Lois Dodd: Natural Order

Lois Dodd was born in Montclair, New Jersey in 1927. She studied at Cooper Union in New York from 1945 to 1948, where she studied art and textile design. In 1952 she was one of the five founding members of the legendary and influential Tanager Gallery, among the first artist-run cooperative galleries in New York. Since 1954 her work has been the subject of over fifty solo exhibitions. Her work can be found in the permanent collections of museums throughout the United States and Europe including The Museum of Modern Art (New York, NY); the Whitney Museum of American Art (New York, NY); The Morgan Library and Museum (New York, NY); Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art (Kansas City, MO); Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, CT); Portland Museum of Art (Portland, ME); National Portrait Gallery (Washington, D.C); Wadsworth Atheneum (Hartford, CT); Cooper Hewitt Museum (New York, NY); Museo dell’Arte (Udine, Italy); and Kunstmuseum Den Haag (Netherlands), amongst others. Since the 1960s, Dodd has taught regularly including at Brooklyn College, the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, and the Vermont Studio Center, among others. Dodd is an elected member of the American Academy and Institute of Arts & Letters, the National Academy of Design and is a Governor Emireta of the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. At the age of 95, Dodd continues to paint, splitting her time living and working between Maine, New York City, and the Delaware Water Gap in New Jersey.

Lois Dodd is represented by Alexandre Gallery, New York, where she has shown regularly for the past twenty years.