NATALIE ALPER
BORN: Bronx, New York
EDUCATION: B.A., New York University
M.A. Boston University, Boston, MA
School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
TEACHING: School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Painting Faculty 1971-1993
Visiting Faculty, Carpenter Center, Harvard University 1984
Artist in Residence School of the Museum of Ffne Arts March 2008
GRANTS AND AWARDS
2011 Massachusetts Artists Foundation
2008 Artists Resource Trust Grant
2000 Artists Resource Trust Grant
1994 Maud Morgan Prize, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
1989 Massachusetts Artists Foundation
1980 Alumni Travelling Fellowship School of the Museum of fine Arts Boston, MA
1976 National Endowment for the Arts
Massachusetts Artists Foundation
Yaddo Residency
1971 Travelling Fellowship, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
SELECTED LECTURES
Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
1996 Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, N.Y
Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence, R.I..
1994 Museum of Fine Arts Boston MA
1989 Addison gallery of American Art Phillips Academy, Andover , MA
1987 College of Charleston, Charleston, SC
1984 Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts Harvard University Cambridge, Ma
1974 Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA
ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2009-10 Seraphin Gallery , Philadelphia. PA.
2007 Seraphin Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2001 University Gallery Arts Center, University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA
1998 Lehigh University Art Galleries, Bethlehem, PA
1995 Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, MA
1994 Margaret Lipworth Fine Arts, Boca Raton, FL
Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, MA
1992 Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, MA
1991 de Andino Fine Arts, Washington, DC
1989 Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA
1988 Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, MA
1987 Halsey Gallery,College of Charleston, Charleston, SC
1984 Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Osuna Gallery, Washington, DC
1982 Helen Shlien Gallery, Boston, MA
1981 Osuna Gallery, Washington, DC
1980 Helen Shlien Gallery, Boston, MA
1977 Phillips Collection, Washington, DC
Pyramid Gallery, Washington, DC
1975 Harcus Krakow Rosen Sonnabend Gallery, Boston, MA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2012 “Lines of Action” Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy ,
Andover, MA
Ben Shahn Museum William Patterson University, Patterson, N.J.
Heuser Art Center Gallery Bradley University Peoria , IL.
West Virginia University, Morgantown, West VA
Lehigh University Art Galleries , Bethlehem, PA
Samek Art Gallery, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pa
2008 “Visions” Selections from the James T. Dyke Collection of Drawings,
Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, Arkansas
“Tracing the Sublime,” Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy,
Andover, MA
Naples Museum of Art Naples, Florida
Ten Artists Ten Walls” Victoria Munroe Fine Art Boston, MA
Invitational, Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA
2002 “Transcendent and Unrepentant,” Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery, University of the
Arts Philadelphia PA
Seraphin Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2001 “Drawings,” Victoria Munroe Fine Arts, Boston, MA
2000 Michael H. Lord Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
“Visual Memoirs: Selected Paintings and Drawings,” Rose Art Museum,
Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
1999 “Current Abstract Painting,” Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University,
Waltham, MA
“Unlocking the Grid,” Fine Arts Center Gallery,University of RI Kingston, RI
1998 “Group Show,” Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
1996 "Order/Disorder: Paintings by Natalie Alper, Lydia Dona, Mary Heilmann
Jacqueline Humphries," Bell Gallery, List Visual Art Center, BrownUniversity
"Art on Paper," Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina at
Greensboro
"Drawing Invitational," Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR
1991 "American Abstraction at the Addison," Addison Gallery of American Art,
Phillips Academy, Andover, MA
1990 "Boston - Montreal," Montreal March-April, Boston, MA
1987 "Drawings from the Eighties," Carnegie Mellon University Art Gallery
1985 "Drawing National," Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY
1982 “A Private Vision: Contemporary Art: Graham Gund Collection," Museum of
Fine Arts, Boston, MA
1977 "Invitational American Drawing Exhibition" Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego
San Diego, CA
1976 Betty Parsons Gallery, New York, NY
"Boston Watercolor Today," Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
1974 "New Talent," Betty Parsons Gallery, New York, NY
1973 "New American Graphic Art," Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, MA
"Boston Collects Boston," Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
1971 "Travelling Fellows," Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
