Conceptual in nature, my work is intended to be meditative and carried out with minimal means. I work in a broad
range of materials and forms, including installation and sculpture, photography, research and observation, video, writing,
sound-based recordings and performance. My work evolves from ideas such as systems thinking, temporality, and the
study of nature and phenomena.
Solo and Two Person Exhibitions
2023 Down Pressed Sunshine – Zeitgeist Gallery – Nashville, TN
2016 Underground Again – Zeitgeist Gallery – Nashville, TN
2015 Past Life Memories – Zeitgeist Gallery – Nashville, TN
2014 Dog of My Reflection – Sewanee, University of the South
2013 Shade Models – Zeitgeist Gallery – Nashville, TN
2012 Signs, Patterns, Animals – Sarratt Gallery at Vanderbilt University
2011 Good Morning – Apothecary – Chattanooga, TN
2011 When Past Becomes Afterwards – Zeitgeist Gallery – Nashville, TN
2009 Patrick DeGuira’s Impressionism – Medicine Factory – Memphis, TN
2007 What Went Wrong? – Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Project Room – Miami, FL
2006 The Love Death Thing – Zeitgeist – Nashville, TN
2004 Ageset – Zeitgeist Gallery – Nashville, TN - Nashville, TN
2004 Age at Onset – Second Floor Contemporary – Memphis, TN
2004 Conflict Furniture – Rule of Thirds – Nashville, TN
2001 The Loosening of Associations – Cheekwood Museum of Art
Group Exhibitions
2022 The Nature of the Future: Artists Confront the Anthropocene – Belmont University – Nashville, TN
2019 What’s so Funny about the End of the World? – MTSU (Chalet Comellas, curator)
2019 Xanadu: Zeitgeist’s 25th Anniversary – Zeitgeist – Nashville, TN
2019 Land Derived Sentiments: Poems and Responses – Zeitgeist – Nashville, TN
2018 TN Contemporary; On-Site Series – Atlanta Contemporary – Atlanta, GA
2017 The Shadow’s Body – Watkins College of Art, Design & Film
2017 Luminous Animals – Whitespace Gallery – Atlanta, GA
2016 Newspaper Project included in Cairotronica – Cairo, Egypt
2016 Design as Art / Art as Design – Bloomsburg University – Bloomsburg, PA
2015 Performance in conjunction with System Politics, Morgan Higby-Flowers, Ground Floor
2014 Blotr – Zeitgeist Gallery – Nashville, TN
2013 Abstractometry – Frist Center for the Visual Arts (Mark Scala, curator)
2013 Baroque Times – Ground Floor Gallery – Nashville, TN
2012 Isolation Drills – Zeitgeist Gallery – Nashville, TN
2012 Breadbox – ZieherSmith Gallery – Nashville, TN (Scott Zieher, organizer)
2012 10X10 Arts Festival – Chattanooga, TN
2012 Exhibit Your Symptom – Zeitgeist – Nashville, TN
2011 Exquisite Corpse, The Resurrection – DeliZeeburg, Amsterdam, NL
2010 Minor Victory – Twist – Nashville, TN
2010 Caseworks – Art Museum – University of Memphis
2009 Surface Tension – AVA - Chattanooga, TN
2009 Open Studio – Zeitgeist – Nashville, TN
2009 Upgrade! -Austin Peay State University – Clarksville, TN
2009 Bluff/Poseidon (performance with Greg Pond) – Hunter Museum of Art
2008 $999 – Honeyspace – New York, NY
2007 Perspectives – Brooks Museum of Art (Michael Rooks, curator)
2006 Pressing Pause – Zeitgeist – Nashville, TN
2006 The Clear Box Project – Ruby Green – Nashville, TN
2006 On Others – University of the South, Rhodes College, Iron Gate
2005 The Fugitives – Leu Gallery -Belmont University – Nashville, TN
2005 The Fragile Species – Frist Center for the Visual Arts (Mark Scala, curator)
2003 ”52”- Steel Pond Gallery – Portland, OR
2003 Transforming the Body – Watkins College of Art, Design & Film
2003 Fugitive in Memphis – Delta Axis – Memphis, TN
2002 Turning Point South – Bank of America Gallery – Charlotte, NC
2000 Switchyard – Zeitgeist – Nashville, TN
1999 Concept Metro – Cheekwood Museum of Art (Terri Smith, curator)
