D. Dominick Lombardi

D. Dominick Lombardi (Bronx, New York 1954) is a visual artist, writer and art critic; the U.S. editor of dArt international magazine; as well as a curator. He was an art critic for the New York Times from 1998 to 2005.

D. Dominick Lombardi was born into the family of an Italian-American carpenter in the Bronx, NY in 1954. He worked in the family carpentry shop as a teenager.Currently he is an adjunct professor at Westchester Community College.

Artist

Lombardi has been exhibiting since 1977. Some of his exhibitions include:

• Art Cologne, Cologne, Germany 1989-92
• Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY 1989
• Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, MA 1991
• Silpakorn University Art Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand 1993
• Art Chicago, Chicago, IL 1993,
• Kunstraum, Cologne, Germany 1993 & 94
• Stamford Museum and Nature Center, Stamford, CT 1995 & 96
• Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY, Katonah, NY 1995, 98 & 2008
• San Bernardino County Museum, Redlands, CA, 1996
• Art/Ex Gallery/Stamford Museum, Stamford, CT 1997
• University of Connecticut Stamford Branch Gallery, Stamford, CT 2000
• Ketilhusid Museum, Akureyri, Iceland 2002
• Art Gallery, Marist College, Poughkeepsie, NY 2002
• Shore Institute of Contemporary Art (SICA), Long Branch, NJ 2004 & 05
• Delta Axis/Marshall Arts, Memphis, TN 2005
• CIGE/China International Gallery Exposition, Beijing, China, 2005
• Tenri Cultural Institute of New York, New York, NY 2005
• Museum of New Art, Detroit, MI 2007
• Art Commune, Hong Kong, China, 2007
• Morean Arts Center (was The Arts Center), St. Petersburg, FL 2007
• Blue Star Contemporary Art Center, San Antonio, TX 2008,
• Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL 2009
• Artlexis, Brooklyn, NY 2009
• Housatonic Museum of Art, Bridgeport, CT, 2009
• University of Massachusetts Amherst, Central Gallery, Amherst, MA 2010
• "Under the Influence: The Comics and Contemporary Art" Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx, NY
• "Recontextualizing the Found" Anya and Andrew Shiva Gallery, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York, NY

Articles and reviews of his art have been printed in many publications, including Sculpture magazine, ARTnews, The New York Times, Time Out New York, NY ART BEAT, The M magazine, Post Road Magazine, WHITEHOT and Zing.

Lombardi is represented by the Kim Foster Gallery, New York City.

Post Apocalyptic Tattoo

Lombardi is best known for the Post Apocalyptic Tattoo series which spanned the decade between 1998 to 2008 which culminated in two one-man shows. The first exhibition in 2008, was held at Blue Star Contemporary Art Center in San Antonio, TX, titled “The Post Apocalyptic Tattoo: A Ten Year Survey”. The second exhibition was held at the Housatonic Museum of Art in Bridgeport, CT, opened in September 2009.

Critic

Lombardi's features and art criticisms have been published in The New York Times, ARTslant, Art in Asia (S. Korea), Public Art and Ecology (China), Art Experience NYC, Sculpture, Sculpture Review, d’ART (U.S. Editor), Art Papers, Art Lies, ARTnews, & magazine, Art New England and culturecatch.com among others. His reviews and feature articles for The New York Times appeared between 1998and 2005.

Curator

Lombardi has curated a variety of exhibitions in museums and galleries across the U. S.

• HEAD, Bosi Contemporary
• Eye on the Storm, Rob Rauschenberg Gallery, The Housatonic Museum

• In Their Own World
• Kerosene Garden
• Monkey Spoon
• Anonymous

Other curatorial projects include ‘Nature Calls,’ ‘Suspect Reason,’ ‘Fear is a Four Letter Word,’ ‘Speaking in Strings: Ken Butler and Kurt Coble,’ ‘Over the Top - Under the Rug,’ ‘One Night Stand - The Sex Show,’ ‘The Waking Dream,’ ‘The Tradition of Icons,’ and ‘Champions of Modernism: Non-Objective Art of the 1930s & 40s and Its Legacy.’