Titus O.

I am an artist and writer currently based in Chicago. I have exhibited internationally, curate the occasional errant mash up, and teach, most recently at the University of Texas at Arlington, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and Columbia College, Chicago. From 2005-2008, I was the gallery critic for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, and I’ve published writing and criticism in a number of magazines and newspapers. From 2005 to 2009, I regularly wrote features and maintained a blog for Glasstire.com; entries here are in many cases re-posted from that site.

Born and raised in Colorado, I received my BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute. I also attended the Victorian College of the Arts, in Melbourne, Australia. After receiving an MFA (sculpture) from Yale University, I spent a decade concentrating on studies in indigenous American, Zen, and Tibetan Buddhist religious traditions, and traveling, slowly working my way ambivalently, inexorably, back toward the art world. In January 2005, a one year stint in UTD’s artist residency program brought me to Dallas, after a number of years in Los Angeles. Fall 2008 saw the Great Lakes added to the ever growing list of occupied regions.

On January 27, 2007, I married the talented painter of pictures, Raychael Stine. We manage a motley crew comprised of one scruffy terrier, a runty dachshund, a chubby white chihuahua, and two rats. The rats were Raychael’s idea. So was the chihuahua, come to think of it.

With the help of artist/pal Kevin Todora, in August, 2006 I created this site simply as a repository for all the published writing that might otherwise be difficult to track. I’m slowly trying to organize and make it more comprehensible. Now that I am completely boycotting writing criticism, maybe I’ll even put some galleries of my own work up here at some point.