NONA HERSHEY
EDUCATION
MFA Tyler School of Art in Rome, Italy 1969
BFA Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA 1967
Studied woodcut: Yoshida Hanga Academy, Tokyo, Japan, 1990-1991
Diploma, lithography: Istituto Statale d'Arte, Urbino, Italy, 1979; 1980
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS SELECTED CORPORATE COLLECTIONS
Academy Art Museum, Easton, Maryland American Express Company
Biblioteca Municipale di Como, Italy AmSouth Bank Corp
Biblioteca Municipale di Piacenza, Italy Bank of New York, DE
Boston Museum of Fine Arts Bank of Boston, MA
Boston Public Library ExxonMobil
Calcografia Nazionale, Roma, Italy Fidelity Bank, Philadelphia, PA
Cleveland Clinic Fidelity Bank, Boston, MA
Cleveland Museum of Art General Electric Company
Corcoran Museum of Art, Washington,DC Hogan Lovells, Washington DC
Crakow National Museum, Poland Illinois Bell Telephone Company
Danforth Museum, Framingham, MA Meritor Insurance Company Davidson College, NC Mintz Levin, Boston, MA
Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University, CT Neiman Marcus. NJ
Duke Museum of Art, NC Manulife Financial, Boston, MA
Free Library of Philadelphia, PA Microsoft Corporation
Georgetown University, Washington, DC Philadelphia Savings Fund Society
Harper College, IL Posinelli, Kansas City, MO/.
Harvard Art Museum, Cambridge,MA Prudential Insurance Company
Harvard University Law School, Cambridge,MA Reader's Digest Collection
Hunterdon Art Center, NJ Ritz Carlton Hotel, Boston, MA
Istituto di Grafica, Latina, Italy S-E Banken, Stockholm, Sweden
Library of Congress, Washington,DC Teleflora
Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester,NY TIAA-CREF, NY
Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY Unistar
Minnesota Museum of Art, St. Paul Weather Services International, Boston,MA
Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC
Museo Civico, Piacenza, Italy
Museo Municipale de Artes Graficas, Caracas,Venezuela
Municipalita di Cadorago, Italy
National Academy of Design Museum, NY, NY
Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Utah State University
Racine Art Museum, Wisc.
Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, RI
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Skopje Museum of Contemporary Art, Yugoslavia
United States Information Agency
US Department of State, Washington,DC
Woodmere Art Museum, PA
Yale University Art Gallery, CT
Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick, NJ
EDITIONS PUBLISHED
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Associated American Artists, New York, NY
Mary Ryan Gallery, New York, NY
Laboratorio Artivisive, Foggia, Italy
Lario Cadorago, Como, Italy
Associazione Amici dell'Arte, Piacenza, Italy
Il Ponte Editrice, Rome, Italy
Hartford Art School, Hartford, CT
The Print Club of Rochester, Rochester, NY
The University Print Club, Cleveland, OH
SELECTED_SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2018, 2016, 2012, 2009 Soprafina Gallery, Boston, MA
2018, 2015 Schoolhouse Gallery, Provincetown,MA
2012 Trustman Gallery, Simmons College, Boston, MA
2004, 2002, 1999, 1995 Miller Block Gallery, Boston, MA
2003 St. Botolph Club, Boston, MA
2002 Soprafina Gallery, Somervillle, MA
2001 Lehman Art Center, Brooks School, N.Andover ,MA
1994 Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
1993 Palazzo Sormani, Milan, Italy
1992 Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
