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Beverly Semmes
(
American
, born 1958)
Beverly Semmes
Bucket/Stack,
2015
Price on Request
Beverly Semmes
Mitten,
2020
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Beverly Semmes
Painting Face,
2018
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Biography
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Timeline
1958
Born in Washington, D.C.
1976 - 1982
Boston Museum School, Tufts University, Boston, MA,
BA, art history; BFA, sculpture
1982
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME
1983 - 1984
New York Studio School, New York, NY
1985 - 1987
Yale School of Art Fellowship
Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT
MFA, sculpture
1987
Alice Kimball English Traveling Fellowship
1988
Art Matters Grant
1989
Artists Space Grant
1991
Mid-Atlantic Foundation Fellowship, Sculpture
1994
National Endowment for the Arts, Sculpture
1997
New York Foundation for the Arts, Sculpture
2001
AICA USA, International Association of Art Critics Award, Best Show in a Public Space
2004
NYU Excellence in Teaching Award
Lives and works in New York, NY
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Exhibitions
2014
Insert, Galerie Bugdahn und Kaimer, Düsseldorf, Germany
Come As You Are: Art of the 1990’s, Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, New Jersey, USA
Almost But Not Quite, Galerie Bugdahn und Kaimer, Düsseldorf, Germany
The Feminist Responsibility Project, Tang Teaching Museum, Saragota Springs, USA / Galerie Bugdahn und Kaimer, Düsseldorf, Germany / Susan Inglett Gallery, New York City, USA (solo)
Beverly Semmes 1992-1994, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Los Angeles, USA (solo)
2013
Beverly Semmes, Galleria Marabini, Bologna, Italy (solo)
Starcraft, Sarah Moody Gallery, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, USA (solo)
Material World, Denver Art Museum, Denver, USA
Vessels, The Horticultural Society of New York, New York City, USA
2012
Starcraft, Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, USA / Eleanor D. Wilson Museum, Hollins University, Roanoke, USA (solo)
Shop: Anew, Underline Gallery, New York City, USA
Beverly Semmes & Freddie Brice, Kerry Schuss Gallery, New York City, USA
Tuesdays & Saturdays, Nicole Cherubini & Bevery Semmes, Samson Projects, Boston, USA
Shop: Like you Mean it, Underline Gallery, New York City, USA
Starcraft, Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, USA (solo)
2011
The Feminist Responsibility Project, Rowan University Art Gallery, Glassboro, USA (solo)
2010
When Dog Turns to Wolf, David Krut Projects, New York City, USA
Tenth Anniversary Exhibition, Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, USA
Editions Multiples Prints, Galerie Bugdahn und Kaimer, Düsseldorf, Germany
2009
Dirt on Delight: impulses that form clay, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, USA / Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA
Selected, Galerie Bugdahn und Kaimer, Düsseldorf, Germany
2008
Just What Is It That Makes Today’s Homes So Different, So Appealing?, (Collaboration with Ingrid Schaffner) Testsite, USA (solo)
Pink Arms, Pairs and Bumps, Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, USA (solo)
Great Woman Artists: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchas, NY, USA
Focus: The Figure, Denver Art Museum, Denver, USA
Something New, Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, USA
Psychotic Reaction, KS Art, New York City, USA
Sheldon Survey: An Invitational, Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, USA
Post Dec, Joseloff Gallery, Hartford Art School, University of Hartford, Conneticut, USA
Grafikserie 2007 – zeitgenössische Künstler, F.G. Conzen, Düsseldorf, Germany
2007
Petunia, Galleria Marabini, Bologna, Italy (solo)
Summer-Interval - Certainly / Really, Galerie Bugdahn und Kaimer, Düsseldorf, Germany
2006
Blood Shot Pot, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, USA
The Bong Show (Or This Is Not a Pipe), Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York City, USA
Dress Code, Kunsthalle, Historisches und Völkerkundemuseum, St. Gallen, Switzerland
Transitional Objects: Contemporary Still Life, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY, USA
On Conceptual Clothing, Kirishima Open-Air Museum, Kagoshima, Japan
