education

1952-53

Art Students League, New York

1941-46

University of Alberta, Canada

1942

Banff School of Fine Arts, Canada

1928-32

Department of Education, Manitoba, Canada

professional

1979

First Tennessee Bank 16,000 square foot mural commission of Tennessee history

1952-77

Instructor, Memphis Academy of Arts (Memphis College of Art), later professor emeritus

1968

Artist in Residence, University of Mississippi, Oxford

1966

Artist in Residence, Pratt Graphic Center, New York

1952-56

Instructor, Allison’s Wells Art Workshop, Way, MS

1949

Elected member, Cultural Activities Board of the Government of the Province of Alberta

1947-49

Instructor, University of Alberta, Department of Extension

1946

Elected member, Alberta Society of Artists

selected exhibitions

2010

David Lusk Gallery

2008

Flowers in Art, Memphis Garden Club, Dixon Gallery and Garden, Memphis

2007

Southern Living's 2007 Idea House, David Lusk Gallery, Watersound, FL
Los Angeles Art Show, David Lusk Gallery, Los Angeles

2006

the regional paintings, David Lusk Gallery
Ted Faiers: Prints, David Lusk Gallery
Price is Right, David Lusk Gallery
Ted Faiers: Wprks on Paper from the Fifties, Meredith Ward Fine Art, New York
Pattern Recognition: a Ted Faiers Retrospective, Power House and 413 South Main, Memphis

2005

TITLE, Pelter Gallery, Greenville, SC

2004

Art Students League Paintings, David Lusk Gallery
The Art of Performance, Memphis Brooks Museum of Art

2003

Ted Faiers: Paintings from the 1950s, Richard York Gallery, New York
Art of Tennessee, Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville
She: Ted Faiers Woodcuts from the 1960s, David Lusk Gallery

2002

Ted Faiers: The 1950s, David Lusk Gallery
Art of the 20th Century, New York Uptown Armory, David Lusk Gallery
The Symbolic Heart/Garden of Eden Suite, Memphis Brooks Museum of Art
A Century of Progress: Twentieth Century Painting in Tennessee, Cheekwood Museum of Art, Nashville

1994

Ted Faiers Retrospective, Memphis College of Art
The Abstract Years: Space and Motion, Kurts Bingham Gallery, Memphis

1989

Alice Bingham Gallery, Memphis

1988

Carolina Union Gallery, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

1987

Schmidt Bingham Gallery, New York
Selected Works 1948-1980, Alice Bingham Gallery, Memphis

1985

A Retrospective Exhibition, Tennessee State Museum, Nashville
Memphis Brooks Museum of Art
Memphis College of Art

1982

Paintings, First Tennessee Bank, Memphis

1981

Prints and Paintings, First Tennessee Bank, Memphis

1980

The Hearts of Edward Faiers, Alice Bingham Gallery, Memphis

1979

Two From Memphis, Theo Portnoy Gallery, New York
Prints, Alice Bingham Gallery, Memphis

1978

Paintings, Westpark Junior College, Fort Smith, AR
Thomas V. Robinson Gallery, Houston

1977

Paintings, and Drawings, Theatre Memphis
Paintings, Paducah Art Guild, KY

1976

Spirit of the River, Memphis Brooks Museum of Art
Paintings, Prints and Drawings, The Memphis Academy of Arts
Paintings, Shreveport Bicentennial Invitational Exhibition, LA
Paintings, Nashville Bicentennial Invitational Exhibition

1975

Multiples, Memphis Brooks Museum of Art

1974

Municipal Gallery Exhibition of Paintings, Mississippi Art Association, Jackson
Paintings, East Texas Invitational, Longview
Prints, Van Straaten Gallery, Chicago

1973

Prints, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock
Paintings, Prints and Drawings, Memphis Brooks Museum of Art

1972

Paintings and Prints, Lambuth College, Jackson, TN
Paintings and Prints, The Gallery Up, Ocean Springs, MS
Three Printmakers, North LIght Gallery, Memphis
Two for Twenty, Clough Hanson Gallery, Rhodes College, Memphis

1971

Prints, Barry College, Miami

1970

Six Americans, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock
3, McClung Museum Gallery, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Paintings, Carol Lane Gallery, Houston
1969 Prints, Arkansas State University, Jonesboro
Paintings, Memphis Brooks Museum of Art

1968

Paintings, The McKenzie Gallery, Los Angeles
Paintings, Riverside International Gallery, Riverside, CA
Prints, Jacksonville Art Museum, FL

1967

Paintings: Burton Callicott & Ted Faiers, The University of Mississippi, Oxford
Paintings and Prints, Dorian Hunter Gallery, Fullerton, CA
Prints, The Media Gallery, Orange, CA

1965

Prints, Georgia College, Milledgeville, GA
Paintings and Prints, Mary Chilton Gallery, Memphis

1961

Paintings, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City
Drawings, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock

1960

Tennessee Artists Now, Cheekwood Museum of Art, Nashville
First Memphis Invitational Print Show, Memphis Brooks Museum of Art

1959

Fourth Annual Mid South Exhibition of Paintings, Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, purchase prize for Flight One
Lauren Rogers Museum, Laurel, MS

1956

16 Tennessee Artists, Parthenon Gallery, Nashville
Three Memphis Painters, Memphis State University
The First Mid-South Exhibition of Paintings, Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, purchase prize for 17.1.56

1949

Western Canadian Painters, traveling exhibition, Canada

selected bibliography

2006

Fredric Koeppel. The Commercial Appeal, Playbook, Remembering Ted Faiers, Apr 7
Ted Faiers: Pattern and Recognition, catalog, Power House and 413 South Main, Memphis

2003

Art of Tennessee, Frist Center for the Visual Arts, catalog
Ken Johnson, Ted Faiers: Paintings From The 1950’s, Art in Review, The New York, Times, Aug 8

2002

Peggy Burch, Memphis Palette, The Commercial Appeal, Jun 21
David Hall, Oh Oh Mama, Ted Faiers exhibit chronicles early transition, The Memphis Flyer, Jun 13
Alan Duckworth, Focus: Faiers, Gamut, Jul

1994

Edward Faiers Retrospective, catalog, Memphis College of Art

1989

First Tennessee Heritage Collection, catalog, First Tennessee Bank, Memphis

1987

Michael Lollar, Art of the State, Mid South Magazine, The Commercial Appeal, Sep 13

1986

Edward Faiers, A Retrospective Exhibition, catalog, Tennessee State Museum, Nashville
Edwin Howard, Faiers Retrospective Puts Genius into Perspective, The Memphis Business Journal, Jul 1

1980

Donald LaBadie, Artist Puts “Heart” into Exhibit, The Commercial Appeal, Feb 1

1979

Norman Nadel, Two From Memphis’ Opens in New York, Memphis Press Scimitar, May 11

1977

Guy Northrup, Faiers on Death, Jays and Good Ole Boys, The Commercial Appeal, Nov 13

1972

edward faiers, two for twenty, catalog, Memphis College of Art & Rhodes College, Memphis

1970

Six Americans, catalog, Arkansas Arts Centers, Little Rock

1969

Edward Faiers New Projections 1969, catalog, Memphis Brooks Museum of Art

1960

Tennessee Artists Now, catalog, Cheekwood Museum of Art, Nashville

1959

Fourth Annual Mid-South Exhibition of Paintings, catalog, Memphis Brooks Museum of Art