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DOZIER BELL

Represented by Danese Gallery, 535 West 24th St., New York, NY 10011

                        Aucocisco Gallery, 89 Exchange St., Portland, ME 04101


SELECTED ONE AND TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2010       Dozier Bell: Momenta  

              Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, ME

2010, 2007, 2005, 2002  Aucocisco Gallery, Portland, ME

2009, 2006, 2004  DFN Gallery, New York, NY

2009       La Galeria, Barcelona, Spain

2007       Gold/Smith Gallery, Boothbay Harbor, ME

2005, 2001, 1999  Chase Gallery, Boston, MA

2004       University of Maine Museum of Art, Bangor, ME

2004       National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC

2003       The Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY

2003       A.V.C. Gallery, New York, NY

2000, 1998  June Fitzpatrick Gallery, Portland, ME

2000, 1998, 1995, 1992, 1990, 1988  Schmidt-Bingham Gallery, New York, NY

1998       Dozier Bell: Primary Themes  

              Lyman Allyn Museum, New London, CT (catalog)

1995       The Dissonant Heart  (in collaboration with the poet Wesley McNair)

               Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME (catalog)

1994       Original Place: Recent Work by Dozier Bell and Ken Greenleaf

               Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, ME, and Center Gallery, Bucknell 

               University, Lewisburg, PA (catalog)

1991       Bingham-Kurts Gallery, Memphis, TN

1990       Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID

1989       Marilyn Butler Fine Arts, Scottsdale, AZ

1987       O'Farrell Gallery, Brunswick, ME

 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS


2011         Land, Sea, and Sky: Contemporary Art in Maine

                Addison Gallery at Phillips Academy, Andover, MA

2011         Synthetic Supports: Plastic is the New Paper

                Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX

2010         Dozier Bell, Karen Schiff, Hadi Tabatabai: Drawings       

               Danese Gallery, New York, NY

2010         Sacred and Profane  Portsmouth Museum of Art, Portsmouth, NH

2009         Selections from the Ogunquit Museum of American Art      

                Portsmouth  Atheneum, Portsmouth, NH

2009         Portland Museum of Art Biennial  Portland, ME                                                     
2008         Art from Anxious Times  Art Students League, New York, NY                                       
2008        Transcendental and Sublime  Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, CT                  
2008        Silence   La Galeria, Consell de Cent, Barcelona

2008        Midnight Full of Stars  Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, Summit, NJ

2007        New Artists  Bentley Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ

2007        Introductions II  Stremmel Gallery, Reno, NV

2006        The Figure in American Painting and Drawing, 1985-2005

                Ogunquit Museum of American Art, Ogunquit, ME

2005        The Environment of Landscape: Works from the Olivia and Ellwood

                Straub Collection    Bates College, Lewiston, ME

2004-07   American Embassy in Abuja, Nigeria

2004        Images of Time and Place: Contemporary Views of Landscape

               The Lehman Gallery, Bronx, NY

2003-04   Facing Reality: The Seavest Collection of Contemporary Realism         

               Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY

2002        50th Anniversary Exhibition 

               Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, ME

2002        Keenly Observed   Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, CT`

2001-02   Re-presenting Representation V    The Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, NY

2000        Photographing Maine: 1850 - 2000   Maine Coast Artists, Rockport, ME

1998        After Dark   Maine Coast Artists, Rockport, ME

1998        After Nature  The Herter Gallery, University of Massachusetts,   Amherst, MA

1998       Seasons of Change: Maine Women Artists and Nature 

               Payson Gallery, Westbrook College, Portland, ME

1997       Invitational Exhibition  Memphis College of Art, Memphis, TN

1996-97   Destiny Manifest:  American Landscape Painting in the 90's

               Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL (catalog)

1996       Torn Asunder:  Collage in Twentieth-Century Art

               Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME

1996       Inside/Outside: Recent Photography from the MacDowell Colony  

               Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College,  Hanover, NH

               and the the University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH

1996       Changing Horizons:  Landscape on the Eve of the Millennium

               Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY (catalog)

1996       Skowhegan at 50:  The Maine Legacy

               Maine Coast Artists, Rockland, ME, and Baxter Gallery, Portland, ME

1996       Fractured Fairy Tales:  Art in the Age of Categorical Disintegration

               Duke University Museum of Art, Durham, NC (catalog)

