1982 Indiana University, MFA Painting
1980 Yale University, BA, cum laude with Distinction in the Major (Art)
1979 Yale Summer School of Music and Art at Norfolk
Boston University Summer Program in Florence, Italy
1976 Ruskin School of Fine Art, Oxford University, England
2014 "Natural Light," The Nature Conservancy Preserve Center Gallery, Cragsmoor, NY
2013 "Past, Present, Future," Engine Gallery, Biddeford, ME
2009 "A Closer Look," Red Eft Gallery, Hudson Valley, NY
2004 Solo Show, Gallery 817, The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
2003 Two-Person Show, The Painting Center, New York, NY
2002 Two Person Show, Lenore Grey Gallery, Providence, RI
2001 Two-Person Show, The Painting Center, New York, NY
1999 Two-Person Show, Lenore Grey Gallery, Providence, RI
1998 Solo Show, Nancy Moore Fine Art, New York
Two-Person Show, Eastwick Art Gallery, Chicago, IL
1996 Solo Show, Nancy Moore Fine Art, New York, NY
1995 Solo Show, 55 Mercer Street Gallery, New York, NY
1994 Solo Show, Dodge House Gallery, Providence, RI
1993 Solo Show, DePuy Canal House, High Falls, NY
1991 Solo Show, Greenberg Wilson Gallery, New York, NY
1989 Solo Show, Greenberg Wilson Gallery, New York, NY
1986 Solo Show, 101 Wooster Gallery, New York, NY
1984 Solo Show, Woods Gerry Gallery, Providence, RI
2015 "Outside In", Three Person Show, Third Floor Gallery at Rusk, NYC
"Intricate Worlds," Engine Gallery, Biddeford, ME
"Cragsmoor Artists Today", Wired Gallery, High Falls, NY
"Ballinglen Residents Group Show," Ballinglen Gallery, The Ballinglen Arts Foundation, Ballycastle, Ireland
"Biennial Faculty Exhibition," Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI (and every other year since Fall 1982)
2014 "Cragsmoor Artists Exhibition," Orchard Cottage Exhibition Space, Cragsmoor, NY
"Benefit Exhibition and Auction for Bear Hill Preserve," The Boulders, Cragsmoor, NY
2013 "Bearcage Benefit Exhibition and Auction," The Boulders, Cragsmoor, NY
"Cragsmoor Artists Exhibition," Orchard Cottage Exhibition Space, Cragsmoor, NY
2012 "The Revival of Cragsmoor's Renaissance Decade: Music and Art," Cragsmoor Historical
Society Gallery, Cragsmoor, NY
"Cragsmoor Artists Exhibition," Orchard Cottage Exhibition Space, Cragsmoor, NY
"Benefit Exhibition and Auction for Bear Hill Preserve," The Boulders, Cragsmoor, NY
2011 "Benefit Exhibition for Bear Hill Preserve," The Boulders, Cragsmoor, NY
"Group Exhibition: Selected Artists," Red Eft Gallery, Hudson Valley, NY
"Holiday Exhibition: Art is a Great Gift," Red Eft Gallery, Hudson Valley, NY
2010 "Scapism," Red Eft Gallery, Hudson Valley, NY
"First Comes The Camera," Red Eft Gallery
"Figures, Faces and Forms," Red Eft Gallery
2009 "Sacred Grounds and Honored Spirits," Red Eft Gallery
"Hudson River Quadricentennial," Red Eft Gallery
"Looking Forward, Looking Back," Red Eft Gallery
2008 "La Muse Residency Artists," La Muse Gallery, Labastide, France.
"First Look," Red Eft Gallery
"Exhibition: Winter," Red Eft Gallery
"Group Holiday Exhibition," Red Eft Gallery
2007 "Gallery Artists," Red Eft Gallery
2006 "13th Anniversary Show," The Painting Center, New York, NY
"Secretive," Wheeler Gallery, Providence, RI
2004 "The Means: Drawings," RKL Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
"13th Annual Benefit Art Exhibit and Auction, Attleboro Museum, Attleboro, MA
2003 "Swan Song", Two-Person Show, Norton Fine Arts, New York
"Four Women Artists", Cragsmoor Historical Society Gallery, Cragsmoor, NY
2002 "25th Anniversary Benefit Selections Exhibition, The Drawing Center, New York
"Roman Holiday," The Providence Athenaeum, Providence, RI
1999 "Figuratively Speaking," The Painting Center, New York.
