GALLERY


Hill Gallery, Birmingham, MI

EDUCATION


2006               MFA Ceramics, Cranbrook Academy of Art

1997               BFA Architecture, Rhode Island School of Design

HONORS/AWARDS


2006-07          Fulbright Fellow, Research Topic: Renaissance Tapestry as the Harbinger of

                         Contemporary Collage, Madrid, Spain

2004               Clark Hill, PLC Scholarship, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI

2001               Sarah Davis Award, Evansville Museum of Art, Evansville, IN

TEACHING

2013               St. Claire County Community College, Ceramics/Beginning Pottery, Adjunct Faculty, Port Huron, MI

2012-13          Lawrence Technological University, Basic Design 1, Adjunct Faculty, Southfield, MI

2008-10          Content Form and Context, Lecturer I, Studio / Theory, University of Michigan Penny Stamps School of Art + Design, Ann Arbor, MI

2007-10          Flint Institute of Arts Art School, Ceramics, Faculty, Flint, MI Assistant Director of the Art School, and Head of Department

2005               Large-Scale Ceramics Hand Building, Teaching Assistant, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, New Bedford, MA

2000-05          Studio2000 City of Louisville, Youth Employment Program, Ceramics Faculty, Head of Ceramics Department

2000-03          Kentucky Art Council Artist Roster, Artist in Residence, Teacher Incentive Program, Large Scale Ceramic Tile Installations, Louisville, and Pike County, KY

SOLO  EXHIBITIONS

2018               When Gravity Becomes Material: New Works by Addie Langford, Hill Gallery, Birmingham, MI

2016               A Timeless Elsewhere, Simone DeSousa Gallery, Detroit, MI

2013               Textures, N’Namdi Center for Contemporary Art, Detroit, MI

2010               Soft Compression lll, University of Michigan Flint, University Center Gallery, Flint, MI

2008               Housebound, Mott Community College Fine Arts Gallery, Flint, MI

2007               Slow Knots l, La Sala de Exposiciones, La Paloma, Madrid, Spain, Fulbright work

2008               Slow Knots ll + Analysis, Aegon Gallery Centre College, Danville, KY

2006               Analysis, Cranbrook Institute of Science, Bloomfield Hills, MI

TWO / THREE PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2012               Addie Langford and Steve Magsig, Macomb County Community College Gallery, Commerce Township, MI

2010               New Works by Lynn Bennett Carpenter and Addie Langford, Cranbrook Kingswood, Bloomfield Hills, MI

GROUP  EXHIBITIONS

2018               McArthur Binion Curates Detroit, Hill Gallery, May, 2018

2018               Objects in Place, Scarab Club, Laith Karmo, Marie T. Hermann, and Addie Langford, curated by Addie Langford, Detroit, MI, April, 2018

2016               14 Women in Abstraction, Rush Arts Gallery, New York, NY

2015               Confluence, N’Namdi Contemporary, Miami, FL (including Mauro Machado, Rashid Johnson, Howardena Pindell, Gregory Coates, Allie McGhee, Deborah Dancy, Nanette Carter, Juan Logan, Ed Clark and McArthur Binion)

2013               United Colors of Benetton Group Exhibition, N’Namdi Center for Contemporary Art Featured Artist (one of four Detroit select artists, one work), Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy

2013               Line by Line, Detroit Artist Market, Detroit MI

2012               The Greene House (post-studio installation in a Detroit neighborhood), Detroit, MI

2012               BIG, Detroit Artist Market, Detroit, MI

2011               Departures & Transitions: Medium, Materiality, and Immateriality, N’Namdi Center for Contemporary Art, Detroit, MI

2011               Displaced, Ice Cube Gallery, Denver, CO

2010               Earliest Ending of Winter, Detroit Industrial Projects, Detroit, MI

2010               Imaging the Future, Gallery Project, Ann Arbor, MI

2009               Collection Connection, Work Gallery, Ann Arbor, MI

2008               Small Favors, The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA

COLLECTIONS

McArthur Binion, Chicago, IL

The Hon. Avern and Lois Cohn, Birmingham, MI

Gretchen and Ethan Davidson, Birmingham, MI

Kimberly and Robert Fischer, Beverly Hills, MI

Carol and Bill Harris, Detroit, MI

Michael Hinksy, Palm Springs, CA

Stephen Knollenberg, Birmingham, MI

James Lucky, Royal Oak, MI

Marilyn and Timothy Mast, Bloomfield Hills, MI

Marsha and Jeffrey Miro, Bloomfield Hills, MI

Joy and Allan Nachman, Bloomfield Hills, MI

Dennis Nawrocki, Detroit, MI

Carmen and George N’Namdi, Detroit, MI

Michelle Perron, Birmingham, MI

Lila Silverman, Birmingham, MI

ART/DESIGN & SOCIAL ENGAGEMENT

2015               Ebola Design Charrette, Industry Guest, University of Michigan Penny Stamps School of Art and Design + Public Health / Med School / Dept. of African and African American Studies/ College of Engineering / School of Nursing, Ann Arbor, MI

2015               Radical Scavengers: the MOCAD Quilting Bee Project, Project Lead, MOCAD, located in the Mobile Homestead by Mike Kelley, Detroit, MI

2014-15          University of Michigan Dearborn College of Business, College to Career Mentor, Dearborn, MI

 2013-14           Entrepreneurism Business Planning Release Project, University of Michigan Dearborn College of Business, Women’s Huron Valley Correctional Facility, Ypsilanti, MI

