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Exhibition and Awards

My art reflects resilience, transformation, and the emotions that shape us. What began as a personal outlet during my mother’s journey with dementia has evolved into a deeper exploration of fear, loss, healing, and the complexity of being human. Drawn to three-dimensional work later in life, I embraced sculpture without formal training, allowing instinct, curiosity, and emotion to guide each piece.

Every sculpture emerges from layers of experimentation, manipulation, and discovery—mirroring the layered nature of lived experience. The work is intuitive and process-driven, shaped as much by feeling as by form, revealing the quiet power of artistic expression to hold what words cannot.

2026 Juried Shows, Galleries and Exhibitions:

Forgotten Letter
Art by Lois Trader
February–March | Inn at Cedar Bluff
This exhibition features a curated selection of works exploring emotional depth, individuality, and self-expression. Through mixed media and sculptural forms, Lois Trader invites viewers to honor emotion as something sacred while embracing the courage to stand apart rather than blend in.

Unique Unveilings
An Exhibition by Lois Trader
May | Cookeville Art Studio & Gallery
Unique Unveilings is a solo exhibition featuring wall works and sculptural pieces by Lois Trader. Known for her emotionally driven, mixed-media art, Trader’s work explores vulnerability, resilience, and the quiet complexities of the human experience. This exhibition invites viewers to encounter newly revealed forms and stories through a curated display of wall art and table-mounted sculptures.

Solo Art Exhibition by Lois Trader
September–October | Tomato Head West
This solo exhibition features a curated selection of mixed-media and sculptural works that explore expression, individuality, and the beauty of imperfection. Lois Trader’s art adds visual texture and thoughtful energy to the space, inviting diners to engage with art that feels both approachable and meaningful.

November 2026 — The Arts & Culture Alliance / Emporium Center Atrium
Solo Atrium Exhibition — 20 Works
A major, career-defining solo showcase featuring twenty sculptures and wall pieces. Displayed in the iconic Emporium Atrium, this exhibition invites the public into Lois’s most profound explorations of memory, identity, and the human condition.

2025 Art in Galleries & Shows

  • 15th Annual Abstract Only at Wailoa Center in Hilo, Hawaii: Grasping  (SOLD) – August
  • Arts and Cultural Center, Ancient Wisdom, Knoxville, TN
  • NAMI Knoxville: 2025 Pathways to Hope Conference, Art and Speaking, Knoxville, TN.
  • Clear Story Arts Month Exhibition – Void, Mother’s Heart and Broken Hearted – Chattanooga, TN.
  • Clayton Center for the Arts – September-October: My Therapist, Yearning, Mother’s Day, Broken Hearted, Girlfriend – Standing Sculptures on display through October – Maryville, TN.
  • OakRidge Art Center – Annual Juried Show – Angel of Resolve
  • 5 October, Market Square – NAMIWalks, Knoxville, TN – full booth of art.
  • ‘The art that gets us through’ Clear Story Arts – Gripping Guilt, Puzzling Dementia, and Don’t Blend In, Chattanooga, TN.
  • Tennessee Craft Annual Juried Members Show, 27 October – 11 December 2025, Brokenhearted -Pryor Art Gallery, Columbia, TN.
  • Tennessee Artist Association  Annual Members Show – Knoxville, TN Becoming and Contemplation
  • Juried into Smaller than a Bread Basket – Art & Alliance Center, Knoxville, TN. ‘Enough’- displayed April-May 2025
  • Art Scene West – The Surreal Spectacular, 803 West Harbor Drive – San Diego, CA ‘Puzzling Dementia’ April – May 202
  • Juried into Abnormal Market and Uncommon Bazaar 2025, Piedmont Park -Midtown, Atlanta, Ga – August
  • Juried into Oakridge Art Center’s Annual Show – Angel of Resolve
  • Tennessee Craft Annual Juried Members Show, 27 October – 11 December 2025, Brokenhearted -Pryor Art Gallery, Columbia, TN.

2025 Online Exhibitions

  • Exhibizone – Emptiness 2025 – Broken Hearted
  • Femina – 2025 (4th Juried Annual Exhibition) – Miriam
  • Naturalist Gallery Absurd Exhibition – 6 Art Pieces were selected:
    • Miriam, I Don’t Feel Right, Spent, Broken Hearted, My Therapist, and I’m Not Ready
  • Issue 008 Novum Artis – two-page layout
    • Even Angels Cry, and Puzzling Dementia
  • Believe 2025 – Even Angels Cry, Gallerium Art Exhibitions
  • Summer 2025 – The Owl and The Frog, Exhibizone Zoom
  • Life and Death – 2025 – Broken Hearted – Gallerium Art Exhibitions
  • Creative Minds 2025, Exhibizone’s prestigious international juried exhibition:  Ancient Wisdom
  • “Monochromica – The Journal Of Monochrome Art” Issue 004 – GREEN Art – Constant Restraint

2024 Art in Galleries & Shows

  • 50th Issue of Artistonish 2024 Exhibition and Publication. September
    • I Don’t Feel Right
  • Issue 008 Novum Artis – two-page layout, Even Angels Cry, and Puzzling Dementia
  • KB Mart Online Magazine & Gallery – Spent, My Therapist, and Phenomenal Phee
  • Naturalist Gallery of Contemporary Art – Naturalist Gallery Absurd Exhibition
    • I Don’t Feel Right, I’m Not Ready, My Therapist, Heartbroken, Spent
  • Artsy.net – Juried Online Exhibitions
    • Anti-War Exhibition – War
  • Never Give Up CANCER – Miriam, married to Fiddler on the Roof
  • Nuditas – Broken Hearted
  • Emotions – Even Angels Cry
  • Kingdom Animalia – The Owl and the Frog
  • Aesthetics – I Don’t Feel Right
  • Children – Miriam, married to Fiddler on the Roof
  • Loudon County Magazine – 4-page story with my art

004 Novum Artist Magazine  CLICK TO SEE ARTICLE