About Dorothy Netherland
Originally from Alexandria, VA, I am an artist based in North Charleston, SC. I create mixed-media artwork using diverse materials and processes, inviting viewers into layered, visually rich worlds of embedded meaning. What started in 2002 as painting on layers of glass gradually evolved into my current art practice engaged in the exploration and expansion of materials, merging collage, paint, ink, screenprint, photo transfer, glass, mylar, plastic packaging, and other materials. I'm currently making sculptural pieces, as well as pieces on plastic sheets. I cut up and transfer layers of altered magazine imagery under and over the plastic, and combine the resulting colors, shapes and textures with hand painted and drawn imagery.
My media and content have shifted and expanded over time, but at its core my work has always been an expression of my efforts to understand the nature of what we think of as "true" or "real". I am obsessed with the commingling of the real and the fake, and I'm interested in the ways in which we respond to constant content.
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Education:
2000 BA Studio Art, College of Charleston
Gallery Affiliations:
Mike Brown Gallery, Columbia, SC, 2022-present
If ART Gallery, Columbia, SC, 2006-2022 The Southern Gallery, Charleston, SC, 2016-2018 Barbara Archer Gallery, Atlanta, GA, 2008-2013 Scoop Studios, Charleston SC, 2009-2012 Modernisme Gallery, Charleston, SC, 2006-2007
Solo Exhibitions:
2025-26 Beauty in BountyLand, Public Works Art Center, Summerville, SC 2025 Not In Kansas, Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, SC 2023 Pearls and Pills, Mike Brown Gallery, Columbia, SC 2017 FanGirl, The Southern Gallery, Charleston, SC 2015 PolyVores, If ART Gallery, Columbia, SC 2012 Dorothy Netherland: Velveteen, 80808/Vista Studios, Columbia, SC 2012 Velveteen: Paintings on glass by Dorothy Netherland, Hardman Hall Art Gallery, Mercer University, Macon, GA 2012 Dorothy Netherland: Mementos, Blackbridge Hall Art Gallery, Georgia College, Milledgeville, GA 2011 Built From Scraps, New work by Dorothy Netherland, Scoop Studios, Charleston, SC 2010 Dorothy Netherland: D Days, If ART Gallery, Columbia, SC 2010 People In Glass Houses, paintings by Dorothy Netherland, Desotorow Gallery, Savannah, GA
Two-Person Exhibitions:
2009 Layers, Paintings by Dorothy Netherland and John Morse, Scoop Studios, Charleston, SC 2008 Up Close and Personal, Paintings by Fort Guerin and Dorothy Netherland, Barbara Archer Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2025, Featured artist, At This Moment, Jerry Siegel Portraits of South Carolina Artists, curated by Mark Sloan and Thomas Styron, Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, SC 2024 Eye to Eye, The Roefs Waddell Collection, 701 Center for Contemporary Art, Columbia, SC 2024 ArtFields, The ROB, Lake City, SC 2023 ArtFields, The ROB, Lake City, SC 2022 Behind the Blooms, Gallery 26 at The Vendue, Charleston, SC 2020 SPARK Invitational, Public Works Art Center, Summerville, SC 2020 SELFIE/UNSELFIE, If ART Gallery, Columbia, SC 2019 South Carolina Biennial 2019, 701 Center for Contemporary Art, Columbia, SC 2019 Glow, The Vendue Gallery, Charleston, SC 2019 2019 Piccolo Spoleto Juried Art Exhibition, The City Gallery at Waterfront Park, Charleston, SC 2018 ArtFields, The ROB, Lake City, SC 2017 Get Well Soon, The Southern Gallery, Charleston, SC 2017 Mixed Bag: Redux-Past-Present-Future, Redux Contemporary Art Center, Charleston, SC 2016 99 Problems (But A Print Ain't One), The Southern Gallery, Charleston, SC 2016 Paper Products, If ART Gallery, Columbia, SC 2016 ArtFields, Lake City, SC 2015 ArtFields, The ROB, Lake City, SC 2014 Intersections of Gender and Place: Julia Fenton, Marita Gootee, Edna Lanieri, Lindsey Mears, Dorothy Netherland, Eugenia Summer Gallery, Mississippi University for Women, Columbus, MS 2014 Across The Board, If ART Gallery, Columbia, SC 2014 ArtFields, The ROB, Lake City, SC 2013 South Carolina Biennial 2013, 701 Center for Contemporary Art, Columbia, SC 2013 ArtFields, The ROB, Lake City, SC 2012 18/100 Southern Artists: The If ART Contingency, If ART