KAREN DOLMANISTH M U L T I M E D I A A R T I S T
EDUCATION
University of Massachusetts, MFA Honors, SCULPTURE, NEW MEDIA, INSTALLATION Amherst, Massachusetts Hampshire College, VIDEO
New School For Social Research and NYU, Graduate Course Work: Semiotics, Film Studies New York, NY
Parsons School of Design, New School For Social Research: BFA Summa Cum Laude, New York, NY VISUAL ART / DESIGN / ILLUSTRATION / PRINTMAKING, Kathy Dunn Memorial Full Scholarship
Cooper Union, BFA Course Work, PAINTING, PRINTMAKING Studied Painting with JACK WHITTEN New York, NY
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS / DVDs
Invitation Call: Personal Memory, Artist Essays “Vision, Genius, Confidence, Courage and Innovation”
UNFINISHED MEMORIES, 30 Years of EXIT ART, Steidl, 2016 Gottingen, Germany
TRIBUTARIES, Chance and Intent, Many Sources of Work In …Michael Cain, 2012 THREE RIVERS COLLEGE, Norwich, CT
LIFE LINES OF CONNECTION AND CONTINUITY & AWE UNIVERSITY MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART Produced By Jackie Hai, 2008, Curator, Loretta Yarlow University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
NEW ART Published by ABRAMS, 1997, Edited by Roxana Marcoci, Dian Murphy, Eve Sinaiko New York, NY
WENN DIE KINDER SIND IM DUNKELN Published by WEINER SECESSION, Text by Birgit Jurgenssen, Andeas Pfersmann, Jeff Rian, 1994 Wien, Austria
PRAYINGPROJECT, 2006, Trickster Theater EXIT ART, New York, NY
FRAGMENTS AND WHOLENESS, The Temporal Art of Karen Dolmanisth SMITH COLLEGE School of Fine Arts, Bianca Kaprielian, 2002 Northampton, MA
ARTIST ASSISTANTSHIP
Studio Assistant, Apprentice to David Garducci and Chuck Woodard, Garducci Stained Glass Studio Great Barrington, MA, 2011-2016
Artist Assistant for artist, Kathryn Myers on her Fulbright Dehli and Banaras, INDIA, 2011
Artist Assistant and Archivist for art critic and pioneering, international performance artist, LIL PICARD, with New York, NY, 1978-1984 whom Dolmanisth frequented Andy Warhol's Factory / Studio at Union Square and accompanied to private interviews and openings, in Soho and the East Village in the seventies and early eighties.
GRANTS
MASSACHUSETTS CULTURAL COUNCIL Grant, LCC Recipient, Exhibit: HERE and Artist Talk, Public Workshop 2010
MASSACHUSETTS CULTURAL COUNCIL, INDIVIDUAL ARTIST AWARD, INTERDISCIPLINARY MEDIA 2008, 2009
VERMONT STUDIO CENTER, Full Fellowship, Artist’ Resource Trust Award 2005
BERKSHIRE TACONIC A.R.T. AWARD 2004
MASSACHUSETTS CULTURAL COUNCIL Grant, LCC Recipient, INTERDISCIPLINARY MEDIA 2004
MASSACHUSETTS CULTURAL COUNCIL, INDIVIDUAL ARTIST AWARD, SCULPTURE / INSTALLATION 2003
MASSACHUSETTS CULTURAL COUNCIL Grant, Individual Artist Award, LCC, INSTALLATION 2003, 2002, 2001, 2000
NEA NEFA, New England Foundation For The Arts, ARTIST’S NEW FORMS PROJECT Grant 1996
CONNECTICUT SCHOLAR SCHOLARSHIP AWARD, Four-Year Recipient 1979-83 ARTIST IN RESIDENCE
BIRD HILL FARM, Ware, MA 2019, 20
ART CHAMBER, in Calangute, Goa, INDIA 2013
MEAD MUSEUM, Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts 2012
QERITICA GALLERY, Banaras, INDIA, Installation / performance with student collaboration from Banaras Hindu University 2011
CANAL GALLERY, Three Gallery Sites, Historic Industrial Canal District, Holyoke, MA, Full Year Inter-Media Site Work 2003
DAYTON ARTIST IN RESIDENCE PROGRAM, Connecticut College, New London, CT 2001
Dolmanisth: Sculpture Installation with Action / Happenings, PARADOX, and Meredith Monk, with Ann Hamilton: MERCY 1995, 96 EUSEBIUSBIUTENSINGEL 52, Arnhem, Netherlands, Month long, In Residence Project: NEW AGE DADA
VIENNA SECCESSION MUSEUM, Vienna, Austria, Two month In Residence Project: WENN DIE KINDER… 1994
WEXNER CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM, “Alchemy, Improv / Happening”, Columbus, OH 1994
NEW WORK, Large Scale Ephemeral Constructions, SCULPTURE COURTYARD, Univ. of Mass, Amherst, MA 1989
SELECTED REVIEWS
2015 GREENFIELD RECORDER, “SYNCHRONICITY, Dolmanisth Takes Her Art Where It Leads Her” Trish Crapo
2013 THE BOSTON GLOBE, “Festival of Sound and Performance Art” Cate McQuaid
2012 ARTSCOPE MAGAZINE, “Amherst Biennial 2012” Gregory Morrell
2010 ARTSCOPE MAGAZINE, “Amherst’s Joyful Biennial” Gregory Morrell
2009 FIRST CITY, DELHI, INDIA, “Everywhere / Nowhere, Spiritual Temperament in Current American Art” Siri Fort
2008 ARTSCOPE MAGAZINE, “KAREN DOLMANISTH” Gregory Morrell
2006 THE NEW YORK TIMES “The Studio Visit” Roberta Smith
2006 NY1 Stephanie Simon
2005 FreeNYC, “Franklin Furnace Archives” re: EXIT ART Prayingproject Philip Steger 2005 BRIDGES, Publication on Science and Technology, re: EXIT ART Prayingproject
2004 SPRINGFIELD RECORDER, “Canal Knowledge, Holyoke’s Mind-Bending Art Exhibit” Pat Cahill
2003 ART IN AMERICA, “Smack Mellon” Lilly Wei
2002 THE NEW YORK TIMES, “Sacred Matter” Holland Cotter
2000 THE WASHINGTON POST, “Forget SOHO, Now It’s D.U.M.B.O., Forsaken Warehouse District, NY’s Latest Art Home” Blake Gopnik
1994 NEW YORK MAGAZINE, “Dance Of Life And Death” Kay Larson
1994 THE NEW YORK TIMES, “Making A Statement With Castoff Objects” William Zimmer
1994 DIE PRESSE, DER STANDARD, Vienna, Austria, “Secession” Georg Schollhammer
1994 KURIER, Vienna, Austria, “Beautiful, Run Down, Raunchy and Very Touching” Henriette Horny
1994 SALZBURGER NACHRICHTEN, Vienna, Austria, “The Age Is Given Its Art Again” Jana Wisniewski
1994 FALTER, Vienna, Austria, “Just No Shit” Mark Wailand
1994 ART IN NEW ENGLAND, “Creating an Exhibition / RESURRECTION / ‘Objects With New Souls” Sal Scalora
1994 THE HARTFORD COURANT “Recycled Art” Owen McNally
1993 NEWSWEEK MAGAZINE, “Summing Up Doom And Gloom” Peter Plagens
1993 THE NEW YORK TIMES, “Assemblages Offer Views Of The Spiritual” Vivien Raynor
1992 VILLAGE VOICE, “Give Me Fever” Elizabeth Hess SELECTED SOLO PERFORMANCE ART (LIST OF RECENT, LOCAL / INTERACTIVE, ON REQUEST)
2020 "DOLMANISTH, NEW WORK, PAINTING, SCULPTURE, ENVIRONMENTAL ART" BIRD HILL FARM, Ware, MA
2019 "THREE PERFORMATIVE WORKS: GEOFFREY YOUNG GALLERY, 1. WATER, EARTH TRANSFORMATION 2. WINTERBERRY PERCUSSION, Great Barrington, MA 3. CIRCLE, SQUARE, TRIANGLE / LINE, WAVE PRIMORDIAL FORM AND SPACE"
2013 "WATER WRITING”, Performance and Sound Art Project CONTEMPORARY ARTS INTERNATIONAL PERFORMANCE AND SOUND ART FESTIVAL, Acton, MA
2013 “LIGHTRAYS GOA” ART CHAMBER GALLERY, Goa, INDIA
2013 “Creative Domestic” in conjunction with “From Motherhood to Mother Goddess” AKUS GALLERY, ECSU, Willimantic, CT
2012 “WinterLight / InSite, Insight” MEAD MUSEUM, Amherst, MA
2012 “THE BALANCE-NATURE / SPIRIT / BODY / BREATH IMMANENCE” MEAD MUSEUM, Amherst, MA
2011 “GREETINGS, BANARAS”, collaboration with Ashok Leaves and audience QERITICA GALLERY, Varanasi, INDIA
2011 "GRACE", collaboration with Ashok Leaves and audience QERITICA GALLERY, Varanasi, INDIA
2010 “LEAP, Arteon in Motion, BEINGBLUE” LA MAMA, New York, NY
2010 “SMILE RAINBOW TEARS” TOMPKINS SQUARE GALLERY, New York, NY
2009 “WALKING WOMAN: RED PURPLE” ZEA MAYS PRINTMAKING STUDIO, Northampton, MA
2008 “AWE” On Site at “ISLES OF VIEW”, By George Trakas, UNIVERSITY MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
2008 “SENTIENCE”, “Up Down Strange Beauty” CABARET VOLTAIRE ART CENTER, Poughkeepsie, NY
2006 “PRESENT, In The Moment” UNIVERSITY MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART, UMASS, Amherst, MA
2005 “FLUX Emptying” EXIT ART, New York, NY
2005 “WASHING PRAYER”, PRAYINGPROJECT EXIT ART, New York, NY
2002 “ACTION TASKS CHANCE MOVEMENT LABOR BREATH TOUCH” SMACK MELLON, Brooklyn, NY
1995 “THE THUNDER / PERFECT MIND” C WORLD, New York, NY
1995 “LADY” EUSEBIUSBIUTENSINGEL 52, Arnhem, THE NETHERLANDS
1994 “BLACK And GOLD” VIENNA SECCESSION MUSEUM, Vienna, AUSTRIA
1994 “INNER MARRIAGE, THE ALCHEMICAL BRIDE” REAL ART WAYS, Hartford, CT
GROUP EXHIBITIONS SCULPTURE INSTALLATION (UNIQUE / SITE SPECIFIC, SELECTED), PAINTINGS, AND WORKS ON PAPER
2020 “STEP IN TIME”, with: Kenneth Steinkamp, Gunnar Norquist COASTAL CONTEMPORARY GALLERY, Newport, RI
2019 “HOLIDAY SHOW” LABSPACE, Hillsdale, NY
2019 "BEYOND AND THROUGH TO", HAMPDEN GALLERY, Amherst, MA (Site-specific project space installation for “MATERIALIZED”, curated by: Suzan Shutan)
2019 “MESHES”, with: John Clarke, Dana Piazza, and Sara Wallach GEOFFREY YOUNG GALLERY, Great Barrington, MA
2019 "GUILD OF BERKSHIRE ARTISTS, JURIED EXHIBITION II", Stockbridge Arts Walk TKG GALLERY, Stockbridge, MA
2019 "GUILD OF BERKSHIRE ARTISTS, JURIED EXHIBITION I", Stockbridge Arts Walk TKG GALLERY, Stockbridge, MA
2019 “GUILD OF BERKSHIRE ARTISTS, JURIED EXHIBITION, II” WELLES GALLERY, Lenox Library, Lenox, MA
2019 “GUILD OF BERKSHIRE ARTISTS, JURIED EXHIBITION, I” WELLES GALLERY, Lenox Library, Lenox, MA
2018 “CREATIVITY KNOWS NO BOUNDS” ST. FRANCIS ART GALLERY, Lee, MA
2018 “THROUGH THE FEMININE LENS” KIMBALL FARMS CONNECTOR GALLERY, Lenox, MA
2015 “STUDIO ARTS FACULTY EXHIBIT” RENAISSANCE ART SCHOOL GALLERY, Great Barrington, MA
2015 “THE BERKSHIRE COLLECTION” SAINT FRANCIS GALLERY, Lee, MA
2015 “BRINGING NEW IDEAS TO LIFE” SAINT FRANCIS GALLERY, Lee, MA
2015 “IF WALLS COULD TALK” SAINT FRANCIS GALLERY, Lee, MA
2014 “FACE TO FACE” SAINT FRANCIS GALLERY, Lee, MA
2014 “ROAD LESS TRAVELED” SAINT FRANCIS GALLERY, Lee, MA 2014 “COMPLEXITY OF EXPERIENCE, ENGAGING REALITY” SAINT FRANCIS GALLERY, Lee, MA
2014 “SELECTED VISIONS” SAINT FRANCIS GALLERY, Lee, MA
2014 “EYES AND SOUL OF AN ARTIST” SAINT FRANCIS GALLERY, Lee, MA
2013 “INSPIRATION OF THE SPIRIT” SAINT FRANCIS GALLERY, Lee, MA
2013 “HEAR, Sand Drawings On Shore” THE QUARRY, CONTEMPORARY ARTS INTERNATIONAL, Acton, MA
2013 “ABHAAS AUR ABHYAAS II” AURODHAN ART GALLERY, Pondicherry, INDIA
