Monica Bean | Curriculum Vitae

Education:

2013 - 2017

Port Chester Atelier | Port Chester, NY - weekly drawing and painting classes with Jon deMartin

2008 - 2013

Studio Incamminati, School for Contemporary Realist Art | Philadelphia, PA - advanced fine art program certificate

1986

Roberts Walsh Business School | Union, NJ - Certificate in Interior Design

1981 - 1983

Rutgers University, Mason Gross School of the Arts | New Brunswick, NJ - visual arts

Additional Studies:

2015 - 2017

Etruscan Places | Tuscany, Italy - lived and studied open air painting in Italy (Tuscany and Civita Castellana) with Maddine Insalaco and Joe Vinson, recognized experts in the field of early open air painting in Italy

Exhibitions | Awards

2024 - The Lunar Codex | Sum & Substance (Cauliflower Moon Rising) curated into a series of time capsules launched via SpaceX and placed on the moon in perpetuity.

2023 - Art Renewal Center Salon Exhibition | Sotheby’s New York

2022 - Art Renewal Center 16th Annual International Salon | Finalist | ARC Staff Award

2022 - Phillips’ Mill 93rd Juried Art Show | Phillips’ Mill, New Hope, PA.

2022 - Hudson Valley Art Association 89th Annual Juried Exhibition | Lyme Art Association, Old Lyme, CT - Jane Peterson Memorial Award for Still Life

2021 - Sugarlift Gallery | NewYork City, NY | Blue Review Art Prize - Honorable Mention

2017

Castel Nuovo Tancredi | Buonconvento, Italy - featured artist

2014

Velvet Mill Open Studios | Stonington CT

2013

Thames Club | New London, CT - Landscapes of Connecticut and Rhode Island

2012

Four Starr Gallery | Stonington, CT - A Still Life Show

2008 - present

Artists and Alumni of Studio Incamminati Yearly Exhibitions, Freeman’s Auction House | Philadelphia, PA, Markeim Arts Center | Haddonfield, NJ, Union League | Philadelphia, PA, and Gratz Gallery | Doylestown, PA

Publication:

Artists Daily Oil Painting Blog | January 2012 - “Portrait drawing with Monica Bean”, by Judith St. Ledger Roty

New Jersey Monthly | July, 2011 - “Painters Paradise” by Lauren Payne

Experience:

2020 - 2024

Board member | Studio Incamminati

2019 - present

Advisory Board | Princeton Academy of Art