Education MFA, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, 1991 BFA, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island, 1987 Solo Exhibitions 2010 Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY (forthcoming) "Standing Wave," Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH 2009 "Phase Shift," Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY "Drawing Through Space," Syracuse University Art Gallery, Syracuse, NY 2008 Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site, Cornish, NH 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, NY 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, NY (Project Room) 2005 "C2," Kevin Bruk Gallery, Miami, FL Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT Derek Eller Gallery, New York, 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, NY 2002 Lemon Sky Projects, Los Angeles, CA 1999 Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, PA Susan Inglett, New York, NY 1998 Susan Inglett, New York, NY 1997 Lemon Sky Projects, Los Angeles 1996 Susan Inglett, New York Selected Group Exhibitions 2010 "Contemplating the Void: Interventions in the Guggenheim Museum," Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY (forthcoming) "Material World: Painting and Sculpture as Environment," Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams, MA (forthcoming) 2009 "Living Color: Selections from the Hirshhorn Collection," Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC "The Age of the Marvellous," Holy Trinity Church, London "Selections from the Kramarsky Collection," Museo de Arte Contemporaneo Esteban Vicente, Segovia, Spain "Sparkle and Glitter," Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA "Under the Influence," Girls Club Collection, Miami, FL 2008 "New Work: Zilvinias Kempinas, Alyson Shotz, Mary Temple," San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA "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 "Landscapes for Frankenstein," Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York, NY "From Nature," Carolina Nitsch Project Space, New York, NY "In A Pure Land," Isis Gallery, London, UK 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, Providence, RI "Repeat Performance," Anthony Grant Gallery, New York, NY "Alyson Shotz/Julianne Schwartz," Mixed Greens Gallery, New York, NY "Maurizio Couldn't be Here: ARTCOM-The Final Frontier," Apex Art, New York, NY 2004 "Spectrums: Newer Imaging in Photography and Photography-Related Artwork," Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA "Needful Things: Contemporary Multiples," Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH "reGenerations: Environment Art in California," Armory Center for the Arts, Los Angeles, CA "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, FL "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, New York, NY 2002 "Mirror Mirror," MASS MOCA, North Adams, MA "Fictions in Wonderland," Beverly Reynolds Gallery, VA "Into the Woods," Julie Saul Gallery, New York, NY "Dangerous Beauty," curated by Manon Slome, JCC, NY 2001 "Digital Printmaking Now," Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY "Plant Life," curated by Patrick Callery, K.S. Art, New York, NY "Being There," Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY "Material Whirled," Art in General, New York, NY "Sensing the Forest," Wave Hill, Bronx, NY "Mixed Greens at Space 101," Williamsburg, NY "Let's Get to Work," Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, 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, New York, NY 1999 "Sound Foundations: Audio in Video," Bard College, Center for Curatorial Studies, NY "Best of the Season," Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT "Nature is Not Romantic," Leubsdorf Art Gallery at Hunter College, New York, NY "comfort," Post Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1998 "Media Library," David Zwirner Gallery, New York, NY "New Video from The Outpost," The Kitchen, New York, NY "Pop-Surrealism," The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT 1998 "Coming Off The