Born Montclair, New Jersey, 1927
Education Cooper Union, New York City, 1945-48
Grants and Awards
2007 Benjamin West Clinedinst Medal, Artists’ Fellowship
2005 Augustus St. Gaudens Distinguished Alumni Award, Cooper Union
2004 Honorary Degree Old Lyme Academy
1991 American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, Hassam, Speicher, Betts and Symons Purchase Prize
1990 National Academy of Design—Henry Ward Ranger Purchase Award
1987 Cooper Union Distinguished Alumni Citation
1987 National Academy of Design—Leonilda S. Gervas Award
1986 American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters Award
1971 Ingram Merrill Foundation Grant
1962 Longview Foundation Purchase Award
1959-1960 Italian Government Study Grant
One-person Exhibitions
2007 Lois Dodd: Paintings and Drawings, Southern Methodist University, Pollack Gallery, Dallas, Texas
Lois Dodd: Paintings, Reynolds Gallery, Richmond, Virginia
2006 Lois Dodd: Recent Paintings, Alexandre Gallery, New York, New York
Lois Dodd: Works on Paper, June Fitzpatrick Gallery, Portland, Maine
Lois Dodd: A Pure Landscape, The Fine and Performing Arts Center at Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, North Carolina
2005 Women at Work II: Drawings and Paintings, Caldbeck Gallery, Rockland, Maine
2004 Alexandre Gallery, New York, NY
Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Me
Nudes in the Landscape. Travelling to: Jaffe-Fried Gallery, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH and Daura Gallery, Lynchberg College, Lynchberg, VA.
2003 Alexandre Gallery, New York, New York
Nudes in the Landscape, New York Studio School, New York, NY. Travelling to: Banana Factory, Bethleham, PA.
Caldbeck Gallery, Rockland, Maine, Selected Small Paintings
2002 Swarthmore Collect, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania (2 Person)
2001 Kingsborough Community College, Brooklyn, New York
2001 Caldbeck Gallery, Rockland, Maine
2001 Fischbach Gallery, New York, New York
2001 Paesaggio Gallery, Canton, Connecticut
2000 Fischbach Gallery, New York, New York
1999 Fischbach Gallery, New York, New York
1998 Caldbeck Gallery, Rockland, Maine
1997 Fischbach Gallery, New York, New York
1996 Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, New Jersey
1996 Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, Maine
1996 Trenton City Museum, Trenton, New Jersey
1996 Fischbach Gallery, New York, New York
1995 Paesaggio Gallery, Canton, Connecticut
Caldbeck Gallery, Rockland, Maine
1994 Fischbach Gallery, New York, New York
Painter’s Painting, Caldbeck Gallery, Rockland, Maine
1993 Roundtop Center for the Arts, Damariscotta, Maine
1992 Fischbach Gallery, New York, New York
Rider College Gallery, Lawrenceville, New Jersey
1990 Fischbach Gallery, New York, New York
Caldbeck Gallery, Rockland, Maine
Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire
1988 Fischbach Gallery, New York, New York
1987 Anne Weber Gallery, Georgetown, Maine
1986 Fischbach Gallery, New York, New York
1984 Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
1983 Cape Split Place, Addison, Maine
1982 Fischbach Gallery, New York, New York
1981 New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, New Jersey
1980 Lyman Allyn Museum, New London, Connecticut
Fischbach Gallery, New York, New York
1979 Selected Paintings 1969-1979, Cape Split Place, Addison, Maine
1978 Fischbach Gallery, New York, New York
1977 Colby College, Waterville, Maine
Cape Split Place, Addison, Maine
1976 Green Mountain Gallery, New York, New York
1974 Green Mountain Gallery, New York, New York
1973 Thomas College, Waterville, Maine
1971 Green Mountain Gallery, New York, New York
1970 Green Mountain Gallery, New York, New York
1969 Green Mountain Gallery, New York, New York
1962 Tanager Gallery, New York, New York
1961 Tanager Gallery, New York, New York
1958 Tanager Gallery, New York, New York
1957 Tanager Gallery, New York, New York
1954 Tanager Gallery, New York, New York
Group Exhibitions
2007 Night Vision: Printing Darkness, Center for Contemporary Printmaking, Norwalk, Connecticut
Real Time: Focus, Redefining the Painted Landscape, Bernarducci Meisel Gallery, New York, New York
Selected Work By Gallery Artists, Alexandre Gallery, New York, New York
2006 Five Landscape Paintings, University of Maine Museum of Art, Bangor, Maine
Fluid Fields, The Painting Center, New York, New York
The Maine Print Project: Celebrating 200 Years of Printmaking in Maine, Maine Center for Contemporary Art, Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, Maine
The Figure in American Painting and Drawing 1985-2005, Ogunquit Museum of American Art, Ogunquit, Maine
Landscaping, Lohin Geduld Gallery, New York, New York
Watercurrents 2006: The Figure, Lori Bookstein Fine Art, New York, New York