1990, 1985, 1982 Galleria Il Ponte, Rome, Italy
1987, 1983 Mary Ryan Gallery, New York, NY
1987 Dolan/Maxwell Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1986 Laboratorio Artivisive, Foggia, Italy
1986 Palazzo Ducale, Pesaro, Italy
1981 Il Ponte Editrice, Chicago International Art Expo, IL
1982 Il Patio Gallery, Ravenna, Italy
1981 Temple Gallery, Rome, Italy
1981, 1979 Laboratorio Artivisive, Foggia, Italy
1980 Villa Schifanoia Gallery, Florence, Italy
1976 Jane Haslem Gallery, Washington, DC
ARTIST RESIDENCY GRANTS
2009 Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Amherst, VA
2009 Vermont Studio Center, Johnson,VT
2002 The Asillah Forum Foundation, Morocco
2001 The Ballinglen Arts Foundation, Ballycastle,County Mayo, Ireland
1993 The MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH
1991 Ucross Foundation, Clearmont, Wyoming
1989 The MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH
SELECTED AWARDS
2018 Massachusetts Cultural Council Finalist Award
2008 Somerville Arts Council Artist Fellowship Grant, MA
2007 Nt’l Association of Art Critics Award for Exhibition at Simmons College, MA
2004 Massachusetts Cultural Council Award
2001 Benjamin Altman Award, National Academy of Design, New York, NY
1997 Printwork '97, Dutchess County Art Association, NY
1996 Hand-Pulled Prints IV, Stonemetal Press, San Antonio, TX
1995 45th N American Print Exhibition, Duxbury Art Complex Museum, MA
1994 18th Harper National Print and Drawing Competition, Palatine, IL
1987 Premio Sassoferrato, Milan, Italy
1985 8th Eastern US Print & Drawing Exhibition, Charlotte, NC
1981 13th Lario International Exhibition, Como, Italy
1975 Davidson National Print & Drawing Competition, NC
1973 23rd National Exhibition of Prints, Smithsonian Institute, Wash.DC
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2018 Dolan Maxwell, Art on Paper Fair, NY, NY
Dolan Maxwell, Art and Antiques Fair, Philadelphia, PA
2017 Chao Art Center, Beijing, China
Silent Stories: Space as Narrative, Concord Center for the Visual Arts, Concord, MA
Selections, Paine Gallery, MassArt, Boston, MA
Draw Boston, Bakalar and Paine Galleries, MassArt, Boston, MA
2016 Drawing Show, Five Points Gallery, Torrington, CT
Look Both Ways: Art at the Crossroads of Abstraction and Representation, Woodmere Art Museum,
Philadelphia, PA
From Atmosphere to Edge: A Drawing Show, Kingston Gallery, Boston, MA
Schoolhouse Gallery, Nona Hershey: Project, Provincetown, MA
Dolan Maxwell Booth, Art on Paper Fair, Pier 36, NY, NY
2015 Dolan Maxwell Booth, Cleveland Fine Print Fair, Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Dolan Maxwell Booth, The IFPDA Print Fair, Park Avenue Armory, NY, NY
The Drawing Show, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA
Director’s Choice, Schoolhouse Gallery, Provincetown, MA
Paper in Particular, Columbia College, Missouri
Insight, Lunder Arts Center, Lesley University College of Art and Design, Cambridge.MA
2014 The Spaces They Inhabit, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia,PA
Works on Paper, Soprafina Gallery, Boston,MA
Parallels, Banniister Gallery, RI
The Space Between, Constellation Studios, Lincoln, Nebraska
Swoop and Swoon, Schoolhouse Gallery, Provincetown, MA
2013 The Annual: 2013, National Academy Museum, New York, NY
The Print Revolution in America, Pace Galleries, Univ.of S.Indiana, Evansville
reThink INK, Cantor Art Gallery, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA
Paper New England, Artspace Gallery, Hartford, CT
Above the Surface, Washington Art Association, Washington Depot, CT
Off the Wall, Danforth Museum, Framingham, MA. Juried exhibition
thINK , Fort Lewis College, Colorado
Works on Paper, Soprafina Gallery, Boston, MA
2012 reThink INK, Boston Public Library, Boston,MA
Collecting Art at the Hartford Art School, Silpe Gallery,Univ. of Hartford, CT
2011 Seven for Science, Oresman Gallery, Smith College, Northampton,MA.
All Flavors, Schoolhouse Gallery, Provincetown,MA
Ewing, Hershey, Schoerner, Traver, Schoolhouse Gallery, Provincetown, MA
ARTcetera, Boston, MA
Chain Letter, Samson Gallery, Boston MA
Prints Show, Soprafina Gallery, Boston, MA
2010 The Logic of Paper, He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen, China
Printed Matter 2010, Schoolhouse Gallery, Provincetown, MA
Great Impressions, Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY
2010 Printmaking Portfolios, Stafford Gallery, Denton, TX
Think, Belmont Gallery of Art, Belmont, MA
Survey of Contemporary Printmaking, Gray Gallery, Grenville, NC
New Work, Schoolhouse Gallery, Provincetown, MA
Think, Zullo Gallery, Medfield, MA
Selections 10, Bakalar and Paine Galleries, MassArt, Boston, MA
Relationship, Soprafina Gallery, Boston, MA
2009 Dual Action, Jewett Art Gallery, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA Seven Printmakers, Soprafina Gallery, Boston, MA Field Report, Kellogg University Art Gallery, Cal. State, Pomona,CA Gallery Artists, Schoolhouse Gallery, Provincetown,MA 2008 Gray Matter, Miller Block Gallery, Boston, MA
Artists Speak Out, Miller Block Gallery, Boston, MA
Gallery Artists, The Schoolhouse Gallery, Provincetown, MA
Field Report 2, Brickbottom Gallery, Somerville, MA
Frogman Gallery, Prints from the Collection, Beresford, SD
Master Prints, Two Lines Gallery; and Sunshine International Museum, Beijing, China
Drawn, Newspace Gallery, Manchester, CT
Artifice and Light, The Schoolhouse Gallery, Provincetown, MA
Vietnam Fine Arts Association, Hanoi, Vietnam
New Arts Gallery, Hanoi, Vietnam
Field Report, Gordon College, Wenham, MA
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Art Now Fair, Miami, Florida
New England NOW, Paper/New England, Hartford, CT
Five Artists, The Schoolhouse Gallery, Provincetown, MA
Big and Small, The Schoolhouse Gallery, Provincetown, MA
182nd Annual, National Academy of Design, NY, NY
4 Printmakers, Soprafina Gallery, Boston, MA
2007 North American Print Biennial, Boston, MA
“Works on Paper” Fair, Dolan/Maxwell, Park Avenue Armory, NY, NY
Brickbottom Celebrates MacDowell, Brickbottom Gallery, Somerville, MA
Group Show, Galleria Temple, Rome, Italy
2006 “American Artists in Rural Ireland”, Concord Art Association, Concord, MA
“Ackerman, Brody, Doughty, Hershey”, The Schoolhouse Gallery, Provincetown, MA
“The New Landscape”, Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, MA
“Visions”, Weber Fine Art, Greenwich, CT
“3rd Annual Summer Exhibition”, Tufts University Art Gallery, Medford, MA
“Works on Paper Fair”, Dolan/Maxwell, Park Avenue Armory, NY, NY
2005 “The Color of Night”, Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick, NJ
“Four Artists in Search of the Intangible”, Simmons College, Boston, MA
“Works on Paper” Fair, Dolan/Maxwell, Park Avenue Armory, NY, NY
“Wonderment”, Emerson College, Boston, MA
“Images from North Mayo”, Courthouse Gallery, Ballycastle, Ireland
2004 “Wonderment”, Emerson College, Boston, MA
“Images from North Mayo”, Courthouse Gallery, Ballycastle, Ireland
“Summer Inspirations”, South Shore Art Association, Cohasset, MA
2003 “Mystic” Bakalar Gallery, Mass Art, Boston, MA
“Points of View”, Newton Art Center, MA
“Print Cabinet”, Boston City Hall, MA
“Ballinglen Artists”, Boston City Hall, MA
2002 “Group Exhibition”,Plum Gallery, Wiliamstown, MA
“5th Kochi International Triennial Exhibition of Prints”, Japan
“Selections”, Bakalar Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston
“Hand Pulled Prints”, Parchman Stremmel Gallery, San Antonio, TX
2001 “Contemporary Master Prints”, Fuller Museum of Art, Brockton,MA
“Saints and Sinners”, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC and traveling
“176th Annual Exhibition”, National Academy of Design, New York, NY
“Workshop Traditions”, Boston University Gallery, Boston.MA
“Proof in Print”, Boston Public Library, Boston, MA
