Claudia Sbrissa
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2015 Facioun, Project Room # 73, Dinter Fine Arts, New York, NY
“Finding one’s way through unfamiliar terrain generally requires a map of some sort”, Shed Space, Brooklyn, NY, catalogue
2013Avvolto, AC Institute, New York, NY
2012 Pull Up: Pink Assignment, Savior-Faire, curator Jenn Dierdorf, Soho20, New
York, NY
2010Ruins, Muriel Guepin Gallery, New York, NY
2009Utopia is Hard, Courthouse Gallery, Lake George Art Project, Lake George, NY
Turning Still, Pine Grove, Schuylkill Center, Philadelphia, PA
2008 Two Brothers Beauty Supply, Providence Art Windows, Providence, RI
2006We'll Manage, Public Artwork Project, City of Tempe, Tempe, AZ
2005Habitat, Colburn Gallery, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT
2003Atelier/Vestiges, Skowhegan Studios, Skowhegan ME
lines & clusters, curator April Vollmer, Square One Gallery, New York, NY
1999fluid, Malaspina Gallery, Granville Island, Vancouver, Canada
1998 Gestura Series, Lower East Side Printshop, New York, NY
Intus/Foris, Regis College Gallery, Toronto, Canada
1997 And/I Am Dumbfounded, Open Studio Gallery, Toronto, Canada
1994 In All Her Names, Barbara Frum Centre, Toronto, Canada
2& 3-Person Exhibitions
2015 Topographies, Claudia Sbrissa, w/ Lindsey Glover, curator Erika Fowler-Decatur, Dowd Gallery, SUNY Cortland, Cortland, NY
2013Fiber 2 Form, Claudia Sbrissa w/ Derek Parker & Ben Cuevas, curator Ivey Barker, Salem Art Works (SAW), Salem, NY
2010this place is a bunch of lines Salon Series: Claudia Sbrissa w/Grace Durnford, curators Amy Pivak & Lyndsey Beutin, Salon Ciel, New York, NY
New Work: Claudia Sbrissa w/Alex Guillaume, Muriel Guepin Gallery, New York, NY
Selected Group Exhibition
2015Art From The Boros III, Denise Bibro Fine Art, New York, NY
Bound and Unbound III; International Juried Altered Book Exhibition, curator
2016Sandra Brooke, University, Libraries, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, SD
2015 Small Works, curator Mary Negro, Trestle Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Stack / File: Selections from the Kentler Flatfiles, Curator: Ana Torok, Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn, NY; catalogue
Open Studio's 45th Anniversary Exhibition, organizer Susan Cunningham, Open Studio Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Postcard Show |Wish You Were Here 14, A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
ArtVenice Biennale 3, curators the Biennale Project, Via Garibaldi 1791 Sestiere, Castello, Venice Italy
100 Works on Paper Benefit 2015, curator Florence Neal, Kentler International Drawing Space, New York, NY
Above and Below 1-10, curator Christopher Shadel, Howard Payne University, Brownwood, TX
FIVE Squared Benefit Art Show & Sale, curator Suzanne Gray, Davis Family YMCA, Boardman, OH
2014 Biennale Roadshow Marfa 2014, curators the Biennale Project, El Cosmico, Marfa, Texas
Circumstances, curators Holly Shen Chaves and Rachel Nackman, Kentler Drawing Space, Brooklyn, NY
Trace + Gestures Portfolio, curators Nichole Maury and Patricia Villalobos Echeverría traveling: Richmond Center for Visual Art, W. Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI;
Renaissance Hall Gallery, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND; Dialogo Space and Central Hall in Fundación´ace para el Arte Contemporáneo, Buenos Aires, Argentina (catalogue)
2014Birmingham Printmakers: Thirty Years of Printmaking 1983-2013, Birmingham
2013 Museum, (BMAG), Chamberlain Square, Birmingham, UK, (catalogue)
2013INSIDE OUT, curator Laura Phipps, Kentler Drawing Space, Brooklyn, NY
One of a Kind, Unique Artist’s Books, curator Heide Hatry, AC Institute, New York, NY, (catalogue)
Trace + Gestures, print portfolio, curators Nichole Maury & Patricia Villalobos Echeverría, SGCI PrintMKE 2013 Conference, Greymatter Gallery, Milwaukee, WI; Fine Arts Center Gallery, Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago, IL; King Family Exhibition Space, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO
Never Underestimate a Monochrome, curator Mariangeles Soto-Diaz, Project Space, Wignall Museum of Contemporary Art, Cucamonga, CA
