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Lesley Dill

(American, born 1950)

Lesley Dill

Poetic Body: Ears, 1992

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Biography

Timeline

1950: Born in Bronxville, USA
1972: B.A., Trinity College, Hartford, USA
1974: MAT, Smith College, Northampton, USA
1980: M.F.A., Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, USA
1983: Zaner Corporation Purchase Award from Small Works '83
1984: Artist-in-Residence, Altos de Chavon, Dominican Republic
1990: National Endowment for the Arts, Sculpture Fellowship
1992: Project Residency Award, Hillwood Art Museum and New York State Council on Arts
1995: New York Foundation for the Arts, Drawing - Printmaking Category
1996: Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant
2007: Rockefeller Foundation Multi Artists Production Award with Tom Morgan
: Alumna Award, Maryland Institute of Art, Baltimore, USA
2008: Anonymous Was A Woman
2010: Center for Book Arts Honoree
2013: Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, SGC International Lifetime Achievement in Printmaking Award
: Lives in Brooklyn, USA

Exhibitions

2013: Material World, Denver Art Museum, Denver, USA
Blasphemy and Devotion: Redefining the Spiritual in Art, Delaware County Community College Art Gallery, Media, USA
Makers in Print: International Exhibition SGCI Awards Exhibition, Peck School of the Arts, Milwaukee, USA
The Artist and the Poet, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, USA
From Provincetown to Now: 100 Years of Women in Prints, Mary Ryan Gallery, New York, USA
Majority Rules: A Decade of Contemporary Art Acquisitions, McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, USA
The Female Gaze: Women Artists Making Their World, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, USA
Decade: Contemporary Collecting 2002-2012, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, USA
Lesley Dill’s Poetic Visions: From Shimmer to Sister Gertrude Morgan, Whatcom Museum, Bellingham; Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at University of Oregon, Eugene; Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art, Charleston, USA (solo)
2012: Poetic Visions, Safety-Kleen Gallery One at Elgin Community College, Elgin, USA
Beaten & Bound, Lubeznik Center for the Arts, Michigan City, USA
Between the Lines: Word and Image from Graphicstudio, Eckerd College, St. Petersburg, USA
The Annual 2012, National Academy Museum and School, New York, USA
ArtMuse, Sarasota Museum of Art, Sarasota, USA
Lesley Dill: I had a Blueprint of History, Dieu Donné, New York, USA (solo)
Artists’ Ink, George Adams Gallery, New York, USA
Faith & the Devil, George Adams Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
2011: Lesley Dill, Selections (Prints, Works on Paper), Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, USA (solo)
Peace on Earth: Art Against War, Forum Gallery, New York, USA
43rd Collectors Show and Sale, Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, USA
Paper Trails: Selected Works from the Collection 1934-2001, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
Points of View: Selections from Seven Colorado Collections, Colorado University Art Museum, Boulder, USA
Intersection: Photography/Painting/Drawing, Marlborough Chelsea, New York, USA
The Question of Drawing, Ogunquit Museum of American Art, Ogunquit, USA
The Fashion Show, Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, USA
Rock/Paper/Scissors, Clark Gallery, Lincoln, USA
Paper A-Z, Sue Scott Gallery, New York, USA
Size Matters: Large-Scale and Small-Scale Paintings, Drawings and Sculptures, George Adams Gallery, New York, USA
2010: Wording the Image/Imaging the Word: The Prints of Pat Steir, Jaune Quick-To-See Smith, Lynne Allen, and Lesley Dill, Gallery of the College of Staten Island, New York; Sherman Gallery at Boston University, Boston, USA
New and Classic, George Adams Gallery, New York, USA
Hell Hell Hell/Heaven Heaven Heaven: Encountering Sister Gertrude Morgan & Revelation, Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, USA (solo)
Paper and Bronze, George Adams Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
The Strange Experience of Beauty, Byron C. Cohen Gallery, Kansas City, USA (solo)
I Heard A Voice: The Art of Lesley Dill, Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattenooga; Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton; Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg; Palmer Museum of Art at Penn State University, University Park; Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock; Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, USA (solo)
Slash: Paper under the Knife, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, USA
American Story, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, USA
2009: Summer Group Show, George Adams Gallery, New York, USA
By A Thread, Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York, USA
Rare Editions: The Book as Art, Lehman College Art Gallery, New York, USA
Elements of Nature: Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art at Pepperdine University, Malibu, USA
Reconfiguring the Body in American Art 1820-2009, National Academy Museum, New York, USA
Lesley Dill, Galeria Thomas Cohn, Sao Paolo, Brazil (solo)
2008: Art and Illusion: Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, USA
Wedded Bliss: The Marriage of Art and Ceremony, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, USA
Revision, Reiteration, Recombination, Art Gallery at University of Central Florida, Orlando, USA
2007: Word Queens, Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, USA (solo)
Tremendous World, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, Purchase, New York, USA (solo)
Dialogues: Heads, George Adams Gallery, New York, USA
Well Dressed, Nathan Cummings Foundation, Rush Philanthropic Arts Foundation, New York, USA
