Born: Quincy, Florida
Resides: Melbourne, FL
EDUCATION
Attained 56 Post Graduate hours from various universities:
1993 Florida International University, Miami, FL
1988-87 The University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL
1982 The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
1974 Appalachian State University, Boone, NC.
1971 Masters of Art, Art Education and Constructive Design, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL (Fellowship Recipient)
1969 Bachelors of Science, Art Education and Constructive Design, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
COMMISSIONS
2011 Indian River Potters’ Guild, Mural, Part of the Eau Gallie Arts District’s Outdoor Mural Museum Program, Melbourne, FL
2007 Eau Gallie Pier Mosaic, Melbourne, FL (First public art commissioned for Melbourne, FL)
2005 Berman, Hopkins, Wright & Laham CPA, Merritt Island, FL
1990 Orlando Utilities Commission, Orlando, FL
1990 Diebel, Lazar, & Stroup, MDPA, Winter Park, FL
1990 Marriott HOST International, Orlando International Airport, Orlando, FL
1989 Dean, Mead, Egerton, Bloodworth, Caponano & Bozarth, Olympic Plaza, Orlando, FL
COLLECTIONS
Maitland Art Center, Maitland, FL
Vero Beach Art Museum, Vero Beach, FL
Arrowmont School of Arts & Crafts, Gatlinburg, TN
Orlando City Hall, Orlando, FL
Knollwood Army Retirement Center, Washington DC
Administrative Arts, Orlando, FL
Southeast Bank, Miami, FL.
Price Waterhouse, Dupont Center, Orlando, FL
Hubbard Construction Company, Orlando, FL
Brevard Community College, Melbourne, FL
ONGOING COMMUNITY PROJECTS
Eau Gallie Arts District Outdoor Art Museum, Melbourne FL
Eau Gallie Arts District, Design Committee
1. The Wave: Dream, Imagine, Inspire, and Create, Coordinator, mosaic on the south side of the Eau Gallie Public Library, Melbourne, FL
2. Geoffrey Naylor’s Papyrus Column, downtown Eau Gallie, a section of Melbourne, FL
HONOR
2018 “Women We Love” Eau Gallie Arts District Honoree
SELECTED SOLO, TWO-THREE PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2024 – 2023 Surreal Worlds: Nancy Baur Dillen and Clare Radigan, Ormond Memorial Art Museum and Gardens, Ormond Beach, FL
2023 Melange,’ Three Person Exhibit with Terry Corbett, Nancy Dillen, and Grace Leal, Venvi Art Gallery, Tallahassee FL
2023 Visual Poems, Drawings by Nancy Baur Dillen, Arts on Douglas, New Smyrna Beach, FL
2023 The Fantasy World of Nancy Dillen, Mount Dora Art Center, Mount Dora, FL
2022 Visual Poems, Drawings by Nancy Dillen, 621 Gallery, Tallahassee, FL
2022 Water Circus Series: Paintings by Nancy Dillen, Solo Exhibit, Eau Gallie Public Library, Melbourne, FL
2021 Pop-Up Window Exhibit: Nancy Baur Dillen, Ormond Memorial Art Museum and Gardens, Ormond Beach, FL
2021 Visual Poems by Nancy Baur Dillen, Art Center Sarasota, Sarasota, FL
2019 Blended Themes, Artwork by Nancy Dillen, Beachside Arts and Studio, Satellite Beach, FL
2019 The Zoological and Botanical Fantasies of Nancy Dillen and Marilyn Rackelman, The Gallery at Melange, Lake Wales, FL
2019 Nancy Baur Dillen, Magical Worlds of Nancy Dillen, Daytona State College, Daytona Beach, FL
2018-19 Visual Poetry: Real and Imagined Paintings by Nancy Baur Dillen, Garden House at Harry P. Leu Gardens, Orlando, FL
2018 Magical Worlds of Nancy Dillen, (solo) Frits van Eeden Gallery, Foosaner Art Museum, Melbourne, FL
