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EDUCATION
MFA and BFA, Boston University, Boston, MA


SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
    2023
  • She Drank Gold, Abroms-Engel Institute for Visual Arts, Birmingham, AL
  • Seven Sisters, Whitespace/Whitespec, Atlanta, GA

    • 2022
  • Encounters, Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, AL
  • Portals, OZ Arts, Nashville, TN
  • Window Treatments, Zeitgeist Gallery, Nashville, TN

    • 2020
  • Cups and Grids, Geary, New York, NY
  • Attitude: Other Voices, Set for The Nashville Ballet at Tennessee Performing Arts Center, Nashville, TN

    • 2019
  • Megaliths, Marie Walsh Sharpe Gallery, Ent Center for the Arts, curated by Daisy McGowan, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, CO

    • 2018
  • Bedfellows, Zeitgeist Gallery, Nashville, TN

    • 2017
  • Tempest, The Frist Art Museum, curated by Katie Delmez, Nashville, TN
  • Vadis Turner, Expo Chicago, Geary, Chicago, IL

    • 2016
  • Bells and Burnpiles, Geary, New York, NY

    • 2014
  • Vadis Turner, Wythe Hotel, Brooklyn, NY

    • 2013
  • Past Perfection, Geary Contemporary, New York, NY
  • Vadis Turner, Materials for the Arts, Queens, NY

    • 2011
  • Dowry, Green Building Gallery, Louisville, KY
  • Rymer Gallery, Nashville, TN
  • Burial Party, Lyons Wier Gallery, New York, NY

    • 2009
  • Dowry, Lyons Wier Gallery, New York, NY
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
    2025
  • TBD, Frist Art Museum, Nashville, TN

    • 2024
  • Craft Front & Center, Museum of Art and Design, NYC
  • TBD, Zuckerman Museum of Art, GA

    • 2023
  • Hand Over Hand: Textiles Today, Mindy Solomon, Miami, FL
  • Think Pinker, curated by Beth Rudin DeWoody, Gavlak Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
  • Repair: Tennessee Triennial, curated by Maria Magdalena Compos Pons, Nashville, TN
  • Intent/Content, Susquehanna Art Museum, PA

    • 2022
  • Catherine Haggarty & Vadis Turner, Untitled Art, with Catherine Haggarty, Miami, FL
  • Quartet, ZieherSmith, Nashville, TN
  • The Future is Female, curated by Alice Gray Stites, 21C Museum Nashville, TN
  • Material Investment, The Bank, Newark, OH
  • Triennial: Divided We Fall, Kentucky Museum of Arts and Crafts, Louisville, KY
  • The F Word, The Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, TN

    • 2020
  • ZieherSmith at Virgin Hotel, Nashville, TN
  • The F Word, curated by Nandini Makrandi, The Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, TN
  • Shag, curated by Laura Hutson, Nashville TN

    • 2019
  • Annual Competition, curated by Allison Glenn, Masur Museum of Art, Monroe, LA
  • Vadis Turner & Kristine Woods, NADA, with Kristine Woods, Geary Contemporary, Chicago, IL
  • Xanadu, Zeitgeist Gallery, Nashville, TN

    • 2018
  • Vadis Turner & Nathaniel Donnett, Carnegie Center for Art & History, New Albany, IN
  • The Continuity of Context, curated by Gina Wouters, Cheekwood Museum, Nashville TN
  • Hunter Invitational, Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, TN

    • 2017
  • Inaugural Exhibition, Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection, The Bunker, West Palm Beach, FL
  • Embedded Message, curated by Melissa Messina and Stefanie Fedor, Visual Arts Center of Richmond, Richmond, VA
  • Confabulations of the Millennia, curated by Richard Saja, Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art, Portland, ME
  • Elevate, Alicia Henry & Vadis Turnerr, curated by Brian Downey, 21C Museum hotel, Nashville, TN
  • FemiNest, curated by Heather Zises and Melinda Wang, Equity Gallery, New York, NY

    • 2016
  • Richard Feaster & Vadis Turner, Tibbott Art Center, University School of Nashville, Nashville, TN

    • 2015
  • Summer Reading, Zieher Smith & Horton Pop-Up, Nashville, TN
  • Woman House, Eric Firestone Gallery, East Hampton, NY
  • Brooklyn Museum Artist Ball Auction, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
  • Velocity of Textiles, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA

    • 2014
  • Minimal/Maximal, Kinz+ Tillou Fine Art, Brooklyn, NY
  • Convergence, 808 Gallery, Boston University, Boston, MA

    • 2013
  • Repetition & Ritual, Project Space at Minnesota Museum of American Art, St. Paul, MN
  • Repetition & Ritual, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, New York, NY
  • The Lonely Sea and Sky, Allegra LaViola Gallery, New York, NY
  • Off The Wall, Mirus Gallery, San Francisco, CA
  • Repetition and Ritual, Hudgens Center for the Arts, Atlanta, GA
  • Cold Castle, Family Business, New York, NY

