Solo Exhibitions:
2016 "The Many Parts of One", Fresh A.I.R. Gallery, Columbus, OH
2015 “The Interlopers”, L.C. Bates Museum, Hinckley, ME
2015 “Smoke & Mirrors”, Charles C. Thomas Gallery, Portland, ME
2014 “Toni Jo Coppa”, The Denmark Art Center, Denmark, ME
2013 “The Wild Things Are”, The M+B Gallery, MECA, Portland, ME
2011 “Figures”, Zand Head Gallery, MECA, Portland, ME
2010 “Recycled into Joy”, William A. Laporte Gallery, Southwick Library, Southwick, MA
2009 “Girl Investigated”, William A. Laporte Gallery, Southwick Library, Southwick, MA
2005 “Exhale”, William A. Laporte Gallery, Southwick Library, Southwick, MA
2002 “Mirrors”, The Beta Gallery, Cody, WY
2001 “Scenarios”, Railroad Square Gallery, Waterville, ME
1999 “New Work”, South Gallery, Greenfield Community College, Greenfield, MA
1997 “Desires”, South Gallery, Greenfield Community College, Greenfield, MA
1992 “Toni Jo Coppa”, The Art Institute of Chicago, Gallery X, Chicago, IL
Two and Three Person Exhibitions:
2016 “Toni Jo Coppa & Juliet Karelsen”, Railroad Square, Waterville, ME
2013 “Divergent Collective” (Campbell, Coppa & Nadal), The Danforth Gallery,
University of Maine, Augusta, ME
2013 “Toni Jo Coppa & Karen Merritt: Healing Works”, The Gallery of
Planned Parenthood of Northern New England, Portland, ME
2002 “Condon, Coppa & Kriven”, Wilbur Mansion Gallery, Oneonta, NY
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2016 "Human/Nature", Engine Gallery, Biddeford, ME
2015 “Twisted”, Festival Port Noarlunga Art Gallery, Victor Harbor, Australia
2015 “Violence Transformed 2015: Celebrating the Transformative Power of Art”,
Jon Shirland - Juror, Massachusetts Statehouse, Doric Hall, Boston, MA
2015 “Violence Transformed 2015: Celebrating the Transformative Power of Art”,
Hope Ricciadi – Juror -1000 Mass Avenue Gallery, Cambridge College, Cambridge, MA
2015 “Anniversary Exhibition”, Fresh A.I.R. Gallery, Columbus, OH
2015 “Beyond Our Walls”, Ohio State University, Urban Art Space,
Columbus, OH
2014 “Sacred & Profane”, Battery Steele, Peaks Island, ME
2014 “Wish You Were Here 13”, A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2014 “citydrift/Portland”, Deering Oaks Park and Space Gallery, ME
2014 “I dream of…”, Incline Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2014 “I dream of…”, ArTik and Civil Academy, Freiburg, Germany
2014 “Dear Holly”, Knox City Centre, VICTORIA, Australia
2014 “Free for All 4”, Space Gallery, Portland, ME
2013 “8th Annual Boston Young Contemporaries Exhibition”, 808 Gallery, Boston, MA
2013 “Make Believe”, The Darkroom Gallery, Essex Jct., VT
2013 “MFA Thesis Exhibition”, Institute of Contemporary Art, Portland, ME
2012 “Monsters”, Pinecone + Chickadee, Portland, ME
2012 “Free for All”, Space Gallery, Portland, ME
2012 “MFA Retrospective: 2012”, Maine College of Art, Portland, ME
2011 “Drawing Connections”, Sienna Art Institute, Sienna, Italy
2011 “MFA Retrospective: 2011”, Maine College of Art, Portland, ME
2010 “NEVER THINK small – Redux!”, Climate Gallery, Long Island City, NY
2010 “Memories in the Making”, Blake Hall Art Gallery, Springfield College, Springfield, MA
2010 “Female Symbolism”, RANT Gallery, Chicopee, MA
2010 “D-Cup Diatribes”, City Stage, Springfield, MA
2009 “New Perspectives”, Fresh A.I.R. Gallery, Columbus, OH
