Gallery Representation
Bernay Fine Art, Great Barrington, MA
Kathryn Markel Fine Arts, NYC
Matthew Swift Gallery, Gloucester, MA
Solo Exhibitions
Sweet Spots, Art Market Provincetown, Provincetown, MA, 2017
Curated by Debbie Naldoney, owner
Diane Ayott: Love in December
Matthew Swift Gallery, Gloucester, MA, 2015
Curated by Matthew Swift, owner
Diane Ayott: Jeepers Creepers
Kathryn Markel Fine Arts, New York, NY 2015
Curated by Kathryn Markel, owner and Debra Marcoux, Gallery Director
BEYOND MEASURE: Paintings by Diane Ayott,
Barrington Center for the Arts, Gordon College, Wenham, MA, 2010–2011
Curated by Bruce Herman, Gallery Director
Diane Ayott, Hess Gallery, Pine Manor College, Chestnut Hill, MA
Curated by Gallery Director, Carol Rabe, 2011
Diction: New Work by Diane Ayott, Kathryn Markel Fine Arts, New York, NY 2010
Curated by Kathryn Markel, owner and Debra Marcoux, Gallery Manager
Diane Ayott: Upstream, Carol Schlossberg Alumni Gallery, Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA, 2009
Curated by Gallery Director, Leonie Bradbury
Complexity: Paintings by Diane Ayott, Wheelock College, Boston, MA, 2008
Curated by Gallery Director, Erica Licea-Kane
Moment to Moment, New England Currents, Danforth Museum, Framingham, MA, 2006
Curated by Katherine French, Museum Director
Defining Surface, Hall Space, Boston, MA, 2005
Curated by John Colon, Gallery Director and Owner
Diane Ayott, 2000, Carol Schlosberg Alumni Gallery, Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA
Personal/Pictorial, In Memory of the Artist’s Father, 2000, Gallery at Lynn Arts, Lynn, MA
Two Person Exhibitions
Coming Round, Matthew Swift Gallery, Gloucester, MA, 2017
Curated by Matthew Swift, owner
Selected Group Exhibitions
Explicit Color, 2022
Matthew Swift Gallery, Gloucester, MA
Curated by Mattew Swift, owner
Winter Group Show, 2022
Bernay Fine Art, Great Barrington, MA
Curated by Gallery Owners, Lou and Paula Friedman
Dirven 2 Abstraxion, 2021-2022
Matthew Swift Gallery, Gloucester, MA
Curated by Matthew Swift, owner
Art on Paper, 2021
Bernay Fine Art, Great Barrington, MA
Curated by Gallery Owners, Lou and Paula Friedman
Unfinished Business, 2020
Bernay Fine Art, Great Barrington, MA
Curated by Gallery Owners, Lou and Paula Friedman
Threshold, 2020
Matthew Swift Gallery, Gloucester, MA
Curated by Matthew Swift, owner
Group Exhibit, 2020
Art Market Provincetown, Provincetown, MA
Curated by Debbie Naldoney, Gallery Curator and Owner
Winter Exhibition: New Works by Phil Knoll, Diane Ayott and Joe Neill, 2020
Bernay Fine Art, Great Barrington, MA
Curated by Gallery Owners, Lou and Paula Friedman
One, Matthew Swift Gallery, Gloucester, MA, 2019
Facing Five Years, Matthew Swift Gallery, Gloucester, MA, 2019
With Matthew Swift Gallery:
Palm Beach Modern and Contemporary, West Palm Beach, Florida, 2019
SCOPE, Miami Art Fair, Miami, Florida, 2018
In with the New, Matthew Swift Gallery, Gloucester, MA, 2018
A Time For Blue, Matthew Swift Gallery, Gloucester, MA, 2017
Curated by Matthew Swift, owner
Work x 5, Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA, 2017
Curated by Dana Salvo, owner
Under With Matthew Swift:
AD 20/21, 2017
AD 20/21, 2016
In The Time We Have, Matthew Swift Gallery, Gloucester, MA, 2016
The Physicality of Color, Art Museum, University of Durham, NH, 2015
Curated by Museum Director, Kristina Durocher
Paper Works, Warm Springs Gallery, Charlottsville, VA, 2015
Curated by Barbara Buhr, Gallery Director
Abstraction and Non-Figurative Approaches, Kathryn Markel Fine Arts, Bridgehampton, NY, 2014
Curated by Kathryn Markel, Gallery Owner
One, Art Market Provincetown, Provincetown, MA 2014
