Curriculum Vitae

b. 1987

Education 

2014 Laguna College of Art and Design, MFA in Painting

2011 Gage Academy of Art, Certificate in Drawing and Painting

Solo Exhibitions

2025 Robischon Gallery, Yard, Denver, CO

2022 Sugarlift, Recent Paintings, New York, NY

2021 Sugarlift, Summer Paintings, New York, NY

2020 Haynes Galleries, Zoey Frank: Exploring the Ordinary, Franklin, TN

2019 Galerie Mokum, Everyday, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

2017 Galerie Mokum, At Home with Things, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

2016 Haynes Galleries, Zoey Frank: Connections and Changes, Thomaston, ME and Nashville, TN

2014 Haynes Galleries, Zoey Frank: Explorations and Discoveries, Thomaston, ME, and Nashville,
TN

Selected Group Exhibitions

2025 Muskegon Museum of Art, Transcending Tradition, Muskegon, MI
Mesa Contemporary Art Museum, Beyond Description, Mesa, AZ
Ceres Gallery, The Anxious or Serene Still Life, New York, NY

2024 University of Wisconsin, Evolving Site, Eau Claire, WI
New York Academy of Art, BIG STORIES, New York, NY, and The Bo Bartlett Center at Columbus State University, Columbus GA, 2023

2023 Pennsylvania College of Art and Design, In Depth, Lancaster, PA
Galerie Mokum, KunstRAI, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Figure/Ground Gallery, Through the Eye, Seattle, WA

2022 Sugarlift and Figure/Ground Gallery, Beyond Description, New York, NY, and Seattle, WA

2021 Galerie Mokum, The Female Gaze, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Galerie Mokum, KunstRAI, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

2020 Page Gallery, Living Color, Camden, ME
Studio Shop, Disrupted Realism, Burlingame, CA

2019 Pietro Annigoni Museum, CORPO a CORPO, Florence, Italy
Stanek Gallery, Disrupted Realism, Philadelphia, PA
Arvada Center, Art of the Sate, Arvada, CO
Danese/Corey, Personal Spaces, New York, NY
Joshua Liner Gallery, Your Favorite Artist’s Favorite Artist #2, New York, NY

2018 Danese/Corey, Reveal Art Fair, New York, NY
Booth Gallery, Bloom, New York, NY
Alpha Gallery, New Talent (3 person show), Boston, MA
1261 Gallery, Mia Bergeron, Hollis Dunlap, Zoey Frank (3 person show) , Denver, CO
Galerie Mokum, KunstRai, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 
Mana Contemporary, On Paper, An Exhibition of Drawings, Jersey City, NJ

2017 Booth Gallery, The New Baroque, New York, NY
Salmagundi Club, American Masters, New York, NY
Arcadia Contemporary, ARC Visions, Los Angeles, CA 
Galerie Mokum, PAN Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
The Bennington Center for the Arts, Artists for the New Century, Bennington, VT
Customs House Museum and J. Wayne Stark Galleries at Texas A&M, Women Painting Women:
In Earnest, Clarksville, TN and College Station, TX 
Collins Galleries, Summer Salon, Orleans, MA   
Abend Gallery, Sight Unseen, Denver, CO
Gallery 1261, Small Works, Denver, CO
Arcadia Contemporary, LA Art Show, Los Angeles, CA

2016 Arcadia Contemporary, 12" x12", Los Angeles, CA
Galerie Mokum, PAN Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Q Art Salon, Instalarity, Santa Ana, CA
Galerie Mokum, KunstRai, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

2015 Galerie Mokum, PAN Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
The Gallery, Sculpture by the Lakes, Drawn, Dorchester, Dorset UK
Gallery 1261, Windows to the Divine and Renaissance of Realism, Denver, CO
Gallery 1261, The Object of Objects, Denver, CO
Manifest Gallery, Master Pieces, Cincinnati, OH
Gallery 1261, Figurative 1, Denver, CO
The Gallery, Sculpture by the Lakes, Works on Paper Art Fair, London, England UK