2009                 Forgiveness Symposium, Faculty lead with students; University of Michigan Penny Stamps School of Art and Design- Interfaith exploration of Middle Eastern Conflict and Forgiveness, Speakers: I.A. Salie, Muslim Community, P. Kuppa, Hindu Community, M. Hedge, Christian Science Community, M. Brooks, Jewish Community

ARTIST PRESENTATIONS / INVITED CRITIC

2016               Gallery Talk and Studio Visit, A Timeless Elsewhere, Textiles Students of Jeremy Noonan, CCS, Detroit, MI

2014               In Dialogue with Osi Audu, N’Namdi Center for Contemporary Art, Detroit, MI

2013               Artist Talk, The Hanging Gardens, N’Namdi Center for Contemporary Art, Detroit, MI

2010               Artist Talk, New Works by Lynn Bennett Carpenter and Addie Langford, Cranbrook Kingswood, Bloomfield Hills, MI

2008               Artist Talk, Slow Knots ll + Analysis, Center College, Danville, KY

2007               Artist Talk, Lentos Nudos, Universidad de Complutense, Madrid, Spain, Fulbright

2005               Guest Critic, CCS, Department of Ceramics, Christian Tedeschi, Detroit, MI

2004 & 2005   Guest Critic, University of Michigan Department of Architecture, Ann Arbor, MI

ARTIST  GRANTS

2000-03          Teacher Incentive Program (various awards), Kentucky Arts Council, Eastern KY

2003               Professional Development, Kentucky Arts Council, Louisville, KY

2002               Rauche Reaching Out, VSA, Rauche Industries, Clarksville, IN

2001               Love and Architecture Project Grant, Kentucky Foundation for Women, Louisville, KY

2001               Artist Grant, Community Foundation of Louisville, KY

PROJECTS / COLLABORATIONS

2017               Art + Science Project, A. Alfred Taubman Center for Medical Research Institute, Artist collaboration with Dr. Valerie Opipari, M.D.

2015               Detroit Tipple Cup Project, Nora Design with Culture Lab Detroit, A Collaboration with Scott Hocking, Detroit, MI

2015                Stations of the Cross, Cathedral Church of St. Paul, Ceramic Tile Installation, Detroit, MI

PUBLICATIONS (writings by Addie Langford)

2019               Addie Langford: Works, essays and reflections on the work of Addie Langford by George Tysh, Biba Bell, Matthew Piper, Lynn Crawford with reprint of Grand Circus interview with Addie Langford and reflections by Addie Langford on Richard Tuttle, François Rouan, Simon Hantaï, and Doris Salcedo.

2019               “Notes on Textiles and Painting: Richard Tuttle, Simon Hantaï, and François Rouan,” Detroit Research, vol. 3 (2019). Forthcoming.

2016               “Joy and Allan Nachman: In correspondence with the Vessel,” Detroit Research, vol. 2. (Spring / Fall, 2016).

 2014                “The Collection of Tim and Marilyn Mast,” Detroit Research, vol. 1, nos. 1-2 (Spring / Fall, 2014).

2012               “Search and Rescue: Diagrams of Monotony and Distress in the Work of Dustin Campbell,” exhibition essay, for solo exhibition at Napoleon Gallery, Philadelphia. Available on NapoleonNapoleon.com.

BIBLIOGRAPHY (on Addie Langford)

2019               Addie Langford: Works, essays and reflections on the work of Addie Langford by George Tysh, Biba Bell, Matthew Piper, Lynn Crawford, and Dennis Nawrocki. Forthcoming.

2018               Addie Langford: When Gravity Becomes Material, ex cat. ed. Maggie Hill (Birmingham, MI: Hill Gallery, 2018).

2018               Glen Mannisto, “Addie Langford: Leap,” in Addie Langford: When Gravity Becomes Material, ex cat. ed. Maggie Hill (Birmingham, MI: Hill Gallery, 2018).

2018               Ron Scott, “McArthur Binion Curates in Detroit @ Hill Gallery,” Detroit  Art Review (May 19, 2018).

2018               Dennis Nawrocki, “Objects and Place @ The Scarab Club,” Detroit Art Review (April 17, 2018).

2017               “Interview: In the Studio with Addie Langford,” Grand Circus, no. 5, (Spring / Summer, 2017).

2017               Rosie Sharpe, “Addie Langford,” in Essay’d, ed. Matthew Piper, et al (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2017).

2017               George Tysh, “Drifts of Time: New Paintings by Addie Langford,” Detroit Research, vol. 3 (2019). Forthcoming.

2016               Rosie Sharpe, “Addie Langford,” Essay’d 44 (2016). http://essayd.org/?p=628.

2015               Rosie Sharpe, “The MOCAD Quilting Bee Project,” Knight Blog, 2015. http://knightfoundation.org/blogs/knightblog/2015/1/30/the-mocad-quilting-bee-project-launches-full-steam/

2014               John Sauve, Art and Design, Public Broadcasting System, Bloomfield Township Public Television, 2014.

2013               Emma Cole, Anna Franchin, Tom Ridgway, and Pietro Valdatta, ed. “Imago Mundi: Organix Contemporary Artists from the U.S.A. Luciano Benetton Collection,” Fabrica 2013. http://www.imagomundiart.com/collections/organix

2013               Sarah Rose Sharpe, “Addie Langford,” Knight Arts Blog, 2013. http://www.knightfoundation.org/blogs/knightblog/2013/11/26/addie-langford-reveals-layers-in-talk-at-detroits-nnamdi-center-for-contemporary-art/