Estate of Stella Waitzkin
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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