Born: Denver, Colorado, 1949
Lives and works in New York City
Education: BA, Brandeis University, 1971
MA, University of Iowa, Iowa City, 1997
MFA, University of Iowa, Iowa City, 1973
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ONE AND TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2019
"IN-TER-WO-VEN", Westwood Gallery, NYC, with Ron Morosan,
catalog essay by Eileen Tabios
2016
“Wherever You Roam,”John Davis Gallery, Hudson, NY
2004
“Radical Corpus Cartographies,” Wheaton College, Norton, MA
2003
“Keys to the Family Car,” Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York
"24-7-365," Grey Gallery, Detroit
"Almost Like That,” Germaine Keller Gallery, Garrison, NY
2000
”Hope, Mistakes, and Hollywood," Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York
1999
”Strange Attractors," DePaul Art Museum, Chicago ,catalog, text by Joe Houston
1996
”Talk Show," FAO Gallery, New York, catalog, text by Susan Canning
1994
”The Imp of the Perverse," (with Ron Morosan), SchloB Overhagen, Lippstadt, Germany
1993
B4A Gallery, New York, catalog, text by Suzanne Anker
1992
”Second Nature," Jane Hartsook Gallery, New York
1991
B4A Gallery, New York
1997
Therefore Art, New York
1980
Galleri Ahlner, Stockholm (with Cy Twombly)
Marianne Deson Gallery, Chicago
Galleri Wallner, Malmo, Sweden
1979
Picker Art Gallery, Colgate University, Hamilton, NY
1978
Baltimore Museum of Art, curated by Brenda Richardson
School of Art, The Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, NY
“Outdoor Pieces,” Frostburg State University, Frostburg, MD
Truman Gallery, New York City
1977
“Vessels,” Truman Gallery, New York
1976
Frostburg State University, (With Dustin Davis) Frostburg, MD
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AWARDS
2014
The MacDowell Colony, Fellowship
2013
Loft Nota Bene, Cadaques Spain, Residency
2012
The Pollock-Krasner Foundation Art Award, 2012-2013
2011
The Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation, Space Program Award, including
the Richard Florsheim Art Fund Studio Award, 2011-2012
2016
Loft Note Bene, Cadaques, Spain, Residency
2004
The McKnight Award for Ceramic Arts
The Northern Clay Center, Minneapolis, Residency
2002
The MacDowell Colony, 9/11 Grant Award
Loft Note Bene, Cadaques, Spain, Residency
2000
The Millay Colony for the Arts, Residency
The Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant Award, 2000-2001
1999
The MacDowell Colony, Fellowhship
The Women's Studio Workshop, 21 for 25 Grant Award
The Ruth Chenven Foundation Award
1998
Empire State Craft Alliance Award
1997
The MacDowell Colony, Fellowship
The New York Foundation for the Arts, Feellowship
Dieu Donne Papermill, New York City, Workspace Grant
1996
Gottlieb Foundation, Individual Support Grant
1994
National Endowment for the Arts, Individual Fellowship
1993
Greenwich House Pottery, Residency
Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation, Fellowship
1992
Empire State Crafts Alliance Award
1990
Gottlieb Foundation, Emergency Grant
Kohler Arts/Industry, Kohler, WI, residency
1989
Artists Space Exhibition Award
1988-89
Residency, Bemis Foundation, Omaha, NE
1987
Athena Foundation Grant to work at Socrates Sculpture Park
Artists Space Exhibition Award
1986
The Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant Award, 1986-87
1985
Artists Space Exhibition Award
1984
National Endowment Matching Funds Grant to work at ClayWorks, NYC
Artists Space Exhibition Award
1980
Colgate University, Faculty Research Grant
Sculpture Space, Utica, NY, Invitation
1978
National Endowment for the Arts, Individual Fellowship
1969
OxBow Summer School, Saugatuck, MI, scholarship
1968
OxBow Summer School, Saugatuck, MI, scholarship
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SELECTED GROUP SHOWS
2022-23
"Artful Partners," John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York City, curated with a catalog essay by Dr. Thalia Vrachopoulos
Randee Silv and Miriam Bloom, Two Stills/Two Wordslabs, otolith.blogspot.com
2018
“Going Postal,” Salmagundi Club, New York
2017
Stranger Things,” DePaul Art Museum, Chicago, curated by Julie Rodrigues Widholm
