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TYRONE GETER

Contemporary Artist | Drawing • Collage • Painting • Installation
Atlanta, GA / Columbia, SC
Tyrone Geter Studio

PROFILE
Tyrone Geter is a contemporary American artist whose work explores climate anxiety, spirituality, memory, social history, and survival through charcoal, collage, painting, and mixed media. His layered visual narratives merge personal experience with broader cultural realities, creating work that is both intimate and socially reflective.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

Taft Museum of Art

U.S. Art in Embassy Program
Museum of Science and Industry
National Black Art Show, New York
Butler Institute of American Art
Heffers Gallery, Cambridge, United Kingdom
National Gallery of Art, Dakar, Senegal
PUBLICATIONS & ILLUSTRATION
The New Brownies’ Book: A Love Letter to Black Families
Contributor to The Black Period
100 African American Artists You Should Know

Illustrator of:

Sunday Week
White Socks Only
Little Tree Growing in the Shade
Willie Jerome
Irene and the Big, Fine Nickel
Three Rosa Parks illustrations

AWARDS & HONORS

Elizabeth O’Neill Verner Governor’s Award for the Arts, South Carolina
Moja National Juried Art Exhibition Prize
Individual Artist Grant, Ohio Arts Council
Robert Duncanson Award, Taft Museum of Art
Cinelli Award, Butler Institute of American Art
Atlanta Life National Art Competition Award
Artist Fellowship Grant, Foundation for the Arts & Humanities, Boston

SELECTED COLLECTIONS

Boston Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA)
Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art
Columbia Museum of Art
The Johnson Collection
Greenville County Museum of Art
The DeWoody Collection
Arthur Primas Collection
Nancy Wilson
Yusef Lateef
University of Akron
MetroHealth Medical Center, Cleveland, OH
Atlanta Life Insurance Company
Federal Republic of Nigeria
Niger State Government, Nigeria
Robert Mugabe
Jesus College, University of Cambridge
Richland County Main Library
Children’s Defense Fund

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Professor of Drawing and Painting
Director and Curator, Ponder Fine Arts Gallery
Benedict College
Professor of Advanced Drawing and Painting
University of Akron
Senior Lecturer, Drawing
Ahmadu Bello University

SELECTED SERIES

A Brave New World
Living in the Light of Hell’s Shadow
Enduring Spirit
Nigerian Lifeline
God’s Playground
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