2012 40 Years of Women Artists at Douglass Library, Mary H. Dana Women Artists
Series Virtual Exhibit (1971-2011), Institute for Women & Art, Rutgers
University, New Brunswick, NJ
Never Underestimate a Monochrome, curator Mariangeles Soto-Diaz, The University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City, IA
Natural/Mechanical, curators Elizabeth Murray & Jennifer Graham-Macht, Paterson Art Walk, Paterson, NJ
Momenta Benefit Invitational, Momenta Art, Brooklyn, NY
2011 Urban Grids, curator Eleen Lin, 567 Gallery, New York, NY
Gifting Abstraction, curator Mariangeles Soto-Diaz, Soho20 Gallery, New York,
NY
Text, curator Susan Fleminger, Gallery 404, Brooklyn, NY
Marked Differences; Selections from the Kentler Flatfiles, curator Roberta Waddell, Kentler Drawing Space, Brooklyn, NY, catalogue
The Emerging Landscape, curator Anna Di Stasi, Society Contemporary Art, New York, NY, exhibition included in New York Gallery Walks: April 28 & May 7
An Exchange with Sol LeWitt, MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA
The Interconnected World: Various Projects; contribution to Io Palmer & Lisa Link’s Serve & Protect Series, Hampden Gallery University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
2010Degrees of Density; Selections from the Kentler Flatfiles, curator Marilyn Symmes, Illges Gallery, Department of Art, Columbus State University Columbus, OH, & Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR, catalogue
Precious, Soo Rye Art Gallery, Rye NH
NORTHBROOKLYN, curator Elise Glick, Renaissance Art Center, New York, NY
Small Works, curator Jeanne Brasile, Mikhail Zakin Gallery, Piermont, NJ
Between the Covers, curator Leslie Kaufman, The University of the Arts Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
I/Heart Art, Work Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
And White was the Night, Eva G. Farris Gallery, Crestview Hills, K
2009Uncommon Threads, curators Jeanne Brasile & Howard Hurst, Walsh Gallery, Seton Hall University, South Orange, NJ, catalogue
Exquisite Corpse, curatorsAnonda Bell & Caren King, Paul Robeson Galleries, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, catalogue
Degrees of Density, Selections from the Kentler Flatfiles, curator Marilyn Symmes, Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn, NY, catalogue
New York, NY, Lana Santorelli Gallery, New York, NY
20 Questions, curator Daryl Voncat, Open Studio Gallery, Toronto, Canada, Print Portfolio
Wrapped, site specific installation, Cryptic Canvas Gallery, Toronto, Canada
The Dana Women Artist Series Benefit, Douglass Library Galleries, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
I/Heart Art, Work Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Ephemerality, curator Zoe Cohen, Schuylkill Environmental Center, Philadelphia, PA
2008UP: an exhibition of hovering, folding, inflating or wheeling sculpture, Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts, Grand Rapids, MI
The Persistence of Line, curator Charlotta Kotik, Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn, NY; catalogue
Post-It, Another Roadside Attraction Project Space, London, UK
400, Engramme, Quebec City, QC, Canada
Metal Works, Herzen State University Galley, St. Petersburg, Russia
2007RE: GENERATION, curators Joan Snyder, Molly Snyder Fink, coordinator Mira Dancy, Smack Mellon Gallery, Brooklyn NY
RE: GENERATION: Works on Paper, curators Joan Snyder, Molly Snyder Fink, coordinator Mira Dancy Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn, NY, catalogue
2006 Ourchitecture, curator Elizabeth Keithline, Art Windows, Providence, RI
2006/5 RE: GENERATION, curators Joan Snyder & Molly Snyder-Fink, Mabel Smith
Douglass Library Galleries, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
Art Bar,curator Erika Fowler-Decatur, The Commons Gallery, Ithaca, NY
Ourchitecture, curator Elizabeth Keithline, juror Sara Agniel, Newport Art Museum, RI
2005 Hand Pulled, juror Francis Colpitt, Joan Grona Gallery, San Antonio, TX,
Catalogue
2004Word of Mouth, curator Ingrid Dinter, Dinter Fine Art, New York, NY
