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JR Roykovich
202.664.9091
jrroykovich@gmail.com
http://www.jrroykovich.com
Instagram: @jrrstudio
Twitter: @jrrstudio

Born
Aurora, Colorado

Founded
2013 JRR Studio, LLC
2011 Co-Founder, re:collective LLC, Artist's Collaborative
2023 Founding Member, Throughline Collective

Education
2012 - 2014 MFA in Visual Art, Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
2006 - 2011 BFA cum laude with departmental honors in Art and Visual Technology, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA

Residencies
2024 - 2025 Lawndale Art Center Artist Studio Program, Houston, TX
2024 Lighthouse Works, Fishers Island, NY
2020 - 2021 Solar Studios Residency, Rice University, Houston
2017 - 2018 Galveston Artist Residency, Galveston, TX
2017 Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild AIR (Fellowship Recipient), Woodstock, NY
2015 - 2016 Green Studio Artist in Residence, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
2015 Chautauqua Institution School of Art Summer Residency (Grant + Scholarship Recipient), Chautauqua, NY
2015 Post-Graduate Residency, Torpedo Factory Art Center, Alexandria, VA
2013 Scuola Internazionale di Grafica Venezia, Venice, Italy

Visiting Artist Gigs, Talks & Presentations
2024 Elgin Street Studios Summer Intensive, University of Houston School of Art, Houston, TX
2024 Throughline, Houston, TX
2023 Lonestar College, Houston, TX
2023 Elgin Street Studios Summer Intensive, University of Houston School of Art, Houston, TX
2020 University of Texas, Rio Grande Valley, Edinburg, TX
2019, 2022 Artist Talk & Guest Lecturer “Creativity Up Close”, Rice University, Houston, TX
2018 Galveston Artist Residency, Galveston, TX
2016 Gustavus Adolphus College Department of Art & Art History, St. Peter, MN
2015 Torpedo Factory Art Center, Alexandria, VA
2011 Guest Lecturer, George Mason University Critical Arts Practices Program, Fairfax, VA
2011 Presenter, George Mason University’s 4th Annual Gender Conference, Fairfax, VA

Awards & Grants
2022 Galveston Cultural Arts Commission Grant
2014 Brovero Photography Prize
2012 Ray Stark Film Prize and Scholarship, Rutgers University
2011 Director’s Award for distinguished work in studio practice and outstanding contributions to the School of Art at George Mason University
2011 George Mason University Undergraduate Apprenticeship Fellow
2010 Shortlisted, Vimeo Film Festival + Awards: Documentary, New York, NY
2010 Second Place, Juror’s Prize: “Reve(a)ling Feminist Art,” Gallery 123, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
2005 Award of Excellence: Northern Virginia Community College Communication Design Show, Tyler Gallery, Alexandria, VA

Solo Exhibitions
2025 Solo Show at Lawndale Art Center, Houston, TX (Upcoming)
2022 Travel in Light Years: Artifacts & devices adapted to traverse the precarious spectrum In/Between Homofuturism and the superannuated as an exile in a land of glorious f/utility, Galveston Artist Residency, Galveston, TX
2019 In/Between | A Rock and a Hard Place: Visions from the Ghost World of how to Survive One's Sovereignty of Self Destruction in a Land We Assumed We Once Knew, Rice University Media Center, Houston, Texas
2016 The Holy Darkness, The Schaefer Gallery at Gustavus Adolphus College, St. Peter, MN
2011 Sparagmos and Omophagia, Gallery 123, George Mason University Fairfax, VA

