Resume/CV

“Three Amigos”, Artists Archives of the Western Reserve, Cleveland, OH, 2015 “Selected Art” Bay Arts, Bay Village, OH, 2015 “Rooms to Let” Slavic Village, Cleveland, OH, 2015

Site specific installation in houses set for demolition.

“41st Annual Art Exhibition”, Valley Art Center, Chagrin Falls, OH, 2014

“Cleveland Arts Network Show”, Morgan Conservatory, Cleveland, OH, 2014

“Moon3”, Satellite Gallery, Cleveland, OH, 2/2014 “Out of the Box”, Doubting Thomas Gallery, Cleveland, OH, 10/2013

“Obsolete”, Studio 2091, Cuyahoga Falls, OH, 10/2013

“The Mix”, Doubting Thomas Gallery Cleveland, OH, 7/2013.

“Waste Management/Clothes Hanger Coalition”, St. John’s Cathedral, Cleveland, OH, 6/2013

“ArtCares 13”, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, 4/20/2013

“Ingenuity Fest”, Cleveland, OH, 2013

“41stAnnual Art Exhibition”, Valley Art Center, Chagrin Falls, OH, 11/2012

“Gold Show”, Sandusky Cultural Center, Sandusky, OH, 10/2012

“50/50 Show”, Dredger’s Union, Cleveland, OH, 6/2012

“ArtCares 12”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH, 4/28/2012

“Monster Drawing Rally”, SPACES Gallery, Cleveland, OH, 4/2012

“Ingenuity Fest”, Cleveland, OH, 2012

“Pop Royalty”, SPACES Gallery, Cleveland, OH, 12/2011

“Cleveland Artists Foundation Member Show”, Cleveland, OH, 11/2011

“Phi and the Eye of God” Loren Naji Studio Gallery (solo show), Cleveland, OH, 9/2011

“They Have Landed”, Sculpture/time capsule event by Loren Naji, Loren Naji Gallery, Cleveland, OH, 2011

“ArtCares 11”, Cleveland, OH, 4/16/2011

“Ingenuity Fest”, Cleveland, OH, 2011

“App to the Future”, SPACES Gallery, Cleveland, OH, 12/2010

“National Juried Exhibition”, Phoenix Gallery, New York, NY, 6/2007

“Art on Paper Show”, Maryland Federation of Art Museum, Annapolis, MD, 4/2005

“Neo Show”, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, 4/2005

“68th Mid-Year Exhibition”, Butler Museum of American Art, Youngstown, OH, 8/2004

Juried by Henriette Huldisch, assistant curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art.

“Annual Gates Mills Community Art Show”, Gates Mills, OH, 1986-1998

Curator

“Rooms To Let: UP House” May 2017

“Cleveland Rocks with Standing Rock”, Beachland Ballroom, 2016

Quarterly Installation Exhibitions, Satellite Gallery, Cleveland, OH, 2013 - 2017

Monthly Exhibitions, Loren’s Art Lounge, Cleveland, OH, 2015-2016

“Kinetic Sculpture Garden” Ingenuity Fest, Cleveland, OH, 2015

“Northern Exposure” Gallery 160, Collinwood, Cleveland, OH, 2015

“Cleveland Creates: A Juried Exhibition of Northeast Ohio Artists”, Art NEO, Cleveland, OH, 2015

“Erie Art Treasures”, Collinwood, Cleveland, OH, 2015

“Brite Winter Festival”, Loren Naji Studio Gallery (host), Cleveland, OH, 2/15/2014

“East Meets West”, Loren Naji Studio Gallery, collaboration/Gallery 160, Cleveland, OH, 2014

“Moon3 Satellite Invitational”, Loren Naji Studio Gallery, Cleveland, OH, 1/7/2014

“Cleveland Kids Create”, Loren Naji Studio Gallery, Cleveland, OH, 12/2013

Fundraiser for Bear Necessities Pediatric Cancer Foundation/ involving children of

Cleveland community. Initiated & conceived by daughter, Brielle Naji and Loren Naji

“Skulls and Skeletons”, Loren Naji Studio Gallery, Cleveland, OH, 11/2013

“Cleveland Institute of Art Alumni Show”, Loren Naji Studio Gallery, Cleveland, OH, 9/2013

“Tall Walls”, Loren Naji Studio Gallery, Cleveland, OH, 7/2013

“Seafair / Hiverobbers” Live music event, Loren Naji Studio Gallery, Cleveland, OH, 7/2013“Incredible Painting Machines & Eyeball Magician”, Loren Naji Studio Gallery, Cleveland, 6/2013

“Waste Management”, Loren Naji Studio Gallery, Cleveland, OH, 6/2013

This show addressed the disposal of millions of plastic clothes hangers by the GAP Corporation. They are now in process of change due to news coverage of this show.

