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    Metaphorming Four Building Blocks of the NanoWorld (1 to 100 nm) (2012), mixed media on synthetic canvas, 72 in. x 152 in. (www.ArtNanoInnovations.com)

    Exhibitions

    One Person Exhibitions (Selected)

    • 2022 “Beyond Conflict: The Institute for Science and Policy,” Denver Museum of Nature & Science
    • 2019 “MIND MATTERS,” Fulginiti Pavilion, Center for Bioethics and Humanities, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO September 12– November 21
    • 2016 “Spectrum,” Gerald Peters Gallery and Peters Projects, Santa Fe, NM, March 18 – April 30
    • 2014 “Metaphorming Nature: Connecting Human/Nature’s Creative Potential,” Todd Siler in collaboration with pioneer nanochemist Geoffrey Ozin, CU Art Museum, University of Colorado Boulder, CO, September 6 – December 20
    • 2014 “NanoWorld,” Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, at The Armory Show, New York, NY, March 5 – 9
    • 2011 “Split<_>Second,” Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, NY May 14 – June 8
    • 2010 “The Mind And All It Creates,” Fort Collins Museum of Contemporary Art, Fort Collins, CO January 15 – March 25
    • 2007-08 “All Representations of Thoughts for Art and Science: Works by Todd Siler,” Tweed Museum of Art, University of Minnesota-Duluth, Dec. 4 – March 30
    • 2007 “Todd Siler Adventures in ArtScience: Exploring the Mysteries of Creativity and the Hidden Dimensions of Human Potential,” National Science Foundation, Arlington, Virginia, July 11 – November 9th
    • 2006 “Fractal Reactor: Re-Creating the Sun” Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, NYC, Sept. 9 – Oct. 7.
    • 2004 “A.R.T. Strings,” Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, NY. December 2-24. “A.R.T.Strings,” Boulder Museum of Contemporary Arts, Boulder, Colorado, Sept. 10 – Jan. 3, 2005 “Metaphormers,” 10 sculptural reveries on the nature of human creative potential, Exploration Place, Wichita, Kansas.
    • 2000 “Metaphorming Life: Adventures in Thinking, Imagination and Innovation,” Museum of Outdoor Arts, featured exhibit at the grand opening of the Englewood City Center, Englewood, CO, June - December
    • 1997 “Changing Minds,” Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, NY, featuring an original musical composition and performance by jazz pioneer Ornette Coleman and his group Harmolodics, November 22 - December 20 (videotape)
    • 1996 “The ArtScience of Metaphorming,” an ongoing virtual installation, project and workshop at The Museum of Outdoor Arts, Greenwood Village, Colorado
    • 1995 “Mind Icons & Metaphorms,” The Allen Center, Houston, Texas, January 4 - April
    • “Metaphorming Worlds,” Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan, January 28 - March
    • 1994 “Artscience,” Crossman Gallery, Center of the Arts, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, November 3 - 28
    • 1993 “Radical Futures,” Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, NY, February 27 - March 27 (catalogue and videotape)
    • “Metaphorming Minds,” The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, May 2 - June 2 (catalog)
    • 1992 “Todd Siler: Metaphorms,” Turman Gallery, Indiana State University, November 1 - 21 (catalog)
    • 1991 “Foresight,” Horace Richter Gallery, Old Jaffa, Israel, July 5 - August 2
    • 1991 “Humanature - A Turbulent Integration,” Museum of Modern Art, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, April 16 - May
    • “The Gravity of AmBIGuity,” Joseloff Gallery, University of Hartford, West Hartford, Connecticut, March 8 - April 14
    • 1990 “Savage Boundaries,” Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, NY, November 17 - December 22 (videotape)
    • “Metaphorming Minds: Journeys Into Thought Processes,” Boston Center for the Arts, Cyclorama Building, Boston, Massachusetts, November 29 - January 30 (videotape)
    • 1988 “Metaphorms: Forms of Metaphor,” The New York Academy of Sciences, New York, NY September 28 - November 28; The Chicago Academy of Sciences, Chicago, December 16, 1988 - March 19, 1989 (catalogue)
    • “Space of Mental Imagery: Mixed media paintings and collages,” Commons Gallery, University of Hawaii at Manoa and Visual Notations From a Book of Mental Imagery: Drawings and lithographs, Koa Gallery, Kapiolani College at Diamond Head, Hawaii November 13 - December 3
    • 1987 “The Art of Thought,” Centre Saidye Bronfman, Montreal, Quebec, July 21 - August 20 (catalog
    • “Psi -Phi: The Hidden Territory,” Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, NY, February 14 - March 14
    • 1985 “Forms of Mind,” Grey Art Gallery, New York University, New York, March 4 - April
    • 1984 “Mental Representations,” Hokin Gallery, Miami, Florida, April 4 - May 3
    • 1983 “Thoughts / Thought-Assemblies,” Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, NY, September 10 - October 8 (catalogue)
    • “Insights and Explorations,” M.I.T. Museum's Margaret H. Compton Gallery, Cambridge, Massachusetts - October 6 - December 16 (catalogue)
    • 1982 “Cerebreactors,” Galerie France Morin, Montreal, Quebec, September 25 - October 10
    • 1981 “Top Secret: Inquiries Into The Biomirror,” Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, NY (Both downtown and uptown galleries), March 14 - April 16 (catalogue)
    • 1978 “Sculptural Illusions,” O.K. Harris Gallery, New York, NY, April 1 - 22
    • NanoWorld, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, The Armory Show 2014.
    • Fractal Reactor (2006)
    • Mind Icons (1991)
    • Radical Futures (1993)
    • Metaphorms: Forms of Metaphor (1988)
    • Cerebreactors (1979-81)

