CV

Born: Lewiston, Maine, 1957

Resides: Waldoboro, Maine


Education

MFA, University of Pennsylvania, 1986

Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, 1985. Full scholarship.

BA, Smith College, 1981. Magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa 

Selected One and Two Person Exhibitions

2022
Dozier Bell, a solo exhibition, Sarah Bouchard Gallery, Woolwich, ME

2021
Dozier Bell: Monhegan Island, Carol Corey Fine Art, Kent, CT

2019
Half-light, Danese Corey Gallery, New York, NY

2018
Zolla Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL

2017
Ogunquit Museum of American Art, Ogunquit, ME

2016
Dowling Walsh Gallery, Rockland, ME

2014
Danese Corey Gallery, New York, NY

2013
Dozier Bell: Mind’s Eye, Bates College Museum of Art, Lewiston, ME

2010
Dozier Bell: Momenta, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, ME
Aucocisco Gallery, Portland, ME

2009
DFN Gallery, New York, NY
La Galeria, Barcelona, Spain

2007
Gold/Smith Gallery, Boothbay Harbor, ME
Aucocisco Gallery, Portland, ME

2006
DFN Gallery, New York, NY

2005
Chase Gallery, Boston, MA,
Aucocisco Gallery, Portland, ME

2004
National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC
University of Maine Museum of Art, Bangor, ME
DFN Gallery, New York, NY

2003
The Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY
A.V.C. Gallery, New York, NY

2002
Aucocisco Gallery, Portland, ME

2001
Chase Gallery, Boston, MA

2000
Schmidt-Bingham Gallery, New York, NY
June Fitzpatrick Gallery, Portland, ME

1999
Chase Gallery, Boston, MA

1998
Dozier Bell: Primary Themes, Lyman Allyn Museum, New London, CT
Schmidt-Bingham Gallery, New York, NY

1995
The Dissonant Heart (in collaboration with the poet Wesley McNair), Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME (catalog)
Schmidt-Bingham Gallery, New York, NY

1994
Original Place: Recent Work by Dozier Bell and Ken Greenleaf, Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, ME, and Center Gallery, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA (catalog)

1992
Schmidt-Bingham Gallery, New York, NY

1991
Bingham-Kurts Gallery, Memphis, TN

1990
Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID
Schmidt-Bingham Gallery, New York, NY

1989
Marilyn Butler Fine Arts, Scottsdale, AZ

1988
Schmidt-Bingham Gallery, New York, NY

1987
O'Farrell Gallery, Brunswick, ME 



Select Group Exhibitions & Art Fairs

2021
Here and There, Cove Street Arts, Portland, ME

2019
The LIGHT Show, Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
Fear and Wonder: Sublime Landscapes on PaperSelections from the Museum’s Collection, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX

2018
Inside the Cube: Looking Back Over 40 Years, University of New England Art Gallery, Portland, ME

2017
48th Annual Collectors’ Show and Sale, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR

2016
Drawing Conclusions, Danese Corey Gallery, New York, NY

2015
Director’s Cut: Selections from the Maine Art Museum Trail, Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME
Land and Sea, Danese Corey Gallery, New York, NY

2014
Invitational Exhibition of Visual Art, Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY

2013
Seescape, George Adams Gallery, New York, NY
Woods, Lovely, Dark, and Deep, DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY
Maine Women Pioneers, University of New England, Westbrook, ME

2011
Land, Sea, and Sky: Contemporary Art in Maine, Addison Gallery at Phillips Academy, Andover, MA
"Synthetic Supports: Plastic is the New Paper", Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

2010
Dozier Bell, Karen Schiff, Hadi Tabatabai: Drawings, Danese Gallery, New York, NY
Sacred and Profane, Portsmouth Museum of Art, Portsmouth, NH

2009
Selections from the Ogunquit Museum of American Art, Portsmouth Atheneum, Portsmouth, NH
Portland Museum of Art Biennial, Portland, ME

2008
Art from Anxious Times, Art Students League, New York, NY
Transcendental and Sublime, Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, CT
Silence, La Galeria, Consell de Cent, Barcelona
Midnight Full of Stars, Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, Summit, NJ

2007
New Artists, Bentley Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
Introductions II, Stremmel Gallery, Reno, NV

2006
The Figure in American Painting and Drawing, 1985-2005, Ogunquit Museum of American Art, Ogunquit, ME

2005
The Environment of Landscape: Works from the Olivia and Ellwood Straub Collection, Bates College, Lewiston, ME

2004-07
American Embassy in Abuja, Nigeria

2004
Images of Time and Place: Contemporary Views of Landscape, The Lehman Gallery, Bronx, NY

2003-04
Facing Reality: The Seavest Collection of Contemporary Realism, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY

2002
50th Anniversary Exhibition, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, ME
Keenly Observed, Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, CT`

