Born Bronx, NY, 1953, lives New York City
ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2009 - "Constructed, Folded, Sewn," Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York, NY
2007 - Elizabeth HarrisGallery, New York, NY
2003 - Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York, NY
2000 - "Drawings", Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York, NY -
1999 - Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York, NY
1996 - Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York, NY
1994 - Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York, NY
- Sandler Hudson Gallery, The Niche Gallery, Atlanta, GA
1991 - David Beitzel Gallery, Project Room, New York, GA
1900 - "Art at the Edge", The High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA, traveled to Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx, NY
1989 - Bill Bace Gallery, New York, NY
1988 - Luise Ross Gallery, New York, NY
1987 - Bronx Museum of the Arts Satellite Gallery, Bronx, NY
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2009 - "By a Thread," Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York, NY curated by Miles Manning
2008 - “The Idea of Nature”, 33 Bond Gallery, New York , NY , curated by Bill Weiss
2007 - "Bits and Pieces: The Collage Impulse", curated by Susan Hoeltzel, Lehman College Art Gallery, Lehman College, Bronx, NY
- "Back to the Future: Contemporary American Art from the Collection", Mead Art Museum, Amherst, MA
2006 - "Some Assembly Required", Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, Amherst, MA, curated by Trinket Clark
- "Threads of Memory", Dorsky Gallery, Long Island City, NY, curated by Margaret Mathews-Berenson
2005 - "New Art, New York: Reflections on the Human Condition", Trierenberg Headquarters, Traum, Austria, curated by Margaret Mathews-Berenson
2004 - "New York Show", Opalousas Museum of Art, Opalousas, LA
2002 - "Accumulations", curated by Karen Shaw, Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY
- "Blobs, Wiggles and Dots, Webs and Crustillations", curated by Lucio Pozzi, The Work Space, New York, NY
2001 - "Cool and Collected, Recent Contemporary Acquisitions", Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greenville, NC
2000 - "As If Alive: Animate Sculpture", curated by Sara Lynn Henry, New Jersey Center for the Visual Arts, Summit, NJ
- "Palimpsest", curated by Margaret Lanzetta, Chelsea Gallery, A.K. Hinds, University Center, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC
1999 - "Common Threads", curated by Edie Bazzano & Gita Padegs, The Gallery on the Hudson, Irvington, NY
- "A Fine Line Between…New Drawings: Elegant Investigations By Nine Artists Fascinated With Abstraction", curated by Carol Edelson & Leslie Scheiblberg, The Gallery on the Hudson, Irvington, NY
- "Waxing Poetic: Encaustic Art in America", curated by Gail Stavitsky, the Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ, Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, TN
- "A Common Thread", curated by Kimberly Richter, Preconceived Notions about Sewing, Weaving and Quilting", New Art Center in Newton, Newtonville, MA
1998 - "Shaping Space - Drawings by Six Contemporary Sculptors", curated by Genevieve Linnehan, Dunedin Fine Art Center, Dunedin, FL
- "Form and Space: A Dialogue", Hunterdon Museum of Art, Clinton, NJ
- "Growing Obsession", curated by Donna Harkavy & Margaret Mathews- Berenson, Dorsky Gallery, New York, NY
- "Oud En Nieuw", Museum Voor Moderne, Arnheim, Netherlands
- "Obsessive Compulsive Order", Hillwood Art Museum, Brookville, NY
1996 - "Paper in Disguise", Dieu Donne Papermill Gallery, New York, NY
- "Heat Exhaustion", curated by Ron Kelman, Fine Arts Museum of Long Island, Hempstead, NY
- "Pulp Fusion", Columbia Art Center, Dallas, TX
1995 - "In Three Dimensions: Women Sculptors of the '90s - Part II: Beyond Gender", curated by Charlotte Streifer Rubinstein, SnugHarbor, Cultural Center, Staten Island, NY
- "X-Sightings 1995", Anderson Gallery, Buffalo, NY
- "Workspace Program: 5 Years", Dieu Donne Papermill, Inc., NewYork, NY
- "In Making it Actual: Works on Paper by 5 Sculptors", curated by Nade Haley, Wheeler Gallery, Providence RI
- "January Exhibition", Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York, NY
1994 - "The Art of Italian Americans: Is Ethnicity Relevant?", curated by Sigmund Balka and Susan Hoetzel, Krasdale Gallery, White Plains, NY -
- "Fabricated Nature", Boise Art Museum, Boise, ID, traveling exhibition
- "D'Arrigo & McCurdy", Victoria Anstead Fine Art, New York, NY
- "Biomorphosis", curated by Kate Rawlinson, InterAmerican Art Gallery, Miami-Dade Community College, Miami, FL
- "The Return of the Cadavre Exquis", The Drawing Center, New York, NY, travelling exhibition
1993 - "Invitational", Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York, NY
- "Art on Paper", Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, NC
- "A Moment Becomes Eternity: Flowers as Image", curated by Michael Walls, The Bergen Museum, Paramus, NJ
- "Summer Group Exhibition", Michael Walls Gallery, New York, NY
- "Paper Trails: The Eidetic Image", Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, NY
1992 - "Rubber Soul", LedisFlam Gallery, New York, NY
- "Fourteen Artists in Two Rooms", Michael Walls Gallery, New York, NY
- "Large Scale", Bill Bace Gallery, New York, NY
- "Beyond Relief", Selena Gallery, Long Island University, Brooklyn, NY
- "Alumni Art", Art Gallery, SUNY at New Paltz, New Paltz, NY
- "Embracing the Void", Valencia Community College Gallery, Orlando, FL
1991 - Group Show, Germans Van Eck Gallery, New York, NY
- "Covariants: Abstract Painting and Sculpture", OIA, Tribeca 148 Gallery, New York, NY
- "The Artist at Home", Bill Bace Gallery, New York, NY
- "Artifacts of Thought; Sculptors' Drawings", Marymount College Gallery, New York, NY-
- "Vital Forces; Nature in Contemporary Abstraction", The Heckscher Museum, Huntington, NY
1990 - "Sculptors' Drawings", East Hampton Center for Contemporary Art, East Hampton, L.I., NY
- "Working on Paper: Contemporary American Drawings", The High Museum at Georgia-Pacific Center, Atlanta, GA
- "Out of Abstraction", Islip Art Museum, East Islip, New York, NY
- "Image, Object Abstracted", OIA, CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY
- "Bad Girls", curated by Corinne Robins, Aljira, Newark, NJ
- "The New School Collects: Recent Acquisitions", curated by Kathleen Goncharov Parsons School of Design, Exhibition Center, New York, NY
1989 - "Image and Possibility", Triplex Gallery, BMCC, New York, NY
- "Natural Inflections", Junior College of Albany, Albany, NY
- "Made in New York: Encounters with Contemporary Sculpture", Lafayette College, Easton, PA
- "Lines of Vision: Drawings by Contemporary Women", Hillwood Art Gallery, C.W. Post College, Greenvale, LI, traveled to Blum Helman Warehouse New York, NY
1988 - "Sculpture 1988", White Columns, New York, NY
- "Back to Earth", curated by Tsipi Ben Haim, Anita Shapolsky Gallery, New York, NY
1987 - "Natural Inflections; Inside/Outside", Sculpture Center, New York, NY
- "Art on Paper 1987", Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, NC
- "Abstraction", Luise Ross Gallery, New York, NY
- "Biomorphic Sculpture", Art in General, New York, NY
- "Unaffiliated Artists V", Hillwood Art Gallery, CW Post, Greenvale, NY
1986 - "Square and...", Ruth Siegel Gallery, New York, NY
- "Natural Sources/Sculpture", PS 122, New York, NY
1985 - "Small Works by Big Thinkers", Bess Cutler Gallery, New York, NY
- "35 Under 35", Women's Interart Center, New York, NY
1984 - "Drawings", Sculpture Center, New York, NY
1983 - "Hundreds of Drawings", Artists Space, New York, NY
1982 - "Ambiance/Stimuli", curated by Benny Andrews, Alternative Museum, New York, NY
- "Icon and Environment", curated by Susan Sollins, Women's Caucus on Art, New York, NY
1980 - "Directions", Rosa Esman Gallery, New York, NY
1979 - "Architecture for the Mind and Child", Newark Museum, Newark, NJ
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2008 - Koplos, Janet, "Elisa D'Arrigo at Elizabeth Harris", Art in America, January, ill. Pp 132-3
2007 - "Elisa D'Arrigo at Elizabeth Harris Gallery", Reviews, Artnews, Summer, p 200
- "Sew It Up", Arts, The New York Sun, May 10, p 10
2004 - Sheffield, Margaret, "Chaos and Containment: Elisa D'Arrigo", Sculpture, March, vol. 23, no. 2, pp 20-21
2003 - Wei, Lily, "Elisa D'Arrigo", "New York Reviews", Art News, May p153
- Princenthal, Nancy, "Elisa D'Arrigo at Elizabeth Harris", Art in America, May, pp141-2, ill. p143
- Walentini, Joseph, "Elisa D'Arrigo", Gallery Views/Chelsea, Abstract Art on Line, Feb. 28, p1-2
- Glueck, Grace, "Elisa D'Arrigo", Art in Review, The New York Times, Feb. 21, p E45
- Goodman, Jonathan, catalogue essay for exhibit at Elizabeth Harris
2002 - Harrison, Helen A., "More Is More: Repetition Adds Dimension to Patterns", The New York Times, L.I. Section, Oct 13, p 20
2000 - Henry, Sara Lynn, catalogue essay for exhibit, "As If Alive: Animate Sculpture", New Jersey Center for the Visual Arts, Summit, New Jersey
1999 - Zimmer, William, "Precision Marks Show of Mostly Black and White Drawings", The New York Times, Westchester Section, November 14, 1999, p. 18 -
- Goodman, Jonathan, "Reviews New York: Elisa D'Arrigo", Sculpture, September, pp. 66-7.
- Wilkin, Karen, "At the Galleries", Partisan Review, Summer, 3, p.490
1998 - Dischoff, Dan, "Sculptors Share Space at Museum", The Star Ledger, Newark, NJ
- Marger, Mary Ann, "Not by Sculpture Alone…", St. Petersburg Times, St. Petersburg, FL, September 4, p. 24
1996 - Sheffield, Margaret, "Elisa D'Arrigo", Review, October 15, 1996, p. 25
- Naves, Mario, essay for brochure for exhibit at Elizabeth Harris
1995 - Faxon, Alicia Craig, "In Making it Actual", Art New England, August
1994 - Raynor, Vivien, "Exhibit by Italian-Americans Poses Questions about Ethnicity", New York Times, December 25, p. 14
- Scott, Sue, catalogue essay for "Biomorphosis", Miami-Dade Community College, Miami, FL
- Naves, Mario, New York Review of Art, December, Vol.1, No. 5.
- Melrod, George, "Elisa D'Arrigo", Sculpture, reproduction, September/October, p. 44
- Mahoney, Robert, "Elisa D'Arrigo", Cover, September, p.13
- Glueck, Grace, "Gallery Watch", The New York Observer, June 13, p 17
- Cullum, Jerry, "Twosome Draws Beauty from the Disturbing", The Atlanta Journal/The Atlanta Constitution, reproduction, February 4, p 17
- Scott, Sue, "Group Show: Elizabeth Harris Gallery", Art News, reproduction, January, p. 164
1993 - Naves, Mario, "Studio View", New Art Examiner, Summer
1992 - Phillips, Patricia C., "Alumni Art". catalogue essay, SUNY at New Paltz, NY
- Schetzel, Florence, "Alumni Art Graces the SUNY Gallery", Poughkeepsie Journal, September
- Melrod, George, "Cross Currents, Korean Cultural Center", ARTnews, March -
- Melrod, George, "Elisa D'Arrigo, David Beitzel Gallery", ARTnews, February
- Twardy, Chuck, "Embracing the Void Fills the Bill with Imagination", The Orlando Sentinel, February 23 -
1991 - Holl, James, "Vital Forces; Nature in Contemporary Abstraction", brochure essay, Marymount College Gallery, New York, NY
- Noll, Anna C., "Vital Forces; Nature in Contemporary Abstraction", brochure essay, the Heckscher Museum, Huntington, NY
- Koplos, Janet, "Elisa D'Arrigo at Lehman College Art Gallery", Art in America, December
- Harrison, Helen A., "The Natural World and Its Mysteries", The New York Times (L.I.), August 11
- Smith, Roberta, "On Long Island, Photos, Portraits, Pollock and Stereotyping",The New York Times, August 9
- Lipson, Karin, "Nature in the Abstract, Around Us and Within", Newsday, July 26
- Cullum, Jerry, "Elisa D'Arrigo", Sculpture, March/April
- Bradford, Thomasine, "Elisa D'Arrigo", Art Papers, March/April
1990 - Przybilla, Carrie, "Working on Paper: Contemporary American Drawings", catalogue essay, the High Museum, Atlanta, GA
- Burnside, Madeline, "Out of Abstraction", brochure essay, Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY
- Slivka, Rose C.S., "From the Studio", The East Hampton Star, November 15 -
- Fox, Catherine, "D'Arrigo Work on the 'Edge' of Surrealism", The Atlantic Journal and Constitution, November 2
- Harrison, Helen A., "Blurring Artistic Distinctions", The New York Times (L.I.), July 8
- Amman, Gloria, "Elisa D'Arrigo", Cover, January
1989 - Tully, Judd, "Made in New York: Encounters with Contemporary, Sculpture",Catalogue essay, Lafayette College, Easton, PA
- Van Wagner, Judy K. Collischan, Lines of Vision: Drawings by Contemporary Women, Hudson Hills Press, 1989
- Harrison, Helen A., "Drawing; A Term Rich in Meaning", The New York Times, (L.I.), June 11
1987 - Van Wagner, Judy C., Davis, Carol, "Unaffiliated Artists V", catalogue essay, C.W. Post college, Greenvale, NY
- Harrison, Helen A., "8 with Diverse Narrative Lines", The New York Times (L.I.) June 21
- Lipson, Karin, "A Show of Artists Who Take Chances", Newsday, June 5
- Klein, Ellen Lee, "Square and...", reproduction only, Arts, February
- Brenson, Michael, "Critic's Choices", The New York Times, January 18 -
1984 - Reis, Martin, "Ambiance/Stimuli", Re Dact: An Anthology of ArtCriticism, Peter Frank, Editor, Willis, Locker, Owens, New York, NY
1983 - Speight, Charlotte F., Images in Clay Sculpture, Harper and Row
SELECTED GRANTS/AWARDS
2003 - NYFA Fellowship Award for Works on Paper
1993 - Work Space Program, Dieu Donne Papermill, New York, NY
1987 - Artist in Residence, The MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH
1986 - Artist in Residence, The MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH
- Artist in Residence, Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY
1984 - Grant, Ariana Foundation for the Arts, Inc.
COLLECTIONS
Amoco Corporation
AT&T
Best Products, Inc.
Bryn Mawr Library Collection, Bryn Mawr, PA
Dieu Donne Papermill
The High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC
The New School for Social Research
The Prudential, Newark, NJ
SELECTED LECTURES
Miami University, Oxford, OH
Valencia Community College, Orlando, FL
The Heckscher Museum, Huntington, NY
The High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
Staten Island Museum, S.I., NY
Drew University, Madison, NJ
Trinity College, Hartford, CT
New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ
State College of New York at New Paltz, NY
Suffolk County Community College, NY
The Women's Interart Center, New York, NY
The 92nd St. YM-YMHA, New York, NY
EDUCATION
1975 - BFA, State College of New York at New Paltz
