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SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 "Mend" Planthouse Gallery, New York, NY
2022 " Splinter" Kingston Gallery, Boston, Mass.
2017 “Thicket” Rafius Fane Gallery, Boston, Mass
2016 “Venti Trasversali (Crosswinds)” Museo di Storia Naturale dell’ Accademia dei Fisiocritici, Siena, Italy
2013 “Alluvial; Recent Books and Drawings” Eli Marsh Gallery, Amherst College,
2012 “Core Sample”, College of St. Rose, Albany, NY
2011 “Distant Mirrors” Providence tidal river, RI
“Spill”, Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn, NY
2010 Fastforwardfossil part 3, West Cork Arts Centre, Skibbereen, Ireland
2009 Fastforwardfossil Part 1, Frederieke Taylor Gallery, New York, NY
Fastforwardfossil Part 2, SmackMellon, Brooklyn, NY2007
Hunter Gatherer, Long Island University, Brooklyn
2005 The Loophole of Retreat – Tremaine Gallery, The Hotchkiss School, Lakeville, CT
Filament / Firmament – Cambridge Arts Council, Cambridge, MA
2002 New Drawings – Roger Williams University, School of Architecture, Bristol, RI
2001 From Ear to There: Sculptures, Drawings, Books – University of Massachusetts, South Dartmouth, MA
TurnScope – collaboration with Nick Tobier, Green Street Gallery, Boston, MA
2000 The Loophole of Retreat – African American Museum, Fresno, CA
1999 The Loophole of Retreat – The Hyde Collection, Glens Falls, NY
1998 Ahab's Wife: Drawings, Models, Sculptures – Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, NY
1997 As Above, So Below, selections – Glyptotek, Munich, Germany
Ahab's Wife: Models and Drawings – University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI
1996 Passionate Attitudes – New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA
1995 Passionate Attitudes, Migration, The Loophole of Retreat, and collaborative work From There On Up to Here and
Now with Mamie Hughley, Annie Parks, Annie Heard, Pearl Walker University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
Passionate Attitudes – Threadwaxing Space, New York, NY
1994-5 Passionate Attitudes, Part 1 – windows of G. Fox dept. store and Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT
1993 Magnetic Works and Migration – Huntington Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
1992 Migration and The Loophole of Retreat – Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH
1991-2 The Loophole of Retreat, installation – Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris, New York, NY
1990 Damon Brandt Gallery, New York, NY
1989 Tim Hill Gallery, Birmingham, MI
1988 Damon Brandt Gallery, New York, NY
1987 Stavaridis Gallery, Boston, MA
1986 Damon Brandt Gallery, New York, NY
Paulo Salvador Gallery, New York, NY
1985 Hudson D. Walker Gallery, Provincetown, MA
COMMISSIONS
2022 Site Woven, General Services Administration Art in Architecture Program for Charles R. Jonas Federal Courthouse, Charlotte, N.C.
