1947 Born in Needham, MA
Lives and works in Baltimore, MD
EDUCATION
1971 MFA, MICA, Hoffberger School of Painting, Baltimore MD
1969 BS, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019 Christine Neill: Invasive, Endangered, Beneficial, Goya Contemporary Gallery, Baltimore, MD
Curator: Amy Eva Raehse
Christine Neill: Observations from the Valley Floor, Katzen Museum of Art, American University,
Washington, DC, Curator: Mollie Salah (catalogue)
2017 Natural Selections: The Paintings of Christine Neill, Washington County Museum of Fine Arts,
Hagerstown, MD
2015 Metaphors of Light and Night, Goya Contemporary Gallery, Baltimore, MD
Curator: Amy Eva Raehse (catalogue)
2014 Natural Pairings, Adkins Arboretum, Ridgely, MD
2013 Metaphors in Nature, Hoyt Center for the Arts, New Castle, PA
2012 Mystery & Magic in Nature, Warner Gallery, St Andrew’s School, Middletown, DE
2011 Genus: Species, Goya Contemporary, Baltimore, MD. Curator: Amy Eva Raehse
2010 Recent Paintings & Prints, Southern Vermont Art Center, Manchester, VT
2008 Painting the Urban Forest, Goya Contemporary, Baltimore, MD
Curator: Amy Eva Raehse
Immortal Plant Portraits, Espace KALEO Rochefort-en-Terre, France
Naturally Inspired, A Commerce & Culture Exhibit at the Center Club, Baltimore, MD
Two-person exhibit with Peter Brooke
2006 Land & Sea, Paintings and Prints, Gallery AA/B, Boston, MA
2005 Paintings from the Digital Herbarium, Pinkard Gallery, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
Modern Organic, Two-Person exhibit with Roy Dawes, Gallery AA/B, Boston, MA
2003 Berkshire Summers, Tokonoma Gallery, Housatonic, MA
2002 Mixed Media Watercolors, Gomez Gallery, Baltimore, MD
2001 From the Herbarium, Gomez Gallery, Baltimore, MD
1999 Watercolor Paintings, Tokonoma Gallery, Housatonic, MA
1998 Paintings and Prints, Gomez Gallery, Baltimore, MD
1996 Paintings, Gomez Gallery, Baltimore, MD
1995 Recent Paintings, Gomez Gallery, Baltimore, MD
Watercolors, Montpellier Cultural Arts Center, Laurel, MD
1994 New Watercolors, C Grimaldis Gallery, Baltimore, MD
1990 Christine Neill, Summer Paintings, Chamber of Commerce Gallery, Pittsfield, MA
1989 Christine Neill, Summer Paintings, B R Kornblatt Gallery, Washington, DC
1986 Christine Neill, New Works on Paper, C Grimaldis Gallery, Baltimore, MD
1983 The Nature of Christine Neill...Recent Works, C Grimaldis Gallery, Baltimore, MD
1981 Christine Neill, New Watercolors, C Grimaldis Gallery, Baltimore, MD
1979 Christine Neill, Paintings, C Grimaldis Gallery, Baltimore, MD
1977 Christine Neill, Recent Paintings, Fells Point Gallery, Baltimore, MD
1976 Christine Neill, Recent Paintings, Gallery 20, Newark, DE
1975 Christine Neill, Paintings, Essex Community College, Baltimore, MD
1974 Christine Neill, Alluvial Paintings, Interchurch Center, New York, NY
1972 Christine Neill, Paintings, Towson State University, Towson, MD
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2020 Nor’Easter, New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT
2018 Baker Artist Awards Finalists, The Peale Museum, Baltimore, MD
Healing Nature, Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis, MA
THREE, Attleboro Art Museum, Attleboro, MA
Nor’Easter, New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT
2017 SOL Print Studios at McDonogh School, Tuttle Gallery, Owings Mills, MD
human· NATURE, Goya Contemporary Gallery, Baltimore, MD.
Curator: Amy Eva Raehse
Different, Creative Alliance, Baltimore, MD
2016 New Arrivals: Maryland Artist, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
Nor’easter Juried Exhibition, New Britain Museum of American Art, CT
Juried Exhibition, Washington County Museum of Fine Arts, Hagerstown, MD
Smaller Footprints, Museum of Art and History, Lancaster, CA
Celebration of the Orchid, Rawlings Conservatory, Baltimore, MD
State of Mind, Boston Printmakers, Lamont Gallery, Exeter, NH
2015 IFPDA Print Fair, Goya Contemporary Booth at the Park Ave Armory, New York, NY
Hoffberger School of Painting 50th Anniversary Exhibition, Maryland Institute College of Art,
Baltimore, MD
Under the Sun: Artists of Sol Print Studio, Hillyer Art Space, Washington, DC
Look Again, The Art Museum Complex, Duxbury, MA
Southern Graphics Conference, Knoxville, TN
The Possibility of Transformation, Maryland Institute College of Art, Sheila and Richard Riggs Gallery,
