EDUCATION
1998—2000   California College of Arts and Crafts (CCAC), San Francisco, CA
Masters in Fine Art: Visual Art
1997—1998   San Jose State University, San Jose, CA
Bachelors in Fine Art: Emphasis in Printmaking and Drawing
     
    AWARDS AND HONORS
2007   CAA Centennial • Selected Alumni – Oakland Museum, CA
    Rhizome Commission • Rhizome / New Museum of Contemporary Art– New York, NY
    Art in General, 25th Anniversary Exhibition • Art in General at UBS – New York, NY
    Project Commission: Life/Theater Project • Southern Exposure – San Francisco, CA
2006  

S.J. Truman Award • National Academy Museum, New York, NY

   

Dodge Foundation Grant • Middlesex High School, Middlesex, NJ

   

The Bartlebooth Award • The Art Newspaper, London, UK

2005  

New Commissions • Art in General, New York, NY

   

Commissioned Performance/Event • Reykjavik Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland

   

Performa ‘05 • Visual Art Performance Biennial, New York, New York

   

Artist in Residence / Commission • Socrates Sculpture Park, Queens, NY

2004   Invitational Artist Project and Publication • Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art
The City System
2003   Video Projections • 8th Havana Biennial - Pabellon, Cuba
    Selected Representative • Glowlab (NY) - Sparwasser HQ, Berlin
2002   Affiliate Artist Award Headlands Center for the Arts • Marin, CA
    Selected Artist -Gen Art Award • Emerge, San Francisco, CA
Juror: Arnold Kemp, Associate Curator of Visual Arts, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
    Landmark, Artist in Residence • San Francisco, CA
San Francisco Files, Co-sponsored by Pond Gallery
2000   M.F.A. Graduate Studio Award Recipient • Headlands Center for the Arts, Marin, CA
    Artists Fellowship Award Recipient • Kala Art Institute, Berkeley CA
1999   Top Award Art Matters - Oakland CA
Juror
- David Ross, Head Curator, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
    Top Award • Hamaguchi Printmaking Scholarship - San Francisco, CA
Jurors - Squeak Carnwath and Charles Gill
1998   Selected Representative - All College Honors, Graduate Department of Fine Art, CCAC
Jurors - CCAC Faculty
     
    SOLO EXHIBITIONS & PROJECTS
2008  

Lee Walton – Life/Theater Performance: Parents and Other People from the Neighborhood
In conjunction with "The World As a Stage" (traveling exhibition from the Tate Modern)
Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA

    Lee Walton – New Work
Sacco Gallery, Miami, FL
2007   Lee Walton – Life/Theater Project: San Francisco
Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA
    Lee Walton – Exhibition (with lecture, and student project)
Washington State University Tri-Cities, Richland, Washington
2006   Lee Walton- Video Work
00130Gallery Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
    Union Square Park – Giving It Up For Life
The Conflux: Organized by Glowab, New York, NY
2005   Baseball and Drawings
Kraushaar Gallery, New York, NY
    The Experiential Project
Art in General- Project Space, New York, NY
    Following the Man in the Crowd (with Christina Ray)
Spectropolis- Mobile Media, Art and the City, New York, NY
    Lee Walton vs. Shaquille O'Neal - Free Throw Competition
Lemon Sky Projects, Miami, Florida
    Writing a Song is Easy (with Laresa Kosloff)
Clubs Project Inc., Victoria, Australia
2004   Making Changes - Red vs Blue
667 Shotwell, San Francisco, CA
    Life/Theater Project
Psy-Geo Conflux, New York, NY
    City Systems - The Project
University of Fontenay-aux-Roses, France
2003   “One Shot a Day”
Lincoln Park Golf Course, San Francisco, CA
    Last Place, The 2003 Walton Derby
Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA
2002   50 Objects, The Project Space
Headlands Center for the Arts, Marin, CA
    The San Francisco Files Part II - City Systems
SPUR (The S.F. Planning and Urban Research Association), San Francisco, CA
    Ambulatory Gambit
S.F. Bureau of Urban Secrets and S.F. Files - San Francisco, CA
2001   Red Ball
Silent Gallery, San Francisco, CA
     
    SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS & PROJECTS
2008  

New Directions in American Drawing
Columbus Museum (Feb), Columbus, Georgia
Telfair Museum of Art (May), Savannah, Georgia
Knoxville Museum of Art (Nov) Knoxville, Tennessee

2007  

Art in General, 25th Anniversary Exhibition
UBS Building, New York, NY

   

CCA Centennial – Selected Artists from 100 Years of CCA
Oakland Museum (Nov), Oakland, CA

