EDUCATION
MFA, Photography, Georgia State University (2020).
BA, Cum Laude, English Literature and Studio Art, Oglethorpe University (2013).
AWARDS, HONORS, AND PRESENTATIONS
Andrew M. West Memorial Scholarship. Georgia State University. Spring 2020.
Visiting Artist, Women’s and Gender Studies Special Topics Seminar, Emory University, Fall 2019
GSU Anderson Ranch Arts Center workshop fellowship recipient, July 2019
Artist-in-Residence, Burren College of the Arts. Ballyvaughan, Ireland. June 2019
Faculty Photo Award, Georgia State University, April 2019
Best in Show, Emerge, Day & Night Projects, March 2019
Speaker, Art History Graduate Forum Symposium, Georgia State University, March 2018
Theater Emory’s “Breaking Ground” grant recipient, Callosum Collective, June 2015
Idea Capital Grant Recipient (ROAM division of Callosum Collective), 2014
TEACHING
Instructor, Introduction to Photography, Fall 2018-Spring 2019
Instructor, Introduction to Studio Art, Fall 2019, FALL 2020
Co-Instructor, Digital Photography, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA. Spring 2020.
Co-Instructor, Film and Darkroom, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA. Spring 2017.
Co-Instructor, Introduction to Photography, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA. Spring 2017.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
PROJECT, Temporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA. November 2019.
Highrise by Showerhaus and Fulton Public Arts, 34 Peachtree St., Atlanta, GA. October 2019.
On Singing the Body Formless and Electric, Whitespace, Atlanta, GA. August 2019
Buss It Open, Southern Fried Queer Pride at Murmur Media, Atlanta, GA. May 2019
Emerge, Day & Night Projects, Atlanta, GA. April 2019
Split Vision, 311 Mitchell Street, Atlanta, GA. January 2019
Economy of a Woman’s Touch: Contemporary Female Artists in Dialogue with Ghada Amer, Welch Gallery, Atlanta, Ga. October-December 2018
Tenable Folly, Soup Experimental, Tallahassee, FL. March 2018
Trifecta, Trio Gallery, Athens, GA. March 2018
Sheet Mask, Cage Space, Atlanta, Ga. March 2018
Imaginary Million, presented by Wonderroot, The Defoor Centre, Atlanta, GA. December 2017
BubbleCum, Cinequeer Film Fest, Southern Fried Queer Pride, Atlanta, Ga. September 2016
Fecundities, Ladyfest, The Broad Street Visitor’s Center, Atlanta, GA. March 2016
Beyond the Vernacular, The Mammal Gallery, Atlanta, GA. September 2014
CURATION
Guest Curator, 1/4 Program, Murmur Media, Atlanta, GA. January-March 2016.
Blood, Milk, and Fire: Re-Performance Art 1962-1977, The Mammal Gallery, Atlanta, GA.
October 1, 2015.
SELECTED PERFORMANCES
2016
She was a Visitor, Boiler Room, Eyedrum Art and Music Gallery, Atlanta, Ga
2015
Mother, Scoutmob presents HALLOWEEN 2015, The Arts Exchange, Atlanta, Ga
Chromafuture, Creative Loafing’s Best of ATL 2015, South Downtown, Atlanta, Ga
Canticles of Ecstasy, The Mammal Gallery, Atlanta, Ga
For Robert Ashley, The Mammal Gallery, Atlanta, Ga
The Squall, Breaking Ground 2015, Theater Emory, Atlanta, Ga
Widow’s Walk, Arts At Oakland Presents: ROAMtransmissions' The Cryptophonic Tour, Historic Oakland Cemetery, Atlanta, Ga
Whitesnake Girl Gives Advice, All Day Records, Carrboro, North Carolina
Chelsea Dunn + Grace Thornton present: Beaver Ruin, The Mammal Gallery, Atlanta, Ga
Chelsea Dunn + Grace Thornton present: macrowave, Pop Up ATL, Atlanta, Ga
Wetwurld: A Psychonautical Film Screening with Accidental Music by BOATING with BOATING,
The Big House, Atlanta, GA
Whitesnake Girl Hosts an Evening Affair, Eyedrum Art And Music Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Chelsea Dunn + Grace Thornton present: red marrow, Go Bar, Athens, GA
Chelsea Dunn + Grace Thornton present: fork tender, YOLKspace, Atlanta, GA
2014
Joan of Arc, Pussycat Purradise, Eyedrum Art and Music Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Whitesnake Girl Reads Poetry at a Party, Keenal Colony, Atlanta, GA
Chelsea Dunn + Grace Thornton present: god as a grandmotherly figure, Magic Lantern on a
Satellite, The Precinct, Atlanta, GA
Chelsea Dunn + Grace Thornton, Vida Voce, MINT Gallery, Atlanta, GA
An Intimate Chat with Devin Brown, Beyond the Vernacular Closing Reception, The Mammal
Gallery, Atlanta, GA
sext me sometime, Beyond the Vernacular, The Mammal Gallery, Atlanta GA
The Sacred Mysteries, the Profane Found with Loudermilk and Moon,The Mammal Gallery,
Atlanta, GA
Excerpts from “Go Gather Bones”, Peoplestown Palace Poetry and Prose Night 7, Peoplestown
Palace, Atlanta, Ga
ORGANIZATIONS
Co-founder and Contributing Artist, Callosum Collective.