2013 “ABHAAS AUR ABHYAAS” GALERIA DE BELAS ARTES, Calangute, Goa, INDIA
2013 “FROM MOTHERHOOD TO MOTHER GODDESS, Transcendence…Self to Absolute” AKUS GALLERY, Willimantic, CT
2012 "TRACINGS AND TEXT", “TRIBUTARIES” with Kathryn Myers and Charlotte Cain Three Rivers Community College Art Gallery, Norwich, CT
2010 “FiBi CONCRETE” Tompkins Square Gallery of The NEW YORK CITY PUBLIC LIBRARY, New York, NY
2010 “SHEER OPACITY” WILLIAM BENTON MUSEUM, Storrs, CT
2010 “HERE” A.P.E. GALLERY, Northampton, MA
2010 “Amherst Biennial” Amherst, MA
2010 “WATER POEM, DANCE POEM”, Pioneer Women II, Wonderland PAPER CITY STUDIOS, Holyoke, MA
2009 “EVERYWHERE / NOWHERE, Spiritual Temperament in Current American Art” GALLERY OF THE AMERICAN EMBASSY, Delhi, India
2009 “OPEN WEAVE”, NCA Studio Faculty Exhibit NORTHAMPTON CENTER FOR THE ARTS, Northampton, MA
2009 “PIONEER WOMEN” TABLA RASA GALLERY, Brooklyn, NY
2009 “TREESONG, Life Cycle”, Pulp Science Fiction, Invited Sculpture Installation PAPER CITY STUDIOS, Holyoke, MA
2008 "GOLDEN CIRCLE”, First Annual Sculpture Invitational PAPER CITY STUDIOS, Holyoke, MA
2008 “EVERYWHERE / NOWHERE” International Festival of Sacred Arts, Delhi, India
2008 “TITLES” L’ECUME DES JOURS, Montreal, CANADA, traveling to venues in London, UK
2007 “TRANSIENCE” CABARET VOLTAIRE ART CENTER, Poughkeepsie, NY
2007 “DADA 91, SUPREME DEBRIS” CABARET VOLTAIRE, Poughkeepsie, NY
2006 “GRASS MOUNTAIN, GREEN WAVE”, OPEN SQUARE GALLERY, Mill #3, Holyoke, MA INTERSECTIONS, Sculpture and Installation from distinguished Massachusetts Artists
2006 “RENEGADES” EXIT ART, New York, NY
2006 “INTERSECTIONS, Sculpture and Installation from Distinguished Massachusetts Artists” OPEN SQUARE GALLERY, Holyoke, MA
2006 “SITE 92” SMACK MELLON, Brooklyn, NY
2006 “THE STUDIO VISIT” EXIT ART, New York, NY
2005 “FLUX, Emptying” (Site-specific window installations for “TRAFFIC”, “Holiday Windows”) EXIT ART, New York, NY
2005 “OTHER AMERICA, THE PRAYINGPROJECT” EXIT ART, New York, NY
2005 “DRAWING IN TIME: 3 SCULPTOR’S APPROACH TO SPACE” A.P.E. GALLERY, Northampton, MA
2004 “IN THE WOODS” DABORA GALLERY Seven Women Installation Artists, Curator: Lynda Dabora Brooklyn, NY
2004 “THE RESPONSE” CANAL GALLERY, Holyoke, MA
2003 “ABSTRACT”, Curator, Chris Nelson CANAL GALLERY, Holyoke, MA
2000 “ANNIVERSARY EXHIBIT, 20 YEARS” EXIT ART Curators: Jeanette Ingberman, Papo Colo New York, NY
1999 “MORE OR LESS” NO BIAS Invitational, Juror: Kathleen Gilrain, Director, SOCRATES SCULPTURE PARK, New York, NY Bennington, VT
1997 “THE GARDEN OF EVE”, 7 Women Sculptors, Invitational LOWER EASTSIDE ECOLOGY CENTER Curator: Kathleen Gilrain, Dir., SOCRATES SCULPTURE PARK, New York, NY New York, NY
1996 “GROUND FLIGHT”, Sculpture Installation ONE MAIN SCULPTURE CENTER New York, NY
1996 “IN THE NIGHT GARDEN”, Sculpture Installation ONE MAIN SCULPTURE CENTER New York, NY
1995 “NEXT AGE DADA” EUSEBIUSBIUTENSINGEL 52 Installation “LADY OF THE SILVER WHEEL” Arnhem, The Netherlands
1995 “THE NEXT TWENTY FIVE YEARS” WESTBETH GALLERY Installation, “INANNA’S DESCENT, Contemporary Context” New York, NY
1994 “FEVER, Traveling” THE WEXNER CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS Installation, Unique, Site-specific, “ALCHEMY, IMPROV, OFFERING” Columbus, OH Curators: Jeanette Ingberman, Papo Colo, of EXIT ART, New York, NY 1994 “WENN DIE KINDER SIND IM DUNKELN” WEINER SECCESSION (VIENNA SECCESSION MUSEUM) Installation, “THOSE WHO DO NOT SURVIVE, A Dedication” Vienna, Austria Curator: Birgit Jurgenssen
1994 “THE GARDEN OF SCULPTURAL DELIGHTS” EXIT ART / THE FIRST WORLD Installation, “RADICAL FAITH” Curators: Jeanette Ingberman, Papo Colo New York, NY
1994 “RESURRECTIONS, OBJECTS WITH NEW SOULS” THE WILLIAM BENTON MUSEUM Installation, “INANNA HONORS…AND RESSURECTS THE DESECRATED TREE OF…” Storrs, CT Curators: Salvatore Scalora, Deborah Muirhead
1993 “FEVER, Innaugural Exhibition” EXIT ART Installation, “INANNA / ALCHEMY, Nigredo, Albedo, Conjunctio…” New York, NY Curators: Jeanette Ingberman, Papo Colo
1993 “SPIRITUAL CARGO” THE CHARTER OAK CULTURAL CENTER Installation, “THE JOURNEY MARKERS OF PERSEPHONE’S CLOAK” Hartford, CT
1991 “SACRED SPACE / FOUR SCULPTORS” WHEELER GALLERY Installation, “THE DAUGHTER’S CLOSET OF WONDER, MAGIC & SHADOW” Amherst, MA
1991 “4 X 4 SCULPTORS”, with Dan Zeller, Kathleen Gilrain, Michael Yue Tong BAYSTATE WEST ATRIUM Three Story Height Mall Atrium Installation Springfield, MA
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS / PAINTINGS / DRAWINGS / SCULPTURE INSTALLATION (UNIQUE, SITE-SPECIFIC)
2020 "DOLMANISTH, NEW WORK, PAINTING, SCULPTURE, ENVIRONMENTAL ART" BIRD HILL FARM, Ware, MA
2019 “GUILD OF BERKSHIRE ARTISTS, OPEN STUDIO TOURS” Lenox, MA
2019 “DOLMANISTH NEW WORK PAINTINGS II”, "Art on Main" Pittsfield Arts Walk RJ STOHR, Pittsfield, MA
2018 “DOLMANISTH NEW WORK PAINTINGS I”, "Art on Main" Pittsfield Arts Walk VALENTI'S, Pittsfield, MA
2018 “GUILD OF BERKSHIRE ARTISTS, OPEN STUDIO TOURS” Lenox, MA
2018 “DOLMANISTH, FLUID FORMS” FIVE COLLEGE REALTORS GALLERY, Florence, MA
2017 “GUILD OF BERKSHIRE ARTISTS, OPEN STUDIO TOURS” Southfield, MA
2015 “DOLMANISTH, NEW WORKS” SALMON FALLS GALLERY, Shelburne Falls, MA
2015 “DOLMANISTH, STUDIO ART FACULTY EXHIBIT” RENAISSANCE ART SCHOOL GALLERY, Great Barrington, MA
2013 “HEAR, Water, Sand, Sky, Reflection and Light” THE QUARRY, Contemporary Arts International, Acton, MA
2013 “PLACE 3 STONES and Water Drawings” Krtashraya Aurodhan Art Gallery and Garden, Pondicherry, INDIA
2012 “THE BALANCE-NATURE / SPIRIT / BODY / BREATH IMMANENCE” Mead Museum, Amherst College, Amherst, MA
2011 “GRACE, with Ashok Leaves and The River Ganges Walking” QERITICA GALLERY, Assi Ghat, Banaras, INDIA
2010 “GRASS WEAVE / OPEN SQUARE, LOOM II”, Invited Guest Artist - Site Specific Sculpture Installation OPEN SQUARE GALLERY, Mill #3, Holyoke, MA
2010 “SMILE RAINBOW TEARS” Yo Park’s FiBi Concrete II (Brochure) TOMPKINS SQUARE GALLERY, New York, NY
2009 “FIRST LANGUAGE, Immanence and Interpenetration” TABER GALLERY, Holyoke, MA
2008 “LIFE LINES OF CONNECTION & CONTINUITY” On Site Installation at UNIVERSITY MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART, UMASS George Trakas’ “ISLE OF VIEW” Campus Pond Amherst, MA
2007 “LOOM II”, Solo Sculpture Installation Exhibit OPEN SQUARE GALLERY, Mill #3, Holyoke, MA
2006 “LOOM I”, Solo Sculpture Installation Exhibit OPEN SQUARE GALLERY, Mill #3, Holyoke, MA
2006 “PRESENT, In The Moment” Installation / Performance UNIVERSITY MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART, UMASS, Amherst, MA
2005 “FLUENT” Works on Paper and Ephemeral Constructions THE LAST MINUTE GALLERY, Northampton, MA
2005 “ARROWS, NEEDLES, SPEARS, & STRANDS” VERMONT STUDIO CENTER
2005 “STILL MOTION” Four Walls of Drawings and Prints Schultz Sculpture Barn, Johnson, VT
2004 “INANNA, The Heroine’s Quest” WILLIAM BLIZARD GALLERY 3 Galleries. Installation, Drawings, & Solo Performance, Holly S. Murray - Curator Springfield College, Springfield, MA
2004 “IMMANENT & TRANSCENDING CIRCLES OF TIME” CANAL GALLERY Three Gallery Sculpture Installations, Chris Nelson, Curator, Year long Artist in Residence Project Holyoke, MA
2003 “AXIS / ORBITING / Contain” NORTHAMPTON CENTER FOR THE ARTS Massachusetts Local Cultural Council Award Project, Sculpture Installation Northampton, MA
2003 “MORPHOGENESIS” I & II WILD LIFE SANCTUARY Massachusetts Local Cultural Council Award Project, Sculpture Installation Northampton, MA 2002 “THEOLOGICAL REVERSALS” I, II, III, & IV “SACRED MATTER PROJECT” SMACK MELLON Series of Four Time-Based Changing Installations, Two Galleries Kathleen Gilrain - Curator Brooklyn, NY
2002 “SOMETHING OUT OF NOTHING / Ground Work” NORTHAMPTON CENTER FOR THE ARTS Massachusetts Local Cultural Council Award Project Northampton, MA
2002 “VERTICAL LOOM, VERTICAL TIME” NCA Massachusetts Local Cultural Council Award Project, Sculpture Installation Northampton, MA
2001 “PARADOX” CRO’S NEST, CONNECTICUT COLLEGE Part of an Endowed DAYTON VISITING ARTIST (Artist In Residence) AWARD New London, CT
2001 “PARADOX / CONTINUOUS CREATION” (Transformation) CRO’S NEST, CONNECTICUT COLLEGE Installation In Motion / Transformation DAYTON A.I.R. AWARD New London, CT
2001 “THE FALL” NORTHAMPTON CENTER FOR THE ARTS Massachusetts Local Cultural Council Award, Installation and Performance Project Northampton, MA
2001 “CREATE / un-do” NCA Massachusetts, LCC Award, Installation and Performance Project Northampton, MA
2001 “DANCING IN THE FLAMES” NCA Massachusetts LCC Award, Installation and Performance Project Northampton, MA
2001 “THE UNSEEN REAL” NCA Massachusetts LCC Award, Sculpture and Interdisciplinary Performance Project Northampton, MA
2000 “NEMETON lean-sa dluth ri cliu do shinnear” GRUBBS GALLERY, Williston Northampton Academy Time-Based Changing Installation, With Composer J.B. Weeks Easthampton, MA
2000 “OPENING THE LANGUAGE” HAMDEN GALLERY Curator, Anne La Prad University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
2000 “BEYOND & HERE, RELATIONSHIPS” CENTER FOR ART AND SOCIAL JUSTICE Installation Collaboration with Musician / Composer Michael Billingsley Northampton, MA
2000 “Interior INTERPRETATIONS Exterior” NORTHAMPTON CENTER FOR THE ARTS Installation Collaboration with Experimental Musician / Composer, Helen Harrison Northampton, MA
1999 “CHANCE & NECESSITY I, II, III, IV” THE ART BANK Series of Four Different Sculpture Installations as a Two Month A.I.R. Project Shelburne Falls, MA With Experimental Musician / Composer, Helen Harrison
1999 “LIVE / WORK I & II” FLYWHEEL Installation and Collaboration with Experimental Musician / Composer, Helen Harrison Easthampton, MA
1995 “THE THUNDER / PERFECT MIND: CORN, DICTIONARY, GLASS, SHELLS” C WORLD Actions Within A Sculpture Installation, With Composer / Musician, J.B. Weeks New York, NY
1995 “THE THUNDER / PERFECT MIND: CORN, WHITE DRESS OF FLAMES, SILENCE, CHAIR” C WORLD Actions Within A sculpture Installation, Audience Participants, and Composer, J.B. Weeks New York, NY
1993 “SACRIFICE: TO MAKE SACRED” HAMDEN GALLERY Installation and Collaboration with Spoken Word Artists University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
1992 “DAUGHTERS AND MEMORY” WHEELER GALLERY Sculpture Installation University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
1989 “NEW WORK”, Large Scale Ephemeral Constructions THE SCULPTURE COURTYARD Three Month, A.I.R. Outdoor Sculpture Installation, Changing University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
1989 “EVICTION / QUESTIONS OF PROPERTY” SITE: CONDEMNED HOUSE, ROUTE 195 Condemned House From the Seventeenth Century, Changing Installation Storrs, CT
GALLERY REPRESENTATION
PIEROGI 2000, Flat Files Brooklyn, NY Drawings, Painting, Collage
EXIT ART New York, NY Seven Group Exhibitions, EXIT ART Archives, Curators: Papo Colo, Jeanette Ingberman TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
SCULPTURE INSTALLATIONS (UNIQUE, SITE-SPECIFIC)
2020 “AS MOUNTAINS” , With Poet, Holly Wren Spaulding GEOFFREY YOUNG GALLERY, Great Barrington, MA
2019 “STILL, INVIOLATE CENTER” , With Poet, Holly Wren Spaulding GEOFFREY YOUNG GALLERY, Great Barrington, MA
2017 “EACH LITTLE THING”, With Poet, Holly Wren Spaulding THE PROVINCIAL, Kaleva, MI
2011 “TRAVELERS AND HOUSEHOLDERS”, With Kathryn Myers QERITICA GALLERY, Varanasi, INDIA
2009 “ILLUSORY MEETING PLACES, a brief tribute to people and places~” WINDSOR CONTEMPORARY ART CENTER Sculpture Installation and Photographs, With Kathryn Myers Windsor, CT
2002 “SACRED MATTER”, With Deborah Masters SMACK MELLON Curator: Kathleen Gilrain Brooklyn, NY
1993 “UNVEILING THE BRIDE” Installation, “ALCHEMICAL WEDDING” REAL ART WAYS Curator: Salvatore Scalora, With Artist, Genara Banzon Hartford, CT
1992 “SHAPECHANGERS OF THE SACRED AND THE PROFANE” AMHERST CENTER FOR THE ARTS With Artist, Curator, of THE WILLIAM BENTON MUSEUM, Storrs, CT, Salvatore Scalora Amherst, MA
1992 “MARRIAGE OF ABOVE AND BELOW” CENTER FOR VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS With Artist Laura Zindel University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
SELECTED SITE WORK, ENVIRONMENTAL / OUTDOORS TEMPORAL, TIME–BASED, SITE–SPECIFIC (FULL LIST ON REQUEST)
1995 “Sand Pile Presence” NORTHAMPTON RAILROAD TRACKS, Northampton, MA
1995 “Corn, Traffic, Still Point” HADLEY FARM ROAD, Northampton, MA
1995 “Homeless, Earth Site” CONNECTICUT RIVER BED, Northampton, MA
1995 “Stone Works, Communion, Interference” QUABBIN RESERVOIR, New Salem, MA
1995 “Circle Of Sludge, Sunset” TOOL FACTORY, SALMON FALLS, Shelburne Falls, MA
1995 “Circle, Mound, Line” QUABBIN RESERVOIR, New Salem, MA
1995 “Spirit” MT. HOOD, Portland, OR
1995 “Determined By The State” CONDEMNED SITE, MANSFIELD TRAINING SCHOOL, Mansfield, CT
1985-2009 “Seeking Language / Using History” ABANDONED RAILROAD TRACKS / THREAD FACTORY, Willimantic, CT
SELECTED OPEN STUDIO INSTALLATIONS
1995 “Closet / Oasis” THE MILLWORKS STUDIOS, Willington, CT
1995 “Leaving The City” 943 METROPOLITAN AVE, Brooklyn, NY
1993 “Falling, Flying Women, Dogs And Seaweed Wall” 943 METROPOLITAN AVE, Brooklyn, NY PROJECTS PRODUCED THROUGH NEA NEFA / NEW FORMS GRANT
1996/97 MULTI-MEDIA CD Photography, Allen Phillips, Musician / Composer, J.B. Weeks “TOUCH PRAYERS”
1996/97 NARRATIVE DOCUMENTARY PHOTO SERIES, Allen Phillips, Photographer
“RESISTANCE” ARTS & INDUSTRY, Northampton, MA
“FEMALE YANG” ROCKVILLE BIRTHING CENTER, Rockville, CT
NARRATIVE DOCUMENTARY / SITE-WORK, IMPROV HAPPENINGS, Allen Phillips, Photographer
“CYCLE OF THE DARK MOON / NEW MOON, Death, New Life, Beginning Waiting” ABANDONED USE RD, Mansfield, CT
“RIVER’S EDGE / CIRCLE” Dolmanisth, Photographer PINE FOREST, Mansfield, CT
“WINTER, Jars of Thawed Pond Water” Dolmanisth, Photographer NATURALLY FORMING MOSS CIRCLE, Pond Edge, Coventry, CT
“WINTER, Frozen Reservoir, Long Walk” Dolmanisth, Photographer WATER’S EDGE, Mansfield Reservoir, Mansfield, CT
SITE-SPECIFIC SCULPTURE INSTALLATIONS AND COLLABORATIVE PROJECTS THROUGH NEA NEFA / NEW FORMS GRANT
1998 “BLONDE BRANCHES”, HOT HOUSE IMPROVISATIONAL SERIES P.S. 122 Sculptor, Karen Dolmanisth, Dancer / Choreographer, Chivas Sandage New York, NY
1998 “BLONDE BRANCHES”, NEW DANCE ALLIANCE PERFORMANCE MIX JOYCE SOHO Sculptor, Karen Dolmanisth, Dancer / Choreographer, Chivas Sandage New York, NY
1998 “CONTINUOUS CONTAINERS”, T. E. M. P. PROJECT SPACE Kinetic Sculpture, Installation and Performance Shelburne Falls, MA
1998 “CONSTELLATION I & II”, T. E. M. P. PROJECT SPACE Sculptor / Installation Artist, Karen Dolmanisth Shelburne Falls, MA Musician / Composer, Michael Richardson, Dancer / Choreographers, Chivas Sandage, Harriet Jastremski, Rose Oceana
1998 “STRING and STONE, Known, Not Known, I, II, III”, T. E. M. P. PROJECT SPACE Sculptor, Installation, Performance Artist, Karen Dolmanisth Shelburne Falls, MA
1998 “(with) WING (s) IT (and Owl’s Feet)", LIFE AND HARMONY CAFÉ Sculpture and Drawings In Time: Artist, Karen Dolmanisth Springfield, MA Musician / Composer, Joe Bartone, of FAT BUDDAHS
COLLEGE TEACHING
Academy of Art and Design, S’Herto D’en Bosse, Netherlands Sculpture, Installation, Artist Books, Intermedia / Interdisciplinary Research Projects and Papers
Keene State College, Keene, New Hampshire Intro To Drawing, Drawing I, Interdisciplinary Design I
Vermont College, Norwich University, Montpelier, Vermont Sculpture, Trans Media and Collaborative Forms, Artists Books, Installation, MFA Thesis Faculty Mentor
University of Massachusetts, School of Fine Arts, Amherst, Massachusetts 3D Design II (Sculpture), 3D Design I (Basic Sculpture), 2D Design II, 2D Design I, Installation / New Media
Greenfield Community College, Greenfield, Massachusetts Video, Figure Drawing
Holyoke Community College, Holyoke, Massachusetts Drawing I, Drawing and Composition, Art History
Eastern Connecticut State College, Willimantic, Connecticut Drawing I, Intro to Studio, Art History Survey, Art History
University of Connecticut, School of Fine Arts, Storrs, Connecticut Advanced Design, 2D I, II, Illustration Concepts, Senior Independent Projects and Papers, Foundation Drawing