Addie Langford

EXHIBITIONS:
2018 “When Gravity Becomes Material: New Works,” Hill Gallery, Birmingham, MI
2016 “A Timeless Elsewhere,” Simone DeSousa Gallery, Detroit, MI
2013 “Constructions (Textures),” N’Namdi Center for Contemporary Art, Detroit, MI
2010 “Soft Compression lll,” University of Michigan Flint, University Center Gallery, Flint, MI 2008 “Housebound,” Mott Community College Fine Arts Gallery, Flint, MI
2008 “Slow Knots ll + Analysis,” Aegon Gallery Centre College, Danville, KY 2007 “Slow Knots l,” La Sala de Exposiciones, La Paloma, Madrid, Spain
Exhibition of Fulbright work
2006 “Analysis,” Cranbrook Institute of Science, Bloomfield Hills, MI
GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2019 “Landlord Colors,” Cranbrook Exhibition, Curated by Laura Mott
2018 “Re/Preview,” Hill Gallery, Birmingham, MI
2018 “McArthur Binion Curates in Detroit,” Hill Gallery, Birmingham, MI
2017 “Objects in Place,” Scarab Club, curated by Addie Langford (Marie T. Hermann, Laith
Karmo, and Addie Langford), Detroit, MI
2016 “21st Century Abstract Painting and Sculpture,” Curated by Gerald Jackson, Rush Arts
Gallery, New York, NY
2015 “Confluence,” N’Namdi Contemporary, Miami, FL (including Mauro Machado, Rashid
Johnson, Howardena Pindell, Gregory Coates, Allie McGhee, Deborah Dancy, Nanette
Carter, Juan Logan, Ed Clark & McArthur Binion)
2013 “United Colors of Benetton Group Exhibition,” N’Namdi Center for Contemporary Art
2013 Featured Artist (one of four Detroit select artists, one work), “Venice Biennale,” Venice, Italy 2013 “Line by Line,” Detroit Artist Market, Detroit MI
2012 “BIG,” Detroit Artist Market, Detroit, MI
2012 “Addie Langford and Steve Magsig,” Macomb County Community College Gallery,
Commerce Township, MI
2011 “Departures & Transitions: Medium, Materiality, & Immateriality,” N’Namdi Center for
Contemporary Art, Detroit, MI
2011 “Displaced,” Ice Cube Gallery, Denver, CO
2010 “New Works by Lynn Bennett Carpenter and Addie Langford,” Cranbrook Kingswood, Bloomfield Hills, MI
2010 “Earliest Ending of Winter,” Detroit Industrial Projects, Detroit, MI 2010 “Imaging the Future,” Gallery Project, Ann Arbor, MI
2009 “Collection Connection,” Work Gallery, Ann Arbor, MI
2008 “Small Favors,” The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA PROJECTS/COLLABORATIONS:
2015 “Detroit Tipple Cup Project,” Nora Design with Culture Lab Detroit, Collaboration with Scott Hocking, Detroit, MI
2015 “Stations of the Cross,” Cathedral Church of St. Paul, Ceramic Tile Installation, Detroit, MI 2012 “The Greene House,” (outdoor installation) Henry Crissman Collaboration, Detroit, MI
ARTIST PRESENTATIONS / INVITED CRITIC:
2016 Exhibition /Studio Tour, Department of Crafts/Textiles, College for Creative Studies, Detroit, MI
2014 In Conversation, Osi Audu, N’Namdi Center for Contemporary Art
2013 Artist Talk, The Hanging Gardens, N’Namdi Center for Contemporary Art, Detroit, MI 2010 Artist Talk, Cranbrook Kingswood, Bloomfield Hills, MI
2008 Artist Talk, Slow Knots ll + Analysis, Center College, Danville, KY
2007 Artist Talk, Lentos Nudos, Universidad de Complutense, Madrid, Spain, Fulbright
PUBLICATIONS (writings by Addie Langford):
2019 “Notes on Textiles and Painting: Richard Tuttle, Simon Hantai,̈ and François Rouan,” Detroit Research, vol. 3 (Spring, 2019). Forthcoming.
