Education 1991 University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, MFA 1987 Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island, BFA Solo Exhibitions 2008 Augustus-Saint Gaudens Foundation, Cornish, NH (upcoming) Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY (Project Room) Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA 2007 Yale University Art Gallery, Yale University, New Haven, CT Infinite Space, Derek Eller Gallery, New York 2006 Topologies, curated by Jane Simon, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI and the Richard E. Peeler Art Center, DePauw University, Greencastle, IN Derek Eller Gallery, New York (Project Room) 2005 C2, Kevin Bruk Gallery, Miami, FL Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, CT Derek Eller Gallery, NY 2004 Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA Rice University Art Gallery, Houston, TX Ingalls & Associates, Miami, FL 2003 The Frances YoungTang Teaching Museum, Saratoga, NY Derek Eller Gallery, New York 2002 Lemon Sky Projects, Los Angeles 1999 Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, PA Susan Inglett, New York 1998 Susan Inglett, New York 1997 Lemon Sky Projects, Los Angeles 1996 Susan Inglett, New York Selected Group Exhibitions 2008 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA (upcoming) Currents: Recent Acquisitions, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC Making Visible, the Invisible: Abstract Art from MMOCAs Permanent Collection, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI New Prints 2008, International Print Center New York, NY multiXply, A + D Gallery, Columbia College, Chicago, IL Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York, NY 2007 The Shapes of Space, Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY NeoIntegrity, curated by Keith Mayerson, Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY All You Desire, P.P.O.W., New York, NY Written in Light, curated by Zeljka Himbele, Art in General and Bloomberg LP at Bloomberg LP’s New York HQ, New York, NY 2006 Light x Eight, The Jewish Museum, New York, NY Garden, Visual Arts Center of Richmond, Richmond, VA Deep Freeze, Mehr Gallery, New York, NY Summer Group Exhibition, Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY 3D: An Exhibition of Contemporary Sculpture, Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, OH Uneasy Nature, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC Inaugural Group Exhibition, Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY 2005 Labrynths, David Winton Bell Gallery, Brown University, RI Repeat Performance, Anthony Grant Gallery, NY Alyson Shotz/Julianne Schwartz, Mixed Greens Gallery, NY Maurizio Couldn't be Here: ARTCOM-The Final Frontier, Apex Art, NY 2004 Needful Things: Contemporary Multiples, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH reGenerations: Environment Art in California, Armory Center for the Arts, LA Editions Spotfight: Carolina Nitsch, Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA 2003 Unnaturally, curated by Mary-Kay Lombino, ICI Tour: Contemporary Art Museum, USF, Tampa, Fisher Gallery, USC, Regina Quick Center for the Arts, NY, Copia Center for the Arts, Napa, CA, Lowe Art Museum, Miami bits 'n' pieces, curated by Beth Venn, D.u.m.b.o. Art Center, Brooklyn, NY In Medias Res, Exit Art, curated by Anne Ellegood, NY, NY (forthcoming) 2002 Mirror Mirror, MASS MOCA, MA Fictions in Wonderland, Beverly Reynolds Gallery, VA Into the Woods, Julie Saul Gallery, NY, NY Dangerous Beauty, curated by Manon Slome, JCC, NY 2001 Digital Printmaking Now, Brooklyn Museum of Art, NY Plant Life, curated by Patrick Callery, K.S. Art, NY, NY Being There, Derek Eller Gallery, NY, NY Material Whirled, Art in General, NY, NY Sensing the Forest, Wave Hill, Bronx, NY Mixed Greens at Space 101, Williamsburg, NY Let's Get to Work, Susquehanna Art Museum, PA 2000 Pastoral Pop, The Whitney Museum at Phillip Morris, NY, NY Greater New York, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, NY, NY Wildlife, organized by James Cohan Gallery, NY at Reynolds Gallery, VA Editions Spotlight: Muse-X Editions, Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA The Living End, curated by Ingrid Schaffner, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, CO