2016   800 Million Heartbeats, The Trustman Gallery, Boston, MA 
2007   Vanishing Point, RISD/Works Gallery, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI 
2006   Between What I See and What I Say, The Trustman Gallery, Boston, MA 
2003   On the Road, Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, MA 
2002   Devotion, Zg Gallery, Inc., Chicago, IL 
2001   Glimmer, The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 
1998   Peepers, Judy Ann Goldman Fine Art, Boston, MA 
1997   Clowns & Imps, Lukacs Gallery, Fairfield University, Fairfield, CT 
1994   Whatnots, Koppelman Gallery, Tufts University, Medford, MA 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2024   A Sense of Surface, The Painting Center, NY, NY

            Annual Aids Benefit, Krakow Witkin Gallery, Boston, MA 

            Vernon Street 50th Anniversary Exhibition, Nave Gallery, Somerville, MA      

2023   PERSONA, Gallery VERY, Boston, MA

           The Table, The Level Gallery, Queens, NY (Sfera Lewis, Curator)

           Inner World, Ely Center of Contemporary Art, New Haven, CT

2022   On the Edge, Museum of Art, University of New Hampshire (Kristina Durocher, Curator)

           UNDERCURRENTS, Ely Center of Contemporary Art, New Haven, CT (Kristina Newman-Scott, Curator)

2021   Portraiture 1: Others, Mostly Painting, Suffolk University Gallery, Boston, MA (Deborah Davidson, Curator)

           Keep the Light, Brattleboro Museum & Art Center, VT, (Mara Williams, Curator)
2020   Ensemble: Together Again, The Painting Center, NY, NY
           Character Development: Collection & Contemporary Portraits, Attleboro Arts Museum, MA 

               (Mim Fawcett, Curator)

2019   The Odyssey Project: An Old Story for Modern Times, Museum of Art, University of New Hampshire
           AVATARS//ghosts, Nave Gallery, Somerville, MA (Curated by C. Balch, G. Funkhouser & K. Wright)

2018   Who Saved Who, New Bedford Art Museum, New Bedford, MA
2017   Touchstones, Totems, Talismans: Animals in Contemporary Art, Brattleboro Museum & Art Center, VT
              (Mara Williams, Curator)
           Et Tu, Art Brute? Andrew Edlin Gallery, NY, NY
           26th International Juried Exhibition, Bowery Gallery, NY, NY (Kyle Staver, Juror)
           NXNE 2017, Brattleboro Museum & Art Center, VT
2016   Stark Naked: Uncovering Bodies, Objects, and the Futility of Desire, Gallery Kayafas, Boston, MA 
           About Face, Augusta Savage Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst (Theresa Jenoure, Curator)
           Breaking the Mold, The Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis, MA
           Artist’s Choice, Somerville Museum, Somerville, MA
           Postcards from the Edge, Sikkema Jenkins & Co., NY, NY
2015   FACES, Post Office Gallery, North Truro, MA
           No Shake, Not Here, Montserrat Gallery, Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA (Robert Moeller, Curator)
           Dog Days of Summer, ArcWorks Gallery, Peabody, MA
2014   Vernon St. Studios 40th Anniversary, Somerville Museum, MA
           Works on Paper, South Shore Arts Center, Cohasset, MA (Al Miner, Juror)
           Placed: Inside/Out, 490 Harrison Ave., Boston, MA (Robert Moeller, Curator)
           RED, Kathryn Schultz Gallery, Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, MA (Amy Sadao, Juror)
2013   Confabulation, The Trustman Gallery, Simmons College, Boston, MA
           What Goes Around, Attleboro Arts Museum, Attleboro, MA
           YARD! 20 Village Street, Somerville, MA
           Artist’s Choice, Somerville Museum, Somerville, MA
2012   Annual Juried Exhibition, The Schoolhouse Gallery, Provincetown, MA
2011   Residue - The 22nd Drawing Show, Boston Center for the Arts/Mills Gallery, Boston, MA (Steve Holmes,    