1995       Irrational Landscapes   Binghamton University Art Museum, Binghamton,

               and New York Academy of Sciences, New York, NY

1994       The Collectors' Show   The Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR

1994       Ten Years, Ten Artists   Albers Fine Art Gallery, Memphis, TN

1994       Dialogues:  On and Off the Wall   Schmidt-Bingham Gallery, Garth Clark

               Gallery, and Peter Joseph Gallery, New York, NY

1994       Landscape not Landscape   Gallery Camino Real, Boca Raton, FL (catalog)

1994       Contemporary Landscapes   Evans-Gropper-Willis Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1993       The Collectors' Show   The Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR

1993       Landscape as Metaphor:  The Transcendental Vision    Fitchburg Art

               Museum, Fitchburg, MA and Newport Art Museum, Newport, RI

1993       Gender and Identity   Baxter Gallery, Maine College of Art, Portland, ME

1992       Art of Maine: A Bounty of Woods and Water   Monmouth Museum,

               Lincroft, NJ

1992       Apocalypse and Resurrection   AmFAR Benefit and Exhibition, The Gallery

               Three Zero, New York, NY

1992       On the Edge:  40 Years of Maine Painting   Maine Coast Artists, Rockport,

               ME;  Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME  (Catalog)

1991       Darkness into Light   Lintas: Worldwide, New York, NY

1990       Perspectives:  Celebrating Contemporary Art at the Portland Museum

               Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME

1990       Beyond Black and White:  Contemporary Hand-Painted Photographs   The

               Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, ME

1989       Interstices   Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, ME

1989       Vision and Visions:  Contemporary Landscape Painting   Tavelli Gallery,

               Aspen, CO

1989       New Work   Dean Velentgas Gallery, Portland, ME

1989       Contemporary Environment   General Electric Company, Fairfield, CT

1989       Landscape of the Spirit   The Bruce Museum, Greenwich, CT  (catalog)

1988       40th Anniversary Juried Exhibition   The Farnsworth Art Museum,

               Rockland, ME

1988       The Face of the Land   Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Loretto, PA

1988       Fresh Paint   The Baxter Gallery, Maine College of Art, Portland, ME

1987       Beyond Observation   Schmidt-Bingham Gallery, New York, NY

1987       New Artists:  The Gloria Wilcher Memorial Exhibition   Currier Gallery,

               Manchester, NH (catalog)

1987       Gallery Invitational   The Farnsworth Museum of Art, Rockland, ME

1987       Six Young Maine Painters   Maine Coast Artists, Rockport, ME

 

AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES

2009      Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation Individual Support Grant

2003-04  Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant

2000      Residency at the MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH

1997      Achievement Award and Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts                         

              Maine College of Art, Portland, ME

1995-96 Fulbright Fellowship as artist-in-residence at the Bauhaus University in

              Weimar, Germany

1995       Residency at the MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH

1993       Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant

1993       Residency at the Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Study and Conference

               Center in Bellagio, Italy

1990       Residency at the Millay Colony for the Arts, Austerlitz, NY

1987       National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Painting

1985       Residency and full scholarship at the Skowhegan School of Painting and

               Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME

1981       Smith College Alumnae Association Scholarship for Graduate Study

 

TEACHING AND GUEST LECTURES


2011      Guest Lecturer, Endicott College

2011      Guest Lecturer, Colby College

2009      Guest Lecturer, University of Alabama

2004      Faculty, Andover Newton Summer Institute for Arts and Theology

2004      Guest Lecturer, University of Delaware

2002      Guest Lecturer, Maine College of Art

2001      Guest Lecturer, Kansas City Art Institute

1995      Interim Faculty, Bowdoin College Art Dept.

1997      Guest Lecturer, University of New Hampshire

1992      Guest Lecturer, Mt. Holyoke College

 

SELECTED PUBLIC AND MUSEUM COLLECTIONS        

Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR

Arthur Andersen & Company, St. Paul, MN

AT & T, New York, NY

Boise Art Museum, Boise, ID

Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Bowdoin, ME

Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME

Exxon Corporation, Irving, TX

Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, ME

Harvard Business School, Cambridge, MA

Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, ME

Lyman Allyn Museum, New London, CT

Memphis Cancer Center, Memphis, TN

Metropolitan Life, New York, NY

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX

Nomura Securities, New York, NY

Ogunquit Museum of American Art, Ogunquit, ME

ORYX Energy Corporation, Dallas, TX

Swiss Re, New York, NY

Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME

United Talent Agency, Los Angeles, CA

Zurich Kemper Investments, Chicago, IL (catalog)

 

EDUCATION

MFA, University of Pennsylvania, 1986

Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, 1985.  Full scholarship.

BA, Smith College, 1981.  Magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa