Bo Bartlett Biography

He has had numerous solo exhibitions nationally and internationally. Recent solo exhibitions include Bo Bartlett: American Artist, The Mennello Museum of American Art, Orlando, FL; Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, GA; The University of Mississippi Museum, Oxford, MS; Love and Other Sacraments, Dowling Walsh Gallery, Rockland, ME; Paintings of Home, Ilges Gallery, Columbus State University, Columbus, GA; A Survey of Paintings, W.C. Bradley Co. Museum, Columbus, GA; Paintings of Home, P.P.O.W. Gallery, New York, NY; and Bo Bartlett, Ogden Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA.

Recent group exhibitions include Truth & Vision: 21st Century Realism, Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE; Behind the Easel, Somerville Manning Gallery, Greenville, DE; Rockwell and Realism in an Abstract World, Norman Rockwell Museum, Stockbridge, MA; Brine, SOMA New Art Gallery, Cape May, NJ, curated by Victor Grasso; The Things We Carry: Contemporary Art in the South, Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, SC; American Masters, Somerville Manning Gallery, Greenville, DE; The Philadelphia Story, Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, NC; The Outwin Boochever 2013 Portrait Competition Exhibition, Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC; Best of the Northwest: Selected Paintings from the Permanent Collection, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA; Perception of Self, Forum Gallery, New York, NY; Real: Realism in Diverse Media, Imago Galleries, Palm Desert, CA; Thriving in Seattle: A Retrospective, GAGE Academy of Art, Seattle WA; private (dis)play, New York Academy of Art, New York, NY; Figure as Narrative, Columbus State University, Columbus, GA; Solemn & Sublime: Contemporary American Figure Painting, Akus Gallery, Eastern CT State University, Willimantic, CT; Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA, private(dis)play, Center of Creative Arts, St. Louis, MO; and Five Artists of Accomplishment from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA.

His work may be found in the permanent collections of the Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, SC; La Salle University Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA; Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA; Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA; Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Loretto, PA; Philadelphia Convention Center, Philadelphia, PA; McCornick Place Metropolis Pier and Exposition Authority, South Hall, Chicago, IL; United States Mint, Philadelphia, PA; Academy of Music, Philadelphia, PA; Office of the Governor, Harrisburg, PA; Curtis Institute, Philadelphia, PA; Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, PA; Hunter Museum of American Art; Chattanooga, TN; Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, GA; Denver Museum of Art, Denver, CO; and Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA.

Bartlett is the recipient of the PEW Fellowship in the Arts, the Philadelphia Museum of Art Award; Museum Merit Award, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, GA; William Emlen Cresson Traveling Scholarship, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA; Charles Toppan Prize, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA; and Packard Prize, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA.

Bo Bartlett lives and works in Columbus, GA and lives seasonally in Maine.