Debra Priestly

somewhere listening: Nancy Veora Gray Priestly, 2020-23
Graphite on arches aquarelle, mounted on birch panel diptych:
30 x 47 inches, 30 x 22 inches each panel

	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
	2023	2nd movement, essay by Brittany Webb, June Kelly Gallery, New York Movements, Headstone Gallery, Saugerties, NY
	2022	black, Jane Street Art Center, Saugerties, NY
	2020	memory walking, 11 Jane Street Art Center, Saugerties, NY small works, Shoebox Gallery, Jundt Art Center, Gonzaga University, Spokane, Washington
	2022	Debra Priestly: black, Jane St. Art Center, Saugerties, NY.
	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, NY
	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
	2023	A Sense of Place: The New Hudson Valley River School with Peter Bradley, Colin Chase, David Hammons, and Debra Priestly, Burgers-Matthews House, Kingston, NY. Curated by Greer Smith, Sponsored by Transart 45 Rock Art Exhibition: A View from the Mountaintop, sponsored by Rockefeller Capital Management and New York Foundation for the Arts, Rockefeller Plaza
	2022	Healing Through the Preservation of Our History and Our Selves: Works from the Petrucci Family Collection of African American Art, Ridderhof Martin & du Pont Galleries, University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg, VA
	2021	Creating Community, Cinque Gallery Artists, curated by Susan Stedman, The Phyliss Harriman Mason Gallery, The Art Students League of NY, New York Inaugural Exhibition: Collecting Memories, West Strand Art Gallery, Kingston, NY Landscape Re-Imagined, curated by Cynthia Carlson and Jean Feinberg, Claverack Free Library, Claverack, NY Hermerica, Byrdcliffe Kleinert/James Center for the Arts, curated by Carrie Feder, Woodstock, NY
	2020-21	Taking Space: Contemporary Women Artists and the Politics of Space, curated by Jodi Throckmorton and Brittany Webb, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA The Golden Door, curated Robin Jaffee Frank, Silvermine Arts Center, New Canaan, CT Exhibition by Artists of the Mohawk-Hudson Region, curated by Susan Cross, Albany Institute of History & Art. AIHA Purchase Award. Stuyvesant Purchase Award Celebrating 30 Years, Gallery Artists: Drawings and Photographs, June Kelly Gallery, New York
	2019-20	Afrocosmologies: American Reflections, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT
	2019	An Essential Presence: The Petrucci Family Foundation Collection of African-American Art, Allentown Art Museum, PA International Sculpture Day, Cross Contemporary Art at J. J. Newberry Building, Saugerties, NY Aestivus: Summer Show, Cross Contemporary Art at J.J. Newberry Building, Saugerties, NY
	2018-19	The Persistence of History, curated by Peter Delman, New Jersey City University Galleries, Jersey City, NJ The Haiku Box Project, curated by Melinda Stickney-Gibson, The Byrdcliffe Art Colony, Woodstock, NY
	2018	International Sculpture Day, curated by Jen Dragon, Cross Contemporary Art, Saugerties, NY Fire in the Belly, curated by Laura Gurton and Carole Kunsstadt, Burnette Gallery, Woodstock, NY
	2017	30th Anniversary: Gallery Artists, Drawings and Photographs, June Kelly Gallery, New York Hygge, Cross Contemporary Art, Saugerties, NY Constructing Identity: Petrucci Family Foundation Collection of African American Art, organized by Portland Art Museum, guest curated by Berrisford Boothe, Professor of Art, Lehigh University, Bethlehelm, PA the Visual Arts; catalog the transphysics we knew about, curated by William Cordova, Prizm Art Fair Miami:2017 Art Work: An Exhibition of Labor, curated by Jeanne Lamensdorf, Love Apple 2017 Celebrating 30 Years, Gallery Artists: Drawings and Photographs, June Kelly Gallery, New York Constructing Identity: Petrucci Family Foundation Collection of African American Art, organized by Portland Art Museum, guest curated by Berrisford Boothe, Professor of Art, Lehigh University, Bethlehelm, PA
	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
	Columbus Museum of Art, OH Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, PA The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York The Francis J. Greenburger Collection, New York The Petrucci Family Foundation, Asbury, NJ The Sandor Family Collection, Chicago, IL The Atlanta Life Insurance Company, GA Ariel Capital Management, Chicago, IL AT&T, New York The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
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