Education:
Solo Exhibitions:
2023 Clean American, The End Project Space, Atlanta, GA
2022 Everything Must Go!, Peacock Gallery, Middle GA State University, Cochran, GA
2021 Endless Exuberance, Welch Galleries, Atlanta, GA
2019 #4/Coorain’s Amazing Appliances, Showerhaus Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2016 The Coorain Calendar, Humble Arts Foundation, online exhibition
2015 Coloring Coorain LIVE, CASTLEDRONE, Hyde Park, MA
Selected group exhibitions:
2023 Quilty Pleasures, Elephant Gallery, Nashville, TN, December-January 2024
2022 _____The World!, 378 Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Field Companions, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA
Cybernetics w/ Danial DeLuca, Swain Studio UMASS Dartmouth, New Bedford, MA
2021 Below the thin, take it easy, Atlanta, GA,
Big Body Play, Fine Arts Center Sheffield Wood Gallery, Greenville, SC
2019 Opening Night Featured Artist, Satellite Art Show, Miami, FL
More Upstairs at Project, Temporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA
Little Things Matter, Swan Coach House Gallery, Atlanta, GA
The High Rise Show, by Showerhaus and Fulton Arts Council, Atlanta, GA
Split Vision, Mitchell Street Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2018 Broad Sense, curated by Alice Vogler and Velo Oma, Marshall, NC
Tenable Folly, Soup Experimental Gallery, Tallahassee, FL
Sheet Mask, curated by Katie Geha, Cage Space, Atlanta, GA
SYNKHRA, Specialist Gallery, Seattle, WA
2017 A SIDES AND B SIDES, performance event, Chicago, IL
2016 Coloring Coorain/Harness Cannons, Panoply Performance Laboratory, NYC, NY
Noise/Touch, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA
Cinequeer, Eyedrum Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2015 tinderbox, Mobius, Cambridge, MA
Perma-f(r)ail: Personae Documents, Howard Art Project, Dorchester, MA
2014 Mobius Video Works, Mobius Gallery, Cambridge, MA
Awards, Fellowships, and Residencies:
2024 Penland School of Craft Winter Residency Fellowship, Spruce Pine, NC
2023 Penland School of Craft Workshop Scholarship Recipient, Spruce Pine, NC
Red State Fellow at The Alternative Art School, Spring & Summer Semesters
2022 Atlanta Idea Capital Grant Recipient, Atlanta, GA Fall 2022/Spring 2023
2020 Welch Award for Continuing Graduate Summer Research, Georgia State University
2019 Paradise Garden Artist in Residence, Summerville, GA
Artist-in-Residence, Burren College of Art, Ireland
Joseph Perrin Award in Art and Design, Georgia State University
Welch Graduate Photography Award, Georgia State University
2017 Winnie Chandler Art and Design Fellowship, 2017-2020
ACRE Residency, Steuben, WI, 2017 Resident
2016 Traveling Fellows, MFA, Boston and SMFA
2015 Megabus Social Research Grant, Panoply Performance Laboratory
Bibliography:
2023 Emergency Index Vol. 10, Ugly Duckling Press, coming December 2023
2022 ____The World! Review, Arts Atl, 2022
2018 Emergency Index Vol. 8, Ugly Duckling Press, 2018
2017 This is Revolting, artists’ book publication, February 2017
2016 (You Should Know) Who the F is Coorain Devin?, Humble Arts Foundation blog,
Emergency Index Vol. 6, Ugly Duckling Press
2015 Coloring Coorain’s Big Questions, New Art Love blog post
2014 Coorain Devin, 365 Days, 365 Artists
Additional Relevant Work and Volunteer Experience:
Commercial Photography- Specializing in Documenting Exhibitions & Artworks, 2018-Current
Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA- Epson Digital Photo Lab Manager, 2017-2020
Boston Children’s Museum, Boston, MA- Exhibit Video Production, 2015-2016
Cambridge Community Television, Cambridge, MA- Video Edit Help Volunteer, 2013-2016
Boston Athenaeum, Boston, MA- Manager of Membership and Annual Fund, 2013-2016
Tufts Art Gallery, Medford, MA- Gallery Attendant and Administrator, 2008-2011
SMFA Print & Paper Department, Boston, MA- Teaching Assistant/Lab Monitor, 2011-3
Bread and Puppet Theater, Glover, VT- Intern/Volunteer, Summer 2010
River Arts Community Gallery, Newcastle, ME- Intern, Summer 2009
Leadership:
SAPS: South Atlanta Plant Society, Secretary/Social Chair, 2020-Current
GSU Graduate Artist Forum, Vice-President, 2017-2020
Boston LGBT Artist Alliance, Steering Committee Member 2015-2016
Salad Magazine, Founder, Editor 2012- 2016
Tufts Crafts Center, Volunteer, Head of Screen Printing, General Crafts, 2009-2013
Tufts Film Series, 2008-2013, Head Projectionist, 2009-2010
- M.F.A. in Photography, Georgia State University, GA, 2020
- B.A. in Philosophy, Tufts University, Medford, MA, 2013