Off the Wall, curator Donna Ruff, New Art Center, Newton, MA
Selfish, curator Lori Waxman, Gallery 128, New York, NY
Drawing Conclusions, curator Keith Miller, Islip Art Museum, Islip, NY
Against Tradition, curator Kaz McCue, University Art Gallery, Terre Haute, IN
2003Art & the Written Word, Northbrook Public Library, Northbrook, IL
2002Symbology, curator Cyn McLean, Times Square Lobby Gallery, NY, NY
2001I Said… George Gilmore Gallery, Open Studio, Toronto, Canada
2000Perspectives, the Living Arts Centre, Toronto, Canada
Messages, Goethe Institute, NYC, traveling exhibition, Birmingham Museum, Birmingham, UK, Kuppelhalle der Dresdner Bank, Leipzig, Germany; catalogue & box set of portfolio prints
1999 The Winter Show, Prime Gallery. Toronto, Canada
Printline /Phase 1, Cinema Rex, Belgrade, Yugoslavia, catalogue
1997 Printwork '97, curator Roberta Waddell, Barrett House Galleries, Poughkeepsie,
NY
Multiple Choices, Anna Leonowen Gallery, NSCAD, Halifax, Canada traveling exhibition; Choix /Multiple, Engramme, Montreal, Canada
1997- Contemporary Printmaking, curator Ed Porter, Seagate Gallery, Dundee, 1996 Scotland
1996 Face, Open Studio at York Quay Gallery, Toronto, Canada, *traveling exhibition:
Atelier Ciculaire, Montreal, Canada, & the Station Gallery, Whitby, Canada
The NS Print Show. Anna Leonowen Gallery, Nova Scotia College of Art & Design (NASCAD), Halifax, Canada, *traveling exhibition: Engramme, Quebec City; Manitoba's Printmaker's Association, Winnipeg, Canada
Paperbacked / Paperbound, Blackwood Gallery, Mississauga Canada
1995 Canadian Contemporary Printmakers, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
1994 The Quilt Project, coordinated by Penelope Stewart in conjunction with The Woman’s Art Resource Centre, The Koffler Gallery. Toronto, Canada
Awards/Honours
2014Dave Bown Projects;9th Semiannual Competition, Curators: Steven Matijcio, Dominic Molon, Marina Pacini, one of 25 artists selected, online project
2013Research Leave, fall 2013- spring 2014, St John’s University, Queens, NY
2006-Merit Award, St. John’s University, Queens NY
2013
2007Faculty Excellence Award, Office of Marketing and Communications, St John’s University, Queens, NY
2007Exhibition Grant, Queen’s Council on the Arts, funded by New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, Greater NY Arts Development Fund Program, Queens, NY
2006Featured Artist, Art Bar Artists, Ithaca, NY,
2005Public Art Commission, Artist Adorned Transit Stops, City of Tempe, Tempe, AZ
Hand Pulled XII, Joan Grona Gallery, San Antonio, TX 2nd Prize juror Frances Colpitt
2002Travel Grant for Professional Development, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
The John Hartell Graduate Award for Art & Architecture, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
2000Sage Fellowship, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
2000-Graduate Teaching Fellowship, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
1999Visual Arts Grant, the Canada Council for the Arts. Ottawa, Canada
1998Visual Arts Grant, the Canada Council for the Arts. Ottawa, Canada
1996Visual Arts Grant, the Ontario Arts Council. Toronto, Canada
Exhibition Assistance Grant, the Ontario Arts Council, Toronto, Canada
1996Visual Arts Grant, the Canada Council for the Arts. Ottawa, Canada
1994Exhibition Assistance Grant, the Ontario Arts Council. Toronto, Canada
Residencies/Fellowships
2016 Forthcoming, Fellowship, Institute of Culture Brazil Itália Europa (ICBIE), Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, Forthcoming
2014Fellowship, Artist Residency, Giorgio Cini Foundation, Venice, Italy
2013Visiting Artist & Scholar, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
Residency, Salem Art Works, Salem, NY
2012Fellowship, Artist Residency, Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts, Ithaca, NY
2010Fellowship: Artist Residency, Women’s Studio Workshop, Rosendale, NY
2004Fellowship, Artist Residency Program, I-Park, East Haddam, CT
2003Fellowship, Artist Residency Program, Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME
2002-Key Holder Residency, Lower East Side Printshop, New York, NY
2003
1999Fellowship, Artist Residency, the Canada Council for the Arts, Malaspina Studio, Granville Island, Vancouver, Canada
1994-Key Holder Reseidency, Open Studio, Toronto, Canada
1996
Invited Talks and Presentations
2015Visiting Artist Talk, Dowd Gallery, SUNY Cortland, Cortland, NY
Visiting Artist: Undergraduate Critiques, Department of Art & Art History, SUNY Cortland, Cortland, NY
2014Visiting Artist Workshop, “Art & the Environment”, LUISS University, Rome, Italy
Visiting Artist Graduate Critiques, Department of Contemporary Art, Temple University, Rome, Italy
Visiting Artist Talk, Academy of Fine Arts, Rome, Italy
Visiting Artist Talk, Department of Contemporary Art, Temple University, Rome, Italy
2013 Visiting Critic, Academy of Fine Arts, Rome, Italy
Artist Talk, Department ofPhilosophy, Communication and Entertainment, University of Rome Tre, Rome Italy
2013Featured Artist, SkowheganWALKS, Studio Tour, New York, NY
2012Featured Artist, Cornell Studio Tour, New York, NY
2010 Visiting Artist, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Resident Artist Lecture, Woman’s Studio Workshop, Rosendale, NY
Artist Talk, Department of Fine Arts, Long Island University, New York, NY
2008Artist Lecture, Russian State Pedagogical University, St. Petersburg, Russia
2005Visiting Artist Lecture, Visiting Artist, Critics and Art Historian’s Lecture
Program University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont
2004 Resident Artist Lecture, I Park Artist Residency, East Hamden, CT
2003 Resident Artist Lecture, Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME
Workshop "Vietnam: Journeys of the Body, Mind & Spirit." The Museum of Natural History, New York, NY
2000The Canadian Visiting Artist Program. Canada Council for the Arts, UCC Visual Arts Gallery Thompson River College, Kamloops, Canada: Kamloops Art Gallery, Kamloops, Canada: Vernon Art Gallery, Vernon, Canada
1999 Resident Artist Lecture, Residency, Malaspina Printmakers Society, Granville Island, Vancouver, Canada
1998Artist Talk, Lower East Side Printshop, New York, NY’’
Conference Activity
2015Chair, “Women in the Marketplace: the Rise of the Artisan Cooperative”, College Art Association, Conference, New York, NY
2014Panelist, Conference: Nuova Creatività: Doppio Filo: Session Title: doppio filo: arte e moda al MACRO, Part II (double thread: art and fashion at MACRO) The Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome (MACRO), Rome, Italy, 3/ 5/2014
2013 Chair, “Gender Politics in the Workplace”, 101stCollege Art Association (CAA),
Annual Conference, New York, NY
2012Co-Chair & Panelist, “Post Degree: Ten Years Later”, 100th College Art Association (CAA), Annual Conference, Los Angeles CA
2011 Panelist, “Greening the Studio”, “Health and Safely in the Artist's Studio”, ARTspace, the 99th College Art Association (CAA), Annual Conference, New York, NY
2010Panelist, Art Alumni Career Forum, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
2009Panelist, “Tracking Pattern”, “Ornament Now: Reassessing Its Theories and Functions”, the 97th College Art Association (CAA), Annual Conference, Los Angeles, CA
2008Panelist, “Education: East/West”, 11th Annual Joint American Councils for International Education: Russian State Pedagogical University/University of N. Iowa Conference, St. Petersburg, Russia
2006Panelist, “Over and Over: The Methodical Impulse”, the 94th College Art Association Conference (CAA), Boston, MA
2002Panelist, “The State of Printmaking”, Printmaking Now”, Southern Graphics Council, New Orleans, LA
Selected Bibliography
“Fiber Art dagli anni Settanta ad oggi: doppiofilo. Arte e moda al MACRO”, (Fiber Art from the seventies to the present: double strand. Art and fashion at MACRO), LuxFlux: art in theory d.r.i.l.l.s. NUMERO RIVISTA N° 51/2014; Eugenia Battisti
“Claudia Sbrissa at Kentler”, WAGMAG, a Brooklyn Art Guide “February in Brooklyn: Picks”, 02/ 2014 Katherine Shaw
“One of a Kind: Unique Artist’s Books”, AC Institute, Sculpture Magazine, Joyce Beckenstein, 12/2013, Vol.32. No. 10; p.75-77
