EDUCATION
Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, M.F.A. Painting, 1992
Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, B.A. Magna Cum Laude, 1990
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2022
C. Grimaldis Gallery, Baltimore, Maryland, Abstraction, curated by Giulia Piera Livi
Galerie im Körnerpark, Berlin, Germany, Anonyme Zeichner 2022
Asya Geisberg Gallery, New York, New York, Charm City, curated by Carolyn Case
Ejecta Projects, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, Things Not Seen (solo)
2020
Aughinbaugh Gallery, Messiah College, Grantham, Pennsylvania, Postcards from the Unknown (solo)
C. Grimaldis Gallery, Baltimore, Maryland, Summer ‘20
Lyman Allyn Art Museum, New London, CT, A Century of Creativity: Connecticut Art
from the New Haven Paint & Clay Club
2019
C. Grimaldis Gallery, Baltimore, Maryland, Levitation (solo)
2018
C. Grimaldis Gallery, Baltimore, Maryland, On Certain Floors, Certain Wonders (solo)
Ejecta Projects, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, Valediction
C. Grimaldis Gallery, Baltimore, Maryland, Summer ‘18
Dolphin Design Center Gallery, MICA, Baltimore, Maryland, Open During Construction
2017
Salve Regina Gallery, Catholic University, Washington, DC, Outside Narratives: Modern Stories of the Outside World
2016
David Lusk Gallery, Nashville, Tennessee, Fictional Spaces (solo)
C. Grimaldis Gallery, Baltimore, Maryland, Landscapes into Art
Jordan Faye Contemporary, Baltimore, Maryland, Being Present
2015
Lonsdale Gallery, Toronto, Canada, Shelter
Anonyme Zeichner/Anonymous Drawings 2015, Galerie Nord, Berlin, Germany, travels to artQ13, Rome, Italy, Galerie GEYSO20, Braunschweig, Germany, and Kunstverein Russelsheim, Germany
David Lusk Gallery, Nashville, Tennessee, Land Rush
Galerie Youn, Montreal, Canada, Stories of the Familiar Transformed
Lonsdale Gallery, Toronto, Canada, Opening the Vault
2014
Mount St. Mary's University, Emmitsburg, Maryland, Temporary Cities (solo)
American University Museum, Washington, DC, The Neighbors
Gauntlet Gallery, SanFrancisco, CA, Lost Moments: Scott Listfield and Friends
Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore, MD, Sondheim Prize Semi-finalists Exhibition
Lonsdale Gallery, Toronto, Canada, Intrepid
2013
Stevenson University, Stevenson, Maryland, Borderlands (solo)
Lonsdale Gallery, Toronto, Canada, New Painting: Katherine Mann, Ali Miller, and Nora Sturges
Seraphin Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, Masters and Mavericks
Jordan Faye Contemporary, Baltimore, MD, Structures at the Edge of Infinity: Magnolia Laurie, Lat Naylor, Nora Sturges, Cynthia Ona Innis
McLean Project for the Arts, McLean, VA, Small Stories: Paintings by Nora Sturges, Matthew Mann, and Gregory Ferrand
Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, Wilmington, DE, Freak Antique
Lonsdale Gallery, Toronto, Canada, Something Still
2012
Civilian Art Projects, Washington, DC, 6 Painters
Community College of Baltimore County, Drawing School
Delaware Museum of Art, Wilmington, DE, Centennial Juried Exhibition
Maryland Institute College of Art, Meyerhoff & Decker Galleries, Baltimore, MD, Sondheim Semi-finalists Exhibition
2011
Goucher College, Silber Gallery, Baltimore, Maryland, Once Upon a Time
McLean Project for the Arts, McLean, Virginia, Strictly Painting 8, Jayme McLellan, juror
2010
Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin, Germany, Anonyme Zeichner No. 10 (Anonymous Drawings No. 10), selected by Blutenweiss/Anke Becker
Fraser Gallery, Bethesda, Maryland, Bethesda Painting Awards, jurors: Dr. Carolyn Carr, Mark Karnes, and Erling Sjovold, Best in Show Award
University of Mary Washington Ridderhof Martin Gallery, Fredericksburg, VA, Mid-atlantic New Painting 2010
2009
Bachelier-Cardonsky Gallery, Kent, Connecticut (solo)
Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, Maryland, Framed Reality
