Drawing holds a central place in my work. I have spoken of its role and uses both as its own and as a key part of my paintings and sculptures but most surely in my creative process. I have explored and investigated through drawing a language of marks that communicates different narratives which creates feelings, memories of environments and elements of things that we encounter in everyday life. As the viewer experiences the work they begin to explore feelings and memories that may intertwine with my own or may not. This creates a kaleidoscope of stories allowing the work to grow with the viewer through the lens of the experience of life. "My images represent a period of time - a glimpse into the ongoing evolution of a body of work. Perhaps you will see a story here that resonates with your own." BORN 1950 Portsmouth, Virginia EDUCATION Atlanta College of Art / Bachelor of Fine Arts 1992 MUSEUM ACQUISITIONS Muscarelle Museum of Art, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville FL Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, GA Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah GA. EXHIBITIONS 2013 "InTandem" Muscarelle Museum of Art / College of William and Mary / Williamsburg, VA 2013 "The City Abstracted" Group Show Hubert Gallery / New York City, NY 2013 "Georgia Artists Selecting Georgia Artists" Exhibition / The Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia / Atlanta 2012 "Lost Parts Found" Paintings and Sculpture, Gallery Exhibit and Lecture Pryor Fine Art / Atlanta 2012 "Orly Tragedy Through the Eyes of Artists" Millennium Gate Museum / Atlanta 2011 "Gallery Exhibit" and Lecture Brenau University / Gainesville, GA 2010 Pryor Fine Art / Atlanta, GA 2010 Shain Gallery / Charlotte, NC 2009 "Transitions" The Brunner Gallery / Shaw Center for the Arts/ Baton Rouge, LA 2009 "Images" Lecture & Book Signing Quinlan Visual Arts Center / Gainesville. GA 2008 "Salon du Musee" Denver Art Museum / Denver 2008 "New Paintings" Anne Loucks Gallery / Chicago 2007 "Works on Paper" Mason Murer Fine Art / Atlanta 2007 Group Exhibition, Brunner Gallery / New Orleans 2006 "Salon d' Arts" Colorado History Museum / Denver 2006 Mason Murer "Projects" Group Show / Atlanta 2005 "Summer Salon" Anne Loucks Gallery / Chicago 2005 "New Works" Mason Murer Fine Art / Atlanta 2005 Quinlan Visual Arts Center / Gainesville, GA 2004 "Emblems" Mason Murer Fine Art - Grand Opening / Atlanta 2003 "Emblems" Spiller-Vincenty Gallery / Jacksonville, FL 2003 Quinlan Visual Arts Center / Gainesville, GA 2002 "Campay 2002" Lagerquist Gallery / Atlanta 2001 Biennale Internazionale Dell' Arte Contemporanea / Florence, Italy 2001 "A Ten Year Retrospective" / Ponte Vedra Cultural Center, Ponte Vedra, FL 2000 "A Painters View" Lagerquist Gallery / Atlanta 1999 Biennale Internazionale Dell' Arte Contemporanea / Florence, Italy 1999 Solo Exhibition - JSL Fine Art / San Francisco 1998 Quinlan Visual Arts Center / Gainesville, GA 1997 "Peregrination" Lagerquist Gallery / Atlanta, GA 1994 Montgomery Museum of Art / Montgomery, Alabama 1993 Crawford Long Benefit for Woman's Cancer Wing / Atlanta 1992 - 1997 Spotlight on Southeastern Artists / Atlanta 1991 Solo Exhibition - Atlanta College of Art / Atlanta 1990 - 1992 Artcare / Atlanta 1990 Group Exhibition - Lagerquist Gallery / Atlanta 1990 Solo Exhibition - Atlanta College of Art / Atlanta AWARDS AND HONORS 2011 Visiting Artist, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts / Philadelphia, PA 2010 Featured Artist, High Arts Day, High museum of Art / Atlanta, GA 2008 A Founding Member of the Advisory Board for the School of Art and Art History at the University of Florida 2006 National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) grant recipient in conjunction with the Quinlan Visual Art Center / Gainesville, Georgia 2001 Lorenzo il Magnifico Award for works on paper / Biennale Internazionale Dell' Arte Contemporanea / Florence, Italy 1998 Open Studios Competition for Southern Painters / New American Paintings, juried exhibitions in print. 1991 Atlanta College of Art / Ben Shute Award for Figurative Art 1989 - 1991 Atlanta College of Art / The Presidential Scholarship DENNIS AND COLETTE CAMPAY STUDIO ART SCHOLARSHIP UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA This fund, honoring Dennis and Colette Campay, provides scholarships to art students in art and art history in the College of Fine Arts. Dennis and Colette established this scholarship fund because of their commitment to the arts and belief that continuing support of the arts is essential to the complete development of our existence DENNIS CAMPAY FELLOWSHIP The Atlanta College of Art PUBLICATIONS The Art of Making Marks / Dennis Campay – text by Jerry Cullum/ Brenau University Press 2011 Highlands – Cashiers Chamber Music Festival cover and feature 2011 Images – Dennis Campay / Collection of works by the artist. Softcover / May 2009 Atlanta Style and Design / feature Winter 2008 Inside Northside, cover & feature by Stacey Pareti Rase / November 2007 Atlanta Style and Design feature by Janice McDonald/ Summer 2005 Atlanta Journal Constitution, Access Atlanta, feature by Jerry Cullum / July 2004 Steinway and Sons, A150th Anniversary Commemorative Issue, feature by Tara Wilfong / May 2003 CAMPAY, New Paintings by John T. Spike / Collection of works by the artist, hardcover/ July 2002 Art and Antiques / CAMPAY, New Paintings book review / December 2002 Ponte Vedra Lifestyles, September / October 2001 Art and Antiques, feature by Elizabeth Elkins / February 2000 Symbol of Southern Lifestyles / February 1999 PARTIAL LIST OF COLLECTIONS College of Fine Arts Deans Collection, University of Florida /Gainesville FL Permanent Collection Brenau University / Gainesville GA Imagery Estate Winery, Imagery Art Collection / Sonoma , CA University Galleries, University of Florida / Gainesville, FL Brenau University, John S. Burd Center for the Performing Arts / Gainesville, GA 1996 Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games / Atlanta, GA Florida State University / Tallahassee , FL State of Florida Capitol Building / Tallahassee, FL Quinlan Visual Arts Center / Gainesville, GA Delta Airlines Corporate Collection / Atlanta U. S. Airways, Charlotte International Airport / Charlotte, NC King and Spalding, LLP / Atlanta Savannah College of Art and Design / Savannah, GA GALLERY REPRESENTATION Hubert Gallery / NYC, NY Parker Gallery / Sea Island, GA Shain Gallery / Charlotte, NC