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CONTACT

bobdohrmann@gmail.com

EDUCATION

1992

Master of Fine Arts (Painting and Drawing). Central Washington University, Ellensburg, WA.

 

1989

Bachelor of Arts. Art (Painting). Central Washington University, Ellensburg, WA.

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2025

Leon Richmond's As Seen on TV Trays. Bosque Gallery, Lone Star College-CyFair, Cypress, TX.

2024            

Leon Richmond’s The Golden Age of Polymer. Spiva Center for the Arts, Joplin, MO.

Leon Richmond's The Golden Age of Polymer. Pittsburg State University University Gallery, Pittsburg, KS.

Leon Richmond’s As Seen on TV Trays. Hutchinson Art Center, Hutchinson, KS.

Leon Richmond’s Psychic Secretions. Batesville Area Arts Center, Batesville, AR.

2023

Famous American Soups by Leon Richmond. Leedy-Voulkos Art Center, Kansas City, MO.

Leon Richmond's Famous American Soups. Arts Fort Worth SoCur, BNSF Railway Gallery, Fort Worth, TX. 

American Pie Holes by Leon Richmond. The Kansas City, Kansas Public Library, Main Library, Kansas City, KS.

 

2022

Leon Richmond’s Theater of The Absurdo. East Central College Art Gallery, Union, MO.

 

2021

Leon Richmond’s Theater of The Absurdo. Octagon Center For the Arts, Ames, IA.

Leon Richmond's Theater of The Absurdo. The Goldmark Cultural Center, Dallas, TX.

Culture of Consumption; The Art of Leon Richmond. The Beatrice  M. Haggerty Gallery, The University of Dallas, Dallas, TX.

Leon Richmond’s Theater of The Absurdo. Resonator Institute, Norman, OK. 

Leon Richmond’s LP Record Art Show. Guestroom Records pop up show, Norman 2nd Friday Art Walk, Norman, OK. 

2020

Leon Richmond's Theater of The Absurdo. The Lawrence Arts Center, Lawrence, KS. 

 

2019

Leon Richmond’s LP Record Art Show. Guestroom Records pop up show, Norman 2nd Friday Art Walk, Norman, OK. 

2013    

Davison Grant Genetics. The Science Museum, Satellite Galleries, Oklahoma City, OK.

 

2011    

Davison Grant Genetics. Marvin Embree Gallery (Paseo District), Oklahoma City, OK.

 

2007    

America Calling! University Gallery, Troy University, Troy, AL.

 

2006    

America Calling! Carter Art Center Gallery, Penn Valley Community College, Kansas City, MO.

 

2005    

America Calling! The Institutes International Minnesota, Minneapolis, MI.

America Calling! The Anne Kittrel Gallery, Arkansas Union, The University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AK.

 

2003    

Atomic Pie. Kirkpatrick Galleries at The Omniplex Science Museum (The Jacobson Gallery), Oklahoma City, OK.

Atomic Pie. The Leslie Powell Gallery, Lawton, OK.

 

2002     

Atomic Pie. The Alexandre Hogue Gallery, The University of Tulsa, Tulsa, OK. 

Atomic Pie. Art Gallery, University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma, Chickasha, OK.

Atomic Pie. Individual Artists of Oklahoma Gallery, Oklahoma City, OK.

 

1996     

Robert Dohrmann’s Flea Circus. The Phinney Center Gallery, Seattle, WA.

 

SELECTED SCREENINGS & GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2021

light aRTed. The Depot Gallery, Norman, OK.

ONE- Avant Garde. Mainsite Gallery (Norman Arts Council Fund Raiser), Norman, OK.

2020

NewMediaFest2020 - The 365 Day Diary, "Contaminated Progress." Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA.

The Virtual is (Always) Already Real. The BronxArtSpace, Bronx, NY.

2019

W:OW.26 Project / India 7.0, Harvesting Plastic: Exploring the Human-Technology Nexus. Sasha World, 27 Mirza Ghalib St, Kolkata, India.

W:OW.27 Project / Tunisia, Contaminated Progress. Unknowned where this was screened?

New Media Fest, 2020. In conjunction with above W:OW.26 Project / India 7.0, Harvesting Plastic screening, a retro online//offline retrospective       of Agricola de Cologne and his networked art creations 2000-2020.

2018 

W:OW.14 Project / Ukraine -We Are One World. Say By Body Art Festival Kiev, National University Kharkiv Municipal Art Gallery, Kharkiv          

      University of Kiev, Kharkiv, Ukraine.

2017 

Shared Sight: International Film Festival. MATCA artrspace, Colectiva Gazette and Gazette, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.

222lodge - “Denial as The Leading Principle” Film & Video Screening. Cinema The Movies, Dordrecht, the Netherlands.

2016

8th Annual Espacio Enter Canarias International Festival of Creativity, Innovation & Digital Culture. Tenerife Espacio de las Artes (TEA), 

      Tenerife, Canary Island, Spain. 

2015

7th Annual Espacio Enter Canarias International Festival of Creativity, Innovation & Digital Culture. Tenerife Espacio de las Artes (TEA), 

      Tenerife, Canary Island, Spain.

 

Synthetic Zero Interactive/Art/Video/Performance Event. The BronxArtSpace, Bronx, NY.

2014

Brave New World- Videoart Festival Total Art. Institute fuer Alles Moeglich Berlin (in collaboration with the ArtvideoKOELN International), 

      Berlin, Germany.

Synthetic Zero Interactive/Art/Video/Performance Event. The BronxArtSpace, Bronx, NY.

Please Hold Magazine’s Somebody’s Reality Film Festival. Bar Italia’s Event Space “Luna,” St. Louis, MO.

 

2013        

5th Annual Espacio Enter Canarias International Festival of Creativity, Innovation & Digital Culture. Tenerife Espacio de las Artes (TEA),    

      Tenerife, Canary Island, Spain.

Simultan Festival #9 | 'Popular Unknown.’ Various locations, Timisoara, Romania.

CologneOFF IX – 9th Cologne International Videoart Festival. JCIC Vilnius & Kedainiai Regional Museum, Vilnius, Lithuania.

World Arts Film Festival. The Museum of Contemporary Art, Jacksonville, FL. 

Post-Human Nature Exhibition. Platform Gallery at the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA.

2012        

6th Annual Byron Bay International Film Festival. The Byron Community Centre, Byron Bay, Australia.

16th International Video Festival VIDEOMEDEJA. Museum of Contemporary Art of Vojvodina, Studio, RTV, Novi Sad, Serbia.

 

9th Annual Squeaky Wheel Outdoor Animation Festival. Squeaky Wheel Buffalo Media Resources, Days Park, Buffalo, NY.

The 11th Annual Big Mini Media Festival. LIU-Brooklyn Media Arts Department’s Spike Lee Video/Film Screening Room, 

      Long Island University's Downtown Brooklyn Campus, Brooklyn, NY.

Multiplexer; Visualart and Soundart Project. Emergency Arts Bld., Las Vegas, NV.

14th Annual Artsfest Film Festival. Sponsored by Motivate Organization, Midtown Cinema, Harrisburg, PA.

9th Annual Poppy Jasper International Film Festival. Gilroy Center for The Arts, Morgan Hill, CA.

3rd Annual West Virginia Mountaineer Short Film Festival. WVU Creative Arts Center, Morgantown, WV.

2012 Concept/OK. The Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition, The Hardesty Arts Center, Tulsa, OK.

 

2011    

15th International Video Festival VIDEOMEDEJA. Museum of Contemporary Art of Vojvodina, Studio, RTV,  Novi Sad, Serbia.

Currents 2011, The 2nd Annual Santa Fe International New Media Festival. Sponsored by Parallel  Studios. Presented at 

      El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM.

2nd Annual Short Toronto Indie Film Festival. Annex Live Theater, Toronto, Canada.

5th Annual Yellowknife International Film Festival. Western Arctic Moving Pictures, Yellowknife, Canada.

4th Annual Arizona Underground Film Festival. The Screening Room, Tucson, AZ.

10th Annual Route 66 International Film Festival. The Hoogland Center For The Arts,  Springfield, IL.

Critical Remix Festival: Oil and Water! The Appropriation Alliance/The Gallery 25, Fresno, CA.

7th Annual River’s Edge International Film Festival. The Paducah Film Society, Maiden Alley Cinema, Paducah, KY.

2nd Annual REEL Independent Film Extravaganza. TheARCTheater, Washington, DC (I, J, digital video).

6th Annual Southern Appalachian International Film Festival. Various locations, In conjunction with the Northeast Tennessee Arts Commission 

      and East Tennessee State University, Kingsport, TN.

9th Annual Fear No Film Festival. In conjunction with The Utah Arts Festival and The Salt Lake City Film Center, Salt Lake City, UT.

4th JamFest Indie Film Festival. Sponsored by Northshore Regional Endowment for the Arts and Southeastern Louisiana University, 

      Ralph R. Pottle Music Building, Hammond, LA.

2010    

14th Annual Fantasia International Film Festival. Celluloid Experiments Shorts Program, Montreal, Canada.

9th Annual SCINEMA Festival of Science Film, 2010. Screenings in over 100 locations throughout Australia. Supported by Australian    

      government as part of National Science Week, Canberra, Australia. 

35th Annual Boston Science Fiction Film Festival. The Somerville Theater, Somerville, MA.

RE/Mixed Media Festival 2010. Galapagos Art Space, Brooklyn, NY.

6th Annual DigiFestival.net. An online international video and music festival, Florence, Italy.

14th Annual Kansas City Film Fest. The AMC Main Street Theater/Power & Light District. Kansas City, MO.

Artificial Selection. 516arts Gallery. Albuquerque, NM.

11th Annual Dawson City International Short Film Festival. Klondike Institute of Art and Culture/Dawson City Arts Society, 

      Dawson City, Yukon, Canada.

8th Annual Fear No Film Festival. In conjunction with The Utah Arts Festival and The Salt Lake City Film Center, Salt Lake City, UT.

The 6th Annual SoCal Independent Film Festival. Various locations, Huntington Beach, CA.

10th Annual Reno Film Festival. Studio on 4th, Reno, NV.

10th Annual deadCENTER Film Festival. deadCENTER Film Organization, Oklahoma City, OK.

6th Annual Open APPerture Short Film Festival. The Appalachian Student Filmmakers Organization, Appalachian State University, 

      Boone, NC.

2008    

8th Annual deadCENTER Film Festival. deadCENTER Film Organization, Oklahoma City, OK.

Shorts SUITES. DeadCENTER Film Organization featured film maker/one-person screening. XO Lounge, Oklahoma City, OK.

Live on the Plaza. DeadCENTER Film Organization featured film maker/one-person screening. The DNA Gallery, Oklahoma City, OK.

2007    

7th Annual deadCENTER Film Festival. deadCENTER Film Organization Oklahoma City, OK. 

2005

More Than Minutes Contest. The Bulletin of Atomic Scientist Magazine, Chicago, IL. Work selected for an on-line virtual gallery.

Simnuke Project Gallery Show. Rx Gallery, San Francisco, CA.

The Attack of The Red Planet Samurai (America Calling!). The Alexandria Museum of Art, Alexandria, LA.

Global Art Film Festival Tour 2005. Experience & Repertory of Sacramento, Screening #1, Sacramento, CA. 

The 5th Annual Red Bank International Film Festival. Various venues in Red Bank, NJ.

2nd Annual Westcliffe Digital Film Festival. The Westcliffe Train Depot, Westcliffe, CO.

5th Annual deadCENTER Film Festival. deadCENTER Film Organization, Oklahoma City, OK.

2004   

Propaganda 2.0: The “They Hate Our Freedom” Art Show. A traveling exhibition of poster art; 

      1. Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, CA, 2. The Blue Cube Gallery, San Francisco, CA, and 3. The Project Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.

House of Cards: The Emerging Art of Artists Trading Cards. The Columbus Center for the Paper and Book Arts, Columbus, OH.

Animation for Peace. In conjunction with The 10th Annual Animation Festival, Hiroshima, Japan.

4th Annual deadCENTER Film Festival. deadCENTER Film Organization, Oklahoma City, OK.

Cape Cod Film Society Screening Series. Microcinema Screening Series, Chatham, MA.

Independent Exposure! Microcinema International, San Francisco, CA. Films chosen for monthly micro screenings in San Francisco 

      and Houston area.

Indie Film Showcase. Proletariat Pictures, Bear Creek, MN. 3 films chosen for monthly cable cast in the Twin Cities area.

2002    

"Looped" Video Environments. Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, IL.

