Charles Clary

South Carolina Fellow for Visual Arts

ARTIST STATEMENT

His hand cut paper work is meticulous and labor intensive. Exploring trauma, grief, and loss his large scale installations show the fragility and rigidity of life through paper sculpture. Charles has exhibited regionally, nationally, and internationally in numerous solo and group shows, is represented by Paradigm Gallery + Studio in Philadelphia, and R02 Gallery in Dallas, Texas. Clary currently lives and works in Conway, South Carolina, where he is an Associate Professor of Studio Art and Associate Chair at Coastal Carolina University.

ARTIST BIO

Charles Clary earned his BFA in painting with honors from Middle Tennessee State University and his MFA in painting from the Savannah College of Art and Design. He has exhibited at Galerie Evolution-Pierre Cardin in Paris, the CODA Museum Paper Biennial, the Shanghai Paper Biennial, and the Art of Paper Fair in New York City, among others. Clary won Top Prize at the 2016 ArtFields Competition and the People’s Choice Award for 2D in 2019. He recently sold three commissioned pieces to Google and was named the HTC Distinguished Teacher-Scholar at Coastal Carolina University in 2022. Clary has been featured in interviews and publications such as Create! Magazine, WIRED, and 500 Paper Objects.

His hand cut paper work is meticulous and labor intensive. Exploring trauma, grief, and loss his large scale installations show the fragility and rigidity of life through paper sculpture.

Charles has exhibited regionally, nationally, and internationally in numerous solo and group shows, is represented by Paradigm Gallery + Studio in Philadelphia, and R02 Gallery in Dallas, Texas. Clary currently lives and works in Conway, South Carolina, where he is an Associate Professor of Studio Art and Associate Chair at Coastal Carolina University.