BIO & RESUME
Snow Mass and When Were We Here in
Anne Neely: Looking Now, Aperto Fine Art, Bridgton, ME.
PHOTO: Aaron Thompson
Unraveling, What Remains, After, and Primal Fire in Anne Neely: Looking Now,
Aperto Fine Art, Bridgton, ME.
PHOTO: Aaron Thompson
BIO
Studio, Jonesport, ME.
Anne Neely in her Boston, MA studio.
RESUME
Anne Neely is a painter and printmaker who divides her time between Boston, Massachusetts, and Jonesport, Maine. She was a finalist for the Prix de Rome and was twice a finalist in painting for the Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowship. She has been awarded residencies at the Millay Colony for the Arts in New York, at the Ballinglen Arts Foundation in Co. Mayo, Ireland, and at the Cill Rialaig Arts Center in Co. Kerry, Ireland. Neely's work has been shown at Lohin Geduld Gallery in New York, Alpha Gallery in Boston, as well as galleries in San Francisco and in museums around the country. Most recently, she had a solo exhibition at the Museum of Science, Boston entitled Water Stories, about water issues in America. Neely's work can be found in the collections of the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA; The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY; The Davis Museum, Wellesley, MA; The Rose Art Museum, Waltham, MA; The deCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA; The Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, ME; Grunwald Center for Graphic Art, UCLA; The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; The Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME; The Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC; and The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY. Her work has been reviewed in Art in America, Art News, The New York Times, and The Irish Times, and a book has been published on her exhibition Water Stories at the Museum of Science, Boston.
Studio, Jonesport, ME.
Anne Neely in her Boston, MA studio.
RESUME
| AWARDS, HONORS, RESIDENCIES | |
| 2022 | Alex Katz Foundation purchase of two paintings |
| 2018 | Art Feature in the BU Literary Journal AGNI #88, "A Necessity: Fearful Symmetries" by Anne Neely, November |
| 2010 | New American Paintings, Northeast Edition, Open Studios Press, Boston, MA |
| 2009 | Massachusetts Cultural Council, Finalist |
| 2007 | Grant Recipient, Artists' Resource Trust |
| 2004 | Ballinglen Arts Foundation Fellowship Program, County Mayo, Ireland |
| 2003 | New American Paintings, Northeast Edition, Open Studios Press, Boston, MA |
| 2001 | Ballinglen Arts Foundation Fellowship Program |
| 1998 | Ballinglen Arts Foundation Fellowship Program |
| 1995 | Polaroid Grant, Artist Support Program, 20x24 Studio New York |
| 1991 | Edna Saint Vincent Millay Colony, Austerlitz, NY |
| 1987 | Artist in Residence, Earthwatch, Klingenstein Grant |
| 1986 | Rome Prize Fellowship, American Academy in Rome, Finalist Painting |
| Massachusetts Artist Foundation Grant, Finalist Painting | |
| 1982 | Blanche E. Coleman Award, Painting, Boston, MA |
| SOLO EXHIBITIONS | |
| 2023 | Anne Neely: Looking Now, Aperto Fine Art, Bridgton, ME |
| Awash, Shaw Contemporary, Northeast Harbor, ME | |
| 2019 | Climate Change Conversations, Cove Street Arts, Portland, ME |
| 2017 | Hidden in Plain Sight, CUE Art Foundation, New York, NY |
| 2016 | Ireland: Place and Ritual, Cambridge Seven Associates, Cambridge, MA |
| Water Stories: Conversations in Paint and Sound, Baron and Ellin Gordon Art Galleries, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA | |
| 2015 | Transforming Place, Lehman Art Center, The Brooks School, N. Andover, MA |
| Water Stories, Kathryn Markel Fine Arts, New York, NY | |
| 2014 | Water Stories Project: A Conversation in Paint and Sound, Museum of Science, Boston, MA (cat.) |
| 2011 | Mopang: Recent Paintings, Lohin Geduld Gallery, New York, NY |
