SELECTED EXHIBITIONS: Galleries, Performance, Installations

Triple Play,
August 2009
Westbeth Gallery

The Journey; At the Crossroads
2008
Metro Poles: Art In Action with Asian American Art Center at Chinatown Manpower Project

Make Art Not War
2007
Gallery OneTwentyEight

Then and Now  Lower East Side Artists 2005
Fusion Arts Museum

Self-Portraits  August 2004
GalleryOneTwentyEight

”Singular Obsessions” June 2004
Williamsburg Art & Historical Center

Guild Hall, East Hampton LI,  Member’s Exhibition, May 2004
AIR Gallery, Generations.04, 2004
Asian American Art Center, “Below Canal/After 9/11)  3/21/2003-5/2/2003
Henry Street Settlement, “Tradition and Innovation: Clay Sculptors 2003
Gallery Onetwentyeight, "Unsettled Spirits", 3 person show, Sculpture, 2001
Avery Fisher Hall Gallery, Lincoln Center, Sculpture, 2001
"Angels for the Millennium", Curated by Judy Collischam, Soho,  2000
Bronx River Gallery, “Mumia 911,” Sculpture, 1999
Tribes  Gallery, Group Show curated by Al Loving, Sculpture, 1999
Henry Street Settlement Abrons Arts Center, “Ain’t It Funky Now,”
Brooklyn Brewery Art Space, “Stirring Space:   1998
The Gallery at 1 East 53rd St., “Small Works,” Sculpture, 1997
Henry Street Settlement  “Import/Transplant Myth/Reality,”  1997
Boricua  College, “Personal Statements,” Installation. 1995
Jacque Mariches Museum of Tibetan Art, Sculpture, 1995
Henry Street Settlement “Insights into Public Art” 1995
Artist Space, New York.  Group Exhibition, Drawing 1994
Art In General, New York Salon, Drawing 1994
Staatlliche Kunsthall, Berlin, Germany. Documenta “34 Raume.” Drawing 1994
Hunter  College, New York.  The Decade Show, Drawing 1992
HenryStreetSettlement,“Subterranean Subjects.” Art inspired or provoked by NYC Transit. 
Exhibition, Performance, Installation 1990
BACA Downtown, Brooklyn, NY.  Showcase Presentation,Performance,1990
The Painted Bride Gallery, Philadelphia, PA. Images & Words, 1990
Artists Space,  Curated by Paterson Sims, Whitney Museum, 1983-1989,
Max Fish Gallery, NY.  Atomic Art Show, Monoprints, 1989
Exit Art, New York.  Concrete Crisis, Drawing, 1989
Bronx River Gallery,   Relationships, Installation & Performance, 1989
New Orleans Contemporary Art Center, LA.  Oppression/Expression,
 Curated by Lowery Sims & Leon Golub, Drawing, 1989
Fashion Moda, Bronx, NY.  Expressions African, Drawing, 1988
Ceres Gallery, New York.  Collaborations Through New York Feminist Art Institute, 1987
City Gallery, Department of Cultural Affairs, New York.  ABC No Rio; The First Five Years,   Installation and Performance. 1986
ABC NoRio, New York, Heroes & Heroines, Installation and Performance, 1986
22 Wooster Gallery, 22Raw, New York.  Fit & Flab Diaries.  Installation and Performance, 1985
AIR Gallery, New York.  Artists as Filmmakers Series.  Exhibition and Performance, 1985
PS 122, New York.  AvanteGardeArama.  Subway Stories.  Performance, 1985
Franklin Furnace, NY.  Propaganda AKA Public Relations.  Curated by Lucy Lippard. 1984
Franklin Furnace, NY. Karnival Knowledge, Performance 1984
The WPA, Washington, DC,The Ritz Show.  Exhibition & Performance 1983
Inroads, NY.  Potentially Dangerous, Performance. 1983

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

Medger Evers College, Brooklyn, NY; Boricua College, NY; Pennsylvania State University; Westbeth Gallery, NY; Abyssinian Baptist Church for Art Against Apartheid, Printed Matter, NY; Barbara Gladstone Gallery, NY; Jack Tilden Galleries, NY; Goddard Riverside Community Center, NY (Featured Artist); Concord Gallery, NY; California State University; Brooklyn Munitions Terminal; Artists for Nuclear Disarmament Travel Exhibition; Group Material SubCulture for the IRT, NY; L.E.S.S. Gallery, NY; Hallwalls, Buffalo, NY; Small Walls Gallery, NY; Just Above Midtown/Downtown, NY; Arsenal Gallery, NY; Broome Street Workshop, NY; Brooklyn Federal Court House.
The Kitchen, NY; Brooklyn Bridge Anchorage with Spaulding Gray; Theatre for the New City; Limbo Lounge; Danceteria; Kamakaze; Max Fish

