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Judith Shea

Biography

JUDITH SHEA

Born: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania


Education

1975 B.F.A., Parsons School of Design, New York
1969 A.A., Parsons School of Design, New York

Selected Solo Exhibitions
2004 "Judith Shea: Statues", John Berggruen Gallery
2004 Work in Progress, commissioned by the Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE.
2004 Work in Progress, commissioned by the Hospice of South Central Indiana, Columbus, IN; a bronze and limestone sculpture for the Hospice garden.
2003 “REMNANT”, commissioned by the U.S. Department of State, Art-in-Embassies Program;
a bronze sculpture for the new U.S. Embassy in Istanbul, Turkey.
2002 “CHILD”, commissioned by the Village of Flossmoor, Illinois; a bronze and limestone sculpture for the Sterling Avenue Park.
2002 “FWR40”, private commission, 6 bronze busts.
2001 “WATER BEAUTY”, private commission, East Hampton, NY; a bronze sculpture/fountain.
2000 “DOUGLAS ROSE”, private commission, Sonoma, CA; a bronze garden sculpture.
1999 “STORAGE 1999”, commissioned by the Hall Foundation for the Kansas City Sculpture Park at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, a five-figure bronze and limestone sculpture.
1995
The Other Monument, Public Art Fund Inc., Doris C. Freedman Plaza, New York
1994
Process of Form: Drawings by Judith Shea, University of the Arts, Philadelphia; John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco; Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
1994
Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site, Cornish, New Hampshire
Judith Shea: Selected Works 1979 – 94, Max Protetch Gallery, New York
1993
All About Adam and Eve, Max Protetch Gallery, New York
1992
John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco*
On a Pedestal: Judith Shea, Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis
Judith Shea/Monuments and Statues, Whitney Museum of American Art
Judith Shea's Monument Statuary, Max Protetch Gallery, New York
1990
John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco
National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C.*
Greenberg Gallery Annex, St. Louis
1989
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City
1988
Curt Marcus Gallery, New York
La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, California*
University Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
1986
Morris Gallery, Pensylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia
Willard Gallery, New York
1985
Hayden Gallery, List Visual Arts Center, Masschusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge*
Knight Gallery, Charlotte, North Carolina
1984
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
Willard Gallery, New York
1983
Willard Gallery, New York
Dart Gallery, Chicago
1981
80 Washington Square East Galleries, New York University, New York
Willard Gallery, New York
1980
Willard Gallery, New York
1976
The Clocktower, The Institute for Urban Resources, Inc., New York

Selected Group Exhibitions

2002
Rapture: Art’s Response to Fashion, 1970-2001, Barbican Art Gallery, London, England
Trisha Brown: Dance and Art Dialogue 1965-2000, Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachussetts
2001
Garden Gallery, San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, California
1999
Contemporary Classicism, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, State University of New York at Purchase, New York; traveled to Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa Florida
1997-98
Hanging by a Thread, Hudson River Museum of Art, Yonkers, New York
1996
Art/Fashion, Biennale di Firenze, Forte Belvedere, Florence, Italy; traveled to Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
John Berggruen Gallery, Friesen Gallery Fine Art: A Collaboration, Friesen Gallery, Sun Valley, Idaho
Figuratively Speaking, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco
Views from a Golden Hill: Contemporary Artists and the American Academy in Rome, The Equitable Gallery, New York
A Labor of Love, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
1995
Fellows Exhibition, American Academy in Rome
A Dress: States of Being, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Manitoba; North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks
XXV Years, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco
1994
The First Ladies Sculpture Garden, Jacqueline Kennedy Rose Garden at the White House, Washington, D.C.
Ideas and Objects: Selected Drawings and Sculpture from the Permanent Collection, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
In the Garden, In the Galleries, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
1993
The Rag Trade, The InterArt Center, New York
Figurative Contemporary Sculpture, The Albuquerque Museum
American Art Today: Clothing as Metaphor, The Art Museum, Florida International University, Miami
Fall from Fashion, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut
Clothing Metaphors, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin
Empty Dress: Clothing as Surrogate in Recent Art, (Curated by Nina Felshin for Independant Curators Incorporated)
1992
Group Exhibition, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco
1991
Sculptor's Prints, Betsy Senior Contemporary Prints, New York
El Sueno de Egipto, El Centro Cultural/Arte Contemporaneo, A.C., Mexico
Setting the Stage: Contemporary Artists for the Performing Arts, Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio
The Fourth International Shoebox Sculpture Exhibition, University of Hawaii, Manoa Art Gallery, Manoa
1990
Group Show, Meredith Long Gallery, Houston*
1989
Making Their Mark: Women Artists Move into the Mainstream, Cincinnati Art Museum; New Orleans Museum of Art; Denver Art Museum; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia*
Sculpture Chicago
Encontros: Luso-Americanos de Arte Contemporanea, Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal*
Figuratively Speaking: Drawings by 8 Artists, Neuberger Museum, State University of New York, College at Purchase *
The Emerging Figure, Norton Gallery & School of Art, West Palm Beach
1988
Sculpture: Inside/Outside, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis*
Enclosing the Void: 9 Contemporary Sculptors, Whitney Museum of American Art at Equitable Center New York*
Figurative Impulses, Santa Barbara Museum of Modern Art*
Figures: Form and Fiction, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse*
The Multiple Object, Bank of Boston Gallery, Boston
1987
Standing Ground, The Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati*
Structure to Resemblance: Work by Eight American Sculptors, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo*
Sculpture: Looking into Three Demensions, Anchorage Museum of History and Art, Alaska*
Sculptors on Paper: New York, Madison Art Center, Wisconsin *
The Allusive Object, Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston
Bronze, Plaster and Polyester, Moore College of Art Gallery, Philadelphia*
Art Against Aids, American Foundation for AIDS Research, New York*
1986
50th Anniversary Exhibition, Willard Gallery, New York
Drawings, Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston
Contemporary Cutouts, Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris, New York*
Painting and Sculpture Today: 1986, Indianapolis Museum of Art*
Works on Paper, Althea Viafore Gallery, New York
Special Project Room, P.S. 1 Long Island City, New York
1985
Affiliations: Recent Sculpture and Its Antecedents, Whitney Museum of Stamford, Connecticut
Body and Soul: Aspects of Recent Figurative Sculpture, The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati*
In Three Dimensions, Pratt Institute Galleries, New York*
Staged/Stages, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Ltd., New York
1984
Currents 4: Art and Use, Milwaukee Art Museum
Four Sculptors: Ritual and Artifact, Zabriskie Gallery, New York*
American Sculpture, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles
Artists in the Theatre, Hillwood Art Gallery, Greenvale, New York*
1983
Directions 1983, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.*
The Sixth Day, The Rennaisance Society at The University of Chicago*
Sculpture Now, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond*
Artist/Critic, White Columns, New York
The New Sculpture, Martina Hamilton Gallery, New York
Day In/Day Out: Ordinary Life as a Source of Art, Albright College, Freedman Gallery, Pennsylvania*
1984 - A Preview, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York*
1982
Energism, Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans
Painting and Sculpture Today 1982, Indianapolis Museum of Art
Group Exhibition, Willard Gallery, New York
By the Sea, Barbara Toll Fine Arts, New York
1981
Art Materialized, Selections from the Fabric Workshop, Organized by Independent Curators, Inc., New York (traveled 1981-1984)*
1981 Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Figuratively Sculpting, P.S.1, The Institute for Urban Resources, Inc., Long Island City, New York
The Soft Land/II Soffice Paese, Palazzo Farnese, Cortona, Italy
Parafunction, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
Transformations: Women in the 70's - 80's, Art Expo, Organized by the New York Feminist Art Institute, New York Coliseum, New York
1980
Group Exhibition, Audrey Strohl Gallery, Memphis
Regalia, Henry Street Settlement, New York*
Fabric into Art, Amelie A. Wallace Gallery, State University of New York College at Old Westbury, Westbury*
Seven Artists, Neuberger Museum, State University of New York at Purchase*
1979
Material Pleasures: The Fabric Workshop at ICA, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia; Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
Group Exhibition, Marion Locks Gallery, Philadelphia
Summertime, Droll/Kobert Gallery, New York
Clothing Constructions, Los Angeles Institute for Contemporary Art
1978
William Patterson College, Wayne, New Jersey
Willard Gallery, New York
1977
Collection in Progress, Moore College of Art Gallery, Philadelphia
1976
Rooms, P.S.1, The Institute for Art and Urban Resources, Inc., Long Island City*
The Handwrought Object, 1776-1976, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York*
1975
Making Clothes, Artpark, Lewiston, New York
1974
Untailored Clothing, Artpark, Lewiston, New York


Awards
1995 Honored in Twentieth Century American Sculpture at the White House
1994 Rome Prize Fellowship, American Academy in Rome, Italy
Lila Wallace - Reader's Digest International Artist Award, Mexico
1993 Fellow of the Saint-Gaudens Memorial, Cornish, New Hampshire
The Rockefeller Foundation Resident Fellowship, Bellagio Study & Conference Center, Bellagio, Italy
1992 Certificate of Service, The City of New York, Human Resources Administration: “For Outstanding Voulunteer Service with The Artist and Homeless Collaborative”
1989 Solomon R. Guggenheim Sculptor-in-Residence at Chesterwood, Massachusetts
1986 National Endowment for the Arts
1984 National Endowment for the Arts

Selected Public Collections

The Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, New York
Brooklyn Museum
Chase Manhattan Bank, New York
The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati
Dallas Museum of Fine Arts
The Equitable Insurance Co., New York
General Mills, Minneapolis
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
The National Gallery, Washington D.C. (The Herbert and Dorothy Vogel Collection)
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City
Neuberger Museum, S.U.N.Y. Purchase, New York
Pennsylvania Convention Center, Philadelphia
Prudential Insurance Co., New York
Reader's Digest, Pleasantville, New York
San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art
Santa Barbara Museum of Art
Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York




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