Stephen Burt, B.F.A., M.F.A.
Professor of Art
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Stephen Burt is a painter and printmaker. He was born in Deland, Florida in 1962, and was educated at Rhode Island School of Design (BFA 1987) and SUNY Purchase (MFA 1991). Burt has exhibited in both international and national venues including most recently at the Bristol Art Museum-Bristol, RI, Zero Station-Portland, ME, the LC Bates Museum-Hinckley, ME, and the Aomori Municipal Art Pavilion, Aomori, Japan. .
Burt’s work has been acquired for inclusion in many public collections, including those of the New Britain Museum of American Art, the Portland Museum of Art, the Fogg Museum at Harvard, the New York Public Library, and the Library of Congress. Burt’s work has been supported by awards from numerous institutions, among them, the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, the Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation, and the Ruth Chenven Foundation, as well as multiple faculty development grants from the 91AV. A member of Peregrine Press in Portland, Maine, Stephen Burt is a Professor of Art in the School of Arts and Humanities at the 91AV. He is the recipient of 91AV’s 2024 Ludcke Chair Award.
Credentials
Education
Research
Other scholarly activity
Major and Solo Exhibitions
2017: Brooklyn Public Library-Kings Highway Branch, Brooklyn, NY – Imagining Nature
2015: The Third Floor Gallery, New York, NY – Outside In
2011: Engine, Biddeford, ME – In Nature
Judith Leighton Gallery, Blue Hill, ME – Landscapes of Maine
2010: Edward T. Pollack Fine Arts, Portland, ME – Natural History
Judith Leighton Gallery, Blue Hill, ME – Dawn and Dusk in Maine
2009: Judith Leighton Gallery, Blue Hill, ME –Exhibit of Landscape Paintings
2006: Whitney Art Works, Portland, ME – Plush
Group Exhibits
2017: L.C. Bates Museum, Hinckley, ME – Maine Wood(s
2016: CTN Gallery-Union of Maine Visual Artists, Portland, ME – Monsters
Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens, Boothbay, ME
Lewis Gallery-Portland Public Library, Portland, ME – The Art of the Hand Pulled Print
University of S. Maine, Glickman Library, Portland, ME – Sustenance in Artists’ Books
L.C. Bates Museum, Hinckley, ME – Open Spaces: Reimagining Pastoral Maine
91AV, Art Gallery, Portland, ME – Wonder
Greenhut Gallery, Portland, ME – Invitational Printmaking Exhibit
2015: Bridgewater State University, Maxwell Library, Bridgewater, MA – Scientific Illustrations and Beasties
Imago Foundation for the Arts, Warren, RI – 10th Annual Open Juried Exhibit – “Printmaking Now”&Բ;
Arts Visalia, Visalia, CA – East Portfolio: A Survey of Contemporary Printmaking
Ballinglen Gallery&Բ;–&Բ;The Ballinglen Arts Foundation, Ballycastle, Ireland – January Residents Group Show
Invited plenary presentation
Visiting Artist/Presenter
2017: University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland. Presenter at: Reproduction 2017: Images and Reproduced, XI International Association of Word and Image Studies Conference
2016: Ballinglen Arts Foundation, Ballycastle, Ireland – Artist-in-Residence
2015: Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI – Visiting Critic Foundation Drawing
Dorland Mountain Arts Colony, Temecula, CA – Artist-in-Residence
Ballinglen Arts Foundation, Ballycastle, Ireland – Artist in Residence
2014: University of Dundee, Dundee, Scotland. Presenter at: Riddles of Form: Explorations and Discovery in Word and Image, 10th International Association of Word and Image Studies Conference
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI. Visiting Critic Foundation Drawing
Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME. Visiting Critic for Senior Studio
Ballinglen Arts Foundation, Ballycastle, Ireland- Artist in Residence
2013: Colby College, Waterville, ME. Visiting Artist
Research interests
The literature and imagery of mythology and religion express and give form to our desires and conflicts. As such I have found they are the perfect vehicles to explore my fascination with the human form.