Olwen Dowling, Stepaside Studio, Huntington, MA, olwenoherlihy@gmail.com 

RESIDENCIES

Fellow at Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Amherst, VA, October 2021

Tyrone Guthrie Artist Residency, Annamakerrig, New Bliss, County Monaghan, Ireland, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2013, 2018, 2022, 023

EDUCATION

Smith College, Northampton, MA./ BA in Studio Art and Biology

L’ecole d’art, Vallauris, France

MEMBER

California Society of Printmakers, The Boston Printmakers, Monotype Guild of New England, Hilltown Arts Alliance.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2024

Oxbow Gallery, Easthampton, MA January 5–30

Smith College Alumnae House Gallery, Nature’s Resilience (solo exhibit), Northampton, MA, February 9–April 17

Storrs Library Gallery, Longmeadow, MA, April 5–27

Hado Mark Gallery, Lenox, MA, May 18–July 31

Becket Arts Center, Reaching, Becket, MA, June–July

Oxbow Member Group Show, Oxbow Gallery, Easthampton, MA, December 5–January 5

2023

Hosmer Gallery, Above and Below, Northampton, MA, December 2022–January 2023

Elusie Gallery, Writers and Poetry, Easthampton, MA, March

Hope and Feathers Gallery, Nature’s Resilience, Amherst, MA, May

Arno Maris Gallery, Westfield State University, Westfield, MA, May

Burnett Gallery, Virtual Exhibit, Jones Library, Amherst, MA

Hilltown Studio Tour, October

Hen’s Nest Gallery, Washington CT, October 2023–January 2024

A.P.E. Ltd. Gallery, Northampton, MA, December

2022

Northampton Senior Center, Northampton, MA, November

Sanford Gallery, Arcadia Wildlife Sanctuary, and Hosmer Gallery, Canary in the Coal Mine

Wear Orange, virtual exhibition for Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense 

Stillness (solo exhibit), Westhampton Library, Westhampton, MA

Stillness, Artist Showcase, Becket Arts Center, Becket, MA

2020

Morgan Conservatory Gallery, virtual exhibition, Cleveland, OH

 

PAST EXHIBITIONS

Joyce House Gallery, Dublin, Ireland

Smith College, Northampton MA 

Naoussa Gallery, Tyringham, MA

Local Gallery, Easthampton, MA

A.P.E. Gallery, Northampton, MA

Easthampton City Arts, Easthampton, MA

Hampton Gallery, University of MA

Augusta Savage Gallery, University of MA

Salmon Falls Gallery, Shelburne Falls, MA

Arno Maris Gallery, Westfield, MA

Sylvia Wald Po Gallery, New York

National Association of Women Artists

Ferrin Gallery, Pittsfield, MA

Mullen Gallery, Becket, MA

Garden Gates, Norman Rockwell Museum, Stockbridge, MA 

Brickbottom Gallery, Cambridge, MA

Art Pic, North Hollywood, CA

Burnet Gallery, Amherst, MA

Becket Art Center, Becket, MA

Gallerie Luminere, Savannah, GA

Elusie Gallery, Easthampton, MA

Hens Nest Gallery, Washington, CT

Sandisfield Arts Center, Sandisfield, MA

Hosmer Gallery, Northampton, MA 

Blackburn Gallery, Worthington, MA

Beck Center for the Arts, Cleveland, OH

Florence Biennale, Invited Exhibiting Artist

Watkins Gallery, Northampton, MA

Borgia Gallery, Elms College, Chicopee, MA

Family Exhibition, Pacific Palisades, CA

Lee Library Gallery, Lee, MA

Women’s Juried Art Show, Honorable Mention, Lenox, MA

Hallward Gallery, Dublin, Ireland

Train Station Gallery, West Stockbridge, MA

Comic Cuts of New York, Smith College Gallery, Northampton, MA

Brickbottom Gallery, Cambridge, MA

Art Pic, North Hollywood, CA

Berkshire Artisans Guild, Pittsfield, MA

Artist a Meudon, Meudon, France

C.W. Nelson Sculpture Garden, Sandisfield, MA

Seasons, Burnett Gallery, Amherst, MA

Sense of Place, Becket Art Center, MA

Galerie Luminere, Savannah, GA

SET DESIGN     

THE HOBBIT,  Chester Theatre Company, Chester, MA

SO LONG SLEEPING BEAUTY,  Chester Theatre Company, Chester MA       

THE ROAD FROM TRENTON TO CAMDEN, Northampton, MA

LOVE LETTERS, Academy of Music, Northampton, MA

INSTITUTIONAL COLLECTIONS

Cooley Dickinson Hospital, Northampton, MA

Smith College, Northampton, MA

Private Collections in United States, Ireland, England, and Europe

PUBLICATIONS

Canvas Rebel, Meet Olwen Dowling, August 9, 2022

Daily Hampshire Gazette, Northampton MA, ART TALK — Art Maker: Olwen Dowling, Painter and Printmaker, December 29, 2019

Textured Lives, published by Smith College, 2019

LitMag, STCC, Springfield, MA

Cashel View, Brick House Literary Review, 2019 Edition

Shifting Clouds, Sunday Independent, Dublin Ireland, 2006

An Artists Homage to Connemara, Daily Hampshire Gazette, Northampton MA

The Secret Lives of Water Towers, Daily Hampshire Gazette, Northampton, MA

Artist Profile by Mike Donovan, The Country Journal, Huntington, MA

Seasons, Artful Mind, Great Barrington, MA, June–July 2000