About Elena Sisto

 

Education
          

Graduate: New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting & Sculpture
Undergraduate: Brown U./ R.I. School of Design. BA in Art/Art History

Solo Exhibitions

Two-Person Show

2008
2004
2003
2002
2001
1999
1998
1997
1995
1993
1992
1991
1990
Katzen Museum of Art, American University, Washington, DC
Littlejohn Contemporary, New York City
Harrisburg Community College, Rose Lehrman Art Center
Littlejohn Contemporary, New York City
Littlejohn Contemporary, New York City
Maier Museum of Art, Lynchburg, Virginia
Littlejohn Contemporary, New York City
Greeneville County Museum of Art

The David Beitzel Gallery
The Steven Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco
Germans Van Eck, New York City

Germans Van Eck, New York City
Damon Brandt Gallery
1987

Winston Gallery,  Washington, D.C.

 

Teaching Experience

1997-98 The Yale Norfolk Program,Norfolk, CT. Drawing.
1997-07 The School of Visual Arts, New York. Painting and drawing
1990-97 Columbia University School of Fine Arts Painting and drawing
1993-95 The Chautauqua InstitutionPainting and drawing,
1987-96    The New York Studio, SchoolPainting and drawing.
1988 SUNY Purchase. Drawing
1987-91  Rhode Island School of Design. Painting and drawing

Selected Group Exhibitions

2007 EFA Gallery, New York City, Horizon
2006 Andrea Meislin Gallery, New York City, Oh, You Beautiful Doll,
curated by Douglas MaxwellStorefront Artists Project, Pittsfield, MA, Selections From the Cultural Corridor, curated by Peter Dudek
Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA Light in August
University of Virginia Art Museum, Charlottesville, VA Complicit! Contemporary American Art and Mass Culture curated by Johanna Drucker
The Philoctetes Center, New York City, Objects in Mind
Trierenberg Corporation Gallery, Traun, Austria New Art, New York: Reflections on the Human Condition
2005 Obsolete Gallery, Venice, CA Private Drama
Bucheon Gallery, San Francisco, CA Face Paint
New York Studio School Gallery, New York City The Continuous Mark: 40 Years of the New YorkStudioSchool
Littlejohn Contemporary Gallery, New York City
2004 Littlejohn Contemporary Gallery, New York City
New Jersey Center for the Visual Arts, Summit, N.J., Unveiling the Image
Mary Baldwin College, Hunt Gallery, Mirror, Mirror: Imaging the Magic Tale, curated by Dynah Ryan
2002

Littlejohn Contemporary Gallery, New York City
Bucheon Gallery, San Francisco,

2001 Littlejohn Contemporary Gallery, New York
University Galleries of Illinois State University, Normal, Illinois Pixerina Witcherina, curated by Bill Conger, also travelled to:
Sarah Moody Gallery of Art, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa
Hanes Art Gallery, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC
Bucheon Gallery, San Francisco
2000
1999
1998
Littlejohn Contemporary Gallery, New York
Allen Sheppard Gallery, New York
Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, South Carolina, Women, Women, Women: Artists, Objects, Icons
1997 The Work Space @ Dolgenos Newman & Cronin, NYC. Hair-Do
curated by Nancy Brett
DNA Gallery, Provincetown, MA. Domestic Bliss
1996 DNA Gallery, Provincetown, MA.
Thread Waxing Space, SCRATCH
Adam Baumgold Fine Art/Simon Capstick-Dale Gallery, NYC . Comic Inspirations, curated by Adam Baumgold, Simon Capstick-Dale and Elena Sisto
Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC. Range of Effect, curated by Page Loughlin
1995

Adam Baumgold Fine Art, NYC. Selections
Weatherspoon Gallery, University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
Art on Paper 1995, curated by Tom Kochheiser
Dru Arstark Gallery, NYC. Elena Sisto, Lisa Hoke, Jessica Stockholder

1994

Adam Baumgold Fine Art, NYC. Selections
ICA, Portland at MECA, Maine College of Art. Intimate Observations
curated by Jennifer Gross
Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY. Single-Cel Creatures: Cartoons and their
Influence on Contemporary Arts curator: Thomas Zummer
Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA. Soliloquies
Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston. Nine Months: Art & Pregnancy
curated by Tom Grabosky and Natascha Otero-Santiago
UCLA Wight Art Gallery, Los Angeles. Bad Girls, West curated by Marcia Tanne

