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PROFESSOR OF ART, HAMILTON COLLEGE, CLINTON NY

BFA, Rhode Island School of Design
MFA, Student of Walter Murch, Boston University School of Fine Arts
Fellowship, Yaddo Foundation



PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

  • Copley Society of art, Boston MA, Member: 1996 - Present, Copley Artist: 1998 – Present
  • 2002 recipient of the John Singleton Copley Award.
  • The Society of American Graphic Artists, New York NY, 1998 - Present
  • The Boston Printmakers, 2002 – Present
  • The Print Center, Philadelphia, PA 2007

 

PUBLICATIONS

  • Robert Bruce Muirhead, Prints 1969-2006, A Catalogue Raisonne, The Amity Art Foundation Inc., Woodbridge CT, www.amityartfoundation.org.
  • Winn Devon Art Group Ltd., Seattle, WA
  • Stone Canoe, A Journal of Arts and Ideas, Vol. 2, Syracuse University Press, Syracuse, NY

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

  • The Urban Landscape, Susan Maasch Fine Arts, Portland, ME 2007/2008
  • National Print Exhibition, Xavier University, Cincinnati, OH 2007
  • Sixty Square Inches, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 2007
  • 3rd National Small Works Exhibition, The Western New York Artists Group, Art Dialogue Gallery, Buffalo, NY  2007
  • National Small Works Show, Washington Printmaker Gallery, Washington, DC 2007
  • The Society of American Graphic Artists 74th Members Show, The Old Print Shop, New York, NY 2007
  • 20th Parkside National Print Exhibition, Communication Art Gallery, University of Wisconsin, Kenosha, Wisconsin (work reproduced in catalogue)  2007
  • 73rd SAGA National Membership Exhibition, Ringling School of Art and Design, Sarasota, FL  2006
  • SAGA Membership Exhibition, Hollar Society Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic  2006
  • 25th National Silvermine Print Exhibition, New Canaan, CT 2006
  • The Boston Printmaker, A selection of 26 members work, Francesca Anderson Gallery, Lexington, MA 2006
  •  The New Landscape: Alternative Approaches, Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, MA 2006
  • Greater Midwest International Exhibition XXI, CMSU Art Center Gallery, Warrensburg, MO 2006
  • First National Small Works Exhibition, First Prize Award, The Western New York Artists Group, Art Dialogue Gallery, Buffalo, NY 2005
  • 90th Anniversary Society of American Graphic Artists Exhibition, Art Students League, New York, NY 2005
  • Parkside National Print Exhibition, University of Wisconsin, Kenosha, WI,1994, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007 Awarded Purchase Prize, 2005
  • Hamilton Makes Art, Faculty Exhibition, Art Capital Group Galleries, New York, NY, 2004
  •  125th Anniversary Exhibition, Copley Society of art, Boston, MA 2004
  • Boston Printmakers Biennial, Boston University, Boston, MA 1999, 2001, 2003, 2005
  • Society of American Graphic Artists National Exhibition, New York, NY 1999, 2002
  • 66th Arnot Art Museum Regional Exhibition, Elmira, NY 2000, 2005
  • The NY Society of Etchers, Juried Exhibition, New York, NY 2000
  • “Time Remembered/Time Past,” Boston Printmakers, The Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, MA 2004
  • National Academy of Design, 175th Anniversary Exhibition, Invitee, New York, NY 2000
  1. Copley Society of art, Boston, MA, Fall, Winter, and Spring Exhibitions, Boston, MA 1997 - 2000
  • LaGrange National Biennial, Chattahoochee Valley Art Museum, LaGrange, GA 1996, 1998
  • The Three Rivers Arts Festival, Pittsburgh, PA 1993, 1998
  • "The Prints and Paper,” San Diego Art Institute, San Diego, CA 1994
  • Americas 2000: Works on Paper, An International Competition, North Dakota State, Minot, ND 1993

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

  • “Northern Climate, The Etchings of Bruce Muirhead,” Upper Traylor Gallery, Berea College, Berea, KY 2007
  • “The Works of Bruce Muirhead” Central New York Community Arts Council, The Red Gallery, Stanley Theatre, Utica, NY 2006
  • Landscapes and Figures recent work (2 person show), La Galerie Rouge, Clinton, NY 2005
  • “Professor-Printmaker, Bruce Muirhead”  Emerson Gallery, Hamilton College, Clinton, NY 2005
  • "Mirage of Memory," Copley Society of Art, Boston, MA  2001
  • Arnot Art Museum, Elmira NY 2000 (4 Person Show)
  • "Painter-Printmaker," James Fitzpatirck Gallery, Portland ME 1999 (4 Person Show)
  • "A Landscape Show," Copley Society of Art, Boston, MA  1998 (4 Person Show)
  • "The Landscapes of Bruce Muirhead," Lakes Gallery and Sculpture Garden, South Casco, ME, 1998
  • Gallery On The Green, Lexington MA, 1989 and 1991
  • Hamilton College Emerson Gallery, Clinton, NY 1988

GALLERIES/CO-OPERATIVES

  • Susan Maasch Fine Art, Portland, ME
  • Copley Society of Art, Boston, MA
  • J. Todd Gallery, Wellesley, MA
  • La Galerie Rouge, Clinton, NY
  • Pyramid Atlantic, Silver Springs, MD

PERMANENT COLLECTIONS

  • Sakima Art Museum Okinawa Prefecture, Japan
  • Quincy Community College, Quincy, MA
  • The Amity Art Foundation , Woodbridge, CT: owns a complete collection of Bruce Muirhead etchings
  • University of Wisconsin, Parkside, Kenosha, WI
  • Emerson Gallery, Hamilton College, Clinton, NY
  • Guido Goldman, (3 paintings placed on loan to Harvard University, The Center for Foreign Studies) Cambridge, MA
  • Marguerite Pullen Gallery, University of Maine, Presque Isle, ME
  • New York City Public Library, New York, NY
  • Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT
  • Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, NY
  • Ad Gallery, Gonzaga University, Spokane, WA
  • Hartnett Hall Gallery, North Dakota State University, Minot, ND
  • North Carolina Print and Drawing Society,Charlotte, NC