The Landscape of Golf, Newport Art Museum, Newport, Rhode Island
Got Cow? A Celebration of Bovine Bounty, The Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, New York
2005 A Sense of Place: New Jersey, The Noyes Museum of Art, Oceanville, New Jersey
Pictures: Five Landscape Paintings, The University of Maine Museum of Art, Bangor, Maine
100 New York Painters, Long Island University, Brooklyn, New York
50th Anniversary Exhibition, Terrain Gallery, Aesthetic Realism Foundation New York, New York
Vermont Studio Center’s 20th Anniversary Benefit Auction, Sotheby’s, New York, New York
Artists at Work, Paris, New York Kent Fine Art, Kent, Connecticut
Water, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, Maine
Summer Landscapes, Alexandre Gallery, New York, New York
Paint on Metal: Modern and Contemporary Explorations and Discoveries, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, Arizona
Disegno: The 180th Annual Exhibition, National Academy of Design, New York, New York
7th Annual Art Auction, National Academy School of Fine Arts, New York, New York
Transforming the Page: Lines, Washes, and Smudges, National Academy Museum, New York, New York, 2004-05
2004 The Artist Eye, curator Wolf Kahn, National Academy of Design, New York, NY
WatercolorKouros Gallery, New York, NY
Lyme Academy , Lyme, CT
2003 Maine Art Gallery, Wiscasset, ME
Rocl;amd Harbor, Caldbeck Gallery, Rockalnd, ME
178th National Academy of Design Member Exhibition, New York, NY
MoveableFeasts: Contemporary Takes on Still Life, Zeuxis Group at Westbeth Gallery, New York, NY
Lyrical Landscapes, Widener Gallery, Trinity College, Hartford, CT
Holiday Salon, Paesaggio Gallery, West Hartford, CT
Watercolor, Kouros Gallery, New York, NY
2002 Lois Dodd and Elizabeth O’Reilly, List Gallery, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania
1995 National Academy Members Exhibition, New York, New York
50’s – 60’s Selected Paintings, Fischbach Gallery, New York, NY
Animals, Animals, Anita Shapolsky Gallery, New York, New York
1994 Trees, Midtown Payson Gallery, New York, New York
46th Annual Academy – Institute Purchase Exhibition, American Academy-Institute of Arts & Letters, New York, New York
1993 Men Working, G.W. Einstein Gallery, New York, New York
45th Annual Academy – Institute Purchase Exhibition, American Academy-Institute of Arts & Letters, New York, New York
1992 Through a Glass Darkly, First Street Gallery, New York, New York
The Maine Muse, Paesaggio Gallery, Hartford, Connecticut
44th Annual Academy – Institute Purchase Exhibition, American Academy-Institute of Arts & Letters, New York, New York
Recent Acquisitions, Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, Maine
1991 The Artist in the Garden, National Academy of Design, New York, New York
43rd Annual Academy – Institute Purchase Exhibition, American Academy-Institute of Arts & Letters, New York, New York
1990 165th Annual Exhibit, National Academy of Design, New York, New York
Voyages of the Modern Imagination, Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, Maine
1989 June Moon, Einstein Gallery, New York, New York
Landscapes, Greenwald and Marin, New Hope, Pennsylvania
Drawings From Life, Research Foundation, CUNY, New York
Contemporary Plein Air Landscape, Tatistcheff Gallery, Santa Monica, California
1988 Vision and Tradition, Morris Museum, Morristown, New Jersey and Colby College, Waterville, Maine
Contemporary Nudes, 1 Penn Plaza, New York, New York
Landscape Anthology, Borgenicht Gallery, New York, New York
The Face of the Land, Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Loretto, Pennsylvania
1987 The Artist and the River, Kemerer Museum, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
American Art Today, The Portrait, The Art Museum of Florida International University, Miami, Florida
Director’s Invitational, Maine Coast Artist’s Gallery, Rockport, Maine
162nd Annual Exhibition, National Academy of Design, New York, New York
1986 Paintings and Sculpture by Candidates for Art Awards, The American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, New York
1985 Horse, Ammo, Brooklyn, New York
The Gathering of the Avant-Garde, the Lower-East Side 1948-1970, Kenkeleba House, New York, New York
Figural Art of the New York School: Selections from the Ciba-Geigy Collection, Baruch College Gallery, New York, New York
Green Mountain Retrospective, First Half, Blue Mountain Gallery, New York, New York
1984 Masters of Classical Realism, Allen Preibe Gallery, University of Wisconsin at Oshkosh
The Spirit of the Coast, Monmouth Museum, Lincroft, New Jersey
The First Eight Years, Artist’s Choice Museum, New York, New York
1983 Works by Artists in the Historical Archives of the Women’s Interart Center of N.Y.C, Philadelphia college of Art, Pennsylvania
Tanager Gallery, 1952-1962, Bueckner and Harpsichord, New York, New York
Painted Light, Artist’s Choice Museum, New York, New York, and tour
1982 Painterly Realism, Rahr-West Museum, Manitowac, Wisconsin
Painterly Landscape, Jersey city Museum, Jersey City, New Jersey
1981 Eight With Nature, Landmark Gallery, New York, New York
1980 Image in Landscape: The Last Decade, University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire
1979 Painterly Realism in America, A.J. Wood Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1978 American Realism, William and Mary College, Williamsburg, Virginia
Survey of Realism, Sardoni Gallery, Wilkes College, Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania
Painterly Realism, Watson, DeNagy Gallery, Houston, Texas
The Landscape: Different Points of View, Wave Hill, Riverdale, New York, New York
Contemporary Landscapes: Broad Vista and Distant Perspectives, Roanoke Fine Arts Center, Virginia
1977 Figurative Art in New York, Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington, Indiana
Ten Painters of Maine, Landmark Gallery, New York, New York
American Realists, Clark-Benton Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Magic Circle, Bronx Museum, Bronx, New York
Brooklyn College Art Department- Past and Present 1942-1977, Robert Schoelkopf Gallery, New York, New York
1976 Maine ’76, Maine State Museum, Augusta, Maine
Artists for Environment Exhibit, Walpack Center, New Jersey
1975 Dodd, Gelber, Groell, Sewall Art Gallery, Rice University, Houston, Texas
1974 Works by Women from the Ciba-Geigy Collection, Michigan State University and University of North Carolina
The Eye of Woman, Hobart and William Smith, Geneva, New York
Annual Contemporary Painting Show, Randolph Macon Women’s College, Lynchburg, Virginia
Soho and So, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
Member’s Gallery Exhibition, Albright-Knox Museum, Buffalo, New York
New Images, Queens Museum, New York
1973 Childe Hassam Purchase Exhibition, American Academy Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, New York
A Sense of Place, traveling exhibition to Missouri, Kansas, Iowa, South Dakota and Nebraska
1972 Twentieth Annual Exhibition, Museum of Art of Ogunquit, Maine
Women in the Arts, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin
The Mind’s Eye, Green Mountain Gallery, New York, new York
Women Choose Women, New York Cultural Center, New York, New York
1971 Ciba-Geigy collection, Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, New York
New England Landscapes, Fleming Museum, Burlington, Vermont
Homage to the Tanager, Roko Gallery, New York, New York
1970 Bowery Gallery, New York, New York
First Street Gallery, New York, New York
Painterly Realism, American Federation of Arts, traveling exhibition
Green Mountain Group, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania
1967 Ithaca College Museum of Art, Ithaca, New York
1965 Drawings, Purdue University, Lafayette, Indiana
Drawings, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Eighteen Painters, selected by Fairfield Porter, Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New York
1964 Drawings and Watercolors, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
1962 Out of Doors Landscape, Kornblee Gallery, New York, New York
1961 Tanager Group, American University, Washington, D.C.
1960 Artisti Americani Residenti a Roma, Palazzo Venezia, Rome, Italy
1959 Art USA, New York Coliseum, New York, New York
1958 Stable Annual, Stable Gallery, New York, New York
1953 Dodd-Katz, Tanager Gallery, New York, New York
The Accent Gallery, Lakewood, Maine
1949 Pyramid Gallery, New York, New York
Memberships
American Academy & Institute of Arts & Letters 1998 to date
Colby College Museum Advisory Board 1990 – 1993
National Academy of Design 1988 to date
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture
Chairperson, Board of Governors 1986 – 1988
Board of Governors 1980 to date
Board of Advisors, Artist’s Choice Museum 1977
Board Member, The Lower East Side Printshop,
East 4th Street, New York 1972 – 1974
Chairperson, Cooper Square Community Development Committee 1972 – 1975
Artist’s Housing committee, Cooper Square 1962 – 1975
Tanager Gallery, a founder 1952 – 1962
Teaching
Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, Vermont 1994
Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, New York 1971 – 1992
Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 1984
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Maine 1979
Queens College, Queens, New York 1969 – 1971
Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, New York 1965 – 1969
Wagner College, Staten Island, New York 1964 – 1965
Philadelphia College of Art, Pennsylvania 1962 – 1963