| 2010 | Waterlines, Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, MA |
| 2009 | Where There's Water, Lohin Geduld Gallery, New York, NY |
| 2008 | Just the Elements: New Paintings, Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA |
| 2007 | What the Weather Brings, Lohin Geduld Gallery, New York, NY (cat.) |
| 2005 | Going West, Catherine Hammond Gallery, West Cork, Ireland |
| The Edge of the World, Lohin Geduld Gallery, New York, NY (cat.) | |
| Madison Avenue: Where Fashion Meets Art, Lalique, New York, NY | |
| 2004 | Recent Paintings, Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA |
| 2003 | Circuits — New Paintings, Karen Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
| 2001 | Garden of Memory, Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA (cat.) |
| 2000 | Seven Landscapes for the Millennium, Emmanuel College, Boston, MA |
| 1997 | Still Life/Landscape, 1993–1997, Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA |
| 1995 | Paintings from 1984–1995, Nesto Gallery, Milton Academy, Milton, MA |
| 1994 | Monoprints and Paintings, Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA |
| 1993 | Breathing In Memoriam, Monoprints, New Work/New England Exhibition, DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA |
| The Maine Paintings, Frick Gallery, Belfast, ME | |
| 1989–1992 | Recent Paintings, Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA |
| 1987 | New Work, Fine Arts Gallery, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI |
| 1988–1996 | Paintings, Victoria Munroe Gallery, New York, NY |
| SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS | |
| 2023 | The Interior Life: Recent Acquisitions, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC |
| 2022 | Undercurrents: Water + Human Impact, Concord Art Association, Concord, MA |
| 2020 | Skirting the line: Painting Between Abstraction and Representation, CMCA, Rockland, ME |
| AREA CODE Art Fair | |
| 2017 | Expanding Abstraction: New England Women Painters 1950 to Now, DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA |
| Thinking About Water, Overlook Gallery, Metropolitan Waterworks Museum, Boston, MA | |
| 2015 | True Monotypes, International Print Center New York, New York, NY |
| 2013 | Color Collision, Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA |
| 2012 | Counterpoint: Anne Neely and Tom Chapin, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, ME |
| Rethink Ink, Mixit Studios Celebrates 25 Years, BPL, Boston,MA | |
| 2011 | Maine as Muse, Lohin Geduld Gallery, New York, NY |
| MCC Fellows at the South Shore Art Center, Shipyard Gallery, Hingham, MA | |
| 2010 | Large/Small, Lohin Geduld Gallery, New York, NY |
| Water, Sun Valley Art Center, Ketchum, ID | |
| 2009 | Drawing Atlas, Pennsylvania College of Art and Design, Phildelphia, PA |
| Intricacies, Lohin Geduld Gallery, New York, NY | |
| Resonance of Place, Gross McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia, PA | |
| 2008 | Boston Ten, Ferrin Gallery, Pittsfield, MA |
| Drawing Atlas, Lohin Geduld Gallery, New York, NY | |
| 2006 | Curator’s Choice. Painting Structure, Center for Maine, Contemporary Art, Rockport, ME |
| Boston 10, Lucano Gallery, Great Barrington, MA | |
| The Ballinglen Experience, American Artists in Ireland, curated by Ann Brooke, The Concord Art Assocation, Concord, MA (cat.) | |
| 2005 | The Long View: Selections from the Norma Marin Collection, Museum of Art, UM, Bangor, ME |
| Small Works, Lohin Geduld Gallery, New York, NY | |
| 2004–05 | Summer Selections, Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA |
| 2004 | Celebrate Summer, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
| Leisure, Curated by Sheila Gallagher, North Haven Gallery, North Haven, ME | |
| 2003 | Images from North Mayo, Courthouse Gallery, Ballycastle, County Mayo, Ireland |
| Points of View: New England Artists in Ireland, New Art Center, Newton, MA | |
| Eire/land, McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, Boston, MA | |
| 2002 | Juried Biennial, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, ME |
| 2000 | Celebrating Contemporary Art in NE: Recent Aquisitions, DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA |
| Visual Memoirs: Selected Paintings and Drawings, Curated by Carl Belz, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA | |
| 1998 | Immortalized, Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, MA |
| From the States, The National Museum for Women in the Arts, Washington, DC | |
| Milton Creates, Bicentennial Exhibition, Curated by J. Carter Brown, Director Emeritus, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC and Milton Academy, Milton, MA | |
| 1997 | Shifting Grounds: A Dialogue in Print, Boston University, Boston, MA |
| Fiftieth North American Print Exhibition, MA College of Art, Boston, MA | |
| 1996 | The Eighth Triennial, Fuller Museum of Art, Brockton, MA |
| 1995 | Inspired by Nature, Boston College Art Museum, Chestnut Hill, MA |
| 1994 | The Unique Print, Maine Coast Artists, Rockport, ME |
| 1992 | Critics Choice, Duxbury Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, MA |
| 1989 | Landscape of the Spirit, The Bruce Museum, Greenwich, CT (cat.) |
| 1986 | 50 Works. E.F. Hutton Collection, Curated by Henry Vazquez, Metropolitan Museum and Art Complex, Coral Gables, FL (cat.) |
| 1985 | Ardent Gestures (Six Painters), Curated by Susan Stoops, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA (cat.) |
| 1984 | New Vistas: Contemporary American Landscapes, Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY and Tucson Art Museum, Tucson, AZ |
| SELECTED PUBLIC AND CORPORATE COLLECTIONS | |
| Alaska Airlines Alex Katz Foundation, New York, NY Amerada Hess, Woodbridge, NJ Art in Embassies, Belgrade, Serbia AT&T Longlines, Newark, NJ Bank of Boston, Boston, MA Berkshire Partners, Boston, MA Boston Public Library, Boston, MA Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY Chemical Bank, New York, NY Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, MA Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA The Farnesworth Art Museum, Rockland, ME Fidelity Investments, Boston, MA, New York and Singapore Grunwald Center for Graphic Arts at UCLA Arman Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA Liberty Mutual, Boston, MA Milbank, Tweed, Hadley and McCloy, New York, NY Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC New York Public Library, New York, NY Office of Public Works, County Cork, Ireland Perry Corporation, New York, NY Polaroid Corporation, Cambridge, MA Reader’s Digest, Pleasantville, NY Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA Simmons College, Boston, MA Simpson, Thatcher and Bartlett, New York, NY Sonesta International Hotels, Boston, MA The Smithsonian, The National Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C. The Gund Collection, Cambridge, MA The Putnam Companies, Boston, MA Wellington Management, Boston, MA Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY | |
| SELECTED ARTICLES, ESSAYS AND REVIEWS | |
| 2023 | "Art review: In two fall exhibits, a painter devastates, a printmaker expands the form", Portland Press Herald-Maine Sunday Telegram, September 17, 2023 |
| "National Gallery of Art acquires work by Anne Neely", artdaily.com, August 25, 2023 | |
| 2022 | LIttle, Carl. "The Maine Landscape: Painting Place", Maine Arts Journal, Summer 2022 |
| 2021 | Keyes, Bob. "Talented Natives Came Home to Create", Maine Sunday Telegram, Sunday, September 26 |
| 2020 | Little, Carl. "Anne Neely's Ethical Abstractions", Hyperallergic, August 22 |
| Keyes, Bob. "Skirting the Line: Painting between Abstraction and Representation", CMCA, Portland Press Herald, Portland Maine, March 15 | |
