Cole Caswell
Island Specimens, Yard #3 (2020)
Cole Caswell researches the remnants and patterns in our landscape that reflect contemporary strategies of survival. Through strata of observation, technology, subjectivity, and his surroundings, Caswell investigates geography and its impact on our perceived ability to survive. He uses traditional, historic and digital photographic media to investigate our present condition. Working and living in a nomadic format Cole travels throughout the county exploring our ability to subsist within the contemporary environment. His studio is located on Peaks Island off the coast of Maine.
EXHIBITIONS
2020 Cyanotype, Cove Street Arts, Portland, Maine. (In Progress for Fall 2020)
Faculty Photographers, Cove Street Arts, Portland, Maine. (In Progress for Fall 2020)
Garden for the Bloom, Gem Gallery, Peaks Island, Maine. (July 2020)
Lush, Hush, CMCA virtual exhibition, Rockland, Maine.
2019 Drifter, Gem Gallery, Peaks Island, Maine.
Peripheral Subsistence, Big Cypress Swamp, Big Cypress, Florida.
2018 Swamp Thing, Sun System Press, Space Gallery, Portland, Maine.
Summer Sky, Gem Gallery, Peaks Island, Maine.
Water, James May Gallery, Algoma, Wisconsin.
2017 Deserted American Dreaming, Corey Daniels Gallery, Wells, Maine.
Water, James May Gallery, Algoma, Wisconsin.
2016 The Source, CMCA Biennial, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockland, Maine.
Escape Routes, John Michael Kohler Center for the Arts, Sheboygan, Wisconsin.
Sheboygan Project, River Walk and N14th, Sheboygan Wisconsin.
Thwampsing, Sunsystem Press, Palmdale, California.
Branching Out, CMTV Gallery, Portland, Maine.
2015 Patterns of Aggression, Maine Museum of Photographic Arts, Portland, Maine.
Rotation, Susan Maasch Fine Art, Portland, Maine.
Peripheral Subsistence, ICA at MECA, Portland, Maine.
Peripheral Subsistence, PhoPa Gallery, Portland, Maine.
Atmospheres, Susan Maasch Fine Art, Portland, Maine.
People: Photographs from the Bruce Brown Collection, Fryeburg Arts Center, Maine.
2014 Gulf Change, Gallery Group Show, Susan Maasch Fine Art, Portland, Maine.
Peripheral Subsistence, Center for Maine Contemporary Art Biennial, Rockport, Maine.
Arsenal, City Drift Portland Public Art Installation, Portland, Maine.
Gulf Change, SMCC Faculty Show, Lewis Gallery, Portland, Maine.
Gulf Change, Solo Represented Artist Show, Susan Maasch Fine Art, Portland, Maine.
Brink V1, Wanderlust, Boston Center for the Arts, Mills Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts.
Reconnaissance, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, California.
Personalities, Susan Maasch Fine Art, Portland, Maine.
Images of Change: Greater Portland’s Cityscape Since 1960, Lewis Gallery, Portland, Maine.
2013 Accretion Archive, Susan Maasch Fine Art, Portland, Maine.
Hawk and Handsaw, Center For Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, Maine.
Atmospheres, Solo Represented Artist Show, Susan Maasch Fine Art, Portland, Maine.
Gallery Artist Exhibition, Susan Maasch Fine Art, Portland, Maine.
Flash Forward Festival, Fairmont Battery Wharf, Boston, Massachusetts.
Selected Artist Exhibition, Corey Daniels Gallery, Wells, Maine.
The Unknown Expedition, A Peripheral Research Expedition, Southwestern United States.
2012 Eat Your Sidewalk, Spurse, Detroit, Michigan.
Eat Your Sidewalk, Spurse, Sherbrooke, Quebec.
The Act of Becoming Visible, Corey Daniels Gallery, Wells, Maine.
Portes, Halim Bey Municipal Art Gallery, Mytilene, Lesvos, Greece.
AgNO3 Lab, ASAIL – While on Land, AExperimental Retail Venture, Unity, Maine.
Swamp Thing, Bodega, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Selected Artist Exhibition, Corey Daniels Gallery, Wells, Maine.
Portes, Space Gallery, Portland, Maine.
Emergent Commons, Spurse, Issue Project Room, Brooklyn, New York.
