Resume

One Person Exhibitions

Gallery NAGA, Boston MA 2021 Desire/Shame

Gallery NAGA, Boston MA 2004 “Enfold”

Gallery NAGA, Boston MA 1997 “Veiled Passions”

Gallery NAGA, Boston MA 1994 “Changing Light”

Gallery NAGA, Boston MA 1992 “Recent Work”

Gallery NAGA, Boston MA 1990 “Recent Work”

Gallery NAGA, Boston MA 1988 “Lorie Hamermesh”

Selected Group Exhibitions

Gallery NAGA, Boston MA 2021 “Night Visions: Nocturnal Musings by NAGA Artists”

Gallery NAGA, Boston MA 2020 “Virtual Summer Camp: New Work by NAGA Artists”

Tufts University, Aidekman Arts Center 2018 “Violence Transformed: Stand Together”

Harriet Tubman House, Boston MA 2018 “The Artists Voice: Tell Your Story”

DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln MA 2005 “Pretty Sweet: The Sentimental Image In Contemporary Art”

DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln MA 2000 “Celebrating Contemporary Art in New England: Recent Acquisitions”

Trinity Church, Boston MA2005 “Trinity Inspires”

Brattleboro Museum & Art Center Brattleboro VT 2000 “Wingate Press: Twenty Years of Master Prints”

New England School of Art and Design at Suffolk University, Boston MA 1999-2000 “Sleeping Beauty”

Copley Place, Boston MA 1999 “Cardigan Project”

New Art Center in Newton, Newtonville MA 1999 “What Jack Built”

Starr Gallery, Leventhal-Sidman JCC, Newton MA 1998 “Women Whose Lives Span the Century”

Miller/Block Fine Art, Boston MA 1995 “Art of Women Helping Women”

Four Seasons Hotel, Boston MA 1995 “Art in Bristol” Curator: Liz Harris

Grossman Gallery, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston MA 1994 “Woman’s Caucus for Art Boston Chapter,” Juror: Deborah Muirhead

Miller/Block Fine Art, Boston MA 1992 “Gifts of Compassion”

Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg MA 1991 “The Mind’s Eye: Fantasy, Dream, and the Imagination”

Fuller Museum of Art, Brockton MA 1991 “Interiors-Museum School Faculty”

Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston MA 1990 “In Spirit”

Fuller Museum of Art, Brockton MA 1990 “Boston 1990: The Sixth Triennial Exhibition”

Starr Gallery, Leventhal-Sidman Jewish Community Center, Newton MA 1988 “Hanukkah Windows”

Gallery NAGA, Boston MA 1988 “Paintings”

Newton Arts Center, Newtonville MA 1988 “Newton’s Own: The Newton Arts Center Celebrates the Triennial”

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston MA 1986 “Annual Traveling Scholars Exhibition”

Boston Center for the Arts, Cyclorama, Boston  MA 1986 “School of the Museum of Fine Arts Fifth Year Exhibition”

School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston MA 1985 “Drawing and Prints Show”

Clark Gallery, Lincoln MA 1984 “Local Color”

Museum of Fine Arts Boston MA 1983  “School of the Museum of Fine Arts Arts Annual”

School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston MA 1982 “Drawing and Prints Show”

City Hall, Boston MA 1982 “School of the Museum of Fine Arts Annual Show”

Awards

School of the Museum of Fine Arts,
Boston MA 1986
Fifth Year Traveling Fellowship

School of the Museum of Fine Arts,
Boston MA 1986
Dana Pond Award

School of the Museum of Fine Arts,
Boston MA 1984
Boit Competition Award

Press

Maverick Arts Magazine, Charles Giuliano, “DeCordova Winter Show Exorcises the Blues” January 2005

Boston Globe, Cate McQuaid, “Muddying the Waters” April 2004

Art In America, Ann Wilson Loyd, “Lorie Hamermesh at Gallery NAGA” April 2004

Boston Globe, Cate McQuaid, “Highlights of Year’s Shows Recall Myriad Artistic Voices” December 28, 2000

Boston Globe, Cate McQuaid, “Weilding The Heady Powers of the Veil” October 26, 2000

Beacon Hill/Back Bay Chronicle, “Layers of Truth/Veils of Intimacy” September 26, 2000

New American Painting Northeast, Issue #14 1998

Art New England, Shirley Jacks, “Starr Gallery, Leventhal-Sidman Jewish Community Center/Newton,” August/September, 1998

Boston Globe, Nancy Stapen, “Where Newbury Street meets Pine Street,” May 25,1995

Boston Globe, Nancy Stapen, “Hamermesh’s Nice Girls,” October 20, 1994

Bay Windows, Tom Grabosky, “Not Being There,” February 13, 1992

The Tab, “Personal Art Works,” February 4,1992

Art New England, Miles Unger, “Lorie Hamermesh: Life Studies,” April 1990

Boston Herald, Nancy Stapen, “Hamermesh Draws on Gender, Society Roles,” February 16, 1990

Boston Globe, Mary Sherman, “Lorie Hamermesh: Recent Work at Gallery NAGA,” February 15, 1990

Boston Phoenix, Rebecca Nemser, “Shock of the New: The Sixth Fuller Triennial Goes for the Untested,” 1990

Bay Windows, Tom Grabosky,” Lorie Hamermesh: Recent Work,” February 8, 1990

Boston Globe, Christine Temin, “Exhibits: Newton’s Finest,” June 9, 1988

Art New England, Meredith Fife Day, “Newbury Street,” May 1988

Bay Windows, Tom Grabosky, “Where We All Live,” February 25, 1988

Boston Magazine, David Rosenbaum, “88 Faces to Watch in ’88,” January 1988

Century Newspapers, Meredith Fife Day, “Traveling Scholars at SMFA,” June 12, 1986

Education

School of the Museum of Fine Arts,
Boston MA 1986
Fifth Year Certificate, Painting

School of the Museum of Fine Arts,
Boston MA 1985
Diploma, Painting

University of California,
Berkeley CA 1970
BA, Painting

Personal

Born 1948, Denver, Colorado