Arden Cone
born, Landrum, SC; lives, Landrum, SC
Education
2018 MFA, Painting, Boston University, Boston, MA
2012 BA summa cum laude, Studio Art and Spanish, Hollins University, Roanoke, VA
Awards
2023 Artist Quarterly Project Grant, Metropolitan Arts Council, Greenville, SC
2021 Fletcher H. Dyer Award, Reece Museum, Johnson City, TN
2021 THE PROJECT- 2021 Finalist, Honorable Mention, Kroger Center for the Arts, Columbia, SC
2016 $10,000 Arthur and Dorothy Yeck Award Finalist, Miami University, Miami, OH
20015-18 Constantine Alajalov Scholarship, Boston University, Boston, MA
2012 Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society, Hollins University, Roanoke, VA
2012 Janet MacDonald Fund Grant, Hollins University, Roanoke, VA
2012 Best in Show, Feast on This, Nelson Gallery, Lexington, VA
2008-12 Manchester Grant for Studio Art, Hollins University, Roanoke, VA
2008-12 Hollins Creative Talent Scholarship, Hollins University, Roanoke, VA
Residencies and Workshops
2024 Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center Active Archive Residency, Black Mountain, NC
2017 Burnaway Art Writers Mentorship Program, Atlanta, GA
2016 Pike School of Art, McComb, MS
2014 Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
2012 Chautauqua Institute School of Fine Arts, Chautauqua, NY
Solo and Two-Person Exhibitions
2025 (FORTHCOMING), Dream, America, Eleanor D. Wilson Museum, Hollins University, Roanoke, VA
2024 (FORTHCOMING) Past is Prologue, Greenville Center for Creative Arts, Greenville, SC
2023 Time’s Witness: Work by Arden Cone and Millicent Kennedy, Upstairs Artspace, Tryon, NC
2018 Looking Away: Arden Cone and Glen Miller, Upstairs Artspace, Tryon, NC
2017 Hell and Half of Georgia, Commonwealth Gallery, Boston University, Boston, MA
Group Exhibitions
2023 11th Annual International FL3TCH3R Exhibit: Social & Politically Engaged Art, Reece Museum at East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN
2023 New Language: Contemporary Abstraction, Gallery 263, Cambridge, MA
2023 G.R.I.T.S.: Girls Raised in the South, The Bells Gallery, Dothan, AL
2022 38th Annual International Exhibition, The Medows Gallery at UT Tyler, Tyler, TX
2022 Art of the South, Zeitgeist Gallery, Nashville, TN
2022 Looks Good on Paper, Pyramid Atlantic Arts Center, Hyattsville, MD
2022 35th September Competition, Alexandria Museum of Art, Alexandria, LA
2022 THE PROJECT, Kroger Center for the Arts, Columbia, SC
2022 Fourth La Grange Southeast Regional, La Grange Museum of Art, La Grange, GA
2022 2022 International Juried Exhibition, Center for Contemporary Art, Bedminster, NJ
2021 9th Annual International FL3TCH3R Exhibit: Social & Politically Engaged Art, Reece Museum at East Tennessee State University , Johnson City, TN
2021 The Fall of Civilization, Louise Hopkins Underwood Center for the Arts, Lubbock, TX
2021 ReNew, Sulfur Studios, Savannah, GA
2020 Still Life: Contemporary Interpretations, Upstairs Artspace, Tryon, NC
2019 Convergent Narratives, Rockford University Art Gallery, Rockford, IL
2018 Map, 1969 Gallery, New York, NY
2018 MFA Thesis Exhibition, 808 Gallery, Boston University, Boston, MA
2017 President’s Annual Art Exhibition, Sloane House, Boston, MA
2017 Miami University Young Painters Competition for the $10,000 Arthur and Dorothy Yeck Award, Miami University Art Galleries, Oxford, OH
2017 Spring Show, Tryon Painters and Sculptors, Tryon, NC
2017 Artfields 2017, Art Fields, Lake City, SC
2015 Will’s Creek Survey, Saville Gallery, Cumberland, MD
2015 Storytellers, Upstairs Artspace, Tryon, NC
2015 Contemporary Visions of the Old South, North Charleston City Hall, North Charleston, SC
2012 Exchange 81, Liminal Alternative Art Space, Roanoke, VA
2012 Senior Majors Exhibition, Eleanor D. Wilson Museum, Roanoke, VA
2012 Chautauqua Institute Annual Student Exhibition, Fowler-Kellogg Gallery, Chautauqua, NY
2012 Feast on This, Nelson Gallery, Lexington, VA
Related Experience
2017 Special Projects Graduate Assistant, Boston University School of Visual Arts, Boston, MA
2015 Art Gallery Assistant, Boston University Art Galleries, Boston, MA
2012 Curatorial Intern, Historic Charleston Foundation, Charleston, SC
2012 Contemporary Art Gallery Intern, Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Bibliography
Mark Jenkins, “In the galleries: Paper pushers: Artists stretch creative limits,” The Washington Post, September 16, 2022, https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2022/09/16/art-gallery-shows-dc-area/
Madeline O’Keefe, “808 Gallery, Stone Gallery Host MFA Thesis Exhibitions,” BU Today, April 20, 2018, http://www.bu.edu/today/2018/mfa-thesis-exhibitions/
Bevin Valentine Jalbert, “Q&A: Artist Arden Cone,” Paprika Southern (blog), October 25, 2016, http://paprikasouthern.com/2016/10/25/q-a-artist-arden-cone/
Ashley Cline, “Lavish Worlds: Equestrian Art of Arden Cone,” Equestrian Stylist (blog), June 30, 2015, http://www.equestrianstylist.com/equestrian-art/lavish-worlds-equestrian-art-of-arden-cone/
Publications As Author
Arden Cone, ”Julie Mehretu: A Mid-Career Retrospective at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, GA,“ One South Contemporary, (blog), January 31, 2021.http://onesouthcontemporary.com/blog/2021/1/31/julie-mehretu-a-mid-career-retrospective-at-the-high-museum-of-art-closing-january-31st-2021.