   

Upon Further Review
Rockland Center for the Arts, West Nyack, NY

   

Inaugural Exhibition
Sacco Gallery, Miami, FL

   

Come on Pilgrim: A 110 Mile Exhibition
Curatorial Project by Laura Mott
Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY

   

Character Reference
Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery, New York, NY

   

On Being an Exhibition
Curated by Joseph del Pesco
Artists Space, New York, NY

   

Currently Untitled
PM Gallery, Toronto, ON

   

Show #13
And/Or Gallery, Dallas, TX

   

Getting Along
Island #6, Shanghai, China

2006  

Art in the Contested City - A Conference Exploring the Role of the Arts in Contemporary Struggles over Urban Space
Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY

   

Invisible Layers- Electric Cities
Island #6, Shanghai, China

    The 181st Annual
National Academy Museum, New York, NY
    Art in the Contested City
Pratt University, Brooklyn, NY
    Platform for Urban Investigation
PUI: A Nomadic Research Project, Curated by Allard Van Hoorn, Beijing and Amsterdam
    EXACT
UTIL –Curated by Vincent Meessen, Brussels, Belgium
    Art in the Contested City
Pratt University, Brooklyn, NY
    Dead of Winter
Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY
    Trees
New Jersey Center for Visual Art, Museum Summit, NJ
    ZeroOne San Jose: A Global Festival of Art on the Edge
ISEA2006 Symposium, San Jose, CA
    Systems
Rhizome at Scope International Art Fair – New York, NY
    Video Projects with independent curator María del Carmen
El Pobre Diablo, Quito, Ecuador
    Harvey Loves Harvey Loves Lee Walton
NESADSU Gallery – Suffolk University, Boston MA
2005   2005 Spring Exhibition
Socrates Sculpture Park - Queens, NY
    BUSY SIGNALS: Telephonic Art in Motion
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA
    Rethinking the City
Reykjavik Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland
    Upon Further Review
The Berth and Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery at Hunter College - New York, NY
    Dead Kids Do Nothing
31 Grand - Williamsburg, NY
    Glowlab: Open Lab
Art Interactive, Cambridge, MA
    Marking Time and Mapping Thought (catalogue)
San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, San Francisco, CA
    Performa ‘05
Artists Space, New York, NY
    iPods
Fine Arts in Space, Queens, NY
    Non-Narrative
Treetop Gallery at Mountain View College, Dallas, TX
    Fresh Trouble
Jeff Jahn Production, Portland, OR
    Performance Project
Scope International Art Fair, New York
   


Sprawl (catalogue)
Haley Martin Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Ampersand International Arts, Paris, France (2006)

   

"Old Habits Die Hard" - A Traveling Exhibition
Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center, Istanbul, Turkey
Motorenhalle, Dresden, Germany

Museum of Contemporary Art Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Kunstnernes Hus - Oslo, Norway

Norwich Gallery, GB
Organized by Heman Chong and Lise Nellemann - Sparwasser HQ

     
2004   Out Of Place
Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art - Indianapolis, IN
    One Block Radius
The New Museum of Contemporary Art - New York, NY
Supporting Project for Christina Ray and Dave Mandl of Glowlab.
    1:100
DCKT Contemporary - New York, NY
    Scores
White Columns - New York, NY
    MultipleMISCELLANEOUSalliances (mMa)
Clubs Project - Melbourne, Australia
   

Sadie Hawkins
Southfirst Gallery- Williamsburgh, Brooklyn
Collaborative project with Tucker Nichols

    Video Screening
Portland Film Festival - Portland, OR
    Miles Ake Locker Project
Gallery 290 - San Francisco, CA
    California Dreamin’
Heather Marx Gallery - San Francisco, CA
2003   Psy-Geo Conflux: May 9 – 11
Glowlab at ABC No Rio , New York, NY
    The Best Coast Show
A Survey of Young West Coast Artists - Portland, OR
Curator: Jeff Jahn
    The Clothing Project
Kunsthall Fridericianum, Kassell, Germany
Curated by Ted Purves and It Can Change
    Commission 03
San Francisco Arts Commission, San Francisco, CA
    an uncertain line: some approaches to drawing
Spangaga, San Francisco, CA
    Exhibition Games
San Francisco Arts Commission, San Francisco, CA
    Solid Gold
Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA
    Close Calls
Headland Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA
2002   “PHOOD”, Shadow Cabinets in a Bright Country
Apexart, New York, NY
Curated by Ted Purves & It Can Change
    Emerge
GenArtSF, San Francisco, CA
    The Earth Exhibition
Potrero Gardens, San Francisco, CA
    Frisco
Spangaga, San Francisco, CA
2001   A Fine Line
Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA
    Last Place
Refusalon, San Francisco, CA
     
