Reenie Barrow

Chorus (Translation: choir).
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• Reenie Barrow

  S e l e c t e d S o l o E x h i b i t i o n s:

  2021 Work sold in Fine Art Action, Doyle Auction House, NY,NY

  2020 Work sold in Fine Art Auction, Doyle Auction House, NY, NY

  2019 Reenie Barrow The Design Center at 200 Lex, NY,NY..Robert Burge 20th Century Photography

  2019 The Secret Life of Flowers. Galleria Casa Diana, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico

  2019 Calla Lilies of Mexico, Sofi’s Home Interiorismo, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico

  2016 NetWorks 2016, produced by Joseph A. Chazan, M.D. A documentary of selected artists will be

  featured on a RI PBS broadcast. The work of the artists will be exhibited the Newport

  Art Museum with an accompanying catalogue.

  2013 Robert Burge, Twentieth Century Photographs, NY,NY, Reenie Barrow, Recent Work

  2012 Association of International n Photography Dealers, NY,NY, Reenie Barrow, Flora

  2011 Rogers Free Library, Bristol, RI Reenie Barrow..Flora

  2010 Association of International Photography Dealers, NY,NY Reenie Barrow, Flowers, Beds, and

  Stonehenge

  2008 Robert Burge, Twentieth Century Photographs, NY, NY, Reenie Barrow, Flora

  2008 Association of International Photography Dealers, NY, NY, Reenie Barrow, Flora

  2007 Robert Burge, Twentieth Century Photographs, NY,NY, Photographs of Reenie Barrow

  2006 Mango Tango, St. Thomas, VI, Reenie Barrow, Metaphors..Botanical Rice Prints

  2006 Association of International Photography Dealers, NY, NY, Reenie Barrow, Flowers as Metaphors

  2005 Robert Burge, Twentieth Century Photographs, NY, NY, Reenie Barrow, Rice Prints

  2005 Mango Tango Gallery, St. Thomas, VI Reenie Barrow, Inside the Caribbean

  2005 Devonish Art Gallery, Anguilla, BWI..

  2004 Robert Burge, Twentieth Century Photographs, NY, NY, Reenie Schmerl Barrow, Storied Places

  2001 Southern Light Gallery, Amarillo College, Amarillo TX, Opening Doors in Vietnam

  2001 U.S. Embassy, Hanoi,Vietnamese Urban and Rural Life

  2001 Warwick Museum of Art, Warwick, RI, Details of Daily Life…France, Greece, Vietnam, Mexico,

  New England, and Sweden

  2000 U.S. Embassy, Hanoi, Vietnam

  2000 Hasbro Children’s Hospital, Providence, Rhode, Island

  1999 University of Rhode Island, Legacies of the Vietnam War

  1999 Robert Burge Twentieth Century Photographs, LTC. NY,NY, Reenie Barrow, Sculptural

  Photographs

  1999 Cutler Design Center, Warren, RI. Recent Work

  1999 Gallery One, Miriam Memorial Hospital, Providence, RI

  1998 Robert Burge Twentieth Century Photographs, Ltd. NY, NY. New Mexico, France, and Sweden

  1998 Cutler Design Center, Warren, RI. Photographs of Costa Rica and Mexico

  1997 Rhode Island Foundation, Providence, RI. Unlocking Doors in Sweden, France and New

  England.

  1996 Cutler Design Center, Warren, RI. Photographs of Sweden, France, Greece and New England .

  1995 Robert Burge Twentieth Century Photographs, Ltd., New York, NY. Reenie Schmerl: Recent

  work. Also showing, O. Winston Link.

  1995 Cutler Design Center, Warren, RI. New England and Greece.

  1993 The Greek Institute, Cambridge, MA . Visions of a Greek Villages.

  1990 Quinebauag Valley Community College, Danielson, CT. Work and Days.

  1990 University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT. Work and Days.

  1989 National Bank of Greece, Boston, MA . Reenie Schmerl Photographer.

  1988 National Bank of Greece, Boston, MA. Photographs of Greek Villages by Reenie Schmerl.

  1988 Lawrence Art and Antiques, Chatham, MA. Greek Villages.
• 1988 Photography Center of Athens, Athens, Greece. Photographs of Greece.

