RESUME

Lorna Ritz       www.lornaritz.com

Education

Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, Master of Fine Arts; 1971 Double major: Painting and Sculpture

Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York; BFA; 1969; Major: Painting    Minor: Sculpture

Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, Maine: Painting, 1968

The Art Students League, New York; Painting, 1966

Boston Museum School of Fine Art, summer diploma program, 1965

Teaching

2022 Lead Teacher @ Mount Gretna School of Art, Pennsylvania

2022 Artist-in-Residence, Ocean House, Watch Hill, Rhode Island

2004-17 Senior Lecturer/Adjunct Professor, Western New England University, Springfield, MA.

2012-2017  Five College Associate, Amherst, Massachusetts

2015-16 Temporary Lecturer of Painting, Mt. Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachusetts

2012 & 2004  "Visiting Artist:" taught a 'Drawing Marathon,'  @ The New York Studio School

1991-2013 Resident ‘Guest Critic,’ Vermont Studio Center

2008 and 2000 “Academic Consultant”, Taught painting at “Summer Institute for the Gifted,” at Amherst College, Amherst, MA

2001 “Visiting Artist” @ American University, (Washington, D.C.); Studio Art Program, Umbria, Italy

1992 & 1994 & 1996 Resident Critic for seniors and 1995 & 1996 Adjunct Painting Faculty, Rhode Island School of Design

1990 U.S. Information Agency, Grant Award to teach, lecture and exhibit at Instituto de Belles Artes, Medellin, Colombia

1987-95 Taught at University of Massachusetts, Amherst, part-time

1985-90 Lectured and taught at the Vermont Studio School; “Vermont Artist’s Week”, Johnson, Vermont

1985-6 Traveled to Malta through the U.S. Information Agency lecturing program

1983 Traveled to Honduras; lectured and taught at the University

1978-9 Visiting Assistant Professor, Dartmouth College, New Hampshire

1978 Visiting Assistant Professor, Brown University, Rhode Island

1976-7 Assistant Professor of Painting, University of Minnesota

1975 Visiting Staff Member, Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, Massachusetts

1973-5 Painting Instructor, Rhode Island School of Design

1972-3 Two-dimensional design instructor, Rochester Institute of Technology, New York

1972 Painting Monitorship, James Gahagan School of Fine Arts, East Calais, Vermont

1971 Sculpture Instructor, part-time, Art Institute of Boston

1970  Cosanti Foundation, Scottsdale, Arizona, worked under Paolo Soleri, architect; participated in his Cosanti Silt Pile #10 in the desert at the construction site

Lectures 

2023 “A Concert Conversation” with composer Lew Spratlin, Smith College

2022 Mount Gretna School of Art, Pennsylvania

2013 + 2007 Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, Vermont

2012   AVA Gallery, Lebanon, New Hampshire

2004  & 1990 & 2004   New York Studio School, NYC

2003 Quinsigamond Community College, Worcester, Massachusetts

2002 Huntington House Museum, Windsor, CT.

1998 Keene State College, New Hampshire

1998 Nantucket Island School of Art & Design, Massachusetts

1996 Trinity College, Connecticut

1991 American University,  Washington, D.C.

1989 Humboldt State University, Arcata, California

1988 & 1994 Lectured at Smith College

1987 University of Delaware

1986 Brown University

1986 “LACOSTE,” French school of Cleveland Institute of Art, and the Institute for American Universities, Aix-en-Provence

1986 Vermont College, Art Center, through the Art Resources Association

1985 Trinity College, Burlington, Vermont

1985 Bard College, New York

1983 Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston

1982 & 1984 Dartmouth College

1976 Rhode Island School of Design

Residencies

Community Residency, Dune Shacks, Provincetown, Massachusetts 2013

International Residency Program, through the Augusta Savage Gallery at University of Massachusetts, Cape Town, South Africa 2007

Helen Wurlitzer Foundation, Taos, New Mexico 2006

Arcadia National Park, “Artist-in-Residence”; Maine 2000

Fundacíon Valparaíso, Spain; painting residency, 1999

Vermont Council on the Arts, “Artist-in-Residence” Grant Award, 1981-83

Fellowship to Ossabaw Island Project, Georgia, 1978

Artist-in-Residence Grant to the Roswell Museum Art Center, New Mexico, 1975

Fellowship to MacDowell Colony, New Hampshire, 1972 & 1976

Awards 

Community Foundation of Western MA.  administered by MASS MoCA's Assets for Artists, 2020

Esther & Adolph Gottlieb Foundation Individual Support Grant, 2018

Esther & Adolph Gottlieb Foundation Emergency Grant, New York City, 2016 & 1988

Artists’ Fellowship, New York City 2013, 2011, 2008, and 2016

The Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant, New York City, 2013

The Artist’s Resource Trust, Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation, 2012

The Haven Foundation, Maine  2011 + 2008

George Sugarman Foundation Grant Award, 2007

Puffin Foundation, New Jersey 2007

Kittredge Fund Grant, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 2000

Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant Award, New York City, 1990 & 1997 & 2004 & 2024

Amherst Arts Council Grant Award to teach and lecture, 1990

Artists Space, New York City, 1987

Massachusetts Cultural Alliance Award, 1985

Ludwig Vogelstein Grant Award, New York City, 1984

Salmagundi Artists’ Fellowships, New York City, 1983 & 1988

U.S. Information Agency Grant Award, Vermont, Partners of the Americas, to paint, exhibit, travel, lecture, and teach at the University; Honduras, 6 weeks, 1983

Blanche E. Colman Grant Award, Boston Safe Deposit & Trust Bank, Boston, 1981-2

Partial Scholarship to Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, 1968

Solo Exhibitions

2004-2024 Oxbow Gallery, Northampton, Massachusetts

2023 Southern Vermont Art Center, Manchester, Vermont

2019 Emily Dickinson Museum Gallery, Amherst, Massachusetts

2019 and 2015 Visitors Information Center Gallery, Chamber of Commerce, Amherst, Massachusetts 

2018  Oresman Gallery, Brown Fine Arts Center, Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts 

2017 Hardee Center for the Arts, North Florida Community College, Madison, Florida

2015  John Hancock Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts

2014 Aidron Duckworth Art Museum, Meriden, New Hampshire

2014 French Cultural Center, Boston, Massachusetts

2014 Northampton Historical Museum, Northampton, Massachusetts

2013 State House, Boston, Gallery in Senator Rosenberg’s Office

2012 Augusta Savage Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

2010 Trailside Gallery, Northampton, Massachusetts

2010 Jones Library Gallery, Amherst, Massachusetts

2009  “Visiting Artists Program,” Town Hall, Amherst, MA. 

2008 Firehouse Gallery, Newburyport, Massachusetts

2008 OSI Pharmaceutical Corporation Gallery, Long Island

2007 Gallery Anthony Curtis, Boston, Massachusetts

2006 The Creative Center Gallery,  (Chelsea), NYC

2003 Holyoke Community College's Tabor Art Gallery, Holyoke, Massachusetts

2003 Quinsigamond Community College, Worcester, Massachusetts 

2002 Huntington House Art Museum, Windsor, Connecticut

1998 Redfern Art Center & Thorne-Sagendorph Art Gallery, Keene State College, N.H. 

1998 Doll-Andstadt Gallery, Burlington, Vermont

1998 University Museum of Contemporary Art, Fine Arts Center, University of Massachusetts

1995 Gallery BAI, New York City

1991 Harriet Tubman House, Boston

1990 NACUL Architectural Center, Amherst, Massachusetts

1990 Nicole C. Gallery, Boston

1987 Hampshire College, Johnson Gallery, Amherst, Massachusetts

1987+1998:”Wet” Gallery, Boston

1986 Pooke Museum, Natick, Massachusetts

1986 Sarah Doyle Gallery, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island

1985 Bard College, New York State

1984+1997 AVA Gallery, Lebanon, New Hampshire

1984 Stebbins Gallery, Cambridge, Massachusetts

1983 National Arts Museum, Tegucigalpa, Honduras

1982 Millhouse Bundy Performing and Fine Arts center, Waitsfield, Vermont

1982 Blue Mountain Gallery, (Soho), New York City

1981 Claremont Opera House, Claremont, New Hampshire

1980 Little Center Gallery, Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts

1978 List Art Museum, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island

1977 Northrop Memorial Art Museum, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

1976 Berkeley Divinity Center, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut

1976 Connecticut College, New London

1975 Roswell Museum Art Center, New Mexico

1975 Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, Massachusetts

Selected Group Exhibitions

2024  New Britain Museum of American Art, CT.

2024 Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, Massachusetts

2024 James May Gallery, Milwaukee , Wisconsin

2023 The University of Southern Mississippi Museum of Art 

2023 Carol Corey Fine Art

Kent, CT

2023, 2022 and 2018 Anita Shapolsky Gallery, New York, New York

StartaArta Gallery, New York, New York

2022 Cahoon Museum of American Art, Cotuit, Massachusetts 

2022 Museum of the White Mountains | Plymouth State University, New Hampshire 

2022 Hilliard Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri

2022 ArteSpazio Tempo Gallery, Venice, Italy

2022 Chico Art Center, Chico, California

2022 The A.D.  Gallery. University of North Carolina, Pembroke

2022 Anita Shapolsky Gallery, New York, New York

2021 Jessica Barnett Gallery, Concord, New Hampshire

2021 Lore Degenstein Gallery, Susquehanna University, Pennsylvania

2021 Essex Art Center, Lawrence, Massachusetts

2021 Waterloo Arts, Cleveland, Ohio

2020 Electric City Art Gallery, Schenectady, N.Y.

2020 DMA Contemporary Art Gallery, Plano, Texas

2020 Elusie Gallery, Easthampton, Massachusetts

2019 Calder Art Center, Grand Valley State University, Allendale, Michigan

2019 Art-in-Embassies Exhibition Program, Hong Kong 

2019 Aidron Duckworth Art Museum, Meriden, New Hampshire

2019 Thorne Sagendorph Art Gallery Museum, Keene, New Hampshire

2018 Anita Shapolsky Gallery, & A.S. Foundation, New York, N.Y.

2018. Brookline Arts Center, Brookline, MA.

2018 Lamont Gallery, Frederick R. Mayer Art Center Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter New Hampshire 

2018, 2017 & 2015 Courage Kenny Rehabilitation Institute, Minneapolis, Minnesota

2017 Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art, Saint Joseph, Missouri

2017 Cherry Stone Gallery, Wellfleet, Massachusetts 

2017 Jonathan Frost Gallery, Rockland, Maine 

2017 R. Michelson Galleries, Northampton, Massachusetts

2017 The Cultural Center of Cape Cod, South Yarmouth, Massachusetts

2017-2011 Silver Circle Gallery, Putnam, Connecticut

2017 & 2016 Bryn Mawr Rehab Hospital Gallery, Malvern, Pennsylvania

2016  35th Annual Faber Birren National Color Award Show, Stamford Arts Association, CT, juried by Michele Wijegoonaratna, PhD., Modern & Contemporary Art Department Research Associate, Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY 

2016 “Legacy Juried Art Exhibition,” Governor Oliver Ames Estate, Easton, Massachusetts

2016 Real Colegio Complutense , “Spain,” @ Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts

2016 Diana Felber Gallery, West Stockbridge, Massachusetts

2016  Hannah Bacol Busch Gallery, Bellaire, Texas

2015 Arnold Arboretum, Harvard University, Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts

2015  Rochester Contemporary Art Center, Rochester, New York

2015 The New York Art Connection, Holbrook, Long Island, New York 

2014 Lucky Street Gallery, Key West, Florida

2014 Zulu Gallery, Medfield, Massachusetts 

2014 and 2013 Fenimore Gallery, Proctor’s Theater, Schenectady, New York

2014 Pico House Gallery, El Pueblo Historical Monument, Los Angeles, California

2014 MIT Office of Sponsored Programs  Cambridge, Massachusetts

2013 Asnuntuck Community College, Enfield, Connecticut

2013 Simeon Strong House Historical Museum, Amherst, Massachusetts 

2013  Zeitgeist Gallery,Beverly, Massachusetts 

2013 “This Just In! Additions to the Collections from Pompeii to Today,” Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, MA.

2013 Gallery 37 Milford, Delaware

2013 Tampa Museum of Art, Florida

2013 Robert Lincoln Levy Gallery, Portsmouth, New Hampshire

2013  Hutson Gallery, Provincetown, Massachusetts 

2013 Sunne Savage Gallery/McGladrey Art Gallery, Charlestown, Massachusetts

2013 The Edward Hopper House Art Museum, Nyack, New York

2013 ‘Landscape Painters,’ The Canal Gallery, Holyoke, Massachusetts

Inclusion 2013 for the movie set "Dead Man Down,' Director Niels Arden, 

starring Colin Farrell, Terrence Howard, Noomi Rapace 

2012 Brush Art Gallery, Lowell, Massachusetts

2012 Village Gallery, Montgomery Alabama

2011 Galatea Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts

2011 Elizabeth Moss Fine Art Gallery, Falmouth, Maine

2011 Proctors Theater, Schenectady, New York

2011 Kathryn Schultz Gallery, Cambridge, MA., Northeast Prize Show, 

 curated by Theodore Stebbins, Curator of American Art at Harvard University's Fogg Museum

2011 The Painting Center, New York, N.Y.

2011 Elizabeth Erdreich White Fine Art, Boston

2011 William Penn Foundation, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 

2010 Bromfield Art Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts.

2010 Alan Klotz Gallery, New York, N.Y.

2010 American Ambassador’s Residence, Caracas, Venezuela

2009 Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, Massachusetts

2009 Julian Scott Memorial Gallery of Johnson State College, Vermont

2009 Peabody Historical Society and Museum, Peabody, Massachusetts 

2008 State House, Boston

2008 Paesaggio Fine Art, Hartford, CT.

2007 Faculty Exhibition, Western New England University

2007 City Lights Gallery, Bridgeport, CT., (first prize)

2007 Viewpoint Gallery, Schenectady, New York

2007 Midlantic Gallery Arts Consortium, "Paintings About Jazz," Perkasie, PA.

2007 Roswell Museum Arts Center, New Mexico

2007 Brickbottom Gallery, Somerville, MA.

2006 Capelli d"Angeli Foundation, Canton, CT.

2006 Gallery 100, Saratoga Springs, N.Y.

2005 Watkins Gallery,  Lenox, MA. 

2004  NURTURE Art Gallery, Brooklyn, N.Y.. 

2004    Wood Gallery & Art Center, Montpelier, Vermont 

2004  + 2007 The Oxbow Gallery, Northampton, Massachusetts

2003 Joseph D. Carrier Gallery, Toronto, Canada

2003 "Invitational Exhibition," Battelle Harding Gallery, Greenfield, Massachusetts 

2003 The Art Center School and Galleries, Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania

2003 Prudential Securities, The Chrysler Building, New York, New York

2003 Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, Massachusetts 

2003 "Invitational : Abstraction Exhibition,"  @ The Painting Center, (Soho), NYC, N.Y.

2003  Washington Art Association, Washington Depot, Connecticut

2002 The Ralls Collection, Washington, D.C.2002 

2002  Premiere  Etage Gallery, Newport, R.I. 

2002 Art Gallery, Paul Creative Arts Center, University of New Hampshire, (Durham)

2001 Terri  Priest Gallery, Worcester, MA.

2001 Smith College Museum of Art, “Art on the Fence,” Northampton, MA.

2001 Aurora Gallery, Worcester, MA.

2001 Fine Art House, Derry, New Hampshire

2001 Stanley and Vivian Reed Marine Art Show @ Stamford Art Association, CT.

2001“Visual Expressions on Jazz,” Savacou Gallery, Chelsea, and @ Hamilton Landmark Galleries, New York City

2001 “Small Things Considered,” Exhibition, NAWA, @ Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York City

2000 New Arts Program, Kutztown, PA

1999-2000 Ute Stebich Gallery, Lenox, MA

1999 Colored Pencil Society of America, 7th International Exhibition, . Seattle Washington

1999 Maryland Federation of the Arts, “National Juried Biennial” curated by Samuel Hoi, Dean, Corcoron, Gallery of Art, Annapolis, MD

1999 Gallery MPG, Newbury St. Boston

1998 non-objective Painting: Associated Artists of Winston-Salem, North Carolina

1998 National Biennial, Portland Museum of Art, curated by Rachel Lafo, Bridget Moore and Will Barnet, Portland, Maine

1998 Marlen Gallery, New York City

1997 Eliza Sweet Gallery, Waldoboro, Maine

1997 University of Hawaii at Hilo

1997 La Mama La Galleria, New York City

1996 & 2000 “National Juried Exhibition” Bristol Art Museum, RI

1995 Creiger-Dane Gallery, Boston

1994 John McEnroe Gallery, New York City

1994 Hillyer Gallery, Smith College, Massachusetts

1994 Ashuah Irving Gallery, Boston

1994 Milton Art Museum, Massachusetts 

1994 Berkshire Artisans, Pittsfield, Massachusetts

1994 Virginia Lynch Gallery, Rhode Island

1994 Walter Wickiser Gallery, New York City

1994 “National Competition,” Bowery Gallery, & 1995, “Invitational Exhibition,” New York 

1993 55 Mercer Gallery, New York City

1993 PSA New York City Headquarters

1993 Hoho Canal Gallery, Holyoke, Massachusetts

1992 Hart Gallery, Northampton, Massachusetts

1992 Gallery 361, Providence, Rhode Island

1991 Lacoste Faculty Exhibition, Mona Bismarck Foundation, Paris, France

1992-3 Sales and Rental Gallery, Springfield Museum of Fine Arts, Massachusetts

1992 de Havilland, Boston, Massachusetts, Art Access Program

1992 12 White Gallery, New York City

1989 “NAWA,” Jacob Javits Center, New York City

2004   Grossman Gallery, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

1988 Lopoukhine Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts

1987 14th Street Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia

1987 & 1992; 3, 4, & 5 “Faculty Landscape Painters Group,” Northampton Center for the Arts, Massachusetts

1987, 1997 & 2000: Augusta Savage Gallery, New Africa House, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

1980 & 1987 Newport Art Museum, Rhode Island

1985 Moonbrook Gallery, Opera House, Rutland, Vermont

1985 Shippee Gallery, New York City

1985 & 1992 Photocollect Gallery, New York City

1985 Boston Visual Artists Union, Massachusetts

1984-93 “Art in Embassies Program,” Washington, D.C.; paintings located in Guatemala City, Guatemala; Brazaville, the Congo; Banjui, The Gambia; Valetta, Malta; and Praia, Cape Verde

1984 Paul Creative Arts Center, University of New Hampshire, Durham

1982 “Regional Selections,” Hood Museum at Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, New Hampshire

1982 Mills Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts

1981 Allan Stone Gallery, New York City

1978 Museum Fine Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico

1978 Sunne Savage Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts

1974 Museum of Art, Faculty Show, & Woods-Gerry Mansion, Rhode Island School of Design

1973 Visual Studies Workshop, “Little Slanted Gallery,” Rochester, New York

1973 Memorial Art Gallery, Finger Lakes Exhibition, Rochester, New York

1972 & 1987 The Arts & Sciences Center, Nashua, New Hampshire

1972 Summer Exhibition, Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts

1972 Pucker-Safrai Gallery, Boston

1972 Faculty exhibition, Rochester Institute of Technology, New York

1971 Southern Vermont Art Center, Manchester

Public and Corporate Collections

Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, Massachusetts

Fleming Art Museum, University of Vermont

Provincetown Fine Art Museum, P’Town, Massachusetts

Massachusetts General Cooley Dickinson Hospital, (MGH), Northampton, Massachusetts

Ocean House Art Collection, Watch Hill, Rhode Island

University of Massachusetts Music Department, Amherst

University of Michigan, Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, Michigan 

United Health Group Corporate Headquarters, Minnetonka, Minnesota

McLean Hospital @ Harvard Medical School

Ipsen Pharmaceutical Company, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Cedars Sinai Medical Hospital, Los Angeles, California

Mead Art Museum, Amherst College

Audax Group, Boston

National Park Service, Acadia National Park Museum, Maine 

Veridex, New Jersey 

Johnson and Johnson Corp., New Jersey

Bank of Boston

International Bank of New England in Miami. Florida

Mount Holyoke College Art Museum

High Voltage Engineering, Shrafts Center, Boston

Biogen Corp., Cambridge, Massachusetts

Anderson Museum of Contemporary Art, New Mexico

Hale & Dorr Law Firm, Boston, Massachusetts

Simplex Corp., Westminster, MA

Burnham Institute, La Jolla, California

Western New England University

Thomson Financial Management, Northampton, Massachusetts

Shattuck Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts

Triangle, Inc., Boston, Massachusetts

Massachusetts General Hospital, Revere, Massachusetts 

Childrens’ Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts

Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts

Natixis Global Asset Management, Boston, Massachusetts

Bay Cove Human Services, Boston, Massachusetts

Madison Park Development Corporation, Roxbury, Massachusetts

Cambridge Community Housing, Inc., Massachusetts

Anita Shapolsky Art Foundation, James Thorpe, Pennsylvania

WGBH Art Collection, Boston