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Résumé of Morgan Bulkeley



Birth Date: June 30, 1944
Education: 1966, Yale University, B.A. English Literature
        

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2021Howard Yezerski Gallery, Carved and Painted, Boston, MA
2017The Berkshire Museum, Morgan Bulkeley: Nature/Culture Clash, Pittsfield MA
2016Miller Yezerski Gallery, New Paintings, Boston MA
2012Howard Yezerski Gallery, New Work, Boston MA
2012Berkshire Museum, Taking Flight, Pittsfield MA
2009Danforth Museum, Morgan Bulkeley: Who's the Daddy?, Framingham MA
2006Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston MA
2004Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston MA
2001Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston MA
2000Howard Yezerski Gallery, Walking Sticks, Boston MA
1999Howard Yezerski Gallery, Paintings and Reliefs, Boston MA
1997Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston MA
1995Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston MA

Bachelier-Cardonsky Gallery, Kent CT

Carone Gallery, Fort Lauderdale FL
1993Howard Yezerski Gallery, Recent Works, Boston MA

Welles Gallery, Lenox MA
1991Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston MA
1987DeCordova Museum, Morgan Bulkeley: Two Decades, Lincoln MA

Stux Gallery, Boston MA
1986Stux Gallery, New York NY

Stux Gallery, New Pastels Boston MA
1983Stux Gallery, New Paintings Boston MA
1982Lopoukhine Gallery, New Paintings and Sculpture, Boston MA
1981Lopoukhine-Nayduch Gallery, Boston MA, in collaboration with the Clark Gallery, Lincoln MA
1974Cleveland Gallery, Paintings and Sculpture Boston MA
1973Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield MA
 

Selected Group Exhibitions

2022Bernay Fine Art Gallery, It's a Wrap!, Great Barrington, MA

Bernay Fine Art Gallery, Spring Forward, Great Barrington, MA
2021Bernay Fine Art Gallery, Mixing It Up, Great Barrington, MA
2018Geoffrey Young Gallery, Casheesh 18, Great Barrington, MA
2017Miller/Yezerski Gallery, Animal as Metaphor, Boston MA

Geoffrey Young Gallery, Supreme Fiction, Great Barrington MA

The Tremaine Gallery, Becoming 30 Hotchkiss Artists, Lakeville CT

Morgan Lehman Gallery, The Twenty By Sixteen Biennial, New York NY
2016No. Six Depot, Wonderland, West Stockbridge, MA

Geoffrey Young Gallery, Casheesh Twenty Sixteen, Great Barrington, MA

Geoffrey Young Gallery, Capital Flight, Great Barrington MA
2015Morgan Lehman Gallery, Twenty by Sixteen, New York, NY 

Geoffrey Young Gallery, House, Great Barrington, MA 
2014Geoffrey Young Gallery, Disaster!, Great Barrington, MA
2013Geoffrey Young Gallery, AUGUST a Haze Amniotic Our Dream Aether & Lens of Distance, Great Barrington, MA

Geoffrey Young Gallery, Casheesh 2013, Great Barrington, MA
2012Danforth Museum, Collaborations, Framingham MA

Geoffrey Young Gallery, Disquietude, Great Barrington, MA

Geoffrey Young Gallery, Casheesh Six, Great Barrington, MA
2011Ferrin Gallery, The Birding Life, Pittsfield MA

Geoffrey Young Gallery, Casheesh Now!, Great Barrington, MA

Geoffrey Young Gallery, Double Vision, Great Barrington MA

Janet Kurnatowski Gallery, Notable Henchmen, Brooklyn NY
2010Geoffrey Young Gallery, Casheesh Four, Great Barrington, MA

Geoffrey Young Gallery, Casheesh 3, Great Barrington, MA

Geoffrey Young Gallery, Reclining Nudes,  Great Barrington MA

St. Botolph Club, The Expressionist Figure in Boston, 1940s-2000s, Boston MA

Spencertown Academy Arts Center, What's So Funny? Exploring humor in art, Spencertown, NY 
2009Geoffrey Young Gallery, Casheesh Two!, Great Barrington MA

Ferrin Gallery, Small Works, Pittsfield MA

Howard Yezerski Gallery, Unintended Consequences, Boston MA
2008Jeff Bailey Gallery, It's Gouache and Gouache Only, New York NY

Geoffrey Young Gallery, Hot Spit Great Barrington MA

Ferrin Gallery, Boston Ten, 2, Pittsfield MA

Berkshire Museum, Recent Acquisitions, Pittsfield MA
2007Hudson River Museum, I Want Candy (catalogue), Yonkers NY
2006Lascano Gallery, Boston Ten, Great Barrington MA
2004Geoffrey Young Gallery, Tastes Like Chicken, Great Barrington MA

Geoffrey Young Gallery, STREAM lines, Great Barrington MA
2003Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston Summer, Boston MA

Bachelier-Cardonsky Gallery, Strictly for the Birds, Kent CT

Geoffrey Young Gallery, The Summer of Lust, Great Barrington MA
2002DeCordova Museum, DeCordova Collects: Recent Acquisitions from the Permanent Collection, Lincoln MA

Geoffrey Young Gallery, Loss and Ardor, Great Barrington MA
2000Danforth Museum of Art, Figure, Fantasy and Illusion: Selections From The Arthur Goldberg Collection, Framingham MA
1998Geoffrey Young Gallery, For the Birds, Great Barrington MA

New Bedford Art Museum, Vault Series: Audubon Legacy, New Bedford MA
1997Art Complex Museum, Attributes of the Artists, Duxbury MA