    Group Exhibitions (Selected)

    Public Collections (Selected)

    • Belser Verlag Print Archives, Stuttgart, Germany and Zurich, Switzerland
    • Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME
    • Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
    • Denver Museum of Nature & Science, Denver, CO
    • Karl Ernst Osthaus-Museum Der Stadt Hagen, Germany
    • Fort Collins Museum of Contemporary Art, Fort Collins, CO
    • Kirkland Museum, Denver, CO
    • Life Sciences Institute, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
    • Meyer & Renee Luskin Conference Center, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
    • The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
    • The Metropolitan Museum of Art (20th-Century Collection), New York, NY
    • The M.I.T. Art Collection, Cambridge, MA
    • The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory at M.I.T., Cambridge, MA
    • Museum of Modern Art, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
    • Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
    • Museum of Outdoor Arts, Englewood, CO
    • Rutgers University Print Archives, New Brunswick, NJ
    • Sun Jae Museum, Seoul, Korea
    • The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY
    • The Pushkin Fine Arts Museum, Moscow
    • The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
    • The Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT
    • The City of Englewood and Walmart Art Corporation, Englewood, CO
    • The D’Arcy Thompson Art Collection, University of Dundee, Scotland
    • The Whitehead Foundation: The Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, MA
    • The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
    • Tweed Museum of Art, University of Minnesota, Duluth, MN
    • 2023 “The ArtScience of Innovation,” Artwork by artists Todd Siler, Nastia Craig and Monica Cliff, BioPharmaceutical Technology Center, Fitchburg, WI, March 21 – June 2, 2023
    • 2021-22 “From Forces To Forms,” Pratt Manhattan Gallery, New York, NY, November 29, 2021 – March 19, 2022
    • 2017 “Art on the Front Lines,” Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, NY, May 24 – August 19
    • 2016 “Art of Innovation,” Eight large-scale paintings and sculptures permanently installed and featured on second floor, UCLA Meyer & Renee Luskin Conference Center
    • 2015 “Spectrum,” Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, in association with The New Mexico Spatiotemporal Modeling Center (STMC) and Los Alamos National Laboratories. The exhibition expands on the annual STMC event, “The Art of Systems Biology and Nanoscience,” March 18 – April 30
    • 2011 “Kirkland Museum Collection: 100 Years of Colorado Art – Painting and Sculpture,” Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, January 21 to April 4
    • 2010 “I am the Cosmos,” New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ, December 4, 2010 – May 29, 2011
    • 2010 “Digital’09: Mysteries in Science,” The Carol Shen Gallery, Packer Collegiate Institute, Brooklyn, NY, October 5 – November 19
    • 2010 “Resurrectine,” Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, NY, May 15 –June 26
    • 2009 “Digital’09: Mysteries in Science,” New York Hall of Science, Queens, NY, October 3, 2009 – January 31, 2010
    • 2009 “Black&WhiteWorks,” Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, June 6 – July 13
    • 2006 William Havu Gallery, Denver, CO, February 17 – March 18
    • 2005 Galerie Seippelwachs, Berlin, Germany, March 25 – June 4
    • 2003 “American Dream,” Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York
    • 2002 “Elemental Energy: Earth, Air, Fire, Water,” Public Art at Lowry. Museum of Outdoor Arts and the Lowry Foundation; Todd Siler, “Mind Fields,” painted steel, 12ft. x 30ft. x 25ft.
    • 2001-2002 Museutopia Exhibition. “Thinking Utopia” (Utopisches Denken), Karl Ernst Osthaus-Museum Hagen, Germany, in conjunction with the Institute for Cultural Studies at the Center for Advanced Scientific Studies (Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut im Wissenschaftszentrum Nordrhein-Westfalen) in Essen
    • 2001 “Art/Science Science/Art: An Exhibition & Symposium Exploring the Connections,” Promega, BioPharmaceutical Technology Center, Madison, WI, March 13 – June 12
    • 2000 “Medicine in Art,” College of the Mainland Art Gallery, Texas City, TX, March 6 – April 6
    • 1999 “Romancing the Brain,” Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA, September 18 – November 21 “Elemental Energy,” Museum of Outdoor Arts, Greenwood Village, CO, May 15 – Nov. 15“Arts and Culture in Davos,” World Economic Forum, Cologny/Geneva, Switzerland, January - February
    • 1998 “Defining Structures,” sponsored by LaSalle Partners at NationsBank Plaza, Charlotte, North Carolina, January - October “Baroque Bash,” Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, Florida, January
    • 1995 “Withdrawing,” special exhibition of drawings commemorating the 25th anniversary of Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York City
    • 1994-96 “CAVS/MIT- 25 Years: Light Space Time (a Center for Advanced Visual Studies retrospective).” Three-year international traveling exhibition sponsored by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    • 1994-95 Blast #4, “BIOINFORMATICA.” Exploring the connections between physical space and information systems. Sandra Gering Gallery, New York, December 3, 1994 - January 14, 1995 and Koelner Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany, mid Jan. - March 1995.
    • 1993-94 “Ars Technica: L'Art au Defi des Technosciences,” La Villette, Parc de la Villette, Paris“Espace Projets,” November 13-15, 1993. Exhibition organized by Piotr Kowalski and Claude FaureBlast #3 "Remaking Civilization." 50 mixed media responses to three basic questions concerning our collective future and the development of a world civilization. Limited edition, handmade boxes with off-set reproductions of the 50 responses in each box. Published by The X-Art Foundation, New York, NY “The Unconscious at Work,” Peyton Wright Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, June 1-30
