Debra K. Jayne is a New England based painter and printmaker. She received her MFA at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University in Boston, and her undergraduate degree at the University of Washington in Seattle. She is a founding member of Two Rivers Printmaking Studio in White River Junction, VT. She has participated in limited edition portfolios at TRPS that were purchased by the Boston Public Library, the Hood Museum at Dartmouth College and the Baily-Howe Library of special collections at the University of Vermont. Her paintings have been in national and international juried exhibits, the Katherine Weems Center Painting Biennial, School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts, Boston Young Contemporaries, Boston University, Art Takes Manhattan, the Cape Cod Museum of Art, The Chautauqua Institution, AVA Gallery, and others. Her works are in private collections in the U.S., Canada, France, and Norway.
Education
MFA, School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University, Boston, MA, 2014
Post-Baccalaureate, School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts, Boston, 2012
BA in Art, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Professional Experience
2023-2021
Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College
Visitor Services Guide
2021-17
Two Rivers Printmaking Studio, White River Junction, VT
Board of Directors and Artist Member
2021-15
Cambridge Art Association, Artist Member, Cambridge, MA
2021-14
2023-2021
Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College
Visitor Services Guide
2021-17
Two Rivers Printmaking Studio, White River Junction, VT
Board of Directors and Artist Member
2021-15
Cambridge Art Association, Artist Member, Cambridge, MA
2021-14
AVA Gallery Faculty, Lebanon, NH
2016
New Hampshire Art Association, Portsmouth, NH
2016
New Hampshire Art Association, Portsmouth, NH
2014
School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts, Boston, MA
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Observational Painting
2012
2012
School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts, Boston, MA
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Print and Paper
2011-07
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Print and Paper
2011-07
Two Rivers Printmaking Studio, White River Junction,
Curated and prepared exhibits, teaching assistant
Curated and prepared exhibits, teaching assistant
2008
Castello di Spannocchia, studied wood block printmaking, Siena, Italy
2006
Castello di Spannocchia, studied wood block printmaking, Siena, Italy
2001
Two Rivers Printmaking Studio, founding member, White River Junction, VT
Residencies, Awards and Grants
2024
Artist in Residence, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
2021
Mascoma River Greenway Tunnel, Mural
Juried art commission, AVA artist collaboration
2017
International Juried Exhibition, Second Place
Center for Contemporary Art, Bedminster, NJ
Residencies, Awards and Grants
2024
Artist in Residence, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
2021
Mascoma River Greenway Tunnel, Mural
Juried art commission, AVA artist collaboration
2018
Artist in Residence, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
2017
International Juried Exhibition, Second Place
Center for Contemporary Art, Bedminster, NJ
2016
Artist in Residence, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
2014
Artist in Residence, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
President’s Research Award, SMFA at Tufts, Boston, MA
2013
2013
Montague Travel Grant, London, UK
2012
2012
Merit Scholarship, SMFA at Tufts, Boston, MA
Solo Exhibits
2016
Red Mill Gallery, Vermont Studio Center, Architectural and Urban Sites,
Johnson, VT
2016
Atrium of 50 Church Street, Viscosity Prints, Cambridge, MA
2015
2016
Red Mill Gallery, Vermont Studio Center, Architectural and Urban Sites,
Johnson, VT
2016
Atrium of 50 Church Street, Viscosity Prints, Cambridge, MA
