Photo: Josh Cohen
SCOTT BLUEDORN
Born Southampton, NY 1986
Lives and works in Sag Harbor and Bridgehampton, NY
Education: BFA School of Visual Arts, NYC 2009
“Scott Bluedorn is a Sag Harbor-based artist, illustrator and designer who works across media including drawing, painting, printmaking, installation, collage and assemblage. He creates surreal imagery inspired by maritime history, cultural anthropology, myth, supernatural themes and the natural world to distill a vision he deems a “maritime cosmology”.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023
“Natural Artifact”, Suffolk County Community College, Brentwood, NY
2022
“Ars Simia Naturae”, Clinton Academy, East Hampton, NY
2020
“Bonac Blind”, Parrish Art Museum Road Show, On-site at Accabonac Harbor, Springs, NY and subsequently at the Parrish Art Museum, Watermill, NY
2019
“Recent Work: Scott Bluedorn”, Artist Association of Nantucket, Nantucket, MA
2018
“Current Archive”, Stick and Stone, Amagansett, NY
2016
“A Maritime Cosmology”, Amagansett Historical Association, Amagansett, NY
SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023
“Memorabilia”, Radio28, Mexico City, Mexico
“Macroalgae Mobilization”, Blindside Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2022
“Reasons to be Hopeful”, The Storefront, Bellport, NY
2021
“Dormant Futures: Scott Bluedorn and Alexander Perez”, Kathryn Markel Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY
2020
“Compte Rendu”, Grenning Gallery, Sag Harbor, NY
2019
“Artists Choose Artists”, Parrish Art Museum, Watermill, NY
“52nd Annual Artists of the Springs Invitational, Ashawagh Hall, Springs, NY
“Winter Drawing Show”, FolioEast, East Hampton, NY
“In the Cloud”, Kathryn Markel Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY
2018
“The Barn Show 2018”, Johannes Vogt Gallery, East Hampton, NY
“Sea and Sky”, Sag Harbor Whaling Museum, Sag Harbor, NY
“Untitled Projects”, Crush Curatorial, Amagansett, NY
2017
“Eyes of the East End”, ARC Fine Art, Fairfield, CT
“Impressions”, South Street Gallery, Greenport, NY
2016
“Featured Artists”, Artists Association of Nantucket, Nantucket, MA
“Get With the Program”, Roman Fine Arts, East Hampton, NY
“Radical Seafaring”, Parrish Art Museum, Watermill, NY
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Goodman, Wendy: “This Floating Tiny House in East Hampton Is Inspired by a Duck Blind”, New York Magazine, November 9-22 2020, pg.48-49
Grover, Andrea: “Radical Seafaring”, Parrish Art Museum/Delmonico Books, 2016, Pgs. 86-89
Duke, Biddle: “Scott Bluedorn: Maritime Cosmologist”, East Magazine, Vol.1, July 2016, pgs. 46-50
COLLECTIONS
The Edward Albee Foundation, New York, NY
Parrish Art Museum, Watermill, NY Numerous private collections in US, Australia, Hawaii, Canada, Ireland, France and Portugal.
RESIDENCIES
2023 Radio28 Creative Studio, Mexico City, Mexico
Tides Institute, Eastport, ME
2022 Fountainhead Residency, Miami, FL
2021 Guild Hall Community Artist-in-Residence, East Hampton, NY
2019 Shoals Marine Lab Artist Residency, Isles of Shoals, ME
Artists Association of Nantucket, Nantucket, MA
Takeover! Artists in Residence, Southampton Arts Center, Southampton, NY
2018 Cuttyhunk Island Residency, Cuttyhunk Island, MA
2016 Andy Warhol Foundation/ The Nature Conservancy Artist Residency, Montauk, NY