About
Colby Parsons applies aspects of traditional media approaches to digital-based processes, working in a range of media and formats including ceramics, digital fabrication, projection mapping, installation, and interactivity.
He is a Full Professor in the Visual Arts Division at Texas Woman's University, where he has taught Ceramics and Digital Craft since 1998. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, and he has completed artist residencies in Taiwan, Philadelphia, and Denmark.
Education
- 1998MFA in Ceramics — Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
- 1991BPh in Interdisciplinary Studies — Miami University, Oxford
Recognition
- 2018Co-organizer, "Humanizing the Digital" Symposium — North Texas Digital Fabrication Group
- 2015Zanesville Art Prize
Selected Exhibitions
- 2022Code/Structure/Object
- 2019–21Particle and Wave — International touring exhibition
- 2018Structured Light
- 2013–14Semiotic
- Navy Pier — Chicago, IL
- Taipei County Yingge Ceramics Museum — Taiwan
- International Ceramic Research Center — Denmark
- University of Pennsylvania Art Museum — Philadelphia, PA
Residencies
- 2005–10International Ceramic Research Center — Skælskør, Denmark (multiple stays)
- Artist residency — Taipei, Taiwan
- Artist residency — Philadelphia, PA