EDUCATION
1977 MFA, Yale University, School of Art and Architecture, New Haven, CT
1975 BFA, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2024 2024 Faculty and Sabbatical Exhibition II, Decker Gallery, Maryland Institute College of Art,
Baltimore, MD
2023 En Masse - Ensembles, Sets, and Variations: The Art of Howie Lee Weiss, Goya Contemporary
Gallery, Baltimore, MD (solo)
22-23 Faculty and Friends of the Center for Visual Arts, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
2022 Howie Lee Weiss: Centerpiece, Gross Mc Cleaf Gallery, Philadelphia, PA (solo)
2019 School 33 Art Center's 40th Anniversary Exhibition, School 33 Art Center, Baltimore, MD
18-19 People and Places, BWI International Airport, Baltimore, MD
Super Bodies, Anita Shapolsky Gallery, New York, NY
2018 I Kinda Live Where I Find Myself, Gallery at Mercer County Community
College, Trenton, NJ
2013 MICA Then/Now, Ethan Cohen Fine Arts, New York, NY
MICA Then/Now, Kunsthalle Beacon (KUBE), Beacon, NY
2012 Dark Matters, Goya Contemporary Gallery, Baltimore, MD
2011 Water, Stone, Feather and Bone, Overture Center, James Watrous Gallery of the Wisconsin
Academy, Madison, WI
2009 The Gray Zone, Rouse Company Gallery, Howard County Community
College, Columbia, MD
2006 Selections from Various Themes, Goya Contemporary Gallery, Baltimore, MD (solo)
2005 Preview, Goya Contemporary Gallery, Baltimore, MD (solo)
2002 Howie Lee Weiss: Variations, Rosenberg Gallery, Goucher College, Baltimore, MD (solo)
Everybody Draws, Fleckenstein Gallery, Towson, MD
2001 Howie Lee Weiss, Prints and Drawings, Goya - Girl Press, Inc, Baltimore, MD (solo)
Like A Wasp, It Buzzed, Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA
Realist /Stylist, St Mary's College of Maryland, Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, MD
Drawings, College of Southern Maryland, La Plata, MD
1999 Together, Hoffberger Gallery, Baltimore Hebrew Congregation, Baltimore, MD (solo)
Sabbatical Exhibition, Decker Gallery, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
Keisho Show, Keisho Art Group, Shimizu City, Prefecture, Japan
1998 Centerpieces, Rebecca and Joseph Meyerhoff Art Gallery at the Gordon Center for the
Performing Arts, Baltimore, MD (solo)
Plants, Forms, and Characters: The Charcoal Series, Fletcher /Priest Gallery, Worcester, MA (solo)
On Site/Insight, Drawing Installation Exhibit, Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, MD
1997 Not so Simple, Arts 901, Washington, DC
Outta Sight, School 33 Art Center, Baltimore, MD
1996 Artists Choice, Kougeas Gallery, Boston, MA
1995 Happy Faces and Lively Plants, Norman & Sarah Brown Art Gallery, Jewish Community Center,
Baltimore, MD (solo)
1994 Continuing Tradition, Anita Shapolsky Gallery, New York, NY
1993 New Works, Paul Cava Gallery, Philadelphia, PA (solo)
The Sketches - In Anticipation of New Works, Keisho Art Association, Shimizu City,
Prefecture, Japan (solo)
1991 4 Artists/10 Years, James E. Lewis Museum, Morgan State University, Baltimore, MD
1989 Drawings, Anita Shapolsky Gallery New York, NY
1988 Drawing Surveyed, School 33, Baltimore, MD, curated by Martha Beck
1987 New Drawings, C. Grimaldis Gallery, Baltimore, MD (solo)
1986 Arteoggi/Artoday, traveling exhibition in Italy: Provincia di Arezzo, Provincia di Firenze,
Communi di Cortona, Impruneta E.S. Giovanni Valdamo, Banca Toscana,
curated by Richard Martin
1985 New Drawings, C. Grimaldis Gallery, Baltimore, MD (solo)
The Dialectic of Line, C. Grimaldis Gallery, Baltimore, MD
1981 Maryland Biennial, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
1977 New Talent, Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA
AWARDS
2001 Trustees Award for Excellence in Teaching, Maryland Institute College of Art
1997 Individual Artists Grant
Maryland State Arts Council Fellowship
1991 Maryland State Arts Council Fellowship
1989 Maryland State Arts Council Fellowship
1987 Baltimore City Arts Grant
Maryland State Arts Council Fellowship
1985 Trustees Award for Excellence in Teaching, Maryland Institute College of Art
1983 Maryland State Arts Council Fellowship
1977 Phelps Berdan Award for Painting, Yale University
PROFESSIONAL ACCOLADES
2024 Visiting Artist, Katzen Arts Center, American University, Washington, DC
2021 Collection, Canopy by Hilton Hotel Art Collection, Baltimore, MD
1979-Present Professor, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
2000 Visiting Critic, Corcoran School of Art, Washington, DC
Gallery Talk, College of Southern Maryland, La Plata, MD
Curator, “Nine from MICA”, Gordon Center for the Performing Arts, Baltimore, MD
Curator, “Drawings”, College of Southern Maryland, La Plata, MD
1997-2000 Member, College Art Association, AAUP
1999 Visiting Critic, Corcoran School of Art, Washington, DC
1994 Visiting Artist, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, MN
Visiting Artist, Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, PA
1993 Visiting Artist, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
1991 Visiting Critic, Goucher College, Towson, MD
1988 Visiting Critic, Vassar College, Dutchess County, NY
1987 Visiting Professor, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Wozniak, Stephen. En Masse – Ensembles, Sets, and Variations: The Art of Howie Lee Weiss,
Whitehot Magazine, May 2023.
Weiss, Lisa. My Husband’s Heads, Fine Lines Literary Journal, Winter 2021.
Giuliano, Mike. Drawing Power: Blurring the Lines Between the Traditional and the Surreal,
City Paper, August 2002.
Progress Amid Change, T. Rowe Price Associates Annual Report.
Shannon, Joe. Howie Lee Weiss at Goya-Girl Press, Art in America, June 2001.
Shannon, Joe. Realist/Stylist, Maryland Art Place, Winter 2000.
McQuaid, Cate. Beyond Cute; Vibrant Shores; Bold Charcoals, The Boston Globe, October 22, 1998.
Sozanski, Edward. Charcoal cartoon images elevated to level of seriousness and authority,
The Philadelphia Inquirer, February 19, 1993.