Resume
Born 1970 in San Diego, California
Lives and works in Boston, MA and Fitchburg, MA
Education:
1997 M.F.A., School of the Museum of Fine Arts / Tufts University, Studio Art
1992 B.A., University of Michigan, Arts and Ideas in the Humanities
Solo and Two-Person Exhibitions:
2010 FOOD COURT, University of Massachusetts, Lowell, MA
2009 NOURISHMENT: Art that Feeds the Soul & Makes Strong Funny Bones, Art Institute of Boston
2008 SPUDNIK and other stories by Jeffu!, The Gallery at Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA
2003 SuperJEFFUMarket, Pittsburg State University Gallery, Pittsburg, KS
1997 Jeff Warmouth: Kitchen Craze (MFA thesis), Tufts University Gallery, Medford, MA
1996 Jeffu’s Home Alchemy, Hudson Valley Institute, Peekskill, NY
1994 Photographs by J.E. Warmouth, Del Rio, Ann Arbor, MI
1992 Jeff Warmouth – Crossover: image/text (BA thesis), Residential College, Ann Arbor, MI
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2009
Pop Rocks, The Beehive, Boston, MA
Photolucida Portfolio Walk, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
2008
Rollstone Studios Grand Opening, Rollstone Studios, Fitchburg, MA
Artists and Books, The Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, MA
Campaign Buttons: Artists Speak Out, Miller-Block Gallery, Boston, MA, 2008
Ideas in Mediation, Ideas Gallery, Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO, 2008
Seriously, Funny: Without Borders V Contemporary Art Festival, University of Maine, Orono (catalogue), 2008
2007
*DeCordova Annual Exhibition, DeCordova Museum & Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA
*Trainscape: Installation Art for Model Railroads, DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA
*100 Hours, Gallery 51, North Adams, MA
STATE of the ART, Bunker Hill Community College, Boston, MA
2006
ART SHOW DOWN, Art Interactive, Cambridge, MA
Monsters, Astronauts, and Silicon Flowers, 3-person exhibition, Green Street Gallery, Boston, MA
*Intersections: Sculpture and Installation from MA, Open Square, Holyoke, MA
2005
*New York / New England / New Talent, Hampden Gallery, Amherst, MA
*things we love, Clifford-Smith Gallery, Boston, MA
Art/Communications Faculty Exhibition, FSC Gallery, Fitchburg, MA
2004
Participatory Democracy, 5-person collaborative, Art Interactive, Cambridge, MA
A Garden of Purchasable Delights, 100 Franklin Street, Allston, MA
SMFA December Exhibition and Sale, Boston, MA
2003
*Contemporary Genre, 3-person show, LH Horton Jr. Gallery, Stockton, CA
*Plastic Fantastic, 5-person show, Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, IL
*BOOM BOX: The Art of Sound, Mills Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts, MA
Magnetic North, Free Space Gallery, Fitchburg, MA
April Fools benefit event, The Revolving Museum, Lowell, MA
HUBBUB silent auction & benefit, Cyclorama, Boston Center for the Arts, MA
2002
New Work: Communications Media & Art Faculty, FSC Gallery, Fitchburg, MA
*The 17th Drawing Show, Mills Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA
150 X 150: Mad Dash, Green Street Gallery, Jamaica Plain, MA
*Postcards from the Edge, Visual AIDS, Artists Space, New York, NY
Can-imals, ArtBeat Festival, Davis Square, Somerville, MA
2001
*Lighten Up: Art With a Sense of Humor, DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA
150 X 150: Mad Dash, Green Street Gallery, Jamaica Plain, MA
Lighten Up: The Benefit, DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA
Davistown Museum Annual Art Exhibition, Davistown Museum, Liberty, ME
2000
150 X 150: Mad Dash, Green Street Gallery, Jamaica Plain, MA
*Creiger-Dane Photo Exhibition, Creiger-Dane Gallery, Boston, MA
*DeMONSTRosity: Deconstructing Monsters in Contemporary Art, Tufts University Gallery, Medford, MA
1999
*Distinguishing/Distinguished Jewish, 5-person show, Starr Gallery, Newton, MA