    • 1991-92 “Eighteen from New York,” European traveling exhibition commences at Galerie Lohrl in Monchengladbach, Germany, September 15 - October 20, 1991(accompanied with prints, JUNI Edition) Blast Art Benefit, The X-Art Foundation and Blast Journal, New York, NY, April 11-18, 1992. Proceeds directed in part towards the publication of Blast #3: “Remaking Civilization”
    • 1990 “Savoir-vivre, Savoir-faire, Savoir-etre,” Centre International D'Art Contemporain De Montreal, Quebec, September1 - October 28 (catalogue)
    • 1988 “1987 Massachusetts Artists Fellowship Show,” CityPlace, Boston, May 5 - July 2 Art and the Brain, Art Institute of Chicago (The first international conference and exhibition on this subject, May 12 - 14 ) (brochure) “Interaction: Science And Art,” The Squibb Gallery, Princeton, New Jersey, October 2 - November 13 “Otto Piene und das CAVS/MIT,” Deutscher Kunstlerbund, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, West Germany, September 17 - October 23 (catalogue) “Artists' Liaison,” The Evanston Art Center, Evanston, Illinois, September 10 - Oct. 9
    • 1987 “Symbolic Narrative,” Beaver College, Glenside, Pennsylvania, April 8 - 28 (catalogue) “Lights / Orot: Lights of Creation,” Yeshiva University Museum, New York, January 31, 1987 - January 1, 1988 (catalogue) “Art Against Aids,” Sponsored by the American Foundation for AIDS Research (AmFAR), an Art Sale, Ronald Feldman Gallery (one of seventy-two participating New York galleries), June - December, with Sotheby's publication. (catalogue)
    • 1986 “Light: Perception - Projection,” Centre International D'Art Contemporain de Montreal (CIAC), Quebec, August 1 - November 2 (catalogue) “PERFO 4-D Arts Festival,” Rotterdam, Netherlands “Imagining Antarctica,” Eine Ausstellung im Stadtmuseum Linz - Nordico in Zusammenarbeit mit LIVA und ORF-Landesstudio Oberosterreich, June 20 – Aug. 31 (catalogue)
    • 1985 “18th Bienal Internacional De Sao Paulo,” Sao Paulo, Brazil, October 4 - December 15 (catalogue) “Brainworks,” Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Art Park, Los Angeles, CA, Aug. 6 – Sept. 1 (catalogue)
    • 1984 “Philosophies On The Art Process,” Caidoz in Makkom, Amsterdam, June 1988 “The Year One: 1984-2001,” The Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Virginia, February 7 - March 9 “Politics In Art,” Queensboro Community College/The City University of New York, March 25 - April 13 (catalogue) “Artventure at AREA,” New York, NY. WilliWear Productions, Ronald Feldman Gallery and the Public Art Fund sponsoring "Artist T-Shirts" (20 artists were invited to create an artwork for a mass produced T-Shirt; artists included: Arman, Christo, Keith Haring, Jenny Holzer, Barbara Kruger, Les Levine, Edward Schlossberg, SITE, among others.)
    • 1983 “Connections: Science Into Art,” Summit Art Center, Summit, New Jersey, March 18 – May 13 (catalogue) “The 1984 Show - A Preview,” Ronald Feldman Fine Arts Gallery in conjunction with “The Village Voice”, New York, NY, January 26 - March 12 (catalogue) “The New Culture,” Center for Peace Through Culture, Toronto
    • 1982 “Alea(s),” A.R.C.2, Musee D'Art Moderne De La Ville De Paris, France, March 5 - April 26 (catalogue)
      • Revolutions Per Minute (The Art Record), produced by Ronald Feldman Fine Arts and the Greene Street Recording Studio,
      • New York, NY, April 24 -June 5; lithographs and audio recordings by each of the 21 artists represented by the Ronald Feldman Gallery were presented at the following galleries and museums:
      • The Tate Gallery, London, August 23 - September 23
      • Documenta, Galerie Ursula Block, Berlin, Germany , June - September
      • Biennale de Paris, France
      • The Basement Group, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, England, October 1 – 31
      • “War Games,” February 27 - March 27, and The Atomic Salon: Artists Against Nuclear War, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts in conjunction with “The Village Voice”, New York, NY, June 9 - July 10
      • “Anti-Apocalypse: Artists Respond To The Nuclear Peril,” Ben Shahn Gallery, The William Paterson College of New Jersey, September 6 - October 6
      • “Ars Electronica,” im Rahmen des Internationalen Brucknerfestes, "Festival fur Kunst, Technologie und Gesellschaft, Linz, Austria, September 24 - October 1 (catalogue)“Drawing New Directions,” Summit Art Center, New Jersey, March 7- April 8
    • 1981 “Collaborations One,” Connecticut College Museum, Connecticut, April 1-8 (catalogue) “Schemes: A Decade of Installation Drawings,” Elise Meyer Gallery, New York City, June 4 - 27; one year traveling national exhibition (catalogue):
      • Musee D'Art Contemporain, Cite du Havre, Montreal, Quebec
      • Lehigh University Art Galleries, Pennsylvania
      • Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
      • Emily Lowe Gallery, Hofstra University, New York
      • Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island
      • Anderson Gallery at the Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia
    • 1980 Muhlenberg College Museum, Allentown, Pennsylvania “Imaginary Voyages,” Bronx Museum, New York, June 26 - August 29
    • 1980-79 “Reality of Illusion” traveling national exhibition organized by the Denver Art Museum and the University of Southern California Art Galleries (catalogue):
      • Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado, July 13 - Aug. 26, 1979
      • University of Southern California Art Galleries, Oct. 11 - Nov. 25, 1979
      • Honolulu Academy of Art, Hawaii, April 4 - May 18, 1980
      • Oakland Museum, Oakland, California, June 17 - July 27, 1980
      • University Art Museum, University of Texas, Austin, Sept. 4 - Oct. 19
      • Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Nov. 15 - Dec. 30, 1980
    • 1975 The Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida (1st Prize, Drawing Competition, Statewide), February 10 - March 8
    • 1972 Colby College Museum, Waterville, Maine, (Painting Fellowship Award, Statewide Competition, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture), June 4 - 28

