CV. Jerry Siegel
Resume/CV
Select Solo Exhibitions
- 2020 Reveal, Campus Gate Art Gallery, Young Harris College, Young Harris, GA
- 2019 Stompin’ Grounds, The University Gallery. University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL
Stompin’ Grounds, Trax Gallery at Artfields, Lake City, SC
- 2018 The Wonder of It All, Portraits by Jerry Siegel, Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA GA), Atlanta, GA
Reveal, Spalding Nix Fine Art, Atlanta, GA
Reveal, Barrister’s Gallery, New Orleans, LA
- 2017 The Black Belt of Alabama: A Response to Home, Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, GA
Black Belt Color, Spalding Nix Fine Art, Atlanta, GA -
- 2016 Responding to Home: In the Heart of Alabama, Johnson Center for the Arts, Troy, AL
The Bond of the South, Madison-Morgan Cultural Center, Madison GA
- 2014 Creator, Created, Jerry Siegel Portraits & Artists from the Permanent Collection, Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts
Montgomery, AL
Southern Voices Festival, A Celebration of Writing, Music and Art, Birmingham, AL
- 2013 Facing South: Portraits of Southern Artists, Telfair Museum. Jepson Center for the Arts, Savannah, GA
- 2012 Portraits of Southern Artists by Jerry Siegel, Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, GA
Facing South: Portraits of Southern Artists by Jerry Siegel, Jule Collins Smith Museum, Auburn, AL
Facing South: Portraits of Southern Artists by Jerry Siegel, Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, AL
- 2011 Geraldine, Barbara Archer Gallery, Atlanta, GA
- 2010 Jerry Siegel: Black Belt Color, Jennifer Hunt Gallery, Birmingham, AL
- 2009 Jerry Siegel: Images from the Black Belt Region of the American South, Barbara Archer Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Now & Then, Snapshots of the South, The Columbus Museum, Columbus, GA
Look South: Iconic Images by Jerry Siegel, Rebekah Jacob Gallery, Charleston, SC
- 2008 Faces of Southern Art: Black and White Portraits, Wiregrass Museum of Art, Dothan, AL
Jerry Siegel: Black Belt Panoramas, Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, AL
- 2007 Monument: Images by Jerry Siegel, Jule Collins Smith Museum, Auburn, AL
Portraits of Southern Artists, Photography by Jerry Siegel, Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA,
- 2006 Southern Artist Series, Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA GA), Atlanta, GA
- 2005 Expressions of Place, Alabama State council for the Arts, Montgomery, AL,
Select Group Exhibitions
- 2020 Southbound: Photographs of and about the New South, Meridian Museum of Art & The Mississippi Arts & Music
Eperience, Meridian, MS
Southbound: Photographs of and about the New South, Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, TN
- 2019 Southbound: Photographs of and about the New South, Power Plant Gallery & Gregg Museum of Art,
- 2018 Southbound: Photographs of and about the New South, Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art, Charleston, SC
American Splendour: New Photography, Ilon Art Gallery, New York, NY
Thinly Veiled, Cassilhaus, Chapel Hill, NC
Don't Fence Me In, Stephen Smith Fine Art, Birmingham, AL
Contemporary Alabama Photography, Curated by Richard McCabep, Houston Baptist University Gallery
- 2017 Contemporary Alabama Photography, Curated by Richard McCabe, Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, AL
Southern Routes, Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, Virginia Beach, VA
Land Inhabited, Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA GA), Atlanta, GA
- 2016 Watershed: Contemporary Landscape Photography, Telfair Museum, Jepson Center for the Arts, Savannah, GA
Let Us Now Praise Famous Soil: Exploring Alabama’s Black Belt, traveled to Pietrasanta, Italy
Let Us Now Praise Famous Soil: Exploring Alabama’s Black Belt, Alabama State Council for the Arts, Montgomery, AL
Edge to Edge, Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA GA), Atlanta, GA
- 2016 Pictures of Us: Photographs from the Do Good Fund/No Strangers Here, Lamar Dodd School of Art, Athens, GA
- 2015 Inspired Georgia, Westside Cultural Arts Center, Atlanta, GA
Southern Icons, A-Z, Slow Exposures, Whiskey Bonding Barn, Concord, GA
Tracing the American South, Curated by Tom Rankin and Rachel Boillot, Cassilhaus, Chapel Hill, NC
Eternal Moments, Photographs of the South, The Smith Building, Marion, AL
GATHERED, Georgia Artists Selecting Georgia Artists, Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA GA), Atlanta, GA
- 2014 Self-Processing – Instant Photography, Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA
Score, Artists in Overtime, Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA GA), Atlanta, GA
Southern Exposure: The Do Good Fund Photographs Exhibit, Lamar Dodd Art Center , LaGrange College,
LaGrange, Georgia
- 2013 Somewhere in the South | A Celebration of Southern Photographers, Rebekah Jacob Gallery, Charleston, SC
- 2012 Red Clay Survey, Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, AL
Fresh Focus: Contemporary Photography from the Permanent Collection, Telfair Museum, Jepson Center for the
Arts, Savannah, GA
- 2010 Southern Exposure: Artadia Awardees 2009 Atlanta, Mills Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA
Wiregrass Biennial, Wiregrass Museum, Dothan, AL Curated by Alison Beeson
- 2008 Responding to Home, Appleton Museum of Art, Ocala, FL
Room for Tourists, Biggin Gallery, Auburn University, Auburn AL Curated by Paula Katz
- 2007 Responding to Home, Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA GA), Atlanta, GA
Responding to Home, Appleton Museum of Art, Ocala, FL, Curated by Susan Todd-Ra q
- 2006 Artists Photographing Artists, Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA GA), Atlanta, GA
Books
Facing South, Portraits of Southern Artists, University of Alabama Press and Jule Collins Smith Museum, Auburn, AL, 2012
Black Belt Color, Published by Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, GA, 2017
Compilation books
ALABAMA CREATES – 200 Years of Art and Artists – published to celebrate the Bicentennial.
THE MORRIS AT 25 – Morris Museum, Celebrating artists in the collection at 25th anniversary
SOUTHBOUND – Photographs of and About the New South - Exhibition catalogue
Publications and Online articles/video
Southbound: A photographic look at the Modern South, Garden & Gun. Oct/Nov 2018
Atlanta drag queens the subject of thoughtful REVEAL show. Felicia Feaster. Oct. 16, 2018 Atlanta Jjournal-Constitution
Halsey’s SOUTHBOUND explores the paradox of the “New South” Charleston city paper, Chase Quinn oct. 17, 2018
Q&A: Jerry Siegel turns his lens on Atlanta drag, ARTSATL, Andrew Alexander, Sept. 2018
Posit. A Journal of Literature and Art, January 2018, https://positjournal.com/
“Black Belt Photographer, Jerry Siegel”. This is Alabama, Jan. 9, 2018 (online video)
“A complex region rendered in vivid photos in Black Belt Color”, Felecia Feaster, Atlanta Journal- Constitution, Sept. 19, 2017
“The Black Belt in Color, Photos by Jerry Siegel” Bitter Southerner, online magazine, August 2017. (online article)
Jerry Siegel, AIN’T BAD, by Dana Stirling, Nov, 2017 (online article)
Jerry Siegel’s “Black Belt Color”, Southern Jewish Life, Sept. 2017
“I shot because it was home” A conversation with Photographer Jerry Siege”l, ARTSATL, Stephanie )
Jerry Siegel publishes book of images from Black Belt”, Thomas Scott, Selma Times-Jpurnal, Sept. 1, 2-17
Jerry Siegel: States Project : Alabama, LENSCRATCH, Caitlin Peterson, Nov. 2015. (online article)
“SCORE: Exhibit on sports obsession seeks to score new fans for art” Howard Pousner, Atlanta Journal Constitution, Jan. 31, 2014
“Southern Voices kicks off festival with reception for Jerry Siegel” By Jon Anderson. AL.com Feb. 18. 2014
“FACING SOUTH: Portraits of Southern Artists”, LENSCULTURE 2014, (online
Jerry Siegel, Portraits of Southern ArtistJerry Siegel: Black Belt Color, ONE ONE THOUSAND, 2013
“Photos in Jerry Siegel’s “Facing South: Portraits of Southern Artists” brim with humanity” By Catherine Fox.
artscriticatl.com, January 23, 2 012. Book review.
