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LORRAINE SHEMESH SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2009 Intersections, Allan Stone Gallery, New York, NY. 2006 Breaking the Surface, The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH. 2004 Liquid States: Paintings and Drawings, Allan Stone Gallery, New York, NY. 2000 Water-Works, Allan Stone Gallery, New York, NY. 1995 Painted Pools, Allan Stone Gallery, New York, NY. 1991 Recent Paintings, Allan Stone Gallery, New York, NY. 1988 Paintings, Drawings, and Quilts, Allan Stone Gallery, New York, NY. 1985 Quilts and Drawings, Allan Stone Gallery, New York, NY. 1983 Paintings, Drawings, and Quilts, Allan Stone Gallery, New York, NY. 1978 Paintings and Watercolors, Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA. 1976 Paintings and Drawings, Woods-Gerry Gallery, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence,

RI. SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2009 Reconfiguring The Body In American Art - 1820-2009, National Academy of Design

Museum, New York, NY. The National Academy of design 184th Annual Exhbition, National Academy of Design

Museum, New York, NY. 2007 The 182nd Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Art, National Academy Museum,

New York, NY. 2005 Watershed Residency Recipients, Looking Back—1997-2003, Gallery 1448, Baltimore, MD. 2003 Fire and Form, Galerie Marc Van Meensel, Zelem-Halem, Belgium. 2002 The Perception of Appearance: A Decade of Contemporary American Figurative Drawing,

The Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA.

The 177th Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Art, National Academy Museum, New York, NY.

Keramik-Ausstellung, Gallery of Landesverband Bildender Künstler, Kiel, Germany.

2001 The Figure, Allan Stone Gallery, New York, NY.

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2000 Fortieth Anniversary, Allan Stone Gallery, New York, NY. 1999 Residual Value: Artists Remember Past Residencies, Tryon Center for Visual Art, Charlotte,

NC.

International Ceramic Competition, Musée de Carouge, Carouge, Switzerland.

Fire and Form, Artspace, Burgstein, Austria. 1995 Re-presenting Representation II, Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, NY.

Acquisitions from Painting New York, Museum of the City of New York, NY. 1990 37 Artists: Painters and Sculptors on View, Capital Cities/ABC Corporation, New York, NY. 1988 The Art of Sport, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY. 1987 Group Exhibit, Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH.

Group Exhibit, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University Museum of Art, Durham, NC. 1985 American Realism: Twentieth Century Drawings and Watercolors, San Francisco Museum of

Modern Art, San Francisco, CA. 1984 Painting New York, Museum of the City of New York, NY. 1981 An Invitational of Festive Works, A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY.

Group Show, Staempfli Gallery, New York, NY. Art at Amherst, Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, Amherst, MA.

New Talent, Allan Stone Gallery, New York, NY.

Invitational, Wistariahurst Museum, Holyoke, MA.

1979 New England Drawing Competition Show, DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA.

Contemporary Still-Life Invitational, The Art Association of Newport, RI. RISD Faculty Show, Museum of the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI.

1977 Collectors Collect Contemporary, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA.

RISD Faculty Show, Museum of the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI.

Ten Painters at City Hall, City Hall, Providence, RI. 1976 Drawing Invitational, Smith College Gallery, Northampton, MA.

RISD Faculty, Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence, RI. 1975 Rhode Island Women, Hera Gallery, Wakefield, RI.

Works on Paper by Gallery Artists, Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA.