2015
Dartmouth College, Baker-Berry Library, Architectural Paintings
Hanover, NH
2014
Museum of Fine Arts William Morris Hunt Memorial Library, Form and Fracture,
Boston, MA
2010
2014
Museum of Fine Arts William Morris Hunt Memorial Library, Form and Fracture,
Boston, MA
2010
Dartmouth College, Dana Library, Landscapes, Hanover, NH
2008
Two Rivers Printmaking Studio, Landscapes, WRJ, VT
2007
Howe Library, Benefit for Entoto Foundation, Hanover, NH
2006
Two Rivers Printmaking Studio, White River Junction, VT
Juried Exhibits
2024
Bewteen Water and Sun
AVA Gallery, White River Junction, VT
2019
We the People, Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis, MA
National Juried Exhibit, Juried by Lauren P. Della Monica; contributor to major
magazines and periodicals, and has lectured at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Members Prize Show, University PL Gallery, Cambridge, MA
Juried by Lisa Crossman, art historian and curator at the Fitchburg Art Museum
Messages for the Future, AVA Gallery, Lebanon, NH
Juried by Alan Chong, Director at the Currier Museum of Art
2018
Red Biennial, Kathryn Schultz Gallery, Cambridge, MA
Juried by Dan Byers, John R. and Barbara Robinson, Directorof the Carpenter Center for Visual Arts at Harvard University
61st Chautauqua Institution Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Art, NY
Juried by Sharon Louden, author of "Living and Sustaining a Creative
Life:Essays by 40 Working Artists"
National Prize Show, University PL Gallery, Cambridge, MA
Juried by Michelle Grabner (Crown Family Professor in Painting and Drawing, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Jessica Hong (Assistant Curator, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston), and Jamilah James (Curator, Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Momenta IV, Two Rivers Printmaking Studio, White River Junction, VT
Juried by James Stroud of Center Street Studio, Milton Village, MA
Members Prize Show, University PL Gallery, Cambridge, MA
Juried by Joseph Carroll of Carroll and Sons Gallery in Boston
2017
Blue Biennial, Kathryn Schultz Gallery, Cambridge, MA
Juried by Vera Ingrid Grant, Ethelbert Cooper Gallery of African
and American Art of the Hutchins Center, Harvard University, Cambridge
International Juried Exhibit 2017, Center for Contemporary Art
(Second Place), juried by Stephen Westfall, Professor at Rutgers University
and Contributing Editor for Art in America. Bedminster, NJ
In Transit, Art League Rhode Island
VETS Gallery. Juried by Abigail Newbold, Director of
Exhibitions, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Providence, RI
National Prize Show, University Place Gallery, Cambridge, MA
juried by Nick Capasso, director of of the Fitchburg Art Museum,
former Deputy Director for Curatorial Affairs at the
deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum in Lincoln, MA
2016
Red Biennial, Kathryn Schultz Gallery, Cambridge, MA
Juried by Joseph D. Ketner II, the Henry and Lois Foster Chair in
Contemporary Art Theory and Practice at Emerson College, Boston
Art Takes Manhattan, Summer Show, NYC, NY
Juried by Kate Shin, director of Waterfall Gallery, Neil Powell, board member of MoCa Beijing and Pro Vice-Chancellor at Norwich University of the Arts, Jaime Martinez, publisher of ArteFuse Magazine and New York based artist and
Manuel Rodriguez, director of Art takes Manhattan
Member Show, featured artist, Robert Lincoln Levy Gallery, NH Art Association
Juried by Carol Van Loon, Portsmouth, NH
2015
Members Prize Show, University Place Cambridge, MA
Juried by Dominic Molon, Richard Brown Baker Curator of
Contemporary Art, Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, RI
Abstracted, Uforge Gallery, Jamaica Plain, MA
Juried by Alex Kittle, assistant director of Uforge Gallery
2006
Two Rivers Printmaking Studio, White River Junction, VT
Juried Exhibits
2024
Bewteen Water and Sun
AVA Gallery, White River Junction, VT
