SELECTED EXHIBITIONS: Galleries, Performance, Installations

Westbeth Gallery, NY, Triple Play 2009
Asian American Art Center/Chinatown Manpower Project, NY
   Metro Poles: Art In Action, 
The Journey; At the Crossroads 2008
Gallery OneTwentyEight, NY, Make Art Not War 2007
Fusion Arts Museum, NY, Then and Now - Lower East Side Artists 2005
Gallery OneTwentyEight, NY, Self-ishs 2004
Williamsburg Art & Historical Center, Brooklyn, NY, Singular Obsessions 2004
Guild Hall, East Hampton, LI,  Member’s Exhibition 2004
AIR Gallery, NY, Generations.04 2004
Asian American Art Center, NY, Below Canal / After 9/11  2003
Henry Street Settlement, NY, Tradition and Innovation: Clay Sculptors 2003
Gallery OneTwentyEight, NY, Unsettled Spirits, 3 person show 2001
Avery Fisher Hall Gallery, Lincoln Center, NY, Group Exhibition 2001
Angels for the Millennium, curated by Judy Collischam, Soho, NY  2000
Bronx River Gallery, NY, Mumia 911 1999
Tribes Gallery, NY, Group Show curated by Al Loving 1999
Henry Street Settlement Abrons Arts Center, NY, Ain’t It Funky Now
Brooklyn Brewery Art Space, NY, Stirring Space  1998
The Gallery at 1 East 53rd St, NY, Small Works 1997
Henry Street Settlement, NY,  Import/Transplant Myth/Reality 1997
Boricua College, Personal Statements 1995
Jacque Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art, NY 1995
Henry Street Settlement, NY, Insights into Public Art 1995
Artist Space, NY, Group Exhibition 1994
Art In General, NY, Salon Exhibition 1994
Staatlliche Kunsthall, Berlin, Germany, Documenta 34 Raume 1994
Hunter  College, NY, The Decade Show 1992
Henry Street Settlement, NY, Subterranean Subjects, curated by Olivia Beens
   Beware of the Moving Platform, Watch the Closing Doors 1991
BACA Downtown, Brooklyn, NY, Showcase 1990
The Painted Bride Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, Images & Words 1990
Artists Space, NY, curated by Paterson Sims, Whitney Museum 1983-1989
Max Fish Gallery, NY, Atomic Art Show 1989
Exit Art, NY, Concrete Crisis 1989
Bronx River Gallery, NY, Relationships: Graveyard of Lost Love 1989
New Orleans Contemporary Art Center, LA, Oppression/Expression,
   curated by Lowery Sims & Leon Golub 1989
Fashion Moda, Bronx, NY, Expressions African 1988
Ceres Gallery, NY, Collaborations Through New York Feminist Art Institute 1987
City Gallery, Department of Cultural Affairs, NY, ABC No Rio; The First Five Years 1986
ABC NoRio, NY, Heroes & Heroines: St Francis in Ecstasy 1986
22 Wooster Gallery, 22 Raw, NY,  Fit & Flab Diaries 1985
AIR Gallery, NY, Artists as Filmmakers Series 1985
PS 122, NY, AvanteGardeArama - Subway Stories 1985
Franklin Furnace, NY, Propaganda AKA Public Relations curated by Lucy Lippard 1984
Franklin Furnace, NY, Karnival Knowledge 1984
The WPA, Washington, DC, The Ritz Show 1983
Inroads, NY, Potentially Dangerous 1983

ADDITIONAL GROUP EXHIBITIONS

Medger Evers College, Brooklyn, NY; Boricua College, NY; Pennsylvania State University; Westbeth Gallery, NY; Abyssinian Baptist Church for Art Against Apartheid, Printed Matter, NY; Barbara Gladstone Gallery, NY; Jack Tilden Galleries, NY; Goddard Riverside Community Center, NY, (Featured Artist); Concord Gallery, NY; California State University; Brooklyn Munitions Terminal; Artists for Nuclear Disarmament Travel Exhibition; Group Material SubCulture for the IRT, NY; L.E.S.S. Gallery, NY; Hallwalls, Buffalo, NY; Small Walls Gallery, NY; Just Above Midtown/Downtown, NY; Arsenal Gallery, NY; Broome Street Workshop, NY; Brooklyn Federal Court House.
The Kitchen, NY; Brooklyn Bridge Anchorage with Spalding Gray; Theatre for the New City; Limbo Lounge; Danceteria; Kamakaze; Max Fish

