My paintings on wood panels began primitively in 2001 and the function is still the same today. I use these pictures as a device to do my thinking and suspend the monotony that is common in life.
- Harry Underwood, 2022
Harry Underwood is a self taught painter living in Nashville Tennessee. He was born in Miami in 1969 and raised in the rural "Redlands" farming area near the city of Homestead, Florida. His father was a carpenter and his mother worked at a supermarket. He has one sister. With his family he attended the Church of God pentecostal church until 1982. As a teenager, he cleaned swimming pools at many of the motels in the area and bussed tables at the Capri Italian Restaurant in Florida City.
Uprooted by Hurricane Andrew in 1992, he lived in New Orleans and Austin, eventually settling in Nashville where he worked in the construction industry until 2005. His artwork has been shown by galleries in United States, France and England.
selected solo exhibitions
Oct 10 - Nov 23, 2024: A Repertoire of Celestial Absurdities, Different Trains Gallery
Sept 10 - Oct 29, 2022: Outdoor Worship, The Waddi, Atlanta
Jan 11-Mar 1, 2019: Red Letter Days, Different Trains Gallery, Decatur, Georgia
Sept 1, 2018: Yard Dog, Austin
Sept 29, 2017: Halcyon Bicycle Shop, Nashville
July 1, 2016: Lindsay Gallery, Columbus.
Sept 10, 2016: Yard Dog, Austin.
2016: Belcourt Theater, Nashville
2015: Julia Martin Gallery, Nashville
2014: Infinity Cat Records, Nashville
2014: Belcourt Theater, Nashville
2013: The Principle of Refreshment, Lindsay Gallery, Columbus
2013: Life's Big Sequel, Skypac Performing Arts Center, Bowling Green
2012: The Power of Reflection, The Arts Company, Nashville
2011: The Brightest of the Seasons, Lindsay Gallery, Columbus, Ohio
2011: Reveries and Reflections, Just Folk, Summerland, California
2010: An Atmosphere For Living, Estel Gallery, Nashville
2009:The Very Tremendously, Boundless and Romantic, Perpetual History of Light, Estel Gallery
2009:The Very Tremendously, Boundless and Romantic, Perpetual History of Light, Lindsay Gallery
2008: The Logic of Wishful Thinking, Estel Gallery, Nashville
2008: A Pictorial History of Wishful Thinking, Lindsay Gallery, Columbus
2008: Nashville International Airport
2007: A Pictorial History of Wishful Thinking, Estel Gallery, Nashville
selected Group Exhibitions
2021: 3 Southern Artists, with Ab the Flagman and Panorama Ray, The Waddi, Atlanta
2015-16: Halle Saint Pierre Museum, Paris
2015: Blue Spiral Gallery, Asheville
2008-2024: Outsider Art Fair, NYC
2010: Metro Arts Commission, Nashville
2009: J. P. Ritsch-Fisch Gallery, Strasbourg France
2009: Art Chicago, Lindsay Gallery, Columbus, Ohio
2009: Rosemarie Koczy/ J. P. Ritsch-Fisch Gallery- Strasbourg
2009: Art Paris, J. P. Ritsch-Fisch Gallery
2008: Ruby Green, Nashville
2007, 2011: Intuit Show of Folk and Outsider Art, Chicago
2007: Fresh Faces, Judy Saslow Gallery, Chicago
2005: Plowhaus Artist Cooperative, Nashville