About the artist:

Joan Thorne is a New York-based artist whose work is nationally and internationally recognized. Her work has been exhibited in galleries in New York City, throughout the United States, in Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean. She has had three museum retrospective exhibitions in the Caribbean. Her recent shows in New York City have been reviewed by the New York Times, Art in America, ArtNews and The New Criterion among others. Her painting has been included in two Whitney Museum Biennials and various other museum group exhibitions both in the United States, Europe and Latin America. She has had numerous one person shows in galleries such as: Sideshow Gallery New York, Fishbach Gallery, New York City, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., Willard Gallery, New York, Graham & Sons Gallery, New York, The Clocktower, New York City, and the National Arts Club among others. Thorne has been awarded the Prix de Rome Fellowship to paint at the American Academy in Rome. She also received two National Endowment grants for painting and two Pollock Krasner Grants among others. Education Hunter College, New York, M.A. New York University, New York, B.S. Awards 2006Adolf Gottlieb Foundation Grant in Painting 2003Prize in Painting, Florence BiennaleInternazionale, Florence, Italy 2001Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant in Painting 1986Prix de Rome, American Academy in Rome Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant in Painting 1983National Endowment for the Arts, Fellowship in Painting 1980New York State Council on the Arts, Grant for Painting 1979National Endowment for the Arts, Fellowship in Painting 1976Grant in Painting, Rhode Island State Council on the Arts 1975New York State Council on the Arts, Grant for Painting 1974Grant in Painting, Rhode Island State Council on the Arts 1972Artist of the Year, Aldrich Foundation Solo Exhibitions 2015Black and White Into Color, National Arts Club, New York A Passion For Color, Gallery On Main, Windham, NY 2013Sideshow Gallery, Williamsburg, NY Gallery 125, Bellport, NY 2010Sideshow Gallery, Williamsburg, NY 2005Chris Winfield Gallery, Carmel, CA 2004Klaus Steinmetz Arte Contemporaneo, San Rafael de Escazu, Costa Rica 2002Feria de Arte International Arcale, Salamanca, España 2001Andre Zarre Gallery, New York 2000Retrospective: Museo Las Americas, San Juan, Puerto Rico 1998A Retrospective: Museo Voluntariado De Las Casas Reales, Casa de Bastidas, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic A Retrospective: Museo Patronato Plaza de la Cultura Santiago Apostol, Santiago, Dominican Republic 1996Ramapo College, New Jersey 1990 1985Graham Modern , New York City, NY 1989 1986Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Santa Monica, CA 1986William Halsey Gallery, Simon Center for the Arts, College of Charleston, Charleston, SC 1983Lincoln Center Gallery, Lincoln Center, New York City, NY Dart Gallery, Chicago, IL Gloria Luria Gallery, Bay Harbor Island, FL 1982Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, NY Willard Gallery, New York City, NY 1980Willard Gallery, New York Dart Gallery, Chicago, IL 1979The Clocktower: Institute for Art and Urban Resources, New York City, NY 1977Galerie Veith Turske, Cologne Art Fair, Cologne, Germany 1975Alfred University, Alfred, NY 1974Fischbach Gallery, New York City, NY 1973Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC