Curriculum Vitae
Education
2009 Masters of Fine Arts, The University of South Florida, Tampa, FL
2009 Masters of Arts in Teaching in the Visual Arts, The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
1999 Bachelors in Fine Arts, The School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
Selected One Person Exhibitions/ Solo Performance Works
2022 Boren Banner Series, Molly Vaughan, Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA
Safety in Numbers, MadArt Studios, Seattle, WA
2021 Project 42: Molly Vaughan, Bainbridge Island Art Museum, Bainbridge Island, WA
After Boucher, Fuller Rosen Gallery, Portland, OR
2018 Project 42: Molly Vaughan, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
2017 Safety in Numbers, Killjoy Collective (presented via Dsjecta), Portland, OR
2016 I’m Hair Now, Bellevue College, Bellevue, WA
2015 Over, Under, Over: Intertwined Experiences in a Transgender Age featuring Moriah Fleeting, Museum of Fine Arts St.
Petersburg, St. Petersburg, FL
2014 Art Burst; Project 42, National Performance Network and Visual Artist Network Annual Conference, Tulsa, OK
2013 Project 42, The Englewood Art Center, Englewood, FL
The Restoration of the Stolen Lock, The Morean Art Center, St. Petersburg, FL
2011 Annual Performance and Visual Artist Network Conference, POD installation and performance titled; Safety in Numbers,
Tampa, FL
Exquisite Self: Fabricated Boundaries, Collective, St. Petersburg, FL
2007 An installation of rather pretty pictures, SCENEMetrospace, East Lansing, MI (catalog)
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023 Queer Threads, San Jose Museum of Textiles and Quilts, San Jose, CA
2022 State of Fashion Biennial, Ways of Caring, Arnheim, Netherlands
A Site of Struggle, The Block Museum, Northwestern University, Evanstone, IL traveling to Montgomery Museum of Fine Art,
Montgomery, AL
2021 Third Gender, A.K.T., Berlin, Germany
2020 Looking Outside, James Harris Gallery, Seattle, WA
Stand Up Prints, Highpoint Print Center, Minneapolis, MN
Contemporary Northwest Print Invitational, Davidson Galleries, Seattle, WA
2019 Artists in Abstraction, Bainbridge Island Art Museum, Bainbridge, WA
Coiffed , SOIL, Seattle, WA
2018 Do You See Me?, Bryan Ohno Gallery, Seattle, WA
2017 We The People, Minnesota Museum of American Art, Minneapolis, MN
2016 MOTHA and Chris E. Vargas present Trans Hirstory in 99 Objects, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Cover Me, Alice Gallery, Seattle, WA
Exquisite Corpse, Morean Art Center, St. Petersburg, FL
2015 Gender, Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant, MI
2014 HAIR, Leso Gallery, Toledo, OH
2013 Ransom, Wayfavers Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2012 VERGE ART FAIR MIAMI BEACH, Miami, FL
Southern Open 2012, Acadian Center for the Arts, Lafayett, LA
The Influential Female, The Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn, NY
2011 A Social Geography of Hair, North Adams, VT
Bodies of Water: Florida Artists Consider the Figure, Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, Fl
2010 Shift, Tempus Projects, Tampa, Fl
Annual Juried Exhibition, Studio 620, St. Petersburg, FL
2009 der Zeit of Drawing, Climate Gallery, Long Island City, NY
Reuse Project 3, Tel Aviv, Israel
Closure, Contemporary Art Museum, The University of South Florida, Tampa, FL
2008 Reuse Project 2, Tel Aviv, Israel
Printmaking Today, Deldaldo Center for Contemporary Art/ Castle of Castiglione, Castiglione a Casauria, Italy
FLOCAS, West Tampa Center for the Arts, Tampa, FL
2007 The Christmas Machine, MFK Gallery, Berlin, Germany (catalog)
Art After Dark; Inside Out, Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL
Informe, Curated by Derek Murray, Flight 19, Tampa, FL (catalog)
Teaching Experience
2020 - Senior Associate Professor of Art, Bellevue College, Bellevue, WA
2018 - 2020 Associate Professor of Art, Bellevue College, Bellevue, WA
2015 - 2018 Assistant Professor of Art, Bellevue College, Bellevue, WA
2012 - 2015 Adjunct Professor, New College of Florida, Sarasota, FL
2011 - 2015 Adjunct Professor, The University of Tampa, Tampa, FL
2010 - 2012 Adjunct Professor, The University of South Florida, Tampa, FL
2007 - 2012 Adjunct Professor, The Art Institute of Tampa, Tampa, FL
2004 - 2006 Adjunct Professor, Seminole Community College, Sanford, Fl
Other Professional Experience
2021 Elected to Tenure Review Committee, Bellevue College, WA
2018 Elected to the Board of Trustees, the Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA - DEI Committee, Collections
Committee
2017 Gallery Director, Bellevue College, Bellevue, WA
2016 “Pieces of the Pie” Panel Participant, National Performance Network/ Visual Artist Network Annual Conference, Austin, TX
2014 “Drawing, media-less process or independent discipline?” Panel Participant, FATE Conference, Indianapolis, IN
2009 - 2015 Private Curator of Prints, Sculptures, and Paintings for Jay and Ann Ross, Tampa, FL
2006 - 2012 Production Assistant and Graduate Research Assistant, Graphicstudio, USF, Tampa, FL
2005- 2006 Gallery Curator, Seminole Community College, Sanford, FL
2003 Free Lance Consultant for Harcourt Publishing, Orlando, FL
Grants, Fellowships, Awards
2021 Betty Parsons Fellow, Art Matters Foundation, New York, NY
2020 COVID Relief Grant, 4Culture, Seattle, WA
2019 Celebration Award, Gender Justice League, Seattle, WA
2018 Neddy Award Finalist in Open Media, Presented by Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle, WA
2017 Betty Bowen Award, Presented by Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
2016 National Performance Network and Visual Artist Network, Travel Grant
2015 National Performance Network and Visual Artist Network, Travel Grant
2014 National Performance Network and Visual Artist Network, Travel Grant
2013 The Pollination Project, Visual Artist Grant
2012 Art Matters Foundation, Visual Artist Grant, NYC, NY
The Arts Council of Hillsborough County, Visual Artist Grant, Tampa, Fl
2011 National Performance Network and Visual Artist Network, POD Installation Grant, Tampa, Fl
Creative Loafing, Best of the Bay in Drawing, Tampa, Fl
Hampton Arts Management Group, FEAST Microgrant, Tampa, FL
2006 - Graduate Assistant Grant, Graphicstudio/The University of South Florida, Tampa, FL
2009 Research Grant, The University of South Florida, Tampa, FL
Individual Grant for Exhibition Publication, The University of South Florida, Tampa, FL
2002 Sylva G. Wexler Award for Art Education presented by The Graduate Art Education Department of The University of the Arts,
Philadelphia, PA
Visiting Artist Lectures
2022 Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA
Arnheim Museum, Arnheim, Netherlands
2021 Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
2019 Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA
Bellevue City Hall, Bellevue, WA
2018 Central Washington University, Ellensburg, WA
2007 Maitland Jewish Community Center, Maitland, Fl
Selected Public Collections
Block Museum of Art, Evanstone, IL
Frye Museum of Art, Seattle, WA
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
The Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Deldado Center for Contemporary Art, Castiglione a Casauria, Italy
Valencia Community College, Permanent Collection, Orlando, Fl
Selected Private Collections
HoldenmakerPfeiffer, Seattle, WA
Bill True, Seattle, WA (Donated to the Henry Art Gallery)
Dr. Geoffry Stiller, Spokane, WA
Greg Robinson, Bainbridge Island, WA (Head Curator of BIMA)
Nina Bozicnik, Seattle, WA (Curator at The Henry Art Gallery)
Joan Hornig, New York, NY
Gil Porter, New York, NY
Dr. Barbara Suplee, Philadelphia, PA
Dr. Paul Adorno, Philadelphia, PA
Selected Bibliography
“Molly Vaughan’s After Boucher Brings Rococo to the Frye”, Seattle Met, Sept, 2023
Volume #151, New American Paintings, 2022
*Molly “Vaughan’s ‘Project 42’ Honors Trans Lives at SAM”, City Arts, April, 2018
*Molly “Vaughan, Visual Artist Who Honored Trans Lives With Project 42, Wins the 2017 Betty Bowen Award”, The Stranger, April 2017
“Over, Under, Over: Intertwined Experiences in a Transgender Age”, Creative Loafing,
August, 2015
“Volunteers Sought to Have Their Hair Braided During Performance”, Tampa Bay Times,
August, 2015
*Molly “Vaughan Lets Her Hair Down”, Creative Loafing, November, 2013
“The Man with Beautiful Hair”, Creative Loafing, April, 2011
Volume #88, New American Paintings, August, 2010
Note: * indicate the replacement of deadname with new legal name some articles have been changed, others have not been.
Broadcast Bibliography
https://www.seattlemet.com/arts-and-culture/2022/10/molly-vaughan-s-after-boucher-frye-museum-boren-banner-series
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2016/nov/18/transgender-art-trans-hirstory-in-99-objects
http://mynews13.com/content/news/cfnews13/on-the-town/article.html/content/news/articles/bn9/2015/8/18/performance_art_piec.html
https://www.cmich.edu/news/article/Pages/Exploring-gender-identity,-masculinity,-femininity-and-transgender-issues-through-art.aspx
http://www.tampabaynewswire.com/2013/09/03/two-new-exhibits-open-at-the-morean-arts-center-the-restoration-of-the-stolen-lock-and-hirsute-artists-do-hair-14462
http://stpete.patch.com/groups/events/p/the-restoration-of-the-stolen-lock--opening-reception
http://dailyserving.com/2012/12/from-miami-selections-from-the-miami-art-fairs/
http://www.gomag.com/article/the_very_best_of_nyc_art29/
http://cltampa.com/tampa/visual-arts-review-exquisite-self-fabricated-boundaries-at-collective-tattoo-and-gallery/Content?oid=2192203
http://the22magazine.wordpress.com/2011/04/05/jono-vaughan-the-back-of-my-head/
http://www.artistaday.com/?p=7432&cpage=1#comments.html
http://arthash.blogspot.com/2010/06/artist-interview-jonathan-charles.html
“Virtual Tour of Virtual Identities, Real Space”, Online Article, Art Bistro,
http://www.artbistro.com/news/articles/7463-virtual-tour-of-virtual-identities- real-space page=2
Printmaking Today, Online Exhibition Showcase of Shown Works, www.centrodedalo.it/archivio/printmakingtoday3.htm, Castiglione a Casauria, Italy
Reuse Project 2, Internet Blog, www.idiotthewise.com, Tel Aviv, IsraelType your paragraph here.