INDIVIDUAL GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS, AWARDS
Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art, NY Teaching Fellowship to India 2006
Fulbright-Hayes Fellowship, Teach Turkey, University of Arizona 2001
The Council for Basic Education (CBE) Time Warner Arts Fellowship 1998
Percent for Art, SITES for Students, PS 132, Brooklyn, NY 1994-98
Department of Transportation, NY Pedestrian Division, Sign Project 1996
Public Art Fund, NY Garden Project, mosiacs with Allison and Betye Saar 1996
Hambidge Center, Rabun Gap, Georgia Fellowship 1995, 2003
Percent for Art, SITES for Students, PS 107, Brooklyn, NY 1993-1995
New York Foundation for the Arts, Artist in Residence 1991
Cummington Community of the Arts, MA, Artist's Fellowship 1991, 1990, 1988, 1984
The MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH Artist's Fellowship 1990, 1987
New York State Council on the Arts, Artist’s Fellowship 1988
Henry Street Settlement, Artist in Residence 1987-2007

REVIEWS AND PUBLICATIONS
ABC No Rio Dinero, The Story of a Lower East Side Gallery, Alan Moore & Josh Miller, 1985
   (new 2010 on-line version)
The New Yorker, Goings On About Town, January 7, 1991
Daily News, Underground Art by Dennis Wepman, January 18, 1991
Downtown, NY, Celebrating Our Subways by Les Weichselbaum, February  6, 1991
The Trentonian, Trenton, NJ,  Subterranean Subjects by Lili Wright, January 10, 1991
The New York Times, Subway Muse at Work in the Murk by Michael Norman, December 1990
The Villager, NY, Review by Tom Waichunas, December 1990
Heresies 21, NY,  Food Is A Feminist Issue 1986
Ikon Anthology/Apartheid Issue, NY, Winter/Spring 1986
The Prospect Press, NY, Portrait of an Artist in a School by Jonathan Ward, June 1985
Upfront, NY, A. P.A.D.D. Publication, Fall 1985
Arts Magazine, Portrait of an Artist in a School by Jonathan Ward, June 1985
Greetings from N.Y.C., Postcards from Collaborative Projects 1985
The Village Voice, NY, Too Close To Home by Lucy Lippard, June 14, 1983
The Village Voice, NY, Cross Country Music by Lucy Lippard, March 18, 1983
Artforum, Reviews, Group Material by Glenn O’Brien, December 1983
The Washington Tribune, Doing the Ritz by Kevin Doran, March 31, 1983
Women’s Art Journal, The Future Is Ours; Art for Action & Change, Sharon Gilbert 1982
Artspeak, NY, Review, 22 Wooster, January 31, 1980
The Soho News, NY, Craven Rebellion in the Crowd by Barbara Baracks, July 30, 1980

PUBLISHED WORK

IKON, #14/15 Crossroads: An anthology of art for a time of transition and change, N.Y. 1994
The Boundaries of Twilight:  Czecko-Slovak Writing From the New World, stories from Watch The    Closing Doors, edited by CJ Hirbal, published by New Rivers Press 1991
A Day In The Life:  Tales from The Lower East Side, stories from Watch The Closing Doors, edited by    Alan Moore & Josh Gosciak, published by Autonomedia, NY 1990
Appearances, Number 10, I Always Wanted To Have A Baby, NY 1983

VISITING ARTIST / PANELS / WORKSHOPS

Artists Talk On Art, Been There/DoneThat:The Art Colonies’ Experience 1996
County of Sweet Briar, Virginia, guest artist-critique 1994
University Settlement, Eyes and Ears, Slide lecture 1993
Hunter College, Decade Show:  Sex and Gender, Panel Discussion 1991
New York Technical College, Growing Together, Panel 1989
Artist Talk On Art, NY, How Political Can You Get, Panel 1985
College of New Rochelle, Visiting Artist 1985

COMMISSIONS, PUBLIC ART, COMMUNITY SERVICE

PUBLIC ART FUND
   Mosaics at PS 152, Queens, NY, in collaboration with Allision & Bette Saar Garden Project,
   Roots & Wings 1996-1997
SITES FOR STUDENTS
   New York State School Construction Authority, designed a series of mosaics with students for PS    132, District 14, installed in school cafeteria 1998
SITES FOR STUDENTS
   New York State School Construction Authority, designed a series of porcelain enamel panels with    students for PS 107 District 15, installed 1995


EDUCATION
MFA, Hunter College, New York City 1982
BFA, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY 1977

ONLINE REFERENCES
PS 183 - Robert Louis Stevenson
The Sea by Diane Spodarek
The Journey at the Crossroads
Metro Poles in Chinatown
Panel Talk at Asian America Arts Centre

 
   
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