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River Huston

Painting is what saves me from sleepless nights, the IRS, hair in inappropriate places, untimely deaths, and enormous amounts of illicit drugs. I am an abstract artist and it fits my abstract mind. When you look at my work you are given the opportunity to be transported to where the sublties of color, texture and composition take you. My goal is to unleash your feelings and let them roam around the work and take in what appeals to you.

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Selected Exhibitions

2021-2022, Mtn Space Gallery, Lake Worth Bech, FL

2020, Artist Alliance, A Moment Captured/ A Photography Exhibit, USVI

2020 sevenminusseven gallery, The Joy Inside Our Tears Exhibit, USVI 

2020 sevenminusseven gallery, 12th Aniversery Show, USVI

2019 Jennifer Permutter Gallery, Lafeyete, CA

2017 Newal, 
 306 East 61st Street

​2017 Imortal Remains, sevenminusseven gallery, USVI

2016 San Antonio Open Studios, San Miguel De Allende, Mexico

2014 Tomorrow Was Yesterday, Oceana Gallery, USVI

2012 Art In The Garden, St Thomas, USVI

2012 You Will Never Amount To Anything Exhibit, USVI

2011 USVI Council on The Arts Exhibit, St Thomas, VI

2011 Less Than Zero Exhibit, St Thomas, VI

2010 The Ice Gallery, St Thomas USVI

2009 The Mill, New Hope, PA

2009 River Run Gallery, Lambertville, NJ

2003 No #9 Gallery, Lambertville, NJ

2000 PNC Bank, New Hope PA

1999 Positive Expressions, St Petersburg, Florida

1998 Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA

1997 The Gallery Café, New Hope PA

Positions 2010-2012 Co-director of The Alternative Arts Alliance, St Thomas, VI

2011-2012 Resident Artist  at sevenminusseven gallery, St Thomas, VI


Education/Awards

 B.A. in Music and Physical Education, Hunter College

Ph.D. Hon. Humanities, Albright College

2009 Leeway Art and Transformation Award

1999 Dorthea Lange/Paul Taylor Award

1996 Poet Laureate, Bucks County

1995 Karen Sofield Award for AIDS Awareness

1994 Hyacinth AIDS Foundation Contribution Award


Performances 

Sex, Cellulite & Large Farm Equipment: One Girl's Guide To Living & Dying.

It Looks Like a Banana But It’s Really a Dog

The Dominatrix Next Door

SEXED


Publications 

2013 SEXED: Tales of a Textrix.

2011 Bucks County Poet Laureate Anthology, Making our Own Light

2010-2012 Blog for the edgenewyorkcity.com

2009-2019 blog for thebody.org

2002 Hand Offering God, An Anthology

2004 In Which I Lost 1000 Pounds, Temp Press, poetry by River Huston

1999 Goddess: The New Feminine Guide to Wisdom. Running Press

1998 The Chicago Tribune: Road Trip

1998 A Positive Life Portraits of Women Living With HIV, Running Press

1996 Live at Karla’s, An Anthology of Performance Poetry

1995 The Bones Of Susan by River Huston

1995,Black Oak Press Collection

1995 The Poets Attic, An Anthology

1994-2007 columnist for POZ Mag

1994 It Looks Like a Banana But It’s Really a Dog, A Poetry Collection

1993 North Star Bar Poetry Series

1992 Jesus Never Lived Here, Poetry by River Huston


Performance Spaces

 Atmosphere, Chicago

Border's Books, Princeton, N J

Broadway Comedy Club, NYC

Caroline’s Comedy Club, NYC

Castle Cinema, RI

Club Cafe, Boston, MA

Denver Marriott Tech Center, CO

Dodge Poetry Festival, NJ

Dover Downs, Dover, DE

Edith Macy Conference Center, NY

Karla's Cafe, New Hope, PA

Manhattan Theater Source, NYC

Midtown Manhattan International 

Theater Festival, NYC

Mockingbird Warehouse, Canada

Montgomery Theater, PA

New Hope Art's Festival, PA

Hotel Carlisle, PA

Lambertville, Station, NJ

New Jersey Performing Arts Center, 

Nuyorican Poet's Cafe, NYC

Portland Convention Center, OR

Poco’s Comedy Cabaret, PA

Portland Convention Center, OR

Fairmont Hotel, Chicago

Hyatt Hotel, Miami

International Fringe Festival, NYC

John and Peter's, PA

JJ Resorts, Muskegon, MI

La Paloma , Miami

Karla's Cafe, New Hope, PA

Manhattan Theater Source, NYC

Midtown Manhattan International 

Theater Festival, NYC

Mockingbird Warehouse, Canada

Montgomery Theater, PA

New Hope Art's Festival, PA

Hotel Carlisle, PA

Lambertville, Station, NJ

Ramada Inn, Chicago

Renaissance Hollywood Hotel, CA

Society Hill Playhouse, Philadelphia

Sioux City Convention Center, IA

Sportsman Lodge, CA

Stage Left Theater, NYC

Stand-Up New York, NYC

St. Petersburg Writers Festival, FL

The Cafe, Long Beach, CA

The Duplex, NYC

The Getty Center, SC

The Holiday Inn, Baltimore

The North Star Bar, Philadelphia

The Renburg Theater, Los Angeles

The Sculpture Garden, Hamilton, NJ

The Tower Theater, CA

The Tweeter Center, Camden, NJ



Media

AM Philadelphia

CBS Up To The Minute

Charles Perez Show

Channel 9 Update

CNN Morning Show

Day and Date

Good Morning America

Late Date with Seri 

Montel Williams Show

News Talk Television

NPR All things Considered

KMUD Radio Interview

Showtime

WPST AIDS Benefit 

Metro Live

The Buzz


Lecture Topics

Sexuality

Communication


A Positive Life

Addiction

Body Image


Representative List of Lectures, Appearances and Performance

KEYNOTE/PLENARY

AmeriCorps, RI

Archdiocese Of New Jersey

Body Positive Conference, AR

Abbott Laboratories International, Canada

Bucks County Chamber of Commerce, PA.

Bucks County Network, PA

Bucks County Detention Center, PA

CARES, Make It Happen Benefit, MI

Children’s AIDS Network AIDS, NJ

Catawba Care Benefit, SC

Changing Landscapes Conference, SC

Community Healthcare Network, NY

CIFOPWA Gala benefit, IL

Day Of Service, RI

Day of Healing, DE

Department Of Health, NJ, PA, MI, WI, VT, OR, SC, ME, KY, NE, AR

HEROES Retreat, LA

Women's Conference, Santa Fe, NM

Hyacinth Foundation, NJ

International Conference on
Chinese Medicine, CA, NY

Holyoke Health Retreat, CT

Internal Revenue Service, NJ

International Water Keeper’s Gala, PA

Kalmia Benefit Gala, PA

Labs are Vital Campaign, Chicago

Martin Luther King Center, RI

M'Kor Shalom, NJ

National Skills Building, DC, CA

New Hampshire Women’s Conference, NH

NJWAN Conference, NJ

New Jersey Collegiate Consortium For Health and Education, NJ

New Orleans Empowerment, LA

Omega Institute, NY

Over 50 Forum, Boston, Miami

On Wings Of Hope Conference, NJ

Women’s Conference, FL

Peer Leadership Conference, MI

Planned Parenthood, PA, NJ, FL, NY

Promethean Center, PA

Ray of Hope Conference, NY

Reaching For Peace, PA

SMART University, NY

St. Francis Medical Center, NJ

St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, DC

St. Johns Presbyterian Church, NJ

Scientific Study Sexuality Conference, PA

Social Work and Women Conference, Chicago

TPAN Women’s Conference, Chicago

Trenton Family Guidance Center, NJ

Today Inc., PA.

