exhibition history
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Born 1963, Cleveland, Ohio
Lives and works in Boston, MassachusettsEducation
Summer 2002 Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, Skowhegan, Maine - Recipient of Artist’s Fellowship
1999 – 2001 Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, Massachusetts - Master of Fine Arts – Recipient of the Michael Doherty Fellowship
1993 – 1997 Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, Massachusetts - Bachelor of Fine Arts – Graduated with honors and distinction
1980 – 1984 Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts - Bachelor of Science (Business Administration-Marketing)
Awards
2007 Art Matters Foundation Award
2007 Nominee – Louis Comfort Tiffany Award
2007 Nominee – Joan Mitchell Foundation Award
2006 Nominee - Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant
2006 Nominee - Institute of Contemporary Art Boston Artist Prize
2005 Nominee - Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award
Juried Exhibitions - * denotes solo exhibition
July 5 - August 5, 2008
Gallery Peopeo Art Exhibition No. 3
Gallery Peopeo, 798 Art District, Beijing, China
Josh Yu, CuratorMay 9 - July 26, 2008
ambivalent figuration; people
Samson Projects, Boston, MA
April 4 - April 28, 2008
Rapture - New Work by Steve Locke*
Hall Street Gallery
Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, Georgia
August 27 - October 4, 2007
No Ego: New Paintings by Steve Locke*
Carol Schlosberg Alumni Gallery
Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA
Leonie Bradbury, Curator
March 14, 2007 - April 20, 2007
Visual Dialogue
Clark University
Traina Center for the Arts, Schiltkamp Gallery
Elli Crocker, CuratorFebruary 21 – March 29, 2007
mo(u)rning*
Lillian Immig Gallery at Emmanuel College, Boston, MA
Kathleen Bitetti, CuratorOctober 5 – October 29, 2006
Youshi Li + Steve Locke*
Rhys Gallery, Boston, MA (Boston Globe review) (In Newsweekly review)September 13 – October 25, 2006
Simulacrum
Lillian Immig Gallery at Emmanuel College, Boston, MASeptember 9 – October 30, 2005
Circumference*
Mills Project Space-Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA, Director/Curator: Laura Donaldson (artsMedia review)
February 26 – April 2, 2005
when you’re a boy…*
Artists Foundation Main Gallery, Boston, MA, Director/Curator: Kathleen Bitetti
January 20 – February 10, 2005
New Paintings/New Drawings*
Mazmanian Gallery at Framingham State College, Framingham, MA
March 20 – May 20, 2004
superSalon
Samson Projects, Boston, MA Curator: Camilo Alvarez
March 20 – May 15, 2004
Boston High Tea
AramonaStudio, New York City, NY, Curator: Peter Wayne Lewis
January 16 – March 7, 2004
The 18th Drawing Show
Boston Center for the Arts – Mills Gallery, Boston, MA
Juror: Ralphaela Paltow, Curator, Rose Art Museum
May 16 – September 5, 2002
Making a Mark
Danforth Museum, Framingham, MA, Curator: Helen Shlien
November 28 – December 29, 2001
Selections from the Boston Drawing Project
Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, MA, Curator: James Hull
October 12 – November 20, 2001
Drawing the New Millennium: The Challenge of Media and Idea to the Nature of Drawing
Maine Artists Space, Danforth Gallery, Portland, ME
Jurors: Elizabeth French, Curator, The Drawing Center, New York and John Murchie, Independent Curator, New Brunswick
(Portland Phoenix review)
September 18 – 26, 2001
150x150
The Gallery at Green Street, Boston, MA
April 27 – May 12, 2001
Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition
Bakalar Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
April 2 – 29, 2001
His and Hers: New Drawings (with Candice Smith Corby)
Patricia Doran Gallery, Boston, MA
March 2001
Members Show
Copley Society, Boston, MA
January 9 – February 6, 2001
Red
Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, MA, Juror: Harry Cooper, Fogg Museum of Art, HUAC
August 1 – 31, 2000
Some Men*
Patricia Doran Gallery, Boston, MA
October 13 – 21, 1998
ART Cetera Auction / Benefit for the AIDS Action Committee
Cyclorama, Boston, MA, Juror: Pennie Brantley, Boston Center for the Arts
March 27- April 13, 1997
Division of Labor Recent paintings*
Noonan Gallery, Cambridge, MA
March 14 - April 3, 1996
Guys with Ties and other Portraits – New Paintings*
Noonan Gallery, Cambridge, MAGuest Lectures and Panels
"Four Lectures on Visual Language" Lecture series for first-year students, Massachusetts College of Art, September-October, 2007.
"Visiting Artist Program Lecture" Lecture/Critique, Art Institute of Boston, April 6, 2007.
"Visiting Artist Program Lecture" Lecture/Critique, Montserrat College of Art, April 18, 2007.
“In Practice – Post-Modern Strategies” Lecture, Tufts University, April 10, 2006.
“Domestic Bliss to Domestic Violence” with Leika Akiyama, Leonie Bradbury, Michela Griffo, and Andy Mowbray, Women's Caucus for Art, National Convention, Moderator: Kathleen Bitetti, February 19, 2006.
“Idea to Image and Back Again” Lecture, College of the Holy Cross, February 8 2006.
“Based Here” Art Institute of Boston, with Shelbourne Thurber, Moderator, Bill Arning, MIT List Center, January 12, 2006
“A Conversation with Steve Locke and Laura Donalsdon” Lecture/Discussion with Laura Donaldson, Director, Mills Gallery, part of the exhibition, Circumference, October 6, 2005.
“Where I’m Coming From” at the conference, Educating Artists for a Multicultural World, ProArts Consortium, Boston, Massachusetts, Ted Lansdmark, Boston Architectural Center, Moderator. February 8, 9, 2001.
Artist Residencies
2008 Spring Artist-in-Residence, Savannah College of Art and Design
2002 Summer Skowhegan School of Painting and SculptureVisiting Artist Critiques
2007 Savannah College of Art and Design Graduate Program
2002 – 2005 Massachusetts College of Art BFA Program
2005 Massachusetts College of Art MFA Program
2004 – 2005 College of the Holy Cross