    • 2012
  • Bad for You, curated by Beth Rudin DeWoody, Shizaru Gallery, London, England
  • Americana, Grey Area, New York, NY
  • Dismemberment Auction, FAMNYC and Phillps de Pury at the Intercourse, Brooklyn, NY
  • Material Matters, Lyons Wier Gallery, New York, NY
  • Haberdashery, Eric Firestone Gallery, East Hampton, NY
  • Sutured, Like The Spice Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

    • 2011
  • Grey Area Miami, Bass Art Museum, Miami, FL
  • Layer Current, Like the Spice Gallery, New York, NY
  • Curate NYC, online exhibitions curated by Eric C. Shiner, Danielle Burns and Courtney Wendroff Curate NYC, Rush Arts Gallery, New York, NY
  • BNA: Brooklyn to Nashville, Zieher Smith Gallery (NYC), Nashville, TN
  • Extreme Materials 2, Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY
  • 24/7, Lyons Wier Gallery, New Yprk, NY
  • Artists Ball, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
  • Basic Instinct, Flanders Gallery, Raleigh, NC
  • We The Artists, National Museum and Art Gallery of Trinidad and Tobago

    • 2010
  • Basic Instinct, Black and White Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
  • Critical Stitch, Union College, Schenectady, NY
  • Common Jive, Elizabeth Foundation For the Arts, New York, NY
  • Bunny Redux, Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburg, PA

    • 2009
  • Spectrum 2009, Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, TN
  • In Stitches, curated by Beth Rudin DeWoody, Lelia Taghinia-Milani Heller Gallery, New York, NY
  • New Acquisitions, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
  • Crafting Romance, Athens Institute for Contemporary Art, Athens, GA
  • Hanging by a Tread, Westchester Arts Council, Westchester, NY
  • Narrative Thread, Lyons Weir Gallery, New York, NY
  • Fashion Forward, Islip Art Museum, Islip, NY
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
    2023
  • University of Alabama, Birmingham
    • 2022
  • Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, AL
  • Soho House
    • 2019
  • Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, TN
    • 2018
  • Davidson County Courthouse, Nashville, TN
    • 2011
  • Tennessee State Museum, Nashville, TN
  • 21C Museum, Louisville, KY
    • 2010
  • Kentucky Arts and Crafts Museum, Louisville, KY
    • 2009
  • Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
    • 2008
  • Beth Rudin DeWoody, The Bunker, Palm Beach, FL
GRANTS & AWARDS
    2021
  • Current Art Fund Grant, a regranting program from the Andy Warhol Foundation through TriStar Arts
    • 2020
  • Individual Artist Opportunity Grant, South Arts, Atlanta, GA
    • 2019
  • Individual Artist Fellowship, Tennessee Arts Commission, Nashville, TN
    • 2016
  • Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant
    • 2009
  • Project Grant, Barbara Deming Memorial Fund
    • 2008
  • Brooklyn Museum Feminist Artist Database, Brooklyn, NY
RESIDENCIES
    2025
  • Artist In Residence, Beverly Pepper Foundation, Umbria, Italy
    • 2024
  • Artist in Residence, Corporation of Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY
    • 2022
  • VSC Fellowship, Vermont Studio Center, Johnston, VT
    • 2020
  • Artist in Residence, Hambidge Center for the Arts, GA
    • 2018
  • Artist in Residence, Corporation of Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY
    • 2013
  • Artist Fellowship, Material For The Arts, Long Island City, NY
    • 2012
  • Artist in Residence, Museum of Art and Design, New York, NY
    • 2007
  • Egon Schiele Art Centrum, Cesky Krumlov, Czech Republic
TEACHING
    2022 – Present
  • Lecturer, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
    • 2015 – 2016, 2022 – 2023
  • Hamblet Artist in Residence, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
    • 2012 – 2014
  • Adjunct Associate Professor, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
    • 2008 – 2012
  • Adjunct Instructor, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
    • 2004 – 2008
  • Visiting Instructor, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
    2024
  • Mixed Media & Textiles, Vanderbilt Student Exhibition, Turnip Green Creative Reuse, Nashville, TN
    • 2018
  • State of the Art, Co-curated by Karen Seapker and Vadis Turner, Zeitgeist Gallery, Nashville, TN
    • 2015
  • 5 Rooms, co-curated by Karen Seapker and Vadis Turner, 509 3rd Ave S, Nashville, TN
    • 2014
  • Barely There, curated by Vadis Turner, Geary Contemporary, New York, NY
    • 2009
  • Remains of the Day, curated by Vadis Turner, Lyons Wier Gallery, New York, NY