SCOTT SHORT
Scott Short’s works explore the relationship between the mechanical and hand-made, the original and the copy,
abstraction and representation. The genesis of these elaborately rendered paintings begins as simple colored
construction paper that the artist copies on a black-and-white photocopying machine. He then takes that first copy
and repeats the copying process, perhaps a dozen times, or as many as several hundred times, until the layering of
copy over copy creates an image that Scott finds appealing - in effect these images emerge from the “flaws” that
are inherent to this process. The final chosen image is then photographed and projected onto a large primed canvas,
where Short begins a meticulous rendering of the original using black oil paint or india ink.
Currently based in Vallauris, France, Short received his MFA and BFA from Ohio State University. His work has
been included in the 2010 Whitney Biennial and in group exhibitions entitled “Gerhard Richter and the
Disappearance of the Image in Contemporary Art” at the Centro di Cultura Contemporanea Strozzina, Palazzo
Strozzi, Florence, Italy and at the Gladstone Gallery, Brussels, Belgium. He also had a solo exhibition at The
Renaissance Society at The University of Chicago for which a catalog was produced. In addition to the Orange
County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA, his work is in the collections of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery,
Buffalo, NY and the Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH.
Born 1964 in Marion, OH
Lives and works in Vallauris, France
Education
1990
1988
M.F.A. The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
B.F.A. The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
Solo Exhibitions
2014
More and the Same, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2012
The Excluded Middle, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2010
Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2009
Cardi Black Box, Milan, Italy
2008
Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2007
The Renaissance Society at The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2002
Full Color Reproduction, Standard Gallery, Chicago, IL
1996
Acme Art Company, Columbus, OH
Group Exhibitions
2013
A Study in Midwestern Appropriation, The Hyde Park Center, Chicago, IL, curated by Michelle Grabner
2012
Decade: Contemporary Collection 2002-2012, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
2011
Ginny Bishton, Ingrid Calame, and Scott Short, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2010
Painting Extravaganza, Cardi Black Box, Milan, Italy
Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Gerhard Richter and the Disappearance of the Image in Contemporary Art, Centro di Cultura Contemporanea
Strozzina, Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, Italy
2008
No Information Available, curated by Francesco Bonami, (inaugural exhibition) Gladstone Gallery, Brussels
2007
Not Fade Away, Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL
Brickley, Mellor, Short, Warr, and Duravcevic, Yvon Lambert Gallery, New York, NY
2006
Takeover, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL
Song for…, Catich Gallery, St Ambrose University, Davenport, IA
Mad, Bad, and Street Legal, Open End, Chicago, IL
2005
Matthew Girson, Scott Short, Scott Stack, Gahlberg Gallery, College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, IL
2004
Pay Attention, UnitB Gallery, Chicago, IL
Varied Marks: Contemporary Drawings and Works on Paper, University of St. Francis, Joliet, IL
fitter, happier: an exhibition concerning technology, Depaul University Museum, Chicago, IL
Chicago, Chicago, Chicago, Raid Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2003
New American Talent 18, Jones Center for Contemporary Art, Austin, TX, University Gallery, Texas A&M,
Commerce, TX
2002
The Stray Show, Standard Gallery, Chicago, IL
2001
Dracula, The Creature from the Black Lagoon, Cro-Magnon Man, and Pig, Traumaspace, Chicago, IL
Works by recipients of The ArtCouncil/Chicago’s 2001 Grants to Individual Artists, Gallery 312, Chicago, IL
2000
Intonations, A.R.C. Gallery, Chicago, IL
Out of Line, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL
Bad Directions, Gallery 312, Chicago, IL
1998
Peter Miller Gallery, Chicago, IL
1997
Peter Miller Gallery, Chicago, IL
1994
Profiles, Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago, IL
1991
J. Rosenthal Fine Arts, Chicago, IL
Awards
2005
Fellowship, The Illinois Arts Council
2001
Jurors’ Award, The ArtCouncil, San Francisco, CA
Publications
2010
Scott Short, Grabner, Michelle and Hamza Walker, Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, Chicago, IL.
Whitney Biennial (2010), Bonami, Francesco and Gary Carrion-Murayari, Whitney Museum of American Art, New
York, NY.
Gerhard Richter and the Disappearance of the Image in Contemporary Art, Bradburne, James et al. Fondazione
Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, Italy.
Bibliography
2010
Maschietti, Giacomo N., “Painting Extravaganza”. Flash Art, December 2010.
Ollman, Leah. “Turning Copies into Originals,” Los Angeles Times, May 28, 2010.
Goldman, Edward, “Making the Most of It…”. KCRW, May 18, 2010
Cotter, Holland. “At a Biennial on a Budget, Tweaking and Provoking,” The New York Times, February 26, 2010
Picard, Charmaine. “A new era of ‘self modernity’,” The Art Newspaper, February 2010.
2009
Smaldone, Andrew. “Scott Short,” ArtReview, October 2009.
Vanzetto, Chiara, Della Copia L'Originale, Corriere Della Sera, May 26, 2009.
2008
Schad, Ed. “A Look at Scott Short,” ArtSlant, March 2008.
2007
Yood, James. “Scott Short,” Artforum, 2007.
Burgher, Elijah. “Scott Short,” ArtUS, 2007.
MacAdam, Barbara. “New Abstractions,” ArtNews, April 2007.
Estevez, Ruth. “Scott Short,” ArtNews, March 2007.
Camper, Fred. “Art Without Ego,” The Chicago Reader, February 9, 2007.
Sholis, Brian. “Scott Short,” Artforum, February 8,2009, <http://artforum.com/archive/id=12753>.
Camper, Fred, “Art Without Ego,” Chicago Reader, February 2007.
Artner, Alan. “Short Embraces Laborious Process,” The Chicago Tribune, January 18, 2007.
2004
Artner, Alan. “Happier Embraces Technology Through Paintings, Needlework,” The Chicago Tribune, April 8,
2004.
2003
Artner, Alan. “Scott Short,” The Chicago Tribune, April 18, 2003.
2002
Camper, Fred. “Blank Expressions,” The Chicago Reader, October 11, 2002.
Collections
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH
Leal Rios Foundation, Lisbon
Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA