Russell Crotty

Place: San Rafael

Born: 1956

Biography:

Russell Crotty is a Southern California based artist, born in 1956 in San Rafael, California. He received his BFA in 1978 from San Francisco Art Institute and his MFA in 1980 from University of California, Irvine. Crotty's work has been shown internationally and across the United States. His work incorporates astronomical, landscape, and surfing themes. He is especially known for drawings on paper-coated suspended globes and within large-scale books. Crotty's work is part of multiple public collections such as the Museum of Modern Art (New York), Pompidou (Paris), Whitney Museum of American Art (New York), Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Fine Arts Museum, San Francisco, New York Public Library, and more. He participated in 'A Grain of Dust A Drop of Water: The 5th Gwangju Biennale' in 2004. Crotty received several awards including Guggenheim Fellowship in 2015, Artists' Fellowship Programme in 2008, Visual Arts Fellowship from Peter Reed Foundation in 1999, and Visual Arts Fellowship from National Endowment for the Arts in 1991.