MORGAN BULKELEY
Birth Date: June 30, 1944
Education: 1966, Yale University, B.A. English Literature
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2004 Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston MA
2001 Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston MA
2000 Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston MA
1999 Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston MA
1997 Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston MA
1995 Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston MA
Bachelier-Cardonsky Gallery, Kent CT
Carone Gallery, Fort Lauderdale FL
1993 Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston MA
Welles Gallery, Lenox MA
1991 Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston MA
1987 DeCordova Museum, “Morgan Bulkeley: Two Decades,” Lincoln MA
Stux Gallery, Boston MA
1986 Stux Gallery, New York NY
Stux Gallery, Boston MA
1983 Stux Gallery, Boston MA
1982 Lopoukhine Gallery, Boston MA
1981 Lopoukhine-Nayduch Gallery, Boston MA, in collaboration with the Clark Gallery, Lincoln MA
1974 Cleveland Gallery, Boston MA
1973 Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield MA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2004 Geoffrey Young Gallery, “Tastes Like Chicken,” Great Barrington MA
Geoffrey Young Gallery, “STREAM lines,” Great Barrington MA
2003 Howard 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
2002 DeCordova Museum, “DeCordova Collects: Recent Acquisitions from the Permanent Collection,” Lincoln MA
Geoffrey Young Gallery, “Loss and Ardor,” Great Barrington MA
2000 Danforth Museum of Art, “Figure, Fantasy and Illusion: Selections From The Arthur Goldberg Collection,” Framingham MA
1998 Geoffrey Young Gallery, “For the Birds,” Great Barrington MA
New Bedford Art Museum, “Vault Series: Audubon Legacy,” New Bedford MA
1997 Art 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
1996 Uta Stebich Gallery, “Group Show,” Lenox MA
1995 Carone Gallery, “Group Exhibit,” Fort Lauderdale FL
Berkshire Artisans Gallery, Pittsfield MA
1994 Roy 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
1993 Howard Yezerski Gallery, “Altered Reality,” Boston MA
1992 Danforth Museum of Art, “Reality As Metaphor,” Framingham MA
Clark Gallery, “Faces,” Lincoln MA
1988 Stux Gallery, “Summer Review,” Boston MA
1987 Fuller 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
1986 Stux 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
1985 DeCordova 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
1984 Chicago 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
1983 DeCordova 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
1982 Museum 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
1981 DeCordova Museum, “New England Relief,” Lincoln MA
1980 DeCordova 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
1978 Chesterwood, “Contemporary Sculpture at Chesterwood,” Stockbridge MA
1976 Boston Visual Artists’ Union, “Sculpture and Drawing,” Boston MA
1975 The Berkshire Museum, “The Sculptors’ Workshop,” Pittsfield MA
1974 Boston 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
1973 Graphic Arts Gallery, Springfield MA
AWARDS
1983 Massachusetts Artists Foundation, Fellowship in Painting
1981 DeCordova Museum, Annual Appeal Commission
1980 MBTA Mural Commission, Newbury Street, Boston MA
Massachusetts Artists Foundation, Fellowship in Painting
Massachusetts Artists Foundation, Finalist in Sculpture
Berkshire Museum, Prize in Painting
1979 Massachusetts Artists Foundation, Finalist in Sculpture
1978 Berkshire Art Association, Prize in Painting
BIBLIOGRAPHY
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CATALOGUES
2000 Danforth Museum of Art, “Figure, Fantasy and Illusion: Selections From The Arthur Goldberg Collection,” Framingham MA
1999 Howard Yezerski Gallery, “Post-Shopping Wink,” Boston MA
1998 New Bedford Art Museum, “Vault Series: Audubon Legacy,” New Bedford MA
1987 DeCordova Museum, “Morgan Bulkeley: Two Decades,” Lincoln MA
Massachusetts College of Art, “The Tree Show,” Boston MA
1985 Chesterwood, “Contemporary Sculpture at Chesterwood,” Stockbridge MA
1984 Berkshire Museum, “Aspects of New Narrative Art,” Pittsfield MA
Boston College Gallery, “Observations of the History of Installation Art,” Newton MA
1983 Tufts University Gallery, “Private Lives,” Medford MA
1982 Museum of Fine Arts, “A Private Vision: Contemporary Art from the Graham Gund Collection,” Boston MA
1981 DeCordova Museum, “New England Relief,” Lincoln MA
1980 DeCordova 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 MA