lives & works in New York City *****

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2003		Art Resources Transfer, New York City 
2002 Art Resources Transfer, New York City 1998 Statements in Steel, Walton Art Center, Fayetteville, Arkansas 1997 Most Of Us Are Immigrants (outdoor sculpture), Sara Roosevelt Park, NY 1996 Klutznick Museum, Washington, D.C. Adirondack Lakes Center for the Arts, Blue Mountain Lake, NY 1993 Soho20 Gallery, NYC 1991 Soho20 Gallery, NYC 1989 Soho20 Gallery, NYC 1985 Cornell College, Mount Vernon, Iowa Women's Studio Workshop; Rosendale, New York 1984 Elmira College, Elmira, New York Jewish Community Center; Stamford, Connecticut 1983 Phoenix Gallery, New York City 1980 80 Washington Square East Galleries, New York City 1978 Stamford Museum, Stamford Connecticut PUBLIC ART 2004 Garden Gate, private collection, Ossining, New York
Newburgh Sculpture Project, Newburgh, NY
2003 Byrdcliffe Outdoor Exhibit 2003, Woodstock, NY
2002 The Art Lot, solo exhibition, outdoor sculpture, Brooklyn, New York, summer 2002
Segou, Mali, permanent sculpture in collaboration with Assn. Segou Laben 2001 PS 122 Gallery, outdoor sculpture, NYC 2000 Can We Heal? Europos Parkas, Vilnius, Lithuania 1999 Most Of Us Are Immigrants , Islip Museum, East Islip, NY 1982 Wilton, Connecticut, Bethesda, Maryland 1981 Millay Colony for the Arts, Austerlitz, New York SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2004 Women in the Middle: Borders, Barriers, Intersections, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Loft Pioneer Show , Puffin Room, New York City
2003 A Language of Pattern, McLean Project for the Arts, McLean, VA
Larger Than Life, Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, PA
Van-Go, Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, PA
2002 The Low End Theory, University of Arkansas, Little Rock, Arkansas
A New Leaf Gallery, Berkeley, CA
Generations, AIR Gallery, NYC
Center for Visual Arts & Culture, University of Conn, Stamford, CT
Bronx River Art Center, Bronx, NY
Memory and Metaphor, Abrons Art Center, Henry Street Settlement, NYC 2001 Not for Publication: In the Spirit of the Book, Hillwood Gallery, CW Post, Brookville, NY 5th Annual Loft Pioneer Show, Puffin Room, NYC Women's Works, Arsenal Gallery, NYC 2000 Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY AIR Gallery, NYC University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, MS Unbound:Reshaping Artistıs Books, Henry Street Settlement, NYC Ithaca Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition, Ithaca, NY 1999 Central Goldfields Regional Arts Complex, Victoria, Australia River Gallery, Chattanooga, TN 1998 Center for Book Arts, NYC O'Kane Gallery, University of Houston-Downtown, Houston, TX SFA Gallery, Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, TX Il Gabbiano; Circolo Culturale, La Spezia, Italy 1997 Michael Petronko Gallery, New York City Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, IL, juried by Faith Ringgold Suture, Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, curated by Annie Herron Text and Identity, SUNY Stony Brook, NY Aljira, Newark, NJ Miriam's Cup, Hebrew Union College, NYC 1996 Benefit Exhibition, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY Monmouth Museum, Lincroft, NJ The Hanging Sculpture Garden, Newport Centre Mall, Jersey City, NJ, curated by Robert Costa Acme Art Company, Columbus OH Bride Invitational, Painted Bride Art Center, Philadelphia, PA Lopdell House Gallery, Waitakere City, New Zealand Bronx River Art Center, Bronx, NY 1995 Global SweatShop, Art in General, New York City In Three Dimensions, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, SI, NY, curated by Charlotte Rubenstein 1994 Krasdale Food Corporation, Bronx , NY Aljira, Newark, NJ Marita Gilliam Gallery, Raleigh, NC Wassenberg Art Center, Van Wert, OH 1993 Islip Museum, Islip, New York Women of Diversity, Ctr for Art & Culture of Bedford Stuyvesant, New York City Tweed Gallery, New York City Art/Umjetnost, Obala Theatre, Sarajevo Waterworks Gallery, Friday Harbor, WA Kerygma Gallery, Ridgewood, NJ Masks: Mystery, Myth and Metaphor, Malton Gallery, Cincinnati, OH 1992 NYNEX Corporate Headquarters, New York City WAC Collaborative, Art in the Anchorage; Sponsored by Creative Time, New York City Missing, 37 Rahme; Staatliche Kunsthalle, Berlin Women and Power; SUNY-New Paltz, New York Art Over AIDS; CSPS, Cedar Rapids, IA AIR Gallery, New York City 1991 Visions of Life; Islip Museum, Islip, New York Scarlet Letters; Kleinert Art Center, Woodstock, NY Il Gabbiano; Circolo Culturale, La Spezia, Italy AWOL; Art in General, New York City Nash Gallery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN War: "What Is It Good For?"; Bronx River Art Gallery, NYC 1990 Painted Metal; Gallery Without Walls, Newark, NJ Food: From Pleasure to Politics; Goddard-Riverside Community Ctr, New York City 1989 Kulturforum, Monchengladbach, West Germany New Museum, New York City Show Your Metal; Salena Gallery, Long Island University, Brooklyn, NY Quietude Sculpture Park, East Brunswick, NJ 1988 University Gallery, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia Aljira Gallery, Newark, NJ Pyramid Art Center, Rochester, NY 1987 Mostra, Palazzo Vagnotti, Cortona, Italy AIM, Bronx Museum, Bronx New York; Curated by Holly Block Erector Square Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut; Curated by Lynn Gumpert 1986 Women's Sensibilities: A Nat'l Juried Exhibition, WARM Gallery,Minneapolis, Minnesota Liberty; sponsored by the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, New York City 1985 Invitational, 55 Mercer Gallery, New York City 1984 Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, New York Past/Post/Future; Pleiades Gallery, New York City, Curated by Robert Atkins 1983 4 X 27: Women Collaborate; Gallery 345, New York City Langman Gallery, Jenkintown, Pennsylvania Terminal New York; Brooklyn, New York 1978 Stamford Museum, Stamford, Connecticut 1976 Attleboro Museum, Attleboro, Massachusetts AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES Europos Parkas, Vilnius, Lithuania, 2000 Fulbright Senior Research Fellowship, Mali, West Africa, 1994-95 United Nations Committee Against Apartheid, Exhibition Grant, South African Mail: Messages From Inside, 1989 Residencies: Hambidge Ctr, Ga, 2000; Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY, 1982 Residencies: VCCA, Sweetbriar, VA, 1982, 1988; Millay Colony for the Arts, Austerlitz, NY, 1981 WORKSHOPS, TEACHING, ARTIST RESIDENCIES Presenter, Smithsonian Folklife Festival, Washington, DC 2003
Director, Art and Culture in Mali, study abroad program, Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio, beginning 2002
Adjunct Professor, Parsons School of Design, Senior Seminar, Spring 2002. Artist/t\Teacher, Mali lecture & Bogolan Workshop, Queens Museum of Art, Queens, NY, 2000. Adjunct Professor/Leader, Art Workshop in Mali, Webster University, St Louis, MO, 1999. Artist-in-Residence, Metal Books workshop & Mali lectures; Webster University, St Louis, MO,1998. Women's Studio Workshop, Workshop, Metal Books, Fall 1997 Artist/t\Teacher, Mali lecture & Pottery Workshop, Queens Museum of Art, Queens, NY,1996. Artist-in-Residence, COSACOSA, community art project, Philadelphia, PA, Fall, 1994. Artist-in-Residence, SUNY-Stony Brook, February, 1994. Adjunct Professor, Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, PA, Sculpture, 1991. Adjunct Professor, College of Staten Island- CUNY, Dept of Early Childhood Education, Art Workshop, 1987 to 1991. Artist-in-Residence, University of Georgia, Studies Abroad Program, Cortona, Italy, 1987. COMMUNITY ART PROJECTS & CURATORIAL ACTIVITIES Consultant, Assn of Mali Women Artists, Bamako, Mali, 2004
Artist-in-Residence, COSACOSA, Memory Mine, Philadelphia, PA, January to March, 2003.