Video Shorts Segments-About the Arts Cable Video Cast. Cablecast presentation of performing literary and media artists to viewers in 

      Boston and Cambridge, MA.

Globalization Exhibition. Shenere Velt Gallery of The Workman’s Circle/Arbetrer Ring, Los Angeles, CA.

1997    

67th Annual Open Art Exhibition. The National Art League, Douglaston, NY. Carrie Rebora, Associate Curator of The Metropolitan Museum of    

      Art and Gerald Haggarty, writer/art critic for ARTnews Magazine, jurors.

GNAC First Annual Juried Art Show. Great Neck Center for the Visual and Performing Arts, Great Neck, NY. Milton Esterow, 

      Editor and Senior Editorial Staff of ARTnews Magazine, juror.

Schoharie County Arts Council’s National Small Works Exhibition. SCAC Gallery, Cobleskill, NY.1995.

Select Paintings and Sculptures, National Juried Show. Pleiades Gallery, New York, NY. Charlotta Kotik, Curator of Painting and Sculpture 

      at The Brooklyn Museum, juror.

AWARDS

2016

Distinguished Alumni Award in Fine Arts. Central Washington University, Ellensburg, Wa. 

2005     

First Place $1,500.00 Prize. The More Than Minutes Contest, The Bulletin of Atomic Scientist Magazine Virtual Gallery, 

      Chicago, IL. www.thebulletin.org

1997   

Honorable Mention. GNAC First Annual Juried Art Show. Great Neck Center for the Visual and Performing Arts, Great Neck, NY. 

Award of Excellence. 67th Annual Open Art Exhibition. The National Art League, Douglaston, NY.

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REVIEWS / PRESS

2013    

Stigmart VIDEOFocus Review. Interview. Stigmartio Press (based in Italy), Oct. edition, 2013, p.20-22. 

Art Focus Oklahoma. “Unnatural selection: Digital show examines society’s drive to be perfect.” January/February, 2013, p. 8-9.

2011    

The Journal Record. Oklahoma City based daily business paper. “Innovators: Bob Dohrmann. Walking a fine line for reality.” 

      June 7, 2011. Section B, pg. 1.

2005    

The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists. November/December, 2005, p. 5. Article announcing the winners of the More Than Minutes Contest.

2004    

Atomic Culture: How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. Prof. Michael A. Amundson and Prof. Scott C. Zeman, editors. 

      The University of Colorado Press, Boulder, Colorado. Art work used on book cover and various images used throughout the text. 

 

2003     

The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists. “As American as atomic pie.” March/April 2003, p. 6-8. 

 

2002     

The Daily Oklahoman. “Art exhibit looks at world of fallout from atomic age.” Friday, Sept. 27th, 2002.

CURATOR / JUROR

2011   

20th Annual Edge Art Now (New Media Show). Individual Artists of Oklahoma Gallery, Oklahoma City, OK. 

EMPLOYMENT

1999-current     

Professor (Studio Arts & Core). The University of Oklahoma. School of Visual Arts, Norman, OK. Drawing, design, 

      senior capstone, senior BFA, intro to digital art, comic book theory, embracing your weirdness & practice and graduate studies. 

MUSIC

1990-94 

Thug Angles. Lead guitar & background vox. All original power pop band with punk / hardcore / hook-laden roots> 

      https://soundcloud.com/user-881903754 

 

Started by Patrick King (an art school mate at CWU) and three ex-members of Moral Crux (hear their early albums on Spotify> “Moral Crux”

      [1987] and “The Side Effects of Thinking” [1989]).

 

1987-88

Sage. Lead guitar & back ground vox. A country (slash) rock cover band. Played two sets of pure country first and finished with two sets of 

      standard rock after the rednecks left. Played around the Columbia Basin in Washington state. 

 

1985-87

Hidden City. Lead guitar & lead / background vox. A sloppy and sometimes un-listenable three-piece rock cover band. Played every other

weekend for three years at the Glass and Pitcher Tavern in Desert Aire, Washington (and a few weddings and parties) for $50 and free beer. 

  

1980-84

The Mood. Lead guitar & lead / background vox. A garage cover band with about 20 original songs. Roots in new wave/punk, 60‘s rock, British         Invasion and a eclectic mix of you name it power pop. Played around Central Washington and Seattle area.

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