"BOB AND NAZARA",  B&W photography 1986

B. F. A. The Rhode Island School of Design (1973)

M. F. A. The Art Institute of Chicago (1976)

He is now a Painting, Drawing, Design, and African American Art
History Professor, and the current Chair of the Department of Art & Art History at the University of Rhode Island.

The University of Rhode Island Research Council, and the URI Center of Humanities among others, have recognized his work for its significant academic contributions. He has exhibited extensively in both solo and group exhibitions and his work has been reviewed regularly in the New England press as well as in Florida, New York, Virginia, Illinois, Minnesota, Missouri and Texas. Dilworth’s work is widely collected, from the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, to the Fairmont Hotel Corporation, San Francisco, CA.

AWARDS, HONORS AND GRANTS:

Center of Humanities, University of Rhode Island, 2010-2011

URI Foundation Grant, 2008

Rhode Island Foundation, spring 2003

URI Faculty Development/Research Council, spring 2003

RECENT CURATORIAL WORK:

CVS Caremark Corporate Headquarters, Woonsocket, RI, Feb. 2010
Bannister Gallery, Rhode Island College, Prov., RI, June-July 2010
URI Providence Campus Gallery, June 2010
Atrium Gallery, One Capitol Plaza, Providence, RI, Jan. – March. 2009
URI Providence Campus Gallery, Origins, June-August, 2008

ONE-PERSON EXHIBITIONS:

Sarah Doyle Gallery, Providence, RI, Jan 28 –Feb 22, 2008

University of Rhode Island Corridor Gallery, Kingston, RI, 2007

University of Rhode Island, 2006

Newport Art Museum, 2006

Bank Rhode Island, 2004

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

Gallery Z, Providence, RI, January - February, 2011
Newport Art Museum, Networks: 2009-2010, Newport, RI, 11/2010-1/2011
Atrium Gallery, One Capitol Plaza, Providence, RI, 2010
Corridor Gallery, University of Rhode Island, November, 2010
CVS Headquarters, Woonsocket, RI, Feb. 2010
New Bedford Art Museum, New Bedford MA, May, 2010
Bannister Gallery, Rhode island College, June-July, 2010                           

Gallery Z, Providence, RI, 2009                                                                        

University of Rhode Island, Main Gallery, 11/2008

University of Rhode Island, Feinstein College of Continuing Education, Providence, RI, July 2 – Aug 17,2007                                                         

Space at Alice Building, Providence, RI 2006

Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, RI 2005

Wheaton College, Norton, MA 2005

Atrium Gallery, Providence, RI 2004

Interviews and Reproductions in Media

Newport This Week, interview with reproductions, 2005

Providence Journal, Reproduction, Front Page, 2005

Providence Journal, Reproduction, Page A7, 2005

REVIEWS:

G. Cook, Providence Phoenix, A Community of Makers, November 26, 2010
Bill Van Siclen, The Providence Journal Bulletin (RI), October 11, 2010: E4
David Boyce, The Standard times, New Bedford Art Museum Offers Much, August 5, 2010, p16
Providence American, CVS Hosts E. M. Bannister Society Exhibit, March 18, 2010, p16
G. Cook, Providence Phoenix, In The Tradition, June 11, 2010, p18
Elise Fitzgerald, Quad-Angles, URI Alumni Magazine, Winter 2009-20010, p19-21
Kate, Goldberg, The Brown Daily Herald, Arts and Culture, Slicing and Dicing at Sarah Doyle, February 11, 2008, p3
Providence Journal, Reproduction of Installation detail, July 9, 2007, pE10
Providence Journal, Comments about Installation Reproduction, July19,2007,
Doug Norris, Art New England, Unmasking the Indifferent Fate: Bob Dilworth and Brian O’Malley, The Space at Alice, Providence, RI, April/May 2006, p38
Marilyn Bellmore, , Anger and Disillusionment in America, January 12, 2006
Newport This Week, Front page and Cover Story Reproductions, January 11, 2006, p8
Mercury, February 6, 2006, p15

Review with productions, South County Independent, 2004

Review with productions, Providence Journal, 2004

Review, Providence Journal, 2004

Museum Highlights, Gallery Guide New England, 2004

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