             Curator)
           4th Annual Juried Show, Sylvia White Gallery, Ventura, CA
           Chain Letter, Samson Projects, Boston, MA
           Simmons Collects: Celebrating Women Artists, Trustman Art Gallery, Boston, MA
2010   Inside/Out, Grossman Gallery, Boston, MA
           Proof of Purchase, Samson Projects, Boston, MA
           Painted Cities, Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY
2009   The Boston Drawing Project: Ten Years, Carroll & Sons, Boston, MA
           Frolic, Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY
2008   Drawing is a Fine Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
           Artists in Residence, Sanskriti Gallery, New Delhi, India
2007   Annual Juried Exhibition, Housatonic Museum of Art, Bridgeport, CT
           Proof of Purchase, Rhys Gallery, Boston, MA
           Brickbottom Celebrates MacDowell, Brickbottom Gallery, Somerville, MA
2006   Night of 1,000 Drawings, Artist’s Space, NY, NY
2005   Pretty/Sweet: The Sentimental Image in Contemporary Art, deCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA
           Night of 1,000 Drawings, Artist’s Space, NY, NY
2004   Exquisite Corpse Project, The Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME
           The 18th Drawing Show, Boston Center for the Arts, Mills Gallery, MA (Raphaela Platow, Juror)
2003   As Small as Possible, Zg Gallery, Inc., Chicago, IL
           Compendium, Zg Gallery, Inc., Chicago, IL
2002   Painting in Boston: 1950-2000, deCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA
            Bowdoin College Faculty Exhibition, Icon Contemporary Art, Brunswick, ME
2001   The 17th Drawing Show, Boston Center for the Arts, Mills Gallery, MA (Bill Arning, Juror)
2000   Lois Foster Exhibition of Boston Area Artists, The Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, MA
           International Young Art, ArtLink @ Sotheby's (on-line exhibition)
1999   The Passion/Passions of Art, Richard Anderson Fine Art, NY, NY
           Collectors Collect Contemporary: 1990-99, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
           Front Line: Contemporary Draftsmen from New England, The Boston Athenaeum, Boston, MA
           A Survey of Contemporary Works, The Somerville Museum, MA
           The Edge of Vision, The Edge of Sight, Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA
           Selections: Works by Fifteen NEFA Fellowship Winners, University of MA at Dartmouth, MA
1998   Museum School Traveling Scholars 1997, The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
           Women in the Visual Arts Annual National Competition, Erector Square Gallery, New Haven, CT
1997   Works on Paper, Berkshire Art Museum, MA (Jerry Saltz, Juror)
           The Drawing Show, Boston Center for the Arts, Mills Gallery, MA (Carl Belz, Juror)
1996   Painting & Sculpture, Berkshire Art Museum, MA (Dan Cameron, Juror)
           New Work '96, Artspace, New Haven, CT (Bill Arning, Juror)
1995   Rites of Paint, Mario Diacono, Boston, MA
           Landmarks - Women's Caucus for Art, Boston Center for the Arts/Cyclorama, MA

WORKS ON VIEW

White Columns Curated Artist Registry, NY, NY

The Painting Center, NY, NY
The Viewing Program, The Drawing Center, NY, NY (program now archived)

SELECTED COLLECTIONS
The Boston Athenaeum, Boston, MA
The Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Bowdoin, ME

Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA

deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA
Fidelity Corporation, Boston, MA

Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, MA

Simmons University, Boston, MA
Sonesta International Corporation, Boston, MA
Wellington Management Company, Boston, MA

AWARDS
2023   The Pouch Cove Foundation Artist Residency, Newfoundland, Canada

2021   Silver Linings Award, The Davis Education Foundation and Simmons University, 

           recognizing innovative pedagogies in post-pandemic teaching 

2018   Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Summer Fellowship, Harvard University 

