MUSEUM EXHIBITIONS
2018
Cast A Clear Light, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC
Co-curators: Emily Stamey, and Paddy Johnson
2017
Imagery of Chess, World Chess Hall of Fame and Museum, St. Louis, MO (catalog)
2015
FLEX IT! Video and Performance Festival at The Jacobs Center
Presented by San Diego Art Institute, CA
2014-2015
FLEX IT! My Body My Temple, Parthenon Museum and Centennial Park, Nashville, TN (catalog)
2014
Second Time Around, Museum of the Shenandoah Valley, Winchester, VA
2013
Say and Send, with Tony Youngblood, Mini Maker Faire Exhibition, Nashville, TN
2012
TAKE CARE: Biomedical Ethics in the 21st Century, The Wright Museum of Art, Beloit, WI (catalog)
2011
An Exchange with Sol le Witt, MASS MOCA, North Adams, MA
and Cabinet Magazine, Brooklyn, NY
Curator: Regine Basha
2010
All in the Family, Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY
Curator: Jason Paradis
22 Reviews, Krannert Art Museum, Champaign-Urbana, IL
Curator: Bonnie Fortune
Modern Girl, Customs House Museum, Clarksville, TN
Curator: Teri Jordan
2007
Seek Shelter, Art Museum of the University of Memphis, TN
Curator: Leslie Leubbers (Solo show, catalog)
SOCIAL PRACTICE PROJECTS
2018-2020
PRESENT is an on-going, city-wide, participatory artwork building
creative connections through art that we make and share as colorful,
free postcards placed throughout Saint Louis.
2018-2020
A(3rd)Space is a part of my studio where I regularly invite creatives
to intentionally practice community.
2017
ReSolve was a video project for which 32 people from 7 cities gathered
to practice respectful engagement by playing human chess.
2016
Build was made with the local community in Laramie, WY.
We built a shelter using recycled cardboard food boxes
as a way to address issues of safety and food security.
2015
MeetUp consisted of free monthly activities such as potluck picnics,
capoeira, Zumba, yoga, capture the flag and badminton, over a six month
period. I documented the activities in an evolving nine-screen video
installation at The Parthenon Museum.
2014
For My Neighbor was a video project for which I broke bread with 100
people at an immigration center and a Spanish immersion school in Nashville.
2010-2015
SEED SPACE was an art lab I founded in my studio, which for five years I directed
as a space for artists, writers, and curators so that we could widen and strengthen artistic networks.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019
What would Maria think?, Heritage View, Singapore
2016
Slices, University of Wyoming Visual Art Gallery, Laramie, WY
2015
Spun, Low Gallery, San Diego, CA
2014
Sweet Demise, Whitespace Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Stacked, Nashville International Airport
Pinpoint, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
2011
Witch's Brew, Whitespace Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Tinker, University of North Carolina Wilmington, NC
2010
The Enhancer Project, ART MAKES PLACE, NCAP, Nashville, TN (catalog)
2009
Fecund Series, LaGrange College, LaGrange, GA
2008
Adrienne Outlaw: Shelter, Freed-Hardeman University, Henderson, TN, Curator: Terry Thacker
2007
Fecund Series II, UICA, Grand Rapids, MI
Fecund Series II, 5ive & 40rty Gallery, Winston-Salem, NC
Seek Shelter, Art Museum of the University of Memphis, TN (catalog)
SELECTED INVITATIONAL EXHIBITIONS
2018
Spring: Adrienne, Body, Catalina, Cole, Danica, Edo, Felicia, Jesse, Michael, Misha & The Girls, Mort, Rachel, Ryan and Shane, Parapet Real Humans Gallery, St. Louis, MO, Curator: Amy Granat
Critical Mass Creative Stimulus Award Exhibition, Sheldon Galleries, St. Louis, MO, Curator: Mel Watkin
The December Show, Whitespace Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2016
Ghost, The Luminary, St. Louis, MO, Curator: Sage Dawson
2015
MashUp: Artists Do Cardboard, David Lusk Gallery, Nashville and Memphis, Curator: Kristina Colucci
2014
Future Night, an exhibition of new media, Boehm Collectif, Nashville, TN, Curator: Mike Kluge
