HISTORICAL CURRICULUM VITAE
EDUCATION:
1980 Fifth Year Certificate, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
1978 Fourth Year Diploma, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
1960 M.A., Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
1959 B.A., Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA
1955 H.S. Diploma, Calhoun-Clemson High School, Clemson, SC
SPECIAL STUDIES IN ART:
1974-1975
Private studies with George Dergalis, Wayland, MA
1972-1973
Studies with various artists at DeCordova Museum School, Lincoln, MA
1971-1972
Private studies with Robert Tovey, Geneva, Switzerland
1969-1971
Foothill College, Los Altos, CA – Studied with Bart de Palma and Richard Yip
1968
Studio art courses at University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
1965-1967
Private studies with Don Stone and John Terelak, Rockport, MA
Sudbury Art Association, Sudbury, MA studied with King Coffin
1957-1958
Ecole du Louvre, Paris, France, Art History
HONORS AND AWARDS:
1994 New England Foundation for the Arts/National Endowment for the Arts Regional Fellowship, Visual Arts
1994 MacDowell Colony Fellow, Peterborough, NH
1991 MacDowell Colony Fellow, Peterborough, NH
1989 Millay Colony Fellow, Austerlitz, NY
1987 Vermont Studio Colony Fellow, Johnson, VT
1986 Massachusetts Artists Fellowship, Drawing, The Artists Foundation, Boston, MA
1986 Massachusetts Artists Finalist, Painting, The Artists Foundation, Boston, MA
1981 Honorable Mention, Qualified Artists Exhibition, Concord Art Association, Concord, MA
1980 Clarissa Bartlett Traveling Scholarship, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
1979 First Prize, Painting, Qualified Artists Exhibition, Concord Art Association, Concord, MA
1978 Dana Pond Painting Competition, finalist, Museum School, Boston, MA
SELECTED SOLO AND MUSEUM EXHIBITIONS:
2023
Spatial Disclosures: Nona Hershey and Nan Tull, Soprafina Gallery, Boston, MA
2020
On the Beach, On the Vineyard: Nan Tull Watercolors, Martha's Vineyard Museum, Vineyard Haven, MA
2018
Nan Tull: Family Excavations: Transformations in Art, Winter 2018 online encaustiZINE
2016
Nan Tull: Excavations: Recent Encaustic Paintings, Soprafina Gallery, Boston, MA
Nan Tull in the Conservatory, St. Botolph Club, Boston, MA
2013
Ladies of the Sea: Tull, Treat, and Jernegan, Martha's Vineyard Museum, Edgartown, MA
2012
Encaustic Paintings by Nan Tull: Transmutations, Soprafina Gallery, Boston, MA
2009
Nan Tull: Twenty-Five Years of Paintings and Drawings, Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, MA
Nan Tull: New Encaustic Paintings, Soprafina Gallery, Boston, MA
2008
Equilibrium: Susan Schwalb and Nan Tull (two person), Soprafina Gallery, Boston, MA
2007
Drawings in the Conservatory, St. Botolph Club, Boston, MA
2005
Nan Tull: Recent Encaustic Paintings, Miller Block Gallery, Boston, MA
2003
Creating Clouds: Encaustic Paintings by Nan Tull, St.Botolph Club, Boston, MA
2000
Nan Tull: Genera Paintings, Miller Block Gallery, Boston, MA
1998
Nan Tull: Recent Work, Miller Block Gallery, Boston, MA
1996
Nan Tull: Wood Winds 1996, Nesto Gallery, Milton Academy, Milton, MA
Nan Tull: Small Matter, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College Studio Art Exhibitions, Hanover, NH
1995
A Fall Show: Nan Tull, Miller Block Gallery, Boston, MA
Nan Tull: Drawings and Encaustic Painting, A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY
Nan Tull: On the Beach / On the Vineyard, Vineyard Museum, Edgartown, MA
1994
Nan Tull: A Retrospective of Drawings, Wiggin and South Galleries, Boston Public Library, Boston, MA
1991
Nan Tull – Paintings & Drawings, Akin Gallery, Boston, MA
1989
Nan Tull – New Work, Akin Gallery, Boston, MA
1987
Nan Tull – New Paintings, Akin Gallery, Boston, MA
1984
Nan Wezniak - New Work, Chapel Gallery, West Newton, MA
1984
Nan Wezniak Recent Work, Lenore Gray Gallery, Providence, RI
1983
Nan Wezniak – Blueprints / Paintings on Paper, Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA
1981
Nan Wezniak – Monotypes, Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA
1978
Recent Work of Nan Wezniak, Flag Gallery, Jamaica Plain, MA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2020
Fall/Winter Exhibitions, Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, MA
Encaustic Today: First International Russia-based online Exhibition
2019
Survey of Contemporary Encaustic (catalog), Chaffey Museum, Ontario, CA Women’s
Work, Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, MA
