| 1991 | MFA, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI |
| 1985 | BA, University of Michigan/The Residential College, Ann Arbor, MI |
| 2020 | Medicinals of Marin. Marin General Hospital, Kentfield, CA. Two walls consisting of one large
print on wood panel (4’Hx13’¼”L) and 8 giclée prints (4’Hx3’L). New Botanical Works. Art Program at Langone Medical Center: commission for Langone Medical Center, New York, NY. A suite of screen prints commissioned in 2020, and a major drawing commissioned in 2014. |
| 2019 | Roaming Underfoot. MTA Arts in Transit: commission for artwork at 28th St. Station subway, New
York, NY. Glass mosaic murals on subway platform walls depicting seven flowering plants that are
sourced from nearby Madison Square Park Conservancy Perennial Collection. Outdoor/Indoor Garden. Billboard Project and Museum wall: commision for North Carolina Museum of Art. 3 billboards of printed drawings in NCMA sculpture park and large vinyl installation in the museum restaurant. |
| 2015 | Revival. San Francisco Arts Commission: San Francisco General Hospital Acute Care Public Art Project Art Glass for 5 Light Court windows (each 25'Lx7'H) and interior glass feature (9'Hx8'L). |
| 2014 | Immigration/Migration, Hypocycloids, Old Oak Forest. Central Corridor Light Rail Transit: integrated artwork for the transit stations along the Central Corridor Light Transit Line, Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN. |
| 2012 | Enliven. SEPTA Art in Transit: Cheltenham and Ogontz Bus Loop Project, Cheltenham Township, PA. Sculpture for a landscaped rainwater filtration system at bus loop. |
| 2008 | Dogwood Basins. Charlotte Area Transit System. Thirty basins cast in bronze and mounted on the 15 platforms along the CATS rail line in Charlotte, NC. |
| 2007 | Floating Auriculas. Metro Transit Authority, Arts for Transit: commission for artwork at MTA Metro-North train station, Dobbs Ferry Station, NY. Installed are seven mosaic ‘auricula flowers’ at 8 feet in diameter on retaining wall. |
| 2004 | Flower Wall. Port of Seattle: commission for artwork at the South Terminal, Seattle-Tacoma Airport, Seattle, WA. 65 flower sculptures placed on a 100-foot wall. |
| 2002 | City Light, City Bright. Seattle Arts Commission, City of Seattle, Seattle, WA: hatch covers, cast iron, 42” round. 50 placed in the streets of Seattle. |
| 2021 | Sustaining Encounters. Reynolds Gallery, Richmond, VA |
| 2018 | Nancy Blum: Drawings. Residential College Art Gallery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI |
| 2017 | Nancy Blum: New Work. Reynolds Gallery, Richmond, VA |
| 2014 | Wonderland, Ricco Maresca Gallery, New York, NY Nancy Blum: Drawings, Colorado State University Art Museum, Fort Collins, CO |
| 2013 | Butterflies, Lewis Ginter Botanical Gardens, Richmond, VA |
| 2012 | New Drawings, Reynolds Gallery, Richmond, VA |
| 2007 | Dart, Drift, Dangle, New Work, Judy Ann Goldman Fine Art, Boston, MA Drawing and Sculpture, Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia, PA Butterflies, Philadelphia International Airport, Art Installations, Philadelphia, PA |
| 2006 | Nature Unbound, Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Steinhardt Conservatory Gallery, Brooklyn, NY |
| 2005 | Drawings, Kiang Gallery, Atlanta, GA On-Site Artist Projects, Visual Arts Center of Richmond, Richmond, VA |
| 2004 | New Work, Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia, PA |
| 2002 | Recent Work, Esther Claypool Gallery, Seattle, WA |
| 2000 | New Work: Drawings and Sculpture, Esther Claypool Gallery, Seattle, WA |
| 1999 | Wall Project, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ |
| 1998 | Cummings Art Center, Connecticut College, New London, CT Boise Art Museum, Boise, ID |
| 2021 | Summer Group Show. Quint Gallery, La Jolla, CA Color Pencil Redux. McKenzie Fine Art, New York, NY Efflorescence. Zero Station Gallery, Portland, OR |
| 2018 | The Neo-Victorians. Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY |
| 2017 | Flora Fantastic! Wave Hill, Bronx, NY |
| 2016 | Bedazzled. Lehman College Art Gallery, Lehman College, Bronx, NY Nature Redefined. Visual Arts at Chatauqua Institution, Chautauqua, NY Uncommon or Garden. Observer Arts, Observer Building, Hastings, East Sussex |
| 2014 | Art on Paper 2014, Weatherspoon Museum of Art, University of North Carolina, Greensboro Flowering, Nancy Margolis Gallery, New York, NY |
| 2012 | Magical Thinking, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Santa Monica, CA Art in Embassies Program. Artwork installed at the Residence of the US Ambassador to Brussels, Belgium and the US Embassy in Riga, Latvia |
| 2009 | New Rococo Show, Shore Institute of Contemporary Art, Long Branch, NJ From Studio to Site – Public Art In Charlotte, The Gallery at Carlillon, Charlotte, NC |
