Rory Fitzgerald Bledsoe
  • conceptual
    • The Crying in Public Project
    • ECO-S3X Quarantine
    • From URL To IRL >
      • #searchme
      • #thearchive
      • #femmefeed
    • Consensual Listening
    • Consensual Voyeurism >
      • Tinder Performance
      • FOMO Performance
  • curatorial
    • Certifying Reality
    • Lurking Behind My Teeth
    • Stories, Secrets, Sepsis
    • Piecemeal
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    SELECTED EXHIBITIONS/PERFORMANCES

​    Conceptual/Visual Projects
  • Public Collection: Video & Sound, Colecciondm Collection (Buenos Aires, Argentina), Upcoming
  • Self Spa, virtual exhibition (curated by Cayla Lockwood), Flux Factory (NY, NY) (Via Zoom), 2020
  • Flux Factory Art Auction, group show, EFA Project Space (NY, NY), 2019
  • Sunday Painter, Group Exhibition, Flux Factory (Queens, NY), 2019
  • Certifying Reality, Consensual Listening (Installation), Flux Factory (Queens, NY), 2019
  • Fay Chandler Award Show, Group Exhibition, Boston City Hall, 2018
  • FOMO, Group Exhibition curated by Keiken Collective, Falmouth Art Publishing Fair (Falmouth, UK), 2018
  • The Gig Economy, Group Show curated by Robert Moeller, Boston Center for the Arts, 2017
  • From URL To IRL, Search Me/The Archive, Space One Two One (Boston), 2017
  • Home (Queering), Group Exhibition, Distillery Gallery (Boston), 2017
  • Group Show, Selection of Five Local Painters, Work Bar (Cambridge, MA), 2015
  • Juried Regional Competition, The Library Arts Center (Newport, NH), 2014
  • Spring Show, Juried Group Exhibition, StoveFactory Gallery (Charlestown, MA), 2014
  • Inspirations, Juried Group Exhibition, Cape Cod Center for the Arts (Barnstable, MA), 2014
  • 30 Under 30 Boston Emerging Artists, Arsenal Center for the Arts (Watertown, MA), 2014
     
    Performances/Readings/Screenings
  • Carbonated Projections , screening/performance curated by Frankie Symonds, Synesthesia Gallery (Bushwick, NY), 2019
  • Flux Factory Takeover: Poetry, HOLO (NYC), 2019
  • The Great Flux Bake-Off (co-host), Flux Factory (NYC), 2019
  • Women Rhyme, 13 Forest Gallery (Arlington, MA), 2018
  • Search Me (Notes) performance, Allston Living Room (Allston, MA), 2018
  • Queer Poetry, curated by Amanda Accardi, Area Gallery (Cambridge, MA), 2018
  • Crying in Public Project, public performance, Christopher Columbus Park (Boston, MA), 2018
  • FOMO performance, Consensual Voyeurism, Boston Center For the Arts, 2017
  • Search Me (Facebook) performance, Space One Two One (Boston), 2017
   
    SELECTED 
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
  • Certifying Reality, Group Exhibition, Flux Factory, NYC (2019), Curator
  • Sunday Painter, Group Exhibition, Flux Factory, NYC (2019), Co-Curator
  • Certifying Poetry, Group Performance, Flux Factory, NYC (2019), Co-Curator
  • Stories, Secrets, Sepsis, Frankie Symonds Solo Exhibition, Space One Two One, Boston (2018), Curator
  • Lactic Incorporated, Public Performance, Space One Two One, Boston (2018), Curator
  • Lurking Behind My Teeth, Janet Loren Hill Solo Exhibition, Space One Two One, Boston (2018), Curator
  • Piecemeal, Gem Rosenberg Solo Exhibition, Space One Two One, Boston (2017), Curator
  • Pop Up, Group Exhibition, Space One Two One, Boston (2017), Curator
  • From URL TO IRL, Group Exhibition, Space One Two One, Boston (2017), Curator
  • Body Politic, Group Exhibition, Gallery OPEN, Boston (2017), Exhibition Design
  • Re.volt.ing (an art show in protest), Group Exhibition, Distillery Gallery, Boston (2017), Sub-Curator
  • Inevitable Ephemera, Afra Al Dhaheri Solo Exhibition, T+H Gallery, Boston (2016), Co-Curator
  • A Certain Shape, Mitch Shiles Solo Exhibition, T+H Gallery, Boston (2016), Assistant Curator
  • Partial Visibility, Alicia Eggert Soo Exhibition, T+H Gallery, Boston (2016), Assistant Curator
  • Close To Me, Stephanie McMahon Solo Exhibition, T+H Gallery, Boston (2016), Assistant Curator
  • Sojourn, Ian McMahon Solo Exhibition, T+H Gallery, Boston (2016), Assistant Curator
  • Cosmic Cosmetologist, Kelley Donahue Solo Exhibition, T+H Gallery, Boston (2016), Assistant Curator
  • Slow Ghost, Ashley Lyon Solo Exhibition, T+H Gallery, Boston (2015), Assistant Curator
  • Typology Morphology, Group Exhibition, T+H Gallery (collaboration with Institute for Electronic Arts), Boston (2015), Assistant Curator

