{"id":8,"date":"2012-02-08T14:15:19","date_gmt":"2012-02-08T19:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elisesiegel.com\/es\/?page_id=8"},"modified":"2026-01-07T10:06:51","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T15:06:51","slug":"resume","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/elisesiegel.com\/es\/resume","title":{"rendered":"Resume"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Solo and Two Person Exhibitions<\/h2>\n<p><strong>2025<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Abigail Dudley and Elise Siegel: Painting and Sculpture<\/em>, Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects, New York, NY<\/p>\n<p><strong>2023<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Under the Skin<\/em>, solo exhibition, Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects, New York, NY<\/p>\n<p><strong>2020<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Coarse Fragility<\/em>, Lesley Heller Gallery, New York, NY, curated by Monika Zarzeczna<\/p>\n<p><strong>2019<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>rough edges<\/em>, solo exhibition, Studio10, Brooklyn, NY<\/p>\n<p><strong>2016<\/strong><br \/>\nFred Giampietro Gallery Project Space with Farrell Brickhouse and American Folk Art in\u00a0<em>Common-Ground<\/em>,\u00a0New Haven, CT<\/p>\n<p><strong>2015<\/strong><br \/>\nStorefront Ten Eyck, Brooklyn, NY, with Mie Yim<\/p>\n<p><strong>2010<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Make\/Believe<\/em>, Dubhe Carreno Gallery, Chicago, IL<\/p>\n<p><strong>2007<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>I am what is around me<\/em>, Nancy Margolis Gallery, New York, NY<\/p>\n<p><strong>2004<br \/>\n<\/strong><em>Twenty-one Torsos and Twenty-four Feet, <\/em>Garth Clark Gallery, Long Island City, NY<\/p>\n<p><em>Inter\/Views, <\/em>New Jersey Center for Visual Art, Summit, NJ<\/p>\n<p><strong>2001<em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/strong><em>Into the room of dream\/dread I abrupt awake clapping<\/em>, Jane Hartsook Gallery, New York, NY<\/p>\n<p><em>Into the room of dream\/dread I abrupt awake clapping<\/em>, Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT<\/p>\n<p><strong>1997<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Work in Progress: Elise Siegel<\/em>, The Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS<\/p>\n<p><strong>1993<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Second Skin<\/em>, Halsey Gallery, School of the Arts, College of Charleston, Charleston, SC, (curated by Rene Paul Barilleaux)<\/p>\n<p><strong>1987<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Solo Exhibition<\/em>, Laurie Rubin Gallery, New York, NY<\/p>\n<h2>Selected Group Exhibitions<em>\u00a0<\/em><\/h2>\n<p><strong>2025<\/strong><em><br \/>\n<\/em><em>Busted<\/em>, Frederik Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park, Grand Rapids, MI, curated by Suzanne Ramljak<\/p>\n<p><strong>2024<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Beyond Face Value<\/em>, Artcake, Brooklyn, NY, curated by Lesley Heller<\/p>\n<p><strong>2020<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Claytopia<\/em>, Plaxall Gallery, Long Island City, NY, curated by Matt Nolen<\/p>\n<p><strong>2019<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Salon Z\u00fcrcher<\/em>, Z\u00fcrcher Gallery, New York, NY<br \/>\n<em>It\u2019s Necessary to Talk about Trees<\/em>, River Valley Arts Collective at Foreland, Catskill, NY<br \/>\n<em>Invincible Summer<\/em>, Emmanuel Barbaux Gallery, New York, NY<br \/>\n<em>Get Real: Figurative Sculpture by Women<\/em>, Peninsula Fine Art Center, Newport News, VA<br \/>\n<em>About Face<\/em>, The Painting Center, New York, NY<br \/>\n<em>Solo Exhibition<\/em>, Ylise Kessler Gallery, Santa Fe, NM<\/p>\n<p><strong>2018<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Pageant of Inconceivables<\/em>, Kleinert\/James Center for the Arts, Woodstock, NY, Rachel Uffner Gallery, New York, NY, curated by Portia Munson and Katherine Umsted<\/p>\n<p><em>Jay Clay<\/em>, Jay, NY, curated by Jason Andrews<\/p>\n<p><strong>2017<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Morph<\/em>, Asya Geisberg Gallery, New York, NY<\/p>\n<p><em>Home Is Where The Heart Is<\/em>, Kustera Projects, Brooklyn, NY, Sheila Johnson Design Center, Parsons School of Design, 2018, curated by Andrew Robinson and James Osman<\/p>\n<p><em>Post-Election<\/em>, September Gallery, Hudson, NY, curated by Kristen Dodge and Kate Gillmore<\/p>\n<p><em>Me\/You<\/em>, C2C