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Stuart Dunkel

Stuart Dunkel CV

Exhibitions

2025
Sweet Treats, Rehs Contemporary Galleries
— New York, NY
Bloom, Rehs Contemporary Galleries — New York, NY

2024
Small Works Show, Tree's Place — Orleans, MA
Marieluise Hutchinson & Stuart Dunkel: The Mouse & The House, Tree's Place — Orleans, MA
Just For Fun, Tree's Place — Orleans, MA

2023
Nature's Wildlife Palette: Top Trends in Affordable Original Animal Art Paintings for Collectors — Exclusive Insights from the 2024 Edition, Artspace Warehouse — Los Angeles, CA 
Postcards from Nowhere, Artspace Warehouse
Los Angeles, CA 
Stuart Dunkel, Rehs Contemporary Galleries — New York, NY
Early Summer Salon 2023 — New Works from Resident Tree's Artists, Tree's Place — Orleans, MA

2022
Small Works, Great Joy! Our Annual Small Works Show, Tree's Place — Orleans, MA
Late Summer Salon, Tree's Place — Orleans, MA
Early Summer Salon, Tree's Place — Orleans, MA

2021
The Soul Of A Sugar Bowl, Artspace Warehouse
Los Angeles, CA 

2020
Not A Creature Was Stirring, Rehs Contemporary Galleries — New York, NY
Marieluise Hutchinson & Stuart Dunkel: Humble Houses, Mischievous Mouses, Tree's Place — Orleans, MA

2019
Stuart Dunkel: Mouse in the House, Pence Gallery — Davis, CA
Animalia, Abend Gallery, Golden Triangle — Denver, CO
1, 2, 3 Show, Shain Gallery
Charlotte, NC

2018
Small Works Show, Shain Gallery
Charlotte, NC

2011
Capturing Realism 2011, Pauly Friedman Gallery
Dallas, PA — through the Anthony Waichulis Invitational

2008
Members Summer Show, Copley Society of Boston
Boston, MA

2007
New England Representational Competition, The Guild of Boston Artists
Boston, MA

2005
Realist Competition, Salmagundi Club, New York, NY

2004
Westford Art Show — Westford, Massachusetts

Honors & Awards

2013
ARC Living Artist, The Art Renewal Center —Port Reading, NJ

2012
Finalist, The Art Renewal Center —Port Reading, NJ

2011
Finalist (Animal category), The Art Renewal Center —Port Reading, NJ
Silver Medal Winner, The Guild of Boston Artists — New England Representational Competition

2010
Member, The International Guild of Realism — Scottsdale, Arizona
Honorable Mention, The International Guild of Realism — Scottsdale, Arizona
Silver Medal Winner, The Guild of Boston Artists — New England Representational Competition

2009
Honorable Mention (Still Life), Art Renewal Center — Port Reading, NJ

2008
NE Representational Competition, The Guild of Boston Artists — Boston, MA
First Prize “Sizzle”, Copley Society, Members Summer Show Competition — Boston, MA

2007
Silver Medal Winner, The Guild of Boston Artists — New England Representational Competition — Boston, MA
The Crisp Award (Best of Show), Copley Society of Boston  “A–Z” — Boston, MA
Gallery Demonstration, Churchill Gallery — Newburyport, MA

2005
Realist Competition, Salmagundi Club — New York, NY

2004
Prize Winner, Westford Art Show — Westford, MA

Memberships & Affiliations

Member, The International Guild of Realism

Member, The Art Renewal Center

Board Member, Cambridge Art Association

Guest Lecturer, Art and Anxiety, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA

Guest Lecturer, Art and Management; Art and Composition, Depot Square Gallery

Bibliography

2025
20 Playful Mouse Paintings By Stuart Dunkel That Are Too Cute To Handle — Demilked

2024
Twice as Mice: Stuart Dunkel’s Classical Whimsy — JAMA (blog feature)

2023
Contemporary Art: Chuckie’s Grand Adventure — Fine Art Connoisseur

2020
Gaze at Joy: Art Is the Best Holiday Gift During a Pandemic — Forbes
Contemporary Art: Oil Paintings — Not a Creature Was Stirring — Fine Art Connoisseur
Escape the Drudgery of Quarantine: Embark on an Emotional Art Adventure with Stuart Dunkel’s Everyman Mouse — Forbes
Realism Oil Still Life Painting — Realism Today
Contemporary Still Life Paintings: Stuart Dunkel — Fine Art Connoisseur

2018
Inside the Imaginative World of Stuart Dunkel — The Avid Pen

2017
The Mouse Is the Muse — Lancaster Online

2009
An Artist’s Life — Black Nautilus Publishing

2007
American Art Collector — “Coast to Coast Nationwide,” May, p. 40

2005
Provincetown Review — Best of Week Show Review

2000
Gallery Guide — “Exhibition Highlights, Lyman-Eyer Gallery,” Nov.
Gallery Guide — “Realism, Classical to Contemporary,” Apr., p. 28

2000–2000
Boston Sunday Globe — “People and Places, First Careers Left Behind,” Jan. 16, p. 16
Northwest Daily News — “Lyric and Whimsy,” Jan. 9, pp. C3–C4
Gallery Guide — “Lyric and Whimsy, Compass Rose,” Jan.

Reference
Stuart Dunkel Biography — Whitmore, Janet; Rehs Contemporary Galleries, New York

Education

MUSIC EDUCATION

Boston University — Bachelors, 1975
Mannes College of Music — Masters, 1985
Juilliard School of Music — Doctorate, 1987

FINE ART EDUCATION

Boston Museum School; study with Robert Douglas Hunter; classes with Jean Lightman, Paul Ingbretson, Joe McGurl, Don Demars, and Sergio Roffo

Academy of Realist Art (Seattle); private study with Ani Graduate, Joel C. Jones, Tom Ouellette, Denise Mickilowski, Dennis Cheaney, Andrew Kusmin, Karen Winslow, Joe McGurl, Donald Demers, Robert Douglas Hunter, Gayle Levee


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