MFA University of Georgia, Athens, GA
BFA Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
SOLO & SMALL GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 You were only waiting for this moment to arise, Tyger Tyger Gallery, Asheville, NC
2022 What Strange Water, What Strange Air, Tyger Tyger Gallery, Asheville, NC (3-person)
2020 Ritual, Hope, Desire James May Gallery, Algoma, WI Curated by Kendra Bulgrin (4-person)
2018 Kiss me in the Shadow, Vanderbilt Divinity School, Nashville, TN
2015 Contemporary Focus, Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, TN Curated by Stephen Wicks (3-person)
2014 Endless Winter, Project Room, Piedmont College, Atlanta, GA Co-Curated by Brian Hitselberger
2012 Two Way Dream, William King Museum, Abingdon, VA, Co-Curated by Leila Cartier
River of Forgetting, Jonas Gerard Fine Art, Asheville, NC
2011 Unknown Continent, St. Andrew’s-Sewanee Gallery, Sewanee, TN
2010 Pas de deux, Tipton Street Gallery, Johnson City, TN, (two-person)
2009 The Lost Princesses, DVI Gallery, Second Life (virtual exhibition)
Parallax at Burning Life: Burning Man in Second Life (virtual exhibition)
2007 Lucid Dreaming, EUC Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC (two-person)
2006 Being & Unbeing, Union Grove Gallery, University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL
2005 The Secret Sea, Allison Gallery, Tusculum College, Greeneville, TN
2004 Recent Work by Jean Hess and Mira Gerard, Hanson Gallery, Knoxville, TN (2-person)
2002 Fragrance and Darkness, Mountain Empire Community College, Big Stone Gap, VA
1998 Devotions, Stirling’s Coffee House, Sewanee, TN
1994 Earthbound, Saint Andrew’s-Sewanee Gallery, Sewanee, TN,
1993 Enchantment, Carriage House Gallery, Kimball-Jenkins Museum, Concord, NH
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 Postdiluvian, Tracey Morgan Gallery, Asheville, NC
To Asheville, With Love, Chatauqua Institution (virtual exhibition) Curated by Erika Diamond
2024 Ghosts of Helene, Weizenblatt Gallery, Mars Hill, NC Curated by Skip Rhode
2023 Good Grief, Fischman Gallery, Johnson City, TN Curated by Carla Taylor
SAME/OTHER: SPDA Juried Exhibition, Nelson Fine Art Gallery, Johnson City, TN
2022 13th Annual Figurative Drawing & Painting Exhibition, Lore Degenstein Gallery, Selinsgrove, PA
Catfish, Slocumb Galleries, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN
Queer Excellence, ETSU Pride Center, Johnson City, TN
What Strange Water, What Strange Air, Tyger Tyger Gallery, Asheville, NC
2021 FLEX, Reece Museum, Johnson City, TN
2020 Figurative Impulse, Pellissippi State Gallery, Knoxville, TN
Dolly! Slocumb Galleries, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN Juried by Logan Lockner
2019 The Face of Danger, Tipton Gallery, Johnson City, TN
2018 Spotlight exhibition, James May Gallery, Algoma, WI
2017 With Liberty and Justice for Some, Walter Maciel Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Community & Innovation, Slocumb Galleries, Johnson City, TN
2016 Women Painting Women, Customs House Museum, Clarksville,TN
Erotica Asheville 2, Satellite Gallery, Asheville, NC
Jonesborough Juried Art Show, McKinney Center, Jonesborough, TN Juror Mark Scala, Curator, Frist Center for the Arts, Nashville, TN, (Honorable Mention)
A Woman in Her Place, Art and Design Gallery, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, IL
A Woman in Her Place, George Washington Carver Center for Arts and Technology, Baltimore, MD
2015 New American Paintings # 118, Exhibition in Print , Southeastern Edition
States of Being, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA, curated by Julia Schwartz
A Woman in Her Place, McGlothlin Center for the Arts, Emory & Henry College, Emory, VA
Journeys of Women, Mckinney Arts Center, Johnson City, TN
Further East, Emporium Art Center, Knoxville, TN
Salon, Fringe Salon, New York, NY