Gallery, San Francisco, CA, curated by Kirk Stoller<\/p>\n<p><strong>2016<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>NY, NY: Clay<\/em>, Clay Art Center, Port Chester, NY (curated by Judith Schwartz)<\/p>\n<p><em>Earth<\/em>, MC Gallery, New York, NY, (curated by Don Porcaro)<\/p>\n<p><strong>2015<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>(self contained),\u00a0<\/em>Ventana 244, Brooklyn, NY (curated by Nina Felshin)<\/p>\n<p><em>Who,\u00a0<\/em>Lesley Heller Workspace, New York, NY (curated by Lesley Heller)<\/p>\n<p><em>Object\/&#8217;Hood<\/em>, Lesley Heller Workspace, New York, NY (curated by Gelah Penn and Inna Babaeva)<\/p>\n<p><strong>2014<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>The Human Condition: The Stephen and Pamela Hootkin Collection of Contemporary Ceramics<\/em>, Chazen Museum of Art, Madison, WI<\/p>\n<p><strong>2012<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Shifting Paradigms in Contemporary Ceramics: The Garth Clark and Mark Del Vecchio Collection<\/em>, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, TX<\/p>\n<p><strong>2008<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Confrontational Ceramics<\/em>, Westchester Arts Council\u2019s Arts Exchange, White Plains, NY (curated by Judith Schwartz)<\/p>\n<p><em>Voices<\/em>, NCECA Invitational Exibition, Pittsburg, PA (curated by Holly Hanessian and Kate Lydon)<\/p>\n<p><em>Wired<\/em>, Ernest Rubenstein Gallery, Educational Alliance, New York, NY<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"sel\"><\/a><strong>2005<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Trans-Ceramic-Art<\/em>, 3rd World Ceramic Biennale, Icheon, Korea<\/p>\n<p><strong>2003<em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/strong><em>From the Neck Up<\/em>, Garth Clark Gallery, New York, NY<\/p>\n<p><strong>2000<em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/strong><em>Scarecrows\/Higher Elevations<\/em>, A project of College of the Atlantic, Bar Harbor, ME<\/p>\n<p><strong>1995<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>The Outer Layer<\/em>, New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, Summit, NJ<\/p>\n<p><em>A Distinct Grace<\/em>, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, CO (travels to Firehouse Art Gallery, Nassau Community College, Garden City, NY, 1996, and to Hollins College Art Gallery, Roanoke VA, 1998)<\/p>\n<p><em> Material Identities &#8211; Elise Siegel, Claude Simard, Carolee Thea<\/em>, Nicholas Alexander Gallery, New York, NY<\/p>\n<p><em>Fashion is a Verb<\/em>, The Museum at FIT, New York, NY<\/p>\n<p><strong>1994<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Disembodied: Recent Sculpture by Lesley Dill, Leslie Fry and Elise Siegel<\/em>, Robert Hull Fleming Museum, Burlington, VT (curated by Janie Cohen)<\/p>\n<p><strong>1993<\/strong><em><br \/>\nEmpty Dress<\/em> &#8211; Clothing as Surrogate in Recent Art, Traveling exhibition circulated by Independent Curators Inc, opening at the Neuberger Museum, Purchase, NY (curated by Nina Felshin)<\/p>\n<p><em> The Rag Trade (right off the rack)<\/em>, InterArt Center, New York, NY (curated by Saul Ostrow)<\/p>\n<p><em> Aiming<\/em>, The Shooting Gallery, New York, NY<\/p>\n<p><em>1920, The Subtlety of Subversion, The Continuity of Intervention<\/em>, Exit Art, New York, NY<\/p>\n<p><em>American Art Today &#8211; Clothing as Metaphor<\/em>, Art Museum, Florida International University, Miami, FL (curated by Dahlia Morgan)<\/p>\n<p><strong>1992<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>The Forceful Gesture &#8211; Contemporary Drawings<\/em>, Valencia College, Orlando, FL (curated by Judith Page)<\/p>\n<p><em>Fashion<\/em>, Trenkmann Gallery, New York, NY<\/p>\n<p><em>War<\/em>, Trenkmann Gallery, New York, NY<\/p>\n<p><strong>1991<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>CoVariants: Abstract Painting &amp; Sculpture<\/em>, Tribeca 148 Gallery, Organization of Independent Artists, New York, NY<\/p>\n<p><strong>1989<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Emerging Sculptors<\/em>, Sculpture Center, New York, NY<\/p>\n<p><em>Made In New York: Encounters with Contemporary Sculpture<\/em>, Williams Center for the Arts, Lafayette College, Easton, PA (curated by Judd Tully)<\/p>\n<p><strong>1988<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Black, Gray and White<\/em>, Henry Feiwel Gallery, New York, NY<\/p>\n<p><em>Nomadic Visions<\/em>, Art Gallery, Southeastern Massachusetts University, North Dartmoth, MA (curated by Lasse Antonsen)<\/p>\n<p><strong>1987<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Alternative Supports<\/em>, David Winton Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence, RI (curated by Judith Tolnick)<\/p>\n<p><strong>1986<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Transformations<\/em>, Richard Green Gallery, New York, NY (curated by Stephan Westfall)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#top\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/elisesiegel.com\/images\/btt.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"5\" height=\"9\" border=\"0\" \/> back to top<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Awards<\/h2>\n<p><strong>2025<\/strong><br \/>\nVirginia A. Groot Foundation Grant<\/p>\n<p><strong>2017<br \/>\n<\/strong>New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship<\/p>\n<p><strong>2016<\/strong><br \/>\nNew York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship<\/p>\n<p><strong>2016<\/strong><br \/>\nVirginia A. Groot Foundation Award<\/p>\n<p><strong>2014<\/strong><br \/>\nAnonymous Was A Woman Award<\/p>\n<p><strong>2007<\/strong><br \/>\nNew York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship<\/p>\n<p><strong>1988<\/strong><br \/>\nNew York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship<br \/>\nMacDowell Art Colony Fellowship<\/p>\n<p><strong>1986<\/strong><br \/>\nYaddo Art Colony Fellowship<\/p>\n<p><strong>1982<\/strong><br \/>\nCanada Council Art Bank Purchase<\/p>\n<p><strong>1981<\/strong><br \/>\nCanada Council Grant<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#top\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/elisesiegel.com\/images\/btt.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"5\" height=\"9\" border=\"0\" \/> back to top<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/elisesiegel.com\/resume.html#top\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Bibliography<\/h2>\n<p>Yau, John. <em>A Tandem Dance of the Seen and Imagined, Hyperallergic<\/em>, October 9, 2025<\/p>\n<p>Boyle, Fintan and Jennie Nichols.\u00a0 <em>Elise Siegel Studio Visit<\/em>, <em>Romanov Grave<\/em>, October 3, 2019<\/p>\n<p>Landi, Ann.\u00a0 <em>Sculpture Magazine<\/em>, November \/ December 2019<\/p>\n<p>Jones, Whitney.\u00a0 <em>Elise Siegel\u2019s Rough Edges. Cfile.<\/em> February 10, 2019<\/p>\n<p>Maine, Stephen.\u00a0 <em>Elise Siegel and Her Inscrutable Heads<\/em>. \u00a0<em>Hyperallergic<\/em>, January 19, 2019<\/p>\n<p>Felshin, Nina.\u00a0 <em>The Penetrating Gaze of Portrait Busts. \u00a0Hyperallergic<\/em>, January 17, 2019<\/p>\n<p>Wayne, Leslie.\u00a0 <em>Immediate, physical, emotional:<\/em> <em>Studio visit with Elise Siegel. \u00a0Two Coats of Paint,<\/em> Jan 6, 2019<\/p>\n<p>Rockefeller, Hall.\u00a0 <em>Almost Human. \u00a0less than half<\/em>, December 5, 2018<\/p>\n<p>Heartney, Eleanor, Helaine Posner, Nancy Princethal and Sue Scott, <em>Mothers of Invention<\/em>, Lund Humphreys, 2024<\/p>\n<p>Weiner, Daniel.\u00a0 <em>Elise Siegel<\/em>. \u00a0February 18, 2015<\/p>\n<p>Princenthal, Nancy. \u00a0<em>The Reckoning, Women Artists of the New Millennium<\/em>. \u00a0Prestel, 2013<\/p>\n<p>Shuster, Robert.\u00a0 <em>The Village Voice<\/em>.\u00a0 May 1, 2007<\/p>\n<p>Princenthal, Nancy.\u00a0 <em>Art in America<\/em>.\u00a0 March 2005<\/p>\n<p>Princenthal, Nancy.\u00a0 <em>Into the room of dream\/dread I abrupt awake clapping<\/em>. \u00a0Jane Hartsook Gallery,<br \/>\nNew York, NY, 2001 (brochure)<\/p>\n<p>Taplin, Robert.\u00a0 <em>Art in America<\/em>.\u00a0 December 2001<\/p>\n<p>Antonsen, Lasse. <strong><em>Nomadic Visions<\/em><\/strong>. Art Gallery,<br \/>\nSoutheastern Massachusetts University,<br \/>\nNorth Dartmonth, MA, 1988 (catalog)<\/p>\n<p>Barrileaux, Rene. <em>Work in Progress: Elise Siegel.<\/em><br \/>\nMississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MI, Oct. 1997 (brochure)<\/p>\n<p>Cohen, Janie. <em>Disembodied<\/em>. Robert Hull Fleming Museum,<br \/>\nUniversity of Vermont, Burlington, VT, March 1994 (brochure)<\/p>\n<p>Day, Geffery. <em>The State<\/em>. Columbia, SC, Nov 1993<\/p>\n<p>Felshin, Nina. <a href=\"https:\/\/hyperallergic.com\/479813\/elise-siegel-rough-edges-studio-10\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>The Penetrating Gaze of Portrait Busts<\/em><\/a>, Hyperallergic, January 17, 2019<\/p>\n<p>Felshin, Nina. <em>Art Journal<\/em>. Spring 1995<\/p>\n<p>Felshin, Nina. <em>Empty Dress<\/em>. Neuberger Museum,<br \/>\nPurchase, NY, 1993 (catalog)<\/p>\n<p>Felshin, Nina. <em>Second Skin<\/em>. Halsey Gallery,<br \/>\nCollege of Charleston, SC, 1993 (brochure)<\/p>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 3\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p>Maine, Stephen. <a href=\"https:\/\/hyperallergic.com\/480538\/rough-edges-elise-siegel-studio-10\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Elise Siegel and Her Inscrutable Heads<\/em><\/a>, Hyperallergic, January 19, 2019<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Montvidias-Kutkus, Kristina. <em>Charlston Arts<\/em>. Dec 1993<\/p>\n<p>Princenthal, Nancy. <em>Into the room of dream\/dread I abrupt awake clapping<\/em>. Jane Hartsook Gallery,<br \/>\nNew York, NY, 2001 (brochure)<\/p>\n<p>Princenthal, Nancy. <em>Art in America<\/em>. March 2005<\/p>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 3\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p>Rockefeller, Hall. <a href=\"https:\/\/lessthanhalf.org\/reviews\/2018\/12\/5\/almost-human\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Almost Human, less than half<\/em><\/a>, December 5, 2018<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Scott, Sue. <em>Art Papers<\/em>. Jan-Feb 1994<\/p>\n<p>Shuster, Robert. The Village Voice. May 1, 2007<\/p>\n<p>Sofer, Ken. <em>Art News<\/em>. May 1987<\/p>\n<p>Taplin, Robert. <em>Art in America.<\/em> December 2001<\/p>\n<p>Tolnick, Judith. <em>Alternative Supports<\/em>. David Winton Bell Gallery,<br \/>\nBrown University, Providence, RI, 1987 (catalog)<\/p>\n<p>Tully, Judd. <em>Made in New York<\/em>, Williams Center for the Arts,<br \/>\nLafayette College, Easton, PA, 1989 (catalog)<\/p>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 3\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p>Wayne, Leslie. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twocoatsofpaint.com\/2019\/01\/immediate-physical-emotional-studio-visit-elise-siegel.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Immediate, physical, emotional: Studio visit with Elise Siegel<\/em><\/a>, Two Coats of Paint, January 6, 2019<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Welch, Adam. Clay in Art International, 2005-2006<\/p>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 3\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p>Wiener, Daniel. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.danielwiener.com\/is\/sculptors\/elise-siegel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Elise Siegel<\/em><\/a>, February 18, 2015<\/p>\n<p>Boyle, Fintan and Jennie Nichols. <em>Elise Siegel Studio Visit, Romanov Grave<\/em>, October 3, 2019<br \/>\nLandi, Ann. <em>Sculpture Magazine<\/em>, November \/ December 2019<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"#top\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/elisesiegel.com\/images\/btt.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"5\" height=\"9\" border=\"0\" \/> back to top<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Education<\/h2>\n<p><a name=\"edu\"><\/a><strong>1980-81<\/strong><br \/>\nEmily Carr College of Art, Vancouver, BC, Post-graduate study in sculpture<\/p>\n<p><strong>1972-74<\/strong><br \/>\nEmily Carr College of Art, Vancouver, BC, BFA<\/p>\n<p><strong>1969-71<\/strong><br \/>\nUniversity of Chicago, Chicago, IL<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/elisesiegel.com\/images\/btt.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"5\" height=\"9\" border=\"0\" \/>\u00a0<a href=\"#top\">back to top<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Solo and Two Person Exhibitions 2025 Abigail Dudley and Elise Siegel: Painting and Sculpture, Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects, New York, NY 2023 Under the Skin, solo exhibition, Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects, New York, NY 2020 Coarse Fragility, Lesley&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elisesiegel.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elisesiegel.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elisesiegel.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elisesiegel.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elisesiegel.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/elisesiegel.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1731,"href":"https:\/\/elisesiegel.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions\/1731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elisesiegel.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}