Scott Prior

About

Scott Prior lives and works in Northampton, Massachusetts, where he has been a resident since 1971. Born in Exeter, New Hampshire, he received a BFA in printmaking from the University of Massachusetts in 1971. He has artwork in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the DeCordova Museum, the Danforth Museum, the New Britain Museum of American Art, the Rose Art Museum and other major public and private collections. He has shown extensively in one-person and group shows in the United States and abroad. In 2001 he had a mid-career retrospective at the DeCordova Museum.

His paintings depict a world that is intimate, simple and personal, where objects are transfixed and transfigured by light.

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2018         Solo Exhibition, Quidley and Co., Naples, FL

2017         Solo Exhibition, William Baczek Fine Arts, Northampton, MA

2016         Solo Exhibition, Quidley and Co., Nantucket, MA

2016         Solo Exhibition, Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA

2015         Scott Prior, Somerville Manning Gallery, Greenville, DE

2012         Solo Exhibition, William Baczek Fine Arts, Northampton, MA

2009         Solo Exhibition, Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA

2009         Solo Exhibition, Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York, NY

2006         Solo Exhibition, William Baczek Fine Arts, Northampton, MA

2006         Solo Exhibition, Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA

2005         Solo Exhibition, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2004         Solo Exhibition, Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA

2001         Solo Exhibition, Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA

2000         Light on the Familiar: The Paintings of Scott Prior, DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA; also traveled to University Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA

2000         Forum Gallery, New York NY

1996         Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA

1992         Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA

1990         Maxwell Davidson Gallery, New York, NY

1986         Maxwell Davidson Gallery, New York, NY

1977         Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA

Selected Group Exhibitions

2018         This Land Is… International Landscape Invitational, Arcadia Contemporary, Culver City, CA

2016-17   Truth and Vision, 21st Century Realism, Delaware Museum of Art, Wilmington, DE

2016         The Lay of the Land, Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA

2015-16   Director’s Favorites, New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT

2014         Under the Influence – Contemporary Artists and the Masters Who Inspire Them, Somerville Manning Gallery, Greenville, DE

2013-14     Still Life Lives, Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, MA

2010         Annual Landscape Exhibition, William Baczek Fine Arts, Northampton, MA

2006         Painting Summer in New England, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA

2005        Human Figures by the World’s Art Masters, Nagoya/Boston Museum of Fine Art, Nagoya, Japan

2005         Innocence, New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT

2003         DeCordova Collects: Gifts from Stephen and Sybil Stone, DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA

2002         Painting in Boston: 1950-2000, DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA

1999         Re-Presenting Representation IV, Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, NY

1998         Capturing the Sublime: Contemporary Landscape Painting, Fuller Museum of Art, Brockton, MA

1997         Realism in 20th Century American Painting, Ogunquit Museum of American Art, Ogunquit, ME

1996         Reinventing Realism: Contemporary American Perspective, Everhart Museum, Scranton, PA

1991         The Object: Found, Observed, Imagined, Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, MA

1991         Illustrating Nature: The Art of Botany, National Academy of Design, New York, NY

1984         Emerging Massachusetts Painters, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

1982         A Private Vision: Contemporary Art from the Graham Gund Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

1980         Realism in New England, Northeastern University, Boston, MA

1979         Art of the State, Recipients of Massachusetts Artists Foundation Fellowships, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA

1976         Patron’s Choice: Artists Under 35, DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA

1973         New Talent in New England, DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA

Selected Awards and Residencies

1986          Award in Painting, St. Botolph Club, Boston, MA

1985          Grant, National Endowment for the Arts

1979-80    Residencies, MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH

1979          Fellowship, Massachusetts Artists Foundation

1977          Residency, Ossabaw Island Program, GA

1974-76    Residencies, MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH

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