ARTIST STATEMENT
BIOGRAPHY
Jodi Hays studied Foundations at School of Visual Arts before getting a Bachelors of Fine Art in Drawing from the University of Tennessse. She graduated from Vermont College where she worked with Allan DeSousa, Janet Kaplan, Sowon Kwon, Craig Stockwell, Christine Hiebert, among others. Her work has been shown at Barbara Krakow Gallery, Vermont College, Whistler House Museum of Art and Gordon College. You can view her work at The Drawing Center's Viewing Program (New York).
EDUCATION
Master of Fine Arts, Visual Art, Vermont College
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Drawing, University of Tennessee
Foundations, School of Visual Arts
REPRESENTATION
SOLO EXHIBITS
Drawing Room, Portland, ME
MFA Thesis Exhibition, TW Wood Gallery, Vermont College
Cultural Organization of Lowell, COOL gallery, Lowell, MA
Sacramento Street Gallery, Cambridge, MA
GROUP EXHIBITS
Ladies First, Lubbock, TX
Anonymous Drawings, Blutenweiss, Berlin, Germany
Perspectives: Contemporary Regional Work, Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, TN
Cooper Union, New York, NY
Lucky Seven, TAG Art Gallery, Nashville, TN
Seton Hall University, West Orange, NJ
Visual AIDS, Sikkema Jenkins & Company, New York, NY
The Air Show, Alternate Currents Gallery, Boston, MA
Light, Cambridge Art Association, MA, juror: Adam Weinberg
ARTICLES
2007 Koeppel, Frederic. "Perspectives" on a 300 mile circle. Memphis Commercial Appeal, online
2006 Jackson. Judea. "Southern Upbringing Meets East Coast Design". Henderson Reddie, 6 October 2006.
2005 John Greenwald, Jodi Hays Paints the High Life, Lowell Sun, Lowell, MA (photo)
2003 Louisa Thomason, Jodi Hays Gresham, Middlesex Beat, New England (photo)
2002 Nancye Tuttle, Up Close and Personal, Steppin’ Out, Lowell Sun, Lowell, MA (photo)
2001 Brett Rhyne, Essex and Cambridge Juried Shows, Weekly Dig, Boston, MA
OTHER INFO
2007 Cooper Union Summer Residency, New York, NY
2007 Vermont Studio Center (Artist Grant), Johnson, VT
2006 Tennessee Arts Commission Professional Development Grant
2005 Gallery Award, Michael Price Gallery National Emerging Artist Competition Juror-Linda Nordon
1994 Silas H. Rhodes Scholarship, School of Visual Arts