REBECCA PURDUM
1959
Born Idaho Falls, Idaho
Lives and works in Ripton,Vermont
Education
1980
St. Martin's School of Art, London, England
1981
B.F.A. in Painting, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York
1981
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, Maine
Grants and Awards
2019
Peter S. Reed Foundation Grant
2005
Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant
1991
Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award
1991
Eugene McDermott Award, M.I.T.
1981
National Society of Arts and Letters, Paul Branson Memorial Award
1981
Ruth Baker Award, NSAL national prize in drawing
1981
Augusta G. Hazard/Hirim Gee Award
1979
Harriet T. Levenworth Award
1978-1980
Ford Foundation Grants
Exhibitions
2024
Rebecca Purdum: Early Paintings, Frieze Masters, The Regents Park, London, England. October 9 - 13th
Le vernissage, partie un, Brigitte Mulholland, 81 Rue de Turenne, Paris, France 75003. Summer group show
2023
Ravens and Crows, 14 Rue des Coutures Saint-Gervais, Paris, France. Curated by Brigitte Mulholland and Winter Street Gallery. With artists: Pardiss Amerian, Hamish Chapman, Chelsea Culprit, Julie Curtiss, Elizabeth Glaessner, Leo Nataf, Rebecca Purdum, Robin F. Williams, Leah Ke Yi Zheng. November 9 - December 9th
Object Matter: A Philanthropic Exhibition Benefiting the Sam & Adele Golden Foundation for the Arts, October 7 - November 26, Caldwell Gallery Hudson, Hudson, New York
2022
Rebecca Purdum: New Paintings, Pamela Salisbury Gallery, Hudson, New York
Rebecca Purdum: Selected Works 1986 to 2021, Tilton Gallery, New York, New York
Transcendent Landscapes: Abstracting Nature, Hood Museum of Art, Hanover, New Hampshire. Curated by Alice Crow
2021
Rebecca Purdum: Breathing Painting, The New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting, and Sculpture
2020
Every Day Painting: Rebecca Purdum Selected Works, Pamela Salisbury Gallery, Hudson, New York
2019
Doing What Comes Naturally: Seven Painters in Their Prime, The Milton Resnick and Pat Passlof Foundation, New York, New York. Curated by Robert Storr
2018
In Tribute to Jack Tilton: A Selection from 35 Years, Tilton Gallery, New York, New York
2017
23 Artists from the Atea Ring Gallery, Keene Arts, Keene, New York
2014
In Residence: Contemporary Artists at Dartmouth, Hood Museum of Art, Hanover, New Hampshire
2013
Rebecca Purdum/Harold Weston, Atea Ring Gallery, Westport, New York
2012
Rebecca Purdum, Paintings, Atea Ring Gallery, Westport, New York
2011
Rebecca Purdum/Matthew Fischer, Tilton Gallery, New York, New York
Arcadia Now, The Christine Price Gallery, Castleton State College, Castleton, Vermont. Curated by Tom McGlynn; traveled to New Jersey City University, Jersey City, New Jersey (catalogue)
Rebecca Purdum, Atea Ring Gallery, Westport, New York
2010
Group Show, Southern Vermont Arts Center, Manchester, Vermont. Curated by Gerald Auten
Rebecca Purdum Paintings and Drawings, Atea Ring Gallery, Westport, New York
2009
Rebecca Purdum, Jaffe-Friede Gallery, Hopkins Center for the Arts, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH (catalogue with essay by Sister Wendy Beckett)
2007
Art Now: Rebecca Purdum, Middlebury College Museum of Art, Middlebury, Vermont
2006
Rebecca Purdum/Miguel Angel Rios, Tilton Gallery, New York
2005
Tilton Gallery Celebrates 22 Years, Tilton Gallery, New York
2003
Regional Selections 30, Hood Museum of Art, Hanover, New Hampshire (catalogue)
2002
No Greater Love, Abstraction, Jack Tilton/ Anna Kustera Gallery, New York
2001
Solo Exhibition, Jack Tilton/Anna Kustera Gallery, New York
2000
Solo Exhibition, Jack Tilton Gallery, New York
To Each Her Own: 10 Contemporary Artists, Johnson Memorial Gallery, Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont (catalogue)
1999
Engaging Abstraction, Lebanon Valley College Museum of Art, Annville, PA
After Nature, Herter Art Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
1998
Solo Exhibiton, Jack Tilton Gallery, New York
1997
After the Fall, Snug Harbor Center, Staten Island, New York. Curated by Lilly Wei (catalogue)
Alive and Well, Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York
The Poetic Object: Paintings of Rebecca Purdum, Contemporary Gallery, Marywood University, Scranton, PA (catalogue)
1995
Solo Exhibition, Jack Tilton Gallery, New York
1994
Repicturing Abstraction, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts; Anderson Gallery; Marsh Gallery; 1708 Gallery, Richmond, VA (catalogue)
1993
Solo Exhibiton, Jack Tilton Gallery, New York
1991
Solo Exhibiton, Jack Tilton Gallery, New York
Whitney Biennial, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (catalogue)
New Generations: New York, Carnegie Mellon University Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA (catalogue)
1990