2015
“Pop-Up,” Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, NE
2014
“Arts/Industry: Collaboration and Revelation,” John Michael Kohler Arts Center. Sheboygan, WI
“What Time is It? Photography! Photography!,” The Studio, Staten Island, NY
2013
“Silhouette,” Blackburn 20/20 Gallery, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York
2012
“Open Studios,” Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation Space Program, Brooklyn, NY
2010
“Fracking,” Exit Art, New York City
2008
“Couples,” Islip Museum of Art, Islip, NY (catalog)
2007
“Disasters of War,” Treadwell Museum of Fine Arts, Treadwell, NY
2006
“Between Body and Object,” Dowling College, Oakdale, NY
“Art Faculty 2006,” Molloy College Gallery, Rockville Centre, LI, NY
Weir Farm Art Center, Wilton, CT
2005
“Monochrome Image,” Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York
“Statement in the Art,” ArtSumer Gallery, Istanbul
Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn
“Voice of the People,” Alley Culture, Detroit
2004
“Six McKnight Artists,” Northern Clay Center, Minneapolis
“Gyrations,” Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn
2003
“According with Nadelman,” June Kelly Gallery, New York, curated by Cynthia Nadelman
2002
"Women Artists: Past and Present," Muhlenberg College, Allentown, PA
"Paper Redux," Dieu Donne Gallery, New York, catalog, text by Edwin Ramoran
"911/Artists Respond," Bronx River Art Center and Gallery, Bronx, NY
“Ground Zero Renegade Art Exhibit,” MONA, Museum of New Art, Detroit
“The 9/11 Show,” University Art Gallery, Fairleigh Dickinson University, Teaneck, NJ
2001
"Honor the Earth Biennial, V," Alley Culture, Detroit
"911," Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn
"Paper Remix," Dieu Donne Gallery, New York (catalog)
"Local Color," Martin Art Gallery, Muhlenberg College, Allentown, PA, catalog, text by Lori Verderame
"For Love or Money," Dieu Donne Gallery, New York
2000
"Displacement," Gallery: Gertrude Stein, New York
"Past Present," DePaul University Art Gallery, Chicago
1999
Grand Opening, John Michael Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, WI
"The Suitcase Show," DNA Gallery, Provincetown, MA
"Y2KAOS," Dieu Donne Gallery, New York
1998
"1998 New York State Biennial," curated by Linda Weintraub, New York State Museum, Albany, NY (catalog)
"Have Suitcase; Will Travel," Conductors Hallway Gallery, London
"New Island Views," Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, NY, (catalog)
"Whatever Floats Your Boat,"Art Omi International Arts Center, Ghent, NY
"Liquidation," Gallery Onetwentyeight, New York
1997
"The Power of Suggestion," curated by Cynthia Nadelman and Jackie Shatz, Hopper House, Nyack, NY
"More and More," The Islip Museum of Art, East Islip, NY (catalog)
1996
The Art Exchange Show, Ziegler-Fogel Exhibition Space, New York
Faculty Show, Museum of the Fashion Institute of Technology, New York
"Visual Thinking," Galleria de Arts Plastica Contemporanea, Guatamala City
Wagner College Gallery, Staten Island, NY
"If The Shoe Fits," FAO Gallery, New York
"Stand Up Straight," 450 Broadway Gallery, New York
"A Festival of Paper," Rockefeller Center, New York
1995
"Introductions," Kouros Gallery, New York
"Close Proximity," Marymount Manhattan College, New York
"Hiroshima: From Me to You," Fukuya Gallery, Hiroshima
1994 "A Drawing Survey," St Marks Position, New York
"Women,” City University of New York, College of Staten Island
1993
"The Sublime Banana Peel," B4A Gallery, New York
Sculpture Center, New York
"Artist-in-Residence Show," Jane Hartsook Gallery, New York
1992
"Seven Artists (Who Happen to be Women)," Bemis Foundation, Omaha
"Summer, 1992," Kouros Sculpture Center, Ridgefield, CN 1991
”To Wit," Rosa Esman Gallery, New York
"Residency Artists," John Michael Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, WI
"Exploit/Expose," Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn
"Without Walls," Kouros Sculpture Center, Ridgefield, CN
1990
"Proximity," B4A Gallery, New York
"Three Sculptors," Elsie Mott Ives Gallery, New York
Sculpture Space, Utica, NY
"Out of Doors," Kouros Sculpture Center, Ridgefield, CN (catalog) 1989 "Bemis/Sculpture," Kansas City Contemporary Art Center, Kansas City
Snug Harbor Sculpture Festival, Staten Island, NY (catalog)
" In Residency," Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Lincoln, NB, curated by Daphne Deeds
1987
"Director's Invitational," Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, NY, curated by John Perreault (catalog)
"Artists Choose Artists," Socrates Sculpture Park, LIC, NY (catalog)
1985
"Four Women Artists," Kade Gallery, Wagner College, Staten Island 1984
"Models for Outdoor Sculpture," Snug Harbor Cultural Center, SI, NY
"Sticks and Stones," Kenkeleba Gallery, New York (catalog)
"Invitational," A.I.R.Gallery, New York
1983 "Still-Life," Zim-Lerner Gallery, New York, curated by Ronny Cohen
Benefit for Franklin Furnace, Ronald Feldman Gallery, New York 1982 "
New Work, New York," Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
Picker Art Gallery, Colgate University, Hamilton, NY
"Beauty," ABC No Rio, New York
"Ceramic Forms in Art," Zim-Lerner Gallery, curated by Ronny Cohen
1981
"New Options in Sculpture," Mattingly Baker Gallery, Dallas
1980 "U.S.A. Women Artists 1980," Da Universidade de Sao Paolo
"The Language of Outdoor Sculpture," Colgate University, Hamilton, NY
"Women in the Arts," List Art Gallery, Hamilton College, Clinton, NY
"Artists at Sculpture Space," Utica College, Utica, NY
1979
"Small is Beautiful," Albright College, Reading PA, curated by Marilyn Zeitlin,
traveled to Bucknell University,
Lewisburg, PA; Drew University, Madison, NJ
Benefit for the Museum of Contemporary Art, N.A.M.E., Chicago
"Gallery Artists," Brooke Alexander Gallery, New York
Invitational, ARC Gallery, Chicago
1977
"Room 33," sponsored by Artists Space, New York
Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA
New Reform Center, Aalst, Belgium
1975
112 Greene Street Gallery, New York
3 Mercer Street Store, New York
Is This a Work of Art, II,” Truman Gallery, New York
Charlottenborg Hall, Copenhagen
“Group Indiscriminate,” White Columns, New York
1974 “A Generation of Brandeis Artists, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis, University, Waltham, MA, curated by Carl Belz (catalog)
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COLLECTIONS
John Anderson, Santa Fe, NM; Bass Museum, Miami; Bemis Foundation, Omaha; Colgate University, Hamilton, NY; DePaul Art Museum, Chicago; John Michael Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, WI; Kohler Company, Kohler, WI; Dieu Donne Papermill, New York; University of Iowa, Iowa City; Carolyn Alexander, New York; Douglas Backeburg, San Francisco; Rena Bransten, San Francisco; Mrs. Ed Bryant, Boulder, CO; Angelos and Charlotte Camillos, Ridgefield, Ct; Chris Carson, St. Louis, MO ; Virginia Cowles, New York; Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Dietrich, PA; Froma Eisenberg, New York; Alice Goode-Elman, Stony Brook, New York; Henry Feiwel estate; Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Goldberg, New York; Mr. Joel Grey, New York; Pat Hall; Stephen Hare, New York; Hallmark Art Collection, Kansas City, MO; Elizabeth Harris, New York; Mr. and Mrs. Leo Herzel, Gencoe, IL; Debbie Lawrence, New York; Jill Dunbar, New York; Susan and Peter Lawrence, CT; Vera List estate; Guy Marbe, Malmo, Sweden; Muhlenberg College, Allentown, PA; Helmtrud Mystron, Malmo, Sweden; Louise Nevelson estate; Northern Clay Center, Minneapolis; Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Pearle, Dallas; Phyllis Ross, New York; Dr. Donald Rothfeld, Milburn, NJ; Catherine and Sergio Sagnier, Barcelona; Estelle Schwartz, New York; Martin Sklar, New York; Patricia Sneed estate; Mr. W. B. Dixon Stroud estate, PA; Lasse Theander, Malmo; Burton Tremaine estate; Bette Ziegler, New York; Jurgen and Elizabeth Wolf, Cologne; Petah Coyne, New York; International Media Institute, New York, City University of New York, College of Staten Island, Staten Island, NY
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
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