2009 “First Open Juried Art Show”, Agawam Public Library, Agawam, MA
2007 “Alumni Invitational Exhibition”, South Gallery, Greenfield Community College,
Greenfield, MA
2006 “Trajectory”, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, ME
2005 “Southwick Annual Juried Art Exhibition”, Southwick Cultural Art Center,
Southwick, MA
2004 “Six Local Artists”, Cody Country Art League, Cody, WY
2003 “Annual Group Exhibition”, Cody Country Art League, Cody, WY
2002 “Contemporary American Art”, Granger Fine Art, Cody, WY
2002 “Annual Winter Exhibition”, Cody Country Art League, Cody, WY
2001 “Skowhegan Alumni Exhibition and Auction”, Knoedler Gallery, New York, NY
2000 “Winter Salon”, Limner Gallery, New York, NY
1999 “Essential Art”, Cooperstown Art Association Gallery, Cooperstown, NY
1998 “Women’s Works”, Old Courthouse Art Center, Woodstock, IL
1998 “Catskill Rural AIDS Services Exhibition and Auction”, Roxbury Art Gallery,
Roxbury, NY
1998 “Essential Art”, Cooperstown Art Association Gallery, Cooperstown, NY
1997 “Art ‘97”, Harlow Gallery, Hallowell, ME
1997 “Ooh Baby, Baby!”, Pavilion Galleries, Mt. Holly, NJ
1997 “Maine Open Juried Show”, Waterville Public Library, Waterville, ME
1996 “Feminist / Humanist”, IAC Contemporary Art / Fisher Gallery, Albuquerque, NM
1996 “Prescott Palette”, Yavapai College Performance Hall Gallery, Prescott, AZ
1996 “Women’s Works”, Old Courthouse Art Center, Woodstock, IL
1996 “Visions: Southwest”, Prescott Fine Arts Association, Prescott, AZ
1996 “Representing…”, A ‘Loft Gallery, Prescott, AZ
1995 “It’s All Relative”, Mesa Arts Center, Galeria Mesa, Mesa, AZ
1995 “National Juried Exhibition by Audrey Flack”, Gallery 84, Inc., New York, NY
1994 “DeSoto Art Show”, Peace River Art Guild, Arcadia, FL
1993 “Juried Exhibition”, ArtWest Gallery, Jackson Hole, WY
1992 “The Sentimental Show”, Beret-International Gallery, Chicago, IL
1992 “Raw Space Exhibit”, ARC Gallery, Chicago, IL
1991 “70th Annual Art Exhibition”, The Women’s Club, Evanston, IL
1991 “SAIC Accreditation Show”, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Residencies
1997 Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, Madison, ME
2013 Hewnoaks Artist Colony, Summer Residency, Lovell, ME
2014 Something Rotten Residency, Denmark Art Center, Denmark, ME
Awards:
2014 Artist Project Commission, Denmark Art Center, Denmark, ME
(Additional support from the Maine Community Foundation and the town of Denmark)
2013 Albert K. Murray Fine Arts Educational Grant (Spring), Adamsville, OH
2012 Albert K. Murray Fine Arts Educational Grant (Winter), Adamsville, OH
2012 Albert K. Murray Fine Arts Educational Grant (Fall), Adamsville, OH
2012 Albert K. Murray Fine Arts Educational Grant (Summer), Adamsville, OH
2011 Albert K. Murray Fine Arts Educational Grant (Winter), Adamsville, OH
2009 First Place; Painting Category, Mattoon Street Arts Festival, Springfield, MA
2009 First Place; Fantasy Hair Design, C.B. Sullivan Company, Hooksett, NH
2001 New York Foundation for the Arts; Special Opportunity Stipend, Oneonta, NY
1999 Cooperstown Veterinary Association Prize, “Essential Art”, Cooperstown, NY
1998 Puffin Foundation Artist Project Grant, Teaneck, NJ
1997 William and Marguerite Zorach Full Fellowship, Skowhegan Residency,
New York, NY
1996 Honorable Mention, “Vision Southwest”, Prescott, AZ
