Jack Girard
Studio: 110 Luigart Court, Lexington, KY 40508
Email: jgirard@transy.edu
Professional Experience:
Professor Emeritus, Art and Art History Program, Transylvania University, Lexington, KY 1981- 2023; Art and Art History Program Director, 2016-18; Program Director Transylvania in Ireland program; Fine Arts Division Chair, 2007-15; Drama Program Director, 2009-10
Kentucky Governor’s School for the Arts, Louisville, KY 1989-91
Visiting Assistant Professor, Centre College of Kentucky, Danville, KY 1980-81
Instructor, Berea College, Berea, KY 1979-80
Visiting Artist, Carteret Technical College, Morehead City, NC 1978-79
Gallery Director, G. Walker Gallery, Columbia, SC 1976-78
Education:
East Carolina University, Greenville, NC M.F.A. 1976
East Carolina University, Greenville, NC B.F.A. 1973
Allied: University of Kentucky (1982); University of South Carolina (1973)
Selected Exhibitions/Solo
“Jack Girard/Zoe Strecker,” Pam Miller Downtown Arts Center,
Lexington, KY 2024-25
“Figurations: Jack Girard,” Giles Gallery, Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, KY 2024
“Jack Girard: Apparitions and Appropriations,” Lexington Art League, Lexington, KY 2020
Carnegie Visual and Performing Arts Center, Covington, KY 2013
Giles Galleries, Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, KY 2012
Joan Derryberry Gallery, Tennessee Technical University, Cookeville, TN 2010
Morlan Gallery, Transylvania University, Lexington, KY 2009
Mary Rezny Studio Gallery, Lexington, KY 2008
Wofford College, Spartanburg, SC 2007
Illinois Central College, Peoria, IL 2005
Vanderbilt University, Knoxville, KY 2004 Wingspan Gallery, Lexington, KY 2003
The Carnegie, Covington, KY 2003
Central Bank Gallery, Lexington, KY 2001
Morlan Gallery, Lexington, KY 1997
Lexington Public Library, Lexington, KY 1995-96
Berea College, Berea, KY 1995
Morlan Gallery, Lexington, KY 1993
Carnegie Arts Center, Covington, KY 1991
University of Tennessee/Chattanooga, Chattanooga, TN 1990
Xavier Galleries, Xavier University, Cincinnati, OH 1989
Giles Gallery, Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, KY 1989
Rike Center Gallery, University of Dayton, Dayton, OH 1987
Selected Exhibitions/Group
“Portrayed,” d’Art Center, Norfolk, VA 2025
Community Gallery, Pam Miller Downtown Arts Center, Lexington, KY 2025
26th Annual Rio Brazes Exhibition, Tarleton State University, Langdon Center, Stephenville,TX 2024
Member’s Exhibition, Lexington Art League, Lexington, KY 2024-25
37th September Exhibition, Alexandria Museum of Art, Alexandria, LA 2024
“Women in Art,” Las Laguna Art Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA 2024
“Finding Peace Within,” 3Cs Art Collective, Longmont, CO 2024
“Luigart Artists at Central Bank,” Central Bank & Trust, Co., Lexington, KY 2024
“Abstract National,” Mark Arts Gallery, Wichita, KS 2024
“Contemporary Portraits,” Louise Hopkins Underwood Center for the Arts, Lubbock, TX 2023-24
“PRHBTN,” Lexington Art League, Lexington, KY 2023
“The Schwa Show,” Emerge Gallery, Greenville, NC 2023
“Paint Out,” KBM Art Gallery, Riverside, CA 2023
“Abstract Art,” Las Laguna Art Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA 2023
“Strata II,” Verum Ultimum Gallery, Portland, OR 2023
25th Annual Rio Brazos Exhibition, Tarleton State University, Langdon Center, Stephenville, TX 2023
“Golden,” Las Laguna Art Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA 2022
“Portraits,” Modern Visual Art Gallery, Bethlehem, PA 2022
“Nocturnal,” 3Cs Art Collective, Longmont, CO. 2022
PRHBTN at Loudon House, Lexington, KY 2022
Las Laguna Art Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA 2022
Emerge Gallery, Greenville, NC 2022
MVA Gallery, Bethlehem, PA 2022
TRAHC 33rd Annual, Texarkana, TX 2021
Jones Gallery, Kansas City, MO 2021
Las Laguna Art Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA 2021
Hopkins Arts Center, Hopkins, MN 2021
Old Courthouse Arts Center, Woodstock, IL 2021, 2020
Studio Montclair, Montclair, NJ 2021, 2020, 2019
Estrada Garcia Gallery, Georgetown, TX 2020
“Eccentric,” d’Art Center, Norfolk, VA 2020
“OH+5,”Arts Center, Athens, OH 2020
Lagrange Art Museum, LaGrange, GA 2020, 2018
Marie V. Howard Arts Center, Rocky Mount, NC 2020, 2019
Studio Montclair, Montclair, NJ 2019
Lexington Art League, Lexington, KY 2019, 2018
Union Street Gallery, Kokomo, IN 2019
Kentucky Veteran’s Project traveling exhibition (statewide traveling exhibition) 2019-20
Emerge Gallery, Greenville, NC 2018
Kaviar Forge and Gallery, Louisville, KY 2018
