CV
J. CHALET COMELLAS
Born 1971, Tampa FL, lives and works in Nashville, TN.
Education
2012 MFA, Interdisciplinary Art, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
2001 BFA, Studio Arts, University of Tampa, Tampa, FL
Upcoming Exhibitions
Nov 2023
Do I contain multitudes? and other questions for Carebots, Solo Exhibition, Zeitgeist Gallery, Nashville, TN
Exhibitions
2022
Delivery Systems, University of Arizona, Joseph Gross Gallery, Tucson, AZ
Tracked Prints // Layered Sounds, MAPC Conference, Power of Print, Kent State University, Kent, OH
The Leftovers, Elephant Gallery, Nashville, TN
Subsequent Layers, curated by Ry McCollough, Ferman Center for the Arts, University of Tampa, Tampa, FL
2021
Terrain Biennial 2021, K.I.T. hosted by Terrain Exhibitions, Oak Park, IL
Dancing at Intersections, Solo Exhibition, Atrium Videos, Bloomsburg University, Bloomsburg, PA
Moving in Spatial Limbo, Solo Exhibition, <Terminal> Gallery, Clarksville, TN
Radical Thoughts, Museum of Contemporary Art Nashville, Nashville, TN
2020
APSU Faculty Triennial, Austin Peay State University, Clarksville, TN
Space Case: Making a case for artist-run spaces, LAB space, Hillsdale, NY
Subcendent and so on, Goodyear Arts, Charlotte, NC
2019
Educators as Artists, Albany Museum of Art, Albany GA
FSU Faculty Exhibition, Museum of Fine Arts, Tallahassee, FL
2018
Comma Room, Haas Gallery, Bloomsburg University, Bloomsburg, PA
Moving Bodies - Moving Images, Facility for Arts Research, Tallahassee, FL
Commabox, curated by Judy Rushin, Happy Motoring, Tallahassee, FL
ArtFields, Lake City, SC, 1st Place Award: Digital Media Category
FSU Faculty Exhibition, Museum of Fine Arts, Tallahassee, FL
2017
InLight Richmond, in collaboration with Clint Sleeper and Mark Baker, juried by Nate Trotman, organized by 1708 Gallery, Richmond, VA
P.S. Satellites: A Project of Prospect New Orleans: ART I-10, curated by Mary Beyt and Brian Guidry, Acadiana Center for the Arts, Lafayette, LA
Atlanta Zine Fest, Murmur Media, Atlanta, GA
HUDDLE, curated by, Kristine Schomaker, Shoebox Projects, Los Angeles, CA
Little Triggers, juried by Duke Riley, Tempus Projects, Tampa, FL
Amply & Multiply, The Press at Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO
Chalet Comellas, Assembly Is Required, Solo Exhibition, 621Gallery, Tallahassee, FL
FSU Faculty Exhibition, Museum of Fine Arts, Tallahassee, FL
2016
InLight Richmond, juried by Ellina Kevorkian, organized by 1708 Gallery, Richmond, VA
EMBODY EMBED INVOKE, Eyedrum Art & Music Gallery, Atlanta, GA
BRAVA, The Studio@620, St. Petersburg, FL
FSU Faculty Exhibition, Museum of Fine Arts, Tallahassee, FL
Working Memory, Solo Exhibition, Wolpert Gallery, Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Gatlinburg, TN
2015
Systematic Attempts in Lyrical Arrangements, University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma, Chickasha, OK
FSU Faculty Exhibition, Museum of Fine Arts, Tallahassee, FL
Assembly Is Required: WISH, PORTSPACE, Gulfport, FL
2014
Assembly Is Required: ONWARD, Print St. Pete Studios, Gulfport, FL
InLight Richmond, in collaboration with Christina Poindexter, juried by Denise Markonish, organized by 1708 Gallery, Richmond, VA
Variance / Invariance, in collaboration with Judy Rushin and Christina Poindexter, Flash Point Gallery, Washington D.C.
