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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

 

 

 

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