Figurative painter specializing in images evoking the architecture of the Art Deco period including Grand Central Station, New York, Queen Mary, Central Park and the Burgh Isle Hotel. Lives and works in Glasgow, Scotland

Todd Garner is an American, born in Pasadena, California. He came to Scotland as an expert in ceramics and taught at Edinburgh College of Art. He has since turned back to his first love painting and has had a few incredibly successful solo exhibition of his work in Glasgow and Newcastle upon Tyne.

He has a deep love of the Art Deco period of the 1930s and it is this period that he portrays in many of his figurative and architectural paintings – The Queen Mary, Grand Central Station and The Empire State Building.

When one looks at Todd Garner’s paintings one is inevitably drawn to the works of the great American artist Edward Hopper.

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EDUCATION
California State University, Long Beach, MFA, 1988, Ceramics
California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, BA, 1983, Painting
Pasadena City College, Pasadena, California, AA, Advertising Design & Illustration

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2006 Henshelwood Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne (Corrymella Scott Gallery)
2005 Henshelwood Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne (Corrymella Scott Gallery)
2003 Art Exposure Gallery, Glasgow
2001 Art Exposure Gallery, Glasgow
2000 Art Exposure Gallery, Glasgow
1999 Lloyd Jerome Gallery, Glasgow
1996 T.Garner Gallery, Glasgow
1995 Callender House Gallery, Falkirk
1994 Lillie Art Gallery, Milngavie
          Maclaurin Art Gallery, Ayr
          Collins Gallery, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow
1990 Andrew Grant Memorial Gallery, Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh
1984 Rio Hondo Community College Gallery, Whittier, California

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2000-03 Affordable Art Fair, London
2000-03 Glasgow Art Fair, Glasgow
2002 “The New Figuretists”, Art Exposure Gallery, Glasgow
1999 “The Glasgow Group Annual Exhibition”, Invited artist, Kelly Gallery, Glasgow
1998 “Continental Shift”, Peterborough Museum & Art Gallery, Peterborough
1997 “Love Tokens”, traveling exhibition, The Grace Barrand Design Centre, Surrey,
          Hartlepool Art Gallery, Hartlepool
1996 “Summer Exhibition:. Gatehouse Gallery, Glasgow
1995 “Valentine”, NS Gallery, Glasgow
1994 “Symbols of Communication”, Scotland Street School Museum, Glasgow
1993 “SSA 99th Annual Exhibition”, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh
          “Creation”, Exhibition of seven artists, 90s Gallery, Glasgow
1992 “Contemporary ‘92”, Dick Institute Art Gallery and Museum, Kilmarnock
          “SSA 98th Annual Exhibition”, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh
          “G.S.A. Connections”, Mackintosh Gallery, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow
1991 Dual Exhibition, 90s Gallery, Glasgow
          “SSAC 2nd Annual Exhibition”, Society of Artists and Artist Craftsmen Annual Exhibition,
          Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh
          Dual Exhibition, California State University, Long Beach, California
          “Contemporary ‘91”, Dick Institute Art Gallery and Museum, Kilmarnock
1990 “SAAC 1st Annual Exhibition”, Society of Artists and Artist Craftsmen Annual Exhibition, Royal
          Scottish Academy, Edinburgh
          “Autumn Exhibition of Scottish Contemporary Artists”, Allen Park Gallery, Stirling
          “Springboard”, Society of Scottish Artists Annual Exhibition, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh
          Dual Exhibition, Museé de Adzak, Paris
          “65th Annual Exhibition”, Scottish Society of Women Artists Annual Exhibition, Invited artist,
          Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh
1989 “SSA on Paper”, Society of Scottish Artists Annual Exhibition, Richard Demarco Gallery, Edinburgh
          Dual Exhibition, Calderglen Art Gallery, East Kilbride, Scotland
          “Mask Parade”, Contemporary Images Gallery, Sherman Oaks, California
          The Clay Connection: Long Beach Ceramic Artists”, Roberts Art Gallery, Santa Monica, California
1988 “Third Ceramics Invitational 1988”, Golden West College, Huntington Beach, California
          “Visions 88/Inner Voices”, Palos Verdes Art Center, Rancho Palos Verdes, California
          “New Blood”, Imagery Art Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
          “Ceramics Invitational”, Gugenheim Gallery, Chapman College, Orange, California
          “Faculty Biennial ‘87”, University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach, California
1987 “Faculty Biennial ‘87”, University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach, California
          “23rd Annual Exhibition”, Academy of the Arts, Easton, Maryland, Purchase Award
          “Small Ceramics National Exhibition”, University of Central Arkansas, Conway, Arkansas
          “Ink And Clay XIIV”, University Union Gallery, California State Polytechnic University,
          Pomona, California, Honorable Mention
1986 “Exhibition for New Faculty”, California State University, Long Beach, California
          “4th Biennial Alumni Exhibition’, University Union Gallery, California State Polytechnic
          University, Pomona, California, Cash Award
          “20th All Media Exhibition”, Orange County Associate Artists National Juried Exhibition, Brea
          Civic Cultural Center, Brea, California
          “All California ’86, On a Small Scale”, Laguna Art Museum, South Coast Plaza, California

PUBLICATIONS
Ellis, Anne, “Notes from a Retro Romantic Realist”, Uptown (Nov. & Dec. 2003 pp 14-152)
Travis, Wendy, “Made in Scotland”, The Home Show (June 2000 pp 55-57)
Garner, Todd, “Glasgo’s Miles Better; An American in Scotland”, Ceramics Monthly Vol. 46,
No. 4, (April 1998 pp 44-46)
Anderson, Marshall, “Hearts and Minds: Sculpture by Todd Garner” Studio Pottery No. 23,
(October/November 1996 pp 12-14)
David, Spencer L., Editor, “Todd Garner” Ceramics Monthly Vol. 43, No. 10 (December 1995 pp14-16)
Colin, Beatrice, “Latter-Day Angels” The List Issue 160, (October 1991 pp55)
Powell, Nicholas, “Enchancing a French Art Connection” Glasgow Herald (July 10, 1990)
McLean, Jack, “In Search of Mythical Kings” Culture City Issue 47 (December 1989 p3)
Flowers, Clare, “The SSA on Paper” Scotland on Sunday No. 66 (November 12, 1989)
Krantz, Les, Editor, The California Art Review” (1989 pp100, 494-495)
Hunt, William C., Editor, “Golden West Invitational” Ceramics Monthly Vol. 17, No. 3
(January 25, 1986)