Chad Robert Collofello

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My work investigates the connections between humanity and the natural world, focusing on unity and viewer participation to question the forces that divide us. Grounded in personal experience, I draw from memory, loss, and discovery to create immersive, multi-sensory productions that challenge perception and invite reflection.

“Chad Robert Collofello’s path is shaped by persistence and recalibration, but more than anything, it reflects a deep commitment to connection—across disciplines, across geographies, and across phases of life. His story reminds us that creative roots don’t just anchor us—they evolve with us, branching out in new directions.” - Kelsey DeGreef for Normal Roots

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Legerdemain

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Legerdemain

Charcoals, ink, walnut ink, gouache, wine, acrylic paint, artificial vellum, on raw canvas

60 X 50 X 5 inch

This concept questions the use of modified seeds and the continued restriction of access to nonmodified seeds. Why are Indigenous Peoples’ food systems and seed management practices threatened by industrially produced food, restrictive seed laws, intellectual property claims, and gene modification? The use of most modified seeds is to withstand toxic pesticides that are also contributing to the extinction of bees and other insects and to human illness, all stemming from poisons created for warfare.

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Imposter

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Imposter

Charcoals, gouache, acrylic gesso, on BFK Reeves Paper

30 X 23 X inch

This concept questions the value of those who deceive others for fraudulent or selfish gain through the metaphor of the discarded beauty of the dangerously invasive false dandelion.

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Diadem

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Diadem

Charcoal, Black Walnut Ink, Gouache, Walnut Oil Paint, Gesso on Canvas

40 X 30 X 2 inch

This concept redefines sovereignty not as a fixed, independent authority, but as a dynamic, self-determined capability for conscious action and self-expression within a connected world.

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Alliance

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Alliance

plus light and Silver Maple Tree Branch, Wire, Clay, Acrylic Paint, Black Walnut Ink, and Walnut Oil Paint Illumination lighting: Recovered Materials

56 X 32 X 18 inch

This concept reconnects the viewer to what is missing in this alliance through playful interaction with light and shadow, using material and content to question the integral role humans play in their own ecology.

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Overlook

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Overlook

Continuous Loop Materials: Reclaimed wood, Found Objects, Media Player, Digitally Captured and Mixed Audio & Video, Responsive Light

96 X 36 X 12 inch

This concept combines the visual, physical object with audio and distorted video, reflecting on the endangered natural habitats of native songbirds in the Midwest, which are continually encroached upon and increasingly dependent on human intervention.

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Identity

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Identity

Charcoal, Acrylic paint, on Paper

23 X 30 X inch

Considering the challenge of discovering one's personal identity compounded by having a twin sibling.

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Quarantine

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Quarantine

Charcoals and Gouache on Canvas

30 X 60 X 2 inch

This concept attempts to be a reflection of living with ADHD and the self-isolation that can occur from the difficulty in doing what feels like the most important or perhaps the most prioritized things. The paradox is that the more one desires to accomplish something, the more difficult it is to ever complete, perhaps even begin.

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Respirator

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Respirator

Charcoal, Coffee, Gouache on Stretched Canvas

36 X 24 X 1.5 inch

This concept questions the paradox of pharmaceutical health, nature, and the true causes of noxious substances.

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Current Exhibitions

15.01.2026 - 26.03.2026
Ohio+5, Dairy Barn Art Center ,8000 Dairy Lane Athens, OH 45701 JURORS: Gustavo Uriel Ayala, Assistant Professor, Michigan State University. Michael Litzau, Associate Professor, Berea College. M Pofahl, Gallery Director, Herron School of Art + Design, Indiana University.

Upcoming Exhibitions

24.04.2026 - 14.06.2026
SEE ● TOUCH ● BUILD, Dairy Barn Art Center ,8000 Dairy Lane Athens, OH 45701

Past Exhibitions

06.06.2025 - 25.07.2025
Radiance, ADC Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio JURORS: Litza Spanos, Sylvia Rombis, Amy Scalia, Annie Kautz, Chance Smith

17.04.2025 - 21.04.2025
Reawakened, Interconnections with Our Surroundings, Majestic Gallery, Nelsonville, Ohio

01.07.2022 - 30.07.2022
Isolates, Lolo Pass Hotel Gallery, Portland, Oregon

04.03.2022 - 01.04.2022
Nothing Like an Original, The Crow’s Foot Gallery, Albany, Oregon

07.01.2022 - 25.02.2022
With Bated Breath, Three Person Exhibition, The Corridor Gallery, Vancouver, Washington

04.06.2021 - 25.06.2021
BLAST, Art Competition and Virtual Exhibition, The Holy Art Art Gallery, London, England

02.04.2021 - 30.04.2021
The Packard Group National Exhibition, Juried Exhibition, The Packard Group Window Gallery, Vermillion, North Dakota, JUROR: Claire Lockheart

05.03.2021 - 02.04.2021
Chad Robert Collofello- Interspatial II (New Work), The Crow’s Foot Gallery, Albany, Oregon

04.07.2025 - 29.08.2025
Impressions- Group Print Exhibition, Main Street Gallery, West Chicago, Illinois, Juried Curation by David Linneweh

20.01.2021 - 20.02.2021
The Era of Change, The Visionary Projects Gallery, New York, New York

28.08.2020 - 25.09.2020
New Artists, September, The Crow’s Foot Gallery, Albany, Oregon

02.10.2020 - 30.10.2020
The Era of Seclusion, The Visionary Projects Gallery, New York, New York

07.09.2018 - 03.11.2018
Interspatial, Focus Gallery, Bush Barn Art Center, Salem, Oregon

Chad Robert Collofello

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