Carole Bolsey
Painter
Installation Artist
Designer
solo exhibitions and installations
“Artist amazes again…” Kingston Reporter, Katherine Gallerani January 20, 2019
Hudson River Backwater, Commissioned by Hudson Yards Grill, New York, New York, 2019
Carole Bolsey, Star Gallery, Northeast Harbor, Maine, 2019
Plymouth Public Library, 2016-17
Levitations,/Horsing Around, South Shore Art Center, Cohasset, MA, 2013
Carole Bolsey/Paintings and Screens, Thayer Gallery, Braintree, MA , 2012
Carole Bolsey, Cross MacKenzie Gallery, Washington, DC, 2008
Red Brook Gallery Presents Carole Bolsey, WDC, 2004
Large Works, Maryland Hall for the Creative Arts, Annapolis, MD, 2003
Beasts in Motion, Troyer Gallery, Washington DC, 2003
A Shape With No Name, works on a theme, Paintings/Installation/travelog-catalog
American Institute of Architects, National Headquarters, WDC, 1999
American Institute of Architects, Richmond, VA, 1999
Water, with Julian Sibony, National Academy of Science, Washington, DC, 1999
Two Screens, a Painting, and a Construction, Academy of Art, Easton, MD, 1999
Horses, Barns, and Boats, Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA, 1999
Waterfields/New Paintings, Troyer Fitzpatrick Lassman Gallery, Washington, DC, 1997
Waterfields Paintings, Gallery 375, Tokyo, Japan, 1995
Lightfields II: A Shrine to the Shrine, an installation in many places, 1995
Tokyo School of Art and Tamagawa River Park, Tokyo, Japan
Carole Bolsey - Waterfields, The New Gallery, University of Miami 1995
Coral Gables, Florida
Currents - Carole Bolsey, Harvard University, Graduate School of Design, 1992
New Works: Paintings by Carole Bolsey, Franz Bader Gallery, WDC, 1992
Frank Schlesinger & Associates, Architects, Washington, D.C., 1992
Carole Bolsey: New Paintings, Micalady Gallery, Tokyo, Japan , 1991
Lightfields I, Installation, Komoro, Nagano Prefecture, Japan, 1991
Paintings, Gallery Naga, Boston, MA, 1986
Thought Totems, Installation, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 1986
New Work, Harvard University - Carpenter Center for Visual and Environmental Studies, 1983
New Paintings, Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA, 1983
Interiors, Atlantic Union College, South Lancaster, MA 1982 Paintings, Gallery Naga, Boston, MA, 1981
Drawings and Paintings, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA, 1990
Artist in Residence, Pyramid Atlantic Art Center, WDC , 2003/04
Faculty Research Grant, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University
selected group exhibitions
Inside/Out, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA,2008
Inside/Out, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA,2008
Unbridled, Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, MA, 2008
Salon Show, Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA, 2008
School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, 2007
Whatever Meredyth Wants, Gallery Naga, Boston, MA, 2005
Fusion, Pyramid Atlantic Art Center, WDC Artist in Residence, 2004/5
Resident Artists' Exhibit, Pyramid Atlantic Art Center, Silver Spring, MD, 2004
Artweek, Baltimore Symphony, MD, 2004
Designer House, Washington, DC, 2004
Salon Show, Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA, 2004
Art for Arts Sake, National Museum of Women in the Arts, WDC, 2003
Inaugural Exhibition, New Washington Convention Center Collection, WDC, 2003
Curators Choice, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2002
Fast Forward/Washington Project for the Arts, Corcoran Gallery of Art, WDC,1999
Hypersalon, Prints/Multiples Emerson Art Center,
McLean Project for the Arts, VA, 1999
Boston to Boca, Elaine Baker Gallery, Boca Raton, FLA, 1999
Washington Project for the Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, WDC, 1997
Designers' House, National Symphony Orchestra, Washington, D.C, 1997
Maryland Works, Government House, Annapolis, MD, 1997
Metamorphosis, Washington Project for the Arts, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C, 1996
Hunter Museum of Art, Chatanooga, Tennessee, 1995
Washington Project for the Arts, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C, 1995
New Paintings, Franz Bader Gallery, Washington, D.C, 1993
Feeling and Position, Erisho Gallery, Himeji, Japan, 1993
Space: Architecture and Art, Tanishima Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, 1992
Paintings, Micalady Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, 1990
Genesis, Brickbottom Gallery, Boston, MA, 1990
Interior Spaces, Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, MA, 1987
New Works by Old Friends, Decordova and Dana Museum, Lincoln, MA, 1987
When Sculptors and Painters Draw, Art Institute of Boston, 1987
Drawings from Boston, Decordova and Dana Museum, 1987
Faculty Show, Carpenter Center for Visual Studies, Harvard University, 1986
Black and White, Gallery Naga, Boston, MA, 1985
Inaugural Exhibition, Varley and Stevens Gallery, Portsmouth, N.H.,1985
The Solitary Object, Gallery Naga, 1985
Big Art, Montserrat School of Art, Beverly, MA, 1984
Still Life, Decordova and Dana Museum, 1984
Accent on Artists, Newton Arts Center, Newton, MA, 1984
Figuratively Speaking, Fitchburg Museum of Art, Fitchburg MA, 1984
Triennial Exhibition, Brockton Museum of Art, Brockton, MA, 1984
Settings, Decordova and Dana Museum, Lincoln, MA, 1983
New Director's Choice, Gallery Naga, 1982
Works on Paper, Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA, 1982
Art of the State, Finalist, Massachusetts Art Fellowship Exhibition Rose Art Museum,
Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, 1982
Eighteen New England Painters, Northeastern University Gallery, Boston, MA, 1982
Three Realists, Mona Berman Gallery, New Haven, Conn, 1982
Women in Art, Colby Sawyer College, New London, N.H., 1981
About Painting, Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA, 1981
Gallery Artists, Condeso Lawler Gallery, Lincoln, MA, 1981
The Fine Art of Business, Federal Reserve Bank, Boston, MA, 1981
The Bennington Collection, Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, New York, 1990
National Painting Show, Washington and Jefferson College, Washington, PA, 1988
Invited Printmakers, Philadelphia Art Alliance and Print Club, Philadelphia, PA, 1988
Art of the State, Finalist, Massachusetts Art Fellowship Exhibition, 1979
Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
teachings
Rhode Island School of Design, 2006, 2008, 2012
Graduate School of Design, Harvard University 1988-96
Lecturer in Architecture/Visual Studies
Carpenter Center for Visual and Environmental Studies, Harvard University 1985-88
Assistant Professor of Painting and Drawing
Carpenter Center for Visual and Environmental Studies, Harvard University,Visiting Lecturer 1983-85
Decordova and Dana Museum, Instructor of Painting and Drawing 1980-83