Kariann Fuqua, MFA

Instructional Assistant Professor of Art and Art History

Kariann Fuqua is an abstract artist using drawing and painting to investigate the edges of environmental disaster. Her recent work has been centered around the intersection of eco- critical art making and motherhood. She received her BFA in painting from Kansas State University and an MFA in painting from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Her work has been widely exhibited in solo and group shows across the United States including Jenkins-Johnson Gallery (San Francisco, CA), Governors Island (New York, NY), Hyde Park Arts Center (Chicago, IL), Byron Cohen Gallery (Kansas City, MO), Manifest Gallery and Drawing Center(Cincinnati, OH), Athens Institute of Contemporary Art (Athens, GA), Mississippi Museum of Art (Jackson, MS) and was awarded a public commission at McCormick Place (Chicago, IL). She received a Joan Mitchell Foundation full fellowship to the Vermont Studio Center, an Individual Artist Fellowship from the Mississippi Arts Commission, and her work was published in New American Paintings and the Artist’s Magazine. She currently lives and works in Oxford, Mississippi where she is an Instructional Assistant Professor of Art and Director of Museum Studies at the University of Mississippi.

Gender Studies -Related Research Interests:  Labor, Motherhood, and the representation of women eco-artists