“Paper Pots III”, John Elder Gallery, New York, NY
2000 “Out-of-the-Box”, Rose Art Museum, Waltham, MA
“Five Printmakers”, Hess Gallery, Chestnut Hill, MA
“11x11x11”, DFN Gallery, New York, NY, and Davison Art Center, Middletown, CT
1999
“Convergence”, Memorial Hall Center for the Arts, Wilmington,VT
“American Prints”, Felix Jenewein Gallery, Czech Republic
“Between Nature and Culture: American Prints”, Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri
“The Boston Printmakers Biennial”, Fuller Building, BU, Boston, MA
1998
Between Nature and Culture: American Prints, Jyvaskyla Art Museum, Finland
Print Exhibition, South Gallery, Jacksonville, FLA
1997
3 Person Show, Blue River Gallery, Jacksonville, FL
8 American Artists in Rome, Attleboro Museum, MA
Boston Printmakers: Fifty Years , Boston Public Library, Boston, MA
Double Identities, Art Institute of Boston, MA
Monoprints, Miller Block Gallery, Boston, MA
Printwork '97, Barrett House Galleries, Poughkeepsie,NY
Rome Selection, Temple University Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Visual Arts Faculty: Past and Present, Temple University Rome, Italy
Shifting Grounds, Fuller Building,BU, Boston,MA
1996
Gallery Artists, Miller Block Gallery, Boston,MA
The Modern Landscape, Queens Public Library, Jamaica, NY
MacDowell Colony Printmakers 1925-1995, Sharon Arts Center, Peterborough, NH and traveling
Live/Work: Mixit Studio Artists, Somerville Museum, Somerville, MA
Printscape, Miller Block Gallery, Boston, MA
The Minnesota National Print Biennial, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
Hand-Pulled Prints IV, Stonemetal Press, San Antonio, TX
1995
Collection Update 1994, National Academy Museum, New York, NY
45th North American Print Exhibition, Duxbury Art Complex Museum, MA
The Art of Women Helping Women, Miller/Block Gallery, Boston, MA
170th Annual, National Academy of Design, New York, NY
Faculty Exhibition, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
1994
18th Harper National Print and Drawing Competition, Palatine, IL
Summer Group Exhibition, Pepper Gallery, Boston, MA
Black & White - Four Printmakers, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
Small Impressions, Printmaking Council of New Jersey, Somerville, NJ
Faculty Invitational, The Copley Society of Boston, Boston, MA
1993
Boston Printmakers, The Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, MA
Invitational Exhibition, A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY
Recent Acquisitions, Davison Art Center, Middletown, CT
Beyond Description, Images of Nature, G.W. Einstein Gallery, New York, NY
1992
Large Scale American Graphics, Art Multiple, Dusseldorf, Germany
Gallery Artists, Mary Ryan Gallery, New York, NY
Gallery Artists, Laboratorio Artvisive, Foggia, Italy
1991
Group Exhibition, Gallery Kabutoya, Tokyo, Japan
Group Exhibition, Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University, CT
Landscapes, Mary Ryan Gallery, New York, NY
1990
11th British International Print Biennial, Bradford, England
Six Printmakers, Rhode Island College, Providence, RI
Six Artists, Dedalos Gallery, San Severo, Italy
1989
L'Europe des Gravures, Grenoble, France
Ten Americans, Sala I Gallery, Rome, Italy
1988
12th International Print Biennial, Crakow, Poland
3rd International Biennial Print Exhibit, Taipei Fine Art Museum, Taiwan, ROC
Imprimatur, Greenville Museum of Art, SC; and Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC
Premio Internazionale d'Arte Contemporanea, Campobello di Mazara, Italy
Contemporary Women Artists, Mary Ryan Gallery, New York, NY
1987
New Prints, McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX
Premio Internazionale Biella per l'Incisione, Italy
Three Artists, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Premio Sassoferrato, Italy
Istituto per la Grafica, Latina, Italy
Contemporary American Prints, Garton & Cooke Gallery, London, England
1986
24th National Print Exhibition, Brooklyn Museum, NY; and Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Hot Off The Press, Associated American Artists, New York, NY
Group Exhibition, Calcografia Nazionale, Rome, Italy
New Prints, Mary Ryan Gallery, New York, NY
1985
Great American Prints 84/85, Dolan/Maxwell Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
The New Drawings, Dolan/Maxwell Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
