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PictureMonhegan Island, Maine
TODD BONITA  (b. 1968)
I fell in love with the ocean while growing up in Winthrop, Massachusetts, a small New England harbor town outside of Boston. After graduating from the Art Institute of Boston, I continued post baccaulaurette study of classical painting and drawing at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia.  A twelve year career as an illustrator, that included a creatively-explorative period, working as a muralist, sculptor and designer followed.  I focused full time on fine art oil painting in 2006, creating works for art galleries and collectors.  I currently maintain a small studio space at The Button Factory artist studios in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.  I love painting coastal New England imagery outdoors in plein air,  equally as much as crafting more involved compositions in my studio.   Above all, I love the process and simple joy of being with my tools and painting.  My work is currently represented by ten art galleries around New England, Florida and the UK. and is in hundreds of corporate and private collections world wide, including 41st U.S. President, George H. W. Bush.  I have had the good fortune to have exhibited in four Art museums and I am blessed to call this craft that I love my full-time occupation.  I currently own and operate the Todd Bonita Art Gallery in both Ogunquit, Maine and Portsmouth, New Hampshire.  I am also co-owner of the Ogunquit Summer School of Art where I teach painting classes and art workshops year round.  I live on the New Hampshire seacoast with my wife Alison, son Max and daughter Kate.
Life is good.

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Education
(2000 - 2003) Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts  Post baccalaureate Study Classical Drawing and Painting.
(1992 -1996) Art Institute of Boston (BFA)

Galllery Affiliations
Camden Falls Art Gallery, Camden Maine
Todd Bonita Gallery, Ogunquit, Maine
Shore Road Gallery, Ogunquit, Maine
Ogunquit Museum of American Art, Ogunquit, Maine
Kennedy Gallery, Portsmouth, NH
Todd Bonita Gallery, Portsmouth, NH
Art 3 Gallery, Manchester, NH
Rockport Art Association and Museum, Rockport, MA
Powers Gallery, Acton, MA
Bowersock Gallery, Provincetown, MA
Gingerbread Square Gallery, Key West, FL
Art House Gallery, St. Ives. Cornwall, UK.



Exhibition History
2016 - Present          Todd Bonita Gallery, Portsmouth, NH
2015 - Present          Powers Gallery, Acton, MA
2015 - Present          Shore Rd. Gallery, Ogunquit, ME

2014 - Present          Ogunquit Museum of American Art, Ogunquit, ME
2014 - Present          Todd Bonita Gallery, Ogunquit, ME
2013                           Paul Creative Art Center / Museum of Art, Durham, NH
2013 - Present          Beth Ellis Gallery, Ogunquit, ME
2012 - Present          Boston International Fine Art Show
2011 - 2013               Whistler House Museum, Lowell, MA
2011 - 2012               Wester Ave Artist Studios, Lowell, MA
2011                           Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, NH
2011 - Present          Camden Falls Gallery, Camden, ME (Several Two Person and Group Shows)
2011 - Present          Bowersock Gallery, Provincetown, MA (Several Two Person Shows)
2010 - Present           Gingerbread Square Gallery, Key West, FL (One Man Show, Several Two Person Shows)               

2010-2012                Northlight Gallery, Kennebunkport, Maine 
2010-2012                Gallery 51, Meredith, New Hampshire (one man show)
2010-Present           Art 3 Gallery, Manchester, New Hampshire
2009-Present           The Kennedy Gallery,Portsmouth, New Hampshire  (One Man Show) (Two person show)
2009-Present           The Rockport Art Association, Rockport, Mass (One Man Show)
2009-2010                The Gallery at Mill Falls  Meredith, New Hampshire (One Man Show)
2009-2010                 The Bradley Art Gallery  Stoughton, Wisconsin
2008-Present            The Art House Gallery UK  St. Ives. Cornwall, UK                 
2007-2015                 The Art House Gallery  Brewster, Massachusetts
2007-Present            Button Factory Artist Open Studios Portsmouth, New Hampshire
2008 -2010                Diamond Newman Gallery  Boston, Massachusetts
2007-2008                 The Woodsum Gallery  Warner, New Hampshire
2006-2008                 Sandpiper Gallery  Wellfleet, Massachusetts

Honors / Awards
2016                     First Place.  Plein air Paint out, New Hampshire Art Association
2015                     Second Place  Plein air Paint out, New Hampshire Art Assocition
2013 - 2016         Art in the Embasseys Program.  (Selected Artist U.S. / Kuwait Embassy)