Education
2020-2022 Master of Fine Art in Painting and Drawing, The School of The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL.
2015- 2019 Bachelor of Arts, Columbia College Chicago, Chicago,IL.
Group Exhibitions
2024 “Specter”, Evoke Gallery, Chicago, IL.
2024 “Human Resources”, Third Space Gallery, Arts of Life in collaboration with Chicago Artists Coalition, Chicago, IL
2024 “Enchanted Garden Benefit Auction”, Arts of Life, Chicago, IL
2024 “Echoes of the Horizon: HumanxNature as Technology”, Horizon on Sunset, Houston, TX.
2024 "Foundations Winter Fair“, Film Sofi Arts Gallery, Artsy, Virtual Group Exhibition
2023 “Civilization is Not Civil”, Filo Sofi Arts Gallery, Prizm Art Fair, Miami, FL.
2023 “Women on the Verge”, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL.
2023 “Golden Ratio, Mapping Self, Space, and Other”, Art is Bond, Houston, TX.
2023 “Biggie & Smalls Pop up Gallery”, AMFM, The Promontory, Chicago, IL
2023 “Bronzeville Trolley Tour”, Gallery Guichard, Chicago, IL.
2023 “Fantasticolismo”, Chiquimarca projects, Mana Contemporary, Chicago, IL.
2022 “Ground Floor Biennial 2022”, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL.
2022 “Generations”, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL.
2022 “Exit Counseling”, Green Gallery, Milwaukee, WI.
2022 “Graduate Exhibition Two”, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL.
2021 It’s All Right“, CAPX Career Center, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL.
2021 “Small works Exhibition'“, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL.
2021 “Meet me Where I am'“, 062 Gallery, Chicago, IL.
2021 “Pareidolia”, Patient Info, Chicago, IL.
2019 "Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition", Arcade Gallery, Chicago, IL. USA.
2019 "Hokin Honors" Hokin Gallery, Columbia College Chicago, Chicago, IL.
2019 “Annual Black Arts Festival”, The Haus, Columbia College Chicago, Chicago, IL.
Publications
2026 Staff Spotlight: Payton Harris-Woodard, Arts of Life, Chicago,IL.
2026 Meet the First Cohort of Haystack’s Artist Grant Initiative, Hyperallergic
2025 2WENTY 5IVE, Arts of Life, 2000-2025, “Southside Studio” by Payton Harris-Woodard. Page 75 - 77
2023 Meet Payton Harris-Woodard, Canvas Rebel Magazine
2023 Keep an Eye Out for These Emerging Chicago Artists, Hyperallergic cover, written by Lori Waxman
2022 “Focus: Numbers and Arrows, An Interview with Howardena Pindell” by Payton Harris-Woodard, Winter 2022: Volume 37, Number 2. Page 3
2022 “Behind the Curtain at Grad Open Studios night”, F News Magazine, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL.
2021 “Stellium Literary Magazine.” Volume 3. September 2021. Cover.
2019 “The Ongoing Preponderance of Artists in Community.” Fine Art Thesis Exhibition Catalogue. Volume 1. May 2019. Page 18.
Honors & Awards
2025 Haystack Mountain School of Crafts’ Artist Grant Initiative, Deer Isle, ME
2021-2022 Black Writers Fellowship: Researcher and Reporter. Hand papermaking Magazine. Mendota, MN
2020 New Artist Society Award, School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Chicago, IL
2019 Hollis Sigler Manifest Award. First Place, Split Award. Columbia College Chicago Manifest Art Festival. Chicago, IL.
2019 Haystack Mountain School of Crafts Fellowship. Deer Isle, ME