2019
We the People, Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis, MA
National Juried Exhibit, Juried by Lauren P. Della Monica; contributor to major
magazines and periodicals, and has lectured at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Members Prize Show, University PL Gallery, Cambridge, MA
Juried by Lisa Crossman, art historian and curator at the Fitchburg Art Museum
Messages for the Future, AVA Gallery, Lebanon, NH
Juried by Alan Chong, Director at the Currier Museum of Art
2018
Red Biennial, Kathryn Schultz Gallery, Cambridge, MA
Juried by Dan Byers, John R. and Barbara Robinson, Directorof the Carpenter Center for Visual Arts at Harvard University
61st Chautauqua Institution Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Art, NY
Juried by Sharon Louden, author of "Living and Sustaining a Creative
Life:Essays by 40 Working Artists"
National Prize Show, University PL Gallery, Cambridge, MA
Juried by Michelle Grabner (Crown Family Professor in Painting and Drawing, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Jessica Hong (Assistant Curator, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston), and Jamilah James (Curator, Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Momenta IV, Two Rivers Printmaking Studio, White River Junction, VT
Juried by James Stroud of Center Street Studio, Milton Village, MA
Members Prize Show, University PL Gallery, Cambridge, MA
Juried by Joseph Carroll of Carroll and Sons Gallery in Boston
2017
Blue Biennial, Kathryn Schultz Gallery, Cambridge, MA
Juried by Vera Ingrid Grant, Ethelbert Cooper Gallery of African
and American Art of the Hutchins Center, Harvard University, Cambridge
International Juried Exhibit 2017, Center for Contemporary Art
(Second Place), juried by Stephen Westfall, Professor at Rutgers University
and Contributing Editor for Art in America. Bedminster, NJ
In Transit, Art League Rhode Island
VETS Gallery. Juried by Abigail Newbold, Director of
Exhibitions, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Providence, RI
National Prize Show, University Place Gallery, Cambridge, MA
juried by Nick Capasso, director of of the Fitchburg Art Museum,
former Deputy Director for Curatorial Affairs at the
deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum in Lincoln, MA
2016
Red Biennial, Kathryn Schultz Gallery, Cambridge, MA
Juried by Joseph D. Ketner II, the Henry and Lois Foster Chair in
Contemporary Art Theory and Practice at Emerson College, Boston
Art Takes Manhattan, Summer Show, NYC, NY
Juried by Kate Shin, director of Waterfall Gallery, Neil Powell, board member of MoCa Beijing and Pro Vice-Chancellor at Norwich University of the Arts, Jaime Martinez, publisher of ArteFuse Magazine and New York based artist and
Manuel Rodriguez, director of Art takes Manhattan
Member Show, featured artist, Robert Lincoln Levy Gallery, NH Art Association
Juried by Carol Van Loon, Portsmouth, NH
2015
Members Prize Show, University Place Cambridge, MA
Juried by Dominic Molon, Richard Brown Baker Curator of
Contemporary Art, Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, RI
Abstracted, Uforge Gallery, Jamaica Plain, MA
Juried by Alex Kittle, assistant director of Uforge Gallery
2014
Boston Young Contemporaries, Boston University, Boston, MA
Painting Area Biennial, Katherine Weems Center, Boston, MA
Painting Area Biennial, Katherine Weems Center, Boston, MA
2013
Arches Student Show, Boston Printmakers, Boston University, Boston, MA
2012
2012
Printmaking Student Exhibit, SMFA, Boston, MA
Drawing Student Exhibit, SMFA, Boston, MA
2011
Drawing Student Exhibit, SMFA, Boston, MA
2011
Ava Gallery, Juried by Katherine C. Hart, Director of the Hood Museum of Art, Lebanon, NH
Printmaking Student Exhibit, SMFA, Boston, MA
2010
Printmaking Student Exhibit, SMFA, Boston, MA
2010
Spheris Gallery, Juried by Cynthia Reeves, Hanover, NH
2009
2009
Momenta III, TRPS, Juried by David Berona, curator of Lamson