1998 "Artists Choose Artists," The Century Association, New York, NY
"Group Exhibition," Nancy Moore Fine Art, New York,NY
1997 "Animal Instinct," Putney School Gallery, Putney, VT
1995 "Group Exhibition," Nancy Moore Fine Art, New York, NY
1994 "RISD Painters," The Roger Smith Hotel, New York, NY
"Drawing ‘94: Explorations," Sharadin Art Gallery, Kutztown, PA
1993 "Group Exhibition," Gallery 128, New York, NY
"Animal Imagery," The Roger Smith Hotel, New York, NY
"Re-Connections," The Radisson Mark Plaza, Alexandria, VA
1992 "Flowers," The Roger Smith Hotel, New York, NY
1991 "Feminie," Rebecca Cooper Fine Art, New York, NY
1990 "A Bid of Love," Sotheby’s Benefit Auction for Aids, Sotheby’s, New York, NY
"Neo-Romanticism," Jagendorf-Bacchi Gallery, New York, NY
1989 "Gallery Artists," Greenberg Wilson Gallery, New York, NY
"Group Exhibition," Virginia Lynch Gallery, Tiverton, RI
1988 "Two Person Show," On The Wall Gallery, New York, NY
"Group Exhibition," Nancy Bratton Gallery, New York, NY
1987 "Selections 35," The Drawing Center, New York, NY
"Eros & Thanatos," Donald Wren Gallery, New York, NY
"New Acquisitions," Johnson Memorial Gallery, Middlebury College, VT
1986 "Hoboken Waterfront Arts Festival," Erie Lackawanna Plaza, Hoboken, NJ
1985 "13 Artists," Vassar College Gallery, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY
"Sexuality," Castillo Gallery, New York, NY
"Artists of the Shawangunk Region," Cragsmoor Art Space, Cragsmoor, NY
1984 "Self Image," Sharpe Gallery, New York, NY
1983 "National Drawing ‘83," Holman Gallery, Trenton, NJ
1980 "A Century of Women Artists in Cragsmoor," Six-month travelling exhibition through
New York State.
2014 Burt, Stephen. "The Artist and Literature: Dreamer of a Dreamed World," Presented at 10th International Association of Word and Image Studies
Conference, University of Dundee, Scotland (Publication under review).
2012 Kennedy, Naomi. "The Revival of Cragsmoor’s Renaissance Decade: Music & Art," Delaware and Hudson Canvas (July).
Editor’s Review. "Exhibition of Cragmoor’s Renaissance Decade in Music and Art," Walkill Valley Times (July).
2004 Radl, Maureen. "Four Women Artists," The Cragsmoor Historical Society (July).
1999 Van Siclen, Bill. "The Dark Side," The Providence Journal, (June 3).
1998 Garborino, Steve. "Check It Out," The New York Post (June 17).
1996 Glueck, Grace. "Art In Review: Elinore Hollinshead," The New York Times (Dec. 6).
Scott, Whitney. "In the Gallery- Must See: Elinore Hollinshead," Art pick/review, The New York Post (November 30).
Garborino, Steve. "In The Gallery: Netherworld," The New York Post (July).
1995 Editors. "Art: M File Recommends," Manhattan File (October).
1994 Van Siclen, Bill. "Elinore Hollinshead," The Providence Journal (October).
1993 Morgan, Robert . "Fin de Siecle," Cover (May).
1992 Bard, Rick. "Eight Women: Art, Sex and Politics in the ‘90’s" Manhattan Magazine (November).
McCormack, Ed. "Rites of Fertility, Birth and Death at Rebecca Cooper Gallery," ARTspeak (October).
