Hamlett Dobbins
hamlettdobbins@hotmail.com | www.hamlettdobbins.com
Represented by David Lusk Gallery in Memphis and Nashville, Tennessee and Whitespace Gallery in Atlanta, Georgia.
Education
1999 University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, Master of Fine Arts.
1998 University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, Master of Arts.
1993 University of Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee, Bachelor of Fine Arts.
Grants, Awards and Residencies
2014 ArtsAccelerator Grant, ArtsMemphis
2013-2014 Fellow, The Jules Guerin Rome Prize in Visual Arts, American Academy in Rome, Italy
2010 Nominated for the Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant
2009 Nominated for the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant
2003 Tennessee Arts Commission Individual Artist Grant
2000 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant
Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, three-month residency, Omaha, Nebraska.
Vermont Studio Center, four-week fellowship, Johnson, Vermont.
1999 Best of Show, Arts in the Park Juried Show, Jerry Saltz, juror.
1998-1999 Pelzer-Lynch Fellowship for Graduate Students in Painting. University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa.
Recent & Upcoming Exhibitions
2024 The Green of Friendship, (one-person show), David Lusk Gallery, Nashville, Tennessee.
2022 One Part of My Small Story, (one-person show), David Lusk Gallery, Memphis, Tennessee.
An Old Desire, Two-person show with Dana Haugaard, Whitespace, Atlanta, Georgia.
2021 I Must Keep Reminding Myself of This, (one-person online show), The Brownstone, Brooklyn, New York.
Mellow Mountain Coalition, (collaboration with Tad Lauritzen Wright), University of Mississippi, Oxford, Mississippi.
2020 The Wellspring, (one person show), Union University Art Gallery, Union University, Jackson, Tennessee.
Hamlett Dobbins | Exhibitions
2020 I Must Keep Reminding Myself of This, (one-person show), David Lusk Gallery, Nashville, Tennessee.
Constellations (organized by Mark Brosseau for Tiger Strikes Asteroid Greenville), Greenville Center for Creative Arts, Greenville, South Carolina
2019 Let It Last, (one-person show), David Lusk Gallery, Memphis, Tennessee.
Mellow Mountain Coalition, (collaboration with Tad Lauritzen Wright), Medicine Factory, Memphis, Tennessee.
I Will Have to Tell You Everything, (one-person show), Whitespace, Atlanta, Georgia.
2018 Chaos and Information curated by Mark Scala, Frist Center for Visual Arts, Nashville, Tennessee traveling to Chrysler Museum of Art in Norfolk, Virginia. (catalog)
2017 Drawing Performance, organized by James Bockelman, (Old Man Study Group collaborations with Douglas Degges), Marxhausen Gallery of Art, Concordia University, Seward, Nebraska and Inga Kondeyne Galerie, Berlin, Germany.
Mellow Mountain Coalition: All the Pain on the Inside (collaboration with Tad Lauritzen Wright), Mason-Scharfenstein Museum of Art, Piedmont College, Demorest, Georgia.
Mellow Mountain Coalition: Caboose! (collaboration with Tad Lauritzen Wright), Chattanooga, Tennessee.
I Will Have to Tell You Everything, (one-person show), David Lusk Gallery, Nashville, Tennessee.
2016 I Will Have to Tell You Everything, (one-person show), David Lusk Gallery, Memphis, Tennessee.
Sant’Ivo, (one person show), Medicine Factory, Memphis, Tennessee.
The Attendant, (one-person show), Gatewood Gallery, University of North Carolina Greensboro.
2015 The Attendant (one-person show), The Martha and Robert Fogelman Galleries of Contemporary Art, University of Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee.
Soft Eyes, organized by Pete Schulte, Whitespace Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia.
Old Man Study Group, (Collaborations with Douglas Degges), Southfork Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee.
Untitled (for A.J.F.), (one-person show), Glitch, Memphis, Tennessee.
Hamlett Dobbins | Exhibitions | Continued
2015 Lovey Town: We Got Spirit, Yes We Do, Organized by Michael Velliquette, Unity Gallery, Fairfield, Iowa.
Mellow Mountain Coalition: Born to Hula, (Collaborations with Tad Lauritzen Wright), Glitch, Memphis, Tennessee.
The Attendant, (one-person show), David Lusk Gallery, Memphis, Tennessee.
2014 Concrete Ghosts / Fantasma Concreto, organized by Christian Caliandro, American Academy in Rome, Rome, Italy.
2013 The Wellspring, (one-person show), University of Mississippi Museum, Oxford, Mississippi.
The River Beneath Us, (one-person show), Leu Art Gallery, Belmont University, Nashville, Tennessee.
All My Rowdy Friends, The Rozelle Warehouse, Memphis, Tennessee.
Co-Lab, (Collaborations with Tad Lauritzen Wright), Nu Gallery, Memphis, Tennessee.
Critology, Curated by Ron Laboray, The Fine Art Museum at the Bardo Fine and Performing Arts Center at Western Carolina University, North Carolina.
Present Tense: The Art of Memphis, 2001-Now, Curated by John Weeden, Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis, Tennessee.
2012 Bred and Fed, Martos Gallery’s Shoot the Lobster, Organized by Mary Grace Wright, Benton Street Gallery, Iowa City, Iowa.
Today’s Visual Language: South Abstraction, A Fresh Look, Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, Alabama.
The Price is Right, David Lusk Gallery, Memphis, Tennessee.
2011 The Price is Right, David Lusk Gallery, Memphis, Tennessee.
Memphis Connection: A Show of Collaborative Work, Organized by Dwayne Butcher, Marshall Arts, Memphis, Tennessee.
2010 We Like Each Other, Marxhausen Gallery of Art, Concordia University, Seward, Nebraska.
The River Beneath Us (one-person show), David Lusk Gallery, Memphis, Tennessee.
2009 Tinker, Tailer, Sifter: Spies! Gallery 130, University of Mississippi, Oxford, Mississippi.
Touch Faith, organized by Jeffrey Courtland Jones, SEMANTICS, Cincinnati, Ohio.
Jettison: New Ideas in Abstraction, Trahern Gallery, Austin Peay State University, Clarksville, Tennessee.
Summer Show, Fourteen30 Contemporary, Portland, Oregon.
Hamlett Dobbins | Exhibitions | Continued
2009 Tennessee Abstraction, organized by Adam McCoy, Cheekwood Museum of Art, Nashville, Tennessee.
2008 Every One, Every Day (one-person show), Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis, Tennessee.
Every One, Every Day (one-person show), University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee.
Good Morning Milla, (one-person show), Fuel Room, Power House Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee.
2007 Class of ’07, Lantana Projects, Memphis, Tennessee.
Every One Every Day (one-person show), David Lusk Gallery,
Memphis, Tennessee.
Tablet: Contemporary Southern Painting, Organized by SEED through the Tanner-Hill Gallery, Chattanooga, Tennessee
2006 Class of ’06, Lantana Projects, Memphis, Tennessee.
Place as Muse, Space 301, Mobile, Alabama.Color, Space 301, Mobile, Alabama.
Everyone (one-person show), Zeitgeist Gallery, Nashville, Tennessee.
Early Morning Paintings (one-person show), CAP Gallery, Frist Center for Visual Arts, Nashville, Tennessee.
Early Morning Paintings (one-person show), Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, Louisiana.
2005 Early Morning Paintings (one-person show), David Lusk Gallery, Memphis, Tennessee.
MAX: 2005, curated by David Moos, Art Museum at University of Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee.
New Currents in Regional Painting organized by Brian Bishop for the Sarah Moody Gallery, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa.
2004 Paradise or Parking Lot, (two person show), Gertrude Herbert Institute of Art, Augusta, Georgia.
Early Morning Paintings, (one person show), Tennessee Arts Commission, Nashville, Tennessee.
Suburban Abstraction, organized by Barbara Campbell, Lump Gallery, Raleigh, North Carolina.
The Stillness of Skin (one person show), Freed-Hardeman University, Henderson, Tennessee.
Under Run, organized by Julia Marsh, Dogmatic Gallery, Chicago, Illinois.
2003 Switchyard, Zeitgeist Gallery, Nashville, Tennessee
Marshall Abstraction, Fugitive Art Space, Nashville, Tennessee.
Hamlett Dobbins | Exhibitions | Continued
2003 The Stillness of Skin (one person show), Art Museum University of Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee.
2002 Now Serving, Art in General, New York, New York.
A Century of Progress: Twentieth Century Painting in Tennessee, Cheekwood Museum of Art, Nashville, Tennessee.
The Stillness of Skin (one person show), Temporary Contemporary Gallery, Cheekwood Museum of Art, Nashville, Tennessee.
Side by Side, Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, Tennessee.
The Memphis Connection, Kunstruimte40, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
The Invention of a New Star (one-person show), Art Museum, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas.
2001 Featured Emerging Artist, 2001Invitational Art Exhibit, Arts in the Park, Memphis, Tennessee.
Omaha Paintings (one person show), Second Floor Contemporary,
Memphis, Tennessee.
MAX: 2001, All About Paint, University of Memphis Art Museum, Memphis, Tennessee. Holly Block, curator.
dh-hd, Artfarm Gallery, Memphis, Tennessee.
We Like Each Other, Armstrong Gallery, Cornell College,
Mt. Vernon, Iowa.
2000 notfromhere, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, Nebraska.
The Price is Right, David Lusk Gallery, Memphis, Tennessee.
From the Story of the Rose (one person show), Iowa Gallery, Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
1999 Young Memphis, Clough-Hanson Gallery, Rhodes College, Memphis, Tennessee.
Arts in the Park, Memphis Tennessee. Jerry Saltz juror.
1999 This is Always Finished, 7th Floor Gallery, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin.
1999 Road Trip, New Work from the University of Iowa, Fassbender Gallery Annex, Chicago, Illinois.
M.F.A. Show, University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City, Iowa.
Tuesday Night Collaborative Drawing Group, Reservoir Space, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa.
1998 Each Child’s Story Illuminates the Others’, Arts Iowa City, Iowa City, Iowa.
1998 Five Days, Five Shows (one person show), Eve Drewlowe Gallery, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa.
Hamlett Dobbins | Selected Reviews and Publications
Art Papers
Susan Knowles, Review of Early Morning Paintings at David Lusk Gallery, page 48, November/December 2005.
Burnaway
Erica Ciccarone, Hamlett Dobbins and Douglas Degges on Artistic Collaboration, June 19, 2015.
Burnaway
Joe Nolan, All About Me, January 10, 2017
Commercial Appeal
Fredric Keoppel, Abstracts Peer into Realms both Microscopic, Cosmic, Sept 23, 2016.
Fredric Keoppel, Hamlett Dobbins at Fogelman Gallery, August 26, 2015.
Commercial Appeal
Fredric Keoppel, Hamlett Dobbins at David Lusk Gallery, March 20, 2014.
Fredric Keoppel, Dobbins Probes Limits of Abstraction, Sept 10, 2010.
Fredric Keoppel, Year’s Top Art Exhibitions, Playbook, Dec 28, 2007.
Fredric Keoppel, Beauty is in the Eye of Artful Dobbins, Playbook, Oct 5, 2007.
Dateline Memphis,
John Weeden, Focus on Hamlett Dobbins, January 15, 1999.
GAMUT
Meikle Gardner, iD Hamlett Dobbins, June issue, 2002.
The Memphis Flyer
Chris Davis, Material Man, July 11, 2013.
Carol Knowles, First Light, page 34, July 21-27, 2005.
Chris Davis, Material Man, page 31, December 9, 2004.
Nashville Scene
Joe Nolan, In the Abstract, August 8, 2013.
David Maddox, Hillsbroro Village Blues, June 29, 2006.
Julie Roberts, Building Blocks, August 5, 2004.
New Art Examiner,
David McCarthy, Studio Visit, February 2000.
Number: An Independent Journal of the Arts
Carrie McGee, Hamlett Dobbins: Early Morning Paintings, pages 16-17, Fall 2005.
Terry Thacker, Long Live the Death of Modernism: The Practice of Thomas Nozkowski, Hamlett Dobbins, and Greely Myatt, pages 10-11, Summer 2003
Hamlett Dobbins | Related Experience
2017-present Visiting Assistant Professor and Foundations Coordinator, University of Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee.
2016-2017 Foundations Lecturer, Department of Art, University of Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee.
2001-2013 Drawing and Painting Instructor, Rhodes College, Memphis, Tennessee.
2001-2013 Director, Clough-Hanson Gallery, Rhodes College, Memphis,
2004-2013 Organized exhibitions for Material, a non-commercial, alternative exhibition space.
2004-2006 Advisory Board Member for Lantana Projects, Memphis, Tennessee.
2003-2004 Gallery Coordinator for Non-profit arts organization Delta Axis, Memphis, Tennessee
2001-2003 Board member and contributor for independent arts quarterly, Number Inc.
1999-2003 Curator of Memphis alternative exhibition space, Delta Axis @ Marshall Arts.
1994-1996 Member of Memphis artists’ studios and exhibition space,
Marshall Arts.
1990-1991 Volunteer for non-profit gallery, Memphis Center for Contemporary Arts, director Robert McGowan.