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Exhibitions:
2005 �The Wood
Show� � Center for Maine Contemporary Art / Rockport, Maine
2005 �Operation 21 Prayer Salute�
� Stadler Gallery / Kingfield, Maine
2005 �Black and Blue� � Gibbs Library / Washington, Maine
2005 �War Flowers/ From Swords to Plowshares�
� Area Gallery space at USM / Portland, Maine
2004 �Pierogi A
Go Go� � Pierogi 2000 Gallery / Brooklyn, New York
2004 �Staying the
Course� � Searsmont Library / Searsmont, Maine
2004 �Eliminating
Racism: Building the Planet We Want� � Galeyrie / Falmouth, Maine
2004 �Bring It
On� � Belfast Free Library / Belfast, Maine
2003 �Composition
101� � Center for Maine Contemporary Art/Rockport, Maine
2003 �Ex-Space
Projects: Book Market� � Knitting Factory / NYC
2003 �Moratorium
Day, Draw In� � Bowdoin College Museum of Art /
Brunswick, Maine
2003 �Studio
Connections: Artists Supporting Maine PBS� � Art Gallery at UNE/Portland, Maine
2003 �Music
Revelations� � Bangor Symphony Orchestra/Bangor, Maine
2003 �Union of
Maine Visual Artists� � Camden Library/Camden, Maine
2003 �Culture� �
Searsmont Library/Searsmont, Maine
2003 �Crying
Uncle� � Railroad Square Cinema/Waterville, Maine
2003 �Oily
Business� � Belfast Framer/Belfast, Maine
2002 �Night of
1000 Drawings� � Artists Space/NYC
2002 �Downeast
Looks at Downeast: Route One� � Ellsworth Library/Ellsworth, Maine
2002 �Faculty
Show� � Arts Center at Kingdom Falls/Montville, Maine
2002 �20/20
Hindsight� � Stadler Gallery/ Kingfield, Maine
2002 �Love� �
Elements Gallery/ Rockland, Maine
2002 �Plugged in
Fest� � Center for Maine Contemporary Art/Rockport, Maine
2002 �Union of
Maine Visual Artists-Annual Juried Show� � Blum Gallery/Bar Harbor, Maine
�Reactions� � Exit Art/NYC
2002 �Of Mice and
Man� � Improv Nights/Larraine Brown Studio/Belfast, Maine
2001 �Night of
1000 Drawings� � Artists Space/NYC
2001 �Artists
Respond to September 11� � Lincoln Street Center/Rockland, Maine
2001 �Show Me
Your Fish� � Blum Gallery/Bar Harbor, Maine
2001 �Odd Fish,
Cod Fish� � Eastport Gallery/Eastport, Maine �Boat� � Elements Gallery/
Rockland, Maine
2001 �Small is
Beautiful� � Elements Gallery/ Rockland, Maine
2000 �Home� �
Elements Gallery/Rockland, Maine
1999 �New England
Artists� Trust, 5th Artists Congress� � Creative Workshop/New Haven,
Ct
1998 �New to
Town� � Davidson and Daughters/Portland, Maine
1998 �Sex and
Gender� � Blum Gallery/Bar Harbor, Maine
1996 One Person Show � Jane Sanford�s
Studio/Belfast, Maine
1995 �The Road to
Hell is Paved With Good Intentions� � Bell the Cat/Belfast, Maine
1995 �Annual
Juried Show� � Center for Maine Contemporary Art/Rockport, Maine
1995 One Person Show � Bell the Cat/Belfast,
Maine
1994 �New Island
Views� � Newhouse Center/Snug Harbor, Staten Island
1993 �Wall to
Wall� � Art Initiatives at Tribeca 148 Gallery/NYC
1991 �Uncertain,
Unknown, Uncharted� � The Art Lab/Snug Harbor, Staten Island
1990 �Studio in a
School Artists� � Artists Space/NYC
1990 �Figuring
Eros� � Newhouse Gallery/Snug Harbor, Staten Island
1988 �Uhuru:
African and American Art Against Apartheid� � City Without Walls/Newark, NJ
1985 �Forbidden
Dreams� � City Without Walls/Newark, NJ
1985 �New Art in
the Surrealist Spirit� - City Without Walls/Newark, NJ
1984 �Works on
Paper� � Rutgers University/Camden,NJ
1984 �Works on
Paper� - City Without Walls/Newark, NJ
1984 �L�Esprit
Encyclopedique� � NY Public Library, Tompkins Square Branch/NYC
1984 �Kenny
Cole/Robert Egert� � 8 B.C./NYC
1984 �New Year�s
Eve� � 8 B.C.NYC
1984 �In Heat� �
Cat Club/NYC
1984 �Alarm� �
Kamikaze/NYC
1983 �That Show�
� 301 E. Houston/NYC
1983 �Seriously
Silly� - City Without Walls/Newark, NJ
1983 �The Red
Show� � Public Image/NYC
1982 �University
of Delaware 20th Biennial� � Newark, Delaware
AWARDS,
GRANTS
2005 Maine
Arts Commission �Good Idea� Grant
2003 Maine
Community Foundation, Photographing Artwork Project recipient
2002 Maine Community Foundation, Photographing
Artwork Project recipient
2002 Vermont
Studio Center, full fellowship
1990 Artists
Space Grant
1983 Artists
Space Grant
1979 Ford
Foundation Studio Award
1978 Ford
Foundation Studio Award
1976 Charles E.
Burchfield Scholarship
NOTABLE
2002-present Drawing
Center Slide Registry
2002-present Maine Arts Commission Slide Registry
2001-present Artists�
Space Online Registry
2000-present Union
of Maine Visual Artists � webmaster
1999-present Art
Center at Kingdom Falls - Board of Directors
2001 NYC
Percent for Art - Short Listed
1988/1993 Serpentine
Art and Nature Commons � Program Director
EDUCATION
1981 Pratt
Institute, Brooklyn, NY - BFA
REVIEWS
Eileen Watkins, �Papering the Walls� The Sunday Star
Ledger, September 23, 1984 pg. 4.
William Zimmer, �Paintings of Eros, Photos of Hands� The
New York Times, March 25, 1990 pg. 18 (N.J.)
Michael Fressola, �Art Looks at the Erotic Impulse� Staten
Island Sunday Advance, April 6, 1990 pg. E1
Michael Fressola, �Sensitivity, Satire, Humor� Staten
Island Sunday Advance, July 24, 1994 pg. E1
Vivien Raynor, �9 Artists in a Show That�s Both Conventional
and Eccentric� The New York Times, September 11, 1994 pg. 11 (N.J.)
Alan Crichton, �Waldo County Artists are Strutting Their
Stuff� The Waldo Independent, August 31, 1995 pg. 29
Alan Crichton, �Cole�s Work is neither Carefree nor
Innocent� The Waldo Independent, February 13, 1997 pg. 27
Annie Seikonia, �New to Town� Casco Bay Weekly, April 2, 1998 pg. 28
Robert Shillady, �Fish Make Great Art at Blum Gallery� The
Ellsworth American, March 8, 2001 pg. 12, Section 2
David Grima, �Artists Respond to Sept. 11� The Camden
Herald, October 18, 2001 pg. B1
Corinne Vaccaro, �20/20 Hindsight Brings Landscape of
Imagination into View� The Republican Journal, June 20, 2002 pg. C2
Jetsun Penkalski
�Mood Meets Narrative� The Ellsworth American, January
2002
�In the Spirit of Artistic Collaboration� The Waldo
Independent, March 13, 2003 pg. 22