Vadis Turner’s first solo museum exhibition was at the Frist Art Museum in 2017 followed by the Huntsville Museum of Art in 2022 and the Abroms-Engel Institute for Visual Arts at the University of Alabama in Birmingham in 2023. She was awarded the Joan Mitchell Painters and Sculptors Grant in 2016. Turner’s work is included in the permanent collections of the Brooklyn Museum, 21C Museum, Kentucky Museum of Arts and Crafts, Tennessee State Museum, Huntsville Museum of Art, the Hunter Museum of American Art and the University of Alabama, Birmingham. She has exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum, Andy Warhol Museum, The Bunker Artspace, ICA Portland, Minnesota Museum of American Art, Islip Art Museum, Knoxville Museum, Susquehanna Museum of Art and Cheekwood Museum. Turner’s next group show will be at the Museum of Art & Design in NYC. Residencies include Museum of Arts & Design, Materials for the Arts, Hambidge Center and a Fellowship at Vermont Studio Center and two fellowships at Yaddo. Selected press includes Artforum, Art Papers, New York Times, Hyperallergic, Widewalls, Two Coats of Paint, Burnaway, Wallpaper*, Vanityfair.com, Observer, Artnet, and Whitehot Magazine. Her projects have been funded by the Barbara Demming Memorial Fund, South Arts, Tennessee Arts Commission and The Current Art Fund, a regranting program through the Andy Warhol Foundation. Turner received a BFA and MFA from Boston University. She teaches at Vanderbilt University and is represented by Geary in New York.