MARCIE JAN BRONSTEIN  . Belfast, Maine USA

EDUCATION
1992   Lorenzo de Medici: Diploma Magister Linguae: Italian language, Florence, Italy
1988   Hampshire College: BFA, Amherst, MA
1986   Fashion Institute of Technology: AAS, Magna Cum Laude, New York, NY

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2023 Maine Jewish Museum: Play Date, Portland, ME  (2 person)
2022 Thrown Contemporary: Winter Exhibition, London UK  (invitational)
Carver Hill Gallery: Winterlude, Camden, ME  (invitational)
Gallery B: Breaking Bread and SWS22, Castine, ME  (invitational)
Penobscot Marine Museum: Penobscot Bay as Muse, Searsport, ME  (invitational)
2021 Cove Street Arts: Eaux the Water, Portland, ME  (3 person show)
  Clifford Gallery, Waterfall Arts: Photographing Belfast's Waterfront, Belfast, ME  (invitational)
2020 Zillman Art Museum: Being Here, Bangor, ME  (solo)
2018 Center for Maine Contemporary Art: Biennial Exhibition, Rockland, ME  (juried)
2017 The Annex Art Center, Castine, ME  (invitational)
2014 Photographic Resource Center: Flash Forward Festival, Boston, MA (invitational)
Slocumb Gallery: Positive/Negative: Pages, Johnson City, TN  (juried)
2013   New England Photography Biennial,Framingham, MA  (invitational)
Aarhus Gallery: Infinite Horizons, Belfast, ME  (invitational)
2012   Parallax, The Women’s Photography Exhibition , Notre Dame U, MD  (invitational)
2009   ME Museum of Photographic Art: Capture: 50 Photographic Artists, Falmouth, ME
2007   Center for Maine Contemporary Art: Altered Nature, Rockport, ME  (invitational)
  Elan Fine Arts: gallery artist, Rockport, ME
2006 Photomedia Center: Illuminating the Negative, Erie, PA  (solo)
2005 Elan Fine Arts: gallery artist, Rockport, ME
Blum Gallery, College of the Atlantic: Portrait/Self Portrait , Bar Harbor, ME (juried)
Center for Maine Contemporary Art: Winter in Maine, Rockport, ME  (juried)
2002   Center for Maine Contemporary Art: Plugged In, Rockport, ME  (juried)
2002 Elements Gallery: gallery artist, Rockland, ME
2001   LSU: Works On Paper 2001, Baton Rouge, LA  (prize Winner- juried)
1999 Elements Gallery: The Doll Series, Rockland, ME  (solo)
Elements Gallery: Dogs In Cars, Rockland, ME  (solo)
Maine Coast Artists: After Dark, Rockport, ME
The Frankfurt Airport: First Designer’s Avenue, Frankfurt, Germany
1997 Creative Photographic Arts Center: Photographs 1992-1997, Lewiston, ME  (solo)
A.I.R. Gallery Invitational: Generations , New York, NY
Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen, Hamilton: Emerging Artists, New York, NY  (2 person)
1996   Sylvia White Gallery: The Horse Show , Los Angeles, CA (juried)
Danforth Gallery: Visions of the Mind, Portland, ME  (juried)
1995   Gallery 2/20: Work in Progress, New York, NY
1994 Casa Italiana/NYU :The Italian Series , NYC,NY (solo)
Galleria Il Diaframma/ Kodak Cultura : Foto Colorate, Milan, Italy  (5 person)
1993 Nuova Libreria Galileo & Studio Poletto, Mestre, Italy  (solo)
1992   Artemare 1992:  L’uomo e il Mare, Riposto, Italy
1990   Michael Thompson Gallery, San Francisco, CA
UC Medical Center, San Francisco, CA
1987 Hampshire College, Amherst, MA  (solo)

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
2021 Portland Press Herald: exhibition review, Portland, ME
  Working Waterfront, Island Institute: feature article, August, Rockport, ME
Maine Arts Journal: feature essay and paintings, Summer
2020 Being Here: Marcie Jan Bronstein, Watercolor Paintings, catalog, Zillman Art Museum
2019   ArtMaze Contemporary Art: featured artist, Summer, Issue 13
2018   Decor Maine: featured artist
  Your Impossible Voice Literary Journal: cover painting, Winter Issue
2017 Portland Press Herald: feature article, Portland, ME
Yale University, Perch Arts & Literary Journal: 2 paintings, New Haven, CT
  New England Review: cover painting, Middlebury, VT
  Maine Home and Design: Maine Artists To Watch, Portland, ME
  Princeton Art Brushes: Artist Spotlight
2016   Art Revealed Magazine: portfolio and interview, London, UK
2015   After The Pause Poetry Journal: featured portfolio of paintings
2008   The Maine Sunday Telegram: featured author, Portland, ME
2004   Exploring Color Photography: feature • McGraw Hill Publishers, New York, NY
2003   Non Satis Scire: Hampshire College Magazine: cover + portfolio feature, Amherst, MA
2001   Object Lessons: Beauty and Meaning in Art, Madison, WI
1998   The Free Press: Two Artists in a Barn..., Rockland, ME
1997   The Maine Sunday Telegram: review of solo exhibition, Portland, ME
1994   Creativity: And then there was NON..., New York, NY
ZOOM: Al Diaframma, Milan, Italy
1993   Il Gazzetino: Un’americana che dipinge le foto (review), Venice, Italy
Il Gazzetino: Musica & fotografia (review), Mestre, Italy
Progresso Fotografico (portfolio), Milan, Italy
1992   La Nazione, Florence, Italy

PUBLIC ART / COMMISSIONS / GRANTS
2021 Our Town Belfast/ME Community Foundation: Crosswalk Design: Flow To The Sea, Belfast, ME
2005   Bellevue Hospital: 250 photographs for new hospital wing, New York, NY
2005 ME Arts Commission: Good Idea Grant, Augusta, Maine
2004   Public Percent-for-Art Program: 30’ x 15’ installation, Belfast, ME
2002   Public Percent-for-Art Program: 24 works, Denver, CO
1994   Saks Fifth Avenue: art in Fifth Avenue windows, New York, NY
1990   Neiman Marcus: art in windows, San Francisco, CA

RESIDENCIES
2023 Momento Ceramics, Locarno, Switzerland
2022 Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts, Newcastle, ME
2018 Millay Colony, (Full Fellowship), Austerlitz, NY
1986 Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY
1985   Vermont Studio School, Johnson, VT

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