Nancy Grimes
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2019: "When Life Gives You Lemons", Tchotchke Gallery, online group exhibition
2018: "The Nature Lab" curated by Eric Wolf, LABspace, Hillsdale, NY
2017: "Bette Noir", group exhibition curated by Mario Naves, Five Myles
Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2016: "Beautiful Object: Upsetting Still Life" curated by Patrick Neal
Jeffrey Leder Gallery, LIC, NY
2016: Group Show, Opus Project Space, NY, NY
2015: "Interior Conversations", group exhibition, Van der Plas Gallery,
NY, NY
2015: "Dogs and Cats", group exhibition, Mark Miller Gallery, NY,NY
2013: Pratt Faculty Exhibition, Schafler Gallery, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
2013: "Reflections," The Painting Center, NY, NY
2012: "Getting from Here to There: Images in and about Transition," curated
by Robert Edelman, AFP Gallery, NY, NY
2011-2013: "Reflections", traveling exhibition curated by Zeuxis Still Life Group
2010: Pratt Faculty Exhibition, Schafler Gallery, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
2008: 3-Person Show: “Carbone, Grimes, Webb,” The Painting Center, New York, NY
2007: Group Show, “The Hungry Eye,” Chelsea Museum of Art, New York, NY
2006: Pratt Faculty Exhibition, Schafler Gallery, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
2005: Group Show, “Between Perception & Invention: Three Generations of Figurative Artists,”
curated by Jeanne Duval, Sharon Arts Center, Peterborough, NH
2005: Group Show, “The Body and Its Dangers," curated by Patrick Webb, The Painting Center,
New York, NY
2003: Three-person show, RC Fine Arts, Maplewood, NJ
2002: Group show, Citicorp Galleries, Long Island City, New York
2001: Group show (20 Years of Workspace), Jamaica Arts Center, Jamaica, NY
1999: Solo show, RC Fine Arts, Maplewood, NJ
1998: Group show, Citicorp Gallery, Long Island City, NY
Group show, RC Fine Arts, Maplewood, New Jersey
1997: Solo show, Hackett-Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1995: Group still life show (Nothing Overlooked) , Hackett-Freedman Gallery,
San Francisco, CA
Group show (Critics as Artists), Andre Zarre Gallery, New York, NY
1994: Group show, 450 Broadway Gallery, NYC
1993: Solo show, Contemporary Realist Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Group show, Marymount Manhattan College, NYC
Group show, Long Island University, Brooklyn, NY
1992: Group show, Scott Alan Fine Arts, NYC
Group show, Citicorp Gallery, Long Island City, NY
1991: Solo show, St. Peter’s Church, NYC
Group show, City Gallery, Dept. of Cultural Affairs, NYC
4-Person show, Valencia Community College, Orlando, FL
1990: 4-person show, Soho Center for the Visual Arts, NYC
Group show (Objects on the Edge), Rosa Esman Gallery, NYC
1989: Group show (Long Island City Artists), curated by Frances Hynes,
Flushing Gallery, NY
1988: 4-person show, Studio K, Long Island City, NY
1987: Group show, Studio K, Long Island City, NY
3-Person show, curated by Dorothea Rockburne, Art in General, NYC
1986: Solo show, Wilhelm Gallery, Houston, TX
1985: Solo show, Jamaica Arts Center, Jamaica, NY
1984: Solo show, Fairleigh Dickinson University, Hackensack, NJ
1984: Group show, City Gallery, Dept. of Cultural Affairs, NYC
1984: Group show, juried by Henry Geldzahler, The Queens Museum,
Flushing, NY.
REVIEWS (selected)
2016: Queens Chronicle (May) by Neil Chiragdin
2015: ARTE FUSE (April) by Zack Eichelberger
2009: Artnews, (January), by Alex Taylor
2005: Artnews, (Summer), by Robert Ayers
2004: Artnews (May), by Carly Berwick
1993: Artnews (November), by Kenneth Baker
1991: “New York Newsday,” March 15, by Elizabeth Wix
Artnews (March), by Robert Edelman
“The Orlando Sentinel” (August 28), by Chuck Twardy
1987: Artnews (May), by Susan Gill
1986: Artnews (September), by Mel McCombie
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
1985-present: Numerous exhibition reviews, Artnews, New York City
2005: co-authored and edited “Perception and Invention: Four Painters Talk about
Figurative Art,” Sharon Art Center, Peterborough, New Hampshire
2003: “Janet Fish,” catalogue essay for New Jersey Center for the Visual Arts,
Summit, New Jersey
2001: “George Tooker,” catalogue essay for DC Moore Gallery, New York City
1999: “Paul Wonner,” catalogue essay for DC Moore Gallery, New York City
1997: “William Beckman,” catalogue essay for Forum Gallery, New York City
1994 to present: Numerous exhibition reviews for Art in America, New York City
1993: Jared French’s Myths (Easthampton, MS: Pomegranate Books)
1993 “Robert Schwartz,” catalogue essay, Hackett-Freedman Gallery, San
Francisco
1992: “French’s Symbolic Figuration,” Art in America
1988: “Facts of Life” (on contemporary realism), February, Artnews, New York City
1986-present: Editorial Associate, Artnews magazine, New York City
1986: “Eric Fischl’s Naked Truths,” Artnews, New York City
1985: “White Magic” (Profile of Robert Ryman), Summer, Artnews
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2001-2019: Adjunct Professor in Fine Arts, Pratt Institute,
Brooklyn, New York
1999-2000: Adjunct Professor in Studio Art, Hofstra University, Hempstead,
New York
1993: Visiting critic, New York Academy of Art, New York City
1989-1991: Instructor in Color and Design, Parsons School f Design, NY, NY
1987-1989: Visiting Assistant Professor in Foundation Art, Pratt Institute,
Brooklyn, New York
1985: Visiting Assistant Professor of Painting and Drawing, University of South
Carolina, Columbia, SC
1982: Visiting Artist, Yale University, New Haven, CT
RELATED ACTIVITIES (selected)
2019: Panelist; "Narrative Painting" moderated by Catherine Redmond,
Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
2017: Panelist: "Bette Noire", a conversation among several artists
in the exhibition curated by moderator, Mario Naves, Five Myles
Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2016: Curated "Dogs and Cats", a group exhibition at Mark Miller
Gallery, NY,NY
2013: Moderator, "Painting Matters Now" panel discussion, Pratt Institute,
Brooklyn, NY
2013: Panelist, "Does Subject-matter Matter?", discussion organized by Zeuxis
in conjunction with "Reflections" exhibition at The Painting Center, NY, NY
2011: Artist Talk, Brooklyn Artists' Gym, Brooklyn, NY
2007: Panelist, “The Myth of Art Appreciation,” moderated by Maureen
Mullarkey, Red Dot Art Fair
2005: Organized and moderated panel discussion, “Reinventing the World: the
Challenge of Being a Figurative Painter,” Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
2002: Curated “Self-Interest: Autobiography and Myth in Recent Figurative Art,”
RC Fine Arts, Maplewod, New Jersey
1991: Curated “Figuring It Out: Story and Symbol in Recent Figurative Art,” Daniel
Quinn, Gallery, Astoria, New York
1991: Curated “Vanitas: Six Painters,” City Gallery, Dept. of Cultural Affairs, NY,
NY
1990: Moderated panel discussion, “Subject into Object: Rethinking Still LIfe, “
Ros Esman Gallery, NY, NY
AWARDS AND HONORS
1985: National Endowment for the Arts Award in Painting
1984: Grant/residency at the Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning, Jamaica, New York
EDUCATION
1979: Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME
1978: M.F.A., painting and drawing, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
1974: One year of graduate study in art history, The University of Chicago
1973: B.A. in studio art and art history, Indiana University, Bloomington
OTHER
2020: An Interview with Larry Groff can be found at www.paintingperceptions.com
2001: An interview and reproductions can be found on the Idler website--www.theidler.com