INDIVIDUAL GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS, AWARDS
Rubin Museum of Himalayan ArtTeaching Fellowship to India 2006
Fulbright-Hayes Fellowship, "Teach Turkey", University of Arizona, 2001
The Council for Basic Education (CBE) Time Warner Arts Fellowship, 1998
Percent for Art, SITES for Students, PS 132, Brooklyn, 1994-98
Department of Transportation, Pedestrian Division, “Sign Project,” 1996
Public Art Fund, “Garden Project,” Mosaics at PS 152, 1996
Hambidge Center, Rabun Gap, Georgia Fellowship, 1995, 2003
Percent for Art, SITES for Students, PS 107, Brooklyn, 1993-95
New York Foundation for the Arts, Artist in Residence, 1991
Cummington Community of the Arts, MA, 1991, 1990, 1988, 1984
The MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH, 1990, 1987
New York State Council on the Arts, Artist’s Fellowship, 1988
Henry Street Settlement, Artist in Residence, 1987-2007

REVIEWS AND PUBLICATIONS
The New Yorker, “Goings On About Town,” January 7, 1991
Daily News, “Underground Art,” by Dennis Wepman, January 18, 1991
Downtown,NY.“CelebratingOurSubways,”byLesWeichselbaum,February  6,1991
The Trentonian, Trenton, NJ.  “Subterranean Subjects”,  by Lili Wright, 1-10-91
The New York Times, “Subway Muse at Work in the Murk,” by Michael Norman, December, ‘90
The Villager, NY, “Review,” by Tom Waichunas, December, 1990
Heresies 21, NY.  “Food Is A Feminist Issue,” 1986
Ikon Anthology/Apartheid Issue, NY.  Winter/Spring, 1986
ABC No Rio Dinero, “The Story of a Lower East Side Gallery,” Alan Moore & Josh Miller, 1985
The Prospect Press, NY.  “Portrait of an Artist in a School,” by Jonathan Ward, June, 1985
Upfront, NY.  A. P.A.D.D. Publication, Fall, 1985
Arts Magazine, “Portrait of an Artist in a School,” by Jonathan Ward, June, 1985
Greetings from NYC, Postcards from Collaborative Projects, 1985
The Village Voice, NY.  “Too Close To Home,” by Lucy Lippard, June 14, 1983
The Village Voice, NY.  “Cross Country Music,” by Lucy Lippard, March 18, 1983
Artforum, “Reviews, Group Material,” by Glenn O’Brien, December, 1983
The Washington Tribune.  “Doing the Ritz,” by Kevin Doran, March 31, 1983
Women’s Art Journal, “The Future Is Ours; Art for Action & Change,” Sharon Gilbert, 1982
Artspeak, NY.  “Review, 22 Wooster,” January 31, 1980
The Soho News, NY.  “Craven Rebellion in the Crowd,” by Barbara Baracks, July 30, 1980

PUBLISHED WORK

IKON, #14/15 Crossroads:  An anthology of art for a time of transition and change, N.Y., 1994
The Boundaries of Twilight:  Czecko-Slovak Writing From the New World, stories from “Watch The Closing Doors,” edited by CJ Hirbal, published by New Rivers Press, 1991
A Day In The Life:  Tales from The Lower East Side, stories from “Watch The Closing Doors,” edited by Alan Moore & Josh Gosciak, published by Autonomedia, NY, 1990
Appearances, Number 10, “I Always Wanted To Have A Baby,” New York, 1983

VISITING ARTIST / PANELS / WORKSHOPS

Artists Talk On Art, “Been There/DoneThat:The Art Colonies’ Experience”  1996
County of Sweet Briar, Virginia, guest artist-critique, 1994
University Settlement, Eyes and Ears, Slide lecture, 1993
Hunter College, Decade Show:  Sex and Gender, Panel Discussion, 1991
New York Technical College, Growing Together, Panel, 1989
Artist Talk On Art, NY, How Political Can You Get, Panel, 1985
College of New Rochelle, Visiting Artist, 1985

COMMISSIONS, PUBLIC ART, COMMUNITY SERVICE

PUBLIC ART FUND, Mosaics at PS 152, Queens, NY, in collaboration with Allision & Bette   Saar Garden Project, “Roots & Wings”, 1996-1997
SITES FOR STUDENTS, New York State School Construction Authority, designed a series of             mosaics with students for PS 132, District 14, installed in school cafeteria, 1998
SITES FOR STUDENTS, New York State School Construction Authority, designed a series of             porcelain enamel panels with students for PS 107 District 15, installed 1995


EDUCATION
MFA, Hunter College, New York City, 1982
BFA, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY, 1977

ONLINE REFERENCES
PS 183 - Robert Louis Stevenson
The Sea by Diane Spodarek
The Journey at the Crossroads
Metro Poles in Chinatown
Panel Talk at Asian America Arts Centre

 
   
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