Gail Boyajian
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2011 (scheduled)

Endicott College Gallery SOLO

2010

Southern Vermont Art Center, Manchester VT SOLO
Catherine Hammond Gallery, Glengarriff, West Cork, Ireland
GASP, Brookline, MA

2009

Cambridge Arts Council SOLO
"Boston Paints" Endicott Arts Center
Art of Action Traveling Exhibition, Vermont

2008
Catherine Hammond Gallery, Glengarriff, West Cork, Ireland
Ferrin Gallery, Pittsfield, MA
2007

New Britain Museum of American Art SOLO
“Complex Women” Art Complex Museum, Duxbury MA
Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site Exhibition

2006  

Judy Goldman Fine Art Boston MA SOLO
Summer Group Katharina Rich Perlow Gallery NY           
“Boston Ten” Lascano Gallery, Great Barrington MA
“Artist’s Resourse Trust 10th Anniversary Exhibition”, Trustman Gallery Simmons College, Boston MA
Pierre Menard Gallery Cambridge MA
“Arbor” Judy Goldman Fine Art Boston MA

2005

“Unnatural Order” Ckark University, Worcester, MA
Hidell Brooks Gallery, Charlotte North Carolina
20th Anniversary Show Katharina Rich Perlow Gallery NY
Duxbury Art Complex Museum Duxbury MA
St. Botolph Club, Boston MA (Two person)
GASP,Brookline MA

2004

"For the Birds" Artspace,New Haven CT
"New American Paintings" Open Studios Competition Northeast region Wellesley MA
"Finned and Feathered" Essex Art Center Lawrence MA

2003

Judy Goldman Fine Art Boston MA SOLO
Trustman Gallery Simmons College Boston MA
"Alternate Visions: Contemporary Landscapes" Katharina Rich Perlow Gallery New York NY

2002
"Inside Out"Faculty Show Phillips Academy Andover MA
Albright Knox Museum  Members Gallery Buffalo NY
Katharina Rich Perlow Gallery New York NY SOLO
2001

"Holiday Realities" Katharina Rich Perlow Gallery New York NY
"New American Paintings" Open Studios Competition Northeast region Wellesley MA
"A Family Portrait" AVA Gallery  Lebanon NH
"National Competition" (Honorable Mention) Provincetown Art Association and Museum Provincetown MA

2000

Summer Group, Katherina Rich Perlow Gallery New York NY
Katherina Rich Perlow Gallery New York NY SOLO
"Figure, Fantasy and Illusion- Selections from the Arthur S. Goldberg Collection" Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham MA

1999

Salon Show Clark Gallery Lincoln MA
"Boston to Boca" Elaine Baker Gallery, Boca Raton, FL
Summer Group, Katharina Rich Perlow Gallery, New York City NY
"Creative Connections"  Fuller Museum of Art, Brockton MA
Clark Gallery, Lincoln MA SOLO

1998
"Gallery Artists and New Talent" Katherina Rich Perlow Gallery  New York NY
Salon Show, Clark Gallery, Lincoln MA 
"Dreamweavers: Symbolist Tendencies in Contemporary New England Art",The Brush Art Gallery, Lowell, MA
Capturing the Sublime: Contemporary Landscape",Fuller Museum of  Art, Brockton MA
"1998 Exhibition of Painting and Sculpure" The Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield  MA
"Here, There, and Everywhere" Creiger Dane Gallery, Boston MA
"SELF-aMUSEd II: The contemporary Artist as Observer and Observed" The Brush Art Gallery Lowell MA
            
1997

"New American Paintings" Open Studios Competition Northeast Region, Wellesley MA
"New Art: New England" Library Arts Center Newport NH

1996
Creiger Dane Gallery , Boston MA SOLO
"Eighth Triennial Exhibition", Fuller Museum of Art, Brockton, MA

1995
Cambridge Arts Council Juried Exhibition Award Recipient
Group Show- September 1995
One person Show- February 1996

 
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
 

American Embassy in Armenia

Creiger Dane Gallery

DDJ Capital Management Boston MA

Duxbury Art Complex Museum Duxbury MA

Fidelity Investments Boston MA

Meditech Westwood MA 
           
New Britain Museum of American Art

Simmons College Boston MA

Sullivan and Cogliano Waltham MA

Wellington Management Company Boston MA

 
AWARDS AND GRANTS
 

Vermont Arts Council "The Art of Action" Award and Commission 2009

Kenan Grant (Phillips Academy) 2006, 2004

Bogliasco Foundation Fellowship (for Spring 2006)

