Aggie Zed
EDUCATION
1974 University of South Carolina, BFA Painting and Sculpture (cum laude)
AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS
1986 National Endowment for the Arts Profesional Fellowship, Sculpture
1982 Virginia Commission for the Arts Professional Fellowship, Sculpture
SELECTED ONE-PERSON SHOWS
2004 “Things Do Bite Back”, Sculpture and Painting, with John Morgan, Nina Liu
and Friends Gallery, Charleston, South Carolina
“Know Show” Paintings, with John Morgan, Astra Design, Richmond, Virginia
Paintings, B. Deemer Gallery, Louisvile, Kentucky
2003 Sculpture and Paintings, Nina Liu and Friends Gallery, Charleston, South
Carolina
2001 Astra Design, Richmond, Virginia, "Scrap Floats and Jetsam", Sculpture and Paintings
2000 Sweetbriar College, Sweetbriar, Virginia, Paintings
Nina Liu and Friends Gallery, Charleston, South Carolina, Sculpture and Paintings
1999 The Art Works Gallery, Norfolk, Virginia, Paintings
1998 Nina Liu and Friends Gallery, Charleston, South Carolina, Sculpture and Paintings
Astra Design, Richmond, Virginia, Paintings
1997 B. Deemer Gallery, Louisville, Kentucky, Paintings
Nina Liu and Friends Gallery, Charleston, South Carolina, Sculpture and Paintings
1996 Astra Design, Richmond, Virginia, "Its Own Little Animal", Paintings
1995 Nina Liu and Friends Gallery, Charleston, South Carolina, Paintings
1993 Nina Liu and Friends Gallery, Charleston, South Carolina, Sculpture
1986 1708 East Main Gallery, Richmond, Virginia, "Mortal Oxide", Two-Person
Show
1984 Anderson Gallery, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, "In the White Room"
SELECTED GROUP SHOWS
2005 “All Fired Up”, Somerhill Gallery, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
2004 “Myrtle Beach Collects”, Franklin G. Burroughs-Simeon B. Chapin Art
Museum, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina
“South Carolina Birds”, Sumpter Gallery of Art, Sumpter, South Carolina
1997 Spruill Center Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia, "Figure 8"
1995 Bedford Gallery, Longwood College, Farmville, Virginia, "Making a Mark"
1994 Hand Workshop, Richmond, Virgnina, "Pandora's Box"
1993 Sawtooth Center for the Visual Arts, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, "The Artist as Activist"
1991 1708 East Main Gallery, Richmond, Virginia, Sculpture
International Gallery, San Diego, California, "The Art of the Mask"
1985 The Mint Museum, Charlotte, North Carolina, "Southern Comfort/Discomfort"
1983 The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Contemporary Art Gallery, Richmond, Virginia, Sculpture
BIOGRAPHY
Born Emily Agnes White in Charleston, South Carolina in 1952, Aggie Zed is the eldest daughter of Zed Lecates and Emily W. White. She grew up on Sullivan's Island, South Carolina, a barrier island outside of Charleston, with seven brothers and sisters and so many dogs, donkeys, ponies, and other animals that her neighbors wished they grew up on a farm. Aggie received a BFA in Painting and Sculpture (cum laude) from the University of South Carolina in 1974.
In 1976 Aggie moved to Richmond, Virginia where she came to enjoy the camaraderie of members of the faculty and students of the art school of Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond. Aggie discovered a natural environment in which to work as an artist, developing her ceramic sculpture as well as her painting with which she has been able to make a living for over twenty years. Her work is shown in a number of galleries across the country.
Aggie Zed received a Virginia Commission for the Arts Professional Fellowship in 1982 and a National Endowment for the Arts Professional Fellowship in 1986, both of these for sculpture. She has participated in numerous and various group and one-person exhibitions over the years, and her work is included in collections worldwide.
Since 1998 Aggie has lived in Louisa County, Virginia with her husband, David Stone.