An American Quilt Project, helping families of 9/11 victims make a commemorative piece, 2002
Art-o-mat - Low cost multiples sold in converted cigarette machines located in museums & art institutions throughout the US including the Whitney Museum and The New Museum in NYC Director, Mali Dye Project, Bamako, 1999 Co-curator, Groupe Bogolan Kasobane-mudcloth costumes & paintings from Mali, Lincoln Ctr, NYC, 1998. Artist-in-Residence, COSACOSA, community art project, Philadelphia, PA, Fall, 1994. Co-curator, Artists On The Home Front, Exhibition & Catalogue; Goddard-Riverside Community Center, NYC, 1991. Juror, Woman Image Now Exhibition; Arizona State University, Tempe, 1991. Director, South African Women Artists in Resistance, Curator, South African Mail: Messages From Inside; sponsored by the United Nations Special Committee Against Apartheid; 1990: Soho 20 Gallery, NYC; Univof the Arts, Philadelphia, Pa; Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, PA; Mt. Mercy College, Cedar Rapids, IA; 1991: Univ of Maryland, College Park, MD; 1992: Univ of Georgia, Athens, GA;1994: SUNY-Stony Brook, NY. Director, Women Facing AIDS, art workshop series at Beth Israel Hospital, NYC, 1988-1989, and exhibitions: New Museum, NYC; Women's Building Los Angeles; CSPS, Cedar Rapids, IA. Juror, Annual Student Exhibition, Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, Pa, 1989. LECTURES, PANELS Study Abroad: Academic Arcadia OR Just Another Grand Tour?, Panelist, College Art Assn, Seattle 2004
Search/Research, Co-Chair, College Art Assn, NYC 2003
Intersections, Mud cloth symposia, Providence, RI, 2003
The Artistry of Group Bogolan Kasobane, Lecture, Museum for African Art, NYC, January 2002 Art & Activism, Parsons School of Design, NYC, 1999, 2000. Statements in Steel, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas, September, 1998. Forging Connections: A Dialogue About Art & Culture in Mali: Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster. PA, February, 1997. The Neighborhood School (an alternative public school), NYC; Marymount College, Tarrytown, NY, 1996. Feminist Art and Art History Conference, Barnard College, NYC, October, 1996. Women's Caucus for Art/NYC, 1996. Lecture & Workshop, Adirondack Ctr for the Arts, Blue Mountain Lake, NY, April 1996. "Public Protest and the City Forum" Speakers Corner, Municipal Art Society, October, 1996 Visiting Artist Lecture, American Cultural Center, Bamako, Mali, 1995 "Artists as Activists," Panel, College Art Association Annual Conference, NYC, 1994. "Why Are There So Few Women of Color in This Organization?" Moderator, Women's Caucus For Art, National Conference, NYC; 1994. "South African Connections: Life and Art in South Africa," Panel Moderator, Artists Talk on Art, New York City, 1993. "Bridges and Boundaries," Panel, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York City, 1992. "Artists On The Homefront," Moderator, Women's Caucus For Art, National Conference, Chicago, IL; 1992. "South African Mail: Messages From Inside," Slide Lecture, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA; Homeless Services Network, Yonkers, NY; Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster, PA; Univ. of Iowa, Iowa City, IA; Mt. Mercy College, Cedar Rapids, IA, University of Georgia, Athens, GA; Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, GA; Soho 20 Gallery, NYC; SUNY-Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY. "Resistance/ Exile/ Refuge: Women Artists from War Zones," Panel Moderator, Women's Caucus for Art, National Conference, New York City, 1990. Visiting Artist Lecture Series, Cortona, Italy, UGA Studies Abroad Program, 1987. "Sculpture from Non-Traditional Materials," Panel; Nat'l Sculpture Conference: Women's Work; Cincinnati, Ohio,1987. "Tactics '87- Guerrilla Girls to Girl's Club," Moderator, Women's Caucus for Art/NYC Chapter, January, 1987. "Forum '85," Lectures, Women's Studio Workshop, Rosendale, NY; October, 1985; National Women's Studies Association Conference; March 1987. Panels; Women's Caucus for Art/NYC Chapter; November 1985; National Organization for Women/ NYC Chapter; , October 1985; National Organization for Women/ Long Island Chapter, August 1985; City College of New York; October 1985. "Working Strategies, "Panel; Women's Caucus for Art/NYC Chapter; April 1985. Gallery Lecture, Cornell College, Mount Vernon, Iowa; January 1985. "West African Influences, "Lecture, Elmira College, Elmira ,NY; January 1984. VIDEOS 2004 Producer/Director, Karenguimbe Well, An intimate portrait of a Malian village, Mali
