Curriculum Vitae
Torey Akers
Brooklyn, NY
Contact:
toreyakers@gmail.com
Education
2014-2016 Cranbrook Academy of Art, Master of Fine Arts: Painting
2013 School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Post-Baccalaureate Certificate: Painting and Drawing
2007-2011 Northwestern University, Bachelor of Arts: English Literature
Selected Exhibitions
2024
Upcoming solo project, 365 Foundation, Lansdowne, PA
“Love in the Time of Chaos”, Lockerroom Gallery, Williamsburg, NY
2023
“Prayer Meeting”, Bed Stuy Art House, Brooklyn, NY
“Stuck & Strung”, Piano Craft Gallery, Boston, MA
2022
SOLO
"Forgetting Lyric”, BDAC, Bountiful, Utah
“Heartbeat”, Holy Family University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
“Solid”, Rump Gallery, Chicago, IL
Group
SPRING BREAK ART SHOW, “Naked Lunch”, New York, NY
Untitled, Columbia University Myers Gallery, New York, NY
“Connections and Concealment”, Shafer Art Gallery, Kansas City, Kansas
2021
“To Awe and Awaken”, Roy G Biv Gallery, Columbus, OH, Emerging Artist Series
“Glow In The Dark”, AIR Gallery, Dumbo, NY
“More is More”, Akron Museum of Art, Akron, OH
2020
“Penland School of Crafts Residency Group Show”, Penland School of Crafts, Bakersville, NC
“Quarantine Folk”, Calico Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2019
“i want that crude love”, Paradice Palase, Bushwick, Brooklyn
“Speak/Muse”, In/Passing , Morningside Heights, NY
“Figuration”, Establishment Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
“Bad Skin”, FrontierSpace, Missoula, MO
“Performance//Proxy”, RF Curatorial, Hamtramck, MI
“Look Again”, White Brick Gallery, Ferndale, MI
2018
SOLO
“Bad Forms” Flophouse Gallery, Royal Oak, MI
TWO PERSON
“Girl, U Okay?”, Hatch Gallery, Hamtramck, MI
GROUP
“ICE HOUSE”, Tessellate Gallery, Pontiac, MI
“Measures”, The Art Vacancy, Bushwick, NY
2017
“Predator, Twilight, Edible”, FJORD, Philadelphia, PA
"Under The Pretense of Unity; A Two-Person Show with Ciara Newton": Zoller Gallery, State College, PA
"Wage On! Women, Art, and Money": Juried by Helga Christofferson, New Museum Curator, Ceres Gallery, NY, NY
"The Feminist Opposition": Hera Gallery, Wakefield, RI
"Duality of Feminine and Feminist": Gallery 66, Cold Springs, NY
2016
"Current Conversations": Curated by Narine Kchikian; Next Step Gallery, Ferndale, MI
"2016 MFA Thesis Show": Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI
“Drawing Lines Across Mediums”: Curated by Olga Valle Tetkowski, SITE: Brooklyn
"Content Aware": Curated by Kara Gut; Forum Gallery, Bloomfield Hills, MI
"New New International Style": Curated by Helen Ip; Forum Gallery, Bloomfield Hills, MI
2014
“2014 National Prize Show”; Juried by Worcester Art Museum Director Emeritus James A. Welu, Worcester Art Museum
2013
“9th Annual Small Works Show”; Juried by Artist Jessica Porter, 440 Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
“Coming of Age—Artists in the North East Under 30”; Juried by Artist Mike Carroll, Sharon Arts Center,
Peterborough, NH
“From Our Perspectives; National Women’s Art Exhibition”; Juried by Artist Lynne Avadenka, Oakland Community
College Women’s Center Wallace Smith Theatre Gallery, Farmington Hills, MI
“Be Here Now; A Juried Biennial”; Hosted by the Northampton Arts Council, Hosmer Gallery,
Northampton, MA
“Flash Art Show”; Juried by Co-Chairs Kimberly Thompson and Laura Segal, Arsenal Center for the Arts,
Watertown, MA
“Women in Charge!”; SOHO20 Gallery, Chelsea, NY
“Phantomaton”; Juried by artists Skunk and Joe Kreisenberger, Nave Gallery Annex, Somerville, MA
“Community of Artists”; Juried by Curator Jessica Roscio, Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, MA
“Post-Baccalaureate Show”; Juried by critic Jonathan Calm and artist David Davison, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Publications
Akers, Torey illus. By Roman Hands; Inscriptions and Graffiti for Students of Latin. By Dr. Matthew Hartnett. Newburyport, MA: Focus Pub./R Pullins, 2008.
Akers, Torey. “One” Fog Machine. N.p., 22 Feb. 2016.
Akers, Torey. “Superb Irrelevance.” Ed. S. Edward Burns. ArtsEditor: 19 Nov. 2013.
Akers, Torey. “The Will of Time.” Ed. S. Edward Burns. ArtsEditor: 27 Apr. 2014
International Painting Annual. Vol. 6. Cincinnati, OH: Manifest, 2016.
Zevitas, Steven T. New American Paintings: Juried Exhibitions-in-print.
MFA Annual #117.
Zachary Evans. Calamity Mag, Issue II, December 2016
Residencies and Awards
2024 Surf Point Residency
2022 AIR Studios Paducah
2020 Arts Letters and Numbers Residency
2020 Penland School of Crafts Residency
2017 MASS MoCA Studios At MASS MoCA Residency
2015 Vermont Studio Center
2015 CUE and Art21’s Young Art Critic Mentoring Program, Detroit Fellow
2013 Founder's Scholarship, School of the Museum of Fine Arts