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EDUCATION
2021 Louisiana Master Naturalist program
1993 M.F.A., Maryland Institute College of Art (Graduate Art Award)
1988 B.A., Millsaps College (magna cum laude)

CERTIFICATION
1993-2018  Louisiana State Dept of Education Ancillary Teaching Certificate, renewed as required

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS, SCREENINGS, PROJECTIONS

2023
Encounters: Courtney Egan, solo show, Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville AL
Eco Tone, solo show featuring collaborations with Natori Green, Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville TN
Eco Logic, projection mapped artwork, Gretna City Hall, Luna Fete Light Festival, New Orleans, LA
4 Projections, gallery presentation, Allumer Light Festival, Natchez MS
2022
Extinct in the Wild, solo show, Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA
Metaflora, projection on outbuilding, Allumer Light Festival, Natchez MS
2021
Care and Cultivation, projection inside a greenhouse, Allumer Light Festival, Natchez MS
Courtney Egan: Superflora, Umlauf Sculpture Garden and Museum, Austin TX. Curator: Katie Robinson Edwards
2020
Courtney Egan: C.A.R.S. Online Virtual Exhibition, Gregory Allicar Museum of Art, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO
2019
I Am Past, Present, and Future Everyday, Luna Fete Light Festival, projection mapped artwork, in collaboration with Young Artists Movement (YAM), projected on Gallier Hall, St. Charles Ave., New Orleans LA
Virtual Idylls, solo show, Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans. Curator: Richard McCabe
2018
Winter, Luna Fete Light Festival, projection mapped artwork, Gallier Hall, St. Charles Ave., in collaboration with David Sullivan
Ear to the Ground: Earth and Element in Contemporary Art, group show, New Orleans Museum of Art. Curator: Katie A. Pfohl
Dreamcatchers: Courtney Egan, solo show, Louisiana Art and Science Museum, Baton Rouge LA. Curator: Elizabeth Weinstein
2017
Between Nature and Technology: Courtney Egan and David Sullivan, Marin Art and Garden Center, Marin CA
Napa Lighted Art Festival, projection of Sleepwalkers on the Mill, Napa, CA
2016
Digital Nature, group show, Los Angeles County Arboretum. Curator: Shirley Watts
Sea of Common Catastrophe, video designer for theatrical production by Jeff Becker
2015 Scintilla, solo show, Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans
Luna Fete Light Festival, New Orleans
Between Nature and Technology: Courtney Egan and David Sullivan, Sonoma
Museum of Art, Sonoma CA.Curator: Flynn O’Brien
The New Sublime: Video Works by Courtney Egan, solo show, Meadows Museum of
Art, Centenary College, Shreveport LA
Reverb, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans. Curator: Isolde Brielmaier
Digital Graffiti, projection mapped artwork, Alys Beach, FL
The New Sublime: Video Works by Courtney Egan, solo show, Hilliard University Art
Museum, UL Lafayette LA
Circulation of Light, solo show, Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans
2014
Cultivar, solo show, Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans 2013 Cultivar, solo show, Colorado State University’s Art Museum
The River Between Us, Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis MO, and LongueVue House and Gardens, New Orleans
The Memory Project, Antenna Gallery, New Orleans
2012
Louisiana Contemporary Annual Juried Competition, Ogden Museum of Art, New Orleans. Juror: Rene P. Barilleaux
Uniquely Louisiana, Louisiana State University Museum of Art, Baton Rouge LA. Curator: Natalie Mault
Lost and Found: Louisiana’s Landscapes Revisited, Acadiana Center for the Arts, Lafayette, LA. Curator: Brian Guidry
NOLA NOW part II, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA. Curator: Don Marshall
2011
“Constant Abrasive Irritation Produces The Pearl: A Disease Of The Oyster! – Lenny Bruce,” The Pearl, P.2 Satellite Site, New Orleans. Curator: John Otte
The World According to New Orleans, Ballroom Marfa. Curator: Dan Cameron 2010 Field Recordings, solo show, Heriard-Cimino Gallery, New Orleans

GRANTS, AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS, RESIDENCIES

2020 Percent for Art Public Art Award “Footbridge over the Bioswale,” in progress, Gentilly Resilience District Percent for Art Program, New Orleans, LA
2020 Civic Arts Fellow, Arts New Orleans in conjunction with the Water Leaders Institute
2018-2019 “Salon” Artist Residency at Canal Place, Arts Council of New Orleans
2009 Louisiana Artworks Residency
2008 Career Advancement grant, Louisiana Division of the Arts
Mini Grant, Louisiana Cultural Economy Foundation
2007 Santa Fe Art Institute Visual Arts Residency

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

2019 Gabriel Barcia-Colombo, “The Art of Luna Fete,” State of the Art podcast 2019
D. Eric Bookhardt, “Virtual Idylls: Botanical Video by Courtney Egan, InsideNOLA.org, June 9, 2019 (Reproduction)
2018 Dunbar, Folwell, “Portrait of a Creative Space: The Studio of Courtney Egan and David Sullivan,” ViaNOLAVie, August 31, 2018 (Reproduction)
2015 Tasia Kastanek, “Natural Beauty: Courtney Egan at Arthur Roger, Pelican Bomb website, February 28, 2015 (Reproduction)
2014 D. Eric Bookhardt, “Courtney Egan – Botanical Light Sculpture,” Sculpture Magazine, October 2014, Vol.3 No. 8
2014 D. Eric Bookhardt, “Cultivar” catalog essay, Colorado State University

COLLECTIONS

Huntsville Museum of Art
Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, Los Angeles
Getty Trust
New Orleans Museum of Art
Gregory Allicar Museum of Art, Colorado State University
University Medical Center New Orleans
Embassy Suites Midtown NYC
Numerous private collections