Bio

Education

1992 Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT, MFA

1990 Rhode Island College, Providence, RI, BFA

Exhibitions

2023 Erased Landscapes, Hamilton Gallery, Salve Regina University, Newport, RI (solo)

2023 Striking the Set, Overlap, Newport, RI, curated by Alicia Renadette

2022 Fear to Tread, Roger That Gallery, Roger Williams University, Bristol, RI, curated by Alexander Castro

2021 From Now to Then, Artport, Kingston, NY

2020 Drivin’ Along, Drive-By Projects, Boston, MA

2019 Wheaton Biennial: Brush Coat Cover, Beard and Weil Galleries, Wheaton College, Norton, MA, curated by Cade Tompkins

2019 Work from the Collection of Martina Yamin, Wright Galleries, Chicag, IL

2019 RISCA Fellowship Exhibition, Warwick Center for the Arts, Warwick, RI

2018 Transparent Factors, NIU Art Museum, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL

2018 Salon, De Chiara Projects New York/Berlin, Garden Space, New York, NY

2017 VOLTA NY, De Chiara Projects New York/Berlin, New York, NY (solo)

2017 Meet Us Here, De Chiara Projects New York/Berlin, Salon Space Mitte, Berlin, Germany

2016 Kolne Liste Art 2016, De Chiara Projects New York/Berlin, Cologne, Germany

2016 Market: Art + Design, De Chiara Projects New York/Berlin, Bridgehampton Museum, Bridgehampton, NY

2016 Memory’s Landscape, GREEN SPACE, Rhode Island State Council on the Arts Public Art Program, T.F. Green Terminal, Warwick, RI

2015 Nor’easter, New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT, curated by Sharon Butler

2014 Something Blue, Artspace, New Haven, CT

2014 Transcendent Landscapes, Drive-By Projects, Boston, MA

2014 50 Years, Bristol Art Museum, Bristol, RI

2014 RISCA Fellowship Exhibition, Pawtucket Arts Collaborative Mill Gallery, Pawtucket, RI

2013 Locally Made, RISD Museum, Providence, RI

2013 PVD/TLA, Studio 1504, Abu Dhabi

2013 RISCA Fellowship Exhibition, Jamestown Arts Center, Jamestown, RI

2012 Transplace, SAAHP Gallery, Roger Williams University, Bristol, RI (solo)

2012 Color Go Lightly… An Homage to Color, Gallery Valentine, Bridgehampton, NY, curated by Laurie DeChiara and Todd Hutcheson

2011 Boston Drawing Project, Carroll and Sons, Boston, MA

2011 Among the Breakage: New Painting from Providence, David Winton Bell Gallery, List Art Center, Brown University, Providence, RI, curated by Maya Allison and Neal Walsh

2011 Salve Regina Faculty Exhibit, Dorrance H. Hamilton Gallery, Salve Regina University, Newport, RI

2010 Faculty Exhibition, Bannister Gallery, Rhode Island College, Providence, RI

2009 Two Painters and a Sculptor, Bannister Gallery, Rhode Island College, Providence, RI

2009 Visual Aids Benefit, Metro Pictures, New York, NY

2008 Regin Igloria and Ernest Jolicoeur, Pratt at Munson Williams Proctor Institute of Art, Utica, NY

2008 Amy Wynne Derry and Ernest Jolicoeur: New Work, Chazan Gallery at Wheeler, Providence, RI

2008 Fidelity Investment’s All Media, The Providence Art Club, Providence, RI

2004 The Ludovico Treatment, Mullerdechiara Gallery, Berlin, Germany, curated by David Hunt

2004 Pantone, Massimo Audiello, NY, curated by David Hunt

2004 MACO, Mexico Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City, Mexico, in cooperation with Mullerdechiara Gallery, Berlin

