EDUCATION :

1978BFA, Washington University, St. Louis, MO
1977Summer School of Music and Art, Yale University, Norfolk, CT

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

1996 - presentThe Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
1995–2000Arcadia University, Glenside, PA
1991–2005Community College of Philadelphia
1990–1997The Wallingford Art Center, Wallingford, PA
1985–1989The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
1983–1986The Baum School of Art, Allentown, PA
1978–1979Tyler School of Art, Elkins Park, PA

SOLO AND TWO PERSON EXHIBITION S

2006"Paintings," Gross McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia
2004"Paintings," Gross McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia
2000"Paintings," Gross McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia
1999Recent Work,The Kerygma Gallery, Ridgewood, NJ
Working from Life; Scott Noel and Janice Wilke,The Wayne Art Center, Wayne, PA
Paintings and Pastels, The Mangel Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Paintings, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
1998Scott Noel and Geoffrey Beadle, St. Joseph’s University, Philadelphia, PA
1997Paintings of Roxborough and Manayunk, The State Museum of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, PA
1996Recent Work,The Mangel Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Studio Patterns, The Kerygma Gallery, Ridgewood, NJ
1995Mutual Regard, Portraits from Life, Scott Noel and Jeffrey Carr, The F.A.N. Gallery, Philadlephia, PA
1994Paintings and Pastels, The Bowery Gallery, NY, NY
1993Paintings and Pastels, The Kerygma Gallery, Ridgewood, NJ
1992Recent Work,The More Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1989Paintings and Drawings, The More Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Paintings, The Kerygma Gallery, Ridgewood, NJ
Recent Paintings, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA
1988Painting from Life, Washington Studio School, Washington, DC
1987Recent Paintings, The More Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Recent Work, Scott Noel and Mark Green, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA
1986Paintings, The More Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1984Workson Paper, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
Recent Work, The More Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1982Landscape and Figures, The More Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1980Fleisher Challenge Series, Fleisher Art Memorial, Philadelphia, PA
Paintings and Pastels, Ridgefield Guild of Artists, Ridgefield, CT

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2006“Bader Fellowship Recipients,” George Washington University, Washington, DC
2005“Human Measures,” S.O.F.A. Gallery, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
2004“Philadelphia”, Gross McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
“George Nick Selects”, Concord Art Association, Philadelphia, PA
2002“Imaginative Affinities”, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
“Between Still Life and Landscape,” Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, Wilmington, Delaware
“Locations and Light,” Crealde School of Art, Orlando, FL
2001“George Nick Selects,” Concord Art Association, Concord, MA
2000“Winter Group Show,” Gross McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2000Winter Group Show, Gross McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1999Vanitas, Five Princelet St., London, UK
Narrative Visions, 55 Mercer Gallery, New York, NY
1997Zeuxis, Boston University, Boston, MA
Through the Heart of the City, The Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA
Embodied Fictions, St. Mary’s College, MD (catalogue)
1996"Collector’s Show, Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AK
Object Lessons, Zeuxis Group, Richmond Art Center, Windsor, CT
Contemporary Realism, The Kerygma Gallery, Ridgewood, NJ
Back to Nature, The Mangel Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
199599thFellowship of the Pennsylvania Academy Exhibition, The Woodmere Museum, Philadelphia, PA
Invitational Drawing Exhibition, Smith College, Northampton, MA
Hearth and Home, Champion International Corp., Stamford, CT
1994Fall Preview Exhibition, Tatistcheff Gallery, New York, NY
Summer Group Show, Tatistcheff Gallery, New York, NY
1993Collector’s Show, Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AK
Artists of Manayunk and East Falls, The Paley Design Center, College of Textiles and Science,  Philadelphia, PA
1992Figural Philadelphia, Drawings, The Woodmere Museum, Philadelphia, PA
Contemporary Self-Portraits from the James Goode Collection, The National Portrait Gallery,Washington, D.C. (catalogue)
1992Still Life and the Tactile Imagination, The Wallingford Art Center, Wallingford, PA (curator)
The Romantic Muse, The Kerygma Gallery, Ridgewood, NJ
1991Ten Contemporary Philadelphia Painters, The Westmoreland Museum of Art, Greensburg, PA (catalogue)
Cityscapes, The Kerygma Gallery, Ridgewood, NJ
1989Contemporary Philadelphia Artists, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA (catalogue)
The Evidence of the Senses, The Woodmere Museum, Philadelphia, PA (curator and writer of catalogue)
1988Biennial ’89, The Delaware ArtMuseum, Wilmington, DE
Hard Choices/Just Rewards, Levy Gallery, Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Drawings, Weingart Gallery, Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA (catalogue)
198710 X Twelve, A Decade of Fleisher Challenge Artists, Fleisher Art Memorial, Philadelphia, PA (catalogue)
Consciousness and Reality, The More Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Midyear Annual, The Butler Institute, Youngstown, OH
1986Works on Paper, Invitational Exhibition, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
Greater Harrisburg Arts Festival, The State Museum of PA, Harrisburg, PA
1986Nature Morte:The Museum Considers the Still Life, Souther Alleghenies Museum of Art, Loretto, PA
Biennial Juried Exhibition, The National Academy of Design, New York, NY
1984City Visions, The More Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Painterly Realist Invitational, Fontbonne College, St. Louis, MO
1982Five Years of Fleisher Challenge Exhibitions, Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA
The Nude, The More Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
The Intimate Still Life, The More Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1982Interio rs and Exteriors, The Woodmere Museum, Philadelphia, PA  

AWARDS AND CAREER HIGHLIGHT S

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Carr, Jeffrey, “Scott Noel’s Painterly Realism,” American Artist, August. 1997
Donohoe, Victoria, “On Galleries, Philadelphia Inquirer, May 23, 1986.
“Neighbors,” Philadelphia Inquirer, April 25, 1999
Fried, Daisy, “How Unhip Can You Get?” Welcomat, February 3, 1995.
Latter, Ruth, “Beauty is in the Eye and the Brush of the Beholder,” The Daily Progress,Charlottesville, VA, February 11, 1999.
Milroy, Elizabeth, “Contemporary Narrative Painting,” Arts Magazine, October, 1981.
Schantz, Michael, W., Artistic Legacy: Selections from the Woodmere Art Museum’s Permanent Collection, 2000, pp.124-5.
Scott, Bill, “Scott Noel at Gross McCleaf,” Art in America, May, 2001.
Sozanski, Edward J., “Figure Painting for Figure Painting’s Sake,” Philadelphia Inquirer, October 27, 2000 “On Galleries,” Philadelphia Inquirer, February 17, 1995.
Zeaman, John, “Galleries Celebrate Nature,” The Bergen record, March 21, 1989.
New American Paintings, Juried Exhibition in Print, Number 27, pp.110-113.
Contemporary Philadelphia Artists, Catalogue, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1990, pp. 111, 147.


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