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Tory Fair

Associate Professor of Sculpture
Tory  Fair
fair@brandeis.edu
781-736-2676
Goldman-Schwartz Art Studios, 107

Departments/Programs

Fine Arts

Degrees

Massachusetts College of Art, M.F.A.
Harvard University, B.A.

Expertise

Sculpture.

Profile

www.toryfair.com

Courses Taught

FA 4a Sculpture Foundation: 3-D Design I
FA 4b Sculpture Foundation: 3-D Design II
FA 5a Sculpture: Utilizing Waste Stream Materials
FA 5b Sculpture: Blurring the Boundaries
FA 6a Sculpture: Body as Source

Awards and Honors

LCC Public Art Grant for Arlington, MA (2021)

The Port Neighborhood Grant, Cambridge Public Art (2021 - 2022)

Senior Research Leave (2020)

Massachusetts Cultural Council Award for Drawing (2018)

Provost Research Award, More Than Minimal (2018 - 2019)

Massachusetts Cultural Council Finalist (2011)

Somerville Arts Council Grant (2009)

LEF Foundation (2007)

Joan Mitchell Career Development Grant (2006)

Berkshire Taconic Grant (2005)

Pollock Krasner (2005)

Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant (1997)

MacDowell Colony Resident Artist (1997 - 1998)

Derek Bok Award for Excellence in Teaching (1996)

Harvard Center for Visual Art Director's Award (1991)

Scholarship

Fair, Tory. Jorge S. Arango, Experimental photography on Display in Joint Exhibits at MECA. 2021. Portland Press Harrold.

Fair, Tory. Natasha Gural, Challenge your Notions of Photography and Landscape with Two Exhibitions Exploring Decades of Process and Ideology. 2021. Forbes.

Fair, Tory. Tory Fair in conversation with Mary Miss. 2021. ICA at MECA, Portland, ME.

Fair, Tory. Tory Fair: Portable Window at the ICA at MECA. 2021. Portland, Maine.

Fair, Tory. VoCA Salon. 2021. Voices of Contemporary Art.

Fair, Tory. Area Code Art Fair, Special Projects. 2020. Boston.

Fair, Tory. ""Portable Archive," a dialogue with Tory Fair and Curator Jen Mergel." VoCA, Voices of Contemporary Art, New York. BCA, Boston

Fair, Tory. Body and Soul, Three Person Show gallery VERY. 2019. gallery VERY, Boston.

Fair, Tory. Middle of Nowhere. 2019. Pine Barrens, NJ.

Fair, Tory. Portable Archive. Solo Show Show, 2019. Drive-By Projects, Watertown, MA.

Fair, Tory. Process, Practice, and Presence: Looking Back with Tory Fair. 2019. Boston Art Review Interview, Boston.

Fair, Tory. RAIR Philadelphia. 2019. artist in residence, Philadelphia, PA.

Fair, Tory. You Must Not Stand In One Place. 2019. Distillery Gallery, Boston.

Fair, Tory, John Plotz and Elizabeth Ferry. Podcast, Reclaim this Book. 2018.

Fair, Tory. Group Show: Taking Notice: Sculptors Respond to Nature. 2018. South Shore Art Center, Cohasset, MA. (sculpture).

Fair, Tory. Interview. 2017. Big Red and Shiny, Boston.

Fair, Tory. Paperweight. 2017. gallery VERY, Boston. (sculpture and drawing).

McQuaid, Cate. "Heap." Boston Globe October 20, 2015: Gallery Review

Fair, Tory. Fortitude and Fragility. 2015. LeRoy Neiman Gallery, New York. (sculpture).

Fair, Tory. Heap, Proof Gallery, South Boston. 2015. (sculpture, catalog with essay by Susan Stoops).

Fair, Tory. Plant People. 2015. Galveston Artist Residency Gallery, Galveston, Texas. (sculpture).

Fair, Tory. "At Issue: Touch Points: Imagination Casts A Daydream." Architecture Boston.

Fair, Tory. The Intuitionists. 2014. The Drawing Center, New York. (sculpture).

Fair, Tory. You Are Here. 2014. Worcester Art Museum curated by Susan Stoops, Worcester.

McQuaid, Cate. "Triggering Reverie." The Boston Globe April 16: Arts Sectio

Sebastian Smee. "Worcester's 'You Are Here' captivates with contemporary art." Boston Globe Art

Ankori, Gannit. Frida Kahlo. London: Reaktion Books, 2013.

Fair, Tory, ed. Harvard Review. 42 2013.

Fair, Tory. Boston/Como. 2013. Curated by James Hull and Carolina Lio, Como, Italy. (sculpture).

Cate McQuaid. "Bodies of Work." Boston Globe September 24, 2011

Yang Guini and Francine Miller. "Sculpture by Tory Fair." Public Art & Ecology No. 1. (2012): 210-223.

Hill, Shawn. "Regional Review." Art New England

Koslow MIller, Francine. "The Metamorphosis of Tory Fair." Sculpture Magazine 7 pages.

McQuaid, Cate. "Two artists at the Edges of Nature." Boston Globe May 5

Cook, Greg. ""Blake Babies"." The Phoenix June 2009: Art

McQuaid, Cate, Cate McQuaid. "Imagine." Boston Globe June 2009: Living Art

Harrison, Helen, Helen Harrison. "GameTime Series." New York Times Dec 25, 2005

Vine, Richard. "Report from Poland." Art in America March 2001: 54-62.



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