Thomas Paquette

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Selected Exhibitions

2007
Élan Fine Art, Rockport, ME (solo)
Hoyt Institute of Fine Art, New Castle, PA (solo)
Mercyhurst College, Erie, PA (solo)
Gross McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, "American Arcadia"
U.S. Embassy in San Salvador, El Salvador (through 2009)
Governor's Residence, Harrisburg, PA, "Visions of the Susquehanna" (traveling)
Washington County Museum of Fine Arts, Hagerstown, MD, "Visions of the Susquehanna" (traveling)

2006
Gross McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia (solo)

2005
Somerville Manning Gallery, Greenville, DE, "Traversed Lands" (solo)
Jameson Gallery, Portland, ME (solo)
Harlan Gallery, Seton Hill University, Greensburg, PA, "Two Artists, Multiple Views" (two artists)

2004
Erie Art Museum, Erie, PA (solo)
Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Greensburg, PA, "Along the Lincoln Highway"
Donald Kenney Museum, St. Bonaventure University, Olean, NY, "Watercolor-less"
Jameson Gallery, Portland, ME
Somerville Manning Gallery, Greenville, DE
CTE Gallery, Charlotte, NC
James Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA

2003
Jameson Gallery, Portland, ME, (solo)
Flanders Contemporary Art, Minneapolis, MN, (solo)
Gross McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
The American Institute, Taipei, Taiwan (through 2005)
U.S. Embassy in Phnom Penh, Cambodia (through 2005)

2002
Bennington Center for the Arts, Bennington, VT, (solo)
Crary Art Gallery, Warren, PA, "The Land Observed", (solo)
Minnesota Historical Society, St. Paul, MN, "Defining a Collection: Recent Art Acquisitions"
Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC, "Recent Acquisitions"
Greenhut Galleries, Portland, ME, "The Portland Show"
Art Gallery at University of New England, Portland, ME, "Four Maine Treasure Troves"
U.S. Embassy in St. Petersburg, Russia, "Natural America" (through 2005)
U.S. Embassy in Vienna, Austria (through 2005)

2001
Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, GA, (solo)
Gleason Fine Art, Camden, ME, (solo)
Center of the Earth Gallery, Charlotte, NC, "The Great Landscape", (two-artist)
Aucocisco Gallery, Portland, ME, "Condensed Landscapes", (solo)
Chautauqua Center for the Visual Arts, Chautauqua, NY, "Nature"
Chewonki Foundation / The Earth Charter, Wiscasset, ME, "Sense of Place"

2000
Flanders Contemporary Art, Minneapolis, MN (solo)
Southern Illinois University Museum, Edwardsville, IL (solo)
Kimberly Greer Gallery, Northport, NY, (solo)
American Academy in Rome, Italy (open studio)
U.S. Embassy in Rome, Italy (7 paintings selected)

1999
Bates College Museum of Art, Lewiston, ME, "The Joy of Collecting Art in Maine"
L.C. Bates Museum, Hinckley, ME, "Looking at Katahdin"
Flanders Contemporary Art, Minneapolis, MN, "The Art of Collecting"
Concord Public Library Art Gallery, Concord, MA, "Thoreau's Wild New England"

1998
Flanders Contemporary Art, Minneapolis, MN, (solo)
Frick Gallery Northeast, Northeast Harbor, ME, (solo)
U.S. Embassy in Santiago, Chile, "Maine Light"
Bates College Museum of Art, Lewiston, ME, "The History of Oil Sketching in Maine"

1997
Between the Muse Gallery, Rockland, ME "Recent Paintings", (solo)
Maine State Capitol, Augusta, ME, "Maine Landscapes", (solo)
Beach Museum of Art, Manhattan, KS (and traveling), "Buildings and Landscapes"

1996
Fischbach Gallery, New York, NY "Recent Paintings", (solo)

1995
Tom Veilleux Gallery, Farmington, ME "Recent Paintings", (solo)
Roundtop Center for the Arts, Damariscotta, ME "A Closer Look", (solo)
U.S. Embassy in N'Djmena, Chad

1994
Lydon Fine Art, Chicago, IL, "Recent Paintings", (solo)
Mahler Gallery, Washington, DC, "The Essential Landscape, (solo)
Maine Coast Artists, Rockport, ME, "The Nature Conservancy Paintings", (solo)

1993
Mahler Gallery, Washington, DC, (solo)
University of Southern Maine, Portland, ME, (solo)

1990-91
Bass Museum of Art (1991), Miami Beach, FL, "Three Fellows (of the National Foundation
for Advancement in the Arts)"
Museum of Contemporary Art (1990), North Miami, FL "Art in Miami Collections"
Bass Museum of Art (1990), Miami Beach, FL "Contemporaries in our Midst"
(Fellows of the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts)


