Master of Fine Arts, Art Center College of Art and Design, Pasadena, California
Bachelor of Arts, Philosophy, University of Toronto, Canada
Mario Cutajar's writing has appeared in Artscene, Art + Text, LA Weekly, Artweek, Visions, and other publications. He has published seven artist books. He is the past recipient of an NEA Fellowship (Painting), a fellowship at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris, and a Pollock-Krasner grant. His current area of interest is the relationship between art and the sacred.
Mario has been teaching part-time at Otis since Fall 2008.
- 1991, National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship (Painting)
- 1990, Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant
- 2012, Civil War, Jb Jurve, Los Angeles
- 2010, Our Coming Was Expected, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena
- 2009, Re:Visit, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena
- 2008, Marginalia, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena
- 2006, DPI, Kellogg Gallery, Cal Poly. Pomona
- 2004, enGENDERING the future, SCA Project Gallery, Pomona
In America Now, Don O’Melveny Gallery, West Hollywood
I have contributed numerous essays and reviews to such art publications as Artscene, Artweek, Art & Text,
L.A. Weekly and others since 1990. I have also written a number of catalogue essays. To peruse an online
archive of my published essays and reviews, please visit plasticregime.wordpress.com.
ARTIST’S BOOKS:
- 2023, See Section, Lisp Press, Los Angeles
- 2017, Index, Lisp Press, Los Angeles
- 2016, Textile, Lisp Press, Los Angeles
Country, Lisp Press, Los Angeles
Crush, Lisp Press, Los Angeles - 2013, through, Lisp Press, Los Angeles
Herd, Lisp Press, Los Angeles - 2011, Civil War, Lisp Press, Los Angeles
Dispersion, Lisp Press, Los Angeles
2008-present, Lecturer at Otis College of Art and Design. Los Angeles, California
Courses Taught: Pop Art and its Legacy, Abstraction Past and Present, Representations of Class, Contemporary Art Survey, Capstone, Postmodern Theory, Birth of the Modern, Introduction to Visual Culture, Art of Islam