Venues for Jodi Hays's solo exhibitions include David Lusk Gallery (Memphis and Nashville), Night Gallery (Los Angeles), Vanderbilt University (Nashville), Johnson Lowe Gallery (Atlanta), and Red Arrow Gallery (Nashville). Two person show venues include Susan Inglett (New York), Devening Projects (Chicago), and the University of Mississippi. Selected group shows include Brooks Museum (Memphis), Ortega y Gasset Projects (New York), The Jones Institute (San Francisco), and Boston Center for the Arts.
In 2025 she was awarded a residency at Yaddo. Additional residencies include The Cooper Union, Oxbow, Hambidge, and Vermont Studio Center, and wait listed twice for the Sharpe Foundation (New York). Her work has been supported by the New York Foundation for Contemporary Art, NYFA/the Rauschenberg Foundation, Tennessee Arts Commission, Center for Craft, and more.
Guest lectures and teaching include Tennessee State University, Belmont University, Pratt, University of Pennsylvania, Vanderbilt University, Eastern Michigan University, Shakerag, SMFA Tufts, University of North Carolina (Greensboro), University of Tennessee (Chattanooga), and more.
(abbreviated, download full CV above)
SELECTED SOLO SHOWS
2025 Johnson Lowe Gallery, Atlanta
2025 David Lusk Gallery, Nashville/Memphis
2024 Vanderbilt University
2024 Scott Miller Projects, Birmingham
2022 Night Gallery, Los Angeles
2021 Zieher Smith, Nashville
2020 Browsing Room, Nashville
2019 Red Arrow, Nashville
2017 Red Arrow, Nashville
SELECTED AWARDS and RESIDENCIES
2025 Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, New York
2025 Howard Foundation Fellowship, Semi-Finalist
2025 White Columns Viewing Room
2024 Hambidge Center for the Creative Arts, Georgia
2023 NYFA Rauschenberg Foundation Grant
2022&3 Stove Works, Chattanooga, Tennessee
2020 The Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grant
2019 Hopper Prize, Short List
2014 The Sustainable Arts Foundation, Promise Award
2014 Clark Hulings Award Finalist
2012 Sharpe Walentas Studio Program, Wait List, New York
2012 The Drawing Center Viewing Program
2012 Tennessee Arts Commission, Individual Artist Fellowship
SELECTED GROUP and 2 PERSON SHOWS
2026 Frist Art Museum, Tennessee
2025 Real Tinsel, Milwaukee, WI
2025 Art Chicago with David Lusk Gallery
2025 GoodNaked and Middle Room, Los Angeles
2024 Ortega y Gasset, Brooklyn, New York
2024 McClain Gallery, Houston, Texas
2023 Torrance Museum of Art, Los Angeles
2023 Weatherspoon Museum of Art, North Carolina
2022 Susan Inglett Gallery, w/ Michi Meko, New York
2022 21 Museum, Nashville
2021 Intermission Museum, with Ayanah Moor
2020 Red Arrow Gallery, Breathless
2019 Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Greenville
2019 Fisk University
2018 Wiregrass Museum
2017 Boeker Contemporary, Germany
2015 Sluice Art Fair, London
2012 Grizzly Grizzly, Philadelphia
2011 Governors Island Art Fair, New York
2010 Art Chicago with TAG Art Gallery
2010 Loading Dock, Brooklyn
2007 Blutenweiss, Berlin
2007 Cooper Union School of Art, New York
SELECTED PRESS + BIBLIOGRAPHY
2024 New York Times, Jill Steinhauer
2023 Sound and Vision
2023 Oxford American, Robert Grand
2023 Two Coats of Paint, Jenny Casey
2022 New American Paintings, No. 154
2022 Art Spiel, Night Gallery, Jac Lahav
2020 New Art Examiner, Art Itself Is Protest, Red Arrow
2020 ArtForum International, Critic’s Pick
WRITING + PROJECTS + ARTIST BOOKS
Podcast: Visual Quitter, 2025
Interview: Leeza Meksin, show catalog
Review: Lovie Olivia, Nashville Scene
Artist Book: The Find, Night Gallery
Review: Matt Christy, Number Inc Magazine
Essay: Hyperallergic
Essay: Number Inc. Magazine
Artist Book: Keeper, Red Arrow
Review: Tops Gallery, Number Inc Magazine
Production Manager: Pope.L’s Re-Enactor
SELECTED CURATORIAL
2024 Tinney Contemporary, The Sink
2020 Curating Contemporary, The Stars We Steer By
2017 Packing Plant, Eyes Like Enemies
2014 Selvedge, with Laura Hutson Hunter
2013 COOP Gallery, Jane Fox Hipple
2007-11 Tennessee State University, ReEnactor, Community Organizer for PopeL
other projects with Hank Willis Thomas, Carl Pope, Aisha Cousins and Sean Leonardo
EDUCATION
Master of Fine Arts in Visual Art, Vermont College of Fine Art
Bachelor of Fine Arts with Honors in Drawing, Minor in Painting, The University of Tennessee
Foundations, Silas H. Rhodes Scholarship, School of Visual Arts
(image: Ashley Holstein)