Courtney Puckett (b. Winter Park, FL) is a Hudson Valley-based visual artist and educator whose sculptural transformation of domestic cast-offs, such as old furniture, household goods, and textiles integrates the theories and methodologies of both fine art and craft. Solo exhibitions include Spring Break Art Show (NY), Furnace- Art on Paper Archive (CT), Hesse Flatow (NY), and Flecker Gallery at Suffolk County Community College (NY). Group exhibitions include Schick Art Gallery at Skidmore College (NY), Utah Museum of Contemporary Art (UT), Schneider Museum of Art, Ashland (OR), Museum of Contemporary Art, Arlington (VA), Dorsky Museum at SUNY New Paltz (NY), NADA x Foreland (NY), and Geary Contemporary (NY). Artist Residencies include Yaddo (NY), Constance Saltonstall Foundation (NY), Haystack Mountain School of Crafts (ME), LMCC’s Workspace Program (NY), Vermont Studio Center (VT) (full fellowship), and a community research grant through River Valley Arts Collective. From 2019-2022 she ran the backyard art space White Rock Center for Sculptural Arts with her artist-musician husband Colin O’Con and their rescue dog Penelope.

Puckett is an Assistant Professor and Visual Arts Program Coordinator at CT State Northwestern and has taught at FIT, Parsons School of Design, and Pratt Institute. She earned a BFA from MICA, MFA from Hunter College, and studied in Aix-en-Provence, France, Glasgow School of Art, Scotland, and the University of New Mexico.

Photo courtesy of Willy Somma