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Marian L. O'Connell      Artist, Printmaker

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Selected Exhibitions and Awards:

2011
Artists Books and Etchings, solo show at the Newport Art Museum, RI
Eleventh Anniversary Exhibition of the Art League of Rhode Island, Salve University, RI and every year since the First Founding
Members Show in 2001 at the Bristol Art Museum
The Boston Printmakers North American Print Biennial, Danforth Art Museum, Material Award, in 2009 held at 808 Gallery, Boston
University, Two Patron and Purchase Awards, also in1999, MA

2010
The Boston Printmakers Members Show, thINK, traveling show through 2012, MA
Solo show at East Greenwich Art Gallery, RI

2009
Newport Annual Members Show, Newport Art Museum, Best in Show and the Newport Art Museum Award, RI
Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club's 113th Annual Exhibit; Anna Hyatt Huntington Bronze Medal Of Honor in 2005; the Leonard J Meiselman Memorial Award in 2003; and Corporate Awards in 1994 and 1995; and four other years, NYC

2008
National Association of Women in the Arts’, 119th Annual Exhibition at Goggle Works, Reading, PA
52nd Regional, Mystic Artscenter, Joseph Gaultieri Prize, and Honorable in 2003, CT
Awarded membership in the Boston Printmakers, MA

2007
National Museum of Women in the Arts, Fall Benefit, Washington, DC
Mill Brook Gallery’s Monotype Guild of New England show, Honorable, Concord, NH
Narragansett Art Festival, First in Graphics, RI
Faxon Center Gallery, (two person show), Falmouth, MA

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2006
Coming of Age: Monotype Guild of New England 20th Anniversary Portfolio, traveling exhibit selected by Joann Moser,
Senior Curator, Smithsonian Museum of American Art, in 2009 it was put in the permanent print collection of the Boston Public Library
Cape Cod Printmakers Annual, Cape Cod Museum, MA
Mystic Outdoor Festival, Second in Graphics; also Second in Graphics in 2004; and First Place in Graphics in 2003, CT
Winter Juried Show, Duxbury Art Complex Museum, Second in Graphics, MA
Wickford Members Show, First Place, RI

2005
Art of the Ocean State, Wickford Art Association, Second, RI
Copley Society Spring Members Show, Boston, MA

2004
The Art of the Printmaker, (nine RI printmakers), Bristol Art Museum, RI
Paperworks Open Juried Exhibition, Providence Art Club, RI
Narragansett Art Festival, Best in Show, RI
The Canal Gallery, One of a Kind Show, Second, Holyoke, MA

2003
Copley Printmakers Show, (eight printmakers), Boston, MA
DeBlois Gallery, (two person show), Newport, RI
Biennial International Miniature Print Exhibit, Center for Contemporary Printmaking, Norwalk, CT

2002
Inspired by the Land, National Association of Women Artists, Attleborro Museum, MA

2001
Monotype Guild of New England Show, Hampshire College, Amherst, MA
Open Printmaking and Sculpture Exhibit, Providence Art Club, RI
National Association of Women Artists, Bristol Art Museum, RI

2000
26th Annual Winter Juried Show at the Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, MA
Newport Art Museum Thirteenth Annual Members’ Juried Show, First in Printmaking, RI

1999
Open Juried Competition sponsored by Fidelity Investments at the Providence Art Club
Boston Printmakers North American Print Exhibition, 808 Gallery, Boston University, MA

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1998
Newport Art Museum Eleventh Annual Members’ Show, First in Printmaking, RI

1998-2000 National Association of Women Artists Traveling Printmaking Exhibition, NYC

1997
First International Miniature Print Exhibit, GraphicArts Center, Norwalk, CT

1996
The Art of the Printmaker, (eight printmakers) Happy White Gallery, Barrington, RI

1995
Eighteenth Annual Non-Members Juried Exhibition, Salmagundi Art Exhibition, and Certificate of Merit in 1992, NYC
Mystic Art Association Annual Regional Exhibition, First in Works on Paper, CT

1994
New England Exhibition Open, Cape Cod Art Association, Second in Graphics, MA
Narragansett Art Festival, Best in Show, RI
International Silvermine Print Biennial, New Canaan, CT

1992
Albany National Open Competitive Exhibition, Merit Award, Albany, NY
Allied Artists of America, 78th Annual Exhibition, New York City

1985
Japan/Rhode Island Exchange Exhibit, Exhibitor Award, RI Watercolor Society

1982
Adirondacks National, Old Forge, NY
Beth El Art Exhibit, The Watercolor Award, West Hartford, CT

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Gallery Representations

Celebrations Gallery, 330 Pomfret, Pomfret Center, CT 06254, 860-928-5492
Greenwich Gallery, 514 Main Street, East Greenwich, RI 02818, 401-884-2860
Old Print Barn, Winona Road, Meredith, NH 03253, 603-279-6479
Merwin’s Art Shop, New Haven, CT

Selected Collections

Bartley Associates, Portland, ME
Data Packing, Somerset, MA
Newport Art Museum, RI
Newport Savings & Loan Assoc., Middletown, RI
Newport Hospital, RI
People's Bank, Westminster Mall, Providence, RI
Virginia Lynch, RI

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