Rocky Horton
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2020 “Dissolving Artifacts”, Studio 200, Brooklyn, NY
2020 “Between Man and Man”, Kunsthalle 3.14, Bergen, Norway
2019 Solo exhibition, Samford University, Birmingham, Alabama
2019 “Homage and Hot Rods”, solo exhibition, The Arts Company, Nashville, TN
2017 “Grow Where You Are Planted”, SRISA Gallery of Contemporary Art, Florence, Italy
2017 “Really?”, David Lusk Gallery in Nashville, TN
2016 “East Side does WeHo”, Gallery Luperca pop-up space, Nashville, TN
2016 Solo Exhibition, University of Alabama at Huntsville, Huntsville, AL
2015 SECAC members juried exhibition, Future Tenant gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
2015 “Ideas for Monuments”, solo exhibition, Browsing Room Gallery, Nashville, TN
2015 “Vanishing Act”, Heliopolis, Brooklyn, NY
2015 “All the Lights in my House”, solo exhibition, Seed Space, Nashville, TN
2014 “InLight Richmond”, Richmond, VA
2014 “What’s in the Matter”, Staple Goods, New Orleans, LA
2014 “Terrestrial”, Unsmoke Systems, Braddock, PA
2013 SECAC members juried exhibition, Greensboro, NC (Juror’s Award recipient)
2013 Solo Exhibition, University of Rio Grande, Rio Grande, OH
2013 “Now What #2”, Microscope gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2013 “Punch and Judy”, Punch Gallery, Seattle, WA
2013 “MIA at the Armory”, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
2013 “Squint”, Zephyr Gallery, Louisville, KY
2012 “Expanded Music Project”, Land of Tomorrow, Louisville, KY
2012 “365247”, Twist gallery, solo exhibition, Nashville, TN
2012 “10x10” Chattanooga, Chattanooga, TN
2010 “InLight Richmond”, 1708 Gallery, Richmond, VA
2010 “Religare”, Antena Galelry, Chicago, IL
2010 “Act 5:15 (Chattanooga)”, solo exhibition, University of Tennessee Chattanooga Project Space, Chattanooga, TN,
2009 “Art in Academia”, Space 301, Mobile Art Museum, Mobile, AL
2009 “Rocaille, recent work by Rocky Horton”, solo exhibition, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY
2009 “Summer Guest House”, Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2009 “Tennessee Abstract Painting”, Cheekwood Museum of Art, Nashville, TN
2009 “Under One Roof: Photo Paintings and Painted Drawings (large works)”, two person exhibition, Twist Gallery, Nashville Tennessee
2008 “Under One Roof: Photo Paintings and Painted Drawings (small works) ”, two person exhibition, Twist Gallery, Nashville Tennessee
2008 “Minimalism”, Chromatics Second Floor Gallery, Nashville, TN
2008 “Dialogue: Painting”, Zeitgeist Gallery, Nashville, TN
2008 “12 x 12”, National Juried Exhibition (Juror: Dave Hickey), Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN
2008 “Lminal”, Solo Exhibition, Volunteer State Community College, Galatin, TN
2008 “Magic Silver”, International Juried Show (Juror: Joyce Tennyson), Murray State University, Murray, KY
2007 “Photography: What Now?” International Juried Exhibition, Lexington Art League, Lexington, KY “Photography Re-imagined”, Tilt Gallery, Phoenix,
AZ
2006 “Gambit IV”, Twist Gallery, Nashville TN
2006 “Objects in Ordinary Time” D.I.G. show series, Downtown Pres, Nashville, TN
2006 “Gambit III”, Nashville, TN
2006 “Empire Builders”, Zeitgeist Gallery, Nashville, TN
2003 “Ersatz” M.F.A. Thesis exhibition, Paul Mesaros Gallery, College of Creative Arts, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV
CURATORIAL PROJECTS:
2017 “Grow Where You Are Planted”, SRISA Gallery of Contemporary Art, Florence, Italy
2012 “Ka-Pow, Comics and Cartoons in Contemporary Culture” John C. Hutchenson Gallery, Lipscomb University
2012 “Is and Always Wars”, work by Daniel Johnston, John C. Hutchenson Gallery, Lipscomb University
PUBLICATIONS
2010 “Paint Made Flesh”, Southeastern College Art Conference Review, vol. XV, no. 5, 2010
AWARDS
2015 Sabbatical, Spring 2015, Lipscomb University
2013 Juror’s Award, Southeastern College Art Conference Members Exhibition, Greensboro, NC
2013 Faculty Summer Grant, Lipscomb University
2012 Professional Development Support Grant, Tennessee Arts Commission
2011 Professional Development Support Grant, Tennessee Arts Commission
2010 Independent Research Grant, Lipscomb University
2010 Professional Development Support Grant, Tennessee Arts Commission
2010 Technology Enhancement Grant, Lipscomb University
2009 Professional Development Support Grant, Tennessee Arts Commission
2008 Professional Development Support Grant, Tennessee Arts Commission
2008 Independent Research Grant, Lipscomb University
2007 Honorable Mention, Photography Re-imagined, Tilt Gallery Phoenix, AZ
2007 Development award for creative summer course, ”Art as Environment and Installation”, Lipscomb University
