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BIO
A painter of the American landscape and student of its culture, Susan Jane Belton is currently working on images of logo-emblazoned take-out coffee cups and their non-drip plastic lids. She investigates these collections of cups as icons of corporate culture and talismans of contemporary rituals.
Belton is a graduate of Colby College and studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago as well as the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. There she received the Clarissa Bartlett Traveling Fellowship and traveled to California to continue her investigation of and fascination with American suburbs. She was a Massachusetts Cultural Council Grant Recipient and Finalist, and received two Boston Cultural Council Grants and a Museum School Faculty Enrichment Grant. Her work is in many public and private collections. She teaches at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts and maintains a studio in the South End neighborhood of Boston. Her work can also be found at the George Billis Gallery in New York and Los Angeles, and the Howard Yezerski Gallery in Boston.
RESUME
EDUCATION
School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts, Diploma, 1979.
Colby College, Waterville, Maine, B.A., Cum Laude, 1973.
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, 1970.
ONE-PERSON EXHIBITIONS2012-"What's Yours",Susan Jane Belton, University of Maine, Museum of Art, Bangor, Maine
2012-"Still Life: The Painted Image", Washington County Museum of Fine Arts, Hagerstown, Maryland
2011 - George Billis Gallery, New York, New York
2010 - "Coffee To Go", Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
2009 - George Billis Gallery, New York, New York
2008 - George Billis Gallery, New York, New York
2008 - George Billis Gallery, Los Angeles, California
2007 - "Lunch Stop", DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, Massachusetts
2007 - George Billis Gallery, New York, New York
2007 - "Susan Jane Belton", Duxbury Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, Massachusetts
2005 - Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
2005 - George Billis Gallery, New York, New York
2005 - "Coffee Stop", DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, Massachusetts
2005 - "California Coffee", George Billis Gallery, Los Angeles, California
2005 - Mayor’s Office of Cultural Affairs, Boston City Hall, Boston, Massachusetts
2005 - "Susan Jane Belton, Coffee To Go", Johnson Gallery, Glen Urquhart School, Beverly Farms, Massachusetts
2004 - George Billis Gallery, New York, New York
2002 - Babson College, Wellesley, Massachusetts
2000 - "Susan Jane Belton, Sticks and Grids: Gardens of South End", South End Library Gallery, Boston Public Library, Boston, Massachusetts
2000 - "Susan Jane Belton, Growing Things", Bentley College Gallery, Bentley College, Waltham, Massachusetts
1999 - "Susan Jane Belton", Acacia Gallery, Gloucester, Massachusetts
1999 - "Susan Jane Belton", Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection, Boston, Massachusetts
1998 - "Susan Jane Belton", Gallery at Knoll, Boston, Massachusetts
1995 - "Through Winter Fences", Arden Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
1993 - "Working in Wood", Nesto Gallery, Milton Academy, Milton, Massachusetts
1992 - "Susan Jane Belton", Fidelity Investments, Boston, Massachusetts
1992 - "House and Garden, Susan Jane Belton", Brodigan Gallery, Groton School, Groton, Massachusetts
1988 - "Susan Jane Belton", The Columns, Boston, Massachusetts
1985 - "California Living", Thomas Segal Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
1984 - "Susan Jane Belton", Soroban Gallery, Wellfleet, Massachusetts
1982 - "Suburban Landscapes", Thomas Segal Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2009 - "What's The Rush?: Topics on Convenience", Main Gallery, California State University at Fullerton, Fullerton, California
2008 - "Neo Realism", George Billis Gallery, Los Angeles, California
2007 - "I 'Heart' Pop Realism", George Billis Gallery, Los Angeles, California
2006 - "Mad Dash, 150 X 150", Gallery @ Green Street, Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts
2006 - "Summer Show", Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
2006 - "Sweetness", Sherman Gallery, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts
2005 - "Word of Mouth”, Rhys Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
2004 - "Summer Salon, Pepper Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
2003 - "South Enders 2”, Curated by Ambreen Butt and James Hull, Mills Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, Massachusetts
2003 - " Brewster Project 2003”, Brewster Museum, Brewster, New York
2002 - Babson College, Wellesley, Massachusetts
2002 - "South Enders”, Curated by Annette Lemieux, Mills Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, Massachusetts
