EDUCATION
Bachelor of Fine Arts, University of Tennessee, Knoxville


SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2011     The Weight of Attachment, The Fire House Gallery, Louisville, Georgia

2010     Pivots of Moment & the Structure of Accumulation, Barbara Archer Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia

2009     Everyday Mythologies, Georgia College and State University, Milledgeville, Georgia

2007     Taking A Stroll Through the Dark Night of the Soul, Gallery Stokes, Atlanta, Georgia

2004     Another Woman’s Treasure, Elysium Gallery, Savannah, Georgia

            Cold Comfort, Steve Wiley Studios, Savannah, Georgia

2003     Nature Fetish Series, Tango, Savannah, Georgia

2001     Cold Comfort, Tomato Head Gallery, Knoxville, Tennessee


SELECTED JURIED AND GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2008     Little Things Mean a Lot, Swan Coach House Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia

            National Small Works Exhibition, NAWA Gallery, New York, New York

            Hand to Hand: 100 Artists’ Comments on the Iraq War, Spruill Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia

            150, Gallery Stokes, Atlanta, Georgia

            Excursion: An Exhibition of Transience, Stand Alone Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia

            Hand to Hand: Witnessing the War, Carol Henry Studio, Los Angeles, California               

2007     Shrine, Unitarian Gallery, Knoxville, Tennessee

            Harvest Midtown Festival, sponsored by Eyedrum, Atlanta, Georgia

            Looks Good on Paper, Spruill Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia

            Summer, Rosewood Contemporary, Savannah, Georgia

            Food for Thought, Space 301, Mobile, Alabama

2006     Assemblation, Eyedrum, Atlanta, Georgia

            In Mad Love and War, Jewish Educational Alliance Gallery, Savannah, Georgia

            Terrain, Rosewood Contemporary, Savannah, Georgia

            Southeastern Juried Exhibition, biennial, Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, Alabama
            Juror: Kathleen A. Edwards, Chief Curator at the University of Iowa Museum of Art

            Summer Series, Bennett Galleries, Knoxville, Tennessee

            This Gift Is a Problem for You to Solve, Red Gallery, Savannah, Georgia

2005     Ossabaw Island Annual Exhibition, Ossabaw Island, Georgia

            House, first installment: 7 rooms, installation show, 1502 Habersham, Savannah, Georgia

            Lost in Translation, Drain; issue #4, www.drainmag.com

2004     Southeastern Juried Exhibition, biennial, Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, Alabama
            Juror: Sean Ulmer, University Curator of Modern & Contemporary Art at the
            University of Michigan Museum of Art

            2004 International Assemblage Artist Exhibition, juried exhibition, Gallery Twenty-four,
            Berlin, Germany

            Small Works, Red Gallery, Savannah, Georgia

            Found Objects: Sculptural, juried exhibition, Desoto Row Gallery, Savannah, Georgia

            Found Object Assemblage, juried exhibition, Long Beach Arts, Long Beach, California
            Juror: George Herms

2003     Recent Work, The Gallery, Beaufort, South Carolina

2002     Collecting Mixed Media, Bennett Galleries, Knoxville, Tennessee

            Ossabaw Island Annual Exhibition, Ossabaw Island, Georgia

2001     Side-by-Side Mentoring Program and Auction, benefiting the Community School of the Arts,
            Bennett Galleries, Knoxville, Tennessee

            Women’s Work: Into the Millennium, juried exhibition, Oak Ridge Art Center,
            Oak Ridge, Tennessee


BIBLIOGRAPHY

2011    Catherine Fox, “Art review: Juried Georgia artists exhibition at Abernathy Arts Center,”
     Access Atlanta, May 19, 2011

     Rob Yates and Casey Sullivan, “Dayna Thacker, Suspending Disbelief,” News from The Fire      House Gallery, March, 2011

            CD cover art: Stellarondo ©2011

            Catalog cover art: Small Press Distribution, Spring 2011 Catalog

2010     Jeremy Abernathy, review, Art Papers, September/October, 2010

            Jeremy Abernathy, “Ways of Seeing Dayna Thacker’s Structure of Accumulation,”
            Burnaway, July 26, 2010

            Wyatt Williams, “Art Seen: Dayna Thacker at Barbara Archer,” Creative Loafing,
            Culture Surfing, June 17, 2010

            Felicia Feaster, “Caprice on Canvas,” The Atlantan, May/June 2010

            Book cover: Museum of Thrown Objects, a book of poetry by Andrew K. Peterson

            Cinqué Hicks, “He says, she says,” Creative Loafing, February 3, 2010

2009     New American Paintings, 2009 Southern Edition, #82

            Julia Reidy, “Gallery Stokes,” Piedmont Review, July/August, 2009

            Katie Runnels, The Constant Gatherer, www.theconstantgatherer.blogspot.com, May 13, 2009

            Artist-A-Day, www.artistaday.com, June 21, 2009

            Kenneth Rollins, “More Than Meets the Eye,” The Telegraph, February 20, 2009

            Sophie Singer, “Collages Explore the Understanding of Humanity,” The Colonnade,
            January 30, 2009

2007     Allison Hersh, “Summertime blues (and greens and reds),” Savannah Morning News,
            June 28, 2007

2006     Jerry Cullum, “Finding Answers,” Atlanta Journal Constitution, December 24, 2006

            Allison Hersh, “Bits and Pieces,” Savannah Morning News, Diversions, December 21, 2006

            Mobile Museum of Art, Southeastern Juried Exhibition, catalog, October, 2006

            Nancy Sherrod, “Dayna Thacker: Artist of Found Things,” Savannah Magazine, Sept/Oct, 2006

            Evan Schafer, The Art Jones, Murmur, April, 2006

2005     “Just Create,” Skirt Magazine, June, 2005                 

            Amy Morris, “Home is Where the Art Is,” Savannah Morning News, April 3, 2005

            Bill Dawers, “Installation Artists Invade,” Savannah Morning News, Diversions, March 31, 2005

            Lost in Translation, featured artist, Drain,; issue #4, www.drainmag.com

2004     Mobile Museum of Art, Southeastern Juried Exhibition, catalog, October, 2004

2002     Heather Joyner, “Mixmasters,” Metropulse, Artbeat, July 25, 2002

2001     “Avian Abode Eclectica,” Metropulse, Artbeat, April, 2001

1999     “Transforming,” Metropulse, Artbeat, September, 1999


HONORS & AWARDS

• Second place award and cash prize for Georgia Artists: Juried Exhibition. Judge: Michael Rooks,
    Wieland Family Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the High Museum
•  Finalist for Atlanta’s Forward Arts Foundation 2010 Emerging Artist Award
•  All Favorite Picks of 2009 Off-the-Wall Pin Up Show, MOCA GA
•  Fulton County Arts Council 2009 Residency Fellowship
•  Residency at the Hambidge Center, Rabun Gap, Georgia, September/October 2009
•  Selected as a Studio Artist of the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center August 2008 – August 2013
•  Invited guest of the Ossabaw Foundation as an Artist in Residence
•  Bennett Galleries’ Artists Mentoring Program
•  National Art Honor Society Scholarship Award


CURATORIAL EXPERIENCE

From June 2007 through February 2010, Dayna Thacker created, curated and managed Gallery Stokes in Atlanta, Georgia. This was an art space that offered local and regional emerging and mid-career artists the opportunity to have a solo exhibition in order to give a thorough introduction of their work to local patrons and other Atlanta galleries. Critically acclaimed Gallery Stokes hosted 28 exhibitions and became a vital part of the Atlanta arts community.