2016 CartOURgraphy, International High School and Middle College High School, Long Island City, Public Art for Public Schools
Bower collaboration with Joyce Hwang and Matt Hume, commissioned by City as Living Laboratory for ArtPark, Lewiston, NY
2014 Night to Day, Here and Away Sarasota National Cemetery, Sarasota, Florida, commissioned by the Patterson Foundation
2009 Filament / Firmament – for the Cambridge Public Library in collaboration with the Women's Commission
2008 Wingspun International Arrivals, Raleigh-Durham International Airport, Raleigh, NC
Lumina – LED animation sign, outdoor façade, MassArt, Boston, MA
2006 Pro Patria Mori—84' gates for the Liberty Memorial World War 1 Museum, Kansas City, MO
The View From Here 240' sandblasted glass wall for Forest Park Metro, St. Louis, MO
2004 Aqueous Humour – kinetic sculpture for South Boston Maritime Park, South Boston, MA2003
Catching the Drift – women's restroom renovation, Brown Fine Arts Center, Smith College, Northampton, MA,
2000 Meanderlink – airborne project over Frederick Law Olmsted's Emerald Necklace Park, Boston, MA
Circuitstream – Bank of America, Technology Headquarters, Charlotte, NC
1997-8 Mum's the Word – temporary public work for City of Boston,
1993-9 As Above, So Below –13 nisaucs for new tunnel entrances at 45th, 47th, and 48th
streets, Grand Central Terminal North, MTA, Percent for Public Art Program,
PUBLIC AND PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy
Bayly Art Museum, University of Virginia
The Boston Public Library
The Detroit Institute of Art
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Metropolitan Museum of Art
The New School for Social Research, New York
The Rose Art Museum of Brandeis University
University of Michigan Museum of Art
Whitney Museum of American Art
The Worcester Art Museum
Saul and Ellyn Dennison
Martin Margolis
Steven and Nancy Oliver
Smith College Museum of Art
The Worcester Art Museum
HONORS AND AWARDS
2019 Artists Foundation Fellowship Award
2018 Outstanding Educator Award, International Sculpture Center
2017 Brown Foundation Fellowship, Dora Maar House, Menerbes, France
2015 Siena Art Institute Residency, Fall Project Fellowship to create "Alveare (Hive)"
2014 MacDowell Colony Visual Arts residency, Josephine Mercy Heathcoate Fellowship
American Academy of Arts and Letters Fine Arts award and Purchase Award
2012 St. Botolph Foundation Distinguished Artist Award for Sculpture
Artist’s Resource Trust grant from the Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation
2011 Robert and Margaret McColl Johnson grant from the Rhode Island Foundation
Artists in Context grant for “Distant Mirrors” website construction
2009 Sirius Art Centre Residency, Cork, Ireland
LEF Foundation grant for FastForwardFossil
Professional Development grant for FastForwardFossil, Rhode Island School of Design
2008 MacDowell Colony Residency, Kate and George Kendall Fellowship
New England Foundation for the Arts grant for Filament/Firmament
Blue Mountain Center residency
2007 International Association of Art Critics, New England Chapter, Best Public Project in a Public Space, Second
Place, for Filament/ Firmament
Pro Patria Mori chosen as one of the top public projects of 2006 by Public Art Network Year in Review
MacDowell Colony Residency, Henry Eastwood fellowship
Bogliasco Foundation Residency
Professional Development grant for Revenant, Rhode Island School of Design
2005 LEF Grant – for Lumina
2004 American Association of University Women – Senior Scholar Special Commendation of Honor
New England Foundation for the Arts – for Lumina
Browne Fund – for Lumina
2002 Artists Resources Trust, Berkshire Community Foundation
2001 Rockefeller Foundation, Bellagio, Italy – Residency
Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff, Canada – Residency
1999 Pilchuk Glass School, Stanwood, WA – Artist in Residence
Massachusetts Cultural Council – Sculpture Fellowship
1998-9 Anonymous Was a Woman Foundation – Fellowship
1997 Institute for the Humanities, University of Michigan – Visiting Fellow
Pilchuk Glass School, Stanwood, WA – Artist in Residence
Henson Foundation – Development Grant for Ahab's Wife
1994 EEC – six-week Project Residency, Les Arques, France
Wesleyan University – Distinguished Alumnae Award
1992 LEF Grant – for development of Memorial Grove Project at Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, Becket, MA,
collaboration with Gary Hildebrand
1991-2 European Ceramics Work Center Opening Project – Residency, The Netherlands
1990-1 Radcliffe College – Bunting Fellowship
Kittredge Education Fund, Portland, Maine
1989 New York Foundation for the Arts – Sculpture Fellowship
1987 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation – Guggenheim Fellowship
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York – Chesterwood Award
1986 National Endowment for the Arts – Sculpture Fellowship
1986-8 P.S.1 Institute for Art and Urban Resources – Studio Residency
1985 New York Foundation for the Arts – Sculpture Fellowship
Institute for Contemporary Art, Boston, MA – Engelhard Award
1984 National Endowment for the Arts – Sculpture Fellowship
1983-5 Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA – Visual Arts Fellowship, fourteen-month Studio Residency
1983 The MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH – seven-week Residency