  1987 State Capitol, Hartford, CT. Featured Connecticut Artist.

  1987 Zappion National Gallery, Athens, Greece. Featured Artist, International Month of Photography.

  1987 Lawrence Art and Antiques, Chatham, MA. Greek Villages and Connecticut Porches.

  1987 Camera International, Athens, Greece. Reenie Schmerl: Connecticut Porches traveling

  exhibition to schools and museums throughout Greece.

  1986 Loomis Chaffee School, Windsor, CT. Recent Work.

  1986 Gallery Jazz, New Haven, CT. Greek Villages.

  1986 Photohoros Gallery, Athens, Greece. American Porches and Greek Villages.

  1984 Midtown Y Photo Gallery, New York, NY. Front Porches.

  1982 Gnosis Gallery, New Haven, CT. French Street Scenes.

  1980 Artworks Gallery, Asylum Hill Artists’ Cooperative, Hartford, CT. American Front Yards :Tales

  From the Bush.

  1979 A.C.C.E.S.S. Gallery, San Diego CA. New Landscapes, San Diego Neighborhoods.

  1978 Archetype Gallery, New Haven CT. Flash Series.

  S e l e c t e d J o i n t E x h i b i t i o n s:

  2022 Providence Art Club, Members Show

  2022 Newport Annual, National Jurried show, Newport, RI

  2021 Newport Annual, National jurried show, Newport, RI

  2020 Newport Annual, National jurried show, Newport, RI

  2019 Providence Art Club, Barrow, Heydt, McKenzie Philbrick

  2019 Rhode island Art League elected members exhibition,Providence, RI

  2019 Linden Place Invitational, Bristol RI Members of the Providence Art Club

  2019 Barrow, Heydt, Philbrick, McKenzie at the Providence Art Club, Providence, RI

  2019 H.P. Lovecraft Exhibition at the Providence Art Club, juried exhibition

  2019 Art in Bloom, Blithewold Mansion , Gardens & Arboretum

  2019 Newport Art Museum, Newport, RI, annual juried members’ show

  2019 Providence Art Club, Members Show

  2018 Newport Art Museum, Newport, RI, annual juried members’ show

  2018 Providence Art Club, Members Show

  2017 Providence Art Club, Providence RI, Members show

  2016 Small Works, Dedee Shattuck Gallery, Westport, MA

  2016 Little Pictures Show, Providence Art Club, Providence,RI

  2016 Newport Art Museum, Newport, RI, annual juried members’ show

  2015 Rhode Island Art League at the Newport Art Museum

  2015 Art in Bloom, RI Federation of Garden Clubs, Roger Williams Botanical Center, Providence, RI.

  2015 Association of International Photographers Dealers, New York Armory, Park Avenue,NY,NY,

  Robert Burge Gallery. Reenie Barrow, featured photographer

  2015 Dedee Shattuck Gallery, Westport, MA, Botanica

  2015 Joseph Bellows Gallery, La Jolla, California, Living Arrangements, eight photographers recording

  impressions of Southern California in the 70s

  2015 Providence Art Club, Providence RI, Three Photographers, Reenie Barrow, Eileen McCarney

  Muldoon, & Ron Rosenstock Three Visions, One Passion

  2014 Doyle New York, the Robert Burge Collection

  2014 Providence Art Club, Members Exhibition, Second Place Pasquale Masiello Award

  2013 Art Leage of Rhode island, Providence Art Club, Members Exhibition

  2013 Providence Art Club, Members Exhibition, Dr. Stanley Summer Award for outstanding

  photography

  2012 Dedee Shattuck Gallery, Westport, MA, Contour: Reflections on Form..Reenie Barrow and Joshua

  Enck

  2012 Art League of Rhode Island, Jamestown Arts Center..Visit, View and Collect….

  2012 Bristol Art Museum, Bristol, RI. Revealing and Concealing…Four Women Photographers

  2012 Providence Art Club, Providence, RI Members Exhibit, Honorable Mention

  2011 Providence Art Club, Providence, RI Members Exhibition, Honorable Mention

  2011 Providence Art Club, Summer Exhibit, First Place Edward Bannister Award