Performance Art Committee Member, Ladyfest 2016.
ART JOURNALISM (AUTHOR)
Q&A: Dashboard’s Courtney Hammond, Beth Malone build cross-country network. ArtsATL.
Review: “Ephemeral Memorable” show range, character of DIY art at Mammal Gallery. ArtsATL.
Timeless Struggles with Identity in Amy Pleasant’s Show at Whitespace. BURNAWAY.
Review: Fables of the Eco-Future at Hambidge’s Weave Shed Gallery. BURNAWAY.
Art Crush: Ann-Marie Manker’s Symbolic Rainbow. BURNAWAY.
MINT Gallery Opens a New Chapter Saturday. BURNAWAY.
Art Crush: William Downs Reflects on Creative Life on the Move. BURNAWAY.
TindelMichi takes its Baptism by Fire. Creative Loafing.
Jennifer Cawley paints alternate realities. Creative Loafing.
Tommy Nease conjures spirits in Phantasm. Creative Loafing.
Art Crush: Chelsea Raflo, Filmmaker and Dreamer, on the Role of Experiment. BURNAWAY.
Suellen Parker's claymation figures break the mold. Creative Loafing.
Laurel Nakadate gives a command performance at ACAC. Creative Loafing.
S. Patricia Patterson re-imagines the American Dream in Back to the Future. Creative Loafing.
Conceptual photographer Nikita Gale's 1961 remembers when. Creative Loafing.
Living Walls 2012: Was It a Success for Female Artists? BURNAWAY.
Rocío Rodríguez tears painting down to build it back up. Creative Loafing.
Jason Butcher shows movie madness at “As in a Mirror, Dimly”. Creative Loafing.
Living Walls 2012 Launches August 15 with All Female Street Artists. BURNAWAY.
Whitespace exhibit contemplates intersection of culture and the cosmos. Creative Loafing.
MODA’s Skate It or Hang It!? Feels a Little Forced. BURNAWAY.
MINT Gallery's “Linearity” forges connections through storytelling. Creative Loafing.
Q&A: Joanna Ebenstein Discusses Death and History at the CDC Museum. BURNAWAY.
Q&A: Kael Alford and William Boling on Bottom of da Boot. BURNAWAY.
Gregor Turk Explores Atlanta’s Sense of Place at MOCA GA. BURNAWAY.
Jiha Moon’s Detourist Exaggerates a Simplified View of Culture. BURNAWAY.
Mehmet Dogu and Julia Kjelgaard Evoke Shared Memories at {Poem 88}. BURNAWAY.
Write Club Atlanta Says Good Riddance to the Lonely Life of Letters. BURNAWAY.
Sexuality and Innocence in Benita Carr’s Morning Sun at Whitespace. BURNAWAY. .
Beat Poet Anne Waldman Discusses Recent Collaborations. BURNAWAY.
Ghostly Imagery and Technical Prowess at Atlanta Print Biennial. BURNAWAY.
PRESS
Goggins, Kayla. "Body of Work: Parker Thornton at Whitespace." Burnaway. September 5, 2019.
Phillips, Mary Grace. “Preview: Eyedrum’s Boiler Room Dance Series Returns with Fly on a Wall’s ‘Hz’ performance.” ArtsAtl. October 4, 2016.
Anne, Haylee and Bortone, Angela. “Art Burn: Capsule Reviews of Weekend Events.” BURNAWAY. October 5, 2015
West, Linnea. A ‘Cryptophonic’ Sound Art Event at Atlanta’s Oakland Cemetery. BURNAWAY. May 12, 2015.
Parker, Wendy. Exploring ‘Widow’s Walks’ And More Of Oakland Cemetery Tour. WABE. April 9, 2015.
Smith, Kelundra. Preview: Eyedrum’s “Premier Premiere” Launches Movement Series in New Space. ArtsAtl. February 10, 2015.
Jeffcoat, Yves. Looking at Language in “Beyond the Vernacular” at Mammal Gallery. BURNAWAY. November 3, 2014.