Above and Beyond, Art Market Provincetown, Provincetown, MA 2013
Both curated by Debbie Naldoney, Gallery Curator and Owner
Little Languages – Coded Pictures, Kathryn Markel Fine Arts, New York, NY, 2012
Curated by Theresa Hackett and Michelle Weinberg
Piece by Piece, Collage and Paper Assemblage From the Art Bank Collection, 2011
US Department of State Art Bank Program, Art Bank Gallery, Harry S Truman Building, Washington, DC
Inaugural Exhibit, 2010
Lydon Contemporary, Chicago
Pattern and Repetition, Trustman Gallery, Simmons College, Boston, MA, 2010
Curated by Gallery Director, Michele Cohen, Ph.D.
Paintings: Contemporary Realism to Abstraction, Susan Maasch Gallery, Portland, ME, 2010
Curated by Susan Maasch
July Exhibition, Susan Maasch Fine Art, Portland, ME, 2009
Curated by Susan Maasch
The Algorithms of Art, McIninch Gallery, Southern New Hampshire University, Manchester, NH, 2009
Curated by Deborah Disston, Gallery Director
32nd Small Works Exhibition, Washington Square East Galleries, NYC, 2009
Juried by Danielle Ferris, Director of Stephen Haller Gallery, NYC
From Paintings to Drawings, HallSpace Gallery, Dorchester, MA, 2008
Curated by John Colon, Gallery Director
New England New Talent, Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, MA, 2008
Curated by Kristina Durocher, museum curator; juried by both Ms. Durocher and Cynthia Reeves of Reeves Contemporary, NYC
Boston Color, Kathryn Markel Fine Arts, New York, 2008
Curated by Kathryn Markel
NO CHROMOPHOBIA, OK Harris, New York, 2008
Curated by Richard Witter
Consequences of Geometry, McCoy Gallery, Merrimack College, North Andover, MA, 2008, Curated by David Raymon
Consequences of Geometry, Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, MA, 2007–08
Curated by Craig Bloodgood, Gallery Director
Abstract & Geometric, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL, 2007
Juried by Julie Karabenick
Annual Salon Show, 2004, Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA
By Arrangement, 2004, Jane Deering Gallery, Annisquam, MA
Artists: Diane Ayott, Deborah Davidson, and Masako Kamiya
Salon, 2001, Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA
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Salon Redux, 2001, Trustman Gallery, SimmonsCollege, Boston, MA
Both exhibits curated by Laura Donaldson
Artists: Diane Ayott, Asa Chibas, Kathleen Connolly, Marty Epp, Leah Giberson, Susan Scott, Liz Sweibel, and Traci Wile
Anymore, 2001, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT
Curated by David Borawski
The Firewall Gallery, 2001, Contemporary New England Art at Skinner, Boston, MA
National Prize Show, 2000, Cambridge Art Association, MA
Juried by Carl Beltz, Director Emeritus, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Boston
New England New Talent, 2002, Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, MA
Juried by Anja Chavez, Independent Curator
The Persistence of Paint, 1998, Trustman Art Gallery, Simmons College, Boston, MA
Juried by Nina Nielsen and Magdalena Campos-Pons
Metaphor for 20th Century: Personal Perspectives, 1996, Hera Gallery, RI
Juried by curator Rachel Rosenfield Lafo
Publications
Art and Life with Diane Ayott, Boston Voyager, 2018
In conversation with Diane Ayott, Kathryn Markel Fine Arts, NYC, Studio interview with Celeste Kaufman, 2016
Paper Works, Fields of Recurrence, Warm Springs Gallery, Charlottsville, VA, online essay by Jennifer Samet 2015
It's a 'Wild Party', by Amanda McGregor, Staff Writer, Salem Evening News, Spring, 2011
Sunday Selection – Diane Ayott, Elisabeth Sheppell Blog, 2011