Education
MFA - Vermont College of Fine Arts, Montpelier, VT
BFA - Memphis College of Art, with honors, Memphis, TN
New York Studio Residency Program (NYSRP), New York, NY
Awards and Honors
Joan Mitchell Foundation Nominee
Best Solo Exhibition – Nashville Scene Writer’s Pick
Best Curation – Nashville Scene Writer’s Pick
100 Under 100, The New Superstars of Southern Art – The Oxford American
Professional Development Award – Watkins College of Art, Design & Film
Professional Development Support Grant – TN Arts Commission
Tennessee Independent Artist Fellowship for Visual Art -TN Arts Commission
Outstanding Tennessee Teacher Award – Governor’s School for the Arts
New York Studio Residency Program – Association of Independent Colleges of Art and Design
Bibliography
2019 Land Derived Sentiments: Poems and Responses – Burnaway: April, Melinda Baker
2017 Zeitgeist Gallery brings Luminous Animals to Whitespace – Burnaway: July, E.C. Flamming
2015 DeGuira explores reincarnation, identity at Zeitgeist – Tennessean, Mar. 2015, Sara Estes
2013 Driven to Abstraction – Nashville Scene, Oct. 13, Joe Nolan
2013 The Medium’s Session – Burnaway: August, Sara Estes
2012 New American Paintings, Issue #100 – Juror, Michael Rooks
2012 100 Under 100, The New Superstars of Southern Art – The Oxford American
2012 Critic’s Pick: Signs, Patterns, Animals – Nashville Scene, Joe Nolan
2011 Critic’s Pick: When Past Becomes Afterwards – Nashville Scene, Laura Hutson
2010 You do the Aftermath – Nashville Scene, Mar.18, Joe Nolan
2007 Perspectives – Art Papers Magazine – Nov-Dec. p. 69, Susan W. Knowles
2007 Perspectives – Number: 60, Herb Reith
2007 Wild Abandon – Commercial Appeal: Issue #959, Carol Knowles
2006 Hillsboro Village Blues? – Nashville Scene, David Maddox
2005 On Others – Number: Fall – Winter Issue, Joe Nolan
2005 Ageset -Art Papers Magazine – Jan-Feb Issue, Susan W. Knowles
2005 Local Species – Nashville Scene, July 7, David Maddox
2005 The Fugitives – Art Papers Magazine- July-Aug, Susan W. Knowles
2004 Art Now – Nashville Scene, Jul.29, David Maddox
2004 The Unseen World – Nashville Scene, David Maddox
1999 Personal Space – Nashville Scene, May. 27, Angela Wibking
Lecture, Presentations and Critiques
2019 Earthlings: Considering Nature on an Exhausted Planet, Watkins College of Art
2019 Land Derived Sentiments, Governor’s School for the Arts
2018 Also Known as Field Hare: A Reading, Governor’s School for the Arts
2017 Watkins College of Art, department of art, presentation: Sound Body Performance
2014 Sewanee, The University of the South, department of art, lecture and critiques
2013 Artist’s Forum, Frist Center for the Visual Arts, public lecture
2012 University of Tennessee, Chattanooga, department of art, lecture and critiques
2008 Rhodes College, department of art, lecture and critiques
2007 School of Visual Arts, Pre College Program, lecture
2007 Rhodes College, department of art, lecture and critiques
2007 Sewanee, The University of the South, department of art, public lecture
2005 Frist Center for the Visual Arts, public artist talk
2001 Cheekwood Museum of Art, public artist talk
Curatorial Projects
2019 Land Derived Sentiments: Poems and Responses, Zeitgeist Gallery, Nashville, TN
2013 The Medium’s Session, Zeitgeist Gallery, Nashville, TN
2010 Aftermath, Watkins College of Art, Design & Film, Nashville, TN
2004 The Correspondence Project, Zeitgeist Gallery, Nashville, TN
range of materials and forms, including installation and sculpture, photography, research and observation, video, writing,
sound-based recordings and performance. My work evolves from ideas such as systems thinking, temporality, and the
study of nature and phenomena.
