Steve Hawley, born in Brooklyn, NY, in 1950, received his diploma and
graduate diploma from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston MA.


After graduation, Mr. Hawley went on to become an instructor at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, as well as an instructor in Painting and Drawing at Tufts University located in Medford, MA. He was a visiting artist at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia, PA.  Lady Kayuga (Tale of the Bamboo Cutter)


Articles featuring Mr. Hawley have appeared in the New York Times, American Art Now, Weekend Art World and many other newspapers and magazines. He's been the recipient of the Alternate Fulbright-Hays Full Grant in Painting to Italy, the Individual Artists Grant (Artists Foundation), Massachustts Arts and Humanities Foundation. He has received the Resident Artist Grant from The Master School of Simsbury, Connecticut and was a finalist in the Massachusetts Artists' Foundation.

Mr. Hawley is also featured in a number of books including: American Realism; Abrams, Inc. Art Today; Phaidon,London Art in the '80s; Phaidon Universe Pub., New York Descent; Phaidon Press Limited, London Who's Who In American Art; R.R. Bowker, NJ.

His works are included in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the Hunter Museum, the Smithsonian Museum of American Art in Washington D.C., the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park in Lincoln MA, the Portland Museum of Art in Portland ME, as well as many other public and private collections.
 

Boise Art Museum, Boise, ID
Ogunquit Museum of Art, Ogunquit, ME
Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME
Christ Church Cathedral, St. Louis, MO
Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC
Smithsonian Museum of American Art, Washington, DC
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
Hunter Museum of Art, Chattanooga, TN
Hyde Collection, Glens Falls, NY
De Cordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA
The Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR

Boston University, Boston, MA
E.F. Hutton & Co. NYC
First National Bank of Boston, Boston, MA
Ingles Mettler Design, Detroit, MI
Manufacturer's Bank, Detroit, MI
Monument Federal Savings & Loan, Pepperell and Acton, MA
Palmer Dodge, Inc., Boston, MA
Peabody, Brown, Rowley and Storey, Inc., Boston, MA
Steelcase Corporation, NYC
Stephens Inc., Little Rock, AR
The Frehauf Corporation, Detroit, MI
The Tomasso Company, New Britain, CT

2004 "Steve Hawley-Selected Paintings" 1997 - 2004, Gallery NAGA, Boston, MA
2002 "Steve Hawley-Flowers in February","The Gallery" at Framemakers, Danvers, MA
1997 "Steve Hawley-New Work", Roslyn Sailor Fine Arts, Margate, NJ
1993 "Steve Hawley-Recent Work", Sherry French Gallery, NYC
1989 "Steve Hawley-Paintings", Alexander F. Milliken Inc., NYC
1987 "Steve Hawley-Paintings" Fujii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
"Steve Hawley", J. Rosenthal Fine Arts, Chicago, IL
1986 "Steve Hawley", Alexander F. Milliken Inc., NYC
1981 "Steve Hawley-Paintings", Alexander F. Milliken Inc., NYC
1978 The Shore Gallery, Boston, MA
1975 The Zarick Gallery, Farmington, CT

2005 "What is Realism?", Albemarle Gallery, London, England
2005 "Western Biennale of Art", John Natsoulas Center for the Arts, Davis, CA
2004 "Landscapes Seen and Imagined: Sense of Place, Part 2", DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA
2003 "Small Works Holiday Exhibition", Tree's Place Gallery, Orleans, MA
2003 "The Figure", Sherry French Gallery, NYC
2002 "Imaginative Realism", Tree's Place Gallery, Orleans, MA
2002 "Flowers in February", Sherry French Gallery, NYC
2001 "Painting from Life: The Human Figure", Tree's Place Gallery, Orleans, MA
2001 "Flowers in February", Sherry French Gallery, NYC
2001 "Painting=Poetry - ut pictura poesi", Sherry French Gallery, NYC
2000 "Flowers in February", Sherry French Gallery, NYC
1999-2000 "Religion Art: 2000+", Sherry French Gallery, NYC
Riddenhof Martin Gallery, Mary Washington College, Virginia
1999-2000 "Small Sizes: Precious Pieces", MAC Galleries, Manhattan Athletic Club, NYC
1999 "Small Sizes: Precious Pieces", Sherry French Gallery, NYC
1999 "Realism x 3", the Ogunquit Museum of American Art, Ogunquit, ME
1998 "Inaugural Show", Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
1998 "Art Invitational Northshore Connections", Wenham Museum, Wenham, MA
1997 "Realism in 20th Century American Painting", Ogunquit Museum of American Art, Ogunquit, ME
1997 "Steve Hawley", Roslyn Sailor Fine Arts, Palm Beach, FL
1995 "New Looks", Forum Gallery, NYC
1995 "Steve Hawley", Elliot Smith Contemporary Art Gallery, St. Louis, MO
1995 "Flowers in February", Sherry French Gallery, NYC
1994 "Art of the Twentieth Century: Selections from the Permanent Collection", the Hyde Collection, The Hyde Museum, Glen Falls, NY
1993 "Flowers in February", Sherry French Gallery, NYC
1992 "The New Whitney Dissenters", Sherry French Gallery, NYC;
Anchorage Museum of History and Art, Alaska
Rockford College of Art Gallery, IL
Fitchburg Art Museum, MA
1991 "To Grant, or Not to Grant", Sherry French Gallery, NYC
"The Eternal Male: Aries and Pluto", Sherry French Gallery, NYC
"The Mind's Eye-Fantasy, Dream, Imagination", The Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, MA
"Inaugural Exhibition: Gallery and Invited Artists", Sherry French Gallery, NYC
"Ninth Annual Salon Show", Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA