| SCOTT PRIOR |
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| Born 1949 in New Hampshire Lives and works in Massachusetts |
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EDUCATION
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| 1971 | University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA BFA |
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SOLO EXHIBITIONS |
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| 2021 | "Nocturnes", William Baczek Fine Arts, Northampton, MA |
| 2021 | Scott Prior: Illuminations, Cahoon Museum, Cotuit MA |
| 2019 | William Baczek Fine Arts, Northampton MA |
| 2017 | William Baczek Fine Arts, Northampton, MA |
| 2012 | William Baczek Fine Arts, Northampton, MA |
| 2011 | William Baczek Fine Arts, Northampton, MA |
| 2006 | William Baczek Fine Arts, Northampton, MA |
| Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA | |
| 2005 | Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
| 2004 | Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA |
| Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York, NY | |
| 2002 | William Baczek Fine Arts, Northampton, MA |
| 2001 | Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA |
| 1999-2000 | Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA |
| Forum Gallery, New York, NY | |
| Light on the Familiar: The Paintings of Scott Prior, DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA also University Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA | |
| 1997 | Forum Gallery, New York, NY |
| 1996 | Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA |
| 1995 | Forum Gallery, New York, NY |
| 1994 | Forum Gallery, New York, NY |
| Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA | |
| 1992 | Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA |
| 1991 | Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA |
| 1990 | Maxwell Davidson Gallery, New York, NY |
| Bergen Museum, Paramus, NJ | |
| Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA | |
| 1988 | Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA |
| 1987 | Maxwell Davidson Gallery, New York, NY |
| 1986 | Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA |
| Maxwell Davidson Gallery, New York, NY | |
| 1984 | Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA |
| 1983 | Maxwell Davidson Gallery, New York, NY |
| 1981 | Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA |
| 1980 | Clark University, Worcester, MA |
| 1979 | Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA |
| 1977 | Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA |
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
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| 2017 | 2017 Landscape Exhibition, William Baczek Fine Arts, Northampton, MA |
| Summer 2017, William Baczek Fine Arts, Northampton, MA | |
| 2016 | Annual Landscape Exhibition, William Baczek Fine Arts, Northampton, MA |
| 2013 | Annual Still Life Exhibition, William Baczek Fine Arts, Northampton, MA |
| 2006 | Painting Summer in New England, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA |
| Annual Landscape Exhibition, William Baczek Fine Arts, Northampton, MA | |
| 2005 | Still Lifes, William Baczek Fine Arts, Northampton, MA |
| Human Figures by the World's Art Masters, Nagoya/Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Nagoya, Japan | |
| Innocence, New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT | |
| 2004 | Annual Landscape Exhibition, William Baczek Fine Arts, Northampton, MA |
| Sixth Annual Realism Invitational, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, CA | |
| 2003 | Still Lifes, William Baczek Fine Arts, Northampton, MA |
| Fifth Annual Realism Invitational, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, CA | |
| DeCordova Collects: Gifts from Stephen and Sybil Stone, DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA | |
| 2002 | Painting in Boston: 1950-2000, DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA |
| Changing Prospects: The View from Mount Holyoke, Mount Holyoke College of Art Museum, South Hadley, MA | |
| Fourth Annual Realism Invitational, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, CA | |
| 2001 | Landscapes Seen and Imagined: Sense of Place, DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA |
| Third Annual Realism Invitational, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, CA | |
| 2000 | Figure, Fantasy and Illusion: Selections from the Arthur S. Goldberg Collection, Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, MA |
| Revealing the Nude: A Timeless Passion, Chase Gallery, Boston, MA | |
| Second Annual Realism Invitational, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, CA | |
| 1999 | Annual Landscape Exhibition, William Baczek Fine Arts, Northampton, MA |
| Re-Presenting Representation IV, Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, NY | |
| Magic Realism: A Selection of Paintings, 1925-1998, Beth Urdang Gallery, Boston, MA | |
| First Annual Realism Invitational, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, CA | |
| 1998 | Capturing the Sublime: Contemporary Landscape Painting, Fuller Museum of Art, Brockton, MA |
| Valley Realists, Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, MA | |
| New England Impressions, Painting from Life, Attleboro Museum, Attleboro, MA | |
| 1997 | Working Sources: The Painter and the Photographic Image, Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA |
| Realism in 20th Century American Painting, Ogunquit Museum of American Art, ME | |
| 1996-1997 | Community of Creativity: A Century of MacDowell Colony Artists, Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, NH, and traveling exhibitions to: National Academy of Design, New York, NY, and Wichita Art Museum, Wichita, KS |
| Face and Figure in Contemporary Art, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA | |
| 1996 | Reinventing Realism: Contemporary American Perspective, Everhart Museum, Scranton, PA |
| 1994 | The Label Show, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA |
| 20th Century Figurative Paintings, Forum Gallery, New York, NY | |
| 1991 | Boston Art Dealers Association Selection, Bank of Boston, Boston, MA |
| The Object: Found, Observed, Imagined, Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, MA | |
| Illustrating Nature: The Art of Botany, National Academy of Design, New York, NY | |
| 1987 | New Work by Old Friends, DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA |
| The Beautiful, The Sublime, The Picturesque, Newton Arts Center, Newton, MA | |
| 1986 | Boston Collects, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA |
| 1984 | Urban Visions/ Countryside Views, University Art Gallery, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH |
| 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 |
| Herbert Plimpton Collection of Realist Art, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA | |
| 1980 | Directions in Realism, Danforth Museum, Framingham, MA |
| 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 |
| 1978 | Art from Corporate Collections, Whitney Museum Downtown, New York, NY |
| 1976 | Patron's Choice: Artists Under 35, DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA |
| 1975 | 19th Annual Print Exhibition, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY |
| 1974 | New Talent, Terry Dintenfass Gallery, New York, NY |
| 1973 | New Talent, Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA |
| New Talent in New England, DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA | |
AWARDS and RESIDENCES
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| 1986 | Award in Painting, St. Botolph Club, Boston, MA |
| 1985 | Grant, National Endowment for the Arts |
| 1979-1980 | Residencies, MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH |
| 1979 | Fellowship, Massachusetts Artists Foundation |
| 1977 | Residency, Ossabaw Island Program, GA |
| 1974-1976 | Residencies, MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH |
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COLLECTIONS |
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| American Express, New York, NY | |
| Berkshire Art Museum, Pittsfield, MA | |
| Boston Public Library | |
| W.C. Bradley Co., Columbus, GA | |
| Comptroller of the Currency, Washington, D.C. | |
| Danforth Art Museum, Framingham, MA | |
| Michele & Donald D'Amour Museum of Fine Art, Springfield, MA | |
| DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA | |
| Gardner, Carton & Douglas, Chicago, IL | |
| Graham Gund, Cambridge, MA | |
| Fidelity Investments, Boston, MA | |
| IBM, New York, NY | |
| Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA | |
| New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT | |
| New England Life, Boston, MA | |
| On Technology, Cambridge, MA | |
| Ropes & Gray, Boston, MA | |
| St. Lawrence University, Canton, NY | |
| Texaco, White Plains, NY | |
| Wellington Management, Boston, MA | |
| Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA | |
| Ruth and John D. West Collection, The Rahr-West Art Museum, Manitowic, WI | |
| William, Brinks, Olds, Hofer, Gilson & Loine, Chicago, IL | |
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BIBLIOGRAPHY |
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| 1998 | Cleary, Margot. "Real and Surreal", Daily Hampshire Gazette: Hampshire Life Magazine, January 23. |
| 1997 | Russell, Gloria. "History of Landscape in Focus", Sunday Republican, November 23. |
| 1996 | Watson, Bruce. "Traditional View gets Modern Look", Daily Hampshire Gazette, October 14. |
| 1994 | "Paintings by Scott Prior", The Gettysburg Review, Summer. |
| 1993 | Miller, Francine Koslow. "Scott Prior, Alpha Gallery", Artforum. |
| 1992 | Stapen, Nancy. "Spotlight on Haunting Images, Surreal Effects", The Boston Globe, November 27. |
| 1990 | Silver, Joanne. "Prior's Paintings Put Simple Objects in an Abstract Light", The Boston Herald, April 6. |
| 1988 | Temin, Christine. "Puzzles Lend Mystery to Lyrical Paintings", The Boston Globe, November 24. |
| 1987 | Giuliano, Charles. "Alpha Gallery - Scott Prior", Art New England, March. |
| 1986 | Nelson, Ronald J. "Scott Prior", American Artist, December. |
| Bonetti, David. Review, Boston Pheonix, November 18. | |
| Temin, Christine. "Perspectives", The Boston Globe, November 13. | |
| 1981 | "Critic's Tip: Exhibits Real and Unreal", The Boston Globe, March. |
| 1973 | Taylor, Robert. "New Talent Emerging at Alpha", The Boston Globe, June 17. |
