About
BIOGRAPHY
Regina Scully lives in New Orleans, Louisiana and was born in Norfolk, Virginia. She received her BFA in Painting from Rhode Island School of Design and her MFA in Painting from University of New Orleans. She is a recipient of the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant Award in 2017. She has exhibited nationally and internationally and had a solo exhibition at the New Orleans Museum of Art in 2017. She was awarded an Artist Residency at the Hermitage Artist Retreat, and attended every year from 2016 to 2020. Scully’s paintings are in private and public collections including 7 World Trade Center, the Microsoft Art Collection, the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation Collection, and the New Orleans Museum of Art.
Scully’s paintings were on view at the Hamptons Fine Art Fair, New York, September 2-5, 2021. She also exhibited her work in the group exhibition, The Emotional Brain, at Carroll Gallery, Newcomb Art Dept., Tulane University, New Orleans, August 23 – Sept. 30, 2021.
Currently, Regina is preparing for a solo exhibition at the Reynolds Ryan Gallery (in conjunction with Octavia Art Gallery) at the Isidore Newman School in New Orleans in August/September. She will also have a solo exhibition at Octavia Art Gallery in spring of 2023.
To contact and follow Regina Scully, you can find her on Instagram (@regina.scully) and on Facebook. She can also be contacted through Octavia Art Gallery, New Orleans.
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EDUCATION
2011
M.F.A., Painting, University of New Orleans
1997
B.F.A., Painting, Rhode Island School of Design
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2020
Lost and Found, Octavia Art Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2019
The House I Live In, Octavia Art Gallery, New Orleans, LA
To Go In Search Of, C24 Gallery Project Space, C24 Gallery, New York, NY
2017
Mindscapes, C24 Gallery, New York, NY
Regina Scully/Japanese Landscape: Inner Journeys, New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA
2016
Horizons in Space, Octavia Art Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2015
Floating Worlds, Seattle Art Fair, single artist project, (Octavia Art Gallery), Seattle, WA
2014
Translations, Octavia Art Gallery, Houston, TX
Terra Incognita, Octavia Art Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2013
Entrance, C24 Gallery, New York, NY
VOLTA NY, New York, NY
2012
Elemental, Heriard-Cimino Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2011
Navigate, University of New Orleans Fine Arts Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2009
Excavations, Heriard-Cimino Gallery, New Orleans, LA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021
The Emotional Brain, Carroll Gallery, Newcomb Art Dept., Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
Hamptons Fine Art Fair, Octavia Art Gallery, Hamptons, NY
Women Represent, Octavia Art Gallery, New Orleans, LA
The Sleep of Reason, Good Children Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2020
Conceptual Creations: Collage and Assemblage, Octavia Art Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2019
Fritz Bultman / Regina Scully: New Orleans, New York and Beyond,
Octavia Art Gallery Pop-up exhibition, High Line Nine Gallery 5, New York, NY
Art of the City: Postmodern to Post-Katrina (Presented by the Helis Foundation), Historic New Orleans Collection Museum, New Orleans, LA
2018
Core Sample, curated by David C. Terry, C24 Gallery, New York, NY
10 Years/10 Artists, Octavia Art Gallery, New Orleans, LA
Art Miami, C24 Gallery, Miami, FL
Scope Art Fair, Octavia Art Gallery, Miami, FL
Art on Paper, C24 Gallery, New York, NY
2017
At the Threshold, 2-person exhibition, Octavia Art Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2016
Art Miami, C24 Gallery, Miami, FL
Context, Octavia Art Gallery, Miami, FL
60 Americans, The Makeshift Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Contemporary Istanbul, C24 Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey
Art Southampton, C24 Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY
2015
Permanent Collection Re-installation of Modern and Contemporary Art Wing, New Orleans Museum of Art (2015-2016), New Orleans, LA
2014
Alluvial Constructs, Octavia Gallery, New Orleans, LA
New Orleans Imago Mundi Collection, curated by Diego Cortez, New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA
Trivial Pursuits: Obsession’s Allure, Acadiana Center for the Arts, Lafayette, LA
2013
Entering Abstraction, Opera Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland
Home, Octavia Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2012
NOLA Now Part II, Abstraction in Louisiana, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA
2011
Double Crescent, C24 Gallery, New York, NY
Abiding Abstraction, Boltax Gallery, Shelter Island, NY
Prospect Lafayette, Exhibition in Prospect.2, curated by Dan Cameron, Acadiana Center for the Arts, Lafayette, LA
2010
Everyday Hybrid, Prospect 1.5 New Orleans, curated by Dan Cameron, Isaac Delgado Fine Art Gallery, New Orleans, LA
Wide Open, BWAC Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2009
Muses, Heriard-Cimino Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2008
Elemental 3, Home Space Gallery, New Orleans, LA
Under Construction, UNO Fine Arts Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2006
Group Exhibition, Jenkins-Connelly Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2004
Postcards to the CAC, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA
2003
No Dead Artists, Jonathan Ferrara Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2002
Time Has Changed, AirB, Brooklyn, NY
2000
Artists in Residence, AirB, Brooklyn, NY
1998
External, Eternal, Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, MA
Dreaming of Being a Painter, Providence Art Club, Providence, RI
AWARDS/HONORS
2017
Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant
2016
Awarded Residency, Hooper Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2015
Awarded Residency, Hermitage Artist Retreat, Englewood, FL, (2016-20)
LECTURES/PANELS
2018
Lecture, “Scully’s Paintings,” Hermitage Artist Retreat Palm House, Manasota Key, FL
2016
Lecture, “Scully’s Paintings,” New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA
2013
Artist Panel: “On Abstraction,” VOLTA NY 2013, 82 Mercer Street, New York, NY
2011
Prospect. 2 Lafayette, “artTALK,” Acadiana Center for the Arts, Main Gallery, Lafayette, LA; with Dan Cameron and Bruce Davenport Jr.
