SOLO/
TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2022 To Market: Shelly Reed / Randal Thurston, The Bundy Modern, Waitsfield, VT
2016 The Order of Things: Kim Berman / Randal Thurston, 3S Artspace, Portsmouth, NH
2013 A Cabinet of Wonder, The Narrows, Fall River, MA
2012 Cut and Glitter, NKG Gallery, Boston, MA
2010 As Above, So Below, Laconia Lofts Gallery, Boston MA
2010 Randal Thurston, Recent Work, Stoltze Design Gallery, Boston MA
2010 Ars Memorativa, The de Menil Gallery, Groton MA
2007 The Night Garden, Cambridge Arts Council Gallery, Cambridge, MA
2007 Shadows, University of Massachusetts, Lowell, Lowell, MA
2006 Wunderkammern, Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA
2004 This Mortal Coil, Allston Skirt, Boston, MA
2002 Doppelganger, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL
2002 Randal Thurston: New Work, Allston Skirt Gallery, Boston, MA
2001 Melencholia, The Essex Art Center, Lawrence, MA
2001 Shadow World, Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA
2000 Charmed, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL
2000 Kingdom: An Installation by Randal Thurston, deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA
2000 Randal Thurston: Silhouettes, Middlesex Community College, Bedford, MA
2000 Randal Thurston: Silhouettes, New England School of Art and Design, Boston, MA
1997 Randal Thurston, Lincoln Public Library Gallery, Lincoln, MA
1992 Randal Thurston, Akin Gallery, Boston, MA
1990 Randal Thurston, Akin Gallery, Boston, MA
PUBLIC ART
2017 The King Open School, Cambridge, MA. Commissioned to create a large-scale exterior mural for the Community Center / School complex
2016 The Artfarm, The Somerville Arts Council, Somerville MA.
2014 The Integrated Art Program for the Green Line Extension: Lechmere Station, The Massachusetts Department of Transportation, Boston, MA
2007 The Yerxa Road Underpass, The City of Cambridge, Cambridge, MA
1996 The Windows Art Project, The Somerville Arts Council, Somerville MA
2020 Arrival, Illuminus Festival, Boston MA
2019 Silhouettes and Shadows, Art and Museum Centre Sinka, Kerava Finland.
2019 Avant Gardens, Newport Art Museum, Newport RI
2018 The Power of Flower, Concord Art Museum, Concord MA
2018 The Pollinators, Cahoon Museum of American Art, Cotuit, MA
2018 The Founders, Brickbottom Artist Gallery, Somerville MA
2017 Deep Cuts, The Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, NH
2017 Paperwork, Clark Gallery, Lincoln MA
2017 Contemporary Silhouettes: The Art of Cut Paper, Cahoon Museum of American Art, Cotuit, MA
2016 Natural Wonder, Museum of Art, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH
2016 Paper and Blade: Modern Paper Cutting, Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA
2015 Cannot be described in Words: Drawing/Daring, The Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, MA
2015 Cut Paper Fold, The Concord Art Association, Concord, MA
2014 On The Wall, Gallery NAGA, Boston, MA
2014 Somewhere Between Creation and Destruction, Joseloff Gallery, Hartford, CT (catalog)
2014 Paper-Made, Jamestown Art Center, Jamestown, RI
2013 Still Life Lives!, The Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, MA
2013 Street Diamonds 2, Fourth Wall Gallery, Boston MA
2013 Another World, Blanc Gallery, Cambridge, MA
2012 Contemporary Drawing with South Coast Connections, The New Bedford Art Museum, New Bedford, MA (catalog)
SELECTED GROUP SHOWS
HONORS/
AWARDS
2017 The King Open School, Cambridge, MA.
Commissioned to create a large-scale exterior mural for the Community Center / School complex.
2016 The Art Farm, Somerville, MA.
Selected to design artwork that will envelop the exhibition structures used for an urban farming/art and culture initiative.
2014 Massachusetts Department of Transportation/Green Line Extension, Integrated Art Program.
Selected to design artwork integrated into the architecture of the new Lechmere Station.
2007 Massachusetts Cultural Council, Sculpture/installation Finalist, Boston MA
2002 Cambridge Arts Council commission for Cambridge River Festival, Cambridge, MA.
Designed a series of banners for an annual outdoor festival.
2001 Cambridge Arts Council commission for The Yerxa Road Underpass, Cambridge, MA.
Selected to design and fabricate a large-scale sculpture for a pedestrian tunnel.
2001 Artist in Residence, Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA
1999 Somerville Arts Council Award in the Visual Arts, Somerville, MA
1996 Installation Commission, The Windows Art Project, The L.E.F. Foundation, Cambridge, MA
1995 Somerville Arts Council, Award in the Visual Arts, Somerville MA
1992 NEA/NEFA Regional Fellowship in the Visual Arts, Works on Paper
1990 New England Foundation for the Arts Grant: Printmaking
1989 Curator’s Choice Award, Tenth Annual Drawing Show,Mills Gallery, Boston, MA,
Juror: Kathy Halbreich