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Biff Bolen
485 San Marcos Loop
505-808-9685
biffbolen@gmail.com



Education
2012 M.F.A. University of South Florida, Tampa, Fl.
2008-09 School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Il.
2001 B.A. Newberry College, Newberry, S.C.


Selected Solo Exhibitions

2025
On the Phone With Toast, Underdonk Gallery, NY, NY.

2016
Biff Bolen, Glass Gallery, Lamar Dodd School of Art, University of Georgia, Athens Ga.

2014
You and Me. Wrong Store, Marfa, Tx

2012
Lonely Things, Entrance 24/7 Gallery, Marfa, TX.

2010
Glue Sniffer, William and Nancy Oliver Gallery, Tampa, FL.


Selected Group Shows


2025
Real World, Beverly’s, NY, NY.

FEX, Taos Abstract Artist Collective, Stables Gallery, Taos, N.M.

Ink Miami Art Fair with Parallelogram Gallery, Art Basil, Miami Beach, Fl.



2018
Facebuster, Pilote studios, Philadelphia Pa.


2012
Where We Are: Tectonic Shifts and Dissolution of Boundaries, DeLuce Gallery, Northwest Missouri State University, Maryville, MO.

Sand in the Vacuum, Graduating MFA Exhibition, Contemporary Art Museum, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL.

Drawings and Air Conditioning, Front Gallery, Houston, TX.

Pan Art Fair w/ Front Gallery. Houston, TX.

Infinite Jamz, LVL3 Gallery, Chicago, IL.

Art Basil: Miami Beach: Davis, California Satellite Show. Davis, California.


2011
Special Projects Box, Regina Rex, Brooklyn, N.Y.

2010
Miami Independent Thinkers (concurrent with Art Basel Miami) Miami, FL.

Post Human/Future Tense, Columbia College, Chicago, IL. (catalogue)

2009
Third Arm, SUGS Curated Booth, Art Chicago, Chicago, IL.

Day One, William and Nancy Oliver Gallery, Tampa, FL.



Bibliography

New American Paintings MFA Edition 2011
New American Paintings West edition 2014
Noah Berlatsky, "Post Human/Future Tense" Critics Choice, Chicago Reader, Nov 4, 2010.




Experience and Awards



2012 Acre Residency, Steuben, Wi.

2011 George Liebert Scholarship, Ox-Bow Residency, Saugatuck, Mi.

2009-2010 Graduate Teaching Assistant, Intermediate Painting, University of South Florida

2010-2012 Instructor of Record, Painting Department, University of South Florida