2003 Anywhere But Here, Jeff Bailey Gallery, NY

2003 Abstract per se, Red Dot, NY

2001 Running in Flip Flops, Feature Inc., NY

2001 Ernest Jolicoeur, Galerie m du B, F, H & g, Montreal, Canada, in cooperation with Feature Inc., NY (solo)

2000 Jello, Frederieke Taylor Gallery, NY, curated by Max Henry

2000 New New York, Eastern Connecticut State University, Willimantic, CT

2000 Greater New York, MoMA PS1, Long Island City, NY

2000 Aintings and Rawings, Feature Inc., NY

1999 Summer, Kagan Martos Gallery, NY

1999 Size Matters, Gale Gates et al., Brooklyn, NY

1998 Everaftermath, Silverstein Gallery, NY (solo)

1998 GlyphRiff, Stefanelli Exhibition Space, NY

1998 Olga Adelantado, Ernest Jolicoeur and David McMurray, Elga Wimmer, NY

1997 Rumbleseat, Silverstein Gallery, NY (solo)

1997 Ernest Jolicoeur, University of North Carolina at Pembroke, Pembroke, NC (solo)

1997 Prosthetic Garden, Silverstein Gallery, NY

1996 White Columns at Green Hill, Green Hill Center for North Carolina Art, Greensboro, NC, curated by Bill Arning

1996 Ernest Jolicoeur, Art/Ex Gallery, Stamford Museum, Stamford, CT (solo)

Honors and Awards

2019 Rhode Island State Council on the Arts Fellowship in Painting

2014 Rhode Island State Council on the Arts Fellowship in Drawing

2013 Rhode Island State Council on the Arts Merit Fellowship in Drawing

2006 Artist Resource Trust Foundation Grant

1993 Nominee for the Louis Comfort Tiffany Award

1992 Ely Harwood Schless Memorial Fund Prize

Public Collections

Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, RI

New Britain Museum of Art, New Britain, CT

Book Publication

Ernest Jolicoeur and Anthony Mangieri. Muse and Mercy: Exploring Fine and Decorative Arts at Salve Regina University. Winter 2022.

Bibliography

2023 Teryn O’Brien, ““Erased Landscapes” featuring artwork by Salve’s gallery director Ernest Jolicoeur.” Salve Today, October 4, 2023.

2022 Don Wilkerson, “Fear to Tread.” Fall River Herald News, Novemeber 12, 2022.

2022 Grant Soelder, “Fear to Tread: How Art Interacts.” The Hawk’s Herald, November 19, 2022.

2017 Hannah Wahle, “Ernest Jolicoeur: Drawings and Paintings.” De Chiara Projects New York/Berlin, exhibition catalog, 2017.

2014 Cate McQuaid, “Natural Beauty,” The Boston Globe, October 08, 2014.

2014 Patricia Lacouture, “Diverse Faculty Art Exhibitted at Salve,” Newport This Week, October 09, 2014, page 24.

2012 Suzanne Volmer, “Locating Place,” Artscope, November/December 2012, page 39.

2011 Doug Norris, “Sea-Struck,” Blog on a Half Shell, Monday, December 12, 2011

2011 Greg Cook, “Among the Breakage Scratches the Surface of the Bell Gallery,” The Providence Phoenix, June 28.

2011 Bill Van Siclen, “Breaking Up, and Making Up Artistic Disciplines at Brown,” Providence Journal, June 16, page D9.

2009 Greg Cook, “Mixing It Up,” The Providence Phoenix, June 26-July 21, page 20.

2008 Doug Norris, “New Work: Amy Wynne Derry & Ernest Jolicoeur,” Art New England, April/May, page 40.

2008 Bill Van Siclen, “Drawing and Sculpture Intertwined,” Providence Journal, January 31, page E6.

2008 Kathie Raleigh, “An Abstract View of the Land,” Woonsocket Call, January 27, page B1.

2008 Greg Cook, “Tale of the Tape,” The Phoenix, January 29.

2004 Roberta Smith, “Pantone,” New York Times, January 9, page 43.

2001 Max Henry, “When Painting Meets Digital,” Tema Celeste, May June, page 59.

2000 Barbara A. MacAdam, “Greater New York,” Artnews, May, page 226.

2000 William Zimmer, Form, Color and More From 25 Artists, New York Times, Connecticut Edition, Sunday, August 13, page 17.

2000 Max Henry, Gotham Dispatch, Artnet, June 5.

2000 Max Henry, Gotham Dispatch, Artnet, March 3.

Teaching

2021-2024 Salve Regina University, Newport, RI, Associate Professor

2015-2020 Salve Regina University, Newport, RI, Assistant Professor

2005-2015 Rhode Island College, Providence, RI, Adjunct Instructor

2007-2015 Salve Regina University, Newport, RI, Adjunct Instructor

2004-2006 Community College of Rhode Island, Warwick, RI, Adjunct Instructor

1994-1995 Coker College, Hartsville, SC, Visiting Lecturer

1991-1992 Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT, Teaching Assistant

1991 Yale Summer School of Art and Music, Norfolk, CT, Teaching Assistant

Related Work Experience

2011-2024 Gallery Director, Dorrance H. Hamilton Gallery, Salve Regina University, Newport, RI, Manage all aspects of university art gallery

1996-2018 Sculpture Fabricator and Special Projects Coordinator, NYC, NY and Scituate, RI, Project-based work for museums, galleries, architects and artists

1996-1999 Exhibitions Preparator and Art Handler, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, NYC, Installation, preparation, handling and inventory management of all art work