  2010 Providence Art Club, Providence,RI The Secret Life of Flowers..Reenie Barrow and Penelope

  Manzella

• 2010 Roger Williams University, Bristol, RI, Haitian Relief Fundraiser

  2010 The Art of Excellence, Art League of Rhode island 10

  th

  Anniversary Show, Rhode island School

  of Design, Providence RI

  2010 Providence Art Club, Summer Show, Providence, RI

  2009 The Photograph Now, Invitational Exhibition, Bristol Community College, Fall River, MA

  2009 Providence Art Club, Members’ 2009 Exhibition, Providence, RI, Second Place William Brigham

  Award

  2008 Association of International Photography Dealers, Reenie Barrow, Overview, NY, NY

  2008 Art League of Rhode Island, Annual Exhibition, Bristol Art Museum, Bristol, RI

  2008 10

  th

  Annual Fidelity Investments All Media Juried Exhibition, Providence Art Club

  2008 The Providence Art Club, New Members

  2007 The Association of International Photography Art Dealers, NY,NY

  2007 The Providence Art Club, Members’ Show

  2007 Art League of Rhode Island, Newport Art Museum, Newport, RI

  2006 Green River Gallery, Bristol, RI….Three Artists, Three Viewpoints

  2006 Newport Art Museum, Art League of Rhode Island

  2004 Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe, NM, 3

  rd

  annual Photo Auction

  2004 A & C Fine Art, East Greenwich, RI, Celebrate Art- The Art League of Rhode Island

  2003 Bristol Art Museum 25 Years, Outstanding Exhibitors

  2003 5

  th

  Annual Juried All Media Competition, Fidelity Investments, Providence Art Club, RI

  2003 Third Annual Members’ Exhibition, Art League of Rhode Island, University of RI

  2002 Bristol Art Museum, Bristol, RI, Made in Cuba,…Reenie Barrow, Laura Colella, Tom Morrissey,

  David Wells

  2002 Manuel Alvarez Bravo Center of Photography, Oaxaca, Mexico, Oaxaca Portraits

  2002 Virginia Lynch Gallery, Little Compton, RI, The Art League of Rhode Island

  2001 Havana Center for Photography, Havana, Cuba, Reenie Barrow – Cuban Interiors, Reenie Barrow

  and Stephen Whittelsey, Where is Elian?

  2000 Fidelity Investments, Smithfield, RI New Acquisitions

  2000 Warwick Art Museum, Vietnam Revisited

  2000 Providence Art Club and Fidelity Investments, A Celebration of RI Arts and Artists

  2000 Bristol Art Museum, Bristol,RI, Something in the Air

  1997 The American Heart Association, RI. Affiliate, Miriam Hospital, Providence, RI the healing

  heART.

  1997 Bristol Art Museum, Bristol, RI. Common Ground: Pairs of Artists- Bart Parker and Rita DeWitt,

  Olivia Parker and Jonathan Sharlin, Darrell Matsumoto and Alexandra Broches, Jane Lazerow

  and Reenie Barrow. Curator and exhibitor.

  1994 Bristol Art Museum, Bristol, RI. Reenie Schmerl Photographer and John Udvardy, Sculptor.

  1994 Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence, RI. National Museum of Women in the Arts, Rhode

  Island Women Speak.

  1992 Sun Valley Center Gallery, Sun Valley, ID. Contemporary American Photographers: Barbara

  McElhinny, Gaylord Herron, Brney Imes, and Reenie Schmerl.

  1992 National Photography Museum of Greece, Athens, Greece.

  1987 Slater Memorial Museum, Norwich, CT. Eight Women Photographers.

  1987 The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL. An Exhibition of Recent Acquisitions.

  1987 Eastern Connecticut State University, Willimantic, CT.

  1987 Aetna Art Gallery, Hartford, CT. The Chair in Art.

  1987 University of Lowell, Lowell, MA. Invitational Exhibition.

  1986 Promenade Gallery, Bushnell Memorial Auditorium, Hartford, CT. Inaugural Exhibition: Four

  Photographers: Ellen Carey, Marna Clarke, Charles Reich and Reenie Schmerl.

