Topher McCulloch
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Contact Information
contact name: Topher McCulloch
email: tophermcculloch@gmail.com
Pseudonym: Christopher McCulloch
Similar Artists:
Influences include Ellen Gallagher, Barbara Krueger, Richard Prince, Robert Rauschenberg, David Wojnarowicz, Dadaist collages.
Related Organizations:
University of Minnesota Duluth Student Design Organization (SDO)
UMD Art Guild
UMD Literary Guild
UMD Honors Student Association (HSA)
UMD Queer and Allied Student Union (QASU)
Experience
Work
The Bond Group, Graphic Designer, 3/09–present
Museum of Contemporary Art Design & Publications Intern 1/09–5/09
Various Clients Freelance designer 2/08–present
Tweed Museum of Art, Student Graphic Designer, May 2006–May 2008
Not Made in Heaven, Production assistant to Sara Bauer & Jen Dietrich, June 2007–Present
Education
University of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth, MN, September 2003–December 2007
Graphic Design Bachelor of Fine Arts
General Studio Art Bachelor of FIne Arts
Foreign Studies Minor
University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK, September 2004–May 2005
UMD Study in England Program
Awards
Best in Show, UMD Student Exhibition 2008
Raymond W. Darland Art Scholarship 2007
AIGA/Howard W. Lyons Scholarship Award 2007
Howard W. Lyons/Alice Tweed Tuohy Award 2007
Chancellor's Purchase Award for "Decoding the Gender Binary" 2007
Best in Category, Experimental Type, Virgin Suicides Intro Remake, 2nd Annual Student Design Competition, 2007
Cruden-Riggs GLBT Scholarship 2006
Lake Superior Advertising Federation, 2nd Place 2006
Isaac and Rose Gershgol Award 2006-2007
UMD Honors Program Distinguished Leadership Award 2006
Philanthrofund Shulka-Drake Award 2006
Alice Tweed Tuohy Award 2006
AIGA/Howard W. Lyons Scholarship 2006
Raymond W. Darland Art Scholarship 2006
Robin Blagburn Memorial Scholarship 2005
Bush Foundation Study Abroad Scholarship 2004 – 2005
Exhibitions/Performance History
WOLFPACK Splatterpool (New York, NY) 2/10/2011
Puppy Love: An art show Willow (Chicago, IL) 2/13/2009
Visible Means: Observations of Queer Experience, 8/28/2008 – 11/16/2008 (Duluth Art Institute)
Emerging Photographers, 3/6/2007 – 6/24/2008 (Duluth Art Institute)
UMD 2008 Annual Student Exhibition, 4/12/08 – 5/11/2008 (Tweed Museum)
Duluth Art Institute Member Show, 1/23/08 – 3/11/2008 (Duluth Art Institute)
Duluth-Superior 2007 Pride Art Show, 8/31/2007 – 9/7/2007 (Lizzards/Playground)
Twin Cities 2007 Pride Art Show, 6/15/2007 – 7/22/2007 (Soap Factory)
UMD 2007 Annual Student Exhibition, 4/7/2007 – 5/6/2007 (Tweed Museum)
CHRISTOPHERSenior Exhibition, 3/20/2007 – 3/25/2007 (Tweed Museum)
2nd Annual Student Design Competition, UMD, 2/6/2007 – 3/11/2007 (Tweed Museum)
UMD 2006 Annual Student Exhibition, 4/8/2006 – 5/7/2006 (Tweed Museum)
Interpretive dance dealing with issues of gender, QSU Drag Show 3/2004 (University of Minnesota Duluth)
Collections
Tweed Museum of Art Permanent Collection (Through Chancellor's Purchase award)
Private collections
Galleries
Splatterpool (New York, NY)
Willow (Chicago, IL)
Duluth Art Institute (Duluth, MN)
The Playground (Duluth, MN)
The Soap Factory (Minneapolis, MN)
Tweed Museum of Art, University of Minnesota Duluth (Duluth, MN)
Publications
Chicago IRL #1 (Spring, 2011), design and illustration
Summer Diary Project #1, 2011, illustration
Waska Artzine #1, 2010, illustration
Roaring Muse (Fall 2006), cover photography and magazine design, publication of UMD's Literary Guild
Blindsight #3 Child Abuse (Fall 2006), design piece, publication of University of Minnesota Duluth's Student Design Organization
Blindsight #2 Design Today (Spring 2006), design piece, publication of University of Minnesota Duluth's Student Design Organization
Roaring Muse (Spring 2006), photography, illustration, and magazine design, publication of UMD's Literary Guild
Biographical Information
Country of Citizenship:
United States
Birth Place:
Sioux Falls, SD
Birth Date:
June 2, 1985
Gender:
Male
Active Place:
Duluth
Minnesota County:
Saint Louis
Artist Information
Roles
Graphic Designer