Born 1938 in Pennsauken, NJ

Education

Philadelphia College of Art, Bachelor of Fine Arts

One Person Exhibitions
2007 Sequel, P·P·O·W, New York, NY

2003

1999

Sometimes A Traveller, P·P·O·W, New York, NY

Pierre and Lady Holland: A Suite of Drawings by Dotty Attie, Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA

1998 Fairy Tale /Endings, P·P·O·W, New York, NY
1994 After Courbet, P·P·O·W, New York, NY
1993 Mary Ryan Gallery, New York, NY
1992 Dotty Attie, Montclair Museum of Art, Montclair, NJ
1991 In the Atelier, P·P·O·W, New York, NY

Galerie Rizzo & Hubbard, Paris, France
1990 Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, SC

P·P·O·W, New York, NY

Tyler Galleries, Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Elkins Park, PA
1989 Dotty Attie, Paintings and Drawings, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA

Five Tales, University of Missouri, St. Louis, MO
1988 P·P·O·W, New York, NY
1986 On Gallery, Osaka, Japan

A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY
1985 Sanat Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey

Valancia Community College, Orlando, FL
1984 Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME

Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA

Ricardo Barreto Gallery, Boston, MA
1983 Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, NC

The New Museum, New York, NY

A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY
1982 Norton Gallery and School of Art, West Palm Beach, FL

Mary Ryan Gallery, New York, NY
1981 Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA

University of Missouri, Kansas City, MO
1980 Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT

Portland Center for Visual Artists, Portland, OR

Museum Art School, Portland, OR

Wright State University, Dayton, OH

A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY

Douglass College, New Brunswick, NJ
1979 Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX

Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, Kansas
1978 University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI

A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY
1977 Manhattanville College, Purchase, NY

University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA

University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA

O.K. Harris Gallery, New York, NY
1976 A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY
1974 Stockton State College, Pomona, NJ

A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY
1972 A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY

Group Exhibitions
2008 Women of a Certain Age and Beyond, Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, CT
2007

Women’s Work: Homage to Feminist Art, curated by Cindy Nemser, Tabla Rasa Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

PULSE Art Fair, P·P·O·W, New York, NY

2006 PULSE Art Fair, P·P·O·W, Miami, FL
2005 Then as Now, Sordoni Art Gallery, Wilkes University, PA
2004

Perspectives @ 25: A Quarter Century of New Art in Houston, Contemporary Arts
Museum Houston, Texas

Anatomically Correct, 473 Broadway Gallery, New York, NY

2002

Cowboys, Indians & The Big Picture, Mcmullen Museum, Boston College, Boston, MA

Imprint, The Print Center, Philadelphia, PA

The Belles of Amherst, Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, MA

2001 I Love NY Benefit, P.P.O.W Gallery, NY

About Face, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

American Identities: A New Look, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
2000 endpapers; Drawings 1890-1900 and 1990-2000, Neuberger Museum of Art, SUNY Purchase, Purchase, NY

Multiple Visions: Works by Master Printers, The Print Center, Philadelphia, PA

Works from the Collection, Kresge Museum, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan

The Figure: Another Side of Modernism, Newhouse Center of Contemporary Art, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, NY

nude + narrative, P.P.O.W Gallery, New York, NY
1999 Dreams 1900 –2000, The Equitable Gallery, New York, NY

Contemporary Narratives, Whitney Museum of Art at Champion, Stamford, Conn.

International Biennial of Graphic Art, International Center of Graphic Art, Ljubljana, Slovnija

Parallel Visions, Soho20 Gallery, New York, NY
1998 Recent Prints, Mary Ryan Gallery, New York, NY

Taboo: Repression and Revolt in Modern Art, Galerie St. Etienne, New York, NY
1996 Naked Truths, University of Hawaii Art Gallery, Honolulu, HI

Women Draw, Gallery 128, New York, NY

Mary H. Dana Women Artists Series: 25 Years, 1971-1996. 25 Years of Feminism–25 Years of Women’s Art, curated by Marianne Ficarra, The State University of New Jersey, Rutgers, New Brunswick, NJ

The New Traditionalists, curated by Maria Porges, Museum of Art, University of Oregon Museum of Art, Eugene, OR

Partners in Printmaking: Works from SOLO Impression, The National Museum for Women in the Arts, Washington, DC
1995 Hobart/William Smith College, Geneva, NY

Going for Baroque, The Contemporary and The Walters Gallery, Baltimore, MD

Crime and Justice, Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx, NY
1994 Fallen Idylls: American Figuarative Painting, curated by P·P·O·W and Christopher Sweet traveling to: Art Miami, Miami, FL and Martin County Council for the Arts, Stuart, FL

New Old Masters, Center for the Arts at Yerba Buena Gardens, San Francisco, CA

Not for the First Time: The Art of Appropriation, The Richard F. Brush Gallery, St. Lawrence University, Canton, NY

Turning Silver into Gold, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH
1993 Biennial, Corcoran Museum of Art, Washington, D.C.

93 Holiday Wishes and Greetings for ‘94, Steinbaum/Krauss Gallery, New York, NY

45th Annual American Academy Purchase Exhibition, The American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
1992 The Frame: Multiplied and Extended, Security Pacific Gallery, Costa Mesa, CA

Beyond Glory: Re-Presenting Terrorism, College of Art, Maryland Institute, Baltimore, MD

Somewhere Between Image And Text
, Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA

Quotations: The Second History of Art, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT

Re-Visions, Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago, IL

Contemporary Icons: From the Sublime to the Fetishistic
, Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery, Hunter College, New York, NY
1991 Cruciformed: Images of the Cross Since 1980, curated by David Rubin, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH

Transforming the Western Image, Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, CA

Art for Your Collection, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI

Crossing Over Changing Places, Rutgers Center for Innovative Printmaking, New Brunswick, NJ
1990 Three Person Exhibition, Referees, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC

Installation, The Mechanical Peep Show, P·P·O·W, New York, NY

Contemporary Illustrated Books: Word and Image, 1967-1988, Franklin Furnace, New York, NY

Small Format, Group Exhibition, Lang & O'Hara, New York, NY

Prints in Part, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

FoxTrot, Randolph Street Gallery, May 25 through June 30, Chicago, IL

Word as Image, Milwaukee Art Museum, June 15 - August 26, Milwaukee, WI

Selections from P·P·O·W, NYC, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, June 1 through July 8, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC
1989 Gardens Real and Imagined, Group Exhibition, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, New York, NY

Symbolism, Group Exhibition, Cooper Union School of Art, New York, NY

Lines of Vision: Drawings by Contemporary Women, Group Exhibition, Hillwood Art Gallery, Long Island University, Brookville, NY, (travelling exhibition 1989-1990)

Art on Paper, Group Exhibition, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC
1988 Alice and look who else, Through the Looking Glass, Group Exhibition, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, New York, NY

Art for Your Collection, Group Exhibition, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI

Realists: Three from the MacDowell, Group Exhibition, Thorne-Sagendorph Art Gallery, Keene State College, Keene, NH
1987 Drawing: The New Tradition, Huntsville Museum, Alabama

Works from the Collection, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington D.C.

Ten Major Women Artists, Rockland Center for the Arts, Rockland, NY

Ideas, CDS Gallery, New York, NY

Four Artists, Orion Editions, New York, NY

Messages, Carlo LaMagna Gallery, New York, NY

Mid-Atlantic States Visual Arts Residency Fellowship
1986 Artists Choose Artists, CDS Gallery, New York, NY

Playing House, Berenice Steinbaum Gallery, New York, NY

Short Stories, 1 Penn Plaza, New York, NY

13 Americans, CDS Gallery, New York, NY

Lost/Found: Language, Rosemont College, Philadelphia, PA

Between Metaphor and Fact, Leonarda Di Mauro Gallery, New York, NY
1985 Narrative Art, P.S. 1, New York, NY

Masters of Contemporary Drawing, Anderson Gallery, Richmond, VA

The Fine Line, Norton Gallery, Palm Beach, FL

Not Just Black and White, City Gallery, New York, NY

Self Portraits, Gallery at the Plaza, Los Angeles, CA

20 Women, Group Exhibition, Phoenix Gallery, New York, NY

New York Cooperatives, Group Exhibition, Kean College, NJ

Creative Artist Fellowship for Japan
1984 Words and Pictures, Bronx Museum, NY

El Arte Narrative, Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico

The Verbally Charged Image, Queens Museum, Queens, NY

Large Drawings, Zilkha Gallery, Middletown, CT

Personal Expressions, Neuberger Museum, Purchase, NY

Beauty and the Beast, Pratt Graphic Center, New York, NY

Artist's Toys, Vanderwoude Tannanbaum Gallery, New York, NY

Artists Call, Terry Dintenfass Gallery, New York, NY

The New Culture, SUNY Cortland, NY

Aspects of New Narrative Art, Group Exhibition, Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, MA