*The Apartment Show, Zach Feuer’s Apartment, Boston, MA (catalogue on CD-ROM)
1998
U-SOUND UN-HAUL, Project 4 New Music, Harvard University
*Home as Identity, 4-person show, White Elephant Gallery, Boston, MA
Random Noise, Oxfam Cafe, Tufts University, Medford, MA
Art-O-Matic, Porter Square ‘T’ Station, Cambridge, MA
Bad Girrls Studios Grand Opening, Bad Girrls Studios, Jamaica Plain, MA
Mobius Silent Auction Benefit, Fort Point Arts Community Gallery, Boston, MA
1997
*PRC Student Members Exhibition, Photographic Resource Center, Boston, MA
*Consum(e)ation: Food, Fetish, and Fantasy, Tufts University Gallery, Medford, MA
*Arranged Marriages, Family Rooms & Laundry Detergent, Mills Gallery, Boston, MA
Artrages Deranges, Mobius, Boston, MA
Ruby Slipper Productions, The Middle East, Cambridge, MA
1996
Another BAD GIRRLS Art Event, Bad Girrls Studios, Jamaica Plain, MA
*Under 25, Fort Point Arts Community Gallery, Boston, MA
1995
*Reading the Image, Tufts University Gallery, Medford, MA
Fort Point Open Studios, The Revolving Museum, Boston, MA
*The Unexpected, Tufts University Gallery, Medford, MA
1994
*International Art Exhibition of Student Works, Nagoya University of Arts, Nagoya, Japan
1993
Salon Show, The Artists’ Cooperative, Detroit, MI
* indicates juried exhibition
Film/Video Festivals & Screenings:
2008
*Boston Underground Film Festival, Harvard Square Cinema & Brattle Theatre, Boston, MA
The 48 Hour Film Project, Boston, MA
2007
*Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Market, Clermont-Ferrand, France
*Cinequest/Jaman Online, www.jaman.com
An Evening of Comic Video Art, Eclipse Mill Gallery, North Adams, MA
2006
*Boston Cinema Census, Brattle Theatre, Boston, MA
*Brainwash Film Festival, Alliance for West Oakland, Oakland, CA
*Golden Wagon Film Festival, Fire Island, NY
*Faux Film Festival, Hollywood Theatre, Portland, Oregon
*New Haven Underground Film Festival, Wadsworth Athenaeum, Hartford, CT
*Ybor Festival of the Moving Image, Hillsborough Community College, Tampa, FL
*Boston International Film Festival, Loews Boston Commons, Boston, MA
*Nashville Film Festival, Green Hills Cinema, Nashville, TN
*Phoenix Film Festival, Harkins Theatres, Phoenix, AZ
*B-Movie Film Festival, Palace Theatre, Syracuse, NY
One Night Stand: New Video Art, Studio Soto, Boston MA
Cinema Slam, Michigan Theatre, Ann Arbor, MI
*Rawstock Film Festival, Rendezvous Jewelbox Theater, Seattle, WA
*MicroCineFest, The G-Spot, Baltimore
*HDFEST, Tribeca Screening Room, New York, NY & Dolby Laboratories, Burbank, CA
*Dallas Video Festival, Dallas Theater Center, Dallas, TX
2005
Communications Media Faculty Screening, Ellis White Lecture Hall, Fitchburg, MA
2004
*House of Tomorrow: Home Fictions, Experimenta Media Arts, Melbourne, Australia (& Tour)
2003
*Brainwash Film Festival, Alliance for West Oakland, Oakland, CA
*25hrs, 25 hour video art event, Barcelona, Spain
Communications Media Faculty Screening, Ellis White Lecture Hall, Fitchburg, MA
*Dallas Video Festival, Dallas Theater Center, Dallas, TX
2002
*MicroCineFest, The G-Spot, Baltimore, MD
CyberLounge, Boston Cyberarts Festival, Green Street Gallery, Jamaica Plain, MA
Final Cut Pro User Group Film Theater, MacWorld Conference & Expo, New York, NY
*DV Film Festival, San Francisco, CA
2001
*Dallas Video Festival, Dallas Theater Center, Dallas, TX
*Light Plays Tricks Short Film Festival, Kingston, Ontario
Loves Like a Dog, 10Alps Channel 4, London, UK
Intensity TV, KQED-TV, San Francisco, www.kqed.org/intensitytv
Philippine International Film Festival, APF Theater, Manila, Philippines
2000
*New York Independent Film & Video Festival, Clearview Cinemas, New York, NY
Eat My Shorts, El Rio Outdoor Cinema, San Francisco, CA
*IFILM Independent Film Network, www.ifilm.com
Underground Film, www.undergroundfilm.com
