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Selected Group Exhibitions
2007
This End Up, Windham Fine Arts, Windham, NY
2006
Today’s Mavericks, Woodstock Artist Association and Museum, Woodstock, NY
2005
Small Works, Les Yeux Du Monde Gallery, Charlottesville, VA
2004
Silvermine Gallery, 55th Annual Art of the Northeast, New Canaan, CT
2000-2002
Gallery Artists, Elena Zang Gallery, Woodstock, NY
1998-2000
Gallery Artists, Takara Gallery, Houston, TX
1993-2000
Gallery Artists, Albert Merola Gallery, Provincetown, MA
1993
Fine Arts Work Center 25th Anniversary Exhibition,
1993
Provincetown Artist Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA
1992
Tenth Annual Salon Show, Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA
1991
“Here and New: New Works by Four Artists,” Provincetown Artist Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA
1991
Ninth Annual Salon Show, Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA
1990
Maryland State Arts Council Awards Exhibition, BAUhaus Gallery , Baltimore, MD
1989
Annual Invitational Benefit Exhibition, Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, MD
1988
Works on Paper, School 33 Art Center, Baltimore, MD
1988
“Painting ‘88” Juried Exhibition, Arlington Art Center, Arlington,VA
1987
23rd Annual Juried Show, Academy of the Arts, Easton, MD
1986
Irene Leach Annual Juried Show, Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA
Solo Exhibitions
2007
Eyebuzz Gallery, Tarrytown, NY
2003
Lake George Arts Project, Lake George, NY
1993
Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA
1991-1993
Merola Gallery, Provincetown MA
1991
Hudson Walker Gallery, Provincetown, MA
1989
School 33 Art Center, Baltimore, MD
Awards and Honors
1994, 1999
Residency Fellowship, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Amherst, VA
1992
Residency Fellowship, Millay Colony for the Arts, Austerlitz, NY
1990
Maryland State Arts Council Grant, Baltimore MD
1990
Alexander C. and Tillie Speyer Foundation Painting Fellowship, Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA
1989
Robert C. Graham Painting Fellowship, Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA
1989
Visiting Critics Selection , Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, MD
1987
Studio Residency Award, School 33 Art Center, Baltimore, MD
1987
Jurors Award, 23rd Annual Juried Show, Academy of the Arts, Easton Md
1986
Fellowship Award , Virginia Museum of Fine Art, Richmond, VA
1985-87
Scholarship , Hoffberger School of Painting, Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore, MD
1985
Scholarship, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture
1979
Purchase Award, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
Selected Bibliography
"Forward in all directions: In art as in politics, 'staying the course' gets the boot in '06", Paul Smart , Woodstock Times December
28, 2006
"Relics from his past, glimpses of his future: Bill Mead's pentimento pieces span time in geologic layers of paint", Paul Smart
Woodstock Times, November 30, 2006
"Hervey's Day: Woodstock Turns into a Maverick Festival", Paul Smart, Woodstock Times, August 3, 2006
"Dare To Enter", David Brickman, Metroland Magazine, September 25,2003
"Bill Mead", Eli Gottlieb, Provincetown Arts Magazine, 1992
"Niether Rain Nor...", Bonnie North, Provincetown Paper, 1991
"Young Artists, Here and New" , Anne Wilson Lloyd, Art New England, August 1991
Education
1987
Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore, MD, MFA in Painting
1985
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME
1980
Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, BFA in Painting
Bill Mead lives with his wife, writer and journalist Lisa Phillips, and their daughter Clara in Woodstock, New York.