| 2017 | CUE Art Foundation Catalogue, Curatorial Commentary by Sarah Sze; Channeling, Heavy and Light, Essay by Suzette McAvoy, Director and Curator of Maine Center for Contemporary Art, Rockland, ME;Dwelling on Painting, Essay by John A Tyson, Assistant Professor at UMass Boston and Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellow at National Gallery of Art |
| 2015 | Little, Carl. "One World: Two Visions", Maine, Boats, Homes & Harbors |
| 2014 | Postel, Sandra, Freshwater Fellow, National Geographic. Water, Essay for book, Water Stories, Edition One and News Watch, Water Currents |
| Rabkin, David, Farinon Director for Current Science and Technology, Museum of Science. Foreword for Water Stories, Edition One | |
| Wei, Lilly, Curator, Writer, NY. Painted Water, Essay for book, Water Stories, Edition One | |
| Louis, Postel, New England Home Magazine, Natural Talent, July-August Issue | |
| 2013 | McQuaid, Cate. "Fluid Imagination", Profile, The Boston Globe, 7/8 |
| 2012 | McAvoy, Suzette. Catalog Essay and Foreword, Counterpoint 111, CMCA, Rockport, ME |
| 2011 | Einspruch, Franklin, "Waterworks: Anne Neely at Lohin Geduld", Review, Artcritical |
| Franzen, Jonathan, Catalog Essay: Happening, Mopang, September | |
| 100 Artists of New England, E. Ashley Rooney, Schiffer Publishers | |
| Knox, Robert, Behind the Scenes, "MCC Fellows Art Exhibition", The Boston Globe, 1/6 | |
| 2010 | McQuaid, Cate, "Variations on space, depth, shadow", Art Review, The Boston Globe, 4/18 |
| New American Paintings, Juried Exhibitions in Print, #86, Monica Ramirez-Montagut, Curator | |
| 2009 | Decker, Elisa. Review, Art in America, September |
| JSilver, Joanne. National Review, "Anne Neely Alpha Boston", ARTNews, April | |
| 2008 | McQuaid, Cate. Review, "'Elements' Pushes Landscape to Its Boundaries," The Boston Globe, Wednesday, October 8, 2008 |
| 2007 | Walentini, Joseph. Review, Abstract Art on Line, March 15 |
| 2005 | Dunne, Aidan. Review, The Irish Times, August 12 |
| Mathews-Berenson. catalogue essay, The Edge of the World, Sojourner, March | |
| Spiher, David. Review, Galleries, "Defying Gravity," Gay City, March 3–9 | |
| Walentini, Joseph. Review, New York Views, Abstract Art On Line, March 1 | |
| 2004 | Nadelman, Cynthia. Review, ARTNews, National Reviews, March |
| 2003 | Corbett, William. Review, artsMedia, December |
| McQuaid, Cate. Review, The Boston Globe, "Taking landscapes to a new horizon", November | |
| 2002 | Howards, Ellen. Article, artsMedia, "Ireland’s Hold on Boston’s Artists", March |
| Sherman, Mary. Review, ARTNews, National Reviews, March | |
| McQuaid, Cate. Review, The Boston Globe, "Through Neely’s Eyes," January 5 | |
| 2000 | Giuliano, Charles. Review, Art New England, Vol. 20 No. 2 April/May |
| McQuaid, Cate. Review, The Boston Globe, "Galleries A haunted, poetic vision...", February 3 | |
| 1999 | Silver, Joanne. Review, Boston Herald, "Exhibit Helps Deal with Death," January 15 |
| Temin, Christine. Review, The Boston Globe, "Artists...about their dearly departed", January 8 | |
| 1997 | McQuaid, Cate. Review, The Boston Globe, "Still Lifes with inner lives", April 10 |
| 1996 | McQuaid, Cate. Review, The Boston Globe, "Memento Mori", December 5 |
| Temin, Christine. Review, The Boston Globe, "Best of Show", September 20 | |
| 1995 | Worth, Alexi. Review, Art New England, Vol. 16, No.5, Aug/Sept |
| Unger, Miles. Review, The New Art Examiner, January | |
| 1994 | Stapen, Nancy. Review, The Boston Globe, "Neely evolves naturally," October 20 |
| 1993 | Temin, Christine. Article, "Neely’s Breathing Series: At once personal and universal," The Boston Globe, March 10 |
| Giuliano, Charles. Review, Art New England, Vol.16 No. 5, Aug/Sept | |
| 1992 | Tarlow, Lois. Interview profile, Art New England, Vol. 13, No. 5, Aug/Sept |
| Temin, Christine. Boston Sunday Globe, "Talented, determined leadership made 1992 a good year for art, 10 Best in Visual Arts", December 27, 1992 | |