2008
Maryland State Arts Council Backas Gallery, Baltimore, Maryland, Personal Vocabulary
Freedman Gallery, Albright College, Reading, PA, two person show
Bachelier Cardonsky Gallery, Kent, Connecticut, Winging It
2007
Bachelier-Cardonsky Gallery, Kent, Connecticut (solo)
2006
Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville, Virginia, Adventures with Marco Polo (solo)
College of Notre Dame, Baltimore, Maryland, Travels with Marco Polo (solo)
The Painting Center, New York City, Grand Allusions
Bachelier Cardonsky Gallery, Kent, Connecticut, Intimate Works
Maryland Hall for the Creative Arts, Annapolis, Maryland, Magical Realism
2005
Lancaster Museum of Art, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Marco Polo’s Travels (solo)
Pennsylvania College of Art & Design, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Telling Stories: The Narrative in Contemporary Art
McLean Project for the Arts, McLean, Virginia, Strictly Painting V, Jonathan Binstock, Curator of Contemporary Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, juror
2004
Bachelier-Cardonsky Gallery, Kent, Connecticut, Human Nature
Howard County Center for the Arts, Ellicott City, MD, ArtMD 2004, Stephen Bennett Phillips, curator, the Phillips Collection, juror
Truman State University, Kirksville, Missouri, 14th Annual National Art Competition, Jeff Flemming, Senior Curator, Des Moines Art Center, juror
2003
Maryland State Arts Council, 7 MSAC Individual Artist Grant Recipients FY2002
Bachelier-Cardonsky Gallery, Kent, Connecticut, Strictly For The Birds
Maryland Federation of Art, Baltimore, Maryland, Drawings and Etchings, juried
The Barth Galleries, 10th Anniversary Show, Columbus, Ohio
2002
Ventura College, Ventura, California (solo)
Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, Disgusting Nature (solo)
School 33 Art Center, Baltimore, Maryland, New Work: Paintings by Nora Sturges (solo)
The Barth Galleries, Columbus, Ohio, New Paintings by Nora Sturges (solo)
Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, Wilmington, Delaware, Allegorical Expressions in Contemporary Painting
Bachelier-Cardonsky Gallery, Kent, Connecticut, Humanity
New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art, New Harmony, Indiana, Nora Sturges, Clayton Peterson, M. M. Dupay
Bachelier-Cardonsky Gallery, Kent, Connecticut, Windows
Howard County Center for the Arts, Ellicott City, Maryland, Heaven, Hell and the Garden
Fleckenstein Gallery, Towson, Maryland, Everybody Draws
2001
Sheetz Gallery, Pennsylvania State University, Altoona, Pennsylvania (solo)
Leu Gallery, Belmont University, Nashville, Tennessee (solo)
Schoharie County Arts Council, Cobbleskill, New York, National Small Works Exhibition, David Beitzel, juror
2000
Bachelier-Cardonsky Gallery, Kent, Connecticut (solo)
The Barth Galleries, Columbus, Ohio, Nora Sturges: Imagined Events and Landscapes (solo)
Howard County Center for the Arts, Ellicott City, Maryland, ArtMD 2000, Dr. Susan Rosenberg, juror
Kingston Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts, New Art Y2K, curated by Susan Stoops
First Street Gallery, New York City, National Competition, William Beckman, juror
Makeready Press Gallery at Gallery 214, Montclair, New Jersey, Dreamscapes Landscapes
1999
Bachelier-Cardonsky Gallery, Kent, Connecticut (solo)
Spruill Center for the Arts, Atlanta, Georgia, A View From The Garden
The Barn Gallery, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, Tennessee, Figures and Landscapes: Mikhail Gubin, Nora Sturges, Kate Borcherding
Herndon Gallery, Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio, Burge and Sturges: 8x10
1998
1708 Gallery, Richmond, Virginia, Nora Sturges: Imaginary Landscapes (solo)
The Barth Galleries, Columbus, Ohio, Nora Sturges: Recent Work (solo)
Bachelier-Cardonsky Gallery, Kent, Connecticut