MFA, Photography, Georgia State University (2020).
BA, Cum Laude, English Literature and Studio Art, Oglethorpe University (2013).
AWARDS, HONORS, AND PRESENTATIONS
Andrew M. West Memorial Scholarship. Georgia State University. Spring 2020.
Visiting Artist, Women’s and Gender Studies Special Topics Seminar, Emory University, Fall 2019
GSU Anderson Ranch Arts Center workshop fellowship recipient, July 2019
Artist-in-Residence, Burren College of the Arts. Ballyvaughan, Ireland. June 2019
Faculty Photo Award, Georgia State University, April 2019
Best in Show, Emerge, Day & Night Projects, March 2019
Speaker, Art History Graduate Forum Symposium, Georgia State University, March 2018
Theater Emory’s “Breaking Ground” grant recipient, Callosum Collective, June 2015
Idea Capital Grant Recipient (ROAM division of Callosum Collective), 2014
TEACHING
Instructor, Introduction to Photography, Fall 2018-Spring 2019
Instructor, Introduction to Studio Art, Fall 2019, FALL 2020
Co-Instructor, Digital Photography, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA. Spring 2020.
Co-Instructor, Film and Darkroom, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA. Spring 2017.
Co-Instructor, Introduction to Photography, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA. Spring 2017.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
PROJECT, Temporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA. November 2019.
Highrise by Showerhaus and Fulton Public Arts, 34 Peachtree St., Atlanta, GA. October 2019.
On Singing the Body Formless and Electric, Whitespace, Atlanta, GA. August 2019
Buss It Open, Southern Fried Queer Pride at Murmur Media, Atlanta, GA. May 2019
Emerge, Day & Night Projects, Atlanta, GA. April 2019
Split Vision, 311 Mitchell Street, Atlanta, GA. January 2019
Economy of a Woman’s Touch: Contemporary Female Artists in Dialogue with Ghada Amer, Welch Gallery, Atlanta, Ga. October-December 2018
Tenable Folly, Soup Experimental, Tallahassee, FL. March 2018
Trifecta, Trio Gallery, Athens, GA. March 2018
Sheet Mask, Cage Space, Atlanta, Ga. March 2018
Imaginary Million, presented by Wonderroot, The Defoor Centre, Atlanta, GA. December 2017
BubbleCum, Cinequeer Film Fest, Southern Fried Queer Pride, Atlanta, Ga. September 2016
Fecundities, Ladyfest, The Broad Street Visitor’s Center, Atlanta, GA. March 2016
Beyond the Vernacular, The Mammal Gallery, Atlanta, GA. September 2014
CURATION
Guest Curator, 1/4 Program, Murmur Media, Atlanta, GA. January-March 2016.
Blood, Milk, and Fire: Re-Performance Art 1962-1977, The Mammal Gallery, Atlanta, GA.
October 1, 2015.
SELECTED PERFORMANCES
2016
She was a Visitor, Boiler Room, Eyedrum Art and Music Gallery, Atlanta, Ga
2015
Mother, Scoutmob presents HALLOWEEN 2015, The Arts Exchange, Atlanta, Ga
Chromafuture, Creative Loafing’s Best of ATL 2015, South Downtown, Atlanta, Ga
Canticles of Ecstasy, The Mammal Gallery, Atlanta, Ga
For Robert Ashley, The Mammal Gallery, Atlanta, Ga
The Squall, Breaking Ground 2015, Theater Emory, Atlanta, Ga
Widow’s Walk, Arts At Oakland Presents: ROAMtransmissions' The Cryptophonic Tour, Historic Oakland Cemetery, Atlanta, Ga
Whitesnake Girl Gives Advice, All Day Records, Carrboro, North Carolina
Chelsea Dunn + Grace Thornton present: Beaver Ruin, The Mammal Gallery, Atlanta, Ga
Chelsea Dunn + Grace Thornton present: macrowave, Pop Up ATL, Atlanta, Ga
Wetwurld: A Psychonautical Film Screening with Accidental Music by BOATING with BOATING,
The Big House, Atlanta, GA
Whitesnake Girl Hosts an Evening Affair, Eyedrum Art And Music Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Chelsea Dunn + Grace Thornton present: red marrow, Go Bar, Athens, GA
Chelsea Dunn + Grace Thornton present: fork tender, YOLKspace, Atlanta, GA
2014
Joan of Arc, Pussycat Purradise, Eyedrum Art and Music Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Whitesnake Girl Reads Poetry at a Party, Keenal Colony, Atlanta, GA
Chelsea Dunn + Grace Thornton present: god as a grandmotherly figure, Magic Lantern on a
Satellite, The Precinct, Atlanta, GA
Chelsea Dunn + Grace Thornton, Vida Voce, MINT Gallery, Atlanta, GA
An Intimate Chat with Devin Brown, Beyond the Vernacular Closing Reception, The Mammal
Gallery, Atlanta, GA
sext me sometime, Beyond the Vernacular, The Mammal Gallery, Atlanta GA
The Sacred Mysteries, the Profane Found with Loudermilk and Moon,The Mammal Gallery,
Atlanta, GA
Excerpts from “Go Gather Bones”, Peoplestown Palace Poetry and Prose Night 7, Peoplestown
Palace, Atlanta, Ga
ORGANIZATIONS
Co-founder and Contributing Artist, Callosum Collective.
