Lois Dodd studied at The Cooper Union in the late 1940s.
In 1952 she was one of the five founding members of the Tanager Gallery on Tenth Street, one of the first artist run galleries in New York, where her work was shown for ten
years. Dodd is an elected member of the American
Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters and the
National Academy of Design. Since 1954 her work has
been the subject of 50 one-person exhibitions.

Early in 2012, the first full retrospective of Dodd’s work
was placed on view at the Kemper Museum, Kansas City,
Mo. and will travel to the Portland Museumin Maine.
This exhibition received extremely favorable reviews
from the New York Times’ venerable Roberta Smith who
called her work “the purely perceptual realism of this
85-year-old plein-air painter. ….Despite their basis in
observed experience, Ms. Dodd’s landscapes, interiors
and still lifes can run the gamut from Precisionist clarity
to painterly, even hallucinatory near-abstraction.”