Felicia E. Gail

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About Felicia E. Gail

Felicia E. Gail (American, b. 1979) is an interdisciplinary artist from the SE United States. Her practice takes up writing, photography, installation, performance, sculpture, archives, teaching, and curation. She investigates the intersections between memorialized events and place, often reframing ideas of residencies as artistic practice, incorporating elements of lived materials, transportation, social practice, and feminism through a Southern Gothic-Imagist lens. Her work has journeyed the United States and Canada, most notably with Wil Aballe Art Projects in 2016, Gallery 295 in 2015, 221A Artist Run Centre’s semi-public outdoor exhibition space, at David Wisdom’s Summer Slideshow series at the Vancouver Art Gallery in 2014 in Vancouver, Canada and in Zebulon, Georgia for the SlowExposures photography festival in 2022. She contributed to the Beyond These Words Writing Series with Jamey Jones, Mike Racine, Philip Good, and Bernadette Mayer in the early and Writing off the Walls with Barbara Henning and Lewis Warsh in 2016. Gail has published photographs and writing in Photographer: Documenting Life As A Woman as part of the Minneapolis Photo Centre in 2010, Hurricane Review in 2017, 2020, 2023, Responses: An Anthology of Exhibition Texts in 2018, and Reverberations with Noelle McCleaf in 2022. Her evolving projects are Close Your Eyes Investigations of Space, 2009 - present, and Travel Back to Blue, 2011 - present, an ongoing collection of written and ephemeral works that took new shape in 2016 during a semi-solo motorcycle journey from the Pacific Northwest of Canada to West Texas, USA. Felicia was Curator of Exhibitions for the Pensacola Museum Of Art, University of West Florida Historic Trust in Pensacola, Florida, from 2017 - 2019 and Senior Registrar & Inventory Manager for Jackson Fine Art in Atlanta, GA, from 2019 - 2023. She was a guest curator and juror at GA State University for ExLucis Photography Club, For the Sake of the Matter, in 2023 at Ernest G. Welch Gallery in Atlanta. Felicia was Artist in Residence in 2023 at 309 Punk Project. In 2025, she was part of the group exhibition called 'With Water' and later became Artist in Residence at A Swale House, NYC, 2025, where she exhibited,'Travel Back To Blue IV'. Felicia lives in Atlanta, GA, where she is an Interdisciplinary Artist, Writer, Curator, and works in Collections Stewardship as a freelancer; she is the founder of Collections Stewardship Southeast since 2023. Felicia has been the Public Programming & Membership Manager at the Museum of Design Atlanta since August 2024.