"Moving Through New England," DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA, 2008
"Painting Summer in New England," Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA, 2006
"Innocence," New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT, 2005
"Group Show," Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA, 2005
"Summer Selections," Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA, 2004
"Sixth Annual Realism Invitational," Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 2004
"New Visions: Small Works from the Arthur S. Goldberg Collection,"
Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, MA, 2003
"Painting in Boston: 1950-2000," Decordova Museum, Lincoln, MA, 2002
"Capturing the Sublime: Contemporary Landscape Painting," Fuller
Museum of Art, Brockton, MA, 1998
"Be Still Dear Heart," (curated by Charles Giuliano), New England School of Art and Design,
Boston, MA, 1998
"Working Sources: The Painter and the Photographic Image," Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA, 1997
"Face and Figure," Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA 1996
"Community of Creativity: A Century of MacDowell Colony Artists," The Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, NH, 1996
"Herbert W. Plimpton: Collection of Realist Art," Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University,
Waltham, MA, 1995
"Twentieth Century Figurative Paintings,"Forum Gallery, New York, NY, 1994
"The Label Show," Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, 1994
"Small Scale," Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA, 1993
"SELF-AMUSED: The Contemporary Artist as Observer andObserved," Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, MA, 1993
"After 25 Years, A New Beginning," Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA, 1992
"Still Life," The Barn Gallery, Ogunquit, ME, 1992
"Boston Art Dealers Association-Selection," Bank of Boston, Boston, MA, 1991
"The Object:Found, Imagined, "Fitchburg Art Museum, 1991
"Illustrated Nature: The Art of Botany," National Academy of Design, New York, NY, 1991
"Works on Paper," Maxwell Davidson Gallery, New York, NY, 1990
"Here's Looking at You: New England Portraits," Westfield State College, Westfield, MA, (and traveling), 1988-1989
"New Talent Revisted," Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA, 1988
"Contemporary New England Portraits," Westfield State College, Westfield, MA, 1988
"New Work by Old Friends," Decordova Museum, Lincoln, MA, 1987
"The Beautiful, The Sublime, the Picturesque," Newton Arts Center, Newton, MA, 1987
"Survey: Eight," Zone Art Center, Springfield, MA, 1987
"Boston Collects," Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, 1986
"Urban Visions/Countryside Views," University Art Gallery, University of New Hampshire,
Durham, NH, 1984
"Emerging Massachusetts Painters," Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, 1984
"Eleven Alumni," Fine Arts Center Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, 1983
"A Private Vision: Contemporary Art from the Graham Gund Collection,"
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, 1982
"Herbert Plimpton Collection of Realist Art," Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University,
Waltham, MA, 1982
"Directions in Realism," Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, MA, 1980
"Realism in New England," Northeastern University, Boston, MA, 1980
"Art of the State," Recipients of Massachusetts Artists Foundation Fellowships,
Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, 1979
"Art from Corporate Collections," Whitney Museum Downtown, New York, NY, 1978
"Patron's Choice: Artists Under 35," Decordova Museum, Lincoln, MA, 1976
"19th Annual Print Exhibition," Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY, 1975
"New Talent," Terry Dintenfass Gallery, New York, NY, 1974
"New Talent," Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA, 1973
"New Talent in New England," Decordova Museum, Lincoln, MA
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