BORN1950, Brooklyn, NY
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2018 "Steve Hawley" Ogunquit Museum of American Art, Ogunquit Maine.
2015 "Steve Hawley-Selected Paintings" Lepore Fine Arts, Newburyport, MA
2004 "Steve Hawley-Selected Paintings" 1997-2004, Gallery Naga, Boston, MA
2002 "Steve Hawley-Flowers in February", 'The Gallery" at Frame makers, Danvers, MA
1997 "Steve Hawley-New Work", Roslyn Sailor Fine Arts, Margate, NJ
1993 "Steve Hawley-Recent Work", Sherry French Gallery, NYC
1989 "Steve Hawley-Paintings", Alexander F. Milliken Inc., NYC
1987 "Steve Hawley-Paintings", Fuji Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1987 "Steve Hawley", J. Rosenthal Fine Arts, Chicago, IL
1986 "Steve Hawley", Alexander F. Milliken Inc., NYC
1986 "Steve Hawley", Alexander F. Milliken Inc., NYC
1981 "Steve Hawley-Paintings", Alexander F. Milliken Inc., NYC
1978 The Shore Gallery, Boston, MA
1975 The Zarick Gallery, Farmington, CT
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2020 Contemporary Realism Cavalier galleries New York, NY
2019 Contemporary Realism Exhibition: Cavalier Ebanks Galleries Greenwich, Connecticut
2019 Online Holiday Group Show Cavalier Gallery Greenwich, CT
2017 Mixed ground-floor show at 3 W. 57th St., Cavalier Galleries New York,NY
2017 Contemporary Still life Cavalier Galleries, New York,NY
2016 – 2017 "As We See It: The Collection of Gail and Ernst von Metzsch" New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT.
2016 Cavalier Galleries 30th year anniversary show Greenwich,CT
2015 "Photorealism: The Sydney and Walda Besthoff Collection" New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, MS
2015 "Fatal Attraction" Piotr Uklanski selects from the Met collection, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC, NY
2014 "Contemporary Realism" NY Project 3W 57 NYC, New York.
2013 "Figurative Group Show" Cavalier Gallery, Greenwich CT.
2013 "Premier Group Show" NY Project 3W 57, NYC, New York.
2009 "Modern & Contemporary Masters" Cavalier Gallery, Nantucket MA.
2008 “Objects of Affection; New Still Life Paintings", Cavalier Gallery, Greenwich, CT.
2005 " The Figure in American Painting and Drawing 1985 - 2005", Ogunquit MuseumAmerican Art, Ogunquit ME.
2005 "Western Biennale of Art", John Natsoulas Centre for the Arts, Davis, CA
2004 "Landscapes Seen and Imagined: Sense of Place, Part II", DE Cordova Museum, Lincoln, MA
2003 "Small Works Holiday Exhibition", Tree's Place Gallery, Orleans, MA
2003 "The Fire", Sherry French Gallery, NYC
2002 "Imaginative Realism", Tree's Place Gallery, Orleans, MA
2002 "Flowers in February", Sherry French Gallery, NYC
2001 "Painting from Life: The Human Figure", Tree's Place Gallery, Orleans, MA
2001 "Flowers in February", Sherry French Gallery, NYC
2001 "Painting=Poetry= picturapoetry", Sherry French Gallery, NYC
2000 "Flowers in February", Sherry French Gallery, NYC
1999-2000 "Religion Art: 2000+", Sherry French Gallery, NYC
Riddenhof Martin Gallery, Mary Washington College, Virginia
1999-2000 "Small Sizes: Precious Pieces", MAC Galleries, Manhattan Athletic Club, NYC
1999"Small Sizes: Precious Pieces", Sherry French Gallery, NYC
1999 "Realism x 3", The Ogunquit Museum of American Art, Ogunquit, ME
1998 "Inaugural Show", Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
1998 "Art Invitational Northshore Connections", Wenham Museum, Wenham, MA
1997 "Realism in 20th Century American Painting", OgunquitMuesum of American Art, Ogunquit, ME
1997 "Steve Hawley", Roslyn Sailor Fine Arts, Palm Beach, FL
1995 "New Looks", Forum Gallery, NYC
1995 "Steve Hawley", Elliot Smith Contemporary Art Gallery, St. Louis, MO
1995 "Flowers in February", Sherry French Gallery, NYC
1994 "Art of the Twentieth Century: Selections from the Permanent Collection", the Hyde Museum, Glen Falls, NY
1993 "Flowers in February", Sherry French Gallery, NYC
1992 "The New Whitney Dissenters", Sherry French Gallery, NYC; Anchorage Museum of History and Art, Alaska
Rockford College of Art Gallery, Illinois Fitchburg Art Museum, Massachusetts
1991 "To Grant, or Not to Grant", Sherry French Gallery, N YC
"The EternalMale: Ares and Pluto", Sherry FrenchGallery, NYC
"The Mind's Eye-Fantasy, Dream, Imagination", The Fitchbu rg Art Museum, Fitchburg, MA
"Inaugural Exhibition: Gallery and Invited Artists", Sherry French Gallery, NYC
"Ninth Annual Salon Show", Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA
"165 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Paints, Sculpture, Graphic Arts, and Watercolors",
NationalAcademyof Design, NYC
"OnPaper", HokinKaufmanGallery, Chicago, IL
"Gallery Artists-Group Exhibition, Paintings, Drawings, & Sculptures", Alexander F. Milliken Inc.,NYC
1990 Chicago InternationalArt Exposition,Chicago, I L
"Gallery Artist-Group Exhibition", "Interpreting the Figure", Alexander F. Milli ken Inc., New York,NYC
1989 Chicago International Art Exposition, Chicago, IL
"MonocularVision", FitchburgMuseum, Fitchburg, MA
1988-89 "CollectorsShow", ArkansasArt Center, LittleRock, AR
1988 "Drawings-A Group Exhibition", Alexander F. Milliken Inc., NYC
"Summer Exhibition" - Gallery Artists, Alexander F. Milliken Inc., NYC
