Biography

Born: San Diego, California, 1970
Lives and works in Fitchburg, Massachusetts

Education:

1997School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston / Tufts University, MFA

1992University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, BA

Solo Exhibitions:

2011Jeffu Warmouth, SHOW Gallery, New York, NY

2010Jeffu Warmouth—Food Court, University of Massachusetts, Lowell, MA

2009Jeffu Warmouth—SPUDNIK, Cafe SADUTE, Kaunas Photo Festival, Kaunas, Lithuania

Nourishment: Art that feeds the soul and makes strong funny bones, Art Institute of Boston, MA (2-person)

2008SPUDNIK and other stories by Jeffu!, The Gallery at Children's Hospital, Boston, MA

2003SuperJEFFUMarket, Pittsburg State University Gallery, Pittsburg, KS

1997Jeffu Warmouth: Kitchen Craze, Tufts University Gallery, Medford, MA

1996Home Alchemy, Hudson Valley Institute for Art & Photographic Resources, Peekskill, NY

1994Photographs by Jeffrey E Warmouth, Del Rio, Ann Arbor, MI

1992Jeff Warmouth—Crossover: image/text, Gallery 124, Residential College, Ann Arbor, MI

Selected Group Exhibitions:

2011C A R T, Current Gallery, Baltimore, MD

Pixilerations, FirstWorks, Providence, RI

April Fools Show, SpaceCamp Gallery, Indianapolis, IN

2010A Sense of Humor, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI

2009EAT THE ART, Bunker Hill Community College Gallery, Boston, MA

Sting! 5: POP ROCKS, The Beehive, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA

PhotoLucida Portfolio Walk, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR

2008Campaign Buttons: Artists Speak Out, Miller-Block Gallery, Boston, MA

Artists and Books, The Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, MA

Seriously, Funny: Without Borders V Contemporary Art Festival, Univ. of Maine

Jocko Dome-O, Asterisk Gallery, Cleveland, OH

2007 DeCordova Annual Exhibition, DeCordova Museum & Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA

Trainscape: Installation Art for Model Railroads, DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA

Brian Burkhardt's Word of Mouth, Bridge Art Fair, Miami Beach, FL

STATE of the ART, Bunker Hill Community College, Boston, MA

2006Monsters, Astronauts, & Silicon Flowers, Green Street Gallery, Boston, MA (3-person)

ART SHOW DOWN, Art Interactive, Cambridge, MA

Intersections: Sculpture & Installation from Massachusetts, Open Square, Holyoke, MA

2005New 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

2004Participatory Democracy, Art Interactive, Cambridge, MA,

SMFA December Exhibition and Sale, Boston, MA (also 1997, 1998, 2002, 2004)

2003Contemporary Genre, LH Horton Jr. Gallery, Stockton, California, (3-person)

Plastic Fantastic, Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, IL

BOOM BOX: The Art of Sound, Mills Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA

Magnetic North, Free Space Gallery, Fitchburg, MA

2002New Work: Communications Media & Art Faculty, FSC Gallery, Fitchburg, MA

The 17th Drawing Show, Mills Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts

Postcards from the Edge, Visual AIDS, Artists Space, New York, NY

2001Lighten Up: Art With a Sense of Humor, DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA

Davistown Museum Annual Art Exhibition, Davistown Museum, Liberty, ME

2000Crieger-Dane Photo Exhibition, Creiger-Dane Gallery, Boston, MA

DeMONSTRosity: Deconstructing Monsters in Contemporary Art, Tufts University

150 X 150: Mad Dash, Green Street Gallery, Jamaica Plain, MA (also 2001, 2002, 2006)

1999Distinguishing/Distinguished Jewish, Starr Gallery, Newton, MA

The Apartment Show, Zach Feuer's Apartment, Boston, MA

1998U-SOUND UN-HAUL, Project 4 New Music, Harvard University

Home as Identity, White Elephant Gallery, Boston, MA

Art-O-Matic, Porter Square Train Station, Cambridge, MA

1997Arranged Marriages, Family Rooms & Laundry Detergent, Mills Gallery, Boston, MA

Consum(e)ation: Food, Fetish, & Fantasy, Tufts University, Medford, MA, 1997

Artrages Deranges, Mobius, Boston, MA, 1997

1996Another BAD GIRRLS Art Event, Bad Girrls Studios, Jamaica Plain, MA

Under 25, Fort Point Arts Community Gallery, Boston, MA

1995Reading the Image, Tufts University, Medford, MA

The Unexpected, Tufts University, Medford, MA

1994International Art Exhibition of Student Works, Nagoya University of Arts, Nagoya, Japan

1993Salon Show, The Artists' Cooperative, Detroit, MI

Selected Film/Video Festivals:

2009The Last Supper Festival, Williamsburg (Brooklyn), New York

Kaunas Photo Nights, Town Hall Square, Kaunas, Lithuania

2008Electric Shadows, AXIOM Center for New & Experimental Media, Boston, MA

Boston Underground Film Festival, Harvard Square Cinema & Brattle Theatre, Boston, MA

The 48 Hour Film Project, Boston, MA

2007Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Market, Clermont-Ferrand, France

An Evening of Comic Video Art, Eclipse Mill Gallery, North Adams, MA

2006Boston Cinema Census, Brattle Theatre, Boston, MA

One Night Stand: New Video Art, Studio Soto, Boston MA

Nashville Film Festival, Green Hills Cinema, Nashville, TN

Phoenix Film Festival, Harkins Theatres, Phoenix, AZ

New Haven Underground Film Festival, Wadsworth Athenaeum, Hartford, CT

Golden Wagon Film Festival, Fire Island, NY

Faux Film Festival, Hollywood Theatre, Portland, Oregon

Ybor Festival of the Moving Image, Hillsborough Community College, Tampa, FL

Rawstock Film Festival, Rendezvous Jewelbox Theater, Seattle, WA

HDFEST, Tribeca Screening Room, New York, NY & Dolby Laboratories, Burbank, CA

2005Festival NEMO, Forum des Images, Paris, France

Communications Media Faculty Screening, Ellis White Lecture Hall, Fitchburg, MA (also 2003)

2004House of Tomorrow: Home Fictions, Experimenta Media Arts, Melbourne, Australia (& Tour)

200325hrs, 25 hour video art event, Barcelona, Spain

Brainwash Film Festival, Alliance for West Oakland, Oakland, CA (also 2006)

Dallas Video Festival, Dallas Theater Center, Dallas, TX (also 2001, 2006)

2002MicroCineFest, The G-Spot, Baltimore, MD (also 2006)

CyberLounge, Boston Cyberarts Festival, Green Street Gallery, Jamaica Plain, MA

DV Film Festival, San Francisco, CA

2001Light Plays Tricks Short Film Festival, Kingston, Ontario

Loves Like a Dog, 10Alps Channel 4, London, UK

Intensity TV, KQED-TV, San Francisco, CA

Philippine International Film Festival, APF Theater, Manila, Philippines

2000New York Independent Film & Video Festival, Clearview Cinemas, New York, NY

Eat My Shorts, El Rio Outdoor Cinema, San Francisco, CA

1999Chicago Underground Film Festival, Arena Theater, Chicago, IL

Crackpot Theorists & Terminal Technologies, Boston Cyberarts Festival, Boston, MA

Euro Underground Film Festival, Kino Mikro, Krakow, Poland (& tour)

Swinger's Serenade, Artist's Television Access, San Francisco, CA

1998In the Land of Phi Phenomena, Phi Phenomena, New York, NY

Random Noise, Oxfam Cafe, Tufts University, Medford, MA

What's Wrong [sic], Videograph at Bad Girrls Studios, Jamaica Plain, MA

1997Exciting Video Screening, Videograph at Bad Girrls Studios, Jamaica Plain, MA

About Three Minutes, VideoSpace at Mobius, Boston, MA

1996Irony Rules: Incongruity in Video, VideoSpace at Mobius, Boston, MA

From Fact to Fiction, VideoSpace at Landsdowne, Boston, MA

1994Annual Film/Video Screening, Animation Screening Room, SMFA, Boston, MA

1992Golem's Precious Films, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

Selected Reviews:

2010Nancy E. Tuttle, "Young Talent is Already In Bloom," Lowell Sun, Feb 25, 2010

2009Soterios Johnson and Carolina Miranda, "Can Bravo Pick the Next Top Artist?," WNYC-FM, July 20, 2009

Sebastian Smee, "In cyberarts, technology overrides emotion", Boston Globe, May 1, 2009

Greg Cook, Boston Cyberarts Festival, New England Journal for Aesthetic Research, April 30, 2009

Greg Cook, "Our digital landscape," Boston Phoenix, April 28, 2009

James Nadeau, "Observations on the Boston Cyberarts Festival," Big Red and Shiny #105, April 27, 2009

M C Elish, "Interview with Jeffu Warmouth," Boston Cyberarts Blog, April 27, 2009

Cate McQuaid, "A Vegas-style staging of the scripture", Boston Globe, April 22, 2009

2008Darren Garnick, "The Cold War through the eyes of a potato?," Boston Herald blogs, March 19, 2008

2007Milva DiDomizio, "All aboard to lands of whimsy," Boston Globe, Dec 27, 2007

Andrea Shea, "Holy Caped Creators," Morning Edition, WBUR-FM National Public Radio, 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

Karen Mann, "Food for Art's Sake," Fitchburg Pride and Contact Magazine, Aug 3, 2007

Linda Laban, "Meet Me at the Museum," Boston Globe, July 19, 2007

"Spudnik Lands at DeCordova," Lincoln Journal, June 13, 2007

Charles Guiliano, "The 2007 DeCordova Annual Exhibition," Berkshire Fine Arts, May 19, 2007

Ken Johnson, "Punch, potato scientists, and 'Sodmonsters' at DeCordova," Boston Globe, May 18, 2007

Greg Cook, "Local Color: The 2007 DeCordova Annual Exhibition," Boston Phoenix, May 8, 2007

2006Cate McQuaid, "For them, a marriage of art and humor," Boston Globe, Oct 6, 2006

Mike Rubin, "Art Interactive," Middlesex Beat, Oct 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

Irene De Vette, "Game Show Culture," Boston Phoenix, Sep 15, 2006

Ben Sloat, "Astronauts, Monsters and Silicon Flowers @ Green Street," 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

2005Colin Owens, "ArtFilmDesign #6: Jeffu," ArtFilmTalk.com, Nov 8, 2005

Leann Leake, "15 artists exhibit in the Hampden Gallery," Massachusetts Daily Collegian, Sep 21, 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

2004Art Simas, "Couple transforms food items into crazy artwork," Telegram & Gazette, Nov 17, 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, and Cambridge Chronicle, May 27, 2004

2003Toni 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

2002Andy 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

2001Cate McQuaid, "'Lighten Up' makes art funny business," 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

2000Kevin 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

1999Christine Temin, "Fun House," Boston Globe, Apr 1, 1999

T.J. Medrek, "Stellar Dweller," Boston Herald, Sunday, Mar 21, 1999

1998David Wildman, "New gallery is for the up and coming," Boston Globe, Jan 25, 1998

1997David Wildman, "More frightening than the cookie monster?," Boston Globe, Jun 8, 1997

Cate McQuaid, "There's no place like homeÉ" Boston Globe, Mar 29, 1997

Mary Sherman, "At Mills Gallery, home is where the art is," Boston Herald, Mar 16, 1997

1995"Reading the Image," Tufts Journal, vol. 16, no. 8, 1995

Frederick Kalil, "Expect 'The Unexpected,'" Tufts Journal, vol. 16, no. 5, 1995

1994John Carlos Cantu, "Post-modern classics from Warmouth," Ann Arbor News, Aug 25, 1994

1993Marsha Miro, "Art for the Holidays," Detroit Free Press, Dec 7, 1993

Selected Publications:

2011ASPECT: The Chronicle of New Media Art, Volume 17: Hi-Tech, DVD

2010Kaunas Photo 09, exhibition catalogue, Kaunas, Lithuania

2007DeCordova Annual Exhibition, DeCordova Museum, exhibition catalogue

2006MicroCineFest Baltimore, MD, film festival catalogue

ART SHOW DOWN, Microcinema International, DVD

200325 Hrs, Barcelona, Spain, exhibition catalogue

Plastic Fantastic, Chicago Art Institute, exhibition catalogue

Boom Box: The Art of Sound, Mills Gallery, Audio CD of exhibition

2002The 17th Drawing Show, Mills Gallery, exhibition catalogue

2001Lighten Up: Art with a Sense of Humor, DeCordova Museum, exhibition catalogue

2000Distinguishing/Distinguished Jewish, Starr Gallery, exhibition catalogue

2002The Apartment Show, Zach Feuer's Apartment, Boston, MA (catalogue on CD-ROM)

1994International Art Exhibition of Student Works, Nagoya University of Arts, exhibition catalogue, 1994

Selected Awards:

2008Nominee, James and Audrey Foster Prize, Institute for Contemporary Art, Boston

2007Ruth Butler Grant, Fitchburg State College, Fitchburg, MA

Undergraduate Academic Scholarship/Creative Activity Award, Fitchburg State College, Fitchburg, MA

Finalist, Artadia: The Fund for Art and Dialogue, Boston, MA

2005Finalist, Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Grant Program, Sculpture/Installation

2003Grand Prize, Brainwash Film Festival, Oakland, CA

2002Associate Undergraduate Faculty Research Award, Fitchburg State College, Fitchburg, MA

Grand Jury "Way Cool Award" for Best Puppetry, MicroCineFest, Baltimore, MD

Bonus for Meritorious Service, Fitchburg State College, Fitchburg, MA

1998Kahn Visiting Artist Grant, Project for New Music, Harvard University

1997Post-Graduate Teaching Fellowship, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

1995Graduate Teaching Fellowship, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

1994Prize for Excellence, International Art Exhibition of Student Works, Nagoya University of Arts, Japan

Teaching:

Fitchburg State University, Professor, Communications Media Department, 1997 - present