2013
Hambidge Invitational, Hambidge Center for Arts and Sciences, Curators: Jenny Jensen Minkewicz, Ben Goldman
Southern Invitational, Cochran Gallery, LaGrange, GA, Curator: Dorothy Joiner
ON/OFF: New Media Interactive Electronic Art, SNAP, Nashville, TN, Curators: Tony Youngblood, Mike Kluge
2009-2012
TAKE CARE, A Traveling Exhibit: Wright Museum of Art, Beloit, WI (2012), University of Wisconsin, Green Bay (2012), Austin Peay State University (2012), Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN (2011), Pool Art Fair, Miami, FL (2010), The Renaissance Center, TN (2010), Kendall College of Art and Design, Grand Rapids, MI, 2009 (catalog)
2009
The Cabinet of Natural Curiosities, Dunedin Fine Art, Dunedin, FL, Curator: Catherine Bergmann
2008
Small Packages, Cumberland Gallery, Nashville, TN, Curator: Carol Stein
Project Home, Delay No More, Organizer: Ivan Tam with Art Fete, Hong Kong
2007
modernature, Lotus Space, Curator: Jerry Dale McFadden, TAG Gallery, Chelsea, NY
Under The Skin, Translations Gallery, Denver, NC
SELECTED JURIED EXHIBITIONS
2015
FUTURE AND BEHIND, CON-TEMPORARY 5, Santa Croce, Venice, Italy (catalog)
2013
International Video Art Festival, VIII Edition, Magmart, Italy
2010
Artificial Selection, 516 Arts, Albuquerque, NM (catalog)
2008
Assemblage and Recyclates, Translations Gallery, Denver, CO
Projections: A Survey of Wall-based Sculpture, Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, OH, Juror: Jason Franz (catalog)
ART FAIRS
2012
Aqua Art Fair, Showing with Whitespace Gallery, Miami, FL
2011
Aqua Art Fair, Showing with Whitespace Gallery, Miami, FL
Verge Art Fair, Showing with Tomorrow Stars, Miami, FL
2010
Pool Art Fair, Showing with TAKE CARE, Miami, FL
2008
DigitalArt.LA International Art Expo presented by LACDA, the Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, CA, Jurors: Rex Bruce and Howard Fox
AAF Contemporary Art Fair New York City, Showing with TAG Gallery, NYC
2007
Finding Lost Values, 5th Cheongju International Biennale, Cheongju City, Republic of Korea, (catalog)
Flow Miami, Showing with David Lusk Gallery, Miami, FL
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS/COMMISSIONS
ART MAKES PLACE, Temporary Art for Public Spaces
Cheekwood Museum of Art
Dyer Observatory
Edwin Warner Park
Hopkins, Sampson & Brown Equities
Partners in Education
Public Library of Davidson County
The Sex Police Performance Group
Tennessee State Museum
U.S. Embassy, Abuju, Nigeria
Vanderbilt University
Wang Vision Institute
WEHS-TV
Women Beyond Borders Inc. Art Collection
World Chess Hall of Fame and Museum
AWARDS
2017 Gephardt Institute for Civic and Community Engagement
2017 Creative Stimulus Award from Critical Mass
2014 Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts
2014 National Endowment for the Arts
2014 Judith C. Simmons Fellowship for Visual Arts
2014 Selected to join Artist Pension Trust
2013 Innovation Grant, The Curb Center at Vanderbilt University
2011 Art Entrepreneur Finalist, Arts and Business Council
2009, 2011 Professional Development Award, Tennessee Arts Commission
RESIDENCIES
2015 The Luminary
2014 Hambidge Center for Creative Arts and Sciences
REVIEWS
Sauerwein, Kristina, “Outlaw and Glowinski are Present,” The Record, Washington University School of Medicine, May 14, 2019
Johnson, Paddy, Cast a Clear Light, PaddyJohson.com, April 2018
Thompson, Nato and Mackie, Amy, critical text for “FLEX IT!” Exhibition catalog, August 2015
Jacobs, Mary Jane, critical text for “FLEX IT!” Exhibition catalog, August 2015
Acree, Cat, "Artists Do Cardboard at David Lusk," Nashville Arts Magazine, June 1, 2015
Hutson, Laura, “Adrienne Outlaw talks FLEX IT, Seed Space and her decision to leave Nashville,” Nashville Scene, p 42, November 20, 2014
Ciccaroni, Erica, “Outlaw’s MeetUps Makes Players Consider What Moves Us,” NYCNash, October 17, 2014
Jones, MiChelle, “Parthenon Exhibit Celebrates the Body,” The Tennessean, August 29, 2014
