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ripleywhiteside@gmail.com
I am endlessly curious about mysteries of ecological movement; these artistic investigations venture towards an understanding of the present moment as a concert of complex interactions. Lots of things are changing quickly all around us all the time. I am fascinated and haunted by the premise that we do not comprehend the extent of our ecological impact, and my work struggles to visualize the limits of our understanding.
I was born in 1982 and grew up in Chapel Hill and Durham, NC. In 2012 I graduated with a MFA from SUNY-Buffalo, and received a BFA from UNC-CH in 2008. I teach at Austin Peay State University and Belmont University, and my work is represented by Pierre-François Ouellette Art Contemporain in Montreal. I live and work in Nashville, TN.
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Solo and two person exhibitions
2024 The Boa Constrictor, Turnip Green Creative Reuse, Nashville, TN
2022 Book of Wonders, Pierre-François Ouellette Art Contemporain, Montreal, QC
Watercolor Landscapes, The Perrella Gallery, Fulton- Montgomery Community College,
Johnstown, NY
2021 Cataracts, Red Arrow Gallery, Nashville, TN
2020 These Waters Are Alive, Pierre-François Ouellette Art Contemporain, Montreal, QC
2016 Aquariums of Toronto, Centre Space, Toronto, ON
2015 A Peaceable Kingdom, Pierre-François Ouellette Art Contemporain, Montreal, QC
Artificers, with Kerry Kolenut, Darger HQ, Lincoln, NE
2014 Introduced Exotics – Accidental Escapes, Galerie Les Territoires, Montreal, QC
2013 Walnut Ink Drawings, Galerie V, Montreal, QC
2012 Introduced Accidental Escapes, Carnegie Art Center, Tonawanda, NY
Group exhibitions
2025 The Unbannable Library, Elephant Gallery, Nashville, TN
Hot Stove League, Gallery 56, The Arcade, Nashville, TN
2024 Solar Wind, John C. Hutcheson Gallery, Lipscomb University, Nashville, TN
Attention, Neue Welt, Nashville, TN
APSU Faculty Triennial, The New Gallery at Austin Peay State University, Clarksville, TN
2023 Locus Solus, curated by Lain York, Vol State Art Gallery, Hendersonville, TN
Aquachrome, Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
Up Close and Personal, Open Gallery, Nashville, TN
Mapping, curated by Maddy Rosenberg, 440 Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Nashville Hot Summer, Red Arrow Gallery, Nashville, TN
Parle-moi d’amour, exhibition and benefit auction, Les Impatients, Montreal, QC
Undiscovered Species, Make.Shift Gallery, Bellingham, WA
2022 Perceptions, with Lindsy Davis and Donna Woodley, Metro Parks Centennial Art Center Gallery, Nashville, TN
Parle-moi d’amour, exhibition and benefit auction, Les Impatients, Montreal, QC
Red Arrow: Show Up!, The Parthenon, Nashville, TN
The Leftovers Show, Elephant Gallery, Nashville, TN
2021 Sketchbook/Artists’ Book Show, PS 118, Durham, NC
En Plain Air, Cheekwood, Nashville, TN
SouthWorks, Oconee Cultural Arts Foundation, Watkinsville, GA
2020 Breathless, Red Arrow Gallery, Nashville, TN
Refuge, 440 Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2019 Winter Juried Exhibition, Blue Mountain Gallery, New York, NY
2018 Assholes, Plato’s Cave, EIDIA House, Brooklyn, NY
SCNY Open Printmaking Exhibition, The Salmagundi Club, New York, NY
2017 John Player, Caroline Monnet, Ripley Whiteside, Pierre-François Ouellette Art Contemporain, Montreal, QC
The Domain Beyond the Territory, Pierre-François Ouellette Art Contemporain, Montreal, QC
2016 Bordering the Fantastic, Pierre-François Ouellette Art Contemporain, Montreal, QC
