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Photo credit: Doug Prince, Photo Services,
University of New Hampshire, 2003

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS
2006    
Recent Work, Dock Level Gallery, George Marshall Store Gallery, York, ME
2004    
A Private View, George Sherman Union Gallery, Boston University,
Katherine French, Curator. Catalog. Traveling to Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA,
and Amherst College, Amherst, MA
2002   
New Paintings, George Marshall Gallery, York, ME. Mary Harding, Curator
1999    
Self Portraits: Where I’m Calling From, Creiger-Dane Gallery, Boston, MA
Grant Drumheller, The Rye Gallery, Rye, NH
1996    
Landscapes 1991-1996, Hess Gallery, Pine Manor College, Chestnut Hill, MA
1991    
Monotypes and Paintings, Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, NH
1988, '87, '86    
David Brown Gallery, Provincetown, MA
1986    
Van Buren, Brazelton, Cutting Gallery, Cambridge, MA
Bromfield Gallery, Boston, MA
1979    
Fulbright-Hays, Galleria Inquadrature, Florence, Italy

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2006-02
Wentworth Coolidge Mansion, Portsmouth, NH. Dody Kolb, Curator.
2005-01
100 Market Street, Portsmouth, NH
2006-02
George Marshall Gallery, York , ME
2006-99
G Watson Gallery, Stonington, ME
2006-89
Faculty Review, The Art Gallery, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH
1998
Here and There, Creiger-Dane Gallery, Boston
1997
David Brown: The Provincetown Years Revisited. The New Art Center, Newton,MA
Fulbright Alumni, Meridian International Center, Washington, DC. Catalog
1996, '83
Brockton Triennial, Brockton Art Museum, Brockton, MA. Catalog
1995, '94, '93
Opus 71 Gallery, Hollis, NH
1995
Drawings by Alumni, Boston University Art Gallery, Boston, MA
1994
Courtship: Unity and Diversity, Triplex gallery, Manhattan Community College, NY, NY
New England/New talent, Fitchburg Art Museum, Catalog
The Luster of Graphite, Barn Gallery, Ogunquit, ME
Legacy, Nine Former Students of Philip Guston. New Art Center, Newton, MA
1993
National Competition, First Street Gallery, New York, NY
Hollander and Company, York, ME
1992
Group Show, Three Views Gallery, Portland, ME
1991
Four Person Show, The Golden Gallery, Boston, MA
The Natural Perception, Gallery at Hastings-on- Hudson, NY
New Acquisitions, Dept of Prints and Drawings, Boston Public Library, Boston, MA
1989
Walter Chrysler, The Provincetown Years, Katzen-Brown Gallery, New York, NY
1985
The Classic Tradition, Aldrich Museum of Art, Ridgefield, CT. Catalog
Beyond Antiquity, DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA. Catalog
1985, '84, '83, '82
Bess Cutler Gallery, New York, NY
1984
The Figure Again, New Painting and Sculpture, Currier Gallery of Art., Manchester, NH
And the Livin’ is Easy, Visual Arts Museum, New York, NY. Curated by Lowery Sims
1983
Former Finalists and Fellows of the Artist’s Foundation. New Art Center, Newton, MA
1982
MacDowell Colony Fellows, Van Buren, Brazelton, Cutting Gallery, Cambridge, MA
Fulbright Hays Alumni, Pace University Gallery, New York, NY
1980
Art of the State, Fellows and Finalists of the Artists’ Foundation, Federal Reserve Bank, Boston,MA

COLLECTIONS
Stanley Seeger Collection (Zia Fine Art), Zurich, Switzerland
Boston Public Library, Prints and Drawings Room
Fidelity Corporation
Orange Nassau Corporation

AWARDS
2004
Finalist, Artist Advancement Award, Greater Piscataqua Charitable Foundation
2002
Hatch Fund Award, College of Liberal Arts, Dept of Art and art History. In support of the catalog to accompany the Boston University Show,“A Private View: Paintings by Grant Drumheller”. 1996 New England Foundation for the Arts- NEA Regional Fellowship in Painting
1993
Discretionary Fund Award, UNH.
2001, '98, '95, '93, '91
Liberal Arts Faculty Research Grant, UNH
1992, '89
UNH Faculty Fellowship, summer
1986
Pollock- Krasner Foundation Grant
1983
National Endowment for the Arts, Artists Fellowship
Alternate , Prix de Rome in Painting
1982
The MacDowell Foundation, Jean and Louis Dreyfus Fellow
Yaddo Art Colony, Invitation
1981
Blanche Colman Award
1978-79
Fulbright-Hays Grant, Painting in Italy
1976-78
Graduate Teaching Fellowship, Boston University
1976
Harold C Case Scholarship.

BIBLIOGRAPHY
Post-Modernism. Classicism in Modern Art and Architecture, Charles Jencks. Rizzoli, 1987
Grant Drumheller, Portsmouth Herald, Feature Article by Jeanne McCartin, 3/9/01.
Private View: Paintings by Grant Drumheller, Catalog and Essay by Katherine French, 2004
Grant Drumheller’s Family Album, Catalog Essay by Charles Simic, 2004

REVIEWS
The Boston Globe, April 2, 2004, July 22,1999, Cate McQuaid
March 29, 1986, Christine Temin
January 9, 1981, Critics Choice, Robert Taylor
Art New England, Summer, 1997
September, 1991
May 1986, Eugene Narrett
February, 1981, Brian Kologe
Manchester Union Leader, May 9, 1991
Boston Herald, March 21, 1986, Nancy Stapen
Boston Phoenix, August 26, 1986, David Bonetti
La Nazione, June 16, 1979. Grant Drumheller e Andrew Harader, Tommaso Paloscia

RELATED EXPERIENCE
2005—Dartmouth College, Dept of Studio Art
2004, 1993—Visiting Speaker, School of Visual Arts, Painting Seminar, Boston University Montserrat College of Art. The Art Institute of Boston
1997, '94, '89, '88, '87—Art New England Workshops, Painting Instructor, Bennington College
1999, '96, '94, '86-'91—Visiting Artist and Drawing Teacher, Hood Museum, Dartmouth College
1995—Maine College of Art
1985—Visiting Speaker, Aldrich Museum of Art, Ridgefield, CT

EDUCATION
MFA, BFA cum laude, Boston University, 1978, 1976
Studied with Philip Guston, James Weeks and Reed Kay

TEACHING
2006-2001—Professor of Art , University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH
2001-1995—Associate Professor, Ibid.
1995-1988—Assistant Professor, Ibid
1988-1986—Faculty In Residence, Ibid
1986-1981—Boston University, Adjunct and fulltime appointments
1986-1981—Art Institute of Boston, Asst. Professor of Art

UNIVERSITY COMMITTEES
2006-'03—UNH in Italy (Ascoli-Piceno), Steering Committee
2001-1998—Aesthetics Committee
1998-1996—Cultural Affairs Committee (2006, interim member)
1999-1997—Fulbright Selection Committee
1995—Study of Promotion and Tenure

ADMINISTRATIVE
2006-2004—Studio Program Director
2003-2000—Graduate Painting, Co-Coordinator. In charge of recruitment and administration of program
2005-2003—Co-Director and Instructor, UNH in Italy, Summer Intensive in Painting
1996-1998—Coordinator of 2D Area, Dept of Art and Art History. In charge of maintaining
2D studio areas and hiring of part time teaching staff

 

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