Joiner, Dorothy, “Adrienne Outlaw at Whitespace Gallery,” World Sculpture News, p 61-62, Autumn Issue, 2014
Alexander, Andrew, "Adrienne Outlaw's Sweet Demise," Burnaway, July 18, 2014
Kavass, Veronica, “A Conversation with Adrienne Outlaw”, Nashville Arts Magazine, p 32-34, June 27, 2014
Nolan, Joe, "Adrienne Outlaw Breaking Bread at BNA," ArtsNash, April 4, 2014
Grabner, Michelle, “Space, No Space, Every Space,” Seed Space Catalog, March 2014
Shulick Porcella, Ginger, “Seed Space: Artist Incubator,” Seed Space Catalog, March 2014
Gallager, Wesley, “Spice up your Collection,” NFocus Magazine, p 12, Vol XX, No. 12, December 2013
Hong Xin, Camille, “Art Basel Week in Miami 2012, A Visitor’s Notebook,” M Magazine, p 33, Vol 17, No 4, Summer, 2013
Maxwell, Claire, “ARTSpeak with Adrienne Outlaw,” Burnaway and WMLB, August 20 20, 2013
Pigott, Colin and Alexandrou, Andri, "Planting a Seed," Native Magazine, p. 39-44, No. 4, October 2012
Dimling Cochran, Rebecca, "Witch's Brew Exhibition Review," Art in America, p. 192-193, No. 9, 10/2011
Joiner, Dorothy, "Witch's Brew," World Sculpture Magazine, Vol 17 No 4, 2011
Feaster, Felicia, Take a Peek inside Adrienne Outlaw's Glory Holes," Creative Loafing, 5/27/11
Chance, Laura, "Mad Scientist meets Sculpture in Adrienne Outlaw's Witch's Brew," Burnaway, 5/18/11
Joiner, Dorothy, "The Bread of Industry," World Sculpture, p. 26-30, Vol 16, No 3, 2010
Bennett, Lennie, "Three reasons to visit Dunedin Fine Art Center: weirdly wonderful art, a tribute to oceans, and jewelry with stories," St. Petersburg Times, 9/27/2009
Joiner, Dorothy, “Adrienne Outlaw: Troy Plunk Gallery,” Sculpture Magazine, p. 77, 1/09
Durrell, Jane, “Projections: Manifest Gallery,” Sculpture Magazine,p. 76, 1/09
Weintraub, Linda, “Take Care? Take Care!” Exhibition Review for TAKE CARE catalog, 2009
Vernooy, Tonya, “Evolution of Motherhood,” Exhibition Review for Fecund Series, LaGrange College, 2009
Bachman, Lisa, State of Affairs, Four Shots of Outlaw Wisdom, the (rabbit) nashville art and culture, p. 22, Issue #3, Spring, 2008
Patterson, Tom, Internal and External Organs and Organisms, Winston-Salem Journal, Oct. 2, 2007
Sherwin, Brian, Art Space Talk: Adrienne Outlaw, Myartspace.com blog, August 2007
McCoy, Adam, Cheekwood and Nashville’s Contemporary Art Scene, NY Arts Magazine, 2007
McDougall, Ruth, Under the Skin Exhibition Essay, Translations Gallery, Denver, CO, June 2007
St. John, Shelly, Edgy Art - Is Beauty Only Skin Deep?, Yourhub.com Denver, May 17, 2007
Parsons, Joel, Exhibit Review of Seek Shelter, Art Papers Magazine, p. 64-5, May/June 2007
Nolan, Joe, Adrienne Outlaw: Seek Shelter, Number: an independent arts journal, p. 18, Vol. XXI, No. 1, Spring, 2007
Knowles, Carol, Gimme Shelter: Wangechi Mutu and Adrienne Outlaw seek solace in an uncertain world, The Memphis Flyer, Dec. 21, 2006
SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
2019
Artist Talk, Be Present, Washington University, St. Louis, MO
2018
Artist Talk, Stimulus, Sheldon Art Gallery, St. Louis, MO
2017
Moderator, Critical Conversation: Making It Work in St. Louis, Critical Mass, KDHX
Artist Talk, Making Participatory Work, World Chess Museum, St. Louis, MO
2016
Artist Talk, Re-envisioning the Laboratory: 2016 Sci-Art Symposium, University of Wyoming Visual Arts Building
2015
Moderator of Insight? Outta Site! with Hrag Vartanian, Nashville Public Library, Nashville, TN
Moderator of Insight? Outta Site! with Paddy Johnson, Nashville Public Library, Nashville, TN
2014
Artist Career Talk, as Guest Speaker for Paul Klein Artist Works Webinar, Chicago, IL
Artist Lecture: University of Tennessee Knoxville, TN
Artist Lecture: Whitespace Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Artist Lecture: Parthenon Museum, Nashville, TN
Presentor: 9/50 Arts Summit, Atlanta Center for Contemporary Art, Atlanta, GA
2013
Panel participant, Southern Constellations, Elsewhere Museum, Greensboro, NC
Moderator of Insight? Outta Site! with Michelle Grabner, Nashville Public Library, Nashville, TN
