Todd Shalom
info (at) toddshalom (dot) com
BIOGRAPHY
Born in 1976, New York, NY
Currently Resides in Brooklyn, New York
Founder/Director, Elastic City
SELECTED SOLO PERFORMANCES
2010 "Orangeburg" walk for Elastic City, Orangeburg, NY
2010 "Brighton Zaum" walk for Elastic City, Brooklyn, NY
2010 “Soundwalk on the Highline” Whitney Museum ISP/The Kitchen, New York, NY
2009 "Dirty Gay Soundwalk" Art in Odd Places Festival, New York, NY
2009 "Carroll Street Soundwalk" ISSUE Project Room, Brooklyn, NY
2009 "Sleepover" eighteen-thirty, Los Angeles, CA
2009 "Echo Park Soundwalk" eighteen-thirty, Los Angeles, CA
2008 "Almagro Soundwalk" Buenos Aires, Argentina
2007 "Sympathetic Twin" Vortice Argentina, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2007 "Stuyvesant Cove Soundwalk" Citysol Festival, New York, NY
2007 "Buddy Booth" New York, NY
2007 "Soundwalk San Telmo" Appetite Gallery, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2006 "Gowanus Soundwalk" Habitats Festival, Brooklyn, NY
2005 "Poet's Dinner" Issue Project Room, Brooklyn, NY
2005 "Florentine Soundwalk" Tel Aviv, Israel
2004 Arad Arts Showcase, Arad, Israel
2004 "Castro Soundwalk" Build Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2004 "Mission Soundwalk" Build Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2001 Second Annual Harlem Artist’s Salon, Harlem, NY
GROUP PERFORMANCES
2010 "Lucky Walk" Art in Odd Places Festival & Open House NY, New York, NY. Collaboration with Juan Betancurth
2009 "Carroza Delicada" La Plata & Buenos Aires, Argentina. Collaboration with E°
2009 "Moving Water" Catskill, NY. Collaboration with New York Society of Acoustic Ecology
2009 "Sleepwalks" ISSUE Project Room, Brooklyn, NY. Collaboration with Lee Pembleton and Andrea Williams
2009 "So you're one of them now?" Public Theater, New York, NY. Collaboration with Permiso
2008 Una_Casa, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Collaboration with E° (Jose de Diego, Leandro Barzabal & Cristian Carracedo)
2008 "Giant Ear))) Buenos Aires" Giant Ear))) radio show. free103point9, Brooklyn, NY
2008 "this was the only place i knew to go" ThirstNY at Galapagos, Brooklyn, NY. Collaboration with Permiso
2007 "December 31" Buenos Aires, Argentina. Collaboration with Permiso
2007 "In Memoriam" Giant Ear))) radio show. free103point9, Brooklyn, NY
2007 "Processional" New York, NY. Collaboration with Permiso
2006 "Fallout" New York, NY. Collaboration with Permiso (Niegel Smith)
2004 "Poets’ Theatre Jamboree" Small Press Traffic at California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA. Collaboration with Kate Colby
2003 "E.L.I. (Electro-Linguistic Imaginator)" The Kitchen, New York, NY. Collaboration with Ben Coolik and Christian Croft
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2005 "Free Words" [Public installation] Tel Aviv, Israel
2003 "Free Words" [Public installation] San Francisco and Oakland, CA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2008 "From Point to Departure" ISSUE Project Room, Brooklyn, NY
2005 "Tribute to Dudu Gever" Salame Street, Tel Aviv, Israel
2005 "Arad Arts Exhibition" Artist House, Tel Aviv, Israel
2004 "MFA Graduate Exhibition" California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
2003 "The Dustpan Collections" Balazo/Mission Badlands, San Francisco, CA
2003 "Mybrary" Build Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2003 "Moment's Notice" Galeria de la Raza, San Francisco, CA
2003 "William’s [Re]Mix" Engine 27, New York, NY
2003 "SOUNDworks" California College of the Arts, Oakland, CA
SOUND DESIGN
2008 "Rompecabezas" Buenos Aires, Argentina. Collaboration with Tramando/Martin Churba
2008 "Dowry" Vadis Turner, Tag Art Gallery, Nashville, TN
2007 "Onceopolis" Centro Cultural Borges, Buenos Aires, Argentina
EDUCATION/RESIDENCIES
2007 "Mamori Art Lab" facilitated by Francisco Lopez, Amazonas, Brazil
2006 "Around and About" facilitated by Gary Hill, Santa Fe Art Institute, Santa Fe, NM
2002-4 MFA, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
2003 Performance and Technology Studies at The Kitchen, New York, NY
1994-8 BSBA, Boston University, Boston, MA
SELECTED TEACHING AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2010 Hunter College, New York, NY, Guest lecturer, “Urban Life: Personal and Observational View” Instructor: Einat Manoff
2010 Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY, Guest lecturer, "3-D Design II" Instructor: David Weinrib
2009 New School University, New York, NY, Guest lecturer, "The City through the Body" Instructor: Barbara Adams
2008 Escuela Maipu, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Workshop facilitator, Sound Workshop
2007 VISIONS Center for the Blind, New York, NY, Workshop facilitator, Sound Workshop
2004 826 Valencia, San Francisco, CA, Workshop facilitator, Sound Workshop
2004 Shanti, San Francisco, CA, Workshop facilitator, Poetry Workshop
2003-6 Pamela Z Productions, San Francisco, CA, Artist Assistant
AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS
2003 Ideas for Creative Exploration Project Grant, Athens, GA
PRESS AND PUBLICATIONS
Toronto Star, feature by Pauline Frommer, August 2010
Brooklyn (the Borough), interview with Jessica Dailey, August 2010
Gothamist, interview with Briana Parker, August 2010
Village Voice, Voice Choices by Angela Ashman, July 2010
Urban Omnibus, interview by Cassim Shepard, July 2010
Wall Street Journal, feature by Ralph Gardner, July 2010
Brooklyn Rail, feature by Patricia Milder, July/August 2010
WNYC, broadcast with Carolina Miranda and Soterios Johnson; video by Jennifer Hsu, July 2010
The Blink, new poetry, July 2008
Critica de la Argentina, "Ok Celina, Este es Tu Momento" feature by Cristian Alarcon, March 2008
Pagina/12 (Radar), "Llorando en el Espejo" feature by Silvina Reusmann, March 2008
What's Up Buenos Aires, "El Arte de Todd Shalom" feature by Aldo Benitez, February 2008
Jewcy, Featured Artist, January 2008
Shift, interview by Gisella Lifchitz, October 2007
La Nacion (Argentina), "Gritan Los Chicos..." feature by Melinda Dorfman, February 2007
Block Magazine, "Tel Aviv Soundwalk," feature, Winter 2006
Commonweal, new poetry, March 2004
Shampoo Poetry, new poetry, November 2003
Mirage #4 Period[ical], new poetry, September 2003
Can We Have Our Ball Back, new poetry, March 2003
Trade Winds And Spackle, new poetry, self-published chapbook, Winter 2002For a complete listing of Elastic City press, please see: http://elastic-city.com/press
