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Gail Boyajian



 

Born: Akron, Ohio, 1948. Lives and works in Boston.

             

Education:

1991-1994 School of Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Painting studies
1974-1975 Architectural Association, London, Graduate study
1976 MIT, Cambridge, MA, Master of Architecture
1970 Tufts University, Medford, MA, BA (Fine Arts)
1969-1970 Slade School of Art, London, Independent Studies

             

Exhibitions:

2007 New Britain Museum of American Art, New/Now: Gail Boyajian 
2006 Judy Ann Goldman Fine Art, Boston (solo)
  Simmons College, Boston, Berkshire-Taconic Artist Resource Trust Grant Recipients
  Clark University, Schiltkamp Gallery, Worcester, MA, Unnatural Order
2005 Duxbury Art Complex Museum, Complex Conservations (solo with Liz Sullivan)
  St. Botolph Club, Boston (solo with Gerry Bergstein)
  GASP, Brookline, Image/Text
2004 Artspace, New Haven, For the Birds
2003 Judy Ann Goldman Fine Art, Boston, Allegory of the Air Quality

Simmons College, Boston, Solo show
2002/2003 Albright Knox Museum, Buffalo, NY, Members Gallery
2002 Phillips Academy, Andover, MA, Faculty show

Cambridge Seven Architects, Solo show
2001
Katarina Rich Perlow Gallery, NYC, Solo show
  Katarina Rich Perlow Gallery, NYC, Holiday Realities

AVA Gallery, Lebanon, NH, A Family Portrait
2000 Katarina Rich Perlow, NYC, Summer Group

Katarina Rich Perlow Gallery, NYC, Solo show

Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, MA, Figure, Fantasy and Illusion - Selections from the Arthur S. Goldberg Collection
1999 Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA, Salon show

Elaine Baker Gallery, Boca Raton, FL, Boston to Boca

Katharina Rich Perlow Gallery, NYC, Summer Group

Fuller Museum of Art, Brockton, MA, Creative Connections

Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA, Salon show
1998 Katharina Rich Perlow Gallery, NYC, Gallery Artists and New Talent

Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA, Salon show

The Brush Gallery, Lowell, MA, Dreamweavers: Symbolist Tendencies in Contemporary New England Art

Fuller Museum of Art, Brockton, MA, Capturing the Sublime: Contemporary Landscape

The Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, MA, 1998 Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture

Creiger Dane Gallery, Boston, MA, Here, There, and Everywhere

The Brush Art Gallery, Lowell, MA, Self Amused II

Library Arts Center Newport, NH, New Art, New England
1996 Creiger Dane Gallery, Boston, MA, Solo show

Fuller Museum of Art, Brockton, MA, Eighth Triennial Exhibition
1995-1996 Cambridge Arts Council, Cambridge, MA, Group and Solo Show

             

Awards and Grants

2006 Bogliasco Foundation, Artist Residency
2005 Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation, ART Fund
2002 Massachusetts Cultural Council, Regional Painting Grant
2001 Provincetown Art Assoc/Museum National Competition, Honorable Mention
1996 NEFA/NEA, Regional Painting Grant
1995 Cambridge Arts Council Show Award
1976 Graham Fund and Boles Fund Grants

             

Selected Collections:


Duxbury Art Complex and Museum

Fidelity Investments, Boston

DDJ Capital Management, Boston

Sullivan and Cogliano, Waltham, MA

Meditech, Westwood, MA

Wellington Management, Boston
  American Embassy, Yerevan, Armenia

             

Bibliography:

  McQuaid, Cate, Boyajian's broad horizons, Boston Globe, Nov. 14, 2003.

McQuaid, Cate, Tranquility and Chaos, Boston Globe, Nov. 28, 2003
  McQuaid, Cate, These artistic couples make a picture perfect match, Boston Globe Oct. 10, 2003
  New American Paintings, Spring 2000, Spring 2002, Spring 2004
  Cohen, David, Gallery Going, New Your Sun, July 31, 2003

Abeel, Daphne, Boyajian opens second New York Show, Armenian Mirror Spectator, Sept. 14, 2002.

Art and Antiques, illus. page 41, September 2002.

Bergstein, Gerald, Art Feature- Gail Boyajian Agni 52, Fall 2000

Costa, Eduardo, Gail Boyajian, NY Arts, Nov. 2002.

Denton, Rebecca, Artistic family puts on a show, Valley News, Lebanon, NH, May 17, 2001

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

Miller, Francine Koslow, Figure, Fantasy, and Illusion (catalogue essay), Danforth Museum, Framingham, MA, Feb. 2000.

Parcellin, Paul, Gail Boyajian: recent work, Art New England, June/July 1996.

Sanctuary-Journal of the Massachusetts Audubon Society, Jan/Feb 2001, illus. page 3.

Temin, Christine, Best of Show ,Boston Globe, Sept. 20, 1996

Temin, Christine, Morgan Center Model, Drawings on Display, Boston Globe, March 21, 2001.