1999
*Chicago Underground Film Festival, Arena Theater, Chicago
*Crackpot Theorists & Terminal Technologies, Boston Cyberarts Festival, Boston
Bad Girrls Studios Video Station, Bad Girrls Studios, Jamaica Plain, MA
*Euro Underground Film Festival, Kino Mikro, Krakow, Poland (& tour)
Swinger’s Serenade, Artist’s Television Access, San Francisco
1998
In the Land of Phi Phenomena, Phi Phenomena, New York
*What’s Wrong [sic], Videograph at Bad Girrls Studios, Jamaica Plain, MA
1997
Exciting Video Screening, Videograph at Bad Girrls Studios, Jamaica Plain, MA
*About Three Minutes, VideoSpace at Mobius, Boston, MA
1996
*Irony Rules: Incongruity in Video, VideoSpace at Mobius, Boston, MA
*From Fact to Fiction, VideoSpace at Landsdowne, Boston, MA
1994
Annual Film/Video Screening, Animation Screening Room, SMFA, Boston
1992
Golem’s Precious Films, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
* indicates juried festival
Reviews:
2009
Greg Cook, “Our digital landscape,” Boston Phoenix, April 28, 2009
M C Elish, “Nourishment,” Boston Cyberarts Blog, April 27, 2009
Cate McQuaid, “A Vegas-style staging of the scripture,” Boston Globe, April 22, 2009
2008
Darren Garnick, “The Cold War through the eyes of a potato?,” Boston Herald blogs, March 19, 2008
2007
Milva DiDomizio, “All aboard to lands of whimsy,” Boston Globe, Dec 27, 2007
Andrea Shea, “Holy Caped Creators,” Morning Edition, WBUR-FM (NPR), Nov 1, 2007
Matthew Reed Baker, “Caped Creators,” Boston Magazine, September 2007
Chris Bergeron, “Fantasies on Track,” The Daily News Tribune, Sep 24, 2007
Greg Cook, “Locomotion Commotion: Trains at the DeCordova,” Boston Phoenix, Sep 18, 2007
Ben Aaronson, “Trainscape: Art in Locomotion,” Lincoln Journal, Sep 18, 2007
Cate McQuaid, “Keeping Track of Trainscape Proves Challenging,” Boston Globe, Sep 15, 2007
Randi Hopkins, “People Get Ready: ‘Trainscape’ at DeCordova,” Boston Phoenix, Aug 22, 2007
Linda Laban, “Meet Me at the Museum,” Boston Globe, July 19, 2007
“Spudnik Lands at DeCordova,” Lincoln Journal, June 13, 2007
Scott Roberto, “Rite of Spring,” Panorama: Boston’s Official Guide, May 21, 2007
Chris Bergeron, “Art Matters,” MetroWest Daily News, May 20, 2007
Charles Guiliano, “The 2007 DeCordova Annual Exhibition,” Berkshire Fine Arts, May 19, 2007
Ken Johnson, “Punch, potato scientists, and ‘Sodmonsters’,” Boston Globe, May 18, 2007
“Art of Trees and Taters,” Boston Globe, May 10, 2007
Greg Cook, “Local Color: The 2007 DeCordova Annual Exhibition,” Boston Phoenix, May 8, 2007
Randi Hopkins, “Radical Dude: the 2007 Annual at the DeCordova,” Boston Phoenix, April 24, 2007
Charles Bonenti, “Artists Work Alone & Together,” Berkshire Eagle, Feb 7, 2007
2006
Cate McQuaid, “For them, a marriage of art and humor,” Boston Globe, Oct 6, 2006
Big Red News Editor, “Art Showdown,” Big Red & Shiny #48, Sep 17, 2006
Sean L. McCarthy, “Artists keep eyes on prize,” Boston Herald, Sep 16, 2006
Ben Sloat, “Astronauts, Monsters and Silicon Flowers,” Big Red & Shiny #47, Aug 30, 2006
Ray Hainer, “Vegetables rampage in the name of art,” Boston’s Weekly Dig, Aug 23, 2006
Cate McQuaid, “Astronauts, Monsters and Silicon Flowers,” Boston Globe, Aug 17, 2006
Randi Hopkins, “Scroll Down: Future Shock at Green Street,” Boston Phoenix, Aug 8, 2006
Cate McQuaid, “Experimenting on themselves,” Boston Globe, Feb 24, 2006
“Alumni Profile: Roland Smart and Jeff Warmouth,” www.smfa.edu, September 2006
2005
Colin Owens, “ArtFilmDesign #6: Jeffu,” ArtFilmTalk.com, Nov 8, 2005
Leann Leake, “15 artists exhibit in the Hampden Gallery,” Mass Daily Collegian, Sep 21, 2005
Randi Hopkins, “Mozart lovers unite / Art Show Down on CCTV,” Boston Phoenix, Sep 16, 2005
Big Red, “Art Show Down,” Big Red & Shiny #26, Sep 4, 2005
Matthew Nash, “A Conversation with Jeffu Warmouth,” Big Red & Shiny #22, May 15, 2005