1991 Editors. "Galleries and Museums: Art World Happenings," Connoisseur (June).
1990 Borum, Jennifer. "Review: Elinore Hollinshead," Artforum (March).
1988 Beck, Martha, editor. New Drawing II, The Drawing Center, publisher.
1985 Stedner, Ella, editor. Artists of the Shawangunk Region, Cragsmoor Free Library.
1979 Mann, Maybelle. "Area Art Evokes Nostalgia," Middletown Times-Herald Record.
"There’s No Place Like Here: The RISD Nature Lab"
"Four Minutes in RISD’s Freshman Studios"
2016 Artists' Residency, Ballinglen Foundation for the Arts, Ballycastle, Ireland
2015 Fellowship Residency, Dorland Mountain Arts Colony. Temecula, CA
Artists' Residency, Ballinglen Foundation for the Arts, Ballycastle, Ireland
2009 Fellowship Residency, The Julia and David White Colony, Costa Rica
2008 Fellowship Residency, The Julia and David White Colony, Costa Rica
Fellowship Residency, La Muse Artist and Writer's Retreat, Labastide, France
2007 Fellowship Residency, The Julia and David White Colony, Costa Rica
2006 Fellowship Residency, Artists’ Enclave at I-Park, East Haddam, CT
Fellowship Residency, The Julia and David White Colony, Costa Rica
2005 Fellowship Residency, Artists’ Enclave at I-Park, East Haddam, CT
2004 Fellowship Residency, The Julia and David White Colony, Costa Rica
2001 Nomination for the Louis Comfort Tiffany Biennial Award in Painting
1998 Faculty Development Grant, Rhode Island School of Design. Funding toward materials for creation of a suite of fresco paintings for solo show.
1996 Fellowship Residency, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Sweet Briar, VA
1993 Faculty Development Grant, Rhode Island School of Design. Funding toward sabbatical trip to France to work and to visit Lascaux and other
prehistoric sites.
1992 Nomination for the Louis Comfort Tiffany Award in Painting
1987 Honorarium, New York State Council on the Arts and NEA
1981 Ford Foundation Grant
2015 Visiting Artist/Critic, University of New England, Portland, ME
2014 Participated in and work presented in IAWIS Conference, Riddle of Form: Exploration and
Discovery in Word and Image, University of Dundee, Scotland. August 11-15.
Visiting Artist/Critic, University of New England, Portland, Maine
2011 Visiting Artist/Critic, RISD European Honors Program in Rome, Italy
2009 Lecture and presentation of current work, Julia and David White Colony, Costa Rica designed and led an interdisciplinary travel course during
RISD Wintersession, titled "Pura Vida" in Costa Rica: Exploring the Natural World through Drawing, Study and Symbol. Brought in Artists and
Faculty from Purchase, University of New England, RISD Liberal Arts, RISD Alumni, and an internationally renowned Naturalist to participate in
the program.
2005 Selection Committee, Artists’ Enclave at I-Park, East Haddam, CT
2004 Visiting Artist, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Visiting Artist, Turnham Green Artists’ Studios, London, England
Visiting Artist, Goldsmiths College, London, England
Juror, Attleboro Museum Center for the Arts, Members’ Exhibit and "High Art"
2003 Juror, Brown University Annual Student Art Exhibition, Bell Gallery
Gallery Lecture, The Painting Center, New York, NY
2002 Visiting Critic, College of the Holy Cross, Worcestor, MA
Visiting Artist/Critic, Brooklyn College MFA Painting Program
1997 Visiting Artist, College of the Holy Cross, Worcestor, MA
1993 Lecture, RISD Painting Dept. Invitational Lecture Series
1991 Visiting Artist/Short-Term Critic, RISD European Honors Program, Rome, Italy
Visiting Artist, Silvermine Artists Guild, New Canaan, CT
1989 Visiting Artist, Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT
1988 Visiting Artist, Silvermine Artists Guild, New Canaan, CT
1986 Visiting Artist, Silvermine Artists Guild, New Canaan, CT
1985 Lecture, Vassar College Art Dept. Invitational Lecture Series, Poughkeepsie, NY
1981 Lecture, Yale University Alumni Invitational Lecture Series, New Haven, CT
The Franklin Mint Collection of Contemporary Art, Franklin Center, PA
Johnson Memorial Gallery Permanent Collection, Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT
The Cragsmoor Free Library, Cragsmoor, NY
Canyon Ranch, Lexington , MA
Chuck Davidson , Cragsmoor, NY
Theodore K. Rabb, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
Philip Rose, Hyperion Publishing, New York, NY
Mark Ellen and Clare Belfield, London, England
Terence E. Rosenberg, Stonegate, East Sussex, England
Sarah Greenberg, New York, NY
Nelson and Elaine Wolther, Boca Raton, FL
Richard and Julie Curtis, Alexandria, VA
John Tysseling, St. Thomas, Virgin Islands
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
Professor, Division of Foundation Studies, 2008-present
Associate Professor, Division of Foundation Studies, 2000-2007
Adjunct Professor, Departments of Illustration and Painting, 1982-2000
Short-Term Critic, European Honors Program in Rome, Italy, March 1991.
Brown University, Providence, RI
Teaching Certificate, Sheridan Center for Teaching and Learning, 2006-2007