Anne Neely

Offshore, Anne Neely

Offshore, Anne Neely

Anne Neely is a painter and printmaker who spends her time between Boston, Massachusetts, and Jonesport, Maine. She was a finalist for the Prix de Rome and was twice a finalist in painting for the MASS Cultural Council Fellowship. She has been awarded residencies at the Millay Colony for the Arts in New York, at the Ballinglen Arts Foundation in Co. Mayo, Ireland, and at the Cill Rialaig Arts Center in Co. Kerry, Ireland. Neely's work has been shown at Lohin Geduld Gallery in New York, as well as other galleries in New York, Boston, and San Francisco and in museums around the country. Most recently, she had a solo exhibition at the Museum of Science, Boston entitled Water Stories, about water issues in America. Neely's work can be found in the collections of the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA; The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY; The Davis Museum, Wellesley, MA; The Rose Art Museum, Waltham, MA; The deCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA; The Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, ME; Grunwald Center for Graphic Art, UCLA; The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; The Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC; and The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY. Her work has been reviewed in Art in America, Art News, The New York Times, and The Irish Times, and a book has been published on her recent exhibition at the Museum of Science, Boston.

Artist Talk (2019): https://youtu.be/1twvETVNhOc

Education
1970 - BA, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA
1966 - AA, Colby Sawyer College, New London, NH

Grants & Awards

2018 - Art Feature in the BU Literary Journal AGNI #88, “A Necessity: Fearful Symmetries” by Anne Neely

2010 - New American Paintings, Northeast Edition, Open Studios Press, Boston, MA

2009 - Massachusetts Cultural Council, Finalist

2007 - Grant Recipient, Artists’ Resource Trust

2004 -Ballinglen Arts Fellowship Program, County Mayo, Ireland

2003 - New American Paintings, Northeast Edition, Open Studios Press, Boston, MA

2001 - Ballinglen Arts Foundation Fellowship Program

1998 - Ballinglen Arts Foundation Fellowship Program

1995 - Polaroid Grant, Artist Support Program, 20x24 Studio New York

1991 - Edna Saint Vincent Millay Colony, Austerlitz, NY

1987 - Artist in Residence, Earthwatch, Klingenstein Grant

1986 - Rome Price Fellowship, American Academy in Rome, Finalist Painting
Massachusetts Artist Foundation Grant, Finalist Painting

1982 - Blanche E. Coleman Award, Painting, Boston, MA

Museums Collections

Boston Public Library, Boston, MA

Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY

Danforth Museum, Framingham, MA

David Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA

DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA

The Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, ME

Grenwald Center for Graphic Arts, UCLA

Arman Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

New York Public Library, New York, NY

Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA

Simmons College, Boston, MA

The Smithsonian, The National Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C.

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

Solo Exhibitions

  • 2017 - Hidden in Plain Sight, CUE Art Foundation, New York, NY

  • 2016 - Ireland: Place and Ritual, Cambridge Seven Associates, Cambridge, MA
    Water Stories: Conversations in Paint and Sound, Baron and Ellin Gordon Art Galleries, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA

  • 2015 - Transforming Place, Lehman Art Center, The Brooks School, N. Andover, MA
    Water Stories, Kathryn Markel Fine Arts, New York, NY

  • 2014 - Water Stories Project: A Conversation in Paint and Sound, Museum of Science, Boston, MA

  • 2011 - Mopang: Recent Paintings, Lohin Geduld Gallery, New York, NY

  • 2010 - Waterlines, Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, MA

  • 2009 - Where There’s Water, Lohin Geduld Gallery, New York, NY

  • 2008 - Just the Elements: New Paintings, Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA

  • 2007 - What the Weather Brings, Lohin Geduld Gallery, New York, NY

  • 2005 - Going West, Catherine Hammond Gallery, West Cork, Ireland
    The Edge of the World, Lohin Geduld Gallery, New York, NY
    Madison Avenue: Where Fashion Meets Art, Lalique, New York, NY

  • 2004 - Recent Paintings, Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA

  • 2003 - Circuits - New Paintings, Karen Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, CA

  • 2001 - Garden of Memory, Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA

  • 2000 - Seven Landscapes for the Millennium, Emmanuel College, Boston, MA

  • 1997 - Still Life/Landscape, 1993 - 1997, Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA

  • 1995 - Paintings from 1984 - 1995, Nesto Gallery, Milton Academy, Milton, MA

  • 1994 - Monoprints and Paintings, Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA

  • 1993 - Breathing in Memoriam, Monoprints, New Work/New England Exhibition, DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA

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