The Barth Galleries, Cleveland, Ohio, Nora Sturges, Ken Koon, Paintings
The Barth Galleries, Columbus, Ohio, Fifth Anniversary Show
1997
SPACELab Gallery at Spaces, Cleveland, Ohio, Nora Sturges: Between Dreaming and Waking (solo)
Burke Hall Gallery, Denison University, Granville, Ohio, Female Myths: Work by Christine French, Jill Ziccardi, Nora Sturges
ACME Art Company, Columbus, Ohio, Work by Nora Sturges and Linda Leviton
The Barth Galleries, Cleveland, Ohio, Inaugural Exhibition
1996
Manhattanville College, Purchase, New York, Nora Sturges and Dee Carnelli
The Barth Galleries, Columbus, Ohio, Nora Sturges, Morris Jackson, Christine C. Smith
Machine Shop Gallery, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, Evocations
1995
McDonough Museum of Art, Youngstown State Univ., Youngstown, Ohio (solo)
Mount Vernon Nazarene College, Mount Vernon, Ohio, Nora Sturges and Barbara Butler
1994
Hypotenuse Gallery, Sinclair Community College, Dayton, Ohio (solo)
Silvermine Guild Arts Center, New Canaan, Connecticut, New Members Group Show
John Slade Ely House, New Haven, Connecticut
1993
A.R.C. Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, Image and Soul
ARTICLES, INTERVIEWS, PUBLICATIONS
Art & Antiques, Reviving Artistic Lineages: Art History and Contemporary Thought Are Integrated in Nora Sturges’s Abstract Paintings by Rebecca Allan, November, 2022, p. 30-35.
Inertia Studio Visits, exhibition visit interview, 2019, https://inertiastudiovisits.com/2019/11/03/exhibition-visit-with-nora-sturges/
Cover painting, Immortal Village, Kathryn Rhett, Carnegie Melon Press, 2018.
Open Lab Magazine, Nora Sturges, number 10, spring/summer, 2014.
Cover painting, Little "g" God Grows Tired of Me. Aby Kaupang, Spring Gun Press, 2013
New American Paintings, number 100, 2012
New American Paintings, number 88, 2010
Cover painting, History Matters: Contemporary Poetry on the Margins of Contemporary Culture, Ira Sadoff, University of Iowa Press, 2009
Cover painting, The Glass House, New Poems by Daniel Mark Epstein, Louisiana State University Press, 2009
The Georgia Review, art feature, Summer 2008, front and back covers, and p. 336-344. 2008
Unsplendid, and online journal of poetry, volume 1.3. 2008
New American Paintings, number 51, p.142-145. 2004
Cover painting, The Journal, a literary magazine published by Ohio State University, vol. 26.1, 2002.
Six drawings published in Quarter After Eight, A Journal of Prose and Commentary, vol. 5, 1999.
New American Paintings, number 16, p. 96-97, 125. 1998
Paintings reproduced on the cover and liner of Flood at the Ant Farm, a recording by Phillip Johnston’s Big Trouble, Black Saint Records. 1996
GRANTS AND AWARDS
Individual Artist Award, Maryland StateArts Council, 2016
New American Paintings, Southern Competition, 2012
Juror's Choice Award, McLean Project for the Arts, Strictly Painting 8, 2011
Individual Artist Award, Maryland StateArts Council, 2010
New American Paintings, Southern Competition, 2010
Best in Show, Bethesda Painting Awards, 2010
Individual Artist Award, Maryland State Arts Council, 2008
Second Place, McLean Project for the Arts, Strictly Painting V, 2005
New American Paintings, Mid-Atlantic Competition, 2004
Juror’s Choice Award, Truman State University National Competition, 2004
Juror’s Choice Award, ArtMD 2004
Individual Artist Award, Maryland State Arts Council, 2002
Honorable Mention, Schoharie County Arts Center, National Small Works Exhibition, 2001
Honorable Mention, ArtMD 2000, Howard County Center for the Arts, 2000
New American Paintings, Southern Competition, 1998
Purchase Award, John Slade Ely House, New Haven, Connecticut, 1994
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
1999-present Professor of Art, Head of Painting and Drawing, Towson University, Towson, Maryland
1997-99 Assistant Professor of Art, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, Tennessee