Reunion Exhibition, Davis Museum, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA
Then and Now: Forty Years of Art in Fort Point, FPAC Assemblage Gallery, Boston, MA
Sprint (March-April) and Summer (July-August) Group Shows, Soprafina Gallery, MA
2018
xsXL, FPAC Gallery, Boston, MA
Violence Transormed: Stand Together, Aidekman Arts Center, Tufts University, Medford, MA
2017
In Flawed Abundance, New Art Center, Newton, MA
The St. Botolph Club Biennial, St. Botolph Club, Boston, MA (2013, 2015, 2017, 2019)
2016
Another Way of Keeping a Diary, San Luis Obispo Museum of Art, San Luis Obispo, California
2015
Grand Opening, Encaustic Art Institute, Santa Fe, NM Danforth Art, Framingham, MA
Art Cetera, The Castle, Boston, MA (2011, 2013, 2015)
2014
The Appearance of Clarity: Works in Black and White, Helen Day Art Center, Stowe, VT
Recently Acquired, Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, MA
Big Dig Nostalgia, Gallery 14, Boston, MA
Proof of Purchase, Samson Gallery, Boston, MA
249 A Street Exhibition, Gallery 14, Boston, MA
2013
Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, MA
A Street Frames, Solo Exhibition Wall, Boston, MA
January Salon, Soprafina Gallery, Boston, MA
2012
The Future of the Past: Encaustic Art in the 21st Century, Mills Gallery/BCA, Boston, MA
2011
The Expressive Voice: Selections from the permanent collection at the Danforth Museum of Art, St. Botolph Club, Boston, and the Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, MA
Chain Letter Exhibition 5, Samson Projects, Boston, MA
The Annual Aids Benefit (2011-2019), Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA
2010
New Acquisitions, Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, MA
2009
Fort Point Artist Pioneers, Art@12, Boston, MA
Community of Artists (2009-2012),curated by Katherine French, Director, Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, MA
2008
Third Annual Encaustic Invitational, Conrad Wilde Gallery, Tucson, AZ
2007
Per Square Foot, Conrad Wilde Gallery, Tucson, AZ
Time and Space: 7 Fort Point MacDowell Fellows, FPAC Gallery, Boston, MA
Off the Wall (curator N. Capasso, DeCordova Museum), Danforth Museum, Framingham, MA
Complex Women, Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, MA
Wish You Were Here (2002-2010), A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY
2006
Contemporary Antiquarians, Art at the Bridge, West Cornwall, CT
Illuminations, Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center, Boston, MA
2005
WAX: Encaustic Techniques in Contemporary Art, Brush Art Gallery, Lowell, MA
New Acquisitions, Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, MA
2004
New Faces: New Vision, Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, MA Open, Gallery @ 25, Boston, MA
Alumnae Acquisitions, Davis Museum, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA
2003
The Way of Wax, Winfinsky Gallery, Salem State College, Salem, MA
Women and Wax, Cape Cod Community College, W. Barnstable, MA
Joy Kant Fine Art Group Exhibition, Newton, MA
FPAC Open Studios Group Show, (’02,’03,’04) FPAC Gallery, Boston, MA
2002
Artists’ Biennial, St. Botolph Club, Boston, MA
Art at Steepletop, Millay Colony for the Arts, Austerlitz, NY
2001
Highlights from the Fleet Bank Collection, Cape Cod Museum of Fine Arts, Dennis, MA
2000
Women in Watercolor, Wiggin Gallery at the Boston Public Library, Boston, MA
1999
What Jack Built, The New Art Center, Newton, MA
1998
Waxworks: The Melted Medium, Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, MA
1997
Fellowship Winners In Fort Point, FPAC Gallery, Boston, MA
1996
Art cetera, International Place Boston, MA (1992, 1994, 1996, 1998)
Summer Work, Miller Block Gallery, Boston, MA
1995-1996
New England Today, Chinese Cultural Institute, Boston, MA
1995
Inaugural Exhibition, Penny Liebman Contemporary Art, New York, NY
Drawings from the Collection of Agnes Gund, The Century Association, New York, NY
The Art of Women Helping Women, Miller Block Gallery, Boston, MA
DeCordova Collects!, DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA
1993-1994
Metaphor as Reality, Danforth Museum, Framingham, MA
Fertile Ground, Miller Block Gallery, Boston, MA
1993
Anything but Paper Prayers, Barbara Krakow and Howard Yezerski Galleries, Boston, MA (1993-2003)
11th Annual Salon Show, Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA
20 From 249 Equals 10, Brickbottom Gallery, Somerville, MA
Drawing, Akin Gallery, Boston, MA
1992
