John B. Bisbee

Lecturer in Art

Phone (207) 725-3052
Title Lecturer
Department ART
Work Location 308 Visual Arts Center
E-Mail jbisbee@bowdoin.edu
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Education

1992 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, Maine
1990 B.F.A., Alfred University, Alfred, New York

Links

John Bisbee's Work in the Faculty Gallery »
Bowdoin Magazine: Nailing the Art of Being an Artist »
John Bisbee is represented by Plane Space, New York. »

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2004
Plane Space, New York, New York. May 20-June 26
2003
Hargate Art Center Gallery, St. Paul's School, Concord, New Hampshire. May 1-May 10.
2002
Plane Space, New York, New York, August 28-October 4 (brochure).
Suyama Space, Seattle, Washington. Three Tons, May 3-August 16 (brochure).
2001
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York. John Bisbee: Arc and Plume, March 31-June 3 (brochure).
Clark Gallery, Lincoln, Massachusetts. New Sculpture: John Bisbee, January 2-25.
ICON Gallery, Brunswick, Maine. New Nails, September 29-October 27.
2000
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri. John Bisbee: Field, June 30-September 3 (brochure).
1999
Institute of Contemporary Art, Maine College of Art, Portland, Maine. Tons, February 11-March 19.
Nesto Gallery, Milton Academy, Milton, Massachusetts. Recent Compulsions, April 29-May 27.
1998
Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, Maine. John Bisbee: A Winter's Work, May 2-June 8.
1997
Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine. Frozen by Fire: Sculptures by John Bisbee, March 11-August 24.
1996
Pulliam Deffenbaugh Gallery, Portland, Oregon. Recent Gatherings, June 4-29.
1995
Chase Gallery at City Hall, Spokane, Washington. Five Years, Sculpture by John Bisbee, February 27-March 24.
1993
Wichita Center for the Arts, Kansas. Evidence in Sculpture, 1993.

Selected Group Exhibitions

2004
d.u.m.b.o. arts center, Brooklyn, New York. Home, January 17-March 14.
Coventry, Vermont. August 13-15. (Featured artist)
2003
The IT Festival, Limestone, Maine. August 2-4. (Featured artist)
Plane Space, New York, New York. In Summation: Inaugural Season Artists, June 18-July 27.
Decordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, Massachusetts. The 2003 DeCordova Annual Exhibition, June 13-August 31 (catalogue).
Portland Museum of Art, Maine. 2003 Portland Museum of Art Biennial, April 10-June 1 (catalogue).
Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine. Select Selections, January 2-April 14.
2002
Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, Maine. Past/Present/Future, August 10-October 10 (catalogue).
2001
Portland Museum of Art, Maine. 2001 Portland Museum of Art Biennial, April 4-June 3 (catalogue).
Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, Maine. 10 Artist Fellows, June 7-July 21 (catalogue).
Cummings Art Center, Connecticut College, New London, Connecticut. Obsession, October 2-27 (brochure)
1999
Portland Museum of Art, Maine. New Acquisitions 1998, January 9-April 18
DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, Massachusetts. On the Roll: The Sphere in Contemporary Sculpture, January 16-March 14
Clark Gallery, Lincoln, Massachusetts. Sculpture for the Outdoors III, September 7-October 28
1998
Portland Museum of Art, Maine. 1998 Portland Museum of Art Biennial, November 5-January 3, 1999 (catalogue).
1997
Art Gym at Mayhurst College, Portland, Oregon. Traversing Territory, Part 1: Pure Form: The Intensity of Process, January 9-February 9. Organized by the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Oregon (catalogue).
Maine Coast Artists, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, Maine. The 1997 MCA Invitational Exhibition, June 24-July 20
ICON Gallery, Brunswick, Maine. Four on the Floor, September 27-November 5
1995
Bank of America Gallery (formerly Seafirst Gallery), Seattle, Washington. Interior Idioms, November 2-December 29 (brochure).
1994
Pulliam Deffenbaugh Gallery, Portland, Oregon. New Year Group Show, January 4-29
1993
Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, Kansas. Tenth Faculty Biennial, January 2-March 7

Selected Bibliography

Cotter, Holland. "Sampling Brooklyn, Keeper Of Eclectic Flames". The New York Times, Weekend, January 23, 2004: E27, E29.
Schiesel, Seth. "A Musical Theme Park for 60,000". The New York Times, Circuits, August 7, 2003: G1.
Temin, Christine. "Rappaport Prize Winner Proves An Artful Dodger". The Boston Globe, Living/Arts, June 13, 2003: C16.
Koplos, Janet. "John Bisbee at Plane Space". Art in America, March, 2003: 119.
Modern Painters, "[Editor] Karen Wright's Gallery", Autumn, 2002: 155.
The New Yorker, "Goings On About Town", September 23, 2002: 21.
Johnson, Ken. "Art Guide." The New York Times, September 13, 2002: E32.
Farr, Sheila. "Artist Nails Compulsion With Tons of Work". Seattle Times, Entertainment and Arts, May 12, 2002: J2.
Ferris, Alison. "John Bisbee: Large Quantities of Ordinary Things". Sculpture, March 2002: 20-21.
Beem, Edgar Allen. "John Bisbee". ARTnews, Summer 2001: 182.
McQuaid, Cate. "Unfashionable Views Cast in Metal". The Boston Globe, Living/Arts, January 24, 2001: D3.
Nagle, Hillary M. "Bit By Bit: Sculptor John Bisbee is Putting It Together". Maine Times (Bangor), Books and The Arts, October 12, 2000: 20-21.
Greenleaf, Ken. "Glimpses of the Thread That Binds Three Shows Together". Maine Sunday Telegram (Portland), March 7, 1999: E3.
Beem, Edgar Allen. "Tough As Nails". The Boston Globe Magazine, February 21, 1999: 13 FF.
Little, Carl A. "Maine! Sculptors! Live!" Portland Monthly Magazine (Maine), September 1997: 22-27.
Kangas, Matthew. "John Bisbee, Pulliam Deffenbaugh Gallery". Sculpture (Washington D.C.), October 1996: 65.
Bosworth, Marc. "John Bisbee, Kimberly Meier, Kyle Reicher". New Art Examiner (Chicago), November 1993: 42.

Selected Residencies

2004 (2001, 1996, 1995) MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, New Hampshire
2003 St. Paul's School, Concord, New Hampshire.
1994 Yaddo Art Colony, Saratoga Springs, New York

Selected Awards

2003 The Rappaport Prize (administered by the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, Massachusetts)
2001 Portland Museum of Art Biennial William Thon Juror's Prize
2000 Maine State Individual Artist Grant
1998 Portland Museum of Art Biennial Purchase Prize

Collections

Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME
Hugo Neu Corporation, New York, NY
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, VA
Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME
Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, ME