Russell Crotty is a Northern California based artist whose work has been shown internationally and across the United States. His work incorporates astrological, nautical, and surfing themes. Crotty works with large globe structures, as well as drawings and books.

Education

• MFA, University of California, Irvine
  University of California, Irvine
  The University of California, Irvine , founded in 1965, is one of the ten campuses of the University of California, located in Irvine, California, USA...
  
   (1980)
• BFA, San Francisco Art Institute
  San Francisco Art Institute
  San Francisco Art Institute is a school of higher education in contemporary art with the main campus in the Russian Hill district of San Francisco, California. Its graduate center is in the Dogpatch neighborhood. The private, non-profit institution is accredited by WASC and is a member of the...
  
   (1978)

Public collections

Crotty's work is part of multiple public collections such as the Museum of Modern Art

Museum of Modern Art

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 (New York), Pompidou

Centre Georges Pompidou

Centre Georges Pompidou is a complex in the Beaubourg area of the 4th arrondissement of Paris, near Les Halles, rue Montorgueil and the Marais...

 (Paris), Whitney Museum of American Art

Whitney Museum of American Art

The Whitney Museum of American Art, often referred to simply as "the Whitney", is an art museum with a focus on 20th- and 21st-century American art. Located at 945 Madison Avenue at 75th Street in New York City, the Whitney's permanent collection contains more than 18,000 works in a wide variety of...

 (New York), Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art is a modern art museum located in San Francisco, California. A nonprofit organization, SFMOMA holds an internationally recognized collection of modern and contemporary art and was the first museum on the West Coast devoted solely to 20th century art...

, San Francisco Fine Arts Museum, New York Public Library

New York Public Library

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, and more.

Awards

• 2008 Artists' Fellowship Programme, The Ballinglen Arts Foundation, Ballycastle, County Mayo, Ireland
• 1999 Visual Arts Fellowship, Peter Reed Foundation, NY, NY
• 1991 Visual Arts Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts
  National Endowment for the Arts
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Publications

• Campbell, Clayton, "Russell Crotty at Shoshana Wayne Gallery," Artweek, April (2009) , p. 16
• Sheets, Hilarie; “The Big Draw,” ARTnews, January, p. 98-103
• Sheets, Hilarie M., "The Universe at the Tip of His Ballpoint Pen", The New York Times (May 2, 2004)