Scott Prior
SCOTT PRIOR
Born in Exeter, New Hampshire, 1949
EDUCATION
1971 University of Massachusetts, Amherst, B.F.A.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2004-05 Alpha Gallery, Boston
2004 Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York
2002 Wm. Baczek Fine Arts, Northampton, Massachusetts
2001 Alpha Gallery, Boston
2001 Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco
1999 Alpha Gallery, Boston
1999-2000 “Light on the Familiar, The Paintings of Scott Prior,” DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, Massachusetts; University Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
1998 Coplan Gallery, Boca Raton, Florida
1997 Forum Gallery, New York
1996 Alpha Gallery, Boston
1994 Alpha Gallery, Boston
Forum Gallery, New York
1992 Alpha Gallery, Boston
1991 Alpha Gallery, Boston
1990 Alpha Gallery, Boston
Bergen Museum, Paramus, New Jersey
Maxwell Davidson Gallery, New York
1988 Alpha Gallery, Boston
1987 Maxwell Davidson Gallery, New York
1986 Alpha Gallery, Boston
Maxwell Davidson Gallery, New York
1984 Alpha Gallery, Boston
1983 Maxwell Davidson Gallery, New York
1981 Alpha Gallery, Boston
1980 Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts
1979 Alpha Gallery, Boston
1977 Alpha Gallery, Boston
1974 Bridgton Art Gallery, Maine
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts
1972 Hampshire College, Amherst, Massachusetts
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2003 “Landscape: Unique Views,” Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York
“Waterscape,” Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York
2002 “Changing Prospects: The View from Mount Holyoke,” Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, South Hadley, Massachusetts
“Fourth Annual Realism Invitational,” Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco
“Painting in Boston: 1950-2000,” DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, Massachusetts
2001 “Third Annual Realism Invitational,” Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco
2000 “Figure, Fantasy and Illusion, Selections from the Arthur S. Goldberg Collection,” Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, Massachusetts
“Revealing the Nude, A Timeless Passion,” Chase Gallery, Boston
“Second Annual Realism Invitational,” Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco
1999 “First annual Realism Invitational,” Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco
“Magic Realism, A Selection of Paintings, 1925-1998,” Beth Urdang Gallery, Boston
“Re-Presenting Representation IV,” Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, New York
1998 “Capturing the Sublime: Contemporary Landscape Painting,” Fuller Museum of Art, Brocton, Massachusetts
“New England Impressions: Painting and the Photographic Image,” Alpha Gallery, Boston
“Valley Realists,” Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, Massachusetts
“New England Impressions, Painting from Life, “ Attleboro Museum, Massachusetts
1997 “Working Sources: The Painter and the Photographic Image,” Alpha Gallery, Boston
1996-97 “Community of Creativity: A Century of MacDowell Colony Artists,” Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, New Hampshire; National Academy of Design, New York; Wichita Art Museum, Kansas
“Faces and Figure in Contemporary Art,” Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
1996 “Reinventing Realism: Contemporary American Perspective,” Everthart Museum, Scranton, Pennsylvania
1994 “The Label Show,” Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
1993 “SELF-aMUSEd The Contemporary Artist as Observer and Observed,” Fitchburg Art Museum, Massachusetts
1992 “Still Life, The Barn Gallery, Ogunquit, Maine
1991 “Boston Art Dealers Association Selection,” Bank of Boston, Massachusetts
“Illustrating Nature—The Art of Botany,” National Academy of Design, New York
“The Object: Found, Observed, Imagined,” Fitchurg Art Museum, Massachusetts
1988 “Contemporary New England Portraits,” Westfield State College, Massachusetts
1987 “The Beautiful, The Sublime, The Picturesque,” Newton Arts Center, Massachusetts
“Survey-Eight,” Zone Art Center, Springfield, Massachusetts
1986 “Boston Collects,” Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
1984 “Emerging Massachusetts Painters,” Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
“Urban Visions/Countryside Views,” University Gallery, University of New Hampshire, Durham
1983 “Eleven Alumni,” Fine Arts Center Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
1982 “Herbert Plimpton Collection of Realist Art,” Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts
“A Private Vision: Contemporary Art from the Graham Gund Collection,” Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
1980 “Directions in Realism,” Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, Massachusetts
“Realism in New England,” Northeastern University, Boston
1979 “Art of the State,” Recipients of Massachusetts Artists Foundation Fellowships, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts
1978 “Art from Corporate Collections,” Whitney Museum Downtown, New York
1976 “Patron’s Choice—Artists under 35,” DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, Massachusetts
1975 “19th Annual Print Exhibition,” Brooklyn Museum, New York
1974 “New Talent,” Terry Dintenfass Gallery, New York
1973 “New Talent, Alpha Gallery, Boston
“New Talent in New England, DeCordova Museum, Lincoln Massachusetts
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
American Express, New York, New York
Berkshire Art Museum, Pittsfield, Massachusetts
Boston Public Library, Massachusetts
W.C. Bradley Co., Columbus, Georgia
Comptroller of the Currency, Washington, D.C.
DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, Massachusetts
Fidelity Investments, Boston
Gardner, Carton and Douglas, Chicago
Graham Gund, Cambridge, Massachusetts
IBM, New York, New York
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
New England Life, Boston
On Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Ropes & Gray, Boston
Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts
St. Lawrence University, Canton, New York
Texaco, White Plains, New York
Wellington Management, Boston
Ruth and John D. West Collection, The Rahr-West Art Museum, Manitowic Wisconsin
RESIDENCIES, FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, AWARDS
1986 Award in Painting, St. Botolph Club, Boston
1985 Grant, National Endowment for the Arts
1978-80 Residencies, MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, New Hampshire
1979 Fellowship, Massachusetts Artists Foundation
1977 Residency, Ossabaw Island Program, Georgia
1974-76 Residencies, MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, New Hampshire