RESUME
Teaching Experience
Professor of Fine Art, 1999 – 2022 (Tenured 2000)
Trinity College, Hartford, CT
Professor of Art, 1986 – 1998 (Tenured 1992)
Carleton College, Northfield, MN
Visiting Associate Professor of Art, 1993
Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
Instructor in Painting, 1984
New York Academy, New York, NY
Instructor in Painting and Drawing, 1982
University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
Education
MFA, Painting, 1981
University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
MA, Painting, 1980
University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
BA, Art, 1976
St. John’s University, Collegeville, MN
One-Person Shows
2022 Connemara Paintings, Widener Gallery, Trinity College, Hartford CT
2021 Recent Irish Paintings, Five Points Gallery, Torrington, CT (POSTPONED-TBD)
2020 Landscape and Memory, Groveland Gallery, Mpls, MN (POSTPONED—TBD)
2017 Connemara Landscapes, Five Points Gallery, Torrington, CT
2016 Earth, Rock, Water, Sky: Paintings, Groveland Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
2013 Poetic Still Life, Groveland Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
2010 Connemara Landscapes, Groveland Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
2008 Groveland Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
2005 Paesaggio Gallery, West Hartford, CT
2003 Washington Art Association, Washington Depot, CT
2002 Groveland Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
2000 Colby-Sawyer College, New London, NH
2000 Clark House Gallery, Bangor, ME
1999 Widener Gallery, Trinity College, Hartford, CT
1998 Union College, Schenectady, NY
1997 Groveland Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
1995 St. John's University, Collegeville, MN
1994 Groveland Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
1994 First Street Gallery, New York, NY
1992 Groveland Gallery, Minneapolis
1992 Carleton College, Northfield, MN
1992 First Street Gallery, New York, NY
1989 First Street Gallery, New York, NY
1989 University of Maine, Machias, ME
1987 Waseca Arts Center, Waseca, MN
1986 Gatehouse Gallery, Washington, DC
1986 Stony Brook School, Stony Brook, NY
1986 Carleton College, Northfield, MN
1983 Florence Wilcox Gallery, Swarthmore College, PA
Invitational and Group Shows
2018 Of the Landscape, Joseph Byrne, Elizabeth Meyersohn, Susan Finnegan, Widener Gallery, Trinity College, Hartford, CT
2018 Side by Side: Joseph Byrne, John Willis, Susan Finnegan, and Dudley Zopp, Washington Art Association Gallery, Washington Depot, CT
2017 Interplay: Joseph Byrne & Elizabeth Gourlay, Maxwell Shepherd Memorial Invitational Exhibition, Gallery on the Green, Canton, CT
2016 In and Of the Land, Five Points Gallery, Torrington, CT
2011 Drawing Dialogue, Hartford Art School Gallery, University of Hartford, CT, two-person show.
2008 Power of Two, Drawings, St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN, two-person show
2008 .Small Takes, (Zeuxis group exhibition), First Street Gallery, New York, NY
2008 Outside the Box: Zeuxis Paints the Landscape, Delaware College of Art and Design, Wilmington, DE
2007 Still Life Group Show, Lori Bookstein Fine Art, NY, NY
2007 A Paean to Spring, Paesaggio Fine Art, Hartford, CT
2007 Facets of Perception, Wiegand Gallery, Notre Dame de Namur University, Belmont, CA, Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, New York, NY
2006 Drawings, Joseph Byrne, Charles Cajori, Barbara Grossman, John Willis, Gallery on the Green, Canton, CT
2006 Trees, Groveland Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
2005 Watercurrents (watercolor group Show, Kouros Gallery, New York, NY
2005 Poetic Dimensions in the Modern StillLife, Hofstra Museum, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY; Kouros Gallery, New York, NY
2004 Zeuxis: Tabletop Arenas, Colby Museum of Art, Waterville, ME; Lori Bookstein Fine Art, New York, NY; University of New Hampshire, Durham; Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery, Haverford College; Ohr-O’Keefe Museum of Art, Biloxi, MS
