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Polly Apfelbaum

(American, born 1955)

Polly Apfelbaum

Color Circle and Star, 2004

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Biography

Timeline

1955: Born in Abington, PA
1978: BFA, Tyler School of Art, Elkins Park, PA
SUNY Purchase, Purchase, NY
1982: Residency Fellowship, The Millay Colony
1984: Residency Fellowship, Ucross Foundation
1986: Artist Grant, Artist Space
1987: Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant
1992 - 1993: Residency Fellowship, The MacDowell Colony
1993: John Simon Memorial Guggenheim Fellowship in Sculpture
1994 - 1995: Residency Felowship, Yaddo
1995: Artist’s Fellowship (Sculpture), NY Foundation for the Arts
1998: Anonymous Was A Woman Grant
1999: Joan Mitchell Grant
2000: Richard Diebenkorn Teaching Fellowship
: Lives and works in New York

Exhibitions

2021: Some People See Time, with Madeline Hollander, Dries Van Noten, The Little House, Los Angeles, California (solo)
: Les Flammes, L'Âge de la céramique, Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris, Paris, France
: Downtown 2021, La MaMa Galleria, New York City, New York
: Taking Space: Contemporary Women Artists and the Politics of Scale, PAFA Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia/Pennsylvania
2020: The Future is Female – Love Letters, CODA Museum, Apeldoorn, The Netherlands
: Color & Complexity: 30 Years at Durham Press, Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, Pennsylvania
: Mutts and Mugs: Chicken Little was Right! The Sky Is Falling installation, Materia, La Biennale de Québec, Manif d'Art, Québec, Canada (solo)
: Via Appia, with Isa Melsheimer, Galerie nächst St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, Vienna, Austria (solo)
: Frequently the Woods are Pink, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art Washington State University, Pullman, Washington (solo)
: Through Thick & Thin, Polly Apfelbaum, Betsy Kaufamnn, Kerry Schuss, New York City, New York (solo)
: Through Thick & Thin, with Betsy Kaufman, Kerry Schuss, New York Cita, New York (solo)
: Painters’ Reply: Experimental Painting in the 1970s and now, Lisson Gallery, New York City, New York
: Less is a Bore. Maximalist Art & Design, ICA Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Massachusetts
: What Beauty is, I know not, KÖNIG GALERIE, Berlin, Germany
2019: Maneuver, curated by Lynne Cooke, The Artist’s Institute at Hunter College, New York City, New York
: The Aerodrome – An exhibition dedicated to the memory of Michael Stanley, Ikon Gallery; Birmingham, United Kingdom
2018: Happiness Runs, Belvedere 21, Vienna, Austria (solo)
: Waiting for the UFOs (a space set between a landscape and a bunch of flowers), Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, United Kingdom; Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri (2019) (solo)
: Taurus and the Awakener, David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles, California
: Out of Control, curated by Peter & Sally Saul, Venus over Manhattan, New York
: Just So Stories 1978 I 2018, Galerie nächst St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, Vienna, Austria
: PLAY Kortrijk - City circuit for contemporary art {$lblPeriod}, Kortrik, Belgium
: Pattern and Decoration. Ornament as Promise, Ludwig Forum für internationale Kunst, Aachen, Germany; MUMOK Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna, Austria
: 40th Annual Photography Regional: Effects That Aren’t Special, The Sage Colleges, Opalka Gallery, Albany, New York
: The Potential of Women, Alexander Grey Associates, New York City, New York (solo)
: Chapelle Saint-Jean, Le Sourn, Vallée du Blavet, France (solo)
: Dubuffet’s Feet My Hands, Frith Street Gallery, London, United Kingdom (solo)
: Chromatic Scale: Prints by Polly Apfelbaum, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC (solo)
: An Incomplete History of Protest: Selections from the Whitney’s Collection, 1940–2017, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, New York
2017: Austin Collects Contemporary: Selections from the Blanton’s Recent Gift from The Contemporary, Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, Texas
: An Interruption of the Rainbow: Color in 20th-Century Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles, California
: The Sound of Ceramics, Polly Apfelbaum and Wang Lu, Cohen Gallery at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island (solo)
: College of Arts and Design, Los Angeles, California (solo)
: Face (Geometry), (Naked) Eye Tracing s, curated by Kate McNamara, Ben Maltz Gallery, OTIS (solo)
: Erasing Rasing Paint, Dona Nelson and Polly Apfelbaum, Michael Benevento, Los Angeles, California (solo)
: Any Dream Will Do, a series of new poster-works exclusively for Luton town centre, Luton, United Kingdom (solo)
: Foundation Barbin Presents Redeux Sort Of, curated by Lucky Debellevue, Kai Matsumiya, New York City, New York
: Tell It Slant, curated by Jeff McMillan, Frith Street Gallery. London, United Kingdom
: In Conversation, Macy Art Gallery, Teacher's College, Columbia University, New York City, New York
: Beyond the Veil: Works from the Permanent Collection, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, New York
: Start Fresh, curated by Eva Mantell, Art Council's Taplin Gallery, Princeton, New Jersey
: Pop Reál, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, Pensylvania
: Making and Unmaking, curated by Duro Olowu, Camden Arts Centre, London, United Kingdom
: Found, curated by Cornelia Parker, Foundling Museum, London, United Kingdom
: The Natural Flow of Things, La Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain
: As if in a foreign country, curated by Chris Sharp, Galerie nächst St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, Vienna, Austria
: Painting in Time: Part Two, SAIC School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
2016: Routes of Influence, Pérez Art Museum Miami, Florida
: A Change of Heart, Hannah Hoffman Gallery, Los Angeles, California
: Nature Pops! Wave Hill Glendora Gallery, Bronx, New York
: Haptic, Alexander Gray Gallery, New York City, New York
: Defining Sculpture, Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
: Wall to Wall: Carpets by Artists, MOCA Cleveland, Cleveland, Ohio
: Three Graces. Polly Apfelbaum, Carrie Moyer, Tony Feher, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York
: Oysters with Lemon Part 1, Vantana 244, Brooklyn, New York
: Pretty Raw: After and Around Helen Frankenthaler, Rose Art Museum, Waltham, Massachusetts
: Vessels, Blackston Gallery, New York City, New York
: Painting in Time, The Tetley, Leeds, United Kingdom
: Pathmakers. Women in Art, Craft and Design, Midcentury and Today, MAD Museum of Arts and Design, Hobart, Wisconsin; National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washingten, D.C.
: Miss Dior, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
: Beyond Borders, 5th Beaufort Triennial of Contemporary Art by the Sea, Ostend, Belgium
: Toward Textiles. Material Fix, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin
: Joanne Greenbaum & Polly Apfelbaum, Magic Mushrooms, Halsey McKay Gallery, East Hampton, New York (solo)
: Assisted, curated by Jessica Stockholder, Kavi Gupta, Chicago, Illinois
: Interwove/n: Prints & Process, Richard & Dolly Maass Gallery, Purchase, New York
: City of Lights, within the series “Threaded”, Center for the Arts at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia (solo)
: Deep Purple Red Shoes, Be-Part, Waregem, Belgium (solo)
: Le Musée Imaginaire, Galerie Levebre & Fils, Paris, France
: Free Fall: Lynda Benglis and Polly Apfelbaum, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (solo)
: Polly Apfelbaum - Stephen Westfall, The Suburban, Milwaukee, Wisconsin (solo)
2015: Free Goodies! No Promises on the Advice, 56 Henry Street, New York City, New York (solo)
: Polly Apfelbaum & Gina Beavers, The Last Brucennial, New York, New York (solo)
: Color Stations Portland, Lumber Room, Portland, Oregon (solo)
: Evergreen Blueshoes, Burlington City Arts Center, Burlington, Vermont (solo)
: Electric Zinnia Field, kunstgaleriebonn, Bonn, Germany, with Stephen Westfall (solo)
: A Handweaver's Pattern Book, Clifton Benvento, New York City, New York (solo)
: Petroleum Jelly, Clifton Benevento, New York, New York
: Nevermind. Works from the 90s, Worcester Art Museum - Contemporary Gallery, Worcester, Massachusetts (solo)
