Education 1991 MFA, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 1987 BFA, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI Solo Exhibitions 2014 Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum, Hamilton College, Clinton, NY (forthcoming) 2013 Geometry of Light, Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, East Lansing, MI Triple Major, Bejing, China (forthcoming) 2012 Fluid State, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN Selected Work, Borås Konstmuseum, Borås, Sweden Interval, Galerija Vartai, Vilnius, Lithuania Ecliptic, Phillips Collection, Washington, DC 2011 Fundamental Forces, Andersson/Sandström Gallery, Stockholm & Umeå, Sweden Geometry of Light, Espace Louis Vuitton, Tokyo, Japan Fundamental Forces, Carolina Nitsch Contemporary Art, New York, NY Wavelength, Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY Bloomberg Foundation, New York, NY 2010 Sightings: Alyson Shotz, Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, TX Standing Wave, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH 2009 Phase Shift, Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY Drawing Through Space, Syracuse University Art Gallery, Syracuse, NY 2008 Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site, Cornish, NH Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY (Project Room) Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA 2007 Yale University Art Gallery, Yale University, New Haven, CT Infinite Space, Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY 2006 Topologies, curated by Jane Simon, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI and the Richard E. Peeler Art Center, DePauw University, Greencastle, IN Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY (Project Room) 2005 C2, Kevin Bruk Gallery, Miami, FL Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY 2004 Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA The Shape of Space, Rice University Art Gallery, Houston, TX Simple Forms, Ingalls & Associates, Miami, FL 2003 The Frances YoungTang Teaching Museum, Saratoga, NY Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY 2002 Lemon Sky Projects, Los Angeles, CA 1999 Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, PA Susan Inglett, New York, NY 1998 Susan Inglett, New York, NY 1997 Lemon Sky Projects, Los Angeles 1996 Susan Inglett, New York Selected Group Exhibitions 2013 Pattern, curated by Ali Gass, Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, East Lansing, MI 2012 Force of Nature, curated by Diana Campbell, Phoenix Market City Public Art Program, Chennai, India Sculpted Matter, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, NY Annual Summer Exhibition, The Fields Sculpture Park at Omi International Art Center, Ghent, NY Sculpture Biennial, Boras Konstmuseum, Boras, Sweden CHROM, Carolina Nitsch Contemporary Art, New York, NY Light and Landscape, Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, NY Galeria Vartai, Vilnius, Lithuania 2011 Fracturing the Burning Glass: Between Mirror and Meaning, Institute of Contemporary Art, Maine College of Art, Portland, ME Light and Landscape, Storm King, Mountainville, NY The More Things Change, SF MOMA, San Francisco, CA The Limits, Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery, Ontario, Canada Storm King at Fifty, 5+5: New Perspectives, Storm King Arts Center, Mountainville, NY 2010 Ways of Seeing: E.V. Day, Richard Dupont, Alyson Shotz, Carolina Nitsch Gallery, New York, NY Storm King at Fifty, 5+5: New Perspectives, Storm King Arts Center, NY Group Show, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Transparency & Trans-Formations: American Art at the Residence, United States Embassy in Stockholm, Sweden The Age of the Marvellous, Holy Trinity Church, London, United Kingdom Wall to Wall, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Face Your Demons, Milliken Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden Ten Years: Carolina Nitsch Editions 2000-2010, Carolina Nitsch Project Room, New York, NY Contemplating the Void: Interventions in the Guggenheim Museum, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY Material World: Sculpture to Environment, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams, MA 2009 Living Color: Selections from the Hirshhorn Collection, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC The Age of the Marvellous, Holy Trinity Church, London Selections from the Kramarsky Collection, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo Esteban Vicente, Segovia, Spain Sparkle and Glitter, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA Under the Influence, Girls Club Collection, Miami, FL 2008 New Work: Zilvinias Kempinas, Alyson Shotz, Mary Temple, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA Currents: Recent Acquisitions, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC Making Visible, the Invisible: Abstract Art from MMOCAs Permanent Collection, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI New Prints 2008, International Print Center New York, NY multiXply, A + D Gallery, Columbia College, Chicago, IL Landscapes for Frankenstein, Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York, NY From Nature, Carolina Nitsch Project Space, New York, NY In A Pure Land, Isis Gallery, London, UK Boson Exotic, Rupert Ravens Contemporary, Newark, NJ 2007 The Shapes of Space, Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY NeoIntegrity, curated by Keith Mayerson, Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY All You Desire, P.P.O.W., New York, NY Written in Light, curated by Zeljka Himbele, Art in General and Bloomberg LP at Bloomberg LP's New York HQ, New York, NY 2006 Light x Eight, The Jewish Museum, New York, NY Garden, Visual Arts Center of Richmond, Richmond, VA Deep Freeze, Mehr Gallery, New York, NY Summer Group Exhibition, Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY 3D: An Exhibition of Contemporary Sculpture, Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, OH Uneasy Nature, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC Inaugural Group Exhibition, Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY 2005 Labrynths, David Winton Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence, RI Repeat Performance, Anthony Grant Gallery, New York, NY Alyson Shotz/Julianne Schwartz, Mixed Greens Gallery, New York, NY Maurizio Couldn't be Here: ARTCOM-The Final Frontier, Apex Art, New York, NY 2004 Spectrums: Newer Imaging in Photography and Photography-Related Artwork, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA Needful Things: Contemporary Multiples, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH reGenerations: Environment Art in California, Armory Center for the Arts, Los Angeles, CA Editions Spotfight: Carolina Nitsch, Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA 2003 Unnaturally, curated by Mary-Kay Lombino, ICI Tour: Contemporary Art Museum, USF, Tampa, Fisher Gallery, USC, Regina Quick Center for the Arts, NY, Copia Center for the Arts, Napa, CA, Lowe Art Museum, Miami, FL bits 'n' pieces, curated by Beth Venn, D.u.m.b.o. Art Center, Brooklyn, NY In Medias Res, Exit Art, curated by Anne Ellegood, New York, NY 2002 Mirror Mirror, MASS MOCA, North Adams, MA Fictions in Wonderland, Beverly Reynolds Gallery, VA Into the Woods, Julie Saul Gallery, New York, NY Dangerous Beauty, curated by Manon Slome, JCC, NY 2001 Digital Printmaking Now, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY Plant Life, curated by Patrick Callery, K.S. Art, New York, NY Being There, Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY Material Whirled, Art in General, New York, NY Sensing the Forest, Wave Hill, Bronx, NY Mixed Greens at Space 101, Williamsburg, NY Let's Get to Work, Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, PA 2000 Pastoral Pop, The Whitney Museum at Phillip Morris, NY, NY Greater New York, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, NY, NY Wildlife, organized by James Cohan Gallery, NY at Reynolds Gallery, VA Editions Spotlight: Muse-X Editions, Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA The Living End, curated by Ingrid Schaffner, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, CO Blurry Lines, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, WI Not a Theme Show, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA Snapshot, Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, MD Showroom, RCCA: The Arts Center, Troy, NY Photasm, Union College and tour to Hunter College, New York, NY 1999 Sound Foundations: Audio in Video, Bard College, Center for Curatorial Studies, NY Best of the Season, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT Nature is Not Romantic, Leubsdorf Art Gallery at Hunter College, New York, NY comfort, Post Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1998 Media Library, David Zwirner Gallery, New York, NY New Video from The Outpost, The Kitchen, New York, NY Pop-Surrealism, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT 1998 Coming Off The Wall, Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, PA 1997 Dead-Fit Beauty, Leubsdorf Art Gallery at Hunter College, New York, NY Giftland V: Consumerism, Printed Matter, New York, NY Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC 1996 Giftland V: Democra$y, Printed Matter, New York, NY 1996 Alem de Agua: Copiacabana, el Museo Extremeño e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporáneo, Badajoz, Spain Anxious Times, Weber State University, Salt Lake City, UT 1995 August 28, Domestic Setting, Los Angeles, CA Fools Day, 12 Warren, New York, NY 1994 The Natural World, A/C Project Room, New York, NY 1990 1990 Northwest Annual, Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA A Day Without Art, Museum for Contemporary Arts, Baltimore, MD Selected Bibliography 2013 Considine, Austin. 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Awards 2012 Stanford University Sterling Visiting Scholar, (Department of Chemical and Systems Biology)s 2010 Pollock Krasner Foundation 2007 Saint-Gaudens Memorial Fellowship 2005-06 Happy and Bob Doran Artist in Residence, Yale University Art Gallery 2004 The New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation Studio Program 1999 Pollock-Krasner Foundation 1996 Art Matters Foundation 1990 MOCA, Northwest Annual Award Selected Public Collections Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY The Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley, MA The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY Harvard University, Boston, MA High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN Kunst am Bau Foundation, Germany Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI Memorial Sloan Kettering, New York, NY Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA Southwest Texas State University, San Marcos, TX University of Houston, Houston, TX Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT Go to top