Education
1984 MFA Painting, School of the Museum of Fine Arts/Tufts University, Boston, MA 1972 BFA Painting, Southeastern Massachusetts University, North Dartmouth, MA
1975-77 Ceramic Apprenticeship with William Wyman, North Scituate, MA
1974 New York State School of Ceramics, Alfred University, Alfred, NY, Don Pilcher
Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC, Cynthia Bringle
Teaching
1989- 2018 Fine Arts Lecturer, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, North Dartmouth, MA
Grants, Awards
2023 Massachusetts Cultural Council Recovery Grant for Individuals
ARTnet Grant, New Bedford Creative
1994 National Endowment for the Arts Regional Visual Artist’s Fellowship, Works on Paper
1984 Tomasso Travel Award, Italy, Tufts University
Goya Seminar at the Prado Museum, Madrid, Spain
1982 Boit Competition Award by the School of the Museum of Fine Artists
Public Collections
Boston Public Library, Drawing Collection, Boston, MA
Selected Exhibitions
2025 Best of SouthCoast Artists, invitational, New Bedford Art Museum, New Bedford, MA
Portraits, Judith Klein Gallery, New Bedford, MA
2024 Pamela Hoss and Kim Barry, Two Painters, Two Friends, Marion Art Center, Marion, MA 2023 Open Studios on the Sidewalk, Design Art Technology Massachusetts, New Bedford, MA
Figurative Exhibition, Dartmouth Cultural Center, Dartmouth, MA
Curious Figure, Co-Creative Center, New Bedford, MA 2020-2021 Juried Members Exhibition, New Bedford Art Museum/Art Works, New Bedford, MA, best in show,
Juror, Dina Deitch, Chief Curator of Tufts University Art Galleries
2019 Juried Members Exhibition, New Bedford Art Museum/Art Works, New Bedford, MA, Dominic Molon, Contemporary Art Curator,
Rhode Island School of Design Museum
It's All About Me, Self-Portrait Exhibition, Gallery X, New Bedford, MA 2018 In Her Own Image: Self Portraits by Women from 1900 – 2018, invitational, Concord Center for the Visual Arts, Concord, MA 2017 Light Off The River, VanVessem Gallery, Tiverton, RI
Figuratively Speaking, Grimshaw-Gudewicz Art Gallery, Bristol Community College, Fall River, MA
2016 Hatch Street Artists, Crapo Gallery, New Bedford, MA
2015 The Tenacity of the Figure, invitational, Narrows Center for the Arts, Fall River, MA
Exhibiting Contemporary Women From Providence to Provincetown, Gallery X, New Bedford, MA 2014 Works on Paper National Juried Exhibition, South Shore Art Center, Cohasset, MA
Hatch Street Studios Group Show, Crowell's Fine Art Gallery, New Bedford, MA New Bedford Art Museum Juried Member’s Show
Igniting the Passion, CVPA Gallery, UMass Dartmouth, North Dartmouth, MA 2011 1+1 = Artists Couples, Judith Klein Gallery, New Bedford, MA
Faculty / Mentor Show, Art Works Gallery, New Bedford, MA
2010 40 Years, Women's Resource Center, Gallery X, New Bedford, MA
Women of Summer, Judith Klein Gallery, New Bedford, MA
Charcoal and Ink, Judith Klein Gallery 2009 National Figure Show, North River Art Society, Marshfield, MA
2007 Humanly Possible, 4 Figurative Artists, invitational, New Bedford Art Museum
2006 A Community of Artists, Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, MA
2005 Major Works by 25 Artists, invitational, 63A Wareham Street, South End, Boston, MA
2004 Contemporary Drawings, The Art Store, Charleston, WV
2003 Pamela Hoss, Current Work, one-person exhibition, Gallery 244, New Bedford
2002 Sixteen Years of Drawing, one-person exhibition, Duxbury Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, MA
2001 Alumni Exhibition at the Aidekman Arts Center, Tufts University, Medford, MA
2000 Fine Arts Downtown 2000, New Bedford Art Museum, New Bedford, MA
1998 25 Years of Art: Anniversary Exhibition, The Art Store Gallery, Charleston, WV 1997 Works on Paper, two-person exhibition, Nesto Gallery, Milton Academy, Milton, MA
1996 Drawing from Perception, National Juried Exhibition, Bernard Chaet Award, Wright State University, Dayton, OH
New England Today, 1994 Artist Fellowship Recipients, New England Foundation for the Arts, Chinese Cultural Institute, Boston, MA