| 2008 | Aqua Wynwood, Miami FL (with Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia) |
| 2007 | Oasis, four person exhibition, Flushing Town Hall, Flushing, Queens, NY Three Person Exhibition, Romo Gallery, Atlanta, GA Bridge Art Fair, (Romo Gallery), Chicago, IL Susan Maasch Gallery, Portland, Maine |
| 2006 | The Drawing Show, Conduit Gallery, Dallas, TX Garden, Visual Art Center of Richmond, Richmond, VA Ornament Now, Fosdick-Nelson Gallery, Alfred University, Alfred, NY Takeout, Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia, PA and the Affordable Art Fair, New York, NY |
| 2005 | Fleurs, Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia, PA Mid-Atlantic Fellowship Exhibition, Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, MD Heavenly, The Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery, Hunter College, New York, NY White on White, Elaine Jacob Gallery, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI |
| 2004 | Arthouse, Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York, NY |
| 2003 | North American Sculpture NOW, Visual Art Center, Richmond, VA Second World Ceramic Biennale, 2003 Korea, World Ceramic Center, Icheon, South Korea Tasty Buds, Workspace, New York, NY Botanical Exhibition, Society of Arts and Crafts, Boston, MA |
| 2002 | New Prints 2002, International Print Center, New York, NY Dreamy: 3-Person Show, Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York, NY |
| 2001 | 2-Person Show, Esther Claypool Gallery, Seattle, WA World Ceramic Exhibition 2001 Korea, Yoju, Korea Archie Bray Foundation 50th Anniversary Exhibition, Holter Museum, Helena, MT (traveling until 2005) |
| 2000 | The Clarity of Seduction III, Cranbrook Network, Cranbrook Museum of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI A Glimpse of the Invisible, Invitational, Arvada Center for the Arts, Denver, CO |
| 1999 | Sculpture, Objects, Functional Art (Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago), Navy Pier, Chicago, IL PONCHO Artist Group Show, Center of Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA Grant for Artists Projects, Artist Trust Invitational Exhibition, Seattle, WA |
| 2006 | Peter S. Reed Foundation Grant, New York, NY |
| 2004 | Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation Creative Fellowship Grant, NY, NY /Visual Arts Center of Richmond, VA |
| 2001 | Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, New York, NY Fellowship, Special Editions, Lower East Side Printshop, New York, NY |
| 1997 | Grant for Artist's Projects, Artist Trust, Seattle, WA |
| 2019 | Artist Lecture, Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON |
| 2018 | Artist Residency, Institute for Electronic Arts, Alfred University, Alfred, NY Robertson Lecture, Residential College, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI |
| 2015 | Visiting Artist in Residence, Spring 2014 Sculpture and Printmaking, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME |
| 2014 | Conference Presenter, Haystack, Craft Thinking: Ideas on Making, Materials and Creative Process, ME Workshop, Developing a Public Art Practice, Penland School of Arts and Crafts, NC Visiting Artist, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO |
| 2012 | Artist Residency, Marvin Bileck Printmaking Project, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME |
| 2010 | Distinguished Visiting Artist/Critic, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA 2007-10 |
| 2008 | Artist in Residence/Graduate Advisor, Alfred University, Alfred, NY |
| 2007 | Visiting Artist, Ohio State University, OH |
| 2005 | Visiting Artist, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA Visiting Artist, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, KS |
| 2004 | Artist-In-Residence, Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, FL |
| 2003 | Artist-in-Residence, Hunter College, New York, NY 2002-03 Visiting Artist, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA |
| 2000 | Artist-in-Residence, Alfred University, Alfred, NY Visiting Artist, Arvada Center for the Arts, Arvada, CO & Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI |
| 1998 | Visiting Artist, Connecticut College, New London, CT and the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL Artist-in-Residence, University of Michigan, School of Art, Ann Arbor, MI |
| 1996 | Artist-in-Residence, thematic “Pop Mass and Subculture,” The Banff Centre for the Arts, Alberta, Canada Artist-in-Residence University of Georgia, Studies Abroad Program, Cortona, Italy Visiting Scholar, University of Washington, Seattle, WA Assistant Professor University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI 1994-96 |