Education

2012     Bachelors of Fine Arts, Concentration Painting

            University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette, LA

 

Solo Exhibitions

2025      Abstract Collection – Dean's Gallery at UL Lafayette, Lafayette, LA

2023      Yielding – Gallery at Basin Arts, Lafayette, LA

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 Group Exhibitions

2025     55th Annual Summer Show – St. Tammany Art Association, Covington, LA

            Whimsy – ARCHIVES at the Hallway, Lafayette, LA

2024     Fine & Functional – Hammond Regional Arts Center, Hammond, LA

            Juried Alumni Art Exhibition – Fletcher Hall Gallery, Lafayette, LA

            (un)common – Basin Arts, Lafayette, LA

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 – 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

2025     Artbox Public Art Initiative, Lafayette, LA

            Official Martini Glass Artist for Healing House, Lafayette, LA

            20 Under 40 Honoree, Lafayette, LA

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

2015     Artbox Public Art Initiative, Lafayette, LA

 

Publications

White, Ashley. “Lafayette Artist Creates Swamp-Themed Mural in Hallways for Katharine Drexel Pre-K Classes.” Acadiana Advocate, August 2025

Darsie, Jann. “Visual Artist Dirk Guidry Finds Success in Acadiana.” Ella Project, April 2025

LaHaye Fontenot, Jordan. “On the Cover: Tuba Skinny’s Shaye Cohn.” Country Roads, January 2024

Kemp, John. “Painting Rhythms.” Acadiana Profile, December 2023

Mills, Paige. “Beyond Literal Representation: Capturing the Essence of the Natural World.” ArtWork Archive, April 2023

Dry, Stanley. “Trailblazers 2022.” Acadiana Profile, April 2022

Bennett, Aileen. “Be You: Dirk Guidry.” Acadiana Advocate, February 2021

Arceneaux, Andre. “No Bare Walls.” Country Roads, October, 2020

Hendricks, Brianne. "Current Creators: Dirk Guidry." The Current, November 2019

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