PENELOPE JONES
EDUCATION:
MFA Cornell University, College of Architecture, Art and Planning, Ithaca, NY.
BFA Maine College of Art (formerly Portland School of Art), Portland, ME.
RESIDENCIES:
2021 Maine College of Art and Design Pace House Residency, Stonington, ME
2021 Hewnoaks Artist Residency, Lovell, ME
EXHIBITIONS:
2024 Small But Not Too Small, Bromfield Gallery, Boston, MA
2024 Overlay, Maine Jewish Museum, Portland, ME
2024 3x3, Chocolate Church Arts Center, Bath, ME
2022 Murmuration, Zero Station, Portland, ME
2022 The 11th Biennial Show, Greenhut Galleries, Portland, ME
2022 Great and Small, Cove Street Arts, Portland, ME
2021 Want/Need, Zero Station, Portland, ME
2021 Falling Into Place, Maine Jewish Museum, Portland, ME (solo show)
2020 Twenty, Zero Station, Portland, ME
2017 That Third Thing, Speedwell Projects, Portland, ME
2017 Abstraction, Greenhut Galleries, Portland, ME
2015 Book Arts Exhibition, Glickman Family Library, University of Southern Maine, Portland, ME
2015 Summer Exhibit, 2015, Susan Maasch Fine Art, Portland, ME
2014 New Work, Susan Maasch Fine Art, Portland, ME
2014 Making a New Whole: the Art of Collage, University of New England Gallery, Portland, ME
2013 Eight Women Artists: 8 x 8, Susan Maasch Fine Art, Portland, ME
2012 Expanding Fields, Rose Contemporary, Portland, ME
2011 Intimate Abstraction, Rose Contemporary, Portland, ME
2010 Realism to Abstraction, Susan Maasch Fine Art, Portland, ME
2009 Above and Below, Greenhut Galleries, Portland, ME
2009 Regenerations, Susan Maasch Fine Art, Portland, ME
2009 Dux Femina Facti: A Woman is in Charge, Susan Maasch Fine Art, Portland, ME
2008 From Realism to Abstraction, Susan Maasch Fine Art, Portland, ME
2007 Biennial 2007, New Hampshire Institute of Art, Manchester, N.H.
2007 Abstract and Geometric, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL
2007 Recent Work, Susan Maasch Fine Art, Portland, ME
2007 Biennial, Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME
2006 Biennial Juried Exhibition, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, ME
2005 Innovation and Opportunity: Bates College Faculty, Bates College Museum,
Olin Arts Center, Lewiston, ME
2005 The 3rd Annual Scholarship Show, The Gallery on Chase Hill, Kennebunkport, ME
2004 New Work, Zero Station, Portland, ME
2004 on LINE, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, ME
2003 Zero Portfolio, Zero Station, Portland, ME
2003 Recent Work, Clark House Gallery, Bangor, ME
2002 Chocolate Church Arts Center, Bath, ME
2001 Clark House Gallery, Bangor, ME
2001 Zero Station, S. Portland, ME
2001 Kelly Barrette Fine Art, Boston, MA
2000 USM Drawing and Painting Faculty Exhibit, University of Southern Maine
Art Gallery, Gorham, ME
2000 Kelly Barrette Fine Art, Boston, MA
2000 Abstract Paintings, Clark House Gallery, Bangor, ME
2000 Paintings and Collages, Zero Station, S. Portland, ME
1999 Paintings, Clark House Gallery, Bangor, ME
1999 Kelly Barrette Fine Art, Boston, MA
1999 Alumni Show, Institute of Contemporary Art, Maine College of Art,
Portland, ME,
1999 Seven Collage Artists, Clark House Gallery, Bangor, ME
1997 USM Faculty ‘97, University of Southern Maine Art Gallery,
Gorham, ME
1996 Meca Faculty Exhibition, The Baxter Gallery, Maine College of Art,
Portland, ME
1995 New Works on Paper, Randall Beck Gallery, Boston, MA
1995 Objects of Influence, The Baxter Gallery, Maine College of Art, Portland, ME
1993 Small Paintings, Randall Beck Gallery, Boston, MA
1993 Department of Art Faculty Exhibition, University of Southern Maine Art Gallery, Gorham, ME
1992 Paintings and Collages, Lillian Immig Gallery, Emmanuel College, Boston, MA
1992 Department of Art Faculty Exhibition, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
1991 Randall Beck Gallery, Boston, MA
1991 The Sun Gallery, Portland, ME
1990 Alumni 90, Baxter Gallery, Portland School of Art, Portland, ME
1990 Contemporary Collage, The Brush Art Gallery, Lowell, MA
1990 The Upstairs Gallery, Ithaca, NY
1989 The Summer Group, LeSaffre Wilstein Gallery, Boston, MA
1987 World Art Gallery, Northampton, MA
1987 Council for the Creative and Performing Arts, Individual Awards 83-86, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
TEACHING:
1998 - 2023
Bates College
Department of Art and Visual Culture, Lewiston, ME
Lecturer
2015
Maine College of Art
MFA in Studio Arts Program
Adjunct Faculty, Studio Advisor
2015
Bowdoin College
Department of Art
Adjunct Lecturer
Fall 2013
Southern Maine Community College
Department of Art
Lecturer
1997 - 1999
University of Southern Maine
Department of Art, Gorham, ME
Lecturer
1994-1996
Maine College of Art
Portland, ME
Adjunct Assistant Professor
1993-1994
University of Southern Maine
Department of Art, Gorham, ME
Adjunct Assistant Professor
1992-1993
Cornell University
Department of Art, Ithaca, NY
Visiting Assistant Professor
1984-1986
Cornell University
Department of Art, Ithaca, NY
Teaching Assistant