    RECENT GUEST LECTURES AND ARTIST VISITS
2007   Columbus Museum, Columbus, GA
Panelist: New Directions in American Drawing
    The De Young Museum, San Francisco, CA
Mapping the City: Artists Engage with the Urban Environment
Remotely Orchestrated Life/Theater Performance
    Washington State University Tri-Cities, Richland, Washington
Guest Lecturer, Exhibition and Student Project
    Portland State University, Portland, OR
Guest Lecturer and Graduate Studio Visits
    Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY
Guest Artist: Public Interaction
    New York University, New York, NY
Visiting Artist – Graduate Critique, Interdisciplinary Program
2006   Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, Maryland Visiting Artist – Interactive Media
    Parsons, The New School of Art and Design, New York, NY
Visiting Artist - Conceptual Processes in Photography
    University of Ulster – Interface Center of Research and Design, Belfast, Ireland
Lecture: Engaging the City, Playful Orchestrations
    The Kitchen, New York, NY
Guest Lecturer and Project – Art and Social Practice
Come Together: Sidney Kahn Summer Institute with Harrell Fletcher
    Visual Arts Center Of New Jersey, Summit, NJ
Lead Artist – Annual Teachers Symposium (Lecture, Performance and Workshop)
    Parson, The New School for Art and Design, New York, NY
Visiting Artist – MFA Design and Technology
    Columbia University, New York, NY
Visiting Artist – Introduction to Architecture
2005   Art in General, New York, NY
Panel – Artists and Collectives
    Eyebeam, New York, NY
Panel – Urban Games: Real Action in the World Reality
    Parsons, The New School for Art and Design, New York, NY
Visiting Artist (with Christina Ray of Glowlab) – Psychogeography and urban drifts
    Reykjavik Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland
Visiting Artist – Cities and Observations
    Glowlab - New York
Glowlounge - Psychogeography
2004  

Portland Institute of Contemporary Art
Guest Lecturer

    San Francisco State University
Guest Lecturer and Performance– (CIA) Conceptual and Information Arts
    San Francisco Art Institute
Graduate Seminar - Art as Experience
    California College of Arts and Crafts
Graduate Alumni Panel
    J.F.K. University, Oakland
New Genre
     
   

ARTICLES, REVIEWS AND CATALOGS

 

     
2007  

OH!
Online Video Magazine (Hamburg, Germany)
Alain Bieber - Chief Editor


Monopol Magazine
Ones to Watch - March, 2007


NUKE
Giving It Up - Union Square Park
May 10th, 2007
Joseph del Pesco – Curator


Monash University
, Melbourne, AU
The Video Work of Lee Walton
Amy Marjoram – Writer and Critic


Metropolis Magazine's online publication- The Urban Journal
Move it Outdoors
June 15th, 2007
Kristin Palm – Writer


Time Out New York
A Brief Moment in Tome
June 21st, 2007
Amy Tratenberg- Writer


Shotgun Review
Life/Theater Project at Southern Exposure
March 24th, 2007
Judy Moran – Essayist


Rhizome News

You’ll Be My Mirror
January 19th, 2007
Lauren Cornell – Executive Director

   
2006  

Time Out New York
Conversation Piece
October 19th, 2006
Dan Derouchie - Art Critic


Platform For Urban Investigations
Lee Walton’s Western Shift
October 19th, 2006
Allard Van Hoorn – Artist

The Mercury News
Zero One Festival, San Jose
Aug 9, 2006
Sal Pizzaro - Art Critic


The Boston Globe
Review of Exhibition
July 24, 2006
Cate McQuaid - Art Critic


The New York Observer
Un-Hyped Academy Annual Quietly Takes the Long View
June 5th, 2006
Mario Naves - Art Critic


Seattle Post Intelligencer
Kelly Mark's sincerity with an edge messes with the previous generation's script
March 10th, 2006
Regina Hackett- Art Critic


The Boston Globe
Experimenting on Themselves (Harvey Loves Harvey)
February 24th, 2006
Cate McQuaid, Globe Correspondent


The Art Newspaper
It’s Art, But Not As We Know It
January 20th, 2006
Adrian Dannatt - Art Critic

Bloomberg News
NY Galleries: Baseball Bats, Ipod Videos and Swimming Sperm
January 6th, 2006
Michael Killeen - Art Critic

   

 

2005  

The Village Voice
Cluster-fuck Esthetics
Lee Walton at Art in General
Dec. 2nd, 2005
Jerry Saltz – Senior Art Critic


