EDUCATION
2006 Master of Fine Arts | Vermont College of Fine Art
1998 Bachelor of Fine Art | University of Tennessee
1996 Foundations | School of Visual Arts
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022 Night Gallery, Los Angeles, California
2021 Past Perfect, ZieherSmith Gallery, Nashville, Tennessee
2020 Tend, Red Arrow Gallery, Nashville, Tennessee
2018 God Sees Through Houses, Lipscomb University
2017 Keeper, Red Arrow Gallery, Nashville, Tennessee
2013 Supper Scraps, Tinney Contemporary, Nashville, Tennessee
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023
Susan Inglett Gallery, NY, with Michi Meko
southxeast Contemporary Art Triennial
2022
Places We have Never Known, Fine Drawn Curatorial, Wavelength Space, Chattanooga
Artists Quarantine with Their Collections, Muhlenburg College, Pennsylvania
2021
here/(t)here, Intermission Museum, Stand 4 Gallery, New York, New York
The Growing Edge, Casa Otro, Las Cruces, New Mexico
Teachable Moments, Stoveworks Museum, Chattanooga, Tennessee
Comfort Riddle, Wavelength Space, Chattanooga, Tennessee
2020
ZieherSmith@Virgin, ZieherSmith Gallery, Nashville, Tennessee
Porch Series, 57x57 arts, New York, New York, Sue and Al Ravitz
Dolly, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, Tennessee, curator Logan Lockner
Breathless, Red Arrow Gallery, Nashville, Tennessee, curators Katie Shaw and Ashely Layendecker
Space Case, Labspace, Hillsdale, New York, curators Ellen Letcher and Julie Torres
2019
Before Your Eyes, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Greenville, South Carolina, curator Mark Brosseau
615, Fisk University, Tennessee
Greetings from Nashville, James Madison University, Charlottesville Virginia, curator John Ros
2017 Art of the South, L Ross Gallery, Memphis, Tennessee, juror Mark Scala
2016 Encore, Ewing Gallery, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee
2015 Sluice Art Fair, galleryELL, London, United Kingdom
2014
Degrees of Abstraction, Western Oregon University, Eugene, Oregon
Selvage, Tennessee State University, Nashville, Tennessee
National Prize Show, Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, Massachusetts, juror Toba Kamps
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2022 Casey, Jenny Zoe,Two Coats of Paint, Inglett Gallery
2022 Open Studio Press, South 2021, New American Paintings, No. 154
2021 Ravitz, Sue, Painting on Porch, Flatfix, November 2022
2021 Hutson, Laura, Critic’s Pick, Nashville Scene, August 2021
2020 Weiner, Emily, Critic’s Pick, Art Forum International, May
2020 Wood, Kelli, In Tennessee, Art Itself Is Protest, New Art Examiner, Oct
2019 Acree, Cat, New Work by Jodi Hays Makes the Feminine Presence Elemental, Nash Scene
2018 Grand, Robert, In Defense of Subtlety, Burnaway, December 2018
2018 Erica Ciccarone, Painting as Loving Your Neighbor, Nashville Arts Magazine, January 2018
2017 Scala, Mark, Passion and Subjectivity: Artists as Curators, Nashville Arts Magazine, April
2016 Ciccarone, Erica, Studio Visit with Jodi Hays in Nashville, Burnaway, July 2016
2014 Kelly, Meghan, Echoes of Content Extended Visual Phrase, Nashville Arts Magazine
2013 Hutson, Laura, Studio Visit: Jodi Hays, Nashville Scene, April 2013
2012 Butler, Sharon, Report From Nashville, Two Coats of Paint, April 2012
SELECTED AWARDS, GRANTS AND RESIDENCIES
2023 Oxbow School of Art
2022 Stove Works Residency, Chattanooga, Tennessee
2021 Trillium Arts Residency, Artist Award, Mars Hill, North Carolina
2020 Grant, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, New York, New York
2020 Fellowship, Rose Library at Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia
2019 Finalist, Hopper Prize
2014 Grant, Sustainable Arts Foundation
2013 Finalist, Clark Huling Foundation for Emerging Artists
2012 Individual Artist Fellowship, Tennessee Arts Commission
2011 Grant, Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation
2009 Artist Fellowship, Vermont Studio Center
2007 Summer Resident, The Cooper Union School of Art
2006 Artist Fellowship, Vermont Studio Center
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, Arkansas
The Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama
Caster-Knott Building, Nashville
The J. Crew Group, New York, New York
Music City Center, Nashville, Tennessee
National Parks of America
Pinnacle Bank
Studio Bank
Tennessee State Museum, Nashville, Tennessee
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee