Stacy Lynn Waddell
EDUCATION
MFA, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC
AWARDS & RESIDENCIES
2024 Arthur and Sheila Prensky Visiting Artist, Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Art (Sept). 2022 Civitella Ranieri Foundation Fellow, Umbria, Italy (September 21 - October 31) 2022-23 Artist-in-Residence, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, MA 2018 Artist-in-Residence, Queen Space, New York (January – December)
2017 Artist-in-Residence, Joan Mitchell Center, New Orleans, LA
2015 Artist-in-Residence, Visual Arts Center of Richmond, Richmond, VA
2014 Southern Constellations Fellow, Elsewhere, Greensboro, NC
2012 Art Matters Grant
2010 Joan Mitchell Painters and Sculptors Grant
2009 Artist-in-Residence, Project Row Houses, Houston, TX (Round #30 Spring 2009)
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023
light takes time to reach us, CANDICE MADEY, New York, NY
2022
A Moon For A Sun, Sala 1, Rome, Italy
Home House, Anne H. Fitzpatrick Façade, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, MA
2021
Mettle, CANDICE MADEY, New York, NY
2015
Epitaph For A Darling Lady, Visual Arts Center of Richmond, Richmond, VA
2013
Bluebelles, Koplin Del Rio Gallery, Culver City, CA
2011
The Evidence of Things Unseen, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC
2010
The Evidence of Things Unseen, Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, SC
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
Solid Gold, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York (November 16, 2024 - July 6, 2025)
Spirit in the Land, Cummer Museum, Jacksonville, FL (November 6, 2024 – February 9, 2025)
NIGHT SWIMMING: New American Paintings 2024 Summer Review, Steven Zevitas Gallery, Boston, MA (July 12 – Aug 31)
We wake in the middle of a life, hungry, Rebecca Camacho Presents, San Francisco, CA (June 8 - July 13)
Spirit in the Land, Pérez Art Museum, Miami, FL (March 21 – September 8)
Gilded: Contemporary Artists Explore Value and Worth, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth, Hanover, NH (February 8 – June 22)
2023
Gilded: Contemporary Artists Explore Value and Worth, Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, TN (Sept 22, 2023 – Jan 8, 2024)
Spirit in the Land, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, NC (February 16 – July 9)
2022
Metal of Honor: From Simone Martini to Contemporary Art, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, MA (Oct 13 - Jan 16)
State of the Art: Locate, Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, NH, (October 10, 2022 – February 12, 2023)
Gilded: Contemporary Artists Explore Value and Worth, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC, (Sept 10, 2022 – Apr 9, 2023)
Beyond the Surface: Collage, Mixed Media and Textile Works from the Collection, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke Univ, Durham, NC (June 16 – Feb 19)
FuturePresent: Acquisition Highlights from the Permanent Collection, Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Arts + Culture, Charlotte, NC
State of the Art: Locate, Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, TX (May 27 – September 11)
State of the Art: Locate, Museum of Contemporary Art / MOCA Jacksonville (University of North Florida), Jacksonville, FL (January 21 – May 1)
2021
Get Lifted! The Art of the Ecstatic, KARMA, New York, NY (August 19 – October 2) Organized by Hilton Als
About Face, The College of Wooster Art Museum, Wooster, OH (September 7 – December 5)
Silent Streets, Mint Museum Uptown, Charlotte NC (April 17 – November 28)
Taking Space: Contemporary Women Artists and the Politics of Scale, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA (Jan 21 - Sept 19)
2020
Graphic Pull: Contemporary Prints from the Collection, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham NC (October 26, 2020 – June 6, 2021)
Mask, Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery, New York, NY (October 23 - November 28)
FUTURE TEXTS, On Stellar Projects - SJ Weiler Fund, New York, NY (September 25 - December 18)
State of the Art 2020, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR (February 22 - November 2)
The Future Is Female, 21C Museum Hotel, Durham, NC (January - December)
2019
Love In The Time Of Hysteria, PRIZM ART FAIR, 7TH Edition, Miami, FL
Elevate At 21C, 21C Durham Hotel, Durham, NC
Painting Is Its Own Country, Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Arts + Culture, Charlotte, NC
Floor to Ceiling, Off-White Columns, Phillips Art Auctions, New York, NY
2018
People Get Ready: Building A Contemporary Collection, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, NC
Half the Picture: A Feminist Look at the Collection, Elizabeth A. Sackler Center For Feminist Art, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
Pressure Points: Art On The Vine, Martha’s Vineyard, Dr. Daniel Fisher House, Edgartown, MA
Into The Light, Daniel Cooney Fine Art, New York, NY
BLACK BLOODED, The New Gallery of Modern Art, Charlotte, NC
Wrestling The Angel, Bechtler Museum of Modern Art, Charlotte, NC
2017
One of Many: Recent Acquisitions of Prints and Portfolios, Ackland Art Museum, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC
Southern Accent: Seeking the American South in Contemporary Art, Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY
Silos, Columbia College, Glass Curtain Gallery, Chicago, IL
2016
Atlanta Biennial, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA
Southern Accent: Seeking the American South in Contemporary Art, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, NC
Silos, American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center, Washington, DC
A View Beyond The Trees, Zuckerman Museum of Art, Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, GA
The Things We Carry: Contemporary Art in the South, Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, SC
2015
The Nothing That Is: A Drawing Show in Five Parts, Contemporary Art Museum-Raleigh, Raleigh, NC
Concealed: Selections from the Permanent Collection, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
We Place Our Ideas / Our Ideas Place Us, Grossman Gallery, Lafayette College, Easton, PA
When the Stars Begin to Fall: Imagination and the American South, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
Area 919: Artists in the Triangle, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, NC
2014
Southern Constellations: Selections from Elsewhere Museum’s Curatorial Initiative Supporting Experimental Art Practice in the South, Appalachian State University, Smith Gallery, Boone, NC
When the Stars Begin to Fall: Imagination and the American South, Museum of Art Ft. Lauderdale, Ft Lauderdale, FL
When the Stars Begin to Fall: Imagination and the American South, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
2013
Ornament and Crime, Ortega y Gasset Projects, Brooklyn, NY
Wunderkammer: Miniatures and Curiosities, Koplin Del Rio Gallery, Culver City, CA
0 to 60: The Experience of Time Through Contemporary Art, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC
Recent Acquisitions, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, NC
2012
Configured, Benrimon Contemporary, New York, NY
After Henry Tanner: African American Artists Since 1940, Pennsylvannia Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
2011
The Bearden Project, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
here, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
spillage: traces, evidence and presence, Carol Jazzar Gallery, Miami, FL
Mirror Image: Women Portraying Women, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC
2010
Open Season, Flanders Gallery, Raleigh, NC
Single Lady, 422 Washington, New York, NY
Alpha &, On Stellar Rays Gallery, New York, NY
2009
30 Seconds Off An Inch, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
Home Space Place, Round 30, Project Row Houses, Houston, TX
2008
40th Anniversary 2008 Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC
Partisan, Artropolis, Chicago, IL
Heroes, Lump Gallery, Raleigh, NC
Printed: North Carolina Printmakers, Greenhill Center for NC Art, Greensboro, NC
2007
Homegrown Southeast, SECCA, Winston-Salem, NC
New Currents in Contemporary Art, Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, NC
COMMISSIONS
2023 The Peoples’ Collection, Reimagined, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC
2022 Anne H. Fitzpatrick Façade, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, MA
2021 Augmented Reality Public Art Installation, ICAR, Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, Washington, DC
Artist Project, ART PAPERS Magazine, Spring 2021 Issue: Mimicry, Camouflage, Transformation
2016 ART&, Ackland Art Museum, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC
2015 Vitrine Projects, 21C Durham Hotel, Durham, NC
2010 Park Pictures, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh NC
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
Bristol Museum & Art Gallery, Bristol, UK
Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Elizabeth A. Sackler Center For Feminist Art, Brooklyn Museum, New York
The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York
Mint Museum Uptown at Levine Center for the Arts, Charlotte, NC
Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, NC
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC
Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Ackland Art Museum, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, SC
Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Arts + Culture, Charlotte, NC
West Collection, Philadelphia, PA
Kenan Institute for Ethics, Duke University, Durham, NC
Capitol Broadcasting Company, Raleigh, NC
ARTIST LECTURES
October 22, 2024 Fall 2024 Prensky Visiting Artist Lecture, Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, Washington University, St. Louis, MO
October 18, 2024 Artist Talk for First-Year Foundations Seminar, School of Art, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC
January 24, 2024 Panel Discussion for Cassilhaus Collection exhibition, Gatewood Gallery, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC
December 8, 2022 Panel Discussion Gold: Networks of Exchange, Material of Transformation, in conjunction with the exhibition Metal of Honor: From Simone Martini to Contemporary Painting, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, MA
November 30, 2022 Artist Lecture + Conversation with Master of Fine Arts Candidates, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC
November 17, 2022 Gallery Talk in conjunction with Roy Lichtenstein: History in the Making 1948-1960, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, NC
October 12, 2021 Guest Lecturer for The Artist’s Studio: Artists Who Challenge Us, Continuing Education, Duke University, Duke University
February 25, 2021 Panel Discussion (via Zoom) Building Relationships: Connecting with Galleries, Collectors and Collaborators Durham Art Guild.
January 11, 2021 Conversation with Associate Curator Molly Boarati in conjunction with Graphic Pull: Contemporary Prints from the Collection, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham NC
June 19, 2020 NCMA RECOMMENDS series Conversation with Angela Lombardi + Jennifer Dasal in conjunction with Juneteenth celebration
June 8, 2020 Panel Discussion (via Zoom) with Saya Woolfalk, Chitra Ganesh, Cauleen Smith and Dr. Alondra Nelson moderated by Saisha Grayson in conjunction with Future Texts exhibition sponsored by SJ Weiler Fund and curated by Candice Madey
April 30, 2020 Discussion (via Zoom) with Dr. Gail Belvett in conjunction with The Art Chose Me online series
January 19, 2020 Lecture entitled Alchemy, Appropriation and Transformation: The Art and Process of Stacy Lynn Waddell given in conjunction with NC Museum of Art 2021 Educator Webinar series
September 6, 2018
Artist panel discussion in conjunction with Wrestling The Angel at Bechtler Museum of Modern Art at Levine Center for the Arts, Charlotte, NC
August 23, 2018
Gallery Talk with Jennifer Sudul Edwards in conjunction with BLACK BLOODED at New Gallery of Modern Art of Modern Art, Charlotte, NC
December 27, 2017
Contemporary Artist Series: Stacy Lynn Waddell on The Medici’s Painter: Carlo Dolci and 17th-Century Florence on view at Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, NC
December 15, 2016
Gallery Talk with Curator Trevor Schoonmaker and Jeff Whetstone in conjunction with Southern Accent Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill publication Southern Cultures Winter launch party
December 9, 2016
Gallery Talk in conjunction with ART& commission entitled Please Don’t Shoot Me on view at The Ackland Art Museum at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
June 3, 2016
Nasher Teen Summer Event, Drawing performance, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, NC
April 14, 2016
Artist Lecture and Collaboration with Nasher Teens in conjunction with A Material Legacy, Nasher Museum of Art, Durham, NC
December 3, 2015
Artist Lecture in conjunction with the exhibition Epitaph For A Darling Lady, Visual Arts Center of Richmond, Richmond, VA
January 2, 2015
Gallery Talk in conjunction with Area 919: Artists in the Triangle, Nasher Museum of Art, Durham, NC
November 8, 2014
Panel Moderator for Artist as Administrator session at Southern Constellations Convergence at Elsewhere Museum, Greensboro, NC
October 3, 2013
Artist Lecture in the UNC-Greensboro Art Department as a part of the Art and Entrepreneurship series, Greensboro, NC
September 19, 2013
Conversation with Frank Martin in conjunction with BLACK, BURST AND BOOM!, Sumter County Gallery of Art, Sumter, SC
June 6, 2013
Gallery Talk in conjunction with A Fantastic Journey: Wangechi Mutu, Nasher Museum of Art, Durham, NC
December 7, 2012
MIXTAPE Lecture/Performance (w/Chris Vitiello), Contemporary Art Museum - Raleigh, Raleigh, NC
October 20, 2012
Panel Discussion in conjunction with Art on Paper Artist Advisory Panel Gallery Talk with Curator, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC
March 17, 2012
Artist Lecture in conjunction with Artist to Artist lecture series, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC
February 8, 2012
Artist Lecture in conjunction with Soup to Nuts lecture series, Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art, Charleston, SC
October 22, 2011
Panel Discussion in conjunction with the exhibition here, Philadelphia Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
September 30, 2011
Panel Discussion in conjunction with the NC Museum of Art Friends of African and African-American Art 10th Anniversary Gala, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC
April 13, 2011
Artist Lecture in conjunction with the exhibition UltraSuper, Franklin Humanities Institute, Duke University, Durham, NC
February 18; 21-25, 2011
Artist-in-Residence at Bessemer Elementary School, Greensboro, NC in conjunction with The Evidence of Things Unseen, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC
February 12, 2011
Artist Lecture and Teacher Workshop in conjunction with The Evidence of Things Unseen, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC
February 10, 2011
Artist Lecture in conjunction with the exhibition The Evidence of Things Unseen, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC
December 1, 2010
Artist Lecture for the series Women in Art, in conjunction with the exhibition The Evidence of Things Unseen, Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, SC
July 12, 2010
Artist Lecture for North Carolina Governor’s School, Meredith College, Raleigh, NC
March 26, 2009
Roundtable Discussion for Home. Space. Place., Project Row Houses, Houston, TX, Round 30
January 28, 2009
Panel Discussion for the Bailout Biennial, John Hope Franklin Center, Duke University, Durham, NC
May 24, 2007
Artist Lecture for Homegrown Exhibition, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston Salem, NC