Education

1975 • Brown University, B.A.

1975-1977 • New York Studio School

Exhibtions

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2025 • She Opened Her Ear to the Great Below, Pamela Salisbury Gallery, Hudson, NY

2024 • Trickster Makes This World (For Lewis Hyde), Bookstein Projects, New York, NY

2022 • wonder women, Pamela Salisbury, Hudson, NY

2021 • Empathy Machine, Shoshana Wayne, Los Angeles, CA

2018 • As We Dream, Bookstein Projects, New York, NY

2016 • Afternoons, Lori Bookstein Fine Art, New York, NY

2012-2013 • Between Silver Light and Orange Shadow, Miami Dade College Museum of Art + Design/University of Florida, Gainesville/Lori

Bookstein Fine Art, New York, NY

2008 • Katzen Museum of Art, American University, Washington, D.C.

2004 • From Life, Littlejohn Contemporary, New York, NY

2002 • Daughters, Littlejohn Contemporary, New York, NY

2001 • Ancestors, Littlejohn Contemporary, New York, NY

1999 • Maier Museum, Randolph College, Lynchburg, VA

1998 • Littlejohn Contemporary, New York, NY

1997 • Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, SC

1995 • David Beitzel Gallery, New York, NY

1993 • Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1992 • Germans Van Eck Gallery, New York, NY

1991 • Gallery 210, University of Missouri, St. Louis, MO

• Germans Van Eck Gallery, New York, NY

1990 • Damon Brandt Gallery, New York, NY

1986 • Vanderwoude Tananbaum, New York, NY

1984 • Vanderwoude Tanabaum, New York, NY

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2023 • Come a Little Closer, D.C. Moore Gallery, New York, NY

2022 • Balance, Platform Project Space, Brooklyn, NY

• Acid Garden, Charles Moffett, New York, NY

• Still Life and the Poetry of Place, Pamela Salisbury Gallery, Hudson, NY

2021 • I Dream in Black and White, Olympia, New York, NY

2020 • All Small, Pamela Salisbury, Hudson, NY

2019 • At the Core: New Members of the National Academy of Design, Core: Club, New York, NY

• American Earthquake, curated by Madeleine Bialke, Vacation Gallery, New York, NY

• New Faces: Mid-Career Artists LA/NY, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

• Notebook, curated by Joanne Greenbaum, 56 Henry, New York, NY

• Up With People!, curated by Patrick Neal, Joyce Goldstein Gallery, Chatham, NY

• Modern & Contemporary Selections form the Permanent Collection, the Maier Museum of Art at Randolph College, Lynchburg, VA

2018 • Chromalicious, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA

2017 • Women Painting, curated by Michelle Weinberg and Sarah Michelle Rupert, The Girls Club, Fort Lauderdale, FL

• The Nature Lab, LABSpace, Hillsdale, NY

2016 • Representing Rainbows, curated by Lisa Corinne Davis, Gerald Peters Gallery, New York, NY

2015 • Group 2015-2016, Lori Bookstein Fine Art, New York, NY

• Gallery Selections: 2015, Lori Bookstein Fine Art, New York, NY

2013 • [Mostly] White, Lori Bookstein Fine Art, New York, NY

2011 • Heads, Lori Bookstein Fine Art, New York, NY

2010 • Works on Paper, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA

• Oil and Water, Schlesinger and Coleman Bancroft, New York, NY,

2009 • Bucheon Gallery, San Francisco, CA (two-person show with Jenny Dubnow)

• Octet, Pera Museum, Istanbul, Turkey

• Subverted GenreI, Sue Scott Gallery, New York, NY

2008 • 183rd Annual Invitational, The National Academy, New York, NY

• Gouache and Only Gouache, Jeff Bailey Gallery, New York, NY

2007 • Inner Child: Good and Evil in the Garden of Memories, Hunterdown Museum, Clinton, NJ

• Horizon, EFA Gallery, New York, NY

2006 • Oh, You Beautiful Doll, Andrea Meislin Gallery, New York, NY

• Selections from the Cultural Corridor, Storefront Artists Project, Pittsfield, MA

• Light in August, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA

• Complicit! Contemporary American Art and Mass Culture, University of Virginia Art Museum, Charlottesville, VA

• Objects in Mind, The Philoctetes Center, New York, NY

• New Art, New York: Reflections on the Human Condition, Trierenberg Corporation Gallery, Traun, Austria

2005 • Private Drama, Obsolete Gallery, Venice, CA

• Face Paint, Bucheon Gallery, San Francisco, CA

• The Continuous Mark: 40 Years of the New York Studio School, New York Studio School Gallery, New York, NY

• Littlejohn Contemporary Gallery, New York, NY

2004 • Littlejohn Contemporary Gallery, New York, NY

• Unveiling the ImageI, New Jersey Center for the Visual Arts, Summit, NJ

• Mirror, Mirror: Imaging the Magic TaleI, Mary Baldwin College, Hunt Gallery, Staunton, VA

2002 • Littlejohn Contemporary Gallery, New York, NY

• Bucheon Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2001 • Littlejohn Contemporary Gallery, New York, NY

• Pixerina Witcherina, University Galleries of Illinois State University, Normal, IL/Sarah Moody Gallery of Art, University of Alabama,

• Tuscaloosa/Hanes Art Gallery, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC

• Bucheon Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2000 • Littlejohn Contemporary Gallery, New York, NY

1999 • Allen Sheppard Gallery, New York, NY

1998 • Women, Women, Women: Artists, Objects, Icons, Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, SC

1997 • Hair-Do, The Work Space @ Dolgenos Newman & Cronin, New York, NY

• Domestic Bliss, DNA Gallery, Provincetown, MA

1996 • DNA Gallery, Provincetown, MA

• SCRATCH, Thread Waxing Space

• Comic Inspirations, Adam Baumgold Fine Art/Simon Capstick-Dale Gallery, New York, NY

• Range of Effect, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC

1995 • Art on Paper 1995, Weatherspoon Gallery, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC

• Dru Arstark Gallery, New York, NY

1994 • Selections, Adam Baumgold Fine Art, New York, NY

• Intimate, ICA, Portland at MECA, Maine College of Art, Portland, ME

• Single-Cell Creatures: Cartoons and their Influence on Contemporary Arts, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY

• Soliloquies, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA

• Nine Months: Art & Pregnancy, Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, MA

• Bad Girls, West, UCLA Wight Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1993 • The 43d Biennial of Contemporary American Painting, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

• UCI Fine Arts Gallery, University of California at Irvine, Irvine, CA

• Gallery Artists and Friends, Germans Van Eck Gallery, New York, NY

• Summer Salon Show, Robert Morrison Gallery, New York, NY

• Drawing Conclusions, Pamela Auchincloss Gallery, New York, NY

• Already, Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, SC

• The Eidetic Image: Contemporary Works on Paper, Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagne, Champaign, IL

• Formative Past, Present Form, New York Studio School , New York, NY

• Making Connections: Approaches to Space in Drawing, Maier Museum of Art, Randolph Macon College, Lynchburg, VA

1992 • Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, New York, NY

• Gallery 400, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, “On Condition: Painting Between Abstraction and Figuration”

• Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, “Re: Framing Cartoons”

• Germans Van Eck Gallery, New York, NY, “Play Between Fear and Desire”

1991 • Personal Mythologies, Marc Richards Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

• Compulsion, Jamison Thomas Gallery, New York, NY

• Group Drawing Show, Ruggiero Gallery, New York, NY

1990 • Examples Cool & Lonely, Roy Boyd Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

• Fluid Geometry, Cummings Art Center, Connecticut College, New London, CT

• Eros/Thanatos, Death & Desire, Tom Cugliani Gallery, New York, NY

• Re: Framing, Loughelton Gallery, New York, NY

1989 • Drawings, Fawbush Gallery, New York, NY

• Personal Icons, City Gallery, New York Dept. of Cultural Affairs, New York, NY

• Damon Brandt Gallery, New York, NY

• Field and Frame: Meyer Schapiro's Semiotics of Painting, New York Studio School, New York, NY

• Immanent Space, Ruggiero Henis Gallery, New York, NY

• Is this a small picture?, Henry Feiwel Gallery, New York, NY

1988 • Bali Miller Gallery, New York, NY

• New Visions Gallery, Ithaca, NY

• Nature in Art - 44 Women Artists, One Penn Plaza, New York, NY

1987 • To Objectify the Subjective: Contemporary Symbolist Sensibilities, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY

• Winston Gallery, Washington, D.C.

1986 • Skowhegan 40th Anniversary Exhibition, Leo Castelli Greene St. Gallery, New York, NY

• Short Stories, One Penn Plaza, New York, NY

• San Francisco International Airport, Airport Café, San Francisco, CA

• Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME, Inner Images

• The Newark Museum, NJ. Recent American Painting and Sculpture: 1975-1985

1985 • Alumni Show, New York Studio School, New York, NY

• Notions of Surrealism, Vanderwoude Tananbaum Gallery, New York, NY

• 20th Anniversary Show, New York Studio School, New York, NY

• Mystery Show, Jersey City Museum, NJ

• New Expressive Landscape, Sordoni Art Gallery, Wilkes College, Wilkes-Barre, PA

1984 • Art on Paper 1984, Weatherspoon Gallery, UNC at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC

• Situations, Jamaica Arts Center, Queens, NY

• Women Artists of the 80s: New Talent, A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY

• Yale University at Norfolk Gallery, Norfolk, CT

• Fears, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA

1983 • Art on Paper 1983, Weatherspoon Gallery, UNC at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC

• Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

Awards and Fellowships

2022 • Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant

2021 • American Academy of Arts and Letters Purchase Prize

2015 • National Academy of Design Inductee

2013 • John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship

2008 • Inglis Griswold Nelson Prize, National Academy of Design Museum and School of Fine Arts 183rd Invitational

2007 • Yaddo Artist’s Fellowship

1999 • Peter S. Reed Foundation Grant

• Hand Hollow Foundation Fellowship

1996 • Fine Arts Work Center Fellowship, Provincetown, MA

1995 • Hand Hollow Foundation Fellowship

1989-90 • National Endowment for the Arts Visual Artist’s Fellowship

1987 • Millay Colony for the Arts Artist’s Residency

1983-84 • National Endowment for the Arts Visual Artist’s Fellowship

1976 • Skowhegan School

1975 • Yale Norfolk Program Fellowship

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