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LYDIA Z. MARTIN NESAD/Suffolk University 75 Arlington Street, Boston, MA 02216 tel: 617-994-4288 email: LydiaMartinpainter@gmail.com
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EXHIBITIONS 2019 Carbon Black, Waltham, MA, DeCordova Museum’s Art Loan Exhibition, June 20, 2017- May 29, 2019.
2018 Suffolk University Fine Art Gallery, Boston, MA, Juxtapose: Art & Design Faculty Exhibition, January 25-February 25, 2018.
Carbon Black, Waltham, MA, DeCordova Museum’s Art Loan Exhibition, June 20, 2017- May 29, 2019.
2017 Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, UMass, Amherst, MA,
Artist’s portrait of UMass English Professor Emeritus, Arthur F. Kinney installation-Center’s reading room. 9/18/17.
Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club Members' Show, NY, International Exhibition
Topsfield Town Library, deCordova Sculpture Park and Art Museum, Art Loan Exhibition, June 20 2016- May 20, 2017.
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Holland and Knight Law Firm, Boston, MA- DeCordova Museum’s Art Loan/ Exhibition June,22, 2015- May, 25, 2016
2016 Odd Nerdrum Art Atelier, Stavern, Norway, Memorosa Atelier International Members' Exhibition, July 2016.
James McNeil Whistler House Museum of Art, Lowell, MA, Lowell Art Association's Invitational Members' Exhibition
November 18, 2015 - January 16, 2016. http://cmurphystudios.com/?p=697
Topsfield Town Library, DeCordova Sculpture Park and Art Museum, Art Loan Exhibition, June 20 2016- May 20, 2017.
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2015 National Arts Club, Gramercy Park, NY, Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club 119th Opened Juried Show, December 1-18.
http://www.clwac.org/#!119th-annual-open-juried-exhibition/c1zvi
Bennington Center for the Arts, VT, Laumeister Fine Art Competition/ Exhibition, Aug. 8 - Dec. 20.
http://www.thebennington.org/lfac
James McNeil Whistler House Museum, Lowell, MA, Lydia Martin: Lotería II, solo exhibition, July 2015.
http://www.whistlerhouse.org/index.php/exhibits/parker-gallery/94-lydia-martin-priscilla-levesque-exhibits
Colors of Humanity Art Gallery, Human Nature, international April exhibit/ benefit 'Your Safe Haven'
http://www.colorsofhumanityartgallery.com/Human-Nature-2015/Human-Nature-2015-Show/n-XN7h7p
Colors of Humanity Art Gallery, Red, international February exhibit/ benefit Red Cross:
http://www.colorsofhumanityartgallery.com/Red-Feb-2015/Red-2015-Show/n-J83mN
Suffolk University, 73 Tremont Street, Boston, MA, NESAD Exhibits, art loan and exhibition
Sudbury Hospital, deCordova Sculpture Park and Art Museum, Art Loan Exhibition, June 20 2015- May 20, 2016
2014 Milton Art Museum at Massasoit Community College, Canton, MA- Milton Art Museum Exhibition/ Competition
3 artists exhibit http://miltonartmuseum.org/events.htm - juror: Kaveh Mojtabai- Artscope Founder & Publisher.
Bennington Center for the Arts, VT, Portraying the Human Spirit, international exhibition:
http://www.thebennington.org/portraying-the-human-spirit/
Salmagundi Arts Club, NY, Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club Members’ Show, international exhibit
Suffolk University, 73 Tremont Street, Boston, MA, NESAD Exhibits, art loan and exhibition
Chabot Gallery, Providence, RI, Best Holiday Gifts, winter exhibition: www.chabotgallery/artists/lydia-martin/
Lincoln Properties Company, The Meadows, Chelmsford, MA, deCordova Museum Art Loan Exhibit, 6/20,/14-5/ 20/15
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2013 Six Summit Gallery, Ivoryton, CT, In the Pink, national exhibition/ benefit Breast Cancer
National Arts Club, NYC, 117th Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club Open Juried Show, international exhibit
https://sites.suffolk.edu/andthen/page/4/
Chabot Gallery, Providence, RI, Summer Show- gallery artists exhibition
Adams Gallery, Suffolk University, Boston, MA, NESAD Faculty Exhibition: http://corporateartloan.org/page/11
Salmagundi Art Club, NY, Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club Members’ Exhibition
Suffolk University, 73 Tremont Street, Boston, MA, NESAD Exhibits, art loan and exhibition
Chabot Gallery, Providence, RI, Best Holiday Gifts, winter exhibition
2012 Chabot Gallery, Providence, RI, Lotería , Fall, solo exhibition. http://www.chabotgallery.com/2012/10/loteria/
Chabot Gallery, Providence, RI, Retrospect, Summer, invitational exhibition.