  1986 Carlson Gallery, University of Bridgeport, Bridgeport, CT. The New England Landscape – Tom

  Hricko, Keith Johnson, Reenie Schmerl, Timothy Feresten, Ted Hendrickson and Robert

  Hennessey.

  1986 Benton Museum, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT.

  1985 Connecticut Artists Showcase, New Haven, CT. Five Connecticut Artists: selected by the curator

  of the Yale Art Gallery.

  1984 Connecticut College, New London, CT. Reenie Schmerl and Sandy Hale, Recent Work.

  1984 Pennsylvania State College, State College, PA. National Competition.

  1984 Erie Center for the Arts, Erie, PA . Photonational.

  1984 Los Angeles, CA. International Art Competition.

  1983 City University of New York, Brooklyn, NY. Four Photographers, J. Ross Baughman, Tom

  Patton, Reenie Schmerl, and Michael Spano.

  1983 Sante Fe, NM. Film and Photo Invitational: A Survey of American Photography and Independent

  Film.

  1982 Crealde School of Art, Winter Park, FL. The Landscape national competition.

  1981 Creative Arts Workshop, New Haven, CT. Eleven Connecticut Award Recipients from

  the Connecticut Commission on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.

  1981 Woman’s Building, Los Angeles, CA. Women on the Scene.

  1981 Wardsworth Athenaeum, Hartford, CT. Artworks at the Athenaeum.

  1981 New England School of Photography, Boston, MA. Reenie Schmerl Urban and Rural Landscape

  photographs and recent work of Dan Younger.

  1981 New Bedford, MA. The Swain School of Design Invitational Photography Exhibition traveling

  exhibition of 12 New England photographers.

  1980 Keene State College, Keene, NH. Into the Eighties: New England Photography travelling

  exhibition.

  1980 Artworks Gallery, Hartford, CT. National competition Self Portrait.

  1980 Brockman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA. Women on the Scene, Eleven American Women

  Photographers.

  1979 San Diego Art Institute, San Diego, CA.

  1978 Slater Museum, Norwich CT. The Family.

  1978 International Center of Photography, Educational Gallery, New York NY.

• P U B L I C A T I O N S

  M o n o g r a p h s a n d B o o k s:

  Town & Country Magazine, photograph featured in an article, Life in Red Velvet, the collection

  of Phillip Sarofim, February, 2022

  Renewing the Dream: from parking to Places in Southern California, photograph of –

  Clairemont CA included. Publisher, Woods Bagot, 2022

  Reenie Schmerl Barrow, The Wreath of Dreams: Visions of Greek Villages. Poetry Selections

  and Translations by Athan H. Anagnostopoulos. Athens: Kastaniotis Editions, 1992.

  Richard G. Tansey and Fred S. Kleiner (eds.), Gardner’s Art Through the Ages, Tenth Edition.

  New York: Harcourt Brace College Publisher, 1996.

  Cheryl Moch (ed.), Feels Like Home. Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books, 1995

  Treasures of State: Fine and Decorative Arts in the Diplomatic Reception Rooms of the

  U.S. Department of State. New York: Harry Abrams, Inc., 1991.

  Nicholas Gage, A Place for Us: Eleni’s Children in America. Boston: Houghton Mifflin

  Company, 1989.

  Nicholas Gage, Hellas: A Portrait of Greece. Villard Books, 1987.

  Ann and Samuel Charters.Literature and Its Writers, Second Edition, Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2001

  Ann and Samuel Charters, Blues Faces, A Portrait of the Blues,

  Godine, 2001

  Photography Quarterly,Center for Photography at Woodstock, Exploring the World of

  Contemporary Photography…featured artist selected by Robert Mann, Robert Mann Gallery,

  NY,NY

  E x h i b i t i o n C a t a l o g s a n d P e r i o d i c a l s:

  Tsepelovo, Memories of a Greek Village, 2 volumes 2018

  Artscope, New England’s Premier Culture Magazine, January/February 2017, Art as Impetus

  in Rhode island

  Networks 2015 and 2016, produced by Joseph A. Chazan, M.D. Showcasing and celebrating the

  work of 24 Rhode Island artists.