Pairs, Groups and Grids, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York City, USA
Clothesline: Art, Clothing, Identity, Santa Fe Art Institute, Santa Fe, USA
Sommergäste, Galerie Bugdahn und Kaimer, Düsseldorf, Germany
ME-tissages, Museum voor Industriele Archeologie en Textiel, Ghent, Belgium
Art - Robe: Woman artists at the nexus of fashion and art, UNESCO, Paris, France
Hole/Pot/Dot, Editions Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark (solo)
La Flor del Paraiso #2, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York City, USA (solo)
Ice Queen, Galerie Bugdahn und Kaimer, Düsseldorf, Germany (solo)
2005
Hole/Pot/Dot, Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, USA (solo)
Inneres Leuchten, Kunsthalle Lingen, Lingen, Germany
About Sculpture, The Tang Museum, Saragota Springs, USA
Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, USA
Corporal identity – Body Language: The moving Image, video program at the Donnell Media Library in conjunction with the Museum of Art & Design exhibition, New York City, USA
Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, New York, USA (solo)
2004
La Flor del Paraiso, Kunsthallen Brandts Klaedefabrik, Odense, Denmark (solo)
On Conceptual Clothing, Musashino Art University and Library, Tokyo, Japan
2003
In the O, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York City, USA (solo)
Me, Myself & I: Looking at Portraiture, CRG Gallery, New York City, USA
PAWrapture, Consolidated Works, Seattle, USA
New Material as New Media: The Fabric Workshop and Museum at 25 Years, The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, USA
Imago: 10 Ans d'acquisitions du FRAC Franche-Comte, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Dole, France
New York New Work Now, The Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, GB
Sea Green Petunia, Galerie Bugdahn und Kaimer Düsseldorf, Germany
Into the Woods, Julie Saul Gallery, New York City, USA
Knockout Fairground, Washington Square East Gallery, New York City, USA
Almost Warm and Fuzzy: Childhood and Contemporary Art, Cleveland Center for the Arts, Cleveland , USA
New York New Work Now, The Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, GB
Nicole Klagsburn Gallery, New York City, USA
Primal Screams and Song: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, USA
Dangerous Beauty, The Jewish Community Center, New York City, USA
Objects of Desire, Jan Abrams Fine Art, New York City, USA
Petunia" Installation für 'Art 34 Basel Unlimited' mit Galerie Bugdahn und Kaimer, Messe Basel, Basel, Switzerland
El bello Género, Convulsiones y Permanencias actuales, Comunidad de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
2002
Sea Green Petunia, Galerie Bugdahn und Kaimer, Düsseldorf, Germany (solo)
Watching Her Feat, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York City, USA (solo)
Skowhegan Faculty 2001, Colby College Art Museum, Waterville, USA
Issue 17: World View, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, USA
About the Bayberry Bush, The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, USA
Untragbar: Mode als Skulptur, Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Cologne, Germany
Sonsbeek 9 Locus/Focus, Arnhem, The Netherlands
Objective Color, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Uncommon Threads, Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, USA
Zwischenraum #4 - Arbeiten mit Fotografie, Galerie Bugdahn und Kaimer, Düsseldorf, Germany
Recent Acquisitions, Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, USA
Ellipsis, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York City, USA
Selections from the Permanent Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, USA
Brooklyn Collects, The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, USA
New Work: Recent Additions to the Collection, Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, USA
2001
The First 10 Years: Selected Works from the Collection, The Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
Zwischenraum #5 – Skulpturen + Objekte, Galerie Bugdahn und Kaimer, Düsseldorf, Germamy
Le FRAC Franche-Comté, une histoire de genres, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Dole, France
The Likeness of Being: Contemporary Self-Portraits by Sixty Women Artists, DC Moore Gallery, New York City, USA
Beauty Now, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
