Seraphin Gallery is pleased to share the recent review of our artist, Natalie Alper, in  Art in America. Click here to read Natalie Alper's review.

BORN : Bronx, New York

EDUCATION : B.A., New York University
M.A. Boston University, Boston, MA
School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

TEACHING:
1971-1993 Painting Faculty School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
1984 Visiting Faculty Carpenter Center, Harvard University
2008 Artist in Residence School of the Museum of Fine Arts

GRANTS AND AWARDS
2000 Artists Resource Trust Grant
1994 Maud Morgan Prize, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
1989 Massachusetts Artists Foundation
1980 Alumni Travelling Fellowship, School of the Museum of fine Arts, Boston. MA
1976 National Endowment for the Arts
Massachusetts Artists Foundation
Yaddo Residency
1971 Travelling Fellowship, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS:
Art Chicago 2008, Chicago, IL
Samek Art Gallery, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA
Ewing Gallery, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN

ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2007 Seraphin Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2001 University of Massachusetts, University Gallery, Fine Arts Center, Amherst, MA
1998 Lehigh University Art Galleries, Bethlehem, PA
1995 Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, MA
1994 Margaret Lipworth Fine Arts, Boca Raton, FL
Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, MA
1992 Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, MA
1991 de Andino Fine Arts, Washington, DC
1989 Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA
1988 Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, MA
1987 College of Charleston, Charleston, SC
1984 Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Osuna Gallery, Washington, DC
1982 Helen Shlien Gallery, Boston, MA
1981 Osuna Gallery, Washington, DC
1980 Helen Shlien Gallery, Boston, MA
1977 Phillips Collection, Washington, DC
Pyramid Gallery, Washington, DC
1975 Harcus Krakow Rosen Sonnabend Gallery, Boston, MA
1974 Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA
“Recent Drawings and Water Colors," Hayden Corridor Gallery, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
1973 Parker Street 470 Gallery, Boston, MA
1972 Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2004 “Tracing the Sublime,” Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA
Invitational, Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA
2002 “Transcendent and Unrepentant,” Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Seraphin Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2001 “Drawings,” Victoria Munroe Fine Arts, Boston, MA
2000 Michael H. Lord Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
“Visual Memoirs: Selected Paintings and Drawings,” Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
1999 “Current Abstract Painting,” Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
“Unlocking the Grid,” Fine Arts Center Gallery, University of RI, Kingston, RI
1998 “Group Show,” Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
1996 "Order/Disorder: Paintings by Natalie Alper, Lydia Dona, Mary Heilmann & Jacqueline Humphries," Bell Gallery, List Visual Art Center, Brown University, Providence, RI
"Art on Paper," Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC
"Drawing Invitational," Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR
1991 "American Abstraction at the Addison," Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA
1990 "Boston - Montreal," Montreal March-April, Boston, MA
1987 "Drawings from the Eighties," Carnegie Mellon University Art Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
1985 "Drawing National," Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY
1982 “A Private Vision: Contemporary Art: Graham Gund Collection," Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
1977 "Invitational American Drawing Exhibition," Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego, San Diego, CA
1976 Betty Parsons Gallery, New York, NY
"Boston Watercolor Today," Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
1975 "North-East-South-West and Middle," An Exhibition of Contemporary Drawings, Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, PA
"Works on Paper," Parsons-Truman Gallery, New York, NY
1974 "New Talent," Betty Parsons Gallery, New York, NY
1973 "New American Graphic Art," Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, MA
"Boston Collects Boston," Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
1971 "Travelling Fellows," Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

MUSEUM COLLECTIONS
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA
Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, MA
Phillips Collection, Washington, DC
Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
Lehigh University Art Museum, Bethlehem, PA
Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR
National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Achenbach Foundation for the GraphicArts, San Francisco, CA
Samek Art Gallery, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA
Boston Public Library, Boston, MA
Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
Wheaton College, Norton, MA
DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA
Fuller Museum of Art, Brockton, MA
Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, NH
Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego, San Diego, CA

BIBLIOGRAPHY
2001 Betsy Siersma, “Undercurrents,” Catalogue, University Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
1999 Bill van Siclen, Providence Journal-Bulletin, February 19
Gregory Wallace, Art New England, April/May
1998 Barry Schwabsky, “Between Matter and Spirit,” Catalogue, Lehigh University Art
Galleries, Bethlehem, PA
Ricardo Viera, “Interview with the Artist,” Catalogue, Lehigh University Art Galleries, Bethlehem, PA
Cate McQuaid, The Boston Globe, February 25
Joanne Silver, The Boston Herald, February 20
1996 Ann Wilson Lloyd, Art in America, January
Barry Schwabsky, “Abstraction and Entropy,” Catalogue: “Order, Disorder,” List Art
Center, Brown University, Providence, RI
1995 Mary Sherman, The Boston Herald, May 5
Bill van Siclen, Providence Journal-Bulletin, October 25
1994 Addison Parks, The Christian Science Monitor, September 26
Nancy Stapen, The Boston Globe, September 29
Charles Giuliano, The Improper Bostonian, September
1992 Nancy Stapen, The Boston Globe, May 28
1991 Michael Welzenbach, The Washington Post, June 8
1989 Stephen Westfall, Catalogue, Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA
Robert Taylor, The Boston Sunday Globe, May 28
Francine Koslow, Contemporanea, October
David Raymond, Art New England, September 3
Francine Koslow, Art Forum, October
David Bonetti, Art News, November
1987 Kristina Montvidas-Kutkus, "College Presents Energetic Abstractions," The News & Courier/The Evening Post, Charleston, SC, November 22
Michael Phillips, Catalogue, College of Charleston, Charleston, SC
1984 Nancy Miller, Catalogue, Helen Shlien Gallery
Kenneth Baker, The Boston Phoenix, March 17
1983 Sarah McFadden, Art in America, May
1982 The List, 6th Edition, Independent Curators, Incorporated
Nan Burks Freeman, "Boston Makes Its Mark," Drawing Magazine, June
Christine Temin, "Natalie Alper's Quiet Corners," The Boston Globe, May 18
Pamela Allara, "A Boston School: Four Artists," Tufts University Catalogue
1980 Nan Freeman, Art New England, July
Pamela Allara, Art News, September
The List, 5th Edition, Independent Curators, Incorporated
1979 Josephine Withers, Women Artists in Washington Collections
1978 Benjamin Forgey, Art News, January
Martha McWilliams Wright, Art International, January
Ann H. Murray, Geometry as Structure in Contemporary Art, Catalogue, Wheaton College, Norton, MA
1977 Washington Calendar Magazine, October
Benjamin Forgey, Washington Post, October 16
Christopher C. Cook, Catalogue, Phillips Collection, Washington, DC
1976 Kay Larson, Art News, April
Robert Taylor, Boston Water Color Today, February 1
1975 Channing Gray, Providence Journal
1974 Robert Taylor, The Boston Globe, May 5
1973 Boston Collects Boston, Catalogue, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Robert Taylor, The Boston Globe, Marth 11