MUSEUM COLLECTIONS
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA
Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, MA
Phillips Collection, Washington, DC
Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
Lehigh University Art Museum, Bethlehem, PA
Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR
National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Achenbach Foundation for the GraphicArts, San Francisco, CA
Samek Art Gallery, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA
Boston Public Library, Boston, MA
Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
Wheaton College, Norton, MA
DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA
Fuller Museum of Art, Brockton, MA
Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, NH
Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego, San Diego, CA
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2010 Judith Tolnick-Champa Art Forum Jan. 2010
Edith Newhall Philadelphia Inquirer Jan. 3, 2010
2008 Anne R. Fabbri, Art in America
2001 Betsy Siersma, “Undercurrents,” Catalogue, University Gallery, University of
Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
1999 Bill van Siclen, Providence Journal-Bulletin, February 19
Gregory Wallace, Art New England, April/May
1998 Barry Schwabsky, “Between Matter and Spirit,” Catalogue, Lehigh
University Art Galleries, Bethlehem, PA
Ricardo Viera, “Interview with the Artist,” Catalogue, Lehigh University Art
Galleries, Bethlehem, PA
Cate McQuaid, The Boston Globe, February 25
Joanne Silver, The Boston Herald, February 20
1996 Ann Wilson Lloyd, Art in America, January
Barry Schwabsky, “Abstraction and Entropy,” Catalogue: “Order,
Disorder,” List Art Center, Brown University, Providence, RI
1995 Mary Sherman, The Boston Herald, May 5
Bill van Siclen, Providence Journal-Bulletin, October 25
1994 Addison Parks, The Christian Science Monitor, September 26
Nancy Stapen, The Boston Globe, September 29
Charles Giuliano, The Improper Bostonian, September
1992 Nancy Stapen, The Boston Globe, May 28
1991 Michael Welzenbach, The Washington Post, June 8
1989 Stephen Westfall, Catalogue, Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips
Academy, Andover, MA
Robert Taylor, The Boston Sunday Globe, May 28
Francine Koslow, Contemporanea, October
David Raymond, Art New England, September 3
Francine Koslow, Art Forum, October
David Bonetti, Art News, November
1987 Kristina Montvidas-Kutkus, "College Presents Energetic Abstractions,"
The News & Courier/The Evening Post, Charleston, SC, November 22
Michael Phillips, Catalogue College of Charleston, Charleston, SC
1984 Nancy Miller, Catalogue, Helen Shlien Gallery
Kenneth Baker, The Boston Phoenix, March 17
1983 Sarah McFadden, Art in America, May
1982 The List, 6th Edition, Independent Curators, Incorporated
Nan Burks Freeman, "Boston Makes Its Mark," Drawing Magazine, June
Christine Temin, "Natalie Alper's Quiet Corners," The Boston Globe, May18
Pamela Allara, "A Boston School: Four Artists,"Tufts University Catalogue
1980 Nan Freeman, Art New England, July
Pamela Allara, Art News, September
The List, 5th Edition, Independent Curators, Incorporated
1979 Josephine Withers, Women Artists in Washington Collections
1978 Benjamin Forgey, Art News, January
Martha McWilliams Wright, Art International, January
Ann H. Murray, Geometry as Structure in Contemporary Art, Catalogue,
Wheaton College, Norton, MA
1977 Washington Calendar Magazine, October
Benjamin Forgey, Washington Post, October 16
Christopher C. Cook, Catalogue, Phillips Collection, Washington, DC
1976 Kay Larson, Art News, April
Robert Taylor, Boston Water Color Today, February 1
1975 Channing Gray, Providence Journal
1974 Robert Taylor, The Boston Globe, May 5
1973 Boston Collects Boston, Catalogue, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Robert Taylor, The Boston Globe, March 11
BORN: Bronx, New York
EDUCATION: B.A., New York University
M.A. Boston University, Boston, MA
School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
TEACHING: School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Painting Faculty 1971-1993
Visiting Faculty, Carpenter Center, Harvard University 1984
Artist in Residence School of the Museum of Ffne Arts March 2008
GRANTS AND AWARDS
2011 Massachusetts Artists Foundation
2008 Artists Resource Trust Grant
2000 Artists Resource Trust Grant
1994 Maud Morgan Prize, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
1989 Massachusetts Artists Foundation
1980 Alumni Travelling Fellowship School of the Museum of fine Arts Boston, MA
1976 National Endowment for the Arts
Massachusetts Artists Foundation
Yaddo Residency
1971 Travelling Fellowship, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
SELECTED LECTURES
2009 William Patterson University, NJ “Conversation” poet David Shapiro 2001 University Gallery Fine Arts Center University of Massachusetts, Amherst
2000 Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
1998 Lehigh University Art Galleries Bethlehem PA2000 Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
1996 Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, N.Y
Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence, R.I..
1994 Museum of Fine Arts Boston MA
1989 Addison gallery of American Art Phillips Academy, Andover , MA
1987 College of Charleston, Charleston, SC
1984 Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts Harvard University Cambridge, Ma
1974 Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA
ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2009-10 Seraphin Gallery , Philadelphia. PA.
2007 Seraphin Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2001 University Gallery Arts Center, University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA
1998 Lehigh University Art Galleries, Bethlehem, PA
1995 Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, MA
1994 Margaret Lipworth Fine Arts, Boca Raton, FL
Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, MA
1992 Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, MA
1991 de Andino Fine Arts, Washington, DC
1989 Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA
1988 Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, MA
1987 Halsey Gallery,College of Charleston, Charleston, SC
1984 Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Osuna Gallery, Washington, DC
1982 Helen Shlien Gallery, Boston, MA
1981 Osuna Gallery, Washington, DC
1980 Helen Shlien Gallery, Boston, MA
1977 Phillips Collection, Washington, DC
Pyramid Gallery, Washington, DC
1975 Harcus Krakow Rosen Sonnabend Gallery, Boston, MA
1974 Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA
“Recent Drawings and Water Colors," Hayden Corridor Gallery,
“Recent Drawings and Water Colors," Hayden Corridor Gallery,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 1973 Parker Street 470 Gallery, Boston, MA
1972 Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
1972 Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2012 “Lines of Action” Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy ,
Andover, MA
2011 “Extravagant Drawings” curated by Judith Tolnick-Champa Dorsky Curatorial Projects Long Island City, N.Y.
2008-10 Traveling Exhibition: CONCURRENTS curated by Dan Mills, Sam Yates
Ewing Gallery of Art & Architecture University of Tennessee Knoxville TN2008-10 Traveling Exhibition: CONCURRENTS curated by Dan Mills, Sam Yates
Ben Shahn Museum William Patterson University, Patterson, N.J.
Heuser Art Center Gallery Bradley University Peoria , IL.
West Virginia University, Morgantown, West VA
Lehigh University Art Galleries , Bethlehem, PA
Samek Art Gallery, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pa
2008 “Visions” Selections from the James T. Dyke Collection of Drawings,
Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, Arkansas
“Tracing the Sublime,” Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy,
Andover, MA
Naples Museum of Art Naples, Florida
Ten Artists Ten Walls” Victoria Munroe Fine Art Boston, MA
Invitational, Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA
2002 “Transcendent and Unrepentant,” Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery, University of the
Arts Philadelphia PA
Seraphin Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2001 “Drawings,” Victoria Munroe Fine Arts, Boston, MA
2000 Michael H. Lord Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
“Visual Memoirs: Selected Paintings and Drawings,” Rose Art Museum,
Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
1999 “Current Abstract Painting,” Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University,
Waltham, MA
“Unlocking the Grid,” Fine Arts Center Gallery,University of RI Kingston, RI
1998 “Group Show,” Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
1996 "Order/Disorder: Paintings by Natalie Alper, Lydia Dona, Mary Heilmann
Jacqueline Humphries," Bell Gallery, List Visual Art Center, BrownUniversity
"Art on Paper," Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina at
Greensboro
"Drawing Invitational," Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR
1991 "American Abstraction at the Addison," Addison Gallery of American Art,
Phillips Academy, Andover, MA
1990 "Boston - Montreal," Montreal March-April, Boston, MA
1987 "Drawings from the Eighties," Carnegie Mellon University Art Gallery
1985 "Drawing National," Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY
1982 “A Private Vision: Contemporary Art: Graham Gund Collection," Museum of
Fine Arts, Boston, MA
1977 "Invitational American Drawing Exhibition" Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego
San Diego, CA
1976 Betty Parsons Gallery, New York, NY
