Outdoor Public Sculpture Installations (selected)
2024 Collens in Cornwall
2023, 2024 Upstate Art Weekend: Collens in Cornwall and Goshen Green Farm
2023 Harmony Park, New Providence, NJ
2022 Lewes, Delaware,George H.P. Smith Park, summer exhibition
2020-2022 Ohr O’Keefe Museum of Art, Biloxi, MS
2021 Southern Vermont Arts Center
2019-2020 Newburgh Sculpture Project
2019 Lockwood Gallery, Kingston NY
2019 Beacon 3D, Beacon, NY
2018 -2021 Salem Courthouse Salem, NY
2018, 2023, 2024 NBOSS Bennington Outdoor Sculpture Show, Bennington, VT.
2017-2020 Poydras Corridor Sculpture Exhibition, New Orleans, LA
2017-present Cary Hill Sculpture Park, Salem, NY
2017-present Kenner Sculpture Garden, Kenner, LA, commission for permanent collection
Solo Exhibitions:
2024 Collens in Cornwall, year long solo exhibition of outdoor sculptures in Cornwall, NY
2024 Holland Tunnel Gallery: new sculpture
2021 Maria Neil Art Project, Cleveland OH new sculpture
2019 Holland Tunnel Gallery, Newburgh, NY new sculpture 2018 Mindy Ross Gallery, Orange County Community College, Newburgh, NY
