Meryl Truett is a fine art photographer and mixed media artist whose work is exhibited and collected worldwide. She graduated in 2003 with a Master of Fine Arts Degree in photography from Savannah College of Art and Design with additional art training in France. She has received numerous awards including an Individual Artist Fellowship from the Tennessee Arts Commission.
Among the many publications featuring her work are: Oxford American, Art Papers, Darkroom Magazine, Petersen’s Photographic, Camera Austria, The Vanderbilt Review, SCAD Alumni Magazine, Home:Miami, deep, Skirt! Paprika Southern, and South Magazine. Books include Thump Queen and Other Southern Anomalies, an anthology of fine art photographs depicting the quirkier side of southern living and Vernacular Highway: the Road Less Traveled. A handmade book Relics, Ruins, and Artifacts was created in 2014.
Her work is collected by the Morris Museum of Art in Augusta, Georgia and Telfair Museum of Art-Jepson Art Center in Savannah. Her clients include Polygram Records, Sony Music, and the Ingram Group. Her works are represented in the private collections of Troutman Sanders Attorneys-at-Law, King and Spalding LLP, Andree 3000, Rosanne Cash, Chet Atkins, Vanderbilt University, BellSouth Corporation, Savannah College of Art and Design, and the University of South Carolina. She was recently commissioned to create a body of work for the Indigo Hotel in Savannah’s historic district and a one of a kind series for Grove Point Plantation in Richmond Hill, Georgia.
Please contact Meryl to purchase her works or for any questions.
Meryl Truett Studio:
912-656-2270
meryltruettstudio@gmail.com
meryl@meryltruett.com
EDUCATION
2003 Master of Fine Arts in Photography, Savannah College of Art and Design ______________________________________________________________________________
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2008-present
2007-present
2003-2007
1991-1997
Distance Learning Faculty and Online Course Developer, Savannah College of Art and Design
Adjunct Photography Faculty, Savannah College of Art and Design Photography Instructor, The Workshops of Savannah
Adjunct Photography Instructor, Florida State College
Writing Consultant, Savannah College of Art and Design
Photography and Filmmaking Instructor, Cheekwood Museum of Fine Art Film Studies Instructor, Vanderbilt University Film Festival
Photography Teacher, John C. Campbell Folk School, Brasstown, NC Film and Photography Teacher, Sarratt Studios, Vanderbilt University
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SOLO AND TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2014 Relics, Ruins and Artifacts, SlowExposures: Celebrating Photography of the Rural South, Zebulon. Georgia
2014 Small Works, Gutstein Gallery, Savannah, Georgia 2013 Relics and Ruins, Kalmanson Gallery, Swainsboro, GA
2011 Out of the South, Artstream Gallery, Manchester, NH
2008 Picturing the Beltline, Barbara Archer Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2007 You Can’t Get There from Here, Stokes Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2004 Thump Queen and Other Southern Anomalies, Barbara Archer Gallery,
Atlanta, GA
2001 Lost and Found: Images and Objects, Gallery S.P.A.C.E., Savannah, GA
1999 Together At Last, Off the Wall Gallery, Savannah, GA
1993 new york/nashville, Cumberland Gallery, Nashville, GA
1992 New Work, Leu Gallery, Belmont University, Nashville, GA
1990 Nashville Images, The Mad Platter Restaurant, Nashville, TN ______________________________________________________________________________
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2012 Morris Museum of Art, Local Color, exhibit of color photographs from the permanent collection of the museum including William Eggleston, William Christenberry, Birney Imes and John Baeder.