Trinity Church, NJ

United States Conference on Health, CA, FL

United States Conference on Ministers, MI

Vermont Cares Conference, VT

Women on The Move Conference, NJ

Women: Images and Reality Conference, NJ

Women’s Annual Retreat, NC

Women and HIV; Day of Healing, OH

Women’s Retreat, MI

Women and Girls Day, AR

Women’s World Retreat, CA

Women Healing Luncheon, Phila Fight, PA

Winter Youth Assembly, NJ

Young Women’s Christen Association, PA

Youth Leadership Summit, IL

Youth Services Inc., NJ

8th Annual Leadership Conference

10th Intl. Conference, Japan

11th Intl Conference, Canada


Colleges/Universities

Alabama Spring Hill College

University of Alabama-Birmingham

Arkansas University of the Ozarks

Arkansas State University

University of Arkansas- Fort Smith

California California State Poly University

California State University-Monterey

University of California-Irvine

Cate School

Sacramento State University

San Jose State University

Sonoma State University

Connecticut Southeast Connecticut State U

Gateway Community College

Delaware University Of Delaware

Wesley College

Florida Barry University

Gulf Coast University 

Eckerd College

Hillsborough Community College

Valencia Community College 

Georgia Columbus State University 

Savannah College of Art & Design

Southern Georgia University 

Valdosta State College

Young Harris College

Indiana Depauw University

Drake University

Morningside University

Indiana continued Buena Vista University

Indiana University

Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

Indiana State University

Idaho University of Idaho

Albertson College

Illinois Bradley University, Peoria

Loyola University of Chicago

Saint Francis University

Southern Illinois University

Iowa Buena Vista University

Morningside College 

Kansas  Garden State Community College 

Kentucky Eastern Kentucky University

Louisiana Nichols State College, LA

Massachusetts American International College

Bridgewater State College

Clark University

Curry College

University of Massachusetts Dartmouth

Wheelock College

Wheaton College

Salem State University

Simmons College

University of Massachusetts

Bentley College

Maryland Chester College

Howard Community College

Maryland continued McDaniel's College 

Salisbury Sate University 

St Mary’s College of Maryland

Washington College 

Maine Colby College

Bowdoin College

Bates College

Husson College

University of Maine, Fort Kent

University of Maine, Farmington

University of Maine, Presque Isle

Michigan Ferris State University

Kettering College 

Michigan State University

Northern Michigan University 

University of Michigan

Minnesota College Of St. Benedict

Ridgewater College

Missouri Washington University of St Louis 

Montana Carroll College

Nebraska Southeast Community College

New Hampshire Colby-Sawyer College

Dartmouth College 

North Carolina

College of East Carolina

East Carolina University

University of North Carolina-Pembroke

University of North Carolina-Charlotte

University of North Carolina-Wilmington 

New Mexico New Mexico State University

New Jersey Brookdale Community College

Centenary College

Jersey City State College

Monmouth University

New Jersey Continued Middlesex County Community College 

Rutgers University New Brunswick

Rutgers-Camden

Princeton University

Raritan County Community College

Robert Wood Johnson Medical School

Rowan University  

Rider University

The College of New Jersey

Seten Hall University

William Patterson College 

New York Adirondack Community College

Alfred University

Fashion Inst. Of Technology 

Fordham University

Hunter College

Ithaca College 

Jamestown Community College 

Keuka College 

Long Island University-Southhampton

Monroe Community College 

Nazareth College of Rochester 

New York University

Polytechnic University 

Queens College

Saint Bonaventure University 

Saint John's University 

Saint Lawrence University

Siena College 

SUNY, Oneonta

SUNY, Oswego 

SUNY, Cortland 

Suffolk County Community College

Wagner College 

Wells College 

Ohio  Miami University 

Muskingum College

Ohio State University

Ohio University-Athens

Wright State University 

University of Cincinnati 

Oregon  Pacific College

Portland, University 

Southern Oregon University 

University of Portland

Pennsylvania  Albright College

Bucknell University

Bucks County Community College 

Cedarcrest College 

Delaware Valley College

DeSale University

Gettysburg College 

Juniata College 

Lehigh University

Lafayette University

Mercyhurst College 

Millersville University 

Moravian College

Northampton Community College 

Pennsylvania College of Technology 

Penn State University, Altoona

Penn State University, Hazelton

Penn State University, Beaver Campus

Penn State University, New Kennsington

Philadelphia College of Textiles Sciences

Philadelphia University

Shippensburg University 

Slippery Rock University

Temple University 

University of Sciences

Ursinis College 

Wilkes University 

Rhode Island Brown University

Providence College

Roger Williams University 

South Carolina  Coastal Carolina University 

Furman University

South Carolina continued University Of South Carolina-Columbia 

Winthrop University

Tennesee  Austin Peay University, TN

University of Memphis, TN 

Volunteer State Community College, TN 

Texas  Amarillo College

Cedar Valley College

Southwest Texas State University

Texas Tech University

Utah  Westminster College

Southern Utah University

Virginia  Longwood College

Old Dominion University 

Mary Washington University 

Randolph Macon College 

The College of William and Mary 

Vermont  Lyndon State College

Saint Micheal's University

Washington  Edmunds Community College

Green River community College 

Peirce Community College 

Western Washington University 

Wisconsin  University Wisconsin

Cardinal Stritch College

West Virginia  Davis and Elkin College 

Marshal University

University Of West Virginia

West Virginia University 

Wyoming  Northwest College

University of Wyoming, Laramie 


for more information about performances, appearances and books got to:
riverhuston.com

Telephone

650-787-3073

Email

rivhuston@gmail.com