2018 Magical Worlds of Nancy Dillen, Seminole State College of Florida Fine Arts Gallery, Sanford, FL
2018 1NightR 1 and 2 Art Popup (3 person show), Melbourne, FL
2017 Fluid Nature (three person show with Candace Knapp and Marianna Hamilton Ross), South Florida State College Museum of Florida Art and Culture, Avon Park, FL, Artist’s Talk, Museum of Art and Culture, Avon Park, FL
2015 Reunited: Nancy Dillen and Quentin Walter, Art on 18th Gallery, Vero Beach, FL
2014 New Visions of the Florida Landscape: Nancy Dillen and Liu Nan, Gadsden Art Center, Quincy, FL
2009 Solo Exhibit: Nancy Dillen Retrospective: 20 Years of Art in Brevard, Highway Grrl’s Art Gallery, Melbourne, FL
2009 Nancy Dillen: Solo Exhibit, Mary Woerner Fine Art, W. Palm Beach, FL
2009 Nancy Dillen (Solo Exhibit) Orlando City Hall, Mayor’s Gallery, Orlando, FL
2008 Arabesque: Nancy Dillen and Candace Knapp, Atlantic Center for the Arts, Harris House, New Smyrna Beach, FL
2008 The Story, The Florida State University Museum of Fine Arts, Tallahassee, FL
2007 The Artwork of Nancy Baur Dillen – Painter, Fish House Art Center Gallery, Stuart, FL
2007 For the Love of Art 3, Brevard Museum of Art and Science, Melbourne, FL
2007 Wild About Art, LoPressionism Art Gallery, Melbourne, FL
2004 Strawbridge 4 Exhibit (Four Person Exhibition), Brevard Museum of Art and Science, Melbourne, FL
2002 Oils and Spoils: Nancy and Rick Dillen, Fifth Avenue Art Gallery, Melbourne, FL
2001 Nancy Dillen (Solo Exhibition), Brevard Community College: Guest Artist Series, Palm Bay, FL
SELECTED INVITATIONAL EXHIBITIONS
2026 Larger Than Life & Tiny Art, The Joe Center for the Arts, First Place Drawing (Larger than Life Category), Port St. Joe, FL
2026 100% Pure Florida Juried Exhibition, Fifth Avenue Art Gallery, May, Melbourne, FL
2026 Everglow 76th Annual Florida Artists Group Exhibition, Court House Cultural Center Gallery, Juror: Sean G. Clark, artist. Blick Art Materials Award, Stuart, FL
2026 Studios of Cocoa Beach Art Scene 2026, A Juried Exhibition of Florida Artists, Second Place Award, Juror: Lynn Spencer, Professor of Humanities and Art at Eastern Florida State College, Melbourne, FL
2026 35th Annual All Florida Juried Art Show, Martin Arts, Stuart, FL
2025 Art Beat St. Pete 75th Annual Florida Artists Group Exhibition, Helmar and Enole Nielsen Center for Visual Arts, Eckerd College, juror: Aaron Collier, Associate Professor, Painting and Drawing, Tulane University, St. Petersburg, FL
2024 100% Pure Florida: 9th Annual Juried Invitational, Fifth Avenue Art Gallery, Donald Thomas Crawford Sr. Memorial Award, Melbourne, FL
2024 Art Max Jax: Florida Artists Group Annual Exhibit, Museum of Arts and Sciences, Jacksonville, FL
2024 It’s Not All Black & White, Martin Arts, Stuart, FL
2024 Florida Artists Group: Areas 4 & 7 Invitational Exhibit, Alliance for the Arts, Ft. Myers, FL
2023 Melange: Florida Artists Group, Inc. Area 5,The Art League of Daytona Beach, Daytona Beach, FL
2023 NAWA Winter Small Works, Online Exhibit
2023 Arrowmont Faculty Exhibit, Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Gatlinburg, TN
2023 Treasure Coast Creates: A Tribute to Local Artists, Vero Beach Museum of Art, juror Ellen E. Roberts, the Harold and Anne Berkley Smith Senior Curator of American Art at the Norton Museum of Art, (West Palm Beach), Honorable Mention,Vero Beach, FL
2022 New Members Exhibition, National Association of Women Artists Annual Exhibition, Trask Gallery, New York, NY
2022 133rd National Association of Women Artists Annual Exhibition, One Art Space, New York, NY
2022 New Start, New Art, Beach Art Center, Indian Rocks Beach’s FL 2020-21 Robot Love, Foosaner Art Museum, Melbourne, FL
2022 72nd Annual Florida Artists Group Exhibition, Virtual, Florida Artists Group Merit Award, Juror: Holly Koons, Executive Director, Mary M. Torggler Fine Arts Center at Christopher Newport University, Newport News, VA
2021 71st Annual Florida Artists Group Exhibition, Dunedin Fine Arts Center, Dunedin, Cecily Hangen & Ahlin Emeritus Award, Juror: Wendy Earle, Curator of Contemporary Art at the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art in Winston- Salem, NC, Dunedin, FL
2020 70th Annual Florida Artists Group Exhibition, Foosaner Art Museum, Melbourne, FL
2019 Where Am I? A Wednesday Group Exhibit, Fifth Avenue Art Gallery, Melbourne, FL
2019 The Florida Artists Group in Naples, Naples Art Association Gallery, First Place, Juror: Lauren Huff, Naples, FL
2019 The Beauty of Small, Florida Artists Group, 69th Annual Symposium Exhibit, Ringling Art, Sarasota, FL
2019 Vision 2019, Strawbridge Art League, Foosaner Art Museum, Melbourne, FL
2018 Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts Instructor!s Exhibition, Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Gatlinburg, TN
2016 Inspired Lines: Appleton Drawing Biennial, Juror: Alison Ferris, (Curator at the John Michael Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin), The Appleton Museum of Art, Ocala, FL
2015 25th Annual All Florida Juried Arts Show, Court House Cultural Center, Juror: Joshua Hunter Davis, Stuart, FL
2016 26th Annual All-Florida Arts Juried Exhibition, Arts Council of Martin Co, Stuart, FL
2015 Kaleidoscope, Art & Antique & Fine Arts Gallery, Best of Show, Melbourne, FL
2015 Visions, Strawbridge Art League, Juror: Steve McLachlin, Melbourne, FL
2013 Animal Fairy Tales, Fables, Fact Or Fiction, Las Laguna Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
2013 Winter Garden: 27th Annual Holiday Show, Dunedin Fine Art Center, Dunedin, FL
2013 Strawbridge Art League’s VIVA 500 Traveling Exhibit Sites: Melbourne Beach Library, Cocoa Beach Library, & Orlando City Hall, 3rd place, Nature Category, Melbourne Beach, Cocoa Beach & Orlando, FL
2013 Aesthetics of Nature, St. Augustine Art Association Nature and Wildlife Exhibit, St. Augustine, FL
2013 Animal Other: Shemer Art Center and Museum, First Place, Juror: Alley Glowacki, Phoenix, AZ
2012, 11, 10, 09 Annual Juried Exhibition, FL Museum for Women Artists, Deland, FL
2011 Texas National Invitational, Stephen F. Austin State University, James Drake (juror, 2011 Texas Medal of Arts winner), Nacogdoches, TX
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES
2006-Present Art Professor Emeriti, Eastern Florida State College (Brevard Community College), Melbourne, FL
2006-1971 Professor of Art and Program Coordinator, Brevard Community College, Melbourne, FL
2023, 2018, 2016, 2012 , 2008, 2006, 2004, 2002, 1999, 1997, 1995, 1993, 1991 Summer Art Faculty, Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Gatlinburg, TN
1988 Elderhostel Art Faculty, Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Gatlinburg, TN