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Randy Akers | Photo by Simon Beckmann via joya-air
RANDY AKERS
Savannah, Georgia, USA
Randy Akers is a visual artist working on Skidaway Island, Georgia. He has shown at the Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, University of New Mexico's Harwood Foundation, Brownsville Museum of Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Anchorage Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Valdosta University, Masur Museum of Art, SUNY Genesseo, Florida A&M University, Marietta / Cobb Museum of Art, LaGrange Art Museum, Ormond Art Museum, and Maryland Federation of Art among others. Akers was honored with a 2021 arts residency at Cill Rialaig, Ireland. This accompanied an immersive workshop with Kari Cahill in Sligo, Ireland, processing Bio Color from natural ingredients that are sustainable as live inks and pigments.
Other residencies include Brush Creek Foundation for the Arts, Wyoming in 2019 and 2015, Foundation OBRAS, Portugal in 2017 and JOYA: Arte + Ecologica, Spain in 2022. His one-person show, Road to Canaan, was included in the VIVA Florida 500. Two paintings were also selected by the Office of the Governor for The Art of Georgia, sponsored by the Georgia Council of the Arts. Work is now included in the collection of the Commercial Bank and Trust, Memphis. In 2021, under the guidance of Susan Roberts from the Tiny House Project, five paintings were donated and sold, with all proceeds for housing to homeless veterans in Savannah.
In his past career, Akers directed and designed international television commercials, movie titles, music videos, and print for Fortune 500 companies. He has been affiliated with Curious Pictures (NY), R/GA Digital Studios (NY), Broadcast Arts, (NY), Yarra Films (Singapore), Kessler-Irish Films (Toronto), and AFI Films (Miami). Akers is a member of the Director's Guild of America, the Broadcast Design Association, and served as an advisor to the Delphi Conference exploring the convergence of art and technology. He has taught at the School of Visual Arts, the Savannah College of Art and Design, and Cazenovia College. He received his M.F.A. at the Savannah College of Art and Design; B.F.A, Chouinard Art Institute, California Institute of the Arts; additional academic work at Art Center College of Design, California State University Northridge and University of Oregon. Akers served on the board of Art Rise Savannah and Arts Georgia advisory council.
Akers is represented by Jane's Art Center, New Smyrna Beach, FL., L/Ross Gallery, Memphis, TN, J Costello Gallery, Hilton Head, SC, and Reinike Gallery, Atlanta, GA.