Made in Tennessee, Emory and Henry College, Emory, VA
Erotica Asheville The Asheville Loft, Asheville, NC
The Secret Bangs, Clem Allison Gallery, Greeneville, TN
2014 Red Clay Survey, Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, AL
Almost Human, Converge Gallery, Williamsport, PA
Painting Intricacies, Nave Gallery, Somerville, MA curated by Resa Blatman
SECAC Members Juried Exhibition, Art Center Sarasota, Sarasota, FL
Shakerag Exhibition 2014, St. Andrew’s-Sewanee Gallery, Sewanee, TN
2013 SECAC Member’s Juried Exhibition, Gatewood Gallery, Greensboro, NC
Journeys of Women, McKinney Center, Jonesborough, TN, (first prize)
Work, Reece Museum, Johnson City, TN
Now You See It, Now You Don't curated by Karl Bielik, Terrace Studios & Gallery, London, England
The Ghost in You, ASC Project Space at Gallery 304, New York, NY
Jonesborough Juried Art Show, McKinney Center, Jonesborough, TN (first prize)
states of being (online exhibition) www.curatingcritical.com curated by Julia Schwartz
Dogwood Regional Juried Exhibition, Emporium Art Center, Knoxville, TN
2012 Fourth Annual Figurative Drawing and Painting Competition, Lore Degenstein Gallery, Susquehanna University, Selinsgrove, PA
Dogwood Regional Juried Exhibition Emporium Art Center, Knoxville, TN
Drawing Discourse, S. Tucker Cooke Gallery, UNC Asheville, NC
2011 From These Hills: Contemporary Art in the Southern Appalachian Highlands
Third Coast National, K Space Contemporary, Corpus Christi, TX (first prize)
William King Regional Museum, Abingdon, VA
Chain Letter Samson Projects, Boston, MA
Buy What You Love Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY
Single Fare 2: Please Swipe Again Sloan Fine Art, New York, NY
33rd Bradley International Exhibition Bradley University, Peoria, IL
Mountain Visions, Reece Museum, Johnson City, TN (third prize)
2010 National Small Oil Painting Competition Wichita Center for the Arts, Wichita, KS
KY7 Biennial LAL Project Space, Louisville, KY
Oh, Ophelia, A1LabArts Gallery, Knoxville, TN
Knoxville Arts Alliance: Top Choice Emporium Center, Knoxville, TN
Mountain Visions, Reece Museum, Johnson City, TN (honorable mention)
2009 The Lost Princesses, DVI Gallery, Second Life (virtual exhibition)
The Figure Show SR404 Gallery, Johnson City, TN
Brooklyn is Watching: a hybrid Second Life/Real Life project Jack the Pelican Presents, Brooklyn, NY & BIW gallery in Second Life (virtual exhibition)
Soleil, AG3 Gallery, Second Life (virtual exhibition)
2008 ETSU Faculty Exhibition, Studio Art Centers International (SACI) Gallery, Florence, Italy
2007 Fourth Annual International Juried Exhibition, Shore Institute of the Contemporary Arts, Long Branch, NJ
Bare, Washington Gallery of Photography, Bethesda, MD
From Our Perspective: A National Juried Women’s Exhibition, OCC Womencenter, Farmington Hills, MI
Appalachian Art Show, Renaissance Center Gallery, Kingsport, TN
2006 Faculty Exhibition, Slocumb Galleries, Department of Art & Design, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN
2005 Appalachian Corridors Avampato Discovery Museum, WV (purchase award)
27th First Tennessee Art Show, Reece Museum, Johnson City, TN
Faculty Exhibition, Reece Museum, Johnson City, TN
2004 26th First Tennessee Art Show, Reece Museum, Johnson City, TN
Faculty Exhibition Slocumb Galleries, Department of Art & Design, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN
2003 Naked or Nude: Perceptions of the Human Form, Fine Arts Building Gallery, Chicago, IL
46th National Delta Exhibition Arkansas Museum of Art, Little Rock, AR
Artscapes Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, TN
38th Appalachian Art Show, Renaissance Center Gallery, Kingsport, TN (best of show)
25th First Tennessee Art Show Reece Museum, Johnson City, TN
4 x 4, Johnson City Area Arts Council, Johnson City, TN