“Drawn and Quartered V”, Loren Naji Studio Gallery, Cleveland, OH, 5/2013

“Search and Destroy”, Loren Naji Studio Gallery, Cleveland, OH, 5/2013

“Video Fallout”, Loren Naji Studio Gallery, Cleveland, OH, 3/2013

“Brite Winter Festival”, Loren Naji Studio Gallery (host), Cleveland, OH, 2/2013

“Then and Now”, Loren Naji Studio Gallery, Cleveland, OH, 2/2013

“Exposed”, Loren Naji Studio Gallery, Cleveland, OH, 12/2012

“Life and Death in Black and White”, Loren Naji Studio Gallery, Cleveland, OH, 11/2012

“Space Odysseys”, Loren Naji Studio Gallery (host), Curated by Douglas Max Utter, Cleveland, OH, 9/2012

“Primal”, Loren Naji Studio Gallery, Cleveland, OH, 7/2012

“Celebrate Cleveland”, Loren Naji Studio Gallery, Cleveland, OH, 6/2012

“Beautiful Possibilities” Loren Naji Gallery/SPACES Gallery Collaboration, Cleveland, OH, 2012

“Drawn and Quartered”, Loren Naji Studio Gallery, Cleveland, OH, 5/2012

“Dine, Drum, and Dance”, Loren Naji Studio Gallery, Cleveland, OH, 2/2012

Raised $4000+ providing a water source (well) for village in Uganda

“Phi and the Eye of God”, Loren Naji Studio Gallery, Cleveland, OH, 9/2011

“They Have Landed”, Sculpture/Time capsule event by Loren Naji, Loren Naji Gallery, Cleveland, OH, 2011

“Sacrebleu”, Loren Naji Studio Gallery (host), Curated by Randall Tiedman, Cleveland, OH, 5/2011

“Word>Action>Architecture”, Youngstown State University, Youngstown, OH 10/2011

Loren Naji conceived and coordinated the lecture for world renown artist, Vito Acconci, introducing Acconci to the Skeggs Lecture audience

Bibliography

Authored by Loren Naji

“Art and Entrepreneurship”, Lecture at Hiram College, Hiram, Ohio 2016

“Unfortunately, Michelangelo Didn’t Have Spray Paint”, CAN Journal, Cleveland, OH, Spring 2014

“Zipping from Loren Naji Studio Gallery”, CAN Journal, Cleveland, OH, Fall 2013

“Knock Knock. Who’s There? Opportunities”, CAN Journal, Cleveland, OH, Summer 2013

“Loren Naji Studio Gallery: More Culture Than a Bowl of Yogurt”, CAN Journal, Cleveland, OH, Spring 2013

authored by other writers

Studio Visit Magazine (Publishers of New American Paintings) January Edition, P. 134, 2017

Utter, Doug. “Emoh/Home, Loren Naji at ArtPrize” CAN Journal Cleveland, OH, Winter 2016-17

Meiser, Rebecca. “House Alarm” Cleveland Magazine, Cleveland, OH September 2016

Usmani, Josh. “Loren Naji Will Live Inside His Artwork to Shine a Light on Important Causes”

Scene Magazine, Cleveland, OH, August 2016

Callahan, Amy. “Real Art in a Real Neighborhood”, CAN Journal, Cleveland, OH, Spring 2014

Gill, Michael. “What is the Price for Your Soul?”, CAN Journal, Cleveland, OH, Spring 2014

Petkovic, John. “’Crazy’ Idea Has Led to Revitalized Community”, Plain Dealer: Arts Section Cleveland, OH 2/23/2014.

Tramer, Harriet. “Centerpoint”, Cleveland Business Connects, Cleveland, OH, March 2012

Burnett, Erich (editor). “Scene and Heard: Public Art, Guerrilla Style”, Scene Magazine, Cleveland, OH 11/3/2010

Barron, Maida. “Gallery Show Bursts with Energy”, The Plain Dealer: Arts and Living, Cleveland, OH 12/26/1995

Memberships

Cleveland Arts Collective Journal Waterloo Merchants Association Ohio City Merchants Association Arts Collinwood Arts, Board Member Cleveland Museum of Art SPACES Gallery Cleveland West Art League, Board Member Skeggs Lecture Series (Youngstown State University), Board Member Cleveland Arts Collective Journal

Awards, Honors, and Grants

ArtPrize 8, Fifth Place of 1453, Grand Rapids, MI, 2016

Collinwood Vibrancy Rising Grant, 2013.

