jerry siegel

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solo exhibitions

  • Reveal, Campus Gate Art Gallery, Young Harris College, Young Harris, GA

  • Southbound: Photographs of and about the New South, Meridian Museum of Art & The Mississippi Arts & Music Experience, Meridian, MS

  • Southbound: Photographs of and about the New South, Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, TN

2020

  • Stompin’ Grounds, The University Gallery. University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL

  • Stompin’ Grounds, Trax Gallery at Artfields, Lake City, SC

  • Southbound: Photographs of and about the New South, Power Plant Gallery & Gregg Museum of Art

2019

  • 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

2018

  • 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

  • The Black Belt of Alabama: A Response to Home, Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, GA

  • Black Belt Color, Spalding Nix Fine Art, Atlanta, GA

2017

  • 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

  • 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

  • Edge to Edge, Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA GA), Atlanta, GA

  • Pictures of Us: Photographs from the Do Good Fund/No Strangers Here,
    Lamar Dodd School of Art, Athens, GA

  • Let Us Now Praise Famous Soil: Exploring Alabama’s Black Belt, Alabama State Council for the Arts, Montgomery, AL

2016

  • 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

2015

  • 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

  • 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

2014

2013

  • Facing South: Portraits of Southern Artists, Telfair Museum. Jepson Center for the Arts, Savannah, GA

  • Somewhere in the South | A Celebration
    of Southern Photographer    s,
    Rebekah Jacob Gallery, Charleston, SC

  • 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

  • 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

2012

2011

  • Geraldine, Barbara Archer Gallery,
    Atlanta, GA

  • Jerry Siegel: Black Belt Color, Jennifer Hunt Gallery, Birmingham, AL

  • Southern Exposure: Artadia Awardees 2009 Atlanta, Mills Gallery,
    Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA

2010

  • 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; Curated by Paula Katz and Mike Bunn

  • Look South: Iconic Images by Jerry Siegel, Rebekah Jacob Gallery, Charleston, SC

2009

  • Faces of Southern Art: Black and White Portraits, Wiregrass Museum of Art,
    Dothan, AL; Curated by Alison Beeson

  • New Works, Rebekah Jacob Gallery, Charleston, SC

  • Jerry Siegel: Black Belt Panoramas, Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts,
    Montgomery, AL

  • Responding to Home, Appleton Museum of Art, Ocala, FL Room for Tourists,
    Biggin Gallery, Auburn University, Auburn AL; Curated by Paula Kat

2008

  • 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

  • Responding to Home, Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA GA),
    Atlanta, GA

  • Responding to Home, Appleton Museum of Art, Ocala, FL, Curated by
    Susan Todd-Raque

  • Monument: Images by Jerry Siegel, 
    Jule Collins Smith Museum, Auburn, AL;
    Curated by Scott Bishop

  • Black Belt Panoramas, A Novel Experience, Zebulon, GA

  • Portraits of Southern Artists, Photography by Jerry Siegel, Ogden Museum of Southern Art,  New Orleans, LA; Curated by David Houston

2007

  • Southern Artist Series, Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, Atlanta, GA; Curated by Annette Cone-Skelton

2006

  • Expressions of Place, Alabama Arts Council, Montgomery, AL;
    Curated by Georgine Clarke

2005

2004

  • Damaged, Galerie MC, Atlanta, GA

2003

  • Local Color, Galerie MC, Atlanta, GA

group exhibitions

  • What's Happening Now: A Cell Phone Photography Project,  
    CherryLion Studios Atlanta, GA; Curated by Christian Bradley West

2009

  • Room for Tourists, Biggin Gallery, Auburn University, Auburn AL;
    Curated by Paula Katz

  • Serial Concerns, Gallery Walk at Terminus, Atlanta, GA;
    Curated by Marianne Lambert

2008

  • Responding to Home, Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, Atlanta, GA; traveled to Appleton Museum of Art, Ocala, FL in 2008;
    Curated by Susan Todd-Raque

2007

  • Artists Photographing Artists, Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, Atlanta, GA

  • New Horizons, Jepson Center for the Arts, Telfair Museum, Savannah, GA;
    Curated by Holly McCullough

  • New Acquisitions, Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA

2006

2005

  • Toy Camera Photography, GalerieMC, Atlanta, GA

  • Shack House Home Family, Ty­Stokes Gallery, Atlanta, GA

  • Patriots and Renegades, Atlanta, GA

  • Slow Exposures, Concord, GA, Juried by Susan Todd-Raque

  • Art Institute of Atlanta, Atlanta, GA

    The Human Element, GalerieMC,
    Atlanta, GA

2004

2003

  • Earth Series, GalerieMC, Atlanta, GA

  • Southern Photographers, Atlanta Photography Group, Atlanta, GA; 
    Juried by Alison Nordstrom

  • Little Things Mean A Lot, Swan Coach House Gallery, Atlanta, GA;
    Curated by Marianne Lambert

2002

  • In God We Trust (juried exhibition) Zahorec-Hughes Gallery, Cincinnati, OH

2001

  • Southern Photographers, Atlanta Photography Group, Atlanta, GA;
    Juried by Mary Virginia Swanson

2000

awards

  • Awardee, Artadia: The Fund for Art and Dialogue, 2009

  • “The Hidden Nature of Things: Photographer Jerry Siegel reveals the new in familiar Southern scenes,” Laura Stokes, Charleston City Paper, November 12, 2008

  • “Photographers Frame Meaning of Home in New Appleton Exhibit,” Lashonda Stinson Curry, Ocala Star-Banner, September 7, 2008

  • “Portraits of Southern Artists,” Louisiana Cultural Vistas, Spring 2008

  • “Views to a Thrill,” Felicia Feaster, Creative Loafing, October 3, 2007

  • “Artists View Other Artists Through Staged, Altered and Sometime Unguarded Lens,” Catherine Fox, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, October 26, 2006

  • “Then House of the New: Never-before-seen contemporary art works at the Jepson Center,” John Stoehr, Savannah Morning News, July 20, 2006

  • “Photographer Renders Museum Quality Work on Water Avenue,” Julian Helms,  Selma Times Journal, November 14, 2005

  • “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

  • Portfolio, Phocus, ASMP Publication, Volume 1, Issue 1, 1996

reviews & publications

  • Black Belt Color, Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia, 2017

  • Facing South: Portraits of Southern Artists, University of Alabama Press, 2012

books

  • Symposium for Now & Then series at Columbus Museum, August 13, 2009

  • Artist Lecture, Jule Collins Smith Museum, Auburn AL, 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

  • Juror, Arts Revive, Selma, AL,
    March 10, 2006

  • Juror/Photo Critique, Portraiture, Roswell Photographic Society, Roswell, GA
    March 20, 2006

lectures

  • ASMP

  • Atlanta Photography Group

professional affiliations

  • Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, Atlanta, GA

  • Telfair Museum, Jepson Center for the Arts, Savannah, GA

  • The Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA

  • Jule Collins Smith Museum, Auburn, AL

  • Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, AL 

  • The Columbus Museum,  Columbus, GA

  • Louisiana Arts and Science Museum,  Baton Rouge, LA

  • Wiregrass Museum of Art,  Dothan, AL

  • University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point,  Stevens Point, WI    

public collections

  • King & Spalding LLP, Atlanta, GA

  • Morris, Manning & Martin LLP, Atlanta, GA

  • Troutman Sanders LLP,  Atlanta, GA

  • Boyd Collar Knight LLP, Atlanta, GA

  • Staubach, Atlanta, GA

  • Federal Home Loan Bank of Atlanta

  • Lucinda Bunnen, Atlanta, GA

  • Gail Andrews, Director, Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL

selected private and corporate collections

education

  • Art Institute of Atlanta, 1982,
    Honor Graduate

  • Barbara Archer Gallery, Atlanta, GA

  • Southside Gallery, Oxford, MS

  • Rebekah Jacob Gallery, Charleston, SC

representation