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ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2007 - "New Work", Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York, NY
2006 - "Thin Air", Sun Valley Center for the Arts, Sun Vallery, ID
- "Round and Round", Hemphill, Washington D.C.
2004 - "Drawings", Paper Works, Hemphill, Washington, DC
- "Out of the Blue:An Installation", Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
- "Deep Blooze Series", Hemphill, Washington, D.C.
2003 - "Turning the Wheel", commissioned installation as part of "The Invisible Thread: Buddhist Spirit in Contemporary Art", Newhoused Center for Contemporary Art, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, NY
- "Building", Henry Art Gallery, Faye G. Allen Center for the Visual Arts, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
2002 - "Flowers Found", Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York, NY
2001 - "Puja", A/D Gallery, New York, NY
2000 - Galerie Rene Blouin, Montreal
1999 - "Mirror Mirror", Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York, NY
1998 - "Once Removed", Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1997 - John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
- Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, MA
1996 - Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1995 - Boulder Museum of Fine Arts, Boulder, CO
1992 - Bess Cutler Gallery, New York, NY
1990 - Payton-Rule Gallery, Denver, CO
1984 - Bess Cutler Gallery, New York, NY
1980 - Minneapolis College of Art Gallery, Minneapolis, MN

TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2003 - "Stephen Mueller-Arlene Shechet", VanBrunt Gallery, New York, NY

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2007 - "In theWay", Outdoor Installation, Byrdcliffe, Woodstock, NY
- "Shattering Glass: New Perspectives", curated by Neil Wastson and Ellen Kieter, Katonah Museum, Katonah, NY (exhibition catalogue)
2006-7 - THE BONG SHOW or This is Not a Pipe, Leslie Tonkonow, New York, NY
2006 - "The Missing Peace", Flower Museum, Los Angeles, CA, traveling
2005-6 - "Faith", curated by James Hyde, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT
2005 - "Riverhouse Editions: Master Prints by 44 Artists", University of Denver, CO
- "Monochrome Image", Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York, NY
- American Embassy, Hanoi, Vietnam, curated by Virginia Shore, State Department
- "Glass, Seriously", curated by Lilly Wei, Dorsky Gallery, Curatorial Program, Long Island city, NY
- "Somewhere Outside It", curated by Janet Phelps, Shroeder Romero Gallery, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
2004 - "Sidewalk Installation", Rubin Museum of Art, New York, NY
- "The Buddha Project", Cleveland State University, Cleveland, OH
- "The Big Nothing", curated by Ingrid Schaffner & Bennett Simpson, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA
- Texas Gallery, Houston, TX
- "Bottle: Contemporary Art and Vernacular Tradition," curated by Richard Klein, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT
2003 - "Water, Water", curated by Lily Wei, Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
- "Water Marks/Inside", Ethel H. Blum Gallery, College of the Atlantic, Bar Harbor, ME
- "According with Nadelman: Contemporary Affinities", curated by Cynthia Nadelman, June Kelly Gallery, New York, NY
- "Water, Water", curated by Lily Wei, Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
- "Vessels", curated by Joe Fyfe, Greenwich House Pottery, New York, NY
- "Mystic", curated by Jeffrey Keough, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
2002 - "Line and Landscape", Ethan Cohen Gallery, New York, NY
- "Paper Remix: Dieu Donne Work Space Program, 1995-2000", curated by Edwin Ramoran, Dieu Donne Papermill, New York
- "Curious Terrain", Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York, NY
2001 - "Ganesh", Rene Blouin Gallery, Montreal
- "Rags to Riches, 25 Years of Paper Art from Dieu Donne Papermill,
curated by Donna Stein, a travelling exhibition: Kresge Art Museum, East Lansing, MI, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art, Manhattan, KS, Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, L.I., Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Ft. Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, IN through 2003 -
- "Paper, Scisssors, Rock", Elaine Benson Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY -
- "A Threshold of Spirit", curated by Peter Nagy, Crossing Paths, an
installation in the Baptistry, Cathedral of St. John the Divine, New York, NY - -
- "Digital Printmaking Now", Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
2000 - "Mysticism and Desire", curated by Pat Hamilton, Los Angeles, CA
- "The Living End", curated by Ingrid Schaffner, Boulder Museum of
Contemporary Art, Boulder, CO
- "Religion: Contemporary Interpretations by Women", the Art Gallery, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH
- "Rapture", Bakalar and Huntington Galleries, Mass Art, Boston, MA
1999 - "Loaf", curated by Steve Dibenedetto and Manfred Baumgartner,
Baumgartner Galleries Inc, New York, NY
- "Crafted Shows", Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York, NY
- "Om", curated by Joe Fyfe, Dorsky Gallery, New York, NY
- "Women in Print", Jim Kempner Fine Art, New York, NY
1998 - "In the Details", curated by Kiki Smith, Barbara Gross Gallery, Munich, Germany
- "Art Exchange Show", Rose Burlingham, New York, NY
- "Recent Acquisitions", John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1997 - "On the Rim", TransAmerica Bank, San Francisco, CA
- "Plastered", Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
- "Swimsuit Show", Elsa Mott Ives Gallery, New York, NY
- Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, MA
1996 - "Imaginary Beings", Exit Art, New York, NY
- Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, MA
- Gramercy Hotel Art Show, New York, NY
- Joanne Rapp Gallery, Phoenix, AZ
1995 - Manhattan Art Project, 60 Broad St., New York, NY
- "Mixed Media", Montgomery College, Rockville, MD
1994 - "Full House", 5 person show, 54 White Street, New York, NY
1993 - "The Return of the Cadavre Exquis", The Drawing Center, New York, NY
- "A-Z O-9", E.S. Vandam Gallery, New York, NY
- "A Celebration of Life", Delegates Hall, United Nations, New York, NY
- Nancy Margolis Gallery, New York, NY
1992 - Gallery Women Artists, Rule Modern & Contemporary, Denver, CO
- "Faculty Small Works", Parsons School of Design, New York, NY
- "10 Artists/10 Statements", Farrell Collection, Washington, D.C.
- "Artistic Generations", The Works Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1991 - Payton-Rule Gallery, Denver, CO
- "Paint Land", curated by Terry R. Myers, Lemon Sky Project, Los Angeles, CA
- "Live From New York", Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
- "Painting Function: Making It Real", SPACES, Cleveland, OH
- "soft corner hard edge", Blackwood Gallery, The University of Toronto, at Mississauga. Traveling to Galerie Christiane Chassay, Montreal, Quebec
1989 - "Faculty Small Works", Parsons School of Design, New York, NY
1988 - Bess Cutler Gallery, New York, NY
- Cydney Payton Gallery, Denver, CO
- "Colorado Invites". Sangre de Cristo Arts, Pueblo, CO
1987 - "American Ceramics: Now", Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY
- DeCordova Museum, Lexington, MA
- "Selections", Le Moine College, Syracuse, NY