8th Eastern US Print and Drawing Exhibition, Charlotte, NC
Fifth Mini Print International, Barcelona, Spain
New Directions in Printmaking, Mary Ryan Gallery, New York, NY
1984
28th National Print Exhibition, Noyes Museum, NJ
Back Streets/Back Yards, Associated American Artists, New York, NY
Fifty Years of Fine Prints, Associate American Artists, New York, NY
L'Arte del Disegno, Galleria Il Ponte, Rome, Italy
1983
Four Printmakers, Mary Ryan Gallery, New York, NY
Group Exhibition, Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA
1982
Prints: USA, Pratt Graphics Center, New York, NY
57th Annual Competition, The Print Club, Philadelphia, PA
Arteder '82, International Exhibition of Graphic Art, Bilbao, Spain
Rassegna di Grafica Contemporanea, Casalpusterlungo, Italy
Boston Printmakers 34th National, De Cordova Museum, MA
1981
14th International Biennial of Graphic Art, Ljubljana, Yugoslavia
13th Lario International Exhibition, Como, Italy
1980
City Forms and Moods, Wenniger Graphics, Boston, MA
Shadows and Reflections, Associated American Artists, New York, NY
1978
Four Printmakers, American Academy in Rome, Italy
Contemporary American Graphics, USIS, Bucharest, Romania
1977
3rd Miami Graphics Biennial, Metropolitan Museum, FL
Grafica Contemporanea, Temple Abroad Gallery, Rome, Italy
1976
Northwest Print Exhibition, Traveling Show, WA
Bicentennial Print Exhibition, Barry College, FL
Gallery Artists Annual, Associated American Artists, New York, NY
1975
New Talent in Printmaking, Associated American Artists, New York, NY
7th Annual Printmaking West, Traveling Show, UT
Davidson National Print and Drawing Competition, NC
Six Artists from Rome, Garden Gallery of Modern Art, Raleigh, NC
Self Portrait Plus One, Jane Haslem Gallery, Washington, DC
Juried Members Exhibition, The Print Club, Philadelphia, PA
Boston Printmakers 27th Annual, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
9th Dulin National Print and Drawing Competition, Knoxville, TN
1974
Black and White Contrast, Jane Haslem Gallery, Washington, DC
2nd New Hampshire Graphics Annual
1973
Three Person Exhibition, USIS, Rome, Italy
Davidson National Print and Drawing Competition, NC
2nd Hawaii National Print Exhibition, Honolulu Academy of Arts, HI
17th National Print Exhibit, Hunterdon Art Center, NJ
23rd National Exhibition of Prints, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, DC
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS (other than reviews)
Garber, Randy Exhibition Catalogue, Soprafina Gallery, Boston
Janowitz, Joel Exhibition Catalogue, Space as Narrative, Concord Center for Visual Arts, MA
Judith Gurewich Other Press, Cover illustration, featured artist, spring 2017.
Ruble, Ronald L. The Print Renaissance in America
Lynch, Bridget Exhibition Catalogue, Nona Hershey-Rewired, Trustman Art Gallery, 2012
He Xiangning Art Museum Exhibition Catalogue, The Logic of Paper, Shenzhen,China. 2011
Frenn, Chawky 100 Boston Painters. Schiffer Books, 2012
Muise, Heather A Survey of Contemporary Printmaking. 2012.
Petrovich, Dushko, Exhibition Essay, Soprafina Gallery, Boston, MA 2009
Acton, David Sixty Years of North American Prints
The Open Studio Press New American Paintings, 50th Edition
Howards, Ellen Feature, ArtsMEDIA, Boston
Cattell, Jaques Who’s Who in American Art, B.R. Bowker Co
Kunc, Karen Exhibition Catalogue, Jenewin Gallery, Czech Republic
Hitchings, Sinclair Proof in Print, Boston Public Library
Nolta, David Exhibition Catalogue, Mystic, Bakalar Gallery, Boston, MA
Allen, Lynne The Best of Printmaking , Rockport Publishers
Russell, James Exhibition Catalogue, Attleboro Museum, RI
Blake, Sara Entrance, for Nona, Harvard Review
Brodsky, Judith K. Some Notes on Women Printmakers, Art Journal, Vol. 35
Marchant, Fred Tipping Point, cover illustration, The Word Works
Lask, Ellen Exhibition Catalogue, Palazzo Sormani, Milan, Italy
Int. Bio.Center International Who's Who of Professional Women, Cambridge, England
Mall, Jim Searching Out The Best, The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts
Curtiss, Deborah Introduction to Visual Literacy, Prentice Hall
Volpi, Marisa Orlandini Nona Hershey, Artisti Contemporanie, Interviste
Trucchi, Lorenza Exhibition Catalogue, Associazione Amici dell'Arte, Piacenza
Mussa, Italo Exhibition Catalogue, Galleria Il Ponte, Rome