Suffolk University, Boston, MA. NESAD at 73 Tremont Street, art loan exhibition.
2011 Emerson Hospital, Sudbury, MA, artist’s work, “Shelves” on exhibition for one year.
Suffolk University, Boston, MA, NESAD at 73 Tremont Street , art loan exhibition.
2010 Broome Street Gallery, SoHo, NY, Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club Members’ Show, international exhibit
2009 National Arts Club, NYC, 113th Catherine Lorillard Wolfe Arts Club Open Juried exhibit, international show
Broome Street Gallery, SoHo, NY, Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club Members’ Show, international exhibit
NESAD Gallery, Suffolk University, MA, “Year of Drawing” NESAD Faculty Exhibition
2008 Broome Street Gallery, SoHo, NY, Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club Members’ Show, int’l exhibit
San Francisco, CA, Art of Democracy, on-line invitational exhibition: http://www.artofdemocracy.org/posters/posters.html
Bennington Center for the Arts, VT, Small Works Show, & Impressions of New England, national exhibits
Franklin Square Gallery, Southport, NC, Associated Artists’ Opened Juried Exhibition, national show
2007 Stony Brook University, NY 450 Women Have Been Murdered in Ciudad Juarez, national exhibit
2006 The 110th Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Arts, National Arts Club, NYC international juried exhibit.
2005 Bennington Center for the Arts, VT, American Artists Abroad, national juried exhibition
Franklin Square Gallery, Associated Artists of Southport, NC, 25th National Show
Art Association of Harrisburg, PA, 77th Annual Juried Exhibition, juror: Linda Simmons, Corcoran Gallery.
Associated Artists of Winston-Salem, NC, Dimensions 2005, national juried show
2004 Visual Arts Center, Punta Gorda, FLA, national exhibit; juror: Daniel Greene, renowned American painter.
2003 Associated Artists of Winston-Salem, NC, An American Experience, national exhibit.
Friends of Copley Square, Boston, MA, An Arts Affair, juried by Vose Gallery and curator, Jonathan Fairbanks.
Art Auction proceeds for Copley Square.memorial statue of American portrait painter, John Singleton Copley.
Barnsite Art Studio and Gallery, Kewanee, WI, Barns and Farms, nat’l juried exhibit in concordance with
the Smithsonian traveling exhibition, Barns, Again.
Newington-Cropsey Foundation Gallery, Hudson Valley Art Association Hastings on Hudson, NY,
72nd National Juried Exhibition.
2002 The 106th Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Arts, National Arts Club, NYC
Lyman-Eyer Gallery, Provincetown, MA, New Works, solo exhibition
Somerville Museum, Somerville, MA, Paradox: Artists Respond, regional exhibition
Tremont Street Gallery, Boston, MA, Empathy, International Society’s juried exhibit
2002 Attleboro Museum, Attleboro, MA, Small Works, nat’l juried exhibition
Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, NY, Re-Presenting Representation V, invitational, televised on CNN
Lyman-Eyer Gallery, West Newton, MA, Winter Salon & Summer Salon, invitational
South Shore Art Center, Cohasset, MA, Planes, Trains and Automobiles, national exhibition
2001 Coutts Museum, El Dorado, KS, Living on the Praire-Living on the Plain, nattional juried exhibit
Audubon Artists, Inc., Salmagundi Arts Club NY, 59th Open Juried Exhibition
Arts Center, Chatham, MA, Pastel Painters Society of Cape Cod’s Pastels Only, exhibit
Friends of Copley Square, Boston, MA, An Arts Affair, juried benefit art auction
Butler Institute of American Art, OH, 65th Midyear Museum Juried Exhibition
St. Louis Artists’ Guild, MO, In Your Face, nat’l open juried portrait exhibition
Salmagundi Arts Club, NY, 24th Annual Non Members Juried Exhibition
Lyman-Eyer Gallery, West Newton, MA, Winter Showcase & Summer Salon
2000 Lyman-Eyer Gallery, West Newton, MA, Paintings, solo exhibition
Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Arts, National Arts Club, NY, 104thInternational Juried Millenium Exhibit
Friends of Copley Square, Boston, MA, An Arts Affair, juried benefit art auction
Pastel Society of America, Nation’l Arts Club, NY, 28th Juried Exhibit;, juror: Raymond E. Kinstler.
St. Louis Artists’ Guild, MO, Faces and Places, nat’l portrait exhibit-1st prize for portrait
Period Gallery, Omaha, NE, Realism, nat’l juried exhibition
Crane Collection, Wellesley, MA Summer Exhibition, invitational
Powell Street Gallery, San Francisco, CA, Realism, 3 artists invitational show
1999 Powell Street Gallery, San Francisco, CA, New Works, invitational 3 artists exhibit Zullo Gallery, Medfield, MA,
In Ordinary Time, invitational exhibition
Crane Collection, Wellesley, MA, The Last Little Picture Show, invitational exhibit
ArtWorks! Gallery, New Bedford, MA, Opened Juried Regional Exhibition
Zullo Gallery, Medfield, MA, 8th Annual Juried Exhibition
NESAD Gallery 28, Suffolk University, Boston, MA, Recent Paintings, solo show
1997 Museum of American Art, Philadelphia, PA, The Unbroken Line, international juried show,
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts Fellowship; juror: Philip Pearlstein (figurative painter.)
Museum of Science, Boston, MA, Drawing Show held during Leonardo Da Vinci Exhibit
1996 Gallery Alexy, Philadelphia, PA, Contemporary Realism, nat’l show; juror: Sidney Goodman
1995 Chase Gallery, Boston, MA, The Still-Life: A Modern View, invitational paintings exhibition
1994 Chadd’s Ford Gallery, Chadd’s Ford, PA, Oil Paintings, Watercolors & Prints, solo show (Andrew Wyeth in attendance)
1992 & 94 Gallery 28, NESAD, Boston, MA, solo exhibit ’92 & Observing Tradition, group exhibit ’94
1991 Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, Arnold Arboretum’s Spring Art Show, juried exhibit- 1st prize award
James A. Michener Museum, Philadelphia, PA, National Juried Exhibition
jurors: Lisa Dennison (curator Guggenheim Museum) and Grace Hartigan (painter.)
1990 Gallery 28, NESAD, Boston, MA, Glass, solo show newworks- figuratie, still-lives, Trompe l’oeil & interiors- theme of glass.
Creative Collections Gallery, Boston, MA, Art Works, solo exhibition
Boston Visual Artists Union, Boston, MA, Members Annual Juried Exhibition
1989 First Street Gallery, NY, National Figure Exhibition, juror: Jack Beal, realist, figurative painter
Creative Collections, Boston, MA, Invitational Group Exhibition
1988 Thronja Gallery, Springfield, MA, Gallery Invitational, group exhibit then solo show
Copley Society, Boston, MA, Members Spring Exhibition
Federal Reserve Bank of Boston Gallery, Boston, MA, Art in New England, regional show.
1985 The Peale House, Philadelphia , PA, The Figure, regional juried exhibition
1984 Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts Museum, Philadelphia, PA, Student Art Exhibition
APPOINTMENTS Professor, NESAD, Suffolk University, Boston, MA, 2006-present:
teaches courses in Foundation Drawing 1&2, Foundation Painting, Painting for Non-Art Majors
Associate Professor, NESAD, Suffolk University, Boston, MA, 2001-2006:
classes taught: Perspective, & Architectural Rendering, Interior Design Communications 1 &2, Foundation Drawing 1&2.
Assistant Professor, NESAD, Suffolk University, Boston, MA, 1997-2001:
classes: taught Perspective to all majors, Architectural Rendering, Interior Design Communications 1&2,
Printmaking & Paper Making.
Art Director, Museum of Science, Boston, MA, 1997: based on the notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci,
created, directed and taught artisan workshops in drawing light & shadow; mural painting
techniques; linear & atmospheric perspective of the Italian Renaissance.
Full-Time Instructor, NESAD, Suffolk University, Boston, MA 1989-1997:
classes taught: Perspective and 20th Century Art Movements to all majors, Foundation Painting (substitute teacher),
Contemporary Realism painting,(substitute teacher), Printmaking-(created courses in Silkscreen, Drypoint, Woodblock,
Linoleum block, Paper making), Figure Drawing, Portrait Drawing, Mural Painting & Trompe l'oeil techniques.
Substitute Teacher in Introductory Drawing for non-art majors, Suffolk University, Boston, MA 1993:
