Lillian Blades(404) 454-4488
lillianblades@yahoo.com
EDUCATION
2007 Caversham Centre for Artist and Writers, Kwazulu Natal, South Africa
1999 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME
1996 - 2000 Georgia State University - School of Art and Design, Atlanta, GA, MFA - Painting
1993 - 1996 The Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA, BFA - Painting
1991 - 1993 The College of The Bahamas, Nassau, Bahamas, AA - Fine Arts
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2010 Reconnecting – Transforming Spaces, NPAA, Nassau, Bahamas
2009 - 2010 Eye Sea Reflections, Hammonds House Museum, Atlanta, GA
2009 Fragmentations & Fabrications, The Beach Institute, Savannah, GA
2008 Eye Connect, Sandler Hudson Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2007 Lukasa (Memory Board) Series by Lillian Blades, The Rialto, Atlanta, GA
2006 Birthings, Sandler Hudson Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2005 Passage, Sandler Hudson Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2003 Patterns and Sources, Sandler Hudson Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2000 A Return to the Womb, Georgia State University Art Gallery, Atlanta, GA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS (selected)
2011 Bahama Mama, Public Art Treasury Inaugural Exhibition, Nassau, Bahamas
2011 Wrestling with the Image, World Bank, Washington, DC
2011 Beverly Buchanan and Lillian Blades, Taubman Museum, Roanke, VA
2010 Recollection – The Past is Present (3 person show with Amalia Amaki and Beverly Buchanan),
The Cameron Museum, Wilmington . NC
2009 Reclamation of Memory, Madison Morgan Cultural Center, Madison,
2009 Reflections on the Rainbow, Southwest Art Center Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2008 Sugar, Popop Studios Gallery, Nassau, Bahamas
2007 – 2008 NE4 - 4th National Exhibition, The National Art Gallery of the Bahamas, Nassau, Bahamas
2007 A Summer Show... With Caribbean Roots, City Gallery East, Atlanta, GA
2007 Bahamian Art: Pre-Columbian to Present, The National Art Gallery of The Bahamas
2006 Assemblation, Eyedrum, Atlanta, GA
2006 Migrations of the African Diaspora, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA
2006 Funky Nassau – Recovering an Identity, Nassauischer Kunstverein, Wiesbaden, Germany &
The National Gallery of the Bahamas, Nassau, Bah curators: Amanda Coulson and Erica James
2005 The Art of Caribbean Women Artist, CLICO Art Gallery, Trinidad, W.I.
2005 Pin Up Show, CityGallery East, Atlanta, GA
2005 Scared Spaces, Broyles Art Center, Westminster Schools, Atlanta, GA
2004 Personal Patterns: Lillian Blades & Daniel Hoover, SunTrust Plaza Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2003 - 2004 Figuring the Feminine...African American Artists from 1870 to Present,
The Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL (curated by Emily Hanna)
2003 Looks Good on Paper II, Spruill Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2003 Inaugural National Exhibition 1973-2003, The National Gallery of the Bahamas
2002 Culture Shock: Georgia’s Foreign Born Artist, SunTrust Plaza, Atlanta, GA
2000 - 2001 Our New Day Begun- African American Artist Entering the Millennium, Austin, Dallas, Houston, TX.
(Curated by Alvia Wardlaw)
2001 The Emerging Artist Award Show, Swan Coach House, Atlanta, GA
PUBLIC ART COMMISSIONS , AWARDS, & TEACHING EXPIERENCE (selected)
2011 ' Memory Totem' for ELEVATE- Atlanta Art Above Underground, Contracted by City of Atlanta OCA
2010 Jean Child's Young assemblage 12' x 20' for foyer of Jean Child's Young Middle School, Atlanta, GA
2009 City of Atlanta - Contract for Artist Services Grant for ‘The Hopscotch Project’ in Howell Park
2009 ‘Sea Bouquet’ Downtown Mural for 'Love My Bahamas' Coca Cola project, Nassau, Bahamas
2007 - 2008 Professor of Foundations Studies (adjunct), The Savannah College of Art & Design,
Atlanta Campus (Drawing I & II)
2007 Caversham Centre for Artist and Writers, Kwazulu Natal, South Africa – a 4 week Printmaking Residency
(awarded through Fulton County) Arts Council)
2006 - 2007 'AIDS Awareness Junkanoo Quilt'- A traveling Public Art Collaborative project -
200+ participants (ages 6-14) from The Islands of The Bahamas (Nassau, Grand Bahama, Abaco, & Exuma,
The AIDS Foundation & The US Embassy
2005 - 2006 The Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA - Studio Residency Program
2003 – 2005 'Quilted Community', East Atlanta Library, Atlanta, GA – A Public Art Collaborative project with over 300
participants from East Atlanta through Fulton County Arts Council
2002 'Quilted Passages', Concourse E, Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport - Public Art
1999 Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture – 9 week Studio Residency, Skowhegan, ME
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS (selected)
Atlanta Hartsfield Jackson International Airport, Atlanta, GA
Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL
Clark Atlanta University, Atlanta, GA
CLICO, Trinidad, West Indies
City of Atlanta, Atlanta, GA
College of The Bahamas, Nassau, BAH
East Atlanta Library, Atlanta, GA
King & Spalding, Atlanta, GA
MediTech, Atlanta, GA
The Central Bank of The Bahamas, Nassau, BAH
The National Art Gallery of The Bahamas, Nassau, BAH
Private collections in The Bahamas, United States, Italy and South Africa