2015 Gensler -NYC: at Rockefeller Center: Urban Studies & City Blocks
2008 Ritz Theater Lobby, Newburgh , NY
2008 Romano Gallery, Armstrong-Hipkins Center for the Arts, Blairstown, NJ
1995 Museum of the Hudson Highlands, Cornwall on Hudson, NY: Just for Fun
1994 Lycian Centre Galleries, Sugar Loaf, NY
1992 Coup de Grace Gallery, NYC
1992 100 Church Street, NYC curated by Betty Levin
1986 Manhattanville College, Purchase, NY
1984 Lobby Installation, 110 Greene St, NYC presented by Luise Ross and Stephen Rosenberg galleries
1984 Luise Ross Gallery, NYC
1980 Cleveland Contemporary Art Center, Cleveland, OH New Works
1979 Soho Center for Visual Artists, NYC
1977 Cleveland Contemporary Art Center, Cleveland, OH Recent Constructions and Drawings
1976 Akron Art Institute, Akron, OH
Honors, Awards and Commissions
2023 Salem2Salem Fellowship residency at Schloss Salem, in Bodensee, Germany
2022 Lewes, Delaware Commission for summer public art installation
2020 Alpha137 Gallery, special mention by David Cohen
2020 Portfolio I50lation: 50 drawings by 50 women sculptors
2018 Salem Art Works fellowship residency, Salem, NY
2017 Sculpture installation in Cary Hill Sculpture Park, Salem, NY
2017 Salem Art works. artist residency Salem, NY
2017 Commission for permanent collection of Kenner Sculpture Garden, New Orleans
1985 MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH: Fellowship
1984 Athena Foundation Grant and residency at Spacetime CC ,Long Island City
1983 Hand Hollow Foundation, East Chatham, NY: Fellowship
1982 Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY: Fellowship
1982 MacDowell Colony, Fellows Executive Committee
1981 Cleveland Museum of Art, May Show, 1st Prize in Painting, $1,000 award,
1981, MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH: Fellowship
1980 Bennington College, Bennington, VT: artist-in-residence
1980 Painting Commission by A.T.&T Longlines
1979 Cleveland Museum of Art, May Show. Special Mention in Painting,
1979 Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY: Fellowship
1979 MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH: Fellowship
1977 Cleveland Museum of Art, May Show. Special Mention in Graphics
Group Exhibitions (selected
2024 North Bennington Outdoor Sculpture Show
2023: Bennington Museum, NBOSS
2023, 2022, 2021 Glenlily Grounds, Newburgh, NY
2022 Bravin Lee Gallery, NYC
2021 Cohen Gallery, Alfred University
2020 Garrison Art Center
2020 Alpha 137 Gallery: on Artsy
2020 Holland Tunnel Gallery, Newburgh , NY
2020: Lockwood Gallery, Kingston, NY
2019: Beacon 3D. public installation at 127 Main Street, Beacon, NY
2019 Newburgh Sculpture Project Public Installation at Safe Harbors Green, Broadway and Liberty St., Newburgh , NY
2018/19: Poydras Corridor Sculpture Exhibition, New Orleans
2018: Katonah Museum of Art : Signal
2018, 2023. 2024 : North Bennington Outdoor Sculpture Show
2017: Chris Davison Gallery, Newburgh NY : Sculpture Only
2017 Trestle Contemporary Gallery, Brooklyn, NY: Echo Spectrum
2016 Catalyst Gallery, Beacon, NY : small works.
2016 Chris Davison Gallery , Newburgh NY Friends, Family et al
2016 215 W. 125th, NYC Surface Tensions curated by Suzanne Randolph
2011 The Falcon, Marlborough, NY
2011 Suny Orange, Newburgh: Illuminations
2008 Anne Street Gallery, Newburgh, NY Collage Logic1999.
1999 Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, NH, "Contemporary Prints And Paintings, 1963-1975, From The Permanent Collection."
1995: Dietrich Fine Art, NYC
1992 Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT
1992. CB's 313 Gallery, NYC "The Sleeping Beauty"
1991 OIA Salon, NYC
1989 Mansfield Art Center, OH: Geometric Abstraction: A Cleveland Tradition
1988 Squibb Gallery, Princeton, NJ: Interaction: Science & Art
1987 City Gallery, NYC: Outside In
1987 Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH
1986 Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield , CT
1984 Luise Ross Gallery, NYC: Drawings
1984 Aldrich Museum , Ridgefield , CT: “New Acquisitions”
1984, 1981, 1979, 1978,, 1977, 1976 Cleveland Museum of Art: May Show
1983 A.I.R. Gallery, NYC
1983 Sculpture Center, NYC
1983 Ericson Gallery, NYC
1983 Steven Rosenberg Gallery, NYC
1982 Marilyn Pearl Gallery, NYC
1982 New Gallery of Contemporary Art , Cleveland , Ohio
1982 Little Rock Art Museum, Arkansas
1980 Washington Square East Galleries, NYC Small Works
1980 Bennington College, Bennington, Vermont
1979 Phoenix Museum of Art: New York Now
1978 New Gallery of Contemporary Art , Ten years in Review
1978 Marilyn Pearl Gallery, NYC New Talent
1978 Harbourfront Gallery, Toronto, Ontario Cleveland-Toronto Exchange
1977 Butler Institute of American Art, invited artist Midyear Painting Show
1976 Cleveland Museum of Art: Materials & Techniques of 20th Century Artists
1976 Art Research Center, Kansas City, MO Assembled Propositions,
1976 Butler Institute Of American Art Ohio Women Artists, Past & Present
1975 New Gallery of Contemporary Art, Cleveland Ohio Drawings
Public and Corporate Collections (selected)
Borough of Manhattan Community College
Cleveland Museum of Art
Columbus Museum of Arts and Sciences
Currier Museum of Art
Best Products Company
Case Western Reserve University
Cleveland Art Association
Cleveland Foundation
Continental Corporation
Cushman Wakefield
Home Insurance Co.
Masco Corporation
Magoo’s
J.P. Morgan & Co, NYC
National City Bank of Cleveland
Progressive Insurance Co.
Sohio
Walters & Samuels, Inc.
Western Electric
Articles: (selected)
The arts and education. 2022: podcast interview with Vivien Collens
Adam Zucker, 2021 ; article
Chronogram 2019
Women's Art Journal : Serious Play by Jared Rankin. Fall winter/2019
Fine Art Globe
John Haber review: New York as a Model
Yale University Radio WYBCX Interview podcast interview by Brainard Carey March, 2016
New York Times, Benjamin Genocchio, Oct 19, 2008: Piecing Things Together
Roll Magazine, Oct. 2008. "Collage Logic" at the Anne Street Gallery
Arts Magazine. 1984 Stephen Westfall review.