“Ten Jews Left”, South Writ Large, Fall 2012 (online article)
“Jerry Siegel’s “Facing South” turns camera on Southern artists”, AL.com, John Sledge, Feb. 26, 2012
Garden & Gun, “100 Southern Artists” On-line review of Facing South, Portraits of Southern Artists, by Jerry Siegel
University of Alabama Press. Book review. 2012
"Siegel’ s GERALDINE Subverts the Traditional Fashion Photo", Felicia Feaster, Burnaway.org, October 10, 2011
"The Color of the Black Belt", b-metro Magazine, Birmingham, AL June 2010
"Siegel brings Black Belt views: Images of Selma's Jewish Community Part of Exhibit," Lee Green, Southern Jewish Life, May "Jerry Siegel captures Selma in Pictures", James Nelson, Birmingham News, June 13, 2010
"Shoot to Thrill", Felicia Feaster, The Atlantan, Arts and Power Issue, December 2009
"Framed and Restored", Voices NY Arts magazine, Vol.14N 1/2, Jan. 2009
“Photographers Frame Meaning of Home in New Appleton Exhibit,” Lashonda Stinson Curry, Ocala Star-Banner, September 7, “Portraits of Southern Artists,” Louisiana Cultural Vistas, Spring 2008
“Hidden Nature of Things: Photographer Jerry Siegel reveals the new in familiar Southern scenes,” L. Stokes,
Charleston City Paper, 2008
“Artists View Other Artists Through Staged, Altered and Sometime Unguarded Lens,” Catherine Fox, Atlanta Journal-Constitution,
Oct. 2006
“The House of the New: Never-before-seen contemporary art works at the Jepson Center,” John Stoehr, Savannah Morning News,
July 2006
“Photographer Renders Museum Quality Work on Water Avenue,” Julian Helms, Selma Times Journal, November 14, 2005
“NEAT THINGS ON VIEW AROUND TOWN”, Jerry Cullum, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Arts & Books, November 7, 2004
“People Who Need People” Felicia Feaster , Creative Loafing, Visual Arts, April 29, 2004
“’Damaged’ goods”, Tiffany Davis, The Sunday Paper, A&E, December 19, 2004
Lectures
REVEAL, artist talk, Young Harrris Art Gallery, young Harris College, Young Harris, GA. January 2020
REVEAL, artist talk, Spalding Nix Fine Art, October 2018
“Taking a Second Look, William Christenberry and Beyond” panel with Richard McCabe, on William Christenberry and
the Black Belt, Greensboro Opera House, Greensboro, AL, March2, 2018
“Black Belt Color”, Atlanta Gallery Collective at Ponce City Market, Spalding Nix Fine Art, Feb. 28, 2018
“Meet the Maker”, Halsey Institute of Fine Art, September, 2017 Charleston, SC
Photography panel on Southern Photography, Center for the Study of Southern Culture, University of MS, Oxford, MS
Oct. 5, 2016
“Responding to Home: In the Heart of Alabama”, artist talk, Johnson Center for the Arts, February 2016, Troy, AL
Artist talk with Jennifer Jankauskas, April 10, 2014 Montgomery Museum of Art
Q&A talk with Courtney McNeil, Curator, Telfair Museum, Jepson Center for the Arts, May 9, 2013
Lecture on book publishing, Slow Exposures, Zebulon, GA, September 23, 2012
Artist Lecture, Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, GA, September 21, 2012
Artist talk with Curator Dennis Harper, Jule Collins Smith Musuem, Auburn, AL, June 1, 2012
Artist Lecture, Mobile artist talk Museum of Art, Mobile, AL, January 13, 2012
Symposium for Now & Then series at Columbus Museum, August 13, 2009
Artist Lecture, Jule Collins Smith Museum, January 17, 2007
Live TV interview for White Linen Night, WWL Channel 4 CBS affiliate, New Orleans, LA, August 4, 2007
Artist Lecture, Jefferson Parish Library, August 1, 2007
Public Collections
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL
The Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA
Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, GA
Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, Atlanta, GA
The Do Good Fund, Columbus, GA
Telfair Museum, Jepson Center for the Arts, Savannah, GA
The Morris Museum, Augusta, GA
Jule Collins Smith Museum, Auburn, AL
Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, AL
The Columbus Museum, Columbus, GA
Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile AL
Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC
Louisiana Arts and Science Museum, Baton Rouge, LA
Wiregrass Museum of Art, Dothan, AL
University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, Stevens Point, WI
Selected Corporate Collections
King & Spalding LLP, Atlanta, GA
Morris, Manning & Martin LLP, Atlanta, GA
Troutman Sanders LLP, Atlanta, GA
Arnall Golden & Gregory, LLP
Boyd Collar Knight LLP, Atlanta, GA
Staubach, Atlanta, GA
Federal Home Loan Bank of Atlanta
Represented by Spalding Nix Fine Art, Atlanta, GA