Eastern Kentucky State University, Richmond, KY 2018
MS Rezny Studio Gallery, Lexington, KY 2018, 2017
Georgetown College, Georgetown, KY 2017
Three-person exhibition MS Rezny Studio Gallery, Lexington, KY 2017
“Circa 1957,” Lexington Art League, Lexington, KY 2017
Evansville Museum of Art, Evansville, IN 2017, 2016
Maria V. Howard Arts Center, Rocky Mount, NC 2017, 2016, 2014, 2012
Rocky Mount Cultural Arts Center, Rocky Mount, NC 2016, 2007
Georgetown College, Georgetown, KY 2015, 2013, 2011
Alexandria Museum of Art, Alexandria, LA 2015, 2009, 2008
K Space Contemporary (KSC), Corpus Christi, TX 2015
Greenville Museum of Art, Greenville, NC 2015, 2011
ArtsPlace, LexArts Gallery, Lexington, KY 2015
CCC Gallery, Lexington, KY 2015
MS Rezny Studio Gallery, Lexington, KY 2015, 2014, 2013
Lexington Art League, Lexington, KY 2015, 2012
Marietta/Cobb Museum of Art, Marietta, Georgia 2014
Oconee Cultural Arts Foundation, Watkinsville, GA 2014, 2012
Northwest Florida State College, Niceville, FLA 2014
Howard County Arts Center, Ellicott City, MD 2013
Pyro Gallery, Louisville, KY 2012
Hardscuffle Gallery, Louisville, KY 2012
Mattie Kelly Arts Center Galleries, Northwest Florida State College, Ft Walton Beach, FLA 2012
Oconee Cultural Arts Foundation, Watkinsville, GA 2012
Georgetown College, Georgetown, KY 2012
Renaissance Center, Dickson, TN 2010
Mary Rezny Studio Gallery, Lexington, KY 2010
Logsdon 1909 Gallery, Chicago, IL 2010, 2009
701 Center for Contemporary Art, Columbia, SC 2009
Rockport Center for the Arts, Rockport, TX 2009
Lexington Art League, Lexington, KY 2008, 2006
Gallery 181, Lawrence, MA 2007
Fayetteville State University, Fayetteville, NC 2007
Berea College, Berea, KY 2006
East Carolina University, Greenville, NC 2006
AOM, Shelbyville, KY 2006, 2004
T.W. Wood Gallery, Montpelier, VT 2005
SCAA, Mableton, GA 2005
Wingspan Gallery, Lexington, KY 2004
Two-person, Chapman Friedman Gallery, Louisville, KY 2004
Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, KY 2005, 2004
Northampton Art Center, Northampton, MA 2003
Three-person, Water Tower, LVAA, Louisville, KY 2003
Bradley University, Peoria, IL 2001
Chapman/Friedman Gallery, Louisville, KY 2003, 2002, 2001
Morlan Gallery, Lexington, KY 2005, 1999-2002, 1994-96
Images Friedman Gallery, Louisville, KY 2000, 1999, 1998, 1997, 1996
ArtsPlace, Lexington, KY 2007, 2005, 2002, 2001, 2000, 1999, 1998
Georgia Perimeter College, Clarkston, GA 1999
Murray State University, Murray, KY 1998
Capitol Arts Alliance, Bowling Green, KY 1998
Water Tower/Louisville Visual Arts Association, Louisville, KY 2002, 1997
Giles Gallery, Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, KY 1996
Morehead State University, Morehead, KY 1995
Zephyr Gallery, Louisville, KY 1995, 1994
Liberty Gallery, Louisville, KY 1994
Kentucky Art and Craft Foundation, Louisville, KY 1993
Evansville Museum of Arts and Sciences, Evansville, IN 1992
Craft Alliance, St. Louis, MO 1992
Southern Ohio Museum, Portsmouth, OH 1992
Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR 1992
Grants:
Kenan/Jones Faculty Development Grants: 2018, 2016, 2014, 2012, 2011, 2009, 2007, 2006, 2004-05, 2003, 1998, 1996, 1994, 1992, 1990, 1987; Kenan Sabbatical Development Funds 2020, 2019; Byron Young Grant for Faculty Development 2013, 2012; Lexington Arts and Cultural Council Community Arts Development Grants: 1995, 1990I
Lectures/Papers:
International Conference on the Image, Liverpool, England, 2016; Third International Conference on the Image, Poznan, Poland, 2012; Lexington Art League, Lexington, KY, 2012; University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, 2011, 1998, 1992; Tennessee Technical University, Cookeville, TN, 2010; Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, 2004; WUKY University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, 2003; 1998 MACAA
Annual Conference, Lexington, KY; 1997 MACAA/SECAC Conference, Richmond, VA; 1995 SECAC Conference, Georgetown University, Washington, DC; 1992 School of Visual Arts Sixth Annual National Conference, New York, NY; 1986 Mid-American College Art Association Annual Meeting,
Memphis State University, Memphis, TN; Transylvania University, 2009, 2006, 2003, 1999, 1993, 1992, 1990, 1987; Murray State University, 1998; Berea College,1995, 1988; Eastern Kentucky University, 1993, 1989; Saint Mary’s College, 1992; University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, 1990; University of Dayton, 1987; Centre College, 1986; Clarion University, 1984.
