About the Artist
Background
Dana Hatchett is a professional artist who earned a BFA in painting from S.U.N.Y. at Purchase in 1980, and an MFA in painting from S.U.N.Y. at Buffalo in 1992. He retired in 2017 from his position as a professor at Daemen College, and taught art classes at Erie Community College and S.U.N.Y. at Buffalo.
His work has appeared in many venues throughout the years, including in the juried Amid/In WNY 2025 at Hallwalls. His collages appear in a solo show at the Crucible Art Collective in March 2025. In 2025 his Erie Canal drawings are on exhibit at the Art Gallery at Montabaur Heights, and will be in the West Gallery at the Earlville Opera House April 26-May 31. His collage won an Honorable Mention award at the Buffalo Society of Artists’ 128th Catalogue Exhibition in 2024.
EXHIBITIONS
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS (*SOLO EXHIBITIONS)
2025 The Crucible Art Collective, Solo show Paintings to Collage, month of March
2025 The Art Gallery At Montabaur Heights, Drawings of the Erie Canal (Jan-Apr)
2025 Hallwalls, Amid/In WNY 2025 juried exhibition - 74 abstract paintings
2025 Western New York Artists Group, Members Show
2024 Buffalo Society of Artists, 128th Catalogue Exhibition, Kenan Center in Lockport, NY, Honorable Mention Award
2024 Carnegie Art Center, Summer Members Show
2024 Hallwalls, Annual Members Show
2024 Buffalo Society of Artists, Juried Summer Exhibition Project 308
2024 Comma Gallery, CONVERGE, CONTRAST, ILLUDE show and panel
2024 Buffalo Arts Studio, Live at Five
2024 Buffalo Society of Artists, Members Show at NACC
2021 The Crucible Art Collective, Buffalo, NY, Celebrating Daemen: Works from the Gerald Mead Collection
2021 *WILD THINGS ARTISAN GALLERY, Buffalo, NY, Abstracts & Landscapes
2019 CARNEGIE ART CENTER, North. Tonawanda, NY, Collages and Assemblages: Gerald Mead Collection
2017-2020 HOTEL HENRY, Buffalo, NY
2017-2018 *"Historical Erie Canal Drawings" Schenectady County Historical Society Mabee Farms, Buffalo History Museum, Buffalo Niagara Heritage Village, Erie Canal Museum in Syracuse, Rochester Museum & Science Center, Waterford Historical Museum and Cultural Center
2017-2018 *BETTY’S RESTAURANT, Buffalo, NY, Landscape Drawings
2015 *BUFFALO C. G. JUNG GALLERY, Buffalo, NY, Abstructions: Mixed Media Selections
2014 NDIGO GALLERY, Buffalo, NY, Emerging Converging Art Exhibition
2013 INDIGO GALLERY, Buffalo, NY, Hatchett3, group exhibition with Duayne Hatchett and David Hatchett
2013 HALLWALLS, Buffalo, NY, Members Exhibition
2010 SPACE 39, Fort Myers, Florida, "Global Warming Art report "
2009 SOUTH CHINA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY, Guangzhou, China, "Intersecting Currents"
2007 INSITE GALLERY, Buffalo, NY, " Summer Small Works"
2006 *NEIGHBORHOOD COLLECTIVE GALLERY, Buffalo, NY, "Landscape"
2005 WESTERN NEW YORK ARTISTS GROUP, Buffalo, NY,"1st National Small Works Exhibition”
2004 FINELINE GALLERY, Buffalo, NY, "The Educated Eye"
2003 *KARPELES MUSEUM, Buffalo, NY, "Recent Work"
2002 *MEDAILLE COLLEGE GALLERY, Buffalo, NY, "Pour"
2002 *MERCER GALLERY, MONROE COMMUNITY COLLEGE, Rochester, NY, "Pour"
2001 GEORGIAN COLLEGE CAMPUS GALLERY, Barrie, Ontario "Some Wore Hats", Selected works from the Georgian College collection.
2001 LOCAL COLOR GALLERY, Buffalo, NY, "4 Ways of Printmaking"
2000 *CRANDALL GALLERY Alliance, OH Mount Union College, "Recent Work"
2000 ADAMS ART GALLERY, Dunkirk, NY, "Color Psychology" two-person show
1999 ART DIALOGUE GALLERY, Buffalo, NY, “Regional 99” juried by Douglas Schultz
1998 BURCHFIELD PENNEY ART CENTER, Buffalo, NY, “Recent Acquisitions”
1998 ART DIALOGUE GALLERY, Buffalo, NY, “Regional 98” First Prize
1997 ART DIALOGUE GALLERY, Buffalo, NY, “Regional 97” Honorable Mention
1996 ART DIALOGUE GALLERY, Buffalo, NY, “Regional 96” Third Prize
1995 *FANETTE GOLDMAN/CAROLYN GREENFIELD GALLERY, Daemen College, Buffalo, NY
1994 *OLEAN PUBLIC ART GALLERY, Olean, NY, “Recent Paintings
1994 ALBRIGHT KNOX ART GALLERY, Buffalo, NY, “45th Western New York Exhibition”
1993 *ART DIALOGUE GALLERY, Buffalo, NY
1993 *RIDGE STREET GALLERY, New York, NY
1992 *CASTELLANI ART MUSEUM, Niagara Falls, NY, Thesis Show
1992 ALBRIGHT KNOX ART GALLERY, Buffalo, NY, “44th Western New York Exhibition”
1992 ERIE ART MUSEUM, Erie, PA, “69th Annual Spring Show” juried by Peter Plagens
1992 MEMORIAL ART GALLERY, Rochester, NY “1992 Finger Lakes Exhibition”
1991 *VILLA MARIA COLLEGE, Buffalo, NY
1990 *ARTIST’S GALLERY, Buffalo, NY
1990 *SURFACE GALLERY, Toronto, Canada
1990 ARTIST’S GALLERY, Buffalo, NY, “Interactive Show,” invitational curated by Neil Zusman
1989 *ART DIALOGUE GALLERY, Buffalo, NY, “Landscapes”
1988 ART IN PUBLIC PLACES, Augusta, ME, invitational group show
1987 *ART DIALOGUE GALLERY, Buffalo, NY
1985 *ARTIST’S GALLERY, Buffalo, NY, “Faces”
1985 HALLWALLS, Buffalo, NY, “Summerspace,” invitational