: Cherub, 2nd Cannons project space, Los Angeles, California
: Polly Apfelbaum, Gene Davis, David Cole: For the Love of Gene Davis, Temple Contemporary, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2014: Silver, Frith Street Gallery, Soho Square, London, United Kingdom
: Colour Sessions, Frith Street Gallery, Golden Square, London, United Kingdom (solo)
2013: Untitled (hybrid) - Robert Miller Gallery, New York City, NY
Wit - The Painting Center, New York City, NY
: Second That Emotion, Mumbai Art Room, Mumbai, India (solo)
: Flatland: Color Revolte, Hansel & Gretel Picture Garden, New York, New York (solo)
: Planiverse, Galerie nächt St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, Vienna, Austria (solo)
: Flatterland: Funky Town, D’Amelio Gallery, New York, New York (solo)
2012: Regarding Warhol: Sixty Artists, Fifty Years, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
: Haunted House: Elizaville, T Space, New York, catalogue (solo)
2011: Polly Apfelbaum - Michael Benevento, Los Angeles, CA
Super Vision - Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
New Prints 2011/Autumn - International Print Center New York, New York City, NY
2010: Off Colour, D’Amelio Terras, New York, NY (solo)
Mini-Hollywood, Yellowstone Art Museum, MT (solo)
Color Notes, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA (solo)
It’s All American, NJ MOCA, NJ
Anguish, Downtown Gallery, Memphis College of Art, Memphis, TN
The Jewel Thief, The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
Polly Apfelbaum / Nicole Cherubini: Studiowork, D’Amelio Terras, New York, NY
After the Volcano, Frith Street Gallery, London, UK
Not Extractions, But Abstractions (Part 2), Clifton Benevento Gallery, New York, NY
Wild Things, Kunsthallen Brandts, Odense, Denmark
Dr. Zomb, Glendale Community College, Glendale, AZ
75 Seconds: Selected Polaroid Projects, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA
Better Half, Better Twelfth, Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, NE
Hecate’s Lab, Senior & Shopmaker Gallery, New York, NY
2009: Black Vegas and Fools Gold, Naomi Arin Contemporary Art, Las Vegas, NV (solo)
Anything can happen in a horse race, Milton Keynes Gallery, Milton Keynes, UK (solo)
Stax, Inaugural Show, VISUAL Centre for Contemporary Art, Carlow, Ireland
Topographies, Albright-Knox, Buffalo, NY
Besides, With, Against and Yet – Abstraction and the Ready-made Gesture, The Kitchen, New York, NY
Blocks of Color – American Woodcuts from the 1890’s to the Present, Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, NJ
Painting and its Surroundings, Palacio de Sastago, Spain
Floor and Wall Wall and Window, Helmhaus, Zurich, Switzerland
2008: Monichromes 2003-2007, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA (solo)
Notations: The Closing Decade, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Burning Down the House: Building a Feminist Art Collection, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
Lines, Grids, Stains, Words, Museum Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden, Germany
Hair of the Dog, Centre for Contemporary, New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, NM
Flower Power: A subversive Botanical, New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, NM
2007: Basic Divisions, Dieu Donnè, New York, NY (solo)
Love Sculpture, Frith Street Gallery, London, UK (solo)
Lovecraft, Solvent Space, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA (solo)
Love Street, Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA (solo)
Pink, Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke, Mumbai, India
Conversations, Travesia Cuatro, Madrid, Spain
Comic Abstraction: Image Breaking, Image Making, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Like Color in Pictures, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO
2006: Flags of Revolt and Defiance, Print Publishers Spotlight: The Leroy Nieman Center for Print Studies Columbia University, Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA (solo)
Resonance, Frith Street Gallery, London, UK
Zeigen. Eine Audiotour, Galerie Nächst St. Stephen, Vienna, Austria
Contemporary Masterworks: St. Louis Collects, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, MO
