Steven Careau holds an MFA in Sculpture from the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts of Bard College. He is a Professor of Fine Arts at Columbia-Greene Community College of the State University of New York (SUNY), where he has taught since 1991, and is a recipient of SUNY’s Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching. He is the author of Invention and Understanding: A Pedagogical Guide to Three Dimensions.
EDUCATION
Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, Master of Fine Arts
Merrimack College, North Andover, MA, Bachelor of Arts
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
Coordinator, Fine Arts Program, Columbia-Greene Community College of the State University of New York, Hudson, NY (2015–present, 1995–2003)
Professor of Fine Arts, Columbia-Greene Community College of the State University of New York, Hudson, NY (1995–present)
Director, Fine Arts Lecture Series, Columbia-Greene Community College of the State University of New York, Hudson, NY (1997–present)
Director, Foundation Gallery, Columbia-Greene Community College of the State University of New York, Hudson, NY (1995–2000)
PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS
Invention and Understanding: A Pedagogical Guide to Three Dimensions. Washington, DC: New Academia Publishing, 2013.
ESSAYS
“A Pedagogy for Understanding the Visual Arts.” Editor’s Choice essay. Community College Enterprise 14, no. 2 (Fall 2008): 7–21.
“Toward the Unnamed: Creative Strategies in a Fine Arts Seminar.” Michigan Community College Journal: Research and Practice 7, no. 2 (Fall 2001): 61–68.
CONFERENCES AND LECTURES
“Inventive Acts, Intuitive Roots.” Lecture presented at Vassar College, January 26, 2005.
“Towards the Unnamed.” Lecture presented at the 35th Annual Conference of the National Collegiate Honors Council, Washington, DC, October 21, 2000.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2016 Icons and Instruments, McCoy Gallery, Merrimack College, North Andover, MA
2015 Incident No. 78: Material and Immaterial, Incident Report Viewing Station, Hudson, NY
2013 Pedagogical Devices and Strategies, Foundation Gallery, Columbia-Greene Community College, Hudson, NY
2004 Ici et là, Foundation Gallery, Columbia-Greene Community College, Hudson, NY
2003 Façons, McCoy Gallery, Merrimack College, North Andover, MA
1991 Foundation Gallery, Columbia-Greene Community College, Hudson, NY
1990 Galerie Cultart, Montréal, Québec
1989 McQuade Library Art Gallery, Merrimack College, North Andover, MA
1988 Galerie Cultart, Montréal, Québec
1982 Pièces de marquetterie, Les Folies Verchères, Verchères, Québec
TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2009 Faculty Exhibition: Columbia-Greene Community College, SUNY Art Exhibition Series, Central Administration Building, Albany, NY
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2017 Incident Report: Reports, September Gallery, Hudson, NY
2016 Here-and-Now, Thompson Giroux Gallery, Chatham, NY
2015 To Each Their Own, Thompson Giroux Gallery, Chatham, NY
2014 Friend of a Friend, Thompson Giroux Gallery, Chatham, NY
2014 A Gathering of Artists, Foundation Gallery, Columbia-Greene Community College, Hudson, NY
2010 Benefit of Friends, Foundation Gallery, Columbia-Greene Community College, Hudson, NY
2009 Local Talent, Foundation Gallery, Columbia-Greene Community College, Hudson, NY
2006 Bright Ideas, Foundation Gallery, Columbia-Greene Community College, Hudson, NY
2005 OBJECTs, McCoy Gallery, Merrimack College, North Andover, MA
2002 Artists Respond, Foundation Gallery, Columbia-Greene Community College, Hudson, NY
2000 Sculpture Plus, Foundation Gallery, Columbia-Greene Community College, Hudson, NY
1994 Random Systems in Art and Science, Foundation Gallery, Columbia-Greene Community College, Hudson, NY
1993 Fieldwork, ART/OMI, Ghent, NY
1993 Riverworks 2, Hoosic River Watershed Association, Williams College, Williamstown, MA
1992 Dimensions of Sculpture, Foundation Gallery, Columbia-Greene Community College, Hudson, NY
1989 Entrée libre à l’art contemporain, Cité de l’Image, Montréal, Québec
1989 Drawing and Sculpture, Woodstock Artists Association, Woodstock, NY
1989 Sculpture 89, Galerie Daniel, Montréal, Québec
1988 Entrée libre à l’art contemporain, Galerie d’art Lavalin, Montréal, Québec
1988 88 degrés, Galerie Cultart, Montréal, Québec
1988 Sculpture 88, Galerie Daniel, Montréal, Québec
1987 La ruée vers l’art, Galerie Daniel, Montréal, Québec
1987 L’art à la rue, Montréal, Québec
GRANTS AND AWARDS
Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching, State University of New York (1999)
Special Opportunity Stipend, New York Foundation for the Arts and Rensselaer County Council for the Arts (1993, 1992)
Grant, Columbia County Council for the Arts (1992)
Fellowship, Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts (1990, 1989)
Lucette Ruellan Award for Sculpture, Woodstock Artists Association, Woodstock, NY (1989)
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Day, Meredith Fife. Review of OBJECTs, McCoy Gallery, Merrimack College, North Andover, MA. Art New England 27, no. 3 (April–May 2006): 36.
“Graceful Strokes, Elegant Movements.” Chronicle Review, Chronicle of Higher Education 50, no. 12 (November 14, 2003): B19.
Raymond, David, and Lydia Davis. Steven Careau: Façons. 2003. Published in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name, shown at the McCoy Gallery, Merrimack College, North Andover, MA.
“Last.” Wordsmith, Spring 1994, 42.
“Fieldwork.” Chatham (NY) Paper, August 1993, 18.
“C-GCC Opens Major Sculpture Exhibit.” Hillsdale (NY) Independent, September 14, 1992, 14.
“Art Notes.” Woodstock (NY) Times, August 31, 1989.
Gauthier, Ninon. “Coup d’oeil du côté de la relève.” Finance (Montréal), April 11, 1988, 10.
Gravel, Claire. “Place à la photo et à la sculpture.” Le Devoir (Montréal), February 20, 1988, C9.