Lizardman
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Contact Information
contact name: Matt Wells
phone: 612-872-4245
email: lizardmanart@gmail.com
Pseudonym: Lizardman
Related Organizations:
Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Stevens Square Center for the Arts
Red Hot Art Festival
BrewTown Goons
Experience
2009 Designer/Illustrator, cover art: Sounds of the Hunchback Whale, Phantom Tails.
2009 Designer, film promotional material: Living Arrangements, SBTfilms.
2008 Illustrator, album cover art: Hand Over Fist, Doomtree Records; Electric Tendrils, Plastic Chord; Crack Shot, Thirty Odd Six.
2008 Designer/Illustrator, print & web; Red Hot Art Festival.
2007/8 Designer/Illustrator, band promotion: Hot Rod Hearse, Corpse Show Creeps, Cadillac Kolstad, Ben Glaros, Plastic Chord.
2006 Illustrator, Children’s Book: Anna’s Dilemma, Evergreen Press.
2005 Illustrator, Children’s Book: Anna & the Whale, Atlas Books.
2005 Comic Artist: The Atomic Age, for comic anthology Tastes Like Good.
2004 Minneapolis College of Art & Design; BFA Illustration.
Awards
2009 FEAST Mpls, Grant Recipient, "Public Consumption" proposal.
2004 Society of Illustrators, Annual Scholarship Competition Finalist.
2004 Society of Illustrators of Los Angeles, Certificate of Merit.
2003 Michael Guy Sweet Scholarship, MCAD.
Exhibitions/Performance History
2009 Clapperclaw Festival; Intermedia Arts.
2009 Rush Hour; group exhibition,Stevens Square Center for the Arts.
2009 Minimum Wage; solo exhibition, Stevens Square Center for the Arts.
2008 Tall Boy; select group show, Pizza Lucé Uptown.
2008 Cuttlefish; select group show, Stevens Square Center for the Arts.
2007-9 Red HotArt Festival; Stevens Square Park.
2007 Solo Show; Espresso Royale Downtown.
2006 The Art of Horror; juried group show, Altered Esthetics Gallery.
Galleries
Minneapolis College of Art & Design
Stevens Square Center for the Arts
Intermedia Arts
Altered Esthetics
Publications
2009 City Pages, A-List feature for Rush Hour exhibition.
2009 Vita.mn, Arts Feature for Rush Hour exhibition.
2009 City Pages, A-List feature for Minimum Wage exhibition.
2008 Southwest Journal, interview/feature for Cuttlefish exhibition.
Biographical Information
Country of Citizenship:
United States
Gender:
Male
Active Place:
Minneapolis
Minnesota County:
Hennepin
Artist Information
Roles
Illustrator