DON FORTENBERRY
DONFORTENBERRY.COM
don.fortenberry@gmail.com
EXHIBITIONS
The Big Small Show, Drawing Rooms, Jersey City, NJ, Dec. - Jan. 2024
Picture This, Bethune Center, Jersey City, NJ, Sept. - Nov. 2023
The performance Garage, Philadelphia, November 2022
CFEVA Exhibition at the The Chamber of Commerce for Greater Philadelphia
January 2022 - January 2023
9th Annual Germantown Show, Imperfect gallery, Philadelphia, 2021
The Hot Bed: Beacon for the Future
Virtual Group Show
White Box Gallery
Philadelphia, PA , April, 2020
Two Artists show,
Allens Lane Art Center
The Lieberman Gallery, Settlement Music School
Philadelphia, PA , January, 2018
Visual Art Exchange, Featured Artist
Raleigh, NC, April, 2015
Holiday Exhibition, Visual Art Exchange
Raleigh, NC, December 2014
Visual Art Exchange, Featured Artist
Raleigh, NC, November 2013
Primary Show, Visual Art Exchange, Raleigh, NC July, 2013
Unexpected Readings, Inaugural Show,
Chapel Hill Library, Chapel Hill, NC, April – July, 2013
Collage Paintings, One Man Show, Irvington Library,
Irvington-On-Hudson, NY, July 2011
All of a Piece, Katonah Museum, Katonah NY,
Juror - Robert Storr, 1995
Persistence of Painting, Kohn Pedersen Fox Gallery, curated by Ellen Handy, 57th Street, New York, NY, 1995
Benefit Show, P.S. 122, New York, NY, 1990
Small Scale Abstraction, Art in General, New York, NY, with Michael Bisbee, Julie Fromme, Li Lin Lee, Donald McLaughlin, Jim Napierala, Mari Rantanen, Thor Rinden, and Joan Snitzer, 1989
New Abstraction, Weatherspoon Gallery,
UNC, Greensboro, NC, 1989
48 Laight Gallery, Group Show, with Jill baroff, Fontaine Dunn,Julie Fromme, Julie Gross, Darra Keaton, Karen Shaw, Ken Sofer, New York NY, 1988
Two Artists, with Julie Fromme, 55 Mercer Gallery, New York, NY, 1988
Five painters, P.S. 122 Gallery, with Bruce Cunningham, Fontaine Dunn, Julie Fromme, and Thomas Nozkowski, Curated by Don Fortenberry, New York, NY, 1988
Abstraction/Four Artists, Parker Bratton Gallery, New York, NY, 1987
New Abstract Paintings, Cork Gallery, Lincoln Center, New York, NY, with Bruce Cunningham, Fontaine Dunn, Julie Fromme, Sharon Gold, Ron Janowich, Kathryn Muehlemann, Thor Rinden, Thornton Willis, Stephen Westfall, 1986, curated by Don Fortenberry
Windows on 8th Avenue, New York, NY, 1986
Young New York Artists, Hickory Museum, Hickory, NC, Appalachian University, Boone, NC, 1984
Four Artists, Soho Center for Visual Artists, New York, NY, 1981
Education
MFA, Painting, Brooklyn College, CUNY, Brooklyn New York, 1979
BFA, Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore, MD, 1976
Professional
Supervising Departmental Technician - The Egyptian Department, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, 1979 - 2010
Guest Lecturer - Smith College, 1989, Metropolitan Museum - 1989
Collections
Johnson & Johnson, NJ
IBM Corp
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom, New York, NY
Egon Zehnder International