2001 - " The 17th Drawing Show”, Curated by Bill Arning, of List Gallery, M.I.T.,at Mills Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, Massachusetts
2000 - " LAND, SEA, SKY: NEW VISIONS IN LANDSCAPE PAINTING, Artworks! at Dover Street, New Bedford, Massachusetts
2000 - "LANDSCAPES”, Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection, Boston, Massachusetts
2000 - "10 x 10, 10 Years, 100 Portraits”, New England School of Art & Design, Suffolk University, Boston, Massachusetts
2000 - "Susan Jane Belton and Ellen Rich, The Grid Show”, Jules Place Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
1999 - "Boston Summer”, Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
1999 - "What Jack Built: Work by Jack Clift and Eight of his Former Students", New Art Center, Newton, Massachusetts
1999 - "New Paint", Essex Art Center, Lawrence, Massachusetts
1999 - "Brookline Sculptors at Allandale Farm", Allandale Farm, Brookline, Massachusetts
1998 - "A Salute To Boston", Wiggin Gallery, Boston Public Library, Boston, Massachusetts
1997 - "Dainty Hand", Tisch Gallery, Aidekman Arts Center, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts
1997 - "Alone Together", New Art Center, Newton, Massachusetts
1996 - "The Future of the Past: Fifteen Contemporary Realists Paint Boston", Boston Athenaeum, Boston, Massachusetts
1996 - "Transforming Tradition", Women’s Caucus For Art National Conference, Chinese Cultural Institute, Boston, Massachusetts
1995 - "Painting Today", Erector Square Gallery, William Bailey, Juror, New Haven, Connecticut
1994 - "50 Years of Collaboration", Tisch Gallery, Aidekman Arts Center, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts
1994 - "Miniatures", East End Gallery, Provincetown, Massachusetts
1992 - "A Woman’s Place...Icons To Domesticity", Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, Massachusetts
1990 - "Nancy Graves Chooses: Works on Paper", Artspace, New Haven, Connecticut
1989 - "Architectonic Art", Boston Architectural Center, Boston, Massachusetts
1988 - Group show, Central Place Galleries, Bangor, Maine
1988 - "A Salute to the Museum School", Francesca Anderson Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
1986 - "Inaugural", Thomas Segal Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
1985 - "Contemporary Art of the Commonwealth", Offices of Rep. Edward J. Markey, Rayburn Congressional Offices, Washington, D.C.
1985 - "Art of the State", Federal Reserve Bank, Boston, Massachusetts
1984 - "New England Landscapes", Newport Art Museum, Newport, Rhode Island
1984 - "Figuratively Speaking", Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, Massachusetts
1983 - Group Show, Woods Gerry Art Museum, Providence, Rhode Island
1983 - Hayden Gallery, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts
1982 - Boston Invitational, Thomas Segal Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
1982 - "Local Visions: The Urban Environs", Hayden Gallery, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts
1982 - "Boston Artists’ Works on Paper", Boston University Art Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
1981 - "Art of the State", Award Winners, Berkshire Art Museum, Pittsfield, Massachusetts
1981 - "Art of the State", Award Winners, Danforth Museum, Framingham, Massachusetts
1980 - "Boston Artists Celebrate Boston", Cyclorama, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, Massachusetts
1979 - "Greater Boston Women Artists", Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts
1979 - "New England Drawing Competition", DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, Massachusetts
1979 - "Graduates of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts", Symphony Hall, Boston, Massachusetts
1979 - "Alumni Artists", Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine
Recipient, Faculty Enrichment Grant, School of the Museum Fine Arts, 1998
Recipient, Boston Cultural Council Grant, Massachusetts Cultural Council, 1998
Recipient, Boston Cultural Council Grant, Massachusetts Cultural Council, 1997
Finalist, Artist Foundation Painting Fellowship, 1984, Awarded by Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities
Recipient, Clarissa Bartlett Traveling Scholarship for Alumni, 1983, Awarded by Trustees of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston
Fellow, Artists Foundation Painting Fellowship, 1981, Awarded by Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities
Recipient, Boit Competition Prize, 1978, Awarded by School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
American Telephone and Telegraph
Bain & Company
Bank of Boston
Boston Public Library
The Boston Company
Cabot Corporation
Chase Manhattan Bank
Chemical Bank
Chobee Hoy Associates
Citibank
CVS
Dana Farber Hospital
DeCordova Museum
Deloitte and Touche, LLP
Duxbury Art Complex Museum
Hood Museum, Dartmouth College
Federal Reserve Bank
Fidelity Investments Corp.
Fish & Richardson
Graham Gund
Goldman, Sachs, & Co.
John Hancock Insurance Company
Hill & Barlow
Lehman Brothers, Kuhn, & Loeb, New York
Lincoln Properties, Washington, D.C.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Millbank, Tweed, Hadley, & McCoy
Peabody & Brown
Pfizer
Prudential Insurance Company
Simpson Thatcher
St. Paul Mercury Insurance Company
Todd & Weld
art/culture, MetroLA The Megazine, Adjunct of NoHo>LA, May17-30, 2005, Vol.8, No.5.
art/culture, MetroLA The Megazine, Adjunct of NoHo>LA, May 5-17, Vol.8, No.4.
artmatters, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 2nd edition, 2004.
Michael L. Panich, “Seen around Open Studios”, Spotlight Living Arts, The South End News, Setptember 18, 2003, Vol. 24, No. 35.
D’Lynne Plummer, “A summer mista of South End talent”, Spotlight Living Arts, The South End News, July 31, 2003.
Brigid Watson, “’South Ender’ makes a good show”, Spotlight Living Arts, The South End News, Thursday, September 26, 2002.
Mary Jo Palumbo, “Mass exodus of artists”, Brookline TAB, Thursday, May 3, 2001.
Tamara Wieder, “Artists get back to nature, find high-tech doesn’t compute”, The Boston Herald, Wednesday, July 12, 2000.
Cate McQuaid, “Women artists celebrate friendship in portraits”, Living Arts, The Boston Globe, Thursday, June 29, 2000.
Richard Foster, “South End Library offers more than just books, Susan Jane Belton” South End News, June 22, 2000.
Mary Sherman, “Collaboration offers tens of creativity, Visual Arts, The Boston Herald, Sunday, June 18, 2000.
Loren King, “Little, yellow, different.”, Artsmedia, June 15-July 15, 2000.
Christine Temin, Perspectives, Living Arts, The Boston Globe, Wednesday, September 15, 1999.
Mary Sherman, Visual Arts, The Boston Herald, Sunday, April 11, 1999.
Acacia Gallery, Gloucester Daily Times, Tuesday, March 18, 1999.
Mary Sherman, “Familiarity breeds content in shows by friends, family”, Visual Art, The Boston Herald, Sunday, October 10, 1999.
Cate McQuaid, “Alone together, women artists share critiques and then a show”, The Boston Globe, Sunday, February 9, 1997.
Tara Leonard, “’Alone’ but not isolated”, Spotlight, Living Arts, South End News, February 13, 1997.
Mary Jo Palumbo, “Hanging ‘Together’ Woman’s artist group draws strength from its members”, Arts & Lifestyle, The Boston Herald, Wednesday, January 29, 1997.
Joyce Cohen, "Alone Together: A Women's Critique Group, Art New England, June/July, 1997, Volume 18, Number 4.
Cate McQuaid, “Natural deceptions; rejoicing stars”, The Boston Globe, Thursday, May 2, 1996.
Shawn Hill, “The world women see”, Bay Windows, February 8-February 14, 1996, Volume 14
Nancy Stapen, Living Arts, Galleries, The Boston Globe, Thursday, February 16, 1995.
Miles Unger, Art New England, June/July, 1995, Volume 16, Number 4.
Phyllis Koenig, Art New England, February, 1985, Volume 6, Number 3.
Gail Banks, “Twelve Artists on the Way Up”, Boston Magazine, May, 1983.
Nancy Stapen, Art New England, January, 1983, Volume 4, Number 2.
Rebecca M.K. Nemser, “Local Visions: Urban Environs”, Art New England, January, 1982, Volume 3, Number 2.
Robert Taylor, “Chihuly and Belton Merit Serious Attention”, The Boston Globe, Sunday, December 12, 1982.
Jane Holtz Kay, “Cityscapes”, The Boston Globe Magazine, December 27, 1981.