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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