Arts Magazine, New Talent . Nov. 1978
Education:
1968 B.F.A. Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA,
1971, M.F.A. Instituto Allende, San Miguel de Allende, Gto., Mexico
Birthplace: Cleveland, Ohio
Mailing address: 196 Mountain Road, Cornwall on Hudson, NY 12520
2024 Collens in Cornwall
2023, 2024 Upstate Art Weekend: Collens in Cornwall and Goshen Green Farm
2023 Harmony Park, New Providence, NJ
2022 Lewes, Delaware,George H.P. Smith Park, summer exhibition
2020-2022 Ohr O’Keefe Museum of Art, Biloxi, MS
2021 Southern Vermont Arts Center
2019-2020 Newburgh Sculpture Project
2019 Lockwood Gallery, Kingston NY
2019 Beacon 3D, Beacon, NY
2018 -2021 Salem Courthouse Salem, NY
2018, 2023, 2024 NBOSS Bennington Outdoor Sculpture Show, Bennington, VT.
2017-2020 Poydras Corridor Sculpture Exhibition, New Orleans, LA
2017-present Cary Hill Sculpture Park, Salem, NY
2017-present Kenner Sculpture Garden, Kenner, LA, commission for permanent collection
Solo Exhibitions:
2024 Collens in Cornwall, year long solo exhibition of outdoor sculptures in Cornwall, NY
2024 Holland Tunnel Gallery: new sculpture
2021 Maria Neil Art Project, Cleveland OH new sculpture
2019 Holland Tunnel Gallery, Newburgh, NY new sculpture 2018 Mindy Ross Gallery, Orange County Community College, Newburgh, NY
