EDUCATION
2006 Master of Fine Arts | Vermont College of Fine Art
1998 Bachelor of Fine Art | University of Tennessee
1996 Foundations | School of Visual Arts
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2027 Paintings for Readers, Untitled Nashville, Tennessee
2025 Befores and Afters, David Lusk Gallery, Memphis & Nashville, Tennessee
2025 To Harden and Heal, Johnson Lowe, Atlanta
2024 Start from Scratch, Vanderbilt University
2024 Scott Miller Projects, Alabama
2022 The Find, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, California
2021 Past Perfect, Zieher Smith Gallery, Nashville, Tennessee
2020 Outskirts, Browsing Room & Red Arrow Gallery, Nashville, Tennessee
2019 Tend, Red Arrow Gallery, Nashville, Tennessee
2017 Keeper, Red Arrow Gallery, Nashville, Tennessee
2013 Supper Scraps, Tinney Contemporary, Nashville, Tennessee
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2026 In Her Place, Frist Art Museum, Tennessee, Curator Katie Delmez
2026 Cardboard, Wonzimer, Los Angeles, California, Ann Weber, Curator
2024 Strangeness, Tone, Translucency, McClain Gallery, Houston, Texas
2023 Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Museum of Art, North Carolina
2023 Southern Futurisms, Florida Southern University Museum of Art
2023 Everso, Devening Projects, Chicago, IL
2022 Susan Inglett Gallery, NY, with Michi Meko
2020 Breathless, Red Arrow Gallery,Tennessee, curators K. Shaw and A. Layendecker
2019 615, Fisk University, Nashville, Tennessee
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2024 Steinhauer, Jill, New York Times, June, Ortega y Gasett Projects
2022 New American Paintings, No. 154
2021 Ravitz, Sue, Painting on Porch, November 2022
2020 Weiner, Emily, Critic’s Pick, Art Forum International, May
2019 Acree, Cat, TheFeminine Presence Elemental, Nashville Scene
2018 Grand, Robert, In Defense of Subtlety, Burnaway, December 2018
2012 Butler, Sharon, Report From Nashville, Two Coats of Paint, April 2012
SELECTED AWARDS, GRANTS AND RESIDENCIES
2026 Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, Nominee
2026 TSA/New York solo exhibition, Finalist
2025 Yaddo, Resident
2025 Howard Foundation, Brown University, Grant Finalist
2025 The University of Arkansas, Clay Break Resident
2023 Oxbow School of Art, resident
2023 NYFA/Rauschenberg Foundation Grant
2022 Stove Works, Resident
2020 Foundation for Contemporary Arts, New York, Grant
2020 Fellowship, Rose Library at Emory University
2019 Hopper Prize, Finalist
2014 Sustainable Arts Foundation, Grant
2013 Clark Hulings Foundation for Emerging Artists, Finalist
2012 Tennessee Arts Commission, Individual Artist Fellowship
2011 Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation, Grant
2007 The Cooper Union School of Art, Resident
2006&9 Vermont Studio Center, Resident
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, Arkansas
The Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama
Caster-Knott Building, Nashville
The J. Crew Group, New York, New York
Music City Center, Nashville, Tennessee
National Parks of America
Pinnacle Bank
Studio Bank
Tennessee State Museum, Nashville, Tennessee
Vanderbilt University Library, Nashville, Tennessee
Jodi Hays has given talks and served as a Visiting Artist at Rhode Island School of Design, University of Arkansas School of Art, Vanderbilt University, Fisk University, Pratt, School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, and more.