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
American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center, 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 Institution Painting and drawing,
1987-96    The New York Studio, School Painting 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 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
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 York Studio School
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 traveled 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 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

    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

     

     

     

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

    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

     

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    Awards and Fellowships

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

     

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    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


    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

     

     

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    Guest Lectures and Critiques

    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
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