2000
Ginza Artspace, Shiseido Co., Tokyo, Japan (solo)
Watching Her Feat, The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, USA
Zwischenraum #3 - Editionen + Multiples, Galerie Bugdahn und Kaimer, Düsseldorf, Germany
Kunstverein Ulm, Ulm, Germany (solo)
Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, USA (solo)
Photographs, Susan Inglett, New York City, USA (solo)
Super-8 Films, GAGA, New York City, USA (solo)
Recent Photographs + Video, Galerie Bugdahn und Kaimer Düsseldorf, Germany
Regarding Beauty, Hirshorn Museum Washington, DC, USA
1999
Not Here, Ezra and Zilkha Gallery, Weslyan University Middletown, Connecticut, USA
1998
Galleria Marabini, Bologna, Italy (solo)
L'Entrelacement et l'enveloppe, La Villa du Parc Annemasse, France
1997
Art/Fashion, Guggenheim Museum SoHo, NY, USA
Stuffed Cat, Wexner Center for the Arts Columbus, OH, USA
1996
She Moves, Whitney Museum at Philip Morris New York, NY, USA
New & Recent Sculpture, Irish Museum of Modern Art Dublin, Ireland (solo)
Recent Sculpture, Galerie Bugdahn und Kaimer Düsseldorf, Germany (solo)
Biennale di Firenze, il tempo e la moda, Florence Biennale Florence, Italy
Directions: Beverly Semmes, Hirshhorn Museum Washington, D.C., USA (solo)
Beverly Semmes: Big Silver, Smith College Museum of Art, Northampto, USA / Norton Gallery of Art, West Palm Beach, USA / Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, USA (solo)
Big Silver, Michael Klein Gallery, New York City, USA (solo)
Currents 95: Familiar Places, Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, MA, USA
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA (solo)
The Baxter Gallery, Maine College of Art, Portland, Maine, USA (solo)
1995
Kemper Museum for Contemporary Art and Design, Kansas City, USA (solo)
1994
Bad Girls, New Museum of Contemporary Art New York, NY, USA
New Work, Michael Klein Gallery Inc., New York City, USA (solo)
Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris, France (solo)
Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy (solo)
James Hockey Gallery, WSCAD, Farnham, England (solo)
Southampton City Art Gallery, Southampton, England (solo)
Camden Arts Centre, London, England (solo)
1993
The Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, USA (solo)
5501 Columbia, Contemporary Culture Inc., Dallas, USA (solo)
South Eastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC, USA (solo)
First Sightings, Denver Art Museum Denver, CO, USA
1992
Beverly Semmes - Installation, The Sculpture Center, New York City, USA (solo)
1990
Special Projects, P.S.1 Museum, Long Island City, NY, USA (solo)
Beverly Semmes, Artists Space, New York City, USa (solo)
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Public Collections
Progressive Corporation (commission), Mayfield Village, Ohio, USA
Franklin and Marschall College (commission), Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA
Groupe Lhoist, Limelette, Belgium
Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado, USA
The Capital Group, Los Angeles, California, USA
Blind Spot Magazine Collection, New York City, USA
Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, California, USA
Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, USA
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts, USA
Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, New York, USA
Museum voor Moderne Kunst, Arnhem, The Netherlands
Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, Florida
Musée Dôle, Dôle, France
Musachino Art University Library (Commission), Tokyo, Japan
Microsoft Corporation Collection, Redmond, Washington, USA
Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California, USA
JP Morgan Chase, New York City, USA
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
Hunterdon Art Museum, Clinton, New Jersey, USA
Yale University Artt Museum, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts, USA
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, USA
Tang Teaching Museum, Skidmore College, Saragota Springs, New York, USA
Tacoma Museum of Glass, Tacoma, Washington, USA
The Rubell Collection, Miami, Florida, USA
The Refco Corporation Collection, New York City, USA
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC, USA
Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA
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