Bio

EDUCATION

M.F.A.            Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, 2005

B.A                 Bachelor of Arts, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, 2000

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2022-Present  Assistant Professor of the Practice, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN

2017-2022      Assistant Professor, Georgia State University Perimeter Dunwoody, GA

2015-2017      Visiting Assistant Professor, University of West Georgia, Carrolton, GA

2009-2015      Instructor, Foundations, Art Institute of Atlanta, Decatur, GA

2010                Adjunct Professor, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA

2008-2011      Adjunct Professor, Emory University, Atlanta, GA

2007-2011      Project Coordinator and Sculpture Assistant, Artemis Studios, Atlanta, GA

2006-2007       Digital Photographer, Web Designer, and Installation Coordinator, James Graham and Sons Gallery, New York

2005-2007      Audio and Visual Coordinator, Eyebeam Art and Technology Center, New York, NY

2004-2005      Instructor, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA

2002-2003      Installation Manager, Ernest G. Welch Gallery, Atlanta, GA

Grants, Fellowships, and Awards

2021-2022      Governor’s Teaching Fellowship, UGA, Athens, GA

  1. One of 13 TT faculty in USG system selected for program to engage with cutting edge pedagogical research to bring teaching practices that best serve our student body.

2020-2021      Innovation Grant Team Award, GSU Perimeter- Dunwoody, Atlanta, GA

  1. Interdisciplinary collaboration with Assoc. Professors Kimmy Kellett (Biology) and Jessie Hayden (English) resulting in Eco Encounters: A Nature-Based Learning Approach to Science, Art, and Composition initiative at the Dunwoody campus launched fall semester 2021. Capstone exhibition of student work completed during their respective nature-based learning units (e.g. – research findings, drawings, and writing samples)

2013-2015      Artist-in-Residence, The Creatives Project, Atlanta, GA

2013-2015      Coordinator, DRAW@MOCA, Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia,    

                        Atlanta, GA

2012                Café MOCA Teaching Grant, Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia,      

                        Atlanta, GA

2010                First Place Decatur Art Festival Exhibition, Dana Fine Arts Gallery, Agnes Scott       

                        College, Atlanta, GA

2009                (Fall) Theory, Practice, and Learning Fund and Emory Visual Art Department Grant, Emory University, Atlanta, GA

2009                (Spring) Theory, Practice, and Learning Fund and Emory Visual Art Department Grant, Emory University, Atlanta, GA

2008                Fine Arts Grant, Atlanta Fulton County Office of Cultural Affairs, Atlanta, GA

2008                Theory, Practice, and Learning Fund, and Emory Visual Art Department Grant, Emory University, Atlanta, GA

2007                Visiting Artist Grant, Skyland Trail, Atlanta, GA

2007                Theory, Practice, and Learning Fund, and Emory Visual Art Department Grant, Emory University, Atlanta, GA

2007                Visiting Artist Grant, Dennison University, Granville, OH

2005                Showcase Award, MFA Exhibition, Georgia State University (selected by Marcia Wood), Atlanta, GA

2005                Andrew West Award, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA

2004                Showcase Award, Georgia State University (selected by Radcliffe Bailey),   

                        Atlanta, GA

2003-2004      Graduate Teaching Fellowship, Ernest G. Welch School of Art and Design, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA

2002-2003      Graduate Assistant Fellowship, Ernest G. Welch School of Art and Design, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA

 

COMMITTEES AND UNIVERSITY SERVICE

2022-Present  Director of Undergraduate Studies, and Immersion Coordinator for the Vanderbilt Art Department

2023-Present  Core Art Advisory Group, College of Arts and Sciences, Vanderbilt University

2022                Study Abroad Program Director: Art Story & Place, Ireland

  1. Dublin, Galway, and Achill set the stage for this brand-new interdisciplinary course, with the English Department, investigating visual art and the oral history of the region

2021-2022      Fine Arts Department Executive Council

  1. Provide guidance to Course Committees in the department, assist and facilitate communication of college-wide matters

2021-2022      Curriculum Chair

  1. Responsible for design and implementation of course assessments, generate annual reports from data collected across the university, attend conferences and conduct research to secure innovative resources to support and optimize pedagogy in the department

2020-2021.     Art and Design Curriculum Committee, Core Assessment Subcommittee

  1. Review and implement changes to course catalogue and liaise between the downtown and the Perimeter campuses

2019-21           Foundations and Undergraduate Program Review Committee

  1. Created framework for course consistency between all foundations courses at the Downtown and Perimeter campuses for successful NASAD review, built open access resource folders for new adjunct faculty to enhance course standards and best practices in the classroom

2020-2022       GSU Faculty Senate Committees: Sustainability and Technology

  1. Sustainability- Examine and implement innovative strategies for recycling, composting, and securing LEED certified building projects. Technology- Designate funds, campus wide, to support technology projects, examine contracts with third party providers to ensure fair and ethical practices around applications that serve our diverse student body

2020-2022      Co-Chair- Art Gallery Action Committee

  1. Discovered and scheduled artists and collectives for exhibitions in our 3 dynamic art galleries, during the pandemic innovated with new streaming technology to distribute artist talks and virtual gallery tours

2017-2022       Art Club Faculty Advisor

  1. Guided club meetings, coordinated field trips, planned open studio sessions, secured funds through Student Government

2017-2022      Co-Chair- Sarah Larson Lecture Series Committee

  1. Working with this interdisciplinary group we planned and organized lectures targeting critical topics for students, from The Truth About Fake News: Why News Literacy Matters, Housing- Justice and the City, and Art and Authorship in BlackPanther: Historical African Imagery in a Contemporary American Film

Exhibition Record (* solo exhibitions)

2024

Switchyard, Zeitgeist Gallery, Nashville, TN

*Un Earth, Space 204 Gallery, Nashville, TN

2022

*New Found Land, Gallery 72, Atlanta, GA

2020

Phantom Fields, Cole Gallery, GSU Perimeter- Clarkston Campus, Atlanta, GA

2019

Steffen Thomas: A legacy in Atlanta, Gallery 72, Atlanta and Steffen Thomas Museum of Art

Georgia State Faculty Exhibition, Cole Gallery, Clarkston GA

2018

2018 Decatur Fine Arts Exhibition, Dalton Gallery at Agnes Scott College, Decatur, GA

40 Over 40, EBDB4, Chamblee, GA

2017

Climbing Wall, Monroe Art Center, Monroe, GA

16th Annual Art Papers Auction, Atlanta, GA

2016

*Score, Kibbee Gallery, Atlanta, GA

15TH Annual Art Papers Auction, Atlanta, GA

2015

Flight Patterns, November 2015, Gallery 72, Atlanta, GA

Sprawl! Drawing Outside the Lines, Curator Michael Rooks, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA

The Drawing Experiment, Curator Karen Lowe, Chastain Arts Center, Atlanta GA

Triple Play, Marcia Wood Castleberry Gallery, Atlanta, GA

Gathered, Georgia Artists Selecting Georgia Artists, Selection Committee John D Lawrence, Jiha

            Moon, Joseph Norman, and Brian Rust, Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia,

            Atlanta, GA

14th Annual Art Papers Auction, Atlanta, GA

2014

Mediated Line, Kibbee Gallery, Atlanta, GA

Continuum, The Goat Farm Arts Center, Atlanta, GA

Revealed, Ponce City Market Gallery, Atlanta, GA

Cross-Reference, Curated by Rebecca Dimling Cochran, Emory Visual Arts Gallery, Atlanta, GA (catalogue available)

*Underline, Decatur Arts Alliance, Atlanta GA

2013

Georgia Artists Selecting Georgia Artists, Jurors Xie Caomin, Larry Walker, and Martha Whittington, Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, Atlanta, GA

Inferno, Kibbee Gallery, Atlanta, GA

13th Annual Art Papers Auction, Mason Murer Gallery, Atlanta, GA

The Price is Right, Swan Coach House Gallery, Atlanta, GA

Synchronicity, Atlanta Artists Center, Grandview Gallery, Juror Allen Avery, Atlanta, GA

2012

Pleasures of the Garden, Three Centuries of Drawings from the Richard Eagan Collection, Spencertown Academy Gallery, Hudson, NY

New Works, Kessenich Contemporary, Atlanta, GA

2011

Out of Academia, The Seen Gallery, Decatur, GA

Pulse, Abernathy Arts Center, Sandy Springs, GA

2010

Convergence, Faculty Exhibition, Art Institute of Atlanta – Decatur Gallery, Atlanta, GA

Decatur Arts Festival Exhibition, Dana Fine Arts Gallery, Atlanta, GA

Eleventh Annual MOCA Art Auction, Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, Atlanta, GA

11th Annual Art Papers Auction, Mason Murer Gallery, Atlanta, GA

2009

*Drawings, Hunt Gallery, Candler Hall, Oxford, GA

*Sound Room, Florida State University Gallery, Tallahassee, Florida

All Small Redux, Dana Fine Arts Gallery, Agnes Scott College, Atlanta, GA

Drawing Correspondence Books III & IV, Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, Atlanta, GA

MOCA Art Auction, Museum of Contemporary Art, Atlanta, GA

10th Annual Art Papers Auction, Mason Murer Gallery, Atlanta, GA

2008

Art by Emory Visual Arts Faculty, Emory University Medical School, Atlanta, GA (catalogue available)

Le Flash, Curators Cathy Byrd and Stuart Keeler, Castleberry Hill Atlanta, GA (collaboration with Justine Rubin)

*Looking Out, Righteous Room, Atlanta, GA

A (new) Genre Landscape, Curator Stuart Keeler, Lake Claire Park, Atlanta, GA

*Unfold, Georgia State University Student Center, Atlanta, GA (collaboration with Justine Rubin)

9th Annual Art Papers Auction, Mason Murer Gallery, Atlanta, GA

2007

Pierogi Flatfiling, Pierogi Gallery, Curators by Joe Amrhein and Leif Magne Tangen, Liepzig, GermanyConspiracy Theory, 207 Gallery, New York, NY

I Can Hear The Ocean in Your Mouth: A Case Study, Tribes Gallery, Curator Rebecca Lossin, New York, NY

8th   Annual Art Papers Auction, Mason Murer Gallery, Atlanta, GA

2006

Woven Room, The American Living Room, Here Theater, New York, NY (collaboration with Anya Liftig)

Drawing Voices and The Rainbow Machine, Ernest G. Welch Gallery, Atlanta, GA (collaboration with Craig Dongoski and Paul Rodecker)

*Drawing Correspondence, Eyedrum Gallery, Atlanta, GA (collaboration with Paul Rodecker)

7th Annual Art Papers Auction, Mason Murer Gallery, Atlanta, GA

2005

A Show of Heads, Limner Gallery, Phoenicia, NY

*Drawing Correspondence, Young Harris College Art Gallery, Blairsville, GA

Art in Odd Places, East Village Manhattan, Curator Ed Woodham, New York, NY

*Within, Ernest G. Welch Gallery, Atlanta, GA

Marcia Wood Selects the Juried Student Exhibition, Georgia State University Student Center Gallery, Curator Marcia Wood, Atlanta, GA

CAA MFA Exhibition 2005, Lowe Gallery, Curators Robin Dana and Bill Lowe, Atlanta, GA

Yes Yes: Other Mind, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA

Gas Food and Lodging: Imagining Escape, Ernest G. Welch Gallery, Atlanta, GA

6th Annual Art Papers Auction, Mason Murer Gallery, Atlanta, GA

2004

Other Mind: A Nightmare Production, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA

I Wish to Say, One Night Performance Art Event, Rialto Center for Performing Arts, Curator’s Cathy Byrd and Alex Waterson, Atlanta, GA

Chalk Lines, 8th Annual D.U.M.B.O Art Under The Bridge Festival, Brooklyn, NY

The Man Show, Ernest G. Welch Gallery, Atlanta, GA

The Great Descent, Mythic Journey Conference, Directors Scott Cohen and Craig Dongoski, Conference Center at The Hyatt Regency Hotel, Atlanta, GA            

2004 Juried Art Exhibition, Georgia State University Gallery, Curator Radcliffe Bailey, Atlanta, GA

5th Annual Art Papers Auction, Artschool Gallery, Atlanta, GA

Tender Landscape, Dana Fine Arts Gallery, Agnes Scott College, Curator Lisa Alembik, Atlanta, GA

2003   

Outfitting The Herd, The Cage Gallery, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA

Baby Invasion, Eyedrum Gallery, Atlanta, GA (original sound score for installation and performance by Anya Liftig)

School’s Out: Emerging Artists of The Southeast, City Art Gallery, Curator Terri Tynes, Columbia, SC

Prince Charles and Me, Project Mobilivre Bookmobile Project, Eyedrum Gallery, Atlanta, GA        

Non-Speaking, Drawing Marathon, Student Center Ballroom, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA

Fomalhaut 51 23, The Cage Gallery, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA

A Shot in the Dark, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Curator Alex Kvares, Atlanta, GA

Young Alumni Exhibition, Emory University Art Gallery, Atlanta, GA

2002

Fresh: Atlanta Emerging Artists, No No Gallery, Atlanta, GA

In Grey Dreams, Right Brain Gallery, Atlanta, GA

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Deanna Sirlin, “Artist Angus Galloway dives into family, naval history in striking exhibit,” ArtsATL, July 19, 2022. https://www.artsatl.org/review-artist-angus-galloway-dives-into-family-naval-history-in-striking-exhibit/

Dan Weiskopf, “Sprawl! Drawing Outside the Lines at High Museum of Art, Atlanta,” Art Papers, September/October 2015.

Davis, Maggie, “Triple Play, Marcia Wood Gallery Castleberry, Atlanta” Art Papers, July/August 2015.

Fox, Catherine, “Sprawl! Drawing Outside the Lines welcomes ATL artists into the High’s permanent collection,” Arts ATL, August 6, 2015. http://www.artsatl.com/2015/08/review-sprawl/

Cochran, Rebecca Dimling. Crossreference. Visual Arts Department at Emory University, Atlanta, GA 2014.

Kreiter, Rachel. “PULSE draws big circles, but falls short of vague ambitions.” Burnaway, April 27, 2011. http://www.burnaway.org/2011/04/pulse-draws-big-circles-but-falls-short-of-vague-ambitions/#more-15052

Fox, Catherine. “Dream Invites Walkins To Escape From Real World,” Atlanta Journal and Constitution, February 22, 2009.



Fox, Catherine. “Beauty and Treatment,” Atlanta Journal and Constitution, February 15, 2009.

Lossin, Rebecca. “A Drawing Correspondence,” in New York Magazine, vol. 11 No. ½, January/February, 2006.

Woodham, Ed. “Art In Odd Places.” www.artinoddplaces.org/2005

Liberation, Iannillo. “Art In Odd Places,” in Trigger Magazine, Issue 5, 2005.

Lewis, James. “An Eye for Art: Georgia State University Celebrating Photography,” Urbanite, Thursday, October 21, 2004.

Cullum, Jerry. “An Accidental Theme: Self-Portraiture And Gender Link Grads, Students,” Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Sunday, June 13, 2004.

Feaster, Felicia. “A Boy’s Life,” Creative Loafing, June 24 – June 30, 2004.

Armstrong, Lisa and Cullum, Jerry. Emory Chair Project. Atlanta: Emory University Publications, 2004.

Ciliberto, Jon, “Art and Trees and Sounds of Atlanta,” Art News, January 30, 2004.

Alembik, Lisa. Tender Landscape. Atlanta: Agnes Scott College, January 2004.

Cullum, Jerry. “Babies Attack,” Atlanta Journal and Constitution, October 23, 2003.

Cook, Dan. “Artista Vista 2003,” Free Times, Columbia, SC, May 17-13, 2003.

PUBLICATIONS

2023                Illustrator, The Making of Museums in Nigeria, by Amanda H. Hellman, Lexington Books.

2017                Illustrator, Seeking Symmetry, Finding Patterns in Human Health, by Niall Galloway, M.D., Handspring Publishing

2009                “Simultaneous Motion,” Covington News, Wednesday, October 14, 2009.