Blurry Lines, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, WI Not a Theme Show, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA Snapshot, Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, MD Showroom, RCCA: The Arts Center, Troy, NY Photasm, Union College and tour to Hunter College, NY 1999 Sound Foundations: Audio in Video, Bard College, Center for Curatorial Studies, NY Best of the Season, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield Nature is Not Romantic, Leubsdorf Art Gallery at Hunter College, New York comfort, Post Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1998 Media Library, David Zwirner Gallery, New York New Video from The Outpost, The Kitchen, New York Pop-Surrealism, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield 1998 Coming Off The Wall, Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, PA 1997 Dead-Fit Beauty, Leubsdorf Art Gallery at Hunter College, New York Giftland V: Consumerism , Printed Matter, New York Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro 1996 Giftland V: Democra$y, Printed Matter, New York, New York 1996 Alem de Agua: Copiacabana, el Museo Extremeño e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporáneo, Badajoz, Spain Anxious Times, Weber State University, Salt Lake City, Utah 1995 August 28, Domestic Setting, Los Angeles, California Fools Day, 12 Warren, New York, New York 1994 The Natural World, A/C Project Room, New York, New York 1990 1990 Northwest Annual, Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, Washington A Day Without Art, Museum for Contemporary Arts, Baltimore, Maryland Selected Bibliography 2008 Newhall, Edith, "Photos and sculptures at Locks", The Philadelphia Inquirer, Feb 2 2007 Roberta Smith, “Space Exploration, Conducted on a Spiral”, The New York Times, July 20 Carol Vogel, “The Week Ahead: Apr. 8-14: Art”, The New York Times, April 8 Katya Kazakina, “Bead Cocoons, Blavatsky Asleep, Leipzig Turbulence: Chelsea Art”, Bloomberg.com, March 2 2006 Jane Simon, “Alyson Shotz:Topologies”, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art and Richard E. Peeler Art Center, DePauw University, exhibition catalogue, December Emily Hall, “Ayson Shotz: C2”, Kevin Bruk Gallery, December “Alyson Shotz”, Jane, December 2006/January 2007 “Rocking Art at Rockefeller Center”, The New York Sun, May 10 “Artists at Work”, In New York Magazine, May 2006, p. 9 2005 “Gallery’s new artist-in-residence aims to connect viewers with nature”, Yale Bulletin, December 2 “New York: Alyson Shotz: Derek Eller”, Sculpture, October 2005 "Goings on About Town: Galleries Chelsea: Alyson Shotz at Derek Eller", The New Yorker, 4/11/05 Ken Johnson, "Alyson Shotz: A Moment in Time and Space", The New York Times, 4/1/05 Benjamin Genocchio, "Quiet Dazzle and Chaotic Chimes", The New York Times, 3/6/05 Brita Brundage, "Reflections/Deceptions", Fairfield Weekly, 3/10/05 Edith Newhall, Alyson Shotz at Locks Gallery, Artnews, January 2005 2004 Jane Ingram Allen, “Expanding Space/Engaging Viewers: Mirrors and Reflective Materials in Contemporary Sculpture”, Sculpture Magazine (online), Nov.2004, vol.23, No.9 Edward J. Sozanski, "Abstract works still near to their organic roots", The Philadelphia Inquirer, 10/1/04 Matthew Guy Nichols, “The Nature of Things to Come”, (exh. cat.), Locks Gallery Kelly Klaasmeyer, “Through a Glass Lightly”, Sallyport: The Magazine of Rice Univ., Fall 2004, Vol.61, No.1 David Fahl, "Alyson Shotz's The Shape of Space glitters in a closed gallery", The Houston Press, 5/17/04 Elisa Turner, "Alyson Shotz: The Simple Forms", Miami Herald, 4/4/04 Alfredo Triff, "The Simple Forms", Miami New Times, 4/8/04 David Pagel, "Reality and Irony Collide", The Los Angeles Times, 1/2/04 Ian Berry, "A Slight Magnification of Altered Things" (exh. cat.), The Framces Young Tang Teaching Museum 2003 Kevin Pratt, "Yard", Artforum , 9/03, p.229 (with photo) Kara Van Der Weg, "Yard", Contemporary Visual Arts, issue #57, fall 2003 Roberta Smith, "Impressions of the Yard, Visual and Olfactory", New York Times , 6/27/03, p.E28 (with photo) Alan G. Brake, "Message in a bottle", Interior Design Magazine, 6/3/03, p. 275 Goings on About Town: "Galleries Chelsea: Alyson Shotz at Derek Eller", The New Yorker, 5/12/03 Tessa Laird, "Gallery Walk", Art on Paper, March 2003, p.74 Lennie Bennet, "Fooling Around with Mother Nature", St. Petersburg Times, 1/26/03 Roger Boyce, "Neither Here nor There: Mirror Mirror at Mass Moca", Art New England, Feb. 2003, p.16 2002 Jessica Dawson, "Edgy Art in Richmond", Washington Post, 12/26/02, p.C1 Leah Ollman, "Pseudo Nature is Hip but Sterile", LA Times, 12/13/02 Roy Proctor, "Pacesetting Space", Richmond Times Dispatch, 10/27/0, p.H1 Paulette Roberts-Pullen, "Visual Pranks", Style Weekly, 10/30/02, p.27 The New Yorker, "Into the Woods", 8/12/02, p.17 ArtKrush.com, "Featured Artist", www.artkrush.com Kim Levin, "Voice Choice", The Village Voice, 2/19/02, p.104 2001 Lauren Parker, "Knock Knock", Smock Magazine , issue #3, Spring/Summer 2001, p.107 Daniel Rothbart, "a Walk in the Woods", NY Arts, 9/01, p.22-23 Holland Cotter, "Mixed Greens at Space 101", The New York Times, 5/18/01, p.E29 Anne Wehr, "Artistic Growth", Time Out New York, 4/26/01, issue no. 292 Sara Krajewski, "Blurry Lines", New Art Examiner, March 2001 2000 Jonathan Goodman, "Pastoral Pop", Contemporary Visual Arts, issue 31, fall Roy Proctor, "Modern Nature", Richmond Times Dispatch, 11/12/00, p.H2 Peter Nagy, "Against Nature", Time Out New York, 8/24/00, issue 257, p.52 Ken Johnson, "Pastoral Pop", The New York Times, 7/11/00, p.E34 Kim Levin, "Voice Choice", The Village Voice, 8/16-8/22/00 Ariella Budick, "Shifting Landscapes", Newsday, 8/20/00 Mario Naves, "It's Not Nice to Fake Mother Nature", The New York Observer, 8/28-9/4/00 The New Yorker, "Pastoral Pop", 8/7/00 New York, "On View: Paradise Paved", 8/7/00 Carol Kino, "The Emergent Factor", Art in America, July 2000, p.47 Katie Clifford, "Alyson Shotz", The New Art Examiner, Feb. 2000, p.53 1999 Sarah Schmerler, "Alyson Shotz", Time Out New York, 10/21/99, p.74 Ken Johnson, "Alyson Shotz", The New York Times, 10/8/99, p.E37 Kim Levin, "Voice Choice", The Village Voice, 10/5/99. Roberta Smith, "Art Rediscovers a Home on the Upper East Side", The New York Times, 5/30/99, p.E31 Tracy Adler and Heidi Zuckerman, Nature is Not Romantic (exh. cat.), NY, NY, Hunter College Sandy Cullen, "Artist Finds Change Lies Hidden in the Details", Harrisburg Patriot-News, 1/17/99 1998 Jonathan VanDyke, Coming Off the Wall (exh. cat.), Harrisburg, PA, Susquehanna Art Museum Sue Spaid, "L.A. Undercover", Art Papers, 3-4/98, p.16 Benedetta Pignatelli, "Visionaire", Specchio , 5/1/98, p.94-95 Grace Bradberry, "The most exclusive fashion magazine in the world", The London Times, 4/8/98 Tom Ford, ed., Visionaire Magazine, 4/98 Klein, Schaffner, Nahas, Pop-Surrealism (exh. cat.), Ridgefield, CT, Aldrich Museum of Art Faye Hirsch, "Reflective Mimicry", On Paper, March-April, p.41 1997 Amy Cappellazzo. On Paper (exh. cat). University of North Carolina, Weatherspoon Art Gallery Holland Cotter, "Dead-Fit Beauty", The New York Times, 2/28/97, p.C32 Dominique Nahas, "Dead-Fit Beauty", Review, 2/15/97, p.30 1996 Martha Schwendener. "Alyson Shotz at Susan Inglett", Art in America, December, p.104 Roberta Smith. "Alyson Shotz at Susan Inglett",The New York Times, April 26, p.C27 Faye Hirsch. "Gene-Seeds", On Paper, Sept.-Oct., p.30-31 Manami Fujimori. "Graceful Touch in High Tech Age", Tokyo, BT Magazine, July, p.113 Kim Levin. "Voice Choice: Alyson Shotz at Susan Inglett", The Village Voice, April 23 1995 Robin Kahn, ed.Time Capsule, pub. by Creative Time and S.O.S intl., New York 1994 Kim Levin. "Voice Choice: The Natural World", The Village Voice, Aug. 16, p.65 Awards 2007 Saint Gaudens Memorial Fellowship 2005-06 Happy and Bob Doran Artist in Residence, Yale University Art Gallery 2004 The New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation Studio Program 1999 Pollock-Krasner Foundation 1996 Art Matters Foundation 1990 MOCA, Northwest Annual Award Selected Public Collections Whitney Museum of American Art, NY Brooklyn Museum of Art, NY Davis Museum of Art, Wellesley, MA The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, NY Harvard University, MA High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC LA County Museum of Art, CA Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, WI The Museum of Modern Art, NY Southwest Texas State University, TX University of Houston, TX Weatherspoon Art Museum, NC Yale University Art Gallery, CT Go to top