Curriculum Vitae
Education
2009 MFA Painting and Printmaking, Yale University, New Haven, CT
2006 BFA Illustration, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI (honors)
Selected Exhibitions and Installations
2022 Illustration Faculty Show, ISB Gallery, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
2022 Finishing Touches, Joseloff Gallery, West Hartford, CT
2022 Currents (two-person exhibition), Joy Pratt Markham Gallery, Walton Arts Center, Fayetteville, AR
2022 Currency, Cosmology, and Culture, GoggleWorks Center of the Arts, Reading, PA
2022 Mimic, Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
2021 Hartford Art School Faculty Exhibition, Joseloff Gallery, West Hartford, CT
2020 Let Here Be, Manifest Gallery, Cincinatti, OH
2020 Artfields 2020, Lake City, SC
2019 Reflexion (solo exhibition), Backspace Gallery, University of Wisconsin-Madison
2019 CLIP International Exhibition of Works on Paper, Charles Adams Studio Project, Lubbock, TX
2019 Cimarron National Works on Paper Exhibition, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK
2019 Art on Paper, Site:Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY
2018 New American Paintings #136
2018 Lines of Thought, CICA Museum, Gimpo-si, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea
2018 UA Studio Art Faculty Exhibition, University of Texas at Tyler
2018 Works on Paper, LBIF Gallery, Long Beach, NJ (Kim Conaty, juror)
2018 Faculty Exhibition, Walker Stone House, Fayetteville, AR
2018 Interrupted, Mint Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2018 31st Annual McNeese National Works on Paper Exhibition, Sherman Fine Arts Center, Lake Charles, LA
2018 Drawing Discourse, S. Tucker Cooke Gallery, UNC Asheville, NC (honorary mention)
2018 The Contemporary Print, Flatbed Press and Gallery, Austin, TX (first place award)
2017 Paradox, Spark Gallery, Denver, CO
2017 Paper Works, Fort Works Art, Fort Worth, TX
2015 New Faculty Exhibition, Fine Arts Center Gallery, Fayetteville, AR
2011 Plain Sight, (solo exhibition) Waldron Arts Center, Bloomington, IN
2010 Off the Wall, McCalla Sculpture Building, Bloomington, IN
2009 MFA Thesis Show, Green Hall Gallery, New Haven, CT
2009 Verge, Galapagos Art Space, New York, NY
2008 Oh Yes / Oh Nein, Green Hall Gallery, New Haven, CT
2006 Luster, ISB Gallery, Providence, RI
2003 Trio, (three-person show) Springer Cultural Center, Champaign, IL
2002 Surface Illini Union Gallery, Urbana, IL
Residencies
2023 (postponed/upcoming) MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA
2023 (upcoming) Château d'Orquevaux Artist Residency, Champagne-Ardenne, France
2021 Jentel Artist Residency, Banner, WY
2020 The Hambidge Center, Rabun Gap, GA
2018 Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
2005 Yale/Norfolk Summer School of Art, Norfolk, CT
2002 Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Gatlinburg, TN
Teaching
2022 - present Critic, Rhode Island School of Design
2018 - 2021 Clinical Assistant Professor, University of Arkansas
2014 - 2018 Instructor and Head of Drawing, University of Arkansas
2013 Critic, Rhode Island School of Design
Grants and Awards
2020 Denis Diderot Artist Grant
2019 Artists 360 Grant, Mid-America Art Alliance (finalist)
2018 Artists 360 Grant, Mid-America Art Alliance (finalist)
2018 Artist’s Grant, Vermont Studio Center
2011 City of Bloomington Arts Commission Project Grant
2007 – 09 Yale University Scholarship
2008 Schoelkopf Travel Grant
2006 Award for Excellence in Experimental Media from Rhode Island School of Design
2004 – 06 American Greeting Scholarship
2003 – 06 RISD Scholarship
2005 Ellen Battel Stoeckel Fellowship to Yale/Norfolk
2002 Underwood-Alger Scholarship
2002 Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts Scholarship
Conference Presentations
2023 (upcoming) The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, co-chair, FATE, Denver, CO
