2002

Master of Fine Arts, Printmaking, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN

1999

Bachelor of Fine Arts, Magna Cum Laude, Printmaking, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

2010-present

Professor of Art, Lyon College, Batesville, AR

2004- 2010

Lecturer, University of Toledo: Center for the Visual Arts, Toledo, OH

2025 Iatrus, Veliko Tarnova, Bulgaria

2024 Radal Taller, Bariloche, Argentina

2023 ART Space, Arts and Science Center, Pine Bluff, Arkansas

2019 Rothko Museum, Daugavpils, Latvia

2018 Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, Vermont

2016 Wilson College, Chambersburg, Pennsylvania

2011 Martignano International Residency of Art, Martignano, Italy

2008 Franz Masereel Printmaking Center, Kasterlee, Belgium

2025

Dysfunctional Forms Windgate Gallery, University of Central Arkansas, Conway Arkansas

Passages TaM, Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria

2023

BLUE PRINTS Artspace Gallery, Artworks, Pine Bluff, Arkansas

2022

Impossible Forms, (w/ Carly Dahl) England Center Art Gallery, Beebe, Arkansas

2021

Form Follows Dysfunction, Beverly + Sam Ross Gallery, Christian Brothers University, Memphis, TN

2019

Complex shapes and empty space, Arts and Science Center, Pine Bluff, Arkansas

2018

Split-Level, Eastern Arkansas Community College, Forrest City, Arkansas

Going Unnoticed, (w/ Carly Dahl) Historic Arkansas Museum, Little Rock, Arkansas

2016

Structure & Form, Tinnin Fine Arts Center, Three Rivers, Poplar Bluff, Missouri

‍Support, Fine Arts Center Gallery, Arkansas State University, Jonesboro, Arkansas

Form/ Conform, (w/ Carly Dahl) Russell Fine Arts Gallery, Henderson State University, Arkadelphia, AR

2014

Structures, Sinclair Gallery, Coe College, Cedar Rapids, Iowa

2013

The plan keeps coming up again, Gallery A, Hendrix College, Conway, Arkansas

Bild, Material Art Gallery, Memphis, Tennessee

Abandoning, CASEWORKS, Art Museum of the University of Memphis, Tennessee

‍The Picture Never Changes, (w/ Carly Dahl), Thea Foundation for the Arts, North Little Rock, Arkansas

2025  

Painting National University of Southern Mississippi Museum of Art, Hattiesburg, MS

Structured Spaces Dodomu Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2023  

“pressed + pulled” Printmaking Exhibition. Fenix Gallery, Fayetteville, AR

2022  

Over the Structures Czong Institute for Contemporary Art, Gimpo-si, South Korea

Walls: From Minimalism to Detail A Gallery, Panevėžys, Lithuania

2021  

Cut Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, OH

Shape In All Its Forms Site: Brooklyn (Online), Brooklyn, NY

Those Spaces Between Target Gallery, Torpedo Art Center, Alexandria, VA

2019  

International Painting Symposium Mark Rothko Art Centre, Daugavpils, Latvia

Number Inc. Presents: Art of the South Memphis College of Art, Memphis, TN

2018  

Me, You, and a Few of Our Friends Wright Fine Arts Gallery, Georgetown College, Georgetown, Kentucky

Pathways: An Exhibition of Large-Format and Experimental Printmaking Baum Gallery, University of Central Arkansas, Conway, Arkansas

2017  

Painting National University of Southern Mississippi Museum of Art

Arbitrary Color Foundry Art Centre, St. Charles, MO

Print Exhibition 2D and 3D works LH Horton Jr. Gallery, Delta Center for the Arts, San Joaquin Delta College, Stockton, CA

2016  

Delta Annual Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR

2015  

Contemporary South Arts Exchange, Raleigh, NC

Delta National Small Prints Bradbury Museum, Arkansas State University

2014  

Mid American Print Council Exhibition Wayne State University Art Gallery, Detroit, MI

Los Angeles Print Society: Push and Pull City of Brea Art Gallery, Brea, CA

International Printmaking Biennial of Douro Alijó, Portugal

Structure Printmaking Center of New Jersey, Branchburg, NJ

2013  

Coe College Print Show Sinclair Gallery, Coe College, Cedar Rapids, IA

Mid American Print Council Juried Exhibition McDonough Museum of Art, Youngstown, OH

Material Anthology Crosstown Arts Center, Memphis, TN        

2012  

Works on Paper Hunterdon Art Museum, Clinton, NJ

Delta National Small Prints Bradbury Art Museum, Jonesboro, Arkansas          

Distillations Trejas Gallery, Dayton, OH

2011  

Delta National Small PrintsBradbury Art Museum, Jonesboro, AR

Memphis Connections Marshall Arts, Memphis, TN

2010  

Delta Annual Townsend Wolfe Gallery, Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR

Prints: Now in 3D! Minnesota Center for the Book Arts, Minneapolis, MN

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2024   Sally A. Williams Artist Grant, Arkansas Arts Council

2021   Lamar Williamson Prize for Teaching Excellence, Lyon College

2020   Research Grant, Council of Independent Colleges, Kress Foundation

2019   Professor of the Year, Alpha Chi Honor Society, Lyon College

2018   Artist Fellowship Grant, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, Vermont

2016   Individual Fellowship Award, Arkansas Arts Council, Visual Arts: Painting

2015   Donna and Don Bowyer Purchase Award, Delta National Small Prints Exhibition

2011   Purchase Prize, Delta National Small Prints Exhibition

2010   Third Place, 92nd Annual Toledo Area Artists Exhibition, Toledo Museum of Art

2007   Purchase Award Hunterdon Museum of Art 51st Annual Juried Print Exhibition

Mark Jenkins “In the galleries: Artists examine the divide between people and their surroundings”, Washington Post, May 14, 2021

New American Paintings, Issue 148 No. 113 (South Edition), The Open Studios Press. Boston, MA, 2020

Riley, Emily “Abstraction Finds it Place in Arkansas” Number: Ninety-One Summer 2017: page 22

Bork, Dustyn, "Reparation and healing through materiality in the work of Aya Haidar,"

Contemporaneity: Historical Presence in Visual Culture, Fall 2025

Bork, Dustyn "Guest Editorial” Number: Seventy-Five Spring 2014: page 5

Bork, Dustyn "Garage (little) Rock: Review of Homie Sapiens at Thea Vestige Vagrant Varial, and Tarpaulin Muster Good Weather Little Rock, AR." Number: Seventy-Five Summer 2013: pages 16-17

Bork, Dustyn "Interview with John Salvest” Number: Seventy-Four Spring 2013: pages 23-24