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Education

2007 MFA Sculpture, University of Delaware, Newark, DE
2005 BFA Sculpture, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA

Solo Exhibitions

2011 Everything comes alive when contradictions accumulate, 621 Gallery, Tallahassee, FL
2010 Nie Struktur, (A Collaborative installation with Jim Zeske), Chris White Gallery, Wilmington, DE
Domestic Artifacts, Schmucker Art Gallery, Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, PA
2009 I can’t help looking to the past, Mezzanine Gallery, Wilmington, DE Download Catalog
2008 I Tried To Build Us A Home, Lexington Art League, Lexington, KY
Domestic Memory, Buckley’s Tavern Gallery, Centerville, DE
2007 Conversations, Gallery Penn State, State College Theater, State College, PA
2004 Redundancy, Patterson Gallery, Patterson Building, University Park, PA

Selected Group Exhibitions

2012 Under Construction, Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, Wilmington, DE, Curated by: J. Susan Isaacs (Forthcoming Feb)
2011 Biennial Faculty Exhibition, Miller Gallery, Sharadin Arts Building, Kutztown University, Kutztown, PA
East of Fresno, The Hatchery, Bager Creek, CA
Sugar, Brooklyn Artist Gym, Brooklyn, NY View Press Release
New Trails, Adaptation, Chestnut Hill/Wissahickon Valley, Philadelphia, PA, Curated by: Brookes Britcher and Bryan Rice
The Anniversary Show, 5 Year Anniversary of HUB-BUB, The Showroom at HUB-BUB, Spartanburg, SC
Love and Things Like Love, Lexington Art League, Lexington, KY, Curated by: Becky Alley
DUETS, Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, Wilmington, DE, Juried by: Daniel Belasco
AIR Exit Show, The Showroom at HUB-BUB, Spartanburg, SC
DanSynergy III, David Reid Theater, Chapman Cultural Center, Spartanburg, SC, in collaboration with Ian Shelly & Carlos Agudelo
Process, Mildred Harrison Dent Fine Arts Center, Spartanburg Day School, Spartanburg, SC
An Exchange With Sol LeWitt, MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA & Cabinet, Brooklyn, NY, Curated by: Regine Basha
2010 The NWAA Papers, New Wilmington Art Association, Wilmington, DE, Juried by: Julie L. McGee
Visual Fringe, Wilmington Fringe Festival, Chris White Gallery, Wilmington, DE
The Other Other, OFF Space, Oakland, CA
Systems Failure, Target Gallery, Torpedo Factory, Alexandria, VA, Juried by: Sarah Tanguy
2010 AIR Entry Show, The Showroom at HUB-BUB, Spartanburg, SC
Award Winners X / Reunion, Biggs Museum of American Art, Dover, DE
SELF, Croft Art Gallery, Waco, Texas, Juried by: Aaron Sacco
Gaps, Greater Reston Arts Center, Reston, VA, Juried by: Vesela Sretenovic
Constructed Place, Washington Sculptors Group, Annmarie Garden Sculpture Park & Art Center, Solomons, MD
Regional Reflections, Elkton Station Gallery, Cecil College, Elkton, MD
BURB, Manifest Gallery and Drawing Center, Cincinnati, OH
2009 Room to Roam, Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, Online Exhibition, Juror: John Massier, Click Here To View
Architectural Spaces, The LoDi Project, Raleigh, NC
Soft Space: Architecture in Contemporary Art, Curators Incubator, Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, MD
Award Winners IX, Biggs Museum of American Art, Dover, DE
radius250, artspace gallery, Richmond, VA
Rectified, Gallery Four, Baltimore, MD
FABRICATE: new sculpture by Jen Dillner and Ron Longsdorf, New Wilmington Art Association, Wilmington, DE
2008 Vote Art!, Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, Wilmington, DE
The Mirror Stage, Video Program, NeMe, Independent Museum of Contemporary Art, Limassol, Cyprus
Majestic National 2008, Majestic Galleries, Nelsonville, OH
Totally Terrific Treehouse Exhibit, Tyler Arboretum, Media, PA
Too Real is Too Real, Riverfront Renaissance Center for the Arts, Millville, NJ
Directors Lounge 2008, 4th Annual Film and Video Program, Berlin, Germany
2007 MFA Small Works Show, Lo-Fi Gallery, Wilmington, DE
New Art Examined III, Arlington Arts Center, Arlington, VA
MFA Biennial, Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, Wilmington, DE
MFA Thesis Exhibition, Crane Arts Building, Philadelphia, PA
New Works, Lo-Fi Gallery, Wilmington, DE
2006 BAG Show, Brooklyn Artists Gym, Brooklyn, NY
Art Happens VI, Gallery 101, University of Delaware, Newark, DE
North American Graduate Art Survey, Katherine E. Nash Gallery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
Continuing Education Exhibit, Delaware College of Art and Design, Wilmington, DE
Art in the Garden, Townsend Hall Garden, University of Delaware, Newark, DE
2005 Art Happens V, Gallery 101, University of Delaware, Newark, DE
Fine T Shirt Art, J. David Broudo Gallery of Art, Endicott College, Beverly, MA
Reel Shorts, Video Art and Short Film Exhibition, Saratoga Springs, NY
Second Annual Window Shop Hop, Downtown State College, PA

Awards and Achievements

2010 Individual Artist Opportunity Grant, Delaware Division of the Arts, Wilmington, DE
Artist Honorarium, Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, PA
2009 Established Artist Fellowship, Delaware Division of the Arts, Wilmington, DE
2008 Artist Honorarium, Lexington Art League, Lexington, KY
Individual Artist Opportunity Grant, Delaware Division of the Arts, Wilmington, DE
1st Place Award, Too Real Is Too Real, RRCA, Millville, NJ
Artist Stipend, Tyler Arboretum, Media, PA
2007 Artist Residency Partial Fellowship, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
2006 Graduate Teaching Assistantship, University of Delaware, Newark, DE
2005 Block Grant, University of Delaware, Newark, DE

Commissions/Collections
2011 Pacolet River Flood Memorial, City of Spartanburg, SC, permanent public sculpture
2010 Chapman Cultural Center, Spartanburg, SC, Chandelier permanent installation
2008 Tyler Arboretum, Media, PA, Viewing Units in permanent collection
2006 The Computing Museum, Smith Hall, University of Delaware, Newark, DE

Curatorial Experience

2010 Curator, SIMULACRA, New Wilmington Art Association, Wilmington, DE
Curator, New Triumph of Painting, The Showroom at HUB-BUB, Spartanburg, SC
2009 Curator, Language of Line, New Wilmington Art Association, Wilmington, DE
Curator, bodies/words/sounds, New Wilmington Art Association, Wilmington, DE
2008 Curator, Absurd Situations, New Wilmington Art Association, Wilmington, DE
Curator, Transcendence: object culture and technology, New Wilmington Art Association, Wilmington, DE
2006 Curator/Organizer, Art Happens VI Exhibition, University of Delaware, Newark, DE

Residencies

2011 Stonehouse Residency, Miramonte, CA, 4 weeks
2010 HUB-BUB, Spartanburg, South Carolina, 11 months VIEW HUB-BUB BLOG
2010 Elsewhere Artist Collaborative, Returning ETC Member, 1 week
2009 Elsewhere Artist Collaborative, Greensboro, North Carolina, 2 weeks VIEW BLOG
2008 Art Farm, Marquette, Nebraska, 4 weeks
2007 Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, Vermont, 4 weeks

Articles/Reviews

2011 Donald Munro, Recapping ‘East of Fresno’. Fresno Bee. September 28, 2011.
http://fresnobeehive.com/2011/09/recapping_east.html

Kari Jackson, Spartanburg’s Hub-Bub project celebrates 5 years. Herald Journal. May 29, 2011.
http://www.goupstate.com/article/20110529/ARTICLES/105291006

Kim Kimzey, Dance, music, visual arts collide in ballet’s DanSynergy III. Herald Journal, March 17, 2011.
http://www.goupstate.com/article/20110317/ARTICLES/103171007/1099/entertainment01?p=1&tc=pg

2010 Gary Henderson, Artist cooks up ‘Meals with Ron’. Spartanburg Journal, Vol. 6, No. 45, November 5, 2010.

Cindy Landrum, Hub-Bub welcomes new artists-in-residence, Program celebrates five years, Spartanburg Journal, Vol. 6, No. 28,
July 9, 2010.

