Briena Harmening
Contact: brienarharmening@yahoo.com
@brienaharmening
EDUCATION:
2010 MFA in Painting: School of Art University of Tennessee, Knoxville
2005 BA Florida Gulf Coast University, Fort Myers, FL.
Upcoming:
Coined in the South: Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC (Dec.-April) Juried
2-3 Group Exhibition: FGCU Art Gallery, Fort Myers, FL (Oct-Nov.)
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2024 Jus Piddlin: The Browsing Room Gallery: Nashville, TN
2023 Just Saying; Coop Gallery, Nashville
2015 I Bet You Think This Show is About You, Blend Gallery
2013 Inner Compositions, Knoxville, TN
2011 Layered, Knoxville, TN
2010 Home Sweet Home, Ewing Gallery, Knoxville, TN
Layered and Built, A1 Arts Lab, Knoxville, TN
Layered and Built, Majestic Gallery, Athens, Ohio
The Aftermath, Fluorescent Gallery, Knoxville, TN
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2024
National Juried Exhibition at Gallery 130: Oxford, Ms
Inner Sanctuaries: Strata Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
2023
Quilts Unlimited: View, Valley Forge, NY
Artfields: Lake City, NC
Text/Message: Shoebox Projects, online https://shoeboxprojects.com/text-message/
Context II: Art Fluent: online https://www.art-fluent.com/context2
2022:
Number INC Art of the South: Zeitgeist Gallery, Nashville, TN
TEDX Nashville: Unconventional art exhibition: Schermerhorn Symphony: Nashville, TN
Nashville Art Teachers: Beyond the Classroom: Frist Art Museum: Nashville, TN
Dogwood arts regional art exhibition: Knoxville, TN
2021 Context: Art Fluent: online https://www.art-fluent.com/context
2020 Textured II: Envision Arts: online https://www.envisionartshow.com/textured-ii
2017
Listen: Snap Gallery, Nashville, TN
32nd Annual Positive/Negative National Juried Art Exhibition: Tipton Gallery, Johnson City, TN
20/20: FGCU Gallery, Fort Myers, FL
2016
Encore: Ewing Gallery, Knoxville, TN
Modular Art Pod Exhibition: OZ Arts Nashville, TN
Quilt: Traditional/Not Traditional: Bertha V.B Lederer Gallery, Suny Geneseo
Gravity of the Heart: Art Brokers Gallery, San Rafael, CA
2015
2nd Annual Art of the South: Juried Exhibition, Memphis College of Art, Memphis, TN
Stitch: Clay-Pool Young Art Gallery, Morehead, KY
The Artist Alphabet: Ground Floor Gallery, Nashville, TN
2014
Artists Collectives Exhibit: Emporium Center for Arts and Culture, Knoxville, TN
You: A1 Arts Lab and Center for Creative Minds, Knoxville, TN
Art Source: University of Tennessee Downtown Gallery, Knoxville, TN
2013
Artists Collectives Exhibit: Emporium Center for Arts and Culture, Knoxville, TN
Work Friends: 1324 Art Space, Knoxville, TN
Elaborated Surface: Ground Floor Gallery, Nashville, TN
Members Exhibition: A1 Arts Lab, Knoxville, TN
Art Source: University of Tennessee Downtown Gallery, Knoxville, TN
2012
The Found Art Project: The Fiber Arts Exhibition, Raymond S. Wilkes Gallery for the Visual Arts, Lancaster, OH (Invitational)
TEA Member Art Exhibition: Leu Visual Art Building, Belmont University, Nashville, TN (Juried)
Workhorse Collective, Lox Salon, Knoxville, TN
Amalgam: Fluorescent Gallery, Knoxville, TN
Elaborated Surface:, Pellissippi Community College, Oak Ridge, TN
2011
Creatures Great and Small, Work Horse Artist Collective, The Lunchbox, Knoxville, TN
The Aftermath: Fluorescent Gallery, Knoxville, TN
Point Time: AVA Gallery, Chattanooga, TN
Just What We Can Become Here: Fluorescent Gallery, Knoxville, TN
TEA Member Art Exhibition: Leu Visual Art Building, Belmont University, Nashville, TN
Pattern Play:, Living Arts and Science Center, Lexington, KY
Point Time: William King Museum, Abingdon, VA (Invitational)
Point Time: Slocumb Gallery, Johnson City, TN (Invitational)
12X12X12: Todd Gallery, Murfreesboro, TN (Juried)
High School Teachers Exhibition: Pearlman Gallery, Art Academy of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH
2010
1078 Gallery Film Festival 2010, 1078 Gallery, Chico, California
Reconfigured: An A&A Material Exchange, Gallery 1010, Knoxville TN
2009
2nd Annual Narrative Short Film Festival: California State University, Chico, California (Juried)
New Directions: Video Artists Explore Southern Identity Cheekwood Botanical Gardens and Museum of Art, Nashville, TN (Juried)
Knack: Cookie Aytes Elliot Art Education Gallery, Knoxville, TN (Juried)
Seven Times Standard: Gallery 1010, Knoxville, TN
The Formers: Florida Gulf Coast University Gallery, Fort Myers, FL
Aegis First Graduate Student Biennial: Hite Gallery, Louisville, KY (Faculty Committee Award) (Juried)
Dixie Highway: Reed Gallery, Univ. of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH
61st Annual Student Competition: Ewing Gallery of Art and Architecture, University of Tennessee, Knoxville (Juried)
Real Live Interaction, A1 Arts Lab, Knoxville, TN
Graduate Painters: Fluorescent Gallery, Knoxville, TN
Hole Shot: Gallery 1010, Knoxville, TN
2nd Year Graduate Preview: Gallery 1010, Knoxville, TN
Knoxville Museum of Art Open Screening: Knoxville, TN
60th Annual Student Competition:” Ewing Gallery of Art and Architecture, Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville (Juried) (Materials Award)
Hand-Held Film Festival, Downtown West Cinema, Knoxville, TN (Juried)
1st Year Graduate Preview, Gallery 1010, Knoxville, TN
2005
Atlantic Center of the Arts 16th Annual Florida Student Exhibition: New Smyrna Beach, FL (Juried)
Juried Student Exhibition: Florida Gulf Coast University Art Gallery, Fort Myers, FL
2004 Juried Student Exhibition: Florida Gulf Coast University Art Gallery, Fort Myers, FL
TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
2019-Current
James Lawson High School (formerly Hillwood), Nashville, TN
2017- 2018
Adjunct at Nashville State Community College
2014-2019
Art Instructor, Hillsboro High School, Nashville, TN
2010- 2014
Art Instructor, West High School, Knoxville, TN
2008-2010
Graduate Teaching Associate, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
2007-2008
Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Art and Professional Development
2015
Penland School of Crafts, 2 week, Work Study Program, North Carolina
AFFILIATIONS:
2022-Current Way East Artists Community: Member of local artist group, Nashville, TN
Southern Cits: Guest critiques, started by Jodi Hayes, Nashville, TN
2013-2014
Founding Member of Vacuum Shop Studios, a group of 8 girls that maintain a non profit studio space. Knoxville, TN
2011- 2013
Member of the Work Horse Artist Collective The collective seeks to recycle and reuse objects for art creation. Knoxville, TN
2010-2012
Member of 17th Street Studios. Knoxville, TN
AWARDS:
Honorable mention: Common Threads, Gallery 130 Oxford, MS (2024)
Honorable mention: Art Fluent: Textured II
Ewing Graduate Scholarship, University of Tennessee Knoxville, TN
3rd Place Artist Award, KNACK Juried Exhibition
Hite Gallery Faculty Committee Award, Aegis First Graduate Biennial, Hite Gallery, Louisville, KY
Materials Award, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
WORKS REVIEWED AND WORK CITATIONS:
2023
“New Discoveries”, by Laura Huntson Hunter, Nashville Scene. December 28th 2023
“Sharing a love for quilting in Old Forge” by
BY TODD MOE (WEEKDAY MORNING HOST AND PRODUCER) , IN OLD FORGE, NY
2022
2015
“Artist Interview”: Briena Harmening, nycnash.wordpress.com, by Erica Ciccarone, June 28th, 2015
“Art of the South”: Wayne White and Number create an exhibit, denise stewart-sanabria.blogspot.com, by Denise Stewart-Sanabria, Sunday, May 31st 2015
The Artist’s Alphabet at Ground Floor Gallery, A Nashville Scene Arts and Culture Blog, Erica Ciccarone, Monday, January 19th 2015
“I bet you think this show is about you,” Blend Studio: June, 27th, 2015
2009
Young Video Artists Focus on Southernness, The Tennessean, MiChelle Jones, December 27, 2009
Around the world in 10 Short Films, The Orion, Joe Hersch, November 11, 2009
www.theorion.com/entertainment/around-the-world-in-ten-days-1.892305
Canvas of Life, Pentacle Magazine, Summer 2009 pp. 34-36
2008
60 Word/Min Art Critic, (review) by Lori Waxman: Quarterly Journal of Art and Culture, Published by the Art Gallery of Knoxville, TN
60 Word/Min Art Critic, by Lori Waxman: www.metropulse.com/photos/galleries/66-words-minute-art-reviews
ART RELATED WORK HISTORY
2019-current: Art instructor James Lawson High School: Nashville, TN
2014-2019: Art Instructor Hillsboro High School: Nashville, TN
2010-2014: Art Instructor West High School: Knoxville, TN
2015
Art Instructor Fear No Art, Nashville, TN
2010-2014
Instructor at the Knoxville Museum of Art summer kids program.
2008-2010:
Director and Co-Director of Gallery 1010.
2008-2010:
East Tennessee High School Art Workshop. University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
2007-2009:
Curator of Salon De Refuse University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
2004-2005:
Studio Assistant to sculpture artist Mary Voytek, Fort Myers, FL; shipped, and packed sculpture, maintained logging of work and budget, studio duties.
GRANTS
2013 Knoxville Junior League
2010 Knoxville Junior League
LECTURES:
2012
Tusculum College, Knoxville, TN
2009
Tennessee State University, Nashville, TN