2014 Haynes Galleries, A Treasure Trove of Real Art, Nashville, TN
The Gallery, Sculpture by the Lakes, Drawn, Dorchester, Dorset UK
Laguna Art Museum, LCAD MFA '14, Laguna Beach, CA
Arena 1 Gallery, Palimpsests: MFA Thesis Exhibition, Santa Monica, CA
Haynes Galleries, The Landscape: Views and Variations, Nashville, TN
City Hall, Laguna College of Art and Design MFA Exhibition, Laguna Beach, CA

2013 Haynes Galleries, A Treasure Trove of Small Things, Nashville, TN
Principle Gallery, Women Painting Women (R)evolution, Richmond, VA
Laguna Art Museum, LCAD MFA '13, Laguna Beach, CA
Haynes Galleries, Ordinary Objects: Extraordinary Still Lifes, Nashville, TN
City Hall, Laguna College of Art and Design MFA Exhibition, Laguna Beach, CA

2012 Western Heritage Museum, Small Works Exhibition, Oklahoma City, OK
Laguna Art Museum, Plein Air Invitational, Laguna Beach, CA
Jackson Historical Society, Hudson River Fellowship, Jackson, NH
Haynes Galleries, The Portrait in American Realism, Nashville, TN and Thomaston, ME
Fountainhead Gallery, Transitions (3 person show), Seattle, WA

Awards and REsidencies

2024 Artist in Resident, 9 weeks, The Bo Bartlett Center, Columbus State University
Manifest Gallery International Painting Annual 10, First Place ( First Place in INPA 9 2021, INPA 7 2018, and INPA 5 2015)

2021 Painting Residency, Artists Association of Nantucket

2019 Art Renewal Center TIAC Award (ARC Salon, Arcadia Contemporary Award 2016, ARC Salon Finalist 2014, 2013, 2012)

2016 Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant (2015, 2013)
Avigdor Arikha Memorial International Residency Scholarship, JSS Civita

2012 Artist's Magazine, All Media Art Competition, Grand Prize
Hudson River Fellowship

Publications

Eric Elliott. “​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​Fish Explaining Water with Rachel Jeffers & Zoey Frank,” Zeuxis, https://www.zeuxis.us/eric-elliot-rachel-jeffers-zoey-frank
Janine Vangool. “Zoey Frank” Uppercase Magazine, volume 62, 2024. pp. 46-49.
Aimee Erickson. Plein Air Techniques for Artists. Rockport Publishers, 2023. p. 59.
New American Paintings, volume 162, October/November 2022, pp. 48-51.
Rebecca Bradbury. “Zoey Frank.” Artists and Illustrators, July 2022, pp. 16-21.
Clayton Schuster. “Zoey Frank.” Hi Fructose, volume 60, 2021, pp. 20-27.
Michael Pearce. “Zoey Frank’s Summer Paintings.” MutualArt August 25, 2021 https://www.mutualart.com/Article/Zoey-Franks-Summer-Paintings/A549B6795193CD99?source_page=Artist%5CArticles.
Daniel Maidman. “Zoey Frank: Summer paintings a Sugarlift.” Whitehot Magazine, July 2021, https://whitehotmagazine.com/articles/frank-summer-paintings-at-sugarlift/5077.
Zoey Frank. “The Story Behind a Painting.” Artists Magazine, June 2020, pp. 35-39.
Juliette Aristides. Beginning Drawing Atelier. Monacelli Press, 2019. p. 86
Ditte Van Doninck. “Life as we Know it.” Imagicasa Art, December 2019, pp. 80-84.
John Seed. Disrupted Realism: Paintings for a Distracted World. Schiffer Publishing, 2019 pp. 156-161.
Editors. The Moth: Art and Literature. Spring 2019, p. 15.
Timothy Standring. "Records of the Painting Process: Recent Work by Zoey Frank." Fine Art Connoisseur,
October 2018, pp. 84-88.
Leslie Gilbert Elman. "The Bennett Prize Celebrating Women Painters." Fine Art Connoisseur, August
2018, pp. 116, 118-119. 
Michal Korsun. "Zero Abstrakcji." Gazeta Bankowa, September 2017, pp. 123-129. 
Nina Kinitz. "Nowy Wymiar Percepcji." Artysta i Sztuka, Spring 2017, pp. 60-71. 
John O'hern. "Figurative Focus." American Art Collector, March 2017, pp. 36, 38-39.  
Robert Zeller. The Figurative Artist's Handbook. Monacelli Press, 2016, pp. 122, 157-158.
Juliette Aristides. Lessons in Classical Painting. New York: Watson-Guptill, 2016, p. 163.
Kim Agricola and Katie Askew. "Artisitic Excellence." Southwest Art, December 2016, p. 71.
Margaret Walker. "Zoey Frank: Connections and Changes." Nashville Arts Magazine, October 2016, pp.
56-60. 
Editors. "Zoey Frank: Connections and Changes." American Art Collector, July 2016, pp. 80-81.
Judith Fairly. "Within Each Scene a Story." The Artist's Magazine, April 2016, pp. 62-69.
Max Gillies. "Focus on Fabrics." Fine Art Connoisseur, October 2015, p. 80.
Editors. "Zoey Frank: Explorations and Discoveries." American Art Collector, October 2014, pp. 106-107.
Jerry Waters. "Explorations and Discoveries." Nashville Arts Magazine, October 2014, pp. 60-63. 
Zoey Frank. "Palimpsests." Artists on Art Magazine, Summer 2014. artists-on-art.com.
Louise Hafesh. "Women Painting Women: (R)evolution." The Artist's Magazine, April 2014, p. 15.
Kelly Compton. "Dining and Wining: An Ageless Theme Endures." Fine Art Connoisseur, February 2014,
p. 80.
Bonnie Gangelhoff. "21 Under 31." Southwest Art Magazine, September 2013, pp. 102-103.
Editors. "The Art of the Portrait: Masters Showcase." International Artist Magazine, February/March 2013,
p. 31. 
Emme Baxter. "Zoey Frank: Mystery and Emotion." Nashville Arts Magazine, January 2013, pp. 23-25. 
Editors. "A Dream of Song." The Artist's Magazine, July/August 2012, pp. 10-11. 
Kenneth Jessen. "Zoey Frank Focuses on Figurative Work." Reporter Herald, April 17, 2012.
Juliette Aristides. Lessons in Classical Drawing. Watson-Guptill, 2011, pp. 148, 197. 
Juliette Aristides. “Kindred Spirits.” Aerospace Art Magazine. Summer 2008. 

