sacred + profane
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Born 1948 in Haarlem, Netherlands. Lives and works in New York.
Solo Exhibitions
2024
“Out of Body” Carter Burden Gallery, New York, NY
2020
El Barrio’s Artspace PS109, ‘The Storyteller: Olivia Beens Through the Decades’, New York NY
2016
Carter Burden Gallery, ‘On the Wall: Crossing Time and Country’, New York NY
2015
A Space on Main, Cranbury NJ
1983
22 Wooster Gallery, ‘Generations’, New York NY
Colab Productions, ‘I Always Wanted to Have a Baby’, Washington D.C.
“Life of an Apartment” in “Not for Sale” ABC No Rio, New York NY
2022
“Together/Apart”, Covello@PS 109: Making Art Work El Barrio’s Artspace, New York, NY
2021
“Harlem Art Walk presents SPARK” El Barrio’s Artspace, New York NY
2019
“Making Art Work” Covello@PS 109, El Barrio’s Artspace, New York NY
2015
“Figuring Abstraction” Westbeth Gallery, New York, NY
Select Group Exhibitions
2024,
"100 Women of Spirit: Part I" Salon Zürcher, New York NY
"In House Inspirations" El Barrio’s Artspace, New York, NY
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2023
Art Lives Here, Harlem, NY
“Humans: mundane and mythical” Brooklyn Waterfront Artist Coalition, Brooklyn, NY
“Women Celebrate Women” El Barrio’s Artspace, New York, NY
2022
“Love Wall” collaborative tile murals Carter Burden Covello Center, New York, NY “Tatanka” Carter Burden Gallery, New York, NY
2021
“Et tu Art Brut” Andrew Eldin Gallery, New York, NY
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2020
Established Gallery, ‘Continuum’, Brooklyn NY
2019
Carter Burden Gallery, ‘Cold’, New York NY
2017
Carter Burden Gallery, ‘Changing Patterns’, New York NY
2016
Carter Burden Gallery, ‘Earth Spirit’, New York NY
2015
Lesley Heller Gallery, ‘Salon’, New York NY
Westbeth Gallery, ‘Figuring Abstraction’, New York NY
Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition, ‘Art in Clay: Origins’, Brooklyn NY
Carter Burden Gallery, ‘12 x 12’, New York NY
2014
Williamsburg Art & Historical Center, ‘Over the Edge: Paperworks Unbound’, Brooklyn NY
Carter Burden Gallery, ‘What You See is What You Get’, New York NY
2013
New Museum, ‘XFR STN’, New York NY
LeRoy Neiman Center, ‘Lasting Legacy’, New York NY
Williamsburg Art & Historical Center, ‘Spring Fling’, Brooklyn NY
2012
Proteus Gowanus, Brooklyn NY
Viridian Artists, New York NY
2011
A.I.R. Gallery, ‘Generations: VIII’, New York NY
Williamsburg Art & Historical Center, ‘Art From Detritus: Upcycling with Imagination’, Brooklyn NY
2009
Westbeth Gallery, ‘Triple Play’, New York NY
2008
Metro Poles, ‘Art in Action’, New York NY
Asian American Art Center, ‘The Journey: At the Crossroad’, New York NY
2003
Asian American Art Center, ‘Below Canal/After 9/11’, New York NY
Abrons Art Center, ‘Tradition and Innovation: Clay Sculptors’, New York NY
2002
A.I.R. Gallery, ‘Salon’, New York NY
Gallery Onetwentyeight, ‘RAWA Benefit’, New York NY
2001
Avery Fisher Hall Gallery, Lincoln Center, New York NY
Gallery Onetwentyeight, ‘Unsettled Spirits’, New York NY
1999
Abrons Art Center, ‘Artists-in-Residence’, New York NY
Bronx River Gallery, ‘Mumia 911’, Bronx NY
Tribe Gallery, Curated by Al Loving, New York NY
1998
Abrons Art Center, ‘Ain’t It Funky Now’, New York NY
Brooklyn Brewery Art Space, ‘Stirring Space’, Brooklyn NY
Gallery Onetwentyeight, ‘Freak of Nature’, New York NY
1997
Abrons Art Center, ‘Import/Transplant/Myth/Reality’, New York NY
Gallery Onetwentyeight, ‘Without Drums and Trumpets’, New York NY
Brooklyn Brewery Art Space, ‘Commitments’, Brooklyn NY
The Gallery at 1 East 53rd, ‘Small Works’, New York NY
1996
Gallery Onetwentyeight, ‘Café December’, New York NY
