on·go·ing
adjective: on-going
continuing; still in progress.
EDUCATION
2012-2016 B.F.A. University of North Texas, New Media Studio Arts
SOLO / TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2022 Three Dollar Bill with Chuck & George, Cluley Projects, Dallas, Texas 2021 Hold Me Close, Squeeze Me Tight, Odyssey Studios, Dallas, Texas 2019 Who’s Exploiting Who? with GIbson Regester, PLANT Gallery, Dallas, Texas 2016 Beautiful Creature: The Farewell Tour BFA Solo Exhibition, THE CAVE, UNT, Denton, Texas SPIT vol. 1 & 2, Dallas Performance Art Space, Dallas, Texas
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 Looking Back, Cluley Projects, Dallas, Texas
The Other Art Fair, Dallas Market Hall, Dallas, Texas
2022 INVERSE: Performance Art Festival, The Momentary, Bentonville, Arkansas
2020 Altar Egos: Avant to Leave this Planet, FWCAC, Fort Worth, Texas
2019 Cosmic to Corporeal: Contemporary Queer Performance Practices, The MAC, Dallas, Texas
The Paseo Project, Taos, New Mexico
Experimental Action: Performance Art Festival, Houston, Texas
2018 Drop The Act: A Night Of Happenings, Deep Vellum Bookstore, Dallas, Texas
2017 CURRENTS: INTERNATIONAL NEW MEDIA ARTS FESTIVAL, El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM
We Own the Night: An Evening of ARTS + CULTURE, Liliana Bloch Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2016 Shy Gestures, Voertmans Gallery, Denton, Texas
Procession, Cora Stafford Gallery, UNT, Denton, Texas
Re: exhibition notes, Brick Haus Collective, Denton, Texas
2015 WoC/Qtoc Art Show + Open Mic at Ash Studios, Dallas, Texas
SOMAesthetic VOID, Cora Stafford Gallery, UNT, Denton, Texas
nanoGalactic, Merrill Ellis Intermedia Theater, UNT, Denton, Texas
COLLABORATIVE PERFORMANCE / ART experience
2023 Performer in Oak Cliff Film Festival’s “Soup’s On”, Texas Theatre, Dallas, Texas
Talent Handler for Rebekah Del Rio, Texas Theatre, Dallas, Texas
2022 Installation Performer for P1nkstar concert, Denton, Texas
Contributing Designer for DIFFA, Dallas, Texas
Leather Apprentice for Harkensback, Dallas, Texas
2021 Talent Handler for Rebecca Del Rio, Texas Theatre, Dallas, Texas
Intern for Dallas Art Fair
Actor in “I AM BEAUTIFUL: Facebook Groups” Commercial, Austin, Texas
2020 Performer in “Living Portraits of Abstract Rituals” by Christian Cruz, ex ovo Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2019 Performer in music video “Played” by Sudie 2018 Red Carpet Personality at the 56th Dallas American Advertisement Awards, Dallas, Texas 2017 Intern at Liliana Bloch Gallery in Dallas, Texas 2016 Dallas Biennial, Participant of Teresa Margolles performance piece Containers, The Box Co. Production Intern for CURRENTS: International New Media Arts Festival, Santa Fe, NM Performer For Michaela Davies performance piece "DUTY",Santa Fe, New Mexico 2015 Participant for Nadia Kaabi-Linke’s “Walk the Line” Performance, Dallas Contemporary
AWARDS
2021 Recipient of The Arch & Anne Gilles Kimbrough Fund of the Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX 2018 Recipient of Nasher Artist Microgrant of the Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, TX
PRESS
2021 Christian Vasquez, “Breakthrough Performance: Colton James White conveys “trapped” feeling of pandemic”
2020 Anna Lowery, “Performance Artist Colton White is an Intimacy Activist”
2018 Brittany Griffiths, "Romantic Rodeo"
https://www.thisiswavelength.com/romanticrodeo
2017 Megan Bennett, "Currents New Media Festival displays evolving relationship between artists, technology"
https://www.abqjournal.com/1015292/currents-new-media-festival-opens.html