2001-02
Re-presenting Representation V, The Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, NY

2000
Photographing Maine: 1850 - 2000, Maine Coast Artists, Rockport, ME

1998
After Dark, Maine Coast Artists, Rockport, ME
After Nature, Herter Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA (catalog)
Seasons of Change: Maine Women Artists and Nature, in conjunction with the American Women Nature Writers Conference at the Payson Gallery, Westbrook College, Portland, ME

1997
Invitational Exhibition, Memphis College of Art, Memphis, TN

1996-97
Destiny Manifest: American Landscape Painting in the 90's, Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL (catalog)

1996
Torn Asunder: Collage in Twentieth-Century Art, Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME
Inside/Outside: Recent Photography from the MacDowell Colony, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, and the Art Gallery of the University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH
Changing Horizons: Landscape on the Eve of the Millennium, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY (catalog)
Skowhegan at 50: The Maine Legacy, Maine Coast Artists, Rockland, ME, and Baxter Gallery, Portland, ME
Fractured Fairy Tales: Art in the Age of Categorical Disintegration, Duke University Museum of Art, Durham, NC (catalog) 

1995
Irrational Landscapes, Binghamton University Art Museum, Binghamton, and New York Academy of Sciences, New York, NY

1994
The Collectors' Show, Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR
Ten Years, Ten Artists, Albers Fine Art Gallery, Memphis, TN
Dialogues: On and Off the Wall, Schmidt-Bingham Gallery, Garth Clark Gallery, and Peter Joseph Gallery, New York, NY
Landscape not Landscape, Gallery Camino Real, Boca Raton, FL (catalog)
Contemporary Landscapes, Evans-Gropper-Willis Gallery, San Francisco, CA
The Collectors' Show, Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR Landscape as Metaphor: The Transcendental Vision, Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, MA and Newport Art Museum, Newport, RI
Gender and Identity, Baxter Gallery, Maine College of Art, Portland, ME

1992
Art of Maine: A Bounty of Woods and Water, Monmouth Museum, Lincroft, NJ
Apocalypse and Resurrection, AmFAR Benefit and Exhibition, Gallery Three Zero, New York, NY
On the Edge: 40 Years of Maine Painting, Maine Coast Artists, Rockport, ME; Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME (catalog)

1991
Darkness into Light, Lintas: Worldwide, New York, NY

1990
Perspectives: Celebrating Contemporary Art at the Portland Museum, Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME
Beyond Black and White: Contemporary Hand-Painted Photographs, The Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, ME

1989
Interstices, Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, ME
Vision and Visions: Contemporary Landscape Painting, Tavelli Gallery, Aspen, CO
New Work, Dean Velentgas Gallery, Portland, ME 1989 Contemporary Environment, General Electric Company, Fairfield, CT
Landscape of the Spirit, The Bruce Museum, Greenwich, CT (catalog)

1988
40th Anniversary Juried Exhibition, Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, ME
The Face of the Land, Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Loretto, PA
Fresh Paint, Baxter Gallery, Maine College of Art, Portland, ME

1987
Beyond Observation, Schmidt-Bingham Gallery, New York, NY
New Artists: The Gloria Wilcher Memorial Exhibition, Currier Gallery, Manchester, NH (catalog)
Gallery Invitational, Farnsworth Museum of Art, Rockland, ME
Six Young Maine Painters, Maine Coast Artists, Rockport, ME

Awards & residencies

2019
Monhegan Artist’s Residency, Monhegan, ME

2014
American Academy of Arts and Letters Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts, Purchase Prize

2009
Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation Individual Support Grant

2003
Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant

2000
Residency, MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH

1997
Achievement Award and Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree, Maine College of Art, Portland, ME

1995-96
Fulbright Fellowship as artist-in-residence at the Bauhaus University in Weimar, Germany

1995
Residency, MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH

1993
Residency at the Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Study and Conference Center in Bellagio, Italy

1993
Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant

1990
Residency at the Millay Colony for the Arts, Austerlitz, NY

1987
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Painting

1985
Residency and full scholarship at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME 

Selected Public & Museum Collections

Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR

Arthur Andersen & Company, St. Paul, MN

AT & T, New York, NY

Boise Art Museum, Boise, ID

Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Bowdoin, ME

Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME

Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO

Exxon Corporation, Irving, TX

Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, ME

Harvard Business School, Cambridge, MA

Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, ME

Lyman Allyn Museum, New London, CT

Memphis Cancer Center, Memphis, TN

Metropolitan Life, New York, NY

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX

Nomura Securities, New York, NY

Ogunquit Museum of American Art, Ogunquit, ME

ORYX Energy Corporation, Dallas, TX

Swiss Re, New York, NY

Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME

United Talent Agency, Los Angeles, CA

Wadsworth Athenaeum, Hartford, CT

Zurich Kemper Investments, Chicago, IL (catalog)