Past Exhibitions
Exhibitions
September 3 - December 3, 2021
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Norman Rockwell: American Chronicles
The Sumter County Gallery of Art (SCGA) hosted "Norman Rockwell: American Chronicles," organized by the Norman Rockwell Museum, from September 3 to December 3, 2021. The exhibition features 15 original paintings, 19 prints, magazine tearsheets, and posters, showcasing Rockwell’s portrayal of…
September 15 - September 17, 2019
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Mary Ann Reames: Landscape of My Life
Mary Ann Reames, a native of Sumter, SC, is a professional painter and art educator with over thirty years of experience. She studied at Coker College and the University of South Carolina, with additional training in portraiture and classical realism in Italy and North Carolina. Her art focuses on…
September 15 - September 17, 2019
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Jocelyn Châteauvert: Paper Wrangler
Jocelyn Châteauvert, raised in Iowa City and educated at the University of Iowa (MFA), is a paper artist known as a “paper wrangler.” Since 1999, she has lived in Charleston, SC, working with handmade, plant-based paper to create intricate jewelry, lighting, sculptures, and installations. Her…
September 5 - November 1, 2019
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Jiha Moon: A Mad Tea Party
The Sumter County Gallery of Art hosted “Jiha Moon – A Mad Tea Party,” a solo exhibition featuring contemporary Korean American artist Jiha Moon from September 5 to November 1, 2019. Moon, based in Atlanta, creates vibrant paintings, printmaking, and ceramic sculptures that blend Eastern and…
June 8 - June 15, 2019
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Angela Davis Johnson: Weatherin’ Between the Canebrake Blues
Angela Davis Johnson is a self-taught, multidisciplinary artist whose work emphasizes storytelling and Black identity through textured paintings that incorporate oil, scrap paper, and fabric—highlighting her background as the daughter of a seamstress. Raised in Arkansas and now based in Atlanta,…
June 8 - June 15, 2019
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Michi Meko: And Then There Was Sky
Michi Meko (b. 1974, Florence, Alabama) is a multidisciplinary artist influenced by Southern culture and contemporary urban themes. He holds a BFA in Painting from the University of North Alabama and has exhibited widely, including solo shows at Dodd Galleries (University of Georgia), University of…
August 31 - October 27, 2017
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Compression, Tension, Suspension
The Sumter County Gallery of Art hosted an exhibition titled "Compression, Tension, Suspension" from August 31 to October 27, 2017, celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the South Carolina Arts Commission. The exhibition features three artists who received SC Arts Commission Fellowships: Jonathan…
February 23 - February 24, 2017
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Virginia Scotchie: Ways of Creation
Virginia Scotchie, a ceramic artist and head of ceramics at the University of South Carolina, creates sculptural ceramics inspired by everyday objects and materials. Her work explores form, fragment, and transformation, often using reclaimed and unconventional materials like cable reels and pallets.…
Exhibition Archive
Details about the exhibitions listed here are available upon request. Please email: Curator@SumterGallery.com.