2004 Watercurrents (watercolor group show, Kouros Gallery, New York, NY
2003 Moveable Feast, Zeuxis at Westbeth Gallery, New York, NY
2003 Watercolor, Kouros Gallery, New York, NY
2003 Trees, Group Show, Paesaggio Gallery, West Hartford, CT
2002 Metaphorical Lands, Paintings and Drawings by Ben Frank Moss and Joseph Byrne, New England College Gallery, Henniker, NH
2002 Prospects,6 Painters and the Landscape, Denise Bibro Fine Art, NY, NY
2001 Watercolor, Five Painters, George Billis Gallery, New York, NY
2000 Zeuxis at Marywood, Contemporary Gallery, Marywood University, Scranton, PA
1999 Zeuxis: Serial Thinking, Kouros Gallery, New York, NY
1999 Still Life, Zeuxis, Olson-Larsen Galleries, West Des Moines, IA
1999 Zeuxis: STILL LIFE The Human Presence, University Art Gallery, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, WI; Peninsula Fine Arts Center, Newport News, RI; Courtyard Gallery, The Washington Studio School, Washington, DC; Erector Square Gallery, new Haven, CT; The Painting Center, New York, NY
1999 Water Works, Five Painters Work on Paper, Prince Street Gallery, New York, NY
1999 Still Life, Bromfield Gallery, Boston, MA
1999 Distilled Life, Prince Street Gallery, New York, NY
1999 Observational Drawings, Groveland Gallery, Minneapolis, MN; Schaefer Gallery, Gustavus Adolphus College, Saint Peter, MN
1999 Landprints, Groveland Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
1998 One Thing on Top of Another, Kerygma Gallery, Ridgewood, NJ
1998 Zeuxis Group Show, Erector Square Gallery, New Haven, CT
1997 Object Lessons, Loomis Chaffee School, Windsor, CT
1996 Reflections, Transformatons,...Still LifePainting, KPF Gallery, New York, NY
1996 Personal Views-Four Paintersand the Landscape, with Louise Hamlin, Marjorie Portnow, and Gina Werfel, Plymouth State College, Plymouth, NH (part of the NH MacDowell Colony 100th Anniversary Celebration)
1996 Zeuxis Group Show, Marymount College, New York, NY
l993-94 The Artist as Native:Reinventing Regionalism, Babcock Galleries, New York, NY; Middlebury College Museum of Art, Middlebury, VT; Albany Institute of History and Art, Albany, NY; Owensboro Museum of Fine Art, Owensboro, KY; Westmoreland Museum of Fine Art, Greensburg, PA; Maryland Institute and College of Art, Baltimore, MD
1992 Bridge Square Gallery, Northfield, MN
1992 Outdoor Painting, Wilensky Gallery, Minneapolis
1992 Through a Glass Darkly, First Street Gallery, NY
1992 Five Artists, Five Series, Groveland Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
1992 Two-person show, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
1989 Two-person show, Groveland Gallery, Minneapolis,MN
1989 Two-person show, Northfield Arts Guild Gallery, Northfield, MN
1988 The American Farm: A National Exhibition, Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL
1988 Black and White, First Street Gallery, New York
1987 First Street Gallery, New York, NY
1987 Recent Work, two-person show, Groveland Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
1986 Three-person show, Groveland Gallery, Minneapolis
1986 Dorian Rogers, Inc. (private dealer), New York, NY
1985 “Honey, I’m Home”;Domestic Interiors, Midtown Art Center, Houston, TX and selected Seattle Galleries, Seattle, WA
1983 Realistic Directions Invitational, Penn State University, State College, PA
Juried Exhibitions
1990 165th Exhibition, National Academy of Design, NYC
1988 163rd Exhibition, National Academy of Design, NYC
1985 Ninth Annual Small Works Exhibition, NYU, NYC
1984 National Small Works Exhibition, Cobleskill, NY
1984 159th Exhibition, National Academy of Design, NYC
1983 National Midyear Juried Show, Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH
1981 Mid-Four Annual Juried Exhibition, Nelson Gallery-Atkins Museum, Kansas City, MO
1980 32nd Annual Iowa Artists Exhibition, Des Moines Arts Center, Des Moines, IA
1979 68th Annual Minnesota Fine Arts Exhibition, St. Paul, MN
Prizes, Awards and Fellowships
2009 Faculty Research Grant, Trinity College, Hartford, CT