Selected Two-Person & Group Exhibitions
2024 Troubling the Boundaries (apart of “Artist Run, Artist Organized”), FotoFest, Houston, TX (Organizer for Throughline Collective)
2024 Straight Like That, ICOSA, Austin, TX (Curated by Mueni Loko Rudd)
2024 Potentia // Actualitas, two person show with Cynthia Travis Klement, Throughline, Houston, TX
2024 Run, Throughline, Houston, TX
2022 The Big Show, Lawndale Art Center, Houston, TX (Curated by Daisy Nam)
2021 The Big Show, Lawndale Art Center, Houston, TX (Curated by Cecilia Fajardo-Hill)
2018 Galveston Artist Residency two person show with the wonderful Kristina Estell, Galveston, TX
2018 In the AiR, Kleinert/James Center for the Arts, Woodstock, NY
2016 Home Away From Home II, (two-person show) Banfill-Locke Center for the Arts, Fridley, MN
2015 ICPNY Printfest, Rogue Space, New York, NY
2015 Washington Project for the Art’s “Art Night”, Washington, DC (re:collective)
2015 Artist in Residence Show, Target Gallery, Torpedo Factory Art Center, Alexandria, VA
2015 Chautauqua Annual School of Art Show, Fowler-Kellogg Art Center, Chautauqua, NY
2014 Georgetown GLOW Winter Public Art Exhibition, Washington, DC (re:collective)
2014 Home Away From Home I, Banfill-Locke Center for the Arts, Fridley, MN
2014 True Colors 2nd Annual Exhibition, Press Street Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2014 LUMEN 2014, Staten Island, NY (re:collective)
2014 "Jersey Fresh," Pioneer Works Center for Art + Innovation, Brooklyn, NY
2014 "Home," Mason Gross School of the Arts Fine Arts Gallery, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ.
2014 "Bridging The Unseen," portfolio with NOVA Printmakers Guild, for Southern Graphics Council International Conference, Academy of Art University, San Francisco
2012 American Idols, Mason Gross School of the Arts Gallery, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
2012 Project 2012.001r, Artisphere, Arlington, VA (re:collective)
2012 Printerest, Center for the Arts at the Candy Factory, Manassas, VA
2012 Burnt Norton, George Mason University School of Art, Fairfax, VA (re:collective)
2011 Traditional and New, Sichuan Normal University, Sichuan, China
2011 Super Specific, Adam Lister Gallery, Fairfax, VA (re:collective)
2011 Project 2011.H.001, Gallery 123,  George Mason University, Fairfax, VA (re:collective)
2010 The Vogue Redux: 1990 - 2010, Fine Arts Gallery, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
2010 Screening of shortlisted work, “Vimeo Offline Redux,” New York, NY

Publications/Press
2022 “To Shine, to Appear, to Show: J. R. Roykovich at the Galveston Artists Residency,” by Saúl Hernández-Vargas for Glasstire, TX
2022 Art Dirt Podcast with William Sarradet, “Paranormal Art”, Glasstire, TX
2022 “Galveston gallery seeks ghost stories to inhabit new exhibition,” by Trace Harris for Galveston Daily News
2019 “Caught ‘In/Between’: New VADA Exhibit”, The Rice Thresher, Houston, TX
2012 Green Acres: Artists Farming Fields, Greenhouses and Abandoned Lots
2011 SPRINKLE: A Journal of Sexual Diversity Studies, vol. 4
2011 George Mason Review, Volume 20
2008 George Mason University Alumni Newsletter, “Full Circle”

Community
2023 - Current, Member, Throughline Collective, Houston, TX
2016 Co-Juror, Art of Darkness: Re-Inspired by the Paranormal, Banfill-Locke Center for the Arts, Fridley, MN
2016 Co-Juror, "Keep Prince William County Beautiful," (High School Art Contest), Prince William, VA
2013 - Current Member, Northern Virginia Printmakers Guild
2011 - Current & Founding Member, re:collective, LLC
2011 - Current Member, George Mason University Printmaker’s Guild
2010 - 2011 Member, George Mason University Garden Consortium
2010 - 2011 Member, Golden Key Honor Society
2010 - 2011 Co-Founder and Co-President, “SoA Green,” George Mason University
2009 Member, “Floating Lab Collective”
2007 Member, George Mason University Sustainability Project
2006 - 2011 Member, George Mason University School of Art Honors Program
2003 Volunteer Peer Advisor, Advocates for Youth, Washington, D.C
2001 President, The Bi-Sexual, Gay and Lesbian Alliance of Rutgers University
2000 - 2001 Organizer, Rutgers College Program Council

Teaching Experience
2024 Summer - Instructor, Beginning Digital Photography, Rice University, Houston, TX
2018-2023 - Full Time Lecturer in Photography, Rice University, Houston, TX
• FOTO 205 - Introduction to Photography/Darkroom
• FOTO 210 - Beginning Digital Photography
• FOTO 310 - Intermediate Digital Photography
• FOTO 366 - Road Trip Photography
• FILM 287 - Introduction to Video and Installation Art
• FILM 499 - Film and Photo Senior Studio
2016-2017 - Visiting Assistant Professor of Photography and Video, Gustavus Adolphus College, St. Peter, MN
• Intro to Digital Photography
• Intro to Darkroom Photography
• Video Art
• Intro to Graphic Design
• Special January Term Interim Experience: Experimental Media and Environmental Memory: Media and Installation (Instructor developed course)
2016 Summer - Instructor: Photography 101, Northern Virginia Community College
2016 Spring - Instructor: New Media in the Creative Arts (two sections), George Mason University
2016 Spring - Instructor: Introduction to Digital Photography, George Mason University
2015 Fall - Instructor: New Media in the Creative Arts (two sections), George Mason University
2015 Fall - Instructor: Introduction to Digital Photography, George Mason University
2015 Spring - Instructor: Introduction to New Media Arts, George Mason University
2015 Spring - Instructor: New Media in the Creative Arts (two sections), George Mason University
2015 Spring - Instructor: Introduction to Digital Photography, George Mason University
2014 Spring - Instructor: Print 1A: Introduction to Theory and Techniques of Printmaking through Silkscreen, Rutgers University
2013 Fall - Instructor: Media 1A: Introduction to Theory and Techniques of Media Art and Video, Rutgers University
2013 Spring - Teaching Assistant to Benjamin Critton, BFA Design Thesis & Exhibition, Rutgers University
2012 Fall - Teaching Assistant to Benjamin Critton, BFA Design Thesis & Exhibition, Rutgers University
2011 Spring - Teaching Assistant to Lynne Constantine, AVT 472 Critical Theory in the Visual Arts, George Mason University
2011 Fall - Teaching Assistant to Selena Kimball, AVT 394 School of Art Honors Seminar, George Mason University

Other Relevant Experience
2014 Graphic and Information Design for Web, Print and Social Media, Office of Institutional Diversity and Inclusion, Rutgers University
2012 - 2014 Graphic and Information Design, Latino Information Network at Rutgers (LIN@R), Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ
2012 Presenter and assistant to Helen Frederick for her talk on the show Multiplicity, at the Smithsonian’s American Art Museum; helped research specific works of art and gave small talks on those works.
2011 Graphic Designer and Visual Identity Developer, George Mason University Office of Sustainability, Fairfax, VA.
2011 Curator, "Photography on the Color Line: W.E.B. Du Bois's Photographs from the 1900 Paris Exhibition," Gallery 123, George Mason University
2011 Curator, "Reve(a)ling Feminist Art", George Mason University.
2010 Exhibition Specialist under Helen Frederick, Edison Gallery, Washington DC
2009 - 2011 Washington DC area DJ and Producer
2007 - 2012 Assistant Technical Director, School of Art, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA

Collaborations + Theater/Film
2022 Installation design for David Bird & andPlayDuo, Coffey Street Studio, Brooklyn, NY
2006 Costume Design, “Alice in Wonderland,” Classika Theater Company, Arlington, VA
2006 Production Design, “That’s Gratitude For You!” Stephen Shetler, Dir.
2005 Costume Shop Intern, Catholic University, Washington DC
2005 Costume and Puppet Design, “Beauty and the Beast,” Northern Virginia Community College, Alexandria, VA
2005 Costume Design, “Without A Doubt,” Zigzag Theater Company, Arlington, VA
2004 Costume Design, “The Rocky Horror Show,” Northern Virginia Community College, Alexandria, VA

Collections
• Academy of Art University, San Francisco
• Brodsky Center for Innovative Editions
• George Mason University
• Rutgers University
• Sichuan Normal University
• Various private collections.