Making Now, in collaboration with Judy Rushin and Christina Poindexter, Museum of Fine Arts, Florida State University. Tallahassee FL
2013
Mudlark Report: Artist in Residence Exhibition in collaboration with Analog Analogue, 621Gallery, Tallahassee, FL
FSU Faculty Exhibition, Museum of Fine Arts, Tallahassee, FL
2012
Have Your Cake and Eat It Too-Re/Mix Birthday Edition, C. Emerson Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, FL
Knock on Wood, in collaboration with Analog Analogue, 621Gallery, Tallahassee, FL
FOCUS GROUP, in collaboration with Analog Analogue. Working Method Contemporary, Tallahassee, FL
2011
Catastrophe in Low Contrast, Solo Exhibition, SMALLS, Tallahassee, FL
Furred, Tallahassee Museum, Tallahassee, FL
Vignettes, C. Emerson Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, FL
Contain it, Dunedin Fine Arts Center, Dunedin, FL
Artist’s Living Room II, in collaboration with Analog Analogue,
Working Method Contemporary, Tallahassee, FL
We’re Fans, in collaboration with Analog Analogue, Working Method Contemporary, Tallahassee, FL
Cave Paintings, in collaboration with Analog Analogue, Working Method Contemporary, Tallahassee, FL
Bang on it, in collaboration with Analog Analogue, Working Method Contemporary, Tallahassee, FL
2010
Grounded, 621 Gallery, Tallahassee, FL
Artist’s Living Room, in collaboration with Analog Analogue, Working Method Contemporary, Tallahassee, FL
Camera Obscura, in collaboration with Analog Analogue, Big Bend Contemporary, Tallahassee, FL
2009
Bovarnick, Comellas, Neri: Three Artists, Scarfone-Hartley Gallery, University of Tampa, Tampa, FL
Pinnacle, National Juried Exhibition, Florida A&M University, Tallahassee, FL
Florida Visual Metaphor, Gallery for Innovation & the Arts, Florida Division of Cultural Affairs, Tallahassee, FL
Take Out, Brevard Museum of Art, Melbourne, FL
2008
Visual Vocabulary, Solo Exhibition, Lake Eustis Museum of Art, Eustis, FL
WHITE BOX GROUP SHOW: 2, 5 Art Gallery, Tampa, FL
WTA, curated by Elaine Gustavson, Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL
Retro-Perspectives, group show curated by The Exhibitionists, Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL
2007
Cognitive Romance, Mahaffey Theatre, Progress Energy Center for the Arts, St Petersburg, FL
Spirituality and Materialism, C. Emerson Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, FL
56th Annual All Florida Exhibition, juried by, John Henry, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL
Chalet Comellas, Recent Works, Solo Exhibition, SPASM Gallery Ybor City, Tampa, FL
2006
Autumn, Solo Exhibition, C. Emerson Gallery, St. Petersburg, FL
Entre Chien et Loup, Blue Acier Gallery, Tampa, FL
Biennial: Landscape in the Postmodern, Juried exhibition, Brad Cooper Gallery, Tampa, FL
14th All Florida Juried Exhibition, juried by Donald Kuspit, Morean Art Center, St. Petersburg, FL
2005
2D-3D 2005, Alliance for the Arts, Ft. Myers, FL
Familia de Comellas, Solo Exhibition, Artists Unlimited, Tampa, FL
Performances
2013
Continuous Action, in collaboration with Analog Analogue, curated by Grace Exhibition Space, Brooklyn, NY
Mudlark Report: Artist in Residence Exhibition, performance in collaboration with Analog Analogue, 621Gallery, Tallahassee, FL
2012
Have Your Cake and Eat It Too-Re/Mix Birthday Edition, C. Emerson Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, FL
INVASIONS OF THE SURREAL, CONTEMPORARY VISUAL PERFORMANCE, curated by Jill McDermid-Hokanson, Grace Exhibition Space, exhibiting at Fountain Art Fair, Miami, FL
2011
Working Method Collective Performances, exhibiting at Fountain Art, Miami, FL
Selected Fairs & Screening Events
2022
Heroic Couplets Project, GENDERBEND: 8 Poetry into Film Collaborations, Kindling Arts Festival + Defy Film Festival, OZ Arts Nashville, Nashville, TN
2021
Miami New Media Festival, Centro Cultural UCAB, Caracas; Cielito Tinto, La Waffleria, San Cristóbal; The Center for Fine Arts, Ateneo, de Maracaibo, Venezuela
Philadelphia Media Arts Encounter Belonging: Imagining and remaking home in pandemic times, Nomadic Street Projections, Philadelphia, PA
2020
