Derek Cracco is Associate Professor of printmaking and computer graphics at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He received an MFA from Syracuse University in 1999 and BFA degree from Louisiana State University in 1996.

Cracco has participated in numerous exhibitions nationally and internationally including Digital Printmaking Now at the Brooklyn Museum of Art in NY, curated by Marilyn Kushner, the Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts Juried Annual, Love Ladies, New Jersey curated by Darsie Alexander, Assistant Curator Museum of Modern Art, and Printwork 99, Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY, juried by Claire Bell, Associate Curator of Prints and Drawings at the Guggenheim Museum, NY.
Cracco has been recognized for his innovative combination of traditional printmaking processes and computer graphics. His work has been purchased by several museums and by many private collections throughout the country and abroad.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2006 “Love”, D.O.C.S. Gallery of Contemporary Art, New Orleans, LA
2005 “Heartlands”, Rike Center Gallery, University of Dayton, Dayton, OH.

2004 “Heartlands”, Bare Hands Gallery, Birmingham, AL.

“Heartlands”, D.O.C.S. Gallery of Contemporary Art, New Orleans, LA

2003 *“States Apart”, Bonsack Gallery, St. Louis, MO
(Collaborative project with Thorsten Dennerline, Professor of Art. Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville)

“Derek Cracco : Recent Work”, Isis Gallery, University of Notre Dame,
South Bend, IN

2002 “Homecoming”, D.O.C.S. Gallery of Contemporary Art, New Orleans, LA

“Bones 2002”, Visual Arts Gallery, University of Alabama at Birmingham,
Birmingham, AL

2001 “Bones 2001”, Shades Gallery of Contemporary Art, Birmingham, AL

“Predator Prey Series”, Bare Hands Gallery, Birmingham, AL

1999 “Nature versus Nurture”, Isis Gallery, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2007 “Wrong Time Wrong Place” T.E.N.T. Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, NL

“Love or Lust” Steve Martin Studio, Miami, FL

“Group exhibition ”, Platform Gallery, Tucson, Arizona

2006
“Risky Business”, P.P.O.W. Gallery, New York, NY

“2006 National Spring Juried Exhibition”, Wayne Art Center, Wayne, PA

“Group exhibition ”, Platform Gallery, Tucson, Arizona

“Calender Months and Other Printed Matter”, University of southern Maine, Portland, Maine

2005
“Group exhibition ”, Platform Gallery, Tucson, Arizona

“The Saltline Biennial”, Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, Alabama

2004
“Alabama Contemporary: Variations in Form and Concept”,
Hardin Center for Cultural Arts, Gadsden, AL

2003
“Light Works”, Gallery 303, Georgia Southern University,
Statesboro, GA

2002
“G.o.r.a. inmotus”, Eyedrum Gallery, Atlanta, GA

“Gun Crazy”, Visual Arts Gallery, University of Alabama Birmingham, Birmingham, AL

“Switchyard”, Zeitgeist Gallery, Nashville, TN

2001
“Digital: Printmaking Now”, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY

“Photo 2001”, Monique Goldstrom Gallery, New York, NY

“Recent work: Derek Cracco and Joel Seah”, Lamar’s Gallery, Birmingham, AL

“Recent work: Derek Cracco and Benjy Davies”, Cowles Myler Collier Galleries, Wesleyan College, Macon, GA

“Faculty Exhibition”, Visual Arts Gallery, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Birmingham, AL

“Traveling Faculty Exhibition”, Eastern Shore Art Association, Fairhope, AL

2000 “Annual Juried Show”, Tennessee Valley Art Center, Tuscumbia, AL

“Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts and Sciences Juried Annual”,
Love Ladies, NJ

D.O.C.S. Gallery of Contemporary Art, New Orleans, LA
Director: Richard Nesbitt

Bare Hands Gallery, Birmingham, AL
Director: Wendy Jarvis

1999 “36th Juried Exhibition”, The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY

“Americas 2000”, Northwest Art Center, Minot State University, Minot, ND

“Print Work ’99”, Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY

“Large Scale Art Visual Arts Showcase”, John H. Mulroy Civic Center, Syracuse, NY

2006 Doug MacCash, Art Critic, “The Dark Side of Love”,
New Orleans Times Picayune, New Orleans, LA August 11, 2006

Catalog, Tommy McPherson, “Saltline Biennial 2005”,
Mobile Museum of Art

2005 Benjamin Kline, “UD Exhibit with Porn, Church Images Creating Debate”Dayton Daily News, Dayton, OH March 8,2005

Andrew Douglas, “Scandal at UD” WHIO TV7, Dayton, OH March 7, 2005

2004 James R. Nelson, “Cracco’s Art Reveals Culmination of a personal Journey”, Birmingham News, Birmingham AL, November 14, 2004

2002 James R. Nelson, “Art Uses Bones to Explore Humanity’s Nature, Function”, Birmingham News, Birmingham AL, January 20, 2002

James R. Nelson, “Cracco Exhibit Reveals Artist’s Versatility”,
Birmingham News, Birmingham AL, March 31,2002

2001 Catalog, Marilyn Kushner, “Digital: Printmaking Now”,
Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY

Abraham Lubelski, “Visual Dialog Project”
NY Arts Magazine, New York, NY, December 2001 pg. 92

James R. Nelson, “Cracco uses Various Images in Computer- Generated Art”, Birmingham News, Birmingham AL, July 22,2001

Jane Longshore, “Exhibitionism”,
Black and White, Birmingham, AL, June 2001

Leigh Anne Monitor, “Glimpse the Dark Side”,
Birmingham Post-Herald, Birmingham AL, July 2001 pg. B1

Chianti Cleggett, “Canvas”, Birmingham Magazine, Birmingham AL, July 2001

1999 Erica Lynn Huberty, “The Verdict: Remarkable,”
The Southampton Press, Southampton, NY, December 23,1999,
pg. B1

Chronogram, Cover Image (Laughing Stock),
Luminary Publishing, New Paltz, NY, July 1999

Catalog, International Digital Works on Paper,
McKissick Museum, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, 1999