Debra Priestly

somewhere listening: Company B, 365th Infantry Regiment, 92nd Division, A. E. F, 1918-1919, (detail)
Charcoal pencil on Arches paper, mounted on board, installation of 212 panels, 28 x 294 inches

	Born Springfield, Ohio Lives and Works in New York City
Education
	MFA, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY BFA, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
Selected Solo Exhibitions
	2014	tongues unspoken, June Kelly Gallery, New York
	2012	cat’s cradle, John Davis Gallery, Hudson, NY vestibule, John Davis Gallery, Hudson, NY
	2007-08	passage: paintings and works on paper, June Kelly Gallery, New York
	2007	Debra Priestly, curated by José Ruiz, Bronx River Art Center Inc., NY Debra Priestly: passage: paintings and works on paper, June Kelly Gallery, New York Debra Priestly, Bronx River Art Center Inc., NY
	2006	Preserves, curated by Becket Logan, 7th Avenue and 2nd Street Photo Gallery, New York
	2005	somewhere listening, June Kelly Gallery, New York
	2003	The Persistence of Memory, Amelie A. Wallace Gallery, SUNY Old Westbury, Long Island, NY Debra Priestly, curated by Dr. Catherine Bernard, Amelie A. Wallace Gallery, SUNY College at Old Westbury, New York
	2002	Debra Priestly, New Gallery, Hopkins Hall, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH; catalogue Preserves, essay by Franklin Sirmans, June Kelly Gallery, New York; catalogue
	1999	Lookin Glass, June Kelly Gallery, New York
	1996	Caddisworm Chronicles, essay by Dr. Leslie King-Hammond, June Kelly Gallery, New York
	1994	Patoka, June Kelly Gallery, New York
	1990	Beaux Arts Collectors Gallery, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH
	1989	The Print Studio, City Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand
	1988	Cinque Gallery, New York
	1987	Springfield Museum of Art, Springfield, OH Ollantay Center for the Arts, Jackson Heights, NY
Selected Group Exhibitions
	2014	Facing the Rising Sun, Wilmer Jennings Gallery at Kenkeleba, New York Ruckus, Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild, Woodstock, NY Queens College Faculty Exhibition, Godwin-Ternbach Museum, Queens College, City University of New York
	2013	Consumed: Nourishment and Indulgence, curated by Jacqueline S. Nathan. Fine Art Center Galleries, Bowling Green State University, OH; catalog Meeting Past, curated by Bibiana Huang Mathesis, Akin Library & Museums, Pawling, NY Flo Oy Wong: The Whole Pie, The Luggage Store, San Francisco, CA
	2012	25th Anniversary Celebration, June Kelly Gallery, New York
	2011-14	Infinite Mirror: Images of American Identity, curated by Blake Bradford, organized by Artrain, Inc and Brandywine Workshop. Traveling exhibition venues: Syracuse University Art Gallery, NY; University of Maryland University College, Adelphi, MD; Fort Wayne Museum of Art, IN and Newcomb Art Gallery, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA; catalog
	2010	Knowing Forms, Wilmer Jennings Gallery at Kenkeleba, New York, catalog
	2009	Hidden Gems: Works on Paper, June Kelly Gallery, New York
	2008-12	Reimagining the Distaff Toolkit, curated by Rickie Solinger, traveling exhibition venues: Bennington Museum, VT; Mead Museum, Amherst College, MA; College Gallery, Bowling Green University, OH and Housatonic Museum of Art, Bridgeport, CT; catalog
	2008	From Taboo to Icon: Africanist Turnabout, curated by Sophie Sanders and Shervone Neckles, Ice Box Project Space, Crane Arts, Philadelphia, PA; catalog Beyond These Walls: Department of Art Biennial Alumni Exhibition, Hopkins Hall Gallery, The Ohio State University, Columbus
	2005	Five Contemporary Voices in A New Space, curated by Bianca Dorsey of the June Kelly Gallery, Delta Arts Center, Winston-Salem; brochure
	2004	A Universe of Art, organized by Corporate Art Directions, Credit Suisee First Boston, NY Hearing Voices: Personal Narratives, Bristol Myers Squibb, Princeton, NJ Hair: Untangling A S ocial H istory, Tang Museum, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, N Y
	2003	The Art of Containment, Hunterdon Museum of Art, Clinton, NJ
	2002	One Thousand Words, curated by Leslie Umberger, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
	2001	Cross-Pollination, curated by Susan Joyce and Mery Lynn McCorkle, Holland Tunnel Gallery, Brooklyn, NY and The Artoretum of Los Angeles County, Arcadia, CA
	2000	The Act of Drawing: Meaning/Method/Meaning, curated by Cynthia Hawkins, Rush Arts Gallery, N Y African-American Art @ t 2000, The Rockland Center for the Arts, West Nyack, NY
	1999	Slave Routes: The Long Memory, Kenkeleba Gallery, New York
	1998	Memory Walking, curated by Roma Potiki, City Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand; catalogue Massachusetts College of Art Faculty FA2D Exhibition, Boston Symphony Hall, MA 1998 National Invitational Works on Paper Exhibition, University of Hawai’i, Hilo; catalogue Bridges From Brooklyn/Puentes a Brooklyn, Wilmer Jennings Gallery, New York Black New York Artists of the 20th Century: Selections from the Schomburg Center Collections, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York
	1997	Bridges From Brooklyn/de las Puentes De Brooklyn: The Other New York Stories of Hidden Identity and Memory, The Fondo del Sol Visual Arts Center, Washington, DC
	1996	Bearing Witness: Contemporary Works by African American Women Artists, Inaugural exhibition, curated by Dr. Jontyle Robinson, Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Atlanta, GA; traveling exhibition; catalogue A Walk in the Woods, curated by Karen Shaw, Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY Pensando Visualmente: Dibujos Y Libros Hechos A Mano Por Artistas Norteamericanos, organized by Dennis Leder and curated by Karen Shaw, Galería de Arte Plastica Contemporanea, Guatemala, Central America
Public and Corporate Collections
	The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York The Petrucci Family Foundation, Ashbury, NJ Francis Greenberger Collection The Sandor Family Collection, Chicago, IL Ariel Capital Management, Chicago, IL AT&T The Atlanta Life Insurance Company, GA
Publications
	2012	Celeste-Marie Bernier, Characters of Blood: Black Heroism in the Transatlantic Imagination, University of Virginia Press, Charlottesville and London, pp. 351-356, 359 and 360
	2008	Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism, edited by Paula J. Giddings, Smith College, Northampton, MA, publisher, Indiana University Press, Vol. 8, No. 2, Cover Art & pp. 1& 184 Reimagining the Distaff Toolkit, Preface by Rickie Solinger, essay by Susan Strasser, pp. 10 & 14
	2005	Lisa E. Farrington, Creating Their Own Image; The History Of African American Women Artists, Oxford University Press. pp. 293 & 294 Michael Cunningham & George Alexander, Queens: Portraits of Black Women and Their Fabulous Hair, Doubleday, pp.154 -157
	2004	Hair: Untangling a Social History, curated by Penny Howell Jolly, The Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore, pp. 71,108
	2003	Brommer, Gerald F. and Kinne, Nancy F., “Exploring Paintings,” 2nd Edition, Davis Publications, Inc., Worchester, MA Genshaft, Carole and others, Symphonic Poem, The Art of Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson, Columbus Museum of Art, Abrams Publishing, pp.48, 49 Gerald F. Brommer and Nancy K. Kinne, Exploring Painting, 2nd Edition, Davis Publications, Inc, Worchester, Massachusetts
	2000	The Act of Drawing: Medium/Method/Meaning, essay by Cynthia Hawkins, Cedar Crest College, Allentown, PA Craughwell, Thomas, Cow Parade New York 2000, Workman Publishing Company
	1999	Brown, Deidre, “Initiative and Initiation: Memory Walking at the City Gallery,” Art New Zealand, No.90/Autumn
	1997	Taha, Halima, “Collecting African American Art: Works on Paper and Canvas,”Crown Publishers, Inc., New York Jaime, Jonell, “Fresh Paint! New York Scene,” The International Review of African American Art, Vol. 13, No. 4, pp.3, 21-24,” Burns, Khephra, “Reframing Black Art,” Essence Magazine, pp.105-6, July
	1995	“Gumbo Ya Ya: Anthology of Contemporary African-American Women Artists,” introduction by Dr. Leslie King-Hammond, Midmarch Arts Press, New York Painting Faculty, introduction by Robert Rindler, Dean, Cooper Union School of Art, New York, pp. 8, 56, 57, 77, 87
Selected Catalogues and Brochures
	2013	Consumed: Nourishment and Indulgence, curated by Jacqueline S. Nathan, Fine Art Center Galleries, Bowling Green State University, OH; catalog
	2011-14	Infinite Mirror:Images of American Identity, curated by Blake Bradford, catalog
	2010	Knowing Forms, Wilmer Jennings Gallery at Kenkeleba, New York, catalog
	2008	From Taboo to Icon: Africanist Turnabout, essays by Sophie Sanders and Shervone Neckles, Ice Box Project Space, Crane Arts, Philadelphia, PA; p.7, catalog
	2005	Contemporary Voices: Nanette Carter, Chandra Cox, Lisa Corinne Davis, Debra Priestly and Philemona Williamson, Celebrating the Opening of the Delta Arts Center, Winston-Salem, NC; brochure Caesar, Dianne, “Five Contemporary Voices in a New Space,” Delta Arts Center, Winston- Salem, NC, January; exhibition brochure
	2004	Hearing Voices, Personal Narrative, essay by Kate Somers, The Gallery at Bristol-Meyers Squibb, Lawrence Township, NJ; brochure Hair: Untangling A Social History, curated by Penny Howell Jolly, The Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY; catalogue
	2003	The Persistence of Memory, essay by Catherine Bernard, Amelie A. Wallace Gallery, SUNY Old Westbury, Long Island, NY; brochure
	2002	Debra Priestly, essay by Pheoris West, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH ; catalogue Preserves, essay by Franklin Sirmans, June Kelly Gallery, New York ; catalogue
	2001	The Act of Drawing: Medium/Method/Meaning, essay by Cynthia Hawkins, Cedar Crest College, Allentown, PA; brochure
	1998	Taha, Halima, “Collecting African American Art: Works on Paper and Canvas,” Crown Publishers, Inc., New York, p. 52, 196, p. 52, 196 Black New York Artists of the 20th Century: Selections from the Schomburg Center Collections, essay by Victor N. Smythe, New York Works on Paper, University of Hawai’i at Hilo Memory Walking, essay by Roma Potiki, City Gallery, Wellington & Creative New Zealand Arts Council of New Zealand Toi Aotearoa, catalog
	1997	A Walk in The Woods, essay by Karen Shaw, Islip Art Museum, NY
	1996-99	Bearing Witness: Contemporary Works by African American Women Artists, Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Atlanta, GA, essays by Tritobia Benjamin, Akua McDaniel, Jontyle Robinson, Beverly Guy-Sheftall, Lowery Stokes Sims and Judith Wilson; catalogue published by Spelman College and Rizzoli International Publications, Inc; catalog
	1995	Painting Faculty, curated by Robert Rindler, Cooper Union School of Art, New York; catalog
	1992	People, Places & Things: An African-American Perspective, essay by Deidre D. Hamlar, Columbus Museum of Art, OH, pp. 5, 38-9
	1988	Who’s Uptown: Harlem ’87, essay by Deirdre Bibby, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York; pp. 40,53, catalog
	1986	Atlanta Life Insurance Company Sixth Annual National Art Competition and Exhibition, essay by Henrietta Phillips Antoinin, Atlanta, GA