1995 Pamela Hoss, Recent Work, one-person exhibition, Lillian Immig Gallery, Emmanuel College, Boston, MA
Refigured Drawing, Arno Maris Gallery, invitational, Westfield State College, Westfield, MA
University of Massachusetts Amherst, Boston, Dartmouth, Lowell; Fine Arts Faculty, UMASS Medical Center Gallery, Worcester, MA
1993 Self-Amused: Contemporary Artist as Observer and Observed, invitational, Fitchburg Museum, Fitchburg, MA
Heroes and Heroines, Cyclorama, invitational, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA
1990 The Eleventh Annual Boston Drawing Show, Cyclorama, Boston Center for the Arts, Guest Curator Katy Kline, Director,
MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA
Looking Glass Views, Harbor Gallery, University of Massachusetts Boston 1989 Tenth Annual Boston Drawing Show, Cyclorama, Boston Center for the Arts, Guest Curator, Kathy Halbreich,
Beal Curator of Contemporary Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Selected Drawings from the Boston Drawing Show, Bank of Boston Gallery, Boston, MA
1983 Pamela Hoss, one-person exhibition, Tufts University Art Galleries, Medford, MA
School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Special Exhibitions Gallery, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Spring Fever, New England Juried Show, first prize, South Shore Art Center, Cohasset, MA 1982 South Shore Arts Festival, best in show, Cohasset, MA 1981 South Shore Arts Festival, painting award, Cohasset, MA
1977 Craftforms, A Bicentennial Exhibition of Contemporary New England Crafts, Brockton Art Museum, Fuller Memorial, Brockton, MA
1976 Ceramics, one-person exhibition, The Art Store Gallery, Charleston, WV
Massachusetts Association of Craftsmen, Worcester Crafts Center, Worcester, MA 1972 Providence Art Show, Providence Art Club, Providence, RI
Curatorial Positions
2023-2025 Juror, Cuttyhunk Plein Air Festival, Marion Art Center, Cuttyhunk, MA
2012 Co-curator, (Willoughby Elliott), Contemporary Drawing with South Coast Connections, New Bedford Art Museum
Juror, Individual Artist's Grants, Rhode Island State Council on the Arts, Drawing and Printmaking
2009 Juror, National Figure Show, North River Art Society, Marshfield, MA
Selected Bibliography
2024 New Bedford Light, (Oct. 13, 2024), Pamela Hoss’ Life Illuminated Through Self-Portraits, Don Wilkinson
2023 New Bedford Light, “The history of my life”: Pamela Hoss, (Nov. 16, 2023), David Walega
2020 Standard Times, Coastin, Portraits of Pamela Hoss, (Sept. 17, 2020), Don Wilkinson
2018 South Coast Today, (Nov. 8, 2018), New Bedford Art Museums 2018 Juried Members Show, Don Wilkinson
2017 The Standard Times / Coastin, (Dec. 21, 2017), NBAM Members Exhibition, Don Wilkinson
2015 Artscope, July/August, The Tenacity of the Human Figure, Brian Goslow
2014 The New Bedford Standard Times, (Aug. 16, 2014), Hatch Street Studios, Don Wilkinson
2013 South Coast Today, (Jan. 1, 2013), Top Ten Exhibits, Contemporary Drawing with South Coast Connections, Don Wilkinson
2002 The Patriot Ledger, (Feb. 18, 2002), Portrait of an Artist, Art Complex Museum, John Lehman
2001 A Creative Legacy: A History of the National Endowment for the Arts Visual Artists’ Fellowship Program, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers
1997 The Boston Globe, (Nov. 6, 1997), Works on Paper, by Cate McQuaid
The Boston Globe, (Oct. 30) Calendar, Works on Paper, Christine Temin
The Boston Globe, (Oct. 19), 2 Siblings Draw on Their Talents, by Judith Montminy 1996 Art New England, (Feb./March), Emmanuel College exhibit, by Susan Mulski
The Boston Globe, (Jan. 3, 1996), New England Today, by Christine Temin 1995 The Patriot Ledger, (Sept. 24, 1995), Pamela Hoss, Emmanuel College, by Constance Gorfinkle
1983 The Patriot Ledger, (April 12, 1983), Pamela Hoss, Tufts University, by Constance Gorfinkle
1982 The Patriot Ledger, (July 13, 1982), South Shore Arts Festival, by Virginia Freyermuth
1977 Ceramics Monthly, (Feb.), Craftforms
Links https://vimeo.com/1012887369, Pamela Hoss Interview
https://datma.org>open-studios-on-the-sidewalks-pamelahoss