1999 Producer & consultant, mAli: An Invitation to Travel, 18 minute documentary , w/ CNPC, Bamako, Mali
1998 Camera person, Welcome to America, women's stories about immigration, with Carol Hamoy, New York City,
1994 Co-director, The Last Mile-- a documentary about the historic South African elections in April '94. (unfinished) PERFORMANCES 1993 Woven Journey, Nuyorican Poets Cafe, New York City Soho20 Gallery, New York City 1987 Conversations With the Dead, by Quimetta Perle, Franklin Furnace, New York City SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY NEWSPAPERS Coulibaly, Adama, Les Echos, Bamako, Mali, September 24, 2002 Smith, Roberta, New York Times, Friday, August 8, 1997 Pathe, Jim, Newark Star Ledger, March 7, 1997 Raynor, Vivian, New York Times, Sunday, October 20, 1996 Koeninger, Kay, Columbus Dispatch, April 14, 1996 Raynor, Vivian, New York Times, February 26, 1995 Onishi, Norimitsu, New York Times, December 11, 1994 New York Newsday, May 11,1993 Harrison, Helen, New York Times, February 17, 1991 Raven, Arlene, Village Voice, NYC, February 20, 1990 Nelson, Nels, Philadelphia Daily News, March 23, 1990 South, Capetown South Africa, January 18, 1990 Davis, Diane A., Intelligencer Journal, Lancaster, PA, September 8, 1990 "Linen Fever", Women's Wear Daily, June 21,1984 New York Times, December 11, 1977 CATALOGUES Text and Identity, SUNY- Stony Brook, NY, 1997 Janet Goldner: Sticks & Stones, Klutznick Museum, Washington, D.C. 1996 In Three Dimensions, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, SI, NY, curated by Charlotte Rubenstein A Woman's Place, Monmouth Museum, Lincroft, NJ Proposta N.2:Il Cibo Nell'Arte, Circolo Culturali Il Gabbiano, La Spezia, Italy ,1991 Visions of Life; essay by Eleanor Heartney, 1990 10 Artists From New York; (catalogue); essay by Judy Collischan Van Wagner, 1989. On View, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York City, February 24 - April 16, 1989 AIM, Bronx Museum, Bronx, NY, 1987 Women's Sensibilities, WARM Gallery, Minneapolis, MN, 1986 JOURNALS & MAGAZINES Les Echos, Bamako, Mali ; Adama Coulibaly, September 24, 2002
From the Borderline to the Colorline, Nat'l Network for Immigrant & Refugee Rights, UN Anti-Racism Conf, 2001 Connect, Arts International, New York, Inaugural Issue, Fall 2000 Sculpture Magazine, Commissions, Blankstein, Amy, December, 1997 Sculpture Magazine, Jane Ingram Allen, September, 1997 Public Art Review, Recent Projects, Spring/Summer, 1998 Manual 1994-1995, Art in General, NYC Heresies, Volume 2,#4, New York 1980 BOOKS Direct Metal Sculpture, Dona Z. Meilach, Schiffer Publishing, 2001 In Praise of the Muse, Syracuse Cultural Workers, Datebook 1996 Brolin, Brent C. and Richards, Jean, Sourcebook of Architectural Ornament, Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1982 Hall, Carol, The Soft Sculpture Book, Davis Publications, 1981 PUBLISHED WRITINGS Book Review, African Arts magazine, Summer, 2002
The Language of Beads: Kandioura Coulibaly; Beadwork Magazine, April 2002 Artists On The Home Front, catalogue essay by Janet Goldner, 1991 South African Mail: Messages From Inside, catalogue essay by Janet Goldner, 1990. PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS African Studies Association MANSA College Art Association, member since 1982. International Sculpture Center, member since 1981. Soho 20 Artists Inc., New York City, 1987 to 1995. Women's Action Coalition (WAC) , 1992 to 1993. Women's Caucus for Art, 1980 - 1997 . AUCTIONS 1990 Christie's, NYC PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
MaliWatch
African Studies Association
MANSA
College Art Association, member since 1982.
International Sculpture Center, member since 1981.
Soho 20 Artists Inc., New York City, 1987 to 1995.
Women's Action Coalition (WAC), 1992 to 1993.
Women's Caucus for Art, 1980 - 1997. EDUCATION Workshop with Rachel Rosenthal, Omega Institute, Rhinebeck, NY, 1996 Writing Workshop with Arlene Raven, NYC 1996 Forum '85, UN Women's Conference, Nairobi, Kenya, July 1985. Visual Artists Exchange, NY Feminist Art Institute, New York City, 1983 New York University, M.A. in sculpture, 1981. additional courses: Whitney Independent Study Program; Institute of Fine Arts, NYC internships: Nancy Graves; Mac Adams Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio, B.A. in art, 1974. Experiment in International Living,Year-long independent investigation of arts in West Africa, 1973. Penland School, Penland, North Carolina. Fibers 1972. Asgard School, Hurup Thy, Denmark. Fibers 1971.


 

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