VADIS TURNER | CV
EDUCATION
MFA and BFA, Boston University, Boston, MA
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023
Abroms-Engel Institute for Visual Arts, Birmingham, AL
Whitespace, Atlanta, GA
2022
Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, AL
OZ Arts, Nashville, TN
Zeitgeist Gallery, Nashville, TN
2020
Geary, New York, NY
Set for The Nashville Ballet at Tennessee Performing Arts Center, Nashville, TN
2019
Marie Walsh Sharpe Gallery of Contemporary Art, Ent Center for the Arts, curated by Daisy McGowan, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, CO
2018
Zeitgeist Gallery, Nashville, TN
2017
Expo Chicago, Geary, Chicago, IL
The Frist Art Museum,curated by Katie Delmez, Nashville, TN
2016
Geary, New York, NY
2015
David Lusk Gallery, Memphis, TN
David Lusk Gallery, Nashville, TN
2014
Dunedin Fine Art Center, Dunedin, FL
Wythe Hotel, Brooklyn, NY
21st St Projects, New York, NY
2013
Geary Contemporary, New York, NY
Materials for the Arts, Queens, NY
2011
Green Building Gallery, Louisville, KY
Rymer Gallery, Nashville, TN
Lyons Wier Gallery, New York, NY
2010
Quirk Gallery, Richmond, VA
2009
Green Building Gallery, Louisville, KY
Lyons Wier Gallery, New York, NY
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
Frist Art Museum, Nashville, TN
2023
Hand Over Hand: Textiles Today, Mindy Solomon, Miami, FL
Think Pinker, curated by Beth Rudin DeWoody, Gavlak Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Tennessee Triennial, Nashville, TN
Intent/Content, Susquehanna Art Museum, PA
Wiregrass Museum of Art, Dothan, AL
2022
Untitled Art, two-person show with Catherine Haggarty, Miami, FL
ZieherSmith, Nashville, TN
The Future is Female, 21C Museum Nashville, TN
Material Investment, The Bank, Newark, OH
Triennial: Divided We Fall, Kentucky Museum of Arts and Crafts, Louisville, KY
Materials for the Arts, New York, NY
The F Word, The Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, TN
Eraser, curated by Brian Edmonds, Ground Floor Contemporary, Birmingham, AL
2021
AbstracTenn, Channel to Channel, Chattanooga, TN
All The Pieces Matter, Studio Archive Project (virtual exhibition), curated by Leslie Roberts
Coast to Coast, Zeitgeist Gallery, Nashville, TN
2020
ZieherSmith at Virgin Hotel, Nashville, TN
The F Word: We Mean Female, The Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, TN
Shag, curated by Laura Hutson, Nashville TN
2019
57th Annual Juried Competition, curated by Allison Glenn, Masur Museum of Art, Monroe, LA
NADA, two-person exhibition with Kristine Woods, Geary Contemporary, Chicago, IL
Xanadu, Zeitgeist Gallery, Nashville, TN
Dangerously Close to Weaving, curated by Pam Taylor, Rymer Gallery, Nashville, TN
2018
The Continuity of Context, Cheekwood Museum, Nashville TN
Hunter Invitational IV, Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, TN
Vadis Turner & Nathaniel Donnett, Carnegie Center for Art & History, New Albany, IN
States of Matter, Zeitgeist Gallery, Nashville, TN
2017
Inaugural Exhibition, Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection, The Bunker, West Palm Beach, FL
Embedded Message, Visual Arts Center of Richmond, Richmond, VA
Confabulations of the Millennia, Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art, Portland, ME
Alicia Henry & Vadis Turner, Elevate Program, 21C Hotel, Nashville, TN
FemiNest, curated by Heather Zises and Melinda Wang, Equity Gallery, New York, NY
Ekphrasis, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
2016
Richard Feaster & Vadis Turner, Tibbott Art Center, University School of Nashville, Nashville, TN
2015
New Members, COOP Gallery, Nashville, TN
5 Rooms, curated by Vadis Turner & Karen Seapker, 509 3rd Ave, Nashville, TN
Summer Reading, Zieher Smith & Horton Pop-Up, Nashville, TN
Mash Up: Artists do Cardboard, David Lusk Gallery, Nashville, TN
Woman House, Eric Firestone Gallery, East Hampton, NY
Brooklyn Museum Artist Ball Auction, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
Velocity of Textiles, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA
2014
Minimal/Maximal, Kinz+ Tillou Fine Art, Brooklyn, NY
Convergence, 808 Gallery, Boston University, Boston, MA
Barely There, curated by Vadis Turner, Geary Contemporary, New York, NY
2013
Repetition & Ritual, Project Space at Minnesota Museum of American Art, St. Paul, MN