1984 MFA Painting, School of the Museum of Fine Arts/Tufts University, Boston, MA 1972 BFA Painting, Southeastern Massachusetts University, North Dartmouth, MA
1975-77 Ceramic Apprenticeship with William Wyman, North Scituate, MA
1974 New York State School of Ceramics, Alfred University, Alfred, NY, Don Pilcher
Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC, Cynthia Bringle
Teaching
1989- 2018 Fine Arts Lecturer, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, North Dartmouth, MA
Grants, Awards
2023 Massachusetts Cultural Council Recovery Grant for Individuals
ARTnet Grant, New Bedford Creative
1994 National Endowment for the Arts Regional Visual Artist’s Fellowship, Works on Paper
1984 Tomasso Travel Award, Italy, Tufts University
Goya Seminar at the Prado Museum, Madrid, Spain
1982 Boit Competition Award by the School of the Museum of Fine Artists
Public Collections
Boston Public Library, Drawing Collection, Boston, MA
Selected Exhibitions
2025 Best of SouthCoast Artists, invitational, New Bedford Art Museum, New Bedford, MA
Portraits, Judith Klein Gallery, New Bedford, MA
2024 Pamela Hoss and Kim Barry, Two Painters, Two Friends, Marion Art Center, Marion, MA 2023 Open Studios on the Sidewalk, Design Art Technology Massachusetts, New Bedford, MA
Figurative Exhibition, Dartmouth Cultural Center, Dartmouth, MA
Curious Figure, Co-Creative Center, New Bedford, MA 2020-2021 Juried Members Exhibition, New Bedford Art Museum/Art Works, New Bedford, MA, best in show,
Juror, Dina Deitch, Chief Curator of Tufts University Art Galleries
2019 Juried Members Exhibition, New Bedford Art Museum/Art Works, New Bedford, MA, Dominic Molon, Contemporary Art Curator,
Rhode Island School of Design Museum
It's All About Me, Self-Portrait Exhibition, Gallery X, New Bedford, MA 2018 In Her Own Image: Self Portraits by Women from 1900 – 2018, invitational, Concord Center for the Visual Arts, Concord, MA 2017 Light Off The River, VanVessem Gallery, Tiverton, RI
Figuratively Speaking, Grimshaw-Gudewicz Art Gallery, Bristol Community College, Fall River, MA
2016 Hatch Street Artists, Crapo Gallery, New Bedford, MA
2015 The Tenacity of the Figure, invitational, Narrows Center for the Arts, Fall River, MA
Exhibiting Contemporary Women From Providence to Provincetown, Gallery X, New Bedford, MA 2014 Works on Paper National Juried Exhibition, South Shore Art Center, Cohasset, MA
Hatch Street Studios Group Show, Crowell's Fine Art Gallery, New Bedford, MA New Bedford Art Museum Juried Member’s Show
Igniting the Passion, CVPA Gallery, UMass Dartmouth, North Dartmouth, MA 2011 1+1 = Artists Couples, Judith Klein Gallery, New Bedford, MA
Faculty / Mentor Show, Art Works Gallery, New Bedford, MA
2010 40 Years, Women's Resource Center, Gallery X, New Bedford, MA
Women of Summer, Judith Klein Gallery, New Bedford, MA
Charcoal and Ink, Judith Klein Gallery 2009 National Figure Show, North River Art Society, Marshfield, MA
2007 Humanly Possible, 4 Figurative Artists, invitational, New Bedford Art Museum
2006 A Community of Artists, Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, MA
2005 Major Works by 25 Artists, invitational, 63A Wareham Street, South End, Boston, MA
2004 Contemporary Drawings, The Art Store, Charleston, WV
2003 Pamela Hoss, Current Work, one-person exhibition, Gallery 244, New Bedford
2002 Sixteen Years of Drawing, one-person exhibition, Duxbury Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, MA
2001 Alumni Exhibition at the Aidekman Arts Center, Tufts University, Medford, MA
2000 Fine Arts Downtown 2000, New Bedford Art Museum, New Bedford, MA
1998 25 Years of Art: Anniversary Exhibition, The Art Store Gallery, Charleston, WV 1997 Works on Paper, two-person exhibition, Nesto Gallery, Milton Academy, Milton, MA
1996 Drawing from Perception, National Juried Exhibition, Bernard Chaet Award, Wright State University, Dayton, OH
New England Today, 1994 Artist Fellowship Recipients, New England Foundation for the Arts, Chinese Cultural Institute, Boston, MA
