todd molinari

Todd Molinari is an artist living and working in Portland, Oregon. He is a new media artist whose artistic practice is expressed in painting, photography, experimental video, film, sculpture, metalsmithing and printmaking, arte util as well as installations and performance art. 

He was a former member of Third Room Project in Portland, OR, an artist-run community space and gallery that sought to give space to underrepresented artists and artists from marginalized communities. After Third Room closed in early 2021, he co-founded after/time collective gallery, an artist-run gallery and experimental curatorial platform located in Downtown Portland, Oregon, that exhibits emerging regional, national and international artists and to provide a space for the development of artistic practices commensurate to the challenges and opportunities of the early 21st century and for the reconceptualization of future possibilities for the public art space as contemporary art as a form passes from the scene. He has extensive experience in finances and administration, as well as planning, producing and curating exhibitions, community programming, managing openings and community events. 

In addition he has curated a number of exhibitions in Philadelphia, PA; Reykjavik, Iceland; Nantes, France; and Portland, OR. His works explore how the artist gets in contact with art and the concretization of material as instantiations of the unworkable. Molinari’s works have been shown in exhibitions in Berlin, Germany; Nantes, France; Reykjavik, Iceland; Los Angeles, California; Brooklyn, New York; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Portland and Salem, Oregon; and Pont-Aven, France. Commissions include The Dream, Salem, Oregon. He is also the recipient of the Patricia and Richard Henkels Award in the Fine Arts, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He received a Certificate in Fine Arts from PNCA, Portland, Oregon and his MFA at the University of the Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and continued studies at San Francisco Art Institute.

Featured: detail of Rear View of Nantes, 2024 / chromogenic print on paper / 24" x 18"

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