DAVID A. CHAMBERLAIN
primary phone (315)-553-2326
e-mail: David@Chamberlainstudios.com
EDUCATION
MFA University of Pennsylvania 1977
Sculpture, Printmaking, Photography
BA Princeton University 1971
Architecture & Design
MLA University of Colorado 2002
Landscape Architecture & Design
Certificate Colorado College 1973
Teaching Studio Art Institute
Diplôme Centre Audio Visuel Langues Modernes 1972
Vichy, France
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
Solo Shows Muse a Muse' Gallery, Tokyo, Japan 1997, 1999
Consulate of Japan, San Francisco, CA 1999, 1998
Retrospective: "Solos, Duets & Concertos" Muskegon Art Museum, MI 1996
"Duetts" Delaware Museum of Art, Wilmington, DE 1995
MacLaren/Markowitz Gallery, Boulder, CO 1991
Retrospective: McKissick Museum of Art, Columbia, SC 1990
Retrospective: The Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, MA 1988
Pucker Gallery, Boston, MA 1981, 1984, 1988
Gibson Gallery, SUNY at Potsdam, NY 1987
Arlene McDaniel Galleries, Simsbury, CT 1986
Lyme Academy of Fine Arts, Old Lyme, CT 1985, 1986
Gallerie Obussier, Nantucket, MA 1985
New Acquisitions Gallery, Syracuse, NY 1983
Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY 1983
Representation Artisan’s Loft Gallery, Pultneyville, NY 2011-
Art Services International, Westport, CT 2007-
Art3Gallery, Manchester, NH 2010-
Alpers Fine Arts, Andover, MA 1998-
Renjeau Gallery, Natick/Wellesley, MA 2008-
Edgewater Gallery, Middlebury, VT and Greenwich, CT 2009-
Fast One Frame & Gallery, Wethersfield, CT 2006-
Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA 2008-
McGrath & Braun, Denver, CO 2000-
MacLaren/Markowitz Gallery, Boulder & Broomfield, CO 1990-
Renjeau Gallery, Concord, MA 1989-
Spheris Gallery, Walpole, NH 1997-
Llynn Strong Gallery, Greenville, SC 1997-
JRS Gallery, Providence, RI 1993-
Art Thomas Gallery, Charleston, SC 1994-1997
Pucker Gallery, Boston, MA 1979-2000
Summer Duets Brooks Center for the Arts, Clemson Univ. 1997, 1998
New Directions: Contemporary Art from the Currier Currier Museum 1994
New Acquisitions: DeCordova Museum of Art 1994, 1995, 1997, 1999, 2000
Aspen Grove Fine Arts, Aspen, CO 1993-1998
Arlene McDaniel Galleries, Simsbury, CT 1985-1996
Madison Avenue Gallery, Memphis, TN 1996
Miller Gallery, Cincinatti, OH 1992
Joanne Lyon Galleries, Aspen, CO 1989-1991
National Invitational Sculpture Show [Biennial], Hartford, CT 1987-1993
Contemporary Sculpture at Chesterwood, Stockbridge, MA 1986, 1987, 1988
CAFA Exhibition, New Britain Museum of Art, New Britain, CT 1986
Saratoga Gallery of Fine Art, Saratoga, NY 1985, 1986
New Acquisitions Gallery, Syracuse, NY 1984, 1986
Main Street Gallery, Nantucket, MA 1986
Gallery on the Green, Lexington, MA 1986-1989
Richard Green Gallery, Guilford, CT 1986
Mitchell Museum of Art, Mount Vernon, IL 1983
Kendall Gallery, Wellfleet, MA 1982, 1983
Grimaldis Gallery, Baltimore, MD 1980
Adirondack Lakes Center for the Arts, NY 1975
Recent Regional Arts & Cultural Council Gallery 2010 - 2012
ROCO Gallery (Rochester Contemporary) 2010 - 2012
Rochester Print Club 2011, 2012
Commissions International Snow Sculpture Competition, Breckinridge, CO
Leaning Out for Love 2010
Cold Hands, Warm Heart 2008
Cool Jazz (Silver Medal) 2007
Operhall Suite; [Series of 6 original works] Muskegon Museum of Art 1994
Symphony Suite; Gibbes Museum & Charleston Symphony Orchestra 1994
Gospel Suite in F; New England Conservatory of Music, Boston, MA 1994
Eroica; Morgridge Auditorium, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 1992
Balletté; Southworth Library, Canton College, Canton, NY 1991
A Une Passante; Wallace Library, Wheaton College, Norton, MA 1991
Festivale; K. B. K. Foundation, Boston, MA 1990
A Une Passante; SUNY Potsdam, Potsdam, NY 1989
Balletté; Ensign-Bickford Corp., Simsbury, CT 1987
Torus; Stratus Computer, Inc., Marlboro, MA 1986
Rondella; BNWC, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 1985