Corporate/Institutional Collections:
Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, KY; Central Bank and Trust Company, Lexington, KY; Transylvania University, Lexington, KY; Berea College, Berea, KY; Carteret Technical College, Morehead City, NC; Coca- Cola Bottling Company, Atlanta, GA; Seibels, Bruce and Company, Columbia, SC; East Carolina University, Greenville, NC; South Carolina Museum Commission, Columbia, SC; Appalachian State University, Boone, NC
Authored/Co-authored Publications:
“Bathtubs Teeming with Frogs: Confluence of Form in the Multi-modal Work of Spanish Artist and Poet Margarita Merino.” Advances in Social Sciences Research Journal, Vol 5, No 7 (2018), 228-239; “Bathtubs Teeming with Frogs: Confluence of Form in the Multi-modal Work of Spanish Artist and Poet Margarita Merino,” International Conference on the Image, Liverpool, England, September, 2016;
“Alexandra Dominguez: A Journey to Mythical Spaces,” International Journal for Art and Art History, ARIPD Journals, June, 2015; “Isolation and Alienation in the Art of Juan Carlos Mestre,” The International Journal of the Image, Vol. 3, Issue 4 (electronic); The State of Drawing, Darrell Kincer, Georgetown College, Georgetown, KY, 2012 (Blurb Press); “Victor Hammer: Typeface Designer, Publisher, Portraitist,” Transylvania Treasures, Vol. V, No. 1, page 6, Spring issue, 2012, Transylvania Office of Publications; Horsetails 2010, Lexington Philharmonic Foundations, Welsh Printing, Louisville, KY; “Victor Hammer: Typeface Designer, Publisher, Portraitist,” Transylvania Treasures, Vol. V, No. 1, page 6, Spring issue, 2012, Transylvania Office of Publications; Horsetails 2010, Lexington Philharmonic Foundations, Welsh Printing, Louisville, KY; Retributions: Elections, Floods, and Wishing Wells,” Martha Gehringer and Jack Girard, Lulu Press, Lexington, KY; “Asensio Saez: A Reflection,” University of Murcia Press, Murcia, Spain, Spring Issue, 2008; cited in Antologia, Asencio Saez. Real Academia Alfonso X el Sabio, Murcia, Spain, 1996 (pages 15 -16); “Asencio Saez Garcia: Symbiosis of Word and Image,” Literature, Film and the Other Arts in Modern Spain, Letras Peninsulares (co-authored with Dr. Veronica Dean-Thacker), Michigan State University, Lansing, MI, Spring Issue, 1995; Boda civil y otros cuentos Asencio Saez Garcia, Real Academia Alfonso X el Sabio, Murcia, Spain (book cover collage), 1994; “Asencio Saez Garcia: la imagen y la palabra,” Literatura De Levante (co-authored with Dr. Veronica Dean-Thacker), edited by Francisco Javier Diez de Revenga and Mariano de Paco, CAM Fundacion Cultural, 1993; “Faculty Censorship in Colleges,” Kentucky English Bulletin, Winter, 1992; “Keeping Tabs on the Masquerade,” by Steve Lyon, Journal SEAMUS (a review of the Girard/Munn/Kilkelly collaboration), October, 1986; “Confinement and Isolation in the Art of Edward Kienholz,” Medical Heritage Journal, (co-authored with Dr. Ann Kilkelly), Jan/Feb, 1986.