Surrealism Today, Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, USA
The Thrill Came Slowly: Prints and Multiples 1990-2005, George Adams Gallery, New York; Sawhill Gallery at James Madison University, Harrisonburg; Prichard Art Gallery at University of Idaho, Moscow; Center of Contemporary Arts, St. Louis, USA (solo)
2006: A Fine Line, Castellani Art Museum at Niagara University, New York, USA (solo)
New Work, George Adams Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
I Heard as If I Had No Ear: Lesley Dill and Tom Morgan, Montalvo Arts Center, Saratoga, USA (solo)
2005: Speak and Be Spoken To, Texas State University, San Marcos, USA (solo)
Blue, Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, USA (solo)
New Works, Equinox Gallery, Vancouver, Canada (solo)
2002 - 2004: Lesley Dill: A Ten Year Survey, Dorsky Museum at SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz; Art Gallery at University of Colorado, Boulder; Cultural Center, Chicago; Contemporary Museum, Honolulu; Scottsdale Center for Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, USA (solo)
2002: Lesley Dill, Byron Cohen Gallery for Contemporary Art, Kansas City, USA (solo)
New York, New Work, Now!, Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, USA
From Stone to Foam, Nohra Haime Gallery, New York, USA
Me, Myself & I, George Adams Gallery, New York, USA
Crush, Featuring Works By: Lesley Dill, Kathleen Gilje, Chris Komater, Lazaro Montano, Ayae Takahashi, Julian Tomasello and Melanie Willhide, Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, USA
Pasted On: A Survey of Collage Strategies, Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago, USA
Issues of Identity in Recent American Art, Gibson Gallery, SUNY Potsdam; University of Tennessee, Knoxville; Illinois State University, Normal; William Paterson University, Wayne, USA
Looking Forward Looking Black, Elaine L, Jacob Gallery, Detroit; Houghton House Gallery at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva; Weatherspoon Art Gallery at University of North Carolina, Greensboro; Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale; Georgia State University School of Art and Design Gallery, Atlanta; Aidekman Arts Center at Tufts University, Boston; Zilkha Gallery at Wesleyan University, Middletown; Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles; Victoria H. Myhren Gallery at University of Denver, Denver; Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, USA
2001 - 2003: Rags To Riches: 25 Years of Paper Art from Dieu Donne Papermill, Kresge Art Museum, East Lansing; Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art, Havensville; Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington; Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, USA
2001: Artists Respond: A Benefit Exhibition of Works by Gallery Artists and I Love New York Benefit, George Adams Gallery, New York, USA
Spectrum 2001, Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, USA
Benefit Art Auction, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, USA
A Threshold of Spirit, Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine, New York, USA
Tongues on Fire: Visions and Ecstasy, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, USA (solo)
Lesley Dill, Harrisburg Area Community College Art Gallery, Harrisburg, USA (solo)
Unbound: Reshaping Artist's Books, Henry Street Settlement, New York, USA
Large Drawings from the Arkansas Arts Center Foundation Collection, Circulated by Smith-Kramer Fine Art Services, Kansas City; Columbus Museum, Columbus; Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown; Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson; Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, Cedar Rapids; Hunter Museum of Art, Chattanooga; Center for the Visual Arts at Metropolitan State College, Denver; Museum of Art at University of Georgia, Athens; Dubuque Museum of Art, Dubuque; Washington State University Museum of Art, Pullman, USA
2000: Lesley Dill – New Sculpture, George Adams Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
Lesley Dill – Tilt, Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, USA (solo)
These Saw Visions: Billboards by Lesley Dill, Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver, Canada (solo)
The Likeness of Being, DC Moore Gallery, New York, USA
Domesticity Revisted, Von Liebig Art Center, Naples, USA
Uncommon Threads: Contemporary Artists and Clothing, Herbert F. Johnson Museum at Cornell University, Ithaca, USA
Collecting...Passion and Perspective of Jodi Caron, Sandy Carson Gallery, Denver, USA
Recent Works, Jim Kempner Fine Art, New York, USA
Remnants of Memory: Contemporary American Art in Textile, Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, USA
Contemporary Narratives in American Prints, Whitney Museum of American Art at Champion, New York, USA
1999: Female, Wessel and O’Connor Gallery, New York, USA
Artists for Mumia 911, George Adams Gallery, New York, USA
The Body in Question: Tracing, Displacing, and Remaking the Human Figure in Contemporary Art, Speed Art Museum, Louisville, USA
Billboard: Art on the Road, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams, USA
Art About Art, George Adams Gallery, New York, USA
Lesley Dill - New Works, Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, USA (solo)
Lesley Dill, Weinstein Gallery, Minneapolis, USA (solo)
New Cast Works, Byron Cohen Gallery, Kansas City, USA (solo)
Work In Progress: Lesley Dill, Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, USA (solo)
1998: In the Details, Barbara Gross Galerie, Munich, Germany
Drawings IV, Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
These Saw Visions..., University of West Florida Art Gallery, Pensacola, USA (solo)
Two-Person Exhibition with Sudarshan Shetty, Nature Morte Gallery, New Delhi, India (solo)
