CV
jcbuster98@gmail.com
b. Louisville, KY
Lives in Corydon, IN
RELEVANT WORK EXPERIENCE
Creative Director at MaybeItsFate Cooperative, Louisville, KY (April 2026 - Current)
Lead Installer & Logistics Coordinator with Mathemalchemy (Nov 2024 - Current)
Private Art Assistant & Consultant (June 2025 - Current)
Creative Operations Coordinator at Ambo Dance Theatre (May 2024 - May 2026)
EDUCATION
2026 MA Art History: Curatorial & Critical Studies
2025 BA Art History: Curatorial & Critical Studies
2025 Minor in Classical Studies
CURATED EXHIBITIONS
2027
Homesick, MaybeItsFate Cooperative, Louisville, KY
2026
The Abyss Stares Back, ArtPortal, Louisville, KY
Life is Elsewhere: Social Surrealism in Kentucky Photography, ArtPortal, Louisville, KY
Short n’ Sweet, Sunergos Coffee, Louisville, KY
Marking It: A NACHMO Exhibition, ArtPortal, Louisville, KY
2025
Doing Americana: Photography, Mythology and the American Dream, University of Louisville, Louisville KY
2024
V. Joseph Shipman: Investing in Community, Frazier History Museum, Louisville, KY
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2026
Harrison County Arts Annual Exhibition, Corydon, Indiana
Transmit, Alchemy Collective, Louisville, KY
Everybody is an Artist: A Celebration of Community Creators, The Redbud Community Art Gallery, Louisville, KY
Hooked, Magpie Gallery, Indianapolis, Indiana
Next Up: Fresh Art, Prospect City Hall, Prospect, KY
Marking It: A NACHMO Exhibition, ArtPortal, Louisville, KY
2025
Sunergos Coffee: Artist from Redbud, Sunergos Coffee, Louisville, KY
The Redbud Community Art Gallery, Louisville, KY
Summer Member’s Show, Maybeitsfate Gallery, Louisville, KY
Untitled 2, Alchemy Collective, Louisville, KY
2024
Tasteless, Alchemy Collective, Louisville, KY
2019
The Kids Aren’t Alright, HOBA House, Louisville, KY
ART ACTIVITY
2026
Transmission, Bernheim Forest & Arboretum, Clermont, Kentucky
Mathemalchemy, Montgomery County Community College, Philadelphia, PA
Mathemalchemy, International Congress of Mathematicians, Philadelphia, PA
Guest Visual Artist for “Mimi” by Ambo Dance Theatre at Actors Theatre Storytelling Revolution in Louisville, KY
2025
Mathemalchemy, National Autonomous University, Mexico City, MX
Guest Visual Artist “Mimi” by Ambo Dance Theatre, at Elgin Fringe Festival, Elgin IL
Mathemalchemy, Navajo Nation Museum, Window Rock, AZ
Choreographer “Reverie” for Kentucky National Choreography Month Festival in Louisville, KY
2024
Mathemalchemy, University of Quebec in Montreal, CA
Downtown Fall Celebration, Hazard, KY
AWARDS, HONORS, GRANTS
2026 Outstanding Graduate of Fine Arts Award
2025 Cressman Scholarship Award
2024 Commonwealth Center for the Humanities and Society Scholarship
2024 Soaring Scholar Scholarship University of Louisville
2023 Acceptance into American Institute of Foreign Study, Rome, Italy
RESIDENCIES
Kinhouse Gallery Artist in Residence in Fort Wayne, Indiana
PUBLICATIONS
Chenoa Buster & Gray Koester: "Ecological Kinships", Kudzu Jelly, 22 July 2026
https://kudzu-jelly.com/writing/ecological-kinships
Keith Waits, “Artists Talk with LVA”, February 2026
https://www.artebelladaily.org/artebella
Cassidy Grace Meurer, “Doing Americana”, Kudzu Jelly, 28 October 2025
https://kudzu-jelly.com/written/doing-americana
Chenoa Buster, Gray Koester, et al: “Doing Americana: Photography, Mythology and the American Dream” Exhibition Catalogue with University of Louisville, August 2024
https://www.academia.edu/146204349/Doing_Americana_Photography_Mythology_and_the_American_Dream
Frazier Weekly, “Curator’s Corner: Chenoa Buster on V. Joseph Shipman Exhibit”, November 18 2024
https://www.fraziermuseum.org/weekly/11-18-2024
Chenoa Buster, “Grandma's Boys: Behind The Scenes of "Oakley" EP”, Jun 13, 2019
https://www.hobagallery.com/blog/grandma-s-boys-behind-the-scenes-of-oakley-ep
SERVICE
Board Member for Harrison County Arts, Corydon, Indiana (June 2026 - Current)
Advisory Board Chairperson for Ambo Dance Theatre (May 2025 - May 2026)
Executive Board Member for Ambo Dance Theatre (March 2025 - May 2026)