Fred Levy, “Boston-ism: Ism or not-ism,” Big Red & Shiny #17, Jan 23, 2005
2004
Art Simas, “Couple transforms food items into crazy artwork,” Telegram & Gazette, Nov 17, 2004
Jim Sullivan & Christopher Muther, “Queer invasion: Silly but serious,” Boston Globe, July 29, 2004
Holland Cotter, “Hometown of Utopia and Dissent,” New York Times, Jul 23, 2004
Christopher Millis, “E Pluribus Museum: The Politics of Art,” Boston Phoenix, Jul 15, 2004
Bill Marx, “Entertaining the DNC,” WBUR Online Arts, WBUR-FM, Jul 8, 2004
Mary Jo Palumbo, “Electoral collage,” Boston Herald, May 15, & Cambridge Chronicle, May 27, 2004
Scoop A. Wasserstein, “The Secret lives of city-crushing monsters,” Harvard Crimson, Mar 4, 2004
artMatters, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, artwork included in issue, Summer 2004
2003
Toni Baca, “Art Gallery opens art show Contemporary Genre,” Impact, Nov 21, 2003
Randi Hopkins, “(Way) out of Asia,” Boston Phoenix, Aug 15, 2003
Cate McQuaid, “Mills Gallery is alive with ambitious sounds of ‘Boom Box,’” Boston Globe, Feb 16, 2003
Josh B. Wardrop, “An aural report on ‘Boom Box’,” Cambridge Tab, Jan 31, 2003
Aiden Fitzgerald, “Mills’ ‘Boom Box’ creates a buzz,” Boston Herald, Jan 23, 2003
Carlene Hempel, “His Collaborative Curating Makes for Sound Art,” Boston Globe, Jan 17, 2003
2002
Kate O’Neil, “Professor Profile Series: Jeff Warmouth,’” The Point, Nov 15, 2002
Andy Levine, “Faculty showcases skills in ‘New Work,’” The Point, Oct 5, 2002
Craig S. Semon, “‘New Work’ on exhibit at college,” Montachusett Sentinel, Sep 29, 2002
Jessica Rosen, “Monster Wrestling: Kaiju Big Battel,” Free Williamsburg issue #27, June 2002
Scott Speh, “Hot Commodities 12,” Hot Commodities #12, Feb 14, 2002
2001
Cate McQuaid, “‘Lighten Up’ makes art funny business,” Boston Globe, Apr 14, 2001
“Local comic’s advice to artists at Decordova” Boston Globe, Apr 14, 2001
Leon Nigrosh, “Laugh at them: Funny art at the DeCordova,” Worcester Phoenix, Mar 16, 2001
Mark Lynch, interview, “Inquiry,” WICN-FM Radio, Worcester, MA, Mar 5, 2001
Mary Sherman, “DeCordova gains wit with show,” Boston Herald, Feb 4, 2001
Robin Vaughan, “Humor is art form,” Boston Herald, February 9, 2001
Oren Bendavid-Val, interview, “All Things Considered,” WBUR-FM Radio, Boston, 2001
2000
Kevin Talbot, “Live Monster Wrestling!” Weekly Dig, May 10-17, 2000
“Al Cinema Su Internet,” MediaMente, www.mediamente.it, Mar 24, 2000
Christopher Mills, “Art, Jews, and the Holocaust,” Boston Phoenix, Jan 28, 2000
Christine Temin, “‘Witness’ gives varied visions of Holocaust,” Boston Globe, Jan 26, 2000
1999
“Movies Online: Kung-fu Kitchen,” ZDTV, Oct 1, 1999
Karen Sparacio, “Everybody was Kung-fu Dancing,” Somerville Journal, Jul 22, 1999
Christine Temin, “Fun House,” Boston Globe, Apr 1, 1999
T.J. Medrek, “Stellar Dweller,” Boston Herald, Sunday, Mar 21, 1999
1998
David Wildman, “New gallery is for the up and coming,” Boston Globe, Jan 25, 1998
1997
David Wildman, “More frightening than the cookie monster?,” Boston Globe, Jun 8, 1997
Cate McQuaid, “There’s no place like home�” Boston Globe, Mar 29, 1997
Mary Sherman, “At Mills Gallery, home is where the art is,” Boston Herald, Mar 16, 1997
Red Letter, literary magazine, cover art, Spring 1997
1995
“Reading the Image,” Tufts Journal, vol. 16, no. 8, 1995
Museum School News, vol. XVIII, no. 2, cover, Spring 1995
Frederick Kalil, “Expect ‘The Unexpected,’” Tufts Journal, vol. 16, no. 5, 1995
1994
John Carlos Cantu, “Post-modern classics from Warmouth,” Ann Arbor News, Aug 25, 1994
1993
Marsha Miro, “Art for the Holidays,” Detroit Free Press, Dec 7, 1993
Exhibition Catalogues:
2007 DeCordova Annual Exhibition, DeCordova Museum, exhibition catalogue, 2007
Trainscape: Installation Art for Model Railroads, DeCordova Museum, exhibition catalogue, 2007
MicroCineFest, Baltimore, MD, film festival catalogue, 2002 and 2006