Lesley Dill, Locus Gallery, St. Louis, USA (solo)
Lesley Dill: A Secret Told..., George Adams Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
Burton/Marinkovich Gallery, Washington D.C.
Cohen Berkowitz Gallery, Kansas City, USA
Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, USA
1997: Group Exhibition, Elena Zang Gallery, Woodstock, USA
Small Works, Susan Cummins Gallery, Mill Valley, USA
Alliance for Contemporary Art: Auction '98, Denver Art Museum, Denver, USA
A Show of Hands, George Adams Gallery, New York, USA
Art Foundry Editions Santa Fe, Knoedler & Company, New York, USA
Instinct and Intellect, Monique Knowlton Gallery, New York, USA
A Singular Vision: Prints from Landfall Press, Milwaukee Museum of Art, Milwaukee; Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
Lesley Dill, Galeria Thomas Cohn, Sao Paulo, Brazil (solo)
Language and Desire, Equinox Gallery, Vancouver, Canada (solo)
Lesley Dill: In Black and White, George Adams Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
Lesley Dill: A Mouth Full of Words, Art Museum at University of Memphis, Memphis, USA (solo)
Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, USA (solo)
Shirts and Skins: The Absent Figure in Contemporary Art, Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, USA
1996: Portraits and Self Portraits, George Adams Gallery, New York, USA
Lesley Dill, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, USA (solo)
Banners and Figurative Sculpture, Susan Cummins Gallery, Mill Valley, USA (solo)
I Reach Along the Cord of Speech, Quartet Editions, New York, USA (solo)
Installation and Performance, Creteil Maison des Arts, Créteil, France (solo)
Voices in the Air, Cohen Berkowitz Gallery, Kansas City, USA (solo)
Lesley Dill: The Poetic Body, Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, USA (solo)
Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, USA (solo)
Empty Dress: Clothing as Suorgate in Recent Art, Neuberger Museum, Purchase; Schafler Gallery at Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, USA
1995: Arts and Letters, June Kelly Gallery, New York, USA
Paper View, Cohen Berkowitz Gallery, Kansas City, USA
Group Exhibition, Lizardi/Harp Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Women’s Work: An Open Book, HarperCollins Exhibition Space, New York, USA
Frumkin/Adams Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
Voices in My Head, George Adams Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
Lesley Dill: An Installation, Gallery at Dieu Donne Papermill, New York, USA (solo)
Clothe My Naked Body, Quartet Editions, New York, USA (solo)
5 Women Sculptors, Organization of Independent Artists at XI Valparaiso Bienal, Chile
1994: Works for Young Collectors, Lemberg Gallery, St. Louis, USA
The Body Human, Nohra Haime Gallery, New York, USA
Around the House, Frumkin/Adams Gallery, New York, USA
Material Concerns, Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, USA
Paint, Props, & Process, Castle Gallery at College of New Rochelle, New York, USA
The Domestic Landscape: Painting, Sculpture & Art Furniture, Monique Knowlton Gallery, Kent Station, USA
Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, USA (solo)
Gracie Mansion Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
Figure as Fiction: The Figure in Visual Art and Literature, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, USA
1993: 10 x 10 x 10 , TZ’ART, 28 Wooster, New York, USA
Nine Sculptors and Their Printer: A Tribute to Solo Impressions, Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, USA
White Men in Suits, Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center, Buffalo, USA
Return of the Cadave Exquis, Drawing Center, New York, USA
The Rag Trade, InterArt Center, New York, USA
Fall from Fashion, Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, USA
Group Exhibition, Rosa Esman Gallery, New York, USA
Regarding Masculinity, Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, USA
Table Top Sculpture I, Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York, USA
Dill, Dickson, Ann Jaffe Gallery, Miami, USA (solo)
Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, USA (solo)
Sandler-Hudson Gallery, Atlanta, USA (solo)
Frumkin/Adams Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, USA (solo)
1992: FASHION, Trenkmann Gallery, New York, USA
The Word-Image in Contemporary Art, Kean College, Union, USA
WAR, Trenkmann Gallery, New York, USA
Sense and Sensibility, Solo Press, New York, USA
Queens Museum, New York, USA (solo)
Sandler-Hudson Gallery, Atlanta, USA (solo)
1991: Gracie Mansion Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
Bronze, Frumkin/Adams Gallery, New York, USA
Burning in Hell, Franklin Furnace, New York, USA
Stark Contrast, Trenkmann Gallery, New York, USA
1990: Small Works-Cast Iron, Sculpture Center, New York, USA
Life Before Art: Images From the Age of AIDS, Carlo Lamagna Gallery, New York, USA
Landscape/Mindscape, Carlo Lamagna Gallery, New York, USA
1989: Collector’s Choice, Center for the Visual Arts, Vero Beach, USA
1988: Embodiments, Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, Brattleboro, USA
Seeing the Figure, Midtown Galleries, New York, USA
1987: Don’t Knock the Wood, Helander Gallery, Palm Beach, USA
The Human Form, The Spiritual Vision, Alexander Wood Gallery, New York, USA
The Third Inaugural Exhibition, Carlo Lamagna Gallery, New York, USA
G.H. Dalsheimer Gallery, Baltimore, USA (solo)
Carlo Lamagna Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
1986: Traps: Elements of Psychic Seduction, Carlo Lamagna Gallery, New York, USA
New Work/New York, Helander Gallery, Palm Beach, USA
Perfect, Paulo Salvador Gallery, New York, USA
Two Person Show, De Facto Salon, New York, USA
1985: Galerie Taub, Philadelphia, USA (solo)
1983: 55 Mercer Street Gallery, New York, USA (solo)