Solo and Two Person Exhibitions
2023 Down Pressed Sunshine – Zeitgeist Gallery – Nashville, TN
2016 Underground Again – Zeitgeist Gallery – Nashville, TN
2015 Past Life Memories – Zeitgeist Gallery – Nashville, TN
2014 Dog of My Reflection – Sewanee, University of the South
2013 Shade Models – Zeitgeist Gallery – Nashville, TN
2012 Signs, Patterns, Animals – Sarratt Gallery at Vanderbilt University
2011 Good Morning – Apothecary – Chattanooga, TN
2011 When Past Becomes Afterwards – Zeitgeist Gallery – Nashville, TN
2009 Patrick DeGuira’s Impressionism – Medicine Factory – Memphis, TN
2007 What Went Wrong? – Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Project Room – Miami, FL
2006 The Love Death Thing – Zeitgeist – Nashville, TN
2004 Ageset – Zeitgeist Gallery – Nashville, TN - Nashville, TN
2004 Age at Onset – Second Floor Contemporary – Memphis, TN
2004 Conflict Furniture – Rule of Thirds – Nashville, TN
2001 The Loosening of Associations – Cheekwood Museum of Art
Group Exhibitions
2022 The Nature of the Future: Artists Confront the Anthropocene – Belmont University – Nashville, TN
2019 What’s so Funny about the End of the World? – MTSU (Chalet Comellas, curator)
2019 Xanadu: Zeitgeist’s 25th Anniversary – Zeitgeist – Nashville, TN
2019 Land Derived Sentiments: Poems and Responses – Zeitgeist – Nashville, TN
2018 TN Contemporary; On-Site Series – Atlanta Contemporary – Atlanta, GA
2017 The Shadow’s Body – Watkins College of Art, Design & Film
2017 Luminous Animals – Whitespace Gallery – Atlanta, GA
2016 Newspaper Project included in Cairotronica – Cairo, Egypt
2016 Design as Art / Art as Design – Bloomsburg University – Bloomsburg, PA
2015 Performance in conjunction with System Politics, Morgan Higby-Flowers, Ground Floor
2014 Blotr – Zeitgeist Gallery – Nashville, TN
2013 Abstractometry – Frist Center for the Visual Arts (Mark Scala, curator)
2013 Baroque Times – Ground Floor Gallery – Nashville, TN
2012 Isolation Drills – Zeitgeist Gallery – Nashville, TN
2012 Breadbox – ZieherSmith Gallery – Nashville, TN (Scott Zieher, organizer)
2012 10X10 Arts Festival – Chattanooga, TN
2012 Exhibit Your Symptom – Zeitgeist – Nashville, TN
2011 Exquisite Corpse, The Resurrection – DeliZeeburg, Amsterdam, NL
2010 Minor Victory – Twist – Nashville, TN
2010 Caseworks – Art Museum – University of Memphis
2009 Surface Tension – AVA - Chattanooga, TN
2009 Open Studio – Zeitgeist – Nashville, TN
2009 Upgrade! -Austin Peay State University – Clarksville, TN
2009 Bluff/Poseidon (performance with Greg Pond) – Hunter Museum of Art
2008 $999 – Honeyspace – New York, NY
2007 Perspectives – Brooks Museum of Art (Michael Rooks, curator)
2006 Pressing Pause – Zeitgeist – Nashville, TN
2006 The Clear Box Project – Ruby Green – Nashville, TN
2006 On Others – University of the South, Rhodes College, Iron Gate
2005 The Fugitives – Leu Gallery -Belmont University – Nashville, TN
2005 The Fragile Species – Frist Center for the Visual Arts (Mark Scala, curator)
2003 ”52”- Steel Pond Gallery – Portland, OR
2003 Transforming the Body – Watkins College of Art, Design & Film
2003 Fugitive in Memphis – Delta Axis – Memphis, TN
2002 Turning Point South – Bank of America Gallery – Charlotte, NC
2000 Switchyard – Zeitgeist – Nashville, TN
1999 Concept Metro – Cheekwood Museum of Art (Terri Smith, curator)
Education
MFA - Vermont College of Fine Arts, Montpelier, VT