    Films on Artwork

    • 1998 Changing Minds (23 minutes), directed and edited by Ellen Sebring. Documents Siler’s exhibition at the Ronald Feldman Fine Arts Gallery with commentary by the artist. Features performances by Ornette Coleman and Harmolodics with an original composition by Coleman for the exhibition, titled “Ode To Art”
    • 1993 Radical Futures (6 minutes), directed by Jeffrey Marvin (an Academy Award Nominee for Imax film, “Voyager”) and edited by Ellen Sebring. Documents Siler's exhibition at the Ronald Feldman Gallery with commentary by the artist. Broadcast quality sketch for C.B.S. News program on the arts
    • 1991 Metaphorming Minds: Journeys Into Thought Processes (22 minutes), directed and edited by Ellen Sebring. Documents Siler's large-scale paintings, drawings, and mixed media installations presented in two solo exhibitions at the Boston Center for the Arts, Cyclorama Building, and the Ronald Feldman Fine Arts in New York City. The videotape is part of a proposal for a NOVA television program.
    • 1991 Israel National Television - The Art Work of Todd Siler (5 minutes), filmed and edited by Ayelet Heller. Documents the creation of Siler's artist's book and portfolio of prints, "Metaphorming Minds," published by Old Jaffa Press and printed at Har-El Printers and Publishers in Old Jaffa, Israel.
    • 1987 Cerebral Art: The Art of Thought (10 minutes), directed and edited by Ellen Sebring. Presents Siler's symbolic paintings that interpret the processes of thinking, feeling and creating; with commentary by Siler and a discussion about the artwork and installation at the Center for Advanced Visual Studies, M.I.T. with the director of the Center, Otto Piene.
    • 1984 WVEC-TV Channel 13, Norfolk, Virginia (3 minutes), presentation of Siler's multi-part paintings and models exhibited in the The Year One: 1984-2001 at The Chrysler Museum in Norfolk, Virginia; aired on the 6 p.m. nightly news.
    • 1983 Cerebreactions (11 minutes), directed and edited by Matthew Kallis. Videotape explores the concepts behind Siler's interpretive drawings, paintings, and sculptures presented in his solo exhibitions at the Ronald Feldman Gallery in New York City.
    • 1981 Cerebreactors: Inquiries Into the Biomirror (12 minutes), directed and edited by Matthew Kallis and Gregoria Rivera. Videotape documents Siler's drawings, assemblages, and three-dimensional constructions, exploring the nature of mind and thought processes.

