Dinorá Justice
Born in Brazil in 1969
Lives and works in Newton, MA
Represented by Gallery NAGA, 67 Newbury St Boston
Education
MFA – School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University, Boston, 2014
BFA, Summa Cum Laude – The Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University, 2001
Graphic Design Certificate – School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1999
Awards
Solo Exhibition Award at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Fall 2023/Winter 2024
Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Fellowship in Painting, Boston, 2022
Traveling Fellowship, School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, 2020
Artist-in-Residence, Oak Spring Garden Foundation, Upperville, VA, Fall 2019
Scattergood-Moore Artist-in-Residence, Dana Hall Art Gallery, Wellesley, MA, 2019
Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Fellowship in Painting Finalist, Boston, 2018
The Saint Botolph Club Foundation Emerging Artist Grant, 2015
The Nellie Taft Award for Painting, Nellie L. Taft Foundation, Boston, 2015
Boston CyberArts Art on the Marquee Exhibition Award, Boston Convention Center, 2013
First Peer Reviewed Academic Research Paper Competition, Editor’s Choice – prize and publication at SMFA Library USA and MFA Nagoya Japan Zine Collection, 2013
President’s Research Grant, SMFA Boston, 2013
Merit Scholarship, SMFA Boston, 2012-2014
The Middlesex Beat Inaugural Artist Grant, Lowell, MA, 2003
The Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University Senior Award for Outstanding and Distinguished Accomplishment in Fine Art 2D, 2001
Solo Exhibitions
The Lay of the Land, Museum of Fine Arts Boston – November 2023-April 2024
Mother/Nature, Gallery NAGA, Boston – 2023
Come to Me She Said, Gallery NAGA, Boston, 2019
She Speaks in Gusts and Cyclones, Dana Hall Art Gallery, Wellesley, MA, 2018
Play of Light, NOA Gallery, Groton, MA, 2007
Landscapes of the Mind, Star Gallery, Stow, MA, 2006
Fundamentally Green, Main Gallery at Newton Free Library, Newton, MA, 2005
Solitude, NOA Gallery, Groton, MA, 2005
Add It All Up, Then Simplify, Kantar Fine Arts, Newton, MA, 2004
Dream and Reality, Kantar Fine Arts, Newton, MA, 2003
Let the Beauty We Love Be What We Do, Kennedy Gallery, Provincetown MA, 2003
The Elements of Nature, Galeria Modernidade, Novo Hamburgo, Brazil, 1998
Energy and Movement, Galeria Carrasco, Novo Hamburgo, Brazil, 1996
Group Exhibitions
Oak Spring: Seeding Artists, Turchin Center for the Visual Arts at Appalachian State University, Boone, NC, 2025
We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live, Marc Straus Gallery, New York, NY, 2024
Re/Pose, Ulrich Museum of Art at Wichita State University, Wichita, KS, 2024
Oak Spring: A Place to Grow, Oak Spring Garden Foundation, Upperville, VA, 2024
Interview at Gallery NAGA: Dinora Justice and Michelle Millar Fisher, 2023
WBUR Boston interview with Jacob Garcia, 2023
Boston Voyager interview, https://bostonvoyager.com/interview/check-dinora-justices-artwork, 2018
Fantastical, Political, Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, MA 2018
Crossing Borders, Parker Gallery at Lesley University, Cambridge, MA, 2018
Art Elevated, Garment District Alliance, New York, NY, 2018
Mortal Coil, Manhattan Art and Antiques Center, New York, NY, 2017
Violence Transformed: Under Siege, Aidekman Arts Center at Tufts University, Medford, MA 2017
Viridian Artists 28th National Competition, New York, NY, 2017
Up/Rooted, National Juried Exhibition, Brookline Arts Center, MA, 2017
Danforth Art Museum Annual Juried Exhibition, Framingham, MA, 2016
Insider/Outsider Nation, Resnikoff Gallery at the Media Arts Center, Roxbury Community College College, Boston, 2016
Patterns, National Juried Exhibition, Attleboro Museum of Art, Attleboro, MA, 2016
Force of Nature: Exploring the Power of the Feminine, Women’s Caucus for Art juried exhibition, Silver Center for the Arts at Plymouth State University, Plymouth, NH, 2015
Platinum, juried exhibition at Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, MA 2015
Foundation On Parade: Saint Botolph Club Foundation Emerging Artists Exhibition, Boston, 2015
Immigrants, Immigration and the Shared Journey for Justice, National Juried Exhibition, 11th Avenue Gallery, Denver CO, 2015
What Does Immigration Have To Do With Environmental Justice?, Master of Fine Arts Graduate Exhibition, The Boston Center for the Arts at the Cyclorama, 2014
Strange Strangeness, Video Screening at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston – MFA permanent collection selection, 2014
Boston Young Contemporaries, Boston University Contemporary Gallery; juried competition and exhibition, 2014
Colorful Textures: Synaesthesia in Art, Rubin Frankel Gallery at Boston University; juried exhibition, 2013
Histories of Now, Grossman Gallery, SMFA Boston; juried exhibition, 2013
Boston CyberArts Festival, Boston Convention Center; Public Art Competition – animation piece “Zen Concatenation”; 2013
Snap to Grid, juried Group Show, Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, Los Angeles, CA, 2013
Fresh Paint III, New Art Center, Newton, MA; juried exhibition, 2012
Art Now! Juried exhibition, G Studios Art Gallery, Boston, MA, 2010
Mayor’s Gallery Exhibition, Boston City Hall, 2006
New England Biolabs Group Show, Ipswich, MA, 2006
The Imagined Landscape, Schuman Gallery, Groton Public Library, Groton, MA, 2004
New Artists, Group Exhibition, S.E. Feinman Fine Arts, New York NY, 2003
Inner and Outer Spaces, MA Department of Environmental Protection, Boston MA, 2003
Tree Escapes, two-person exhibition, Upstairs at Johnson’s Gallery, Boston, MA, 2002
Graduate Fine Arts Exhibition, The Art Institute of Boston Main Gallery, Boston, MA, 2001
Summer Landscapes Invitational Exhibition, The Art Institute of Boston Main Gallery, Boston, MA, 2000
Collections
Yageo Foundation, Taiwan, Hong Kong and France
Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita KS
Fidelity Investments Boston
Museum of Fine Arts Boston
Boston Private Bank and Trust, Boston and Los Angeles