Viole, Ayre; Asset Management, Inc., Essex, CT 1983
Cantata; Horne Library, Babson College, Wellesley, MA 1981
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Museums Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, MA
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford University, England
Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, CA
British Museum, London, England
Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, SC
Currier Gallery & Museum, Manchester, NH
Danforth Museum, Framingham, MA
Davis Museum of Art, Wellesley, MA
DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA
Delaware Museum of Art, Wilmington, DE
Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI
Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY
Farnsworth Museum of Art, Rockland, ME
Fine Arts Center at Cheekwood, Nashville,TN
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge University, England
Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, SC
Gibson Gallery & Museum, SUNY Potsdam, NY
Greenville County Art Museum, Greenville, SC
Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, NY
McKissick Museum of Art, Columbia, SC
Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY
Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN
Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS
Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute of Art, Utica, NY
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, MA
Muskegon Museum of Art, Muskegon, MI
National Museum of American Art, Washington, DC
Nelson Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO
New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT
Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME
Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ
Rose Art Museum, Waltham, MA
San Diego Museum, San Diego, CA
Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA
Taylor Museum/CSFAC, Colorado Springs, CO
University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI
Victoria & Albert Museum, London, England
Wadsworth Athenaeum, Hartford, CT
Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
Institutions American Embassy, Tokyo, Japan
(selected) Arjo Wiggins/Arches S.A., Annonay, France
Bank of America, Boston, MA
Boso Yusi Company, Tokyo, Japan
Boston Ballet, Boston, MA
Canadian Foreign Ministry, Ottawa, Canada
Chase Manhattan Bank, Vietnam
Clay Center for the Performing Arts, Charleston, WV
Embassy of Japan, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Embassy of Japan, Paris, France
FIA Institute, Tokyo, Japan
Fidelity Ventures & Associates, Boston, MA
Frederik Meijer Sculpture Gardens, Grand Rapids, MI
Gauteng Legislature, Gauteng, South Africa
German Embassy to Vietnam, Hanoi, Vietnam
Helix Technology Corporation, Longmont, CO
Ito-En Company, Tokyo, Japan
JAFCO America Ventures, Boston, Palo Alto, Tokyo
Japanese Consulates: Boston, MA; Atlanta, GA; San Francisco, CA
Japanese Foreign Ministry, Tokyo, Japan
Japan External Trade Organization, New York, Tokyo
Kepner-Tregoe Company, Princeton, NJ
Kobe Steel, Ltd,. Tokyo, Kobe
MIT MediaLab, Cambridge, MA
Mochida Medicines, Inc., Tokyo
Monsanto, European Division, Brussels, Belgium
New England Conservatory of Music, Boston, MA
Nueva Set-Kei, Inc. Tokyo, Japan
Opinion Research Company, Princeton, NJ
PAR Associates, Inc., Boston, MA
Price, Waterhouse & Company, Greenwich, CT
Princeton Club of Japan, Tokyo, Japan
Saint Joseph's Heart Hospital, Lexington, KY
Spencer, Fane & Browne; Shugert & Thomson, Kansas City, MO
Temple Society of Concord, Syracuse, NY
T. Rowe Price, Inc., Colorado Springs, CO
University of Wisconsin School of Business, Madison, WI
Vietnam Embassy to Canada, Ottawa, Canada
Yankelovich, Skelly & White, Stamford, CT
EDUCATIONAL INVOLVEMENT
Visiting Professor — Design [Associate Professor, one-year appointment] 2004/2005
LARCH 252/252 Second-year Design Studio (2 studio sections)