    Awards, Honors, and Fellowships

    • 2012 Co-founded “ArtNano Innovations” with pioneer nanochemist Geoffrey Alan Ozin (www.ArtNanoInnovations.com)
    • 2011 “Leonardo da Vinci” World Award of Arts, World Cultural Council http://www.ut.ee/en/international/events/world-cultural-council-award-ceremony/winners?print=1
    • 2008 Awarded Honorable Mention at the 2008 DaVinci Institute's Colorado Inventors Showcase as a "three dimensional imagination tool for bringing new ideas to life."
    • 2002 Think Like a Genius® software 2.0 and website for realizing human potential. Enables users worldwide to freely express themselves creating and sharing new knowledge, brainstorming and presenting ideas, and problem solving using a global “common language.” Provides a set of all-purpose, universal creativity & communication tools for making multi-dimensional symbolic models that cultivate innovative thinking, while helping improve human communication by fostering understanding. (patent pending).
    • 2001 Forum Fellow, World Economic Forum, Davos, Switzerland; presenter
    • 2000 Institute for Civil Society, awarded grant and matching funds for The ArtScience® Program in order to train teachers and schools to use the ArtScience methodology in their classrooms, concentrating on curriculum and staff development.
    • 1999 Forum Fellow, World Economic Forum, Davos, Switzerland; presenter and art exhibition; World Cultural Leader
    • 1998 Invention: “Metaphorming: Methods and Apparatuses To Enhance Cognitive & Affective Functioning and Its Manifestation Into Physical Form and Translation Into Useful Information” (patent pending; Application Number 09/882,921)
    • 1996 Panel Member, 1996 Council of Ideas, The Gihon Foundation, Santa Fe, New Mexico, July 12-14 (Council on Ideas Alumni include: Jane Alexander, M. Cherif Bassiouni, Mary Catherine Bateson, Ana Maria Cetto, Lee Cullum, Garrett Epps, Frank Gehry, Murray Gell-Mann, Georgie Anne Geyer, Nikki Giovanni, Stephen Jay Gould, Lawrence K. Grossman, Robert D. Kaplan, Stanley Karnow, Stuart A. Kauffman, Alan Kay, Jessica Tuchman Mathews, Arno Penzias, Anna C. Roosevelt, Walter Shapiro, Roberto Suro, Wendy Wasserstein.)
    • 1995 Artist-of-the-Year Award, New York City Art Teachers Association/United Federation of Teachers, presented November 11 in New York City
    • 1994 Nominee, University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award in Education for "a work of outstanding educational achievement presented in the recent past with potential for world-wide impact" (Breaking the Mind Barrier, Simon & Schuster, 1990) Awarded a federally registered trademark on “ArtScience” for use in connection with education, publications, workshops, seminars, and artwork
    • 1993 Gold Medal Award for "most exceptional artist's book and portfolio of prints" Metaphorming Minds, Old Jaffa Press, 1991), International Book Fair, Jerusalem
    • 1989-91 Artists' Fellowship, Meitec Intelligent Technology Corporation, Tokyo
    • 1988, 90 Invention: "Process for Producing Design Patterns In Materials," M.I.T. patent case #3922. (Two U.S. Patents received)
    • 1989 Co-Invention: "A Spatial-Tactile Human-Computer Interface for Computer-Aided Design," M.I.T. patent case #5155. (Received two U.S. Patents) Patent # 5,237,647 - "Computer Aided Drawing in Three Dimensions", Roberts, A.F., Sachs, E.M., Stoops, D. R., Ulrich, K. T., Siler, T., Gossard, D.C., Celniker, G.W. (August 17, 1993).
    • 1988-79 Four Grants, Council for the Arts at M.I.T.
    • 1987 Massachusetts Artists Foundation, Painting Fellowship, Boston
    • 1985-86 Fulbright Fellowship to India, studying the use of symbolism and allegory in Hindu temples’ art and architecture
    • 1984 Innovative Design Fund Award, New York, NY (and National Endowment for the Arts)
    • 1980 Invention: "Artists' Canvas and Frame Assembly." U.S. Patent #4,190,974, March 4
    • 1979 Scotland Council for the Arts, Travel Grant / Richard Demarco Gallery, Edinburgh Creation of original design patterns, titled "High-Tech" and "Delineations," applied to mass production textile printing for the Martex and Westpoint-Pepperell Companies, New York, NY
    • 1975-76 I.B.M. Thomas J. Watson Fellowship to France to independently pursue a career in the fine arts and continue studying Art History
    • 1972 The William Zorach Painting Scholarship to Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, Maine

