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