EDUCATION, FELLOWSHIPS & GRANTS
2014 Pollack-Krasner Foundation Grant; also 1998
1984 Yaddo Fellowship, Saratoga Springs, NY
Studio Assistant to Alfonso Ossorio, Wainscott, NY1983 Studio Assistant to Jasper Johns, Stony Point, NY
1982 Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI; BFA
Studio Assistant to Cletus Johnson, Garnerville, NY
1980 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 Craven Allen Gallery, Durham, NC; also 2021, 2019, 2017
2022 City Art Gallery, Greenville, NC; also 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017,2016, 2015
2018 Barings Bank, Gallery Exhibition, Charlotte, NC2018 Anne Neilson Fine Art, Charlotte, NC
2016 Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York; also 2014, 2011, 2006, 2004, 2003
2014 Horace Williams House, Chapel Hill, NC
2008 Somerhill Gallery, Chapel Hill, NC; also 2002, 2000, 1998, 1996,1994
2007 Weber Fine Art, Greenwich, CT
2002 Weber Fine Art, Scarsdale, NY
2001 Meredith Long Gallery, Houston, TX
David Beitzel Gallery, New York; also 1999, 1997, 1995, 1993
1999 Bentley Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
1993 Peden Gallery, Raleigh, NC; also 1992
1992 Jerald Melberg Gallery, Charlotte, NC
1991 Lorence-Monk Gallery, New York; also 1990, 1989, 1987
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC
1990 Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston, TX
1988 Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY
1986 Dart Gallery, Chicago, IL
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 Jessica Hagen Fine Art and Design, Newport, RI; also 2022, 2021, 2020
2023 Eno Arts Mill Gallery, Hillsborough, NC
2023 Gallery 57 By the Sea, Warren, RI
2023 Evoke Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM
Charlottesville, VA
2015 Quiet Spaces, featured artist, LewAllen Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2014 Two Artists / One Space, featured artist, Greenhill Center for NC Art,
Greensboro, NC
2012 People, Places and Things, featured artist, Meredith Long Gallery,
Houston, TX
2011 Select, Green Hill Center for NC Art, Greensboro, NC
2009 Faculty Show, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
2008 Fast Forward: Three Decades of Contemporary Art from the North Carolina
Museum of Art, Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, GA
2006 People, Places and Things, Meredith Long Gallery, Houston, TX
Lots of Landscapes, Allyn Gallup Contemporary Art, Sarasota, FL
2005 19th and 20th Century Contemporary Landscapes,
Meredith Long Gallery, Houston, TX
Faculty Show, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
2003 Sojourners in Dutchess County, Chisholm Gallery, Pine Plains, NY
2004 Romantic Visions: Landscape Painters of the Hudson Valley,
Bonnie Andretta Fine Art, Hudson, NY
Recent Works by John Beerman, Somerhill Gallery, NC
2002 Collecting at Century’s End: Selections from The Maslow Collection,
Sordoni Art Gallery, Wilkes University, Wilkes-Barre, PA
2000 Summer Group Exhibition, David Beitzel Gallery, New York
1999 Summer Group Exhibition, David Beitzel Gallery, New York
1998 Divining Nature, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art,
Winston-Salem, NC
1997 New Horizons, Meredith Long Gallery, Houston, TX
Summer Group Exhibition, David Beitzel Gallery, New York
1996 Realism After Seven A.M., The Hopper House, Nyack, NY
Changing Horizons: Landscape on the Eve of the Millennium, Katonah
Museum of Art, Katonah, NY
Today, Rockland Center for the Arts, West Nyack, NY
1995 Rocklandia, Hopper House, Nyack, NY
Heaven on Earth, Bachelier-Carsonsky Gallery, Kent, CT
Printmaking in America, Collaborative Prints and Presses, 1960-1990,
Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick, NJ; Northwestern University,
Evanston, IL; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX; National Museum of
American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
American Academy Invitational Exhibition, American Academy of Arts and
Letters, New York
Into the Nineties: Prints from the Tamarind Institute, Weatherspoon Art
Museum, Greensboro, NC
Monotypes, Marlborough Gallery, New York
Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC
Paintings from New Jersey Collections, New Jersey Center for Visual Arts,
Summit NJ
1994 Inspired by Nature, Neuberger Museum, Purchase, NY
The Nature of Beauty, Green Hill Center for North Carolina Art,
Greensboro, NC
Summer Print Show, Mezzanine Gallery, The Metropolitan Museum of Art,
New York
1993 Seeing the Forest Through the Trees, Contemporary Arts Museum,
Houston, TX
The Rockland Connection ’93: Realities, Rockland Center for the Arts,
West Nyack, NY
1992 Art and Nature, Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston, TX
20th Century Prints on the East End, Rene Fotouhi Fine Art,
East Hampton, NY
The National Perception, The Gallery at Hastings-on-Hudson,
Hastings-on-Hudson, NY
1991 Black & White Prints, Lorence-Monk Gallery, New York
The Art of Monoprint, Kornbluth Gallery, Fairlawn, NJ
American Narrative Painting and Sculpture: The 80’s, Nassau County
Museum of Art, Roslyn, NY
Landscape Prints, Peden Gallery II, Raleigh, NC
Summer Group Exhibition, Lorence-Monk Gallery, New York
1990 Children in Crisis: A Group Exhibition of Rocking Horses, Lorence-Monk
Gallery, New York
Group Show, Lorence-Monk Gallery, New York
Harmony and Discord: American Landscape Today, Virginia Museum of
Fine Arts, Richmond, VA
1989 Intaglio Printing in the 80s’, Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Museum,
New Brunswick, NJ
Romance and Irony, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth Australia
Landscape Constructions, Richard Green Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Landscape Re-Viewed: Contemporary Reflections on a Traditional Theme,
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Re-Presenting Landscape, New York Studio School, New York
A Certain Slant of Light, Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH
Artists of the 80s: Selected Works from the Maslow Collection, Sordoni Art
Gallery, Wilkes-Barre, PA
The Vinalhaven Press: Selected Prints 1984-89, Museum of Art Bates
College, Lewiston, ME
The Ljubljana Biennale 18: International Biennial of Graphic Art,
Ljubljana, Yugoslavia
1988 The 1980s’: A New Generation, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Land, ACA Galleries, New York
Group Show, Dart Gallery, Chicago, IL
Drawings, Reynolds-Minor Gallery, Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Imprimature, Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, SC
Vinalhaven Press, Members Gallery, Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Mezzanine Gallery, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Prints and Drawings Council Exhibition and Sale, Minneapolis Institute of
Art, Minneapolis, MN
The Power of Drawings, Center for Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
1987 Paintings, Lorence-Monk Gallery, New York
The New Romantic Landscape, Whitney Museum of American Art,
Stamford, CT
Art Against AIDS, Lorence-Monk Gallery, New York
The Vinalhaven Press 1984-1986, Condeso-Lawler Gallery, New York
Landscape in the Age of Anxiety, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art,
Cleveland, OH
Group Show, Saxon-Lee Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1986 The Manor in the Landscape, Lorence-Monk Gallery, New York
Mainly on the Plane, Lorence-Monk Gallery, New York
Landscape in the Age of Agony, Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx, NY
Vinalhaven Press 1984-1986, Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME
Print Review 1983-85, Lorence-Monk Gallery, New York
Public and Private: American Prints Today, The Brooklyn Museum,
Brooklyn, NY
Juried Exhibition, The National Academy of Design, New York
The Back Room, Saxon-Lee Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Group Exhibition, Lorence-Monk Gallery, New York
1985 New Prints by 20 Artists, Mary Ryan Gallery, New York
Selections from the Rutgers Archives for Printmaking Studios, Grolier Club,
New York
Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC
1983 Guild Hall Members Exhibition, East Hampton, NY
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, NC
Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PABlowing Rock Art and History Museum, Blowing Rock, NC
Burroughs Welcome, North Carolina
Cameron Art Museum, Wilmington, NC
Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH
Chase Manhattan Bank, New York
Chemical Bank, New York
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Dow Jones and Company Incorporated, New York
Duke Endowment, Charlotte, NC
Farnsworth Museum, Rockland, ME
GE Corporation, Fairfield, CT
GlaxoSmithKline, North Carolina
General Mills, Minneapolis, MN
Governor’s Mansion, Raleigh, NC
Governor’s Mansion, Albany, NY
Green Point Bank, Flushing, NY
Greenville Museum of Art, Greenville, NC
Harcourt Brace, New York
Henry Kaufman & Co., New York
InterMetro Industries, Wilkes Barre, PA
Johnson & Johnson, New Jersey
Johnson Collection, Spartanburg, SC
Maslow Collection, Marywood University, Scranton, PA
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Milstein Family Heart Center, New York-Presbyterian Hospital, New York
Morgan Stanley, New York
Museum of Art, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Neuberger Museum, Purchase, NY
Nomura Securities, New York
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC
Office of Quality Environmental Control, White House, Washington DC
Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME
Progressive Corporation, Cleveland, OH
Queens Museum of Art, Flushing Meadows, NY
Reader’s Digest Association, Pleasantville, NY
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
Shearson Lehman Hutton, New York
South East Bank of Florida, Miami, FL
St. Luke’s Hospital, New York
Time Warner, Inc., New York
UNC-Rex Hospital, Raleigh, NC
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
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