Contemporary Drawings And Monoprints, University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City, IA
Salon, Akin Gallery, Boston, MA
1991
A Decade of Acquisitions 1981-1991, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA
Recent Acquisitions, Fuller Museum of Art, Brockton, MA
Summer Show: Forms of Abstraction, Akin Gallery, Boston MA
1990
Boston 1990: The Sixth Triennial Exhibition, Fuller Museum of Art, Brockton, MA
D’Olympia, Twombly and Tull, Gay Head Gallery, Gay Head, MA
Selections From South Street Galleries, Bank of Boston, Boston, MA
Nature Transformed, Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA
Summer Show, Akin Gallery, Boston, MA
MASSACHUSETTS: A Salute to our Award Winning Artists, BCA, Boston, MA
The Collectors Show, Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR
Salute to Boston: Recent Acquisition, Boston Public Library, Boston, MA
1989
Drawing Line or Image, Newport Art Museum, Newport, RI
Exhibition of Paintings & Sculpture, Juror: Lisa Phillips, Whitney Museum, Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, MA
Summer Show, Akin Gallery, Boston, MA
Small Works, Akin Gallery, Boston, MA
Special Projects ’89, The ICA, PS1 Museum, Long Island city, NY
1988
The Collectors Show, Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AK
Ninth Annual Drawing Show, Mills Gallery, BCA, Boston, MA
American Drawing Biennial, Muscarelle Museum of Art, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA
Drawings From Boston, Boston Public Library, Boston,, MA
Drawings, Akin Gallery, Boston, MA
1987
Inaugural, Akin Gallery, Boston, MA
Pindar Invitational 1987, Pindar Gallery, New York, NY
Group Exhibition of Recent Work, Leslie Cecil Gallery, New York, NY
Fifth Triennial Exhibition, Curator: Peter Baldaia, Fuller Art Museum, Brockton, MA
Drawings from Boston, DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA
Works By Women, Boston Public Library, Wiggin Gallery, Boston, MA
1986
Extra Murals, DeCordova Museum at the Federal Reserve Bank Gallery, Boston, MA
Mass Artists Fellowship Exhibition, Federal Reserve Bank Gallery, Boston, MA
Seventh Annual Drawing Show, Mills Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA
1985-1986
Lifeline, Greenville County Museum Of Art, Greenville, SC
1985
Update, Chapel Gallery, West Newton, MA
Exhibition of Paintings & Sculpture, Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, MA
A Winner’s Exhibition, Concord Art Association, Concord, M
Love of Paint, Fort Points Arts Community Gallery, Boston, MA
1984
Second Annual Salon Show, Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA
Paper, Paste and Other Things, Boston Visual Artist Union, Boston, MA
1983
First Annual Salon Show, Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA
Summer Light, Multiple View, Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA
Greater Boston Women Artists Exhibition II, Northeastern University, AMARP Gallery, Boston, MA
1982
Absolutely Abstract, Boston Visual Artists Union, Boston, MA Works on Paper, Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA
1981
Four New Collections, Mona Berman Gallery, New Haven, CT
1980
Traveling Scholars, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Prints and Monoprints, Allport Associates Gallery, Larkspur, CA
Winter Blues, Art Asia Gallery, Boston, MA
1978
Artweek Open Studios, Boston, MA, 1978,1980
OTHER SELECTED ART ACTIVITES:
2019
Jerry Russo Studio Portrait Project
Selection by Le Galeriste, Montreal, CA, in their Wearable Art Gallery (www.art-a-porter.com/nan.tull)
Fort Point Open Studios, Boston, MA (Participation in over 25 Fort Point Open Studios, from 1984-2019)
2017
Online magazine article in encaustiZINE: Family excavations/Transformations in Art, winter issue (2017-2018) Institute of Contemporary Art Donor Spotlight, Boston, MA
2014
Cengage Learning: Production of video on how to paint in encaustic for online educational textbook, Boston, MA
Inclusion of artwork in new Art Connection PR film, Boston, MA
2012
"Contemporary Techniques in Encaustic Painting " Video created for the Boston Center for the Arts in conjunction with "The Future of the Past: Encaustic Painting in the 21st Century" Live studio demo, encaustic painting techniques for Boston Center for the Arts
2005
Wellesley College Friends of Art 5th Annual Event:Nan Tulls Studio Visit, Boston, MA
1998
Sept. 20, Artist talk: Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, MA
1996
Nov. 6, Artist talk: Nesto Gallery, Milton Academy, Milton, MA,