2007 Raether Faculty Research Grant, Trinity College, Hartford, CT
2004 Faculty Research Grant, Trinity College, Hartford, CT
2002 Three-Year Research Expense Grant, Trinity College, Hartford, CT
1995 Nomination, American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Art, New York, NY
1994 Nomination, American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Art, New York, NY
1992 Resident Fellow, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
1991 Artist-in-Residence, American Academy in Rome, Rome. Italy
1990 Faculty Development Grant, Carleton College, Northfield, MN
1986 MacDowell Colony Fellowship, MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH
1985 MacDowell Colony Fellowship, MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH
1984 Julius Halgarten Prize for Best Painting by an Artist under 35, National Academy of Design, New York, NY
1981 First Award, Mid-Four Juried Exhibition, Nelson Gallery, Atkins Museum, Kansas City, MO (juror: Barbara Haskell)
Visiting Artist Lectures and Residencies
2018 Five Points Gallery, Torrington, CT
2017 Gallery on the Green, Canton, CT
2016 Five Points Gallery, Torrington, CT
2011 Hartford Art School, University of Hartford, West Hartford, CT
2008 St Olaf College, Northfield, MN
2007 Guilford Art Center, Guilford, CT
2005 Haverford College, Haverford, PA
2001 Colby-Sawyer College, New London, NH
2000 Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA (Honors Examiner, Studio Arts)
1999 Hartford Art School, University of Hartford, CT
1998 Union College, Schenectady, NY
1997 University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, La Crosse, WI
1996 Macalester College, St. Paul, MN
1996 College of St. Benedict, St. Joseph, MN
1995 Macalester College, St. Paul, MN (examiner for senior majors and juror for student show)
l992,94 Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
1991 Shattuck/St. Mary's School, Faribault, MN
1989 University of Maine Machais, Machais, ME
1986 Stoneybrook School, Stoneybrook, NY
Public Collections
University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire, WI
Tweed Museum, Duluth, MN
Stony Brook School, Stony Brook, NY
Waseca Art Center, Waseca, MN
Publications and Reviews
2006 Essay and reproduction: Facets of Perception, exhibition catalogue with essay by Martica Sawin, Zeuxis, NY, NY 2006
2005 Review: “Poetic Dimensions of the Modern Still Life,” Helen Harrison, The New York Times, Sunday, March 2005
2005 Review: “Tabletop Arenas, Still Life at Haverford,” Philadelphia Inquirer, 2/4/05
2004 Essay and reproduction: Tabletop Arenas, exhibition catalogue with essays by Thomas M. Disch, Zeuxis, NY, NY 2004
2003 Review: “Summer Visits: Watercolor at Kouros Gallery,” artcritical.com, Summer 2003
2003 Review: “Watercolor at Kouros,” New York Sun, 8/14/03
2001 Essay and reproduction: Serial Thinking, exhibition catalogue with essay by Lance Espland, Zeuxis, NY, NY 2001
1999 Essay and reproduction: The Human Presence, exhibition catalogue with essay by Andrew Forge, Zeuxis, NY, NY 1999
1997 Review: Minneapolis Star-Tribune, 11/18/97
1997 Reproductions, St. Paul Pioneer Press-Dispatch, ll/4 and ll/27
1996 Reproductions and review, LaCrosse Sunday Magazine, 1/97
1994 Review: Mary Abbe, Minneapolis Star-Tribune, Minneapolis, MN, 12/8/94
1994 Review: "Places in the Heart," Rich Kreiner, Metroland, Albany, NY, 2/17/94
1993 Essay and reproduction: The Artist as Native:Reinventing Regionalism, Alan Gussow, Pomegranate Art Books, San Francisco, CA
1992 Interview: The Window, Minneapolis, March/April, l992
1990 Article: Carleton Voice, Fall, l990
1989 Review: "Painters of the Land," Northfield Magazine, Spring l989
1988 Review: Northfield Magazine, November, l988
1987 Review: Minneapolis Star and Tribune, 9/20/87
1987 "Critic's Choice," review and reproduction, Minneapolis Star and Tribune, 3/l3/87
1987 Reproduction: Mpls/St Paul Magazine, March, l987
1986 Reproduction: Mpls/St Paul Magazine, March, l986
Gallery Affiliations
Groveland Gallery, Minneapolis, MN