The Big Picture in the Small Gallery, Peggy Phelps Gallery, Claremont Garden, Visual Arts Center of Richmond, VA
Selections from the Leroy Neiman Center for Print Studies-Columbia University, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY
Print Run: An exhibition of Prints, Frith Street Gallery, London, UK
2005: Cartoon Garden, D’Amelio Terras, New York, NY (solo)
Good and Plenty, Galerie Nächst St. Stephan, Vienna, Austria (solo)
Resis-tances Hommage a Remy Zaugg Fonds, Regional d’art Contemporain, Montpellier, France
Eccentric Modern The Foundation To-Life, Inc., Mount Kisco, New York, NY
Frontiers: Collecting the Art of Our Time, Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA
Very Early Pictures, Luckman Gallery, California State University, Los Angeles, CA; travels to Arcadia University Art Gallery, Glenside, PA Polly Apfelbaum, Katherina Grosse, Karin Sander, Jessica Stockholder Galerie Nächst St. Stephan, Vienna, Austria
The Shape of Color, The Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
One-Armed Bandit, D'Amelio Terras, New York, NY
In the Abstract, Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
30 Ways to Make a Painting, Carl Solway Gallery, Cinncinnatti,OH
Color/Pattern/Grid: Selections from the Austin Museum of Art, The Austin Museum of Art, Austin, TX
POPulence, Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, Houston, TX; Cleveland Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland OH; Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston- Salem, NC
Extreme Abstraction, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
2004: Crazy Love, Love Crazy, Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis, MO, curated by Shannon Fitzgerald (solo)
Lodz Biennale, Lodz, Poland
Live Forever, or Die Trying (manic abstract painting now), Torch Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, curated by Twan Janssen, October 16 - November 20
Soft Edge, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL, curated by Staci Boris
Cakewalk, Ambrrosino Gallery, Miami, FL, curated by Jen DeNike
Flowers Observed, Flowers Transformed, The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA
Optimo: Manifestations of Optimism in Contemporary Art, Ballroom Marfa, Marfa, TX
The 179th Annual:An Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary American Art, National Academy Museum, New York, NY
Settlements, Musee d'art Moderne, La Terrasse, Saint-Etienne, France, curated by Lorand Heygi
Kunst Stoff, Galerie Nachst St. Stephan, Vienna, Austria
A Kind of Bliss, The Drawing Room, London, UK, organized by Kate McFarlane, et al; travels to Mead Gallery, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK
2003: What Does Love Have To Do With It? Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA, curated by Lisa Tung
Polly Apfelbaum (mid-career survey), Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, May 2- July 27; travels to Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, December 5- February 29; Kemper Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri June 4- September 5 (solo)
Today I Love Everybody, Triple Candie, Harlem, Harlem, NY (solo)
Endless Love, DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY
Hands to Work, Mind to Art, Borusan Foundation for Art and Culture, Turkey
Hover: Polly Apfelbaum and Pae White, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA
3-2-1, Gallery M, New York, NY
Celebrating Sculpture: Modern and Contemporary Works from Dallas Collections, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
Hover: Polly Apfelbaum and Pae White, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA
Plingeling, Magasin 3, Stockholm, Sweden
NYPD: New York Pattern & Decoration, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, curated by Michael Duncan
Rendered, Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York, NY
Bienal de Valencia, various locations, Valencia, Spain
My Mother is an Artist, Ernest Rubenstein Gallery at The Eductional Alliance, New York, NY
Splat, Boom, Pow: The Influence of Cartoons on Contemporary Art, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX
Stop & Go, FRAC Nord-Pa de Calais, Dunkerque, France
2002: Gun Club, Karyn Lovegrove Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
