Cecil Touchon is represented by fine galleries and private dealers in New York, Los Angeles, Beverly Hills, Santa Fe, Houston, Fort Worth

2001

"At Play in the Utopian Matrix" Exhibition at William Campbell Contemporary Art in Fort Worth, Texas  Nov. 2001

2000

Edith Baker Gallery - Dallas, Texas - Oct. - Nov.

1999

Exhibition at Sears/Peyton Gallery in New York City, Nov.-Dec.
Exhibition at the New Gallery in Houston, Texas.  June - July
Studio Exhibition in Cuernavaca, Mexico - May

1998

Exhibition at William Campbell Contemporary Art in Fort Worth, Texas Dec. 1998
Exhibition at the Edith Baker Gallery in the Spring 1998

1997

The New Gallery, Houson, TX

1996

Edith Baker Gallery, Dallas, TX

1995

William Campbell Contemporary Art Ft. Worth, TX
The New Gallery, Houston, TX

1994

Allene LaPides Gallery Santa Fe, NM
Edith Baker Gallery, Dallas, TX.

1993

Allene LaPides Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
William Campbell Contemporary Art, Fort Worth, Texas

1992

'Trans-Temporal Dialog', Edith Baker Gallery, Dallas, Texas
The New Gallery, Houston, Texas
Elliot Smith Gallery, St. Louis, Mo.

1991

Markel/Sears, New York, NY
Elliot Smith Gallery, St. Louis, Mo.

1990

William Campbell Contemporary Art, Fort Worth, Texas

1989

Longview Museum & Arts Center, Longview, Texas

1988

William Campbell Contemporary Art, Fort Worth, Texas
Read/Stremmel Gallery, San Antonio, Texas

1985

'Constructions' William Campbell Contemporary Art, Fort Worth, Texas

1984

Works On Paper- 280 Gallery, University Of Texas, Arlington,Texas

"Small Pleasures" Exhibit at Austin College - The exhibit is a cross sampling of artists represented by William Campbell Contemporary Arts in Fort Worth. The works are on loan from the Fort Worth gallery, one of the oldest in Texas dedicated in exhibiting works of contemporary American art. Works in various media are included by Dan Allison, Ken Dixon, Bernd Hausmann, Corky Stuckenbruck, Kevin Tolman, Cecil Touchon, Judy Youngblood, and Steve Watson.
 

2001

9th Salon International du Collage Contemporain de Paris - Paris, France

2001

8th Salon International du Collage Contemporain de Paris - Paris, France
Works on Paper show at the Armory in New York City
Group Exhibition at Sears/Peyton Gallery in New York City

2000

Works on Paper show at the Armory in New York City
Group Exhibition at Sears/Peyton Works on Paper New York

1999

International Fluxus Group Show at CalArts - Main Gallery, California Institute of the Arts - Valencia, California - Organized by Allen Bukoff & Chris Butler/Fluxus Midwest
Works on Paper show at the Armory in New York City

1998

Group Exhibition at Galerie van der Straeten in Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Group Show at Edith Baker Gallery Dec. 1998
Works on Paper show at the Armory in New York City

1997
Group Show at Edith Baker Gallery - Dallas - December
The Art and Technology Circus at Audart Gallery in New York, New York
Works on Paper show at the Armory in New York City

1996

''Esperanza', Edith Baker Gallery, Dallas,TX
The Seattle Art Fair
Works on Paper show at the Armory in New York City

1995

"In the Eye of the Beholder" Edith Baker Gallery, Dallas Tx.
Works on Paper show at the Armory in New York City

1994

"Words" Boulder Art Center, Boulder, CO

1993

Edith Baker Gallery,Dallas,Texas
William Campbell Contemporary Art, Fort Worth, Texas

1992

Edith Baker Gallery, Dallas, Texas

1991

The New Gallery, Houston, Texas
Edith Baker Gallery, Dallas, Texas
William Campbell Contemporary Art, Fort Worth, Texas

1990

Edith Baker Gallery, Dallas, Texas

1989

Invitational At The Longview Museum And Arts Center, Longview, Texas (First Place Winner)
Elliot Smith Gallery, St. Louis, Mo.

1988

William Campbell Contemporary Art, Fort Worth, Texas
Moss/Chumley Gallery, Dallas, Texas

1987

'Three to Show', Jan Weiner Gallery, Kansas City, Kansas
'Black is the Color', Moss/Chumley Gallery, Dallas, Texas
The Aspen Museum, Aspen, Co.
'Homegrown', William Campbell Contemporary Art, Fort Worth, Texas
Contemporary Art Month, Read/Stremmel Gallery, San Antonio ,Texas,
University of Texas Permian Basin, Oddesa, TX.
" Made in Texas", Moss - Chumley Gallery, Dallas TX.

"1987 Art of the Southwest", Jan Weiner Gallery , Kansas City, KS.

1986

Group Show, Jan Weiner Gallery, Kansas City,KS.

1985

"Drawings - Coast to Coast" , William Campbell Contemporary Art, Ft. Worth, TX.
Amarillo Competition- Amarillo Art Center, Amarillo ,TX.
Group Show - Jan Weiner Gallery, Kansas City, KS
New Collages, Richard's Cafe American Dallas, TX.

1984

"Critics Choice" , D-Art Center, Dallas, TX.
Art in the Metroplex, Texas Christian University,Ft.Worth ,TX.
Group Show, William Campbell Contemporary Art, Fort Worth, TX.

" Contrary to popular belief, not all art is expressive of the artist's self.

Self- expression has been one current in the artistic flow of things and until recently, it was not the mainstream. For decades, beginning with the early 20th- century birth of Modernism, mainstream art has been not about the artist, but about the formal evolution of art.

However, in the '70s Modernism was declared dead -- out of gas, as it were -- and other reasons for making art hastily were brought forth. Unfortunately one major reason so asserted was that of self-expression. We say unfortunately because in many cases what resulted were a lot of sophomoric moping over late 20th-century alienation.

...True self-expression happens when artists know what is important to them -- no matter how modest or mundane or abstract -- and communicate it in such a way viewers find it imperative as well.

This conclusion comes at the expense of an artist who has determined not to indulge in anything resembling late-20th-century moping. Instead, his works are a celebration of such early modernist -isms as Miro's surrealism, Russian constructivism, synthetic cubism, futurism and orphism. Not to mention Matisse's late collaged images.

And -- prodigiously, almost alarmingly, talented -- Touchon makes some of the most gorgeous mixed-media paintings you could hope to see... Also, in his virtuoso synthesis of overlapping, dissolving planes, vortices and cutout arabesques -- the visual hallmarks of early modernism -- he subverts what was radical about modernism in the first place. In Touchon's hands, it becomes a mother lode of lovely compositional elements..."

Janet Tyson - Fort Worth Star-Telegram

Occasionally Touchon inserts bits of paper, spattered with Hebrew script or musical notations. Sometimes he paints paper then cuts out shapes. Other times, collage is in the form of paper applied to the surface, then painted over with solid color, so there is a ghost of a collage.

Most of these works contrast small areas of bright hue with overall neutrally colored surroundings.

What is clear is the extent to which Touchon is in love with a formalism that, way back when, was loaded with revolutionary significance.

That he does not think that those early experiments in pure shape and color have been improved upon is evident in the way he uses the motifs, and in the way he has antiqued them artificially with pencil shading and other means to make individual elements and overall compositions into found artifacts..."

Janet Tyson - Fort Worth Star-Telegram

Donald Hoffmann - The Kansas City Star

Touchon has a keen eye for balance and color. He knows how to create tension within the frame and how to suggest deep space. In one group of pictures he uses trompe l'oeil to great advantage as a framing device and as a way of summoning up the past. In some collages he introduces braille to the mix of materials. Braille adds not only texture but also raises questions about the business of seeing and making things that are seen-- and the blessing of sight itself..."

Robert W. Duffy - Cultural News Editor of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch

The result is scenes of warmly colored geometric shapes that seem to revolve and recede into the canvas. The Fusion Series [the collages on paper] is Touchon's ongoing obsession with manipulating color and shape.

The Dallas Observer

Touchon creates mixed media works that are saturated with a sort of recherche, Proustian elegance. Fusing drawing, painting and collage, he creates serenely abstract images that recall early-20th century Constructivism and Synthetic Cubism. In works large and small, flat areas of rich color are layered with old envelopes, bits of sheet music and other romantic ephemera in works that are nostalgic and knowing, wistful and buoyant -- and above all else -- intensely atmospheric..."

Janet Tyson - Fort Worth Star-Telegram (Critics Choice Exhibit)

There are simple, geometric shapes from modern works and the age-old faux-frames, and these otherwise modern-looking works have a sense of historical relevance.

...The faux-frame- which Touchon said would be a no-no to most modern painters- creates a spatial window that allows the painting to take on a deep, three-dimensional quality..."

Jason Silverman, Paseo, Santa Fe

Cecil Touchon is the founder/director of the International Museum of Collage, Assemblage and Construction and hosts international exchanges of collage among collage artists.

Cofounder of the International Post-Dogmatist Group - an avant-garde artist organization

Member of the Massurrealist Society and founder of the La Sociedad Massurrealista de Mexico

SEE The first book of Massurrealist Poetry by Cecil Touchon

Paper presented to:
"Something for Nothing" Subjectivity and society in the new economy - 5 & 6 Sept 2002 (Pretoria, South Africa)
is the 8th annual South African qualitative methods conference and is organised by the Critical Methods Society.
a conference about living in a time of global change. The conference covers four inter-related streams:
 Economy - Large scale issues such as poverty, globalization and the politics of 'development' and how these manifest in local communities.
Subjectivity - The kinds of individual  psychologies and identities that flourish in the current economic and political climate.
Pedagogy - How the skills and values that sustain the global world order are taught in our  schools and universities; and possible alternatives.
Knowledge - Critical knowledge-making practices of all sorts - from qualitative research methodologies to the kinds of theoretical tools  that can help us understand and transform society.

5th AVTEXTFEST March 2002  a festival of experimental literature

SILENCE PLEASE - 2002 is one of fourthirtythree.org’s  series of projects set up to mark the 50th anniversary, in 2002, of John Cage’s silent composition ‘four minutes, thirty-three seconds’

Sound Injury - an email group of sound artists creating, sharing  and chopping up each others work to make a once a month Exquisite Corpse as in the surrealist tradition made of sound and put on to CD then distributed to contributors.

Founder of the Collage Poetry Group - an email group of collage artists and poets constructing poety like a collage beginning 2000

Poetry and/against Power - 2001 - The poems were exhibited in a large space (Arsenale Bunker and a long metallic net) organized by the artist Marco Nereo Rotelli. At the Venice Biennial - Venice, Italy

1 : h o t : m i n___________email : sound : project : 2001 - A collaborative project of creating one minute of sound/noice/music remotely by email with six other sound artists like an 'exquisite corpse' drawing.

FLUXLIST BOX - 2000 - http://www.fluxus.org/FLUXLIST/box1/boxfram.html
This was a project of the current Fluxus community of artists in which contributing members of the Fluxlist, a list of fluxus artists and/or those interested in fluxus contributed: 50 small multiples.
FLUXLIST BOX2 - 2003
This was a project of the current Fluxus community of artists in which contributing members of the Fluxlist, a list of fluxus artists and/or those interested in fluxus contributed: a sound collage to be included on a group CD.

happY nEw earS - 2000  ONLINE at http://www.fluxus.org/FLUXLIST/happYneWearS/
Online version adapted from booklet produced by Roger Stevens.  30
contributing Fluxus authors.  More than 70 poems.   A  FLUXLIST project.

Weak Blood - 1999 - artists against war and violence http://netartefact.de/weakblood/

Participant in SITO - sito.org

Appointed in 2004 First Amassador of New Utopia to Mexico and Central America
Founding member of the Culture and Arts Counsel of New Utopia