Miami New Media Festival, Doral Contemporary Art Museum, Miami, FL; Laundromat Art Gallery, Miami, FL; Museo Archaelogico di Olbia, Cerdeña, Italy; Cas di Cultura, Oranjestad, Aruba; airWG, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2017
The Common Table, Toronto Art Book Fair, Toronto, Canada
2006
Nueva Vida, Gala Corina, Tampa, FL
2005
Solo Project Space, MAYFAIRE, juried art fair, Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, FL
Selected Online Exhibitions
2020
Tracked Prints // Layered Sounds, presented small bars at the 2020 MAPC Remote Symposium, Kent State University, Kent, OH
VOTE!! A Mail Art Project, online exhibition of mail art, archived in the Special Collections Library, Vanderbilt University
My View from Home, online exhibition of mail art, archived in the Special Collections Library, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
Connected // Connecting // Always and Especially Now, Stove Works, Chattanooga, TN March
Residencies/Awards/Grants
2020 Visiting Artist-In-Residence, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
2018 Faculty in Residence, Facility for Arts Research at FSU, Tallahassee, FL
2018 Juror's Award, Digital Media Category: ARTFIELDS, Lake City, SC
2018 Deans Travel Grant, CFA, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
2018 Professional Development Grant, Florida State University
2017 Professional Development Grant, Florida State University
2016 Professional Development Grant, Florida State University
2015 Professional Development Grant, Florida State University
2015 Arrowmont, Artist in Residence, Finalist, Gatlinburg, TN
2013 Artist in Residence, 621 Gallery, Tallahassee, FL
2009 Graduate Research Fellowship, Florida State University
Selected Bibliography
Journals / Books
2021 “Assembly is Required: MANIFESTO,” MAPC Journal, Tipping Point, Vol. 32-33, Spring, 2021
2013 Sherman, W., Playing with Sketches: 50 Creative Exercises for Designers and Artists, Rockport Press.
Magazines, Newspapers, Radio, Podcasts & Online Media
2022 “Raheleh Filsoofi's Sculpture Video Installation Is a Meditative Mouthful, Artifacting is at Unrequited Leisure through June 30, Joe Nolan, Nashville Scene, May 26
2021 Nicole Kutz, Chalet Comellas-Baker: Interrogating the Performance of Identity, Art Spiel, August 20
2021 Vivian Liddell, Episode 34 – Chalet Comellas-Baker, Making Art Among Nashville Sounds, May 20
2021 Rachel Bubis, Gallery Visit: MOCAN, Locate Arts, May 27
2021 “Best New Alternative Display", Writer’s Choice, AIR Space at Unrequited Leisure,” Joe Nolan, Nashville Scene, October 14
2020 Anne Stagg and Laura Tanner, The Open Call Podcast with Chalet Comellas-Baker, The Open Call Podcast, October 29
2020 “Best Online Exhibitions, Writer’s Choice, Unrequited Leisure,” Laura Hutson Hunter, Nashville Scene, October 15
2020 “The Pandemic Closed Art Galleries’ Doors, but Who Needs Four Walls and Ceiling?,” TIME Magazine, June 11
2020 “Space Case: making a case for artist-run spaces,” Art Valley, April 18
2020 What We Are Reading Now, The Program, Art & Tech Newsletter, Art in America, March 12
2019 Elysia Mann, Gallery Visit: Unrequited Leisure, with Clint Sleeper, The Focus, Locate Arts, September 30
2018 “ArtFields Winners Collectively Take Home $120K in Prizes,” BURNAWAY, April
2018 “Artists see Interstate 10 as a Muse,” The Vermillion, January 30
2017 “InLight Richmond looks to a Famous Carnival More Than a Century Ago,” Style Weekly, October 31
2017 “MoFA shows art with international flair,” Tallahassee Democrat, September 21
2012 “Two directions: C. Emerson and Mindy Solomon
St. Pete’s top private galleries travel different, but equally significant, paths," Creative Loafing, January 21
2011 “DFAC hosts annual ‘Contain It!’ event,” TBN Weekly, March 7
2010 “C. Emerson Fine Arts and Mindy Solomon Gallery exhibits pair portraiture, narration,” Tampa Bay Times, June 30
2009 Mary Glenney and Arlene Englehart, A Women’s Place, Radio, WMNF FM 88.5, October 29
2008 “Artist connects the dots to connect with us,” Orlando Sentinel, July 21
2007 “Art Questions if Spirit Matters,” Tampa Bay Times, November 26
Catalogs
2020 "Art Freedom and Control, Miami New Media Festival," catalog essay by Pietro Dapranodom.
