Education

MFA , 2003 Studio Art Merit
Assistanceship Scholarship,
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

BFA, 1985, Painting and Printmaking
Cum Laude, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia 

Exhibitions

Born to be Alive - SEASON Gallery. Seattle, WA,
October-December 2020

Seattle Art Fair  Century Link Event Center, SEASON Gallery, Seattle, WA, August, 2019

Eureka Allcott Gallery, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina November/December, 2015 

SM 15 online exhibition, Front Artspace, NYC, November 2015, Catalog published 

Crave Columbia City Gallery, Seattle, WA
November 2015, first prize 

Cracked Emerald curator: Robert Yoder, Prole Drift, Seattle, WA
November, 2014 

This is Where I Live curator: Robert Yoder, Affordable Art Fair. Seattle Center Exhibition Hall, Seattle, WA, November, 2012 

Borders curator: Michael Caldwell. Confluence Gallery, Twisp, WA, February-April, 2012 

Conversations with Messerschmidt solo show Gallery 4Culture, Seattle, WA
March, 2011 

Seattle City Light Portable Works
Municipal Tower Gallery, Seattle, WA, October-December, 2009 

Poncho 8th Annual Invitational Exhibition Western Bridge, Seattle, WA, August, 2009 

Send Me An Angel curator: Robert Yoder. Howard House, Seattle, WA, August 2009 

Little Heads solo show Corridor Gallery, Seattle, WA
June 2008 

Franklin & Madeline Ouch My Eye Gallery, Seattle, WA
November, December 2007 

Works on Paper solo show Corridor Gallery, Seattle, WA
September, 2006 

Artist Trust Exhibition Chase Gallery, Spokane, WA
June-August, 2006 

A Horse of a Different Color: PONCHO 5th Annual Invitational, Washington State Convention Center, Seattle, WA
March, 2006. catalog published 

Little Monsters solo show Gallery 110, Seattle, WA
July, 2005 

Art:Bite Atelier 31, Seattle, WA
December, 2004 

Tra Est E Oevest (From East to West) GAS Art Gallery, Torino, Italy, November-December 2004. Catalog published 

Soho-Chelsea International Agora Gallery, NYC, juror: Susan Cross
August 2004 

Go West! Richmond Art Center,
Richmond, California, juror: Renny Pritikin, July-August 2004 

The Face: Identity and Disguise Atelier 31, Seattle, WA, July, 2004 

Body Politics Gallery 110, Seattle, WA. Juror: Gene Gentry MacMahon, first prize.
January 2004 

Translations: Dialogues on Life Remote Gallery, NYC, juror: Kathleen Wentrack
October 2003 

Geweldig Geweld (Violent Violence) Arti et Amicitiae. Amsterdam, Netherlands,
July-August 2003 

New Currents in Contemporary Art Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, NC, April-May 2003 

All Too Human solo show Lump Gallery, Raleigh, NC
June 2002 

Doubles solo show John and June Alcott Gallery, Chapel Hill, NC
June 2002 

2002 National Drawing Exhibition, University of Hawaii, Hilo, Hawaii. Juror: Leon Hicks
February 2002. catalog published 

Bad Touch Space 1026, Philadelphia, PA
February 2002 

Bibliography

-Kurt Thumlert et al., “Algorithmic Literacies: Identifying educational models and heuristics for engaging the challenge of algorithmic culture”, Digital Culture and Education, Vol. 14(4), 2022 drawing used for cover

-Kurt Thumlert, James Cicatko, “The Moon People”, Straightrazor Press. Seattle/Toronto, 2022

-James Cicatko, “Ten Messerschmidt Drawings”, BC Press, Seattle/Washington D.C., 2021

-Dionisio Cortes, Leticia Ortega “SM 15” Front Art Space
Edition One Books, New York, NY, 2017, 37.  

“Making Cartoons with James Cicatko”, online eLearning project, York University, Toronto, Ontario, August 2016

“Rethinking Modes, Making, and Composition”, online eLearning
project, York University, Toronto, Ontario, August 2016

-Jen Graves “The Stranger Suggests” The Stranger, Seattle, WA, March 21, 2011 

-Robert Ayers “Pessimistic pictures, steeped in history”, Seattle Times, Seattle, WA
March 18, 2011

-Jen Graves “Currently Hanging” SLOG, The Stranger, Seattle, WA
August 27, 2009 

-Annet Lemaire “Wakker Worden!”, painting with poem, de Volkskrant, Amsterdam, Netherlands, April 25, 2008 

 -Indelible Kitchen, online arts journal, Richmond, VA
October, 2007 

-Ghost Whisperer Producer/Director John Gray, Touchstone Television Productions/CBS
September, 2006 episode 251 

-Tusculum Review Mary Boyes and Richard Greenfield, editors,
Greeneville,TN,Volume 2, 2006, 74-76. 

-Andrew Engelson “Visual Art Picks: James Cicatko”, Seattle Weekly, Seattle, WA
July 20-26, 2005, 70. 

-Emanuele Rebuffini “ Atelier 31 a Torino”, Giovani Artisti Italiani,
Torino, Italy, November, 2004 

 -William Butler Yeats Complete
Poems painting used for book cover, Indialog Publications Debasmita Majumdar editor New Delhi, India September, 2004. 

-Fionne Meade editor “2004 GAP award recipients”, Artist Trust
Journal Seattle, WA, volume XI, no. 2, Summer 2004 

-Andrew Engelson “Visual Art Picks” Seattle Weekly Seattle, WA
January 7-13, 2004, 60. 

-Florence Tonk “Amerika krijgt meer en meer een cultuur van censuur” Extra! Amsterdam, Netherlands number 20-21
August 1, 2003 

-Lissa Brennan “Human Nature”
The Spectator Raleigh, NC
June 26-July 2, 2002, 30. 

-Mark Hornburg “Best Bets”
The Independent Raleigh, NC
June 12-18, 2002, 37. 

-Michael Marshall catalogue editor “2002 National Drawing Exhibition” University of
Hawaii Hilo, Hawaii
February 4, 2002, 19.

Grants 

Innovative Arts Education Grant, Ministry of Ontario, York University, Toronto, Ontario
2016

Washington State Artist Trust GAP Grant
2004, 2013