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Born in Minnesota, Colleen Randall received her M.F.A. in Painting from Queens College, CUNY in 1983. She lived in Brooklyn, New York and painted in a studio on the Lower East Side of Manhattan until 1990 when she moved to New Hampshire. A professor in the Studio Art Department, Randall has taught at Dartmouth College since 1989.

Randall has been exhibiting her paintings in commercial galleries, academic settings and public spaces for more than twenty years. Her one-person exhibitions include The Painting Center and Spheris Gallery in New York City, Susan Conway Gallery in Washington D.C., Elliot Smith Contemporary Art in St. Louis, MO, and the Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College. She has been in two-person exhibitions at Kenkeleba Gallery in New York City and the Washington Art Gallery in Washington, Connecticut. She has been awarded artist residences at Yaddo, The MacDowell Colony, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Millay Colony and Landfall Trust in Brigus , Newfoundland. She has been a Visiting Artist at Chautauqua School of Art, Vermont Studio Center and numerous colleges and universities. In 2002 she was the recipient of the National Academy of Design's Edwin Palmer Memorial Award for painting.

Rooted in an abstract tradition, Colleen Randall's paintings explore space and light through the materiality of paint. In her paintings she seeks to investigate elusive states of consciousness through multi-layered depictions of form.