EDUCATION
M.F.A., Painting, Drawing, Printmaking, 2003
College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio
Museum Studies Curatorial Certificate, 2003
College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio
B.F.A., 2D Studio Art - Concentration in Drawing, 2001
Allen R. Hite Art Institute, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
2019 - Pres. Associate Professor of Art, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC
2021 - Pres. Director of Graduate Studies
2010 - 2019 Associate Professor of Art, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY
2007 - 2010 Full Time Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Toledo, Toledo, OH
2003 - 2007 Part-Time Lecturer, University of Louisville, Allen R. Hite Art Institute, Louisville, KY
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2022
Coined in the South: 2022, Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC
Jurors:
Hallie Ringle, Curator of contemporary art, Birmingham Museum of Art
Lydia Thompson, Artist and Chair of the Art and Art History Department, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Ken West, photographer and digital experience designer
2021
701 CCA SC Biennial 2021, 701 Center for Contemporary Art, Columbia, SC
Jurors:
Anita N. Bateman, Independent curator and art historian. Curatorial positions held: the RISD Museum, the Williams College Museum of Art, the Nasher Museum of Art.
Paul Barrett, director of the photography and book arts gallery AGNES
Cecelia Lucas Stucker, Independent curator and founder of both CC: Curating & Collections and the Palmetto Curatorial Exchange.
Photography Biennial 2020, Southern Alleghenies Museum, Loretto, PA
Juror: Linda Benedict-Jones, Curator of Photography, Carnegie Museum of Art
Photography Without a Lens International Juried Exhibition, Rhode Island Center for Photographic Arts, Providence, RI
Juror: Ann Jastrab, Executive Director, Center for Photographic Art, (CPA) Carmel, California
41st National Print Exhibition, Artlink Contemporary Art Gallery, Fort Wayne, IN
Juror: Ruth Lingen, Master printer, Book artist and Founder of Line Press Limited, Brooklyn, NY
2020
What Divides Us and What Unites Us? International Juried Exhibition, Touchstone Gallery, Washington DC
Jurors:
Kimberli Gant, PhD, McKinnon Curator of Modern & Contemporary Art, Chrysler Museum of Art
Kristen Hileman, Independent Curator & Curator-in-Residence, The Delaware Contemporary
Frauke V. Josenhans, PhD, Associate Curator, Moody Center for the Arts at Rice University
Miranda Lash, Curator of Contemporary Art, Speed Art Museum
Karen E. Milbourne, PhD, Senior Curator, National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian
Gabriel Ritter, PhD, Curator & Head of Contemporary Art, Minneapolis Institute of Art
Earth Collections / Permanent Collections Exhibition, Avontur, Trapani, Sicily
Curator: MP Warming, Director of Art Science Exhibits, Berlin
Southeastern College Art Conference Juried Exhibition, Richmond, VA
Juror: Dr. Sarah Eckhardt, Associate Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
7th Annual Living Mark International Juried Exhibition, Verum Ultimum, Portland, OR
Momentum 2020, The Arts Commission of Greater Toledo, Toledo, OH
Jurors:
Lauren Applebaum, PhD, Leadership Fellow, Toledo Museum of Art
Java Lynne, Curator at Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit and Independent Curator
Alex Paik, Founder and Director of Tiger Strikes Asteroid
Photography Without a Lens International Juried Exhibition, Rhode Island Center for Photographic Arts, Providence, RI *Online Only and rescheduled due to covid
Juror: Ann Jastrab, Executive Director, Center for Photographic Art, (CPA) Carmel, California
Photography Biennial 2020, Southern Alleghenies Museum, Loretto, PA *Rescheduled due to covid
Juror: Linda Benedict-Jones, Curator of Photography, Carnegie Museum of Art
Future Timelike Infinity, Carnation Gallery, Portland, OR
Curator: Michael Endo of Bullseye Projects
Into The Light, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, CA
Juror: Nicholas Barlow, Curatorial Assistant, Hammer Museum
2019
Equilibrium , Palazzo Albrizzi, Venice Biennale, Venice Italy
Sponsor: The German-Italian Cultural Association (ACIT)
Works on Paper Solo Exhibition , NOD Gallery, Louisville, KY
Lensless Exhibition, Louisville Photo Biennial, Cressman Art Center, KY
2018
Brent Dedas: Honeybee Drawings, Humboldt-Universität, Berlin, Germany
Curator, MP Warming, Director of Art Science Exhibits, Berlin
92nd ANNUAL International Competition, The Print Center Online Exhibition, Philadelphia, PA
Jurors:
Keliy Anderson-Staley, Assistant Professor of Photography and Digital Media at the University of Houston
Katherine Ware, Curator of Photography at the New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe
Art From the Heartland, Indianapolis Art Center, Indianapolis, IN
Juror: Mike Barclay, Director of Exhibitions of the Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art (iMOCA)
Exhibition 280, Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, VA
Juror: Laura Roulet, Contemporary artist and frequent contributor to Sculpture magazine
Artfields, Main Street Mercantile, Lake City, SC
Jurors:
Edmund Gaither, Director and Curator of the Museum of the National Center of Afro-American Artists (NCAAA), and Special Consultant at the Museum of Fine Arts (MFA), Boston, Mass
Eleanor Heartney, Art in Americana contributing editor, author and curator, N.Y.
Jessica Gaynelle Moss, artist, independent curator and arts consultant. Administrative Director, Sibyls Shrine Artist Residency, Pittsburgh, PA
Frank Poor, an artist whose work focuses on the changing Southeastern landscape, BFA and MFA, Cranston, R.I.
Marilyn ZapfAssistant Director and at the Center for Craft, Creativity & Design in Asheville, N.C.
2018 Dogwood Arts Regional Art Exhibition, Dogwood Arts, Knoxville, TN
Juror: Leigh Suggs
Abstraction at Large, Site:Brooklyn Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Juror: Eleanor Heartney, contributing Editor to Art in America and Artnews
At the Surface, Foundry Art Center, St. Charles, Mo
Juror: Thad Duhigg, Full Professor, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
Second LaGrange Southeast Regional, LaGrange Art Museum, LaGrange, GA
Juror: David Houston, Executive Director of the Bo Bartlett Center, Columbus, GA
Favorites’ Favorites, Ann Arbor Art Center, Ann Arbor, MI
25th Annual Jack Lunt Memorial Juried Exhibition, Downing Museum, Bowling Green, KY
Selections From the Teaching of James Grubola, Hite Gallery, Louisville, KY
State of Time, Anne Wright Wilson Gallery, Georgetown College, KY
2017
Art of the South Juried Exhibition, Ground Floor Gallery, Nashville, TN
Juror: Mark Scala, Chief Curator of the Frist Museum, Nashville, TN
54th National Juried Exhibition, Mazur Museum, Monroe, LA
Juror: Gia Hamilton, Joan Mitchell Center Director, New Orleans, LA
Ephemera, National Juried Exhibition, Target Gallery, Alexandria, VA
Juror: Pam Rogers of the Smithsonian Institute, Washington DC
32nd Positive/Negative National Juried Art Exhibition, ETSU Gallery, Johnson City, TN
Juror: Dr. Anja Foerschner of the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles, CA.
40th National Juried Photography Exhibition, Larson Gallery, Yakima, WA
Juror: Julia Dolan, Minor White Curator of Photography, Portland Art Museum
The Chautauqua National Juried Exhibition: Order & Chaos, Giles Gallery, NKU, Richmond, KY
Juror: Robert L. Croker
US Bank Exhibition, Kentucky Museum, Bowling Green, KY
130 Years of Ubercorp, Gallery 5, Richmond, VA
2016
State of Painting, Anne Wright Wilson Gallery, Georgetown College, KY
US Bank Exhibition, Kentucky Museum, Bowling Green, KY
2015
Material / Method: Contemporary Practices in Painting, NOVA Gallery, Woodbridge, VA
Brent Dedas & Evan Fugazzi, Two Person Exhibition, Galerie Hertz, Louisville, KY
Black & White Nation Juried Exhibition, Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition, Brooklyn, NY.
Juror: Christiane Paul, Whitney Museum, NYC
US Bank Exhibition, Kentucky Museum, Bowling Green, KY
2014
Art Prague International Art Fair, Solo Project Room, Kafka’s House, Prague, Czech Republic
Solo Exhibition, Galerie ERA svět, Prague, Czech Republic
Solo Exhibition, Lindsey Wilson College, Columbia, KY
Drowning in a Sea of Information, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
INDA 9- International Drawing Annual Exhibition In Print, Manifest Gallery, Cin., OH
Biennial Faculty Exhibition, WKU Main Gallery, Bowling Green, KY
US Bank Exhibition, Kentucky Museum, Bowling Green, KY
Ritualistic-Process, Two Person Exhibition, LASC Gallery, Lexington, KY
2013
INDA 8- International Drawing Annual Exhibition In Print, Manifest Gallery, Cin., OH
US Bank Exhibition, Kentucky Museum, Bowling Green, KY
SECAC Juried Exhibition, Gatewood Gallery, UNCG, Greensboro, NC
Process as Content, Gallery Project, Ann Arbor, MI
National Juried 12 x 12 Online Exhibition, MTSU, Murfreesboro, TN
2012
INDA 7- International Drawing Annual Exhibition In Print, Manifest Gallery, Cin., OH
15th Annual SECAC Juried Exhibition, Royall Arts Center, Durham, NC,
Juror: Charles Joyner
Surface / Sub-surface, Two Person Exhibition, Galerie Hertz, Louisville, KY
US Bank Exhibition, Kentucky Museum, Bowling Green, KY
Making it: Now, Hite Gallery, University of Louisville, Louisville KY
2011
State of Drawing,Anne Wright Wilson Gallery, Georgetown College, KY
Working with Paper National Juried Exhibition, Tubac Center of the Arts, Arizona, NM
Community of Artists Exhibition, Research Center, Bowling Green, KY
14th Annual SECAC Juried Exhibition, Gutstein Gallery, Savannah, GA,
Juror: Dan Cameron, Prospect New Orleans founder & Chief Curator at the Orange County Museum
All Kentucky Juried Exhibition, Capital Arts Alliance, Bowling Green, KY
Annual Fall National Juried Exhibition, Space 237 Gallery, Toledo, OH
National Juried 12 x 12 Exhibition, Todd Gallery, Murfreesboro, TN
2010
INDA 5- International Drawing Annual Exhibition In Print, Manifest Gallery, Cin., OH
All Kentucky Juried Exhibition, Capital Arts Alliance, Bowling Green, KY
TAA Juried Exhibition, Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH
The Architecture of Destruction Solo Exhibition, Jackson State University, Jackson, MS
Authors and Artists Group Exhibition, Cannaday Center, University of Toledo, OH
Faculty Show, University of Toledo, Toledo, OH
2009
Personally Political International Juried Exhibition, Kunsthaus Tacheles, Berlin, Germany
Juror: Barbara Fragogna, Curator
Annual Fall National Juried Exhibition, Space 237 Gallery, Toledo, OH
Interpretations of the Landscape National Juried Exhib., CIAO Gallery, Jackson, WY
Art in Academia Juried Exhibition, Space 301 Gallery, Mobile, AL
Juror: Dr. Paul Richelson, Chief Curator at the Mobile Museum of Art
Works on Paper National Juried Exhibition, RFD Gallery, Swainsboro, GA
Juror: Geraldine Wojno Kiefer, Professor of Art, Shenandoah University
Artomatic419 Public Art Exhibition, Warehouse event site, Toledo, OH
Fragile Bodies National Juried Exhibition, Main Gallery, Univ. of Northern Kentucky, Highland Heights, KY
Light and Mass Faculty Exhibition, Center for Visual Art, University of Toledo, OH
2008
A Sense of Place National Juried Exhibition, Gertrude Herbert Inst. of Art, Augusta, GA
Juror: Amanda Cooper, Curator of Exhibitions, The Arts Center, St. Petersburg, FL
Ohio/Kentucky Invitational: Engine 22 Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
Authors and Artists Group Exhibition, Cannaday Center, University of Toledo, OH
2007
Our Chemistry: Sex, War and the Landscape Solo Exhibition, Water Tower Gallery, Louisville, KY
8”x8”, Arc Gallery, Chicago, IL
2006
New Work, Swanson Reed Contemporary Gallery, Louisville KY
Art Exchange, Univ. of Wisconsin-Stout, Furlong Gallery, WI
Faculty Show, Cressman Center, Louisville, KY
Calumet Invitational, Headley Whitney Museum, Lexington, KY
Dario Covi Invitational Group Exhibition, Covi Galley, Univ. of Lou., Louisville, KY
2005
Rock The Water Tower Exhibition, Louisville Visual Art Association, Louisville, KY
2004
The Other Place, Belfast Festival at Queens, Belfast, Ireland
Three State Invitational Exhibition, Glassworks, Louisville, KY
Faculty Show, Jefferson Community College, Louisville, KY
Bluegrass Biennial Regional Juried Group Exhibition, Morehead State University, KY
Encompass, Ardgillan Castle, Dublin, Ireland
2003
M.F.A. Thesis Exhibition, D.A.A.P. Gallery, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH
Studio Works, Reed Gallery, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH
Paintings by Brent Dedas and Yvette Cummings, 840 Gallery, Cincinnati OH
Holiday Show, Erin Devine Gallery of Contemporary Art, Louisville, KY
2002
Brent Dedas: Drawings on Copper Solo Exhibition, Erin Devine Gallery, Louisville, KY
Prints, Edwards Center Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
Holiday Show, Erin Devine Gallery, Louisville., KY
2001
Warrior Nation, Actors Theater, Louisville, KY
B.F.A. Exhibition, Belknap and Covi Galleries, University of Louisville, KY
Holiday Show, Erin Devine Gallery, Louisville., KY
2000
Drawings, Erin Devine Gallery, Louisville, KY
Hite Scholarship Exhibition, Belknap and Covi Galleries, University of Louisville, KY
Line, Mark, Edge, Morrison Gallery, Elizabethtown Community College, KY
1999
Art League Juried Exhibition, SAL Gallery, University of Louisville, KY
Juror: Julian Robson, Curator of the Speed Art Museum
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Louisville Omni Hotel
Harrison Construction, Louisville, KY
The University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH
Bermac Inc., Cincinnati, OH
Williamsburg Lodge, VA
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
2005- Present Foundation in Art: Theory and Education
2003- Present College Art Association
2000- Present Southeastern College Art Conference