bio
Born in 1908 in Newquay, Cornwall, EnglandDied in 1985 in Memphis, TN
education
1952-53 Art Students League, New York, NY1941-46 Department of Extension, University of Alberta, Canada
1942 Banff School of Fine Arts, Banff, Alberta, Canada
1928-32 Department of Education Technical Training Program, Manitoba, Canada
professional
1952-1977 Teacher, Memphis Academy of Arts, (now Memphis College of Art), Memphis, TNTaught drawing, painting and printmaking. Retired as chairman of the painting
department. Upon retirement named Professor Emeritus.
1973 Conducted printmaking workshop at Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR
1968 Artist in Residence, Department of Art, University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS
1966 Produced graphic work and taught at Pratt Graphic Center, New York, NY
1952-1956 Instructor at Allison's Wells Art Workshop, Way MS
1951 Studied at Art Students League, New York, NY
1949-1950 Appointed member of the Cultural Activities Board of the Government of
the Province of Alberta
1947-1948 Part time instructor, University of Alberta, Department of Extension art classes
1941-1946 Studied drawing and painting, Department of Extension, University of Alberta
1946 Elected to membership in the Alberta Society of Artists
1942 Received Scholarship to Banff School of Fine Arts.
selected exhibitions
2007 Los Angeles Art Show, David Lusk Gallery, Los Angeles2006 The Regional Paintings, David Lusk Gallery, Memphis
Ted Faiers: Prints, David Lusk Gallery
Price is Right, David Lusk Gallery, Memphis
Ted Faiers: Works on Paper from the Fifties, Meredith Ward Fine Art, New York
Pattern Recognition: a Ted Faiers Retrospective, Power House and 413 South Main
Memphis
2004 Art Students League Work, David Lusk Gallery, Memphis, TN
The Art of Performance, Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, TN
2003 Richard York Gallery, New York, NY
Art of Tennessee, Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Sept. 13 - January 18, 2004
San Francisco International Art Exposition, San Francisco, CA
She, David Lusk Gallery, Memphis, TN
2003 Frist Center for the Visual Arts
San Francisco International
Art Exposition, San Francisco, CA
David Lusk Gallery,
Memphis, TN
2002 David Lusk Gallery, Memphis, TN
Art of the 20th
Century, New York, NY
Memphis Brooks Museum
of Art, Memphis, TN
Cheekwood Museum
of Art, Nashville, TN
1994 Memphis College of Art, Memphis, TN
Lisa Kurts Gallery,
Memphis, TN
1989 Alice Bingham Gallery, Memphis, TN
1988 Carolina Union Gallery at University of North Carolina,
Chapel Hill
1987 Schmidt Bingham Gallery, New York, NY
Alice Bingham Gallery,
Memphis, TN
1985 Tennessee State Museum, Nashville, TN
Memphis Brooks Museum
of Art, Memphis, TN
Memphis College
of Art, Memphis, TN
1982 First Tennessee Bank, Memphis, TN
1981 First Tennessee Bank, Memphis, TN
1980 Alice Bingham Gallery, Mempphis, TN
1979 Theo Portnoy Gallery, New York, NY
Alice Bingham Gallery,
Memphis, TN
1978 Thomas V. Robinson Gallery, Houston, TX
1977 Theatre Memphis, Memphis, TN
Paducah Art Guild,
Paducah, KY
1976 Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, TN
The Memphis Academy
of Arts (now Memphis College of Art), Memphis, TN
Shreveport Bicentennial
Invitational Exhibition, Shreveport, LA
Paintings, Nashville
Bicentennial Invitational Exhibition, Nashville, TN
1975 Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, TN
Wolf River Society,
Memphis, TN
1974 Mississippi Art Association, Jackson, MS
Gallery Up, Ocean
Springs, MS
Van Straaten Gallery,
Chicago, IL
1973 Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR
Memphis Brooks Museum
of Art, Memphis, TN
1972 Lambuth College, Jackson, TN
The Gallery Up,
Ocean Springs, MS
North LIght Gallery,
Memphis, TN
1971 Barry Collage, Miami, FL
Southwestern at
Memphis (now Rhodes College), Memphis, TN
1970 Arkansas Arts Center, LIttle Rock, AR
Carol Lane Gallery,
Houston, TX
1969 Arkansas State University, Jonesboro, AR
Memphis Brooks Museum
of Art, Memphis, TN
1968 The McKenzie Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Riverside International
Gallery, Riverside, CA
Jacksonville Art
Museum, Jacksonville, FL
1967 The University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS
University of Mississippi,
Oxford, MS
Dorian Hunter Gallery,
Fullerton, CA
The Media Gallery,
Orange, CA
1965 Georgia College, MIlledgeville,,GA
Mary Chilton Gallery,
Memphis, TN
1964 Arkansas Medical Center, LIttle Rock AR
1963 Southwestern at Memphis (now Rhodes College), Memphis,
TN
1961 East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN
2-3 Gallery, Memphis,
TN
Arkansas Arts Center,
LIttle Rock, AR
1960 The Tennessee Fine Arts Center at Cheekwood, Nashville,
TN
Memphis Brooks Museum
of Art, Memphis, TN
1959 Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, TN
Memphis State University
(now University of Memphis), Memphis TN
Lauren Rogers
Museum, Laurel, MS
1956 Parthenon Gallery, Nashville, TN
Memphis State University,
Memphis, TN
Brooks Memorial Art
Gallery, Memphis, TN
1955 The Memphis Academy of Arts (now Memphis College
of Art)
Mississippi State
College for Women, Columbus, MS
1949 Western Canadian Painters, traveling exhibtion,
Canada
selected publications
2007 Fredric Koeppel. The Commercial Appeal, Playbook, Remembering Ted Faiers, Apr 72007 Ted Faiers: Pattern and Recognition, catalog, Power House and 413 South Main, Memphis
The New York Times
Memphis Business Journal
The Commercial Appeal
The Memphis Flyer
Investing in the Arts
Tennessee Business
Memphis Press Scimitar
The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada
public collections
Alberta Art Foundation, Edmonton, Alberta, CanadaArkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR
AT&T Collection, Chicago, IL
C & I Bank, Memphis, TN
First Tennessee Bank, Memphis, TN
Glenbow Alberta Institute, Calgary Alberta, Canada
Malone & Hyde, (now AutoZone), Memphis, TN
Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, TN
Methodist Hospital, Memphis, TN
National Bank of Commerce, Memphis, TN
Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada
Tennessee State Museum, Nashville, TN
