Stacy Lynn Waddell was born in Washington, DC and creates works that structure sites of intersection between both real and imagined realities of American history and culture. After earning her MFA from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2007, her work has been recognized and exhibited nationally. Waddell has participated in exhibitions at The Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art in Winston Salem, NC, Branch Gallery in Durham, NC, the John Hope Franklin Center and the Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke University in Durham, NC, the Weatherspoon Art Museum at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro in Greensboro, NC, The North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh, NC, The Philadelphia Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA, Project Row Houses in Houston, TX, The Studio Museum in Harlem in NY and On Stellar Rays in NY among other venues.  

During fall 2010, her first solo museum exhibition The Evidence of Things Unseen, was on view at the Gibbes Museum of Art in Charleston, South Carolina and in January 2011 the exhibition traveled to the Weatherspoon Art Museum at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro in Greensboro, NC. Waddell was named a finalist for The Factor Prize for Southern Art in 2008 and is a 2010 recipient of the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant. She currently resides in Chapel Hill, NC.

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