1993

The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. The 43d Biennial of Contemporary American Painting, curated by Terrie Sultan
UCI Fine Arts Gallery, University of California at Irvine. Megan Williams, David Humphrey, and Elena Sisto
Germans Van Eck Gallery, New York. Gallery Artists and Friends
Robert Morrison Gallery, New York. Summer Salon Show
Pamela Auchincloss Gallery, New York. Drawing Conclusions
Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, SC. Already Buddha curated by Tom Styron
Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagne.
The Eidetic Image: Contemporary Works on Paper , also travelled to:
-The Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA
-The Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY
-I Space Gallery, Chicago, IL
-University of Oklahoma Museum of Art, Norman, OK
New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting, and Sculpture, Formative Past, Present Form
The New Museum of Contemporary Art, 16th Anniversary Benefit
Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn. Benefit Auction
Maier Museum of Art, Randolph Macon College, Lynchburg, VA. Making Connections: Approaches to Space in Drawing curated by Hearne Pardee

1992 Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University

Gallery 400, University of Illinois at Chicago. On Condition: Painting Between Abstraction and Figuration curated by Julia Fish
Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio State University, Columbus. Re: Framing Cartoons curated by Thomas Zummer
Germans Van Eck Gallery, New York. Play Between Fear and Desire curated by Jennifer Gross
White Columns, New York. Benefit Auction

1991

Marc Richards Gallery, Los Angeles. Personal Mythologies
Jamison Thomas Gallery, New York. Compulsion
Ruggiero Gallery, New York. Group drawing show
Roy Boyd Gallery, Santa Monica, CA. Examples Cool & Lonely

1990

Cummings Art Center, Connecticut College. Fluid Geometry curated by Stephen Westfall
Tom Cugliani Gallery, New York. Eros/Thanatos, Death & Desire
Loughelton Gallery, New York. Re: Framing Cartoons curated by Thomas Zummer

1989

Fawbush Gallery, New York. Drawings
City Gallery, NYC Dept. of Cultural Affairs.
Personal Icons, curated by Jeanie Deans
Damon Brandt Gallery, NYC.
New York Studio School, NYC. Field and Frame: Meyer Schapiro's Semiotics of Painting, curated by Hearne Pardee
Ruggiero Henis Gallery, NYC. Immanent Space, curated by Stephen Westfall
Henry Feiwel Gallery, NYC. Is this a small picture?

1988

Bali Miller Gallery, NYC.
New Visions Gallery, Ithaca, NY. NYC at NV curated by Alan Singer
One Penn Plaza, NYC. Nature in Art--44 Women Artists, curated by Ronny Cohen and Carola van den Houten

1987

Bronx Museum of the Arts. To Objectify the Subjective:
Contemporary Symbolist Sensibilities, curated by Philip Verre

1986

Leo Castelli Greene St. Gallery, NYC. Skowhegan 40th Anniversary Exhibition, juried by Linda Shearer, Patterson Sims, & Diane Waldman
One Penn Plaza, NYC. Short Stories, curated by Judd Tully and Carola van den Houten
San Francisco Int'l Airport, Airport Cafe, curated by Elsa Cameron
Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine. Inner Images, curated by Hearne Pardee
The Newark Museum, Newark, NJ. Recent American Painting and Sculpture: 1975-1985, curated by Gary Reynolds

1985

New York Studio School, NYC. Alumni show.
Vanderwoude Tananbaum Gallery, NYC. Notions of Surrealism
New York Studio School, NYC. 20th anniversary show.
Jersey City Museum, Mystery Show, curated by Andrea Belag
Sordoni Art Gallery, Wilkes College, Wilkes-Barre, PA. New
Expressive Landscape, curated by William H. Sterling

1984

Weatherspoon Gallery, U. of North Carolina at Greensboro. Art on
Paper 1984, curated by Gilbert Carpenter
Jamaica Arts Center, Queens, NY. Situations, curated by Bill Miller
A.I.R. Gallery, NYC. Women Artists of the 80s: New Talent, curated by Corinne Robins
Yale University at Norfolk Gallery, Norfolk, CT
Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia. Fears, curated by Ann Jarmusch

1983

Weatherspoon Gallery, UNC at Greensboro. Art on Paper 1983
Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY. Three-person show curated by Jackie
Battenfield

Awards and Fellowships

2007
1999
1996 
1995  
1989-90     
1987  
1983-4
1976  
1975

Yaddo, artist’s fellowship
Peter S. Reed Foundation grant
Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, artist’s fellowship
Hand Hollow Foundation Fellowship
National Endowment for the Arts Visual Artist's Fellowship
Millay Colony for the Arts. Artist's residency
National Endowment for the Arts Visual Artist's Fellowship
Skowhegan School
Yale Norfolk Program

Bibliography

Lily Wei, Art News, May 2005, review of one-person show at Littlejohn
Hearne Pardee, Art in America , March 2005, review of one-person show
Tyler Clever, 2004,  Catalog essay and interview, One person show at Harrisburgh       Community College
Dynah Ryan, 2004, Catalog Mirror, Mirror, Mary Baldwin College, Hunt Galley
Nancy Cohen, 2004,  Catalog, Unveiling the Image
Arturo Martinez, The Sunday Star Ledger, 2004, review of Unveiling the Image
Benjamin Gennochio,  New York Times, 2004, review of Unveiling the Image
Dan Bischoff, the Star Ledger, 2004, review of Unveiling the Image
Hearne Pardee, Artezine #8, 2003
Amy Jean Porter, Review.com, March 2001, review of one-person show
Eleanor Heartney, Art in America, June 1999, review of one-person show
Anne Shostrom, New Art Examiner, March 1999, review of one-person show
Rick Moody, Catalog for Maier Museum one-person show,  Pan’s Fair Throng
(fiction inspired by Elena Sisto’s painting), 1999
Cathy Gant-Hill, Greensboro News & Record, 11/11/98 Art & Access
Ken Johnson, New York Times, 10/23/98, short review of one-person show
Douglas Maxwell, Review Magazine, 10/15/98, review of one-person show
Sue Lile Inman Emrys Journal, 1998 And There He Kept Her Very Well
Rick Moody, Modern Painters, spring 1998, Long Live Painting
Roberta Smith, New York Times, 4/19/96, review of Comic Inspirations
Tom Patterson, Winston-Salem Journal, 3/3/96, review of Range of Effect
Jennifer Gross, catalog essay for Intimate Observations, 1994
Benjamin Weissman, Artforum,, May 1994. Review of Bad Girls West Julia Clinger, The Chautauqua Daily, 7/5/94. Profile article
Nancy Stapen, The Boston Globe, 7/21/94. Review of Nine Months
Michael Rogers, OrangeCounty Register, 10/15/93. Review of UC Irvine show
Cathy Curtis, Los Angeles Times, 10/93. Review of UC Irvine show
Terrie Sultan and Maia Damianovic, Catalog for 1993 Corcoran Biennial
Carol Kino, Modern Painters, Spring 1993. Review of one-person show
Debra Bricker Balken, Art in America, May 1993. Review of one-person show
Ruth Bass, Art News, February 1993. Review of one-person show
Charles Hagen, New York Times, 12/4/92. Review of one-person show
Tom Zummer, Essay published for Germans Van Eck one-person show, 1992.
Roberta Smith, New York Times, 6/28/91. Review of one-person show.
Cathy Curtis, Los Angeles Times, 1/15/91. Review of Examples: Cool & Lonely
William Zimmer, New York Times, 12/9/90 (CT edition). Fluid Geometry review
Hearne Pardee, Art News, September 1990. Review of one-person show
Robert Mahoney, Arts. Summer 1990. Review of one-person show
Charles Hagen, Artforum, Summer 1990. Review of one-person show
Ken Johnson, Art in America, June 1990. Review of one-person show
Ruth Bass, Art Talk, June/July 1990. Review of one-person show
Stephen Westfall, Art in America, February 1987. Review of one-person show
Roberta Smith,New York Times, 11/7/86. Review of one-person show
Hearne Pardee,  Arts, November 1986. Paintings by Five Contemporary Artists
Stephen Westfall, Art Journal, Winter 1985. Surrealist Modes Among Contemporary New York Painters
Hearne Pardee, catalog for Inner Images show, 1986
Eileen Watkins, Newark Star-Ledger, 5/85. Review of Mystery Show
Vivien Raynor, New York Times, 6/2/85 (NJ Edition). Review of Mystery Show
Michael Brenson,New York Times, 5/24/85. Review of NY Studio School show
Gilbert Carpenter, catalog for Art on Paper 1985 show at Weatherspoon
William Sterling, catalog for New Expressive Landscape, 1985
Victoria Donohoe, Philadelphia Inquirer, 2/17/84. Review of Tyler show
Corinne Robins, catalog for Women Artists of the 80s
The Sciences, 11-12/84 issue. Full-page reproduction of painting
Ellen Klein, Arts, September 1984. Review of one-person show
Bill Miller, catalog for Jamaica Arts Center show, 1984

Guest Lectures and Critques

2006    University of Virginia, Charlottesville
Southern Connecticut State  University
2005 Yale University Graduate School of Art
Western Carolina University
2004 University of California, Davis
2000,01,02,05 Boston University
2002 Brandeis University
2001,03  Vermont Studio Center
1998 Hampshire College
1997,98 School of Visual Arts, New York
1997 University of North Carolina, Greensboro, N.C.
1996 Kent State University, Ohio
Ohio State University/The Wexner Center for the Arts
Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown
Yale Norfolk Summer Program, Norfolk, CT
Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
1995,96 Smith College
1995 School of Visual Arts, NYC
Wesleyan University
Vermont Studio Center
1994 American University
1993,94 New York Studio School, NYC
1993   Randolph-Macon College, Virginia
Empire State College, NYC
Brandeis University

1992

Rhode Island School of Design
Kansas City Art Institute
Parsons School of Design
1991,92 Syracuse University
1991,93 Yale University
1990 Bard College Summer Program
1986 Bates College
Colby College


Selected Collections

 

Alexander, Pam, Tuscon, AZ
Baumgold, Adam, NYC
Beitzel, David, NYC
Biberstein family, Geneva, Switzerland
Brandt, Damon, NYC
Carney, Holland, San Francisco
Cirgenski, Chris and Elizabeth Counihan, NYC
Cohen, Sheila, San Francisco, CA
Davis, Ned and Barbara, NYC
DeGeneres, Ellen, Los Angeles, CA
Dorogusker, Ben, NYC
First City Capital Corp., NYC
Fromson, Brett and Carmel Wilson, NYC
Graham, Donald, Denver, CO
Graphpac Corp., NYC
Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, FL
Heisler, Gregory and Prudence, NYC
Krist, Gary and Elizabeth, Chevy Chase, MD
Wagman, James and Anne Landesman, NYC
Lentz, Jack, Florida
Levy, Francis and Hallie Cohen, NYC
Levy, Harold and Patricia Sapinsley, NYC
Mallin, Joel and Sherrie, NYC
Mandel, Sam and Annette, Boca Raton, FL
Moody, Rick, Fishers Island, NY
Moore, Jim, Cambridge, MA
Newark Museum, Newark, NJ
Peyser, Michael and Pat Ciaffa, NYC
Polypeptides Corp., Cambridge, MA
Porges, Maria, Oakland, CA
Progressive Corp., Cleveland, OH
Prudential-Bache Securities, Newark, NJ
Rodman, Roberta, Los Angeles
Rosen, A.G. Wayne, NJ
Shallot, Jane, NYC
Seemans, Helene, NYC
Stadler, Alex, Philadelphia
Styron, Tom, Greenville, SC
Sullivan, Margaret, NYC
Swerdlow, Christina Lang, NYC
Tanner, Marsha, Berkeley, CA
Tannenbaum, Dorothy, NYC
Throckmorton, Spencer, NYC
Tullman, Howard, Chicago
Vanderwoude, Suzanne, NYC
Van Heyst, Della, Portola Valley, CA
Ward, Richard,  (estate) NYC
Watson, Lee, Greenville, SC
Weatherspoon Gallery, Greensboro, NC
Winblad, Anne, San Francisco, CA