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1974 New Talent, Alpha Gallery, New York, NY. 1973 Three Figurative Artists, Smith College Gallery, Northampton, MA. SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY Art World. Art in America. February 2007, 166. Zona, Louis A. Lorraine Shemesh: Breaking the Surface. Catalogue Essay. The Butler Institute of American Art, 2006, 3. Yarnell, Kolby. The National Academy Names New Members. The New York Sun. April 14, 2005. Enstice, Wayne & Peters, Melody. Drawing, Space, Form, & Expression. 3rd Edition. Prentice Hall, 2003, 261, illus. Lundin, Norman. The Perception of Appearance–A Decade of Contemporary American Figure Drawing. Frye Art Museum, University of Washington Press, 2002, 107, illus. Goodman, Jonathan. Lorraine Shemesh at Allan Stone. Art in America. December 2000, 122, illus. McCormack, Ed. Lorraine Shemesh: Water-Works. Catalogue Essay. Allan Stone Gallery, 2000, 2-3. Campbell, Robin. Keeping it Real. Art & Auction. Summer 2000, 98-99, illus. The New Yorker. May 29, 2000, 26, illus. Johnson, Ken. Lorraine Shemesh at Allan Stone. The New York Times. May 26, 2000, 34. Polsky, Richard. The Art Market Guide 1997: Contemporary American Art. 1997. Karmel, Pepe. Marginal Areas of New York City's Landscape. The New York Times. August 11, 1995, 21. Harper's. July 1995, 26, illus. The New Yorker. May 18, 1995, 18, illus. O’Hern, John D. Re-presenting Representation II. Catalogue Essay. Arnot Art Museum, 1995, 24-25, illus. Ilein, Abraham. The Problems of Content in Realism and Abstraction. Artspeak. April 1991. Little, Carl. Lorraine Shemesh at Allan Stone. Art in America. September 1988, 189, illus. Mendelowitz, Daniel M. A Guide to Drawing. 4th Edition. Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1988, 135, illus. Freeman, Dan. Lorraine Shemesh at Allan Stone Gallery. Cover Arts New York. June 4, 1988, 15. Knight, Dustan. Works That Emphasize Beauty. Artspeak. March 1988, 7. Martin, Alvin. American Realism: Twentieth Century Drawings and Watercolors. Harry N. Abrams, 1986, 224, 187, illus. Colford, Paul D. Painting New York. New York Newsday. November 5, 1985, 11, illus.

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Teplow, Joshua. The Figure As Symbol. Artspeak. June 1985, 1, illus. Hopkins, Lorraine. Local Art Gets An Influential Patron. The Providence Journal Sunday Magazine. March 16, 1980, 8, cover. Taylor, Robert. The Fault Is Our Times Not The Competition. Boston Sunday Globe. October 28, 1979, 6. Sozanski, Edward. Still Lifes Are Worth Reliving At Art Association Of Newport. The Providence Journal. February 14, 1979, 14. Graboys, Lois. RISD Faculty Exhibit at Bell Gallery. Anyart Journal. February 1976, 28. Gray, Channing. Artist Goes For The Real Thing. The Providence Journal Bulletin. January 16, 1976, 10. illus. SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH. National Academy Museum, New York, NY. Boise Art Museum, Boise, ID. DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA. Museum of the City of New York, New York, NY. Museum of the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI. American Telephone and Telegraph Corporation, Chicago, IL. Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, New York, NY. Nationsbanc Montgomery Securities, Charlotte, NC. Montgomery Asset Management, San Francisco, CA. Novartis Corporation, Basel, Switzerland. SELECTED AWARDS 2005 National Academy of Design—Elected for membership, New York, NY.

Watershed, Residency Recipient, Newcastle, ME. 2000 Watershed, Residency Recipient, Newcastle, ME. 1999 Fire and Form Symposium, Residency Recipient, Bergstein, Austria. 1996 NEA/MAAF Regional Fellowships: Painting-Finalist, New York, NY. 1992 Distinguished Alumni Award School of Visual Arts, Boston University, Boston, MA.

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1981 Yaddo Fellowship, Saratoga Springs, NY.

Outstanding Service Award, Amherst College, Amherst, MA. 1979 Rhode Island State Council for the Arts Grant, Fellowship in Painting, RI. TEACHING EXPERIENCE 1980-81 Amherst College, Amherst, MA, Assistant Professor of Fine Arts. 1973-80 Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, Assistant Professor of Fine Arts. EDUCATION 1973 Tyler School of Art, Elkins Park, PA, MFA, Painting. 1971 Boston University, Boston, BFA, Painting, Magna Cum Laude.