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MALCOLM McCLAY : Resume

   

EDUCATION

1992
The Ohio State University M.F.A. Sculpture and Performance Columbus, Ohio
1988
New Mexico State University, M.A. Sculpture Las Cruces, New Mexico
1985
The University of Ulster, B.A.(Hons) 3D Design (Ceramics) Belfast, Northern Ireland
1982
Regional Technical College, Cert. Visual Education Letterkenny, Donegal, Ireland
 

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS & PERFORMANCES

2009
Two Person Exhibition: A Tale of Two Cities, Sirius Arts Centre, Cork, Ireland
Two Person Exhibition: A Tale of Two Cities, Balor Arts Centre, Donegal, Ireland
Lock Down, Good Children Gallery, New Orleans, LA
Everything Must Go, Good Children Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2008
Solo Exhibition: The Lost Year, Beijing Art Museum, Beijing, China
Solo Exhibition: The Lost Year, The Kings Hospital School, Dublin, Ireland
Two Person Exhibition: A Tale of Two Cities, Barristers Gallery, New Orleans, LA
Through the Lens: New Media Art from Ireland, Beijing Art Museum, Beijing, China
Les Enfants Rouges (Curator) Good Children Gallery, New Orleans, LA
The Deluge Concert, The Narragansett Towers, RI
Prospect 1 St. Claude Collective, The New Orleans Healing Center, New Orleans, LA
United Artists, Good Children Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2007
Florence Biennale, Florence, Italy
Solo Exhibition: The Forgotten City, The Thomas Hunter Gallery, New York, NY
Solo Exhibition: The Lost Year, Tigh Fili Cultural Centre, Cork City, Ireland
Solo Exhibition: The Deluge, The Balor Arts Centre, Donegal, Ireland
Solo Exhibition: The Engine Room, UNO Gallery, University of New Orleans, LA
Super Nova, Curated by Jeanette Ingberman, Exit Art, NY, Barrister’s Gallery, New Orleans, LA
The Deluge Concert, The Balor Theatre, Earagail Arts Festival, Donegal, Ireland
Katrina, Catastrophe and Catharsis, Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, CO
Tangible and Embedded Interaction, 14th Annual Mardi Gras Conference, Baton Rouge, LA
Decaturodeo, (Curator) French Quarter Fest, New Orleans, LA
2006
Louisiana Biennial, Curated by Tyler Stallings, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA
Solo Exhibition: The Dog Tail Wars, University of Dallas, Irving, TX
Katrina Exposed, New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA
New Orleans Celebration, Warehouse Gallery, Washington DC
The Bridge, B-Complex, Atlanta, GA
Southeastern Juried Exhibition, Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, AL
Fear of Water, Peligro Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2005
New Orleans Diaspora, Eyedrum Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2004
Solo Exhibition: Empire/Umpire, The Big Top Gallery, New Orleans, LA
Orange Alert, Centre for the Living Arts, Mobile, AL
Southeastern Invitational, Southeastern LA University, Hammond, LA
Emerging Sculptors, Barriere Space, New Orleans, LA
2003
Southern Current, Centre for the Living Arts, Mobile, AL
Saltline Biennial, Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, AL
The Decline of Western Evolution, Barristers Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2001
Solo Exhibition: Hostis, Works/San Jose, CA
Aerovox, Exploratorium, San Francisco, CA
1998-99
Solo Exhibition: Full Shackle, Planet Theater, Austin, TX
The Wong Multimedia Center, San Antonio, TX
Plan B Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe, NM
The Lab, San Francisco
N.P.N. African American Cultural Center, San Francisco, CA
1996
Solo Exhibition: Sapa, Dublin Theater Festival, Dublin, Ireland
1995
Solo Exhibition: Rite, Piety St. Warehouse, New Orleans, LA
1994
Solo Exhibition: Swollen Eye, Neutral Corner, New Orleans, LA
Solo Exhibition: Frontiers, Cleveland Performance Festival, Cleveland, OH
Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago, IL, Mobius, Boston, MA
Pussycat Caverns, New Orleans, LA
1993
Solo Exhibition: Deed, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA
1992
Solo Exhibition: Every Revolution, The Omar Bakery, Columbus, OH
Approximately, Hopkins Hall Gallery, Columbus, OH
1991
Solo Exhibition: Border, The Sound Stage, Columbus, OH
Solo Exhibition: Chair, Hopkins Hall, Columbus, OH
Solo Exhibition: Suite, The Oval, Columbus, OH
Quod Erat Demonstratum, Hoyt L. Sherman Gallery, Columbus, OH
1990
Spontaneous Construction, Hopkins Hall Gallery, Columbus, OH
1988
Solo Exhibition: Cruse Control, University Ave. Las Cruces, NM
Solo Exhibition: With Rockets Red Scare, The Attic Theater, Las Cruces, NM
1987
Solo Exhibition: Ostrich, Student Gallery, New Mexico State University
Solo Exhibition: The Big Silence, Museum Courtyard, N.M.S.U. Las Cruces, NM
Solo Exhibition: Asylum Screamed, Hershel Zhon Theater, N.M.S.U. Las Cruces, NM
Solo Exhibition: Think no Evil, The Attic Theater, Las Cruces, NM
N.M.S.U. Student Exhibition, Chamizal Nat. Monument, El Paso, TX
El Paso Scholaristic Invitational Exhibition, El Paso, TX
Apposite, N.M.S.U. Juried Exhibition, N.M.S.U. Las Cruces, NM
1986
Collective Images I & II Crescent Arts Center, Belfast, Flowerfield Arts Center, Coleraine, N
Solo Exhibition: Collage Drawings, Balor Theater, Donegal, Ireland
 

BIBLIOGRAPHY

2009
Nationwide, R.T.E. Irish National Television, (T.V. documentary) Dublin, Ireland, July 27, 2009
Arts Extra, B.B.C. Radio Ulster, (radio) Belfast, Northern Ireland, June 23, 2009
Donegal Democrat, Donegal Ireland, July 9, 2009
Finn Valley Post, Donegal Ireland, July 2, 2009
Earagail Arts Festival (catalogue) Donegal, Ireland, July 4, 2009
Donegal on Sunday, Donegal, Ireland, June 21, 2009
Finn Valley Voice, Donegal, Ireland, June 24 & July 1, 2009
Donegal News, Donegal, Ireland, June 26 & 29, 2009
Times Picayune, Lagniappe, New Orleans, May 15, 2009
Cork Examiner, Cork, Ireland, April 2, 2009
Evening Echo, Cork, Ireland, March 4 & March 13, 2009
The Advocate Magazine, Baton Rouge, March 29, 2009
2008
United Artists, Good Children Gallery, (catalogue) New Orleans, Nov 2009
Gambit Magazine, New Orleans, April 29 & Dec 1, 2008
Artvoices, New Orleans, February 2008
The Daily Reveille, Baton Rouge, May 2, 2008
2007
ARTnews / Volume 106, Number 1, January 2007
Florence Biennale, (catalogue) Florence, Italy, Dec 2007
Highland Radio, (radio) Donegal, Ireland, July 2007
Evening Echo, Cork, Ireland, June 22, 2007
Letterkenny Post, Letterkenny, Ireland, June 21 & 28, 2007
Donegal News, Donegal, Ireland, June 22, 2007
Donegal on Sunday, Donegal, Ireland, June 24, July 8 & 15, 2007
Donegal People’s Press, Donegal, Ireland, June 26, July 8, 10 & 17, 2007
Finn Valley Voice, Ballybofey, Ireland, June 27, July 18 & 25, 2007
EXT, Donegal Democrat’s Arts & Entertainment Guide, Donegal, Ireland, June 28
Derry People & Donegal News, Donegal, Ireland, July 9, 2007
Donegal Democrat, Donegal, Ireland, July 10, 2007
Finn Valley Post, Ballybofey, Ireland, July 18, 2007
London College of Communications, London, England
“Art in Excess of Documentary” by Dr. Simeon Hunter, December 5, 2007
2006
Katrina Exposed, A photographic Reckoning, (book) August 2006
Louisiana Biennial, (catalogue) Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, December 2006
Southeastern Juried Exhibition, (catalogue) Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile AL October 2006
Times Picayune, Lagniappe, New Orleans, October 13, 2006
Gambit Magazine, New Orleans, November 7, 2006
Gambit Magazine, New Orleans, November 28, 2006
The Advocate, Baton Rouge, April 19, 2006
2005
Prime Time (T.V.documentary) R.T.E. Irish National Television, September 2005
2004
Gambit Magazine, New Orleans, April 6, 2004
Times Picayune, Lagniappe, New Orleans, March 26, 2004
2003
Works/ The First Quarter-Century, (catalogue) San Jose, CA. September 2003
Saltline Biennial, (catalogue) Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, AL. October 2003
Southern Current, (catalogue) Center for the Living Arts, Mobile, AL. December 2003
Mobile Register, November 16, 2003
Times Picayune, Lagniappe, New Orleans, February 28, 2003
2001
San Jose Mercury News, October 2001
San Francisco Bay Guardian, October 2001
2000
San Jose Mercury News, December, 2000
1999
Donegal Democrat, Ireland, August 1999
Donegal People’s Press, Ireland, August 1999
Finn Valley Voice, Ireland, August 1999
The Irish Herald, April 1999
The San Francisco Chronicle Datebook, April 1999
San Francisco Bay Guardian, April 1999
East Bay Express, Oakland, April 1999
1998
Arts Review, (radio) KALX 90.7 FM Berkeley, October 1998
The Santa Fe New Mexican, November 1998
The Austin chronicle, November 1998
KLBJ 93.7 FM (radio) Austin, TX. November 1998
The Irish Herald, October 1998
San Francisco Bay Times, October 1998
San Francisco Bay Guardian, October 1998
1996
In Dublin Magazine, Dublin, Ireland, November 1996
Fortnight Magazine, Belfast, Northern Ireland, October 1996,
Evening Herald, Dublin, October 1996
Cursai Elani (T.V. documentary) R.T.E. Irish National Television, October 1996
Ireland Nation Wide, (T.V News) R.T.E. 1, National Television News, October 1996
Ireland Tonight, (radio) R.T.E. Radio 1, October 1996
Irish Sculpture Review, Dublin, August 1996
Donegal Democrat, Ireland, September 1996
1994
Art Papers Magazine, Atlanta, Georgia, October 1994
P-Form Magazine, Chicago, IL May 1994
New England Theater Review, March 1994
Gambit Magazine, New Orleans, August 1994
Times Picayune, New Orleans, January, February 1994
1993
Gambit Magazine, New Orleans, August 1993
Times Picayune, New Orleans, September 1993
1991
Columbus Dispatch, Columbus, OH. January 1991
1988
Las Cruces Sun News, New Mexico, April 1988
El Paso Times, Texas, April 1988
 

Visiting Artist Lectures and Conferences

2009
Crawford College of Art and Design, Cork, Ireland
St. John’s College, Cork, Ireland
2008
‘The Polemic Spectacle’ Southeastern College Art Conference, New Orleans, LA
2007
Hunter College, New York, NY
Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA
Tigh Fili Cultural Centre, Cork, Ireland
The Balor Arts Centre, Donegal, Ireland
University of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA
‘Sculpture & Computer Science’ Teaching in Higher Education Forum, Baton Rouge, LA
2006
National College of Art and Design, Dublin, Ireland
Cork Institute of Technology, Cork, Ireland
Galway/Mayo Institute of Technology, Galway, Ireland
Limerick School of Art and Design, Limerick, Ireland
Waterford Institute of Technology, Waterford, Ireland
Dun Laoghaire School of Art, Design and Technology, Dun Laoghaire, Ireland
University of Dallas, Dallas, TX
Amnesty International Regional Conference, New Orleans, LA
University of North Texas, Denton, TX
New Orleans Center for Creative Arts, New Orleans, LA
2005
The School of The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL
University of Cincinnati, Art Department, Cincinnati, Ohio.
The Ohio State University, Art Department, Columbus, Ohio.
Contemporary Arts Center, Artspeak, New Orleans, Louisiana.
2004
Southeastern Louisiana University, Hammond, Louisiana
The Big Top Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana.
New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA
Series of Lectures on the new NOMA Sculpture Garden, May & December 2004
2001
Works Gallery, San Jose, California.
1998
Irish Literary and Historical Society, San Francisco, California.
University of Houston, Sculpture Department, Houston, Texas.
New Mexico State University, Art Department, Las Cruces, New Mexico.
1996
Dublin Theatre Festival, Dublin, Ireland.
1994
Loyola University, New Orleans, Louisiana.
Boston Museum School, Boston, Massachusetts.
1986
University of Ulster, Belfast, N. Ireland.
 

