Colton Rothwell

2022 - BFA in Studio Arts, The University of Montana, Magna Cum Laude, Minor in Journalism

Selected Workshop Participant - Ron Jude: Landscape in the 21st Century, FotoFilmic, Bowen Island, BC, August 2023 

Visitor Engagement Security Officer - The Missoula Art Museum, Missoula, Montana, Oct. 2022 - May 2023

Studio Assistant - Sarah Jones Studio, Missoula, Montana, 2022

Gallery Assistant - UC Gallery, Missoula, Montana, 2022 

Photography Manager -The Wilderness Institute, Missoula, Montana, 2021, 2022 

Graphic Designer - Montana Kaimin, Missoula, Montana  2021 

Staff Photographer - Montana Kaimin, Missoula, Montana, 2019 

Student Evaluation Committee - University of Montana School of Visual and Media Arts, Missoula, Montana, Fall 2019 

Photo Assistant - Ellen B. Hansen, Los Angeles, California, Nov. 2019

Rewilding the Body Eclectic Led by Zachari Logan, The Banff Centre, Nov-Dec 2023 

The Blue of Distance - Love Child Gallery, Missoula, Montana, 2023

Masculinity and Other Landscapes - Eloise Knowles Gallery, The University of Montana, Missoula, 2022 

Our Own Private Idaho, - Eloise Knowles Gallery , The University of Montana, Missoula, 2021 

“Thoughts from the Desert,” - Catalyst Cafe and Lake Missoula Tea Company, Missoula, Montana, 2019

Allez Group Mural Show, Allez, Missoula, MT, 2023

Emerging Vision: Biennial Student Show, Colorado Photographic Arts Center, Denver, Colorado, 2022

De-Constructed, UC Gallery, Missoula, Montana, 2022

Androtrauma, UC Gallery, Missoula, Montana, 2022

THREAD, Manifest Gallery, Cincinatti, Ohio, 2022

The University of Montana's Annual BFA Exhibition, Missoula, Montana, 2022

Texas Photographic Society's #NewVisions2022 Student Competition - Houston, Texas, 2022

Not The World We Used to Know, UC Gallery, Missoula, Montana, 2022 

26th and 25th Annual Student Juried Exhibition - The University of Montana Gallery ofVisual Arts, Missoula, 2020, 2021

“Downtown” Group Exhibition - The Frontier Space, Missoula, Montana, 2020 

“Visibly Invisible” Group Exhibition - UC Gallery, Missoula, Montana, 2019 

“Emerging Artist’s Collection” Group Show - 1st Place Photography, ArtSource Gallery, Boise, Idaho, 2018

Montana Museum of Art and Culture, Missoula, Montana 

Pictures & Songs, Booooooom, 2023

“Elegy” by Photographer Colton Rothwell, Booooooom, 2023 

JRNL 18 - Fotofilmic, Fall 2023 

'The Blue of Distance': Photographer threads stitches into a deep-blue medium - The Missoulian, June 2023

Making pictures in an upturned world - Reynolds Journalism Institute, The University of Missouri, June 2022 

Milk 004 - Milk Biyearly Zine, Spring 2020 

Surrender - #147 Edition of SHOTS Magazine, 2020

Grant Recipient - Aperture and Google's Creator Labs Photo Fund, 2023

Finalist - The Hopper Prize, Spring 2023

75th College Photographer of the Year Competition - Silver, Bronze, and Two Awards of Excellence, 2020 

Grant Recipient - Alexa Rose Artist Foundation, 2017 and 2019