1976
Elected a member of the National Academy of Design.
Made a full Professor, University of Tennessee.

1982-1983
One-man show, American Gallery Bern, Switzerland.
Retired from teaching.

1984
Major solo exhibition: Carl Sublett at Tennessee
State Museum, Nashville, Tennessee. Opened Sublett
Gallery on the former site of the 1982 World's Fair,
Knoxville, Tennessee.

1991
One-man Exhibition: The Unseen Carl Sublett, at the
opening of the Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville,
Tennessee

1994
Lifetime Achievement Award, Knoxville Arts Council.

1995
Members' Exhibit, National Academy, New York, New York.

1998
Solo Exhibit: Bennett Galleries, Knoxville, Tennessee.
National, Academy Members' Exhibition, New York, New
York. State of the Art Invitational, Parkland College
Gallery, Champaign, Illinois. Masters of Port Clyde
Invitational, a group exhibit including Ranulph Bye,
Ronald Frontin, Robert Hamilton, Greg Mort, Carl Sublett,
William Thon, and Jamie Wyeth, at the Gallery by the
Sea, Port Clyde, Maine.

2000
UT School of Art Community Advisory Board Distinguished
Faculty/Student Alumni Award.

2001
Sublett's exhibit: A Visual Odyssey: the art of Carl
Sublett toured throughout Tennessee and into North
Carolina, Virginia and Georgia.