Participatory Democracy, Art Interactive, Cambridge, MA, exhibition catalogue, 2004
25 Hrs, Barcelona, Spain, exhibition catalogue, 2003
Plastic Fantastic, Chicago Art Institute, exhibition catalogue, 2003
Home Fictions, Experimenta: House of Tomorrow, exhibition catalogue, 2003
Boom Box: The Art of Sound, Mills Gallery, Audio CD produced in lieu of exhibition catalogue, 2003
The 17th Drawing Show, Mills Gallery, exhibition catalogue, 2002
Lighten Up: Art with a Sense of Humor, DeCordova Museum, exhibition catalogue, 2001
Distinguishing/Distinguished Jewish, Starr Gallery, exhibition catalogue, 2000
The Apartment Show, Zach Feuer’s Apartment, CD-ROM catalogue, 1999
Consum(e)ation: Food, Fetish, and Fantasy, Tufts University Gallery, exhibition catalogue, 1997
Reading the Image, Tufts University Gallery, exhibition catalogue, 1995
International Art Exhibition of Student Works, Nagoya University of Arts, exhibition catalogue, 1994
The Best of College Photography Annual 1992, Photographer’s Forum, 1992
Awards & Fellowships:
Nominee, James and Audrey Foster Prize, Institute for Contemporary Art, Boston, 2008
Ruth Butler Grant, Fitchburg State College, Fitchburg, MA, 2007
Creative Activity Award, Fitchburg State College, Fitchburg, MA, 2007
Finalist, Artadia: The Fund for Art and Dialogue, Boston, MA 2007
Fifth Prize, Brainwash Film Festival, Oakland, CA, 2006
Finalist, Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Grant Program, Sculpture/Installation, 2005
Grand Prize, Brainwash Film Festival, Oakland, CA, 2003
Associate Undergraduate Faculty Research Award, Fitchburg State College, Fitchburg, MA, 2002
Grand Jury “Way Cool Award” for Best Puppetry, MicroCineFest, Baltimore, MD, 2002
Bonus for Meritorious Service, Fitchburg State College, Fitchburg, MA, 2002
Kahn Visiting Artist Grant, Project for New Music, Harvard University, 1998
Post-Graduate Teaching Fellowship, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1997
Graduate Teaching Fellowship, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1995
Prize for Excellence, International Art Exhibition, Nagoya University of Arts, Japan, 1994
Gallery Talks & Panels:
Food For Thought, artist lecture, Fitchburg State College, Fitchburg, MA, 2008
Trainscape: Land O’ Lactation, gallery talk, DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA 2007
DeCordova Annual Exhibition, gallery talk, DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA, 2007
Digital Difference: Recontextualizing New Media, session chair, College Art Association, NY, 2007
Astronauts, Monsters & Silicon Flowers, gallery talk, Green Street Gallery, Boston, MA, 2006
Art Show Down, curators talk, Art Interactive, Cambridge, MA, 2006
Faux Film Festival, filmmakers panel, Hollywood Theatre, Portland, OR, 2006
New Haven Underground Film Festival, filmmakers talk, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT, 2006
Artist Lecture, Art New England Workshops, Bennington, VT, 2004
BOOM BOX: The Art of Sound, gallery talk, Mills Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts, 2003
New Communications Media & Art Faculty, gallery talk, FSC Gallery, Fitchburg, MA, 2002
Filmmaker Talk Series, Final Cut Pro Theater, MacWorld Conference & Expo, New York, NY, 2002
Lighten Up: Art with a Sense of Humor, gallery talk, DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA, 2001
Distinguishing/Distinguished Jewish, panel, Starr Gallery, Newton, MA, 2000
Visiting artist lectures, Bowling Green State University, SUNY Fredonia, UMASS Lowell, 1999
Irony and Comedy: Postmodern Strategies, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1998
Consum(e)ation: Food, Fantasy, and Function, panel, Tufts University, Medford, MA, 1997
Arranged Marriages, artist panel, Mills Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts, 1997