SELECTED EXHIBITIONS, RESIDENCIES, AWARDS, SPECIAL PROJECTS
2025 Kentler International Drawing Space, Red Hook, Bklyn, “New Drawings” Curated by Samantha Friedman, Curator in the Department of Drawing and Prints, MOMA
2025 Contemporary New Orleans Artists, at the former Ford Motor Assembly Plant, produced by the Creative Alliance of New Orleans
2024 Received Proclamations from Bronx BP, Vanessa Gibson and NYS Senator Luis Sepúlveda for outstanding leadership and artistic production in the Bronx
2023 Kentler International Drawing Space, Red Hook, Bklyn, “Avocet Portfolio” 2023, group exhibition of 48 editions of screen prints by 31 artists, produced at Art Awareness in Lex, NYS
2019 Guest Thesis Critic, Rhode Island School of Design, Department of Interior Architecture
2014 “Bronx Times 25 Influential Bronx Women of 2014”, Honoree
2013 “Fluxs Time”, Group Exhibition, Art Gallery, Kingsborough Community College/Bklyn, NY,
2011 Bronx Council on the Arts’ Cultural Leader/Woman of the Bronx Arts Applause Award
2010 NYC Design Commission, Award for Design Excellence, for the BRAC capital project, Gail Nathan - Owner’s Rep, Sage and Coombe - Architects, Tattfoo Tan, exterior super-graphics
2007– 01 Founding Board Member of the Bronx River Alliance/Co-chair of the Greenway Team.
2007 Bronx Borough President Adolfo Carrion’s Women's History Month Luncheon, Honoree
2005 JPM Chase Community Development Competition, 2nd place finalist with Hunter College Urban Planning Graduate Program for a capital development plan.
2004, Oprah Magazine (7/04) “the Rescue Squad”/women who have made an art of restoration”
2004 “TEMPO/An Animated Life” a 30-year retrospective Solo exhibition, BRAC. Bronx, NY
2003 NY-Israel Cultural Commission, Ministry of Foreign Affairs - one of six NYS guest curators visit more than 50 artist studios throughout Israel
2002 Designed and produced an income generating retail product (herbal sachets and eye pillows w/ seasonal images of the Bronx River), sponsored by BCA, funded by Citi-Bank
1998 New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA, "1998 New Orleans Triennial", Exhibited “The Prague Suite” 5 paintings. oil/canvas, and acrylic/sheetrock, 104” X 480”
1998 “Union/Reunion” Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, Georgia
1997 Guest Thesis Critic, School of Architecture, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA
1995 Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation, Individual Support Grant for 20 years of professional production as an artist.
1995 “Painter’s Painters: Virginal Invitational”, Longwood Center for the Visual Arts, VA
1992 “Signals” Duo Exhibitions at 1708 East Main/A Space for Art, Richmond, VA
1992 Solo Exhibition, University Art Gallery, California State University, Chico, CA
1992 Guest Lecturer, The Glassell School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX.
1092 Guest Lecturer, Rice University, Department of Art., Houston, TX
1991 The Nude From Every Angle, Tamara Bane Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1991 “Girl Talk”, Fine Art Gallery, Philadelphia College of Art and Design, PA
1990 The American Icon, Pensacola Museum of Art, FL
1988 Un-Common Ground: VA Artists, VA Museum of Fine Arts (Solo room), Richmond, VA
1988 Solo Exhibition, Res Nova Gallery, New Orleans, LA
1987 Solo Exhibitions, Tilden-Foley Gallery, New Orleans, LA
1987 Virginia Museum Professional Fellowship, Richmond, VA
1987 Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Residency Fellowship
1987 Fact, Fiction and Fantasy, Narrative Painting in the South, Ewing Gal, U of TN, Knoxville
1986 Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation, Artist-in-Residence w/ Solo Exhibit, Art Awareness, NY
1986 Solo Exhibit, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC
1985 Artist Residency, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Mt. Sam Angelo, Amherst, VA
1985 Set Design for Dance production ,”Undercurrent”, by Kay Weinstein with Rob Besserer
1985 Solo Exhibition, Tilden-Foley Gallery, New Orleans, LA
1984 “Duets” Solo Exhibit, 1708 Gallery, Richmond, VA (with a dance performance by Sharon Kinney, Melanie Snyder, and friends)
1983 “Fictitious and True”, Group exhibition, Virginia Beach Arts Center, VA
1983 “Tredegar Iron Works Exhibition”, Group Show, Richmond, VA
1983 “The Next Juried Show”, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA
1983 “Gesture into Image”, Three-person Show, Neapolitan Gallery, Richmond, VA
1982 NYS Council on the Arts, Artist-in-Residence, Schoharie Arts Council, Cobleskill, NY
1981 Solo Exhibit, "Taking Flight", Center for Contemporary Art, Univ. of Kentucky, Lex
1981 “Narrative Settings”, Josef Gallery, New York, NY
1980 “New York New” Group exhibition, Arthur Rogers Gallery, New Orleans, LA
1980 NYC, Department of Cultural Affairs, Public Art Grant, Sponsor, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Longwood Ave, Bronx, NY, in collaboration with artist Nitz Tufino
1980 “Animated Space, Five Young Painters”, Art Latitude Gallery, New York, NY
1979 New York State Council on the Arts Decentralization Grant, public art project for NAACP Community Center, Colgate Ave, Bronx, NY, Sponsor, Bronx Council on the Arts, in collaboration with artist Rafael Colon Morales
1979 Artist Residency, Karolyi Foundation for Artists and Writers, Vence, France
1978 “Drawings 11”, Touchstone Gallery, New York, NY
1978 “ Personal Visions, Places and Spaces” Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY
1978 “Dissonance and Harmony”, Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center, New York, NY
1977 “Art in Public Spaces”, 26 Federal Plaza, New York, NY, with the Organization of Independent Artists in commemoration of the passage of the US 1% for Art Program
1977 “New Work” Artist Space, Fine Arts Building, New York, NY
1975 Three Painters: John Mendelson, Gail Nathan and Dona Nelson, 13-15 White St. NYC
1975,73,71, Solo and group shows, Art Resource Center of the Whitney Museum ISP
CURATORIAL, (at Bronx River Art Center)
2019 - 2024 Secured ongoing funding from NYC Council's “Coalition of Theatres of Color” for an annual month-long Performing Arts (Jazz) Festival, co-producer with a professional musician.
2023 “Scaling Nature”, Three- person exhibit of large scale sculptures
2022 “Women of the Ivory Coast and Mali”, Photo exhibit by Nancy Lensen-Tomasson
2021 “Cutting an Edge: Hard-Edge Painting Today”, three-person exhibit
2019 “Material with Meaning”, 4-person exhibit, co-curated with Gallerist James Witner
2019 “Re-Imagining City Island’s Gateway, Project Studio by RISD Graduate Students”, with panel discussion by community development advocates, Urban Planners, and Public Artists
2019 “2 Painters”, Gary Bower and Richard Saba (from Upstate, NY)
2018 -19 Producer of “River Rising/Sube El Rio: Exposition of Science, Art and Technology”: a year-long installation of 7 public artworks in Starlight Park, BX. Celebrating the 100-year anniversary of the 1918 World Expo of Science, Art and Industry, funded by Lincoln Center Cultural Innovation Fund.
WORK EXPERIENCE
Teaching
1980 - 1994, Visiting Professor of Art, at universities and art schools throughout the US, Including: Virginia Commonwealth School of the Arts; Maryland Institute, Collage of Art; Kansas City Art Institute; Princeton University, Department of Art; California State University, Art Department, Chico; Academy of Fine Arts, Bratislava, Slovakia; among others.
1970-76, Adjunct Professor of Art, teaching painting, printmaking and photography in NYC Metro area colleges including: Steinhardt School, New York University; Douglass College of Rutgers University; Ramapo College, Department of Art; Montclair State University, School of Contemporary Art; among others
Community Arts Development:
1999 - 2024, Executive Director, Bronx River Art Center, including creative visioning of programming and funding development and project oversight of a $15,000,000 gut renovation of its 18,000 Sq. Ft., City-owned building
1997 – 1999 Peer-Panelist, Art in Architecture Program, US General Services Administration
1994 - 1997 Public Art Program Manager for the City of Richmond, VA
1977 -1979 Director of Public Relations and Marketing, Bronx Museum of the Arts
1976 - 77 Outreach Coordinator and Community Arts Educator, Bronx Museum of the Arts
EDUCATION:
2002 J. Paul Getty, Museum Leadership Institute (MLI), Fellowship
1973 Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, MFA
1969 New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, Alfred, NY, BFA, Cum Laude
1968/69 Whitney Museum of American Art, Independent Study Program, NYC, Fellowship
1968 Yale Norfolk School of Art, Norfolk, CT, Summer Residency Program, Fellowship
Photo caption: Gail Nathan with “Tall Ships, NY Harbor/Bicentennial” Acrylic on Canvas, 1976, Canal Street studio, NY
Photo credit, Terri Slotkin
