Education
- Master of Fine Arts, Art Center College of Art and Design, Pasadena, California
- Bachelor of Arts, Philosophy, University of Toronto, Canada
Bio and Affiliation
Mario Cutajar is an artist and writer.
His writing about art has appeared in Artscene, Art + Text, LA Weekly, Artweek, Visions, and other publications.
He has contributed essays to the catalogs of several exhibitions, the latest to the 2024 retrospective of Marc Leuthold's work at Shiwan Ceramic Museum in Guangdong, China.
He has published nine 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.
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Awards and Honors
- 1993, Residency at Cité Internationale des Arts 1
- 1991, National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship (Painting)
- 1990, Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant
Professional Accomplishments/ Exhibitions
- 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
- 2004, In America Now, Don O’Melveny Gallery, West Hollywood
Publications:
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
Clients and Employment History:
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
- Theories and Trends