New Art Center of Newton, Lasting Impressions: Looking at the Land, Newton MA

Brush Art Gallery and Studio, SELF-aMUSEd: The Contemporary Artist as Observer and Observed, Lowell MA

Geoffrey Young Gallery, Genius Loci: Hail Corn, Great Barrington MA
1996Uta Stebich Gallery, Group Show, Lenox MA
1995Carone Gallery, Group Exhibit, Fort Lauderdale FL

Berkshire Artisans Gallery, Pittsfield MA
1994Roy G. Biv Fine Art, Artists From the Edge: East Meets West, Palm Springs CA

Fuller Museum of Art, Shrines, Symbols & Cherished Objects, Brockton MA

Newton Arts Center, Rooms With Views: Body, Nature, Culture, Politics, Newton MA
1993Howard Yezerski Gallery, Altered Reality, Boston MA
1992Danforth Museum of Art, Reality As Metaphor, Framingham MA

Clark Gallery, Faces, Lincoln MA
1988Stux Gallery, Summer Review, Boston MA
1987Fuller Museum of Art, Triennial, Brockton MA

Stux Gallery, Miniatures, Boston MA

Stux Gallery, On and Off the Wall, Boston MA

Massachusetts College of Art, The Tree Show, Boston MA

Duxbury Art Complex, Private Visions, Duxbury MA
1986Stux Gallery, Gallery Artists, New York NY

Stux Gallery, Inaugural, New York NY

Stux Gallery, Summer Review: Part I/Painting, Boston MA

Stux Gallery, Summer Review: Part II/Sculpture, Boston MA
1985DeCordova Museum, Recent Acquisitions 1980-1984, Lincoln MA

Chesterwood, Contemporary Sculpture at Chesterwood VI, Stockbridge MA

Stux Gallery, Gallery Artists: Part II/Painting, Boston MA

Stux Gallery, Gallery Artists: Part I/Sculpture, Boston MA
1984Chicago Art Fair, Chicago IL

Boston College, Four Inclined, Installation, Newton MA

Currier Museum, The Figure Again, Manchester NH

Berkshire Museum, R.I.S.D., Boston University Gallery, Aspects of New Narrative Art, Pittsfield MA, Providence RI, Boston MA

Chesterwood, Contemporary Sculpture at Chesterwood V, Stockbridge MA
1983DeCordova Museum, Art of the State, Lincoln MA

Fuller Museum of Art, Triennial, Brockton MA

Berkshire Museum, The Suspended Object, Pittsfield MA

Tufts University Gallery, Private Visions, Somerville MA
1982Museum of Fine Arts, A Private Vision: Contemporary Art from the Graham Gund Collection, Boston MA

Van Buren/Brazelton/Cutting Gallery, Fear and Affirmation: Artists Against Nuclear War, Cambridge MA
1981DeCordova Museum, New England Relief, Lincoln MA
1980DeCordova Museum, Three Decades, Lincoln MA

Fuller Museum of Art, Triennial, Brockton MA

Boston University Gallery, On the Verge, Boston MA

Federal Reserve Bank, Art of the State, Boston MA

Nesto Gallery, Drawing from Different Points of View, Milton MA
1978Chesterwood, Contemporary Sculpture at Chesterwood, Stockbridge MA
1976Boston Visual Artists’ Union, Sculpture and Drawing, Boston MA
1975The Berkshire Museum, The Sculptors’ Workshop, Pittsfield MA
1974Boston Visual Artists’ Union, At the Goethe Institute, Boston MA

Boston Visual Artists’ Union, The Sensuous Eye, Boston MA

Newbury Street Galleries’ Show at City Hall, Boston MA
1973Graphic Arts Gallery, Springfield MA
 

Awards

1983Massachusetts Artists Foundation, Fellowship in Painting
1981DeCordova Museum, Annual Appeal Commission
1980MBTA Mural Commission, Newbury Street, Boston MA

Massachusetts Artists Foundation, Fellowship in Painting

Massachusetts Artists Foundation, Finalist in Sculpture

Berkshire Museum, Prize in Painting
1979Massachusetts Artists Foundation, Finalist in Sculpture
1978Berkshire Art Association, Prize in Painting
 

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Catalogues

2012Howard Yezerski Gallery, New Work, Boston, MA
2000Danforth Museum of Art, Figure, Fantasy and Illusion: Selections From The Arthur Goldberg Collection, Framingham MA
1999Howard Yezerski Gallery, Post-Shopping Wink, Boston MA
1998New Bedford Art Museum, Vault Series: Audubon Legacy, New Bedford MA
1987DeCordova Museum, Morgan Bulkeley: Two Decades, Lincoln MA

Massachusetts College of Art, The Tree Show, Boston MA
1985Chesterwood, Contemporary Sculpture at Chesterwood, Stockbridge MA
1984Berkshire Museum, Aspects of New Narrative Art, Pittsfield MA

Boston College Gallery, Observations of the History of Installation Art, Newton MA
1983Tufts University Gallery, Private Lives, Medford MA
1982Museum of Fine Arts, A Private Vision: Contemporary Art from the Graham Gund Collection, Boston MA
1981DeCordova Museum, New England Relief, Lincoln MA
1980DeCordova Museum, Three Decades, Lincoln MA

Boston University Art Gallery, On The Verge: Nine Boston Painters, Boston MA

Nesto Gallery, Drawing from Different Points of View, Milton MAWill
All works and photographs copyright Morgan Bulkeley