Public Art and Commissions

2003 Queen Mary 2 Cruise Ship, Cunard Lines -- Paintings for two luxurious staterooms: the Queen Victoria Suite, and Windsor Suite. More information on the ship. Images of the paintings.
2002 Statendam Cruise Ship, Holland-America Lines -- Four large paintings for various areas of this luxury liner: the Conciergerie, the Dining Room, and luxury suites. More information on the ship. Images of the paintings.
1999 College of Technology, Montana State University, Great Falls, Montana -- Percent-for-Art Commission: 40 x 54 inch painting, Black Eagle Falls: Painting of the waterfall that defines the impetus for originally locating a town in that location. Image of the painting.
1998 Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, Minneapolis, MN -- Commission: Four large paintings for the main Conference Room, depicting the diverse landscapes from the far reaches of the Bank's region, collectively titled The Four Directions. Each painting measures 84 x 66 inches [or overall dimensions of 7 feet by 22 feet]. Images of the paintings.
1996 Central Lakes College, Brainerd, MN -- Percent-for-Art Commission: Large mural-sized oil-on-canvas painting titled Tributary depicting the Mississippi River; installed the Computer Commons off the main atrium in the administration building. Painting dimensions are 6-1/2 feet by 32 feet in length. Images of the painting.
1996 Ellsworth High School, Ellsworth, ME -- Percent-for-Art Purchase: installed in Library. Coastal seascape titled "Morning Waves", measuring 28 x 38 inches. Image of the painting.
1993 Songo Locks School, Naples, ME -- Percent-for-Art Purchase: installed in entrance hallway. Pastoral "fauvist" painting of two horses titled Two Horses, measuring 26 x 47 inches. Image of the painting.
1991 Central Lakes College, Brainerd, MN -- Percent-for-Art Purchase: installed in Library. Coastal landscape titled Edge of the Earth, measuring 40 x 96 inches. Image of the painting.
1990 Centennial State Office Building, St. Paul, MN -- Percent-for-Art Commission: installed over reception desk. Interior forest scene titled Elder Creek, measuring 52 x 132 [or 4-1/3 x 11 feet]. Image of the painting.
1986 Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, St. Paul, MN -- Memorial painting titled Remembrance, measuring 34 x 30 inches, originally installed in reception area. Image of the painting.

Fellowships, Awards and Residencies

2006 American Artist Abroad, sponsored by U.S. Department of State and U.S. Embassy in Athens
2005 Special Opportunity Stipend, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts
2004 Residency, Robert M. MacNamara Foundation, Westport Island, ME
2000 Visiting Artist, American Academy in Rome, Italy - paintings from this residency.
1999 Guest Artist, USM/Aegean Arts and Cultural Exchange, Greece - paintings from this residency.
1999 Visiting Artist, Plymouth University, Exeter, England
1999 Visiting Artist, University of Wales, Cardiff, Wales
1998 Travel Grant, John Anson Kittredge Educational Fund, Cambridge, ME
1997 Artist-in-Residence, Yosemite National Park, Yosemite, CA
1994 Artist-in-Residence, Acadia National Park, Bar Harbor, ME
1993 Artist-in-Residence, Rocky Mountain National Park, Estes Park, CO
1993 Shep Forest Fellowship, Millay Colony for the Arts, Austerlitz, NY
1989-1991 Fellowship and Residency, National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts, Miami Beach, FL
1985 Graduate Fellowship, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville


Collections

Acadia National Park Museum
Arthur Andersen & Company
Banknorth
Beach Museum of Art
L.L. Bean
Carlson School of Management
Colby College
Collier Shannon Scott
Commerce Bancshares
Council of Insurance Agents and Brokers
Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
Fleet BankBoston
Fidelity Investments
FSA
Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum
Ministry of Economics, Taiwan, R.O.C.
Minnesota Pollution Control Agency
Minnesota Historical Society
Mint Museum of Art
National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts
Norwest Banks
Portland Museum of Art
Rocky Mountain National Park Museum
Smith Barney
Southern Illinois University Museum
SPX Corporation
State of Maine
State of Minnesota
State of Montana
Thomson Financial
UNUM
U.S. Department of State (US Embassy loans to Athens, Taipei, St. Petersburg,
Vienna, Rome, N'Djamena, Santiago, Riga, Phnom Penh)
U.S.T.
Western Illinois University
Woodhill Country Club
Yosemite National Park Museum


Short Bio

A native of Minneapolis, Thomas Paquette earned a Master of Fine Arts degree in painting from Southern Illinois University (1988), and a BFA in painting from Bemidji State University (1985). A few months out of graduate school, he was one of the first three recipients of the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts' three-year Fellowship in the Visual Arts in Miami Beach.

When that ended in 1991, he moved from Miami to Portland, Maine, where he painted full-time for a decade, drawn by the landscape. Among other accomplishments during that time, he completed a seven- by thirty-two-foot canvas for the State of Minnesota, and four large canvases commissioned by the Federal Reserve Bank.

Thomas was invited in 1999 to be a guest artist through the USM-Aegean Arts and Cultural Exchange on the Greek island of Lesvos. That same year, he was invited to speak to college art students in England (Exeter) and Wales (Cardiff).

The next year, he was a Visiting Artist at the American Academy in Rome. Other artist-residencies that he participated in were at National Parks (Yosemite, Acadia and Rocky Mountain), the Robert M. MacNamara Foundation and the Millay Colony.

The Georgia Museum of Art mounted a 70-painting survey exhibition of Thomas' work in 2001, the same year he moved to northwest Pennsylvania. He has had one-man exhibitions at prominent galleries in New York City, Chicago, Minneapolis, St. Louis, Washington DC, and Maine, among other places. The Erie Art Museum hosted an exhibition of his paintings in 2004. Beyond museums and galleries, many of his paintings have been exhibited around the world at US Embassies in Athens, Chad, Phnom Penh, Riga, Rome, St. Petersburg, Santiago, Taipei, and Vienna.