Richard Feaster
Lives & works in Nashville, TN
Richard Feaster has shown his work nationally and internationally, including exhibits at the City University of New York, National Academy Museum, and the Cheekwood Museum of Art. His artwork is included in private, corporate and university collections. He received a BFA in painting from Birmingham Southern College and a MFA in painting from Tulane University’s Newcomb College and attended the Skowhegan summer program in Skowhegan, Maine. Feaster is represented in Tennessee by Nashville’s Zeitgeist Gallery and in Boston, MA by Erdreich White Fine Art.
Education
1993
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME
1993
MFA, Painting
Tulane University
New Orleans, LA
1989
BFA, Painting
Birmingham-Southern College
Birmingham, AL
Solo and Two Person Exhibits
2022-23
Solar
Zeitgeist Gallery
Nashville, TN
2020
Transitional States & Future Ruins (online)
2019
w/ Zipporah Camille Thompson
Zeitgeist Gallery, Nashville, TN
Birmingham-Southern College
Birmingham, AL
2017
Zeitgeist Gallery, Nashville, TN
2016
Tibbott Center Gallery
University School of Nashville
Nashville, TN
2014
Zeitgeist Gallery, Nashville, TN
2013
Richard Feaster/Lain York, Gallery 363, Memphis, TN
2012
New Paintings by Richard Feaster
Zeitgeist Gallery, Nashville, TN
2009
The High Window, Zeitgeist Gallery, Nashville, TN
2007
Ironwood Studios, Knoxville, TN
2006
Eligible Receiver (solo), Cheekwood Museum of Art, Temporary Contemporary, Nashville, TN (catalog)
Zeitgeist Gallery, Nashville, TN
Art at the Airport: Nashville International Airport, Nashville, TN
2004
Zeitgeist Gallery, Nashville, TN
2000
Miller Block Gallery, Boston, MA
Group Exhibitions
2022
The Map Is Not The Territory: Richard Feaster, Brady Haston, Alicia Henry
Sewanee: University of the South
Sewanee, TN
2021
In Abstracto: Richard Feaster, K.J. Schumacher, Wendy Walker Silverman, Aaron Worley
Modfellows Gallery
Nashville, TN
2019
Dogwood Arts Regional
Arts and Culture Alliance
Knoxville, TN
2018
Trager Contemporary, Charleston, SC
Destill - A Survey of Contemporary Art
Curated by the Committee for New Forms
Track One, Nashville, TN
2017
Luminous Animals
Whitespace, Atlanta, GA
2016
FICTION (With Only Daylight Between Us)
Traveling exhibition - worldwide
Curated by Jeffrey Cortland Jones
Debut venue: Corridor, Dayton, OH
20 Collaborations in Book Arts
Nashville Public Library, Main Branch
Nashville, TN
From Here, Fluorescent Gallery
Curated by Zach Searcy
Knoxville, TN
COOP Gallery
Nashville, TN
2015
Herbstsalon '15, MDR Gallery
Magdeburg, Germany
trip {} frisson, 40AU Gallery
Nashville, TN
2014
Home Fires
Zieher Smith
Nashville, TN
2012
Exhibit Your Symptom, Zeitgeist Gallery, Nashville, TN
2011
Altered Landscape, Governors Island Art Fair, NY
Element-Progress, Spool Mfg., Johnson City, NY
2010
gallery ELL @ Loading Dock
The Loading Dock, Brooklyn, NY
2009
Social (Virus), NurtureArt, Inc., Brooklyn, NY
Abstract Painting, Cheekwood Museum of Art, Nashville, TN (catalog)
2008
Dialogues I, Zeitgeist Gallery, Nashville, TN
Works with Words, Nashville Downtown Public Library, Nashville, TN (Catalog)
A Painting Dialogue at Crosland, Nashville, TN
2007
Energy Transfers, Victoria Price Art & Design, Santa Fe, NM
Altered Vision: Artists Confront Sight Loss, Nashville Downtown Public Library, TN (catalog)
2006
Fellowship Exhibition, Abbey Mural Fund for Mural Painting, National Academy Museum, New York
Visual Recordings, Vanderbilt University
Nashville, TN
2005
Art at Work, Association for Visual Artists, Chattanooga, TN
2001
Works on Paper, Foundation for Contemporary Arts Benefit, Mathew Marks Gallery, New York, NY
2000
"2001", Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
1998-05
The Flat Files (traveling, international) Pierogi 2000, Brooklyn, NY
1997
Presentational Painting II, Hunter College/Leubsdorf Gallery, New York, NY (catalog)
Purely Painting, Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York, NY
Selected Collections
The City of Nashville, Mayor's Office
Music City Center, Nashville, TN
FirstBank: Janet & Jim Ayers Collection of Tennessee Art, Nashville, TN
Creative Artists Agency, Nashville, TN
Newcomb College, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
Birmingham-Sothern College, Birmingham, AL
Bibliography
Unconventional: Nashville’s Music City Center, 2014
The Art of Community: Janet and Jim Ayers’ Collection of Tennessee Art, 2013
Tennessee Abstract Painters, Catalog, Essay by Weirich, Jochen, Curator, Cheekwood Museum of Art, 2009
March 2, 2007, Marx, Jonathan, the Tennessean
Eligible Receiver: Recent Works by Richard Feaster, Knowles, Susan, Cheekwood Museum of Art, 2006
Nashville Arts Magazine, September, 2006, Nolan, Joe
The Nashville Scene, April, 2004; August, 2005; February, 2006
The City Paper (Nashville), August 8, 2002, Walen, Drew
New American Paintings, Volume 32, 2000/01
The Boston Globe, March 30, 2000, McQuaid, Cate
Cover Magazine, “Shaping Abstract Imagery,” June, 1997, Wright, Jeffrey C.
Presentational Painting II, Catalogue, Essays and Introduction, Hunter College, Leubsdorf Art Gallery, 1997
Awards/Residencies
2009 & 11
Professional Development Support Grant, Tennessee Arts Commission
2006
Fellowship & Residency, Edward Abbey Mural Workshop, National Academy Museum, New York, NY
1997
Panel Lecturer - Hunter College, City University of New York, New York, NY
1993
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME