STELLA WAITZKIN
Born 1920, New York
Died 2003, New York
EDUCATION
1937 Salem College, Winston-Salem, NC
1938 Alfred University, Alfred, NY
1955 Hans Hofmann School of Fine Arts, New York
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 Stella Waitzkin: These Books Art Paintings, Slag Gallery, New York, NY
Stella Waitzkin: From the Chelsea Hotel, Carolyn Campagna Kleefeld Contemporary Art Museum, California State University Long Beach, Long Beach, CA
2022 Materiality: Stella Waitzkin, Zillman Art Museum, University of Maine, Bangor, ME
2018 Lost Library: Stella Waitzkin, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
2017 Volumes: Stella Waitzkin, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
2014 Reflections from Another Life: Stella Waitzkin, A Gallery Contemporary, Martha’s Vineyard, MA
2009 Selected Works, Martha’s Vineyard Museum, Edgartown, MA
2008 Atea Ring Gallery, Westport, New York
2005 A Retrospective, Robert Steele Gallery, New York, NY
2005 Vineyard Sculptures, Carol Craven Gallery, Martha’s Vineyard, MA
1989 Environments, Gay Head Gallery, Martha's Vineyard, MA
1988 The French Collection, Galerie Caroline Corre, Paris, France
1984 Creiger Sesen Gallery, Boston, MA
1983 Selected Work 1973-1983, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY
1978 Works of Art, E.P. Gurewitsch, New York, NY
1977 A Library–Sculpture, James Yu Gallery, New York, NY
1976 Donnell Library Center, New York Public Library, New York, NY
1975 Sculpture and Wall Works, James Yu Gallery, NY
1974 An Essay on Sobriety, Lowenstein Library, Fordham University, New York, NY
Rare Books, James Yu Gallery, New York, NY
1973 Serious Literature, Calhoun College Art Gallery, Yale University, New Haven, CT
1973 Iris Clert, Paris, France
1972 Exhibition Closed (Performance), Battiliem Gallery, New York, NY
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022 Book Arts Gallery, University of Maine, Machias, ME
2021 Works from the Collection, Art Gallery, University of Maine, Machias, ME
The Weight of The Body: Selections from the Permanent Collection, University Galleries and Collections, William Paterson University, Wayne, NJ
ARTGAWK: Choice Pickings from the Radford University Permanent Collection, Radford University, Radford, VA
2020 Out of Place: A Feminist Look at the Collection, Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, Brooklyn Museum
Celebrating Women: Female Artists from the Permanent Collection, Springfield Museum of Art, Springfield, OH
Through Her Eyes: A Year of Female Artists at the Hunter, Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, TN
The Weight of The Body: Selections from the Permanent Collection, University Galleries and Collections, William Paterson University, Wayne, NJ
Women’s Works, Martha’s Vineyard Museum, Vineyard Haven, MA
Affinities and Outliers: Highlights from the University at Albany Art Collections, University Art Museum, University at Albany, Albany, NY
Objects to be Destroyed, Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH
2019 National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (permanent collection galleries)
Exactly! Artists NO!art, Janco-Dada Museum, Ein Hod, Israel
Shit and Doom: NO!art Cell Project Space, London
Seeing the Light of Day, Selections by the Registrar from the Syracuse University Art Collection, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
Recent Gifts to the Permanent Collection: Part II, Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA
Gallery Contemporary, Martha’s Vineyard, MA
2018 Silent Music: Alison Weld and Stella Waitzkin, Homer Center for the Arts, Homer, NY
Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, NC (permanent collection galleries)
AAM@60: The Diamond Exhibition, Academy Art Museum, Easton, MD
Recent Acquisitions, The Art Museum at the State University of New York, Potsdam, NY
Selections from the Permanent Collection, Radford University Art Museum, Radford, VA
2017 Portable Magic: Reading and Writing in the Visual Arts, Munson Williams Proctor Art Institute, Utica, NY
[dis]functional: Products of Conceptual Design, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ
Selections from the Collection, University of Maine, Machais, ME
Musée des antiquités, Rouen, France
Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel, Germany
2016 Women! Women! (Of the ‘50s), Anita Shapolsky Gallery, New York, NY
A Gallery Contemporary, Martha’s Vineyard, MA
Home Sweet Home, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY
2015 Recent Acquisitions 2007-2015, University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ
Livin’ Large: Works from the 1980s, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ
Testing Testing: Painting and Sculpture from the Permanent Collection, Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, NC
Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, NC
A Gallery Contemporary, Martha’s Vineyard, MA
Une oeuvre dans un établissement, Lycée Bernard Palissy, Maronne, France
Une oeuvre dans un établissement, Collège Pablo Picasso, Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray, France
Livre d’artiste, Maison Henri IV, Saint-Valery-en-Caux, France
2014 X, Y + Z: Dimensions in Sculpture, Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, NC
Looking Back Six Years: Part Two: Selected New Acquisitions, University of Maine Museum of Art, Bangor, ME
Its Surreal Thing: The Temptation of Objects, Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, NE
L’artiste en bibliophile, Musée Victor Hugo, Villequier, France
Inventaire Vol. 4, Frac Haute-Normandie, Sotteville-lès-Rouen, France
2013 Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, TN
Material World, Springfield Museum, Springfield, OH
(M)other Natures, Munson-Williams-Proctor Art Institute, Utica, NY
Delaware Art Museum (permanent collection galleries)
Still Life from the Museum’s Permanent Collection, Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH
Inventaire Vol. 3, Frac Haute-Normandie, Sotteville-lès=Rouen, France
2012 Piece by Piece: Quilts, Collages, and Constructions, Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, NC
Treasures from the Permanent Collection, Gregg Museum of Art & Design, NC State University, Raleigh, NC
Size Matters: Small Works from the Fine Art Collection, New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ
2011 BOOK-ISH, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
Atea Ring Gallery, Westport, NY
Works from the Permanent Collection, University of Maine Museum of Art, Bangor, ME
Selections from the Collection, Allentown Museum of Art, Allentown, PA
3D: Focus on Abstraction, Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI
W. Carl Burger: Artist as Curator, New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ
2010 American Art 11: 1960 to the Present, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC
Better Half, Better Twelfth: Women Artists in the Collection, Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, NE
Atea Ring Gallery, Westport, NY
Selections from the Collection, American Sculpture Gallery, Palmer Museum of Art, Penn State University, University Park, PA
American Perspectives: The Fine Art Collection, New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ
Art is My Natural World: Alison Weld, 1980 - 2009, Art Museum of the University of Memphis, Memphis, TN
Livres Délivrés, Espace le Garage, Saint-Saëns, France
Livres Délivrés, Médiathèque, Gasny, France
2009 Etherington Fine Art, Martha’s Vineyard, MA
Cool, Collected, and in Context, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC
The Kresge Art Collection: Celebrating the 50th, [Kresge Art Museum] Edythe and Eli Broad Art Museum, East Lansing, MI
Collection in Progress, William Paterson University Galleries, Wayne, NJ
Livres Délivrés, Lycée du Bois, Envermeu, France
2008 American Masterpieces, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
Form as Content: The Book as Object and Design, Works from the Collection of Cranbrook Art Museum. Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI
Recent Acquisitions, Chazen Museum of Art, Madison, WI
The World Around Us, New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ
Etherington Fine Art, Martha’s Vineyard, MA
2007 Sublime Spaces and Visionary Worlds, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
Selections from the Permanent Collection, Radford University Museum of Art, VA
Selections from the Collection, Palmer Museum of Art, Penn State University
Inside and Out, Porterfield Gallery, Radford University, Radford, VA
Livres d’artistes, Lycée Agricole Chambray, Gouville, France
Livres Délivrés, Bibliothèque, Le-Petit-Quevilly, France
2006 Smithsonian American Art Museum's Luce Foundation Center for American Art, Washington, D.C.
Recent Acquisitions, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ
Livres Délivrés, Maison de l’Étudiant, Le Havre, France
2005 Selections from the Collection, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY
Etherington Fine Art, Martha’s Vineyard, MA
Livres Délivrés, Médiathèque Boris Vian, Caudebec-lès-Elbeuf, France
Livres d’artistes, Lycée Agricole Gilbert Martin, Le Neubourg, France
2004 Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Livres Délivrés, Bibliothèque municipale de Sotteville-lès-Rouen, Sotteville-lès-Rouen, France
2003 Words on Fire, New Center for Arts and Culture, Boston, MA
Decade of Collecting: Fine Art & Cultural History, New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ
Livres Délivrés, Médiathèque Jacques Prévert à Neufchâtel-en-Bray, France
2002 Designing the Future, Queens Museum of Art, New York, NY
Women’s Work: Fine Art from the Museum’s Collection, New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ
Livres Délivrés, Musée du Prieuré å Harfleur, France
1999 Memories of the Past-Intimations of the Future: New Works, Rutgers Center for Innovative Print and Paper, New Brunswick, NJ
Glorious Prints: A Celebration of Twentieth Century Prints, Japanese Prints and Artists; Books from the Collection of the Newark Public Library, Newark, NJ
Hunterdon Museum of Art, Clinton, NJ
1998 Earthly Delights, Anita Shapolsky Gallery, New York, NY
Details of a Lost Library, extended exhibition, New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ
Collecting for Queens: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Queens Museum of Art, NY
1997 Artists of the 1950s, Part 2, Anita Shapolsky Gallery, New York, NY
1996 L’expérience des livres, Université de Rouen, France
1995 Animals, Animals, Anita Shapolsky Gallery, New York, NY
No Art!, Berlin, Germany
1994 Still Working: Underknown Artists of Age in America, touring exhibition
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1994
Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL, 1994
IBM Gallery, New York, NY, 1995
Virginia Beach Center for the Arts, Virginia, 1996
Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, 1995
Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR, 1996
Fantasy and Myth, Anita Shapolsky Gallery, New York, NY
1993 United States Exhibition Agency, Africa, traveling book show
Recent Acquisitions, New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ
Artists’ Books and Art about Books, Pratt Manhattan Gallery, New York, NY
Gallery Artists and Guests, Anita Shapolsky Gallery, New York, NY
1992 Traveling Show: Portugal
Salon du Livre de Lisbonne
Casa das Artes a Porto
A La Galeria da Biblioteca Municipal, Guimaraes
Centre Culturel de Sines
Palais de Galdeias, Lisbon
Museum of Modern Art, Rio de Janiero, Brazil
Bi-National Center in Bogota, Columbia
Renée Fotouhi Fine Art, East Hampton, NY
Hebrew Union College–Jewish Institute of Religion, Skirball Museum Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH
1991 Drôles de Livres, Centre Culturel “La Nacelle,” Auberginville, France
Livres d'Artistes, Livres Objets, Espace Marquelet de La Noue, Meaux, France
1990 Fox, Ley, Leech, Carrega Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Book Arts in the U.S.A., Center for Book Arts, New York, NY
The Expanding Figurative Imagination, Anita Shapolsky Gallery, New York, NY
Twentieth Anniversary Show, Peter M. David Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
The Book as Art/The Book in Art, Barbara Fendrick Gallery, New York, NY
Le Chateau de Vascoeuil, France
Médiathèque D'Elbeuf, France
Hotel de La Région, Rouen, France
Morceaux Choisis 2 - Acquisitions 1988-1989, Conseil Régional d Haute-Normandie à Rouen, France
Les Matériaux, Palais Bénéndictine à Fécamp, France
Salon d’Art Contemporain-Les Matériaux, Parc des Expositons a Rouen, France
1989 A Density of Passions, New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ
délires de livres: 100 créateurs contemporains, Centre Culturel de Boulogne-Billancourt, Paris, France
Anita Shapolsky Gallery, New York, NY
Entbundene Bücher, Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel, Germany
1988 Le Livre dans tous ses États, Galerie Caroline Corre, Paris, France
Off The Shelf: A New Look at Book Art, Fort Wayne Museum of Art, IN
Livres Délivrés, École Régionale des Beaux-Arts de Rouen, France
Anita Shapolsky Gallery, New York, NY
1987 The Self Portrait: Tangible Consciousness, Robeson Center Gallery, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ
The Chair, Witkin Gallery, New York, NY
Art Encounter, Anita Shapolsky Gallery, New York, NY
Livres Délivrés, École Normale d’Instituteurs à Bonneuil-sur-Marne, France
Off The Shelf: A New Look at Book Art, Sweet Briar College, Sweet Briar, VA, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
Unique Books by Unique Artists, Patricia Carega Gallery, Washington, D.C.
