Martha Ferguson
website: www.marthaferguson.studio
email: mfergie.studio@gmail.com
Instagram: @mfergie5
EDUCATION
Master of Fine Arts, Painting, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Sculpture, Hartford Art School, University of Hartford, Hartford, CT
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 Nets, Lines and Other Entanglements, Merrymeeting Arts Center, Bowdoinham, ME
2014 Current Waters Run Deep, Port Washington Library, Port Washington, NY
2012 Terra Verte, The Berkeley Gallery, Berkeley College, New York, NY
2010 MFA Painting Thesis Exhibition, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 “Landscapes of the Heart”, Craignair Gallery, Spruce Head, ME
2025 “Deering Art Exhibit, Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry”, Maine Arts Commission, Augusta, ME
2024 & 2025 “Running With Scissors 6 x 6 Exhibit”, Bellflower Brewery, Portland, ME
2023 “Cross-Section: Two Decades at RWS Art Studios”, Cove St. Arts, Portland, ME
2023 “Annual Running With Scissors 6 x 6 Exhibit”, Bellflower Brewery, Portland, ME
2022 “Woodlands Art Gallery”, Falmouth, ME
2022 “6 x 6, Discover the Work”, Bellflower Brewery, Portland, ME
2022 “Maine Artists”, Maine Art Collective Gallery, Portland, ME
2021 “Hope and Possibility”, Bridgette Mayer Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2021 “Abstract”, River Arts Gallery, Damariscotta, ME
2021 “Members’ Show”, River Arts Gallery, Damariscotta, ME
2020 Art in the Time of Coronavirus Virtual Exhibition, Part 50, The Artblog, 7/23/2020
2020 “Focus on Textures”, Ridgefield Guild of Artists, Ridgefield, CT (online exhibition)
2018 “Blackburn Printmaking Workshop Members Exhibition”, 20/20 Gallery, NY, NY
2016 “Blackburn Printmaking Workshop Members Exhibition”, 20/20 Gallery, NY, NY
2015 “Old Enough To Know Better”, Crane Arts Gallery 105, Philadelphia, PA
2013 “Group Exhibition”, 73 See Gallery, Montclair, NJ
2013 “Cher Invades,” Champions of Empty Rooms,, Philadelphia, PA
2013 “Art-O-Rama”, Graphic Eye Gallery, Port Washington, NY
2012 “Making IT Alumni Works ’02-’12”, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
2012 “MudLuscious, New Jersey Arts Incubator Gallery”, West Orange, NJ
2011 “Group Exhibition”, Prelude Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2011 “Pale Language”, New Jersey Arts Incubator Gallery,, West Orange, NJ
2010 “The Art of Healing, Gallery One”, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
2010 “Hot Off the Press”, Silpe Gallery, University of Hartford, West Hartford, CT
2010 “The One Fifty Show”, Philadelphia Sketch Club,, Philadelphia, PA
2010 “Future Excavations”, University of the Arts, Gallery 224, Philadelphia, PA
2010 “Works in Progress Exhibition”, Rosenwald Wolf Gallery,, Philadelphia, PA
2010 “Otherwise”, University of the Arts, Terra Hall, Philadelphia, PA
2010 “Emerge: Juried Student Exhibit”, Sande Webster Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2010 “2-D on Not 2-D”, University of the Arts, President’s Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2010 “Faculty Exhibition”, Hewlett Public Library, Hewlett, NY
2009 “Alumni 120 Show”, Silpe Gallery, University of Hartford West Hartford, CT
2009 “Works in Progress”, Rosenwald Wolf Gallery,, Philadelphia, PA
2008 “Thirteen Artists”, DeCordova Gallery, Greenport, NY
2008 “Annual Benefit for Maureen’s Haven”, DeCordova Gallery,, Greenport, NY
2008 “The 70th Annual Guild Hall Member Exhibition”, Guild Hall, E Hampton, NY
2008 “Works in Progress”, Rosenwald Wolf Gallery,, Philadelphia, PA
2008 “The Contemporary Landscape”, East End Arts Council, Riverhead, NY
2008 “Faculty Exhibition”, Hewlett Public Library, Hewlett, NY
2007 “Emerging Artists”, Phoenix Fine Arts Gallery, Bellport, NY
2006 “Alumni Small Works Show”, Joseloff Gallery, West Hartford, CT
2005 “Made in Florence”, Gallery Via San Gallo, Santa Reparata, Firenze, Italy.
2004 “Guild Hall Annual Clothesline Exhibition”, Guild Hall, East Hampton, NY
2003 “Faculty Exhibition”, Hewlett Public Library,, Hewlett, NY
2001 "Artist/Teacher Exhibition”, Cork Gallery Lincoln Center, New York, NY
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
2018 “Meadows Hold Your Clouds”, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Bergen, Montvale, NJ
2016 “Summer Frog Pond series”, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Monmouth, Middleton, NJ
2015 “Endless Blue Mountains series” The Josie Robertson Surgery Center at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY
2014 “First Night watercolors”, Bobst International Center at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY
RESIDENCIES
2020 Millay Colony for the Arts, WinterTide, Austerlitz, NY.
2019 Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill, Truro, MA.
2014 and 2012 Soaring Gardens Artists’ Retreat, Ora Lerman Charitable Trust, Laceyville, PA.
2012 Contemporary Artists Center at Woodside, Troy, NY.
2012 ChaNorth, Chashama Artist Residency, Pine Plains, NY.
AWARDS
2008-2010 Graduate Merit Scholarship, University of the Arts
2008 Honorable Mention, “The Contemporary Landscape”, East End Arts Council Riverhead, NY
2008 Best Representational Work in Show, “The 70th Annual Guild Hall Artist Member's Exhibition”, East Hampton, NY
2005 Japan Fulbright Memorial Fund Teacher Fellowship. Travel and cultural study.
2005 New York State Art Teacher Association Printmaking Scholarship for study at Santa Reparta International School of Art in Florence, Italy.
2002 Dan Welden Printmaking Award
PUBLICATIONS
“UMVA Summer Showcase 2025: Martha Ferguson, Marjorie Arnett, Ruth Sylmor”, Maine Arts Journal Summer 2025: Encounters, 2025.
Susan Blood, “Turning Truro into a Crossroads of the Arts” Artists in Residence, Open Studio event at Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill, Truro, MA.,” Provincetown Banner, Wicked Local newspaper, April 24, 2019.
Carol Selman, “Three Artist Share a “Pale Language” At New Jersey Arts Incubator,” West Orange Patch, online blog, September 17, 2011.
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Union of Maine Visual Artists, Portland, ME