H E L È N E A Y L O N Born 1931 in Brooklyn, NY; Died 2020 in New York, NY.

EDUCATION

1980 Antioch College West, MA Equiv, Women's Studies/Performance Art 1974 San Francisco State University, MFA 1960 Brooklyn College, Art, BA Cum Laude, BA Cum Laude New School for Social Research, New York, NY Art Students’ League, New York, NY

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2020 Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Beverly Hills, CA 2019 Elusive Silver: 1969–73, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York, NY 2017 Afterword: For the Children, The Jerusalem Biennale, Hamachtarot Museum, Jerusalem, Israel Afterword: For the Children, Kniznick Gallery, Hadassah-Brandeis Institute, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 2011 The Word of God: Helene Aylon: The Liberation of G-d and the Unmentionable, The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA 2007 The Gallery at the Gershman Y, Philadelphia, PA 2001 My Marriage Bed, Ann Loeb Bronfman Gallery, Washington, D.C. 1995 Bridge of Knots, UC Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA 1989 Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH 1979 Formations, Gallery, New York, NY Formations Breaking, 112 Workshop, New York, NY 1978 Formations, Grapestake Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1976 Hayden Gallery, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA That Change in Time, Grapestake Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1975 Paintings That Change in Time, Betty Parsons Gallery, New York and Susan Caldwell Gallery, New York, NY 1973 Tower Gallery, Southampton, New York, NY 1972 Max Hutchinson Gallery, New York, NY 1970 Max Hutchinson Gallery, New York, NY

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2020 Did I Ever Have a Chance?, Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Beverly Hills, CA In the ever changing world in which we live…, The Storefront, Bellport, New York, NY Ecofeminism(s), Thomas Erben Gallery, New York, NY The Female Side of God, Jewish Museum Frankfurt, Germany 2019 What is Feminist Art? Archives of American Art, Fleischman Gallery, The Donald W. Reynolds Center for American Art and Portraiture, Washington, D.C. To Light, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York, NY Shifting Terrain, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA By Any Means, The Morgan Library and Museum, New York, NY 2016 Impact! The Legacy of the Women’s Caucus for Art, Katzen Arts Center, American University, Washington, D.C. (works by Lifetime Achievement Awardees) 2013 Beyond Belief: 100 Years of the Spiritual in Modern Art, SF MoMA at the Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA con(TEXT), Sharon Arts Center, Peterborough, NH 2012 Matronita: Jewish Feminist Art, Mishkan Museum of Art, Ein Harod, Israel A Complex Weave: Women and Identity in Contemporary Art, Rutgers-Camden Center for the Arts, Camden, NJ; Fisher Museum, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA Do Not Destroy: Trees, Art, and Jewish Thought, Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA 2011 Groundbreaking: The Women of the Sylvia Sleigh Collection, Rowan University Art Gallery, Glassboro, NJ A Stitch in Jewish Time: Provocative Textiles, Dr. Bernard Heller Museum at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, New York, NY 2009 Women in the Bible: Tricksters, Victors & (M)others, The Jewish Museum of Australia, St. Kilda, Melbourne, Australia Reinventing Ritual: Contemporary Art and Design for Jewish Life, The Jewish Museum, New York, NY 2008 Aldrich Undercover, Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT Remembrance: The Past is Present, Sonoma Valley Museum of Art, Sonoma, CA 2007 Beste aller Frauen, Jüdisches Museum, Vienna, Austria Beste aller Frauen, Jüdisches Museum, Frankfurt, Germany 2006 Earthly Concerns: Activist EcoArt, Thacher Gallery, University of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA The Art of Engagement: Visual Politics in California and Beyond, American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center, Washington, D.C. 2004 Łódź Biennale, Poland 2000 The American Century: Art and Culture 1950–2000, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY Faith: The Impact of Judeo/Christian Religion on Art at the Millennium, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT Friendships in Arcadia: Writers and Artists at Yaddo in the 90s, Art in General, New York, NY Friendships in Arcadia: Writers and Artists at Yaddo in the 90s, The Hyde Collection, Glens Falls, NY 1999 Zero-G: When Gravity Becomes Form, Whitney Museum of American Art at Champion, Stamford, CT 25/25, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA 1998 Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA 1997 Too Jewish? Challenging Traditional Identities, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA Rage/Resolution: From Family Violence to Healing in the Works of Israeli and American Women, Hebrew Union College, New York, NY 1996 Too Jewish? Challenging Traditional Identities, The Jewish Museum, New York, NY; The Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA 1994 Paintings in Transition (Helene Aylon, Dove Bradshaw, Jane Laudi), Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT Artists Select II, Artists Space, New York, NY 1993 Songs of Retribution, Richard Anderson Gallery, New York (curated by ) 1992 Art in the Anchorage 9 (Earth Ambulance), Creative Time, New York, NY 1991 Burning in Hell, Franklin Furnace, New York, NY (curated by Nancy Spero) 1989 National and International Studio Program Exhibition, MoMA PS1, Long Island City, NY Connection Project/Conexus, Museum of Contemporary Art, University of São Paulo, Brazil 1988 Connection Project/Conexus, Southeastern Massachusetts Art Gallery, Dartmouth, MA 1987 Connection Project/Conexus, Museum of Contemporary Hispanic Art, New York, NY 1978 Nine Artists’ Books, Dalhousie Art Gallery, Nova Scotia; University of California, Irvine, CA; University of California, San Diego, CA; Oberlin Art Museum, Oberlin, OH 1976 Dart Gallery, Chicago, IL 1975 Six Painters Six Attitudes, Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA 1972 Soho Scene, Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, NY 1971 Lyrical Abstraction, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY Four Painters, Hathorn Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY and Sculpture Today, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN Seasons Highlights, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT Lyrical Abstraction, Civic Center Museum, Philadelphia, PA The Members Gallery, Abright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY 1970 Two Generations of Color Painting, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA Lyrical Abstraction, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT; Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ Group 70, Max Hutchinson Gallery, New York, NY

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

2009 Ancora Imparo, Amy Newman, interview regarding All Rise The Jerusalem Post, Nathan Burstein, Sep. 27 re: Reinventing Ritual 2006 New York Times, Benjamin Genocchio, Jan 15 re: Earth Ambulance 2004 NY ARTS, Paula Rabinowitz, Jul/Aug re: My Wailing Wall San Francisco Chronicle, Hilary Abramson, Mar 28 re: The Digital Liberation of G-D and The Last Supper: Names/No Names 2003 The Australian, Georgina Safe, Mar. 14 re: My Clean Days and My Marriage Bed 2001 Boston Globe, Michael Paulson, Sep 21 "An Unorthodox Artist" re: My Notebooks New York Times, Dinitia Smith, Jul 19 profile, re: My Bridal Chamber Around Town, WETA TV, Washington, DC, Best Bets, My Bridal Chamber Washington City Paper, Louis Jacobson Jun 1, My Bridal Chamber NPR May 16 Washington. DC re: My Bridal Chamber Washington Post, Jessica Dawson, Aug 23, "A Feminist's Conflicts of Faith" re: My Bridal Chamber The Intowner, DC, Anthony Harvey, Aug My Bridal Chamber 2000 New York Times, Grace Glueck, review (re: Aldrich "Faith" show; mention of My Notebooks) Bridges magazine, "A Conversation Between Artist Helène Aylon and Rabbi Rolando Matalon," Vol 8 (cover story) Catalogue essay, Connie Lewallen (Sr. curator, Berkeley Museum) "25/25" (group) re: Drifting Boundaries, Southern Exposure gallery, San Francisco, CA 1999 Art in America, "Deconstructing The Torah", Robert Berlind, October, feature, pp142-147 New York Times, Roberta Smith, Aug 6, review "When Gravity Becomes Form" re:Breaking With Greatest Resistance New York Times, William Zimmer, Jul 18, review (re: Gravity...) Tikkun magazine, "Helène Aylon, Feminism and God," Nan Fink Gefen, Mar/Apr 1998 Cross Currents: Journal of the Association for Religion & Intellectual Life, review by Ruth Ost re: My Notebooks (cover story) 1997 Philadelphia Inquirer, Sep 24, Edward Sozanski, review Baltimore Sun, Jean Marabella, "A World Apart, Together in Hope," Jun 10, re: meeting of Helène Aylon and Lea Rabin at The Liberation of G-D Los Angeles Times, "Too Jewish? Good Query" Christopher Knight, Feb 4, group review (cited at length) re: The Liberation of G-D Los Angeles Times Calendar, "Too Jewish? Hardly," Kristine McKenna, Feb 2, group review (cited at length) re: The Liberation of G-D Detour Magazine, "How Jewish is Too Jewish?" Christopher Miles, Feb, group review (cited) re:The Liberation of G-D 1996 Artforum, "Too Jewish?" Carol Ockman, Sep, group review (cited) re:The Liberation of G-D San Francisco Chronicle, "Artful Look at Jewish Identity," Kenneth Baker, Sep 16, group review (cited) re: The Liberation of G-D Jerusalem Report, The Arts, Calev Ben-David, May 2, review (cited) Village Voice, "Jewish Wry," Leslie Camhi, Apr 2, (cited at length) New York Times, Michael Kimmelman, Mar 8 review, (cited) 1995 Yaddo Newsletter, Public Artists at Yaddo, Nina Castelli Sundell, Fall Art in America, Peter Selz, December review, Bridge of Knots El Nuevo Dia, "Ambulancia de La Tierra," Leslie Knowlton, Aug 27 Berkeley Art Museum/UC Calendar, Lawrence Rinder (curator), Jul/Aug, re: Bridge of Knots Artweek, "Helène Aylon at the Berkeley Art Museum," Anthony Torres, Sep review, Bridge of Knots 1992 New York Times, Roberta Smith, (group review) Aug 28, re: The Earth Ambulance 1982 - 1992, with photo 1989 Le Grif (Paris), "Survive & Continue," Francoise Collin, Winter issue Women Artists News, Cynthia Navaretta, Spring re: Inquiry: The Trial Of The Sands Of Time Art and Artists, Virginia Maksymowicz, Mar, re: Inquiry Art in America, Walter Robinson "Ecology Art Confounds Jury," Feb San Francisco Chronicle, Kenneth Baker, Feb 17, article re: Inquiry Village Voice, Robert Atkins, Feb 14 review, re: Inquiry... Ms. Magazine, Lindsay Van Gelder "Ecofeminism 101," Jan/Feb 1985 W's International Forum, Gloria Orenstein "Art & Healing," Vol. 8 #5 1983 Vogue, Lorraine Davis "People Are Talking About...," Jul (blurb) Village Voice, Richard Goldstein, Jul 12, Pillowcase hanging at U.N. 1982 Ms. Magazine, Martha Nelson, Sep (re: Soviet action & arrest) Quotidiano Donna, Lucia Chiavola, Apr, re: Earth Ambulance 1981 Schachaf (Israel), Jul, review of Stone Carrying/Stone sacs Artbeat, Suzaan Boettger "From Oil to Stone: The Making of a Political Artist," Feb Oakland Tribune, Charles Shere, Feb, review Sand Gatherings 1979 San Francisco Bay Guardian, Robert Atkins, Feb 21, column re: The Breakings Arts, Barbara Cavalier, Apr, review re: The Breakings Village Voice, April Kingsley "Nature Takes Its Course," Apr 1 New York Times, Grace Glueck Mar 16, Formations Breaking Art in America, Knute Stile, #67-Mar, review The Breakings Artforum, Hal Fischer, #17-Dec, review Formations 1978 Artweek, Mary Stofflet-Santiago, Oct, review Formations San Francisco Chronicle, Alfred Frankenstein, Oct 14, review Formations 1976 Women Art Magazine, , Summer issue; Paintings That Change in Time Cambridge Chronicle, Ann Phillips, Mar 25 "Aylon's Paintings Flow Before Your Very Eyes," review of the M.I.T. show Paintings That Change in Time Artweek, Joanne Dickson "Paintings in Process" Jan 17, re: Paintings That Change in Time San Francisco Chronicle, Alfred Frankenstein, Jan 9, Paintings That Change in Time Catalogue essay - M.I.T., Marge Supovitz, Paintings That Change in Time 1975 Catalogue - Betty Parsons/Susan Caldwell shows, Lawrence Alloway Art in America, Peter Schjeldahl, Nov, Paintings That Change,Susan Caldwell Gallery Art International, Carter Ratcliff, Nov, Paintings That Change in Time Arts Magazine, Noel Frackman, Nov, Paintings That Change in Time Arts Magazine, Allen Ellenzweig, #50-Nov, review Paintings That Change, Betty Parsons Gallery San Francisco Chronicle, Alfred Frankenstein "NY," Sep 28, Betty Parsons Gallery Artweek, RF Stepan "Six Painters; Six Attitudes," Sep 6, Oakland Museum Oakland Tribune, Charles Shere, Aug 10, review Oakland Museum San Francisco Chronicle, Thomas Albright, Jul 24, review Oakland Museum 1973 Artforum, April Kingsley "Women Choose Women," #11-Mar; Centerfold 1972 Art International, Carter Ratcliff, #16-Jun, review Silver Paintings 1971 Arts Magazine, Gregoire Mueller "Materiality and Painterliness," Sep/Oct article New York Times, James Mellow, Jun 20, (cited) re: "Lyrical Abstraction" at Whitney 1970 Art News, Lawrence Campbell, Dec, re: Max Hutchinson Gallery Arts Magazine, Willis Domingo "Recent American Painting," Dec

Art International, Carter Ratcliff, Sep, "Lyrical Abstraction" at the Aldrich Museum Art International, Carter Ratcliff, Dec, re: Max Hutchinson Gallery New York Times, Grace Glueck "Highlights of the Downtown Scene," Apr 11, re: Max Hutchinson Gallery Art in America, Larry Aldrich "Young Lyrical Painters," #58-Apr 1966 Art News, Lawrence Campbell "Ruach," #65-Dec (feature); mural at JFK Airport, New York, NY

READINGS, PRESENTATIONS, INSTALLATIONS, PERFORMANCES

2012 Helene Aylon: Whatever Is Contained, Must Be Released, Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Visual Art, Brooklyn, Museum; Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA (reading) 2004 My Wailing Wall, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis, MN 1999 Breaking Twenty Years Later, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY 1995 Two sacs en route, Times Square, New York, NY (video installation) 1994 Bridge of Knots, Harn Museum, Gainesville, FL (installation) 1993 Bridge of Knots, Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, TN (installation)

COMMISSIONS

1978 San Francisco Airport, San Francisco: (Purchase Award, San Francisco Art Commission) Painting That Changes, 8'x 4' 1968 New York University Medical Center, Lobby, : 2 walls 1966 Chapel Library, JFK Airport, New York, NY

SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

American University Art Museum, Washington, D.C. The Jewish Museum, New York, NY The Jewish Museum of Australia, St. Kilda, Melbourne, Australia MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA The Morgan Library and Museum, New York, NY The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA Whitney Museum of America Art, New York, NY

AWARDS & HONORS

2016 Women’s Caucus for Art Lifetime Achievement Award 2014 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant 2013 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant 2007 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant 2001 New York State Council on the Arts Grant 2000 Yaddo-MacArthur Annual Award for Residency Sponsorship 1999 Yaddo-Philip Morris Award for “an artist who extends the boundaries of art” 1996 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant 1995 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant 1993 Fellowship, New York Foundation for the Arts 1990 Gottlieb Foundation for Painting and Sculpture 1988 Fellowship, New York Foundation for the Arts 1981 National Endowment for the Arts (individual artist grant) New York Foundation for the Arts 1973 National Endowment for the Arts (individual artist grant)