RESUME

EXHIBITIONS (Selected)

2018
  • ArtWorks (Cincinnati, OH) "Secret Artworks"
  • Gallery Askew (Cincinnati, OH) "Mural Project"
  • Weston Art Gallery (Cincinnati, OH) "FotoFocus: Wide Angle"
  • University Museum (SIU, Carbondale, IL) "White Wall / Black Wall", solo
  • CCAC (Cincinnati, OH) "Moving Forward" 
2017
2016
  • Columbus Public Library (Columbus, OH) "10th Annual Ohio Online Visual Artist Registry Juried Art Show"
  • ArtHouse (Cincinnati, OH) Constella fundraiser 
  • Lumenocity Block Party (Cincinnati, OH) Virtual Reality Painting Performances 
  • Black Box Theater (Cincinnati, OH) "Constella Music Fesitval," two-person
2015
  • CCAC (Cincinnati, OH) "The Golden Ticket"
  • 506 Ash (Elsmere, KY) "Lickety Split"
2014
  • Weston Art Gallery (Cincinnati, OH) "North By Northside"
  • Visionaries & Voices (Cincinnati, OH) "Envelope: A Mail Art Exhibition"
2013
  • Art Institute of Ohio (Cincinnati, OH) "Backit: New Work by Rick Mallette," solo
  • Semantics (Cincinnati, OH) "Backit: New Work by Rick Mallette," solo
2011
  • Artworks (Cincinnati, OH) "Secret Artworks: Masters"
  • WMU-Richmond Center (Kalamazoo, MI) "Artists as Fools," two-person
  • Semantics (Cincinnati, OH) fundraiser
  • Contemporary Arts Center (Cincinnati, OH) "Annual CAC Benefit Auction and Dinner"
2010
  • OMS Photography (Cincinnati, OH) "Yellow Wall Drawing," commission
  • CCAC (Cincinnati, OH) "Golden Ticket Art Show"
  • Contemporary Arts Center UNMUSEUM (Cincinnati, OH) "See Saw Seen," commission
  • Milwaukee Art Museum (Milwaukee, WI) "3D Wall Drawing," commission
  • Fabricate (Cincinnati, OH) "Microcosm"
  • Weston Art Gallery (Cincinnati, OH) "Dennisfest"
2009
  • Weston Art Gallery (Cincinnati, OH) "Paintings and Wall Drawing," three-person
2008
  • Aisle (Cincinnati, OH) "Wall Drawing and New Paintings," solo
  • Roots and Culture Contemporary Art Center (Chicago, IL) "Off The Wall"
2007
  • Muskegon Museum of Art (Muskegon, MI) "Tripped Out: Contemporary Chicago Imagists"
2006
  • Southgate House Gallery (Newport, KY) "Heads," solo
  • Tutu (Cincinnati, OH) "Appetites," two-person
  • Southgate House Gallery (Newport, KY) "Drawing on the Walls," solo
2004
  • Semantics (Cincinnati, OH) "Drawing on the Wall," solo
  • Publico (Cincinnati, OH) "Season Greeting"
  • Carnegie Center (Covington, KY), solo
2003
  • SS Nova (Cincinnati, OH) "Luminosity"
  • Unit 2 (Cincinnati, OH) "Invisible Wall Drawing"
2002
  • Ukranian Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago. IL) "Badly Drawn"
2001
  • MTV's "Real World House" (Chicago, IL)
  • NFA Space (Chicago, IL) "Bookmarks"
  • School of the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, IL) "Mural"
2000
  • Dogmatic (Chicago, IL) "Levity"
1999
  • Law Office (Chicago, IL) "Evil Show"
  • Suitable (Chicago, IL) "Squirrels on Parade" and "Freedom Lau"
  • Butchershop (Chicago, IL) "Everyone and Their Mother" and "Hotbeats and Renditions"
1998
  • Bodybuilder and Sportsman Gallery (Chicago, IL)
1997
  • RX Gallery (Chicago, IL), two-person


EDUCATION

 THE SCHOOL of the ART INSTITUTE of CHICAGO (Chicago, IL)
MFA, Painting and Drawing - 1994

 WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY (Kalamazoo, MI)
BFA, Painting and Drawing - 1991
Magna Cum Laude

 DELTA COLLEGE (University Center, MI)
AA, Graphic Design - 1986