Puna Press
Ted Washington
GALLERY
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Ted Washington has lived in the San Diego area since March 1987, after spending time as an apprentice draftsman for a beer brewery in St. Louis, an Internal Revenue Service employee in Springfield, MO, a retail sales representative in Denver, CO, and temporarily homeless vagabond turned baker on the beaches of Venice, CA.
UPCOMING EVENTS
4/20/08 Performance Slam: Multi-Genre Invitational San Diego Art Prize
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS AND PUBLICATIONS
- Featured Artist, 71st Annual National Exhibition, Cooperstown Art Association, Cooperstown, NY 2006
- Featured Artist, Geoff Thomas Designs, Santa Monica, CA 2006
- Solo Exhibition, Theodore Geisel Library, UCSD, San Diego CA 2006
- 48th International Juried Exhibition, San Diego Art Institute, Balboa Park, San Diego, CA 2005
- Honorable Mention, Neo-Erotiqu?, 2nd Annual Juried Show, Art @ Large, New York, NY 2004
- Honorable Mention, 3rd Annual Juried Exhibition, Southwestern Artists' Association, San Diego, CA 2004
- Solo Exhibition, Galaxy Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1998 & 2004
- Juried Open, Topanga Canyon Gallery, Topanga Canyon, CA 2004
- Featured Artist, Competition Spotlight, The Artist's Magazine, November 2003
- Solo Exhibition, 4 Design Gallery, San Diego, CA 2003
- 2nd place, SDMA, Artist Guild Juried Exhibition, Southern Western College Art Gallery, Chula Vista, CA 2003
- Featured Artist and Poet, San Diego Art Institute, San Diego, CA 2003
- Solo Exhibition, Ole Madrid, San Diego, CA 2002
- Featured Artist, KMIR 6 News, La Quinta, CA 2002
- Featured Artist, Vision Magazine, 2002
- Finalist Portrait Category, The Artist's Magazine, Annual Art Competition 2002, 2001, 1997, 1996.
- Beefcake/Cheesecake Exhibition, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, CA 2001
- 46th International Open Exhibition, "Bold Expressions", Northern California Arts, Inc., Carmichael, CA 2001
- 66th Annual National Exhibition, Cooperstown Art Association, Cooperstown, NY 2001
- Featured Artist and Poet, KUSI News, San Diego, CA 2001
- 2-3-4 Dimensional II International Juried Exhibition, Period Gallery, Omaha, NE 2001
- Second Place Award, Juried Exhibition, La Jolla Art Association, La Jolla, CA 2000
- Honorable Mention, Pacific Coast Film Festival, Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA 1999
- All California Juried Exhibition, San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA 1998
- Midwinter Awards Exhibition, San Diego Art Institute, San Diego, CA 1997
AWARDS
- First place, Mixed Media, 5th Annual Fun with Chalk Street Painting and Fine Art Festival, Mission Viejo, CA 2003
- Best of Show, 20th La Quinta Arts Festival, La Quinta Arts Foundation, La Quinta, CA 2002
- Most Promising New Artist, 20th La Quinta Arts Festival, La Quinta Arts Foundation, La Quinta, CA 2002
- Airfloat Merit Award, 22nd National Juried Art Show, New Orleans Art Association, New Orleans, LA 2002
- First Place, Twelfth Annual Juried Competition, Veridian Gallery, New York, NY 2001
- Award of Excellence, 13th International Open Exhibition, Sacramento Fines Arts Center Inc., Carmichael, CA 2001
- Soho International Art Competition, Agora Gallery, New York, NY 2000
- Artists of the New Millennium Illustration Contest, Strathmore Artist Products 2000
SHOWS & PUBLICATIONS
- Featured Artist, Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, 2007
- Pruitt Igoe receives Synergy Art Foundation Grant, 2006
- Pruitt Igoe Performance, Bill's Place, New York, NY 2006
- Pruitt Igoe Performance, Rainbow Bar & Grill, West Hollywood, CA 2006
- Authored and Illustrated Less, a collection of art and poetry 2005
- XLR8R, 'I love New York' Haiku contest, 1st place winner 2005
- Pruitt Igoe Performance, Casbah, San Diego, CA 2005
- Pruitt Igoe Performance, Kava Lounge, San Diego, CA 2005
- Formed Pruitt Igoe, 2004
- Featured Performances, Winston's, San Diego, CA 2001-2004
- Featured Poet, The Red Ball, Sushi Performance and Visual Art, San Diego, CA 2004
- Featured Poet, Alterknit Theater, Knitting Factory, Hollywood, CA, 2003
- Featured Poet and Artist, San Diego Art Institute, San Diego, CA 2003
- Two Mezzos and a Poet, Fifth Mondays Performance, San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA 2003
- The Explorer, Contributing Poet since 2002
- Capricorn Studio Show, Capricorn Studio, San Diego, CA 2002
- Featured Performance, Galoka, La Jolla, CA 2002
- Featured Performance, Ol? Madrid, San Diego, CA 2002
- Released Full Semen Cup, a compact disc of spoken word performances, 2001
- Featured Poet and Artist, KUSI News, San Diego, CA 2001
- Honorable Mention, Pacific Coast Film Festival, Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA 1999
- Featured Poet, Java Joes, Ocean Beach, 1998-1999
- Prowess Dancearts Co. Art Walk Performance, Children's Museum, San Diego, CA 1998
- Prowess Dancearts Co. Benefit Performance, Spruce Street Forum, San Diego, CA 1998
- Guest Poet, San Diego Writing Center, San Diego, CA 1996
- Authored and Illustrated More, a collection of poetry and art, 1995
- Authored and Illustrated Untitled, a collection of poetry and art, 1993