- Sumter Artists; Guild Winner's Exhibition & Pathfinders Art Show 2025
- Roni Henderson - Solace & Bob Warner - Out Of This World
- Esther Bynum Sharp - For The Birds & Amanda Yoder - At Home: Reflections on Time & Material
- Sumter Artists' Guild Show 2024
- Jerry Siegel – Rooted In Place: Images From The Black Belt
- Pathfinders Art Show 2024 & Sumter Artists’ Guild Winners Show 2024
- Charles Basham – Bathed in Light & Mildred and Elizabeth
- Christopher Lane – “Circle of Life” & the Sumter Artists’ Guild Winners Exhibition
- In Kyoung Chun – Glass Houses & Emma Knight – Twisted Eden
- Sumter Artists’ Guild Exhibition 2023
- Clarence Heyward – About a Dream & Gabrielle Torres – the Paradox
- Wilfred Spoon – Quiet Ground & Micah Green – Hands On, The South
- Jordan Sheridan – Spellbound & Thomas The Younger – “Be One Traveler”
- Dogon Krigga – Omphalos: The Converging Of Antique Futures & Jeremy R Brooks – Looking Back/Being Forward
- Diane Kilgore Condon – “Wild Kingdom” & Sumter Artists’ Guild Winners Exhibition
- Ecos – Resonances Of Sc Latino Stories & Susan Harbage Page – Between The River And The Wall
- Beverly Y. Smith – Ancestral Threads & Darien Arikoski-johnson – Fractured Fictions
- Susan Lenz – Last Words & Sumter Artists’ Guild Winners Exhibition
- The Supper Table & Maria Britton – Dream Bodies
- Craig Crawford – “In The Wake” & Chotsani Elaine Dean – “Trading Post: Huys De Hope” & Antonio Modesto Milian – “Indestructible”
- Stephen Chesley – Field, Trees, Sky
- Carolita Cantrell – Spirited Vision
- Andrew Blanchard – Saturday Night, Sunday Morning & Cedric Umoja – That Old Black Gospel & Dogon Krigga – Afroglyph
- Shanequa Gay – I Come As Us & Lorna Ruth Galloway – Halftone Half-Lives
- Saba Taj – Muslims Are Awesome! & William Paul Thomas – Loved Ones
- Deane Ackerman – Radiant Expressions & Terrell Clark – Eyes Of Havana
- Gil Ngolé – The Midnight Walks & Sheena Rose – This Strange Land
- Michelle Van Parys/john Hathaway/joshua Flint
- Willie Cole & Michaela Pilar Brown
- Sumter Artists’ Guild Show
- Esteban Del Valle & Antoine Williams
- Uncommon Folk – Selections From The Sc State Museum
- The Sc Watermedia Society & Sumter Artists’ Guild Winners Show & Carl Bell
- Michael Lavine: Precious 023 & Mary Bentz Gilkerson: Minervaville & Clay Burnette Aldwyth
- Sumter Artists’ Guild Show
- Tarleton Blackwell
- The Paternal Suit: Heirlooms From The F. Scott Hess Family Foundation
- The Sc Watermedia Society & Sumter Artists’ Guild Winners Show
- Christopher Sims & Lori Larusso
- Question Bridge: Black Males & Stacy Lynn Waddell
- Sumter Artists’ Guild Show
- Jim Arendt: Selvage & Elizabeth Brim
- Sumter Collects Ii
- The Sc Watermedia Society & Sumter Artists’ Guild Winners Show
- Aldwyth – Ebb And Flow
- Diana Farfán – The Dream Life Of Broken Toys & Jody Servon And Lorene Delany-Ullman – Saved
- Candice Ivy – Black Tide & Linda Fantuzzo – The Space Between
- André Leon Gray – “…until Victory Is Won” & Sheila Pree Bright – Young Americans
- Benny Andrews – The John Lewis Series
- Sarah Hobbs – Modern Angst
- Shaun Cassidy & Tom Stanley – Collaboration Of Fragments
- Phillip Millen - 1994-2008
- Ronald Gonzalez: Objects as Figures, Figures as Objects & David Voros: The Myth in the Mirror
- Susan Harbage Page: Postcards From Home
- Sumter Artist’s Guild Show
- Chris Clamp: Back to the Future & Brian Rust: Rock, Paper, Scissors
- Force of Nature: Site Installations by Ten Japanese Artists
- Eileen Blyth: Reimagining Purpose
- Bruce Chandler: Lush Life
- NBSC Oil Painter's Open Invitational & Cara-Lin Getty: Explorations
- The South Carolina Watercolor Society Traveling Exhibit & the Sumter Artist’s Guild Winners Show
- Selections from the South Carolina Arts Commission Collection
- NBSC Oil Painter’s Open Invitational & The Art of Minnie Deschamps
- The South Carolina Watercolor Society Traveling Exhibit & the Sumter Artists’ Guild Winners Show
- “Juan Logan: Close Inspection”
- The Sumter Artists Guild Show
- “Full Circle: A Retrospective” The Art of Zernie Smith & “Outlook: Charleston” Photographs by Laura Moses