"Summer Group Exhibition": Works on Paper, J. Rosenthal Fine Arts, Chicago, IL
"Some Fish", Arden Gallery, Boston, MA
Fall Exhibition - Gallery Artists, Alexander F. Milliken I nc., NYC
1987 "Art onPaper", AlexanderF. MillikenInc., NYC
"Fish. A Group Exhibition", Alexander F. Milliken Inc., NYC
"Teacher's Pets," Exhibition for Henry Schwartz's 60th Birthday, Newton Arts Center, Newton,MA
1986 "Group Exhibition", Alexander F. Milliken Inc., NYC
"Erotica Two", Brenda Kroos Gallery, Columbus, OH
"Group Exhibition", Galerie 99, Bay Harbor, FL
"Delicious DrawingsandWorks onPaper", Schmidt-BinghamGallery, NYC
1985"TheRecognizableImage"; SixteenContemporaryRealists, The Bruce Museum, Greenwich,CT
"Works on Paper", AlexanderF. MillikenI nc., NYC
Summer Group - Gallery Artists, Alexander F. Milliken Inc., NYC
1983 "Realism", Alexander F. Milliken Inc., NYC
The ButlerInstitute of Art 47th NationalAnnualMid-YearShow, Youngstown, OH
"A Celebration of Representational Art", Springville Museum of Art 59th Annual National April Salon, Springville, UT
1982"46th AnnualMid-YearShow", TheButlerInstitute of AmericanArt, Youngstown, OH
"Small Paintings of the New Britain Museum of Art", Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts 72nd Year Exhibition, NewBritain, CT
"An Appreciation of Realism", Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, NY
Texas Fine Arts Association '82 Annual National Exhibition at Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin,
1981 "Gallery Artists", Alexander F. Mil liken Inc., NYC
1980"InvitationalGroupShow", Gallery Naga, Boston, MA
69th Annual Exhibition, The Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts, WadsworthAntheneum, Hartford, CT
"Summer Exhibition", The New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT
"36th Annual Painting Competition", The Abilene Fine Arts Museum, Abilene, TX
"Marietta National" 13th Ann ual National Painting and Sculpture Exhibition, Marietta, OH
Texas Fine Arts Association 1980 Annual Exhibition, Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, TX
1979 "TheMarietta National" 12th Annual NationalPaintingandSculpture Exhibition,Marietta, OH
"43rdNationalAnnualMid-YearShow", ButlerInstitute of AmericanArt, Youngstown, OH
1978 "68th AnnualExhibition", The Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts, Hartford, CT
The Chautauq ua Exhibition of American Art 21st National Juried Show, Chautauqua Institution, Chautauq ua, NY
Berkshire Arts Association 27th Ann ual Fall Exhibition, The Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, MA
"65thAnnualExhibition", The NationalAcademy, GalleriesAlliedArtists of America, NYC
1977 The Steven Straw Gallery, Newburyport, MA 1975
Related DesignInc., NYC
The Allen Rubiner Gallery, Detroit, MI
The Zarick Gallery, Farmington, CT
The AllenRubinerGallery, Detroit, MI
TheStevenStraw Gallery, Newburyport, MA
The Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA
1974 The Zarick Gallery, Farmington, CT
1973 School of the Museumof Fine Arts, Boston, MA
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Boise Art Museum, Boise, lD
Ogunquit Museum of American Art, Ogunquit, ME
Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC
Smithsonian Museum of American Art, Washington, DC
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
Hunter Museum of Art, Chattanooga, TN
Hyde Collection, Glens Falls, NY
De Cordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA
The Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR
Boston University, Boston, MA
Christ Church Cathedral, St. Louis, MO
Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA
The Portland Museum Of Art, Portland Maine
CORPORATE COLLECTIONS
E.F. Hutton & Co, NYC
First National Bank of Boston, Boston, MA
Ingles Mettler Design, Detroit, MI
Manufacturer'sBank, Detroit, MI
Monument Federal Savings & Loan, Pepperell and Acton, MA
Palmer Dodge, Inc., Boston, MA
Peabody, Brown, Rowley and Story, Inc., Boston, MA
Steelcase Corporation, NYC
Stephens Inc., Little Rock, AR
The Frehauf Corporation, Detroit, MI
The Tomasso Company, New Britain, CT
AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS
2022 Artist Fellowship in Painting , Mass Cultural Council
1990 Finalist, Massachusetts Artists’ Foundation
1978 Alternate Fulbright-Hays Full Grant in Painting, Italy
1976 Individual Artist Grant, Massachusetts Arts and Humanities Foundation
1972-73 School of the Museum of Fine Arts Scholarship, Boston, MA
1971-72 School of the Museum of Fine Arts Scholarship, Boston, MA
1970-71 Resident Artist Grant, the Master School, Simsbury, CT
TEACHING POSITIONS
1987 Visiting Artist, The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1973-74 Associate Instructor in Painting, Tufts University, Medford, MA 1974 Visiting Faculty, Tufts University, Medford, MA
1973 Visiting Faculty, Tufts University, Medford, MA 1972-73
1972-73 Associate Instructor, The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
EDUCATION
1972 Diploma, 4th Year, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
1973 Graduate Diploma, 5th Year, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
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