2016 “Joy and Allan Nachman: In correspondence with the Vessel,” Detroit Research, vol. 2. (Spring, 2016).
2014 “The Collection of Tim and Marilyn Mast,” Detroit Research, vol. 1, nos. 1-2 (Fall, 2014). 2012 “Search and Rescue: Diagrams of Monotony and Distress in the Work of Dustin Campbell,”
exhibition essay, for solo exhibition at Napoleon Gallery, Philadelphia. Available on NapoleonNapoleon.com.
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
2019 Laura Mott, “Landlord Colors,” Cranbrook Exhibition Catalogue
Lynn Crawford, “Same Sky,” Big Other, A short story after Addie Langford and Neha Vedpathak. https://bit.ly/2T8kniR
"Addie Langford: Works," essays and reflections on the work of Addie Langford by George Tysh, Biba Bell, Matthew Piper, Lynn Crawford, and Dennis Nawrocki
George Tysh, “Drifts of Time: New Paintings by Addie Langford,” Detroit Research, vol. 2 (Fall, 2019
2018 Addie Langford: When Gravity Becomes Material, ex cat. ed. Maggie Hill (Birmingham, MI: Hill Gallery, 2018).
Glen Mannisto, “Addie Langford: Leap,” in Addie Langford: When Gravity Becomes Material, ex cat. ed. Maggie Hill (Birmingham, MI: Hill Gallery, 2018).
Ron Scott, “McArthur Binion Curates in Detroit @ Hill Gallery,” Detroit Art Review (May 19, 2018).
Dennis Nawrocki, “Objects and Place @ The Scarab Club; A Spring Offensive,” Detroit Art
Review (April 17, 2018). http://detroitartreview.com/author/dnawrocki 2017 “Interview: In the Studio with Addie Langford,” Grand Circus, no. 5,
(Spring / Summer, 2017).
Matthew Piper, Rosie Sharpe, Dennis Nawrocki, Steve Panton, Rosie Sharp Essay'd: Vol. 2., “Essay'd: 30 Detroit Artists,” Wayne State Press, August, 2017
2016 Rosie Sharpe, “Addie Langford,” Essay’d 44 (2016). http://essayd.org/?p=628. 2015 Rosie Sharpe, “The MOCAD Quilting Bee Project,” Knight Blog,
https://www.knightfoundation.org/articles/addie-langford-reveals-layers-in-talk-at-detroits- nnamdi- center-for-contemporary-art2014 John Sauve, Art and Design, Public Broadcasting System, Bloomfield Township Public Television, 2014.
2013 Emma Cole, Anna Franchin, Tom Ridgway, and Pietro Valdatta, ed. “Imago Mundi: Organix Contemporary Artists from the U.S.A. Luciano Benetton Collection,” Fabrica http://www.imagomundiart.com/collections/organix
Sarah Rose Sharpe, “Addie Langford,” Knight Arts Blog, http://www.knightfoundation.org/blogs/knightblog/2013/11/26/artist name here-reveals- layers-in-talk- at-detroits-nnamdi-center-for-contemporary-art/
ART/DESIGN & SOCIAL ENGAGEMENT:
2017 “Art + Science,” A. Alfred Taubman Center for Medical Research Institute, Artist collaboration with Dr. Valerie Opipari, M.D., MOCAD, Detroit, MI
2015 “Ebola Design Charrette,” Industry Guest, University of Michigan Penny Stamps School of Art and Design + Public Health / Med School / Dept. of African and African American Studies/ College of Engineering / School of Nursing, Ann Arbor, MI
2015 “Radical Scavengers: the MOCAD Quilting Bee Project,” Project Lead, MOCAD, located in the Mobile Homestead by Mike Kelley, Detroit, MI
2014-15 “College to Career Mentor,” University of Michigan Dearborn College of Business, Dearborn, MI
2013-14 “Entrepreneurism Business Planning Release Project,” Women’s Huron Valley Correctional Facility with University of Michigan Dearborn College of Business, Ypsilanti, MI