Jenkins Johnson Gallery, New York, NY
The Lonely Sea and Sky, Allegra LaViola Gallery, New York, NY
Off The Wall, Mirus Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Repetition and Ritual, Hudgens Center for the Arts, Atlanta, GA
Cold Castle, Family Business, New York, NY
2012
Ornamental, Grey Area at Coates Willie Gallery, New York, NY
Bad for You, curated by Beth Rudin DeWoody, Shizaru Gallery, London, England
Americana, Grey Area, New York, NY
Dismemberment Auction, FAMNYC and Phillps de Pury at the Intercourse, Brooklyn, NY
Material Matters, Lyons Wier Gallery, New York, NY
Haberdashery, Eric Firestone Gallery, East Hampton, NY
OMIT_Art Party, Whitney Museum of Art, New York, NY
Sound Quality, Grey Area, New York, NY
Sonando en Color, Rush Arts Gallery, New York, NY
Sutured, Like The Spice Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
The Exquisite Corpse, Essex Street Market, New York, NY
Heart Party, Grey Area, New York, NY
OMIT_ An Evening in Monte-Carlo, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC
2011
Grey Area Miami, Bass Art Museum, Miami, FL
Layer Current, Like the Spice Gallery, New York, NY
Curate NYC, online exhibitions curated by Eric C. Shiner, Danielle Burns and Courtney Wendroff Curate NYC, Rush Arts Gallery, New York, NY
Pillow Pageant, New Jersey Film Festival, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
BNA: Brooklyn to Nashville, Zieher Smith Gallery (NYC), Nashville, TN
Extreme Materials 2, Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY
24/7, Lyons Wier Gallery, New
Artists Ball, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
Hidden Cities, Women’s Caucus for Art, New Century Artists, NYC
Basic Instinct, Flanders Gallery, Raleigh, NC
We The Artists, National Museum and Art Gallery of Trinidad and Tobago
Here & Now, Lyons Wier Gallery, New York, NY
2010
Basic Instinct, Black and White Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Sixth Borough, No Longer Empty, Governor’s Island, NY
PILLOW Pageant, A.I.R. Gallery, DUMBO Arts Festival, Brooklyn, NY
Critical Stitch, Union College, Schenectady, NY
Common Jive, Elizabeth Foundation For the Arts, New York, NY
Bunny Redux, Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburg, PA
2009
Spectrum 2009, Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, TN
In Stitches, curated by Beth Rudin DeWoody, Lelia Taghinia-Milani Heller Gallery, New York, NY
New Acquisitions, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
Remains of the Day, curated by Vadis Turner, Lyons Wier Gallery, New York, NY
Crafting Romance, Athens Institute for Contemporary Art, Athens, GA
Hanging by a Tread, Westchester Arts Council, Westchester, NY
Narrative Thread, Lyons Weir Gallery, New York, NY
Fashion Forward, Islip Art Museum, Islip, NY
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, AL
Soho House
Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, TN
Davidson County Courthouse, Nashville, TN
Tennessee State Museum, Nashville, TN
21C Museum, Louisville, KY
Kentucky Arts and Crafts Museum, Louisville, KY
Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
Egon Schiele Art Centrum, Cesky Krumlov, Czech Republic
Beth Rudin DeWoody
RESIDENCIES & AWARDS
2022
VSC Fellowship, Vermont Studio Center, Johnston, VT
2021
Current Art Fund Grant, a regranting program from the Andy Warhol Foundation through TriStar Arts
2020
Artist in Residence, Hambidge Center for the Arts, GA
Individual Artist Opportunity Grant, South Arts, Atlanta, GA
2019
Individual Artist Fellowship, Tennessee Arts Commission, Nashville, TN
2018
Artist in Residence, Corporation of Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY
2016
Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant
2014
Visiting Artist, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
2013
Artist Fellowship, Material For The Arts, Long Island City, NY
2012
Artist in Residence, Museum of Art and Design, New York, NY
2009
Project Grant, Barbara Deming Memorial Fund
2008
Brooklyn Museum Feminist Artist Database, Brooklyn, NY
2007
Egon Schiele Art Centrum, Cesky Krumlov, Czech Republic
BIBLIOGRAPHY
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“Ribbon Paintings and Flower Figures at the Rymer Gallery”, Nashville Arts Magazine, September 2011
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