Wall," Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, PA 1997 "Dead-Fit Beauty," Leubsdorf Art Gallery at Hunter College, New York, NY "Giftland V: Consumerism," Printed Matter, New York, NY "Art on Paper," Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC 1996 "Giftland V: Democra$y," Printed Matter, New York, NY 1996 "Alem de Agua: Copiacabana," el Museo Extremeño e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporáneo, Badajoz, Spain "Anxious Times," Weber State University, Salt Lake City, UT 1995 "August 28," Domestic Setting, Los Angeles, CA "Fools Day," 12 Warren, New York, NY 1994 "The Natural World," A/C Project Room, New York, NY 1990 "1990 Northwest Annual," Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA "A Day Without Art," Museum for Contemporary Arts, Baltimore, MD Selected Bibliography 2009 Sexton, Elaine, “Alyson Shotz at Derek Eller Gallery”, Art in America, September Rosenberg, Karen. “Alyson Shotz: Phase Shift,” The New York Times, March 13 Cotter, Holland. “On the Piers, Testing the Waters in a Down Market,” The New York Times, March 6 Kessels, Erik. “Fascinatie,” Adformatie Netherlands, March 5 Finch, Elizabeth. “New York New Drawings,” ex. cat., Museo de Arte Contemporaneo Esteban Vicente, Segovia, Spain 2008 Chavez, Anja, "Sculpture Today: A Conversation with Alyson Shotz," Sculpture, Vol. 27, No.9, November, p. 25-29. Stockwell, Craig. "Art Reviews: Alyson Shotz," Art New England, October/November, p. 57 Rosenberg, Karen. "Landscapes for Frankenstein," The New York Times, August 1 Newhall, Edith. "Photos and sculptures at Locks," The Philadelphia Inquirer, Feb 2 2007 Smith, Roberta. “Space Exploration, Conducted on a Spiral,” The New York Times, July 20 Vogel, Carol. “The Week Ahead: Apr. 8-14: Art”, The New York Times, Apr 8 Kazakina, Katya. “Bead Cocoons, Blavatsky Asleep, Leipzig Turbulence: Chelsea Art”, Bloomberg.com, March 2 2006 Simon, Jane. “Alyson Shotz:Topologies,” Madison Museum of Contemporary Art and Richard E. Peeler Art Center, DePauw University, exhibition catalogue, December Hall, Emily. “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, illus. “Artists at Work”, New York Magazine, May 2006, p. 9 2005 “Gallery’s new artist-in-residence aims to connect viewers with nature,” Yale Bulletin, Dec 2 “New York: Alyson Shotz: Derek Eller,” Sculpture, October "Goings on About Town: Galleries Chelsea: Alyson Shotz at Derek Eller," The New Yorker, April 11 Johnson, Ken. "Alyson Shotz: A Moment in Time and Space," The New York Times, April 1 Genocchio, Benjamin. "Quiet Dazzle and Chaotic Chimes," The New York Times, March 6 Brundage, Brita. "Reflections/Deceptions," Fairfield Weekly, March 10 Newhall, Edith. "Alyson Shotz at Locks Gallery," ARTnews, January 2004 Allen, Jane Ingram. “Expanding Space/Engaging Viewers: Mirrors and Reflective Materials in Contemporary Sculpture,” Sculpture Magazine (online), November, vol.23, No.9 Sozanski, Edward J. "Abstract works still near to their organic roots," The Philadelphia Inquirer, October 10 Nichols, Matthew Guy. “The Nature of Things to Come,” Locks Gallery, exhibition catalog Klaasmeyer, Kelly. “Through a Glass Lightly”, Sallyport: The Magazine of Rice Univ., Fall 2004, Vol.61, No.1 Fahl, David. "Alyson Shotz's The Shape of Space glitters in a closed gallery," The Houston Press, May 17 Turner, Elisa. "Alyson Shotz: The Simple Forms," Miami Herald, April 4 Triff, Alfredo. "The Simple Forms," Miami New Times, April 8 Pagel, David. "Reality and Irony Collide," The Los Angeles Times, January 2 Berry, Ian. "A Slight Magnification of Altered Things," The Framces Young Tang Teaching Museum (exhibition catalog). 