2014 “Still Buzzing After All These Years, Making Now: Open for Exchange,” catalog essay by Shane Selzer, Tallahassee, FL, Florida State University Press.
2011 “SIX” College of Visual Art Theatre and Dance, Florida State University.
2009 “Bovarnick, Comellas, Neri: Three Artists,” catalog essay by Stacey Rosende, University of Tampa, Tampa, FL, University of Tampa Press.
Talks and Presentations
2022 Class talk, The business of art, University of Arts and Science of Oklahoma, OK
2021 Class talk, Collaborative Practice, Stevens Institute of Technology, NJ
2020 Panelist, The Civic-minded Art Practice, Watkins College of Art and Design, Nashville, TN
2018 Panelist, Art I-10, Acadiana Center for the Arts, Lafayette, LA
2018 Artist talk, Assembly is Required, Acadiana Center for the Arts, Lafayette, LA
2016 Artist talk, Embody Embed Invoke, Eyedrum Art and Music Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2016 Artist talk, BRAVA, The Studio@620, Saint Petersburg, FL
2016 Artist talk, Working Memory, Arrowmont School of Arts and Craft, Gatlinburg, TN
2015 Artist talk, Systematic Attempts in Lyrical Arrangements, University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma, Chickasha, OK
2013 Artist Talk, TEDx FSU Digital Direction, Florida State University along with artistic collaborators, Marnie Bettridge, Jay Corrales, Tyler Dearing, and Christina Poindexter, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
2009 Artist Talk, Bovarnick, Comellas, Neri: Three Artists, Scarfone-Hartley Gallery, University of Tampa, Tampa, FL
Collections
2022 Soho House Nashville, Nashville, TN
2020 Vanderbilt University Library, Special Collections, Nashville, TN
2016 Colorado College Library, Special Collections, Colorado Springs, CO
2006 Tampa General Hospital Foundation, curated by Marilyn Mars, Tampa, FL
2005 Urban Atmospheres, Banner Project, City of Tampa Public Art, Tampa, FL
Curatorial Experience
2022 Vidya Giri + Maria Molteni, Mediating, Co-curated with Clint Sleeper, Unrequited Leisure, Nashville, TN
2022 Raheleh Filsoofi, Artifacting, Unrequited Leisure, Nashville, TN
2022 Mary Addison Hackett, Anonymous was a Vlog, Unrequited Leisure, Nashville, TN
2021 Liz Clayton Scofield: The play’s the thing, solo exhibition, Unrequited Leisure, Nashville, TN
2021-22 AIR_(space), flagpole gallery, Nashville, TN
2020 Adjusting the Lens FEST!, Experimental Video and Film Fest, Unrequited Leisure, Nashville, TN
2020 JPEGS (Joint Photographic Experts Group Show), with Clint Sleeper, Unrequited Leisure Online, Nashville, TN
2020 Future Framed Works, Group exhibition featuring: Liat Berdugo, Gabriella Torres-Ferrer, Rebecca Forstater, and Bahareh Khoshooee, with Clint Sleeper, Unrequited Leisure Online, Nashville, TN
2020 <i>also<i/>tubes, Group exhibition featuring: Faith Holland, Amay Kataria, Everest Pipkin, Jeff Thompson, Lee Tussman, with Clint Sleeper, Unrequited Leisure, Nashville, TN