“ArtistTalking: a reportage of Art, Design, Gallery & NYC Events: Claudia Sbrissa @ AC Institute”David Barish, 4/13/ 2013
“Trace + Gesture Portfolio Project”, Greymatter Blog, Andy Mattern, 3/14/2013;
“Never Underestimate a Monochrome”, Iowa Now, by Marianna Gunn, 10/5/2012;
“Pink Thing of the Day: Pink Assignment”, the Worley Gig, Gail Worley, 9/14, 2012
“Das Offenbarungsparadox: zur Dialogfaehigkeit von Juden und Christen” (The Paradox of Revelation: the Capacity of Jews and Christians for Dialogue), Yiftach Fehige, Paderborn, Germany, 2011
“Why People Draw. Interview with Claudia Sbrissa”, 04/ 2011,
“A Few Minutes with Claudia Sbrissa”, CAA Conference Blog 2011, the 99th College Art Association, Annual Conference, New York, NY, 02/2011, Patricia Flores
Grace Dranford & Claudia Sbrissa @ Salon Ciel, 12/3/2010
“Exquisite Chaos: Robeson Galleries Mark 30 Years with Sprawling Art Project”, John Zeaman, Star-Ledger, 11/23/2009, 1-2
“Calendar New Jersey", the New York Times Sunday Art in Review, 11/22/2009, 16
“Landscapes of Hope, Anti-Colonial Utopianism in America”, Dohra Ahmad, 2009
“Performance without Permanence”, Nicole Cannon, The Star, 1/22/2009, 16-17
“Finding Urban Beauty”, Artist Explores Balance of Architecture and Environment”, The Post Star, 01/20/ 2009, Doug Gruse, 11
“You Can't Take It with You…the Transience of Nature in "Ephemerality” Philadelphia City Paper, Shaun Brady, Jan 20, 2009, 25
“Interview with Claudia Sbrissa”, Liquid Word Productions, Adele Neves 2007,
“Girls, Girls, Girls. Feminist Art’s Phases and Philosophies? Let me count the ways…”, Art in America, 6-7/ 2007, Carey Lovelace, 89-93
“New York, Re:Generation”, ARTNews, Reviews: Megan Heuer, 05/2007, 164
“From the Inside Out Feminist Art Then and Now”, John Goodrich, Art in Brief, New York Sun, 03/22/07
“Front Page: The Year in Feminist Art”, Leigh Anne Miller, Art in America, 03/2007, 37
“Empowered from the Inside Out”, Lillian Compere, The Torch. Vol. 84:18, 02/ 2007
Front page & 5- 7
‘Re:Generation—Emerging Women Artists”, ArtForum, Critic’s Pick, Lori Cole, 02/ 2007, online
“Spirit of the Art: The Donovan Collection”, Linda Corbett, Tim Lewis, Spirit Art Productions,
OMNI Television, Toronto, Vancouver, Canada 2006 -07
“The Lost House Project” Art New England, Spotlight Reviews RI, Ourchitecture, 4/5/ 2006, 30
“Signs of the Spirit, The Donovan Collection”, Forward by Richard M. Always, Essays by Daniel Donavan and Ihor Holubizky, University of Toronto Press, 2001. P 11, 36
“Photographic Encounter: The Edge of Edginess. Reading Prose in Pictures and Visual Frontiers”,
W.F Garrett-Petts and Donald Lawrence, University of Alberta Press. 2001, 56
The Globe & Mail, “Gallery Going”, May 24, 1997, Betty Ann Jordan, C11
Selected Catalogues
“Avvolto”, Claudia Sbrissa, AC Institute, New York, NY, 2013; sold on Amazon
“One of a Kind: Unique Artist’s Books” AC Institute, New York, NY, 2013
“Savior Faire 2012”, Soho20 Chelsea Gallery, New York NY, 2012, p. 7-8
‘Hidden Cities’, Woman’s Caucasus for Art (WCA), juried by Lisa Phillips, 2011 National Exhibition Hidden Cities, 47
‘The Donovan Collection’, Companion Edition, St. Michael's College, University of Toronto Press, Toronto Press, Toronto, Canada, 2010
“Exquisite Corpse: Paul Robeson Galleries, 30th Anniversary Edition”, Rutgers University Press, Newark, NJ, 2010, 33, 53
“From the Inside Out: Feminist Art Then & Now” St John’s College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, Woman’s Studies Program, Department of Fine Arts, The Feminist Art Project, Queen’s Council for the Arts, October, 2007
“Signs of the Spirit, The Donovan Collection”, Forward by Richard M. Always, Essays by Daniel Donavan and Ihor Holubizky, University of Toronto Press, 2001. P 11, 36
RE:GENERATION, co-curator Joan Snyder and Molly Snyder Fink, Mabel Smith Douglass Library Galleries, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, 2005, 8-9, 38
“Perspectives 2000; Facets of Woman”, Pratt & Whitney Canada, Living Arts Center, Mississauga, Canada, 2000, 46
Messages, Goethe Institute, NYC, traveling exhibition, Birmingham Museum, Birmingham, UK, Kuppelhalle der Dresdner Bank, Leipzig, Germany, 2000