Turner, Vadis

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2013 Jack Geary Contemporary, New York, NY
2011 Green Building Gallery, Louisville, KY
2011 Rymer Gallery, Nashville, TN
2011 Lyons Wier Gallery, New York, NY
2011 Rymer Gallery, Nashville, TN
2010 Quirk Gallery, Richmond, VA
2010 Green Building Gallery, Louisville, KY
2009 Lyons Wier Gallery, New York, NY
2008 Tag Art Gallery, Nashville, TN
2007 Gallery Nulu, Louisville, KY
2006 Reflex Gallery, Paris, France
2006 Holasek Weir Gallery, New York, NY
2006 Sonia Rykiel, Art on Madison, New York, NY
2006 We Are Lounge, Designers & Agents, Los Angeles, CA, Tokyo, Japan, New York, NY

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2013 The Lonely Sea and Sky, Allegra LaViola Gallery, New York, NY
2013 Off The Wall, Mirus Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2013 Repetition and Ritual, curated by Sonya Young James, Hudgens Center for the Arts, Atlanta,
GA
2013 Cold Castle, Family Business, New York, NY
2012 Ornamental, Grey Area at Coates Willie Gallery, New York, NY
2012 Bad for You, curated by Beth Rudin DeWoody, Shizaru Gallery, London, England
2012 Journey of Faith, O’Silas Gallery at Concordia College, Bronxville, NY
2012 Americana, Grey Area, New York, NY
2012 Dismemberment Auction, FAMNYC and Phillps de Pury at the Intercourse, Brooklyn, NY
2012 Material Matters, Lyons Wier Gallery, New York, NY
2012 Haberdashery, Eric Firestone Gallery, East Hampton, NY
2012 Art Party, Whitney Museum of Art, New York, NY
2012 Sound Quality, Grey Area, New York, NY
2012 Sonando en Color, Rush Arts Gallery, New York, NY
2012 Sutured, Like The Spice Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2012 The Exquisite Corpse, Essex Street Market, New York, NY
2012 Heart Party, Grey Area, New York, NY
2012 An Evening in Monte-Carlo, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC
2011 Extreme Materials 2, Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY
2011 24/7, Lyons Wier Gallery, New York, NY
2011 Ball, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
2011 Hidden Cities, Women’s Caucus for Art, New Century Artists, NYC
2011 Basic Instinct, Flanders Gallery, Raleigh, NC
2011 We The Artists, National Museum and Art Gallery of Trinidad and Tobago
2011 Here & Now, Lyons Wier Gallery, New York, NY
2010 Basic Instinct, Black and White Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2010 Sixth Borough, No Longer Empty, Governor’s Island, NY
2010 PILLOW Pageant, A.I.R. Gallery, DUMBO Arts Festival, Brooklyn, NY
2010 Critical Stitch, Union College, Schenectady, NY
2010 Common Jive, Elizabeth Foundation For the Arts, New York, NY
2010 Bunny Redux, Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburg, PA
2009 Spectrum 2009, Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, TN
2009 In Stitches, Lelia Taghinia-Milani Heller Gallery, New York, NY
2009 New Acquisitions, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
2009 Remains of the Day, curated by Vadis Turner, Lyons Wier Gallry, New York, NY
2009 Crafting Romance, Athens Institute for Contemporary Art, Athens, GA
2009 Hanging by a Tread, Westchester Arts Council, Westchester, NY
2009 Narrative Thread, Lyons Weir Gallery, New York, NY
2009 Fashion Forward, Islip Art Museum, Islip, NY
2008 Object Salon, White Space Gallery, London, England
2008 Prague Triennial, National Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic
2008 Works on Paper, Lyons Weir Ortt, New York, NY
2008 11th International Open, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL
2008 Luxury of Love, Vanina Holasek Gallery, New York, NY
2008 Let’s Bolt, Rock Paper Scissors Collective, Oakland, CA
2007 ArtHaus, Ethan Cohen Galley, Miami, FL
2007 Modernature, Lotus Space, New York, NY
2007 Conflux 2007, Metro Color Collision & Glowlab, Brooklyn, NY
2007 NYC-5, in conjunction with a Keith Haring Retrospective, Egon Schiele Art Centrum, Cesky 2007 Krumlov, Czech Republic
2007 Fame and Survival, Reflex Gallery, Paris, France
2007 Sugar Buzz, Lehman Collage Art Gallery, Bronx, New York
2007 Home & Object Design Fair, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
2006 Who’s That Girl, Vanina Holasek Gallery, New York, NY
2006 Candy for Dinner, Remy Toledo Gallery, New York, NY
2006 9 off 8th at 6, Crystalwood Gallery, Nashville, TN
2006 Beast and the Beauty, Holasek Weir Gallery, New York, NY
2006 Luxury Goods, Kathleen Cullen Fine Arts, New York, NY
2005 Frisbee Art Fair, Metro Color Collision, Miami, FL
2005 Dear Bubble Tea, Nurture Art, Brooklyn, NY
2005 The Symbolic Defeat of Phi Slamma Jamma, Melody Weir Gallery, New York, NY
2005 D.I.Y, Invisible NYC, New York, NY
2005 You’re Not in Kansas Anymore, Melody Weir Gallery, New York, NY
2005 Traces of Me, or How I Learned to Draw, Asterisk Art Space, Brooklyn, NY

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS AND AWARDS
2011 Tennessee State Museum, Nashville, TN
2011 City of Nashville Parks Department (on loan)
2010 21C Museum, Louisville, KY
2010 Kentucky Arts and Crafts Museum, Louisville, KY
2009 Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
2009 Project Grant, Barbara Deming Memorial Fund
2007 Egon Schiele Art Centrum, Cesky Krumlov, Czech Republic

BIBLIOGRAPHY
2011 “This Brooklyn Gala was a Ball”, Williamsburg Courier, May
2011 “The Readymade 100”, ReadyMade Magazine, May
2011 “Out & About: Frogmore night at Vadis and Clay’s”, BomBlog, Jennifer Rodriguez
2011 “A Burial Party”, Obit Magazine, April
2011 “See the Brooklyn Museum’s Artists Ball”, ARTINFO, May
2011 “You Singin To Me”, New York Times, Sarah Maslin Nir, April
2011 “Quo Vadis”, The Daily, Bill Bradley, February
2011 “Vadis Turner”, New American Paintings, No. 92, Northeast Edition
2010 “Greatest People Of The Day: Vadis Turner And Matthew Parker, Creators Of 'Nashville
Counts, Huffington Post, Amy Lee, December
2010 “Counting The Ways”, Nashville Scene, Margaret Renkl, November
2010 “Nashville Counts”, Holland Brown Books, Vadis Turner (co-creator and contributing artist)
and Matthew Parker, November
2010 “The Southern Invasion of NYC”, Garden & Gun, April/May 2010, Jessica Mischner
2010 “Vadis Turner Dowry at The Green Building February 5, 2010” Consuming Louisville, February
2009 “Trousseau of Talent: A Q&A with Vadis Turner”, Vanityfair.com, May, Claire Howorth.
2009 “Crafting Romance at ATHICA”, Athens Banner-Herald, May, Melissa Link.
2009 “Payment in Full”, Bomb Magazine, April, David Goodman.
2009 “Recycled Artwork for Forward Thinkers”, New York Times, April, Susan Hodara.
2009 “Where Fashion Meets its Artistic Match”, New York Times, January, Benjamin Genocchio.
2008 “An Interview with Vadis Turner”, White Hot, October, Kofi Forson.
2008 “10 Questions with Artist Vadis Turner”, HBOMB, Martabel Wasserman.
2008 “Turner’s Artworks Manically Mimic Everyday Life”, The Tennessean, April, Jonathan Marx.
2008 “Critic’s Pick”, Nashville Scene, April, Joe Nolan.
2008 “Women’s Work”, Ready Made Magazine, December 2007/January 2008, Anna McDonald.
2007 “Explore”, Underwired, December, Stephanie Brothers.
2007 “Women’s ‘Stuff’ Display Is Commentary, Whimsy”, Courier-Journal, October
2007 “How to Make a Feminist Quilt”, Velocity Weekly, October, Javacia Harris.
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2007 “Fattening Goodies in All Their Sugary Glory”, Arts and Entertainment, The New York Times
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Krumlov”, The Prague Post, April, Mimi Fronczak.
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2000 “Stuff: Art From A Material World”, The Boston Globe, April