Selected Group Exhibitions

2016            Mix It Up, Woodstock Framing Gallery, Woodstock, NY

2016            Small Works Show, Catalyst Gallery, Beacon, NY

2014            Mix It Up, Woodstock Framing Gallery, Woodstock, NY

2007            This End Up,  Windham Fine Arts, Windham, NY

2006            Today’s Mavericks,  Woodstock Artist Association and Museum, Woodstock, NY

2005            Small Works,  Les Yeux Du Monde Gallery,  Charlottesville, VA    

2004            Silvermine Gallery, 55th Annual Art of the Northeast, New Canaan, CT

2000-2002       Gallery Artists, Elena Zang Gallery, Woodstock, NY    

1998-2000       Gallery Artists, Takara  Gallery, Houston, TX    

1993-2000       Gallery Artists, Albert Merola Gallery, Provincetown, MA

1993            Fine Arts Work Center 25th Anniversary Exhibition,

1993            Provincetown Artist Association and Museum,  Provincetown, MA  

1992            Tenth Annual Salon Show, Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA

1991            “Here and New: New Works by Four Artists,” Provincetown Artist Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA

1991            Ninth Annual Salon Show, Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA

1990            Maryland State Arts Council Awards Exhibition, BAUhaus Gallery , Baltimore, MD

1989            Annual Invitational Benefit Exhibition, Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, MD

1988            Works on Paper, School 33 Art Center, Baltimore, MD

1988            “Painting ‘88” Juried Exhibition, Arlington Art Center, Arlington,VA

1987            23rd Annual Juried Show, Academy of the Arts, Easton, MD

1986            Irene Leach Annual Juried Show, Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA

 

Solo Exhibitions

2017            Small Abstract Paintings, Grubbs Gallery, Easthampton, MA

2012            Woodstock Framing gallery, Woodstock, NY

2009, 2007      Eyebuzz Gallery, Tarrytown, NY

2003            Lake George Arts Project, Lake George, NY

1993            Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA

1991-1993       Albert Merola  Gallery, Provincetown MA            

1991            Hudson Walker Gallery, Provincetown, MA    

1989            School 33 Art Center, Baltimore, MD

 

Awards and Honors

1994, 1999      Residency Fellowship, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Amherst, VA    

1992            Residency Fellowship, Millay Colony for the Arts, Austerlitz, NY

1990            Maryland State Arts Council Grant, Baltimore MD

1990            Alexander C. and Tillie Speyer Foundation Painting Fellowship, Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA

1989            Robert C. Graham Painting Fellowship, Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA

1989            Visiting Critics Selection , Maryland Art Place, Baltimore,  MD

1987            Studio Residency Award, School 33 Art Center, Baltimore, MD

1987            Jurors Award, 23rd Annual Juried Show, Academy of the Arts,  Easton Md

1986            Fellowship Award , Virginia Museum of Fine Art, Richmond, VA

1985-87         Scholarship , Hoffberger School of Painting, Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore, MD

1985            Scholarship, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture

1979            Purchase Award, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA

 

Education

1987                Maryland Institute, College of Art,  Baltimore, MD, MFA in Painting

1985                Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME

1980                Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, BFA in Painting

 

Selected Bibliography

 

    "Forward in all directions: In art as in politics, 'staying the course' gets the boot in '06", Paul Smart , Woodstock Times December     28, 2006

    "Relics from his past, glimpses of his future: Bill Mead's pentimento pieces span time in geologic layers of paint", Paul Smart

    Woodstock Times, November 30, 2006

    "Hervey's Day:  Woodstock Turns into a Maverick Festival", Paul Smart, Woodstock Times, August 3, 2006

    "Dare To Enter", David Brickman,  Metroland Magazine, September 25,2003

    "Bill Mead",  Eli Gottlieb,  Provincetown Arts Magazine, 1992

    "Niether Rain Nor...", Bonnie North,   Provincetown Paper, 1991

    "Young Artists, Here and New" , Anne Wilson Lloyd,  Art New England, August 1991

 

 

 

 

 

Bill Mead lives with his wife, writer and journalist Lisa Phillips, and their daughter Clara in Woodstock, New York.  He is also a museum mount maker.  Visit museum-mounts.com to learn more.