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Education
2011 University of Houston | MFA, Photography and Digital Media
2007 Lamar University | BFA, Studio Art
2006 Studio Art Centers International Florence | Study Abroad
Solo Exhibitions
2012 Members: Fotofest | Gallery 1724 | Houston, TX
2009 Hypnopomp | Lawndale Art Center | Houston, TX
2008 Private Travail | Wagner Sousa Modern Art Gallery| Galveston, TX
Group Exhibitions
2012BOX 13 Collective: Right To Assemble | Texas State University | San Marcos, TX
2011 Belle Époque | Darke Gallery | Houston, TX
Pan Y Circos | PG Contemporary Gallery | Houston, TX
The Big Show | Lawndale Art Center | Juror: Larissa Harris, Curator, Queens Museum of Art | Houston, TX
The Future is Now | Skydive Art Space | Houston, TX
33: MFA Thesis Exhibition | Blaffer Museum | Houston, TX
Art from the Land of the Cougars | Blue Star LAB | Curator: Wayne Gilbert, Artist/Gallerist, G Gallery | San Antonio, TX
2010 Complicity with Anonymous Materials | The Temporary Space | Houston, TX
Student Show | Blaffer Museum | Houston, TX
2008 ISSE Art Show | The Houston Foundry | Houston, TX
Student Show | Blaffer Museum | Houston, TX
Transformations: Fotofest | LSC-Kingwood Art Gallery | Juror: Clint Willour, Curator, Galveston Arts Center | Kingwood, TX
B-Sides | Texas Artist Museum | Port Arthur, TX
2007 Poles Undivided | The Vortex | Beaumont, TX
Twelve: Senior Thesis Exhibition | Dishman Art Museum | Beaumont, TX
2006 Seven Cities | La Corte Arte Contemporanea | Florence, Italy
Open Studio | Fuji Studio | Florence, Italy
Residencies
2010 Hilmsen Residency | Hilmsen, Germany
2009 Mitchell Center Fall 2009 Lawndale Residency | Houston, TX
Awards and Grants
2011 The Big Show 2011 CultureMap People’s Choice Award | CultureMap | Houston, TX
2010 Cynthia Woods Mitchell Fellowship | University of Houston | Houston, TX
Joan Wich Scholarship | University of Houston | Houston, TX
Freed Travel Scholarship | University of Houston | Houston, TX
2008 Friends of Art Fellowship | University of Houston | Houston, TX
Presidential Graduate Fellowship | University of Houston | Houston, TX
2006 Cora Faye Williamson Scholarship | Studio Art Centers International | Florence, Italy
Isabell Morian Award | Lamar University | Beaumont, TX
Reviews
Emery, Mike. “UH Artist Britt Ragsdale Awakens Houstonians with ‘Hypnopomp’,” Creative Pride, December 9, 2009, blogs.uh.edu/creativepride.
Klaasmeyer, Kelly. “Pan Y Circos,” Houston Press, November 3, 2011, Art Capsules, p. 35.
Klaasmeyer, Kelly. “Big Hit: The Big Show,” Houston Press, July 7, 2011, p. 30.
Klaasmeyer, Kelly. “Britt Ragsdale: Hypnopomp,” Houston Press, December 10, 2009, Art Capsules, p. 33.
Thomson, Steven. “A sinister pink romance: The Lawndale Big Show People’s Choice Award winner…,” CultureMap, August 2, 2011, houston.culturemap.com
Vogel, Wendy, “Emergent Behavior,” …might be good, April 25, 2010, www.fluentcollab.org