1986 Jewish Themes/Contemporary American Artists II, The Jewish Museum, New York, NY
A Survey of Book Arts, Queens Museum of Art, New York
Artists Make Books, Lynn Plotkin’s Brentwood Gallery, St. Louis, MO
Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA
Galerie Caroline Corre, Paris, France
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA
1985 Book ARTchitecture, Center for Book Arts and the Thomas J. Watson Library, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Bibliothèque Discotheque Faidherde, Paris, France
Books as Sculpture, Robeson Center Gallery, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ
1984 Books Artists Have Made, The Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH
Center for Books Arts: The First Decade, Center for Book Arts, New York, NY;
The New York Public Library, New York, NY
Nakhmkin Osterwell Fine Arts Gallery, Washington, D.C.
1983 Centre d’art contemporain, Rouen, France
Les États du Livre, Tome I Livres d’Artistes Americains, Galerie Caroline Corre, Paris, France
Canadian Arts Council, New Brunswick, Canada
You Can’t Tell a Book by its Cover, Thorpe Intermedia Gallery, Sparkill, NY
1982 La Bibliothèque Publique du Centre National d'Art et de Culture Georges Pompidou, Paris (traveling exhibition)
Artists’ Books, Ben Shahn Gallery, William Paterson College, Wayne, NJ
Sculptural Bookworks Montgomery College Gallery, Takoma Park, MD
1981 Franklin Furnace, New York, NY
1980 Grand Palais, La Première Foire, Institute de Livres, Paris, France
Artists’ Books, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
1979 Book Forms, Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH
Women Artists in Washington Collections, The University of Maryland, College Park
Illusions, Summit Art Center, Summit, NJ
1978 Artists’ Books, USA, Independent Curators Inc., Traveling exhibition, 1978-1980
Living Sculpture, O.K. Harris, New York
E. P. Gurewitsch Works of Art, Inc., New York, NY
Sez Who? Language and Image, Peter M. David Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
1977 The Object as Poet, Renwick Gallery of the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
What is Feminist Art?, the Women’s Building, Los Angeles, CA, organized by Lucy Lippard
The Book as Art II, Fendrick Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Peter M. David Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
Franklin Furnace, New York, NY
1976 The Year of the Woman: Reprise, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York
The Presence and Absence in Realism, State University of New York College at Potsdam
1975 Potsdam Plastics, State University of New York College at Potsdam
Lowenstein Library, Fordham University, New York, NY
1974 Recent Acquisitions, Finch College Museum, New York, NY
Contemporary American Sculpture, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA
1973 Recent Acquisitions, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA
25th Annual Ohio Ceramic and Sculpture Show, Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH
1972 University of Wisconsin, Center for 20th Century Studies, Milwaukee, WI
Iris Clert, Paris, France
American Woman Artist Show, GEDOK, Kunsthaus Hamburg, Germany
1971 Projected Art: Artists at Work, Finch College Museum of Art, New York, NY
1970 Light, Motion and Sound, Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY
1968 Destruction Art: Destroy to Create, Finch College Museum of Art, New York, NY
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH
Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, NC
Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas, Austin, TX
Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, IL
Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit, MI
Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY
Grey Art Gallery, New York University, New York, NY
Gregg Museum of Art and Design, Athens, GA
Haas Family Art Library, Yale University, New Haven, CT
The Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, NY
The Jewish Museum, New York, NY
Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell, Ithaca, NY
John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
Carolyn Campagna Kleefeld Contemporary Art Museum, Long Beach, CA
Krannert Art Museum, Champagne, IL
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
The New York Public Library, New York, NY
Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME
Queens Museum of Art, Queens, NY
Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ
San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.
Tang Museum, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC
Zillman Art Museum, University of Maine, ME
AWARDS
1995 Lee Krasner Award for Lifetime Achievement, Pollock-Krasner Foundation
1977 Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant
RESIDENCIES AND FELLOWSHIPS
Blue Mountain
MacDowell Colony
Millay Colony
Ossabaw Island
Rutgers Center for Innovative Print and Paper
Virginia Center for Creative Arts
Yaddo