Chuck Hemard is a lifelong resident of the American south. His recent photographs, made mostly with large format film cameras, explore the complexity of contemporary landscape. In 2014, he was awarded an Artist Fellowship from the Alabama State Council on the Arts and has work included in public collections across the southeast United States, including the Columbus Museum of Art in Columbus GA and the Ogden Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans. Hemard is an Associate Professor at Auburn University in the Department of Art and Art History. 

CHUCK HEMARD    born New Orleans, LA


SOLO EXHIBITIONS  
2011    Quandary: Recent Landscape Photography, Giles Gallery, Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, KY
Recent Photographs, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, VA
Situations, Folcrum Gallery, Columbus State University, Columbus, GA
2010    Shelter, The Opal Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2008    Now and Then, Columbus Museum, Columbus, GA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS  
2015    Celebrating Contemporary Art in Alabama: The Biennial, Troy Pike Cultural Arts Center, Troy, AL
SPE Southeast Juried Exhibition, Center for Visual Arts, Greenville, SC
2014    Pine, Georgine Clarke Alabama Artist Gallery, Montgomery, AL (three person exhibition)
In Praise of Trees, Photoplace Gallery, Middlebury, VT
2013    Legacy, Troy Pike Cultural Arts Center, Troy, AL (three person exhibition)
Art of Georgia, Office of the Governor, Georgia State Capitol, Atlanta, GA
2012    Looking at the Land: 21st Century American Views RISD Museum of Art, Providence, Rhode Island
Soft Science, Illges Gallery, Corn Center, Columbus State University, Columbus, GA
2011    Alabama’s Finest, Gadsden Museum of Art, Gadsden, AL
2010    New Southern Photography, Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA
2009    Recent Acquisitions, Lauren Rogers Museum of Art, Laurel, MS
Emerging Photographers Online Auction, Daniel Cooney Fine Art, New York, NY
Slow Exposures 2009, Candler Field Museum, Williamson, GA
2008    Lagrange National XXV, The Lamar Dodd Art Center, LaGrange, GA
2007    Responding to Home, Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, Atlanta, GA
2006    Southeast Biennial, Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, AL (Third Place)
2005    A Sense of Place, Gertrude Herbert Institute of Art, Augusta, GA
    Senior Moments, City Gallery East, Atlanta, GA
2004    Tender Landscape, Dalton Gallery, Agnes Scott College, Decatur, GA     
AWARDS
2014    Individual Artist Fellowship, Alabama State Council on the Arts
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, GA
The Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA
Lauren Rogers Museum of Art, Laurel, MS
The Columbus Museum, Columbus, GA
Lamar Dodd Art Center, LaGrange, GA
ONLINE PUBLICATIONS
2012    Looking at the Land: 21st Century American Views http://flakphoto.com/exhibition/looking-at-the-land
2009    Flak Photo, featured photo, November 6, 2009 http://flakphoto.com/photo/chuck-hemard-birdtraffic
    Group Show No. 29, Humble Arts Foundation New York, Online Exhibition
EDUCATION
M.F.A. 2004 with distinction, Lamar Dodd School of Art, University of Georgia, Athens, GA
B.A. 1999 University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, MS