Library Print Series, Plymouth State University, Plymouth, NH
AVA Gallery, Lebanon, NH
2007
AVA Gallery, Lebanon, NH
2006
Library Print Series, Plymouth State University, Plymouth, NH
AVA Gallery, Lebanon, NH
2007
AVA Gallery, Lebanon, NH
2006
Momenta 11, TRPS, Juried by Matt Atkins, assistant curator of
Currier Museum of Manchester, NH
2005
Currier Museum of Manchester, NH
2005
Momenta 1, TRPS, Juried by Andrew Witkin, Director of Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024
Two Rivers Printmaking, Discoveries
White River Junction, VT
2021
AVA Gallery and Art Center
Two Rivers Printmaking Studio
20 years anniversary celebration
2021
Two Rivers Printmaking Studio
Hallway group exhibit, twice
Tip Top Building, White River Junction, VT
2020
Two Rivers Printmaking Studio
"Pause" Reflections of times during COVID
Tip Top Building, White River Junction, VT
Attleboro Art Museum, Attleboro, MA
Benefit Art Auction
After Alfred
AVA Art Gallery, Lebanon, NH
Two Rivers Printmaking Studio
Plate, Print, Process
White River Junction, VT
Two Rivers Printmaking Studio
TRPS Members Print Exchange
COVID Reflections
2019
We the People, Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis, MA
Members Prize Show, University Place Gallery, Cambridge, MA
Downs Rachlin Martin Law Firm, Lebanon, NH
Two Rivers Printmaking Studio Silent Auction Fundraiser
White River Junction, VT
Two Rivers Printmaking Studio Land on Paper
White River Junction, VT
2018
Two Rivers Printmaking Studio Group Show
Woodcut prints from Lyell Castonguay and Carand Burnet's
"Big Ink" Tuna Press. White River Junction, VT
Upper Valley Art Alliance
AVA Silent Auction, Benefit for AVA Gallery, Lebanon, NH
2016
Robert Lincoln Levy Gallery, Portsmouth, NH
Distillery Gallery, South Boston, MA
There is a Garden, and it Exists
Parker Hill Library of Boston Public Library, Art of Place, Roxbury, MA
2015
AVA Gallery, Annual Holiday Exhibition, Lebanon, NH
University Place Gallery, Mary Schein Fall Salon, Cambridge, MA
Kathryn Schultz Gallery, New Members Exhibit, Boston, MA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024
Two Rivers Printmaking, Discoveries
White River Junction, VT
2021
AVA Gallery and Art Center
Two Rivers Printmaking Studio
20 years anniversary celebration
2021
Two Rivers Printmaking Studio
Hallway group exhibit, twice
Tip Top Building, White River Junction, VT
2020
Two Rivers Printmaking Studio
"Pause" Reflections of times during COVID
Tip Top Building, White River Junction, VT
Attleboro Art Museum, Attleboro, MA
Benefit Art Auction
After Alfred
AVA Art Gallery, Lebanon, NH
Two Rivers Printmaking Studio
Plate, Print, Process
White River Junction, VT
Two Rivers Printmaking Studio
TRPS Members Print Exchange
COVID Reflections
2019
We the People, Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis, MA
Members Prize Show, University Place Gallery, Cambridge, MA
Downs Rachlin Martin Law Firm, Lebanon, NH
Two Rivers Printmaking Studio Silent Auction Fundraiser
White River Junction, VT
Two Rivers Printmaking Studio Land on Paper
White River Junction, VT
2018
Two Rivers Printmaking Studio Group Show
Woodcut prints from Lyell Castonguay and Carand Burnet's
"Big Ink" Tuna Press. White River Junction, VT
Upper Valley Art Alliance
AVA Silent Auction, Benefit for AVA Gallery, Lebanon, NH
2016
Robert Lincoln Levy Gallery, Portsmouth, NH
Distillery Gallery, South Boston, MA
There is a Garden, and it Exists
Parker Hill Library of Boston Public Library, Art of Place, Roxbury, MA
2015
AVA Gallery, Annual Holiday Exhibition, Lebanon, NH
University Place Gallery, Mary Schein Fall Salon, Cambridge, MA
Kathryn Schultz Gallery, New Members Exhibit, Boston, MA
Uforge Gallery, Wanderlust, Jamaica Plain, MA
Two Rivers Printmaking Studio, White River Junction, VT
2014
MFA Thesis Exhibit, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA
Two Rivers Printmaking Studio, White River Junction, VT
2014
MFA Thesis Exhibit, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA
Graduating Students and Award Recipients Exhibition,
Ross Anderson Auditorium, SMFA, Boston, MA
Ross Anderson Auditorium, SMFA, Boston, MA
Student Exhibit, Mission Hill Building, Roxbury, MA
Samson Gallery, Proof of Purchase, Boston, MA
2013
Samson Gallery, Proof of Purchase, Boston, MA
2013
Parker Hill Library of Boston Public Library, Roxbury, MA
SMFA Mission Hill, MFA Student Exhibit, Boston, MA
Hostel International, Eclectic Mix, Boston, MA
Hostel International, Boston, MA
2012
SMFA Mission Hill, MFA Student Exhibit, Boston, MA
Hostel International, Eclectic Mix, Boston, MA
Hostel International, Boston, MA
2012
SMFA Mission Hill, Student Exhibit Boston, MA
2011
Post Baccalaureate SMFA Student Exhibit, Boston, MA
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH
2010
2011
Post Baccalaureate SMFA Student Exhibit, Boston, MA
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH
2010
Art Works, Hand Pulled Prints, Woodstock, VT
Two Rivers Printmaking Studio, Silent Auction, WRJ, VT
2009
Two Rivers Printmaking Studio, Silent Auction, WRJ, VT
2009
Opera North, 3rd Annual Opera Exhibit, Lebanon, NH
Norwich Public Library, Norwich, VT
2008
Norwich Public Library, Norwich, VT
2008
Lamson Library, Plymouth State University, NH
McIninch Art Gallery, Southern NH University, Manchester, NH
2006
McIninch Art Gallery, Southern NH University, Manchester, NH
2006
Franklin Pierce Law Center, Concord, NH
Flynndog, Burlington, VT
Two Rivers Printmaking Studio, Whte River Junction, VT
Selected Bibliography
Studio Visit, juried artist books. Volume 41 and 42, 2018.
Artscope Magazine. "2018 CAA Prize Show". 12th Anniversary Issue.
Boston, MA. March and April, 2018.
Cambridge Art Association. "National Prize Show." Cambridge, MA, 2017.
Cambridge Art Association. "Red Bienneal." Cambridge, MA, 2016.
Cambridge Art Association. "Members Prize Show." Cambridge, MA, 2016.
The Imroper Bostonian Magazine, "From Pillar to Poster." July issue, 2015.
William Morris Hunt Memorial Library, "Form and Fracture." Museum of Fine
Arts Archives, Boston, MA, 2014.
William J. Simmons. "A Boston Young Contemporary: Debra K. Jayne."
Big, Red and Shiny, Aug, 2014.
Sean Hill. "The Cyclorama Show, Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition, SMFA, Boston." Big, Red and Shiny, May, 2014.
Two Rivers Printmaking Studio. "10th Anniversary Portfolio, A Decade of Printmaking." Member Portfolio Prints. White River Junction, VT 2011.
Two Rivers Printmaking Studio. Portfolio of Prints" White River Junction, VT 2011.
Flynndog, Burlington, VT
Two Rivers Printmaking Studio, Whte River Junction, VT
Selected Bibliography
Studio Visit, juried artist books. Volume 41 and 42, 2018.
Artscope Magazine. "2018 CAA Prize Show". 12th Anniversary Issue.
Boston, MA. March and April, 2018.
Cambridge Art Association. "National Prize Show." Cambridge, MA, 2017.
Cambridge Art Association. "Red Bienneal." Cambridge, MA, 2016.
Cambridge Art Association. "Members Prize Show." Cambridge, MA, 2016.
The Imroper Bostonian Magazine, "From Pillar to Poster." July issue, 2015.
William Morris Hunt Memorial Library, "Form and Fracture." Museum of Fine
Arts Archives, Boston, MA, 2014.
William J. Simmons. "A Boston Young Contemporary: Debra K. Jayne."
Big, Red and Shiny, Aug, 2014.
Sean Hill. "The Cyclorama Show, Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition, SMFA, Boston." Big, Red and Shiny, May, 2014.
Two Rivers Printmaking Studio. "10th Anniversary Portfolio, A Decade of Printmaking." Member Portfolio Prints. White River Junction, VT 2011.
Two Rivers Printmaking Studio. Portfolio of Prints" White River Junction, VT 2011.
Collections
Wellington Collections
International Contemporary Art
Museum of Fine Arts Boston
William Morris Hunt Library archives
Boston, MA
Boston Public Library
Boston, MA
Baker-Berry Library
Dartmouth College
Hanover, NH
Hood Museum
Hanover, NH
Bailey-Howe Library of Special Collections
University of Vermont
Burlington, VT
