ARTIST CV

GALLERY REPRESENTATION

Elder Gallery for Contemporary Arts

1520 South Tryon Street, Charlotte, NC 28203

EDUCATION

MFA - Studio Art, Lesley University, 2014

Bachelor of Architecture, North Carolina State University, 2006

Bachelor of Environmental Design in Architecture, North Carolina State University, 2001

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

North Carolina State University, College of Design: Leaders Council Member
Arts and Science Council, Going Public: A Public Art Incubator: Guest Speaker
North Carolina State University, Duda Visiting Designer Program (DVDP): Advisor
University of North Carolina Charlotte North Carolina State University, Honors College: Professor of Practice
University of North Carolina Charlotte North Carolina State University: Guest Critic
Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Incorporated

AWARDS/ RECOGNITION

2023 Innovative & Emerging Professional DesignLife Award Recipient, College of Design, North Carolina State University
2022 Knight Foundation Art + Tech Expansion Fund
2022 Best New Public Art as part of a Government Project, Best of the Best, Queen City Nerve
2021 Bolt of Inspiration Recipient, Charlotte Creative Mornings

PUBLIC ART PROJECTS *Forthcoming Projects

2021 UNC-Charlotte Remembrance Memorial | Finding Our Center International Design Competition – Finalist, Charlotte NC, Collaboration with EVOKE Studio
2018 Even Higher, CNIP Five Points Plaza, Charlotte NC, Collaboration with EVOKE Studio, Status: Completed summer 2021
2018 Ever Upwards, CNIP I77/Trade Street Underpass, Charlotte NC, Collaboration with EVOKE Studio, Status: Completed summer 2021
2019 Person & Blount Street Corridor Public Art Project, Raleigh NC, Collaboration with EVOKE Studio, Status: Awarded
2017 Taurus, Judicial Building II Plaza, Durham NC, Collaboration with David Wilson, Status: Completed summer
2016, 10th Street Tiny Park, Charlotte NC, Collaboration with David Wilson, Status: Completed 2018

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS *Forthcoming Exhibits

2023 In Transition

Elder Gallery of Contemporary Art, Charlotte NC

2014 Any City “AMERICA”,

Witherspoon African American Cultural Center,

North Carolina State University , Raleigh NC

2011 Solo Exhibition, Work of J Stacy Utley,

St. Josephs Historic Foundation, Hayti Heritage Center,

Lydia Moore Gallery, Durham NC

RETROSPECT,

Witherspoon African American Cultural Center,

North Carolina State University, Raleigh NC

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS *Forthcoming Exhibits

2023 *The Vault

The Mint Museum Uptown, Charlotte NC

*2023 Gantt Biennial

Harvey B Gantt Center for African American History and Culture, Charlotte NC

2021 Venice Biennale Architettura

‘A South Forty’, Curated by Fay Jones School of Architecture – University of Arkansas

Palazzo Mora, European Cultural Centre

Venice Italy

Collaborative Public Art Projects with Evoke Studio Architecture

Inform. Create. Inspire, Celebrating the Creative Man

9189 Studio Gallery, Charlotte NC

2020 Home

Elder Gallery of Contemporary Art, Charlotte NC

2018 Summer Artist in Residence Group Exhibition

Goodyear Arts, Charlotte NC

2017 Wet Paint

Goodyear Arts, Charlotte NC

National Black Arts Festival,

Atlanta GA

Work In Progress (WIP) Pop Up Exhibition

Commons Gallery, Cambridge MA

Gendered, an Inclusive Show, Group project with Studio 345

Mint Museum UPTOWN, Charlotte NC

Requiem for Mother Emanuel, Artist Response

Mint Museum, Charlotte NC

2016 The Local, Pop Up Exhibition

Gallery One-Five-O, Charlotte NC

2015 Recovering the Classics, Pop Up Exhibition,

American Tobacco Campus, Durham NC

2014 M.F.A. Graduate Exhibition,

Vandernoot Gallery, Cambridge MA

Boston Young Contemporaries, (Juried by Josephine Halvorson, Pieranna Cavalchini, Kenji Nakayama)

808 Commonwealth Ave, Boston MA

2012 Artists of the DNC,

Offices of the Democratic National Convention, Charlotte NC

National Arts Program Exhibition,

Block Gallery, Raleigh NC

2011 Through Our Eye,

Fosters Frame and Design Gallery, Huntersville NC

2010 Art by Architects,

Hodges Taylor Gallery, Charlotte NC

TEACHING + LECTURE

2019 Visiting Lecturer, Liberal Studies, Arts and Society,

Any City America – Gentrification and the Artist Impact,

University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte NC

Visiting Lecturer, The First Forty Days

Any City America – Gentrification and the Artist Impact,

Johnson C Smith University, Charlotte NC

De-Appropriating and Appropriately Teaching African American Art and Culture

NAIS - People of Color Conference

Seattle, WA

2017 Art Teacher, Fine Arts Department

Charlotte Country Day School, Charlotte NC

2016 Adjunct Professor, Liberal Studies, Arts and Society,

Any City America – Gentrification and the Artist Impact,

University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte NC

2014 Teaching Artist, Studio 345, Arts and Science Council, Charlotte NC

Graduate Artist Talk, Any City, AMERICA,

Lesley University College of Art and Design, Cambridge MA

Artist Talk, Any City, America, Witherspoon African American Cultural Center,

North Carolina State University, Raleigh NC

2013 Instructor, Grier Heights Community Art Project, Mint Museum, Charlotte NC

My Soul, Author and Artist, Harvey B Gantt Center for Cultural Arts, Charlotte NC

2011 Faculty, Architectural Studio, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte NC

Guest Critic, Urban Planning Studio, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte NC

Artist Talk, A Retrospective, Witherspoon African American Cultural Center,

North Carolina State University, Raleigh NC

2010 Guest Critic, Architecture Studio, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte NC

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

2015 Ocasio, Grace C, “After Persuing Grandmas Scrapbook”, North Carolina Literary Review, No. 24, 2015

2014 Moses, Angie, "3 to Watch, Emerging artist mix up talent", Pride Magazine, November 2014

2013 Mandell, Ladianne, “Mixed Media Master, Passionate artist creates a portfolio of burgeoning, dynamic work”,

Mosaic Magazine, July 2013

Kimbrough, Helen H., My Soul, African American Spirituals, June 2013

Duckett, Michaela L., “The Art of His Story, Stacy Utley draws on fascination with masters and memories”,

The Charlotte Post, October

2012 Ph.d Smith-McKoy, Sheila. The Obsidian Literature in the African Diaspora, Richard Wright Issue, Winter 2010

Maschal, Richard, “Art by Architects, Architects turn their hands to art pieces”, The Charlotte Observer, July 2010