Gail Spaien

Discipline: Visual Arts

Based In: South Portland, ME

Year at Millay: 1988

Awards/Honors: Artist-in-Residence, Visual Arts, Ucross Foundation, Clearmont, WY (2024); Artist-in-Residence, StudioWorks Artist-in-Residence Program, Tides Institute & Museum of Art, Eastport, ME (2024); Finalist, The Hopper Prize (2021); Artist-in-Residence, The Varda Artists Residency Program, SS Vallejo, Sausalito, CA (2020); Grant Recipient, Lillian Orlowsky and William Freed Grant (2016); Grant Recipient, Artist Project Grant, Maine Arts Commission, Augusta, ME (2016, 2010, 2006, 2004); Grant Recipient, Piscataqua Region Artist Advancement Grant, New Hampshire Charitable Foundation, Concord, NH (2010); Artist-in-Residence, Djerassi Resident Artists Program, Woodside, CA (1996); Award Winner, Merit Award, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA (1990); Artist-in-Residence, Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME (1986); Artist-in-Residence, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA (1985).

Website: https://gailspaien.com/home.html

Photo by David Clough

Gail Spaien (born in 1958) is an American artist based in Maine. Spaien has been the recipient of numerous fellowships including the Ucross Foundation (2024), Varda Artist Residency Program, Djerassi Foundation Resident Artists Program, and Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture. She has received grant funding from the Lillian Orlowsky and William Freed Foundation, the Maine Arts Commission, and the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation. Spaien’s solo exhibitions include Taymour Grahne Projects, London, , United Kingdom; Ogunquit Museum of American Art, Ogunquit, Maine; Nancy Margolis Gallery, New York, New York; Ellen Miller Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts; Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine; Group exhibitions include Taymour Grahne Projects, London, United Kingdom; Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockland, Maine; studio e gallery, Seattle, Washginton; Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, Massachusetts; University of New Hampshire Museum, Durham, New Hampshire; Institute of Contemporary Art, Portland, Maine; Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Maine; and the DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, Masschusetts. Spaien received her MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and BFA from University of Southern Maine.