Ada Wren

b. 1971, Burlington, VT · Lives and works in the Hudson Valley, NY · Represented by Northlight Gallery, Kingston, NY

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Education

1998MFA, Painting, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI

1993BA, Studio Art, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT

2027The Valley in Weather, Northlight Gallery, Kingston, NY

2025Watercolors, Fenwick Gallery, Burlington, VT

2023The Valley, Northlight Gallery, Kingston, NY; traveled to Marsh Street Art Center, Portland, ME

2015After Rome, Fenwick Gallery, Burlington, VT

2018Ponds and Heaths, Carrow Gallery, Providence, RI

2026–2027Painting Outdoors Now, Hollis Museum of Art, Albany, NY (curated by Ruth Calloway)

2021The Painted Field, Northfield Collection, Middlebury, VT (curated by Owen Leary)

2016Small Oils, Carrow Gallery, Providence, RI

2022Painting Fellowship, the Alder Foundation

2017Individual Artist Grant, the Vermont Painters Fund

2019Artist in residence, Heron Point Studios, Deer Isle, ME

2013Artist in residence, Villa Serena, Albano Laziale, Italy

Hollis Museum of Art, Albany, NY

Northfield Collection, Middlebury, VT

2023Nora Pell, Ada Wren: The Valley (Kingston, NY: Northlight Editions, 2023)

2023Nora Pell, “Weather you can walk into,” The Valley Review, vol. 31, no. 4, 12 October 2023, pp. 22–25

2022Tom Ashby, “A painter of small weathers,” Landscape Quarterly, April 2022

2021Lena Marsh, “On painting outdoors,” The Studio Hour, 2 July 2021

2019Sam Holloway, “Painting the hour after rain,” Northern Arts Radio, 20 November 2019

2015Staff, “Ten painters of the northeast,” Hill Country Arts Weekly, March 2015

2024On painting outdoors, Hollis Museum of Art, Albany, NY

2016–presentSummer landscape painting, Heron Point Studios, Deer Isle, ME

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