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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.


Press and mentions includes, The New York Times, ArtForum International, Hyperallergic, New American Painting, Wall Street Journal, Two Coats of Paint, and the Nashville Scene. Prizes and awards include nomination for Outstanding Educator Award (SECAC), 2019 finalist for the Hopper Prize, and a semi-finalist for the Howard Foundation Prize (2025).


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. 


Jodi Hays earned an M.F.A. at the Vermont College of Fine Art and holds a B.F.A. from The University of Tennessee in Knoxville. She studied Foundations at School of Visual Arts (NY/GA) where she was awarded a Silas H Rhodes scholarship. As a freelance curator and educator, she consults for various private collectors and institutions.


She is a lover and a fighter.


(image courtesy of Sam Angel)

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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)

c. Jodi Hays

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