C.V.
Education
M.S. History of Art and Design, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
Graduated with distinction
Thesis: “Color in a New Light: the Emotional Landscapes of Nicolas de Staël”
B.F.A. Photography, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
Graduated with highest honors
Recipient of the “Excellence in Academic Achievement Award”
career/professional
Nancy Margolis Gallery, New York, NY
• Director & Owner (2022–present)
• Co-Director (2019–2022)
• Assistant Director (2017–2019)
Nancy Margolis Gallery moved from West 25 St. to an online platform in March 2020
Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
• Teaching Assistant, Survey of Art: 20th-Century, professor Ann Schoenfeld (2016)
Courthouse Gallery Fine Art, Ellsworth, ME
• Assistant to the Director (May–August 2012, 2013, 2015)
gallery representation
Courthouse Gallery Fine Art, Ellsworth, ME Green Lion Gallery, Bath, ME
Winterhouse Projects, online
exhibitions
2025 [Upcoming] Solo Exhibition, Courthouse Gallery Fine Art, Ellsworth, ME 2024 Spring Show 2024, Courthouse Gallery Fine Art, Ellsworth, ME
2023 In Dialogue, George Marshall Store Gallery, York, ME
2022 Meditative Expressions: Lilian Day Thorpe + Maria Michurina, SpaceScribbles, online Spring Show 2022, Courthouse Gallery Fine Art, Ellsworth, ME
liliandays@gmail.com • @liliandaythorpe • liliandaythorpe.com
2021 Spring Show 2021, Courthouse Gallery Fine Art, Ellsworth, ME
Featured Artist: Lilian Day Thorpe, Courthouse Gallery Fine Art, Ellsworth, ME
2020 Ten Miles Out, Green Lion Gallery, online
Stairwell Show, Courthouse Gallery Fine Art, Ellsworth, ME Spring Show 2020, Courthouse Gallery Fine Art, Ellsworth, ME
2019 Six and Under, Green Lion Gallery, Bath, ME
Spring Show 2019, Courthouse Gallery Fine Art, Ellsworth, ME
2018 Spring Show 2018, Courthouse Gallery Fine Art, Ellsworth, ME The Emerson, Brooklyn, NY
2017 The Emerson, Brooklyn, NY
Spring Show 2017, Courthouse Gallery Fine Art, Ellsworth, ME
2016 Spring Show 2016, Courthouse Gallery Fine Art, Ellsworth, ME 2015 Cup & Spoon, Chicago, IL
Better Being Restaurant, New York, NY
Árnessysla Art Museum, Laugarvatn, Iceland
Spring Show 2015, Courthouse Gallery Fine Art, Ellsworth, ME
2014 Spring Show 2014, Courthouse Gallery Fine Art, Ellsworth, ME Soft Fictions, thesis exhibition, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
awards + professional activities
2024 Featured artwork on the cover of Renascence and Other Poems (Down East Books) 2023 Guest speaker (Zoom), Webster University, Webster Groves, MO
Guest speaker (Zoom), Portland Camera Club, Portland, ME
2022 Featured artwork on the cover of A Fixed White Light (Down East Books)
Guest speaker (Zoom), Java Jivers photography club, San Diego, CA
2021 Featured in Art Maze Magazine, print issue No. 24
2020 Review: “Artist Uses Photos to Create Sublime Maine Scenes,” Bob Keyes,
Portland Press Herald, November 23
Interview: “Talk Art” with Misato Pang (Instagram Live) Interview: SpaceScribbles blog
2019 Invited to write essay for Painters on Paintings blog, May 1
2018 Interview: Ouróboros, Spanish podcast, April 23
2017 Featured in Maine Home + Design, April
2015 Surface Magazine, Avant Guardian winner with two-page spread, October 2014 Residency: Gullkistan Center for Creativity, Laugarvatn, Iceland
Graduated with highest honors and received the “Excellence in Academic Achievement Award,” Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
2013 Pratt in Venice program, studied Venetian art history & oil painting
2017
2014