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Boston, MA   |   scott.offen@gmail.com


SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2024

‘Lonely among Us: MassArt MFA Photography 2024 Thesis Exhibition’, Benrubi Gallery, New York, NY, May – June

‘Emergence: MFA 2024 Thesis Exhibition’, MassArt’s Doran Graduate Gallery, Boston, MA, April – June

‘MassArt’s 2024 MFA Thesis’, MassArt x SoWa Gallery, Boston, MA

‘MassArt Auction’, Massachusetts College of Art & Design, Boston, MA

‘Winter Solstice’, Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA

2023

‘MassArt All School Show’, Massachusetts College of Art & Design, Boston, MA

2022

‘MassArt Auction’, Massachusetts College of Art & Design, Boston, MA

2021

‘Five to Watch’, Panopticon Gallery, Boston, MA

‘The Art Of Storytelling’, Doran Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art & Design, Boston, MA

‘Grace’, Solo Show, Aviary Gallery, Jamaica Plain, MA

‘Vacant. No More’, pop-up group show, Brown Family House Gallery, Brookline, MA

2020

‘Juried Members Show’, Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA

‘Undergraduate Photography Now’, Photographic Resource Center, Cambridge, MA

‘Student Exhibition’, Photographic Resource Center, Cambridge, MA

2018

‘Fay Chandler Emerging Artist Exhibition’, Boston City Hall Boston, MA

2017

‘Fay Chandler Emerging Artist Exhibition’, Boston City Hall, Boston, MA

2017

‘Post-Bac Thesis Exhibition’, Massachusetts College of Art & Design, Boston, MA

2016

‘Disorder’, Solo Show, Newton Free Library, Newton, MA


AWARDS 

2024 Graduate Thesis Award, Massachusetts College of Art and Design

2021 Critical Mass 200, Photolucida

2021 Chico Hot Springs Portfolio Review (Juried)

2020 Chico Hot Springs Portfolio Review (Juried)

2020 Senior Class Speaker, MassArt Photography Department

2020 Purchase Prize Griffin Museum of Photography


COLLECTIONS

The Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA


ARTIST TALKS & PUBLICATIONS

2024 MassArt MFA Thesis Artist Talks, DMC Hall, Massachusetts College of Art & Design, Boston, MA

2021 Nowhere Diary (online feature – interview), www.nowherediary.co

2020 Fotofilmic JRNL 6 Fall 2020 Winners, selected by Guest Editor Emma Bowkett

2017 Artist Talk, MassArt Summer Program, Massachusetts College of Art & Design, Boston, MA

https://sowa.massart.edu/artist/scott-offen/

https://dorecollective.com/scott-offen-interview

https://www.massartphotography.org/scottoffen

https://www.lensculture.com/scott-offen-2

http://www.aviarygallery.com/current-exhibition


EDUCATION

2024 MFA, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA

2020 Fall Semester Independent Study with Lois Conner, Massachusetts College of Art and Design,

Boston, MA

2020 BFA, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA

2019 Fall Semester Independent Study with Bill Burke, Massachusetts College of Art and Design,

Boston, MA

2014-2016 Photography workshops at the New England School of Photography, Boston, MA

1978-1982 Hamilton College, Clinton, NY

 

ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCE

2013 Present Overseer, Peabody Essex Museum

2006-2012 Trustee, Peabody Essex Museum

2006 Present Proprietor, The Boston Athenaeum


RELATED EXPERIENCE

Trustee Armenian Library and Museum of America

Trustee Leo Baeck Institute NY

Trustee and Co-Treasurer Maimonides School

Trustee Boston Early Music Festival

Trustee and Treasurer Congregation Shaarei Tefillah

Archives Committee The Roxbury Latin School