EDUCATION:
1994 BFA. Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York.
1987-1989 Certificate in Art and Design, Eastleigh College, Hampshire, England.
1970 B.Sc. Hons. Pharmacy, Aston University, Birmingham, England.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2025 Borders and Backpacks: Childhood in the Crosshairs , Paris Koh Fine Arts, Fort Lee, NJ
2016 Through the Window, Windows on Columbus, Pro Arts Project, Jersey City, NJ
2013 Emerging Artists, Monmouth Museum NJ
2006 Images of Childhood, Creative Center, NYC
2003 Project Room, Phoenix Gallery, NYC
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2025 Booked 19: Process, Museum of early Trades and Crafts, Madison, NJ.
2024 Homophone, Paris Koh Fine Arts, Fort Lee NJ, Co-curated by Jeanne Brasile, Paris Suechung Koh and Soa Lim.
Fibrous: National Juried Exhibition of Paper and Textile Artworks, Norfolk, VA
Strangers in a Strange Land, Gallery at Temple Sharey Telfilo-Israel, South Orange, NJ
NO TRESSPASSING: Artists Comment on the Migration Crisis. Anya and Andrew Shiva Gallery at John Jay College NYC
Illustrated Accordion, Abecedarian Gallery, Denver, Colorado
Unseen, Museum of Early Trades and Crafts, Madison NJ.
2023 Studio Montclair Members Exhibition, Leach Gallery, Montclair, NJ
Viewpoints, Studio Montclair, Leach Gallery, Montclair NJ
Sculptural Journeys, Clifton Arts and Sculpture Center, Clifton NJ
Evanescent, Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition, DuCret Art Center, Livingston, NJ
2022 Re-emergence: NJ Arts Annual, NJ State Museum, Trenton, NJ.
The National Association of Women Artists: Historical to Contemporary, Monmouth Museum, Lincroft, NJ
35TH Annual McNeese National Works on Paper, McNeese State University, Lake Charles, LA
Evanescent! Studio Montclair Gallery, Montclair, NJ
2021 Crossroads, Hunterdon Museum, Clinton NJ.
New Jersey Arts Annual 2021: Revision-Respond, Newark Museum, NJ
2020 Monmouth Museum 42nd Annual, Monmouth Museum, Lincroft, NJ.
Thoughts and Prayers, Another Round and Vacant Stares, ChaShaMa Matawan, NJ.
Personal/Universal, Galleries of the Interchurch Center, NY,NY..
Booked 16, Gaelen Center for the Arts, West Orange, NJ.
R'emerged, Monmouth Museum, NJ.
MIXMASTER @The MATT, Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, CT.
Good Works, SMI Gallery. Montclair. NJ.
2019 On a Different Page, Mikhail Zakin Gallery, Demerest, NJ
Sanctuary, Center for Book Arts, New York, NY
Pow(h)er, Dineen Hull Gallery, Hudson City Community College, Jersey City, NJ
Focus:Fiber 2019 Kent State University Museum, Kent, Ohio
Art of the Fold, Travelling Library Exhibition, Denver, CO
2018 Finding Home: Global Refuge Crisis. University of Central Florida Art Gallery, FL
2017 Living in the Shadows:Underground Immigrant Communities, Rutgers Center for Women in the Arts. NJ.
2016 Artists Emerged, NJ Emerging Artists Series, New Works, Monmouth Museum, Lincroft, NJ
2015 Connections II, George Segal Gallery, Montclair, NJ.
Readers Art: Concealed, Confined, Collected, Minnesota Center for Book Arts, MN.
2014 Pulp Culture, Morris Museum, Morristown, NJ
An Alternate Vision, NAWA’s 125th Anniversary Exhibition, Morris Museum, NJ
2013 The Curators Choice Exhibit, Victory Hall Drawing Rooms, Jersey City, NJ.
Art on Paper, Maryland Federation of Art, Annapolis, MD
2012 Legacy, Printmaking Center of Northern NJ, Branchburg NJ.
2011 Information Revisited, Mahoney Library, College of Saint Elizabeth, Morristown, NJ.
2010 In-Between, The Gallery at Worcester State College, Worcester, MA.
2010 Connections 6, George Segal Gallery, Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ
2009 A Parallel Presence, Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, NJ
2008 New Jersey Fine Art-Craft, NJ State Museum, Trenton NJ.
2007 The Feminine Mystique, Jersey City Museum, NJ
International Fiberart Exhibition, Pittsburg, PA.
2003 Cultural Exploration, New Jersey Fine Arts Annual, The Morris Museum, NJ
2002 Time Pieces, PS 122 Gallery, New York, NY.
2001 Site Specifics, The Carriage House, Islip Museum, East Islip, NY
Crossing Boundaries, New Jersey Fine Arts Annual, The Noyes Museum, NJ
2000 Artists in the Market Place, Bronx Museum, NYC
Elements 2000 Snug Harbor Cultural Center, NYC
1999 No Word For Inhumanity Westminster Art Gallery, Bloomfield College NJ
New Jersey Fine Arts Annual New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ
AWARDS and GRANTS
2020 Cash Award, Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury CT
2016 Cash Award, Viewpoints, Aljira, Newark NJ.
2007 Clara Shainess Memorial Award for Innovative Sculpture
2005 Vermont Studio Center Residency, VT
1999 Artist in the Market Place, Bronx Museum of Art New York
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2010 ‘A look inside the state of mind we call ‘home’’ John Zealman, The Record, Bergen County, NJ
2004 ‘Mandala: Artistic Meditation’ by Helen A. Harrison, New York Times
‘Inner Self’ by Helen A. Harrison, New York Times
2001 ‘Crossing Boundaries’ by Fred B. Adelson, Noyes Museum New Jersey
‘Site Specifics’ by Helen A. Harrison, New York Times
2000 ‘Elements 2000' by Joel Silverstein, Review NY
1999 ‘Artists find their own space inside City Without Walls’ by Dan Bischoff,
Star Ledger, NJ
‘Confronting Cancer through Art’ Catalogue, University of Pennsylvania
1996 ‘Pulp Fictions’ Catalogue introduction by Elizabeth T.E. Smith, curator Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, California.
COLLECTIONS:
Justin Peyser & Michelle Hobart
Bainbridge Island Museum of Art, WA
Baylor University Libraries, Waco, TX
University of Iowa, Main Library, Iowa City, IA
Swarthmore College Library, Swarthmore, PA
Weatherspoon Art Gallery, The University of North Carolina.
Sur Rodney Sur Archives New York
ARTISTS FILES
The Drawing Center, 35 Wooster Street, NYC
Pierogi Flat Files, 155 Suffolk St. NY, NY
Momenta, 55 Berry Street, Brooklyn NY