HUM-306 Creative Genius – The Nature of Brilliance & Inspiration
(Outlined in the Chronicle of Higher Education)
Department of Landscape Architecture & Planning
College of Art, Architecture and Humanities
Clemson University, Clemson, SC
Visiting Professor — Creativity [Associate Professor, Presidential Fellow] 1990/1991
Three-Dimensional Design, Figure Sculpture, Photography, Creative Arts Survey
Graduate level: The Business of Art
Fine Arts Department
University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC
Adjunct Professor/Instructor — Art (surveys), Sculpture, Drawing, Poetry 1991-1994
Drawing (still-life), Sculpture, Survey to the Arts & Creativity
Graduate level: Poetry Writing seminar
Art & Music Department
Rivier College, Nashua, NH
Courses taught and related areas of expertise
3-D Sculpture (abstract, figurative, casting, fabrication, installations, conceptual)
2-D Photography (film and digital), Painting (including Duett Painting), Printmaking
Music (arranging and performing), Poetry, Compositional Theory
Visiting Critic/Presenter – Photography and Studio Art
Haverford School, Bryn Mawr, PA 1999
Purnell School, Pottersville, NJ 1976, 1985, 1995
Clemson University, Clemson, SC 1997, 1998
African Institute of Art, FUNDA Soweto, South Africa 1997
Princeton University 1996
Williams College 1995
Rhode Island School of Design 1995
Bradford College 1994, 1998
College of Charleston 1994
University of Pennsylvania 1993
University of South Carolina 1990, 1994
SUNY Albany 1992, 1993
Pine Manor College 1987, 1989
Bentley College 1988
Simon's Rock/Bard College 1988
Brandeis University 1986
Lyme Academy of Fine Arts 1985, 1986
Emerson College 1985
Harvard University 1984, 1985
Mount Holyoke College 1984
Syracuse University 1983
Colorado College 1977
Director; Artist in Residence 1974-1977
Arts College House, University of Pennsylvania
Founded and initiated interdisciplinary residential program at Harnwell House:
Photography, Dance, Drama, Music, Poetry, Theatre, Film, Architecture, Art.
Taught Photography, Visual Composition, and Drawing (figure & still-life)
Fellow
The Aspen Institute (Executive Seminar) Aspen, CO 2000
Panelist – Design, Aesthetics, Art & Creativity
Conference on World Affairs (Univ. of Colo., Boulder) 1990-1998
SCHOOLS & PROGRAMS
Instructor, Photography & Visual Arts 1974-1976
Adirondack Lakes Center for the Arts
Chair, Performing Arts Department 1971-1974
Purnell School [Taught & developed 11 Performing Arts courses/programs]
Instructor, Visual Arts Department, Photography 1970-1974
Purnell School [Taught & developed syllabi for 21 Studio Arts courses]
Juror, College Entrance Examination Board Area: Studio Arts 1972
PUBLICATIONS
Media Video Jukebox DeCordova Museum of Art, Lincoln, MA 1999
Film David Chamberlain: Artistry in Motion (30 min.) SC-ETV/PBS 1992
Book Melodic Form: The Sculpture of David Chamberlain (76 pgs, color) 1990
David Godine, Pucker Gallery Publishers Boston, MA
Video Search for Perfection; (16 minutes) FIS/Pucker Safrai Gallery 1982
Award: Red Ribbon Category: The Arts American Film Festival, New York
INTERVIEWS
All Things Considered, National Public Radio; Weekend Edition, Monitor Radio & Public Radio International; CNN Headline News, Atlanta, GA; International News Scene, Reuters Press International, New York/Hong Kong; Terra Infirma, Corp. for Public Broadcasting; BBC World, London; Art Scene, S. Carolina Public Radio; Jazz Times, Blue Lakes Public Radio, Grand Rapids, MI; Conversations with Jean Feraca, Wisc. Public Radio, Madison, WI; WBZ-TV Boston, MA; WCNY-TV Syracuse, NY; WNPE-TV Watertown, NY; WSBK-TV Boston, MA; KCMV/KSMT Radio, Breckinridge/Denver, CO; WERS-Radio Boston, MA; WXXI (NPR) Rochester, NY
COLLABORATIONS
Duett of Duetts – Clemson University 2004-2005
Interdisciplinary collaboration involving Fine Arts, Design (Landscape Architecture, Architecture),
and Performing Arts (Music). World Premier, 30 participants, 8 entities.
