Otto Mckay

Bio

Born 1947, Wharton, Texas

Education

• 1989-91 Glassell School of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, Sculpture scholarship and independent study
  
• 1988 Laguna Gloria Art School, Austin, Texas
  
• 1986 School of Perceptionsim, Sedona, Arizona, Private Instruction/Robin Anderson and Dennis Porter
  
• 1985 Laguna Gloria Art School, Austin, Texas
  
• 1970 B.B.A., University of Texas, Austin, Texas

Grants
1997 Artist Grant Award, Cultural Arts Council of Houston, Harris County, Texas

Curatorial Experience
1994 Second Annual Sculpture on the Green, New Works Invitational, Omni Houston, Hotel, Texas
1993 First Annual Sculpture on the Green, New Works Invitational, Omni Houston Hotel, Texas

Selected Exhibitions

2009
Solo Show, Blue Star, San Antonio, TX, January

2008
Group Show, Neiman Marcus, Houston
Solo Show, Lemmons Contemporary, New York, NY, September
Solo Show, Pan American Art Projects, Dallas, TX

2007
Los Angeles Contemporary Art Fair with Pan American Art Projects (Dallas), L.A., CA
Palm Springs Contemporary Art Fair with Pan American Art Projects (Dallas), Palm Springs, FL
DCAD Art Fair with Pan American Art Projects, Dallas, TX
“Cool” Group Show – Pan American Art Projects, Dallas, TX
Solo Exhibition at TAG art gallery, Nashville, TN
Solo Show at An Arte Gallery, San Antonio TX
“Camp Marfa” with G Gallery (Houston), Marfa, TX
“Art Depot” with G Gallery (Houston), Lubbock, TX
“String – A Multi-Media Message”, Latino Cultural Arts Center, Houston, TX

2006
“McKay Otto,” Lemmons Contemporary, New York, New York
Solo Show, Pan American Art Projects, Dallas, TX
“Art of Motion” Group Show, Lemmons Contemporary, New York, NY
“Beth Nielson Chapman’s Peace Jam” with 10 Nobel Peace Prize winners including the Dalai Lama & Desmond Tutu, Denver, CO

2005
“McKay Otto: Every Place” + gallery, Denver, Colorado

2004
“McKay Otto: Infinity,” Jennifer Kostuik Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia
Private Showing, Trans Space, New York, New York
Scope Art Fair, Los Angeles, California (Booth: Jennifer Kostuik Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia)
Affordable Art Fair at the Piers, New York, New York (Booth: Jennifer Kostuik Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia)
10th Anniversary Show, Karan Ruhlen Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico

2003
“Amercian Six,” Sergio Tossi Arte Contemporanea, Florence, Italy Bologna
Art Fair, Bologna, Italy (Booth: Sergio Tossi Arte Contemporanea, Florence, Italy)

2001
“Mc Kay Otto,” Karen Ruhlen Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
“McKay Otto,” Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston, Texas
“The Box,” Hooks-Epstein Gallery, Houston, Texs

2000
“McKay Otto,” Joan Grona Gallery, San Antonio, Texas
“McKay Otto,“ Jaqueline Loyd, Taos, New Mexico
“McKay Otto,” Craighead Green Gallery, Dallas, Texas

1999
“McKay Otto: New Work,” Jaqueline Loyd, Taos, New Mexico
Summer Group Exhiibiton LewAllen Contemporary, Santa Fe, New Mexico

1998
Group Exhibition, Heriard-Cimino Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana
“Sculpture,” Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston, Texas

1997
“McKay Otto: For All Kind,” Jung Center, Houston, Texas (Reviewed: Art in America)
“McKay Otto/Richard Wood” Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, Corpus Christi, Texas
“McKay Otto,” Heriard-Cimino Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana
“McKay Otto,” Conlon Siegal Galleries, Santa Fe, New Mexico
“McKay Otto: Infinite,” Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston, Texas
“Inside Out”,,Conduit Gallery, Dallas, Texas
“Intimate” Barbara Davis Gallery/Pennzoil Place, Houston, Texas

1996
“Convergence,” Barbara Davis Gallery/Pennzoil Place, Houston,Texas
“New Work: Gallery Artists,” Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston, Texas
Cerling Etching Studio: The First Five Years, 1990-1995, Transco Tower Gallery, Houston, Texas
“State of TXArt

1995
” Austin Visual Arts Association, St. Edwards University, Austin, Texas
“Bodies in Evidence, The Mannequin Show,” New Gallery, Houston, Texas
“In Search Of,” McMurtrey Gallery, Houston, Texas
“Houston Small Works for Yekaterinburg Exhibit,” The American Center in Yekaterinburg, Russia (traveling)

1994
“The Heights Exhibition,” The Houston Heights Association, Houston, Texas
Fifth Annual Summer Group Show, Hall Barnett Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana
“McKay Otto,” Lyons Wier Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
“Out of This World,” Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas, Curated by Lynn Herbert
“Miniatures,” Hooks-Epstein Gallery, Houston, Texas

1993
“McKay Otto,” McMurtrey Gallery, Houston, Texas
“Beyond the Object,” Group Exhibition, Judy Youens Gallery, Houston, Texas
“Personal Attachments: The Art of Collage/Assemblage,” Hooks-Epstein Gallery, Houston, Texas
“DIFFA Take A Seat,” The Decorative Center, Houston, Texas

1992
“Artist Director’s Exhibition,” Art League of Houston, Omni Houston Hotel, Houston, Texas
Wyndy Morehead Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana
“McKay Otto: Climb in Time,” Graham Gallery, Houston,Texas
“McKay Otto: Artworks,” Galveston Art Center, Galveston, Texas
“Houston’s Known & Underknown,” Allen Center, Houston, Texas (curated by Sally Reynolds)
Gallery Artists Group Exhibition, Graham Gallery, Houston, Texas

1991
“Private Investigations”, Lawndale Art and Performance Center at Saks Pavilion, Houston, Texas
“McKay Otto,” Graham Gallery, Houston, Texas Spring Group Exhibition, Glassell School of Art, Houston, Texas
“Ordinary Objects, Extraordinary Subjects,” Group Exhibition,Galveston Art Center, Galveston, Texas

1989
Spring Group Exhibition, Glassell School of Art, Houston, Texas

Selected Bibliography (Chronological)

Goddard, Dan - Express News Art Beat, Sept.28,2007, review
Anspon, Catherine D. “Space, Light and Art: Painter McKay Otto’s Galveston Aerie,” PaperCity, March 2004, pgs. 28 – 31.

Laget, Mokha. “All Shapes and Sizes: Compelling Examinations of Humanity,” Santa Fe Reporter, June 13 - 19, 2001.

Carver, John. “McKay Otto: Paintings and Sculptures,” The Magazine (Santa Fe), July, 200.

Anspon, Catherine D. “McKay Otto at Jung Center,” Art in America, exhibition review, February 1998, pg. 110.

Waddington, Chris. “Looking Back at 1997: State of the Arts in N.O,” New Orleans Times Picayune, January 2, 1998.

“All that Jazz: The Traveling Collector”, Art and Antiques, October 1997.

Waddington, Chris. “Sculpture carves out niche for itself,” New Orleans Times Picayune, September 19, 1997, illus.

Anspon, Catherine D. “McKay Otto: For All Kind,” New Art Series Catalogue, Richard Wood and McKay Otto Exhibition, Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, July 25-September 14, 1997, illus.

Anspon, Catherine D. “McKay Otto’s Voyage to the Infinite,” Public News, January 15, 1997, Issue #761, pp. 8-9, illus.

Johnson, Patricia. “Exhibit from 7 private collections says a lot,” Houston Chronicle, August 6, 1994.

Johnson, Patricia. “Art on the Edge,” Houston Chronicle, July 4, 1994.

“Sculpture on the Green,” Museum and Arts Houston, November 1993
Johnson, Patricia.

“Exhibit exceptional in its variety,” Houston Chronicle, October 14, 1993.
Chadwick, Susan.

“Sculpture on the Green offers delightful, insightful works,” The Houston Post, September 9, 1993.

Chadwick, Susan. “Controversy entangles barbed-wire artists,” The Houston Post, August 31, 1993.

“Transforming Junk into Art”, Museum and Arts Houston, October 1992.