2020 Anxious to Make, Collaborative exhibition featuring: Liat Berdugo and Emily Martinez, with Clint Sleeper, Unrequited Leisure, Nashville, TN
2020 Do Over, Group exhibition featuring: Alla Clarke, Carrie Fonder, Steve Giasson, Myriam Jacob-Allard, Julie Lequin, Kelly Lloyd, and Nathaniel Wong, co-organized with Clint Sleeper, Didier Morelli, and Ariele Dionne-Krosnick, Good Sport Gallery, London, Ontario, CA
2019 What’s so Funny About the End of the World?, Middle Tennesssee State University, featuring: Patrick DeGuira, Craig Drennen, Lilian Garcia-Roig, Kristi Hargrove, Ron Lambert, Judy Rushin, and Clint Sleeper
2019 Terra Nullius, Solo exhibition featuring Christopher Kardambikis, Unrequited Leisure, Nashville, TN
2019 Hystrionics, Two-person exhibition featuring, Eleanor Aldrich and Guen Montgomery, Unrequited Leisure, Nashville, TN
2019 Adjusting the Lens: PLAY, a screening of experimental videos, with Clint Sleeper, Unrequited Leisure, Nashville, TN
2019 Critical Distance, Solo exhibition featuring, Carolina Cleere,” Unrequited Leisure, Nashville, TN
2019 Re: tracing, Solo Exhibition featuring, Kelly Hider, Unrequited Leisure, TN
2019 This is Madness: A Proof, Solo Exhibition featuring Carolyn Henne, Unrequited Leisure, Nashville, TN
2019 Frameworks, Collective exhibition featuring the works ILSSA union members, Unrequited Leisure, Nashville, TN
2019 Act IV Scene, III, Solo Exhibition featuring Craig Drennen, Unrequited Leisure, Nashville, TN
2019 Judy Rushin Wears Weelsee Wen, Solo Exhibition featuring Judy Rushin, Unrequited Leisure, Nashville, TN
2019 Do Over, Group exhibition featuring: Allana Clarke, Carrie Fonder, Steve Giasson, Myriam Jacob-Allard, Julie Lequin, Kelly Lloyd, and Nathaniel Wong, co-organized with Clint Sleeper, Didier Morelli, and Ariele Dionne-Krosnick, Unrequited Leisure, Nashville, TN
2019 PRINT+SYSTEMS+SOUND, Group Exhibition featuring: John C. Kelley, Sam King, Abigail Lucien, and Elysia Mann, Unrequited Leisure, Nashville, TN
2019 A Beautiful Mess, Group exhibition featuring: Karen Brooks, Chris Simpson, and Jim DeVault, Unrequited Leisure, Nashville, TN
2019 Adjusting the Lens: FSU, Experimental film screening featuring: George Jenne, Julietta Cheung, Peter Whittenberger, Justin Lincoln, Monica Cook, Toby Kaufmann-Buhler, Alma Leiva, Kelly Sears, Jason Bernagozzi, with Clint Sleeper, Museum of Fine Arts, Tallahassee, FL
2019 Adjusting the Lens: PERFORM, Experimental film screening featuring: Julietta Cheung, Rah Eleh, George Jenne, Lydia Moyer, Stephen Nachtigall, and Jordan Vinyard, with Clint Sleeper Unrequited Leisure, Nashville, TN
2019 Disagreeable Giver, Solo exhibition, Marc Mitchell, Unrequited Leisure, Nashville, TN
2018 By Virtue of Place, Group exhibition featuring: Nick Collier, Elizabeth DiDonna, Amy Fleming, Becki Rutta, Alejandro Simon, with Christina Poindexter, Marco Island Center for the Arts, Marco Island, FL