John Douglas Powers

In 2015, John Douglas Powers showed new work the Euclid Avenue Gallery at The Sculpture Center with Revenant as part of our annual W2S (Window to Sculpture Emerging Artist) series. He has shown his work at acclaimed institutions around the US and in 2016 was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for his achievements. That same year, Powers was featured as a keynote speaker at SculptureX Symposium 2016: Value Added, part of the Sculpture Center’s ongoing program of events for artists in the region. Powers lives and works in Knoxville, Tennessee and serves as Assistant Professor of Sculpture at the University of Tennessee. What follows is a sampling of his recent achievements:

Featured exhibitions
The Hunter Invitational, Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, TN, 2018
State of the Art, Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, TN, 2017
Enscribe, The Front, New Orleans, LA, 2016
State of the Art, Telfair Museum, Savannah, GA, 2016
Clouds and Waves, Blue Spiral1, Asheville, NC, 2016
Contemporary Focus, Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, TN, 2016
Locus, Mason-Sharfenstein Museum of Art, Demorest, GA, 2015
Revenant, The Front, New Orleans, LA, 2015

Featured awards
Anne and Steve Bailey Opportunity Grant, co-authored with Joshua Bienko, 2017
Excellence in Research/Creative Achievement Award, The University of Tennessee, 2017
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, 2016

Featured publications
The New York Times, World Sculpture News, Sculpture Magazine, Art Forum, The Huffington Post, Art in America, The Boston Globe and on CBS News Sunday Morning

Featured collections
Museum of Fine Arts Boston
Smithsonian Museum of American Art
Detroit Institute of Art

More information on John and his artwork is available at his website, www.john-powers.com