George Lloyd
Nocturnal Interior (2019)
George Lloyd is a painter and draftsman who has lived and worked in Portland, ME for three decades. The initial and highly formative phase of his forty-five years long artistic career was spent in the San Francisco Bay Area. Mr. Lloyd is a native Bostonian. He is a graduate of both the Rhode Island School of Design and the Yale University School of Art. He has taught at numerous schools, including UC - Berkeley, Cornell, Wesleyan University and the NY Studio School. His work is represented in public and private collections, both in the USA and abroad. Museum shows include solo exhibitions at the Ogunquit Museum of American Art in 2001 and the Portland Museum of Art in 2006. Additionally, George Lloyd was a recipient of the Pollock Krasner grant in both 1994 and 2006. He was a Visiting Artist at the American Academy in Rome in 2002.
Born
Winthrop, MA, 1945
Education
BFA, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
MFA, Yale University, New Haven, CT
Resides
Portland, ME
Awards
2002 - Visiting Artist, American Academy in Rome
1995 - Elizabeth Foundation Grant
1994 and 2006 - Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant
Museum Collections
Achenbach Foundation, San Francisco, CA
DeSaisset Museum, Santa Clara, CA
Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA
Ogunquit Museum of American Art, Ogunquit, ME
Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME
University Art Museum, UC-Santa Barbara, CA
University of Maine Museum of Art, Bangor, ME
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2007 - Acme Fine Art, Boston, MA
2006 - Between Plan and Elevation, Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME
2003 - The Transition Years 1982-1984, University of Maine Museum of Art, Bangor, ME
2001 - The Maine Years: Paintings 1982-2000, Ogunquit Museum of American Art, Ogunquit, ME
2000 - Hackett Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1996 - Calbeck Gallery, Rockland, ME
1994 - George Lloyd, The Bay Area Years, 1970-1982, Kennedy Gallery, Holy Names College, Oakland CA
Selected Group Exhibitions
1999 - Wiegand Gallery, Notre Dame College, Belmont CA Drawing without Models, works by George Lloyd, Abby Shahn, Joe Slusky and Chip Sullivan
1998 - Portland Museum of Art
Biennial, Portland, ME
1992 - 167th Annual Exhibition, National Academy of Design, New York, NY
1997 - Six East Bay Painters, Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA
1973 - Charles Campbell Gallery, San Francisco CA and Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento. Joan Brown, Elmer Bischoff, Gordon Cook, George Lloyd
