Olwen O'Herlihy Dowling
Stepaside Studio
North Chester
Huntington, MA 01050
RESIDENCIES
Tyrone Guthrie Artist Residency, Annamakerrig, New Bliss, County Monaghan, Ireland, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2013, 2018, 2022, 2023
Fellow at Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Amherst, VA, October 2021
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 Member Group Show, Oxbow Gallery, Easthampton, MA
Nature’s Resilience (solo exhibit), Smith College Alumnae House Gallery, Northampton, MA
Storrs Library Gallery, Longmeadow, MA
Hado Mark Gallery, Lenox, MA
Reaching, Becket Arts Center, Becket, MA
Oxbow Member Group Show, Oxbow Gallery, Easthampton, MA
2023
Above and Below, Hosmer Gallery, Northampton, MA
Writers and Poetry, Elusie Gallery, Easthampton, MA
Nature’s Resilience, Hope and Feathers Gallery, Amherst, MA
Arno Maris Gallery, Westfield State University, Westfield, MA
Burnett Gallery (virtual exhibit), Jones Library, Amherst, MA
Hen’s Nest Gallery, Washington CT
A.P.E. Ltd. Gallery, Northampton, MA
2022
Northampton Senior Center, Northampton, MA
Anchor House of Artists, Northampton, MA
Chester Common Gallery (solo exhibit), MA
Canary in the Coal Mine, Sanford Gallery, Arcadia Wildlife Sanctuary, and Hosmer Gallery, MA
Wear Orange (virtual exhibit for Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense)
Stillness (solo exhibit), Westhampton Library, Westhampton, MA
2021
Rising Waters Blazing Earth, Augusta Savage Gallery, UMass Amherst, Amherst, MA
Priority Prints, Monotype Guild of New England, Stone Valley Arts, Poultney, VT
Stillness, Artist Showcase, Becket Arts Center, Becket, MA
2020
Morgan Conservatory Gallery (virtual exhibit), Cleveland, OH
Extraction: Green to the Extreme, Zea Mays Printmaking, A.P.E. Gallery, Northampton, MA
Stillness, Artist Showcase, Becket Arts Center, Becket MA
Hen’s Nest Gallery, Washington, DC
Elusie Gallery, Easthampton, MA
2019
Sanford Gallery, Zea Mays Printmaking, Florence, MA
Jones Gallery, Kansas City, MO
Elusie Gallery, Easthampton, MA
Local Gallery, Easthampton, MA
ADDITIONAL EXHIBITIONS
Joyce House Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
Naoussa Gallery, Tyringham, MA
Local Gallery, Easthampton, MA
Easthampton City Arts, Easthampton, MA
Hampton Gallery, University of MA
Motherbrook Arts Centre, Dedham, MA
Ocean Street Gallery, Cape Elizabeth, ME
Six Depot Gallery, West Stockbridge, MA
Salmon Falls Gallery, Shelburne Falls, MA
Arno Maris Gallery, Westfield, MA
Sylvia Wald Po Gallery, New York, NY
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
Gallerie Luminere, Savannah, GA
Sandisfield Arts Center, Sandisfield, MA
Blackburn Gallery, Worthington, MA
Florence Biennale, Invited Exhibiting Artist
Watkins Gallery, Northampton, MA
Borgia Gallery, Elms College, Chicopee, MA
Family Exhibition, Pacific Palisades, CA
Women’s Juried Art Show, Honorable Mention, Lenox, MA
National Association of Women Artists, New York, NY
Hallward Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
Train Station Gallery, West Stockbridge, MA
Comic Cuts of New York, Smith College Gallery, Northampton, MA
Brickbottom Gallery, Cambridge, MA
Berkshire Artisans Guild, Pittsfield, MA
Artist a Meudon, Meudon, France
C.W. Nelson Sculpture Garden, Sandisfield, MA
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
ARTICLES
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