Hamlett Dobbins
hamlettdobbins@hotmail.com
hamlettdobbins.com
Representation
David Lusk Gallery
Memphis, Tennessee
Nashville, Tennessee
Whitespace Gallery
Atlanta, Georgia
education
1999 MFA, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa
1998 MA, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa
1993 BFA, University of Memphis, Memphis, TN
grants, awards, and residencies
2014 ArtsAccelerator Grant, ArtsMemphis
2013-14 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
2000 Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, three month residency, Omaha, Nebraska
2000 Vermont Studio Center, four week fellowship, Johnson, Vermont
1999 Best of Show, Arts in the Park Juried Show, Jerry Saltz, juror
1998-99 Pelzer-Lynch Fellowship for Graduate Students in Painting. University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa
recent & upcoming
2020
The Wellspring, (one person show), Union University Art Gallery, Union University, Jackson, Tennessee
Let It Last, (one person show), David Lusk Gallery, Nashville, Tennessee
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
exhibitions
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
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
2014
The Attendant, (one person show), David Lusk Gallery, Memphis, Tennessee
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
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
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, 2001 Invitational 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
This is Always Finished, 7th Floor Gallery, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin
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
Five Days, Five Shows (one person show), Eve Drewlowe Gallery, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa
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
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
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
related experience
2017-present 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 Organizes exhibitions for Material, a non-commercial, alternative exhibition space
2004-2006 Advisory Board Member for Lantana Projects, Memphis, TN
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.
2001-2003 board member for non-profit arts organization, delta axis
1999-2003 curator of memphis alternative exhibition space, delta axis at marshall arts
1994-1996 member of memphis artists’ studios and exhibition space, marshall arts
1990-1991 volunteered for non-profit gallery, memphis center for contemporary arts, director robert mcgowan