BIBLIOGRAPHY


2007 - Smith, Roberta, "Art in Review", New York Times, Sept. 14, pE41
- Robinson, Walter, "Weekend Update", Reviews, Artnet, Sept. 19
2006 - Mahoney, J.W., "Arlene Shechet at Hemphile", Art in America, Oct., p201-2
2005 - Morgan, Rober C,. "Who Takes Glass Seriously?", The Urban Glass Art Quarterly, Fall, pp 27-33
- Phillips, Autumn, "A Buddhist Concept on Paper", The Steamboat Pilot, Steamboat Springs, CO, Arts Section Fron Page, Aug. 12
- Cover Photograph, Tricycle Magazine, Summer, p 39
- Meuller, Stephen, "Personal Statements in Just One Color", Gay City, June 23-9, p45
- Glueck, Grace, "An Object of Practicality, from the Inside and Out,
'Bottle: Contemporary Art and Vernacular Tradition'", New York Times, April 1, p E34
- Wei, Lily, exhibition essay for "Glass Seriously", Dorsky Gallery, Long Island City, NY
2004 - Morgan, Anne Barclay, "The Manifestation of Awareness", Sculpture Magazine, Sept., pp 47-51
- McElroy, Joseph, "A Poetry of Transience", Sambala Sun, March, pp 58-62
- Schaffner, Ingrid, catalogue essay for "The Big Nothing", Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Klein, Richard, catalogue essay for "The Invisible Thread: Buddhist Spirit in Contemporary Art"
2003 - Smith, Kiki, "artists choice - Arlene Shechet", art on paper, cover article and illustration, November/December, Vol. 8, No. 2, pp 42-5
Pierpont, Margaret, "Natural Mastery", Natural Health, Oct, p 160 Cover Photograph, Buddhadharma Magazine, Summer
2002 - Johnson, Ken, "Arlene Shechet", The New York Times, Art Guide. May 3, p E40
- Koplos, Janet, "Arlene Shechet at A/D", Art in America, January, pp 109 - 110
2001 - Stein, Donna, catalogue essay for "Rags to Riches, 25 Years of Paper Art from Dieu Donna Papermill", pp 57-8
- "The Artist's Way", O Magazine, November, p 227
- "Cathedral Removes an Artwork", The New York Times, June 26
- "Minister Wants Artwork Revised or Removed", The New York Times, June 23, p B7
- Douglas, Sarah, "'Unsuitable' art removed from cathedral in New York", THE ART NEWSPAPER.COM
2000 - Schaffner, Ingrid, catalogue essay for "The Living End", at Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, CO
- Glackstern, J., "Many mysteries suggested at BMOCA's 'Living End', The Daily Camera, Boulder, CO, Oct. 15
- Betts, Kristie, "Artflash, the end is here", Boulder Weekly, Boulder, CO, Sept. 28-Oct. 4
1999 - Cotter, Holland, "Arlene Shechet", The New York Times, Art Guide, May 21, p. E32
- Levin, Kim, "Voice Choices", The Village Voice, May 18, p. 78
- Nagy, Peter, catalogue essay for "Mirror Mirror" exhibition at Elizabeth Harris Gallery
- Tagore, Sundaram, "Facing East: American Artists' Encounters with India", Art India, The Arts News Magazine of India, April 1999, pp 55-7
- Fyfe, Joe, catalogue essay for "Om" exhibition at David Dorsky Gallery -
1998 - Gockel, Cornelia, "Korper und Ofnungen", Suddeutche Zeitung, July 30
- Goldman, Robert, "Artist Diary", Artnet, January 24, p. 2
- Hirsch, Faye, "Working Proof", On Paper, Vol. 2, January-February
1997 - Shulman, Ken, ARTnews, December
- Olinsky, Frank, Buddha Book, Chronicle Books, San Francisco, pp 68 & 90-1
- Melrod, George, "Openings", Art & Antiques, September
- McQuaid, Cate, "Arlene Shechet: Celebrating the Process of Creating", The Boston Globe, September 18, pp E 1-2
- Buzz Weekly, May 2-8
- Larson, Kay, catalogue essay for exhibition at John Berggruen Gallery
- Bonetti, David, The San Francisco Examiner, April 4, p C10
1996 - M/E/A/N/I/N/G: Contemporary Art Issues, Issue #19/20 May, p. 101
1995 - Chandler, Mary V., "Pure Painting' Exhibit is More Medium Than Technique", Rocky Mountain News, September 17, p. 70
- Paglia, Michael, "Pigment of the Imagination", Westword, September 6, p. 55
- Gross, Amy, "Meditations Can Make You Happy", (photograph), ELLE, April, p. 158
1992 - "Forum: On motherhood, art and apple pie", M/E/A/N/I/N/G: Contemporary Art Issues, Fall, p. 33
1986 - Doubet, Ward, New Art Examiner, February, p. 53
1985 - Goldman, Judith, Art New England, November
- Carlock, Marty, The Concord Journal, September, p. 11A
- Dubin, Wendy, American Ceramics, Vol. 4, pp 72-3

GRANTS/RESIDENCIES

2006 - American Artists Abroad, U.S. State Department Visiting Artist, Vietnam
2005 - Printmaking Residency, Riverhouse Editions, Steamboat Springs, CO
2004 - Guggenheim Fellowship
2003 - Pilchuck Glass School, Artist in Resident
2002-6 - Acadia Summer Art Program, "Camp Kippy", Mount Desert Island, ME
1999 - New York Foundation for the Arts, Artist Fellowship Grant
1996 - Dieu Donne Papermill, New York, NY, Work Grant
1993 - New York Foundation for the Arts, Artist Fellowship Grant
1986 - 87 - N.E.A. Visual Artist, Fellowship Grant
1986 - New York Foundation for the Arts, Fellowship Grant
1986 & 1992 - Watershed Center for the Arts, Edgecomb, ME

LECTURES/DISTINCTIONS

2003 - Microsoft, Artist Lecture Series, Redmond, WA
- Whitney Museum of American Art, Lecture on Elie Nadelman
- Henry Art Gallery, Residency/Visiting Artist, Seattle, WA
- University of Washington, Residency/Visiting Artist, Seattle, WA
1998 - Rhode Island School of Design, Visiting Artist, Glass Department
1996 - Massachusetts College of Art, Visiting/Working Artist Grant
1993 - Rhode Island School of Design, Guest Lecturer
1992 - SUNY, New Paltz, Visiting Artist
1989 - University of Colorado, Boulder, Visiting Artist
1987 - Hartwick College, Oneonta, NY, N.Y.F.A. Guest Artist
1980 - Minneapolis College of Art, Visiting Artist
- Boston Museum School, Juror & Guest Artist

PANELS

2005 - "Glass Seriously: Symposium", moderated by Lilly Wei, with Kristin Oppenheim, Brian Ripel, Arlene Shechet and Jean Shin
2004 - Rubin Museum of Art, "Art and Impermanence", moderated by Caron Smith, with Joan Jonas, Julian LaVerdiere and Arlene Shechet, New York, NY

TEACHING

1984-1995 - Parsons School of Design, Foundation Faculty
1978-1983 - Rhode Island School of Design, Faculty, 3-D Design

EDUCATION

M.F.A. - Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
B.A. - New York University & Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Edward Albee Foundation, New York, NY
Banff School of Fine Arts, Canada
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
Deloitte & Touche, San Francisco
Dieu Donne Papermill, New York, NY
Fidelity Investments, Boston, MA
Goldman Sachs
Johnson and Johnson, New Brunswick, NJ
Martin Margulies Collection, Coconut Grove, FL
New York City Public Library, Drawing & Prints Collection
Progressive Insurance, Cleveland, OH
Al Shands Collection, Louisville, KY
US Embassy, Beijing, China
US Embassy, Nepal
The J.V. Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick, NJ