Curriculum Vitae
b. 1955
Education
1978 BFA Washington University, St. Louis, MO
1977 Summer School of Music and Art, Yale University, Norfolk, CT
Teaching
1996 - The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
1995 - 2000 Arcadia University, Glenside, PA
1991 - 2005 Community College of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
1990 - 1997 The Wallingford Art Center, Wallingford, PA
1985 - 1989 The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
1983 - 1986 The Baum School of Art, Allentown, PA
1978 - 1979 Tyler School of Art, Elkins Park, PA
Solo Exhibitions
2019, 16, 14, The Gross McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
12, 10, 09,
06, 04, 02, 00
2016 Rider University, NJ
2015 Hollins University, VA
2011 Harrisburg Area Community College
2002, 99, 96, The Kerygma Gallery, Ridgewood, NJ
93, 89
2000 Beverly St. Studio School, Staunton, VA
1999, 96 The Mangel Gallery, Philadelphia
1999, 84 The University of Virginia, Charlottesville
1997 The State Museum of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg
1994 The Bowery Gallery, NYC
1992, 89, 87, The More Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
86, 84
1989 The College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA
1988 Painting from Life, Washington Studio School, Washington, DC
1980 Paintings and Pastels, Ridgefield Guild of Artists, Ridgefield, CT
Two Person Exhibitions
2007 Carmela Kolman and Scott Noel, The Painting Center, NYC
1999 Working from Life; Scott Noel and Janice Wilke, The Wayne Art Center, Wayne, PA
1998 Scott Noel and Geoffrey Beadle, St. Joseph’s University, Philadelphia, PA
1995 Mutual Regard, Portraits from Life, Scott Noel and Jeffrey Carr, The F.A.N. Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1987 Recent Work, Scott Noel and Mark Green, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA
Three and Four Person Exhibitions
2018 The Cake That Survives Its Eating, Michael Ananian, Philip Geiger, Mel Leipzig, Scott Noel and Patrice Poor, Stanek Gallery, Phildelphia
2017 City In Motion, Valerio D’Ospina, Scott Noel and Ben Schwab, Stanek Gallery, Philadelphia
2016 The Nude, Mirror of Desire, Paul DuSold, Ben Kamihira, Margaret McCann and Scott Noel, The Wayne Art Center, Wayne, PA
2012 Urban Nature: Richard Estell, Scott Noel, and Dale Roberts, The Wallingford Art Center, Wallingford, PA
1982 Bruno Civitico, Robert Godfrey, and Scott Noel, The More Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1980 Fleisher Challenge Series, Philadelphia, PA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2018 Real and Not Real, Southeastern Louisiana University, (curated by Tom Walton)
Infinite Spaces, The Museum of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia
2015 A Lineage of American Perceptual Painting, St. Johns College, Annapolis, MD
2014 A Fine Arrangement, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Perceptual Painters at the Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
Sight Specific, George Nick Selects, Concord Art Association, Concord, MA Bader Fund Grant Recipients, American University, Washington, D.C.
