Whitney River graduated from Yale University in 1995. Since then she has shown extensively throughout New England, and her drawings and paintings are represented in many private and corporate collections.
She is inspired by the natural beauty that surrounds her in Maine, both in the woods and by the ocean. She uses oil on canvas and graphite on paper to render found natural objects with great detail and precision.
The simplicity of her compositions emphasizes the way the organic forms interact with each other and with the space around them. Separated from their origins and presented without distraction, the viewer can focus on the individual objects, and appreciate them not only for what they are, but for what they might represent.
Solo and Two Person Exhibitions
2024 Maine Jewish Museum, Portland, ME
Granite Gallery, Tenants Harbor. ME
2023 Craignair Gallery, Spruce Head, ME
Maine Audubon, Falmouth, ME
2012 Ellen Miller Gallery, Boston, MA
2007 Chase Gallery, Boston, MA
2005 Buchanan Gallery, Galveston, TX
Chase Gallery, Boston, MA
2004 Chase Gallery, Boston, MA
2003 June Fitzpatrick Gallery, Portland, ME
Chase Gallery, Boston, MA
1999 Stebbins Gallery, Cambridge, MA
DeCordova Museum School Gallery, Lincoln, MA: “Variations on a Theme:Circling”
1998 Sapient Corporation, Cambridge, MA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024 Carver Hill Gallery, Camden, ME
Jane Deering Gallery, Gloucester, MA: “Lines of Thought”
2023 Carver Hill Gallery, Camden, ME: “People, Places, Plants”
Cove Street Arts, Portland, ME: “Tree Speak”
Craignair Gallery Preview Exhibition, Spruce Head, ME
2022 Visionary Art Collective: ‘Ephemeral/Eternal,’ Juried Online Exhibition
MECA Collect, Institute for Contemporary Art, Portland, ME
2021 Annual Art Show, High Mountain Hall, Camden, ME
Pen Bay Medical Center Inaugural Juried Exhibition, Rockport, ME
MECA Collect, Institute for Contemporary Art, Portland, ME
Gallery 263, Cambridge, MA: ‘Flora,’ Juried Exhibition
Harlow Gallery, Hallowell, ME: ‘ART2021,’ Juried Exhibition
2020 Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, ME: ‘Shelter,’ Juried Online Exhibition
Annual Art Show, High Mountain Hall, Camden, ME
Magnitude Seven, Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati OH
2011 Round Barn, Waitsfield, VT
2009 Chase Gallery, Boston, MA
2008 Greenhut Galleries, Portland, ME
2007 Winsor Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2006 Winsor Gallery, Vancouver, BC
Greenhut Galleries, Portland, ME
Firehouse Gallery, Damariscotta, ME
Nan Mulford Gallery, Rockland, ME
2004 Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, ME: “On Line”
Art in the Round Barn, Waitsfield, VT
George Marshall Store Gallery, York Harbor, ME
Jameson Gallery, Portland, ME
Hay Gallery, Portland, ME
Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, ME; Biennial Juried Exhibition
Nan Mulford Gallery, Rockland, ME
2003 Chase Gallery, Boston, MA
Nan Mulford Gallery, Rockland, ME
Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME; Biennial Juried Exhibition
Concord Art Association, Concord, MA; Juried Drawing Exhibition
Hay Gallery, Portland, ME
2002 Chase Gallery, Boston, MA
Miller Block Gallery, Boston, MA
Nan Mulford Gallery, Rockport, ME
Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, ME: Biennial Juried Exhibition
Front Room Gallery, South Portland, ME Tristan Gallery, Provincetown, MA
2001 Nan Mulford Gallery, Rockport, ME
Front Room Gallery, South Portland, ME
2000 Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA: “New Work by Five”
1999 Zullo Gallery, Medfield, MA: “Eighth Annual Juried Exhibition”
Pedestrian Gallery of Contemporary Art, Jacksonville, FL: “National Juried Exhibition of Small Works”
The University Gallery, University of Bridgeport, Bridgeport, CT: “Contemporary Visions ’99”
Attleboro Museum, Attleboro, MA: “Small Works”
Boise State University Visual Art Center, Boise, ID: “Re-Presentation: 5th Biennial National Juried Exhibition”
1998 Art in the Round Barn, Waitsfield, VT
1997 Furchgott Sourdiffe Gallery, Shelburne, VT
1995 Yale University Art and Architecture Building, New Haven, CT
Collections
Milliman, Inc., Portland, ME
CambridgePort Bank, Brighton, MA
Fidelity Investments, Boston, MA
Camden Dermatology and Mohs Surgery, Rockport, ME
Publications
Create! Magazine Issue 33, January 2023
Humana Obscura Literary Magazine, April 2022
Humana Obscura Literary Magazine, April 2021
Humana Obscura Literary Magazine, September 2020
American Art Collector Magazine, November, 2007
Duffy Design Group Online Virtual Tour, Fall 2006
Poetry East Magazine, Cover Image, DePaul University Department of English, issue number 57, Fall 2006
Boston Globe, November 2005
Portland Museum of Art 2003 Biennial Catalogue, March 2003
Maine Sunday Telegram, January 2003
Boston Globe, August 2002
Boston Phoenix, July 2002