Contact/CV
Neill Fearnley
Phone: (978) 270-7338
Email: neill.fearnley@gmail.com
1949 Born, Ithaca, NY
1968 Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
1971 University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
1973 Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
1983 Barcelona Grant, City of Boston, MA
Solo Exhibitions
2018 Ars Libri Curated by Mario Diacono
2006 Mario Diacono Gallery
2004 Merrimack College, North Andover, MA
2003 Mario Diacono, Boston, MA
1998 Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA
1995 Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA
1992 Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA
1991 Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA
1989 Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA
1987 Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA
1984 Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA
1983 Little Center Gallery, Clark University, Worcester, MA
1982 Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA
Group Exhibitions
2010 “Master Printer: Robert Townsend”, Robert Lehman Arts Center, Brooks School, North Andover, MA
2003 "Artists Without Borders," Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA
2000 "small works BIG IDEAS," Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA
1999 "Nielsen Gallery 35th Anniversary Exhibition – New Work," Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA.
1999 "Seven Artistic Perspectives: An Art Show and Benefit for Hamilton Hall," Hamilton Hall, Salem, MA
1999 Exhibition in Tribute to Stephen D. Paine, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
1991 Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA
1991 Summertime, Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA
1990 Invitational Small Painting Show, Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA
1990 "Annual Summertime Group Exhibition," Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA
1990 "American Abstraction Since the 1960's," The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
1989 "Summertime," Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA
1989-88 "Common Ground," A joint exhibition with Nielsen Gallery and Hurst Gallery at Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA
1987 Beitzel Gallery, New York, NY
1987 "Ten Boston Artists," Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA
1985 "Small Paintings, Five American Artists," University of Maine, Orono, ME
1985 "Neill Fearnley/Victor Pesce," Susan Montezinos Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1983 "Settings," DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA
1981 "Five Sculptors," Cohen Arts Center, Tufts University, Medford, MA
1981 "Local Vision: Urban Environs," Hayden Gallery, M.I.T., Cambridge, MA
1980 "Artworks by Nine New York Arists," University Gallery, Virginia Technological Institute, Blacksburg, VA
1980 "Four Boston Artists," Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA
1980-79 The Pyramidal Influence," Exhibition travelled to: Fine Arts Gallery, Wright State University, Dayton, OH; Freedman Gallery, Albright College, Reading, PA; Midwest Museum of American Art, Elkhart, IN; Davidson Art Center, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT
1974 Hudson Valley Regional Exhibition, Albany, NY
Collections
Bank of Boston, Headquarters, Boston, MA
DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA
Estabrook Foundation, Carlisle, MA
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Permanent Collection, Cambridge, MA
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Bibliography
Bonetti, David. "Art on and off the Street," The Boston Phoenix, November 6, 1987.Banks, Gail. "Twelve Artists on the Way Up," Boston Magazine, May 1983.
Berg, Peter. The Pyramidal Influence, Dayton (OH): The Fine Arts Gallery, Wright State University. [catalog]
Bloome, Claire. "Fearnley's Paintings on Plaster," The Scarlet, Clark University Newspaper, November 29, 1983.
Corbett, William. "Neill Fearnley," Arts Magazine, 1990.
"Neill Fearnley," Art New England, Summer, 1987.
Illustrations for a book of poetry, Durham (England): Pig Press, 1987.
Crowley, Rob. "DeCordova Museum Exhibits Three Boston Painters," The Concord Journal, February 1983.
Joselit, David. Settings: Three Boston Artists, Catalog. Lincoln (MA): DeCordova Museum.
Kologe, Brian. "Four Boston Artists," Art New England, February 1981.
Koenig, David. "Settings," Art New England, February 1983.
McQuaid, Cate. "With help from cummings, he paints visual poems (Capturing Meaning)," The Boston Globe, August 1, 2003
Parks, Addison. "Neill Fearnley and Harvey Quaytman at Nielsen," ArtDeal, April 1995.
Stapen, Nancy. "Neill Fearnley's Paintings," Art New England, April 1982.
Storr, Robert. "Four Boston Artists," The New Art Examiner, Chicago, March 1981.
Taylor, Robert. "Body Language, Local Vision at M.I.T.," The Boston Globe, December 13, 1981.
Temin, Christine. "Warth, Romance, Mystery," The Boston Globe, March 11, 1982.
"Empty Places Filled with Romance," The Boston Globe, February 2, 1983.
"Fearnley's Work Fuses Past and Present," The Boston Globe, March 22, 1984.
"Perspectives," The Boston Globe, November 5, 1987.
Wolff, Theodore. "Art Doesn't Just Grow in Manhattan," The Christian Science Monitor, February 10, 1983.
Yau, John. "Neill Fearnley at Nielsen ", Art in America, September 1982.
Yau, John, "Neill Fearnley," ArtForum International, November 1987.
Open Studios Press, Wellesley, MA, 1999. [catalog]