Résumé
Selected Solo Exhibitions:
2011
McNay Art Museum; Frost Octagon Video Gallery, San Antonio, TX,
2010
Sharadin Art Gallery, University of Pennsylvania, Kutztown, Pa
2009
Pinnacle Gallery, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA
2009
Lesley Heller Gallery, NYC
2007
Lesley Heller Gallery, NYC
2005
Islip Art Museum, Long Island, NY
Ogden Museum, New Orleans, LA
2004
Pei Ling Chan Gallery, Savannah College of Art & Design, Savannah,
GA*
2002
Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, Miss.*
Kiang Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Ogden Museum, New Orleans, LA
Breneau University, Gainsville, GA
1999
Katonah Museum, Katonah, NY, curated by Susan Edwards*
Sandler Hudson Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Salem College Art Gallery, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
1998
Colorado University Art Galleries, Boulder, CO , curated by Susan Krane
1996
Sandler Hudson Gallery, Atlanta, Ga.*essay by Nancy Princenthal.
1993
Halsey Gallery, College of Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina, traveling
to University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida*
1992
Winthrop Gallery, Winthrop University, Rock Hill, South Carolina
Sandler Hudson Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
1990
McIntosh Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
1988
Waterworks Art Center, Salisbury, North Carolina
Sculpture Center: Gallery Two, New York, NY
1986
Alternative Museum, Matrix Gallery, New York, NY, curated by Jane Farer
1985
Allen Priebe Gallery, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh, Wisconsin*
1984
Haggar Center, St. Mary's College, Notre Dame, Indiana
1983
Emily Lowe Gallery, Hofstra University, Hempstead, New York
1981
55 Mercer Gallery, New York, New York
Video/Performances:
2010
Circling the Center, Sharadin Art Gallery, University of Pennslylvania
Circling the Center, Kentler International Art Gallery,Brooklyn,NY
Selected
Group Exhibitions:
2011
Migrations, Proteus Gowanus Gallery, Brooklyn,NY
An Exchange with Sol Lewitt, curated by Regine Bash Cabinet, Brooklyn,
NY and Mass MoCa, North Adams, MA
Marked Differences, curated by Roberto Wadell,Error! Contact not defined.,
Brooklyn, NY
Myself, Sheppard Fine Arts Gallery, University of Nevada, Reno, curated
by Marjorie Vecchio*
2010
ArtPark: 1974–84, UB Art Gallery, Center for the Arts, SUNY Buffalo, NY*
The National Academy of Design Invitational Exhibition, New York, NY
Anatomy
Anatomical /Microbial /Microcosms, Central Booking, Brooklyn, NY
2009
The Last Book, curated by Luis Camanzer, National Library of Argentina,
Buenos Aires, Argentina
2008
Works on Paper from the Contemporary Collection, High Museum, Atlanta,
Ga.
2007
Radius. Metaphor Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
"Phenomenal" Spaces, Cleveland, Ohio
2006
"Some Assembly Required: Extreme Evolutions, Mead Museum, Amherst,
Mass*
"181 National Academy Invitational, New York, NY *
"Threads of Memory, Dorsky Gallery, NYC, NY*
"Couples" Palmer Museum, Univ.of Pa.*
2005
"Traveler", Dalton Gallery, Agnes Scott College, Atlanta, Ga
"Three Points of View" Heriard-Cimino Gallery, New Orleans.LA.
2004
"Thinking in Line-A survey of Contemporary Drawing", University
Gallery, Univ. of Florida, Gainsville. Curated by John L. Moore & Ron
Janowich*
"Striking Comparisons" Museum of Contemporary Art, Atlanta, Ga.
"Reduce/Reuse/Rexamine" Rotunda Gallery, NYC.NY.
2003
"Site/Insight" PS1/MOMA, New York, NY Curated by Agnes Gund,
2002
"Nene Humphrey, Mary Campbell", Art Resources Transfer, New York,NY
"Sew Fine" Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY. Curated by Karen
Shaw*
"Domestic Traces". Dorsky Gallery, NYC. (Three-person exhibit)
Curated by Margaret Matthews-Berenson*
"Prints from the Vermont Studio Press", Robert Hull Flemming
Museum, Burlington, VT
2001
Havana Biennial, Havana Cuba
2000
"Months and Moons", ACA Gallery, New York, N.Y.
"Nene Humphrey/Benny Andrews: The Art of Family", Ogden Museum,
University of New Orleans, New Orleans, La. And The Hotchkiss School, Lakeville,
Ct. Curated by Rick Gruber*
1999
"Head to Toe: Impressing the Body", University Gallery, Univ.
of Mass. Amherst, Mass. Curated by Donna Harkavey and Margaret Mathews-
Berenson
"Millennium Messages" org. by SITES, Washington, D.C.traveling
to Everson Museum of Art, N.Y., Miami Univ.Art Museum, Ohio, Heckscher
Museum of Art, Huntington, L.I.Curated by Bobbi Coller*
1998
"Nene Humphrey, Grace Knowleton", Workspace Gallery, NYC.curated
by Lesley Heller
1996
"Close to Home", Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx, N.Y.*
"The Art Exchange Show" Denise Gordon Co., New York, N.Y
1995
"Essence and Persuasion, the Power of Black and White", Anderson
Gallery, Buffalo, NY
"Object Lessons: Feminine dialogues with the surreal", Massachusetts
College of Art, Boston, Mass. curated by Jeffrey Keough and Ann Wilson
Lloyd*
"New South, Old South", Winthrop University Gallery, Rock Hill,
S.C.
"In Three Dimensions: Women Sculptors of the 90's", Newhouse
Center for Contemporary Art, Staten Island, N.Y.*
1994
Project Room Installation with Ellen Driscoll, Threadwaxing Space, New
York, N.Y.
"Fabricated Nature," Boise Art Museum, Boise Idaho and traveling*
"Sculpture Southeast", South Carolina Art Museum, Columbia, S.C.*
1993
"Idiocognito", OIA/Police Building, New York, N.Y. and William
Patterson College, Wayne, N.J.*
"Drawings from 55 Ferris Street", curated by Frederike Taylor,
Jessica Berwind Gallery, Philadelphia, P.A. and Wynn Kramersky Gallery,
New York, New York.
1992
"55 Ferris II," 55 Ferris Street, Brooklyn, New York. Curated
by Frederike Taylor, essay by Nancy Princenthal*
"Art on Paper," Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North
Carolina, Greensboro North Carolina*
"Embracing the Void," Valencia College, Orlando, Florida. Curated
Judith Page*
1991
"Stark Contrast," Trenkmann Gallery, New York, New York
"Art of Our Times," High Museum, Atlanta, Georgia. Curated by
Susan Krane
1990
"Sculptor's Drawings," East Hampton Center for Contemporary Art,
Long Island, New York. Curated by Jennifer Cross*
"The Art of Drawing," Lehman College, Bronx, New York. Curated
by Jane Farver*
"Recent Acquisitions," High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia
"Small Works, Cast Iron," Sculpture Center, New York, New York
"Work on Paper: Contemporary American Drawings," High Museum
of Art, Atlanta, Georgia*
"Collector's Exhibition," Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock,
Arkansas
1989
"Lines of Vision. Drawings by Contemporary Women," Hillwood Art
Gallery, Long Island University, Brookville, New York, Blum Helman Warehouse,
and traveling internationally. Curated by Dr. Judy C. Van Wagner*
"Objects/Figures," East Hampton Center for Contemporary Art,
East Hampton, New York. Curated by Jennifer Cross*
"Installation," Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, Georgia
"Nene Humphrey/Phillipe Bent," Leslie Cecil Gallery, New York,
New York
1988
"Scale (small)," Rosa Esman Gallery, New York, New York
"Sculpture as Companion," Henry Feiwel Gallery, New York, New
York
"Group Show," John Davis Gallery, New York, New York
"Black, Grey, White," Henry Feiwel Gallery, New York, New York
"Sculpture '88," White Columns, New York, New York
"Selections," Siegeltuch Gallery, New York, New York
