John Folsom | CV
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2021
Hidell Brooks, Recent Works, Charlotte, North Carolina
2019
Mason-Scharfenstein Museum of Art, The Vanishing, Demorest, Georgia
Hidell Brooks Gallery, Recent Works, Charlotte, North Carolina
2018
Hathaway Contemporary, The Vanishing, Atlanta, Georgia
2017
Hidell Brooks, Recent Works, Charlotte, North Carolina
2016
Hathaway Contemporary, Framework and View, Atlanta, Georgia
Callan Contemporary, Coastal Cartography, New Orleans, Louisiana
2015
Pryor Fine Art, New Works, Atlanta, Georgia
2014
New Zones Gallery, Diminishing Returns, Calgary, Canada
Tinney Contemporary, Sea Change, Nashville, Tennessee
2013
Callan Contemporary, Creeper Lagoon, New Orleans, Louisiana
Pryor Fine Art, Creeper Lagoon, Atlanta, Georgia
2012
Tinney Contemporary, Anodyne Frontiers, Nashville, Tennessee
Blue Gallery, How To Disappear Completely, Kansas City, Missouri
2011
Marietta Cobb Museum of Art – Summering At The End of Empire, Marietta, Georgia
Vanderbilt University – Lure of the Low Country, Sarratt Gallery, Nashville, Tennessee
2010
Gibbes Museum of Art – Lure of the Low Country, Charleston, South Carolina
Zeitgeist Gallery – A Year Without A Summer : 1816, Nashville, Tennessee
New Zones Gallery – solo exhibition, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
2009
Lanoue Fine Art - solo exhibition. Boston, Massachusetts
2008
New Zones Gallery – Souvenirs , Calgary, Canada
Fay Gold Gallery – Lure of the Low Country, Atlanta, Georgia
2007
Lanoue Fine Art – solo exhibition, Boston, Massachusetts
Zeitgeist Gallery – solo exhibition, Nashville, Tennessee
2006
Fay Gold Gallery – solo exhibition, Atlanta, Georgia
Blue Gallery – solo exhibition, Kansas City, Missouri
2005
New Zones Gallery – solo exhibition, Calgary, Canada
Cumberland Gallery – solo exhibition, Nashville, Tennessee
2004
Fay Gold Gallery – solo exhibition, Atlanta, Georgia
2003
Volunteer State College – solo exhibition, Gallatin, Tennessee
2002
Blue Gallery – solo exhibition, Kansas City, Missouri
The Lowe Gallery – solo exhibition, Atlanta, Georgia
1999
Yeiser Art Center – solo exhibition, Paducah, Kentucky
1995
Cheekwood Museum of Fine Art – Two Beauties, solo exhibition, Nashville, Tennessee
Selected Group Exhibitions
2021
Telfair Museums, Complex Uncertainties:Artists in Postwar America, Savannah, Georgia
2019
Foley Gallery, Truth Lies Beyond, New York, New York
The Bascom Center for Art, Rhythm Systems, Highlands, North Carolina
2015
Mobile Museum of Art, The New Landscape, Mobile, Alabama
David Lusk Gallery, Mash-Up; Artists Do Cardboard, Nashville, Tennessee
2010
U.S. Ambassador to Africa. Art in Embassies Exhibition, African Union, Ethiopia
2006
Museum Works Gallery – “Defining Nature”, group exhibition, Los Angeles, California
2003
The Etherton Gallery – New Photography, Tucson, Arizona
2001
Side by Side – Juried Invitational, Belfast, Northern Ireland
Residencies & Grants
2014 The Banff Centre – Artist in Residence, Banff, Alberta, Canada
2012 Hambidge Center – Creative Residency Program, Rabun Gap, Georgia
2012 Fulton County Arts Council – Scholarship Award, Atlanta, Georgia
2001 Christoph Merian Foundation – Artist in Residence, Weil Am Rhein, Germany
1997 Christoph Merian Foundation – Artist in Residence, Arlesheim, Switzerland
1996 Tennessee Arts Commission - Individual Artist Fellowship, Nashville, Tennessee
1995 Metro Arts Commission – Studio Grant Recipient, Nashville, Tennessee
Collections
Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, South Carolina
Telfair Museums, Savannah, Georgia
Collection of Jon and Tracey Stewart
MCC Collection, Nashville, Tennessee
Ayers Foundation Collection, Nashville, Tennessee
Collection of Lucinda Bunnen
Atlanta Botanical Gardens, Atlanta, Georgia
Tennessee State Museum, Nashville, Tennessee
Christoph Merian Foundation, Basel, Switzerland
Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, Tennessee
Terminus, Atlanta, Georgia
RCA Records, Nashville, Tennessee
King and Spalding, Atlanta, Georgia
Fulton County Arts Council, Atlanta, Georgia
Sprint PCS Communications Company, Kansas City, Missouri
Coral Energy Incorporated, Calgary, Canada
Progress Energy Incorporated, Raleigh, North Carolina
Monarch Incorporated, Atlanta, Georgia
Dollar General Corporation, Nashville, Tennessee
Bibliography
Sirlin, Deanna, “John Folsom: In Dialogue” The Art Section, October, 2020
Feaster, Felicia, “Two artists at Hathaway look at nature in its diversity”, The Atlanta Journal Constitution, November 29, 2016
Brantley, Rebecca, “Hathaway’s ‘Cosmic Nostalgia’ and ‘Framework and View’, bond to the natural world”, Arts ATL, December 5, 2016
Bookhardt, D. Eric, “Works by David Armentor and John Folsom”, The Gambit, July 16, 2013
Unconventional: Nashville's Music City Center (The Convention Center Authority of the Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson Center © 2013)
Oxford American, Summer 2013, P33, (Reproduction)
Jones, Michele, “Anodyne Frontiers”, The Tennessean, June 1, 2012
Siegel, Jerry, “Facing South: Portraits of Southern Artists”, P98
Feaster, Felicia, “John Folsom’s Spooky Southern Landscapes at Marietta Cobb Museum of Art”, Arts ATL, 2011
Outlaw, Adrienne, “Southern Charm With a Twist”, Arts Now Nashville, September 2011
Ridley, Jim, Critics Picks, Nashville Scene, September 2007
LaFerriere, Catherine, John Folsom: Recent Works, ArtScope Magazine, September 2007
Cole-Miller, Julie, Southern Accents, September-October 2006
Hoppen, Stephanie, Picture Perfect: Collecting Art and Photography, 2004 London: Aurum Press Limited.
Architectural Digest, “Art across America”, May 2003
Ryesky, Helen, “Painterly Landscapes at Pentimenti”, Art Matters, November 2000
Wall, Donna Dorian, “At Home in the Landscape”, Southern Accents, Sept.-Oct.2000, P114
New American Paintings, June - July 2000
Smith, Terri, Plus Four, Art Papers, March – April 2000
Education
1990
Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois,
Bachelor of Fine Arts – Cinema and Photography