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Derek Rigby

b. 1985

Education
2015 MFA, University of Pennsylvania
2015 Time Based Interactive Media Certificate, University of Pennsylvania
2013 BFA, Weber State University

Exhibitions
2017
Altered: Artists Advocating for Survivors of Domestic Violence, Ogden, UT

2016
November ArtSpam: Childhood Uncanny, ArtSpam
Tracing a Conversation, University City Arts League , Philadelphia, PA

2015
Down to Earth / Terre à Terre / Van Nature, Hangar H18, Brussels, BE
Thurston's Peak, Gallery 303, Provo, UT
No Meat in Team, Icebox Project Space, Crane Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Just Come, Physical Lab, Philadelphia, PA
Hot and Ready: The Cult of Pizza, The Soft Arts, Provo, UT
aftermarketpara.de, Physical Lab, Philadelphia, PA

2014
Bath House, Fox Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Truce, Charles Addams Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
SONIC MEASURES: PERFORMANCE, The Print Center, Philadelphia, PA
Opposite or Square, Lower Meyerson Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

2013
Unplugged: Painting at the University of Pennsylvania, Charles Addams Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
This Is the Place, “Potluck”, Rio Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT
Creating Absence, UMOCA, Salt Lake City, UT
Faithful Abstraction; Utah Biennial: Mondo Utah, UMOCA, Salt Lake City, UT
35x35, Finch Lane Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT
Ontological Instantiation, O-Town Arts Studio, Ogden, UT
School Days: 2013 Annual Juried Student Art Exhibition, Mary Elizabeth Dee Shaw Gallery, Ogden, UT

2012
Weber State University BFA Thesis Exhibition, Mary Elizabeth Dee Shaw Gallery, Ogden, UT
The Ineluctable Modality of the Visible: An Exercise in Pretension, O-Town Arts Studio, Ogden, UT
Weber State University Student Art Exhibition, Mary Elizabeth Dee Shaw Gallery, Ogden, UT

Teaching
2019 Instructor – Urban Communities and the Arts
2015 Teaching Assistant - Environmental Animation, University of Pennsylvania
2014 Instructor - Drawing I, University of Pennsylvania
2014 Teaching Assistant - Senior Seminar, University of Pennsylvania
2013 Teaching Assistant - Drawing I, University of Pennsylvania

Residencies
2018 The Fabric Workshop Museum, Philadelphia, PA - College and Post-Graduate Apprentice Training Program

Curatorial
2018 Fit, University City Arts League, Philadelphia, PA
2018 Formerly Philly, University City Arts League, Philadelphia, PA
2019
HEATHER MCMORDIE: PATTERNS BELOWGROUND // PATTERNS ABOVEGROUND, University City Arts League, Philadelphia, PA