Coulter Fussell
Born 1977 Columbus, Georgia. Lives and works in Water Valley, Mississippi
Honors
2024 Mississippi Award of Merit, Mississippi Historical Society
2023 Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters, Visual Arts
2023 Individual Artist Fellowship, Mississippi Arts Commission
2021 The Museum of Arts & Design Burke Prize Finalist
2021 Jane Crater Hiatt Fellow, Mississippi Museum of Art Biennial Winner
2021 Art Fields Finalist Prize Winner
2019 United States Artists Fellow, Craft
2019 Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters, Visual Arts
2018 Individual Artist Fellowship, Mississippi Arts Commission
2017 SouthArts Southern Prize Finalist
Solo Exhibitions
2025 Hot Water, The Bo Bartlett Center, Columbus, GA, upcoming in August
2024 24 Flowers: A Day, Southside Gallery, Oxford, MS
2024 Pillow Talk, The Atlanta Contemporary, Atlanta, GA
2023 Downriver, Institute 193, Lexington, KY, curated by Philip March Jones
2023 My Love For You Is Deathless, Sarah Moody Gallery of Art, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL
2023 WATER GROUND: River Raft Quilts, The Wiregrass Museum of Art, Dothan AL
2023 HOT WATER: River Raft Quilts, The Alabama Contemporary Art Center, Mobile AL
2022 My Love For You Is Deathless, Southside Gallery, Oxford, MS
2020 The Midway; Southside Gallery, Oxford, MS
2020 The Raw Materials of Escape; Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art
2018 New Work, Southside Gallery, Oxford Mississippi
Group Exhibitions
2024 Collective Telling, Echo Gallery, Atlanta, GA, upcoming in January
2023 Hand Over Hand: Textiles Today, Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami, FL, curated by Mindy Solomon,
2023 A Ribbon Runs Through It, The Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus GA, curated by Jonathan Frederick.
2021 Story Makers: Burke Prize Finalists, Museum of Arts & Design
2021 Rumors of Form, Westabou Gallery, Augusta, Georgia, curated by Hasani Sahlehe.
2021 Make America What America Must Become; Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA
2021 Mississippi Museum of Art Biennial, curated by Danielle Burns-Wilson.
2019 Heirloom, Artspace, Raleigh NC
2019 Kin, Columbus State University, Bo Bartlett Center
2019 Material Pulses, Mississippi Museum of Art
2019 Artfields, Lake City, South Carolina
2018 Piecework Collective, Self-Portrait Show, New York City
2018 Wild Pigeons by Carolyn Drake (collaborator, embroidered Turkish rugs) San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
2017 Piecework Collective, The Color Show, New York City, New York
2017 Oroboro, Run Home Collection Presentation, Brooklyn New York
2016 Caught and Loose: Quilts by Cathy and Coulter Fussell, Young Harris College, GA,
2016 ATBNL, The Atlanta Contemporary Biennial
2016 Piecework Collective, Black and White Twelve Quilts, NY, NY
2015 If God Comes to Me How Will I Know?, quiltmaker for Susan Cianciolo solo , Bridget Donahue Gallery, NY, NY
2015 Ralph Pucci: Model, a New Mannequin and Run Home Collection, quiltmaker for Run Home, Ralph Pucci Gallery, NY, NY
Bibliography
2023 “Downriver: Review,” Burnaway, by Megan Bickel
2023 “A Mississippi Artist’s Blanket Statements,” Garden & Gun
2021 “Staying South,” Art In America, by Logan Lockner
2020 “Down In Yalobusha: Coulter Fussell in Water Valley, Mississippi” Burnaway’s Brighter Stranger Harder
2019 “Pieced Together: A Quilting Community,” Selvedge Magazine
2019 “What Do You Look Like As A Quilt?” Vogue
2019 “Take It Slow” Viewpoint Magazine
2016 “Craft in a Contemporary Mississippi” Mississippi Folklife Magazine
Institutional Collections
2023 Hot Water Quilt, The Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS
2023 Tacklebox: Toujours à Toi, The Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS
2023 Home Quilt, The Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, GA
Residencies
2018 Hambidge Artist Residency, Rabun County Georgia, visiting instructor in natural dying.
2016 Hambidge Artist Residency, Rabun County, Georgia.