           The Hopper Prize, finalist
2017   Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Summer Fellowship, Harvard University
2016   President’s Fund for Excellence Grant, Simmons College, Boston, MA
2013   Juror’s prize, What Goes Around, Attleboro Arts Museum, Attleboro, MA
2012   Faculty Fund for Research Grant, Simmons College, Boston, MA
2008   Sanskriti Kendra Foundation, Residency, New Delhi, India
           President’s Fund for Excellence Grant, Simmons College, Boston, MA
           Faculty Fund for Research Grant, Simmons College, Boston, MA
2007   Virginia Center for the Creative Arts Fellowship
           Second Prize, Annual Juried Exhibition, Housatonic Museum of Art, Bridgeport, CT (Bill Arning, Juror)
2005   Virginia Center for the Creative Arts Fellowship
2000/01 Mary Ingraham Bunting Fellowship, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University
2000   Massachusetts Cultural Council/Somerville Arts Council Grant
1999   MacDowell Colony Fellowship
1998   New England Foundation for the Arts Painting Fellowship
1997   MacDowell Colony Fellowship
           School of the Museum of Fine Arts Traveling Alumni Fellowship
1996   MacDowell Colony Fellowship
1994   Juror’s award, National '94 Small Works, Cobleskill, NY, (Jerry Saltz, Juror)

BOOKS/CATALOGS
Stoops, Susan L., "Time Lived, Time Imagined", catalog essay in Colleen Kiely: Selected Works 2012-2016,
   OSP Catalogs, Boston, MA, 2016
Maramotti, Luigi, and Rabbia, Luisa, MDC, Edizioni del Parito, Italy, 2015
Raye, Robyne (curator), Art Dogs: 100 Postcards, Rockport Publishers, 2014
Raye, Robyne (curator), 1,000 Dog Portraits: From the People Who Love Them, Rockport Publishers, 2014
New American Paintings: The Ninth Open Studios Northeastern Competition, No. 50, Open Studios Press,       

   Wellesley, MA
Lloyd, Ann Wilson, "The New Painting," in Painting in Boston: 1950-2000, ed. R. Lafo, N. Capasso and J. Uhrhane,

   197-98. Amherst and Boston: University of Massachusetts Press, 2000

New American Paintings: The Sixth Open Studios Northeastern Competition, No. 32, Open Studios Press, 

   Wellesley, MA

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Livingstone, Poppy, Boston Art Review, "Portraits and Perception", 8/22/23 (online reviews)

Harrington, Leah Triplett, Boston Art Review, Issue 08: Face to Face, “Conversations: Colleen Kiely &

   Michael Zachary”, Spring/Summer 2022

McQuaid, Cate, The Boston Globe, "Painter Colleen Kiely brings the face beyond portraiture", 3/18/21

Bass, Emily R., Art New England, "The Odyssey Project: An Old Story for Modern Times", Nov./Dec. '21