Carmichael Landscape Exhibition: Tradition Transformed, Orillia Museum of Art and History, Orillia, ON
Small Works, Trestle Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2015 Ten Feet, LA River Public Art Project, Los Angeles, CA
2014 Inaugural Exhibition, Darger HQ, Lincoln, NE
Vues de la ville, Galerie Beaux-Arts des Ameriques, Montreal, QC
2013 Landscape Across the Disciplines: A Symposium, Lockwood Library at SUNY Buffalo, Buffalo, NY
2012 Falling Through Space Drawn by the Line, UB Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Education
State University of New York at Buffalo, MFA, 2012
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, BFA, summa cum laude, 2008
Warren Wilson College, 2001-2002
Teaching
Examples of student work can be seen here
Adjunct Faculty, Department of Art and Design, Austin Peay State University, Clarksville, TN, Fall 2021-Spring 2025
Adjunct Faculty, Watkins College of Art, Belmont University, Nashville, TN, Spring 2025
Visiting Assistant Professor of Art, Austin Peay State University, Clarksville, TN, Fall 2023-Spring 2024
Instructor, Metro Parks Visual Arts, Nashville, TN, 2021-2024
Adjunct Faculty, Department of Visual Art, Lipscomb University, Nashville, TN, Fall 2022-Spring 2023
Adjunct Faculty, Department of Art, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN, Fall 2021
Instructor, Visual Arts Centre, Montreal, QC, 2016-2017
Instructor of Record, SUNY-Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, 2010-2012
Other experience
2024-present Board of Directors, Buchanan Arts, Nashville, TN
2022-present Board of Directors, Somerset Place, Creswell, NC
2024 Rolling pin printmaking workshop, Turnip Green Creative Reuse, Nashville, TN
2023 See You Next Thursday flatfiles
2021 Natural ink making workshop, MTSU, Murfreesboro, TN
2020 Virtual-Artist-In-Residence, The Peanut Factory, Edenton, NC
Papier 20, with Pierre-François Ouellette Art Contemporain, Montreal, QC
These Waters Are Alive Q&A with Pierre-François Ouellette Art Contemporain, Montreal, QC
2018 Willipa Bay AIR, artist residency, Oysterville, WA,
Papier 18, with Pierre-François Ouellette Art Contemporain, Montreal, QC
2017 Field + Supply, with Dzierlenga F+U, Kingston, NY
Papier 17, with Pierre-François Ouellette Art Contemporain, Montreal, QC
Aquariums of Toronto artist talk, Pierre-François Ouellette Art Contemporain, Montreal
2016 Vendu-Solde, Les Éditions Esse Benefit, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, QC
Art Toronto, with Pierre-François Ouellette Art Contemporain, Toronto, ON
Field + Supply, with Dzierlenga F+U, Kingston, NY
2015 Papier 15, with Pierre-François Ouellette Art Contemporain, Montreal, QC
Art Toronto, with Pierre-François Ouellette Art Contemporain, Toronto, ON
Love Art Fair, panel discussion, with Darger HQ, Toronto, ON
2014 The New Nature artist talk, Redpath Museum, McGill University, Montreal
2013 I-Park, artist residency, East Haddam, CT
Vermont Studio Center, with Artist’s Grant, Johnson, VT
2012 A Midwinter’s Draw, Hallwalls, Buffalo, NY
2010-2012 Dean’s Scholarship & Teaching Assistantship, SUNY Buffalo
Press
-Elle Decor Canada & Elle Decoration Quebec Fall 2022
–Quatre95, August 2022
-Isolation Journal no.13, April 2020
–La Presse, February 2020
–Le Devoir April 2018
–Hyperallergic February 2018
–Orion Magazine, Vol. 35 No. 6, November December 2016
–Le Metropolitain December 2016
–Center for Humans and Nature January 2016
–The Belgo Report September 2015
–Eve and Fall August 2015
–365artists365days (interview) May 2014
–Buffalo Spree December 2012
–Indy Week August 2011