"Boston Watercolor Today," Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
1975 "North-East-South-West and Middle," An Exhibition of Contemporary
Drawings, Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, PA
"Works on Paper," Parsons-Truman Gallery, New York, NYDrawings, Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, PA
1974 "New Talent," Betty Parsons Gallery, New York, NY
1973 "New American Graphic Art," Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, MA
"Boston Collects Boston," Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
1971 "Travelling Fellows," Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
MUSEUM COLLECTIONS
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA
Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, MA
Phillips Collection, Washington, DC
Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
Lehigh University Art Museum, Bethlehem, PA
Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR
National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Achenbach Foundation for the GraphicArts, San Francisco, CA
Samek Art Gallery, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA
Boston Public Library, Boston, MA
Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
Wheaton College, Norton, MA
DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA
Fuller Museum of Art, Brockton, MA
Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, NH
Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego, San Diego, CA
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2010 Judith Tolnick-Champa Art Forum Jan. 2010
Edith Newhall Philadelphia Inquirer Jan. 3, 2010
2008 Anne R. Fabbri, Art in America
2001 Betsy Siersma, “Undercurrents,” Catalogue, University Gallery, University of
Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
1999 Bill van Siclen, Providence Journal-Bulletin, February 19
Gregory Wallace, Art New England, April/May
1998 Barry Schwabsky, “Between Matter and Spirit,” Catalogue, Lehigh
University Art Galleries, Bethlehem, PA
Ricardo Viera, “Interview with the Artist,” Catalogue, Lehigh University Art
Galleries, Bethlehem, PA
Cate McQuaid, The Boston Globe, February 25
Joanne Silver, The Boston Herald, February 20
1996 Ann Wilson Lloyd, Art in America, January
Barry Schwabsky, “Abstraction and Entropy,” Catalogue: “Order,
Disorder,” List Art Center, Brown University, Providence, RI
1995 Mary Sherman, The Boston Herald, May 5
Bill van Siclen, Providence Journal-Bulletin, October 25
1994 Addison Parks, The Christian Science Monitor, September 26
Nancy Stapen, The Boston Globe, September 29
Charles Giuliano, The Improper Bostonian, September
1992 Nancy Stapen, The Boston Globe, May 28
1991 Michael Welzenbach, The Washington Post, June 8
1989 Stephen Westfall, Catalogue, Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips
Academy, Andover, MA
Robert Taylor, The Boston Sunday Globe, May 28
Francine Koslow, Contemporanea, October
David Raymond, Art New England, September 3
Francine Koslow, Art Forum, October
David Bonetti, Art News, November
1987 Kristina Montvidas-Kutkus, "College Presents Energetic Abstractions,"
The News & Courier/The Evening Post, Charleston, SC, November 22
Michael Phillips, Catalogue College of Charleston, Charleston, SC
1984 Nancy Miller, Catalogue, Helen Shlien Gallery
Kenneth Baker, The Boston Phoenix, March 17
1983 Sarah McFadden, Art in America, May
1982 The List, 6th Edition, Independent Curators, Incorporated
Nan Burks Freeman, "Boston Makes Its Mark," Drawing Magazine, June
Christine Temin, "Natalie Alper's Quiet Corners," The Boston Globe, May18
Pamela Allara, "A Boston School: Four Artists,"Tufts University Catalogue
1980 Nan Freeman, Art New England, July
Pamela Allara, Art News, September
The List, 5th Edition, Independent Curators, Incorporated
1979 Josephine Withers, Women Artists in Washington Collections
1978 Benjamin Forgey, Art News, January
Martha McWilliams Wright, Art International, January
Ann H. Murray, Geometry as Structure in Contemporary Art, Catalogue,
Wheaton College, Norton, MA
1977 Washington Calendar Magazine, October
Benjamin Forgey, Washington Post, October 16
Christopher C. Cook, Catalogue, Phillips Collection, Washington, DC
1976 Kay Larson, Art News, April
Robert Taylor, Boston Water Color Today, February 1
1975 Channing Gray, Providence Journal
1974 Robert Taylor, The Boston Globe, May 5
1973 Boston Collects Boston, Catalogue, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Robert Taylor, The Boston Globe, March 11