JODI HAYS | CV
EDUCATION
2007 The Cooper Union School of Art, New York, summer resident
2006 Vermont College of Fine Art, Montpelier, MFA in Visual Art
1998 The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, BFA, Magna Cum Laude
1996 School of Visual Arts, Georgia, Inaugural Class Valedictorian, Silas. H. Rhodes Scholarship
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2022 Casey, Jenny Zoe,Two Coats of Paint, Inglett Gallery
2022 Open Studio Press, South 2021, New American Paintings, No. 154
2021 Ravitz, Sue, Painting on Porch, Flatfix, November 2022
2021 Hutson, Laura, Critic’s Pick, Nashville Scene, August 2021
2020 Weiner, Emily, Critic’s Pick, Art Forum International, May
2020 Wood, Kelli, In Tennessee, Art Itself Is Protest, New Art Examiner, Oct
2019 Acree, Cat, New Work by Jodi Hays Makes the Feminine Presence Elemental, Nash Scene
2018 Grand, Robert, In Defense of Subtlety, Burnaway, December 2018
2018 Erica Ciccarone, Painting as Loving Your Neighbor, Nashville Arts Magazine, January 2018
2017 Scala, Mark, Passion and Subjectivity: Artists as Curators, Nashville Arts Magazine, April
2016 Ciccarone, Erica, Studio Visit with Jodi Hays in Nashville, Burnaway, July 2016
2014 Kelly, Meghan, Echoes of Content Extended Visual Phrase, Nashville Arts Magazine
2013 Hutson, Laura, Studio Visit: Jodi Hays, Nashville Scene, April 2013
2012 Butler, Sharon, Report From Nashville, Two Coats of Paint, April 2012
AWARDS, GRANTS & RESIDENCIES
2023 Oxbow School of Art
2022 Stove Works Residency, Chattanooga, Tennessee
2021 Trillium Arts Residency, Artist Award, Mars Hill, North Carolina
2020 Grant, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, New York, New York
2020 Fellowship, Rose Library at Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia
2019 Finalist, Hopper Prize
2014 Grant, Sustainable Arts Foundation
2013 Finalist, Clark Huling Foundation for Emerging Artists
2012 Individual Artist Fellowship, Tennessee Arts Commission
2011 Grant, Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation
2009 Artist Fellowship, Vermont Studio Center
2007 Summer Resident, The Cooper Union School of Art
2006 Artist Fellowship, Vermont Studio Center
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, Arkansas
The Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama
Caster-Knott Building, Nashville
Music City Center, Nashville, Tennessee
National Parks of America
Pinnacle Bank
Studio Bank
Tennessee State Museum, Nashville, Tennessee
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee
2023 Six of One, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, Kentucky
2022 The Find, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, California
2021 Past Present, ZieherSmith, Nashville, Tennessee
2020 Outskirts, Browsing Room, Nashville, Tennessee
2019 Tend, Red Arrow Gallery, Nashville, Tennessee
2019 Plans, Covenant College, Nashville, Tennessee
2018 God Sees Through Houses, Lipscomb University, Nashville, Tennessee
2017 Keeper, Red Arrow Gallery, Nashville, Tennessee
2013 Supper Scraps, Tinney Contemporary, Nashville, Tennessee
2012 Strong in the Broken Places, Three Squared, Nashville, Tennessee
2011 Archival Spelunking, Metro Nashville Arts Commission, Nashville, Tennessee 2008 Jodi Hays, Jackson State University, Jackson, Mississippi
2007 Open, Jodi Hays, Drawing Room, Maine
2006 The Jodi Show, Thesis Exhibition, Vermont College of Fine Art, Vermont 2005 Window Seat, Cultural Organization of Lowell, Massachusetts
2025
Frist Art Museum, Nashville, Tennessee
2023
Everso, Dan Devening Projects, Chicago, Illinois 2015, two person
Work on Paper, Weatherspoon Museum of Art, Greensboro, North Carolina
Southxeast, Regional Triennial, Florida Atlantic University, Palm Springs, Florida
2022
The Burden of Wait, Susan Inglett Gallery, New York, New York, two person
The Future is Female, 21C Museum Nashville , Nashville, Tennessee
2021
*here/)t)here, Intermission Museum at Stand 4 Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
Porch Series, 57x57 arts, New York, New York, catalog
Teachable Moments, Stoveworks Museum, Chattanooga, Tennessee
2020
ZieherSmith@Virgin, ZieherSmith Gallery, Nashville, Tennessee
2019
Greetings from Nashville, James Madison University, Charlottesville Virginia
Before Your Eyes, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Greenville, South Carolin
615, Fisk University, Nashville, Tennessee
2018
Young Collectors Contemporary, Crosstown Arts, Memphis, Tennessee
2017
Art of the South, L Ross Gallery, Memphis, Tennessee, juror Mark Scala
Boecker Contemporary, Heidelberg, Germany, curator Jeffrey Cortland Jones
Painting Now, Florence Quatar Gallery, Southwestern University, Tucson, Arizona
Blutenweiss- Ram fur Kunst, Berlin, Germany
Sluice Art Fair, galleryELL, London, United Kingdom
2016
Encore, Ewing Gallery, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee
2014
Selvage, Tennessee State University, Laura Hutson (co-curator), Nashville, Tennessee
2013
Dog is in the Details, Grizzly Grizzly, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2011
Element/Progress, Spool MFG, Binghamton, New York, curator John Ros
Transient Landscape, Governors Island Art Fair, galleryELL, New York City, New York 2010
Art Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
Loading Dock, Brooklyn, New York, curator John Ros
2009
Drawings that Work, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, Massachusetts
2008
Buckets of Water, Red Door Gallery, Richmond, Virginia
2007
Cooper Union Residents Exhibition, Cooper Union, New York City, New York
Perspectives, Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, Tennessee
2005
New Talent, Michael Price Contemporary, Boston, Massachusetts