CV
Lives and Works
New York Metro Area
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Selected Solo Shows
2022 SELF 2020 / 366 drawings – El Barrio’s Artspace, New York, NY
2015 Open Studio Exhibition – Fran Beallor Art Studio, New York, NY
2012 Accidental Encounters – Guild Gallery, Chelsea, New York, NY
2008 New Encounters – Lotus Fine Arts Gallery, Woodstock, New York
2005 Still Lives & City Spaces – Paris Gallery, New York, NY
1997 Accidental Encounters – Union County College, Cranford, New Jersey
1994 REALizations, a retrospective – William Carlos Williams Center for the Arts, Rutherford, New Jersey
1990 Tranquility of the East – Grand Central Art Galleries, New York, NY
1988 Light in the Air – Nicholas Roerich Museum, New York, NY
Selected Recent Exhibitions
2023 Women Celebrate Women – El Barrio’s Artspace PS109, New York, NY
60 Together / 100 Strong – Queens College Art Center Flushing, NY
7 Days: Artists View the Creation – Art at First, Great Hall Gallery, New York, NY
2022 One Thing to Remember (international traveling show) – Galleri Schaeffersgate5 in Oslo, Norway; Hovinkartano Arts and
Cultural Centre, Hameenlinna, Finland; Upcoming: The Artists Residence and Exhibition Space, Herzelia, Israel
PEREVOROT *Revolution* Illustrated Moscow (Russia); Saint Petersburg (Russia); Art Kvartal, Yerevan (Armenia);
IF Museum, Easton PA (USA); ’White Lanes’, The New Moscow (Russia); with ‘Cat Army’ in Arts in Miami AZ (USA);
IF Museum, Hostka, (Czech Republic); Machon Hamayim Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel;
Upcoming: will travel to Paris, Warsaw, Verona, Berlin and London
2021 Forever Young – Islip Art Museum Islip, NY (see Beallor’s art at 6:17 in the video)
2020-21 USPS Art Project (traveling show) – Pelham Art Center, NY; Ely Center for Contemporary Art, New Haven, CT;
Sunset Art Studios, Dallas, TX; ArtGym Denver, CO; InLiquid Art Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2020 Women on the Edge of Time – NY Society of Women Artists, Taller Boricua, New York, NY
2019 Atmospheric Perspectives curated by Christina Massey – Chashama Gallery, New York, NY
Gallery Artists Fall Exhibition – J. Pocker, Bronxville, New York
2018 Art From the Boros V – Denise Bibro Fine Art, Chelsea, New York, NY
2017 NYC Invitational Group Show – George Billis Gallery, Chelsea, New York, NY
The Big Small Show – Drawing Rooms, Jersey City, New Jersey
2016 Toying with Art – The Morris Museum, Morristown, New Jersey
2015 Sideshow Nation III, Circle The Wagons – Sideshow Gallery, Williamsburg, New York
2014 Desert Island’s Pop-up Book Art Show – SculptureCenter, Long Island City, New York
Time Frames Marking Time – 365 Self Portraits, Westbeth Gallery, New York, NY
2013 Hullaballoo Collective – Fountain Art Fair, 70th Regiment Armory, New York, NY
2012 Longing For Home / artists books – Susan Hensel Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
Occupy Potatoes: Cult of the Potato – Islip Museum, Long Island, NY
2011 Childish Things – Tabla Rasa Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
9/11 We Remember – Freyberger Gallery, Penn State Berks, Reading, PA
2009 Playing Around – Brattleboro Museum & Art Center, Brattleboro, Vermont
A Book About Death – Queens Museum, New York
2008 New Views of Still Life – New York Law School Gallery, New York, NY
2006 Postcard International – The Small Space Gallery, Arts Council of Greater New Haven, CT
2005 Au Courant – Three-Person Exhibit at A Space Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
2004 Looking In, Looking Out – Paul Mellon Arts Center, Wallingford, Connecticut
2003 Reflection and Transparency (six artists) – Gallery Korea, New York, NY
2002 Snapshot – Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, MD (traveling show) Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT and
Arcadia Univ Art Gallery, Glenside, PA
66th National Midyear Show – Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio
Unity Canvas – Williamsburg Art & Historical Center, Brooklyn, NY
Selected Publications, Articles, Interviews and Videos
2022 Fran Beallor – Self at El Barrio’s Artspace September Interview in Artspiel
2021 Rewriting Herstory: Volume Two Drawing Rooms
2020 Artists Respond to the Pandemic by Ann Landi
An Artist a Day Fran Beallor presents an overview of her work
Hindsight 2020: Artists and Poets respond to the past year – Hudson Guild, NY
2019 All About the New York Artists Circle by Ann Landi
2018 Reflections on a Long Career – Video by photo journalist Comice Johnson
2017 Artists Spotlight by Arian Alexander – Professional Artist Magazine, September issue
2015 Cyclamens and Swords – Painting Feature, published in Israel, April issue
2014 Fran Beallor: A-Self-Portrait-a-Day 2010 by Meredith Bergmann, American Arts Quarterly, July issue
2011 Geobeats – 8 Online Master Series Video Interviews including an Artist’s Profile, December on dailymotion.com
2008 Accidental Encounters at Lotus Gallery by Barbara Farrell, Poughkeepsie Journal, September 4
2006 Citywide – NYU’s arts show, 89.1 FM Radio Interview – Alexander Schoenfeld, September
2002 Your Art Through the Ages by Kristin Godsey, The Artist’s Sketchbook, September edition
Selected Awards and Honors
2020 Morgan Library and Museum Online Portrait Competition winner
2018 Third time Fellowship, Conference on International Opportunities in the Arts – TransCultural Exchange, Boston (also in 2013 and 2011)
2014 Artwork/Poetry poster and book collaboration – Alice Fogel, Poet Laureate of New Hampshire
2000 Painting selected for cover publication – Professional Artist Magazine
1997 Honorable Mention – Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio
1995 Leo Castelli, John Weber, and K & E Galleries juried 13 artists in Art Initiatives’ Dealers’ Choice Exhibit
1994 Top Prize for Oils – Catharine Lorillard Wolfe 98th Annual Exhibition, National Arts Club, New York, NY
Funding Grant for Exhibition at the Williams Center – NJ State Council for the Arts
1993 John F. and Anna Lee Stacey Fund Grant, Oklahoma City
Helen Stiles Grant for Print Making – Manhattan Graphics Center, New York, NY
1989 Artists Space Grant – New York, NY
1980 Elizabeth T. Greenshields Grant for excellence in realism – Montreal, Canada
Selected Museum, Public and Corporate Collections
2020 Two paintings – collection of the Copelouzos Museum, Athens, Greece
2014 Unity Canvas collaboration – collection of National September 11 Memorial & Museum, New York, NY
Beth Israel-Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts
Bellevue Hospital, New York, NY (commission)
PPG Industries, Inc., Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Texaco Corporation, New York State
Fidelity Investments, Boston, Massachusetts
Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio
Education
Antioch College; Pratt Institute; Brooklyn Museum Art School; Art Students League
Private Studies with August Mosca, Charles Pfahl and Roger Van Damme