Jim Skuldt

Artist’s Statement

I look at my practice as an opportunity to revisit collective stunted curiosities—to reconsider collective understandings of the world which have stalled at the pre-teen level—to channel grade-school misunderstandings through remedial art-therapeutic practices while confined to an adult brain. I like to look at the way things behave—as they shift, move or relate to one another—and the various means of cataloguing, describing or conflating these trajectories—all this, to reflect grossly inbred conceptions of the physical and translated realities that we construct and inhabit simultaneously.

Website: skuldt.com

Biography

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2014
WATER & POWER, Todd Madigan Gallery, Bakersfield, CA

2013
ISLAND EFFECTS, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA

2011
CROP CIRCLE (Int’l) CAKE PLUG, LTD Gallery Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA

2010
The Potato Eaters, SecondRoom, Antwerp, BE

Selected Group Exhibitions

2013
Endless Bummer II: Still Bummin’, Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY

2012
This Mortal Coil, The Taut & Tame, Berlin, DE

2010
Jerry/Jury-Rigged, Glendale College Art Gallery, Glendale, CA

Selected Community Based Artworks

2011
Oh my, Oh my: from the annals of the great telepathic affair, SLICA, Johannesburg, South Africa

2010
WILD BLUE, Splace/TV Tower, Berlin, DE

2010
Skelturd’s Norginomical Star Chart, Dispatches and Directions, Art2102 Los Angeles

2009
VOLKSBRÄUNE (The People’s Brown), Gerichtstrasse 52a, Berlin, DE

Fellowships and Awards

2014
Rauschenberg Foundation, Artist in Residence, Captiva, FL

2013
Center for the Art of Performance UCLA, Artist in Residence, Los Angeles, CA

2012
Creative Capital Grant (Muriel Pollia Foundation Awardee)
Harpo Foundation Grant (3 years funded 2012-2015)

EDUCATION

2005
MFA, California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), Valencia, CA

1994
BS, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI