William Downs CV 2021
William Downs Education 2003 M.F.A., Mount Royal School of Art, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD 1996 B.F.A., Painting and Printmaking, Atlanta College of Art, Atlanta, GA Solo Exhibitions 2022 Up before the Sun , The Meyerhoff Gallery, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD Long Runner, Band of Vices, Los Angeles, CA Rumbling and Stumbling,University of Alabama Birmingham, Birmingham, AL Figure Ground, The Lyndon House Arts Center, Athens, GA Inogaral Show , Moberg Gallery, Des Moines, IW 2021 Pieces of a Man, Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY Home is Anywhere YOU HANG YOUR HEAD, Tempus Projects, Tampa, FL 2020 Drawings of Wildness and Silence…, Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, Atlanta, GA Downs Adventures Animations, Flux Projects, Atlanta, GA 2019 LET THE WIND CARRY US, Tempus Projects, Tampa, FL a soft place to lay, E.C. Liná, Los Angeles, CA standing on the verge of…, Grizzly Grizzly Gallery, Philadelphia, PA 2018 Sometimes it hurts, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, St. Louis, MO Inhuman, Sandler Hudson Gallery, Atlanta, GA 2016 Aimless Revery, The Fuel and Lumber Company, Birmingham, AL 2011 At Ease, Parker Jones Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2009 A World I Never Made, Slag Gallery, New York, NY 2008 Fly Away Fly Away, Artspace, New Haven, CT 2003 Drawings, Tevis County Gallery, Westminster, MD 2002 Drawings 2001 – 2002, Mission Space, Baltimore, MD 1999 Broken Ladders, Chattahoochee Valley Art Museum, La Grange, GA 1998 Hands and Feet, Gallery 307, Decatur, GA 1997 Drawings, ASIS Alternative Space, Atlanta, GA Broken Ladders, Georgia South Western University, Fine Arts Center Gallery, Americus, GA Group Exhibitions 2022 Drawing and Painting, Sandler Hudson Gallery, Atlanta, GA Drawers: Provocative Drawings OZ Arts,, Nashville, TN OUTSIDE IN, Elder Gallery, Charlotte, NC 2021 Of Care and Destruction: 2021 Atlanta Biennial, curated by Dr. Jordan Amirkhani, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center Group Small Works, Broadway Gallery, New York, NY 2020 IT’S BEEN SO LONELY WITHOUT YOU HERE, Tempus Projects, Tampa, FL Parallel, Curated by Teresa Bramlette Reeves, whitespace, Atlanta, GA 2019 Recent Drawings, Sandler Hudson Gallery, Atlanta, GA Project, Temporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA Figure Forward, Albany Museum, Albany, GA 2018 Til The Lights Go Out, Hathaway Contemporary Gallery, Atlanta, GA Private Eyes, curated by Mountain, 284 Seigel Street, 1B Brooklyn NY 11206 Figure Forward, Curated by Sarah Higgens, The Zuckerman Museum of Art, Kennesaw, GA Black Pulp! Curated by William Villalongo & Mark Gibson, The African American Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA Draw it OUT! Curated by MICA faculty members Renee van der Stelt and Gerald Ross, Meyerhoff Gallery, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD