Toby Penney

Toby Penney is a southern artist working in paint, photography, printmaking & multiple sculpture media. Penney creates work accepting, even glorifying simple objects & fleeting moments.
She is also the founder of Roaming Studio, offering art classes, workshops,  & artist residencies.
Toby enjoys developing relationships with other creative people. She exhibits internationally and with several galleries in the U.S.. Recent exhibitions include PALIMPSEST at Penny Contemporary in Tasmania & BODIES at Mulbury Gallery in Melbourne, Australia. EVOLUTION OF MEMORY is her solo exhbit, currently on view at Tennessee Wesleyan University.
Toby has also been a two time recipient of the Denis Diderot AIR Grant with corresponding fellowships to Chateau Orquevaux Artist Residency. Her work has been on the cover of Professional Artist Magazine and Hellbent Magazine and has been included in numerious other publications.
She holds a sculpture degree from Middle Tennessee State University

Contact Toby:
Roaming Studio

Education:
B.F.A., Middle Tennessee State University,                   Murfreesboro, TN     Sculpture
The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, Chattanooga, TN Painting and Drawing      1994-1999


Awards & Related Experience :

-Artist in Residence, Bear & Basin Bottoms, Grandview, Tennessee Summer & Fall 2018, Funded Fellowship 
-Artist in Residence, Chateau Orquevaux; Champagne-Ardenne, France  Fall 2017 & 2018, Funded Fellowship -Denis Diderot AIR Grant, 2017 & 2018
-Print Studio Assistant to Master Printmaker Judith O’Rourke & Glass Artist Thurman Statom; Littleton Studios, Spruce Pine, NC 2008
-Guest Artist to Frank Brannon concentration class, Penland School of Craft; Penland, NC, 2008
Artist talk & presentation; Workshops given in monotype, linocut, solar plate, & vitreography
-Studio Assistant to Judith O’Rourke, Printmaking Artist in Residence, Penland School of Craft; Penland, NC February 2008 -Vitreography Internship, Harvey K. Littleton Studios, 
   With Master Printmaker  Judith O'Rourke; Spruce Pine, NC F 2005- 2010
   Artist work editioned include: Judith O’Rourke, Jeffrey Sipple, Dan Weldan, Thurman Statom, Tom Nakashima, and more.
-Artist in Residence, Lowcountry Arts Alliance; C...

Selected Solo Exhibitions
 
“Texture of a Memory", Tennessee Wesleyan University,
Athens, Tennessee, fall 2019
“Palimpsest" Penny Contemporary, Tasmania,  Australia 2019
"Bodies" Mulbury Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
“New Work” With Maya Cantrell, Gallery 202, Franklin, TN
2013; Two Person
“A Sense of Place” Moberg Gallery, Des Moines, IA 2008
“Drawing Conclusions” Motlow State Community College,
Lynchburg, TN 2007; Artist Talk
"Surfaces" Tullahoma Fine Arts Center & Regional
Museum, Tullahoma, TN 2005; Artist Talk
"New Paintings" Gallery 111, Dalton, GA 2005; Artist Talk
""Recent Paintings" Beverly Art Center, Chicago, IL 2004
"Industrial Sites" Madison Art Center, Nashville, TN 2003
"A Closer Look" Cleveland State Community College,
Cleveland, TN 2002; Artist Talk


Selected Group Exhibitions
 
“Four Solos,” Moberg Gallery, Des Moines, IA 2018
“Metamorphosis” Buckham Gallery, Flint, MI 2017
“Rock, Paper, Scissors” DK Gallery, Marietta, GA 2011
 “Work on Paper”, Moberg Gallery, Des Moines, IA 2009; Artist Talk
 “Kenisics” Todd Gallery, Middle Tennessee State
University, Murfreesboro, TN 2008
”Go Figure!” Summit One Gallery, Highlands, NC, 2007
“Contemporary Sculpture” Mober...