United States, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
1983 Selections from the Print Archives, Group Exhibition, Zimmerli Museum, New Brunswick, NJ

Walls of the 70's, QCC Art Gallery, New York, NY

The Punch Line, Tweed Gallery, Plainfield, NJ

National Endowment for the Arts Grant
1982 Hassam/Speicher Fund Exhibition, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, NY

Artists Books, Katherine Markel Gallery, New York, NY

Subject: Women, University of California, Los Angeles, CA

The Renaissance Revisited, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA

New Acquisitions, Alternative Museum, New York, NY

Five Storytellers, Nexus Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

Tales My Mother Never Told Me, Traveling show, Gallery Association of New York State

Hassam/Speicher Fund Exhibition Purchase Grant
1981 New Dimensions in Drawing, Aldrich Museum, CT

Postmodernist Metaphors, Alternative Museum, New York, NY

Deja Vu: Masterpieces Updated, El Paso Museum, El Paso, TX

Childe Hassam Purchase Exhibition, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY

Words as Images, Renaissance Society, Chicago, IL

Drawings from the Collection, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA

8 by 8, Group Exhibition, Touchstone Gallery, New York, NY

Animals at the Arsenal, Central Park Zoo, New York, NY

Messages, Albright College, Reading, PA

Woman Series Year 10, Douglass College, New Brunswick, NJ

Childe Hassam Purchase Exhibition Purchase prize
1980 Drawings: The Pluralist Decade, Venice Biennale

Drawings: The Pluralist Decade, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA

A Taft Menagerie, Taft Museum, Cincinnati, OH

Acquisitions on Paper, Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA

Structure/Narrative/Decoration, Macintosh/Drysdale Gallery, Washington, D.C.

Language in the Visual Arts, William Patterson College, Wayne, NJ

Words and Numbers, Summit Art Center, Summit, NJ
1979 Directions, Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, D.C.

Drawings About Drawing Today, Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, NC

Feministische Kunst, Haags Gemeente-Museum, The Hague

Words and Images, Philadelphia College of Art, Philadelphia, PA

Drawing II, Touchstone Gallery, New York, NY

Small is Beautiful, Albright College, Reading, PA

Candidates for Arts Awards, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
1978 American Narrative/Story art, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX

Narration, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA

Artists Look at Art, Spencer Museum of Art, Boston, MA

Drawing Since 1960, Creighton Art Gallery, Omaha, NE

5 Artists, Franklin and Marxhall College, Lancaster, PA

New York Now, Wordworks, San Jose, CA

A.I.R. Drawings, Ginza Kaigaken Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

Overview, P.S. 1, New York, NY
1977 Kunsterlinnen International 1877-1977, Charlottesburg Palace, Berlin, Germany

Working Papers, Empire State Plaza, Albany, NY

A.I.R. Prints, Katherine Markel Gallery, New York, NY
1976 3 From NY/Paperworks, Centre Culturel Americain, Paris, France

Drawing Now: 10 Artists, Soho Center for Visual Arts, New York, NY

Works on Paper, Monique Knowlton Gallery, New York, NY

Drawings, Andre Wauters Gallery, New York, NY

Miniatures, Roko Gallery, New York, NY

Reprise, Bronx Museum, NY

Creative Artists Public Service Grant
1975 Five Americans, Galerie Gerald Piltzer, Paris, France

20th Century Drawings, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY

Sons and Others, Queens Museum, New York, NY

Art Acquisitions, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Drawings, Roko Gallery, New York, NY

National Endowment for the Arts Grant
1974 A.I.R. Group, Smith College Museum, Northampton, MA

Focus, Fleisher Art Memorial, Philadelphia, PA

A Soho Sampler, Randolph-Macon College, VA

Tight and Loose, State University of New York, Albany, NY
1973 Artists Books, Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, PA

Creative Artists Public Service Grant

Public Collections

The Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR

Collection of Rubin, Baum, Levin, Constant, and Friedman, New York, NY

Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina at Greensboro


Invitational Visiting Artist Lectures and Panels

2006 Art History: Dangerous Inspiration, Art Lab, (panel with Vincent Desiderio and Julie Heffernan), Staten Island, NY