Rod Northcutt

Educational Credentials

M.F.A., Sculpture, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
B.F.A., Painting & Drawing, University of North Texas

Biography

Rod Northcutt was trained in art schools (M.F.A. in Sculpture from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, B.F.A. in Painting & Drawing from the University of North Texas), and he has exhibited internationally, although he gave up on making pretty things for rich people long ago. He has lived and worked in Austin, southern New Mexico, Chicago, Detroit, Rochester, and southern Ohio, and he began teaching at the university level in 1999 in El Paso.

Northcutt is interested in people—how they live, die, love, fight, eat, drink, share, hoard, isolate, commune, work, make, and think and now creates projects that aim to generate dialogs within communities through creative, making-based practice. He maintains a studio in rural College Corner, OH, with his wife, Christina Miller. Refusing to work alone, he collaborates with other like-minded artists and collectives, cultural groups, and citizens of small communities to use art, intervention, and dialog to address social challenges.