Education
2006 MFA 2D Studio Art – Painting, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Carbondale IL
1996 BA Studio Art, Central College, Pella IA
1994 Trinity University, Carmarthan Wales UK, Central College study abroad program
Professional Experience
2010-Present Assistant Professor of Art, Painting and Drawing, Boise State University, Boise ID
2006-2010 Assistant Professor of Art, Area Head of 2D Design/Foundations, Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches TX
Selected Exhibitions
Solo Exhibitions
2010 You Are Where, Darke Gallery, Houston TX
2008 Merge, Cactus Bra Space, San Antonio TX
2007 Urban/Suburban, North Harris College, Houston TX
2007 Chad Erpelding: Corporate Worlds, The Art Center, SFASU, Nacogdoches TX
2006 WorldView, Surplus Gallery, Carbondale IL
2005 Pound for Pound, Surplus Gallery, Carbondale IL
1996 Thesis, Mills Gallery, Pella IA
Two or Three Person Exhibitions
2010 Space Relations, (with Joelle Dietrick and Owen Mundy) The 621 Gallery, Tallahassee FL
2010 Forest for the Trees, (with Dana Sperry) 1708 Gallery, Richmond VA
2010 New Blood, (with Caroline Earley and Ryan Mandell) Linen Gallery, Boise ID
2009 Topologically Speaking, (with Mark Schatz) College of the Mainland Gallery, Texas City TX
2006 Mise en Scene, (with David Linneweh and John Reddington) Mad Art Gallery, St Louis MO
2003 Longing for Height, (with Jane Deutsch) Mark Gallery, Cambridge MA
Group Exhibitions
2011 Nothing to Declare, Vargas Museum, Yuchengco Museum, Blanc Compound, Manila, Philippines
2011 CAMAC: Open Studio, CAMAC, Marnay-sur-Seine, France
2011 UMKC National Print Exhibition 2011, UMKC Gallery of Art, Kansas City MO
Juror: Leesa Fanning, Associate Curator, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
2011 The Line, Prescott College Art Gallery, Prescott AZ
Juror: John Risseeuw, Professor, Arizona State University
2011 Biennial Faculty Exhibition, Boise State University, Boise ID
2011 9×12 Works, Ferencvarosi Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
Juror: Beata Szechy, Director, Hungarian Multicultural Center
2011 International Coastal Flag Art Festival, Mongsanpo Beach, Taean, South Korea
2011 More is More, Lexington Art League, Lexington KT
Juror: Melissa Vandenberg, Assistant Professor, Eastern Kentucky University
2011 Works on/of Paper, Pacific Art League, Palo Alto CA
Juror: Elizabeth Mitchell, Curator of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs, Stanford University
2011 Edge of Life, Elm Fork Education Center, University of North Texas, Denton TX; The Cole Art Center, Nacogdoches TX
2011 Third Paint Snob Invitational, Arkansas State University, Jonesboro AR
2010 Studio Amateras, Cartasia Biennale d’Arte corollary exhibition, Lucca, Italy
2010 We’re on Huron, Aldo Castillo Gallery, digital exhibition, Chicago IL
2010 Darke Read, Darke Gallery, Houston TX
2010 Second Paint Snob Invitational, 500X, Dallas TX
2009 Darke Green, Darke Gallery, Houston TX
2009 ArtHouston Introductions, Darke Gallery, Houston TX
2009 SFASU Faculty Show, The Art Center, Nacogdoches TX
2009 International Flag Art Festival, Dangjin Public Stadium, Dangjin, South Korea
2009 Southern Open 2009, Acadiana Center for the Arts, Lafayette LA
Juror: Eleanor Heartney, contributing editor to Art in America and Artpress
2009 Postcards From the Edge – benefiting Visual AIDS, Metro Pictures, New York NY
2009 Amateras Annual Paper Art Exhibition, Art Studio Amateras, Sofia, Bulgaria
Jurors: Jane Allan Ingram, Lilsa Malkamo, Stefan Popov, and Todor Todorov
2009 Hunting Art Prize, finalist, Decorative Center, Houston TX
2009 New American Talent: 23, Landmark Arts Gallery, Texas Tech, Lubbock TX ; Art Department Gallery, Texas A&M University, Commerce TX
2009 Message from Texas: Breaking the Stereotype, The State Museum of Novosibirsk, Russia; The State Museum of Nizhny Tagil, Russia
2009 12×12, Cole Art Center, Nacogdoches TX
2009 Paper Works, Gallery RFD, Swainsboro GA
2008 Snap to Grid, Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, Los Angeles CA
2008 Illuminators, Koltsovo Airport, Yekaterinburg Russia
2008 SFASU Faculty Show, The Art Center, Nacogdoches TX
2008 White/Box/Group/Show2, [5]art Collective, Tampa FL
2008 New American Talent: 23, Arthouse at the Jones Center, Austin TX,
Juror: Nato Thompson, curator/producer Creative Time, NYC
