Scholarship and Biography
Tory Fair lives and works in the Boston area. Recent solo exhibitions and projects include presentations at A.D. Gallery in NY, ICA at MECA, Portland, ME; AreaCode Art Fair, Boston; Drive-By Projects, Watertown; and gallery VERY, Boston. Fair’s work has been included in several group exhibitions, including Paper Town, Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, MA; You are Here, Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA; The Intuitionists, The Drawing Center, NY; and Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City. Her work has been reviewed in publications including The New York Times, The Boston Globe, Sculpture Magazine, and Boston Art Review, among others. She was a recent artist in residence at RAIR, (Recycled Artist In Residency, Philadelphia, PA), a featured artist in VoCA Talks (Voices in Contemporary Art), and has been the recipient of prestigious awards from the Joan Mitchell Foundation, the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, LEF Foundation, and the Mass Cultural Council. She received her B.A. from Harvard University, Cambridge, MA and M.F.A. from the Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA. Fair is Professor of Sculpture at Brandeis University, Waltham, MA.