Charles Clary
Recipient Information
Location
Conway, South Carolina
Medium
Visual Arts
Year of Award
2027
Grant or Fellowship
Southern Artist Spotlight Grant
Grant Amount
$0
Charles Clary, he/him, was born in 1980 in Morristown, Tennessee. He received his BFA in painting with honors from Middle Tennessee State University and his MFA in painting from the Savannah College of Art and Design. He has shown in exhibitions at Galerie Evolution-Pierre Cardin in Paris, France, The Netherlands’ CODA Museum Paper Biennial in 2021, The Shanghai Paper Biennial in 2021, Art of Paper Fair in New York City, and many other international, national, and regional juried, group, solo, and museum exhibitions. Clary won Top Prize at the 2016 ArtFields Competition in Lake City, SC, and in 2019 he won both People’s Choice Award for 2D and the Merit Prize at ArtFields. He has also been named the South Arts 2024 South Carolina State Fellow and the South Carolina Arts Commission Fellow in Visual Arts for 2026. He recently sold three commissioned pieces to Google corporate offices, and he was named the HTC Distinguished Teacher-Scholar at Coastal Carolina University in 2022, the highest award bestowed upon a faculty member by the university. Clary has been featured in numerous print and Internet interviews including, Create! Magazine, Candyfloss, This is Colossal, WIRED magazine (US and UK), Hi Fructose, Beautiful Deay, and Bluecanvas Magazine. He has also been featured in publications including Paper Art III, 500 Paper Objects, Paper Works, Paper Art, Papercraft 2, and PUSH: Paper.
Charles has exhibited regionally, nationally, and internationally in numerous solo and group shows, is represented by Paradigm Gallery + Studio in Philadelphia, The Grand Bohemian Gallery in Greenville, South Carolina, Charleston, SC, and Asheville, NC, AZART Gallery in New York, and R02 Gallery in Dallas, Texas. Clary currently lives and works in Conway, South Carolina, where he is a Full Professor of Studio Art and Associate Chair of Visual Arts at Coastal Carolina University.
Artist Fee: Travel Expenses/room and board for exhibition and community outreach
Availability: I have a solo exhibition opening late October at the University of South Carolina and proposals for solo shows in February-March of 2027, but otherwise flexible.