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 Short Bio
Born and raised in Minneapolis, Thomas Paquette has painted full-time since receiving his Master of Fine Arts degree in painting from Southern Illinois University in 1988, which he attended on a Graduate Fellowship. After graduate school, he spent three years in Miami on a Residency-Fellowship awarded from the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts. He then relocated his studio to Maine from 1991-2001, and then to Pennsylvania after that. Paquette's work has been the subject of more than forty solo exhibitions at prominent art galleries (in New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Maine, Minneapolis, Washington DC, St. Louis, etc.) and museums (Georgia Museum of Art, Erie Art Museum, Westmoreland Museum of American Art) nationally. As well, dozens of his works have been selected to hang in eleven U.S. diplomatic facilities around the world, including embassies in St. Petersburg, Athens, Rome, Vienna, Santiago, and Taipei. Some of his significant commissions include four seven-foot high canvases for the Federal Reserve Bank; a thirty-two-foot long canvas for Central Lakes College in Minnesota; an eleven-foot painting for the Minnesota state office building in St. Paul; and paintings for the collection of the HMS Queen Mary 2. In addition to other artist residencies - including one on a Greek island and others at Rocky Mountain, Acadia, and Yosemite National Parks - Paquette was awarded a visiting artist residency at the American Academy in Rome in 2000. As the guest of the U.S. ambassador in 2006, Paquette presented lectures in Greece, when his paintings were installed at the embassy in Athens. In 2007, the monoghraph book "Thomas Paquette: Gouaches" was published to accompany the traveling museum exhibition of his watercolor paintings. Paquette lives with his wife in northwestern Pennsylvania surrounded by the Allegheny National Forest which figures as a frequent subject in his work. His inspiration is also drawn from his travels - from coast to coast in America, and from Turkey to Britain in Europe. |
| Selected Exhibitions 2008 Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Greensburg, PA (solo) Gross McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia, PA (solo) Minnetonka Center for the Arts, Wayzata, MN (solo) Roberson Museum, Binghamton, NY, "Visions of the Susquehanna" (traveling) 2007 Élan Fine Arts, Rockport, ME (solo) Hoyt Institute of Fine Art, New Castle, PA (solo) Cummings Gallery, Mercyhurst College, Erie, PA (solo) Crary Art Gallery, Warren, PA, "Picturing Wilderness" Gross McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, "American Arcadia" Élan Fine Arts, Rockport, ME, "Contours" U.S. Embassy in San Salvador, El Salvador (through 2009) Governor's Residence, Harrisburg, PA, "Visions of the Susquehanna" (traveling) Washington County Museum of Fine Arts, Hagerstown, MD, "Visions of the Susquehanna" (traveling) Windham Fine Arts, Windham, NY "Journey's End" 2006 Gross McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, "Landscapes" (solo) Basalt Gallery, Basalt, CO (duo) Lancaster Museum of Art, Lancaster, PA, "Visions of the Susquehanna" (traveling) Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, PA, "Visions of the Susquehanna" (traveling) 2005 Somerville Manning Gallery, Greenville, DE, "Traversed Lands" (solo) Jameson Gallery, Portland, ME (solo) U.S. Embassy in Athens, Greece (through 2008) 2004 Erie Art Museum, Erie, PA (solo) Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Greensburg, PA "Along the Lincoln Highway" 2003 Jameson Gallery, Portland, ME (solo) Flanders Contemporary Art, Minneapolis, MN (solo) The American Institute, Taipei, Taiwan (through 2005) U.S. Embassy in Phnom Penh, Cambodia (through 2005) 2002 Bennington Center for the Arts, Bennington, VT (solo) Crary Art Gallery, Warren, PA, "The Land Observed", (solo) Minnesota Historical Society, St. Paul, MN, "Defining a Collection: Recent Art Acquisitions" Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC, "Recent Acquisitions" U.S. Embassy in St. Petersburg, Russia, "Natural America" (through 2005) U.S. Embassy (OSCE) in Vienna, Austria (through 2005) 2001 Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, GA (solo) Gleason Fine Art, Camden, ME (solo) Center of the Earth Gallery, Charlotte, NC, "The Great Landscape" (duo) Aucocisco Gallery, Portland, ME, "Condensed Landscapes" (solo) 2000 Flanders Contemporary Art, Minneapolis, MN (solo) Southern Illinois University Museum, Edwardsville, IL (solo) Kimberly Greer Gallery, Northport, NY (solo) American Academy in Rome, Italy (open studio) U.S. Embassy in Rome, Italy (7 paintings selected) 1999 Bates College Museum of Art, Lewiston, ME, "The Joy of Collecting Art in Maine" L.C. Bates Museum, Hinckley, ME, "Looking at Katahdin" 1998 Flanders Contemporary Art, Minneapolis, MN (solo) U.S. Embassy in Santiago, Chile, "Maine Light" Bates College Museum of Art, Lewiston, ME, "The History of Oil Sketching in Maine" 1997 Between the Muse Gallery, Rockland, ME "Recent Paintings" (solo) Maine State Capitol, Augusta, ME, "Maine Landscapes" (solo) Beach Museum of Art, Manhattan, KS (and traveling), "Buildings and Landscapes" 1996 Fischbach Gallery, New York, NY "Recent Paintings" (solo) 1995 Tom Veilleux Gallery, Farmington, ME "Recent Paintings" (solo) Roundtop Center for the Arts, Damariscotta, ME "A Closer Look" (solo) U.S. Embassy in N'Djmena, Chad 1994 Lydon Fine Art, Chicago, IL, "Recent Paintings" (solo) Mahler Gallery, Washington, DC, "The Essential Landscape (solo) Maine Coast Artists, Rockport, ME, "The Nature Conservancy Paintings" (solo) 1993 Mahler Gallery, Washington, DC (solo) University of Southern Maine, Portland, ME (solo) 1990-91 Bass Museum of Art (1991), Miami Beach, FL, "Three Fellows (of the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts)" Museum of Contemporary Art (1990), North Miami, FL "Art in Miami Collections" Bass Museum of Art (1990), Miami Beach, FL "Contemporaries in our Midst" (Fellows of the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts) |
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| Fellowships, Awards and Residencies
2006 American Artist Abroad, U.S. Department of State and U.S. Embassy in Athens
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Acadia National Park Museum Banknorth Beach Museum of Art L.L. Bean Carlson School of Management CIGNA Museum Colby College Collier Shannon Scott Commerce Bancshares Council of Insurance Agents and Brokers Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis Fleet BankBoston Fidelity Investments FSA Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum Georgia Museum of Art Ministry of Economics, Taiwan, R.O.C. Minnesota Pollution Control Agency Minnesota Historical Society Mint Museum of Art National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts Norwest Banks Pennsylvania Lumbermens Mutual Insurance Portland Museum of Art Rocky Mountain National Park Museum Smith Barney Southern Illinois University Museum SPX Corporation State of Maine State of Minnesota State of Montana Thomson Financial UNUM U.S. Department of State (US Embassy loans to Athens, El Salvador, Taipei, St. Petersburg, Vienna, Rome, N'Djamena, Santiago, Havana, Riga, Phnom Penh) U.S.T. Western Illinois University Woodhill Country Club Yosemite National Park Museum |
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