2015 Gensler -NYC: at Rockefeller Center: Urban Studies & City Blocks
2008 Ritz Theater Lobby, Newburgh , NY
2008 Romano Gallery, Armstrong-Hipkins Center for the Arts, Blairstown, NJ
1995 Museum of the Hudson Highlands, Cornwall on Hudson, NY: Just for Fun
1994 Lycian Centre Galleries, Sugar Loaf, NY
1992 Coup de Grace Gallery, NYC
1992 100 Church Street, NYC curated by Betty Levin
1986 Manhattanville College, Purchase, NY
1984 Lobby Installation, 110 Greene St, NYC presented by Luise Ross and Stephen Rosenberg galleries
1984 Luise Ross Gallery, NYC
1980 Cleveland Contemporary Art Center, Cleveland, OH New Works
1979 Soho Center for Visual Artists, NYC
1977 Cleveland Contemporary Art Center, Cleveland, OH Recent Constructions and Drawings
1976 Akron Art Institute, Akron, OH
Honors, Awards and Commissions
2023 Salem2Salem Fellowship residency at Schloss Salem, in Bodensee, Germany
2022 Lewes, Delaware Commission for summer public art installation
2020 Alpha137 Gallery, special mention by David Cohen
2020 Portfolio I50lation: 50 drawings by 50 women sculptors
2018 Salem Art Works fellowship residency, Salem, NY
2017 Sculpture installation in Cary Hill Sculpture Park, Salem, NY
2017 Salem Art works. artist residency Salem, NY
2017 Commission for permanent collection of Kenner Sculpture Garden, New Orleans
1985 MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH: Fellowship
1984 Athena Foundation Grant and residency at Spacetime CC ,Long Island City
1983 Hand Hollow Foundation, East Chatham, NY: Fellowship
1982 Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY: Fellowship
1982 MacDowell Colony, Fellows Executive Committee
1981 Cleveland Museum of Art, May Show, 1st Prize in Painting, $1,000 award,
1981, MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH: Fellowship
1980 Bennington College, Bennington, VT: artist-in-residence
1980 Painting Commission by A.T.&T Longlines
1979 Cleveland Museum of Art, May Show. Special Mention in Painting,
1979 Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY: Fellowship
1979 MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH: Fellowship
1977 Cleveland Museum of Art, May Show. Special Mention in Graphics
Group Exhibitions (selected
2024 North Bennington Outdoor Sculpture Show
2023: Bennington Museum, NBOSS
2023, 2022, 2021 Glenlily Grounds, Newburgh, NY
2022 Bravin Lee Gallery, NYC
2021 Cohen Gallery, Alfred University
2020 Garrison Art Center
2020 Alpha 137 Gallery: on Artsy
2020 Holland Tunnel Gallery, Newburgh , NY
2020: Lockwood Gallery, Kingston, NY
2019: Beacon 3D. public installation at 127 Main Street, Beacon, NY
2019 Newburgh Sculpture Project Public Installation at Safe Harbors Green, Broadway and Liberty St., Newburgh , NY
2018/19: Poydras Corridor Sculpture Exhibition, New Orleans
2018: Katonah Museum of Art : Signal
2018, 2023. 2024 : North Bennington Outdoor Sculpture Show
2017: Chris Davison Gallery, Newburgh NY : Sculpture Only
2017 Trestle Contemporary Gallery, Brooklyn, NY: Echo Spectrum
2016 Catalyst Gallery, Beacon, NY : small works.
2016 Chris Davison Gallery , Newburgh NY Friends, Family et al
2016 215 W. 125th, NYC Surface Tensions curated by Suzanne Randolph
2011 The Falcon, Marlborough, NY
2011 Suny Orange, Newburgh: Illuminations
2008 Anne Street Gallery, Newburgh, NY Collage Logic1999.
1999 Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, NH, "Contemporary Prints And Paintings, 1963-1975, From The Permanent Collection."
1995: Dietrich Fine Art, NYC
1992 Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT
1992. CB's 313 Gallery, NYC "The Sleeping Beauty"
1991 OIA Salon, NYC
1989 Mansfield Art Center, OH: Geometric Abstraction: A Cleveland Tradition
1988 Squibb Gallery, Princeton, NJ: Interaction: Science & Art
1987 City Gallery, NYC: Outside In
1987 Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH
1986 Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield , CT
1984 Luise Ross Gallery, NYC: Drawings
1984 Aldrich Museum , Ridgefield , CT: “New Acquisitions”
1984, 1981, 1979, 1978,, 1977, 1976 Cleveland Museum of Art: May Show
1983 A.I.R. Gallery, NYC
1983 Sculpture Center, NYC
1983 Ericson Gallery, NYC
1983 Steven Rosenberg Gallery, NYC
1982 Marilyn Pearl Gallery, NYC
1982 New Gallery of Contemporary Art , Cleveland , Ohio
1982 Little Rock Art Museum, Arkansas
1980 Washington Square East Galleries, NYC Small Works
1980 Bennington College, Bennington, Vermont
1979 Phoenix Museum of Art: New York Now
1978 New Gallery of Contemporary Art , Ten years in Review
1978 Marilyn Pearl Gallery, NYC New Talent
1978 Harbourfront Gallery, Toronto, Ontario Cleveland-Toronto Exchange
1977 Butler Institute of American Art, invited artist Midyear Painting Show
1976 Cleveland Museum of Art: Materials & Techniques of 20th Century Artists
1976 Art Research Center, Kansas City, MO Assembled Propositions,
1976 Butler Institute Of American Art Ohio Women Artists, Past & Present
1975 New Gallery of Contemporary Art, Cleveland Ohio Drawings
Public and Corporate Collections (selected)
Borough of Manhattan Community College
Cleveland Museum of Art
Columbus Museum of Arts and Sciences
Currier Museum of Art
Best Products Company
Case Western Reserve University
Cleveland Art Association
Cleveland Foundation
Continental Corporation
Cushman Wakefield
Home Insurance Co.
Masco Corporation
Magoo’s
J.P. Morgan & Co, NYC
National City Bank of Cleveland
Progressive Insurance Co.
Sohio
Walters & Samuels, Inc.
Western Electric
Articles: (selected)
The arts and education. 2022: podcast interview with Vivien Collens
Adam Zucker, 2021 ; article
Chronogram 2019
Women's Art Journal : Serious Play by Jared Rankin. Fall winter/2019
Fine Art Globe
John Haber review: New York as a Model
Yale University Radio WYBCX Interview podcast interview by Brainard Carey March, 2016
New York Times, Benjamin Genocchio, Oct 19, 2008: Piecing Things Together
Roll Magazine, Oct. 2008. "Collage Logic" at the Anne Street Gallery
Arts Magazine. 1984 Stephen Westfall review.
Arts Magazine, New Talent . Nov. 1978
Education:
1968 B.F.A. Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA,
1971, M.F.A. Instituto Allende, San Miguel de Allende, Gto., Mexico
Birthplace: Cleveland, Ohio
Mailing address: 196 Mountain Road, Cornwall on Hudson, NY 12520