New York Times
Performance Art Gets its Biennial
Nov. 4th 2005
Roberta Smith – Senior Art Critic


Art Forum
Like Father Like Daughter
Oct 2005
Michael Wang –Art Critic

New York Sun
Dead Kids Do Nothing
July 2005
David Cohen – Art Critic


New York Times
Ball in Flight and Other Jock Art
June 2005
Warren St. John – Cultural Critic


Leonardo Electronic Almanac

Following the Man in the Crowd
September 2005
The MIT Press, Boston, MA


San Francisco Chronicle
“Marking” at Arts Commission
August 2005
Kenneth Baker – Art Critic

New York Times
Upon Further Review
Feb 2005
Grace Glueck – Art Critic

Black Book Magazine
Artist Profile
Steve Kurutz – Publisher/Editor

Big Red and Shiny
Interview with the Artist
August 2005
Mathew Nash – Artist and Curator


Time Out New York
Dropping the Ball
July 2005
Justin Rocket Silverman – Freelance Writer


S.F. Gate
Social Constructions
June 2005
Alison Bing – Art Critic


ASPECT Magazine
“Joie de Vivre”
Michael Mittelman – Publisher/Editor


Stretcher
Marketing the Mission
Leah Modigliani – Artist and Critic


Stay Free Magazine
Walton 342 – Shaq 350
Steve Lambert

Hunter College Exhibition Catalogue
Upon Further Review
Essays by the Curators, Tim Laun and Tracy L. Adler

     
2004  

New York Times
Sadies Hawkins Dance
June 2004
Holland Cotter – Art Critic

New York Press
Psy-Geo Conflux
May 2004
Alan Lockwood – Writer

Indianapolis Business Journal
Athletic and Artistic Oddities
Vol. 25 No. 10 may 24- 30

Glowlab
Negotiated Spaces
February 2004
Karen O’Rourke - Writer, Artist and Editor

iMOCA's Inaugural Show
Out of Place I
May 2004
David Hoppe- Art Critic

SF Bay Gaurdian
Dream On
April Issue 2004
Glen Helfand- Art Critic

SF Gate
Golden Sate of Mind- California Dreamin'
April 2004
Allison Bing- Art Critic

Artweek
Drawing at Spanganga
May Issue 2003
Marisa Olsen - Art Critic

     
2003  

SF Chronicle
Uncertain Line- Spanganga
February 2003
Kenneth Baker - Art Critic

S.F. Gate
Uncertain Line - Spanganga
February 2003
Allison Bing – Art Critic

S.F. Bay Gaurdian
Uncertain Line - Spanganga
May Issue 2003
Lindsey Westbrook - Art Critic

SF Chronicle
Close Calls – Headlands Center for the Arts
February 2003
Kenneth Baker - Art Critic

SF Weekly
Last Place: 2003 Walton Derby
Silent Gallery and Southern Exposure
March 15th 2003
Silke Tudor – Cultural Critic

     
2002  

Artweek
Frisco - Spanganga
July/August Volume 33 - Issue 6, 2002
Harry Roche

S.F. Examiner
Art on the Move
August 15 – 21, 2002
Anne Crump

The Organ – Review of Arts
My Art Diary – CR
Nov. Dec. 2002 Issue

SPUR: San Francisco Planning and Urban Research Association
Artists and the Public Life of San Francisco
October and November issues, 2002
Jeannene Przyblyski - Executive Director, S.F. Bureau of Urban Secrets

     
2001   Rhizome
Red Ball – Silent Gallery
May, 2001
Ian Alteveer – Art Historian
     
    SELECTED COLLECTIONS
    Martin Z. Margulies, Miami, FL
    Metropolitan Museum of Art, Print Collection - New York, NY
    The Columbus Museum, Permanent Collection- Columbus, Georgia
    Reykjavik Art Museum, Permanent Collection - Reykjavik, Iceland
    Arkansas Arts Center - Little Rock, Arkansas
    Deutsche Bank Collection, New York, NY
    David Ross, Private Video Collection
    Regan Grusy, Private Video Collection
    Marisa S. Olson, Curator - Rhizome, NY
    Heather Marx and Steve Zavattero, Private Collection
    Sally Allen, Private Collection
    Tucker Nichols, “Some-what Permanent” Collection…
    Ken Knabb, City System- Personal Copy
    Leif Bjelland, Private Collection and Commissioned Work
    Jeannene Przyblyski, S.F.B.U.S. Permanent Collection and Archive
    California College of Arts, Archive
   

James T. Dyke Collection, Little Rock, Arkansas