2003 Pratt, Kevin. "Yard," Artforum, September, p.229 (with photo) Van Der Weg, Kara. "Yard," Contemporary Visual Arts, issue #57, fall 2003 Smith, Roberta "Impressions of the Yard, Visual and Olfactory," The New York Times, June 27, p.E28 (with photo) Brake, Alan G. "Message in a bottle," Interior Design Magazine, June 3, p. 275 Goings on About Town: "Galleries Chelsea: Alyson Shotz at Derek Eller," The New Yorker, May 12 Laird, Tessa. "Gallery Walk," Art on Paper, March, p.74 Bennet, Lennie. "Fooling Around with Mother Nature," St. Petersburg Times, January 26 Boyce, Roger. "Neither Here nor There: Mirror Mirror at Mass Moca," Art New England, February, p.16 2002 Dawson, Jessica. "Edgy Art in Richmond," Washington Post, December 26, p.C1 Ollman, Leah. "Pseudo Nature is Hip but Sterile," LA Times, December 13 Proctor, Roy. "Pacesetting Space," Richmond Times Dispatch, October 27, p.H1 Paulette Roberts-Pullen, "Visual Pranks," Style Weekly, October 30, p.27 "Into the Woods," Reviews, The New Yorker, August 12, p.17 ArtKrush.com, "Featured Artist", www.artkrush.com Levin, Kim. "Voice Choice," The Village Voice, February 19, p.104 2001 Parker, Lauren. "Knock Knock," Smock Magazine, issue #3, Spring/Summer, p.107 Rothbart, Daniel. "a Walk in the Woods," NY Arts, September, p.22-23 Cotter, Holland. "Mixed Greens at Space 101," The New York Times, May 18, p.E29 Wehr, Anne."Artistic Growth," Time Out New York, April 26, issue no. 292 Krajewski, Sara. "Blurry Lines," New Art Examiner, March 2000 Goodman, Jonathan. "Pastoral Pop," Contemporary Visual Arts, issue 31, fall Proctor, Roy. "Modern Nature," Richmond Times Dispatch, 11/12/00, p.H2 Nagy, Peter. "Against Nature", Time Out New York, August 24, issue 257, p.52 Johnson, Ken. "Pastoral Pop," The New York Times, July 11, p.E34 Levin, Kim. "Voice Choice," The Village Voice, August 16-22 Budick, Ariella. "Shifting Landscapes," Newsday, 8/20/00 Mario Naves, "It's Not Nice to Fake Mother Nature", The New York Observer, August 28 - September 4 "Pastoral Pop," Reviews, The New Yorker, August 7 "On View: Paradise Paved," New York Magazine, August 7 Kino, Carol. "The Emergent Factor," Art in America, July, p.47 Clifford, Kate. "Alyson Shotz", The New Art Examiner, 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. Smith, Roberta. "Art Rediscovers a Home on the Upper East Side," The New York Times, May 30, p.E31 Adler,Tracy and Heidi Zuckerman. "Nature is Not Romantic," (exhibition catalog) Hunter College, New York, NY Cullen, Sandy. "Artist Finds Change Lies Hidden in the Details," Harrisburg Patriot-News, January 17 1998 VanDyke, Jonathan. "Coming Off the Wall," Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, PA (exhibition catalog) Spaid, Sue. "L.A. Undercover," Art Papers, March - April , p.16 Pignatelli, Benedetta. "Visionaire," Specchio, May 1, p.94-95 Bradberry, Grace. "The most exclusive fashion magazine in the world," The London Times, April 8 Ford, Tom ed., Visionaire Magazine, April Klein, Schaffner, Nahas, Pop-Surrealism (exh. cat.), Ridgefield, CT, Aldrich Museum of Art Hirsch, Faye. "Reflective Mimicry," On Paper, March-April, p.41 1997 Cappellazzo, Amy. "On Paper," University of North Carolina, Weatherspoon Art Gallery (exhibition catalog) Cotter, HOlland. "Dead-Fit Beauty," The New York Times, February 28, p.C32 Nahas, Dominique. "Dead-Fit Beauty," Review, February 15, p.30 1996 Schwendener, Marth. "Alyson Shotz at Susan Inglett," Art in America, December, p.104 Smith, Roberta. "Alyson Shotz at Susan Inglett," The New York Times, April 26, p.C27 Hirsch, Faye. "Gene-Seeds," On Paper, Sept.-Oct., p.30-31 Fujimori, Manami. "Graceful Touch in High Tech Age," Tokyo, BT Magazine, July, p.113 Levin, Kim. "Voice Choice: Alyson Shotz at Susan Inglett," The Village Voice, April 23 1995 Kahn, Robin,ed.Time Capsule, pub. by Creative Time and S.O.S intl., New York 1994 Levin, Kim. "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 Brooklyn Museum of Art, NY The Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley, MA The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, NY Harvard University, Boston, MA High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC Kunst am Bau Foundation, Germany Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI Memorial Sloan Kettering, New York, NY Museum of Modern Art, NY San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA Southwest Texas State University, TX University of Houston, TX Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC Whitney Museum of American Art, NY Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT Go to top