Rebecca Purdum: Paintings, M.I.T. List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA (catalogue)
1989
Solo Exhibition, Jack Tilton Gallery, New York (catalogue)
Ten + Ten: Contemporary Soviet and American Painters, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, TX. Traveling to San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA; Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY; Milwaukee Art Museum, WI; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.; Artist's Union Hall of the Tretyakov Embankment, Moscow; Tsentralnyi Zal Khudozhnikov, Tbilisi, Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic; Tsentralnyi Zystavochnyi Zal, Leningrad (catalogue)
1988
Recent Acquisitions to the M.I.T Permanent Collection, List Visual Arts Center, M.I.T., Cambridge, MA
Contemporary Syntax: Color and Saturation, Robeson Center Art Gallery, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ. Curated by Alison Weld (catalogue)
1987
Solo Exhibiton, Jack Tilton Gallery, New York
5 Abstract Artists, New York Studio School, New York (curator: Robert Storr)
1986
Solo Exhibiton, Jack Tilton Gallery, New York (catalogue)
Inspiration Comes from Nature, JackTilton Gallery, New York
1985
Group Exhibiton, Jack Tilton Gallery, New York
1981
Forty-third Annual Artists of Central New York, Museum of Art, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, NY
Visiting Artist
2009 Artist-in-Residence, Fall 2009, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
1999 Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT and Williams College, Williamstown, MA
1995 talks in conjunction with Repicturing Abstraction, VCU, Richmond, VA
1993 Olive Press, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
1992 talks in conjunction with David Ortins/ Rebecca Purdum, American Center Tokyo and Kyoto
1988 New York Studio School
1986 Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
Public Collections
Hood Museum of Art, Hanover, New Hampshire
Fort Worth Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas
Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
List Visual Arts Center, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Munson-Williams-Proctor Museum of Art, Utica, New York
Arthur Anderson and Co., New York, New York
Chase Manhattan Bank, New York, New York
I.C. Deal, Dallas, Texas
Merck Corporation, Dresher, Pennsylvania
Orrick, Herrington and Sutcliff, New York, New York
U.S. Trust, New York, New York
1959
Born Idaho Falls, Idaho
Lives and works in Ripton,Vermont
Education
1980
St. Martin's School of Art, London, England
1981
B.F.A. in Painting, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York
1981
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, Maine
Grants and Awards
2019
Peter S. Reed Foundation Grant
2005
Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant
1991
Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award
1991
Eugene McDermott Award, M.I.T.
1981
National Society of Arts and Letters, Paul Branson Memorial Award
1981
Ruth Baker Award, NSAL national prize in drawing
1981
Augusta G. Hazard/Hirim Gee Award
1979
Harriet T. Levenworth Award
1978-1980
Ford Foundation Grants
Exhibitions
2024
Rebecca Purdum: Early Paintings, Frieze Masters, The Regents Park, London, England. October 9 - 13th
Le vernissage, partie un, Brigitte Mulholland, 81 Rue de Turenne, Paris, France 75003. Summer group show
2023
Ravens and Crows, 14 Rue des Coutures Saint-Gervais, Paris, France. Curated by Brigitte Mulholland and Winter Street Gallery. With artists: Pardiss Amerian, Hamish Chapman, Chelsea Culprit, Julie Curtiss, Elizabeth Glaessner, Leo Nataf, Rebecca Purdum, Robin F. Williams, Leah Ke Yi Zheng. November 9 - December 9th
Object Matter: A Philanthropic Exhibition Benefiting the Sam & Adele Golden Foundation for the Arts, October 7 - November 26, Caldwell Gallery Hudson, Hudson, New York
2022
Rebecca Purdum: New Paintings, Pamela Salisbury Gallery, Hudson, New York
Rebecca Purdum: Selected Works 1986 to 2021, Tilton Gallery, New York, New York
Transcendent Landscapes: Abstracting Nature, Hood Museum of Art, Hanover, New Hampshire. Curated by Alice Crow
2021
Rebecca Purdum: Breathing Painting, The New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting, and Sculpture
2020
Every Day Painting: Rebecca Purdum Selected Works, Pamela Salisbury Gallery, Hudson, New York
2019
Doing What Comes Naturally: Seven Painters in Their Prime, The Milton Resnick and Pat Passlof Foundation, New York, New York. Curated by Robert Storr
2018
In Tribute to Jack Tilton: A Selection from 35 Years, Tilton Gallery, New York, New York
2017
23 Artists from the Atea Ring Gallery, Keene Arts, Keene, New York
2014
In Residence: Contemporary Artists at Dartmouth, Hood Museum of Art, Hanover, New Hampshire
2013
Rebecca Purdum/Harold Weston, Atea Ring Gallery, Westport, New York
2012
Rebecca Purdum, Paintings, Atea Ring Gallery, Westport, New York
2011
Rebecca Purdum/Matthew Fischer, Tilton Gallery, New York, New York
Arcadia Now, The Christine Price Gallery, Castleton State College, Castleton, Vermont. Curated by Tom McGlynn; traveled to New Jersey City University, Jersey City, New Jersey (catalogue)
Rebecca Purdum, Atea Ring Gallery, Westport, New York
2010
Group Show, Southern Vermont Arts Center, Manchester, Vermont. Curated by Gerald Auten
Rebecca Purdum Paintings and Drawings, Atea Ring Gallery, Westport, New York
2009
Rebecca Purdum, Jaffe-Friede Gallery, Hopkins Center for the Arts, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH (catalogue with essay by Sister Wendy Beckett)
2007
Art Now: Rebecca Purdum, Middlebury College Museum of Art, Middlebury, Vermont
2006
Rebecca Purdum/Miguel Angel Rios, Tilton Gallery, New York
2005
Tilton Gallery Celebrates 22 Years, Tilton Gallery, New York
2003
Regional Selections 30, Hood Museum of Art, Hanover, New Hampshire (catalogue)
2002
No Greater Love, Abstraction, Jack Tilton/ Anna Kustera Gallery, New York
2001
Solo Exhibition, Jack Tilton/Anna Kustera Gallery, New York
2000
Solo Exhibition, Jack Tilton Gallery, New York
To Each Her Own: 10 Contemporary Artists, Johnson Memorial Gallery, Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont (catalogue)
1999
Engaging Abstraction, Lebanon Valley College Museum of Art, Annville, PA
After Nature, Herter Art Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
1998
Solo Exhibiton, Jack Tilton Gallery, New York
1997
After the Fall, Snug Harbor Center, Staten Island, New York. Curated by Lilly Wei (catalogue)
Alive and Well, Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York
The Poetic Object: Paintings of Rebecca Purdum, Contemporary Gallery, Marywood University, Scranton, PA (catalogue)
1995
Solo Exhibition, Jack Tilton Gallery, New York
1994
Repicturing Abstraction, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts; Anderson Gallery; Marsh Gallery; 1708 Gallery, Richmond, VA (catalogue)
1993
Solo Exhibiton, Jack Tilton Gallery, New York
1991
Solo Exhibiton, Jack Tilton Gallery, New York
Whitney Biennial, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (catalogue)
New Generations: New York, Carnegie Mellon University Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA (catalogue)
1990
Rebecca Purdum: Paintings, M.I.T. List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA (catalogue)
1989
Solo Exhibition, Jack Tilton Gallery, New York (catalogue)
Ten + Ten: Contemporary Soviet and American Painters, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, TX. Traveling to San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA; Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY; Milwaukee Art Museum, WI; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.; Artist's Union Hall of the Tretyakov Embankment, Moscow; Tsentralnyi Zal Khudozhnikov, Tbilisi, Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic; Tsentralnyi Zystavochnyi Zal, Leningrad (catalogue)
1988
Recent Acquisitions to the M.I.T Permanent Collection, List Visual Arts Center, M.I.T., Cambridge, MA
Contemporary Syntax: Color and Saturation, Robeson Center Art Gallery, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ. Curated by Alison Weld (catalogue)
1987
Solo Exhibiton, Jack Tilton Gallery, New York
5 Abstract Artists, New York Studio School, New York (curator: Robert Storr)
1986
Solo Exhibiton, Jack Tilton Gallery, New York (catalogue)
Inspiration Comes from Nature, JackTilton Gallery, New York
1985
Group Exhibiton, Jack Tilton Gallery, New York
1981
Forty-third Annual Artists of Central New York, Museum of Art, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, NY
Visiting Artist
2009 Artist-in-Residence, Fall 2009, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
1999 Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT and Williams College, Williamstown, MA
1995 talks in conjunction with Repicturing Abstraction, VCU, Richmond, VA
1993 Olive Press, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
1992 talks in conjunction with David Ortins/ Rebecca Purdum, American Center Tokyo and Kyoto
1988 New York Studio School
1986 Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
Public Collections
Hood Museum of Art, Hanover, New Hampshire
Fort Worth Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas
Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
List Visual Arts Center, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Munson-Williams-Proctor Museum of Art, Utica, New York
Arthur Anderson and Co., New York, New York
Chase Manhattan Bank, New York, New York
I.C. Deal, Dallas, Texas
Merck Corporation, Dresher, Pennsylvania
Orrick, Herrington and Sutcliff, New York, New York
U.S. Trust, New York, New York