Support/Surface Prescient: Then and Now, Dorsky Gallery Curatorial Program, Long Island City, NY, curated by Saul Ostrow
Invitational Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
Polly Apfelbaum and Beatriz Milhazes, D'Amelio Terras, New York. Sprawl, The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH, curated by Sue Spaid
Spookie Knowledge, Pearl, London, UK
Kraft Puffar Kammare rot System, Skulpturens Hus, Stockholm, Sweden
Officina America, Galeria d'Arte Moderna, Bologna, Italy
The Eye of the Beholder, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee, Scotland, UK
2001: Points, Lines, Plans, Les Filles du Calvaire, Paris, France (solo))
Patterns: Between Object and Arabesque, Kunsthallen Brandts Kladefabrik, Denmark (solo)
Operativo, Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico. Sculpture as Field, Kunstverein Gottingen, Gottingen, Germany (solo)
The Return of the Real: A Selection from the Daniel Hechter Art Collection, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel (solo)
All About Paint, The University of Memphis Art Museum, Memphis,TN (solo)
Waterworks: U.S.Akvarell 2001, Nordiska Akvarellmeseet, Skarhamn, Sweden, curated by Kim Levi (solo)
As Painting: Division and Displacement, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH (solo)
Drawing, Frith Street Gallery, London, UK (solo)
Objective Color, Yale University Art Gallery, CT (solo)
Making the Making, curated by Charles Goldman, Apex Art, New York, NY (solo)
Points, Lines, Plans, Les Filles du Calvaire, Paris, France
Six Contemporary Artists, Clifford Gallery, Colgate University, Hamilton, NY
Best of Season, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
Patterns: Between Object and Arabesque, Kunsthallen Brandts Kladefabrik, Denmark
Operativo, Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico
Sculpture as Field, Kunstverein Gottingen, Gottingen, Germany
2000: Powerpuff, D'Amelio Terras, New York, NY (solo)
Skin and Bones, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine (solo)
Crazy Green, Bruised Orange, Karyn Lovegrove, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
Painting Pushed to Extremes, Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA
Paint Land, curated by Terry R. Myers, Lemon Sky Project, Los Angeles, CA
Live From New York, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Painting Function: Making It Real, SPACES, Cleveland, OH
soft corner hard edge, Blackwood Gallery, The University of Toronto at Mississauga. Traveling to Galerie Christiane Chassay, Montreal, Quebec
1999: Flying Hearts, Galeria Camargo Vilaça, São Paulo, Brazil (solo)
Chromaform: Color in Sculpture, curated by Frances Colpitt, Nevada Institute for Contemporary Art, Las Vegas, NV
The Body in Question: Tracing, Displacing, and Remaking the Human Figure in Contemporary Art, Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY
Neither/Nor, Grand Arts, Kansas City, MO
Postmark: An Abstract Effect, curated by Louis Grachos and Bruce W. Ferguson, Site Santa Fe, NM
Hindsight, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
1998: Reckless, Kiasma, Museum of Contemporary Art NYKY, Helsinki, Finland (solo)
Ice, D'Amelio Terras, New York, NY (solo)
Everyday, organized by Jonathan Watkins, 11th Biennale of Sydney, Australia
Colorfields, curated by David Pagel, Luckman Fine Arts Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Polly Apfelbaum and Tony Feher, Koyanagi Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Abstract Painting, Once Removed, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX, Traveled onto The Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art andDesign, Kansas City, MO
Humble County, D'Amelio Terras, New York, NY
Painting Objectives, Galerie Evelyne Canus, FranceDecorative Strategies, The Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
Spatiotemporal, Magasin 3 Stockholm Konstall, Stockholm, Sweden
Alternative Measures, curated by Susan M. Canning, College of New Rochelle, NYHomemade Champagne, organized by David Pagel, Claremont Graduate University, CA
Conversations: Polly Apfelbaum and Lynn McCarty, Art Resources Transfer Inc., New York, NY
1997: The Night, Walter/McBean Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA (solo)