Performance Art Committee Member, Ladyfest 2016.
ART JOURNALISM (AUTHOR)
Q&A: Dashboard’s Courtney Hammond, Beth Malone build cross-country network. ArtsATL.
Review: “Ephemeral Memorable” show range, character of DIY art at Mammal Gallery. ArtsATL.
Timeless Struggles with Identity in Amy Pleasant’s Show at Whitespace. BURNAWAY.
Review: Fables of the Eco-Future at Hambidge’s Weave Shed Gallery. BURNAWAY.
Art Crush: Ann-Marie Manker’s Symbolic Rainbow. BURNAWAY.
MINT Gallery Opens a New Chapter Saturday. BURNAWAY.
Art Crush: William Downs Reflects on Creative Life on the Move. BURNAWAY.
TindelMichi takes its Baptism by Fire. Creative Loafing.
Jennifer Cawley paints alternate realities. Creative Loafing.
Tommy Nease conjures spirits in Phantasm. Creative Loafing.
Art Crush: Chelsea Raflo, Filmmaker and Dreamer, on the Role of Experiment. BURNAWAY.
Suellen Parker's claymation figures break the mold. Creative Loafing.
Laurel Nakadate gives a command performance at ACAC. Creative Loafing.
S. Patricia Patterson re-imagines the American Dream in Back to the Future. Creative Loafing.
Conceptual photographer Nikita Gale's 1961 remembers when. Creative Loafing.
Living Walls 2012: Was It a Success for Female Artists? BURNAWAY.
Rocío Rodríguez tears painting down to build it back up. Creative Loafing.
Jason Butcher shows movie madness at “As in a Mirror, Dimly”. Creative Loafing.
Living Walls 2012 Launches August 15 with All Female Street Artists. BURNAWAY.
Whitespace exhibit contemplates intersection of culture and the cosmos. Creative Loafing.
MODA’s Skate It or Hang It!? Feels a Little Forced. BURNAWAY.
MINT Gallery's “Linearity” forges connections through storytelling. Creative Loafing.
Q&A: Joanna Ebenstein Discusses Death and History at the CDC Museum. BURNAWAY.
Q&A: Kael Alford and William Boling on Bottom of da Boot. BURNAWAY.
Gregor Turk Explores Atlanta’s Sense of Place at MOCA GA. BURNAWAY.
Jiha Moon’s Detourist Exaggerates a Simplified View of Culture. BURNAWAY.
Mehmet Dogu and Julia Kjelgaard Evoke Shared Memories at {Poem 88}. BURNAWAY.
Write Club Atlanta Says Good Riddance to the Lonely Life of Letters. BURNAWAY.
Sexuality and Innocence in Benita Carr’s Morning Sun at Whitespace. BURNAWAY. .
Beat Poet Anne Waldman Discusses Recent Collaborations. BURNAWAY.
Ghostly Imagery and Technical Prowess at Atlanta Print Biennial. BURNAWAY.
PRESS
Goggins, Kayla. "Body of Work: Parker Thornton at Whitespace." Burnaway. September 5, 2019.
Phillips, Mary Grace. “Preview: Eyedrum’s Boiler Room Dance Series Returns with Fly on a Wall’s ‘Hz’ performance.” ArtsAtl. October 4, 2016.
Anne, Haylee and Bortone, Angela. “Art Burn: Capsule Reviews of Weekend Events.” BURNAWAY. October 5, 2015
West, Linnea. A ‘Cryptophonic’ Sound Art Event at Atlanta’s Oakland Cemetery. BURNAWAY. May 12, 2015.
Parker, Wendy. Exploring ‘Widow’s Walks’ And More Of Oakland Cemetery Tour. WABE. April 9, 2015.
Smith, Kelundra. Preview: Eyedrum’s “Premier Premiere” Launches Movement Series in New Space. ArtsAtl. February 10, 2015.
Jeffcoat, Yves. Looking at Language in “Beyond the Vernacular” at Mammal Gallery. BURNAWAY. November 3, 2014.