SCOTT PRIOR
1949 Born in Exeter, NH
1971 Received B.F.A. from University of Massachusetts,
Amherst, MA
1974-1976 Residencies, MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH
1977 Residency, Ossabaw Island Program, GA
1979 Fellowship, Massachusetts Artists Foundation
1979-1980 Residencies, MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH
1985 Grant, National Endowment for the Arts
1986 Award in Painting, St. Botolph Club, Boston, MA
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2018 Quidley and Co., Naples, FL
2017 William Baczek Fine Arts, Northampton, MA
2016 Quidley and Co., Nantucket, MA
2016 Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA
2015 William Baczek Fine Arts, Northampton, MA
2014 Somerville Manning Gallery, Wilmington, Delaware
2012 William Baczek Fine Arts, Northampton, MA
2011 William Baczek Fine Arts, Northampton MA
2009 Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA
Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York, NY
2006 William Baczek Fine Arts, Northampton, MA
Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA
2005 Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2004 Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA
2009 Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York, NY
2002 William Baczek Fine Arts, Northampton, MA
2001 Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA
Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1999 Coplan Gallery, Boca Raton, FL
2000 Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA
Forum Gallery, New York, NY
2000-2001 Light on the Familiar: The Paintings of Scott Prior,
DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA also University Gallery,
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
1997 Forum Gallery, New York, NY
1996 Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA
1995 Forum Gallery, New York, NY
1994 Forum Gallery, New York, NY
Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA
1992 Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA
1991 Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA
1990 Maxwell Davidson Gallery, New York, NY
Bergen Museum, Paramus, NJ
Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA
1988 Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA
1987 Maxwell Davidson Gallery, New York, NY
1986 Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA
Maxwell Davidson Gallery, New York, NY
1984 Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA
1983 Maxwell Davidson Gallery, New York, NY
1981 Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA
1980 Clark University, Worcester, MA
1979. Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA
1977 Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2018 “This Land Is… International Landscape Invitational,”
Arcadia Contemporary, Culver City, CA
2016-17 Truth and Vision, 21st Century Realism, Delaware
Museum of Art, Wilmington, DE
2016-17 As We See It: The Collection of Gail and Ernst von
Metzsh, New Britain Museum of American Art, New
Britain, CT
2016 The Lay of the Land, Smith College Museum of Art,
Northampton, MA
2015-16 Director’s Favorites, New Britain Museum of American
Art, New Britain, CT
2015 Collecting and Sharing, Trevor Fairbrother, John T. Kirk
and the Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth, NH
2014 Under the Influence-Contemporary Artists and the
Masters Who Inspire Them, Somerville
Manning Gallery, Wilmington, Delaware
2013-14 Still Life Lives, Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, MA
2011 Annual Landscape Exhibition, William Baczek Fine Arts,
Northampton, MA
Still Lifes William Baczek Fine Arts, Northampton, MA
2010 Annual Landscape Exhibition, William Baczek Fine Arts,
Northampton, MA
Still Lifes William Baczek Fine Arts, Northampton, MA
2010 Schantz Galleries, Stockbridge, MA
2009 Annual Landscape Exhibition, William Baczek Fine Arts,
Northampton, MA
Still Lifes William Baczek Fine Arts, Northampton, MA
2008 Still Lifes, William Baczek Fine Arts, Northampton, MA
2006 Painting Summer in New England, Peabody Essex
Museum, Salem, MA
Annual Landscape Exhibition, William Baczek Fine Arts,
Northampton, MA
2005 Still Lifes, William Baczek Fine Arts, Northampton, MA
Human Figures by the World’s Art Masters, Nagoya/
Boston Museum of Fine Arts,
Nagoya, Japan
Innocence, New Britain Museum of American Art, New
Britain, CT
2004 Annual Landscape Exhibition, William Baczek Fine Arts,
Northampton, MA
Sixth Annual Realism Invitational, Jenkins Johnson
Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2003 Water Escapes, Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York, NY
Fifth Annual Realism Invitational, Jenkins Johnson
Gallery, San Francisco, CA
DeCordova Collects: Gifts from Stephen and Sybil
Stone, DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA
2002 Painting in Boston: 1950-2000, DeCordova Museum,
Lincoln, MA
Changing Prospects: The View from Mount Holyoke,
Mount Holyoke College of Art Museum, South Hadley,
MA
Fourth Annual Realism Invitational, Jenkins Johnson
Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2001 Landscapes Seen and Imagined: Sense of Place,
DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA
Third Annual Realism Invitational, Jenkins Johnson
Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2000 Figure, Fantasy and Illusion: Selections from the Arthur
S. Goldberg Collection, Danforth
Museum of Art, Framingham, MA