    Public Art Commissions

    • 2007 Ascension, mixed media on synthetic canvas. 52ft.(h) x 18ft.(w). Commissioned by John Madden Company, Greenwood Village, Colorado, for the Palazzo Verdi building.
    • 2005 Arc of Light & Life, mixed media on synthetic canvas with seven wall-mounted sculptures (digital photo-metaphorms fused on aluminum plate). 30 ft. x 75 ft. x 2.5 ft. Commissioned long–term temporary installation at 655 West Broadway, San Diego, California; Lankford & Associates, Inc.
    • 2000 Dream Tree: Celebrating the Wonder of Humanity and the Beauty of Civility, painted steel sculpture commissioned by the City of Englewood and Wal-Mart Corporate Art Collection. The 7-ton sculpture, which is 22ft.h x 40ft.w x 8ft.d, contains quotations by noted historical figures and large-scale photographic images adhered to curved steel branching tree-like structures. Permanently installed December at the Wal-Mart store in Englewood, CO.
    • 1997 Mind Fields Plasma cut plate steel sculptures shaped like human Central Nervous Systems standing on end. The enclave symbolizes a global tribe of human creative spirits, 9-11ft. x 21ft. x 1in. Museum of Outdoor Arts commissioned installation at Hudson Gardens, Littleton, CO.
    • 1996 Commons Park Project Worked collaboratively with Civitas architectural firm headed by Mark Johnson. Commons Park was a combined effort of the community to make this special park a reality. The historic site by the 16th Street Mall, has long been recognized as the birthplace of Denver. Its development has helped catalyse growth in the Central Platte Valley.

    Reviews (Selected)

