Gregory Gillespie
Artist Bio Artist Work
1936 Born November 29 in Roselle Park, NJ
1954-60 Studied at The Cooper Union for Advancement of Science and Art, New York, NY
1960-62 B.A. and M.A., San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
1962-63 Lived and worked in Florence, Italy
1964-70 Lived in Rome and at the American Academy in Rome, Italy
1970-2000 Lived and worked in Belchertown, MA
Public Collections
Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR
Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME
Creative Arts Center, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV
Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia, Athens, GA
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Museum of Art, Pennsylvania State University, University, Park, IL
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
The National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
Nebraska Art Association, Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery,
University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE
New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ
Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA
Sara Roby Foundation Collection, New York, NY
Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE
The National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA
Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolinaat Greensboro, Greensboro, NC
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Awards
1994 The Augustus St. Gaudens Award, Cooper Union College, New York, NY
1967 Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation
1966 Chester Dale Fellowship
1965 Chester Dale Fellowship
1964 Chester Dale Fellowship
1963 Fullbright-Hays Full Grant
1962 Fullbright-Hays Full Grant
One Person Exhibitions
2003-04 Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA
“Life as Art: Paintings by Gregory Gillespie and Frances Cohen Gillespie,” Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University
Salander O'Reilly Galleries, New York, NY
2001 Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA
"The Third Dimension," William Blizard Gallery, Springfield College, Springfield, MA
2000 Forum Gallery, New York, NY
1999 "A Unique American Vision: Paintings by Gregory Gillespie," MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA.
New Works," Forum Gallery, New York, NY1998 Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA
1996 A Unique American Vision: The Paintings of Gregory Gillespie," Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, GA
Forum Gallery, New York, NY
Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York, NY
1994 Forum Gallery, New York, NY
1992 Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA
Forum Gallery, New York, NY
Harcourts Modern and Contemporary, San Francisco, CA
1991 Forum Gallery, New York, NY
Hart Gallery, Northampton, MA
1990 Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA
1989 Forum Gallery, New York, NY
Cooper Union for Advancement of Art and Science, New York, NY
1988 J. Rosenthal Fine Arts, Chicago, IL
1986 Forum Gallery, New York, NY
Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA
Duke University Art Museum, Durham, NC
Atrium Gallery, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
1984 Forum Gallery, New York, NY
1983 Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Joseph and Margaret Muscarelle Museum of Art, College of
William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA
1982 Forum Gallery, New York, NY
Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA
1979 Forum Gallery, New York, NY
1977 Forum Gallery, New York, NY
Retrospective, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC
1976 Forum Gallery, New York, NY
1974 Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA
Galleria Il Fante de Spade, Rome and Milan, Italy
1973 Forum Gallery, New York, NY
1972 Forum Gallery, New York, NY
1971 Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA
Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA
1970 Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia, Athens, GA
Forum Gallery, New York, NY
1969 American Academy in Rome, Rome, Italy
1968 Forum Gallery, New York, NY
1966 Forum Gallery, New York, NY
Group Exhibitions
2003 "Artists Without Borders," Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA
"Conversations," Evergreen House, Baltimore, MD
2000-2001 "The Figure, Another Side of Modernism," Newhouse Center For Contemporary Art-Snug Harbor Cultural
Center, Staten Island, NY
2000 "In the Spirit of Landscape V," Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA
1999 Exhibition in Tribute to Stephen D. Paine, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
“Then & Now : Nielsen Gallery 35th Anniversary
Exhibition,” Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA
"In the Spirit of Landscape IV," Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA
1998 “Dreamweavers: Symbolist Tendencies in Contemporary
New England Art,” Brush Art Gallery, Lowell, MA.
“Valley Realists,” Danforth Museum, Northampton, MA
“In the Spirit of Landscape III,” Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA
“It’s Still Life,” Forum Gallery, New York, NY.
“Invitational : Portraits,” Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA
Boston International Fine Art Show, Boston, MA
1997 "Attributes of the Artist, Artists' Tools as Subject Matter,"
The Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, MA
“In the Spirit of Landscape II,” Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA
“The Figure Revisited: Part 2, Recent Works,” The Gallery at Hastings-on-Hudson, New York