Flight
2011
charcoal on mylar
3 ½ x 4 inches

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DOZIER BELL

b. Lewiston, Maine, 1961
Lives and works in Waldoboro, ME

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

Selected One- and Two-Person Exhibitions

2013
Danese Gallery, New York, NY
2010
Dozier Bell: Momenta, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, ME
Aucocisco Gallery, Portland, ME
2009
DFN Gallery, New York, NY
University of Maine Museum of Art, Bangor, ME
National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC
2003
The Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY
A.V.C. Gallery, New York, NY
2002
Aucocisco Gallery, Portland, ME
2001
Chase Gallery, Boston, MA
2000
June Fitzpatrick Gallery, Portland, ME
Schmidt-Bingham Gallery, New York, NY
1999
Chase Gallery, Boston, MA
1998
Dozier Bell: Primary Themes, Lyman Allyn Museum, New London, CT (catalog)
June Fitzpatrick Gallery, Portland, ME
Schmidt-Bingham Gallery, New York, NY
1995
The Dissonant Heart (in collaboration with the poet Wesley McNair), Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME (catalog)
Schmidt-Bingham Gallery, New York, NY
1994
Original Place: Recent Work by Dozier Bell and Ken Greenleaf, Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, ME, and Center Gallery, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA (catalog)
1992
Schmidt-Bingham Gallery, New York, NY
1991
Bingham-Kurts Gallery, Memphis, TN
1990
Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID
Schmidt-Bingham Gallery, New York, NY
1989
Marilyn Butler Fine Arts, Scottsdale, AZ
1988
Schmidt-Bingham Gallery, New York, NY
1987
O'Farrell Gallery, Brunswick, ME

Selected Group Exhibitions

2013
Maine Women Pioneers, Univserity of New England, Portland, ME
2012
small scale : expansive visions, Gallery Joe, Philadelphia, PA
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 Athenaeum, 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
2004-7
American Embassy in Abuja, Nigeria
2004
Images of Time and Place: Contemporary Views of Landscape, The Lehman Gallery, Bronx, NY
2003-4
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
2001-2
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
1996-7
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 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
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 and 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

2009
Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation Individual Support Grant
2003-4
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
1995-6
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
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
Guest Lecturer, Colby College
2009
Guest Lecturer, University of Alabama
2004
Faculty, Andover Newton Summer Institute for Arts and Theology
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)