lillianblades@yahoo.com
EDUCATION
2007 Caversham Centre for Artist and Writers, Kwazulu Natal, South Africa
1999 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME
1996 - 2000 Georgia State University - School of Art and Design, Atlanta, GA, MFA - Painting
1993 - 1996 The Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA, BFA - Painting
1991 - 1993 The College of The Bahamas, Nassau, Bahamas, AA - Fine Arts
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2010 Reconnecting – Transforming Spaces, NPAA, Nassau, Bahamas
2009 - 2010 Eye Sea Reflections, Hammonds House Museum, Atlanta, GA
2009 Fragmentations & Fabrications, The Beach Institute, Savannah, GA
2008 Eye Connect, Sandler Hudson Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2007 Lukasa (Memory Board) Series by Lillian Blades, The Rialto, Atlanta, GA
2006 Birthings, Sandler Hudson Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2005 Passage, Sandler Hudson Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2003 Patterns and Sources, Sandler Hudson Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2000 A Return to the Womb, Georgia State University Art Gallery, Atlanta, GA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS (selected)
2011 Bahama Mama, Public Art Treasury Inaugural Exhibition, Nassau, Bahamas
2011 Wrestling with the Image, World Bank, Washington, DC
2011 Beverly Buchanan and Lillian Blades, Taubman Museum, Roanke, VA
2010 Recollection – The Past is Present (3 person show with Amalia Amaki and Beverly Buchanan),
The Cameron Museum, Wilmington . NC
2009 Reclamation of Memory, Madison Morgan Cultural Center, Madison,
2009 Reflections on the Rainbow, Southwest Art Center Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2008 Sugar, Popop Studios Gallery, Nassau, Bahamas
2007 – 2008 NE4 - 4th National Exhibition, The National Art Gallery of the Bahamas, Nassau, Bahamas
2007 A Summer Show... With Caribbean Roots, City Gallery East, Atlanta, GA
2007 Bahamian Art: Pre-Columbian to Present, The National Art Gallery of The Bahamas
2006 Assemblation, Eyedrum, Atlanta, GA
2006 Migrations of the African Diaspora, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA
2006 Funky Nassau – Recovering an Identity, Nassauischer Kunstverein, Wiesbaden, Germany &
The National Gallery of the Bahamas, Nassau, Bah curators: Amanda Coulson and Erica James
2005 The Art of Caribbean Women Artist, CLICO Art Gallery, Trinidad, W.I.
2005 Pin Up Show, CityGallery East, Atlanta, GA
2005 Scared Spaces, Broyles Art Center, Westminster Schools, Atlanta, GA
2004 Personal Patterns: Lillian Blades & Daniel Hoover, SunTrust Plaza Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2003 - 2004 Figuring the Feminine...African American Artists from 1870 to Present,
The Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL (curated by Emily Hanna)
2003 Looks Good on Paper II, Spruill Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2003 Inaugural National Exhibition 1973-2003, The National Gallery of the Bahamas
2002 Culture Shock: Georgia’s Foreign Born Artist, SunTrust Plaza, Atlanta, GA
2000 - 2001 Our New Day Begun- African American Artist Entering the Millennium, Austin, Dallas, Houston, TX.
(Curated by Alvia Wardlaw)
2001 The Emerging Artist Award Show, Swan Coach House, Atlanta, GA
PUBLIC ART COMMISSIONS , AWARDS, & TEACHING EXPIERENCE (selected)
2011 ' Memory Totem' for ELEVATE- Atlanta Art Above Underground, Contracted by City of Atlanta OCA
2010 Jean Child's Young assemblage 12' x 20' for foyer of Jean Child's Young Middle School, Atlanta, GA
2009 City of Atlanta - Contract for Artist Services Grant for ‘The Hopscotch Project’ in Howell Park
2009 ‘Sea Bouquet’ Downtown Mural for 'Love My Bahamas' Coca Cola project, Nassau, Bahamas
2007 - 2008 Professor of Foundations Studies (adjunct), The Savannah College of Art & Design,
Atlanta Campus (Drawing I & II)
2007 Caversham Centre for Artist and Writers, Kwazulu Natal, South Africa – a 4 week Printmaking Residency
(awarded through Fulton County) Arts Council)
2006 - 2007 'AIDS Awareness Junkanoo Quilt'- A traveling Public Art Collaborative project -
200+ participants (ages 6-14) from The Islands of The Bahamas (Nassau, Grand Bahama, Abaco, & Exuma,
The AIDS Foundation & The US Embassy
2005 - 2006 The Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA - Studio Residency Program
2003 – 2005 'Quilted Community', East Atlanta Library, Atlanta, GA – A Public Art Collaborative project with over 300
participants from East Atlanta through Fulton County Arts Council
2002 'Quilted Passages', Concourse E, Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport - Public Art
1999 Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture – 9 week Studio Residency, Skowhegan, ME
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS (selected)
Atlanta Hartsfield Jackson International Airport, Atlanta, GA
Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL
Clark Atlanta University, Atlanta, GA
CLICO, Trinidad, West Indies
City of Atlanta, Atlanta, GA
College of The Bahamas, Nassau, BAH
East Atlanta Library, Atlanta, GA
King & Spalding, Atlanta, GA
MediTech, Atlanta, GA
The Central Bank of The Bahamas, Nassau, BAH
The National Art Gallery of The Bahamas, Nassau, BAH
Private collections in The Bahamas, United States, Italy and South Africa
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