1994 Honorable Mention, “DeSoto Art Show”, Arcadia, FL
1993 Second Place Prize Award, “Juried Exhibition”, ArtWest Gallery,
Jackson Hole, WY
1990 Art and Graphic Design Award; Class of 1990, Greenfield Community College,
Greenfield, MA
1988 Full Scholarship; Two Years, Elks Foundation, Greenfield, MA
Bibliography:
2015 Jacob Fall, “The Interlopers’: Toni Jo Coppa at the L. C. Bates Museum”, The Chart:
Maine’s Online Art Journal, Vol. 1, No. 1, September 2015
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Belgrades, Central Maine Lakes and Kennebec River Corridor, July 17-23,
Vol. 17, No. 7
2015 Kathryn Skelton, “One man’s trash is Denmark’s art project that got an NEA grant”,
Oxford Hills Sun Journal, Oxford Hills, ME, Friday, July 17
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The Portland Phoenix, Portland, ME, p.16, January 29-February 4
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2015 Melissa Starker, “Anniversary Exhibition assembles works of past clients of recovery program”,
The Columbus Dispatch, Columbus, OH, Sunday, June 14, 2015
2014 Belz, Carl, Ed. Studio Visit Magazine, Vol. 27, Juried Selection of International Artists,
Open Studio Press
2014 Timothy Gillis, “Space Gallery puts a new twist on Maritime Art”, The Portland Sun,
Thursday, September
2012 “Scene and Heard”, Maine Sunday Telegram, Portland, ME, p.D 10, March 25
2007 “College Exhibition and Alumni Artwork”, The Republican, Springfield, MA, Nov. 6
2005 “Southwick Library”, Southwoods – A Journal for Country Living,
Southwick, MA, April
2003 “Angel Tree Lights Up Residence”, The Powell Tribune, Powell, WY, p.14, Dec.4
2001 “Seven Artists Receive “SOS” Grants”, The Daily Star, Oneonta, NY, p.5, April 20
1998 “Who’s News”, The Daily Star, Oneonta, NY, p.7, May 20
1997 “Creating Art”, The Sunday Sentinel, Waterville, ME, p. B1-2, August 17
1996 “Arts & Events”, HEMBRA: A Journal of Southwest Feminist Thought,
Albuquerque, NM, March
“Sexism: A Woman’s View”, The Albuquerque Tribune, p. B5, March 7
“Arts & Community Calendar”, The Weekly Alibi, Albuquerque, NM, p. 14,
March 6-12
1995 “It’s All Relative”, M.A.C. Galeria Review, Mesa, AZ, Vol. 7, Fall Issue
1993 “ArtWest Local Art Competition”, Jackson Hole Guide, p. D 7, May 12
Publications as Author:
“Gothic Art Saves Lives”, Lulu Publishing
Related Experience:
2014 Teacher, “The Art of Looking at What’s Not Really There”, Denmark Art Center
Workshop, Denmark, ME
2013 Lecturer, “On the In-Between”, Osher Hall; Maine College of Art, Portland, ME
2013 Guest Speaker, Art Department, University of Maine, Augusta, ME
2013 Studio Tutor for Figure Drawing, Maine College of Art, Portland, ME
2012 Teaching Assistant, “Purview”, Maine College of Art, Portland, ME
2012 Studio Tutor for 2-D Design, Maine College of Art, Portland, ME
2007 Panelist in Art Discussion, Art Department, Greenfield Community College,
Greenfield, MA
2005 Teacher,“ Faux Finishing Techniques”, Eastern States Craft Fair,
West Springfield, MA
1999 Guest Speaker, Art Department, Greenfield Community College, Greenfield, MA
1998 Teacher, “Kite Making”, Delhi Elementary School, Delhi, NY
1997 Guest Speaker, “Skowhegan Experience: What to Expect”, Hartwick College,
Oneonta, NY
1997 Guest Speaker, Art Department, Greenfield Community College, Greenfield, MA