    AWARDS/RECOGNITIONS
  •     Squeaky Wheel Media Studies Researcher (Residency), Finalist, 2020
  •     Top Ten Selection (curator), Apex Art Internationally Juried Curatorial Exhibition, 2020
  •     Artist/Curator-in-Residence, Flux Factory, 2019       
  •     Fay Chandler Emerging Artist Award, City of Boston, 2018
  •     2017 Best Art Shows Selection (From URL To IRL), Boston Art Review, 2017
  •     Best Art Shows of 2017 (From URL To IRL), Boston Hassle, 2017
  •     Painting (NYE, 2013) Featured in Film, “Ella”, Produced by Armani, 2014
  •     30 Under 30 Emerging Artist (Greater Boston Area) Award, Selected by Katherine French, 2014
  •     2nd Prize in Painting, Cape Cod Center for the Arts (Barnstable, MA), 2014
    
   
BIBLIOGRAPHY
  •     Rory Fitzgerald Bledsoe, "Queer Cats Takes to Local Public Access Television ", Boston Art Review, 05 (Spring 2020,) published June 17, 2020
  •     Kylie Terra Burnham, “Top 10 Events For Helping A Young Queer Woman...Find Art And Community” (#3), Boston Hassle, January 1, 2019
  •     Mallory Ruymann, “Janet Loren Hill at Space One Two One”, The Rib, April 1, 2018.
  •     Jameson Johnson, “The New Domestic with Janet Loren Hill and Rory Fitzgerald Bledsoe, Boston Art Review, Issue 01, Spring 2018.
  •     BAR Editorial, "In Conversation: Janet Loren Hill and Rory Fitzgerald Bledsoe in SPACE ONE TWO ONE, Boston Art Review, Vimeo, 2018.
  •     Lani Asuncion, “Janet Loren Hill Speaks With Lani Asuncion About Her Exhibition “Lurking Behind My Teeth”, Boston Hassle, March 20, 2018.
  •     Jameson Johnson, "2017 Year in Review: Art Edition", Boston Hassle, January 8, 2017.
  •     Amelia Mason, "5 Things To Do This Weekend...", WBUR, November 8, 2017.
  •     Silvia Beier, “Piecemeal, A Collage Show By Gem Rosenberg, Curated by Rory Fitzgerald Bledsoe”, Boston Hassle, September 4, 2017.
  •     Rory Fitzgerald Bledsoe, "Emilie Stark-Menneg", International Art Magazine, 2017
  •     Rory Fitzgerald Bledsoe, "Studio Visit with Rebecca Ness", International Art Magazine, 2017
  •     Suzanne Volmer, "Eggert at T+H Gallery", Artscope Magazine, August 31, 2016.
  •     Shana Dumont, "Buoyed By Color At Stephanie McMahon's Solo Exhibition at T+H Gallery, New American Paintings, July, 2016.
  •     Cate McQuaid, "Ian McMahons' Pillowy Plaster Sculpture To Meet Its End", Boston Globe, April 11, 2016.
  •     Robert Moeller, "Someone Will Build Something Somewhere: Ian McMahon at T+H Gallery", Big Red And Shiny, April 7, 2016.
  •     Cate McQuaid, "New Galleries Blossom at 460 Harrison Ave", Boston Globe, November 17, 2015.
  •     Tatiana Berg, "Must-See Art Guide Boston", ArtNet News, December 17, 2015.

    EDUCATION
  • UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO BOULDER, PhD Student, Media Studies
  • UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA LAW SCHOOL, Juris Doctorate
  • RICE UNIVERSITY, Bachelor of Arts
 
     For full CV, please email: rory.bledsoe@colorado.edu