Gallery, Columbia, SC 2012 Fashion And The Female, The Arts Center of Greenwood, Greenwood, SC 2012 Fantastic Reality, 80808/Vista Studios, Columbia, SC 2011 Artist Symposium Group Exhibition, Villa Bohm, Neustadt an der Weinstrasse, Germany 2011 Out of The South, Artstream Gallery, Rochester, NH 2011 Antarctic: Revisited, Scoop Studios, Charleston, SC 2011 Kulture Klash Group Exhibition, 10 Storehouse Row, N. Charleston SC 2011 Postcard Show: Wish You Were Here!, Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art, College of Charleston, Charleston 2010 Kulture Klash Group Exhibition, 10 Storehouse Row, N.Charleston SC 2009 Past Presence, Redux Contemporary Art Center, Charleston, SC 2009 Contemporary Charleston 2009: Revelation of Process, Piccolo Spoleto, The City Gallery at Waterfront Park, Charleston, SC 2007 Reorientation, Redux Contemporary Art Center, Charleston SC 2007 ishow, Modernisme Gallery, Charleston, SC 2007 Studio Visits, Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville SC 2006 The Little Things, Modernisme Gallery, Charleston SC 2006 Humans, Gallery 80808/Vista Studios, Columbia, SC 2006 Invasion: Redux Artists in the French Quarter, Mary Martin Gallery, Charleston SC 2005 Reorientation, Redux Contemporary Art Center, Charleston, SC 2005 The Floating, Piccolo Spoleto Festival, King St, Charleston SC 2005 De(re)Construction, Installation at Mixon Ave, N. Charleston SC 2004 Triennial, SC State Museum, Columbia, SC 2004 Fresh Work, College of Charleston Alumni Exhibition, College of Charleston Halsey Gallery, Charleston, SC 2004 Contemporary Charleston, Piccolo Spoleto Festival, The City Gallery at Waterfront Park, Charleston, SC 2003 Group Show, Untitled Gallery, Charleston, SC
Publications and Press:
2025 Jerry Siegel, At This Moment: Portraits of South Carolina Artists, featured artist. 2019 Emily Pietras, "The Path Forward", Charleston City Paper, April, 2019 2017 Karyn Oyer, "FanGirl opens at The Southern, exploring issues of identity, transformation, and personal power", The Post and Courier Aug 4, 2017 Scott D. Elingburg, "Contemporary art exhibits to keep us engaged", The Post and Courier 2015 Wim Roefs, PolyVores exhibition catalogue 2014 E. Ashley Rooney, Artists' Homes and Studios, featured artist 2013 Exhibition catalogue, 701 CCA South Carolina Biennial 2013 2012 The Oxford American, New South Journalism Issue, no. 78, photo of artwork. 2012 E. Ashley Rooney, 100 Southern Artists, featured artist 2012 "Dorothy Netherland's Mementos", The Colonnade, Georgia College, Jan. 20, 2012 2011 "Q&A with Dorothy Netherland, The Post and Courier, December 29, 2011 Erica Jackson Curran, "Artist Dorothy Netherland Paints a New Reality", Charleston City Paper, Feb.1, 2011 2009 "Revelation of Process Compiles Eclectic Talent for Piccolo", The Post and Courier, May 21, 2009 2009 Nick Smith, "Contemporary Charleston Celebrates Local Visionaries", Charleston City Paper, May 20, 2009 2009 Exhibition catalogue + Documentary DVD for Contemporary Charleston 2009: Revelation of Process 2008 Vizarts: Outside the Lines: "Messages mix in Humor", review of Up Close and Personal with artwork photo, The Atlanta Journal Constitution 2006 Exhibition catalogue, Humans group show 2005 "Art Makes Itself Right at Home", photo of artwork, The Post and Courier 2005 "Charleston Artists A-Z", Fall Arts Preview, Charleston City Paper 2005 Exhibition catalogue, The Floating group show 2004 "In the Here and Now", Triennial review, The State, Columbia SC 2004 Exhibition catalogue, Triennial SC State Museum 2004 "29 Futures", Contemporary Charleston review, The State, Columbia
Residencies/Awards:
2024 Visiting Artist Program, Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, SC 2019 Best Collage, Piccolo Spoleto Juried Art Exhibition, The City Gallery at Waterfront Park, Charleston, SC 2011 Artist of the Year, Columbia Contemporaries of the Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, SC 2011 International Symposium of Artists, Neustadt an der Weinstrasse, Germany 2000 Laura Bragg Award, College of Charleston 2000 Liberace Scholarship, College of Charleston 1999 Outstanding Student Award, College of Charleston