Profile
Solo Exhibitions
2016 Miller Yezerski Gallery, Boston, MA The Sirens
2012 The Ellen Miller Gallery, Boston, MA Generations: John Tracey & Will Tracey
2010 The Miller/Block Gallery, Boston, MA
2005 The Miller/Block Gallery, Boston, MA
2005 The Cherry Stone Gallery, Wellfleet, MA
2003 The Arden Gallery, Boston, MA
2001 Brattleboro Museum of Art: Signs Along the Way, Brattleboro, VT
2000 The Ben Shahn Gallery: The Ladder Paintings, William Paterson University, Wayne, NJ
2000 The Miller/Block Gallery, Boston, MA
1998 The Miller/Block Gallery, Boston, MA
1995, 1991, 1989The Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, MA
1989 The Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, MA
1988 Madeleine Carter Fine Arts, Brookline, MA
1987 South Shore Arts Center, Cohasset, MA, Opening Exhibition The President's Choice
1984 Madeleine Carter Fine Arts, Brookline, MA
1981 Wessell Library, Tufts University, Medford, MA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2013 Miller Yezerski Gallery: Summer Exhibition, Boston, MA
2013 HallSpace Gallery, Boston, MA Exhale_Draw
2006 Boston Museum of Fine Arts: Recent Acquisitions: Gifts of Art, Boston, MA
2003, 2004The Cherry Stone Gallery, Wellfleet, MA
2001 Allston Skirt: New American Painting, Allston, MA
2001 The Arden Gallery: Encaustic Works, Boston, MA
2001 The Nielsen Gallery: In the Spirit of Landscape VI, Boston, MA
1998 The Duxbury Art Complex Museum: Wax Works, Duxbury, MA
1993 Boston Center for the Arts: The Drawing Show, Boston, MA
1993 The Howard Yezerski Gallery: Regarding Abstraction, Boston, MA
1992 The Duxbury Art Complex Museum: Critics Choice, Duxbury, MA
1988 The Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, MA
1986 - 98 Biannual Artcetera/Benefit Exhibition, AIDs Action Committee, Boston, MA
1985 The Rose Art Museum: Ardent Gestures, The Lois Foster Exhibition of Boston Area Painters
Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA
The Rose Art Museum, Paintings from the Permanent Collection
Awards and Honors
2003 Berkshire Taconic Foundation/The Artist Resource Fund Grant Recipient
Nomination for 1989 Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Biennial Competition
Selected Collections
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
The Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
The Paine Weber Collection
IBM Corporation
Berkshire Partners LLC
Bain Capital
Greylock Partners
Selected Commissions
Putnam Investments, Greylock Corporation, Berkshire Partners
Education
BFA School of the Museum of Fine Arts/Tufts University
Catalogs
New American Paintings #32, Open Studios Press, Boston, MA
(northeast regional exhibition in print, March 2001)
The Ladder Paintings, John Tracey, The Ben Shahn Gallery, William Paterson University
(catalogue of exhibition, March 20 to April 21, 2000)
Selected 20th-Century Paintings, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, 1986
(catalogue of exhibition, October 28 to November 2, 1986)
Ardent Gestures, Brandeis University, 1985
(catalogue of the Lois Foster Exhibition of Boston Area Painters, March 16 to April 21, 1985)
Selected Reviews
Silver, Joanne, National Reviews: Boston
Art News, January 2011
McQuaid, Cate, “John Tracey: Neither Here Nor There”
The Boston Globe, October 2010
Unger, Miles, National Reviews: Boston
Art News, April 2000
McQuaid, Cate, “John Tracey: New Encaustic Paintings”
The Boston Globe, February 24, 2000
Sherman, Mary, “Art Exhibit Waxes Poetic”
The Boston Sunday Herald, August 20, 1998
McQuaid, Cate, “Exploring Liminal; Space, Where One Thing Leads to Another”
The Boston Globe, March 12, 1998
Unger, Miles, “John Tracey and Philip Wofford at the Howard Yezerski Gallery”
Art New England, June/July 1995
Schultz, Kathryn, “John Tracey: Recent Paintings by a Boston Artist at the Howard Yezerski Gallery”
Newbury Street and Back Bay Guide, March 1995
Parks, Addison, “Spiritual Painting”
Stuff Magazine, February 1995
Unger, Miles, “SPOTLIGHT – The Boston Art Dealers’ Association: The Next Ten Years”
(The Howard Yezerski Gallery) Art New England, August/September 1991
Silver, Joanne, “Painter Enters Maze of Mythic Journeys”
The Boston Herald, June 21, 1991
Taylor, Robert, “Cohasset Show Opens with Lipsitt/Tracey”
The Boston Sunday Globe, July 26, 1987
Taylor, Robert, “Brandeis Show Provides Six Distinct Styles”
The Boston Sunday Globe, April 7, 1985
Stapen, Nancy, “’Real Painting’ at the Rose”
The Boston Sunday Herald, March 24, 1985
Silver, Joanne, “A Fine Opening for South Shore Art Center”
The Patriot Ledger, July 8, 1987