BFA - Memphis College of Art, with honors, Memphis, TN
New York Studio Residency Program (NYSRP), New York, NY
Awards and Honors
Joan Mitchell Foundation Nominee
Best Solo Exhibition – Nashville Scene Writer’s Pick
Best Curation – Nashville Scene Writer’s Pick
100 Under 100, The New Superstars of Southern Art – The Oxford American
Professional Development Award – Watkins College of Art, Design & Film
Professional Development Support Grant – TN Arts Commission
Tennessee Independent Artist Fellowship for Visual Art -TN Arts Commission
Outstanding Tennessee Teacher Award – Governor’s School for the Arts
New York Studio Residency Program – Association of Independent Colleges of Art and Design
Bibliography
2019 Land Derived Sentiments: Poems and Responses – Burnaway: April, Melinda Baker
2017 Zeitgeist Gallery brings Luminous Animals to Whitespace – Burnaway: July, E.C. Flamming
2015 DeGuira explores reincarnation, identity at Zeitgeist – Tennessean, Mar. 2015, Sara Estes
2013 Driven to Abstraction – Nashville Scene, Oct. 13, Joe Nolan
2013 The Medium’s Session – Burnaway: August, Sara Estes
2012 New American Paintings, Issue #100 – Juror, Michael Rooks
2012 100 Under 100, The New Superstars of Southern Art – The Oxford American
2012 Critic’s Pick: Signs, Patterns, Animals – Nashville Scene, Joe Nolan
2011 Critic’s Pick: When Past Becomes Afterwards – Nashville Scene, Laura Hutson
2010 You do the Aftermath – Nashville Scene, Mar.18, Joe Nolan
2007 Perspectives – Art Papers Magazine – Nov-Dec. p. 69, Susan W. Knowles
2007 Perspectives – Number: 60, Herb Reith
2007 Wild Abandon – Commercial Appeal: Issue #959, Carol Knowles
2006 Hillsboro Village Blues? – Nashville Scene, David Maddox
2005 On Others – Number: Fall – Winter Issue, Joe Nolan
2005 Ageset -Art Papers Magazine – Jan-Feb Issue, Susan W. Knowles
2005 Local Species – Nashville Scene, July 7, David Maddox
2005 The Fugitives – Art Papers Magazine- July-Aug, Susan W. Knowles
2004 Art Now – Nashville Scene, Jul.29, David Maddox
2004 The Unseen World – Nashville Scene, David Maddox
1999 Personal Space – Nashville Scene, May. 27, Angela Wibking
Lecture, Presentations and Critiques
2019 Earthlings: Considering Nature on an Exhausted Planet, Watkins College of Art
2019 Land Derived Sentiments, Governor’s School for the Arts
2018 Also Known as Field Hare: A Reading, Governor’s School for the Arts
2017 Watkins College of Art, department of art, presentation: Sound Body Performance
2014 Sewanee, The University of the South, department of art, lecture and critiques
2013 Artist’s Forum, Frist Center for the Visual Arts, public lecture
2012 University of Tennessee, Chattanooga, department of art, lecture and critiques
2008 Rhodes College, department of art, lecture and critiques
2007 School of Visual Arts, Pre College Program, lecture
2007 Rhodes College, department of art, lecture and critiques
2007 Sewanee, The University of the South, department of art, public lecture
2005 Frist Center for the Visual Arts, public artist talk
2001 Cheekwood Museum of Art, public artist talk
Curatorial Projects
2019 Land Derived Sentiments: Poems and Responses, Zeitgeist Gallery, Nashville, TN
2013 The Medium’s Session, Zeitgeist Gallery, Nashville, TN
2010 Aftermath, Watkins College of Art, Design & Film, Nashville, TN
2004 The Correspondence Project, Zeitgeist Gallery, Nashville, TN