Randy Akers has directed and designed award-winning international television commercials, movie titles,music videos, and print for Fortune 500 companies. He has been affiliated with Curious Pictures(N,R/GA Digital Studios (NY,Yarra Films (Singapore), Kessler-Irish Films (Toronto), and AFI Films (Miami). Gallery exhibits include an NEA funded show at the Stables Art Gallery in Taos, New Mexico, as well as the
University of New Mexico’s Harwood Foundation. He has also shown at the Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, the Philadelphia Art Museum, the Anchorage Art Museum, the University of Northern Colorado, and Valdosta University Art Museum. Akers was a recipient of a Presidential Fellowship at the Savannah College of Art and Design for his traveling exhibition, the Dogs of Todos Santos. Akers is a member of the Director's Guild of America, the Broadcast Design Association, and served as an advisor to the Delphi Conference exploring the convergence of art and technology. He has taught at the School
of Visual Arts, Savannah College of Art and Design, and Cazenovia College. He received his M.F.A. and M.A. from
Savannah College of Art and Design; B.F.A. from Chouinard Art School, California Institute of the Arts; additional
post-graduate work at Art Center College of Design, California State University Northridge, and University
of Oregon. Currently Akers is working with on the "Road to Canaan" and "Crossways" series and has a one-person show
up-coming at Jaxport Gallery, March 2013 and a two-person show at S.P.A.C.E gallery in Savannah, June 2013. He is represented in Atlanta, Los Angeles, and London by Soho Myriad.
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