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Theo Edmonds ~ Biographical Timeline

2011
  • Visiting Artist ~ University of Kentucky, Department of Art ~ Lexington, KY (Spring Semester 2011)
2010
  • Group Show ~ "Hot Commodities" ~ Verge Art Fair. Miami Beach (December 2010)
  • Installation and Performance ~ "KA-boom" ~ Presented by South Beach Group for Art | Basel | Miami Beach (December 2010)
  • Group Show ~ EBC Gallery, Paris, France (November 2010)
  • International Showcase Winner Round #6, Mixed Media, ArtSlant.com (November 2010)
  • Artist in Residence ~ The Whitelaw Hotel ~ South Beach Group ~ Miami, FL (September -December 2010)
  • Solo Exhibition ~ "Hustler's Paradise/Paintings & Poems" ~ Ft Lauderdale, FL (August-September 2010)
  • Group Show (including Henry Faulkner, John Tuska, etc.) ~ Thoroughbred Gallery ~ Lexington, KY (Fall 2010)
  • Visiting Artist ~ Nova Southeastern University, School of Performing & Visual Arts~ Ft Lauderdale, FL (June - August 2010)
  • Group Show ~ Cross Gate Gallery, Lexington, KY (May - July 2010)
  • Group Show ~ Ann Tower Gallery, Lexington, KY (Fall 2010)
  • Group Show ~ EBC Gallery, Paris, France (May 2010)
  • International Showcase Winner Round #3, Mixed Media, ArtSlant.com (May 2010)
  • Solo Exhibition ~ Short Street Gallery, Lexington, KY (May 2010)
  • Performance Art/Installation ~"80digits Tense & Tickle"~Collaboration with University of Kentucky Art Dept. ~ Downtown Arts Center, Lexington, KY (May 2010)
  • Group Exhibition ~ LV Harkness, Lexington Philharmonic's "Horsetails" Project, Lexington, KY (April 2010)
  • Performance Art/Installation ~ "Birth/ReBirth: The Fantasma-Morphic Adventure of the ShaMan and the ShoGurl!" ~ Studios de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France (April 2010)

2009
  • Studio in Paris, France (October 2009 - April 2010)
  • Group Show ~ Le Conseil Municipal, Boissy-St Leger, France (January 2010)
  • Group Show & Performance ~ Association de Soutien aux Artistes Plasticiens, Boissy-St Leger, France (December 2009)
  • Group Show ~ EBC Gallery, Paris, France (November 2009)
  • Performance Art / Installation~ "The Prodigal Manifesto"~ American Church, Paris, France (November 2009)
  • Studio in Deauville, France. (July 2009 to October 2009)
  • Solo Exhibition ~ La Galerie de Tourgeville, Tourgeville-Deauville, France (September – November)
  • Group Show/Performance ~ Herve Photo, Deauville, France (During American Film Festival -September 2009)
  • Solo Exhibition ~ Short Street Gallery, Lexington, KY (June 2009)
  • Studio in Harlem, New York (January to May 2009)
  • Solo Exhibition, Wooster & Grand, SoHo, NYC (April 2009)
  • Performance “Appalachian Gothic: The Story of George” ~ Bowery Poetry Club, Lower East Side, NYC (April 2009)

        2008

  • One of 50 artists selected for inclusion in the Lexington Philharmonic’s Horsetails 2010 publication in conjunction with the 2010 World Equestrian Games, Lexington, KY
  • Solo Exhibition ~ Gallery On Main, Richmond, KY
  • Created a 'living art' project at Churchill Downs with “Curlin”, the highest-earning thoroughbred racehorse of all time ~ Louisville, KY
  • Selected for participation in international touring exhibition of Kentucky artists sponsored by Maker's Mark Bourbon ~ International
  • Group Show ~ Downtown Lexington Corporation’s MayFest, Lexington, KY
  • Co-wrote and rehearsed “THE SHOW” an original rock, folk punk opera, Lexington, KY
  • Solo Exhibition ~ Commerce Lexington’s Annual Meeting, Lexington Convention Center, KY
  • Selected as one of “8 Great Art Spaces” in Lexington, KY by Chevy Chaser Magazine
        2007
  • Opened first art gallery/studio in Lexington, KY’s Distillery District selling my own work. (August)
  • Staged threeCool Rooster Events. Rauschenberg-inspired ‘happenings'. (September-December)
  • Painted first large-scale piece entitled "The Hierophant" (private collection, Paris) (July)
  • Wrote first published collection of poetry and prose entitled "S.C.O.R.P. ~The S.erious C.alling of an O.ptimistic R.ebel P.rophet" (January – June)
        2004-2006
        Founded IDEArchitect: a marketing and creative design firm focusing exclusively on healthcare and the arts
        
        2002 – 2003
        Administrative Director of Queen's Medical Center "Heart & Vascular Center", Honolulu, HI
        
        2000-2001
        Regional Cardiovascular Marketing Director for Tenet Healthcare, New Orleans, LA
       
        1996-2000
        Administrator of the Ochsner Heart & Vascular Institute, New Orleans, LA
       
        1996
        Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropic Medicine ~ MHA
        Awarded the "Leadership Award" by the Tulane Faculty
        
        1995
        Passed Louisiana Bar Exam
        
        1994
        Tulane University School of Law, New Orleans, LA ~ JD
        
        1991
        Transylvania University, Lexington, KY ~ BFA
        
        1980-1984
        Performed internationally (clogging) as one of Kentucky's Official Goodwill Ambassadors under Governor Martha Layne Collins
        
        1969
        Born Year of the Earth Rooster  and raised in the Appalachian Mountains of Kentucky


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