Public Collections

: Memorial Art Museum, Rochester, NY
: Florida International University, Miami, FL
: Elvehjem Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
: Cornell University, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, NY
: Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
: Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR
: American Embassy, Geneva, Switzerland
: Achenbach Foundation, M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, CA
: Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
: Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL
: Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH
: Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
: Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, NY
: Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA
: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
: Library of Congress, Washington, DC
: Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art and Design, Kansas City, MO
: Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE
: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Sydney and Frances Lewis Collection, Richmond, VA
: Spencer Museum, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
: Zaner Corporation, Rochester, NY
: Yale University Art Museum, New Haven, CT
: Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
: High Museum, Atlanta, GA
: Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
: The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI
: Columbus Museum, Columbus, GA
: Greenville County Museum of Art, SC
: High Museum, Atlanta, GA

Performances

2009: Divide Light, Film, Conceived and directed by Lesley Dill, music composed by Richard Marriott, film by Ed Robbins, Film premiere at Anthology Film Archives, New York, NY
2008: Divide Light, Conceived and directed by Lesley Dill, music composed by Richard Marriott, Montalvo Arts Center, Saratoga, CA
2004: I Dismantle, Lesley Dill with Christine Redfern, Brooklyn, NY
2003: I Dismantle, Lesley Dill and Thomas Morgan in collaboration with Ars Nova Singers, Evergreen Cultural Centre, Coquitlam, BC, Canada
2002: I Heard a Voice, Lesley Dill and Thomas Morgan in collaboration with Ars Nova Singers, Boulder, CO
: Interviews with the Contemplative Mind, public art project in conjunction with the exhibition Lesley Dill: A Ten-Year Survey, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO
2001: Tongues on Fire: Spiritual Sing, with the Spiritual Choir of Emmanuel Baptist Church, SECCA,
1999: Worst Case Scenario, P.S. 122, New York, NY
1998: Worst Case Scenario, A collaboration with Goldberg & Latksy, the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
1996: Paris Speaking Dress, Maison des Arts de Creteil. Paris, France
1995: Sometimes I Feel Skinless (with Donna Masini and Tom Sleigh), George Adams Gallery, New York, NY
1994: Speaking Dress, Guggenheim Museum (Soho), New York, NY
: Dada Poem Wedding Dress, Dada Ball, Webster Hall, New York, NY
: Dada Poem Wedding Dress, Exit Art, New York, NY
: Speaking Dress, Gracie Mansion Gallery, New York, NY
: Speaking Dress (with Sue de Beer, Petra Katrina Haff, Erin Loughran and Allison Smith), The Kitchen, New York, NY

Lesley Dill

(American, born 1950)

Lesley Dill

Biography

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Exhibitions

Public Collections

Performances

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