DOZIER BELL
b. 1957 Lewiston, Maine
Represented by: Sarah Bouchard Gallery, Woolwich, ME
Carol Corey Fine Art, Kent, KT
SELECTED ONE AND TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2024 Sarah Bouchard Gallery, Woolwich, ME
2023 Home: Drawings and Watercolors by Dozier Bell Carol Corey Fine Art, Kent, CT
and at DFN Projects, New York, NY
2022 Sarah Bouchard Gallery, Woolwich, ME
2021 Dozier Bell: Monhegan Island DFN Projects, New York, NY
Dozier Bell: Monhegan Island Carol Corey Fine Arts, Kent, CT
2019 Half-light Danese / Corey Gallery, New York, NY
2018 Dozier Bell: The Limits of Civilization Zolla Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL
2017 Danese / Corey Gallery, New York, NY
2016 Dowling Walsh Gallery, Rockland, ME
2014 Danese / Corey Gallery, New York, NY
2013 The Mind's Eye: Dozier Bell Drawings Bates College Museum of Art, Lewiston, ME
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
Aether National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC
2003 The Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY
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 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
2024 It’s All in Black and White Carol Corey Fine Art, Kent, CT
2023 Secrets of the Sea Avery Galleries, Bryn Mawr, PA
Beating under cover of the woods: Animals in Contemporary Art Carol Corey Fine Art, Kent, CT
2022 Meticulous Museum of Fine Arts, Houston TX
At Water’s Edge Carol Corey Fine Art, Kent, CT
On Such a Winter’s Day Carol Corey Fine Art, Kent, CT
2021 Think Twice Carol Corey Fine Arts, Kent, CT
2021 Here and There Cove Street Arts, Portland, ME
2019 The LIGHT Show Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
Fear and Wonder: Sublime Landscapes on Paper Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
2017 48th Collector’s Show & Sale, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR
2016 Drawing Conclusions, Danese / Corey, New York, NY
2015 Director's Cut: Selections from the Maine Art Museum Trail Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME
Dozier Bell, Alan Bray, Kristin Malin Caldbeck Gallery, Rockland, ME
Land and Sea Danese Corey Gallery, New York, NY
2014 Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
A Gathering Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA
2013 Charcoal Schick Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
Seescape George Adams Gallery, New York, NY
Woods, Lovely, Dark, and Deep DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY
Maine Women Pioneers: Dirigo University of New England, Portland, ME
2011 Land, Sea, and Sky: Contemporary Art in Maine Addison Gallery at Phillips Academy, Andover, MA
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
Sacred and Profane Portsmouth Museum of Art, Portsmouth, NH
2009 Selections from the Ogunquit Museum of American Art
Portsmouth Atheneum, Portsmouth, NH
Portland Museum of Art Biennial Portland, ME
2008 Art from Anxious Times Art Students League, New York, NY
Transcendental and Sublime Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, CT
Silence La Galeria, Consell de Cent, Barcelona
Midnight Full of Stars Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, Summit, NJ
2007 New Artists Bentley Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
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
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
After Nature The Herter Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
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
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
Changing Horizons: Landscape on the Eve of the Millennium Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY (catalog)
Skowhegan at 50: The Maine Legacy
Maine Coast Artists, Rockland, ME, and Baxter Gallery, Portland, ME
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
Ten Years, Ten Artists Albers Fine Art Gallery, Memphis, TN
Dialogues: On and Off the Wall Schmidt-Bingham Gallery, Garth Clark Gallery, and Peter Joseph Gallery, New York, NY
Landscape not Landscape Gallery Camino Real, Boca Raton, FL (catalog)
Contemporary Landscapes Evans-Gropper-Willis Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1993 The Collectors' Show The Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR
Landscape as Metaphor: The Transcendental Vision Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, MA and Newport Art Museum, Newport, RI
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
Apocalypse and Resurrection AmFAR Benefit and Exhibition, The Gallery Three Zero, New York, NY
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
Beyond Black and White: Contemporary Hand-Painted Photographs The Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, ME
1989 Interstices Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, ME
Vision and Visions: Contemporary Landscape Painting Tavelli Gallery, Aspen, CO
New Work Dean Velentgas Gallery, Portland, ME
Contemporary Environment General Electric Company, Fairfield, CT
Landscape of the Spirit The Bruce Museum, Greenwich, CT (catalog)
1988 40th Anniversary Juried Exhibition The Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, ME
The Face of the Land Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Loretto, PA
Fresh Paint The Baxter Gallery, Maine College of Art, Portland, ME
1987 Beyond Observation Schmidt-Bingham Gallery, New York, NY
New Artists: The Gloria Wilcher Memorial Exhibition Currier Gallery, Manchester, NH (catalog)
Gallery Invitational The Farnsworth Museum of Art, Rockland, ME
Six Young Maine Painters Maine Coast Artists, Rockport, ME
AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES
2019 Monhegan Artists' Residency, Monhegan, Maine
2014 Purchase Prize, American Academy of Arts and Letters
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
Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
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
RISD Museum, Providence, RI
Swiss Re, New York, NY
Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT
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