EDUCATION
2003 MFA Painting, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL
1999 BFA Painting, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS
1999 Study Abroad Program, Norwich School of Art and Design, Norwich, England
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025 Emergent Strategies: In Defense of Weeds - Stand4 Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2024 A World of Our Own – Wichita State University, Wichita, KS (two-person exhibition)
2024 Uprooted – Washington State University, Pullman, WA
2023 Terra Infirma – Cullis Wade Depot Gallery, Mississippi State University, MS
2009 Dwellings: The Seduction of Space – I space, Chicago, IL (catalog)
2009 Relocation – Harper College, Palatine, IL
2007 On Unstable Ground – Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL
2007 Finding Place – Chapman Gallery, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS
2006 Finding Place – Moraine Valley Community College, Palos Hills, IL
2006 Structured Growth – Johnsonese Gallery, Chicago, IL (two-person exhibition)
SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 Art of the South – Stoveworks, Chattanooga, TN
ArtFields – Lake City, SC
Transmissions – Eco Art Space, (online)
2023 In the Middle with You – The Middle Room Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
work-in-progress, vol. iii – Intermission Museum of Art, New York, NY
Mississippi Invitational – Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS (catalog)
Mother Nature/Mother Nurture – Samford Art Gallery, Birmingham, AL
Breaking Ground – Annmarie Sculpture Garden & Art Center, Solomons, MD
Faculty Exhibition – University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS
2022 Art of the South – Zeitgeist, Nashville, TN
WILDERNESS – Manifest Creative Research Gallery and Drawing Center, Cincinnati, OH
Masur Museum's 59th Juried Competition – Masur Museum of Art, Monroe, LA
LaGrange Southeast Regional Exhibition – LaGrange Art Museum, LaGrange, GA
Positive/Negative 37 – Slocumb Gallery, ESTU, Johnson City, TN (catalog)
2021 Current – Whitespace, Edinburgh, UK
WHERE – Manifest Creative Research Gallery and Drawing Center, Cincinnati, OH
12th Drawing Discourse – University of North Carolina Ashville, Ashville, NC
2021 SECAC Juried Exhibition – University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY
Faculty Exhibition – University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS
FATE: Infrastructure 2021 – Virtual Exhibition
Featured Artist – studioELL Flatfile, Brooklyn, NY
2020 Paper Talks – studioELL, Brooklyn, NY
Featured Artist – studioELL Flatfile, Brooklyn, NY
SPACE: 2020 Juried Exhibition – Athens Institute for Contemporary Art, Athens, GA
2015 Dadu: Conversations – Nashville, TN
2013 Draw(n) Out – George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
2012 inLINE – galleryELL, Brooklyn, NY
2011 Transient Landscape – Governor’s Island, New York, NY
Dwell – Cazenovia College, Cazenovia, NY
element – progress – Spool MFG, Binghamton, NY
Art Matters – Harper College, Palatine, IL
Let There Be Art – Columbus Museum, Columbus, GA
The Draw Project – Valdosta State University, Valdosta, GA
Faculty Exhibition- Illges Gallery, Columbus State University, Columbus, GA
2010 galleryELL @ The Loading Dock - Brooklyn, NY
2009 Color Matters – South Shore Art Center, Cohasset, MA
Faculty Exhibition- Illges Gallery, Columbus State University, Columbus, GA
2008 McCormick Place West Expansion Art Collection - Chicago, IL
2007 More Noyes - Noyes Cultural Arts Center, Evanston, IL
Craftsmanly Conceptualism – Johnsonese Gallery, Chicago, IL
Bridge Art Fair 2007- Johnsonese Gallery, Chicago, IL
2006 Collect All Four – Byron Cohen Gallery, Kansas City, MO
18th Evanston + Vicinity Biennial 2006 – Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL
Winter Selections – Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Introspection – Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Faculty Exhibition – Northeastern Illinois University Gallery, Chicago, IL
2005 Mind in Matter: Construction of the Built Environment – Open Source, Champaign, IL
Faculty Exhibition – Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, IL
NOLA Aid – Johnsonese Gallery, Chicago, IL
2004 Faculty Exhibition – Northeastern Illinois University Gallery, Chicago, IL
59TH Juried Exhibition – Sioux City Art Center, Sioux City, IA
2003 Tracked and Tracking – I space, Chicago, IL
MFA Thesis Exhibition – Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, IL
