John Kieltyka
b. 1967 Rahway, New Jersey
Lives and works in Seattle, WA


Education
1992 University of Colorado, Boulder
1990 School of Visual Arts, New York City


Solo Exhibitions
1996 Collusion, Seattle, WA
1996 King County Arts Commission, Seattle, WA
1996 Lead, Seattle, WA
1994 Casa-U-Betcha, Seattle, WA
1994 COCA, Seattle, WA
1992 Carnegie Gallery, Seattle, WA
1992 CU Art Galleries, Boulder, CO


Selected Group Exhibitions
2016 Collagism: A Survey of Contemporary Collage, Museum Strathroy-Caradoc, Strathroy, ON
2014 ELEVEN: The John Erickson Museum of Art (JEMA) 10-Year Retrospective, Bob Rauschenberg Gallery, Fort Meyers, FL
2013 Ransom, Wayfarers, Brooklyn, NY
2013 Doing Pennants, Fifth Floor, Los Angeles, CA
2010 Drawproject, Valdosta State University, Valdosta, GA
2009 Drawproject, Valdosta State University, Valdosta, GA
2009 Closet Cases, Happy, Los Angeles, CA
2008 Drawproject, Valdosta State University, Valdosta, GA
2007 Toast, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO
2007 Shrinky-Dinks, Zeitgeist, Seattle, WA
2007 Guards, JEMA, location-variable museum
2007 The Art Parade, Deitch Projects, New York, NY
2005 SOIL 1995-2005: A Retrospective Exhibition, SOIL, Seattle, WA
2001 Faces of The Diller, Diller Hotel, Seattle, WA
2000 A Basis For Optimism, Lead, Seattle, WA
1999 Diptych: Millennium Projects, Lead, Seattle, WA
1999 Slop Art, Kansas City, MO
1999 2D, Lead, Seattle, WA
1999 Texarkana Regional Art and Humanities Council, Texarkana, TX/AR
1999 34th Annual Faculty Exhibit, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
1998 Valdosta State College, Valdosta, GA
1998 Residual Traces/Resident Shadows, Soil, Seattle, WA
1998 The Manipulated Photographic Image, FACET, Taos, NM
1998 33rd Annual Faculty Exhibit, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
1998 Columbia Basin College, Pasco, WA
1998 Noyes Museum, Oceanville, NJ
1998 Carnegie Art Center, Walla Walla, WA
1998 Belmont University, Nashville, TN
1997 Soil Anniversary Paper Show, Soil, Seattle, WA
1997 Celebrity: Figures of Worship, Fame, Fortune, Heroism and Infamy, Bumbershoot, Seattle, WA
1997 Big Art, Blank Space, Gainesville, FL
1997 Tyler Aetr Gallery,State University of New York, Oswego, NY
1997 South Seattle Community College, Seattle, WA
1997 Texas National, SFA Gallery, Nacogdoches, TX
1997 See-Thru, Post, Los Angeles, CA
1997 Mediumbuilt, Project 416, Seattle, WA
1997 Everett Community College, Everett, WA
1997 University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
1996 Uncommon Perspective, Benham Photography, Seattle, WA
1996 Bellevue Community College, Bellevue, WA
1996 Election HEADquarters, Soil, Seattle, WA
1996 TEXTures, Seattle Art Museum Rental Sales Gallery, Seattle, WA
1996 Exotica/Erotica, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, CO
1996 DEAD, Soil, Seattle, WA
1996 Lead, Seattle, WA
1996 Horsehead 8, Duvall, WA
1996 Pacific Northwest Annual, Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA
1996 Lots of Little Art, Artlink, Inc., Fort Wayne, IN
1996 Anderson Glover Gallery, Seattle, WA
1996 Kirkland Arts Center, Kirkland, WA
1996 Full Circle, Gainesville, FL
1996 Great Plains National, Fort Hays State University, Hays, KS
1996 Dishman Art Gallery, Lamar University, Beaumont, TX
1996 9th Nat'l Computer Art Invitational, Eastern Washington University, Cheney, WA
1996 OK Invitational, OK Hotel, Seattle, WA
1996 Small Works, New York University, New York, NY
1996 Countdown 2000, 1078 Gallery, Chico, CA
1996 Seattle Arts Commission, Seattle, WA
1996 Smart Art, Seattle, WA
1995 Love 4 Sale, Lead, Seattle, WA
1995 Private As Public, 7th Street Gallery, Boulder, CO
1995 Scene/Unseen, Eastern New Mexico University, Portales, NM
1995 Knowing Her Place, The Wonderful World of Art, Seattle, WA
1995 Worth a Thousand Words, Benham Photography, Seattle, WA
1995 TOPSoil, Soil, Seattle, WA
1995 Pacific Northwest Annual, Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA
1995 SOIL, Lead, Seattle, WA
1995 1st Annual Juried Competition, Battery Street Gallery, Seattle, WA
1995 Lead, Seattle, WA
1995 Pushpin Photo Exhibition, FotoCircle, Seattle, WA
1995 Machine Werks, Seattle, WA
1994 18th Annual Juried Exhibition, Eastside Association of Fine Arts, Kirkland, WA
1994 3400 CU. FT., 721 Virginia, Seattle, WA
1994 Metropolis, Seattle, WA
1994 Northwest Annual, Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA
1993 Metropolis, Seattle, WA
1993 Galleria 99, Galleria Potatohead, Seattle, WA
1993 Italia, Seattle, WA
1993 Globe Cafe, Seattle, WA
1993 S.A.M. Art, Carnegie Gallery, Seattle, WA
1992 Everything But The Sink, UMC Fine Art Center, Boulder, CO
1992 Pro-Choice Exhibition, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO
1992 DIG. Visual Investigations, Emmanuel Gallery, Denver, CO
1991 Gulf Western Gallery, New York University, New York, NY
1991 Creative Arts Symposium, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO
1991 Painters Exhibition, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO
1987 School of Visual Arts, New York, NY


Discography
"The Volunteers," Soup, DVD, directed by Dan Tharp (2006; Seattle, WA: Peek Productions, 2006).
"Chromium Stomp," Automogirl, DVD, directed by Dan Tharp (2005; Seattle, WA: Peek Productions, 2005).
"Regular." Regular. VERK-001. © 2003 Verkstad Music-BMI. Compact disc.
"Sub," Blonde and Blue, DVD, directed by Julian Dahl (2000; Seattle, WA: Eutopos, 2002).


Selected Reviews and Articles
2009 Photo illustrations, "The Face of Interior Design," ASID Icon, March/April.
2008 Multiple drawings, Phoebe: A Journal of Literature and Art, Vol. 37 No. 2
2006 Diane Haithman, "Drawn to the Badge," Los Angeles Times, April 16.
2001 Emily Hall, "What Fills Diller," The Stranger, June 14.
1997 Peter Frank, "Pick of the week," LA Weekly, May 9.
1996 Cydney Gillis, "Not just smoke and computers," Eastsideweek, Nov. 6.
1996 Cydney Gillis, "Horsehead revisited," Eastsideweek, July 31.
1996 Tim Burns, "Straight Shooter", Art Access, February.
1995 Greg Burkman, "Beyond Cafe Culture", Art Access, November.
1995 Greg Burkman, "Visual Arts Calendar", The Stranger, March 8.
1994 Loch Adamson, "Art: The taming of the shrewd", Seattle Weekly, February 16.
1994 Tawnya Gerla, "The Envelope Please..." Seattle Arts, 17, No. 1, January.
1993 Regina Hackett, "Art from an unexpected corner-security guards,Seattle Post Intelligencer, Feb. 1.
1992 "Visual Arts Calendar", Seattle Times, September 18.
1992 David Alan, "A stand-out M.F.A. show at CU," Colorado Daily, April 17.
1992 David Alan, "New CU art exhibit features everything but the kitchen sink,Colorado Daily, March 20.
1992 Carol Dickinson, "How to get art news in the News," Rocky Mountain News, January 26.
1992 Lauri L. Murphy, "Emmanuel Gallery presents Visual Investigations," CU/Denver Advocate, January 22.