ABOUT

BIOGRAPHY

Cummings received her BFA from Kendall College of Art and Design and completed her Master of Fine Arts degree at the University of Cincinnati’s School of Design, Art, Architecture, and Planning. Cummings is currently Associate Professor of Visual Arts in Painting/Drawing at Coastal Carolina University in Conway, South Carolina. Her work can be found in both public and private collections and has been exhibited in multiple group and solo exhibitions throughout the south and mid-west of the United States. In February of 2022, Cummings was selected as the inaugural solo exhibition, What is Withheld, for the international artist group, Art Mums United. She was a finalist in the Women’s United Art Prize 2022, received honorable mention in 2021, and was awarded First Place in the Disrupted Realism exhibition at Buckham Gallery in Flint, MI juried by John Seed. Cummings has been featured in the 701 Center for Contemporary Art South Carolina Biennial 2015 and 2019 in Columbia, SC, winner of the 2016 701 CCA Prize for artist under 40 in South Carolina, as well as Contemporary South at Visual Art Exchange in Raleigh, NC. She was one of 65 artists chosen for The Mint Museum’s Coined in the South Exhibition 2019.


Curriculum Vitae

AWARDS and HONORS

2023    

Third Place Award, Small Works 2023, Florence Arts Alliance, Gately Gallery, Florence SC, Juror – Chris Nitsche

Best of Show, SC Festival of Flowers Juried Art Show, Art Center of Greenwood, Greenwood, SC

Nominee, Professor of the Year Apple award, COFHA, Coastal Carolina University, 2022-2023

2022    

Finalist, 4th – 10th Place, Women United Art Prize 2022, International Competition, Jurors –  Lexi Laine, Victoria J. Fry, Sash-Loriene, Gita Joshi

C.P. Quattlebaum Design Award 2022, Teal Alley Mural, City of Conway

Nominee, Professor of the Year Apple Award, COFHA, Coastal Carolina Univeristy, 2021-2022

2021    

Special Recognition, Women United Art Prize 2021, International Online Competition, Jurors – Ekaterina Popova, Tam Gryn, Sash-Loriene and Gita Joshi

First Place, Disrupted Realism, Buckham Gallery, Flint, MI, Juror – John Seed, Author, Art Critic

Professor of the Year Apple Award Recipient, COFHA, Coastal Carolina University, 2020-2021

Nominee, John B. Durrell Award, COFHA, Coastal Carolina University, 2020-2021

Nominee, Teaching Excellence and Innovation Award, Provost Faculty Innovation and Excellence Awards 2020-2021

Nominee, Public Engagement, Outreach, and Service Award, Provost Faculty Innovation and Excelleence Awards, 2020-2021

2020    

Award of Excellence, Red!, Webster Arts, Webster Grove, MO, Juror – Edna Patterson-Petty

Procreate Project, Mother Art Prize 2020, Short List

Jurors – Eva Langret, Artistic Director Frieze London, Frances Morris, Director of Tate Modern, Claire Mander, Chair of Steering Committee of UK Friends, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Director of CoLAB, Niamh Coglan, Richard Salton, Gallery Director, Pauline Desouza, Director of Diversity Art Forum, Elvira Dyangoni Ose, Director of The Showroom, Lecturer in Visual Cultures, Goldsmith University

Nominee, Professor of the Year Apple Award, COFHA, Coastal Carolina University, 2019-2020

2017    

Best of Show, 42nd Annual Juried Art Show, Anderson Arts Center, Anderson, SC, Juror: Michael W. Haga, Associate Dean, College of Charleston School of the Arts

First Place, Pee Dee Regional Art Competition, Waters Gallery, Florence County Museum, Florence, SC, Juror: Sanford Greene, Comic Illustrator, DC Comics, Marvel

2016    

Winner, 701 CCA Prize 2016, 701 Center for Contemporary Art, Columbia, SC, Jurors: David Gariff, Senior Lecturer at the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C.; Jonell Logan, Independent Curator, founder 300 Arts Project LLC Belmont, NC; Jennifer Smith, Gallery & Marketing dDrector of The Arts Center of Greenwood, Greenwood, SC

2015    

Best of Show, Black Creek Arts First Annual Juried Exhibition, Black Creek Arts Council, Hartsville, SC, 2015, Juror: Frank McCauley, Exhibitions Coordinator, VisArts, Rockville, MD

Honorable Mention, Pee-Dee Regional Art Competition, Florence County Museum, Florence, SC, 2015

2011    

Stephen J. Dalton Distinguished Teaching Award, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, 2011, student nominated

SOLO EXHIBITIONS, INVITED

2022    

Who I was, who we are, Milliken Gallery, Converse University, Spartanburg, SC

2020    

Everything will be OK, Burroughs and Chapin Art Museum, Myrtle Beach, SC

Bearing Witness, Sea Islands Center Gallery, USC Beaufort, Beaufort, SC

2018    

Endeavoring, Hiested Gallery, Miami University, Oxford, OH

Splendor & Fault, Austin Peay State University, Clarksville, TN

2016    

Remember Everything, Artspace 506, North Myrtle Beach, SC

2010    

Eleventh-hour, FAB Gallery, South Carolina State University, Orangeburg, SC                

2004    

Revisited, City Art Gallery, Columbia, SC           

SOLO EXHIBITIONS, JURIED

2024     In Spite of It, Buckham Gallery, Flint, MI, Upcoming

2023     The Uncanny, Dalton Gallery, Center for the Arts, Rock Hill, SC, Upcoming

2022     What was Withheld, Art Mums United, Czech Republic Based

Collision, Fitton Center for Creative Arts, Hamilton, OH

Bearing Witness, Exit Space, Urban Institute of Contemporary Art, Grand Rapids, MI

2021     Disruptive Experience, University Gallery, Francis Marion University, Florence, SC

2019     What is Withheld, Rosemary Duffy Larson Gallery, Broward College, Davie, FL

Silent Lines, UCF Art Gallery, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL

2018     Stacked, The Cube, VAE Raleigh, Raleigh, NC

Uncovered, 701 Center for Contemporary Art, Columbia, SC

Troubling Beauty, Clemson University, Clemson, SC                                                                  

2015     (un)recalled, Black Creek Arts Gallery, Hartsville, SC

GROUP INVITED/CURATED

2023     southXeast Contemporary Art Triannual, Schmitt Art Center, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL, Curated by Veronique Cote

2021     Immaterial, 3-person show w/ artists Iolanda Palmer and Mica Smith, McCormick Gallery, Midland College, Midland, TX, Curated by Michael Hubbard, Gallery Director

2016     Black & Blue, 2-person show w/ J. Arendt, Arts Council of Wayne County, Goldsboro, NC

2012     Faculty and Friends, South Carolina State University, Orangeburg, SC

2006     Abstraction, City Art Gallery, Columbia, SC

2005     Artifestation, Pop-Up Gallery, Grand Rapids, MI, Curated by Tom Clinton

2004     University of South Carolina Faculty/Student Exhibition, Palmetto GBA, Columbia, SC

2003     No Common Theme, The Artery, Newport, KY, Invited – Hollis Hammond

2002     Visceral Fascination, 840 Gallery, Cincinnati, OH

2001     Live Coverage, Urban Institute for Contemporary Art, Grand Rapids, MI

Art House, Grand Rapids, MI

2000     Collegiate Art Show, Urban Institute for Contemporary Art, Grand Rapids, MI

GROUP EXHIBITIONS, JURIED

2023    

Small Works 2023, Florence Arts Alliance, Gately Gallery, Florence SC, Juror Chris Nitsche

SC Festival of Flowers Juried Art Show, Art Center of Greenwood, Greenwood, SC

Women United Art Prize 2022, Finalist Showcase, Online & Print, International (UK), Jurors Ekaterina Popova, Tam Gryn, Sasha-Loriene and Gita Josh

2022    

Generations: 30 years of Woman Made Gallery, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL, International (USA), Jurors Jae Green, Marissa Miles

Women United Art Prize 2021, Finalist Showcase, Online, International (UK), Jurors Ekaterina Popova, Tam Gryn, Sasha-Loriene and Gita Josh

2021    

2021 Juried SECAC Exhibition, Bolivar Art Gallery, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, Juror Joey Yates, Curatorial Director, KMAC Museum, Louisville, KY

Disrupted Realism, Buckham Gallery, Flint, MI, Juried by John Seed

2020    

Touch, A Virtual Exhibition, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL, Online, International (USA), Juried by Gina Lee Robbins

Red! Webster Arts, Webster Grove, MO, Online, Juried by Edna Patterson-Petty

B20: Wiregrass Biennial, Wiregrass Museum of Art, Dothan, AL (COVID moved Online), Juried by Angie L. Barry, Dave Brown, Partner, Mario Gallardo, Jackie Clay

ArtFields 2020, Lake City, SC (virtual opening, cancelled due to COVID19), Juried by Renee Margocee, Dana Lemmer, Don Kimes, Shanequa Gay, Erika Hirugami

2019    

Paperworks 2019!, B.J. Spoke Gallery, Huntington, NY, Juried by Hillary Reder

Hard to Kill: Survivors Exhibition 2019, Agitator Gallery, Chicago, IL. Juried by Danielle Owensby

Coined in the South, The Young Affiliates, The Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC, Juried by Marilyn Zapf, Adam N. Justice, Jonell Logan

Number: Inc. Presents Art of the South, Rust Hall Galleries, Memphis College of Art, Memphis, Tn, Juried by Bethany Springer

701 CCA South Carolina Biennial 2019 Part II, 701 Center for Contemporary Arts, Columbia, SC, Juried by Karen Oremus, Wendy Earle, Amy Chalmers

2017    

Art Council of York County 28th Annual Juried Completion, Rock Hill, SC

42nd Annual Juried Art Show, Anderson Arts Center, Anderson, SC

Pee Dee Regional Art Competition, Florence County Museum, Florence, SC

2016    

ArtFields, Jones-Carter Gallery, Lake City, SC

Contemporary South, Visual Art Exchange, Raleigh, NC

701 CCA Prize 2016, Finalist Exhibition, 701 Center for Contemporary Art, Columbia, SC

Figure Out, Tapp’s Art Center, Columbia, SC

2015    

Your Art Here”, Non-Fiction’s Digital Exhibition, Non-Fiction Gallery, Savannah, GA

Black Creek Arts Juried Exhibition, Black Creek Arts Council, Hartsville, SC            

ArtFields, Fairview Framers, Lake City, SC        

701 CCA South Carolina Biennial 2015, 701 Center for Contemporary Art, Columbia, SC

Pee-Dee Regional Art Competition, Florence County Museum, Florence, SC

2014    

ArtPrize, St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, Grand Rapids, MI

ArtFields, Joe’s Barbershop, Lake City, SC

Thirty-Ninth Annual Juried Exhibition, Anderson Arts Center, Anderson, SC

Thirty-Fifth Annual Juried South Carolina Arts Exhibition, Pickens County Museum, Pickens, SC

2013    

ArtFields, Mosaic, Lake City, SC

Transitions: Movement, Passage, Change, Durham Art Guild, SunTrust Gallery, Durham, NC

Thirty-Fourth Annual Juried South Carolina Arts Exhibition, Pickens County Museum, Pickens, SC

2007    

Some Assembly Required, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL, Juried by Lauren Levato

2004    

Women, Trauma, and Visual Expression, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL, Juried by Amy Stacy Curtis

2003    

Masters of Fine Art Thesis Exhibition, DAAP Galleries, Cincinnati, OH2002     MFA Candidates I, Edwards Gallery, Cincinnati, OH

2001    

Fifteenth Annual West Michigan Regional Competition, Lowell Area Arts Council, Lowell, MI

Beyond Surface, Urban Institute for Contemporary Art, Grand Rapids, MI

2000    

Bachelors of Fine Arts Exhibition, Kendall College of Art & Design, Grand Rapids, MI

1999    

Self-Portraiture, Kendall College of Art & Design, Grand Rapids, MI

La Dolce Vita, Kendall College of Art & Design, Grand Rapids, MI

COLLABORATIVE PROJECTS

2013     Righting Itself, c/w J. Arendt, Free City Public Arts Festival, Flint Public Art Project, Flint, MI

                        National, Juried

RESIDENCY

2022     Soaring Gardens Artist Retreat, Lacyville, PA

            National, Juried