1987
"Three Sculptors," AIR Gallery, New York, New York
"The Blue Angel," Longwood Arts Center, Bronx, New York, traveled
to Space 111, Birmingham, Alabama and AIR Gallery, New York, New York*
"Small Scale Sculpture/Large Scale Sculpture," Atlanta College
of Art, Atlanta, Georgia*
1987
"Nature into Form," Oscarsson Siegeltuch Gallery, New York, New
York
1985
"Earth, Water, Light," Interart de St. Amand Gallery, New York,
New York
"The Totemic Impulse," Gallery Schweitzer, Montreal, Quebec,
Canada
1984
"Sculptors Drawings," Sculpture Center, New York, New York
1983
"Sculpture," Greene Space Gallery, New York, New York, traveled
to Visual Arts Gallery, SUNY at Purchase, New York*
1982
"Sealed Orders," Mercer Union Gallery, Toronto, Canada
1981
"Ambiance/Stimuli," Alternative Museum, New York, New York*
"Ritual and Landscape," Touchstone Gallery, New York, New York
1980
"Inaugural Show," Touchstone Gallery, New York, New York
1978
-9 "Group Show", Touchstone Gallery, New York, New York
Public Commissions:
1984
"Passages," Haggar Center, St. Mary's College, Notre Dame, Indiana
"Red Road for Atlanta," Piedmont Park, A.A.F., Atlanta, Georgia
1983
"Roadrise/Resting Space," Art on the Beach, Battery Park, New
York, sponsored by Creative Time, Inc.
"Unending Roads," Mitchel Field, Hofstra University, Hempstead,
New York
1981
"Meadow Passage/Forest House," Morris Museum, Morristown, New
Jersey*
1980
"Enclosed Garden/Landscape," Artpark, Lewiston, New York*
"Four Mountains for a Grove of Trees," Ward's Island, New York,
sponsored by A.R.E.A.*
Grants and Awards:
2012
Montalvo Artist Fellowship, Montalvo, CA
2010
Agnes Gund Foundation Grant for Video Production, New York, NY
Artist Residency Grant for project production, Sharadin Art Gallery, Univ.of
Pa, Kutztown, Pa
2009
Brown Foundation Fellowship, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, TX
2008
Patricia and Jerre Mangione Fellowship, MacDowell Colony, NH
2007
Smithsonian Institution Artist Research Fellowship
2003
Asian Cultural Council Artist Grant
2001
Berkshire Taconic Foundation Individual Artist Grant
1999
Anonymous was a Woman Award
Hambidge Center, CRG Corporation Fellowship, Rabun Gap, Georgia
1986
Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship, Bellagio, Italy
1983
National Endowment for the Arts, Individual Artist Grant
1982
Karolyi Foundation Fellowship, Vence, France
1978
MacDowell Colony Fellowship, NH
Selected Bibliography:
Ann Landi, Brain Wave, and ArtNews, June 2009 p.88
Cover Image: detail from The Plain Sense of Things.
Holland Cotter, Weekend Reviews, The New York Times, March 2009
Amy; Eshoo ed, A New York Drawing Collection at Work 1991-2006. (Yale University
Press 2008) with essays by Derrick Carttwright, James Cuno, Elizabeth Finch;
Glenn Lowry, Ann Philin, Jock Renolds, Townsend Wolfe.
Stanley Staniski, Nene Humphey: Artist, film produced by Staniski Productions
in conjunction with the Ogden Museum, New Orleans, LA. 2005
Helen Harrison, "Site Specifics,'05," The New York Times, July
10,2005
Nancy Princenthal,"Paper Airplanes, Recent Artist books on Flight
and Travel,"Art on Paper, March 2005p.41
Patricia Rosoff,"Nene Humphrey: Carnal Knowledge", Sculpture
Magazine, Dec. 2004
Ken Johnson," Gathering a Flock of Quirky Grownups", The New
York Times, June 18,2003,p. E32
Ken Johnson," Domestic Traces", The New York Times, June 1,2001,p.
E4
Ariella Budick, "Woman to Woman", Newsday, April 23,2000
Susan H.Edwards,"Common Touch/Nene Humphrey", Katonah Museum
of Art, Katonah, N.Y.July, 1999 Common
Touch, A Site Specific Installation by Nene Humphrey. Videotape directed
by Dianna
Smith: Scapes Productions, pub. By Katonah Museum ofArt, 1999
Agnes Gund,"The Passion of a Collector", Civilization, Library
of Congress, Washington, D.C. Jan.Feb.1999
Tom Patterson,"Handy: Sculptor collaborates with Salem students",
Winston-Salem Journal, Feb.7, 1999
Susan Krane,"Nene Humphrey, A Wild Patience", University of Colorado,
Boulder, Jan.1998
Dinah Zeiger,"Urge to touch torments viewer at gallery showing",
The Denver Post, Jan. 31,1998
"Hand in Hand", Daily Times, Boulder, Colorado, Jan.29, 1998
Jennifer Heath,"Hands", Boulder Planet, Jan.30, 1998
Joe, Miller," Asking Nene about art", Boulder Weekly, Jan.1998
Michael Rush," Five Connecticut Artists Turn to Installation",
Art New England, Feb./Mar. 1998
William Zimmer," Honoring Women as Keepers of the Home", The
New York Times, Oct.20, 1996 p. 10. N.J.Ed.
Jerry Cullum,"The two sides of domesticity", The Atlanta Constitution,
Nov. 15, 1996
Cathy Byrd," The Tree Beyond its Leaves", Creative Loafing, Atlanta,
Ga., Nov. 16, 1996
Suzanne Ramljak, "Carnal Knowledge' Object Lessons, Feminine dialogues
with the surreal, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, Jan. 1995, p.5.
Susan Hapgood, "Feminine Strategies", Object Lessons, Feminine
dialogues with the surreal, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, Jan.
1995,p.9.
Nancy Stamen, "Feminine Dialogues': a tempest from Oppenheim's teacup",
The Boston Sunday Globe, Jan.29, 1995 p.42.
Mary Sherman," Female artists express their gender ", The Boston
Herald, Jan. 25,1995 p. 46.
Cynthia Nadelman,"Recent Drawings by Sculptors: A Common Language",
Drawing, July/August 1994 p.25.
Chris Schnoor,"Sculptural Dualities". Reflex, Aug./Sept.p.13
William Zimmer, "Sculpture at Two Displays at Wayne," New York
Times, December 5, 1993, p. 16
Eileen Watkins, "Art at WPC," Sunday Star-Ledger, New Jersey,
December 5, 1993
Arlene Raven," Days Without Art", Village Voice, October 5, 1993.
Kristina Montvidas-Kutkus, "Dimensions of Slavery Explored",
Post and Courier, Charleston, S.C., April 4, 1993.
Janet Kolas, "55 Ferris II," Art in America, February 1993, p.
106
Amy Jinker Lloyd, "Nene Humphrey, Sandler Hudson Gallery," Art
in America, December, 1992, p. 122
Susan Krane, "Matrix: Nene Humphrey," Winthrop Gallery, Winthrop
University, Rockhill, South Carolina, 1992
Jerry Cullum, "'Dream' Objects Probe Landscape of the Emotions," The
Atlanta Journal, March 6, 1992, p. F2
Tom Patterson, "Two Exhibits: One Shouts, One Whispers," The
Charlotte Observer, September 13, 1992
Judith Page, "Embracing the Void," Valencia College, Orlando,
Florida, 1992
William Zimmer, "The Public and Private in Robust Dialogue," New
York Times, October 28, 1990
Jennifer Cross, "Sculptor's Drawings," EHCCA,
Long Island, New York, 1990
Jane Farver, "The Art of Drawing," Lehman College, Bronx, New
York, 1990
Jerry Cullum, "Artists' Styles Contrast Nicely in McIntosh Exhibit
of Sculptures, Drawings, Paintings," The Atlanta Journal, April 5,
1990, P.C-6
Carrie Przybilla, Working on Paper, Contemporary American Drawing, (High
Museum of Art, Atlanta, 1990)
Karen Lipson, "Dip into these Drawings by Contemporary Women," Newsday,
New York, June 9, 1990
Rose C.S. Slivka, "From the Studio," East Hampton Star, September
11, 1990
Dr. Judy C. Van Wagner, Lines of Vision. Drawings by Contemporary Women,
with essays by Thomas Leavitt and Judith Wilson (Hudson Hills Press, New
York, 1989)
Tom Patterson, "Subtle Images Give Salisbury Show its Power,"Winston-Salem
Journal, September 11, 1988, p. 4
Chris Redd, "Nene Humphrey's Modernist Metaphors," The Arts Journal,
North Carolina, October 1988, Vol. 14, No. 1, p. 14
Thomasine Bradford, "Small Scale Sculpture/Large Scale Sculpture," Art
Papers, Atlanta, Georgia, January/February 1988, Vol. 12, No. 1, p. 49
Juli Carson, Howard McCalebb, and Blue Angel: The Decline of Sexual Stereotypes
in Post Feminist Sculpture, (Longwood Art Center, New York, 1987)
Lisa Tuttle, Small Scale Sculpture/Large Scale Sculpture, (Atlanta College
of Art, Atlanta, Georgia, 1987)
B. McKenzi "Road is Primary Motif in Nene Humphrey's Art," Atlanta
Journal-Constitution, April 13, 1987
Phil Williams, "Nene Humphrey: Recent Drawings and Sculpture," Art
Papers, Vol. 11, No. 4, July-August
Eric Siegeltuch, Nene Humphrey: Situations, (University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh,
Wisconsin, 1985)
Pat Stenson, "Wisconsin Upbringing Still Inspiring Modernist Artist," Post
Crescent, Oshkosh, Wisconsin, March 31, 1985
Karen Heisler, "Sculptor Nene Humphrey Creates Passages," Courier,
South Bend, Indiana, summer 1984
Martin Ries, "Ambiance/Stimuli," Re.Dact, An Anthology of Art
Criticism, Peter Frank editor, (Willis, Locker, Owens, New York, 1984)
p. 141
Michael Perri, "On-Site Sculpture," Art Papers, Vol. 8, No. 3,
1984
Appearances, (sculpture reproduction), Robert Witz editor, No. 10, spring
1984
Janet Heit, Sculpture at Greene Space, curated by Irving Sandler, Corrine
Robins, Kathy Goncharov, (New York OIA, 1983)
Art and Artists, (sculpture reproduction), September 1983
Grace Glueck, "Engaging Experiments Transform a Sandy Site," New
York Times, July 31, 1983
Kay Larson, "On the Beach," New York Magazine, September 5, 1983
Donald Kuspit, "OIA at Greene Space," Artforum, April 1983
Bruce Eder, "Provocative Modern," Arts Weekly, New York, February
2, 1983
Benny Andrews, Ambiance/Stimuli, (Alternative Museum, New York, 1982)
Linda Shearer, Artists Space: Independent Exhibitions Program, (Artists
Space, New York, 1982)
John Caldwell, "Modernism in Morristown," New York Times (New
Jersey edition), August 30, 1981
Judith Wilson, "Small-Crafted Warnings," Village Voice, May 26,
1981
Gail Gelburd, Environmental Art Projects 1981, (Morris Museum, New Jersey,
1981)
Janet Heit, "Nene Humphrey: Medieval Landscape," Arts Magazine,
June 1981
Richard Huntington, Artpark 1980, (Artpark, Lewiston, New York, 1980)
Vivienne Thaul Wechter, AREA Sculpture-Ward's Island, (AREA Inc, New York,
1980)
Grace Glueck, "Outdoor Sculpture," New York Times, September
11, 1980
Sarah McFadden, "Going Places Part II," Art in America, summer
190
Carrie Rickey, Kay Larson, "Stalking the Wild Sculpture," Village
Voice, June 25, 1980
John Perreault, "Ward's Island," Soho News, June 25, 1980
Richard Huntington, "Artpark," Courier Express, Buffalo, New
York, July 13, 1980
Education:
M.A. Goddard College, Boston, Massachusetts 1972
B.A. St. Mary's College, Notre Dame, Indiana 1968
M.F.A. York University, Toronto, Canada 1978