Gallery Onetwentyeight, ‘Tabula Rasa’, New York NY
Gallery 121 Henry, ‘Tiny Multiples’, New York NY
1995
Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art, Staten Island NY
Henry Street Settlement, ‘Fresh Air at Twenty’, New York NY
The Time Square, ‘Healing Through Art’, New York NY
Boricua College, ‘Personal Statements’, New York NY
1994
Art in General, ‘Salon’, New York NY
Artists Space, New York NY
Under One Roof, ‘Works on Paper’, New York NY
Dietal Gallery, ‘Cummington Artists’, Troy NY
Henry Street Settlement, ‘Stories’, New York NY
1992
Hunter College Gallery, ‘The Decade Show’, New York NY
1990
Abrons Art Center, ‘Subterranean Subjects’, New York NY
The Painted Bride, ‘Images & Words’, Philadelphia PA
Tallahassee Gallery, Tallahassee FL
1989
New Orleans Contemporary Art Center, ‘Oppression/Expression’, Curated by Lowery Sims and Leon Golub, New Orleans LA
Artists Space, Curated by Paterson Sims, New York NY
Bronx River Gallery, ‘New York Relationships’, Bronx NY
Exit Art, ‘Concrete Crisis’, New York NY
Max Fish Gallery, ‘Atomic Art’, New York NY
1988
Fashion Moda, ‘Expressions: African Drawing’, Bronx NY
1987
Ceres Gallery, ‘Collaborations Through New York Feminist Art Institute’, New York NY
1986
ABC No Rio, ‘Heroes and Heroines’, New York NY
ABC No Rio; City Gallery, ‘The First Five Years’, New York NY
1985
Performance Space 122, ‘AvantGardeArama’, New York NY
A.I.R. Gallery, ‘Artists as Filmmakers’, New York NY
22 Raw Gallery, ‘Fit & Flab Diaries’, New York NY
1984
Franklin Furnace, ‘Karnival Knowledge’, Brooklyn NY
Franklin Furnace, ‘Propaganda a.k.a. Public Relations’, Curated by Lucy Lippard, Brooklyn NY
1983
ABC No Rio, ‘Not for Sale’, New York NY
22 Wooster Gallery, ‘Erotic Art’, New York NY
Inroads, ‘Potentially Dangerous’, New York NY
Works Progress Administration, ‘The Ritz Show’, Washington, DC
1982
Hunter College Gallery, ‘Oppositions’, New York NY
1981
22 Wooster Gallery, ‘Erotomania: She Gave Her Heart Away’, New York NY
Hunter College Gallery, ‘Images: Reflections and Projections’, New York NY
480 Broome Street, ‘Indivisible’, New York NY
1980
22 Wooster Gallery, ‘Identifying’, New York NY
Grants and Fellowships
2017
Artist-in-Residence, Carter Burden Network/Leonard Covello Center, New York NY
2015
SPARC Artist’s Residency, Sirovich Center, New York NY
2014
Artist-in-Residence, Platte Clove Preserve, Catskill Conservancy, Hunter NY
SPARC Artist’s Residency, Sirovich Center, New York NY
2006
India Teaching Fellow, The Rubin Museum of Art, New York NY
2003
Fellow, Hambidge Center, Rabun Gap GA
2001
Fulbright-Hayes Fellow, University of Arizona, Istanbul TR
1998
Time Warner Arts Fellow, Council for Basic Education, New York NY
1996
Grantee, Department of Transportation New York Pedestrian Division Sign Project, New York NY
1995
Fellow, Hambidge Center, Rabun Gap GA
1992
Fellow, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Amherst VA
1991
Artist-in-Residence, New York Foundation for the Arts, New York NY
Fellow, Cummington School of the Arts, Cummington MA
1990
Fellow, MacDowell Colony, Peterborough NH
Fellow, Cummington School of the Arts, Cummington MA
Fellow, New York State Council on the Arts, New York NY
1988
Fellow, Cummington School of the Arts, Cummington MA
1987
Fellow, MacDowell Colony, Peterborough NH
Artist-in-Residence, Abrons Art Center/Henry Street Settlement, New York NY (position held 1987-2013)
1984
Fellow, Cummington School of the Arts, Cummington MA
Teaching Experience
2009-2012: Assistant Professor, CUNY Brooklyn College
1998-2000: Assistant Professor, Pratt Institute
1994-2012: New York City Department of Education
1982-1994: Studio in a School