1995 Pamela Hoss, Recent Work, one-person exhibition, Lillian Immig Gallery, Emmanuel College, Boston, MA
Refigured Drawing, Arno Maris Gallery, invitational, Westfield State College, Westfield, MA
University of Massachusetts Amherst, Boston, Dartmouth, Lowell; Fine Arts Faculty, UMASS Medical Center Gallery, Worcester, MA
1993 Self-Amused: Contemporary Artist as Observer and Observed, invitational, Fitchburg Museum, Fitchburg, MA
Heroes and Heroines, Cyclorama, invitational, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA
1990 The Eleventh Annual Boston Drawing Show, Cyclorama, Boston Center for the Arts, Guest Curator Katy Kline, Director,
MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA
Looking Glass Views, Harbor Gallery, University of Massachusetts Boston 1989 Tenth Annual Boston Drawing Show, Cyclorama, Boston Center for the Arts, Guest Curator, Kathy Halbreich,
Beal Curator of Contemporary Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Selected Drawings from the Boston Drawing Show, Bank of Boston Gallery, Boston, MA
1983 Pamela Hoss, one-person exhibition, Tufts University Art Galleries, Medford, MA
School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Special Exhibitions Gallery, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Spring Fever, New England Juried Show, first prize, South Shore Art Center, Cohasset, MA 1982 South Shore Arts Festival, best in show, Cohasset, MA 1981 South Shore Arts Festival, painting award, Cohasset, MA
1977 Craftforms, A Bicentennial Exhibition of Contemporary New England Crafts, Brockton Art Museum, Fuller Memorial, Brockton, MA
1976 Ceramics, one-person exhibition, The Art Store Gallery, Charleston, WV
Massachusetts Association of Craftsmen, Worcester Crafts Center, Worcester, MA 1972 Providence Art Show, Providence Art Club, Providence, RI
Curatorial Positions
2023-2025 Juror, Cuttyhunk Plein Air Festival, Marion Art Center, Cuttyhunk, MA
2012 Co-curator, (Willoughby Elliott), Contemporary Drawing with South Coast Connections, New Bedford Art Museum
Juror, Individual Artist's Grants, Rhode Island State Council on the Arts, Drawing and Printmaking
2009 Juror, National Figure Show, North River Art Society, Marshfield, MA
Selected Bibliography
2024 New Bedford Light, (Oct. 13, 2024), Pamela Hoss’ Life Illuminated Through Self-Portraits, Don Wilkinson
2023 New Bedford Light, “The history of my life”: Pamela Hoss, (Nov. 16, 2023), David Walega
2020 Standard Times, Coastin, Portraits of Pamela Hoss, (Sept. 17, 2020), Don Wilkinson
2018 South Coast Today, (Nov. 8, 2018), New Bedford Art Museums 2018 Juried Members Show, Don Wilkinson
2017 The Standard Times / Coastin, (Dec. 21, 2017), NBAM Members Exhibition, Don Wilkinson
2015 Artscope, July/August, The Tenacity of the Human Figure, Brian Goslow
2014 The New Bedford Standard Times, (Aug. 16, 2014), Hatch Street Studios, Don Wilkinson
2013 South Coast Today, (Jan. 1, 2013), Top Ten Exhibits, Contemporary Drawing with South Coast Connections, Don Wilkinson
2002 The Patriot Ledger, (Feb. 18, 2002), Portrait of an Artist, Art Complex Museum, John Lehman
2001 A Creative Legacy: A History of the National Endowment for the Arts Visual Artists’ Fellowship Program, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers
1997 The Boston Globe, (Nov. 6, 1997), Works on Paper, by Cate McQuaid
The Boston Globe, (Oct. 30) Calendar, Works on Paper, Christine Temin
The Boston Globe, (Oct. 19), 2 Siblings Draw on Their Talents, by Judith Montminy 1996 Art New England, (Feb./March), Emmanuel College exhibit, by Susan Mulski
The Boston Globe, (Jan. 3, 1996), New England Today, by Christine Temin 1995 The Patriot Ledger, (Sept. 24, 1995), Pamela Hoss, Emmanuel College, by Constance Gorfinkle
1983 The Patriot Ledger, (April 12, 1983), Pamela Hoss, Tufts University, by Constance Gorfinkle
1982 The Patriot Ledger, (July 13, 1982), South Shore Arts Festival, by Virginia Freyermuth
1977 Ceramics Monthly, (Feb.), Craftforms
Links https://vimeo.com/1012887369, Pamela Hoss Interview
https://datma.org>open-studios-on-the-sidewalks-pamelahoss