    • 2021
      • “The Growth and Form of ArtNano Innovations: Inspirations from D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson's On Growth And Form”by Todd Siler, Chapter 12, in Generative Influences in Art, Design, and Architecture: From Forces to Forms, by Ellen K. Levy, Ph.D. and Charissa N. Terranova, Ph.D. (Eds.) (Bloomsbury Press, 2021.https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/darcy-wentworth-thompsons-generative-influences-in-art-design-and-architecture-9781350191112/
      • “College of Sciences hosts groundbreaking artist blurring the lines of art and science”by Abbie Davies-Cutting, Assistant Arts & Culture Editor, Mar 3, 2021 technicianonline.com
    • 2020
      • “Denver-based artist Todd Siler bridges art and science”by Andrea Jacobs, IJN Senior Writer, Intermountain Jewish News - Education & Culture, August 14, 2020 (pp.4,5, Section B)
    • 2019
      • “This is your Brain on Art”Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art Lecture Series
    • 2018
      • “Newly installed paintings seek to investigate, inspire”by David Orenstein, (https://picower.mit.edu/news/mit-alums-six-newly-installed-paintings-seek-investigate-inspire) Neuroscience News, MIT Summer; p. 10.
    • 2016
      • “Art and science at Gerald Peters Gallery” by Michael Abatemarco Apr 22, 2016 Pasatiempo http://www.santafenewmexican.com/pasatiempo/art/exhibitionism/art-and-science-at-gerald-peters- gallery/article_ddce7914-ae1e-5adb-8506-5428a5cd8d0b.html
      • “Neurotranslations: Interpreting the Human Brain’s Attention System” by Todd Lael Siler, AIMS Medical Science, 3(2): 179-202, DOI: 10.3934/medsci.2016.2.179
    • 2014
      • “This is your Brain on Art”Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art Lecture Series
    • 2011
      • “Todd Siler takes the DaVinci Award for breaking down the walls ” by Peter Jones, The Villager (October 27, 2011; Page 8).
      • “ARTnano: Small Science Grows Big Art” (pdf), Geoffrey A. Ozin, Materials Chemistry and Nanochemistry Research Group, Center for Inorganic and Polymeric Nanomaterials, Chemistry Department, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (gozin@chem.utoronto.ca)
      • “Art review: Pondering universal questions through art” by Ron Schira, Reading Eagle.com, Reading, PA http://readingeagle.com/article.aspx?id=328670
    • 2010
      • “Heady Stuff: When Science Meets Art,” by Lynette Chilcoat, Reporter-Herald, February 12.
      • “Science and Art- an Inseparable Marriage of Equals”, 2010 January 26
    • 2009 “ArtScience® is a Big Idea: Art and Science synergize at the forefronts of creative endeavor,” by Michele and Robert-Root-Bernstein, Imagine That! Blog Annals of Ordinary and Extraordinary Genius, Psychology Today on Creativity, April 8, 2009 http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/imagine/200904/artscience-is-big-idea
    • 2007
      • Mary Lee Grisanti, “Fractal Reactor: Re-Creating the Sun,” NYArts Magazine (Jan. 1)
      • Lilly Wei, “Fractal Reactor” in Art In America (February Issue, 2007, pp.141,142)
      • Donald Goddard, “Conrad Atkinson: Collaborations & Todd Siler: A.R.T.Strings,” in New York Art World, Feb. 2, 2005; www.newyorkartworld.com/reviews/atkinson-siler.html
    • 2004 Kyle MacMillan, Denver Post Fine Arts Critic, The Denver Post (Friday, Dec.24,,2004,  pp.3FF & 5FF). http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1413,36~78~2613971,00.html#
    • 2002 “Our Genius Problem” by Marjore Garber, The Atlantic Monthly. December 2002 Issue; pp. 64-72 (note page 67). 
    • 2001 “DAVOS, INC. Bill Gates, Oprah Winfrey and Yasser Arafat walk into a bar…No, really – this sort of thing actually happens in Davos,” by James Atlas, Vanity Fair, May 2001, pp. 168-227; amusing critique of IdeasLab workshop, p. 224.
    • 2000
      • “Art, Science Link Hands in Promega,” by Kevin Lynch, staff writer for The Capital Times, Madison Capital Times, Madison, Wis.; Mar 28
      • “Creative Experiments Promega Exhibit Explores the Symbiotic Relationship of Art and Science,” by Lori Veit, staff writer for the State Journal, Wisconsin State Journal, Madison, Wis.; Apr 8
    • 1998 Mademoiselle, “Find Your Creative Self: Thoughts dried up? Ideas slowed down to a trickle? Take this quiz and learn how to open the floodgates...,” by Elise Pettus, self-discovery test and feature article, June 1998, p.93 – 95
    • 1993
      • Crosswinds, Albuquerque, New Mexico, June 2, 1993, “The Dream Wilderness” by Sally Eauclaire; article on the Association for the Study of Dreams and exhibition at the Peyton Wright Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
      • Pasatiempo, June 4-10, 1993, pp. 14-16. “The Unconscious at Work” by Candelora Versace; Review of exhibition at the Peyton Wright Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
      • The Villager, Vol. 62, No. 40, February 24, p.10. “Todd Siler looks into the future....,” by Julie Rauer
      • The Palm Beach Post, TGIF, Friday, March 19, Art Reviews by Gary Schwan
    • 1991
      • Art in America, April, pp.170, 172; “Todd Siler at Feldman and the Boston Center for the Arts, New York/Boston,” by Ann Wilson Lloyd
      • Tema Celeste, April, pp. 92, 94; “Todd Siler, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts,” by Jude Schwendenwien
      • The Boston Herald, Tuesday, December 25, “Siler's art explores the mind,” by Daniel Grant
      • The New York Times Book Review, February 3, p. 35, “Noted With Pleasure,” Breaking the Mind Barrier
      • International Synergy Institute II, No. 1, pp.5-7, “Book Review: Breaking the Mind Barrier,” by Allyn B. Brodsky
      • Yedioth Aharonoth, May 22, pp. 17-18, “In the Footprints of Leonardo”
    • 1990
      • The New York Times Book Review, December 30, pp. 4,7; “Cerebreactors and Processmorphs,” by George Johnson (on Siler's book Breaking the Mind Barrier ).
      • South End News, January 17, p. 11; “Thinking Man, Siler opens his mind at the Cyclorama” (Boston Center for the Arts), by Cate McQuaid
      • The Kirkus Reviews, October 15 ( Review of Breaking the Mind Barrier )
      • Library Journal, October 18 (Breaking the Mind Barrier )
      • Publishers Weekly, October 19, p.47 (Breaking the Mind Barrier)
      • The Gazette (Montreal, Quebec); Saturday, September 1, p. J4 ; “100 Days of Contemporary Art,” by Ann Duncan
      • Etc., Revue De L'Art Actuel, December - Winter, pp.12-18, “Eco-logique, echo-politique: Savoir-vivre, savoir-faire, savior-etre,” by Annie Molin Vasseur
    • 1989 Chicago Academy of Sciences Newscast, January-February, p.1. “The Art of Science: Metaphorms Exhibit Explores the Human Brain”
    • 1988
      • Princeton Packet Papers (9 New Jersey newspapers), October 26, “Interaction: Science and Art at Squibb,” by Estelle Sinclair
      • Ka Leo O Hawaii, Honolulu, November 7, p.10, “A Picture of the Mind,” by Pearl Page
      • New Hope Gazette (Pennsylvania), September 22, “Squibb celebrates 50th anniversary with exhibition” Columns (Squibb Corporation), October 1, “Science and Art Blend at the Squibb Gallery” The Voice of Hunterdon (White House Station, New Jersey), October 19, p.1, “Science and Art Blend at the Squibb Gallery”
    • 1987
      • Tema Celeste, May, pp.72, 191; “Todd Siler, Ronald Feldman Gallery, New York” by Phillip Evans-Clark
      • Artforum, May, p.147; “Todd Siler at Ronald Feldman Fine Arts Gallery” by Patricia C. Philips
      • Art in America, September, p.175; “Todd Siler” by Stephen Westfall
      • Art Press, No.113, April; Expositions: “Todd Siler, Galerie Ronald Feldman” by Phillip Evans-Clark
      • Helsingin Saromat, April 26, Helsinki, Finland: “Art Reviews” Le Devoir, Saturday, August 15, Montreal, Quebec: “From Todd Siler to Marina Abramovic From A Neurological Art To A Cosmological Symbolism” by Claire Gravel and Ulay
      • Spirale, Octobre, 11, Arts Plastiques - Theatre Mental, Psi-Phi: The Art of Thought de Todd Siler, Centre Saidye Bronfman, July 21 to Aug. 20, by Pascale Beaudet
    • 1986 Le Devoir, August 2, Montreal, Quebec; “Lumieres” Vie Des Arts, Vol.31, Numero125, p.28, Montreal; “Lumieres” by Pascale Beaudet
    • 1985 MD Publications, February, pp.233-250 passim; “Where Art And Medicine Meet” by Marguerite Feitlowitz
    • 1984
      • Port Folio Magazine, Vol.1, No.28 February 7-14, “Art and Orwell” by Linda McGreevy
      • Virginian-Pilot & Ledger-Star, February, “Chrysler Exhibit Large On Symbolism” by Teresa Annas
      • Express Magazine, Winter, p.17; “Todd Siler at Feldman” by Cyril Christo
      • The Sunday Star-Ledger, April, “Weekend Guide: Art” by Eileen Watkins
      • The New York Times, Jan. 26, “Helping Designers Build Prototypes,” by Angela Taylor
    • 1983
      • Cosmopolitan (International), September; “Kunst New York: Untergrund-Kunstler in feinen Galerien.”
      • Arts Magazine, October, p. 34; “Todd Siler / Ronald Feldman Fine Arts” by Ellen Handy.
    • 1982
      • Liberation, March 30, p. 21, “Exposition: Alea” editorial by Herve Gauville and review by Jean-Pierre Thibaudat of A.R.C.2, Musee D'Art Moderne's “Alea(s)" Exhibition.
      • Latitude, May 7, “Alea(s): Onze Artistes Jettent Un Pont Entre L'Art Et La Science” by Maiten Bouisset of “Alea(s)" Exhibition
      • Arts Magazine, April, “Esthetique, Machine Et Reve Scientifique” by Anne Tronche on “Alea(s)" Exhibition
      • Le Monde, February 4, “ALEA(S) a L'A.R.C.” by Genevieve Breerette
      • Arts Magazine, April, p.77; “War Games: of Arms and Men” by Jonathan Crary
    • 1981
      • DOMUS Magazine, No. 623, December, Forum, p. 9; “The Brain As An Art Medium” by Emanuelle Biondi (on “Cerebreactors” .
      • Vanguard Magazine, December/ January, pp. 30, 31; “Todd Siler/ Galerie France Morin” by Martha Fleming
      • A Presse Journal, Montreal, Saturday 24, October, “Chronique Des Arts: Six Expositions Prospectives” by G.T. of “Cerebreactors” Exhibition at Galerie France Mori

    Metaphorming Life: The Work of A.R.T.

    Realizing human potential. That’s my life’s work. Those three words sum up everything I live for and aspire to accomplish through my art.

    For me, A.R.T. is All Representations of Thought: from the poetic gestures of dancers to the abstract symbolic models of chemists; from back-of-the-envelop idea doodles to rigorous proofs by pure mathematicians; from the Aha! we spontaneously utter at a moment of breakthrough thinking to the technological marvels we create in collaboratively harnessing our creative genius; from our silent inner reflections on life to our tangible responses to all the things nature shares with us every second of everyday that challenge our senses and rev our imagination.

    Split Second (2011)

    Since childhood, my art has been one curious adventure in exploring the nature of the human mind to glean how we create, learn, invent, collaborate and communicate.

    At the core of all my work is Metaphorming. Nearly five decades ago, I coined the words Metaphorm and Metaphorming to describe these ageless communication tools that everyone can use to realize their creative potential. They’re “engines” of creativity, invention, learning, and discovery that power our communications.

    Metaphorming is derived from the Greek words meta which means “between,” “after,” “beyond,” “transcending,” and phora, or “transference.” Metaphorming enables us all to move beyond the constraints of verbal thought, transferring from one object to another a new meaning or set of associations.

    Metaphorming is the act of connecting Metaphorms to stimulate breakthroughs and discoveries, and to generate inventions and innovations. It increases the meaning and usefulness of all information, ideas, knowledge, experience, and wisdom.

    Metaphorming is the essence of what our minds do when we are “thinking differently”; when we’re searching for personal meaning and purpose; when we’re seeing beauty and seeking truth; when we’re enjoying the complexity of nature, and exploring the nature of complexity.

    To understand the world of Metaphorms and Metaphorming is to see beyond the categorization and compartmentalization of our acts of creating and our creations. It is to continually transform the meanings and uses of things and ideas by connecting and applying them in new contexts and situations. Recall the mantra of the 20th century polymath and Renaissance thinker, R. Buckminster Fuller, and novelist E.M. Forster: “Only connect.” Leonardo da Vinci may have simply said: Metaphorm it!

    Know the thought through which all things are steered through all things.

    Heraclitus, Greek philosopher and mystic, 500 B.C.

    Don’t just know “the thought.” Metaphorm it!

    Todd Siler

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