Related Experience

2024 Visiting Artist, Columbus State University

2023 Juror, The Bennet Prize
Juror, Figurativas Prize at the European Museum of Modern Art

2021 Juror, Lincoln Center, Contemporary Art Survey, Fort Collins, CO
Visiting Artist, Laguna College of Art and Design
Visiting Artist, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art
Visiting Artist, New York Academy of Art
Visiting Artist, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
Visiting Artist, University of Arkansas
Visiting Artist, University of Kentucky

2020 Instructor, Warehouse 251 (Figure in the Environment)
Alia Fine Art Studios (Composition Through Still Life)

2019 Visiting Artist, New York Academy of Art
Visiting Artist, Laguna College of Art and Design
Visiting Artist, Studio Incamminati
Juror, The Art League, Open Exhibit, Alexandria, VA
Instructor, Studio Workshops (Figure Drawing I, II, III and IV, Portrait Sketches in Oils)
Instructor, Atelier Dojo (Figure in the Environment)
Instructor, Art Workshops Boulder (Color Through Still Life)
Instructor, Studio Crescendo (Composition Through Still Life)

2018 Juror, Arts Longmont, Drawn to the Figure, Longmont, CO
Instructor, Private art studio (Pictorial Space through Still Life I, II, III and IV)
Instructor, Easton Studio (Composition Through Still Life)
Instructor, Whidbey Island Fine Art Studios (Composition Through Still Life)
Instructor, Boulder Art Workshops (Constructing the Portrait)

2017 Visiting Artist, California State University, Long Beach
Instructor, Boulder Art Workshops (Composition Through Still Life)
Lecturer, University of Colorado Denver (Anatomy for the Artist).

2016 Visiting Artist, Laguna College of art and Design
Instructor, Art Students League of Denver (Constructing the Portrait in Oils, Constructing the
Figure in Oils)

2014 Instructor, Laguna College of Art and Design (Figure Painting II)

2006- Studio Assistant for sculptor Caroline Douglas, Boulder, CO
2012