Dotty Attie was born in 1938 in Pennsauken, New Jersey. She lives in New York City, utilizing images from the art of the past in her work and social commentary. Her art education includes a B.F.A. degree in 1959 from the Philadelphia College of Art; a Beckmann Fellowship in 1960 at the Brooklyn Museum Art School in New York; and the Art Students League, New York in 1967.

She received a Creative Artists Public Service grant in 1976-1977 from the New York State Council on the Arts, and National Endowment for the Arts grants in 1976-1977 and 1983-1984.

Attie's exhibitions include the University of Chicago, Illinois; Fleisher Art Memorial, Philadelphia; Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut; University of Rhode Island, Kingston; Corcoran Biennial, Washington, D.C., and O.K. Harris Gallery, New York City.

Dotty Attie's work is in the collections of the National Museum of Women in the Arts; University of Massachusetts, Amherst; Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts; Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock; University of North Carolina, Greensboro; and Fairleigh Dickinson University, Rutherford, New Jersey.

A detailed listing of Dotty Attie's one-person exhibitions includes:

1999 Pierre and Lady Holland: A Suite of Drawings by Dotty Attie, Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA
1998 Fairy Tale /Endings, PPOW, New York, NY
1994 After Courbet, PPOW, New York, NY 1993 Mary Ryan Gallery, New York, NY 1992 Dotty Attie, Montclair Museum of Art, Montclair, NJ
1991 In the Atelier, PPOW, New York, NY
Galerie Rizzo & Hubbard, Paris, France
1990 Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, SC
PPOW, New York, NY
Tyler Galleries, Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Elkins Park, PA
1989 Dotty Attie, Paintings and Drawings, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA
Five Tales, University of Missouri, St. Louis, MO
1988 PPOW, New York, NY
1986 On Gallery, Osaka, Japan
A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY
1985 Sanat Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey
Valencia Community College, Orlando, FL
1984 Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME
Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
Ricardo Barreto Gallery, Boston, MA
1983 Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, NC
The New Museum, New York, NY
A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY
1982 Norton Gallery and School of Art, West Palm Beach, FL
Mary Ryan Gallery, New York, NY
1981 Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
University of Missouri, Kansas City, MO
1980 Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT
Portland Center for Visual Artists, Portland, OR
Museum Art School, Portland, OR
Wright State University, Dayton, OH
A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY
Douglass College, New Brunswick, NJ
1979 Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX
Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, Kansas
1978 University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI
A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY
1977 Manhattanville College, Purchase, NY
University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
O.K. Harris Gallery, New York, NY
1976 A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY
1974 Stockton State College, Pomona, NJ
A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY
1972 A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY

Some recent Dotty Attie group exhibitions:

2002 the belles of Amherst, Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, MA
2001 I Love NY Benefit, P.P.O.W Gallery, NY
About Face, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
American Identities: A New Look, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
2000 endpapers; Drawings 1890-1900 and 1990-2000, Neuberger Museum of Art, SUNY Purchase, Purchase, NY
Multiple Visions: Works by Master Printers, The Print Center, Philadelphia, PA
Works from the Collection, Kresge Museum, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan
The Figure: Another Side of Modernism, Newhouse Center of Contemporary Art, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, NY
nude + narrative, P.P.O.W Gallery, New York, NY
1999 Dreams 1900 2000, The Equitable Gallery, New York, NY
Contemporary Narratives, Whitney Museum of Art at Champion, Stamford, Conn.
International Biennial of Graphic Art, International Center of Graphic Art, Ljubljana, Slovnija
Parallel Visions, Soho20 Gallery, New York, NY
1998 Recent Prints, Mary Ryan Gallery, New York, NY
Taboo: Repression and Revolt in Modern Art, Galerie St. Etienne, New York, NY

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