Selected Solo Exhibitions

2024 Nicole Longnecker Gallery, Houston, Texas, March 9-May 11, 2024

Piedmont Art Center, Martinsville, Virginia, August 10-November 2, 2024

2022 Tinney Contemporary, Nashville, TN, July-August 2022

Zynka Gallery, Pittsburgh, Pa, September - October, 2022

2021 Phantom Histories and Other Weapons, Patricia Bellan-Gillen, McDonough Museum of Art, Youngstown, OH

Mixed Media Work, Patricia Bellan-Gillen, Susan Tinney Contemporary, Nashville, TN

2018 Storied Animals, (Permanent Installation), The Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh

2017 Patricia Bellan-Gillen/Large Scale Drawings and Prints, The Media Center Gallery, Rice University,  Houston, TX

2016 Willful Wondering, Miller Gallery, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA (Catalog)

Willful Wondering/Selected Works, Tinney Contemporary, Nashville, TN

Willful Wondering/Small Works, Heike Pickett Gallery, Versailles, KY

2015 Works on Paper, The Station Gallery, Lock Haven, PA

2014 Paper Fictions, Solander Gallery, Wellington, NZ

2013 Necessary Fictions, James Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA 

Disorderly Notions, Susan Tinney Contemporary, Nashville, TN (2011)  

New Work on Paper, Lake George Art Project Gallery, Lake George, NY

With Apologies to the Reverend James Ussher, Center for Drawing Research, University of the Arts London/Wimbledon, London, UK

2012 Beautiful Stories (Remix), Elzay Gallery, Ohio Northern University, Ada, OH

(Re)Collection, Handwerker Gallery, Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY (catalog)

2011 Rebirth/Still Lies, Center for Drawing Research, University of the Arts London/Wimbledon, London, UK

Stealing Stories, University Gallery, University of North Carolina Asheville, Asheville, NC(catalog)

University Gallery, University of Northern Kentucky, Newport, KY

2009 Zoo.Logic+, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA

2008 Zoo.Logic,The Erie Museum of Art, Erie, PA,

Chautauqua Institute Gallery, Stroll Arts Center, Chautauqua, NY,

Heike Pickett Gallery, Lexington and Versailles, KY and

Anne Wright Wilson Fine Art Gallery, Georgetown College, Georgetown, KY

2007 Heike Pickett Pickett Gallery, Lexington and Versailles, KY  (2001, 1996)

2006 Kendall Gallery of Art, Ferris State University, Grand Rapids, MI

Butters Gallery, Portland, OR (1997)

2005 Not Really Animal Stories, Bruce Gallery, Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, Edinboro, PA

2004 Artists Image Resource, Pittsburgh, PA (1997)

2001 Space 201, The Brewhouse, Pittsburgh, PA

Fosdick-Nelson Gallery, SUNY at Alfred, Alfred, NY

1999 University Art Gallery, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM

Merwin and Wakely Gallery, Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington, IL

1998 University Gallery, Miami University, Oxford, OH

1996 Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR

College Art Gallery, College of Saint Rose, Albany, NY

1995 The Lowe Gallery, Atlanta, GA

Heuzer Art Gallery, Bradley University, Peoria, IL

Artemesia, Chicago, IL

Mesaros Gallery, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV

Artist of the Year Exhibition, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA

1994 Kittredge Gallery, University of the Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA

Middleton-McMillan Gallery, Spirit Square Center for the Arts, Charlotte, NC

Morehead University Art Gallery, Morehead University, Morehead, KY 

Selected Group Exhibitions

2021 When the Bough Breaks, Penn State Center for Contemporary Art, State College, PA

2020 When the Bough Breaks, York College Galleries, York, PA

2019 Multiplicity, James Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA

When the Bough Breaks, Gallery 93, Pittsburgh, PA

The Pizzuti Collection, Columbus, OH

2018 The Last Picture Show, Heike Pickett Gallery, Lexington and Versailles, KY

2016 Wolves, Magic Mirrors and Spinning Wheels: the Anatomy of Fairy Tales, Everhart Museum, Scranton, PA

Collage, VACI Galleries, Chautauqua Institution, Chautauqua, NY

John Reigert, Space Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA

2015 The Drawing Show 2, Kenise Barnes Gallery, Larchmont, NY

Collage, James Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA

Wall Paintings, Space Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA

2013 Cosmologies/Carol Prusa and Patricia Bellan-Gillen, Heike Pickett Gallery, Versailles, KY

Public/Private, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL

Animalia Agitatus, Clarion University Art Gallery, Clarion PA

INDA 8, Manifest Drawing and Research Center, Cincinnati, OH

2012 Inspired Colleagues, Gallery 61, New York Institute of Technology, New York, NY

Flora and Fauna: Figuring and Fathoming, Kipp Gallery, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, PA

INDA 7, Manifest Drawing and Research Center, Cincinnati, OH

2011 East/West Printmaking Portfolio, University of Louisiana Museum of Art (Traveling) 

Large-Scale Drawings, UMW Gallery, University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg, MD

Gertrude’s Lot, The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA

Flora and Fauna, Heike Pickett Gallery, Lexington, KY

INDA 6, International Drawing Exhibition in Print, Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, OH (2010)

The Ground We Walk On/Local Histories, 357 Liberty, Chapel Hill, NC

 Printmaking as a Catalyst for Social Change, AIR, Pittsburgh, PA

2010 Summer Selections, Sherry Leedy Contemporary, Kansas City, MO

Fracking, Exit Art, New York, NY

Great Lakes Drawing Biennial, Eastern Michigan University Gallery, Ypsilanti, MI (Best of Show)        

Small Gems, Butters Gallery, Portland, OR

Metaphysical Manifestations, Susan Tinney Contemporary, Nashville, TN and University Gallery, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA (catalog)

Searching for God, Kuhn Gallery, Ohio State University, Marion, OH

Printmaking, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL

2009 Monoprints/Drawing with Ink, Frans Masereel Centrum, Belgium

Lake George Zoo II, Lake George Art Center, Lake George, NY

2 Be or Not to Be, Stedman Art Gallery, State University of New Jersey, Camden, NJ

2008 Celebrating Darwin, Hopkins Hall Gallery, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH and Kuhn Gallery, Ohio State  University, Marion, OH

Big Prints, Rice University Gallery, Houston, TX

Pittsburgh 250, Fe Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA (catalog)

2007 Glassnost, Regina Gouger Miller Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA

2006 Cattle in American Art, 1820-2000, Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY

2005 Pressing On, University Gallery, Kent State University, Kent, OH

2004 Flock and Fable, The Chelsea Art Museum, New York, NY

2003 Mentors/Students, Fleisher Art Memorial, Philadelphia, PA

2001-2003 Artists of the Commonwealth: Realism in Pennsylvania Painting 1950-2000, 6 Museums in PA, Erie Art Museum, Erie, PA

Westmoreland County Museum of Art, Greensburg, PA

Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Loretto, PA

Everhart Museum of Art, Science and Natural History, Scranton, PA

State Museum, Harrisburg, PA

2002 Mixed Metaphors, The University of Wyoming Art Museum, Laramie, WY

Prints: Process and Product, SRC Art Gallery, The College of Saint Rose, Albany, NY

A.I.R. at Foreland Street, William Busta Gallery, Cleveland, OH

American Art Today: Fantasy and Oddity, The Art Museum at FIU, Florida International University, Miami, FL

Patricia Bellan-Gillen and Susanne Slavick, New Harmony Center for Contemporary Art, New Harmony, IN

1999 Religion in Contemporary Art, Tacoma Museum of Art, Tacoma, WA

Selections From Zygote, Artists Image Resource and  the New York Print Workshop,  The Center  for       Innovative Printmaking, Lafayette University, Easton.  PA and Westminster College Art Gallery, Westminster College, New Wilmington, PA

1998 Five Artists, George Billis Gallery, New York, NY

World Image, Image World, Kunst Seminar Freie Hochschule, Metzingen, Germany

1997 Patricia Bellan-Gillen and Carol Kumata, the State Museum at Harrisburg, Harrisburg, PA and Three Rivers Arts Festival, Pittsburgh, PA

Nostalgia for the Future, Nova Scotia School of Art and Design, Halifax, Canada

Five Printmakers, Tyler School of Art-Rome Galleries, Rome, Italy

Living Together, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya, Japan

Patricia Bellan-Gillen and Dale Leyes, Turman Gallery, University of Indiana, Terre Haute, IN

Gallery Artists, Associated American Artists, New York, NY

Allographies, Sutton Museum of Art, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, PA

1996 Object/Symbol, Associated American Artists Gallery, New York, NY

The Printed Word in Art, Erie Museum of Art, Outreach, Erie, PA

1995 Keystones, Artists From the State, Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Loretto, PA


Selected Lectures and Residencies 

2018 Rice University, Houston, TX

2017 George Mason University, Fredericksburg, VA

2014 University of Georgia, Athens, GA

2013 University of the Arts London/Wimbledon, UK

2012 Vanderbilt University, Nashville, PA

Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY

Ohio Northern University, Ada, OH

2011 The University of North Carolina/Asheville

2010 Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL

Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA

Lincoln Park School for the Arts, Midland, PA

2009 Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA

 Panel Participant: 2 Be or Not 2 Be, Rutgers University, Camden, NJ

2008 Erie Museum of Art, Erie, PA

Print Residency, Art Department, Rice University, Houston, TX

Ohio State University, Columbus, OH

2006 Kendall College of Art, Ferris State University, Grand Rapids, MI

2005 Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, Edinboro, PA

Oregon College of Arts and Crafts, Portland, OR 

Visual Literacy, panel participant, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO

Blossom Festival Kent State Universty, Kent, OH

The Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA

Artists Lecture Series, The Brewhouse, Pittsburgh, PA

2000 NYSCC at Alfred Univesity, Alfred, NY

Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, Edinboro, PA

Community College of Westmoreland County, New Stanton, PA

1999 New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM

Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington, IL

1998 Miami University, Oxford, OH

1997 University of Indiana, Terre Haute, IN

The Applebee Distinguished Lecture, Lebanon Valley College, Anneville, PA

1996 Rice University, Art Department, Houston, TX

University of Kentucky, Art Department, Lexington, KY

College of Saint Rose, Art Department, Albany, NY

Sweet Briar College, Sweet Briar VA

1995 Bradley University, Art Department, Peoria, IL

West Virginia University, Art Department, Morgantown, WV

University of the Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA

1994 Morehead University, Morehead, KY