Observation and Invention: The Space of Desire, The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
2012 Still Life, The Delaware Art Museum (curated by Paul DuSold)
2011 Anatomy/Academy, The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
2010 Biennial Invitational Exhibition, National Academy of Design, NYC
2009 Contemporary Figure Painting, Rutgers Art Gallery, Camden, NJ Perceptual Painters Group, Columbia, SC
2008 Object/Desire, Rutgers Art Gallery, Camden, NJ
60 x 60, Wallingford Art Center, Wallingford, PA
Interiors, Gross McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Figure Drawing, Studio 21, Charlotte, NC
2007 Teaching Drawings, Community College of Philadelphia, PA
Finding a Form, Tower Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Still Life Invitational, Andreeva Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Four Realists: Eileen Goodman, Mark Karnes, Kurt Moyer, Scott Noel, Julio Art Gallery, Loyola College, Baltimore, MD
2006 Bader Fellowship Recipients, George Washington University, Washington, DC
2005 Human Measures, S.O.F.A. Gallery, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
2004 George Nick Selects, Concord Art Association, Philadelphia, PA
2002 Imaginative Affinities, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Between Still Life and Landscape, Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, Wilmington, DE
Locations and Light, Crealde School of Art, Orlando, FL
2001 George Nick Selects, Concord Art Association, Concord, MA
1999 Vanitas, Five Princelet St., London, UK
Narrative Visions, 55 Mercer Gallery, New York, NY
1998 Zeuxis, Boston University, Boston, MA
Through the Heart of the City, The Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA
Embodied Fictions, St. Mary’s College, MD (catalogue)
1997 Collector’s Show, Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AK
Object Lessons, Zeuxis Group, Richmond Art Center, Windsor, CT
Contemporary Realism, The Kerygma Gallery, Ridgewood, NJ
Back to Nature, The Mangel Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1996 99th Fellowship of the Pennsylvania Academy Exhibition, The Woodmere Museum, Philadelphia, PA
Invitational Drawing Exhibition, Smith College, Northampton, MA
Hearth and Home, Champion International Corp., Stamford, CT
1995 Fall Preview Exhibition, Tatistcheff Gallery, New York, NY
1994 Collector’s Show, Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AK
Artists of Manayunk and East Falls, The Paley Design Center, College of Textiles and Science, Philadelphia, PA
1993 Figural Philadelphia, Drawings, The Woodmere Museum, Philadelphia, PA
Contemporary Self-Portraits from the James Goode Collection, The National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C. (catalogue)
1992 Still Life and the Tactile Imagination, The Wallingford Art Center, Wallingford, PA (curator)
The Romantic Muse, The Kerygma Gallery, Ridgewood, NJ
1991 Ten Contemporary Philadelphia Painters, The Westmoreland Museum of Art, Greensburg, PA (catalogue)
Cityscapes, The Kerygma Gallery, Ridgewood, NJ
1990 Contemporary Philadelphia Artists, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA (catalogue)
The Evidence of the Senses, The Woodmere Museum, Philadelphia, PA (curator and writer of catalogue)
1989 Biennial ’89, The Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE
Hard Choices/Just Rewards, Levy Gallery, Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Drawings, Weingart Gallery, Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA (catalogue)
1988 10 X Twelve, A Decade of Fleisher Challenge Artists, Fleisher Art Memorial, Philadelphia, PA (catalogue)
Consciousness and Reality, The More Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Midyear Annual, The Butler Institute, Youngstown, OH
1987 Works on Paper, Invitational Exhibition, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
Greater Harrisburg Arts Festival, The State Museum of PA, Harrisburg, PA
1986 Nature Morte: The Museum Considers the Still Life, Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Loretto, PA
Biennial Juried Exhibition, The National Academy of Design, New York, NY
1984 City Visions, The More Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Painterly Realist Invitational, Fontbonne College, St. Louis, MO
Five Years of Fleisher Challenge Exhibitions, Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA
The Nude, The More Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
The Intimate Still Life, The More Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1982 Interiors and Exteriors, The Woodmere Museum, Philadelphia, PA
Awards and Career Highlights
2004 Pennsylvania Council of the Arts SOS Grant
2003 Franz and Virginia Bader Fund Grant
2001 Independence Foundation Grant
1997 Profiled in the August issue of American Artist magazine, Scott Noel’s Painterly Realism by Jeffrey Carr
1996 A painting, Roxborough, Early Summer (1993), featured in Paul Mazursky film, Faithful
Lucy Glick Memorial Award, 99th Fellowship of the Pennsylvania Academy Exhibition
1991 Fellowship Residency at the Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France
First Prize for Painting, In Person exhibition, Wallingford Art Center
1989 First Prize for Works on Paper, Greater Harrisburg Arts Festival
1988 Fellowship in the Visual Arts, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts
1977 Scholarship to the Yale Summer School of Music and Art, Norfolk, CT
Collections
The Pennsylvania Convention Center
The Museum of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
The Advanta Corporation, Horsham, PA
ARA Services Corporation, Philadelphia, PA
The Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AK
The Cigna Corporation, Philadelphia, PA
Fuqua School of Business, Duke University, Durham, NC
Drs. Don and Allison Innes, Charlottesville, VA
LaSalle College Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA
Price Waterhouse Corporation, Philadelphia, PA
The State Museum of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, PA
Sterling Winthrop Corporation, Philadelphia, PA
The Woodmere Museum, Philadelphia, PA
Community College of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
Fannie Mae Corporation, Washington, DC
GlaxoSmithKline Corporation, Philadelphia, PA
Hollins University, Roanoke, VA
Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
Knight Ridder Corporation, San Jose, CA
The University of Arkansas at Fort Smith, AK
Curatorial Projects
2018 The Cake That Survives Its Eating, Stanek Gallery Philadelphia
2016 The Nude, Mirror of Desire, The Wayne Art Center, Wayne, PA
2014 Portraits from Life: PAFA at Baldwin, The Baldwin School, Bryn Mawr, PA
Mise en Scene,” Elise Schweitzer and Peter Van Dyck, Gross McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia.
Observation and Invention: The Space of Desire, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
2012 Urban Nature, Wallingford Art Center, Wallingford, PA
2002 Imaginative Affinities: Echoes of Edwin Dickinson in Contemporary Painting, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
1992 Still Life and the Tactile Imagination, Wallingford Art Center, Wallingford, PA
1990 The Evidence of the Senses, Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA
Catalogue Essays
2019 “The Academy and the Alcázar”
2016 “The Nude, Mirror of Desire”
2015 “The Paintings of Michael Ananian”
2014 “Observation and Invention: The Space of Desire”
2012 “Still Life’s Audience, The Paintings of William Barnes”
“Ironic Realist: Larry Day”
2008 “The Paintings of Sangram Majumdar”
2005 “The Paintings of Rose Naftulin”
2003 "The Paintings of Tim Kennedy”
2002 “Notes on the Painting of Lennart Anderson”
2001 “Daniel Heyman”
1995 “Notes on the Painting of Frank Trefny”
1990 “The Evidence of the Senses”
Publications
Aristides, Juliette, Classical Figure Studio, Watson-Guptill, 2012.
Carr, Jeffrey, “Lighter than Air”(catalogue essay) “Scott Noel’s Painterly Realism,” American Artist, August, 1997.
Clift, Julia, “Observation and Invention”, www.titlemagazine.com, March 18, 2014
Csaszar, Tom, “Local Habitations and a Name” (catalogue essay)
Donohoe, Victoria, “On Galleries”, Philadelphia Inquirer, April 3, 2009. “On Galleries, Philadelphia Inquirer, May 23, 1986. “Neighbors,” Philadelphia Inquirer, April 25, 1999.
Fried, Daisy, “How Unhip Can You Get?” Welcomat, February 3, 1995.
Gury, Al, Alla Prima Painting, 2008.
Kaufman, Leslie, “Scott Noel at Gross McCleaf,” Inside Magazine, Winter 2006.
Latter, Ruth, “Beauty is in the Eye and the Brush of the Beholder,” The Daily Progress, Charlottesville, VA, February 11, 1999.
McCann, Margaret, The Figure, Rizzoli, 2014, pp. 160-161
Milroy, Elizabeth, “Contemporary Narrative Painting,” Arts Magazine, October, 1981.
Rubenstein, Ephraim, “Studio as Subject: the Paintings of Scott Noel,” American Artist Magazine, May 2009.
Schantz, Michael, W., Artistic Legacy: Selections from the Woodmere Art Museum’s Permanent Collection, 2000, pp. 124-5.
Scott, Bill, “Scott Noel at Gross McCleaf,” Art in America, May, 2001.
Sozanski, Edward J., “Figure Painting for Figure Painting’s Sake,” Philadelphia Inquirer, October 27, 2000. “On Galleries,” Philadelphia Inquirer, February 17, 1995.
Tammaro, Tina, “Drawing at the Pennsylvania Academy,” American Artist Magazine, Drawing Issue, May 2009.
Zeaman, John, “Galleries Celebrate Nature,” The Bergen Record, March 21, 1989.
New American Paintings, Juried Exhibition in Print, Number 27, pp. 110-113.
Contemporary Philadelphia Artists, Catalogue, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1990, pp. 111, 147