2009                Drawing Correspondence, Atlanta: Bud Rodecker Publications, 2009.

2008                “Pattern and Symmetry in the Human Body: A simpler side of complexity for teaching and learning,” Academic Exchange Magazine, Vol. 10 No. 4  February/March 2008.

2006                “A Show of Heads: Left Right Portrait,” Direct Art Magazine, Fall/Winter 2006,    Volume 13.

2004                “Making Art in Active Public Places,” in Georgia Graduate Interdisciplinary Conference. Athens: University of Georgia

Visiting Artist Lectures and Workshops

2021                Cross-Pollination: Developing interdisciplinary projects and facilitating collaborations among students in different courses, GSU-Perimeter Clarkston, GA

2017                Children’s Workshop: Drawing in The African Gallery, Michael C. Carlos Museum, Atlanta, GA.

2012-15           Draw @ MOCA, The Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, Atlanta, GA

2010                “Drawing Voices,” Georgia State University and Wake Forest University

2009                Sound Workshop and Graduate Student Collaboration, Florida State University,    

                        Tallahassee, FL

2009                Drawing Marathon, University of West Georgia, Carrollton, GA

2009                “Drawing Correspondence and Workshop,” Emory University, Atlanta, GA

2009                “New Work,” Druid Hills High School, Atlanta, GA

2009                Hambidge Art Festival, Hambidge Art and Research Center, Rabun Gap, GA

2008                “Drawing From Both Sides of The Brain,” Emory University, Atlanta, GA

2007                “My First Painting, and Where I Went From There” Emory University, Atlanta, GA

2007                “Artist Talk and Performance Art Workshop,” Denison University, Granville, OH    

2006                “Sound Art in the Field,” Parsons The New School of Design, New York, NY

2006                “Left Right Drawing Workshop,” Paideia School, Atlanta, GA

Collections

High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA

The Neurology Department, Emory University Hospital, Atlanta, GA

The Cardiology Department, St. Joseph’s Hospital, Atlanta, GA

Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, Atlanta, GA

Pierogi Gallery, Flatfile, Brooklyn, New York, and Liepzig, Germany

The Richard Eagan Collection, New York, NY

And other private collections.

Artist Residencies

2013-2015      The Creatives Project, The Goat Farm Arts Center, Atlanta, GA

2012                Hambidge Art and Research Center, Rabun Gap, GA

2007                Hambidge Art and Research Center, Rabun Gap, GA

Selected Exhibitions (curated)

2014                The Book is Art: Expanding Limits, Art Institute of Atlanta-Decatur Gallery, Atlanta, GA

2014                Emerge: Faculty Show, Art Institute of Atlanta-Decatur Gallery, Atlanta, GA

2013                Go Wild: Artworks Gala and Auction, Art Institute of Atlanta-Decatur Gallery, Atlanta, GA

2013                The Book is Art, Art Institute of Atlanta-Decatur Gallery, Atlanta, GA

2013                Imprint, Gray Lyons and Linda Lyons, Art Institute of Atlanta-Decatur Gallery, Atlanta, GA

2012                In Between: Time in the Desert: Eric Baden, Art Institute of Atlanta-Decatur

                        Gallery, Atlanta, GA

2012                Wallbound, Art Institute of Atlanta-Decatur Gallery, Atlanta, GA

2011                Extraordinary Things: Chattahoochee Biennial of Textiles, Art Institute of Atlanta-Decatur Gallery, Atlanta, GA

2011                Shape and Shadow: Jim DiVitale, Art Institute of Atlanta-Decatur Gallery, Atlanta, GA

2011                Converge, Art Institute of Atlanta-Decatur Gallery, Atlanta, GA

2010                Just Suppose: The Art of Maggie Taylor and Jerry Uelsmann, Art Institute of Atlanta-Decatur Gallery, Atlanta, GA

2010-2014      STARS: Student Work, Art Institute Gallery-Decatur Gallery, Atlanta, GA (annual)

2007                On The Edge, Ernest G. Welch Gallery, Atlanta, GA (catalogue available)