Clayton Colvin

Clayton Colvin (born 1976) is an American abstract painter, multimedia artist, collagist, curator of contemporary art, and writer who lives and works in Birmingham, Alabama.

Education Colvin received a bachelor's degree in Art History from New York University in 1999 and a master's degree in Art Education from the University of Alabama at Birmingham in 2003. He received his Master of Fine Arts degree in painting from the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, in 2005.

Colvin interned for Agnes, a photography art gallery in Birmingham, Alabama, for several summers while attending university. As an undergraduate, he interned for the Jack Tilton Gallery in New York City, New York.

Career Colvin’s work has been shown in galleries across the United States, with exhibitions reviewed by Art in America and Artforum.

In 2015, Colvin received the Alabama State Council on the Arts Fellowship in Visual Arts. Since 2015, Colvin has been a faculty member at Indian Springs School, teaching art and art history while also serving as chair of the Art Department and Associate Dean of Students.

Colvin is represented by Maus Contemporary in Birmingham, Alabama.

Exhibitions

Selected solo exhibitions

2025: CLAYTON COLVIN: THE DESCENT, Maus Contemporary, Birmingham 2022: CLAYTON COLVIN: BOTS AND LOOPS, Maus Contemporary, Birmingham 2018: Letters, etc.., The Wiregrass Museum, Dothan 2018: CLAYTON COLVIN: HOW MEMORY MOVES, Maus Contemporary, Birmingham 2015: CLAYTON COLVIN: NEW WAY TO FORGET, Maus Contemporary, Birmingham 2014: PULSE art fair, Beta Pictoris Gallery, Birmingham 2014: Launch, F18 gallery, New York City 2014: Put Down Your Stars, Margaret Thatcher Gallery, New York City 2011: CLAYTON COLVIN: SPACE MOUNTAIN, Maus Contemporary, Birmingham

Selected group exhibitions

2018: University of Alabama Graduate Alumni Exhibition, The Dinah Washington Cultural Arts Center, Tuscaloosa 2017: Uncommon Territory: Contemporary art in Alabama, Montgomery Museum of Art, Montgomery

Public collections Mobile Museum of Art Birmingham Museum of Art High Museum of Art Books Colvin wrote Clayton Colvin: Space Mountain, published on April 3, 2012, by Maus Contemporary. The book was published as an accompaniment to his exhibition "Space Mountain" at the Maus Contemporary gallery. It contains essays by Brian Bishop, and Brian Edmonds, as well as a poem by Ed Skoog.