Professor, Painting + Drawing Hermine Pruzan Endowed Faculty Fellow ART 306galenic@uw.eduPersonal WebsiteFields of Interest Drawing Painting Background and ExperienceSummaryEducationMFA, Yale University, 1991BFA, Rhode Island College, 1988Ann Gale is an American figurative painter based in Seattle, Washington. She has been the recipient of several awards including: Western States Art Federation/National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant, and a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship. She received an Academy of Arts and Letters Museum Purchase Award and is an Academician of the National Academy of Art and Design, New York. Gale’s work has been exhibited in galleries and museums across the United States including solo exhibitions at The Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco; Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects, New York; The Fralin Art Museum, University of Virginia; University of Massachusetts, Lowell; the Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon; and the Weatherspoon Art Museum at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Her work is represented by the Dolby Chadwick Gallery in San Francisco. Research + Creative Work Ann Gale, Gloria with Pink, oil on linen-wrapped board Ann Gale, Robert in Mother's Chair, oil on canvas Ann Gale, Gone are Gold, oil on mylar Selected Publications + Projects Ann Gale. Artwork exhibited in For America: Paintings from the National Academy of Design. Multiple venues nationally from February 20, 2019 – January 9, 2022. Read more Ann Gale. Artwork exhibited in FACES + Figures: Ann Gale. University Gallery, UMass Lowell, Lowell, Massachusetts. September 4 – October 9, 2019. Read more Ann Gale. Artwork exhibited in In Her Own Image: Self Portraits by Women from 1900–2018. Concord Center for the Visual Arts, Concord, Massachusetts. October 18 – November 25, 2018. Read more Ann Gale. Artwork exhibited in Ann Gale: Portraits. The Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia. September 30, 2016 – February 12, 2017. Read more Ann Gale. Artwork exhibited in Implied Fictions. Pivot Art + Culture, Seattle, Washington. December 2, 2016 – March 26, 2017. Read more Ann Gale. "An Extraordinary Studio Artist in a Post-Studio Era," a review written by John Yau for Hyperallergic about Gale's solo exhibition at Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects. Published February 1, 2015. Read more Courses Taught Winter 2025 ART 290 A: Beginning Drawing: The Figure ART 392 A: Intermediate Painting ART 393 A: Intermediate Painting Topics Autumn 2024 ART 190 A: Introduction to Drawing ART 492 A: Advanced Painting: The Figure Spring 2024 ART 392 A: Intermediate Painting ART 393 A: Intermediate Painting Topics Winter 2024 ART 292 A: Beginning Painting ART 492 A: Advanced Painting: The Figure Autumn 2023 ART 190 A: Introduction to Drawing ART 494 A: Senior Seminar in Painting and Drawing Winter 2023 ART 292 A: Beginning Painting ART 490 A: Advanced Drawing Autumn 2022 ART 392 A: Intermediate Painting ART 393 A: Intermediate Painting Topics ART 492 A: Advanced Painting: The Figure ART 592 A: Graduate Studio: Painting ART 700 A: Master's Thesis Winter 2022 ART 292 A: Beginning Painting ART 492 A: Advanced Painting: The Figure Autumn 2021 ART 190 A: Introduction to Drawing ART 494 A: Senior Seminar in Painting and Drawing Spring 2021 ART 392 A: Intermediate Painting ART 393 A: Intermediate Painting Topics Winter 2021 ART 492 A: Advanced Painting: The Figure ART 594 A: Graduate Seminar in Painting and Drawing Autumn 2020 ART 494 A: Senior Seminar in Painting and Drawing Autumn 2019 ART 494 A: Senior Seminar in Painting and Drawing Spring 2019 ART 392 A: Intermediate Painting ART 393 A: Intermediate Painting Topics Winter 2019 ART 392 A: Intermediate Painting ART 393 A: Intermediate Painting Topics Autumn 2018 ART 190 A: Introduction to Drawing Winter 2018 ART 290 B: Beginning Drawing: The Figure Autumn 2017 ART 494 A: Senior Seminar In Painting And Drawing Spring 2017 ART 290 A: Beginning Drawing: The Figure ART 492 A: Advanced Painting: The Figure Winter 2017 ART 290 A: Beginning Drawing: The Figure ART 501 A: Graduate Student Teaching Mentorship Autumn 2016 ART 190 A: Introduction To Drawing ART 392 A: Intermediate Painting ART 393 A: Intermediate Painting Topics Spring 2016 ART 492 A: Advanced Painting: The Figure ART 494 A: Senior Seminar In Painting And Drawing Winter 2016 ART 292 A: Beginning Painting ART 490 A: Advanced Drawing Related News Related News Supporting Faculty Oct 1, 2018 Painting Exhibitions + Colloquium Oct 8, 2017 2015 Undergraduate Research Symposium May 7, 2015 Faculty + Alums Receive Artist Trust GAPs Nov 6, 2013 Faculty Lecture – Ann Gale, Painting + Drawing Oct 2, 2012