- B.F.A. in Fine Art School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, 2013
Solo Exhibitions:
2023 Clean American, The End Project Space, Atlanta, GA
2022 Everything Must Go!, Peacock Gallery, Middle GA State University, Cochran, GA
2021 Endless Exuberance, Welch Galleries, Atlanta, GA
2019 #4/Coorain’s Amazing Appliances, Showerhaus Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2016 The Coorain Calendar, Humble Arts Foundation, online exhibition
2015 Coloring Coorain LIVE, CASTLEDRONE, Hyde Park, MA
Selected group exhibitions:
2023 Quilty Pleasures, Elephant Gallery, Nashville, TN, December-January 2024
2022 _____The World!, 378 Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Field Companions, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA
Cybernetics w/ Danial DeLuca, Swain Studio UMASS Dartmouth, New Bedford, MA
2021 Below the thin, take it easy, Atlanta, GA,
Big Body Play, Fine Arts Center Sheffield Wood Gallery, Greenville, SC
2019 Opening Night Featured Artist, Satellite Art Show, Miami, FL
More Upstairs at Project, Temporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA
Little Things Matter, Swan Coach House Gallery, Atlanta, GA
The High Rise Show, by Showerhaus and Fulton Arts Council, Atlanta, GA
Split Vision, Mitchell Street Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2018 Broad Sense, curated by Alice Vogler and Velo Oma, Marshall, NC
Tenable Folly, Soup Experimental Gallery, Tallahassee, FL
Sheet Mask, curated by Katie Geha, Cage Space, Atlanta, GA
SYNKHRA, Specialist Gallery, Seattle, WA
2017 A SIDES AND B SIDES, performance event, Chicago, IL
2016 Coloring Coorain/Harness Cannons, Panoply Performance Laboratory, NYC, NY
Noise/Touch, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA
Cinequeer, Eyedrum Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2015 tinderbox, Mobius, Cambridge, MA
Perma-f(r)ail: Personae Documents, Howard Art Project, Dorchester, MA
2014 Mobius Video Works, Mobius Gallery, Cambridge, MA
Awards, Fellowships, and Residencies:
2024 Penland School of Craft Winter Residency Fellowship, Spruce Pine, NC
2023 Penland School of Craft Workshop Scholarship Recipient, Spruce Pine, NC
Red State Fellow at The Alternative Art School, Spring & Summer Semesters
2022 Atlanta Idea Capital Grant Recipient, Atlanta, GA Fall 2022/Spring 2023
2020 Welch Award for Continuing Graduate Summer Research, Georgia State University
2019 Paradise Garden Artist in Residence, Summerville, GA
Artist-in-Residence, Burren College of Art, Ireland
Joseph Perrin Award in Art and Design, Georgia State University
Welch Graduate Photography Award, Georgia State University
2017 Winnie Chandler Art and Design Fellowship, 2017-2020
ACRE Residency, Steuben, WI, 2017 Resident
2016 Traveling Fellows, MFA, Boston and SMFA
2015 Megabus Social Research Grant, Panoply Performance Laboratory
Bibliography:
2023 Emergency Index Vol. 10, Ugly Duckling Press, coming December 2023
2022 ____The World! Review, Arts Atl, 2022
2018 Emergency Index Vol. 8, Ugly Duckling Press, 2018
2017 This is Revolting, artists’ book publication, February 2017
2016 (You Should Know) Who the F is Coorain Devin?, Humble Arts Foundation blog,
Emergency Index Vol. 6, Ugly Duckling Press
2015 Coloring Coorain’s Big Questions, New Art Love blog post
2014 Coorain Devin, 365 Days, 365 Artists
Additional Relevant Work and Volunteer Experience:
Commercial Photography- Specializing in Documenting Exhibitions & Artworks, 2018-Current
Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA- Epson Digital Photo Lab Manager, 2017-2020
Boston Children’s Museum, Boston, MA- Exhibit Video Production, 2015-2016
Cambridge Community Television, Cambridge, MA- Video Edit Help Volunteer, 2013-2016
Boston Athenaeum, Boston, MA- Manager of Membership and Annual Fund, 2013-2016
Tufts Art Gallery, Medford, MA- Gallery Attendant and Administrator, 2008-2011
SMFA Print & Paper Department, Boston, MA- Teaching Assistant/Lab Monitor, 2011-3
Bread and Puppet Theater, Glover, VT- Intern/Volunteer, Summer 2010
River Arts Community Gallery, Newcastle, ME- Intern, Summer 2009
Leadership:
SAPS: South Atlanta Plant Society, Secretary/Social Chair, 2020-Current
GSU Graduate Artist Forum, Vice-President, 2017-2020
Boston LGBT Artist Alliance, Steering Committee Member 2015-2016
Salad Magazine, Founder, Editor 2012- 2016
Tufts Crafts Center, Volunteer, Head of Screen Printing, General Crafts, 2009-2013
Tufts Film Series, 2008-2013, Head Projectionist, 2009-2010