Baltimore, MD
H2O Watercolor Traditional and Experimental, Columbia Art Center, Columbia, MD
2014 Material Matters, Goya Contemporary Gallery, Baltimore, MD.
Curator: Amy Eva Raehse
Nature Indoors, Rawlings Conservatory, Baltimore, MD. Curator: Gloria Azucena
Summer Exhibition, Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, Novato, CA
Visions of Hope, Columbia Center for the Arts, Columbia, MD
2013 2nd Juried Biennial Maryland Regional, University of Maryland University College, Baltimore, MD
Unnatural Nature, Silber Art Gallery, Goucher College, Baltimore, MD
Noetics, Cosmo Club, Washington, DC. Curator: Helen Frederick,
Transitions, Carolyn Jenkins Gallery, Concord, NH
Less > More, Mitchell Gallery, St John’s College, Annapolis, MD.
Curator: Jack Rasmussen,
2012 First Impressions, Sol Print Studios, Stevenson Univ, Baltimore, MD.
Curator: Diane DiSalvo
Obsessions & Collections, Southern Vermont Arts Center, Manchester, VT
XS/XL, The Art Gallery, University of MD, College Park, MD, Juried Exhibit
Keisho Exhibition, Wakaime Art School, Anjo Achi, Japan
Secret Gardens, Pacific Art League, Palo Alto, CA, Juried Exhibit
Maryland’s Eastern Shore. Atkins Arboretum, Ridgely, MD, Juried Exhibit
Intersecting Cultures/Virtual Worlds, Underground Gallery, Betsy Hotel, MICA/ART BASEL,
Invitational Exhibit
2011 Resolution of the Arts and Sciences, Schick Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
Blanch Ames National Juried Exhibition, Borderland, MA
Biennial Maryland Regional Juried Exhibit, University of Maryland, University College, Adelphi, MD
Works on Paper, Juried Exhibition, Maryland Federation for the Arts, Annapolis, MD
Blossoms for Claudia, Curated Exhibition, Center for the Arts, Columbia, MD
2010 Blanch Ames National Juried Exhibition, Borderland, MA
Rochefort Residents, MICA, Baltimore, MD
Mind, Body, Spirit, University of MD, Adelphi, MD
Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
2009 Works on Paper, EA Gallery, Port Chester, NY
Biennial Regional, Thorne-Sagendorph Gallery, Keene State College, Keene, NH
National Juried Exhibition, Southern Vermont Art Center, Manchester, VT
Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
2008 The Art of Healing & Hope, St. Joseph Medical Center, Towson, MD
Urban Forest Project, Sustainable Banners hung in Baltimore City Parks and
Maryland Institute College of Art, Collaboration with Lew Fifield
Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
2007 Resident Exhibition, Chateau Museum, Rochefort-en-Terre, France
Faculty Exhibit, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
2005 International Artist Support Invitational Traveling Exhibit, Cairo, Luxor, Egypt
Sabbatical Exhibition, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
Discovering the Native Landscape of the Mid-Atlantic, Adkins Arboretum, Ridgely, MD,
Awarded the 2005 Leon Andrus Prize
Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
2004 Alumni Exhibit at the Tang, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
2003 Conversations, Collaborations in Contemporary Art, Traveling Invitational Exhibition Evergreen House,
Baltimore, MD; Delaware Center Contemporary Arts, Wilmington, DE
Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
1999 Prints, Historic and Contemporary, Evergreen House, Baltimore, MD
National Invitational Watercolor Exhibition, Prince Georges Community College, Largo, MD
Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
1997 Artist as Collector, Rosenberg Gallery, Goucher College, Baltimore, MD
Investigations, New Prints at the Mill, Goya Girl Press, Baltimore, MD
Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
1994 The Maryland Institute, Then and Now, Josiah White Exhibition Ctr, Jim Thorp, PA
Drawing from Experience, Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, MD
Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
1992 Resident Artist Exhibition, Meyerhoff Gallery, MICA, Baltimore, MD
Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
1989 Sales and Rental Gallery, Delaware Museum, Wilmington, DE
Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
1987 Works on Paper Invitational, East Gallery, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
1986 Areggio, Artoday, Traveling Exhibit: Tuscany Province, Italy and United States
Watercolor Invitational, Pennsylvania State College, University Park, PA
Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
1985 Screens and Scrolls, Academy for the Arts, Easton, MD
Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
1984 Women on Paper, Running Gallery, Luther College, Decorah, IA
Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
1983 Four from the Top, State House, Annapolis MD, organized by MSAC
Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
1980 Two Faculty, Holtzman Gallery, Towson State University, Towson, MD
Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
1979 Landscape Observed and Transformed, traveling show organized by the Baltimore Museum of Art,
Baltimore, MD
Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
1974 Maryland Biennial, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
1972 Maryland Annual, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
American University Museum, Washington, DC
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
Broadmead, Baltimore, MD
Celest Corporation, Easton, MD
Commercial Credit Corp., Baltimore, MD
Deloitte, Haskins, & Sells, Baltimore, MD
Hilton Convention Center Hotel, Baltimore, MD
Johns Hopkins Hospital, Bloomberg Building, Baltimore, MD
Lockheed Martin Inc, Bethesda, MD
Marriott Corporation, Baltimore, MD
Maryland Casualty Co, Baltimore, MD
St. Joseph Medical Center, Towson, MD
TMW Consultants, Stamford, CT
University of Maryland University College, Adelphi, MD
Washington County Museum of Fine Arts, Hagerstown, MD
Washington Hilton, Washington, DC
Weinberg & Green, Baltimore, MD
GRANTS, AWARDS, AND RESIDENCIES
2021 Finalist, Baker Artist Award, Baltimore, MD
2018 Finalist, Baker Artist Award, Baltimore, MD
2017-2018 The Studios of Key West, Key West, FL
2017 Finalist, Baker Artist Award, Baltimore, MD
2016 Finalist, Baker Artist Award, Baltimore, MD
2014 Mixit Studios, Somerville, MA
1995-2014 Maryland Institute College of Art, Brenner and Lucas Grants
2011 Maryland Institute College of Art, Lucas Grant, awarded research at Kew Royal Gardens in London
2010 Star Island Arts Conference, Iles of Sholes, NH
Maryland Institute College of Art, Lucas Grant, awarded to attend a photography workshop with
Parrish Dobson, Star Island
Maryland Institute College of Art, Lucas Grant, awarded to work on series of digital prints with
First Floor Graphics
2008 Maryland Institute College of Art, Technology Grant to work with Master Digital Printer, Andrew Buckland
2007 Month Long Residency at the Alford & Trafford Klots Residency Program
Rochefort-en-Terre, France
Maryland Institute College of Art, Faculty Development Grant, awarded to attend Alfred & Trafford Klots
Artist Residency Program in Rochefort-en-terre, France
2006 Maryland Institute College of Art, Lucas Grant, awarded to attend a Drawing Closer to Nature workshop
conducted by Peter London
2005 Maryland Institute College of Art, Faculty Development Grant, awarded to attend digital workshop at
Cone Editions Press
2003 Maryland Institute College of Art, Faculty Development Grant, awarded to produce Promotional Material
2002 Maryland Institute College of Art, Faculty Development Grant, awarded to produce a series of
Mixed Media Paintings
1999 Maryland Institute College of Art, Faculty Development Grant, awarded to explore and produce an
edition of computer generated prints.
1997 Maryland Institute College of Art, Faculty Development Grant, awarded
to produce a series of intaglio prints
1995 Maryland Institute College of Art, Faculty Development Grant, awarded
to purchase photo equipment for professional and student use
1990 Maryland Institute College of Art, Trustee Award for Excellence In Teaching
1987 Maryland Institute College of Art, The Andrew W Mellon Foundation Grant, awarded to develop a series
of large watercolor paintings
1986 City Art Works-in-Progress Grant awarded
1984 Maryland Institute College of Art, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Grant, awarded unrestricted grant
for research and development
1979 Maryland State Arts Council, Fellowship Award
LECTURES, WORKSHOPS, AND JURIED EXHIBITIONS
2018 Lecture, More than Pretty Flowers, A History of Botanical Painting, The Studios of Key West, FL
Botanical Painting Workshop, The Studios of Key West, FL
2017 Gallery Lecture, Washington County Museum of Fine Arts, Hagerstown, MD
Workshop, Painting Nature, Washington County Museum of Fine Arts, Hagerstown, MD
Professional Lecture, Beverly Ingram High School for the Arts, Hagerstown, MD
2013 External Evaluator for Promotion to Tenure, University of South Carolina, SC
External Evaluator for Promotion to Tenure, University of Northern Illinois, IL
2012 Juror, Blanche Ames National Art Exhibition, Borderland, Sharon, MA
2010 Lecture & Critiques Industrial Center Building, ICB Arts, Sausalito, CA
2009-Present Volunteer Professional Services at Rawlings Conservatory, Baltimore, MD
2009 Botanical Watercolor Workshop, Star Island Conference Center on the Arts, Star Island, Rye, NH
2008 Juror for Laurel Art League Exhibit, Montpellier Art Center, Laurel, MD
Urban Forest Project, Sustainable Banners hung in Baltimore City Parks, MD
Collaboration with Lew Fifield
2008-2012 Watercolor Workshop, Montpellier Art Center, Laurel, MD
2006 Lecture, Women in Art, Fitchburg State College, MA
2005 Watercolor Workshop at Interlaken Art Center, Interlaken, MA
2004 Juror, Studio Space Awards, Montpellier Art Center, Laurel, MD
2002 Juror, 3rd Congressional District Art Competition
Lecture, Loyola College, Baltimore, MD
2001 Juror Annual Exhibition at Maryland Hall for the Arts, Annapolis, MD