JEFF
BADGER
jeff@jeffbadger.com
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2008 TREED, Whitney Art Works
2007
Mean Trees (installation), Whitney
Art Works/Walker Terrace, Portland, ME
2006 I Got A Right, Whitney Art Works, Portland, ME
Everything Crash, Harbor Art Gallery,
UMASS Boston, MA
2005
This is How We Float, Essex Art Center, Lawrence, MA
2004 Float, Hay Gallery, Portland, ME
2003 New Paintings, Hay Gallery, Portland, ME
2002 New Work, Hay Gallery, Portland, ME
2001 Jeff Badger, Hay Gallery, Portland, ME
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2008
Biennial Juried Exhibition, Center for Maine Contemporary Art,
Rockport, ME (catalog)
Merhaba, Baghdad, Qasam Sabti Gallery, Baghdad, Iraq
Juried Alumni Exhibition, Tang Museum, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
Re:Format, ellO Gallery, Portsmouth, NH
2007
30 Years / 30 Cakes, Urban Institute for Contemporary Art, Grand
Rapids, MI (catalog)
Tiny, curated by Bruce Brown, Whitney Art Works, Portland, ME
2006
SUPERvision, Foster Gallery, University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire, WI
Seeing is Believing: Perceptions of
Reality, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
LandEscapes, College of the Atlantic Beech Hill Farm, Bar Harbor, ME
Still Life, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, ME
From the Inside II, June Fitzpatrick Gallery at MECA, Portland, ME
Funny-Scary-Happy-Sad: Contemporary Clown Art, ubu Studio Gallery,
Portland, ME
Humor? Maine College of Art, Portland, ME
2005
New Art 2005, MPG Contemporary, Boston, MA
Annual Juried Exhibition, Essex At Center, Lawrence, MA
Art Institute of Boston MFA Exhibition, Epicenter, Boston, MA
2004
SuperSalon, Samson Projects, Boston, MA
Fire with Fire: On Myth on Contemporary Culture, Maine College of Art,
Portland, ME
Greater Portland and Cumberland County, Maine State Capitol Complex,
Augusta, ME
Festival of The Sacred and Profane, Peaks Island,
ME
2003
Juried Alumni Exhibition, Tang Museum, Skidmore College, Saratoga
Springs, NY
Treats, Hay Gallery, Portland, ME
Creatures, Filament Gallery, Portland, ME
Words & Images, University of Southern Maine, Portland, ME
In My Backyard 3, Yarmouth, ME
2002
Paper Cut 5, Siberia, New York, NY
Plow, SPACE Gallery, Portland, ME
911: Maine Responds, Maine Art Gallery, Wiscasset, ME
Opening Exhibition, SPACE Gallery, Portland, ME
Bacon, 31 Withers Street, Brooklyn, NY
Festival of The Sacred and Profane - Spot!, Peaks Island, ME
2001
Gaze, Bennington College, Bennington, VT
In The Beginning, University of New England, Biddeford, ME
Festival of The Sacred and Profane (the devil made me do
it), Peaks
Island, ME
VISITING ARTIST
2006
Massachusetts College of Art, MSE, Boston, MA
Massachusetts College of Art, BFA Exhibition Design, Boston,
MA
2005
The Dublin School, Dublin, NH
Rivertree Center for the Arts, Kennebunk, ME
Institute of Contemporary Art, In Control of Your
Faculties, Portland,
ME
Maine College of Art,
Painting Major Seminar, Portland, ME
Maine College of Art, Sculpture Major
Seminar, Portland, ME
2004
Maine College of Art, Art Camp, Portland, ME
Currier Museum of Art, AllState Art Festival, Manchester, NH
Maine College of
Art,
Art and Business: Networking, Portland, ME
Maine College of Art,
Senior Printmaking Seminar, Portland, ME
2003
Currier Museum of Art, Art Students Honor Society, Manchester, NH
Currier Museum of Art, AllState Art Festival, Manchester, NH
2002 Muse Artist Group, Portland, ME
TEACHING
Instructor, Southern Maine Community College, South Portland, ME, 2008-present
Adjunct Faculty,
Southern Maine Community College, South Portland,
ME, 2006-2008
Adjunct
Faculty, Massachussetts College of Art,
Boston MA, 2007
PROGRAMMING AND
ADMINISTRATION
Gallery Director, Whitney Art Works, Portland, ME, 2006-2008
Coordinator
of Career Resources, Maine
College
of Art, Portland, ME, 2005-6
Site Manager and
Educational Assistant,
Victoria Mansion, Portland,
ME, 2004
Gallery Director, SPACE Gallery, Portland, ME, 2003-2004
Instructor, Maine College of
Art Camp, Portland,
ME, 2004
Student Advisor, Maine College of Art, Portland,
ME,
2004-5
Academic Tutor, Maine College of
Art, Portland,
ME, 2003-4
Site
Coordinator, Project Safe & Smart, West School,
Portland, ME,
2001-3
Workshop
Instructor,
Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT, 1998
Teaching & Studio
Assistant, Skidmore College, Saratoga
Springs,
NY,
1997-8
SELECTED CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2007
After the End of the World, Whitney Art Works, Portland, ME
2004
Flavor, SPACE Gallery, Portland, ME,
discrete symbols from a finite set, SPACE Gallery, Portland, ME
2003 The Next, SPACE Gallery, Portland,
ME
2002 Plow, SPACE Gallery, Portland,
ME
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Interview. Café Des Artistes WERU-FM. Broadcast
October 8, 2006.
