Education
He graduated from the Massachusetts College of Art in 1971 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in painting and in 1977 with an Master of Fine Arts.
He graduated from the Massachusetts College of Art in 1971 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in painting and in 1977 with an Master of Fine Arts.
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.
The Boston Public Library, the Davis Museum and Cultural Center (Wellesley College, Wellesley, Master of Arts), the De Cordova Museum and Sculpture Park (Lincoln, Master of Arts), the Fitchburg Art Museum (Fitchburg, Master of Arts), the Honolulu Museum of Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Rose Art Museum (Brandeis University, Waltham, Master of Arts), the Smith College Museum of Art (Northampton, Master of Arts), the Currier Museum of Art (Manchester, New Hampshire), the Speed Art Museum (Louisville, Kentucky) and the Tucson Museum of Art (Tucson, Arizona) are among the public collections holding work by John McNamara.