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TYRONE GETER

CV-TYRONE GETER

Education
 

  • Ohio University, Athens, OH — M.F.A. Painting, 1975

 
 
Academic Employment
 

  • Benedict College, Columbia, SC — Professor of Drawing & Painting; Curator, Ponder Fine Arts Gallery (1999–2017, Retired)

  • University of Akron, OH — Professor of Advanced Drawing & Painting (1988–1998)

  • Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria — Senior Lecturer, Drawing (1980–1987)

 
 
Selected Recent Exhibitions
 
2023
 

  • The Black Period, Residency Exhibition, 701 CCA, Columbia, SC

  • Quite As It’s Kept: International Black Art Exhibition, The Art Effect, NY

  • Southern Voices/Global Vision, Artfields, Lake City, SC

 
2021–22
 

  • At War With Ourselves, Koger Center for the Arts, Columbia, SC (collaboration with Nikky Finney, Michael Abels, Kronos Quartet)

  • Visible Man: Art and Black Male Subjectivity, Bowling Green State Univ., OH

  • Find Joy in Art Auction, SC Arts Foundation

 
2019–20
 

  • Roots of Change, Ellington-White Contemporary, Fayetteville State Univ.

  • Elizabeth O’Neil Verner Governor’s Award for the Arts, SC

  • Yaddo Artist Residency, Saratoga Springs, NY

 
2017–18
 

  • Then and Now: The Art of Tyrone Geter, Bryan Gallery, Coastal Carolina Univ.

  • Meadows Gallery, Patterson-Appleton Arts Center, TX

  • Enduring Spirit, Columbia Museum of Art, SC

 
Earlier Highlights
 

  • Florence Museum, SC (2016)

  • City Gallery at the Waterfront, Charleston, SC (2015)

  • The Dorsey Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (2013)

  • Greenwood Museum of Art, SC (2011)

  • Columbia Museum of Art, Freedom Center Mural Project (2010)

  • Akron Art Museum, OH (1993)

  • Taft Museum, Cincinnati, OH — 1st Prize (1989)

  • National Gallery of Modern Art, Lagos, Nigeria (1983)

 
 
Butler Institute of American Art, OH (1989)

  • Heffers Gallery, Cambridge, UK (1988)

  • National Gallery of Art, Dakar, Senegal (1985)

Selected Group Exhibitions
 

  • Taft Museum, Cincinnati, OH (2006)

  • U.S. Art in Embassy Program (2002)

  • Museum of Science & Industry, Chicago, IL (1999)

  • National Black Art Show, NY (1998)

  • Butler Institute of American Art, OH (1989)

  • Heffers Gallery, Cambridge, UK (1988)

  • National Gallery of Art, Dakar, Senegal (1985)

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Publications & Illustrations
 

  • The New Brownies’ Book: A Love Letter to Black Families (Charly Palmer, 2023, upcoming)

  • The Black Period (Hafizah A. Geter, 2022)

  • 100 African American Artists You Should Know (Overdue Recognition Gallery, 2023)

  • Children’s books: Sunday Week (1999), White Socks Only (1996), Little Tree Growing in the Shade (1996), Willie Jerome (1995), Irene and the Big, Fine Nickel (1991)

  • Three Rosa Parks illustrations (2005)

 
 
Awards & Honors
 

  • Elizabeth O’Neil Verner Governor’s Award for the Arts, SC (2019)

  • Moja National Juried Art Exhibition, Prize (2000)

  • Individual Artist Grant, Ohio Arts Council (1991)

  • Robert Duncanson Award, Taft Museum (1989)

  • Cinelli Award, Butler Institute of American Art (1989)

  • Atlanta Life National Art Competition (1985)

  • Artist Fellowship Grant, Foundation for the Arts & Humanities, Boston (1979)

 
 
Selected Collections
 

  • Columbia Museum of Art, SC

  • The Johnson Collection, Spartanburg, SC

  • Greenville County Museum of Art, SC

  • The DeWoody Collection, Bunker Artspace, FL

  • Arthur Primas Collection

  • Nancy Wilson, Vocalist

  • Yusef Lateef, Musician

  • University of Akron, OH

  • MetroHealth Medical Center, Cleveland, OH

  • Atlanta Life Insurance Co., GA

  • Federal Republic of Nigeria, Abuja

  • Niger State Government, Minna, Nigeria

  • Prime Minister Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe

  • Jesus College, Cambridge University, UK

  • Richland County Main Library — gift of book illustrations

  • Children’s Defense Fund — gift of book illustrations

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