Monserrat College of Art professor featured in D.C. exhibit, Staff Reporter, Beverly Citizen, Spring, 2011
Color Forms, Part 2, Joanne Mattera Blog, 2010
“Portfolio Magazine”, Montserrat College of Art, Fall, 2009
So Good Interviews Painter, Diane Ayott, Chester College On-line, 2008
Studio Visit, volume three, Open Studio Press, 2008
"The Language of Abstraction, Diane Ayott," Sextant, the Journal of Salem State College, Fall/Spring, 2002
Profile — Diane Ayott, Today, New England College Journal, Spring, 2002
Selected Reviews
Susan Mulski, DIANE AYOTT: BEYOND MEASURE, Barrington Center for the Arts, Gordon College, Wenham MA, Art New England, Jan/Feb, 2011
Kristen I. Pounds, HallSpace/Boston, and MA— Diane Ayott: Defining Surface, Art New England, Feb/March, 2006
Websites
Dianeayott.com
Markelfinearts.com
Matthewswiftgallery.com
Bernayfineart.com
Geoform.net
Residencies
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, 2016
Horned Dorset Colony, Leonardsville, NY, 2014
Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT, 2008, 1995 and 1987
Grants
Mass Cultural Council, 2023, Pandemic Recovery Funds
Luz Dorrien Faculty Development Fund, Montserrat College of Art, 2007, 2014
Cornellia Endowed Fund, Montserrat College of Art, 2005, 2007
Luz Dorrien Faculty Development Fund, Montserrat College of Art, 2007
Professional Development Fund, Montserrat College of Art, 2006, 2007, 2016
Professional Development Fund, Salem State College, 2000
Arts Lottery Grant, Landscape Painting, Gloucester Arts and Humanities Council, Gloucester, MA, 1986
Collections
Paintings and works on paper are represented in several private, contemporary collections, Foley and Lardner, LLP, Boston, Presbyterian Hospital at Cornell University, NY, Capital One, and the contemporary works on paper collection of the State Department in Washington, DC
Past College Teaching
Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA
Massachusetts College of Art, Boston
Salem State University, Salem, MA
Lectures
Queer Talk, 2020, Endicott College, Beverly, MA
Interview Conversation with queer photographer, Jess Dugan, during the solo exhibit of Every Breath We Drew, Montserrat College of Art Gallery, Beverly, MA, 2019
Diane Ayott: on the evolution of my work, during the exhibition of the solo exhibit, BEYOND MEASURE, 2011, Gordon College, Wenham, MA
Matthew Swift Gallery, during the exhibit, Coming Round, 2017
Artist Talk for college students during the exhibit The Physicality of Color, Art Museum, University of Durham, NH, 2015
Professor Diane Ayott: sabbatical talk during the solo exhibit of Upstream, Carol Schlossberg Alumni Gallery, Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA 2009
Artist Talk during the exhibit The Algorithms of Art, at the McIninch Gallery, Southern NH University at Manchester, 2009
Artist Talk during the exhibit, Complexity: Paintings by Diane Ayott, Wheelock College, Boston, MA, 2008
Artist Talk during the exhibit, New England New Talent, at the Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, MA, 2008
Artist Talk during the exhibit, Consequences of Geometry, at the McCoy Gallery, Merrimack College, North Andover, MA, 2008
Artist Talk during the exhibit, Moment to Moment, New England Currents, Danforth Museum, Framingham, MA, 2006
Education
MFA in painting, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston
MS AED, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston
Diploma in Painting, Art Institute of Boston
Summa Cum Laude Graduate, B.A., New England College, NH
Consistent Deans List, Honor Student and a recipient of a variety of scholarships, art contests and literary awards throughout higher education experience