RESUME

Todd Colby is a poet and visual artist. Colby is the author of six books of poetry. His most recent book, Splash State, was published by The Song Cave. His writing and art have recently appeared in The Believer, Bomb Magazine, The Brooklyn Rail, Denver Quarterly, Dizzy Magazine, Hyperallergic, and Poetry Magazine.

Selected Exhibitions, Publications, Readings, Performances, 2013-2021

2021

Comfort Event (Ethel Press) Collaborative book of poems written with Joanna PennCooper featuring my illustrations.

Iterant Magazine, Fall 2021, featuring my recent paintings and collages.

2020 Flow Chart Foundation lecture series, October, 2020.

2019

The Believer Magazine “Catalogue Work” art feature.

Platform Project Space, NY: New York Just Like I Pictured It (group art exhibition). 2018 Two Poems published in Hyperallergic

2017

Bureau Gasser/Tanja Grunert Gallery: Solo exhibition of paintings. October, 2017.

Five poems published in Denver Quarterly, Fall 2017

Two poems published in Bomb Magazine Issue #140, Summer 2017

Inclusion in the anthology, Readings in Contemporary Poetry: An Anthology of Poems Read at Dia 2010-2016 edited by Vincent Katz (Dia Art Foundation and Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2017)

Inclusion in the anthology, Brooklyn Poets Anthology edited by Jason Koo and Joe Pan (Brooklyn Arts Press and Brooklyn Poets, New York, 2017)

Picture Room, NY, solo art exhibition, May, 2017

Legion Arts, Cedar Rapids, Iowa: Solo exhibition of paintings and works on paper, April, 2017

Time for History, 2017 Artist’s book, 11’ x 14”, 52pp, unbound folios, digital print with inkjet cover, edition of 24

2016

Academy of American Poets, Poem of the Day: “Brilliant Juice”
Home School (formerly Ashbery Home School). Teaching Faculty (January 2016) Poetry Magazine (February, 2016) art feature
Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art (2016) art feature
Brooklyn Rail (April, 2016)

2015

MoMA PS1, NY – Greater New York , Reading, September, 2015 Picture Room, NY – Solo art exhibition, November, 2015

Dia Art Foundation, NY – Reading, October, 2015

OMI Arts Center, NY – Reading, June 2015

Process Space Artist Residency, NY – Awarded by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council

Brooklyn College – Guest poet/lecturer

Academy of American Poets, Poem of the Day: “Watch the Film You Paid to See”

BookWorm, K.C.R.W., hosted by Michael Silverblatt – Featured guest interview and reading

Currently serving 4th term on the Board of Directors at the Poetry Project at St. Marks Church, NYC

2014

Poetic Research Bureau, Los Angeles – Reading, October, 2014

BookCourt, Brooklyn, NY – Reading, August, 2014

Emily Harvey Foundation, NY – Reading
The Public Theater, NYC for the PEN World Voices Festival – Reading/Interview
Double Change, Paris, France – Reading
Staging Interruptions (The Stream of Life), Southard Reid Gallery, London, England – Artist

2013

Book of Missing Spurs, by Marianne Vitale, Performa 13 Visual Arts Biennial, NY – Performer, co-writer

Arrabalesques: a celebration of the work of Fernando Arrabal, Performa 13 Visual Arts Biennial, NY – Host and performer

Selected Publications

Splash State, The Song Cave, NYC, 2015
These Things are Hard to Say, with Marianne Vitale, Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany, 2015 Flushing Meadows, Scary Topiary Press, Los Angeles, 2012
Tremble & Shine, Soft Skull Press, NY, 2005
Feb ’03, Slow Toe Publications, 2003 with Alex Gildsen, Thurston Moore, and Matthew Wasocovich Heights of the Marvelous: A New York Anthology, St. Martin’s Press, NY, 2000 – editor
Riot in the Charm Factory: New and Selected Work, Soft Skull Press, NY, 2000
Cush, Soft Skull Press, NY, 1995
Blown, with lithographs by David Lantow, Evil Clown Books, NY, 1995
Ripsnort, Soft Skull Press, NY, 1993

Education

BA University of Iowa, 1985