Elena Sisto - Resume

About Elena Sisto

Solo Exhibitions | Group Exhibitions | Collections | Awards and Fellowships | Bibliography

Solo Exhibitions
2008 2004 2003 2002 2001 1999 1998 1997 1995 1993 1992 1991 1991 1990 1986 1984	Katzen Museum of Art, American University, Washington, D.C. Littlejohn Contemporary Gallery, New York Harrisburg Community College, Rose Lehrman Art Center, Harrisburg, PA Littlejohn Contemporary Gallery, New York Littlejohn Contemporary Gallery, New York Maier Museum, Randolph-Macon College, Lynchburg, Virginia Littlejohn Contemporary Gallery, New York Greenville County Museum of Art, South Carolina David Beitzel Gallery, New York Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco Germans Van Eck Gallery, New York Gallery 210, University of Missouri at St. Louis Germans Van Eck Gallery, New York Damon Brandt Gallery, New York Vanderwoude Tananbaum Gallery, New York Vanderwoude Tananbaum Gallery, New York
Two-Person Show
2009 1987	Bucheon Gallery, S.F., CA with Jenny Dubnow Winston Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Selected Group Exhibitions
2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997 1996 1995 1994 1993 1993 1992 1991 1990 1989 1988 1987 1986 1985 1984 1983	University of Virginia,Works on Paper, curated Megan Marlatt Schlesinger and Coleman Bancroft, Oil and Water, NYC curated by Steven Harvey and John Yau Pera Museum, Istanbul, Turkey, Octet Sue Scott Gallery, New York, Subverted Genre, curated by Rebecca Mirsky New York Studio School, Alumni Exhibition, curated by Sean Scully Hunterdown Museum, Clinton, NJ, Inner Child: Good and Evil in the Garden of Memories, curated by Kristen Accola The National Academy, New York City, 183rd Annual Invitational Jeff Bailey Gallery, New York City, Gouache and Only Gouache Hunterdon Museum of Art, Clinton, NJ, Inner Child: Good and Evil in the Garden of Memories, curated by Kristen Accola EFA Gallery, New York City, Horizon, curated by David Humphrey Andrea Meislin Gallery, New York City, Oh, You Beautiful Doll, curated by Douglas Maxwell Storefront 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 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 York Studio School Littlejohn Contemporary Gallery, New York City 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 Littlejohn Contemporary Gallery, New York City Bucheon Gallery, San Francisco, Littlejohn Contemporary Gallery, New York University Galleries of Illinois State University, Normal, Illinois Pixerina Witcherina, curated by Bill Conger, also traveled to: Sarah Moody Gallery of Art, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa Hanes Art Gallery, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC Bucheon Gallery, San Francisco Littlejohn Contemporary Gallery, New York Allen Sheppard Gallery, New York Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, South Carolina, Women, Women, Women: Artists, Objects, Icons The Work Space @ Dolgenos Newman & Cronin, NYC. Hair-Do curated by Nancy Brett DNA Gallery, Provincetown, MA. Domestic Bliss 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 LoughlinAdam 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 Adam Baumgold Fine Art, NYC. Selections 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 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 traveled 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 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 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 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 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? 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 Bronx Museum of the Arts. To Objectify the Subjective: Contemporary Symbolist Sensibilities, curated by Philip Verre 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 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 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 Weatherspoon Gallery, UNC at Greensboro. Art on Paper 1983 Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY. Three-person show curated by Jackie Battenfield
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Teaching Experience
1997-Present	The School of Visual Arts, New York. Painting and drawing
1997-98	The Yale Norfolk Program,Norfolk, CT. Drawing.
1990-97	Columbia University School of Fine Arts Painting and drawing
1993-95, 09	The Chautauqua Institution Painting and drawing,
1987-96	The New York Studio, School Painting and drawing.
1987-91	Rhode Island School of Design. Painting and drawing
1988	SUNY Purchase. Drawing

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 back to top
Awards and Fellowships
2008 2007 1999 1996 1995 1989-90 1987 1983-4 1976 1975	Inglish Griswold Nelson Prize, National Academy Museum and School of Fine Arts 183rd Invitational 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
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Bibliography
Blake Gopnik,Washington Post, Critic’s Choice , 3/13/08, Washington, DC Michael F. Alexander, Art Life, 2006 Charlottesville, VA Stephen Maine, New York, Sunday, July 5, 2007, review of Horizon Show 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 Harrisburg 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, Orange County 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 back to top
Guest Lectures and Critiques
2009 2008 2008 2006 2006 2005 2005 2004 2000,01,02,05 2002, 09 1995, 01, 03 1998 1997, 98 1997 1996 1996 1996 1996 1996 1995, 96 1995 1995 1994 1993, 94 1993 1993 1993 1992 1992 1992 1991, 92 1991, 93 1990 1986 1986	New York Studio School Chautauqua Institution American University, Washington. D.C University of Virginia, Charlottesville Southern Connecticut State University Yale University Graduate School of Art Western Carolina University University of California, Davis Boston University Brandeis University Vermont Studio Center Hampshire College School of Visual Arts, New York University of North Carolina, Greensboro, N.C. 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 Smith College School of Visual Arts, NYC Wesleyan University American University New York Studio School, NYC Randolph-Macon College, Virginia Empire State College, NYC Brandeis University Rhode Island School of Design Kansas City Art Institute Parsons School of Design Syracuse University Yale University Bard College Summer Program Bates College Colby College
Education Graduate: New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting & Sculpture Undergraduate: Brown U./ R.I. School of Design. BA in Art/Art History