Clayton Colvin

Clayton Colvin is an American abstract painter, multimedia artist, collagist, curator of contemporary art, and writer who lives and works in Birmingham, Alabama.

Education

Colvin received a bachelor's degree in Art History from New York University in 1999 and a master's degree in Art Education from the University of Alabama at Birmingham in 2003. He received his Master of Fine Arts degree in painting from the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, in 2005.
Colvin interned for Agnes, a photography art gallery in Birmingham, Alabama, for several summers while attending university. As an undergraduate, he interned for the Jack Tilton Gallery in New York City, New York.

Career

Colvin is represented by Maus Contemporary in Birmingham, Alabama.

Exhibitions

2014

Launch, F18 gallery, New York City
Mobile Museum of Art
Put Down Your Stars, Margaret Thatcher Gallery, New York City

Unknown

Politics, Politics: Nice Artists Explore the Political Landscape, Space One Eleven, Birmingham

2006

Contour: The Definitive Line

Colvin's work is included in the permanent collection of the Birmingham Museum of Art, the Mobile Museum of Art, and the High Museum of Art.

Books

Colvin wrote Clayton Colvin: Space Mountain, published on April 3, 2012, by Maus Contemporary. The book was published as an accompaniment to his exhibition "Space Mountain" at the Maus Contemporary gallery. It contains essays by Brian Bishop, and Brian Edmonds, as well as a poem by Ed Skoog.