Floor Drawing, Realismusstudio der NGBK, Künstlerhaus Am Acker, Berlin, Germany (solo)
Polly Apfelbaum/Lucky Debellevue, Dalarnas Museum, Falun, Sweden. Simple Form, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Hanging By A Thread, Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY
Divergent Models, curated by Saul Ostrow, Nassauischer Kunstverei Weisbaden e.V., Germany
Other, 4th Biennale D'art Contemporain de Lyon, France, curated by Harald Szeemann
Women's Work: Examining the Feminine in Contemporary Painting, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC
Sculpture, James Graham & Sons, New York, NY
Onomatopoeia, curated by Anthony Iannacci, Studio La Cittá, Verona, Italy
Fashion Moda, curated by Lisa Marks, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH
1996: 1996 Eclipse, Boesky & Gallery Fine Arts, New York, NY (solo)
Painting - The Extended Field, Magasin 3 Stockholm, Sweden (catalogue). Traveled to Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art, Malmo, Sweden. Der Fleck, curated by Dr. Peter Flunken, Galerie Im Kornerpark, Berlin, Germany
Painting In An Expanding Field, curated by Saul Ostrow, Bennington College, Bennington, VT
The Kingdom of Flora, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1995: Wallworks and Drawings, Hirschl and Adler Modern, New York, NY (solo)
Painting Outside Painting, 44th Corcoran Painting Biennial, curated by Terri Sultan, Corcoran Museum of Art, Washington, D.C.
Skew: Un-Ruly Painting, Gallery 400, The University of Illinois at Chicago, IL
Raw, Postmasters Gallery, New York, NY
Tampering: Artists and Abstraction Today, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
Permanent Collection Exhibition, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
Color: sign, system, sensibility, Stark Gallery, New York, NY
30th Anniversary of the Israel Museum, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, NY and The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
Pittura-immedia, Neue Galerie am Lndesmuseum Joanneum Graz, Austria
1994: D.I.Y., curated by Paul Ha, White Columns, New York, NY
The Social Fabric, Beaver College Gallery, Glenside, PA
Sense and Sensibility: Women and Minimalism in the 90's, curated by Lynn Zelevansky, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
1993: Wonderbread, Galerie Etienne Ficheroulle, Brussels (solo)
Polly Apfelbaum/Tony Feher/Claudia Matzko, Patrick Callery Gallery, New York, NY
Legend In My Living Room, curated by Terry R. Myers, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL
Empty Dress: Clothing as Surrogate in Recent Art, curated by Nina Felshin. Traveling exhibition 1993-1996,organized and circulated by ICI, New York, NY
Future Perfect, curated by Dan Cameron, Heiligenkreuuzerhof, Vienna, Austria
Yours, curated by Michael Jenkins, Wooster Gardens, New York
1992: The Blot on my Bonnet, Amy Lipton Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Anti-Masculine..., curated by Bill Arning, Kim Light Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Mssr. B's Curio Shop, curated by Saul Ostrow, Threadwaxing Space, New York, NY
There Is A Light That Never Goes Out, curated by Terry Myers, Amy Lipton Gallery, New York, NY
1991: Level World, Galerie Etienne Ficheroulle, Brussels (solo)
The Constellation of the Dart, Sue Spaid Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
Plastic Fantastic Lover, objet a, curated by Catherine Liu, BlumHelman Warehouse, New York, NY
When objects dream and talk in their sleep, Jack Tilton Gallery, New York, NY
1990: Wives’ Tales, Amy Lipton Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
The Language of Flowers, Special Projects, P.S.1, Long Island City, New York, NY (solo)
All Quiet on the Western Front, Galerie Antoine Candau, Paris, France
A Force of Repetition, New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ
Je Viens de Chez le Charcutier..., Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris, France
1989: The Daisy Chain, Loughelton Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
1988: The Somnambulist, Loughelton Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
1986: Still Lives, Hallwalls, Buffalo, NY (solo)
Wood Work, Paulo Salvador Gallery, New York, NY (solo)