Arden Cone, “Samsøñ | September 8 – November 11, 2017,” The Brooklyn Rail, November 2017.
Arden Cone, “Southern Self-Taught Artists Take the Stage at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York,” Burnaway (blog), August 10, 2018, https://burnaway.org/southern-self-taught-artists-metropolitan-museum/
Arden Cone, “Impressions on a Munnings Exhibition: Featuring the National Sporting Library and Museum, Middleburg, VA,” Equestrian Stylist (blog), June 10, 2013, http://www.equestrianstylist.com/equestrian-home/impressions-on-a-munnings-exhibition-featuring-the-national-sporting-library-museum-middleburg-va/
Arden Cone, “Cast in Light: Featuring the Art of Robert Stack,” Equestrian Stylist (blog), March 1, 2014 http://www.equestrianstylist.com/equestrian-art/cast-in-light-featuring-the-art-of-robert-stack/
Personal Blog Publications
Arden Cone, “Arthur Kern Retrospective at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art,” One South Contemporary (blog), June 22, 20162016, http://onesouthcontemporary.com/blog/2016/6/20/noma-ogden
Arden Cone, “The Things We Carry: Contemporary Southern Art” at the Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, SC, One South Contemporary (blog), July 7, 2016,
Arden Cone, “ ‘Material Issue’ at Louisville’s Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft,” One South Contemporary (blog), September 14, 2016 http://onesouthcontemporary.com/blog/2016/8/16/material-issues-at-louisvilles-kentucky-museum-of-art-and-craft
Arden Cone, “Seana Reilly at Whitespace in Atlanta through October 15, 2016,” One South Contemporary (blog), September 27, 2016 http://onesouthcontemporary.com/blog/2016/9/26/seana-reilly-at-whitespace-in-atlanta-through-october-15-2016
Arden Cone, The Nasher Museum of Art: ‘Southern Accent: Seeking the American South in Contemporary Art,’ on View until January 8, 2017,” November 18, 2016, http://onesouthcontemporary.com/blog/2016/11/14/the-nasher-museums-southern-accent-seeking-the-american-south-in-contemporary-art
Arden Cone, “The South Outside the Region: Kara Walker at the Cleveland Museum of Art,” One South Contemporary (blog), January 6, 2017, http://onesouthcontemporary.com/blog/2016/12/29/the-south-outside-the-region-kara-walker-at-the-cleveland-museum-of-art
Arden Cone, “Exhibition Trend: Identity Crisis in the Southern States,” One South Contemporary (blog), February 11, 2017 http://onesouthcontemporary.com/blog/2017/1/8/exhibition-trend-identity-crisis-in-the-southern-states
Arden Cone, “Nick Cave at the Telfair Museums’ Jepson Center in Savannah, Georgia,” One South Contemporary (blog), March 11, 2017, http://onesouthcontemporary.com/blog/2017/3/11/nick-cave-at-the-telfair-museums-jepson-center-in-savannah-georgia
Arden Cone, “Conversation Cut Short: What the Proposed NEA Elimination Means to Online Arts Voices, “ One South Contemporary (blog), April 12, 2017, http://onesouthcontemporary.com/blog/2017/2/28/conversation-cut-short-what-the-proposed-nea-elimination-means-to-online-arts-voices-1
Arden Cone, “The Year a Performing Arts Festival Ventured into Visual Art—and Hit It Out of the Park,” One South Contemporary (blog), May 26, 2017 http://onesouthcontemporary.com/blog/2017/5/22/that-year-a-performing-arts-festival-tried-on-visual-art-and-hit-it-out-of-the-park-1
Arden Cone, “That’s a Wrap: Post-Exhibition Review of ‘Tie Up, Draw Down’ at the Center for Craft, Creativity, and Design (Asheville, NC),’ September 5, 2017 http://onesouthcontemporary.com/blog/2017/9/3/thats-a-wrap-post-exhibiton-review-of-tie-up-draw-down-at-the-center-for-craft-creativity-and-design-asheville-nc