Veda Reed

Red Sun #2
2003, oil on canvas, 28x36

Veda Reed, Memphis,TN

Represented by: David Lusk Gallery contact person: Robert Hollingsworth

Born in 1934 in Granite, OK

education
1956 BFA, Memphis College of Art
Siena College, Memphis, TN
Institute of Design, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL

selected solo exhibitions
2001 David Lusk Gallery, Memphis, TN
1999 Ledbetter Lusk Gallery, Memphis, TN
1998 Tennessee State Museum, Nashville, TN
1996 Lisa Kurts Gallery, Memphis, TN
1995 Kurts Bingham Gallery, Memphis, TN
1989 Alice Bingham Gallery, Memphis, TN
1980 Veda Reed Paintings & Drawings: 1955-1980, Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, TN

group exhibitions
2004 Art of Tennessee, Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, TN (catalog)
San Francisco International Fine Art Exposition, San Francisco, CA
2002 Side By Side, Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, TN
A Century of Progress: Twentieth Century Painting in Tennessee, Cheekwood Museum of Art, Nashville, TN
1999 Arts Day, Memphis Arts Council, exhibition at Memphis College of Art, Memphis, TN
1996 Burton Callicott & Veda Reed: Teacher & Student, Memphis College of Art, Memphis, TN
Arts Day, Memphis Arts Council, Askew Nixon Ferguson Architects, Memphis, TN
1995 Arts Day, Memphis Arts Council, Askew Nixon Ferguson Architects, Memphis, TN
1994 Small Scale Grand Gestures, Kurts Bingham Gallery, Memphis, TN
BOXES: Artists Respond to the Object, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE
Faculty Exhibition, Memphis College of Art, Memphis, TN

awards and honors
1996 Tennessee Governor's Award in the Arts, Individual Artist
1966 Benjamin Goodman Faculty Travel Award, Memphis College of Art, Memphis, TN
1965 Honorable Mention, Mid-South Exhibition, Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, TN
1961 Honorable Mention, Painting of the Year Exhibition, Atlanta, GA
1960 First Prize, Designer Craftsmen USA, Museum of Contemporary Crafts, New York, NY
1959 Honorable Mention, Delta Annual, Little Rock, AR
1958 First Prize, The Memphis Academy of Arts Fellowship, Memphis, TN
1956 First Prize, Young Americans and Young Scandinavians, Museum of Contemporary Crafts, New York, NY

bibliography
New American Paintings Juried Exhibition in Print, July, 2004, Number 52, p. 152-153
Art of Tennessee, Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, TN Catalog, p. 346 , 338
Burton Callicott and Veda Reed: Teacher and Student, Memphis College of Art, 1996
Tennessee Art Collection, Opryland Hotel, 1992, p. 22
Memphis: 1948-1958, Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, 1986, p. 45 & 205
Memphis College of Art - Memphis Academy of Arts, Fifty Years of Visual Creation, Memphis College of Art, 1986
Landscape and Genre Painting in Tennessee, 1810-1985, Tennessee Historical Quarterly, Vol. XLIV, Summer, 1985, Number 2, p. 148-149
Veda Reed Paintings and Drawings 1955-1980, Brooks Memorial Art Gallery (Memphis Brooks Museum of Art), 1980

commissions
Holiday Inn Crowne Plaza, Stanford, CT
Memphis Country Club, Memphis, TN
Memphis In May, poster honoring the Netherlands, Memphis, TN
The University Club, Memphis, TN