2002 Location, Location, Location – I space, Chicago, IL & Transit Space, London, England
2000 Today in Eight Parts – I space, Chicago, IL
1999 Serving Up Art – Willard Gallery, Manhattan, KS
Foreign Bodies – Norwich School of Art and Design, Norwich, England
PUBLIC COMMISSIONS
2006-08 McCormick Place West Expansion, Chicago, IL
HONORS AND AWARDS
2024 Individual Artist Career Grant - South Arts
2024 Puffin Grant – The Puffin Foundation
2024 Isom Fellowship – University of Mississippi
2023 Individual Artist Mini-grant – Mississippi Arts Commission
2023 Juror's Award – Breaking Ground, Ann Marie Sculpture Garden & Art Center
2022 Individual Artist Fellowship – Mississippi Arts Commission
2022 Purchase Award – Lamar Dodd Art Center at LaGrange College
2011 College of the Arts Faculty Service Award – Columbus State University
2010 Individual Contribution in Creative Research Award – Columbus State University
2009 Joan Mitchell Foundation Full Fellowship, Vermont Studio Center – Johnson, Vermont
2008 College of Arts and Letters Faculty Development Grant – Columbus State University
2008 Community Arts Assistance Program Grant, City of Chicago, Department of Cultural Affairs
2005 Community Arts Assistance Program Grant, City of Chicago, Department of Cultural Affairs
2002 New American Paintings, MFA Annual
2002 Master’s Thesis Project Grant – University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
2000- 2002 Brodie Grant/ Fellowship – University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
LECTURES / PRESENTATIONS
2024 Visiting Artist Lecture – Wichita State University, Wichita, KS
2024 Visiting Artist Lecture – Washington State University, Pullman, WA
2023 Visiting Artist Lecture – Mississippi State University, Starkville, MS
2023 Artist Talk – Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS
2023 Panel Discussion – Samford University, Birmingham, AL
2013 FATE Biennial National Conference – Savannah, GA
2013 Curatorial Lecture – Drawn Out - George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
2013 Collector's Roundtable – Workhouse Art Center, Lorton, VA
2011 FATE Regional Conference – Carrollton, GA
2010 Southeastern College Art Conference – Richmond, VA
2009 Artist Talk – Harper College, Palatine, IL
2007 Artist Talk – Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS
2006 Artist Talk – Byron Cohen Gallery, Kansas City, MO
2006 Artist Lecture – Moraine Valley Community College, Palos Hills, IL
BIBLIOGRAPHY
F-Stop Magazine, “Art, Climate Crisis, & Personal Journeys: Allison Grant Talks with Kariann Fuqua”, September 2023
Lucas, Sherry. Mississippi Free Press, “2023 Mississippi Invitational Addresses the ‘Gulfs Among Us’, July 2023
Number:104, “Art of the South”, October 2022 (Image p.20)
https://news.olemiss.edu/professor-granted-visual-artist-fellowship/,
November 2022
https://www.studioell.org/flatfile/
Wurster, Lisa. The Artist’s Magazine, “Mapping the Spaces Between” October 2008
Goldgaber, Debbie. CS Interiors, “Un-Conventional Art”, Fall 2007
Wurster, Lisa. The Artist’s Magazine, “25 Under 40”, March 2007
Isaacs, Deanna. Chicago Reader, “And the Winners Are…”, October 6, 2006
Foster, Tara. Exhibition review: Structured Growth. www.urbanpollution.com July 2006
Peregrin, Tony. UR Magazine, “30 Under 30”, Volume 8- Issue 9, September 2005
www.orangesideout.com- a website for selected emerging artist
New American Paintings, 2002 MFA Annual
RESIDENCIES
2023 Virginia Center for the Creative Arts – Amherst, VA
2020 Stay Home Residency – Paris, TN
2011 Artist in Residence – Governor’s Island, New York, NY
2009 Vermont Studio Center – Johnson, Vermont
COLLECTIONS
Harper College – Palatine, IL
McCormick Place – Chicago, IL
Lamar Dodd Art Center at LaGrange College - GA
Private Collections in New York, Boston, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Dallas, Houston, and Chicago
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2019- Instructional Assistant Professor, University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS
2014-19 Lecturer, Rice University, Houston, TX
2012-14 Curator of Collections and Gallery Director, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
2008-11 Assistant Professor, Columbus State University, Columbus, GA
2004-08 Lecturer, Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago, IL
2004-08 Gallery Assistant, I space, Chicago, IL
2005 Adjunct Assistant Professor, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL