Artist Registry
The White Columns Curated Artist Registry is an online platform for emerging and under-recognized artists to share images and information about their respective practices. The Registry seeks to create a context for artists who have yet to benefit from wider critical, curatorial or commercial support. To be eligible, artists cannot be affiliated with a commercial gallery in New York City.
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RESUME
Beatrice Modisett is a visual artist working primarily with found and handmade materials with a focus on the creation of meaning through process, material, and image. Through the lens of her deep connection with non-humancentric landscapes, Modisett’s images and objects explore themes of memory, loss, return, hope and loss. She lives and works in Queens but delights in the fact that she feels equally at home in New York City as she does building a campfire and pitching a tent deep in the woods. Modisett earned her BFA in Painting and Drawing from Montserrat College of Art and her MFA in Painting and Printmaking from Virginia Commonwealth University. She has had solo and group exhibitions at Analog Diary (Beacon, NY); Maier Museum of Art (Lynchburg, Virginia); Queens Museum (Queens NY); HallSpace (Dorchester, MA); and Assembly Room (New York, NY) among others. She has participated in residency programs including Wave Hill Winter Workspace (Bronx, NY); Palazzo Monti (Brescia, Italy); Hambidge Center (Rabun Gap, GA) among others. Modisett is the recipient of a number of awards and grants and was named by Artsy’s Alina Cohen as one of “11 Emerging Artists Redefining Abstract Painting”.
EDUCATION
2016 Master of Fine Arts, Painting and Printmaking, Virginia Commonwealth University,
Richmond, VA
2007 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Painting and Drawing, Montserrat College of Art, Beverly MA
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 Into A Kind of Quietness, Analog Diary, Beacon NY
2020 Feeding Sugar to the Stump, Montserrat College of Art, Beverly MA
Scorched Earth, Maier Museum of Art at Randolph College, Lynchburg VA (catalog with essay by Owen J. Duffy
2019 Consistency of the Temporal, Eastern Connecticut State University, Willimantic CT
2014 Field Work, Carol Schlosberg Gallery, Beverly MA
2013 By Way of Bangkok, HallSpace, Boston MA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 La Banda Vol. 3, Tappeto Volante Projects, Brooklyn NY
2023 More Trees Than People!!! Project Art Distribution, New York NY
Satellite and Sediment, Union College, Schenectady NY
Trove, Deanna Evans Projects, online exhibition
2022 Land, Mark, Rocky Neck Art Colony, Gloucester MA
2020 Art Off Screen, outdoor exhibition curated by Eileen Jeng Lynch, Ridgewood NY
Transatlantico, Mana Contemporary, Jersey City NJ
2019 Implied Body, curated by Emily Alesandrini, Assembly Room, New York NY
In The Deep Silence of Midnight, curated by Owen J. Duffy, NARS Foundation, Brooklyn NY
2018 Queens International: Volumes, curated by Baseera Khan and Sophia Marisa Lucas, Queens Museum, Queens NY
Temporal Escape, 326 Gallery, New York NY
2017 To Bonus and Back, SIM Gallery, Reykjavík Iceland
Whateverbeing, Present Company, Brooklyn NY
2016 Perspectives, MFA Thesis Exhibition, Anderson Gallery, Richmond VA
2015 Emerge, Page Bond Gallery, Richmond VA
2014 Palette Cleanser, MFA Candidacy Exhibition, Virginia Commonwealth University,
Richmond VA
Southern Hospitality, Glass Gallery, University of Georgia, Athens GA
Housewarming, FAB Gallery, Richmond VA
2013 PURPOSE, Migrant Salon, Newtown CT
2012 New Media | Fresh Paint, New Art Center, Newton MA
Art’s Not Dead, 17 Cox, Beverly MA
2011 X: Associate Members Exhibition, Kingston Gallery, Boston MA
Dialogues, Kingston Gallery, Boston MA
Play At Work, 17 Cox, Beverly MA
2010 Faculty Exhibition, Maud Morgan Visual Art Center, Cambridge MA
2008 Artcetera, The Cyclorama, Boston MA
From Painting to Drawing, HallSpace, Boston MA
Party for the Park, DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln MA
2007 Emerging Line, The Temporary Gallery, New York NY
Equinox, The Copley Society of Art, Boston MA
New England Biennale, New Hampshire Institute of Art, Manchester NH
Introducing…,Clark Gallery, Lincoln MA
The Copley Edge, St. Botolph Club, Boston MA
RESDIENCIES
2020 Wave Hill Winter Workspace, Bronx NY
2019 Palazzo Monti, Brescia Italy
2018 Samband Íslenskra Myndlistarmanna (SÍM), Reykjavík Iceland
2010 The Hambidge Center for Arts and Sciences, Partial Fellowship, Rabun Gap GA
2008 Vermont Studio Center, Partial Fellowship, Johnson VT
AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, NOMINATIONS
2019 Cafe Royal Cultural Foundation, Visual Arts Grantee, New York NY
Rema Hort Mann Foundation, Emerging Art Grant, Nominee, New York NY
2016 Fulbright Research Grant, Iceland, Finalist
Graduate Research Grant, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond VA
Graduate Teaching Fellowship, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond VA
2015 Covington Scholarship, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond VA
E. I. Kirkland Scholarship, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond VA
Graduate Teaching Assistantship, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond VA
2010 Exceptional Merit Award, Copley Edge, St. Botolph Club, Juried by Camilo Alvarez,
Boston MA
2007 Commencement Award in Fine Arts, Montserrat College of Art, Beverly MA
Commencement Award in Painting, Montserrat College of Art, Beverly MA
Painting Department Merit Award, Montserrat College of Art, Beverly MA
2nd Jurors Prize, Copley Society of Art, Juried by Kristen Dodge, Boston MA
Schlosberg Excellence in Painting Award, Montserrat College of Art, Beverly MA
SELECTED PRESS AND WRITING
2024 Beatrice Modisett, “Climate Impact Report” Artist Commit, May 1st
Sharon Butler, “A Gathering at Tapetto Volante” Two Coats of Paint, February 7th
2022 Maake Magazine, Issue 14, Curated by Kaveri Raina
Beatrice Modisett, “Home, Body” Flat Rate Contemporary, January 9th
2021 The Harvard Advocate, Spring 2021
2020 Lydia Gordon, “Sensing Growth in the Cracks” Boston Art Review, December 31
Alina Cohen, “11 Emerging Artists Redefining Abstract Painting” artsy.net, January 6th