EDUCATION

1991 MFA Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT
1988 BFA Rhode Island College, Providence, RI
1987 Yale Summer School of Art and Music, New Haven, CT

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2012 Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2009 Falk Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC

2008 Hackett-Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, CA (also ‘04,’00)

2007 APEX: Ann Gale, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR

2004 Hackett-Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2000 Hackett-Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1999 Dean Jensen Gallery, Milwaukee, WI

1997 Lyons Weir Gallery, Chicago, IL 
Kittredge Gallery, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA

1995 Dean Jensen Gallery, Milwaukee, WI

1993 Dean Jensen Gallery, Milwaukee, WI

 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2012 The Space Between, Prographica, Seattle, WA

2011 Heads, Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Studie, Preparatory Work That Stands Alone, Prographica, Seattle, WA

2010 Previews of Things to Come, Prographica, Seattle, WA

2009 Drawings VIII, Koplin Del Rio Gallery, Culver City, CA
On Paper, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, New York, NY
Gage Academy, Seattle, WAAcademy of Arts and Letters, Ceremonial Award Exhibition, NY
Academy of Arts and Letters Invitational Exhibition, NY

2007 Representation 2007, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, New York, NY
This is Not a Group Show, Jacob Lawrence Gallery, Seattle, WA

2006 Aspects of Humanity: Contemporary and Modernist Portraiture, Center for Contemporary Art, Sacramento, CA

2005 Human Measures, SoFA Gallery, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
About Faces: Portraits Past and Present, Staten Island Museum. NY
Invitational, Gallerie De Bellefeuille, Montreal, Canada (catalogue) 
Figura, Gallerie De Bellefeuille, Montreal, Canada (catalogue)

2002 The Perception of Appearances: A Decade of American Figure Drawing, Art Museum, Seattle WA, (catalogue)

2001 Lyons-Wier Packer Gallery, Chicago, IL
Lyons-Wier Packer Gallery, New NY

1999 San Francisco International Art Fair

1998 Hackett-Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1996 Lyons-Wier Gallery, Chicago, IL

1993 New Pier Show, Chicago, IL
Politics of Gender, Walkers Point Center for the Arts, Milwaukee, WI

1992 The Body Show, Frederick Layton Gallery, Milwaukee, WI

1991 Wisconsin 91, Edna Carlsten Gallery, UW Stevens Point, WI
Gabriel Laderman Selects, First Street Gallery, New York, NY
New Haven Paint and Clay Club Juried Show, CT
Connecticut Woman Artists Juried Show, John Slade Ely House, New Haven, CT
M.F.A. Thesis Show, New Haven, CT

1987 Talent Competition, Bannister Gallery, Rhode Island College, Providence, RI The Figure, Fleet Gallery, Providence, RI

 

AWARDS

2011 Milliman Grant, University of Washington
2009 Election into the National Academy of Art and Design, New York
Academy of Arts and Letters Museum Purchase Award, Hassam, Speicher, Betts and Symons Fund

2007 John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship

2006 Individual Artist Fellowship, Washington Arts Council/Artist Trust Honor Alumna, Rhode Island College

2003 Artist Trust Grant/GAP Award

2000 Grant for Artists Projects, Artist Trust, Washington

1998 Royal Research Scholar Grant, University of Washington

1997 Grant, Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation

1996 WESTAF/NEA Fellowship Artist Trust Grant/GAP Award Individual Artist Fellowship, Washington State Arts Council

1993 Individual Artists Fellowship, Wisconsin Arts Board
1991 Old Holland Oil Color Prize, Yale University Grumbacher Gold Medallion Prize, New Haven Paint and Clay Club Greene Art Gallery Prize, Connecticut Women Artists

1988 Senior Competition Award, Rhode Island College
1987 Ellen Battel Stoeckel Fellowship, Yale Summer School of Music and Art

 

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

2012 San Francisco Chronicle, “Ann Gale Extracts Delight Amid Bleakness,” Kenneth Baker, January 11, 2013
Visual Art Source, Review, “Ann Gale at Dolby Chadwick Gallery” DeWitt Cheng, February 2013.

2011 “Heads,” Dolby Chadwick Gallery, (catalogue), curated and essay by Peter Selz

2009 Art Ltd, Review, “Drawings VII,” Koplin del Rio Gallery, September 09
“Ones to Watch,” review, Western Art and Architecture, Fall/Winter 2008-09, page 56 -57.

2008 “Ann Gale’s Interstitial Portraits,” Hackett Freedman Gallery catalogue, forward by Mark Van Proyen
ZYZZYVA, the last word: west coast writers and artists, Fall 2008, page 141 and 142.
Art Ltd, Artist profile, Richard Speer, January, page 68 and 69.
Art Week, preview, Debra Koppman, February, volumn 39, issue1, page 6.

2007 “Representation 2007,” catalogue, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco

2005 “Art 2005 II”, (catalogue), Gallerie De Belllefeuille, Montreal
“Figura”, (catalogue), Gallerie De Belllefeuille, Montreal

2004 Artweek, Review, Ann Gale at Hackett Freedman Gallery, DeWitt Cheng, May 2004, volume 35, issue 4, page 18
“Curve: The Female Nude Now,” Universe Publishing, Rizzoli USA, New York, NY Dailey Megan and Jane Harris
“The Eye of the beholder: Recent Paintings by Ann Gale” Ann Gale: Recent Paintings, Hackett freedman Gallery, San Francisco, CA, Bruce Nixon

2003 Harpers Magazine, April

2002 “The perception of Appearances: A Decade of American Figure Drawing” Frye Art Museum, Seattle WA, (catalogue)
“Egg, the Art Show” PBS, aired nationally

2000 “The Center of Gravity, Ann Gale’s Portraits,” Hackett Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, CA (catalogue)

1999 “Gale Force”, Milwaukee Weekly, January 21
“More Than Skin Deep”, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, January 27

1996 “Parallaxis,” WESTAF, NEA, catalogue of fellowship recipients

1995 New American Paintings, The Open Studios Competition, Number IV
“Honesty is the Trademark of Gale’s Works”, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, April 30
“Quiet Dramas”, Milwaukee Magazine, April

1994 “Ann Gale Handles Paint Like a Master”, Milwaukee Sentinel, May 6

1993 “Ann Gale: painted portraits of somber stillness”, Milwaukee Sentinel, October, 29
“Tales on Canvas”, Milwaukee Magazine, December

1991 Yale Literary Magazine, spring

 

TELEVISION INTERVIEW
2002 “Egg, the Art Show” PBS, aired nationally, interview

 

MUSEUM COLLECTIONS
Portland Museum of Art, Portland OR
Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson AZ

 

TEACHING
2002-current Associate Professor, University of Washington, Painting and Drawing

1995-2002 Assistant Professor, University of Washington, Painting and Drawing

1992-1995 Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, Instructor, Painting and Drawing