EDUCATION

2003         Master of Fine Arts, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA.

1979         Master of Media Arts in Photography and Film, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC.

1977         Master of Education, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC.
               
1974         Bachelor of Arts in English Literature, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, Cum Laude.
       

ADDITIONAL STUDY

1978         The Leo Marchutz School of Painting and Drawing, Aix-En-Provence, France.


PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2007-08    Photography Professor, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA.

2004         Instructor, Florida Community College Jacksonville, FL.
 
2002-04    Writing Consultant, Savannah College of Art and Design.
 
1994-96    Instructor, Documentary Film Study and Film as Art, Media Institute, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, 1994-96.

1991-96    Executive Director, International Film Festival, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN. 

1992-95    Instructor, Animation and Photography, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN.

1989-91    Coordinator of Visual Arts, Summer Lights Arts Festival and Special Arts Projects, Metropolitan Nashville Arts                   Commission.

1985-86    Producer, Director, and Videographer, Graduation Week documentary, U.S. Military Academy, West Point, NY.

1985         Photographer and Assistant Director, The Ritual of the Mounds, film documenting archeological discoveries at                  Pinson Mounds, TN.

1981-82    Art Director, Group Home, program in filmmaking for status offender teenagers, Triad Cookeville, TN.

1979-81    Adult Education Teacher, Putnam County Schools, Cookeville, TN. 

1979-81    Staff Photographer, Herald-Citizen, Cookeville, TN.

1977-79    Special Assistant to the Chairman of the Media Arts Department, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
 
2008         Picturing the BeltLine: Recent Photographs by Meryl Truett, Barbara Archer Gallery, Atlanta, GA.

2004         Thump Queen and Other Southern Anomalies, Barbara Archer Gallery, Atlanta, GA.

2001         Lost and Found: Images and Objects, SPACE Gallery, Savannah, GA.

1999          Together At Last, Off the Wall Gallery, Savannah, GA.

1993          new york/nashville, Cumberland Gallery, Nashville, TN.

1992          New Work, Leu Gallery, Belmont University, Nashville, TN.

1987          New Works, Lewis and Clark Gallery, Columbia, SC.

1986          Tennessee Arts Commission Individual Artists Exhibit, Nashville, TN.     

1984          The Television Series and Other Images, Tennessee Arts Commission Gallery, Nashville, TN.        

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2008         Gallery Walk at Terminus, Atlanta, GA.

2007          Road Works by Meryl Truett and Linda Hollingsworth, Jewish Educational Alliance, Savannah, GA.

2007          You Can’t Get There from Here: Meryl Truett and Rebecca Nolan, Gallery Stokes, Atlanta, GA.

2007          Open Studio with Meryl Truett, Marcus Kenney, Julio Garcia, Imke Lass, Lorie Corbus and Summer                   Wheat, Savannah, GA.   

2006          Studio Artists Exhibit, Rosewood Studio Gallery, Savannah, GA.

2006          Featured Artist, ShopSCAD, Savannah, GA.

2006          Guinea Hens and Green Acres: Photographers Explore the American South, Barbara Archer Gallery,                   Atlanta, GA.
 
2006          AAF Contemporary Art Fair, NY, NY.

2005          Going South, Georgia State University Rialto Center for Performing Arts, Atlanta, GA.

2005          Re-Defined: Found Objects, Red Gallery, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA.

2004          The Second Time Around, Columbus Museum, Columbus, SC.

2003         Southern Exposure, Pinnacle Gallery, Savannah, GA.

2002         4th Annual Krappy Camera National Competition, Soho Photo Gallery, NY, NY.

2002         Collective Conscious, Oglethorpe Row Galley, Savannah, GA.

1996-99    Artists for Oasis, Oasis Center, Nashville, TN.

1995          Best Foot Forward Group Show, Vaanguard Gallery, Nashville, TN.

1995         From the Mountains to the Mississippi: Women Artists, Traveling exhibit of Tennessee women artists.

1994         Vaanguard '94, National juried competition, Visual Artists Alliance of Nashville Gallery, Nashville, TN.

1994         Windows on Tennessee, Traveling exhibit of works by five Tennessee photographers, University of                            Tennessee-Knoxville, Eastern Tennessee State University, Cheekwood Museum of Fine Art, Nashville and                  University of Memphis.

1992          Modern Romance Group Show, AKA Gallery, Nashville, TN.

1991         P.E.A.C.E. Group Artists’ Show, Marathon Village, Nashville, TN.

1991         Summer Lights, Juried Exhibition, Metro Nashville Arts Commission, Nashville, TN.

1990         Big Art at the Arcade, Two-person show, Nashville, TN.
 
1990         Film Flam Miniature Art, Sinking Creek Film Festival, Nashville, TN.
 
1989         Crafts Park Avenue, Park Avenue Armory, NY, NY.

1989         Oakbrook Center Fine Arts Exhibition, Chicago, IL.

1989         Mayor's Art Auction, Summer Lights Festival, Nashville, TN.
 
1986         18th Dulin Works on Paper, Knoxville, TN.

1985         Four Views, Sarratt Gallery, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN.


OTHER

1986         Profiling an Artist: Meryl Truett, WDCN-TV (PBS Affiliate). Television Documentary on Portfolio, Nashville, TN.

1986         The Scene at Noon, WSMV Channel 4, featured segment, Nashville, TN.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

2008         The South Magazine, Conversations with a Thump Queen.

2007          HOME Fort Lauderdale Magazine, Modern Masters.

2007          Connect Savannah, artist review.

2006          deep Magazine, photo essay.

2006         Savannah Morning News, artist review.

2006          Photo District News, featured artist.

2006         Daily Candy, Arts & Culture featured artist.

2005          Savannah Morning News and Coastal Art and Antiques Magazine; Five Artists to Collect.

2005         Coudal Partners Magazine, featured photographer.

2004         The Chronicle, artist review.

2004         Atlanta Journal Constitution, review.

2004          Creative Loafing, review.

2004          Savannah Morning News, artist review.

2004          Skirt Magazine, contributing photographer.

2003-04    Coastal Art and Antiques, photos and stories, reviews.
               
2000-04    Connect Savannah, photos and articles.

2002         Savannah Magazine, photographs and articles.

1998-99    Creative Loafing, photos and articles.

1995-97    Nashville Life, photos, articles, and reviews.

1991-97    Vanderbilt Review, photos.

1985-97    Nashville Banner, photos and reviews.

1991-97    Nashville Scene, photos, articles, and reviews.

1981-97    The Tennessean, photos and reviews.

1990         Camera Austria, Graz, Austria, reviews.

1988         The Orlando Sentinel, Orlando, Florida, reviews.

1987         The Columbia Record, Columbia, SC, reviews.

1986         Petersen's Photographic, photos and articles.

1986         18th Dulin National Works on Paper Exhibition Catalog

1984-86    Darkroom Magazine, photos.

1984          Art Papers, photos and reviews.


AWARDS

1986          Individual Artist Fellowship in Media, Tennessee Arts Commission.

1986         Purchase Award, 18th Annual Works on Paper Exhibition, judged by Ivan Karp.

PUBLIC and CORPORATE COLLECTIONS

The Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, GA

The Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, GA

University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC.

Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN.

Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA.

BellSouth Corporation

Sony Corporation

Troutman and Sanders, LLP, Atlanta, GA.

King & Spalding, LLP, Atlanta, GA.

The Ingram Group, Nashville, TN.

The Merchants Restaurant, Nashville, TN.

4th & Swift, Atlanta, GA.