Selected Solo Exhibitions

2018
Center for Maine Contemporary Art Rockland, ME
2016
The Needle and the Milkmaid, SAPAR Contemporary, New York, New York
2015
Only Nails, Always Different, Pennsylvania College of Art and Design, Lancaster, PA, Curated by Heigi Leitzki
Floresco, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA, Curated by Alex Sachs
2014
New Blooms, Shelburne Museum, Shelburne, VT, Curated by Kory Rogers
2012
Aucocisco Gallery, Portland, ME
2011
Old and New Nails, Snite Museum of Art at University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN
2010
The Ogunquit Museum of American Art, Ogunquit, ME
2009
Pillars, Cynthia Reeves Gallery, New York, NY
2008
Bright Common Spikes: The Sculpture of John Bisbee, Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME
Patch, Ridge, Mound, Coleman Burke Gallery, Brunswick, ME
2006
Plane Space, New York, NY
2005
Fine Arts Artist-in-Residence, Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University, MA 2004 Plane Space, New York, NY
2003
Hargate Art Center Gallery, St. Paul’s School, Concord, NH
2002
Plane Space, New York, NY
Three Tons, Suyama Space, Seattle, WA
2001
John Bisbee: Arc and Plume, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
ICON Gallery, Brunswick, ME
2000
Field, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO
1999
Tons, Institute of Contemporary Art, Maine College of Art, Portland, ME
1998
John Bisbee: A Winter’s Work, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, ME
1997
Frozen by Fire: Sculptures, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME
1996
Recent Gatherings, Pulliam Deffenbaugh Gallery, Portland, OR
1995
Five Years, Sculpture by John Bisbee, Chase Gallery at City Hall, Spokane, WA
1993
Evidence in Sculpture, Wichita Center for the Arts, Wichita, KS

Selected Residencies/Awards

1995-2009
9-time MacDowell Fellow, MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH
2006
Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant
2003
The Rappaport Prize (administered by the DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA)
2001
Portland Museum of Art Biennial William Thon Juror’s Prize
2000
Maine State Individual Artist Grant
1998
Portland Museum of Art Biennial Purchase Prize
1994
Yaddo Art Colony, Saratoga Springs, NY

Collections

Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine
DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, Massachusetts
Fidelity Corporation, Boston, Maine
Farnsworth Art Museum & Wyeth Center, Rockland, Maine
Harvard Business School, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Hugo Neu Corporation, New York, New York
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, Virginia
Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Maine
Portland Press Hotel, Marriott Autograph Collection, Portland, Maine
Snite Museum, Norte-Dame University, Notre Dame, Indiana

Education

1992 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME
1990 B.F.A., Alfred University, Alfred, NY Teaching/Visiting Artist
1996-present Artist in Residence, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME
2002-2008 Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival, Manchester, TN
2005 Visiting Artist, Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University, MA
2003 Artist in Residence, St. Paul’s School, Concord, NH

Source:
Website of the Artist, 2017

John Bisbee is an American sculptor living and working in Maine where he is an art professor at Bowdoin College in Brunswick. Bisbee received his B.F.A. from Alfred University and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.

He is a recipient of a 2006 Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant. He has also received a Maine State Individual Artist Grant (The Rappaport Prize) administered by the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, as well as both the Purchase Prize and the William Thon Jurors' Prize through the Portland Museum of Art Biennial Exhibitions that he has participated in.

Bisbee's work has been reviewed in Art in America, ARTnews, Sculpture Magazine, The New Yorker, The New York Times and The Boston Globe.