Awards, Committees and Residencies

2008
Joan Mitchell Foundation, New York, Career Opportunity Grant
Good Children Gallery, Co-Founder and Co-Director, New Orleans, LA
2007
Sirius Arts Centre Residency, Cobh, Ireland
Comhairle Ealaion / The Arts Council, Ireland
Comhairle Contae Chorcai / Cork County Council, Cork, Ireland
Earagail Arts Festival, Donegal, Ireland
Comhairle Chontae Dhun na nGall / Donegal County Council, Donegal, Ireland
Flight of the Earls Festival, Department of the Taoiseach and Department of Arts, Sports and Tourism, Ireland
LSU Office of Research & Graduate Studies, Junior Faculty Travel Grant
2006
National Sculpture Factory Residency, Cork, Ireland
LSU Office of Research & Graduate Studies, 2006 Summer Stipend.
2005
Louisiana State Arts Council, Individual Artists Fellowship award 2005-06.
2004
Louisiana Division of the Arts, Percent for Arts, Mini Grant, January 2004.
Louisiana Division of the Arts, Percent for Arts
Search committee for LSU Coastal Environment Building public sculpture project.
2000
Irish Literary and Historical Society, Advisory Board, San Francisco, CA
1999
Theater Bay Area C.A.S.H. Grant, San Francisco, CA. 1999
Global Children’s Organization, Advisory Board, 1998-1999
1993
National Endowment for the Arts
Regional Projects Grant, New Orleans, LA. 1993
Contemporary Arts Center, Steering Committee, New Orleans, LA. 1993
1992
Edith Gilmore Award, Columbus, OH. 1992
Sara Jane Pyne Memorial Grant, Columbus, OH.
 

Teaching Experience

2003-
Louisiana State University, School of Art, Associate Professor of Art.
Area Coordinator, Sculpture
2002-2003
Southeastern Louisiana University, Art Department, Adjunct Professor.
Basic Drawing, Figure Drawing, Ceramics, Painting
Arts in Education teacher at Hoffman Learning Academy, New Orleans.
2001-2002
San Jose City College, Art Department, Instructor
Three Dimensional Design / Beginning Sculpture and Ceramics.
California College of Arts, Sculpture Department.
Graduate program independent study instructor.
1999-2000
Global Children’s Organization,
Visual Arts Coordinator, Theater Program Director.
1996
The Fire Station Arts Centre and The Projects Arts Centre, Dublin, Ireland, Artist in Residence
Lead workshops, participated in panel discussions and trained interns.
1994
New Orleans Public Schools, Arts in Education program, Art Teacher,
1990-1992
The Ohio State University, Graduate Teaching Assistant.
Taught Beginning drawing, Visual Studies 2-D and New Projects Laboratory
1986-1988
New Mexico State University, Graduate Teaching Assistant
Taught sculpture, beginning drawing and 2-D fundamentals.
1986
University of Ulster, Belfast, N. Ireland, Ceramics Lecturer
Taught foundation course, including hand building, glazing and firing.
Harmony Hill Arts Centre, N. Ireland, Ceramics Teacher

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