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