DOB / Birth Place: 1957 / Abington PA

Residence: Metro Boston

Education

1981-83 BA, University of Massachusetts/Boston MA, Major: Studio Art,
Concentration in French
Magna Cum Laude

1975-76 Brown University, Providence RI
Fields of Study: Art, French, Literature

Two Person Show

2019 Aidron Duckworth Art Museum Meridan NH Lush Surfaces Paintings and Oil Pastels

Solo Shows

2024 Newton Free Library Newton MA Paintings

2016 Somerville Community Access TV (SCAT) Somerville MA Interview and Solo Show Anne Johnstone: Mixed Media Paintings

2014 Christopher’s Cambridge MA Solo Show Mixed Media Paintings

2012 Vee Vee Jamaica Plain MA Solo Show Mixed Media Paintings

2011 Gaga Gallery Swampscott, MA Solo Show Mixed Media Paintings

2004 Acton Memorial Library Acton MA Solo Show Something’s Popping Up
Mixed Media Paintings/Assemblages/Masks

2002 Flora Arlington MA Solo Show Mixed Media Paintings

2002 Newton Free Library Newton MA Solo Show Squared Off: It’s an Inside Job
Mixed Media Paintings

1999 Christopher’s Cambridge MA Solo Show Mixed Media Paintings

Group Shows

2024 Hudson Vally MOCA, Hudson Valley, NY Crit Ecologies: Artists, Community, Criticality Paintings

2024 Jane Deering Gallery (JDG) Gloucester MA Lines of Thought | Contemporary Women Artists Draw Oil Pastels

2022 Artfront Store Projects Watertown MA Gaze Sketchbook Drawing

2022 Emerson Umbrella Arts Concord MA ArtSpace Fundraiser Painting

2019 Cambridge Art Association Cambridge MA Mary Schein Fall Salon Painting

2018 Mitchell-Giddings Fine Arts Brattleboro, VT Voices Mixed Media Paintings

2016 Mitchell-Giddings Fine Arts Brattleboro, VT Winter Group 2016-2017
Mixed Media Paintings

2016 Belmont Art Association Belmont, MA Three Woman Show Voices Surface
Mixed Media Painting

2016 Riverside Gallery Cambridge, MA Group Show Words in Our Work
Mixed Media Drawings

2015 Galleria Monteoliveto Paris, France Group Show Fashion Art Mixed Media Painting

2015 Agora Gallery New York, NY Group Show The Kaleidoscope of the Mind
Mixed Media Painting

2015 Three Stones Gallery West Concord MA Group Show Places/Faces
Mixed Media Painting

2014 Sonesta Hotel Cambridge MA Group Show Art Verdure Mixed Media Painting

2013 The Armory Building Somerville MA Group Show October at the Armory
Mixed Media Painting

2011 In and Out Gallery Somerville MA Group Show April Promotion for SOS
Mixed Media Painting

2004 Somerville Community Access Television Somerville MA Group Show
Two-Person Show Mixed Media Paintings

2003 Cambridge Art Association Cambridge MA Group Show 3D Painting

2002 Perspectives Gallery North Cambridge MA Group Show Prism Play
Mixed Media Paintings

2000 Cambridge Art Association Cambridge MA Group Show Dreams and Fantasies
Juror’s Choice Award Mixed Media Painting

Juried Shows

2024  North Shore Arts Association  Gloucester MA  Exhibit New England 2024  painting

2023 Gallery Twist  Lexington MA  Pairings Painting

2023 MapSpace  Port Chester NY  A Complexity of Joys  Drawing

2022 Catamount Arts  St. Johnsbury VT  Catamount Arts Juried Show  Painting

2022 Stove Factory Gallery  Charlestown MA  Winter Exhibition  Paintings

2022 The Biennial Project  Video/shown at Venice Biennale  Return to the Palazzo  Painting

2022 Crit Lab Exhibitions  Port Chester NY  Intimacies  Painting

2021 Catamount Arts St. Johnsbury VT Arts Connect Oil Pastel

2020 Cambridge Artist Association Cambridge MA National Prize Show Painting

2019 Galatea Gallery Boston MA New England Collective X Painting

2019 Cambridge Artist Association Cambridge MA This is how it starts Sketchbook

2018 Catamount Arts St. Johnsbury VT Arts Connect Mixed Media Paintings

2018 Galatea Gallery Boston MA New England Collective IX Mix Media Paintings

2018 6 Bridges Gallery Maynard MA The Power of Art Mixed Media Paintings

2017 Rocky Neck Art Colony Gloucester MA Artists Drawings and Paintings
Oil Pastels and Mixed Media Painting

2016 Verum Ultimum Art Gallery Portland, OR A Generous Kingdom
Mixed Media Painting

2016 Cade Art Gallery, Anne Arundel Community College Arnold MD Artist as Maker,
Thinker, and Feeler
Juried Show Mixed Media Painting