ArtSake: New Work & the Creative Process, Mass. Cultural Council, "Colleen Kiely's Talking Heads", 3/1/21
McQuaid, Cate, The Boston Globe, Critic's Pick in The Ticket, "Colleen Kiely: Women on the Verge", 9/1/19
Wilkinson, Don, The Providence Journal, "Exhibit Looks at Our Bond with Pets", 12/16/18
BostonVoyager, "The Thought-Provokers Series", interview, 7/23/18
RageHaus.com, Editor’s Pick, featured portfolio of “Beau” drawings, March, 2013
Art New England, Editor’s Pick (online), “Portfolio: Colleen Kiely”, May/June ‘12
McQuaid, Cate, The Boston Globe, "Drawings Spark An Edgy Dialogue”, 11/2/11
Wasserman, Nadine, Metroland, “Vehicles for Fun?”, Volume 32, No. 30, July 23, 2009
Plummer, D’lynne, Art New England, "Between What I See & What I Say", June/July '06
McQuaid, Cate, The Boston Globe, "Colleen Kiely: Between What I See & What I Say”, 2/23/06
Temin, Christine, The Boston Globe, "How Sweet it is…or is it?”", 2/13/05
Gold, Donna, Art New England, "Center for Maine Contemporary Art Biennial", Oct./Nov. ‘04
Mills, Christopher, The Boston Phoenix, ”Smash Hits: The 18th Drawing Show at the Mills Gallery”, 2/13-19/04
Mogilevich, Mariana, Art New England, "Colleen Kiely: On the Road", April/May ‘04
Stange, Eric, Ch. 2 WGBH-TV's "Greater Boston Arts", interview, 11/27/02
Unger, Miles, The Boston Globe, "Kiely's Works Offer Unnerving Mixtures", 4/20/01
McQuaid, Cate, The Boston Globe, "Colleen Kiely: Glimmer", 4/12/01
The Radcliffe Quarterly, The Radcliffe Questionnaire, Spring '01
Sherman, Mary, Boston Sunday Herald, "Kiely Brings a Cutting Edge to Cute", 4/15/01
McQuaid, Cate, The Boston Globe, "Artists Explore Transformation, Real and Implied", 12/12/00
Buskirk, Martha, Art in America, "Report from Boston: Art Around the Hub", June '99
Meyer, Joshua, Art New England, "The Edge of Vision/The Edge of Sight", April/May '99
Unger, Miles, Art New England, "Colleen Kiely at Judy Ann Goldman Fine Art", Feb./Mar. '99
McQuaid, Cate, The Boston Globe, "Beyond Cute", 10/22/98
Harmon, Ben, Bay Windows, "Fascinating Limits", 3/26/98
Temin, Christine, The Boston Globe, "Traveling Scholars: Work in the Raw", 2/10/98
Sherman, Mary, Boston Sunday Herald, "Women's Paintings Have 'Rite' Stuff", 6/25/95

TEACHING
2018-     Professor of Art, Simmons University, Boston, MA

2019-22 Chair, Department of Art & Music, Simmons University, Boston, MA
2009-18 Associate Professor of Art, Simmons College, Boston, MA

2009-12 Chair, Department of Art & Music, Simmons College, Boston, MA

2005-09 Assistant Professor of Art, Simmons College, Boston, MA

2004-05 Assistant Professor of Art, University of Maine, Augusta, ME
2001-04 Visiting Assistant Professor of Art, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME
2001-02 Visiting Assistant Professor, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
1995-99 Visiting Lecturer, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
1994-99 Visiting Instructor, Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA
1993-97 Instructor, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
1996      Visiting Instructor, Northeastern University, Boston, MA
1995      Visiting Instructor, Fairfield University, Fairfield, CT
1994-95 Visiting Instructor, Tufts University, Medford, MA

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Juror, Massachusetts Cultural Council Grants for Creative Individuals, 2024

Artist talk, ”All Flowers Keep the Light”­ w/ curator Mara Williams, Brattleboro Museum & Arts Center, 2021 (Zoom)
Artist talk, ”In Conversation: Colleen Kiely & Martha Buskirk”­, Steven Zevitas Gallery, Boston, MA, 2021 (Zoom)
Gallery talk, "The Odyssey Project", Museum of Art, University of New Hampshire, 2019
Artist talk and studio visit, Tufts University's “Painting I" class, 2019
Visiting Artist talk, Massachusetts College of Art “Art in Boston” class, Boston, MA, 2013
Visiting Artist talk, Montserrat College of Art’s “Contemporary Art” seminar, 2008
Juror, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Annual Dana Pond Painting Award, Boston, MA, 2007
Panelist, “Meet the Jurors”, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, 2007
Visiting Artist Lecture, Massachusetts College of Art painting class, Boston, MA, 2006
Juror, Harlow Gallery’s 2005 Annual Exhibition, Hallowell, Maine, 2005
Curator, “1982-2002: Twenty Years of Contemporary Art from the Permanent Collection”, The Becker Gallery,
Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME, 2002
Panelist, "Conceptualism vs. Formalism", ICA, Maine College of Art, Portland, ME, 2002
Presenter and Panelist, Foundations in Art Theory & Education (FATE) Conference, Boston, MA, 2001
Instructor, Art New England Workshops, Bennington College, VT, 2001
Visiting Artist Lecture, Suffolk University/New England School of Art & Design, Boston, MA, 2001