ABOUT
THE
ARTIST
FAMILY
My mother once told me, sometimes she felt like she “didn’t have no life.” That statement, made with so much honesty, conviction, and passion, yet free of even a hint of self-pity has throughout my career been one of the guiding principles of not only how I live my life, and relate to other people, but has also profoundly influenced the philosophy of my art.
In the early 1900s when she grew up, life was a struggle. Survival was day-to-day and filled with the perils of discrimination, poverty, illiteracy and a host of other dangers inherited from a lifetime of being poor, black and undereducated. Yet she survived and passed her legacy of love, compassion, hope and a sense of “doing the right thing” on to her children. More>>>
SELECTED CV
EDUCATION
Ohio University: Graduation Date: 1975, Degree: M.F.A. Painting
EMPLOYMENT
Benedict College (Columbia, SC)
1999 - 2017 - Retired
Professor: Drawing and Painting
Curator: Ponder Fine Arts Gallery
University of Akron (Akron, OH)
1988-1998
Professor: Advanced Drawing and Painting
Ahmadu Bello University (Zaria, Nigeria)
1980-1987
Senior Lecturer: Drawing
Recent Exhibitions
2023
The Black Period A Collection of Drawings , Paintings,Collages, Mixed Media works by Tyrone Geter _ Residency as The 701 Center for Contemporary | The Residency allowed the artist to hang up a full body of work as an in progress as a work that was open to the public.
The Art Effect “Quite As It’s Kept- International Black Art Exhibition” - October 6 - November 10, 2023
Southern Voices?Global Vision - Artfields, LakeCity, SC
Artist in Residence at 701 CCA - Columbia,SC
2022
Lake City
2021
At War With Ourselves, Koger Center for the Arts, Columbia, SC
Guest: Nicky Finney, Poet; Michael Abels, composer; Kronos Quartet and a primarily African American 24-voice choir; Tyrone Geter, Artist
Visible Man: Art and Black Male Subjectivity, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio, Invitational
2021 Find Joy in Art Auction, South Carolina Arts Foundation
Artist to Watch
Saachi Online
Artwork Archive
2020
ROOTS OF CHANGE: Reaching Back|Moving Forward, Ellington-White Contemporary at The Arts Council, Fayetteville State University
2019
Elizabeth O’Neil Verner Awards for the Arts given to the most outstanding artist in the State Of South Carolina for 2019
YADDO Artist In Residency, 2019
Greenburg Arts Center, Greenburg, SC
2018
Then And Now: The Art Of Tyrone Geter, September 4, 2018
Bryan Gallery, Coastal Carolina University
Meadows Gallery, Patterson - Appleton Arts Center in Denton, Texas
September 8 - December 8, 2018-2019
2017
Enduring Spirit Exhibition Columbia Museum, Columbia, SC
Enduring Spirit Award given to outstanding women of color who made contributions to the community in the current year. Columbia Museum, Columbia, SC
2016
Florence Museum, Florence, SC
2015
Black Arts Exhibition and Competition, Dayton, Ohio
City Gallery At The Waterfront, Charleston, SC
Art From The South Carolina State Collection,
Light Of The Ancestors, Washington, DC
People Award from Carolina’s Got Art! Competition and Exhibition Held in Charlotte, NC
2013
The Dorsey Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
2012
Creative Alliance, Baltimore, MD
Triennial Revisited, Sponsored by The SC Arts Commission and 701
2011
Greenwood Museum of Art, Greenwood, SC
2010
Freedom Center Mural Project:the Columbia Museum until April 17, 2010
1993
Akron Art Museum, Akron, Ohio. Book Illustrations, “Irene and the Big, Fine Nickel”.
1989
Taft Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1st Prize,National Competition, 35 pieces.
1986
American Cultural Center, Kano, Nigeria, Invitational, International, 30 pieces.
1983
The National Gallery of Modem Art, Federal Department of Culture, Lagos, Nigeria, Invitational, 35 pieces.
Publications
2023
The New Brownies' Book: A Love Letter to Black Families - Charly Palmer _ Upcoming
“Saturday Morning Dance Class” Purchased for The Johnson Collection
100 African American Artists You Should Know” _ Overdue Recognition Gallery
2022
The Black Period: Hafizah A. Geter -
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2006
Taft Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio2002
U.S. Government Art in Embassy Program 1999
Museum of Science & Industry, Chicago IL.
1998
The National Black Art Show, New York, NY.
1989
The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH.
1988
Heffers Gallery, Cambridge, United Kingdom, Invitational.
1987
Japan tour Sponsored by the Museum for the National Center for Afro-American Artist.
1985
National Gallery of Art, Dakar, Senegal. Juried, Invitational.
ILLUSTRATIONS
2005
Three Illustrations of Rosa Parks: c in New York
1999
Sunday Week by Dinah Johnson- publisher Henry Holt
1996
White Socks Only by Evelyn Coleman -publisher Albert Whitman
1996
Little Tree Growin’ in the Shade by Camille Yarbrough - Putnam
1995
Willie Jerome by Faye Duncan -publisher Macmillan
1994
Can’t Scare Me! by Milissa Milich. -publisher Bantam Doubleday
1994
Dawn and the Round To-it by Irene Smalls-Hector -publisher
1992
Dawn’s Friends by Irene Smalls-Hector –publisher, D.C. Heath
1991
Irene and The Big, Fine Nickel by Irene Smalls-Hector –Little, Brown and Co.
1994
AWARDS, COMMITTEES AND PRESENTATIONS
2000
Prize, Moja National Juried Art Exhibition
1991
Individual Artist Grant, Ohio Arts Council, Columbus, OH.
1989
53 National Midyear Exhibition, The Butler Institute of American
Art, Youngstown, OH, Dr. & Mrs. Albert B. Cinelli Award.
1989
The Robert Duncanson Award, Taft Museum
1985
Fifth Annual Atlanta Life National Art Competition and Exhibition.
1979
Artist Fellowship Grant, Foundation for the Arts and Humanities, Boston, MA.
SELECTED PRIVATE & PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Columbia Museum Of Art
Arthur Primas
Nancy Wilson, Vocalist
Yusef Lateef, Musician
South Carolina Governor’s School for the Arts and Humanities, Greenville, SC
The University of Akron, Akron, OH
Metro health Medical Center, Cleveland, OH
NYNEX, New York, NY
Atlanta Life Insurance Co. Atlanta, GA
Wall Mural Rapid Transit Station, Cleveland, OH
Florida A & M Permanent Collection Africa
Federal Republic of Nigeria, Presidential Guest House, Abuja, Nigeria
Niger State Government, Guest House, Minna, Nigeria
Prime Minister Robert Mugabe, Harare, Zimbabwe United Kingdom
Jesus College, Cambridge
Cambridge Art Collection
2008
Origin book illustrations for Little Tree Growing In The Shade 27 Illustrations
Gift to Richland County Main Library
2008
Original book Illustrations for Willie Gerome 15 illustrations
Gift to the Children Defense Fund