À propos

Todd Bartel’s professional activities combine artmaking, teaching, curating, research, and writing in Boston, MA, and the broader New England area. He received a BFA in painting from RISD and an MFA in painting from Carnegie Mellon. He teaches drawing, painting, collage, and conceptual art at the Cambridge School of Weston (MA). He is the founder of the school’s Thompson Gallery and served as its Gallery Director, during which time he mounted 50 exhibitions until 2020. Bartel has curated exhibitions at Knoxville Museum of Art, Art Complex Museum (Duxbury, MA), and the Academy of Fine Arts in Kolkata, India, which traveled to Lorne, Australia, and will debut in Massachusetts in 2026. As a historian of collage, Todd has contributed essays to Kolaj magazine and various surveys and exhibitions about collage. His collage-based studio practice examines the roles of landscape and nature in contemporary culture.