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Craig has exhibited and published his work both nationally and internationally, and has participated in numerous group, solo, juried, and curated exhibitions across the nation and overseas including the national juried exhibition 2023 Contemporary Art Survey at the Lincoln Center in Colorado, Emmaus Road by Craig Hawkins, a solo show at Square Halo Gallery in Pennsylvania, Craig Hawkins, a solo show at the Anna Lamar Switzer Center for Visual Art in Florida, inclusion in New American Paintings, No. 160, South, inclusion in Juxtapoz Magazine n132 along with published work in Every Moment Holy Volume III by Douglas Kaine McKelvey, Rabbit Room Press, 2023, and Intruding Upon the Timeless: Meditations of Art, Faith, and Mystery by Gregory Wolfe, Square Halo Books, 2018. Mason Fine Art Gallery, Atlanta, GA has represented his work since 2007 and Anne Neilson Fine Art, Charlotte, NC represented his work from 2014 – 2021.

Related Experience

2025, 2023 - 2012

• Visual Arts Instructor, Governor’s Honors Program

 2024

• Visiting Artist, Governor’s Honors Program

Gallery Representation 

• Mason Fine Art, 764 Miami Cir NE #150, Atlanta, Georgia 30324

Selected Exhibitions

• 2025 25 Years of Sojourn Arts Group Exhibition, Sojourn Arts, Louisville, Kentucky
• 2025 Manifest, Gallery 1740, Atlanta, Georgia
• 2024 Every Moment Holy, Square Halo Gallery, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
• 2023 2023 Contemporary Art Survey, The Lincoln Center, Fort Collins, Colorado
• 2023 Beyond Belief, St. Louis Artist’s Guild, St. Louis, Missouri

Publications

• 2025 Carattini, Jill. “Perhaps the World Ends Here.” Call to Worship: Liturgy, Music, Preaching, and the Arts, vol. 59.2, 2025, pp. 
• 2025 Bowden, Sandra. Lettieri, Marianne. Baltimore: Square Halo, 2025. Digital.
• 2024 Bustard, Ned. 2^nd Baltimore: Square Halo, 2024. Print.
• 2023 McKelvey, Douglas Kaine. . Every Moment Holy, 2023. Print

Awards

2025     Finalist, Downtown Valdosta Mural Call for Artists (artist will be chosen in late 2025 or early 2026)

2024     2^nd Place, Plein Air Competition hosted by Curate Gallery, Valdosta, GA

Scholarly Activities

2023     Speaker, VSU Brown Bag Lecture Series

Craig Hawkins serves as Professor of Art/Drawing, Painting, and Foundations at VSU. He earned his B.F.A. from Valdosta State University. While at VSU, he spent a semester studying in Newcastle, England. He continued his studies at the University of Georgia, Lamar Dodd School of Art, where he earned an M.F.A in Drawing and Painting.