education:
1997 Masters of Fine Arts, Painting • Savannah College of Art & Design
1995 University of Georgia Studies Abroad Program, Cortona, Italy
1991 Bachelors of Fine Arts, Illustration • Rhode Island School of Design
teaching:
2000-present Professor of Art, Roger Williams University, Bristol, RI
1997-2000 Professor of Painting: Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA
solo museum exhibitions:
2014 Bristol Art Museum, Bristol, RI
2008 To the Sea • Newport Art Museum, Newport, RI
2007 Nantucket Walkabouts • Walton Arts Center, Fayetteville, AR
public collections:
The Artists Association of Nantucket, Permanent Collection
The Bronx Museum of the Arts, NY
The Mystic Museum of Art, Mystic, CT
The Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA
The Providence Art Club Permanent Collection, Providence, RI
Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, RI
The Savannah College of Art and Design Permanent Collection, Savannah, GA
The Smithsonian Institute, Washington DC
Springfield Museum of Art, Springfield, OH
Zuckerman Museum of Art, Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, GA
selected solo exhibitions:
2022 Wanderlust • Old Spouter Gallery, Nantucket, MA
2020 New Work • Hostetler Gallery, Nantucket, MA
2019 New Work • Old Spouter Gallery, Nantucket, MA
2018 Blue • Providence Art Club, Providence, RI
2018 The Water We Seek • Old Spouter Gallery
2017 A Life in Color • Old Spouter Gallery
2017 A Painter Makes Prints • Providence Art Club
2016 All the Dawns of Summer • Old Spouter Gallery
2016 New and Large Scale Paintings • Atrium Gallery, One Financial Plaza, Providence, RI
2015 Large Scale • Candita Clayton Gallery, Pawtucket, RI
2015 One Not Like the Other • Roger Williams University, Bristol, RI
2015 To Paint a Flower • Old Spouter Gallery
2014 A Season’s Journey, Not Far From Home • Old Spouter Gallery
2013 The Garden • Old Spouter Gallery
2012 Traveler • Chace-Randall Gallery, Andes, NY
2012 Restoration • Old Spouter Gallery
2011 Before Summer Rain • Old Spouter Gallery
2010 The Sea and Tulips • Old Spouter Gallery
2010 Intimate Landscapes • Patricia Carega Gallery, Center Sandwich, NH
2010 Sea, Sky and Land: Abstractions of Nantucket • ARC Fine Art, Fairfield, CT
2009 Taking Refuge • Old Spouter Gallery
2008 New Paintings • George Billis Gallery, New York, NY
2007 New Paintings • Adler & Co. Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2007 New Paintings • Old Spouter Gallery
2007 New Paintings • George Billis Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2006 A Season by the Sea • Old Spouter Gallery
2006 New Paintings • George Billis Gallery, NY
2005 Sea, Sky and Stone • Old Spouter Gallery
2004 Meditations • Old Spouter Gallery
2002 New Paintings • South Wharf Gallery, Nantucket, MA
2000 Cool Waters • South Wharf Gallery
1997 Compositions • South Wharf Gallery
1997 Elements of Place • Gallerie Lumière
1996 My Places • South Wharf Gallery
1995 The X Gallery, Nantucket, MA
1995 The Artists Association of Nantucket, Nantucket, MA
1991 Sun Gallery
selected group exhibitions:
2022 Venice Biennial: Personal Structures, Reflections • European Cultural Centre, Venice, Italy
2020 Praxis: Abstraction, 4 Strategies - Bristol Art Museum, Bristol, RI
2020 Art Capital, Salon des Independents, Trevisan Art International • Grand Palais, Paris, France
2017 Singular Repetitions • UMASS Dartmouth Gallery, New Bedford, MA
2017 Imago Gallery • Warren, RI
2016 Trevisan International Art • Salon Prado, Ateneo de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
2015 EnergyColorLight: Theresa Girard, Michael Rich and Roberta Segal • Providence Art Club
2013 Nantucket Moderns, Contemporary Art 1945-2013 • Artist’s Association of Nantucket
2013 Small Treasures • Galeria de Marchi, Bologna, Italy (curated by Paola Trevisan)
2013 No Boundaries: Three Views of Contemporary Art • Birnam Wood Gallery, New York, NY
2011 Biennale • Chianciano Art Museum, Chianciano, Italy
2010 Adler & Co. at the LA Art Show
2009 Imaginary Journeys • Trevisan Art International, Ferrara, Italy
2009 Adler & Co, San Francisco • Obsessions
2004 Virginia Lynch Gallery, Tiverton, RI • New Works by Four Painters
2003 Caelum Gallery, New York, NY • Michael Rich Yasuhide Kagii, New Paintings
2002 Denise Bibro Fine Art, New York, NY • Summer Selections
2000 Sotheby's, Chicago, Tel Aviv, Vienna • Artlink International Young Art 2000
1997 Sylvia Schmidt Gallery, New Orleans LA • The Abstract Show
1997 Main Street Gallery, Nantucket, MA • An Exhibition of Drawings
1997 Sarah Bain Gallery, Fullerton, CA • Jewels of the South
art fairs
2019 The Other Art Fair, Brooklyn, NY
2019 ArtNY with Steidel Contemporary
2019 Texas Contemporary with Steidel Contemporary
2019 Art Palm Beach with Steidel Contemporary
2018 The Other Art Fair, Brooklyn, NY
2017 The Other Art Fair, Brooklyn, NY
awards and honors:
2015 Artist’s Association of Nantucket, Award for Painting
2015 Edward Bannister Award, Providence Art Club
1996 The Basil H. Alkazzi Award (USA)
publications
Graham-Pye, Susanna, Artist Profile, Michael Rich, Cape Cod Life, Summer 2022
Isenberg, Robert, The Long Conversation, East Side Monthly, February 2020
Paradis, Justine; "Abstract Artist Shifts Attention to the Natural World"
Nantucket Inquirer and Mirror, August 1, 2013
Wolberg Weiss, Marion; "Cover Artist: Michael Rich" (Interview)
Dan’s Papers, April 19, 2013
Norris, Doug; "Michael Rich: To The Sea" (Review)
Art New England; August / September 2008
Kuspit, Donald; "Abstraction and Nature in the Paintings of Michael Rich"
(Exhibition Catalog Essay), Basil Alkazzi Publications, 2005
Neville, Beth; "New Work by Four Painters" (review), Virginia Lynch Gallery
Art New England, December 2004 / January 2005
Sherry, Reema; "Creative Juices: Michael Rich, Painter"
N Magazine, August 2004
Craven, Robert; "Michael Rich: Work on Paper" (review)
Art New England, December 2003 / January 2004