Vivian Liddell, M.F.A.
Area(s) of Expertise: Painting & Drawing, Craft Media, Feminist Theory in Contemporary Art
Overview
Vivian Liddell is an interdisciplinary artist from Memphis, Tennessee who works with painting, fiber and craft techniques, sculpture, printmaking, photography, animation and sound. In addition to her teaching duties, Liddell is an active member of 91福利导航’s Gender Study Council. She created and teaches two art courses that are now part of the interdisciplinary Gender Studies Minor curriculum. Liddell received the 2021 Presidential Incentive Award for Innovation to complete two murals with her students at the North Georgia Astronomical Observatory, and has also received the Teaching Excellence Award, DoVA Faculty Member of the Year, and was a 2020 finalist for the Hopper Prize (an International Artist Award).
Liddell’s creative work focuses on the figure and feminist theory in contemporary art especially as they relate to power and class structures in the American South. She hosts a podcast called Peachy Keen as an extension of her art practice, talking with other women about art and the Southeastern US and curates an alternative gallery space in Athens, Georgia for local and regional artists.
Courses Taught
- Feminist Theory and Criticism in Contemporary Art
- Craft Media in Painting
- Painting I
- Painting Form and Content
- Drawing Form and Content
- Drawing III
- Special Topics: Mural Painting
- Special Topics: Conceptual Art
Education
- M.F.A., Painting, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY, 2002
- M.S.T., Childhood Education and Special Education, Pace University (NYC Teaching Fellow), New York, NY, 2008
- B.F.A., Photographic Design, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, 1993
Noteworthy
Selected Exhibitions
- An Ode to Adulting, ONCURATING Project Space, Zurich, Switzerland (curated by Abongile Gwele), 2021.
- TMP1 “Radical” Thoughts, Museum of Contemporary Art Nashville (MOCAN), Nashville, TN (curated by Brooke Hoffert), 2021.
- 46th Juried Exhibition, Lyndon House Arts Center, Athens, GA (curated by Hallie Ringle, the Hugh Kahul Curator of Contemporary Art at the Birmingham Museum of Art). Awarded “Merit Award” by Lyndon House Arts Foundation, 2021.