From the Telfair-Jespon Museum Permanent Collection, Jepson Museum of Art, Savannah, GA
2011 HOME: Spring Group Show, Hagedorn Foundation Gallery, Atlanta, GA Out of the South, Guest Curator, Artstream Gallery, Rochester, NH
2010 Telfair Museum of Art Art Fair, Savannah, GA
2009-2010 Great Things/Small Packages, Hagedorn Foundation Gallery, Atlanta, GA 2009 Telfair Museum of Art Art Fair, Savannah, GA
Southern Landscapes with Lucinda Bunnen, Clyde Butcher, John Duckworth, Lynn Wright, Paul Hagedorn and Jack Leigh. Hagedorn Foundation Gallery, Atlanta, GA
deep south with Katie Runnels, Denise Falk, Lilian Farag and Tim Wirth, Artstream Gallery, Rochester, NH
2008 You Can’t Get There From Here by Meryl Truett and Rebecca Nolan,
TruSpace, Savannah, GA
2007 Road Works by Meryl Truett and Lind Hollingsworth, Jewish Educational
Alliance, Savannah, GA
Open Studio with Meryl Truett, Marcus Kenney, Julio Garcia, Imke Lass,
Lorie Corbus and Summer Wheat, Savannah, GA
2006 Studio Artists Exhibit, Rosewood Studio Gallery, Savannah, GA
Featured Artist, ShopSCAD, Savannah, GA
Benjamin Jones and Meryl Truett, Barbara Archer Gallery, Savannah, GA Guinea Hens and Green Acres: Photographers Explore the American South Barbara Archer Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2005 Going South, Georgia State University Rialto Center for Performing Arts, Atlanta, GA
Re-Defined: Found Objects, Red Gallery, Savannah College of Art and Design,
Savannah, GA
2004 The Second Time Around, Columbus Museum, Columbus, GA
2003 Southern Exposure, Pinnacle Gallery, Savannah, GA
2002 4th Annual Krappy Camera National Competition, Soho Photo Gallery, New
York, NY
Collective Conscious, Oglethorpe Row Gallery, Savannah, GA
1996-99 Artists for Oasis, Selected artists exhibit to benefit Oasis Center, Nashville, TN 1995 From the Mountains to the Mississippi: Women Artists, Traveling exhibit of
Tennessee women artists
1995 Vaanguard '94, Visual Artists Alliance of Nashville, Nashville, TN 1994 Windows on Tennessee, Traveling exhibit of works by five Tennessee
photographers exhibited at University of Tennessee-Knoxville, Eastern Tennessee State University, Cheekwood Museum of Fine Art, Nashville, and University of Memphis
1991 P.E.A.C.E. Group Artists Show, Marathon Village, Nashville, TN
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SELECTED LECTURES, PRESENTATIONS, AND CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2011 Out of the South, Guest Curator, Artstream Gallery, Rochester, NH
2010 Lens-Based, Guest Curator, Desotorow Gallery, Savannah, GA
2009 You Can’t Get There from Here, Lecture Presentation, part of Image-maker
Symposium, Sprawl: 46th Society for Photographic Education National Conference, Dallas, TX
2004 Thump Queen and Other Southern Anomalies, Lecture, Society for Photographic Education Southeastern Regional Conference, Athens, GA
2003 Dancing, Dying, Dining, Drive-ins: Rites and Rituals of a Disappearing South, Panel Moderator, 17th Southern Writers’ Symposium, Methodist College, Fayetteville, NC
1994 Windows on Tennessee, Lecture with Baldwin Lee and Mike Smith, University of Tennessee-Knoxville
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SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
www.edgeofhumanity.com, featured artist
2009 Loft Life, photo essay www.southernist.com, featured artist
www.artsjournal.com, featured artist www.guardian.co.uk, featured artist www.burnaway.org, exhibition review
2008 The South Magazine, photo essay
2007 HOME Fort Lauderdale Magazine, Modern Masters Series
Connect Savannah, artist review
2006 Savannah Morning News, artist review
www.pdnedu.com, featured artist
www.dailycandy.com, Arts & Culture featured artist 2005 www.coudal.com, featured photographer
2004 Atlanta Journal Constitution, review Creative Loafing, review
Savannah Morning News, review
deep magazine, photo essay
2004 Skirt Magazine, contributing photographer
2003-04 Coastal Art and Antiques, photos and stories, reviews 2002 Savannah Magazine, Photographs and articles 2000-04 Connect, photos and articles
1998-99 Creative Loafing, photos/articles
1991-97 Vanderbilt Review, photos
1995-97 Nashville Life, review/articles/photos 1991-1997 Nashville Scene, review/articles/photos 1990 Camera Austria, Graz/Austria
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AWARDS
2012 Artist Residency, Virginia Center of the Creative Arts 2009 Honorable Mention, Telfair Museum of Art Fair
2009 Society for Photographic Education Adjunct Scholarship
2005 Named one of FIVE ARTISTS TO COLLECT by Savannah Morning News and Coastal Art and Antiques Magazine
1986 Individual Artist Fellowship in Media, Tennessee Arts Commission
Purchase Award, 18th Annual Works on Paper Exhibition judged by Ivan Karp
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COLLECTIONS AND COMMISSIONS
Telfair Museum of Art/Jepson Center, Savannah, GA Morris Museum, Augusta, GA
Troutman Sanders, Attorneys-at-Law, Atlanta, GA University of South Carolina Art Collection, Columbia, SC Vanderbilt University Art Collection, Nashville, TN
The Merchants Restaurant, Nashville, TN Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA
Other private and corporate collections: Ashley Judd, Roseanne Cash, Chet Atkins, Baron and Budd P.C. Dallas, TX, King & Spalding, LLP Atlanta, GA, BellSouth, Ingram Group, Sony Corporation, Tony Brown, Roger Miller, Richard Leo Johnson, Rosemary Daniell, Andre 3000, Delbert Mann, and Tom Schulman.