  Doyle, New York, January 15, 2014, Auction, The Yale Burge Collection

  Rhode Island Monthly,March, 2013 featured in an article, Artful Living

  Architectural Digest, A Private Home in Telluride, February, 2006

  Photography, Center for Photography at Woodstock, Spring 2002 issue, Photography Now,

  selections by Robert Mann. What’s new? What’s Now?

  Country Living, Hearst Publications, Bristol on the 4th of July, July, 2001

  Country Living, Hearst Publications, A House in the Country, May, 2001

  Country Living, Hearst Publications, Simple Country Pleasures, May, 2000

  Country Living, Hearst Publications, American Icons, Windsor Chairs. 1999

  Country Living, Hearst Publications, Featured artist on cover and in Our House of the Year, A

  Dream House for You to Build spread, February, 1997

  Visions Toward Wellness, The Arts and Healthcare: A Partnership in Healing Conference,

  Providence RI

  Country Living, Hearst Publications, Country Classics You Can Buy, September, 1996

  The Chair in Art, Aetna Art Gallery, Hartford, CT, 1987

  Photograph, Athens, Greece, Reenie Schmerl, A Portfolio, 1987

  Camera International, Hellenic Center of Photography, Athens, Greece, International Month of

  Photography, Featured Artist 1985

  Images, A Connecticut Photography Show Retrospective 1982-1986, Hartford, CT., 1986

  State of the Arts, Connecticut Commission on the Arts, summer edition, Featured Artist, 1985

  The Finished Print, Farmington Valley Arts Center, Farmington, CT, 1985

  The Finished Print, Farmington Valley Arts Center, Farmington, CT, 1984

  Photonational, Erie Center of the Arts, Erie, PA, 1984

  American Photographer, April, 1982

  Points of View, Keene State College, Keene, New Hampshire, 1980

  Reenie Barrow Flora, 2012 Robert Burge/Twentieth Century Photographs, Ltd., NY,NY

  MOTION PICTURES

  Side by Each, City Pound Production..Richard Allen, writer and director, featuring Blythe Danner

  and Larry Bryggman…still photographer 2006

  Stay Until Tomorrow, No Tribes Film/Sundance Institute Production, Laura Collella, writer and

  director..still photographer..2002

  Tax Day. Lucky Pictures production. Laura Collela, writer and director. John Laval, producer.

  1997, Providence, RI..still photographer

  Temporary Girl. Temporary Films production. Lisa Kotin, writer and co-director. Johnny White,

  producer and co-director. 1997, Chicago, IL

  Still Photographer

  Immunizing Children and The Dangers of Lead Paint, still photographer, produced by the Rhode

  Island Department of Health, 1998 (used in publicity campaign throughout state)

  H O N O R S A N D G R A N T S

  Networks 2016 A showcase of 12 Rhode Island artists selected by Joseph A. Chazan, MD,

  featured in museum exhibitions, individual videos created by Richard Goulis screened in

  galleries, museums, and on PBS, and featured in a Catalogue produced by Dr. Chazan

  Kostas Macadonias Award, Ministry of Culture of Greece and the Hellenic Center of

  Photography. Presented every two years to four individuals “for their contribution to Hellenic

  photography and to the culture of Greece through photography,” Athens, Greece.
• Individual Artist Grant, Connecticut Commission of the Arts, 1980

  First Prize ( for the series, In the Footsteps of Atget in Paris) Shoreline Alliance for the Arts,

  Connecticut

  First Prize, Photonational, Erie Center for the Arts, Erie, PA

  First Prize, Providence Art Club,2011

  Outstanding photography award, Providence Art Club 2011, Providence RI, 2012,

  Second Prize, Providence Art Club, 2009

  Dr. Stanley Summer Award for outstanding photography, Providence Art Club, Providence, RI

  2013

  Pasquale Masiello Award, Second Place, Providence Art Club, 2014

  C O L L E C T I O N S

  Pfizer Art Collection

  Fidelity Investments

  U.S. Embassy, Hanoi, Vietnam

  New York Public Library Collection, NY, NY

  Connecticut Bank and Trust

  Art Institute of Chicago

  Readers Digest

  Merrill Lynch

  IBM

  Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas

  The National Photography Museum of Greece

  Joseph A. Chazan, M.D.

  Numerous private collections

  E D U C A T I O N

  B.A., University of California, Berkeley