Selected Exhibitions
2008
What’s New, Montclair Public Library, Montclair, NJ
Currents, Ben Shahn Galleries, William Patterson University, Wayne, NJ
2007
Sanctuary, Rupert Ravens Contemporary, Newark, NJ
Nowhere Here, two person exhibition with Cheol Yu Kim,
Mikail Zakin Gallery, Demarest, NJ
Essex Exposed, Pierro Gallery of South Orange, South Orange, NJ
Daylight Savings, City Without Walls - Seton Hall Law School Gallery, Newark, NJ
Viz, Trans-Genre Event - with poet Jerome Rothenberg,
Bowery Poetry Club, New York, NY
What’s New, Montclair Public Library, Montclair, NJ
Dynamic Exchange: Collaborative Works of Jerome Rothenberg,
UCSD Library, San Diego, CA
2006
Surface Tension: New Paintings by Nancy Tobin, ArtSpace 129, Montclair, NJ
Surface Tension: Works on Paper by Nancy Tobin, Block Gallery, Montclair, NJ
NurtureArt: Nurturing the Edge, Cue Foundation, New York, NY
Visible Word, The Center for Performing Arts at DeBaun, Hoboken, NJ
Winter Salon, ArtSpace 129, Montclair, NJ
2005
Circular Logic, The Rosalind & Alfred Lippman Gallery, Short Hills, NJ
Red, Glen Ridge Women’s Club, Glen Ridge, NJ
As She Sees It – 8 Women Artists, Pierro Gallery, South Orange, NJ
Artworks! Arts in the Marketplace, Arts Council of Morris, Florham Park, NJ
Infiltrations, 1978 Maplewood Arts Center, Maplewood, NJ
2004
Focus on Collage – Four-person exhibition, ArtSpace 129, Montclair, NJ
Self Portrait 2004, Northwest Cultural Council, Barrington, IL
Remembrances of Things Past, South Shore Art Center, Cohasset, MA
10th Annual Gulf Coast National, Texas Artists Museum, Port Arthur, TX
Pareidolia, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, CA
The Odds, City Without Walls, Newark, NJ
Autumn in America, State of the Art Gallery, Ithaca, NY
Contemporary Abstracts, Alameda Art Center, Alameda, CA
Compact Competition, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA
Portal Spaces Exhibit, Urban Institute for Contemporary Art, Grand Rapids, MI
2003
12th National Juried Show, Art Center of Northern New Jersey, New Milford, NJ
2000
Taking the Leap, Heritage Square, Emeryville, CA
Awards
New Jersey Print and Paper Fellowship 2008
Brodsky Center for Innovative Editions
Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
Liquitex Artist of the Month – September 2007
Award of Excellence – Contemporary Abstracts, Alameda Art Center
Third place – 10th Annual Gulf Coast National, Texas Artists Museum
Publications
Three Poems, Book of paintings and poems with poet Jerome Rothenberg
Viz. Inter-Arts Magazine,
Highlighting collaboration with poet Jerome Rothenberg, July 2006
The Montclair Times, Winter Salon-Women’s Work, March 16 2006
Star Ledger, Women’s issues as artists see them, by Dan Bischoff, April 10 2005
Maplewood Matters, Patchwork masterpieces, Fall 2003
Education
1994-1998 San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
1978-1981 Kendall College of Art, Grand Rapids, MI
Arts-Related Experiences
2006-Present Member Viridian Print Studio
1986-2003 Owner of TobinDesign.
1983-1986 Senior Art Director, Johnson and Dean, Grand Rapids, MI
1982-1983 Art Director, Sefton Associates, Grand Rapids, MI
1981-1982 Art Director, Grand Rapids Magazine, Grand Rapids, MI
