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David Chapman Lindsay

Foundation studies professor

Education

  • M.F.A., art, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
  • B.F.A., art, Utah State University

Credentials

  • Professor of foundation studies, Fall 2022—present, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA
  • Director, 2017–22, Sites Set for Knowledge
  • Course developer and subject matter expert, 2017–19, Ensign College, Salt Lake City, UT
  • Associate director, 2017–19, School of Art
    M.F.A. degree coordinator, 2016–17
    Associate professor, 2011–19
    Assistant professor, 2005–11, Texas Tech University

Awards, recognitions, and honors

  • Common Field Support Grant
  • Utah Humanities Quick Grant Sanpete Valley Personal Histories Project
  • Charles Redd Center for Wester Studies Grant, Building an Art History tour for Provo
  • Scholarship Catalyst Grant, Texas Tech University Office of the Vice President for Research, Re: Houston exhibition and bringing Popwalk to Italy, 2018
  • Helen DeVitt Jones Foundation Grant, Popwalk App and the TTU public art collection, 2016
  • Scholarship Catalyst Grant, Popwalk Smartphone and Site-Specific Artwork, Texas Tech University, 2016
  • Art Pace artists residency finalist, Art Pace, San Antonio, TX, 2014
  • Texas Tech University, Office of the Vice President for Research Grant, "Developing Collaborations with Institutions in Europe," 2011
  • Arte Laguna Exhibition Special Prizes; Collective Exhibition Prize, Venice, Italy; Vienna, Austria; Prague, Czech Republic, 2010
  • Texas Tech University Humanities Grant, 2007

Publications and presentations

Selected solo exhibitions

  • The Heavens Bent to Meet Us, Reynolds Gallery, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, 2017
  • Above our Heads, Georgetown Art Center, Georgetown, TX, 2015
  • Winds and the Waves, Concordia University, Austin, TX, 2014
  • You Are Here, Charleston Heights Gallery, Las Vegas, NV, 2012
  • Hocus Pocus, Nau Haus Gallery, Houston, TX, 2012
  • Handprints, online exhibition, mormonartistsgroup.com, 2011
  • Don't Let Me Down, Gallery 04, The Center for Contemporary Arts, Abilene, TX, 2009
  • Bent, Vorpal Space Gallery, Portland, OR, 2008
  • Empty Spaces, SACI Gallery, Studio Art Centers International, Florence, Italy, 2007
  • Survey (at the Edge of the Continent), Main Gallery, Portland Art Center, Portland, OR, 2007
  • Stories of the Allegheny, Beecher Library Gallery, University of Akron, Akron, OH, 2004
  • Temperamental Boundaries/Turbulent Spaces, Kipp Gallery, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, PA, 2004

Selected group exhibitions/performances

  • Through the Looking Glass, Leonardo Museum, Salt Lake City, UT, 2019
  • Ever Ascending, performance collaboration with Stephen Leon Ricks, BYU Museum of Art, Provo, UT, 2018
  • Die Liebe is die GröBte, a recital and performance by Evan Dunn and Jorge Ramos, Hemmle Recital Hall Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, 2018
  • The wind might as well be part of the landscape, Writ and Vision Gallery, Provo, UT, 2017
  • Immediate Present, Riverside Church, New York, NY, 2017
  • Restored: Art & The Mormon Temple, Writ and Vision Gallery, Provo, UT, 2016
  • 10th International Art Exhibition, Church History Museum, Salt Lake City, UT, 2015
  • Hunting Art Prize, Friedkin Corporate Campus, Houston, TX, 2014
  • Recent Works by David Lindsay and Laura Kreft, Visual Arts Department Kilgore College, Kilgore, TX, 2014
  • Contemporary Art Fair, Jacob Javits Center, New York, NY, 2013
  • Mondo Utah, Utah Biennieal, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City, UT, 2013
  • Out of Texas, Monchskirche Gallery, Salzwedel, Germany, 2013
  • Works from the Residency, Hilmsen 1 Residency, Hilmsen (salzwedel) Germany, 2012
  • Strange Glue, Collage at 100, Thompson Gallery, Cambridge School of Weston, Weston, MA, 2012
  • Art Exchange, College Art Association Annual Conference, Los Angeles, CA, 2011
  • Reddot 2011, Bluestar Art Space, San Antonio, TX, 2011
  • Hunting Art Prize, Friedkin Corporate Campus, Houston, TX, 2010
  • Between Realities, Principle Gallery, Alexandria, VA, 2010
  • Artprize 2010, Western Michigan Center for Art and Technology, Grand Rapids, MI, 2010
  • Arte Laguna Exhibition, Tese di San Cristoforo, Arsenale, Venice, Italy, 2010
  • She, Amy Graves, Fine Art Gallery, McMurry University, Abilene, TX, 2009
  • Project: Transfer, George Enescu Museum, Tescani, Bacau, Romania, 2009
  • New Texas Talent, Craighead Green Gallery, Dallas, TX, 2009
  • Hunting Art Prize, Decorating Center of Houston, Houston, TX, 2009
  • You, Me, and Everyone We Know, Alphonse Berber Gallery, Berkeley, CA, 2009
  • From Out of the Corner of the Room, M2 Gallery, Houston, TX, 2008
  • Contemporary Art Dealers of Dallas Art Fair, 333 First Ave., Dallas, TX, 2008
  • Weight and Float: Contemporary Sculpture, Maude Kerns Art Center, Eugene, OR, 2008

Selected lectures, presentations, and performances

  • "Artist Lecture," presented at Texas A & M University, Reynolds Gallery, College Station, TX, 2017.
  • Building Arts Infrastructure, session organizer, Texas Association of Schools of Art annual conference, Lubbock, TX, 2015.
  • "Making Space," artist lecture presented at Concordia University, Austin, TX, 2014.
  • "Elevator Speech," workshop organizer SEPC committee, College Art Association conference, Chicago, IL 2014.
  • "Death in Art Seminar," co-presenter at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Lubbock, TX, 2013.
  • "Developing a Spatial Concept," workshop and presentation for the Texas Tech University, 2013.
  • "I've Graduated, Now What?" Panel presenter at College Art Association conference, New York, NY, 2011.
  • "Pedagogy Panel Discussion," panel presenter at College Art Association conference, Chicago, Il, 2010.

Selected artist residencies and fellowships

  • Granary Arts Artist Fellowship, Ephraim, UT
  • Hilmsen 1 artist residency, Hilmsen (Salzwedel) Germany, 2012
  • Project Transfer, artist residency, sponsored by the Romanian Cultural Trust, Bacau, Romania, 2008
  • Studio Arts Center International artist in residence, Florence, Italy, 2006
  • Scuola Internazionale di Grafica, artist residency, Venice, Italy, 2006