EMAIL: Smittagster@gmail.com
FILM AND TELEVISION
2007-2010
Art Director, Charged Studios, Brooklyn, NY
Clients include: Michael Eisner, Moveon.org, Progresso Soup, Monster.com,
Howard Johnson Hotels, The Globetrotters, FirstAvenueMachine, Cricketwireless,
Ad Council, Nickelodeon
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2012
Texas Contemporary Fair, Artadia Booth,Houston,TX
On Walden Pond, Rudolph Blume, Houston,Tx
Prospectors,Lawndale Artist Studio Program,Houston,TX
Nonshow, Icesouh, Houston, TX ( Curated by The Art Guys)
2011
Faculty Show, Glassell School of Art, Houston, TX
We Are Still Here, Emergency Room, Rice University, Houston, TX
Storytellers, Texasfirehouse, NY, NY
2010
New Texas Talent, Craigheadgreen Gallery, Dallas, TX (Juror, Thomas Feulmer)
Product of Exchange, Sudhaus, Berlin, Germany
Material & deStructure: The Creative Alternative in Art, PG Contemporary, Houston, TX
2008
Fictitious Realities/Realistic Fictions, Art Palace, Austin, TX (two person show with Elaine Bradford)
Shit Where You Eat,Texasfirehouse, NY, NY
Transitional Structures,Grotto Gallerie, NY, NY
2007
Identity, University of Maine, Augusta, ME
White Trash Heros, Texasfirehouse, NY, NY
2006
Beast, Finesilver Gallery, Houston, TX (catalog)
From The Pages, Gallery 125, Houston, TX
Gunplay, Poissant Gallery, Houston, TX (solo exhibition)
Faculty Show, Glassell School of Art, Houston, TX
2005
Texas Biennial, Austin, TX
Fashionista 6, Poissant Gallery, Houston, TX
Outdoor Sculpture Show, Montgomery Community College, Conroe, TX
2004
Instu, Buffalo Bayou Art Park, Houston, TX
Lumber Liecium, Galveston Art Center, Galveston, TX (solo exhibition)
Dia De Los Muertos, Lawndale Art Center, Houston, TX
Strahandle, Derie City Iron Works, Houston, TX
I love it when you …,San Jacinto Colllege, Houston, TX
2003
Yea Yea, Poissant Gallery, Houston, TX (solo exhibition)
MFA Thesis Exhibition, Blaffer Gallery, Houston, TX
Domestic Bliss, Raw Space, Houston, TX
It’s a trend not a fad, Aurora Picture Show, Houston, TX
Power Ball, Acts Studio, Galveston, TX
2002
North Harris Outdoor Sculpture Show, Houston, TX
Petcentric, Lawndale Arts Center, Houston, TX
Dia De Los Muertos, Lawndale Arts Center, Houston, TX
2001
Narrative, Houston Community College, Houston, TX
Faculty Show, Glassell School of Art, Houston, TX
Scene of the Crime, Small Projects Gallery, Houston, TX
RESIDENCIES & GRANTS
2012 Artadia Award Winner!!
2011 Lawndale Art Center Studio Residency, Houston, TX
2008 Charged Studios, Artist In Residence, Brooklyn, NY
2005 Cultural Arts Council Houston, Individual Artist Grant, Houston, TX
2003 University of Houston, Bunker Fellowship, Houston, TX
PRESS
Liscum,Dean “On Walden Pond….Next to the Bayou adjacent from the trailer park.”
http://www.thegreatgodpanisdead.com/2012/10/on-walden-pondnext-to-bayou-adjacent-to.html
Boyd,Robert “The most Obnoxioust Criticism Ever” The great god pan is dead. May 31 2012
http://artsandculturehouston.com/review-prospectors-at-lawndale-art-center/
“Prospectors at Lawndale Art Center:” Arts and Culture Magazine Houston,May 31 2012
http://artsandculturehouston.com/review-prospectors-at-lawndale-art-center/
Klaasmeyer,Kelly “Lawndale’s Stellar Studio show” Houston Press,May 30 2012
http://www.houstonpress.com/2012-05-31/culture/lawndale-prospectors/
Rudick,Tyler “Have you found the secret art at Rice University? It’s a mobile miniature challenge.” Houston Culture Map, Oct.2011
Klaasmeyer,Kelly “Seth Mittag: We’re Still Here…’ Tragic, Compelling” Houston Press, Oct.2011
http://blogs.houstonpress.com/artattack/2011/10/seth_mittag_were_still_here_tr.php
Sock Puppet Lieberman Demands Pony in Exchange For Health Care, Huffingtonpost Dec.2009
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/12/18/sock-puppet-lieberman-dem_n_397463.html
Haskell,Caitlin “ Fictitious Realities/Realistic Fictions” ArtPapers, Nov./Dec. 2008 p.56
Rios,Josh “ Fictitious Realities/Realistic Fictions”, Fluent Collaborative, Oct 2008.
http://www.fluentcollab.org/mbg/index.php/reviews/review/108/67
Lazano ,Ivan “Fictitious Realities/Realistic Fictions”, Glasstire, Oct 2008.
Finesilver Gallery, Beast (catalog), 2008
http://www.finesilver.com/images/Files/BeastCatalogue.pdf
Klassmyer,Kelly, “Kingdom Come”, Houston Press, Oct. 26 2006.
http://www.houstonpress.com/2006-10-26/culture/kingdom-come/full
Davenport,Bill, “Seth Mittag: Gunplay”, Glasstire, Mar. 2006
http://live.glasstire.com/index.php?gtcat=Review>sect=Articles&id=214&option=com_content&task=view
Hyland,Peter, “Lessons and Lies: Seth Mittag” artshouston, Feb. 2006
“Word on the Street” Houston Free press, Feb. 2006
“Are guns bad?” Artbeat, Mar. 2006
http://blogs.chron.com/artbeat/archives/2006/02/are_guns_and_hu.html
Cohen,Rachel “Texas Biennial 2005”, Artlies, Issue 46 2005
http://www.artlies.org/article.php?id=1208&issue=46&s=1
Barnes,scott Kuhf radio interview, 2004
EDUCATION
2003 M.F.A., University of Houston, Houston, TX
1997 B.F.A, Southwestern University, Georgetown, TX