1995
Lecture: Signs of the Times: The 1995 Whitney Biennial, Brown University, RI and Wellesley College, MA
1985-1995
De Cordova Museum Corporate Program, Lincoln, MA
1994
Instructor, Painting in Wax, Art New England Summer Workshops, Bennington College, VT
1987
Wrote review for FPAC Newsletter on the Fifth Brockton Triennial
1986
Visiting Artist, Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA
1985
Museology 109, Tufts University, MA
1985
Curator for Collaboration/Rugg Road, Gallery Eleven, Tufts University, MA
1979-1980
Graduate Teaching Assistant, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
1978-1980
ArtWeek Open Studios, Boston, MA
SELECTED COLLECTIONS:
Agnes Gund Collection, New York, NY
Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR
Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, MA
Boston Public Library, Boston, MA
Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, MA
Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA
DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA
Fuller Museum of Art, Brockton, MA
Gund Collection, Cambridge, MA
Martha's Vineyard Museum, Edgartown, MA
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Palo Alto Cultural Center, Palo Alto, CA
SELECTED CORPORATE COLLECTIONS:
Advocates Inc., Waltham, MA
Aids Action Committee Inc., Boston, MA
Arthur Anderson LLP, Boston, MA
Association for International Research, Cambridge, MA
Bank of America, Boston, MA
Barkan Management Company, Boston, MA
Bay Cove Human Services, Boston, MA
Beekman Place, New York, NY
Belford and Belford, Fall River, MA
Boston After School and Beyond, Boston, MA
Boston Foundation, Boston, MA
Cambridge Community Housing, Cambridge, MA
Cambridge Health Alliance, Somerville, MA
Caritas Communities, Bedford, MA
Castle Square Tenants Organization, Boston, MA
Catholic Charities Greater Boston Yawkey Center, Boston, MA
Charles River Community Health, Waltham, MA
Colonial Management Associates, Inc., Boston, MA
Commonwealth Care Alliance Inc., Boston, MA
Community Living Network, Newton, MA
Community Work Services, Boston, MA
Dunkin Doughnuts, Randolph, MA
East Boston Neighborhood Health Center, E. Boston, MA
Economic Mobility Pathyways, Brighton, MA
Emerson Hospital, Concord, MA
Fidelity Investments, Boston, MA
Goodwin, Proctor and Hoar, Boston, MA
Harbor Health Elder Services, Brockton, MA
Health Care Alliance, Cambridge, MA
Health Resources in Action, Boston, MA
Holland and Knight, Boston, MA
Hope House, Boston, MA
Industrial Cab Company, Beverly, MA
International Institute of New England, Boston, MA
J. Tierney Learning Center, S. Boston, MA
Justice Center of SE Massachusetts, Brockton, MA
Kelliher Center, Arlington, MA
Keyport Life Insurance, Boston, MA
Littler, Mendelson, Fastiff & Tichy, San Francisco, CA
Long Island Shelter Clinic(Boston Healthcare for the Homeless Program), Boston, MA
Martha's Vineyard Hospital, Oak Bluffs, MA
Massachusetts General Hospital Health Care Center, Charlestown, MA
Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology, West Roxbury,
Metro Boston Recovery Learning Community, Boston, MA
Mediation Works, Boston, MA
Metagraphics, Inc.,Woburn, MA
MSPCC (MA Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children), Boston, MA
National Alliance of Mental Illness, Charlestown, MA
National Consumer Law Center, Boston, MA
Nonprofit Finance Fund, Boston, MA
North Suffolk Counseling Center, Revere, MA
North Suffolk Mental Health Association, Boston, MA
Palmer & Dodge, Boston, MA
Reach, Waltham, MA
Ritz Carlton Hotel at the Boston Common, Boston, MA
Riverside Community Care, Needham, MA
Ronald McDonald House, Brookline, MA
Roxbury Comprehensive Community Health Center, Roxbury, MA
St. Francis House, Boston, MA
Somerville Cambridge Elder Services, Somerville, MA
Scientific Atlanta, Inc., Burlington, MA
Sherrill House Inc., Boston, MA
Sonesta International Hotels Corporation, Boston, MA
South Boston Neighborhood Development Center, Boston, MA
South End Community Health Center, Boston, MA
Steelcase, Inc., Boston, MA
STRIVE, Boston, MA
Triangle, Inc., Malden, MA
Trinitarian Congregational Church, Concord, MA
United South End Settlements, Boston, MA
Victim Witness Assistance Program, Suffolk County Courthouse, Boston, MA
Visiting Nurse Association of Boston, Charlestown, MA
Yale University Hospital, New Haven, CT
Wells Fargo Bank, Los Angeles, CA
Winter Valley Residences, Milton, MA
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