“Being Watched.” Eau Claire Leader-Telegram. October 8, 2006: p. 1F.
“LandEscapes: Mt. Desert Hosts Annual Interdisciplinary Public Art
Event.” MaineArtsMag Fall 2006.
Anchors, Zach. "Interview: Jeff Badger." South Portland
Sentry, August 25, 2006: p 6,
Elson, Kerry. “ART on the Edge.” Port City Life July /
August 2006: p. 100.
Healy, Pat. "Spy Food and Drunk
Fish." Boston Metro, March 24, 2006: p. 12.
“Photos, drawings, stills open at CMCA.” Camden Herald, January 1, 2006.
Metzer, Andy. "Where Does it come from?". Interview, The Mass Media
March 26 2006:
p 1.
Ford, Rosemary. "Working Against the Grain". Eagle Tribune.
January 13, 2005, p. 23.
Thompson,
Chris. “Out of Pocket”. Portland Magazine. December 2003, p.
44-49.
Keyes, Bob. “Lesser-known flourish in arts-friendl-y Space”. Maine
Sunday Telegram. September 28, 2003, p. 1E.
Knowles, Maggie. "Hot, hot heat - Parker and Badger at the Hay
Gallery". The Portland Phoenix. July 4, 2003, p. 16.
Graves, Laurie Meunier. Review. Wolf Moon Press. July, 2003.
“Power, Sex-economy and the function of aesthetics”. Film by Nick
Allanach, 2003. Featured Artist.
Gannon, Victoria. “Performance Art – Huh?”. Casco Bay Weekly. November
21, 2002. Cover story and image, p. 10-14.
Kemp, Denise Porter. “Come Together.” The Portland Phoenix Fall
Preview. September 20, 2002.
Sargent, Colin. “Keeping Space Afloat.” Portland Magazine. September
2002, p. 6.
“Inaugural exhibit shows gallery’s potential.” Casco Bay Weekly. August
1, 2002, p. 26.
Keyes, Bob. “In My Backyard 2: Art Festival Knows No Boundaries”.
Portland Press Herald. July 3, 2002, p. 1B.
“Badger, McCreight in Hay Spotlight.” Portland Press Herald. January 3,
2002, p. 2D.
Beem, Edgar. “Tim McCreight’s Silver Hammer.” Maine Times. January 31,
2002, p 21.
Featured Listing and Image. Casco Bay Weekly. January 3, 2002, p. 22.
“Ridgefield Art Afar.” Ridgefield Press. November 18, 2001, p. 1C.
PUBLISHED WRITING
Art
Reviews for Artascope Magazine, September 2007-2008
Art
Reviews for TheBollard.com, Nov 2005-2008
"Space". Alarm Magazine. Issue 19, 2004, p. 24.
AWARDS
2008 Good Idea Grant, Maine Arts Commission
2005 Good Idea Grant, Maine Arts Commission
2004 Maine Artist Access, juried into statewide directory
EDUCATION
Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University, MA, MFA 2005
Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs,
NY, BA cum laude, 1998
Westminster University, London, 1997
BIO
b. 1976, Miami, Florida
Lives and works in South Portland, Maine