The Act of Becoming Visible, Unity College, Unity, Maine.
2011 Formal Evidence, Zero Station, Portland, Maine.
USM Faculty Exhibition, USM Art Gallery, Gorham, Maine.
Interior Arachnid Territory Tracking Kit #02, USM Art Gallery, Gorham, Maine.
Space Invaders, Mobile Tintype Store Front, Common Ground, Unity, Maine.
Gang, Foc’sle Gallery, Province Town, Massachusetts.
Interior Arachnid Territory Tracking Kit, Spurse, Experimental Geography, Foreman Art
Gallery, Bishop’s University, Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada.
2010 Interior Arachnid Territory Tracking Kit, Spurse, Experimental Geography, Museum
London, London, Ontario, Canada.
Photographing Maine: Ten Years Later, Center For Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, Maine.
We Are X / wearex / Wax, Gorilla Store Front and Tintype Studio, 157 High Street Portland, Maine.
Interior Arachnid Territory Tracking Kit, Spurse, Experimental Geography, The James Gallery,
The Graduate Center at CUNY, New York, New York.
Patches Within Proximity, The Geographic Observatory, Area Gallery, University of Southern
Maine, Portland, Maine.
Interior Arachnid Territory Tracking Kit, Spurse, Experimental Geography, Colby College
Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine.
EDUCATION
MFA, Interdisciplinary Studio Art and Theory, Maine College of Art, Portland, Maine, 2008.
BFA, Photography with a Minor in Art History, Art Institute of Boston, Boston, Massachusetts, 2005.
Associates of Arts, Photography, Maine Media Workshops / Rockport College, Maine, 2003.
TEACHING
2014 – Present. Adjunct Faculty Researcher, Prescott College, Prescott, AZ.
2008 – Present. Adjunct Faculty Member, Southern Maine Community College, Portland, ME.
2011. Visiting Faculty, University of Southern Maine, Gorham, ME.
2010. Visiting Artist Workshop, M.S.U. Graduate Program, Montclair, NJ.
PUBLICATIONS
2020 Antidote, Maine Museum of Photographic Arts.
2019 Chasing Shadows, Sun System Press.
Gestures from Wilderness, Sun System Press.
2018 Artifacts of Motion, Sun System Press.
Swamp Fire, Sun System Press.
Burn Rate, Sun System Press.
Drifter, Sun System Press.
Passage, Sun System Press.
2016 The Island, Cumberland Island Conservancy, Conveyor Arts.
2014 Brink V1, Lexi Lee Sullivan, BCA press.
Night Market, Dark Rye, Detroit.
Knack Magazine, Artist Profile, Santa Fe, NM.
2012 Hawk and Handsaw, Unity College Press.
Eat Your Side Walk / The Cook Book, Spurse.
ME-GA Expedition Guide, Sun System Press, Portland, ME.
Swamp Thing Catalogue, Sun System Press, Portland, ME.
2011 Conveyer Magazine, Mapping.
Fallen Vo #1, Sun System Press, Portland ME.
Fallen Vo #2, Sun System Press, Portland ME.
Fallen Vo #3, Sun System Press, Portland ME.
VISITING ARTIST LECTURES
2016 John Michael Kohler Center for the Arts, Sheboygan, WI.
Monhegan Island Museum, Monhegan Island, ME.
Maine Museum of Photographic Arts, Peripheral Subsistence, Portland, ME.
2011 Montclair Grad Program, Practices – A tour of the Dismal Swamp, Metuchen, NJ.
Institute of Contemporary Art, The Forest, Portland, ME.
2010 Bakery Photo Collective, Recent Watersheds, Westbrook, ME.
Tyler School of Art, Photographic Process Overview, Philadelphia, PA.
School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Collaboration, Boston, MA.
University of Southern Maine, Inspection Processes, Portland, ME.
AWARDS
2018 Artist Project Grant, Maine Arts Commission, Portland, ME.
2017 Artist Project Grant, Maine Arts Commission, Portland, ME.
2016 Artist Project Grant, Maine Arts Commission, Portland, ME.
2016 Exhibition Artist In Residence, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI.
2014 Artist Project Grant, Maine Arts Commission, Portland, ME.
2013 Largo Canyon School Residency, Blanco, NM.
2010 Good Idea Grant, Maine Arts Commission, Portland, ME.
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