Public Collections

: Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO
: Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, NE
: Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO
: Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
: Austin Museum of Art, Austin, TX
: Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden
: FRAC - Nord-Pas de Calais, Dunkerque, France
: Israel Museum, Jerusalem
: Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA
: Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
: The Progressive Art Collection, Mayfield Village, OH
: Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA
: Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
: Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, NE
: Armand Hammer Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
: Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
: Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA
: Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
: Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY
: Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
: Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France
: Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
: Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

Literature

2010: Princenthal, Nancy, Polly Apfelbaum, Art in America
2006: Art Forum, Polly Apfelbaum, Jan Avgikos, March, p 291
2005: The New York Times, Print Fair, Ken Johnson, Nov. 4, p B36
Elle Décor, Polly Apfelbaum, David Colman, November, p 66-68
2003: Gould, Claudia, Ingrid Schaffner, Polly Apfelbaum, Philadelphia, PA: Institute of Contemporary Art, 2003. Essays by Tim Griffin, Irving Sandler, and Ingrid Schaffner. ISBN-88454-103-7
Myers, Terry R. Polly Apfelbaum, Art US., November-December 2003: pp.38-39, illus.
Demos, T.J. Polly Apfelbaum, Artforum, October, 2003: p. 176, illus.
Herbert, Martin, Polly Apfelbaum, Frieze, October 2003: p. 120.
Lloyd, Ann Wilson, Seamstress of Splats and 7,000 Asterisks, The New York Times, May 11, 2003
Sozanski, Edward J., Colors, questions to floor you, The Philadelphia Inquirer, May 11, 2003: H10, illus.
2002: Anderson, Maxwell. American Visionaries: Selections from the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 2002. ISBN 0810968312
2001: Coles, Alex, Drawings, Frith Street Gallery, Art Monthly, May 2001: 30-32.
Gordon, Wesley, Polly Apfelbaum, New Art Examiner, 29.6 (March 2001): 54.
Stein Greben, Deidre, Stain Power, Art News, 100.6 (June 2001): 98-105.
2000: Addison, Laura. Velvet ground. Polly Apfelbaum's materialism, Portland Phoenix, February 4.
Cann, Valerie, Apfelbaum's bolts of fabric loaded with fun and intrigue, Maine Sunday Telegram, February 20.
Dailey, Meghan, Polly Apfelbaum, Powerpuff, Time Out New York, November 23 –30, 2000.
Frank, Peter, Polly Apfelbaum, Kate Shepherd, Pure De(sign), Los Angeles Weekly, April 13.
Gold, Donna, Eye of the Beholder, Maine Times, February 17
La Rocco, Claudia, Polly Apfelbaum's ,fallen paintings' defy labeling, The Times Record, February 17
Myers, Terry R. Polly Apfelbaum, , Artext 70, (August - October)
Ollman, Leah, Fabric Pieces Revel in the Joy of Color, Los Angeles Times, March 31.
Phillips, Autumn, Roll out the art, Casco Bay Weekly, January 27.
Williams, Alena, Polly Apfelbaum, art issues, Summer
> BrFerris, Alison. ly Apfelbaum: Installations 1996-2000, Bunswick, ME: Bowdoin College Museum of Art, 2000. Texts by Katy Kline and Alison Ferris. ISBN 0-916606-31-7
1999: Ryan, David. Interdeterminate Relations, Contemporary Visual Arts, Issue 23
1998: Lumpkin, Libby. Polly Apfelbaum, Helsinki, Finland: Museum of Contemporary Art, Kiasma, 1998. Text by Libby Lumpkin. ISBN 951-53-1775-4
Cotter, Holland, A Tour Through Chelsea, New York Times, May 15: E33.
Condon, Elizabeth, Polly Apfelbaum/ Lynn McCarty, New Art Examiner, March/April
Pagel, David, Color Them Retro, Los Angeles Times, August 16: 6, 61-62
1997: Porges, Maria. Polly Apfelbaum San Francisco Art Institute, Artforum, November: 120-121.
Rubinstein, Raphael, Extended Abstraction, Art In America, November: 104-115.
Bonetti, David, Gallery Watch (review), San Francisco Examiner, Friday, August 1
Baker, Kenneth, PollyApfelbaum's Suggestive Scatterings, San Francisco Chronicle, July 31: C1.
Helfand, Greg, Polly Apfelbaum, San Francisco Bay Guardian, July 30
Wachtmeister, Marika, Kvinna med ratt att pyssla, Femina, June 6
Conrads, Martin, Pop und Glam, Zitty, February 28
Kreis, Elfie, Ein Toast auf den Samt, Tagelspiegel, Feb 18
Rubenstein, Raphael, Polly Apfelbaum, Art in America, January: 93. Thurson, Alice, Polly Apfelbaum, Kansas City Star, Sunday October 27: J-3.
Edelman, Robert G., Polly Apfelbaum, art press, October: 70-1.
Landi, Anne, Polly Apfelbaum, Art News, 95.9 (October) : 136-7.
Smith, Roberta, Polly Apfelbaum, New York Times, September 6.
Schwendener, Martha, Polly Apfelbaum, TimeOut, September 4-11
Pagel, David, Polly Apfelbaum: Ring-A-Ring-A-Roses, January: 48-53.
Bell, Tiffany, Polly Apfelbaum's Medley of Signs, Art In America, February: 78-81.
Apfelbaum, Polly, From Fold to Fold., (artist's statement), New Observation, Jan/Feb: 12

Polly Apfelbaum

(American, born 1955)

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