Artist Registry
The White Columns Curated Artist Registry is an online platform for emerging and under-recognized artists to share images and information about their respective practices. The Registry seeks to create a context for artists who have yet to benefit from wider critical, curatorial or commercial support. To be eligible, artists cannot be affiliated with a commercial gallery in New York City.
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RESUME
McKenzie Drake
Charleston, SC
EDUCATION
2024 MFA, Studio Art (painting), University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
2017 BA, Studio Art and Political Science, Rhodes College, Memphis, TN
2015 Course Studies, Slade School of Fine Art, London, England
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021 Less | Earth | Bound, Hall Gallery, Millsaps College, Jackson, MS
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 All Else: 2024 Studio Art MFA Showcase, Visual Arts Center, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
2024 Ensemble, Visual Arts Center, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
2023 2023/24 UT Austin MFA Studio Art, Good Dad Gallery, Austin, TX
Twilight on the Trail, Austin Parks Conservancy Fundraiser, Austin, TX
2022 48th Annual Bi-State Art Competition and Exhibition, Meridian Museum of Art, Meridian, MS
2021 CARE: Art exhibition by Dear Artists in Collaboration with Artist/Mother Podcast, Dear Artists Project
2018 Cotton District Arts Festival Juried Show, Starkville Area Arts Council, Starkville, MS
2017 The Mirth that Exists Between Everything Else, Rhodes College, Memphis, TN
Exhibition Momentum, Center for the Outreach and Development of the Arts, Memphis, TN
2017 Juried Student Show, Rhodes College; Memphis, TN
Wiseacre Tap Room Group Show; Memphis, TN
2015 2015 Juried Student Show, Rhodes College; Memphis, TN
COLLECTIONS
2017 Rhodes College, Memphis, Tennessee
AWARDS AND GRANTS
2024 (Nominee) Dedalus Foundation Master of Fine Arts Fellowship
David Price Endowed Presidential Scholarship, College of Fine Arts,
University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
Katherine Kay “Katy” Davis Memorial Scholarship, College of Fine Arts,
University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
Robert Levers Endowed Presidential Scholarship, College of Fine Arts,
University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
2023 Ellen Clayton Garwood Scholarship, College of Fine Arts, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
Michael Frary Endowed Scholarship, College of Fine Arts, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
2022 Katherine Kay “Katy” Davis Memorial Scholarship, College of Fine Arts, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
Irving and Jeanette Goodfriend Endowed Presidential Scholarship, College of Fine Arts, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
Mini-grant (Individual), Mississippi Arts Commission, Jackson, MS
2021 Rapid-response Mini-grant (Individual), Mississippi Arts Commission; Jackson, MS
2015 Buckman Fellowship for Study Abroad, Rhodes College, Memphis, TN
MEDIA + PUBLICATIONS
2024 Pickerel, A. “‘All Else’: Studio art graduate students showcase work in final exhibit before receiving MFA,” The Daily Texan
2021 CARE: Art Exhibition by Dear Artists in Collaboration with Artist/Mother Podcast, Dear Artists Project