Biography

Adria Arch is a visual artist, instructor, and art administrator. Her undergraduate studies included Rhode Island School of Design and Carnegie Mellon University. She received an MA in art education at the University of Arizona and an MFA in painting at Massachusetts College of Art and Design. She has taught at the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Montserrat College of Art, Massachusetts College of Art, and Endicott College.

Arch is represented in public and private collections including Fidelity Corporation, the DeCordova Museum of Art, the Library of Congress. She donates work to Boston non-profit social service agencies through the Art Connection. Her work may be viewed in Studio Visit Magazine 2010, Open Studios Press

Collections

Library of Congress Collection of Prints, Washington, D.C.
DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA
Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
Boston Public Library
Merck Research Labs, Boston
Fidelity Corporation
Hale and Dorr, LLP
Other private and corporate collections in the US, Germany, Australia

Solo and Two-Person Exhibitions

2009 Glyphs- Constructions and Works on Paper \ Bromfield Gallery \ Boston MA
2007 Elaborations \ Bromfield Gallery \ Boston MA
2006 Cell Signalling \ Beverly MA
2005 The Labyrinth Series \ Bromfield Gallery \ Boston MA
2003 Scratchings \ MacPhail Architectural Collaborative \ Belmont MA
2002 New Paintings \ Bromfield Gallery \ Boston MA
2002 Shape Shifting \ Arlington Center for the Arts \ Arlington MA
2001 Life Lessons \ Beaver Country Day School \ Chestnut Hill MA
1997 Artist's Anima \ The Cornelius Ayer Wood Gallery \ Middlesex School \ Concord MA
1995 Natural Selections II \ DeCordova Museum School Gallery \ Lincoln MA
1995 Natural Selections \ Simmons College \ Trustman Gallery \ Boston MA
1994 New Works on Paper \ Randall Beck Gallery \ Boston MA
1993 Massachusetts College of Art Alumni Gallery \ Boston MA
1990 Bromfield Gallery \ Boston MA
1989 Collage and Assemblage \ Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center \ Cambridge MA

Selected Group Exhibitions

2009 Off the Wall \ Danforth Museum of Art \ Framingham MA
2009 Edge \ ArtSpace \ Maynard MA
2007 Cambridge Art Association National Prize Exhibition \ Cambridge MA
2007 Gallery AnthonyCurtis \ Boston MA
2007 National Juried Competition : Works of Art on Paper \ Long Beach Island Foundation for the Arts and Sciences
2007 Danforth Museum of Art \ Framingham MA \ juror: Nick Capasso, DeCordova Museum of Art, MA
1997 - present: Artcetera: An art auction to benefit AIDS Action Committee Boston MA
2006 Present Tense \ artSPACE@16 \ Malden MA
2006 The Comfort of Home\ Clark Gallery \ Lincoln MA
2005 Red \ Cambridge Art Association \ Cambridge MA
2004 Small Works \ artSPACE@16 \ Malden MA
2003 Collaborations \ Brickbottom Gallery \ Boston MA
2003 North Shore Printmakers \ River Gallery \ Ipswich MA
2002 South End Open Studios Artists \ juried exhibition \ Kingston Gallery \ Boston MA
2002 Small Works \ artSPACE@16 \ Malden MA
2001 Works on Paper \ South Shore Art Center \ Cohasset MA, \ Juror: Howardena Pindell
2000 Celebrating the Arts in the Community \ Federal Reserve Bank \ Boston MA
2000 DeCordova Downtown \ Federal Reserve Bank \ Boston MA
1999 Persistent Inspirations \ Brickbottom Gallery \ Somerville MA
1999 New Directions in Printmaking \ Bradford College \ Bradford MA
1999 Portraits of a Century \ Boston City Hall \ Boston MA
1997 12" x 12" Exhibition \ Fletcher-Priest Gallery \ Worcester MA
1994 - 2009 Massachusetts College of Art annual auction
1998 - present: Icons and Altars \ New Art Center \ Newton MA
1996 The Store @ DeCordova Fashion Show \ DeCordova Museum \ Lincoln MA
1995 Monomania! Clark Gallery \ Lincoln MA
1994 Under $1000 Show \ Fletcher-Priest Gallery \ Worcester MA
1994 New England/New Talent \ Fitchburg Art Museum \ Fitchburg MA
1994 Books: Works of Art \ Rugg Road Gallery \ Somerville MA
1993 The Drawing Show \ Boston Center for the Arts \ Mills Gallery \ Boston MA
1992 Printmaking: Five Approaches \ Belmont Hill School \ Belmont MA
1990 Works on Paper \ Berkshire Art Museum \ Pittsfield MA
1987 AIR Gallery \ juried exhibit \ AIR Gallery NY NY

Gallery Affiliations

Bromfield Gallery

Residencies

Vermont Studio Center, 2008, 2009