ripleywhiteside@gmail.com
I was born in 1982 and grew up in Chapel Hill and Durham, NC. In 2012 I received a MFA from SUNY-Buffalo, and I graduated with 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
2026 After Arcadia, Pierre-François Ouellette Art Contemporain, Montreal, QC
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 Zero Art Fair, FLAG Foundation, New York, NY
The Unbannable Library, Elephant Gallery, Nashville, TN
Hot Stove League, Gallery 56, The Arcade, Nashville, TN
2024 Attention, Neue Welt, Nashville, TN
APSU Faculty Triennial, The New Gallery at Austin Peay State University, Clarksville, TN
Solar Wind, John C. Hutcheson Gallery, Lipscomb University, Nashville, TN
2023 Locus Solus, Vol State Art Gallery, Hendersonville, TN
Aquachrome, Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
Up Close and Personal, Open Gallery, Nashville, TN
Mapping, 440 Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Nashville Hot Summer, Red Arrow Gallery, Nashville, TN
Undiscovered Species, Make.Shift Gallery, Bellingham, WA
2022 Perceptions, Centennial Art Center, Nashville, TN
Red Arrow: Show Up!, The Parthenon, Nashville, TN
The Leftovers Show, Elephant Gallery, Nashville, TN
2021 Sketchbook 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, Lockwood Library at SUNY Buffalo, Buffalo, NY
2012 Falling Through Space Drawn by the Line, UB Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Education
MFA, State University of New York at Buffalo, 2012
BFA, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, summa cum laude, 2008
Warren Wilson College, 2001-2002
Teaching
Adjunct Faculty, Department of Art and Design, Austin Peay State University, Clarksville, TN, Fall 2021-present
Adjunct Faculty, Watkins College of Art, Belmont University, Nashville, TN, Spring 2025-present
Instructor, Metro Parks Visual Arts, Nashville, TN, 2021-present
Visiting Assistant Professor of Art, Austin Peay State University, Clarksville, TN, Fall 2023-Spring 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
Board of Directors, Buchanan Arts, Nashville, TN, 2024-present
Board of Directors, Somerset Place Foundation, Creswell, NC, 2022-present
Represented artist, Pierre-François Ouellette Art Contemporain, Montreal, QC, 2015-present
Rolling pin printmaking workshop, Turnip Green Creative Reuse, Nashville, TN, 2024
See You Next Thursday flatfiles 2023
Natural ink making workshop, MTSU, Murfreesboro, TN, 2021
Artist in residence: The Peanut Factory (NC) 2020, Willapa Bay AIR (WA) 2018, I-Park (CT) 2013, Vermont Studio Center (VT) 2013
Vendu-Solde, Les Éditions Esse Benefit, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, QC, 2016
The New Nature artist talk, Redpath Museum, McGill University, Montreal, 2014
Dean’s Scholarship, Teaching Assistantship, SUNY Buffalo, 2010-2012
Chancellor’s Award, Pearman Undergraduate Research Award, Jonathan E. Sharpe Scholarship, Mary and Maurice Julian Scholarship, Robin M. Hanes Undergraduate Research Fellowship, UNC-CH, 2005-2008
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