J. Susan Isaacs, Ron Longsdorf, Mezzanine Gallery, Delaware Division of the Arts, Sculpture Magazine, May 2010. View PDF

Rebecca Dimling Cochran, Elsewhere Collaborative: Community, Dispersal, and Reciprocity, Art Papers, January/February 2010.
http://www.artpapers.org/feature_articles/article2.htm

Elkton Station Gallery hosting Regional Reflections exhibit, The Herald, Herald County, PA, February 2, 2010.

“Regional Reflections” opens at Cecil College’s Elkton Station Gallery Feb. 8, Cecil Guardian, January 28, 2010.

2009 Alex Ebstein, Learning the Trade: Annual program gives emerging curators a chance to showcase their ideas,
Baltimore City Paper, Oct 21, 2009. http://www.citypaper.com/arts/story.asp?id=19139

Christopher Yaseijko, 2009 Individual Artist Fellowship - Ronald Longsdorf, Delaware Division of the Arts, 2009.
http://www.artsdel.org/information/iafrecipients/longsdorf.shtml

Wes Doyle, Artist Highlight: RON LONGSDORF, The Paper Machine, Issue #3, August 2009.
http://www.thepapermachine.com/features/august09/ronlongsdorf.php

Peter Bothum, Out through the indoor, Delaware News Journal, August 6, 2009.
http://www.delawareonline.com/article/20090806/ENTERTAINMENT
908070302/1114ENTERTAINMENT&referrer=NEWSFRONTCAROUSEL

Katie Kazimir, Delaware artists on display at Biggs, Delaware State News, July 10, 2009. Download Article

Brian Citino, Biggs kicks off Award Winners exhibit with first-look party, The Dover Post, July 1, 2009.

Brent McCabe, Playtime: A surface of fun turns into something less playful in this group show, Baltimore City Paper,
June 3, 2009. http://www.citypaper.com/arts/story.asp?id=18160

Gretchen Warner, Gallery Four: RECTIFIED, Radar Redux Baltimore Arts & Culture, May 10, 2009.
http://radarredux.com/component/content/article/23-may-09-reviews/186-gallery-four-rectified-.html

2008 Rich Copely, At the Art League, Look Downstairs, Lexington Herald-Leader, Copious Notes, August 16, 2008.
http://copiousnotes.typepad.com/weblog/2008/08/at-the-art-league-look-downstairs.html

2006 Jerry Rhodes, Inaugural exhibit opens Computing Museum at UD, UDaily, Nov. 2006, Newark, DE.
http://www.udel.edu/PR/UDaily/2007/nov/museum112906.html

Catalogs

2010 GAPS, Greater Reston Arts Center, Reston, VA
Manifest, Volume 42, BURB: Zones of Living, Manifest Creative Research Gallery and Drawing Center, Cincinnati, OH
2009 Architectural Spaces, The LoDi Project Gallery, Raleigh, NC
Curator’s Incubator 2009, Seventh Annual Program, Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, MD

Lecturer/Juror

2011 Guest Speaker, Introduction to Art Course, University of South Carolina Upstate, Spartanburg, SC, Instructor: Jonas Criscoe
Guest Speaker, Beginning Drawing Course, Converse College, Spartanburg, SC, Instrcutor: Claudia Dishon
2010 Guest Speaker, 20th Century Art History Course, University of South Carolina Upstate, Spartanburg, SC, Professor: Rachel Snow
Speaker, 20 Artists See Love, Talk 20 Lecture Series, The Showroom, HUB-BUB, Spartanburg, SC
Lecturer and Moderator, ART NOW! lecture/panelist series, The Showroom, HUB-BUB, Spartanburg, SC
Guest Panelist, Constructed Place, Annmarie Garden Sculpture Park & Art Center, Solomons, MD
Guest Juror, Art in the Garden, Townsend Hall Garden, University of Delaware, Newark, DE
Guest Juror and Lecturer, Schumcker Art Gallery, Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, PA
2009 Guest Speaker, Residencies, Docent Course, Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts
2008 Guest Speaker, Residency Opportunities, Pre-College Art Program, Delaware College of Art and Design and
Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, Wilmington, DE
Guest Lecturer, Sculpture Department, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, Professor: Cristin Millett
Guest Lecturer, From Domesticity, Arts Alliance of Monmouth County, Red Bank, NJ
2007 Guest Lecturer, Art Salad Lecture Series, Fall 2007, Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, Wilmington, DE
Guest Lecturer, Foundations Colloquium, University of Delaware, Newark, DE

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