Craig Drennen

Craig Drennen (b. 1966, Ohio, USA) is a painter based in Atlanta, GA and a 2018 Guggenheim Fellow. His recent solo exhibitions include Merchant, Mistress, and T at Freight+Volume Gallery in New York City and First Acts at Atlanta Contemporary Art Center in Atlanta, GA. His work has been included in group exhibitions at Anton Kern Gallery in New York City and the Kunstverein Langenhagen in Langenhagen, Germany. He has been an artist in residence at Yaddo, MacDowell, and Skowhegan. His work has been reviewed in Art in America, Artforum, and The New York Times. Drennen served as dean at the Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture in Skowhegan, teaches at Georgia State University, and manages THE END Project Space. Since 2008 he has organized his studio practice around Shakespeare’s Timon of Athens.