Artist Resource Trust Grant 2004

Massachusetts Cultural Council Regional Painting grant 2002

NEFA/NEA Regional Painting Grant 1996

Cambridge Arts Council Show Award 1995
  
Graham Fund and Boles Fund Grants for the Study and documentation of the form of aFrench medieval village (MIT Architecture Department)
1976

 
TEACHING
2001 Fall-present
Instructor in Art (Architecture) Phillips Academy Andover MA
2000 Fall 
Visiting Artist School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston MA
1998-2001
"Architectural Ceramics"- Ceramics Department Harvard Office for the Arts  Design and  planning techniques for the decorative treatment of architectural surfaces
1977
"Built Form Observations"- Department of Architecture MIT    Freehand drawing and observation techniques for architecture students
 
EDUCATION
1989-92
School of the Museum of Fine Arts
Painting and Ceramics
1976
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge,
Master of Architecture
1974-75 
Architectural Association, London UK
Graduate study (architectural design)
1970
Tufts University (Jackson College) Medford, MA
Bachelor of Arts (Fine Arts)
1969
Slade School of Art, London, UK
Independent study
 
BIBLIOGRAPHY
 

Abeel, Daphne

"Boyajian's Paintings Portray a Possible Peaceful World" The Armenian Mirror Spectator February 14, 2009
"Boyajian opens second New York Show" The Armenian Mirror Spectator Sept. 14 2002
“Boyajian Sells Painting to New American Embassy in Yerevan” The Armenian Mirror Spectator Jan. 15, 2005

Art and Antiques  September 2002

Artist Resource Trust: The First Ten Years (catalogue)  September 2006

Bergstein, Gerald
"Art Feature-Gail Boyajian" Agni 52

Cohen, David
Gallery Going The New York Sun Thursday July 31, 2003

Cook, Greg
“Burning Issues” The Boston Phoenix June 22, 2007

Costa, Eduardo
"Gail Boyajian" New York Arts November 2002

Crewdson,Michael
"Peak Day" (catalogue essay "For the Birds" exhibition) Artspace New Haven CT Jan 2004

   Crivellaro, Serena
"For the Birds' not for the weak of heart, flightly" The Yale Herald Jan 23, 2004

Denton, Rebecca
"Artistic Family puts on a Show" Valley News May 17, 2001

  Guiliano, Charles
"New American Paintings" Maverick Arts February 18 2004

Harpers Magazine p.96 March 2007

The Hartford Courant “Best Bets” June 21, 2007

Hanson, Alex
“Art Notes” Valley News  June 28, 2007

"Art of the Future, Vermont Style" Valley News March 12, 2009

Jackman, Bob
“Conversation Continues”  The Patriot Ledger July 2-3 2005

  Johnson, Ken
"Holiday Realities" New York Times  Jan. 4, 2002

McQuaid, Cate
"Fantastical Landscapes" Boston Globe February 12, 2009
“Critics Pics” Boston Globe January 4, 2007
"These artistic couples make a picture-perfect match" Boston Globe Friday October 10, 2003
"Boyajian's Broad Horizons" Boston Globe Friday November 14, 2003

"Critics Pics" Boston Globe March 14, 2004

“Pick of the Week” Boston Globe January 4, 2007

Miller, Francine
"Figure, Fantasy and Illusion- Selections from the Arthur Goldberg Collection" (catalogue essay) Danforth Museum Framingham MA  February 2000

Pease, Theresa
"Those who Can, Teach" Andover Bulletin Winter 2004

Parcellin, Paul
"Gallery 57 Cambridge Arts Council- Gail Boyajian Recent Work" Art New England June/July 1996

Sanctuary-Journal of the Massachusetts Audubon Society  Jan/Feb 2001

Temin, Christine
"Best of Show " Boston Globe September 20,1996
"Morgan center Model, Drawings on Display" Boston Globe March 21, 2001