Artist's Resume

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ABIGAIL NELSON

SOLO EXHIBITIONS, Selected

2013 "The Amygdala Project: A Painter Responds to the Music of Phill Niblock," Experimental Intermedia v.z.w; EI Huis Window Gallery, Ghent, Belgium. Curator: Phill Niblock 

2003 "Paintings and Photographs: A Mid-Career Survey," Broudo Gallery, Endicott College. Beverly, MA 

1996 "Slipping Glimpses: Vandyke Brown Photographs," Hilles Gallery, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 

1991 "Earthly Delights: Objects from the Urban Landscape," Sacramento Street Gallery, Cambridge, MA 

1990 "Tibet: Its Spiritual Landscape," Department of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 

1989 "Tibet: Its Spiritual Landscape," Project Athena, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 

 

GROUP EXHIBITIONS, Selected

2021 "Virtual Invitational Exhibit," Art Essex Gallery, Essex, CT Curator: David Masello

2020 "Mary Schein Fall Salon," Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, MA

2019 "Keep Nahant Wild," Fundraiser and Auction, Nahant, MA 

2018 “What Does Women’s Art Look Like Today?”  LynnArts, Lynn, MA 

2017 "300 Years: A Celebration of the Whitney Homestead," Nahant, MA 

2017 "Onderweg/On the Road," Cultuurcentrum Zwaneberg, Heist-op-den-Berg, Belgium; Curator: Willem Vermeersch  

2016 "15th National Prize Show," Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, MA Juror: Paul C. Ha, Director, LIST Visual Arts Center at MIT 

2016 "Small Work Salon 2016: Thesis/Antithesis," Chandler Gallery, Maud Morgan Arts, Cambridge, MA Juror: Gerry Bergstein 

2014 "Proof of Purchase: A Benefit Sale for the Scholarship Program at The School of the Museum of Fine Arts," Samson, Boston MA 

2013, 2010,2005, 2002,2001,2000 — Various juried group shows, LynnArts, Lynn, MA. 

2012 "Nahant: A Garden of Art, 2012," Nahant Historical Society, Nahant, MA 

2011, 2010, 2009 — "Art in the Barn," Essex County Greenbelt Association Exhibition and Benefit, Cox Reservation, Essex, MA 

2009 "Historic Interpretation: Contemporary Artists Interpret the Historic Collection," Peabody Historic Society and Museum, Peabody, MA  

2003 "Open Studios," Cripple Cove Studios, Gloucester, MA 

1999 "Anything But Southwestern," F.A.C.E.T. Gallery, Taos, NM 

1989 "Above, Beyond & WITHIN the South End," Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA 

1988 "New Work," The David Williams Gallery, Provincetown, MA  

1988 "20/20: Twenty Artists Choose Twenty Artists," Provincetown Art Association & Museum, Provincetown, MA  

1987 "New Talent," Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA  

1987 "Traveling Scholars," Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA 

1986, 1984 "Artist Friends of the Center for Oriental Studies," Cork Gallery at Lincoln Center, New York, NY 

1985 "New England Gallery," New England Arts Biennial, Amherst, MA 

 

AWARDS 

2013 Artist Residency, Experimental Intermedia, v.z.w., Ghent, Belgium  

2010 Juror’s Choice Award, LynnArts, Lynn, MA, Joanne Mattera, Juror 

1989 Exhibition Grant, Council for the Arts at M.I.T., Cambridge, MA; Recommended by Otto Piene, Director, CAVS, MIT  

1987 Clarissa Bartlett Traveling Fellowship, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

 

PUBLICATIONS 

2015 Mud Season Review, Fiction:  Issue #13, October 20, 2015.Two paintings in story, “Brother’s Keeper,” by Sandra Hunt 

2015 Nelson, Abigail, “T H I R Redux” and “T H I R First Order Experience.”  Liner notes for T H I R, DVD [Images and music by Phill Niblock], published by VON Archives (VON 012), 2015  

2014 Studio Visit Magazine, volume 28. Selected artist.  Issue curator:  Carl Belz, Director Emeritus, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 

 

TEACHING EXPERIENCE  

1987 Teaching Assistant for Gerry Bergstein, School of Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA  

 

EDUCATION 

1987 Fifth Year Certificate, Painting, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA 

1986 Diploma, Painting, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA  

1980 Open Program, study with Gene Davis, Corcoran School of Art, Washington, DC

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