2023 Serious Play: A Project Share and Workshop, CAA, New York, NY
2022 “Celestial Navigation,” Teaching Creative Process: Ideation in the Arts Classroom, SECAC, Baltimore, MD
2021 “Colors on Other Planets,” What Color?, FATE, Charlotte, NC
2020 “The Omnivore’s Lemma,” The Un-Disciplined, SECAC, Richmond, VA
2019 “The Multiple Overlapping Essences of Drawing,” Drawing and Contemporary Practice, SECAC, Chattanooga, TN
2019 Practice and Pedagogy, panelist, Robert Reed Drawing Workshops, Penn State University
2018 “The Picture-Collection of Babel,” Infinite Scroll: The Instantaneous/Simultaneous Image as Techno-Sublime, Mid-America College Art Association Conference, Lincoln, NE
Lectures and Workshops
2023 Visiting Artist Lecture, undergraduate critiques, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
2022 Visiting Artist Lecture, graduate critiques, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
2022 Visiting Artist, undergraduate critiques, Hartford Art School, Hartford, CT
2022 Visiting Artist Lecture, Stamps School of Art and Design, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
2021 Visiting Artist Lecture, post-bacc critiques, Brandeis University, Boston, MA
2021 Visiting Artist Lecture, Stamps School of Art and Design, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
2021 Jentel Presents, SAGE Gallery, Sheridan, WY
2021 Visiting Artist Lecture, Stamps School of Art and Design, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
2019 Undergraduate critiques, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA
2019 Visiting Artist Lecture, graduate critiques, University of Wisconsin–Madison
2019 Workshop, “You Are Here: an Embodied Approach to Perspective Drawing,” Robert Reed Drawing Workshops, Hunter College, NYC
2019 Workshop, “You Are Here: an Embodied Approach to Perspective Drawing,” Robert Reed Drawing Workshops, Penn State University, State College, PA
2019 Graduate Critiques, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
2018 Resident Artist Presentation, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
2013 Visiting Artist Lecture, graduate and undergraduate critiques, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
2012 Workshop, “Color Perception of Surface and Light,” The Ohio State University
2012 Guest Instructor, Drawing Fundamentals, Indiana University School of Fine Arts, Bloomington, IN
2012 Visiting Artist Lecture, Workshop, Indiana University School of Fine Arts, Bloomington, IN
Publications and Media
2020 Art Maze Mag, Winter Edition, Issue #16
2019 DeWitt, Dylan. Interview by Natalia Gonzalez Martin. Floorr Magazine, Issue #22, 24 October, 2019. https://www.floorrmagazine.com/issue-22/dylan-dewitt
2019 Friend of the Artist, Volume #9
2019 Studio Visit Magazine, Volume #45/46
2019 Stuckeman School, “2019 Robert Reed Drawing Workshops,” YouTube, 20 September, 2019. https://youtu.be/GJrqdf6qHOo
2019 Wertz, Pamela, “Bringing the spirit of a legendary artist and educator to a new generation,” Penn State News, 7 August, 2019. https://news.psu.edu/story/582966/2019/08/07/arts-and-entertainment/bringing-spirit-legendary-artist-and-educator-new
2018 Lenzi, Nicole, “Dylan DeWitt: Perceptions of the Everyday,” Expanded, 8 November, 2018. http://expandeddrawingpractices.blogspot.com/2018/11/dylan-dewitt-everyday-perceptions.html
2018 Burnaway, “Terry on the Town,” April 3, 2018
2011 WFIU Artworks radio segment: “Seeing Is Rediscovering What’s Hiding In Plain Sight,” October 4, 2011
2011 Herald Times, “Public art installation challenges viewers to see space in new ways,” September 11, 2011
2009 Yale Daily News, “Finding relevance in bulletin boards,” April 21, 2009
2009 Dimensions Magazine, Spring 2009 Volume 4 Issue 1
2005 Brown Daily Herald, “Yo-Yo Ma’s Silk Road Project at RISD integrates visual, aural art forms,” April 26, 2005
2005 3x3 Magazine, Spring 2005