2008 Message from Texas: Breaking the Stereotype, White Gallery, Pedagogical, University of Ufa, Ufa, Russia
2008 Paint Snob Invitational, McLennan Community College CSC Art Gallery, Waco TX
2008 Mailed and Mounted, Anton Art Center, Mount Clemens MI
2008 Transparent, (SCENE) Metrospace, East Lansing MI
2007 Spatial Poetry, Commerce Street Artist Warehouse, Houston TX
2007 SFASU Faculty Show, The Art Center, Nacogdoches TX
2007 Group 62901 Invitational, Well Street Art Co., Fairbanks AK
2006 SFASU Faculty Show, Griffith Gallery, Nacogdoches TX
2005 What are we Doing Here? Surplus Gallery, Carbondale IL
2005 Around the Coyote, Wicker Park, Chicago IL
2005 Process, Performance, Projection III, Surplus Gallery, Carbondale IL, Jurors: Chris Wildrick and Carole Loeffler
2005 MFA Preview Show, The University Museum, SIUC, Carbondale IL
2005 The International Pony Show, HQ Gallery, Makanda IL
2005 Miniprint 11, Vergette Gallery, Carbondale IL
2004 The Gift, Mark Gallery, Cambridge MA
2004 Skopeoholic, Surplus Gallery, Carbondale IL
2004 The Second Annual Winter Solstice Celebration and Holiday Art Sale, Cooperative Image Group, The Empty Bottle, Chicago IL
2004 Ninth Biennial Arts Competition & Exhibition, The University Museum, SIUC, Carbondale IL, Juror: Mel Watkin
2004 The View From Here, Surplus Gallery, Carbondale IL
2004 Miniprint 10, Vergette Gallery, Carbondale IL
2003 New Talent, Hay Gallery, Portland ME
2003 The Gift, Mark Gallery, Cambridge MA
2003 The Human Rights Campaign Silent Auction, Boston MA
2003 Cosmopolitan, Surplus Gallery, Carbondale IL
2003 Gallery 3, Hay Gallery, Portland ME
2003 Miniprint 9, Vergette Gallery, Carbondale IL
2003 One Night Only, Surplus Gallery, Carbondale IL
2003 First Friday 4/03, The Artist Studio, Portland ME
2003 cs202, MECA Clapp House, Portland ME
2002 First Friday 12/02, The Artist Studio, Portland ME
2002 Four Painters, Ocean Street Arts, South Portland ME
2002 First Friday 8/02, The Artist Studio, Portland ME
2000 The Alphabet Show, Q Hut Gallery, Portland OR
1997 Works from Small Colleges in Iowa, traveling exhibit, 9/96-5/97
Related Information
Publications
2011 Poster Artist for “Works on/of Paper” Pacific Art League
2010 Cover artist for Exhibition Calendar, 1708 Gallery
2010 “Nothing and Nowhere” Bird Cox The Brick Weekly, February 25-March 3
Exhibition Review for Forest for the Trees
2010 Catalog of Exhibitions, [5]art Gallery
2009 “Southern Open 2009” Exhibition Catalog
2009 “Introductions” Olivia Flores Alvarez Houston Press July 2009
2009 “Nacogdoches artists selected as finalists in juried contest” Michele Marcotte, The Daily Sentinel May 11, 2009
2008 “This year’s ‘New American Talent’ takes a very topical turn” Jeanne Claire van Ryzin
Austin American-Statesman & Art Austin July 06 2008
2008 “New American Talent: 23” Exhibition Catalog
2008 “SFA art professor Erpelding’s work on display in Russia” Daily Sentinel May 11
2008 “Vesti Ural” Russia Channel 2 Exhibition Review April 2008
2008 Paint Snob Directory book
2008 “Illuminators” Exhibition Catalog
2008 “SFA art teacher creates artwork inspired by Forbes Magazine’s top corporations” Ryan C. Perry Pine Log April 17 2008
2008 San Antonio Current, First Friday Review for Merge, March 2008
2007 Featured on www.paintsnob.com
2004 “Jane Deutsch and Chad Erpelding” Art New England, Exhibition Review for Longing for Height, Feb/Mar 2004
2003 artsMEDIA, Exhibition Review for Longing for Height, September 2003
Residencies
Centre d’Art Marnay Art Centre, Marnay-sur-Seine, France, June 2011
Boise City Department of Arts & History, Boise ID, September 2010-March2011
Collections
CAMAC, Marnay-sur-Seine, France
Eighth Street Marketplace, Boise ID
Art Studio Amateras, Sofia, Bulgaria
Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, Los Angeles CA
Museum of Novosibirsk, Central Siberia, Russia
Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Moore Auditorium, Carbondale IL
Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Graduate Association of Painters and
Printmakers, Mini-print 9, 10, & 11, Carbondale IL
Other Information
2001 Hiked 1,100 miles of the Appalachian Trail, Harper’s Ferry WV to Mount Katahdin ME
1997 Bicycled 3,500 miles from Oceanside OR to Acadia National Park ME
1996 Hiked 1,000 miles of the Appalachian Trail, Harper’s Ferry WV to Springer Mountain GA
1996-2001 Hitchhiked over 1,000 miles