Resa Blatman

painting, drawing, mixed media & installation

studio: 6 Vernon Street, studio #110
email : resablatman@gmail.com
web : resablatman.com
Instagram : @resa.blatman

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bio

Resa Blatman is a Massachusetts-based visual artist who works with varying media including wall-mounted art installations, mixed-media paintings, and drawings. Her primary studio practice consists of commissions and public art projects that speak to her reverence for the natural world. She currently has three paintings at the Peabody Essex Museum’s exhibition “Bats!” in Salem, Massachusetts, open through July 2024.

In 2023, Resa received grants from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and the City of Somerville. She has permanent public art installations at several locations, including Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Mass; the City of Hope Lennar Foundation Cancer Center, California; Denver Health, Colorado; Texas A&M University, Texas; Somerville Hospital, Somerville, Mass. Resa’s paintings are in collections throughout the U.S., including the Museum of Arts and Sciences, Macon, Georgia; Twitter; Fidelity; Hilton Hotel; The WH Ming Hotel, Shanghai, China; and within the UAE and Europe.

Resa exhibits her work at universities and art institutions nationally, and she has several exhibitions coming up in 2024, including the McCoy Gallery at Merrimack College, September 2024, Andover, Mass; the Multicultural Arts Center, November 2024 Cambridge, Mass; “Thinking About Climate Change: Art, Science, and Imagination in the 21st Century” at University Hall Gallery at UMass Boston, October-December 2024, Boston, Mass, where she’ll be a participating panelist and artist; Collaborative project at Montserrat College of Art, October-December 2024, Beverly, Massachusetts.

Her work has been reviewed in publications including The Boston Globe, Ecoconsciousness, Boston Society of Architects, Art New England, SupersonicArt, Booooooom, among others. She received her MFA from Boston University and her BFA from the Massachusetts College of Art + Design, and she just completed a yearlong artist-in-residence at Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Mass. Resa’s work is represented by Childs Gallery, Boston.