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Bo Bartlett - Artists - MILES McENERY GALLERY

Bo Bartlett Studio, 2021, Columbus, OH

BO BARTLETT (b. 1955, Columbus, GA) received his Certificate of Fine Arts in 1981 from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and a Certificate of Filmmaking from New York University in 1986. 

Recent solo exhibitions include Lyme Academy of Fine Arts, Old Lyme, CT; Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, SC; MOCA Jacksonville, Jacksonville, FL; The Bo Bartlett Center, Columbus, GA; Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY; Weber Fine Art, Greenwich, CT; The Florence Academy of Art, Jersey City, NJ; Dowling Walsh Gallery, Rockland, ME; Mennello Museum of American Art, Orlando, FL; and the Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, GA.

Recent group exhibitions include The Bo Bartlett Center, Columbus, GA; Lyndon House Art Center, Athens, GA; Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, GA; Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY; Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, NC; Ithan Substation No. 1, Villanova, PA; and 701 Center for Contemporary Art, Columbia, SC.

His work is included in the collections of the Academy of Music, Philadelphia, PA; Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, NC; The Bo Bartlett Center, Columbus, GA; Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, GA; Crystal Bridges Museum, Bentonville, AR; Denver Museum of Art, Denver, CO; Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, PA; Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA; Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, SC; Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, SC; Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, TN; La Salle University Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA; Mennello Museum of American Art, Orlando, FL; and the Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, GA, among others.

Bartlett is the recipient of the Atelier Focus Fellowship, Chattahoochee Hills, GA; 1858 Prize for Contemporary Southern Art, Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, SC; Pew Fellowship in the Arts, The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, Philadelphia, PA; Museum Merit Award, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, GA; Museum Merit Award, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA; and the Cecilia Beaux Memorial Portrait Prize, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA, among others. 

The artist lives and works in Columbus, GA and Wheaton Island, ME. 

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