John McNamara

Who is John McNamara?

John McNamara is an American artist who was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He graduated from the Massachusetts College of Art in 1971 with a BFA in painting and in 1977 with an MFA. In 1975, he began teaching painting at the Massachusetts College of Art and remained there until 1983. He received a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship in 1981. Since 1993, he has taught at University of California, Berkeley. He currently lives in Novato CA with his wife, educator and writer Diane Darrow and two sons Jeremy and Seamus McNamara

The Boston Public Library, the Davis Museum and Cultural Center, the De Cordova Museum and Sculpture Park, the Fitchburg Art Museum, the Honolulu Museum of Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Rose Art Museum, the Smith College Museum of Art, the Currier Museum of Art, the Speed Art Museum and the Tucson Museum of Art are among the public collections holding work by John McNamara.