Lillian Blades
| Education 1999 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME 1996 - 2000 Georgia State University - School of Art and Design, Atlanta, GA, MFA 1993 - 1996 The Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA, BFA 1991 - 1993 The College of The Bahamas, Nassau, Bahamas, AA 1985 - 1991 St. Augustine’s College, Nassau, Bahamas, Diploma Solo Exhibitions 2006 Beautiful Things, Bank of America Plaza, Atlanta, GA 2005 Passage, Sandler Hudson Gallery, Atlanta, GA 2003 Patterns and Sources, Sandler Hudson Gallery, Atlanta, GA 2000 A Return to the Womb, Georgia State University Art Gallery, Atlanta, GA 1999 Sacred Homage, Sandler Hudson Gallery, Atlanta, GA 1998 The Sankofa Series, The Central Bank Art Gallery, Nassau, Bahamas 1993 Lillian Blades-Senior Show, The College of The Bahamas, Nassau, Bahamas Selected Group Exhibitions 2006 Migrations of the African Diaspora, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA Funky Nassau – Recovering an Identity, Nassauischer Kunstverein, Wiesbaden, Germany 2005 The Art of Caribbean Women Artist, CLICO Art Gallery, Trinidad, W.I. Pin Up Show, City Gallery East, Atlanta, GA Scared Spaces, Broyles Art Center, Westminster Schools, Atlanta, GA Lost and Found, Artwalk at Lenox Square, Atlanta, GA Refusing to Dance Backwards, Spruill Gallery, Atlanta, GA 2004 Personal Patterns: Works by Lillian Blades and Daniel Hoover, SunTrust Plaza Gallery (now MoCA GA), Atlanta, GA 2003-04 Figuring the Feminine...African American Artists from 1870 to Present, The Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL 2003 Looks Good on Paper II, Spruill Gallery, Atlanta, GA Inaugural National Exhibition 1973-2003, The National Gallery of the Bahamas 2002 Strange Fruit- Artists Respond to Lynching and Mob Violence, Eyedrum, Atlanta, GA Culture Shock: Georgia’s Foreign Born Artist, SunTrust Plaza, Atlanta, GA 2000-01 Our New Day Begun- African American Artist Entering the Millennium, Austin, TX; Dallas, TX; Houston, TX. 2001 The Emerging Artist Award Show, Swan Coach House, Atlanta, GA 2000 Can you hear Me Shout! - A Celebration of Georgia Artist of Color, The Museum of Arts and Sciences, Macon, GA 1999 Passage, The Central Bank Art Gallery, Nassau, Bahamas Fire, City Gallery East, Atlanta, GA 1998 Blue Dress, Ballroom Studios, Atlanta, GA Coded and Loaded, Georgia State University Gallery, Atlanta, GA Looking Forward Looking Back, The New Gallery at Jordan Hall, Atlanta, GA Altered Beliefs: Rethinking the Black Aesthetic, City Gallery East, Atlanta, GA 1997 Precise Significance: Symbolism and Iconology, Hammonds House Galleries, Atlanta, GA 1996 Have a Cigar Box, Camille Love Gallery, Atlanta, GA Hear Me Roar: A Celebration of Women’s Art, The Central Bank Art Gallery, Nassau, Bahamas Public Art Commissions and Awards 2005 Nominee, Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award 2003 – 05 Quilted Community, East Atlanta Library, Atlanta, GA 2002 Quilted Passages, Concourse E, Hartsfield Jackson International Airport, Atlanta, GA Collections Atlanta Hartsfield Jackson International Airport, Atlanta, GA Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL British American Insurance Co., Nassau, BAH Clark Atlanta University, Atlanta, GA CLICO, Trinidad, West Indies City of Atlanta, Atlanta, GA College of The Bahamas, Nassau, BAH CopiMax, Nassau, BAH East Atlanta Library, Atlanta, GA Global Life Insurance Co., Nassau, BAH King & Spalding, Atlanta, GA The Central Bank of The Bahamas, Nassau, BAH The National Art Gallery of The Bahamas, Nassau, BAH St. Augustine’s College, Nassau, BAH Private collections in The Bahamas, United States, and Italy
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