Artist's Biography

Bruce McColl is an American artist known for his intensely colorful, textured oil paintings, pastels, and collages. Drawing largely from themes and images of daily life, McColl's work feels at once private and familiar, mundane and exalted: His family, and household and studio objects are insistent, central elements of the artist's personal iconography. Architecture, gardens, and landscapes also find their way into his work as backdrops for paintings that include figures, animals, and the ubiquitous totems of his interiors.

McColl was born in Michigan in 1966. He graduated from Cranbrook School, received his B.A. from Brown University in 1988, and was awarded his M.F.A. from Wayne State University in 1994. Following his graduate studies McColl was an Instructor of Fine Arts at Tabor Academy in Marion, Massachusetts, and an Adjunct Professor of Art and Art History at Bristol Community College in Fall River, Massachusetts. Since 2005 he has been the Director of the Currier Art Center in Manchester, New Hampshire.

McColl has had numerous one person shows in New England and New York, and has been included in many group exhibitions in the region. He has been awarded grants, fellowships and residencies since 1994; including, most recently a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, and two Fellowships in Painting at ArtWorks! in New Bedford, Massachusetts.


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