90 works created. Filmed for publication. Research grants awarded (approx. $67,000)
Johannesburg, South Africa (Artist Proof Studio) 1997
Duetts with: Kagiso Pat Mautloa, Durant Sihlali, Mmakgabo Sebidi, Dumisane Mabaso, Nhlanhla
Xaba, Pepe Abela, Vincent Baloyi, Ntepe Osiah Masekwameng, Gordon Gabashane, Sokhaya Nkosi
Studio Duetts (Chamberlain Studios) 1995-2001
Yuji Kishimoto (Architect -- Japan/USA), Emi Tajima (Japanese master caligrapher), Nguyen Quynh Nhu (Vietnam), Eduardo Chavez & Arturo Miranda (Mexican artists), Kyi May Kaung (Burmese Poet), Patrick Moraz (Swiss/American composer/performer), Jingalu (Aboriginal Australian artist), Rungsak Dokbua (Thailand), and Americans Don Grusin (Composer/performer), Dave Grusin (Composer/performer), Harry Skoler (Composer/performer), Sarah Schneider (Dancer/choreographer), Sally Ranney (artist/humanist), Cleo Parker Robinson (Dancer/choreographer)
Vietnam (Indochina Arts Project) 1995
Fine Arts Associations in Saigon, Hue and Hanoi; Ecole des Beaux Arts
Do Minh Tam, Hoc Hai, Huy Oanh, Le Anh Van, Le Thong, Le Van Suu, Manh Tuan, Mai Khanh, Nghia Duyen, Thuc Ban, Tran Khan Chuong, Tran Luong
China (PRC) — [work in progress] 2001-2004, present
Proposal for an Artistic Collaboration with China, (38 pages).
Program involving ten Chinese artists, streaming on the internet, development of 210
museum-quality Duett paintings for world-wide exhibition; budget 1.1 million USD.
[Preliminary trip to China in May, 2005].
RELATED EXPERIENCE
Speaker "Man in the Arena" , Haverford School, Haverford, PA 2000
"Architecture & Composition" Clemson U. Dept of Architecture, AIA Lecture 1997
“Reflections on Creativity" Am. Inst. of Architects Convention, Highlands, NC 1994
"Neurons, Notes & Sketches", Conference on Art & Mathematics Albany, NY 1993
"Music into Sculpture", Conference on Art & Mathematics Albany, NY 1992
"On the Creative Process", Empire State Plaza Art Collection Albany, NY 1993
"Creativity and Fulfillment", Conference on Health & Spirituality Boston, MA 1991
Vocalist & Cahoots (jazz a cappella quartet) 1974 - present
Arranger Album recordings: "Released" (1993) ; "Haven't We Met" (1991)
All Good Children (octet) 1972-74
Album: "All Good Children" (1980)
Canto Ergo Sum (sextet) 1971-72
Album Recording: [Live] Princeton University Music Department
The Princeton Footnotes (double sextet) 1967-1971, President
Album recording: "Another Summer Gone" (1970)
The Class of 1971 Quartet 1968 – present
Various musical works, 600+ performances, teacher and studio musician
Arrangements in Smithsonian Institution collection
DESIGN PRACTICE
Program Design – Multi-disciplinary
Arts College House (Program) ; University of Pennsylvania, Phila., PA 1975-1977
Performing Arts Center (Architectural); Purnell School, Pottersville, NJ 1973
Fine Arts Center (Architectural); Purnell School, Pottersville, NJ 1971, 1973
Consultant
Sculpture Walk Project Univ. of South Carolina, Facilities Planning 1990/91
"How to create, fund and implement a self-sufficient world-class sculpture collection"
Author & Composer
National Library of Poetry: Best Poems of 1995; Distinguished Poets of America
Editor's Choice Award, [Poetry] 1993; A View from the Edge [Poetry] 1991
Bits & Pieces (Musical Production) 1974 [Pseudonym: Harbrough Hogh]
Various articles, essays, interviews, publications, profiles, syllabi
AWARDS
Grants Clemson Advancement Foundation, 2004; University of Colorado, Denver, 2001;
The Aspen Institute, 2000: Krasner-Pollack Foundation Emergency Grant, 1999;
Indochina Arts Project (Ford Foundation), 1994; Individual Artist Grant, South Carolina
Arts Commission, 1991; K. B. K. Foundation Grant, 1991, 1994; High Meadow Foundation
Grant, 1990; Ford Venture Fund Grant [University of Pennsylvania], 1975-1977; Haas Fund
Fellowship, 1976; Purnell Faculty Grant, 1972, 1973
Grants-in-kind Kodak, Rochester, NY; Fuji Film and Media, Columbia, SC; Papeteries Canson &
Montgolfier, Annonay, France; Royal Talens BV Oil Paints, Apeldoorn, Holland;
Takach Press Corp., Albuquerque, NM; South African Airlines; American Airlines;
Korean Airlines; Trans World Airlines
Selection Who's Who: in American Art; in the East; in the World
Various University Records, Track & Field, Princeton University 1967-1969
Top Gun Award, Plum Island Ultra-light Flying Club 1992, 1993
(artistic bio/resumé — per 10/1/12)