Collinwood Vibrancy Rising Grant, Vacant House 2013

Voted Best Cleveland Sculptor, Scene Magazine, 2013.

CPAC Grant, 2013.

First Place, 2013 at “41st Annual Art Exhibition” in Valley Art Center, Chagrin Falls.

Best in Show, 1998 at “Gates Mills Community Art Show”.

International Art and Cultural Explorations

Between 1995 and 2002, I extensively explored various locations and cultures, traveling throughout the world, purchasing art from indigenous tribes. I brought this art from abroad to Design Studio Gallery in Cleveland, Ohio, for shows, expanding the community’s awareness of global cultures, art, and philosophies.

Travel/Art purchase locations include:

India

Morocco

Turkey

Nepal

Thailand

Sumatra

Java

Borneo

Sulawesi

Lombok

Flores

East Timor

Irian Jaya

Papua New Guinea

Bali

Tibet

Direct Community Improvement Through Art

Emoh (Home spelled backwards) Touring various cities and competing in ArtPrize 8, I lived in my spherical sculpture, made of debris from demolished homes, Emoh, for one month bringing awareness to our backwards system of homelessness, vacancy and the environment.

Satellite Gallery a space devoted to promote and display installation art with the purpose of creating vibrancy in Collinwood. Made possible by grants from Neighborhood Connection and CPAC

“East Meets West”, Loren Naji Studio Gallery, event collaboration with Gallery 160, connecting Cleveland’s divided east and west sides through an art show, Cleveland, OH, 1/25/2014

“Cleveland Kids Create”, Loren Naji Studio Gallery, Cleveland, OH, 12/2013

Fundraiser for Bear Necessities Pediatric Cancer Foundation/ involving children of

Cleveland community. Initiated & conceived by daughter, Brielle Naji and Loren Naji

“Moon3 Invitational”, created public sculpture/outdoor gallery/event involving 38 artists in Collinwood, Cleveland, OH, January, 2014

“They Have Landed”, Sculpture/Community Time Capsule (to be opened in 2050), public art installation at RTA Station, at West Side Market in Ohio City, Cleveland, OH, 2011

“Artisan First Fridays”, Initiated and created current monthly in Ohio City, Cleveland, OH, 2012

Judge at “Reminderville Community Art Show”, 2009, 2010, and 2011

Façade Renovation Award, Design Studio Gallery, Cleveland Hts., OH, 1995

Pecha Kucha Invitational Speaking Event, “Value of Art”, (1000+ audience), Ohio City, Cleveland, OH 2014

Intergalactic East-West Art/Astronaut Transport Shuttle System A shuttle bus that transports art viewers to galleries around Cleveland during Art Walk events. Its’ interior and exterior will also serve as a moving gallery. There will be exterior changeable signage with current evening gallery event information.

“Cleveland Art Scene Virtual Online Gallery and column” I curated weekly shows through an online column with Scene Magazine. QR codes, website and column printed in every issue, May 2014 - 2015

“Warm HeARTs for the Homeless”, a collaboration with Jane Shick, a gallery event at Loren Naji Studio Gallery to collect clothing and money for the homeless people of Cleveland

“Erie Art Treasures” A collaboration with Artist Grace Summanen to create opportunity for children to clean Lake Erie Shores, make art from flotsam and display it during summer Waterloo Fest in Collinwood.

“Rooms to Let” addressed vacancy issues creating installations in homes scheduled for demolition, 2014, 2015, 2016, curating full house – 2017

Director/Owner/Curator Positions

Loren Naji UP Studio, Cleveland, Ohio 2017 - present

Satellite Gallery, Cleveland, OH, 2014 - Present

Naji at 78th Street Studios, Cleveland, OH, 2013-2015

Loren Naji Studio Gallery, Cleveland, OH, 2011-2014

Design Studio Gallery, Cleveland Heights, OH, 1995-2002

Links to Past Media Coverage

Art Fur Animals 2016 – Fundraiser for Friends of the Cleveland Kennel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCenLHTXbRo

Warm HeArts for the Homeless

http://www.clevescene.com/cleveland/loren -naji -reopens -his -ohio -city -gallery -for -a -special -exhibition benefiting -the -homeless -one -catch -you -have -to -help -out -before -you -check -in/Content?oid=4442197