PORTFOLIO
Education
2012 Bachelors of Fine Arts, Concentration Painting
University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette, LA
Solo Exhibitions
2021 Circulate: Paintings & Sculptures by Dirk Guidry – Hammond Regional Arts Center, Hammond, LA
2020 Circulate – Artspark Artist Stipend, Kelli Kaufman Studio & Gallery, Lafayette, LA
2019 Materialize – July ArtWalk, Gallery at Basin Arts, Lafayette, LA
2018 August ArtWalk, Gallery at Chase Towers, Lafayette, LA
July ArtWalk, The Omni Center, Lafayette, LA
2017 Fluidity – June ArtWalk, Gallery at Basin Arts, Lafayette, LA
2016 Art for All Seasons – Fall Show, Gallery at Darnall, Sikes, Gardes & Frederick, Lafayette, LA
2015 New Works - December Artwalk, Gallery Russo Downtown, Lafayette, LA
Bright Series - March ArtWalk, The Ballet Académie, Lafayette, LA
2014 September ArtWalk, Gallery at Chase Towers, Lafayette, LA
Paintings and Drawings - August ArtWalk, The Ballet Académie, Lafayette, LA
2013 June ArtWalk, Gallery at Chase Towers, Lafayette, LA
Within the Paint - February ArtWalk, The Ballet Académie, Lafayette, LA
Selected Groups/Exhibitions
2023 36th September Competition – Alexandria Museum of Art, Alexandria, LA
BARE Walls: A Group Exhibition – Gallery at Basin Arts, Lafayette, LA
March Featured Artist – Front Gallery, Lafayette Art Association & Gallery, Lafayette, LA
2022 BARE Walls: A Group Exhibition – Gallery at Basin Arts, Lafayette, LA
The Big Easel, Art Festival in Town Square at River Ranch, Lafayette, LA
2021 The Other Art Fair Dallas, Virtual Edition – Presented by Saatchi, Online Fair
BARE Walls: A Group Exhibition – Gallery at Basin Arts, Lafayette, LA
2020 CHROMA – March Third Thursday Artwalk, Robert Lawrence Designs, Dallas, TX
Identity – January ArtWalk, Gallery at Basin Arts, Lafayette, LA
2019 The Other Art Fair Dallas – Presented by Saatchi, Market Hall, Dallas, TX
2018 Surface – Dance and Visual Art performance collaboration, James Devin Moncus Theater at the Acadiana Center for the Arts, Lafayette, LA
UL Department of Visual Arts Alumni Juried Exhibition, Fletcher Hall Gallery, Lafayette, LA
Art Melt – Presented by Forum 35, Capitol Park Museum, Baton Rouge, LA
Ambush – Basin Arts Pop-up Performance, Jefferson Street, Lafayette, LA
The Big Easel, Art Festival in Town Square at River Ranch, Lafayette, LA
2017 Powder Keg, Side Gallery at the Acadiana Center for the Arts, Lafayette, LA
Basin Arts: Surface Collaboration – April ArtWalk, Gallery at Basin Arts, Lafayette, LA
The Big Easel, Art Festival in Town Square at River Ranch, Lafayette, LA
2016 Basin Arts: In Residence Redux – November ArtWalk, Gallery at Basin Arts, Lafayette, LA
Basin Arts: In Residence – October ArtWalk, Gallery at Basin Arts, Lafayette, LA
Galerie Royale, New Orleans, LA
2015 Galerie Touchet, Lafayette, LA
Project Rooster Teeth - May ArtWalk, Acadiana Center for the Arts, Lafayette, LA
ArtWalk1, Eunice Community Art House, Eunice, LA
2013 Aramenation, Freetown Studios, Lafayette, LA
2012 September ArtWalk, Gallery 549, Lafayette, LA
Bachelors of Fine Arts Exhibition, Paul and Lulu Hilliard University Art Museum, Lafayette, LA
Visual Arts Annual Juried Exhibition, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette, LA
Art Related Jobs
2012-Present Owner at Dirk Guidry Art Studios – Fine art, commissions, live paintings, murals
2018 BARE Walls Program Director (ongoing)
Big Easel Committee Member (ongoing)
Art Handler at the Acadiana Center for the Arts
2010-2012 Painting Instructor at Painting with a Twist
Honors/Awards
2022 Official Visual Artist for Festival International de Louisiane 2022
2018 Appointed Member of Louisiana State Arts Council (ongoing)
Selected Juror for the UL Student Art Exhibition, Fletcher Hall Gallery, Lafayette, LA
Artspark Panelist, Acadiana Center for the Arts, Lafayette, LA
Crawssing the Vermillion, recipient for the Lafayette Consolidated Government Storm Drain Art Project, located in front of Edith Garland Dupre’ Library, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, LA
2017 Deep-Rooted, ArtSpark recipient mural Project for Lafayette Economic Development Authority and Acadiana Center for the Arts, Lafayette, LA
Publications
Dodge, Victoria. “The man behind the Evangeline Maid mural.” The Sunday Advertiser, Oct. 20, 2019.
Zevitas, Steven T. “Volume 46.” Studio Visit Magazine, 2019.
Zevitas, Steven T. “Volume 43.” Studio Visit Magazine, 2018.
Gannon, Patricia. “The Wedding Painter.” The Advocate [Baton Rouge] 19 Nov. 2017: 1D-2D. Print