Revealing the Nude: A Timeless Passion, Chase Gallery,
Boston, MA
Second Annual Realism Invitational, Jenkins Johnson
Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1999 Annual Landscape Exhibition, William Baczek Fine Arts,
Northampton, MA
Re-Presenting Representation IV, Arnot Art Museum,
Elmira, NY
Magic Realism: A Selection of Paintings, 1925-1998,
Beth Urdang Gallery, Boston, MA
First Annual Realism Invitational, Jenkins Johnson
Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1998 Capturing the Sublime: Contemporary Landscape
Painting, Fuller Museum of Art, Brockton, MA
Valley Realists, Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham,
MA
New England Impressions, Painting from Life, Attleboro
Museum, Attleboro, MA
1997 Working Sources: The Painter and the Photographic Image, Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA
Realism in 20th Century American Painting, Ogunquit Museum of American Art, ME
1996-97 Community of Creativity: A Century of MacDowell Colony Artists, Currier Gallery of Art,
Manchester, NH, and traveling exhibitions to: National Academy of Design, New York, NY,
and Wichita Art Museum, Wichita, KS
Face and Figure in Contemporary Art, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
1996 Reinventing Realism: Contemporary American Perspective, Everhart Museum, Scranton, PA
1994 The Label Show, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
20th Century Figurative Paintings, Forum Gallery, New York, NY
1991 Boston Art Dealers Association Selection, Bank of Boston, Boston, MA
The Object: Found, Observed, Imagined, Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, MA
Illustrating Nature: The Art of Botany, National Academy of Design, New York, NY
1987 New Work by Old Friends, DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA
The Beautiful, The Sublime, The Picturesque, Newton Arts Center, Newton, MA
1986 Boston Collects, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
1984 Urban Visions/ Countryside Views, University Art Gallery, University of New Hampshire,
Durham, NH
Emerging Massachusetts Painters, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
1982 A Private Vision: Contemporary Art from the Graham Gund Collection, Museum of Fine
Arts, Boston, MA
Herbert Plimpton Collection of Realist Art, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University,
Waltham, MA
1980 Directions in Realism, Danforth Museum, Framingham, MA
Realism in New England, Northeastern University, Boston, MA
1979 Art of the State, Recipients of Massachusetts Artists Foundation Fellowships, Rose Art
Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
1978 Art from Corporate Collections, Whitney Museum Downtown, New York, NY
1976 Patron’s Choice: Artists Under 35, DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA
1975 19th Annual Print Exhibition, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
1974 New Talent, Terry Dintenfass Gallery, New York, NY
1973 New Talent, Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA
New Talent in New England, DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
American Express, New York, NY
Berkshire Art Museum, Pittsfield, MA
W.C. Bradley Co., Columbus, GA
Comptroller of the Currency, Washington, DC
Danforth Museum, Framingham, MA
DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA
Fidelity Investments, Boston, MA
Gardner Carton and Douglas, Chicago, IL
The Gund Collection, Cambridge, MA
IBM, New York, NY
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT
New England Life, Boston, MA
Northeastern University, Boston, MA
On Technology, Cambridge, MA
Ropes & Gray, Boston, MA
Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
Seven Bridges Foundation
Smith College Museum of Art, Smith College, Norrthampton, MA
St. Lawrence University, Canton, NY
Texaco, White Plains, NY
Wellington Management, Boston, MA
Ruth & John D. West Collection, The Rahr-West Art Museum, Manitowoc, WI
William Brinks Olds Hoefer Gilson & Lione, Chicago, IL
BIBLIOGRAPHY
O’Hern, John, “Everday Moments,” American Art Collector, February, 2018, pp 52-57
Sutro, Sarah, “Light, Magic, Memory in the Landscape Paintings of Scott Prior”, American Arts Quarterly, Summer, 2016, pp 33-39
“Paintings by Scott Prior”, The Gettysburg Review, (Cover illustration), Summer 1994.
Miller, Francine Koslow. “Scott Prior, Alpha Gallery”, Artforum, March 1993, p.99.
Stapen, Nancy. “Spotlight on Haunting Images, Surreal Effects”, The Boston Globe,
November 27, 1992, p. 105.
Watson, Bruce. “Traditional View gets Modern Look”, Daily Hampshire Gazette, (Cover),
October 14, 1996.
Russell, Gloria. “History of Landscape in Focus”, Sunday Republican, November 23, 1997.
Cleary, Margot. “Real and Surreal”, Daily Hampshire Gazette: Hampshire Life Magazine,
January 23, 1998.
Silver, Joanne. “Prior’s Paintings Put Simple Objects in an Abstract Light”, The Boston Herald,
April 6, 1990.
Temin, Christine. “Puzzles Lend Mystery to Lyrical Paintings”, The Boston Globe, p. A57,
November 24, 1988.
Giuliano, Charles. “Alpha Gallery – Scott Prior”, Art New England, March 1987.
Nelson, Ronald J. “Scott Prior”, American Artist, December 1986, pp. 42-47, 100-101.
Bonetti, David. Review, Boston Pheonix, November 18, 1986, p.13.
Temin, Christine. “Perspectives”, The Boston Globe, November 13, 1986, p.78.
“Critic’s Tip: Exhibits Real and Unreal”, The Boston Globe, March 19, 1981.
Taylor, Robert. “New Talent Emerging at Alpha”, The Boston Globe, June 17, 1973.
