Visiting Artist Speaker - David Underwood

Born and raised in Columbus, Ohio, David Underwood has spent his professional life in East Tennessee as an artist and an educator. After earning his MFA in Studio Art at Florida State University in 1990, Underwood taught Art and Photography at Carson-Newman University in Jefferson City, Tennessee, for 35 years, retiring in May 2025.


Underwood’s mixed-media and photographic artwork is included in the permanent collections of 16 art museums around the USA, including the Knoxville Museum of Art, the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum. He has held more than 35 solo exhibitions and had work included in more than 150 group exhibitions, in various locations from New York, New York, to Sacramento, California. His artmaking practice Includes explorations in drawing, analog & digital photography, painting, assemblage, mixed-media, image-text, and unique presentation methods.

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