Moderator of Insight? Outta Site! with Amy Mackie, University School of Nashville, TN
Sustaining a Creative Life talk with Sharon Louden, Barnes and Noble, Nashville, TN
Artist Talk: Urban League of Nashville, Zeitgeist Gallery, Nashville, TN
2012
Panelist: CAC, “Meta Mentors” with ArtSpace, Los Angeles, CA
DIY Art Practice talk with Michelle Grabner, New York Academy of the Arts, New York, NY
Moderator of Insight? Outta Site! with Bill Carroll, Zeitgeist Gallery, Nashville, TN
Moderator of Insight? Outta Site! with Sharon Butler, Zeitgeist Gallery, Nashville, TN
Moderator of Insight? Outta Site! with Stuart Horodner, Parnassus Books, Nashville, TN
Moderator of Insight? Outta Site! with Rehema Barber, Zeitgeist Gallery, Nashville, TN
Artist Lecture: Austin Peay State University, Clarksville, TN
2011
Artist Lecture: University of North Carolina Wilmington, NC
Panelist: SECAC, Conversations, Sculpture, Savannah, GA
Moderator of Insight? Outta Site! with Rebecca Dimling Cochran, Zeitgeist Gallery, Nashville, TN
Panelist: Art and Science, Gallery F, Scarritt Bennett Center, Nashville, TN
2010
Moderator of Insight? Outta Site! with Sylvie Fortin, Neuhoff, Nashville, TN
Moderator of Insight? Outta Site! with Kevin McGarry, Neuhoff, Nashville, TN
Artist Lecture: Watkins School of Art, Lipscomb University, Nashville, TN
2009
Artist Lecture: LaGrange College, LaGrange, GA
2008
Artist Lecture: Freed Hardeman University, Henderson, TN
2007
Artist Lecture: Creative Collaborations, for Creative Innovation & Society Course by Steven Tepper, Vanderbilt University
Artist Lecture: Middle Tennessee State University Art Department
Artist Lecture: Contemporary Art for Metro Teachers Workshop, Frist Center for the Visual Arts
EDUCATION
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, BFA
Vanderbilt University, MLAS
Middle Tennessee State University, Sound Art Workshop
Ox-Bow School of Art, Saugatuck, Michigan
Clay, Outdoor Sculpture and Hot Glass Workshops
Northwestern University, Medill School of Journalism
RELATED EXPERIENCE
Founder and Director, Seed Space, a lab for artists, writers and curators in Nashville, TN, 2009-2015
Co-organizer of 9/50 Arts Summit at Atlanta Center for Contemporary Art, Atlanta, GA, 2014
Contributor to Living and Sustaining a Creative Life: Essays by 40 Working Artists, edited by Sharon Louden, Intellect Books, 2013
Selected to be On Our Radar with Creative Captial, 2013
Studio Internship Program, 2000-present
Art Web Site Co-Creator: Nashville Area Arts, a web site linking artists to writers and curators, 2000-2009
Graphics Contributor: Weintraub, David, Is Pluto A Planet?: A Historical Journey through the Solar System, Princeton University Press, Princeton and Oxford, 2007
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
FLEX IT! My Body My Temple, co-curated with Susan Shockley, Parthenon Museum and Centennial Park, Nashville, TN 2014
TAKE CARE: Biomedical Ethics in the Twenty-First Century, Organizing Venue: Nashville Cultural Arts Project, 2009-2012
ART MAKES PLACE: Contemporary Artists make Community and Performance-based, Temporary Public Art, Nashville, TN,
Organizing Venue: Nashville Cultural Arts Project, 2008-2010
VISITING ARTIST
University of Wyoming, 2016
University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 2014
ARTIST COUNCIL/ADVISORY BOARD MEMBER
The Luminary, 2016-2020
Frist Center for the Visual Arts, 2004-2008
JUROR
Franconia Sculpture Fellowship, 2020
Kranzberg Galleries 2019 Exhibition Season, 2018
ARTS REPORTER/PRODUCER
KUHF Radio, Houston, TX
WPLN Radio, Nashville, TN
Interviews include: Robert Rauschenberg, Frank Stella, Dale Chihuly, Petah Coyne, Andy Goldsworthy, Red Grooms, John Scott, Trisha Brown, James Turrell, Audrey Flack, Jane Alexander, Bill Ivey
ARTS EDITOR/WRITER
Burnaway
number: an independent journal of the arts
ArtNowNashville, a critical arts blog Nashville Life Magazine
IN REVIEW Magazine
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