Alumni Biennial Exhibition St. Andrew's-Sewanee Gallery, Sewanee, TN
2002 Cambridge Art Association National Prize Show, CAA Gallery, Cambridge, MA
37th Appalachian Art Show, Renaissance Center Gallery, Kingsport, TN
45th National Delta Exhibition, Arkansas Museum of Art, Little Rock, AR
24th First Tennessee Art Show, Reece Museum, Johnson City, TN (Third Place)
2001 Halpert Biennial, Turchin Center for the Visual Arts, Boone, NC
Realism III International Juried Exhibition, Period Gallery, Omaha, NE
New Faculty Exhibition, Slocumb Galleries, Department of Art & Design, East Tennessee State University Johnson City, TN
Mercury II: The Small Show, Mercury Art Works, Athens, GA
Old Genre/New South: Perspectives on Contemporary Southern Still-Life Painting, Swan Coach House Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Exponent: Women/Art/Power, Clayton Street Gallery, Athens, GA
MFA Candidates Thesis Exhibition, Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, GA
2000 Cleaning House, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL
25th Lyndon House Juried Exhibition, Lyndon House Arts Center, Athens, GA
Juror: Gary Sangster, Curator, Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, MD
The Mother Show, Lowery Gallery, Danielsville, GA
1999 Mostra, University of Georgia Gallery, Cortona, Italy
1998 S.O.F.A. Chicago Art Expo, Turning Point Gallery, Miami, FL
1995 Regional Show, Peterboro Art Academy Gallery, Peterboro, NH
1991 BFA Candidates Exhibition, Indiana University Art Gallery, Bloomington, IN
EXHIBITIONS IN PRINT/ ART IN PUBLICATIONS
2025 The Flood Collection, a book featuring the 52 artists of the Asheville Flood Deck, Erica
2017 The Cortland Review, featured artist (cover), issue 74, 2017
2015 New American Paintings # 118, exhibition in print, Southeastern Edition juried by Dominic Molon
Post Road Magazine, Issue #29, Boston College, Cambridge, MA
2014 Substance, Poets & Artists Magazine issue #56, juried by Daniel Maidman
Tusculum Review issue # 10, cover artist & exhibition in print
2012 International Painting Annual 2: Exhibition in Print, Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
PERFORMANCE ART
2016 Picking Flowers, 2016 International Zizek Studies Conference, Materialism and Materiality: An Event in the Humanities, Art, and Design, The University of Cincinnati
2014 Memories, Dreams, Obsessions, 2014 International Zizek Studies Conference: Parallax Future(s) in Art, Design & Philosophy, The University of Cincinnati College of Design, Architecture, Art and Planning
GRANTS & AWARDS
2023 CAS Inaugural Summer Grant, Into the Forest, Office of Research and Sponsored Programs, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN
2016 Presidential Grant-in-Aid, awarded for research in video art in Athens Georgia, summer 2016, Office of the President, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN
2013 First Prize, Jonesborough Juried Art Show, Juror: Stephen Wicks, Knoxville Museum of Art
2012 Award for excellence in Teaching, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN
2011 First Prize, Third Coast National, K Space Contemporary, Corpus Christi, TX
2011 RDC Small Grant, Terminal Distance, Office of Research and Sponsored Programs, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN
2010 Honorable Mention, Mountain Visions 2010 Juried Exhibition, Johnson City, TN
2010 RDC Major Grant, Mythologies of Desire: large-scale narrative paintings and
drawings, Office of Research and Sponsored Programs, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN
2005 Cash Award & Museum Purchase Award, Appalachian Corridors, Biennial Juried
Exhibition (13 State Region) Juror: Faith Ringgold
2003 Best of Show, 38th Appalachian Art Show, Kingsport, TN, Juror: Celia Walker, Senior Curator, Cheekwood Museum of Art, Nashville, TN
Major RDC Grant, "Multiple Figure Narrative: A Series of Paintings based on
Christina Rossetti’s Goblin Market”, ETSU Office of Research and Sponsored Programs,
Johnson City, TN
Instructional Development Grant, “Encaustic Painting”, ETSU Office of Research and Sponsored Programs, , Johnson City, TN
Presidential Grant in Aid, ETSU Office of Research & Sponsored Programs, for
Hambidge Artist Residency, Rabun Gap, GA
2002 Third Place, 24th Annual 1st Tennessee Art Show
Juror: Peter Baldaia, Chief Curator, Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, AL
Kingsport Art Guild Memorial Award, 37th Appalachian Art Show
Juror: Ellen Simak, Curator, Hunter Museum, Chattanooga, TN
2001 Award of Special Recognition, Realism III International Exhibition, Omaha, NE
President's Collection Purchase, University of Georgia, Athens, GA
2000 Graduate stipend awarded for semester in Italy, University of Georgia Studies Abroad Program, Athens, GA
1990 Creative Grant, Indiana University Honors Division, Bloomington, IN
1988 Award for Excellence in Painting, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
RESIDENCIES
2018 Ox-Bow Faculty Fellowship Residency, Ox-Bow School of Art, Saugatuck, MI
2017 Artist’s Residency and Fellowship, Virginia Center for Creative Arts, Sweet Briar, VA
Artist’s Residency and Fellowship, Hambidge Center for the Creative Arts & Sciences, Rabun Gap, GA
2014 Artist’s Residency and Fellowship, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
2012 Artist's Residency and Fellowship, Cill Rialaig Project, Ballinskelligs, Ireland (December 2011-January 2012) with additional funding assistance from ETSU’s office of Research and Sponsored Programs and the College of Arts & Sciences
2011 Artist’s Residency and Fellowship, Anderson Center for Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences, Red Wing, MN
2009 Artist’s Residency and Fellowship, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
2004 Artist’s Residency and fellowship, Hambidge Center for the Creative Arts & Sciences, Rabun Gap, GA
2003 Artist’s Residency and fellowship, Hambidge Center for the Creative Arts & Sciences, Rabun Gap, GA
CONFERENCES & SYMPOSIA
2016 'It tastes like ashes' : Ophelia and Eros, Paper presentation for panel: Fantasy, Three Ways, LACK 2016: Psychoanalysis and Freedom, First Annual Lack Conference, Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO
2014 Is This Desire? Session Chair and Panel Presentation, 2014 Southeastern College Art Conference (SECAC), Sarasota, FL
2013 Painting is Compulsive and Emotional (Again) Session Chair, 2013 Southeastern College Art Conference (SECAC) Greenville, SC
Impasto! Panel Presentation, 2013 Southeastern College Art Conference (SECAC) Greenville, SC
2011 Dreams, Death and Art Panel Presentation, “Painting the Self as Other,” Psychology and the Other Conference, Lesley University, Cambridge, MA
2011 Landscape and Human Culture Panel Presentation, “I Dream about Burning,” Text and Texture: 2011 Southeastern College Art Conference (SECAC), Savannah, GA
2010 Memory and Art Panel Presentation, “I Dreamed I was You and You Were Not There, Curiouser & Curiouser, 2010 Southeastern College Art Conference (SECAC), Richmond, VA
2006 Desire, Memory, Wanderlust: Three Explorations into Art & Identity Panel Presentation, Southern Humanities Conference, Asheville,NC
CURATION
2022-2024
Founding Director, Curator and Gallerist, Tyger Tyger Gallery, Asheville, NC
2024 Navi Naisang: Phantom Limb, Tyger Tyger Gallery, Ashevillle, NC
LaKisha Blount: When We See Us, Tyger Tyger Gallery, Asheville, NC
Chris Jehly: The Soil’s Gaze, Tyger Tyger Gallery, Asheville, NC
I will tell you mine, Tyger Tyger Gallery, Asheville, NC
Night/Visionary, Tyger Tyger Gallery, Asheville, NC
2023 Eidolon, recent works by Margaret Thompson and Jacqueline Shatz, Tyger Tyger Gallery, Asheville, NC
Sarah Mathilda Stewart: Rainbow Spirits, Tyger Tyger Gallery, Asheville, NC