| 1989 | Zimmer, William. Review, The New York Times, "Spiritual Side of Art", April 2 |
| 1988 | Stretch, Bonnie Barrett. "The New Age of Corporate Art", ARTnews, January |
| 1986 | Henry, Gerrit "New York Reviews", ARTnews, June |
| Johnson, Stephen. catalogue essay, Plein Air, An Exhibition of Landscape Paintings and Drawings, Bank of Boston, Boston, MA, February–April | |
| Larson, Kay. "New Faces of 86’," New York Magazine, March | |
| 1985 | Giuliano, Charles. Review, "Six Neo-Romantic Artists", Art New England, April |
| Giuliano,Charles. Review, The Patriot Ledger, February 19 | |
| Guillemin, Robert. Review, The Heights, February 11 | |
| Stapen, Nancy. "Painters at the Rose", Christian Science Monitor, March 29 | |
| Stoops, Susan. Catalogue essay, "Ardent Gestures", Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham,MA | |
| Taylor, Robert. Review, "Brandeis Show Provides Six Different Styles", The Boston Globe, April 7 | |
| Yarde, Sally. Catalogue essay, "An Architect’s Eye: Selections from the Gund Collection", Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, South Hadley, MA | |
| 1984 | Oresman, Janice. Catalogue essay, "New Vistas: Contemporary American Landscapes", Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY and the Tucson Art Museum, Tucson, AZ |
| PUBLICATIONS | |
| 2015 | Water Stories, Conversations in Paint and Sound, Published by Edition One, in conjunction with the exhibition at the Museum of Science, Boston, MA July 2014 - January 2015 |
| 2012 | Frenn, Chawky. 100 Boston Painters, Schiffer Publishing, Atglen, PA |
| 2010 | New American Paintings, Juried Exhibitions in Print, #86, Monica Ramirez-Montagut, Curator |
| 2008 | 100 New England Artists, Schiffer Publishing, Atglen, PA |
| 2007 | Pease, Roland, Ed. Zoland Poetry, Steerforth Press, Hanover, NH — Cover Art |
| 2003 | New American Paintings, Juried Exhibitions in Print, #44, Charlotta Kotik, Curator |
| PROFESSIONAL TEACHING, PROGRAMS AND TALKS | |
| 2015 | Visiting Artist, Old Dominion University, Painting Program |
| Visiting Artist, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME | |
| 2014 | Boston College, Graduate Painting Program, Boston, MA |
| Visiting Artist, The Brooks School, Andover, MA | |
| 2012 | Public Lecture, Museum of Science, Boston, Boston, MA |
| Catalyst Conversations Lecture, MIT Broad Institute, Boston, MA | |
| Visiting Artist, Graduate School of Design, Gund Hall, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA | |
| EPA, Water Stories, Federal Street, Boston, MA | |
| 1974–2012 | Art Instructor, Visual Arts Dept, Upper School, Milton Academy, Milton, MA |
| 2005–12 | Nesto Gallery Director, Milton Academy, Milton, MA |
| 2004 | Visiting Artist, Westminster School, Simsbury, CT |
| 1999 | MASS College of Art, Boston, MA |
| 1998 | Juror For Traveling Scholarship, School of the MFA, Boston, MA |
| 1997 | Visiting Artist, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH |
| Recipient, Thomas Lamont Teaching Chair in the Humanities, Milton Academy, Milton, MA | |
| Visiting Artist, MASS College of Art, Boston, MA | |
| 1996 | Visiting Artist DeCordova Museum, Educational Program, Lincoln, MA |
| Visiting Artist, Roxbury Latin School, Roxbury, MA | |
| 1995 | Visiting Artist, Maine College of Art, Portland, ME |
| 1992 | The Talbot Baker Award for Teaching Excellence, Milton Academy, Milton, MA |
| Visiting Artist to Graduate Students, Painting, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA | |
| 1988 | Colgate University, Hamilton, NY |
| 1987 | Memphis Art Institute, Memphis, TN |
| 1981–94 | Nesto Gallery Director, Milton Academy, Milton, MA |
| EDUCATION | |
| 1970 | B.A. Degree, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA |
| 1966 | A.A. Degree, Colby Sawyer College, New London, NH |
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