2007 Independent Research Grant, Lipscomb University
2000-2003 Graduate Assistantship, College of Creative Arts, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV
EDUCATION
2021 Masters of Business Administration (in progress, satisfied in December 2021)
2003 M.F.A. Fall 2003 in Visual Art (Painting) at College of Creative Arts, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV
1997 BS in Art, School of Fine Art, Harding University, Searcy, AR
RELATED WORK EXPERIENCE
2019 Director, School of Art and Design, Lipscomb University, Nashville TN
2017-2018 Chair, Department of Visual Arts, Lipscomb University, Nashville TN
2010-2017 Assoc. Professor of Art, Lipscomb University
2004-2010 Assistant Professor of Art, Lipscomb University, Nashville, TN
2001-2003 Graduate Teaching Assistant: Beginning Painting I & II, Beginning Drawing I,West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV
COURSES TAUGHT:
Fundamentals of Painting, Intermediate Painting, Conceptualization and Presentation, Advanced Studio, Fundamentals of Photography, Intermediate Photography, Fundamentals of Printmaking, Fundamentals of Drawing, Advanced Drawing, Special Topics: Experiments in Studio Practice, Special Topics: Collage and Collaboration, Special Topics: Art Experience Italy, Senior Capstone StudioLecture: Art Appreciation, Special Topics: 5 Days in the Art World (included travel to NYC), Special Topics: Andy Warhol, Christianity in the Visual Arts, Modern Art History, Art Theory
OTHER RELATED EXPERIENCE
2019 Presenter Southeastern College Art Conference (SECAC); Chattanooga, TN Paper: “Living Objects, The Pro-Wrestling Body and Baroque
Sensibility”, session “Objects as Art”
2018 Session Chair, Southeastern College Art Conference (SECAC), title: “Presentation as Performance as Presentation”,Birmingham, AL
2016 Presenter Southeastern College Art Conference (SECAC); Roanoke, VA Paper: “Donald Judd: From Beyond”, Session: “Minimalism”
2016 Studio Faculty, Governor’s School for the Arts summer program, Middle Tennessee State University
2015 Studio Faculty, Governor’s School for the Arts summer program, Middle Tennessee State University
October 2015 Session Chair, Southeastern College Art Conference (SECAC), title: “Co-ops and Communities”, Pittsburgh, PA
March 2015 Session Chair, Foundations Art and Theory in Education (FATE) conference, title: “Unthinking Foundations”, Indianapolis, IN
October 2013 Presenter Southeastern College Art Conference (SECAC); Greensboro, NC Paper: “Gimmie That Old Time Religion”, Session: “Picturing the
South: Realities and Myths”
2011-present Education Council Board Member, Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, TN
December 2011 Adjudicator, Association for Visual Arts Members Exhibition, Chattanooga, TN
October 2010 Presenter Southeastern College Art Conference (SECAC); Richmond, VA Paper: “Conceptualization and Presentation: A Foundational Primer
on Meaning in Art”, Session: “From the Inside Out: Meaningful Approaches to Critical Thinking in Studio Art Curricula”
April 2010 Adjudicator, Vanderbilt University Student art Competition, Nashville, TN
April 2010 Visiting Artist Lecturer, University of Tennessee Chattanooga, Chattanooga, TN
February 2010 Visiting Artist Lecturer, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY
January 2010 Adjudicator, Tennessee Governor’s School for the Arts, Nashville, TN
May 2009 Artist’s Forum Lecturer, Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, TN
February 2009 Visiting Artist Lecturer, Watkins College of Art and Design, Nashville TN
September 2008 Presenter Southeastern College Art Conference (SECAC); New Orleans, LA, Paper: “Unlikely Bedfellows: Painting and Photography,
recent work by Rocky Horton”, Session: “Fiction in Fact: Directions in Contemporary Art Photography”
May 2008 Panelist, Dialogue series: Painting, Zeitgeist Gallery, Nashville, TN
June 2007 Presenter CSC conference, Rochester College, Rochester Michigan
Paper: “A Christian Esthetic?” Session: Arts and Faith Together: Possibilities and Problems”
June 2007 Panelist, CSC conference, Rochester College, Rochester Michigan
March 2007 Panelist for D.I.G. art show series “Human Sacrifice, Atonement, and the Death Penalty”
January 2007 Judge, Scholastic Art Competition, Cheekwood
Museum of Art Learning Center, Nashville, TN
March 2006 Panelist for D.I.G art show series and film festival, “The Silence of God”
Fall 2005 Judge, Scholastic Art Competition, Cheekwood Museum of Art Learning Center, Nashville, TN
Spring 2005 Judge, Art Competition, Tennessee Beta Convention, Nashville, TN