Jodi Hays (b. 1976, Arkansas, United States) is a painter who exhibits widely across the United States. Her work has been shown at in solo and two-person presentations at Night Gallery (LA), Susan Inglett Gallery (NY), Devening Projects (IL), Zieher Smith Gallery, Red Arrow Gallery, and more. Group shows include at venues such as Weatherspoon Museum of Art, Wiregrass Museum, the Brooks Museum, Fisk University, The Cooper Union School of Art, and more.
ArtForum International, New American Painting, Two Coats of Paint, Hyperallergic, ArtNews, and New Art Examiner are several publications that have featured her work. The Rauschenberg Foundation, Center for Craft, The Foundation for Contemporary Art, Sustainable Arts Foundation,Tennessee Arts Commission, and the Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation are among those who have awarded her grants and Fellowships. Residencies include The Cooper Union School of Art, Stove Works, Oxbow School of Art, Hambidge, and Vermont Studio Center.
Her paintings can be found in many public and corporate collections including the Birmingham Museum of Art, The Arkansas Museum of Fine Art, and The J Crew Group.
image courtesy of Logan Elder Photography
EDUCATION
2006 Master of Fine Arts | Vermont College of Fine Art
1998 Bachelor of Fine Art | University of Tennessee
1996 Foundations | School of Visual Arts
SELECTED SOLO and TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2023 Everso, Devening Projects, Chicago, with Katrin Schnable
2022 Night Gallery, Los Angeles
2022 The Burden of Wait, Susan Inglett Gallery, NY, with Michi Meko
2021 Past Perfect, ZieherSmith Gallery, Nashville
2020 Tend, Red Arrow Gallery, Nashville
2018 God Sees Through Houses, Lipscomb University
2017 Keeper, Red Arrow Gallery, Nashville
2014 Supper Scraps, Tinney Contemporary, Nashville
2011, Strong in the Broken Places, Three Squared, Nashville
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 southxeast Contemporary Art Triennial (Veronique Cote, curator)
2021 here/(t)here, Intermission Museum, Stand 4 Gallery, New York (J. Ros, curator)
2020 Porch Series, 57x57 arts, New York, New York (Sue and Al Ravitz)
2020 Space Case, Labspace, Hillsdale, New York, curators Ellen Letcher and Julie Torres
2019 Before Your Eyes, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Greenville, South Carolina
2016 Encore, Ewing Gallery, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee
2015 Sluice Art Fair, galleryELL, London, United Kingdom (John Ros, curator)
2014 Selvage, Tennessee State University, Nashville, Tennessee (Laura Hutson, curator)
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2023 Sound and Vision Podcast, August
2022 Casey, Jenny Zoe Casey, Two Coats of Paint
2021 Open Studio Press, South 2021, New American Paintings, No. 154
2021 Ravitz, Sue, Painting on Porch, Flatfix, November
2021 Hutson, Laura, Critic’s Pick, Nashville Scene, August
2020 Weiner, Emily, Critic’s Pick, Art Forum International
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
2018 Against Subtlety, Burnaway
2018 Grand, Robert, In Defense of Subtlety, Burnaway, December
2017 Scala, Mark, Passion and Subjectivity: Artists as Curators, Nashville Arts Magazine, April
2016 Ciccarone, Erica, Studio Visit with Jodi Hays in Nashville, Burnaway
2014 Kelly, Meghan, Echoes of Content Extended Visual Phrase, Nashville Arts Magazine
2012 Butler, Sharon, Report From Nashville, Two Coats of Paint
SELECTED AWARDS, GRANTS AND RESIDENCIES
2024 Hambidge, Rabun Gap, Georgia
2024 Ragdale, Illinois (deferred)
2023 Oxbow School of Art, Michigan
2023 NYFA Rauschenberg Foundation Grant
2022 Stove Works Residency, Chattanooga, Tennessee
2020 Foundation for Contemporary Arts, New York, New York
2019 Finalist, Hopper Prize
2014 Grant, Sustainable Arts Foundation
2012 Individual Artist Fellowship, Tennessee Arts Commission
2011 Grant, Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation
2007 Summer Resident, The Cooper Union School of Art, New York
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, Arkansas
The Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama
Caster-Knott Building, Nashville
The J. Crew Group, New York, New York
Morgan Stanley of New York
Music City Center, Nashville, Tennessee
National Parks of America
Pinnacle Bank
Studio Bank of Nashville
Tennessee State Museum, Nashville, Tennessee
Vanderbilt University Library, Nashville, Tennessee