Adrian Rhodes
Adrian Rhodes, (b. 1983) of Hartsville, SC, received her BFA (2005) and MFA (2011) from Winthrop University. She is the recipient of the South Carolina Arts Commission’s 2020 Individual Artist’s Fellowship and the 2019 SECAC Artist’s Fellowship. Her work has been included in group exhibitions including Drawn: Concept and Craft at the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art in Winston Salem, Paper Worlds at the Spartanburg Art Museum, both the 2019 and 2024 presentations of Coined in the South at the Mint Museum Uptown Charlotte, and two of Manifest Gallery’s group exhibitions: CUT: Works Made by or About Cutting (2021) and Kingdom: The Real and Imagined Animal in Art (2024). The McColl Center in Charlotte, NC presented her work in two group exhibitions in 2024: Material Worlds: Winter/Spring Artists in Residence and Splinter and Seed: Function and Concept in Wood. Her work will be presented in the Summer 2025 issue of Fiber Arts Now as part of Fiber Art Reimagined III.
Rhodes is the winner of the 2020 701 CCA Prize from the 701 Center for Contemporary Art in Columbia, SC, and was featured in presentations of the 701 CCA SC Biennial in 2019 and 2021. Recent solo exhibitions include How to Untie a Tight Knot at 701 CCA, After the Ravens at the Spartanburg Art Museum, and End Figure at Mike Brown Contemporary in Columbia, SC. She has been an Artist in Residence at 701 CCA in Columbia, SC, the McColl Center in Charlotte, NC, and a winter resident at Penland School of Craft in Spruce Pine, NC.
