HOWARD DEAN SPECTOR
3021 Rhodelia Ave
Claremont, California 91711
310-741-7650
PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND
SKYEWORK CONSULTING, Washington, DC, and Los Angeles, CA 2002 - present
Principal
SOUTH PASADENA ARTS COUNCIL (SPARC), South Pasadena, CA 2010-2019
Executive Director
P.S. ARTS, Los Angeles, CA 2008-2010
Executive Director
ARTS & HUMANITIES COUNCIL OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY, Silver Spring, MD
Director of Arts Education 2004 - 2008
AMERICANS FOR THE ARTS, Washington, D.C. 1999 - 2002
Vice President, Education
CITY OF MANHATTAN BEACH, CA 1990 -1999
Cultural Arts Manager
LOS ANGELES CENTER FOR PHOTOGRAPHIC STUDIES 1983- 1988
Executive Director
THE LIGHT FACTORY, INC., Charlotte, NC 1978 - 1983
Executive Director
ADDITIONAL PROFESSIONAL/ARTISTIC EXPERIENCE
He has been a consultant and grant panelist to several organizations and cultural agencies, including the National Endowment for the Arts, Americans for the Arts, North Carolina, California, and Maryland State Arts Councils, Getty Research Institute, Southern Arts Federation, U.S. Department of Education, Arts and Humanities Council of Montgomery County, the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, the City of Pasadena, the City of LA, the City of Claremont, and Los Angeles County Arts Commission. He has taught at Pratt Institute, New York, Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles, and Watford College, England and presented at several national and regional arts conferences.
Spector obtained a M.F.A. in photography and visual studies from the State University of New York at Buffalo (Visual Studies Workshop). He has exhibited both nationally and internationally and his work is included in numerous public and private collections. He was awarded an artist residency at Acadia National Park in 2007, an Artist Residency Fellowship to UCROSS Foundation in 2015, and a Residency Fellowship at Willipa Bay Washington, in 2016. His first book of digital images, Dialog Box, a collaboration with poet Jay Brecker, was published in 2012 by Thistle and Weed Press.
HOWARD DEAN SPECTOR
EDUCATION
M.F.A. Photography, State University of NY at Buffalo (Visual Studies Workshop), Rochester, NY.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:
2023 US/Japan Exchange Exhibition, Art Lab Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
2023 Art/Science, “Photography and Memory”, Galerie Pluto, Bonn Germany
2019 Art Lab Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, “Rainfall of Reality”
2018 LAVA Projects Gallery, Alhambra CA, “Human/Nature”
2014 29 Palms Gallery, 29 Palms CA, “Joshua Tree Exhibition”
2013 IDA Gallery, Culver City, CA, Spring Exhibition, “ColorScapes”
2013 SoPas Gallery, South Pasadena CA, “ColorScapes”
2012 Burke-Triolo Studio, South Pasadena CA, “Dialog Box”
2007 Glenview Mansion Art Gallery, Rockville, MD, “Overlay: Three Artists”
2007 Lee Arts Center, Arlington, VA, Mini Gallery
2006 McLean Project for the Arts, McLean VA, “ColorScapes
1993 Downtown Artists Exhibition, DADA, Los Angeles, CA. “Downtown Lives”
1991 Colorado Boulevard Art Galleries Fair, Los Angeles, CA, “Color Dynamics”
1985 Los Angeles Art Photographers Gallery, Venice, CA, "Found Images"
1985 Art Store Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, "LACPS at the Art Store"
1984 Metro Rail, Los Angeles, CA, "Downtown Photographic Artists"
1984 University of California, Los Angeles, CA, "Gridation Photographs"
1984 American Cultural Center, Madrid, Spain, "New American Graphics"
1983 American Cultural Center, Barcelona, Spain, "New American Graphics"
1983 Center Gallery, Chapel Hill, NC, "Makers and Movers Invitational"
1983 Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, SC, "Gridation Photographs"
1983 Spirit Square Art Center, Charlotte, NC, "Clamps, Closures, Constraints"
1983 Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, "Alternatives '83"
1982 Al Batha Museum of Art, Fes, Morocco, "New American Graphics"
1982 Cape Fear Arts Foundation, Wilmington, NC, "North Carolina Pictures"
1982 Spirit Square Art Center, Charlotte, NC, "Magic in Art"
1981 Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, SC, "North Carolina Pictures"
1981 Appalachian State University, Boone, NC, "Southern Photographers
1981 Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC, "Color Theory Pictures"
1981 Hunter Museum of Art, Chattanooga, Tenn., "Southeastern Graphics"
1981 San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA, "Color Theory Pictures"
1981 The Light Factory, Inc., Charlotte, NC, "Southern Exposures"
1981 Spirit Square Art Center, Charlotte, NC, "National Xerography Invitational"
1980 Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC, "Southeastern Graphics", Invitational
1980 Green Hill Art Gallery, Greensboro, NC, "Image, Place, Personal Landscape"
1980 California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA, "Eccentricities"
1979 Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC,
"Hot-Shots", 25 Southeastern Photographers
1979 Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC, "Area Artist Invitational"
1979 The Light Factory, Inc., Charlotte, NC, "Night/Flash"
1978 Il Diaframma/Canon, Milan, Italy, "Recent Work"
1978 Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY, M.F.A. Exhibition
1977 Midland Group Gallery, Nottingham, England, "Open Photography"