COLLECTIONS
Microsoft Art Collection (2010, 2013)
Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation Collection (2012)
Capital One Art Collection (2014)
New Orleans Museum of Art (2014, 2016)
7 World Trade Center, NYC (2019)
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2021
Featured Artist, The Artful Mind, August, 2021, cover, p. 22-29
2017
Waddington, Chris, “Painter Regina Scully Connects with Japanese Art and a NOMA Curator,” NOMA Arts Quarterly, Jan. 3, p. 2, 6-7
2016
Bookhardt, Eric, “Horizons in Space,” Gambit Weekly, May 17, 2016, p. 4
http://www.insidenola.org/2016/05/regina-scully-at-octavia.html
2015
Durón, Maximilíano. (July 30, 2015). PREVIEW SEATTLE ART FAIR 2015. Retrieved from http://www.artnews.com/2015/07/30/preview-seattle-art-fair-2015/
Manitach, Amanda. (July 31, 2015). Seattle Art Fair: First Impressions. Retrieved from http://cityartsonline.com/articles/seattle-art-fair-first-impressions
Price, Aaron. (July 30, 2015). Seattle Art Fair 2015/Our Favourite Works. Retrieved from https://www.ultravie.co.uk/blog/2015/07/30/seattle-art-fair-2015-our-favourite-works/
Thomas, Ann Marshall. (September, 2015). Louisiana’s Top 10 Contemporary Artists & Where to Find Them. Retrieved from http://www.theculturetrip.com/north-america/usa/louisiana/articles/louisiana-s-top-10-contemporary-artists-where-to-find-them/
2014
Bookhardt, Eric, “Terra Incognita and Theme and Variations,” Gambit Weekly, February 18, 2014, p. 59
James, Christopher. (May 25, 2014). ART MARKET SAN FRANCISCO 2014 WITH CHRISTOPHER JAMES. Retrieved from http://www.christopherjamesart.com/#!ART-MARKET-SAN-FRANCISCO-2014-WITH-CHRISTOPHER-JAMES/ckja/3341FA12-7680-4A68-90F9-0F2C26E6F905
McLellan, Marian, “Scully and Logan,” The New Orleans Art Review, February/March/April, 2014, p. 17-19
2013
Bookhardt, Eric, “Home and Sputnik 1,” Gambit Weekly, August 13, 2013, p. 43
Menendez, Didi, Publisher, IArtistas #7, June, 2013, p. 13-15
Sherman, Aaron. (November 15, 2013). GALLERY NIGHT [VIDEO]: Chelsea Art Trek, 8 Galleries in 1 Night. Retrieved from http://www.blouinartinfo.com/news/story/986054/gallery-night-video-chelsea-art-trek-8-galleries-in-1-night
2012
Featured Artist, The Southern Review, Louisiana State University Press, Autumn, 2012, cover, viii, p. 622-30
Bookhardt, Eric, “Paintings by Regina Scully,” Gambit Weekly, February 14, 2012, p. 71
Rodriguez, Kathy, “A Land in Tumult,” The New Orleans Art Review, March/April/May 2012, p. 36-37
Smyk, Brianna, “Regina Scully’s Brushstrokes Create Abstract Environments,” Nolavie.com, January 13, 2012
2011
Frank, Peter, “Haiku Reviews: Shakespeare, Abstraction, and Pacific Standard Time,” Huffington Post Arts, October 21, 2011
In New York Magazine, Illustration, September, 2011
Weiss, Marion, “Art Commentary,” Dan’s Papers, May 20, 2011, p. 60
New York Times, Long Island Calendar, Illustration, April 26, 2011
2009
Calas, Terrington, “Notations: Regina Scully and Historical Reflection,” The New Orleans Art Review,Oct/Nov/Dec, 2009, p. 28-30
Popper, Alison, “Review: Regina Scully: Excavations,” Artvoices Magazine, October, 2009
Bookhardt, Eric, “Gridlock,” Gambit Weekly, August 11, 2009
2008
Bookhardt, Eric, “White Space,” Gambit Weekly, July 28, 2008