2016 Galatea Gallery Boston MA New England Collective VII Juried Show
Mixed Media Painting

2016 New England Biolabs Ipswich MA Two-Person Show Juried Show
Mixed Media Paintings

2016 The Nave Annex Somerville MA The Skecthbook Show Juried Show
Sketchbook Pages

2015 Catamount Arts St. Johnsbury VT Juried Show Arts Connect
Mixed Media Painting

2015 Allegany Arts Council Saville Gallery Cumberland, MD Juried Show
Will’s Creek Exhibition Mixed Media Painting 

2015 Nave Annex Somerville MA Juried Show Who Might I Be? Mixed Media Painting

2015 The Umbrella Concord MA Juried Show Driven To Abstraction Oil Pastels

2014 Verum Ultimum Gallery Portland OR Juried Show The Living Mark
Mixed Media Painting

2014 Atlantic Works Gallery East Boston MA Juried Show Boston Biennial 3

Mixed Media Painting

2013 Galatea Fine Art Boston MA Juried Show New England Collective IV
Mixed Media Painting

2013 Riverside Gallery, Cambridge Community Center Cambridge MA Juried Show
50-100-150 Painting/Collage

2013 Cambridge Artist’s Association Cambridge MA Juried Show
12th National Prize Show Mixed Media Painting

2013 nourish Lexington MA Juried Show Emergence Mixed Media Paintings

2012/13 Bromfield Gallery Boston MA Juried Show Holiday Show Mixed Media Paintings

2012 Salem Arts Association Salem MA Juried Show Off the Top of Your Head
Mixed Media Painting

2012 Cambridge Center for Adult Education Raise the Roof Juried Show

Mixed Media Paintings Cambridge MA

2009 Art at the Armory Somerville MA Juried Show Preview to Open Studios
Mixed Media Painting

2006 The Zullo Gallery Medfield MA Juried Show 13th Annual Juried Exhibition
Mixed Media Paintings

2006 Southborough Arts Center Southborough MA Juried Show Art & Soul
Mixed Media Paintings

2004 Warwick Museum of Art Warwick RI Juried Show Outside the Figure
Mixed Media Paintings

2003 Charlestown Preservation Society Charlestown MA Juried Show
Annual Community Art Show Mixed Media Paintings First Prize and
Honorable Mention
(2 out of 4 paintings exhibited)

2002 artSpACE@16 Malden MA Juried Show The First Attempt Drawings

Open Studios/Fund Raisers

2022 Umbrella Arts Center Concord MA Artrageous Mixed Media drawing

2014- The Art Connection Boston MA Art Bingo Mixed Media Painting

2015

1999- School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston MA Exhibition and Sale
2018 Mixed Media Paintings / Oil Pastels / Collage

2009- Somerville Open Studios Somerville MA Mixed Media Paintings/Oil Pastel Drawings
2019

2012 Montserrat College of Art Beverly MA Artrageous! Silent Auction
(Jurors: Howard Yezerski, Arlette Kayafas) Mixed Media Paintings

2006 Fountain Street Studios Open Studios Framingham MA Mixed Media Paintings

2004 The Cloud Foundation Boston MA Art & Soul Opening Celebration for
Charity Gallery Mixed Media Paintings

2003 Charlestown Studios Charlestown MA Grand Opening Mixed Media Paintings/
Assemblages/Masks

2002 Charlestown Studio Charlestown MA Independent Open Studio
Mixed Media Paintings/Oil Pastel Drawings   

Representation
Mitchell-Giddings Fine Arts, Brattleboro VT

Residencies

Vermont Studio Center, September 2015

Corporate Collections
Centre Re, Pembroke, Bermuda

Partner Reinsurance, Pembroke, Bermuda
Analog Devices, Boston MA

Private Collections
Pauline Weber & Phillip Meredith, Oxford, UK

James Gibbons, Hamilton, Bermuda

Carol Spack, Framingham, Massachusetts

Harold Grove, Templeton, Massachusetts

Doug and Jean Gesler, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Lee McDonald, Newton, Massachusetts

Janet Jones Shipp, Westchester, Connecticut

Publications

Grumpy Girl, Self-published hardcover, Summer 2023

Scribble Drawings, Self-published hardcover, Summer 2022

Lexington Life Times Magazine, Spring 2022

Divergents Magazine, Fall 2020

Boston Voyager (online), July 2018

Studio Visit Magazine, volume 35, 2016

Artvoices Art Books, 101, Summer 2016

ARTisSpectrum, Volume 33, Spring/Summer 2015

Studio Visit Magazine 2014

How To Earn Your Keep, by Deahn Leblang (book cover) November 2012

Union Institute & University, 11th Residency Conference, July 2011

Equus, New Art Review, March 2011

New Art International, Book Art Press, Volume VIII 2002-2003