, MS Matthew Field, New York, NY Gershwin Hotel, New York, NY Dr. and Mrs. Warren Gottsegen, Metairie, LA Elizabeth Jackson, New Orleans, LA Cynthia Knott, East Hampton, NY Lambert and Nelson, Attorneys, New Orleans, LA Billy Name, Poughkeepsie, NY Duane Rutledge, New Orleans, LA Lew Thomas, New Orleans, LA Robert Tudor, III, Houston, TX