Peter Roux: Always Elusive, Continually Shifting, Tyger Tyger Gallery, Asheville, NC
Nancy Friedland: Daybreak, Tyger Tyger Gallery, Asheville, NC
Sylvia Fernandez: New Islands, Tyger Tyger Gallery, Asheville, NC
Autumn Nelson: Sologamy, Tyger Tyger Gallery, Asheville, NC
2022 Place and Wonder, Tyger Tyger Gallery, Asheville, NC
13th Annual Figurative Drawing & Painting Exhibition, Lore Degenstein Gallery, Selinsgrove, PA
What Strange Water, What Strange Air, Tyger Tyger Gallery, Asheville, NC
2014 Remote Viewing, Curating Contemporary (online exhibition)
2013 The Ghost in You, Gallery 304, New York, NY
2012 The Day on Fire: Apocalypse in Contemporary Art, Slocumb Galleries, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN
2010 Transverse Orientation, Nelson Fine Art, Johnson City, TN
2006 Stories from the Dream Cabinet, Slocumb Galleries, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN
2005 Fermata, Nelson Fine Art, Johnson City, TN
2003 Booty, Spoils and Plunder, Nelson Fine Art, Johnson City, TN
2002 Burning Bright 2, Nelson Fine Art, Johnson City, TN
2001 Burning Bright, Nelson Fine Art, Johnson City, TN
WRITING
2022-2024:
Curatorial Essays written for the following exhibitions at Tyger Tyger Gallery in Asheville, NC; Navi Naisang: Phantom Limb; LaKisha Blount: When We See Us; Chris Jehly: The Soil’s Gaze; I will tell you mine; Night/Visionary; Eidolon: Recent Works by Margaret Thompson and Jacqueline Shatz; Sarah Mathilda Stewart: Rainbow Spirits; Peter Roux: Always Elusive, Continually Shifting; Nancy Friedland: Daybreak; Sylvia Fernandez: New Islands; Autumn Nelson: Sologamy, Place and Wonder; What Strange Water, What Strange Air
2020 Paying It Forward: A Gift Economy of Poetry and Visual Art, Artizein Arts & Teaching Journal
2015 “Žižekian Performances”: A Group’s Self-Interview, International Journal of Zizek Studies, Vol.9 no.1
2013 Once Upon a Time, Deep in a Forest: A Talking Cure for the Delusion of Meaning a review of Denise Prince’s performance piece at Austin, Texas’ Scottish Rite Theatre
2013 A Conversation with Anne Harris, interview for Figure/Ground Communication
2012 The Day on Fire: Apocalypse in Contemporary Art exhibition essay
In Conversation with Barbara Friedman, interview for Figure/Ground Communication
2010 The Voice of Art Episode #2 Whitehot Magazine
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2021 Mira Gerard reclaims her father’s gallery space with a new name, focus, and outlook, Matt Pieken, Blue Ridge Public Radio (BPR), Asheville, NC
2014 Fascinating Cultural Critic Visits UC for a Radical Confab, CityBeat, Cincinatti OH
The Tusculum Review, featured artist, cover and exhibition-in- print
2013 Recent Exhibition- The Ghost In You Curating Contemporary Blog
Daniel Maidman Presents: Mira Gerard, The New York Optimist
Artist Profile: Mira Gerard VIPSEEN Magazine, September 2013
2012 Two Way Dream: Paintings by Mira Gerard, Jaime Santos-Prowse, Downstream: Arts in the Southeast
2011 From These Hills: Contemporary Art in the Southern Appalachian Highlands, William King Museum/Exhibition Catalog Essay, Amy Moorefield
2010 Pas de deux: New Work by Mira Gerard and Anna Kell, Jaime Santos-Prowse, Downstream
2005 Gerard’s ‘Secret Sea’ Shows All, Allison Alfonso, Johnson City, Press, Johnson City, TN
2004 Two Artists Explore Varying Visual Terrain, Heather Joyner Spica, Metro Pulse, Knoxville, TN
2003 Hanson Gallery Group Show, Mike Gibson, Metro Pulse, Knoxville, TN
Art Show Proves Popular, Allison Alfonso, GoTriCities.com
2002 Virginia Gallery to Exhibit Work of ETSU Artist Gerard, Allison Alfonso, Johnson City Press
Award Winning Art, Thomas Garvey, artsMEDIA, Cambridge, MA
2001 We Are Woman, Jennifer Messer, Flagpole Magazine, Athens, GA
Singing the Body Eclectic, Jennifer Messer, Flagpole Magazine, Athens, GA
