Stella Waitzkin 1920-2003

One Woman Exhibitions

 

2022    Materiality: Stella Waitzkin, Zillman Art Museum, University of Maine, Bangor, ME

2018    Lost Library: Stella Waitzkin, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI

2017    Volumes: Stella Waitzkin, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI

2014    Reflections from Another Life: Stella Waitzkin, A Gallery Contemporary, Martha’s Vineyard, MA

2009    Selected Works, Martha’s Vineyard Museum, Edgartown, MA

2008    Atea Ring Gallery, Westport, New York

2005    A Retrospective, Robert Steele Gallery, New York, NY

2005    Vineyard Sculptures, Carol Craven Gallery, Martha’s Vineyard, MA

1989    Environments, Gay Head Gallery, Martha's Vineyard, MA

1988    The French Collection, Galerie Caroline Corre, Paris, France

1984    Creiger Sesen Gallery, Boston, MA

1983    Selected Work 1973-1983, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY

1978    Works of Art, E.P. Gurewitsch, New York, NY

1977    A Library–Sculpture, James Yu Gallery, New York, NY

1976    Donnell Library Center, New York Public Library, New York, NY

1975    Sculpture and Wall Works, James Yu Gallery, NY

1974    An Essay on Sobriety, Lowenstein Library, Fordham University, New York, NY

             Rare Books, James Yu Gallery, New York, NY

1973    Serious Literature, Yale University Calhoun College Art Gallery, New Haven, CT

1973    Iris Clert, Paris, France

1972    Exhibition Closed (Performance), Battiliem Gallery, New York, NY

 

Selected Group Exhibitions

 

2022    Book Arts Gallery, University of Maine, Machias

2021    Works from the Collection, Art Gallery, University of Maine, Machias

             The Weight of The Body: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Extended exhibition University Galleries and Collections,
                William Paterson University, Wayne, NJ

             ARTGAWK: Choice Pickings from the Radford University Permanent Collection, Radford University, Radford, VA

2020    National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

             Out of Place: A Feminist Look at the Collection, Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, Brooklyn Museum   

             Celebrating Women: Female Artists from the Permanent Collection, Springfield Museum of Art, Springfield, OH

             Through Her Eyes: A Year of Female Artists at the Hunter, Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, TN

             The Weight of The Body: Selections from the Permanent Collection, University Galleries and Collections, William Paterson University, Wayne, NJ

             Women’s Works, Martha’s Vineyard Museum, Vineyard Haven, MA

             Affinities and Outliers: Highlights from the University at Albany Art Collections, University Art Museum, University at Albany, Albany, NY

             Objects to be Destroyed, Akron Art Museum, Akron, Ohio

2019    National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

             Exactly! Artists NO!art, Janco-Dada Museum, Ein Hod, Israel

             Shit and Doom: NO!art Cell Project Space, London

             Seeing the Light of Day, Selections by the Registrar from the Syracuse University Art Collection, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY

             Recent Gifts to the Permanent Collection: Part II, Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA

             A Gallery Contemporary, Martha’s Vineyard, MA

2018    Silent Music: Alison Weld and Stella Waitzkin, Homer Center for the Arts, Homer, NY

             Permanent Collections exhibition galleries, Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, NC

             AAM@60: The Diamond Exhibition, Academy Art Museum, Easton, MD

             Recent Acquisitions, The Art Museum at the State University of New York, Potsdam

             Selections from the Permanent Collection, Radford University Art Museum, Radford, VA

2017    Portable Magic: Reading and Writing in the Visual Arts, Munson Williams Proctor Art Institute, Utica, NY

             [dis]functional: Products of Conceptual Design, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ

             Selections from the Collection, University of Maine, Machais

             Musée des antiquités, Rouen, France

             Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel, Germany 

2016    Women! Women! (Of the ‘50s), Anita Shapolsky Gallery, New York, NY

             A Gallery Contemporary, Martha’s Vineyard, MA

             Home Sweet Home, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY

2015    Recent Acquisitions 2007-2015, University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ

             Livin’ Large: Works from the 1980s, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ

             Testing Testing: Painting and Sculpture from the Permanent Collection, Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, NC

             Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, NC

             A Gallery Contemporary, Martha’s Vineyard, MA

             Une oeuvre dans un établissement, Lycée Bernard Palissy, Maronne, France

             Une oeuvre dans un établissement, Collège Pablo Picasso, Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray, France

             Livre d’artiste, Maison Henri IV, Saint-Valery-en-Caux, France

2014     X, Y + Z: Dimensions in Sculpture, Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, NC

             Looking Back Six Years: Part Two: Selected New Acquisitions, University of Maine Museum of Art, Bangor, ME

             Its Surreal Thing: The Temptation of Objects, Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, NE

             L’artiste en bibliophile, Musée Victor Hugo, Villequier, France

             Inventaire Vol. 4, Frac Haute-Normandie, Sotteville-lès-Rouen, France

2013    Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis TN

             Material World, Springfield Museum, Springfield, OH

             (M)other Natures, Munson-Williams-Proctor Art Institute, Utica, NY

             Permanent Collection Galleries, Delaware Art Museum (2013-present)

             Still Life from the Museum’s Permanent Collection, Butler Institute of American Art Youngstown, OH

             Inventaire Vol. 3, Frac Haute-Normandie, Sotteville-lès=Rouen, France

2012    Piece by Piece: Quilts, Collages, and Constructions, Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, NC

             Treasures from the Permanent Collection, Gregg Museum of Art & Design, NC State University, Raleigh, NC

             Size Matters: Small Works from the Fine Art Collection, New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ

2011    BOOK-ISH, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA

             Atea Ring Gallery, Westport, NY

             Works from the Permanent Collection, University of Maine Museum of Art, Bangor, ME

             Selections from the Collection, Allentown Museum of Art, Allentown, PA

             3D: Focus on Abstraction, Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI

             W. Carl Burger: Artist as Curator, New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ

2010    American Art 11: 1960 to the Present, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC

             Better Half, Better Twelfth: Women Artists in the Collection, Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, NE (2010-2011)

             Atea Ring Gallery, Westport, NY

             Selections from the Collection, American Sculpture Gallery, Palmer Museum of Art, Penn State University (2010-present)

             American Perspectives: The Fine Art Collection, New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ, (2010-present)

             University of Memphis Museum of Art: a Waitzkin work in the collection exhibited in conjunction with the exhibition:

                Alison Weld: Art is My Natural World, 1980B 2009

             Livres Délivrés, Espace le Garage, Saint-Saëns, France

             Livres Délivrés,  Médiathèque. Gasny, France

2009    Etherington Fine Art, Martha’s Vineyard, MA

             Cool, Collected, and in Context, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC

             The Kresge Art Collection: Celebrating the 50th, [Kresge Art Museum] Edythe and Eli Broad Art Museum, East Lansing, MI

             Collection in Progress, William Paterson University Galleries, Wayne, NJ

             Livres Délivrés, Lycée du Bois, Envermeu, France

2008    American Masterpieces, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI

             Form as Content: The Book as Object and Design, Works from the Collection of Cranbrook Art Museum. Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI

             Recent Acquisitions, Chazen Museum of Art, Madison, WI

             The World Around Us, New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ

             Etherington Fine Art, Martha’s Vineyard, MA

2007    Sublime Spaces and Visionary Worlds, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI

             Selections from the Permanent Collection, Radford University Museum of Art, VA

             Selections from the Collection, Palmer Museum of Art, Penn State University (2007-2010)

             Inside and Out, Porterfield Gallery, Radford University, Radford, VA

             Livres d’artistes, Lycée Agricole Chambray, Gouville, France

             Livres Délivrés, Bibliothèque, Le-Petit-Quevilly, France

2006    Smithsonian American Art Museum's Luce Foundation Center for American Art

             Recent Acquisitions, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ

             Livres Délivrés, Maison de l’Étudiant, Le Havre, France

2005    Selections from the Collection, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY

             Etherington Fine Art, Martha’s Vineyard, MA

             Livres Délivrés, Médiathèque Boris Vian, Caudebec-lès-Elbeuf, France

             Livres d’artistes, Lycée Agricole Gilbert Martin, Le Neubourg, France

2004    Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

             Livres Délivrés, Bibliothèque municipale de Sotteville-lès-Rouen, Sotteville-lès-Rouen, France

2003    Words on Fire, New Center for Arts and Culture, Boston, MA

             A Decade of Collecting: Fine Art & Cultural History, New Jersey State Museum, Trenton

             Livres Délivrés, Médiathèque Jacques Prévert à Neufchâtel-en-Bray, France         

2002    Designing the Future, Queens Museum of Art, NY

             Women’s Work: Fine Art from the Museum’s Collection, New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ

             Livres Délivrés, Musée du Prieuré å Harfleur, France          

1999    Memories of the Past-Intimations of the Future: New Works, Rutgers Center for Innovative Print and Paper, New Brunswick, NJ

             Glorious Prints: A Celebration of Twentieth Century Prints, Japanese Prints and Artists; Books from the Colelciton of the Newark Public Library,

             Hunterdon Museum of Art, Clinton, NJ

1998    Earthly Delights, Anita Shapolsky Gallery, New York, NY

             Details of a Lost Library, extended exhibition, New Jersey State Museum, Trenton

             Collecting for Queens: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Queens Museum of Art, NY

1997    Artists of the 1950s, Part 2, Anita Shapolsky Gallery, New York, NY

1996    L’expérience des livres, Université de Rouen, France

             Still Working: underknown arists of age in America, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

             Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL

             IBM Gallery, New York, NY

             Virginia Beach Center for the Arts, Virginia

             Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles

             Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR

1995    Animals, Animals, Anita Shapolsky Gallery, New York, NY

             No Art!, Berlin, Germany

1994    Fantasy and Myth, Anita Shapolsky Gallery, New York, NY

1993    United States Exhibition Agency, Africa, Traveling Book Show

             Recent Acquisitions, New Jersey State Museum, Trenton

             Artists’ Books and Art about Books, Pratt Manhattan Gallery, New York, NY

             Gallery Artists and Guests, Anita Shapolsky Gallery, New York, NY

1992    Traveling Show: Portugal:

             Salon du Livre de Lisbonne

             Casa das Artes a Porto

             A La Galeria da Biblioteca Municipal, Guimaraes

             Centre Culturel de Sines

             Palais de Galdeias, Lisbon

             Renée Fotouhi Fine Art East Gallery, East Hampton, NY

             Museum of Modern Art, Rio de Janiero, Brazil

             Bi-National Center in Bogota, Columbia

             Hebrew Union College–Jewish Institute of Religion, Skirball Museum

1991    Drôles de Livres, Centre Culturel “La Nacelle,” Auberginville, France

             Livres d'Artistes, Livres Objets, Espace Marquelet de La Noue, Meaux, France

1990    Fox, Ley, Leech, Carrega Gallery, Washington, D.C.

             Book Arts in the U.S.A., Center for Book Arts, New York, NY

             The Expanding Figurative Imagination, Anita Shapolsky Gallery, New York, NY

             Twentieth Anniversary Show, Peter M. David Gallery, Minneapolis, MN

             The Book as Art/The Book in Art, Barbara Fendrick Gallery, New York, NY

             Le Chateau de Vascoeuil, France

             Médiathèque D'Elbeuf, France

             Hotel de La Région, Rouen, France

             Morceaux Choisis 2 - Acquisitions 1988-1989, Conseil Régional d Haute-Normandie à Rouen, France

             Les Matériaux, Palais Bénéndictine à Fécamp, France

             Salon d’Art Contemporain-Les Matériaux, Parc des Expositons a Rouen, France

1989    A Density of Passions, New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ

             délires de livres: 100 créateurs contemporains, Centre Culturel de Boulogne-Billancourt, Paris, France

             Anita Shapolsky Gallery, New York, NY

             Entbundene Bücher, Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel, Germany

1988    Le Livre dans tous ses États, Galerie Caroline Corre

             Off The Shelf: A New Look at Book Art, Fort Wayne Museum of Art, IN

             Livres Délivrés, École Régionale des Beaux-Arts de Rouen, France

             Anita Shapolsky Gallery, New York, NY

1987    The Self Portrait: Tangible Consciousness, Robeson Center Gallery, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ

             The Chair, Witkin Gallery, New York, NY

             Art Encounter, Anita Shapolsky Gallery, New York, NY

             Livres Délivrés, École Normale d’Instituteurs à Bonneuil-sur-Marne, France

             Off The Shelf: A New Look at Book Art, Sweet Briar College, Sweet Briar, VA, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ

             Unique Books by Unique Artists, Patricia Carega Gallery, Washington, D.C.

1986    Jewish Themes/Contemporary American Artists II, The Jewish Museum, New York, NY

             A Survey of Book Arts, Queens Museum of Art, New York

             Artists Make Books, Lynn Plotkin’s Brentwood Gallery, St. Louis, MO

            Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA

             Galerie Caroline Corre, Paris

             Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA

1985    Book ARTchitecture, The Museum of Modern Art and the Center for Book Arts, New York, NY

             Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France

             Bibliothèque Discotheque Faidherde, Paris, France

             Books as Sculpture, Robeson Center Gallery, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ

1984    Books Artists Have Made, The Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, Ohio

             Center for Books Arts: The First Decade, Center for Book Arts, New York, NY;

                The New York Public Library, New York, NY

             Nakhmkin Osterwell Fine Arts Gallery, Washington, D.C.

1983    Centre d’art contemporain, Rouen, France

             Les États du Livre, Tome I Livres d’Artistes Americains, Galerie Caroline Corre, Paris

             Canadian Arts Council, New Brunswick, Canada

             You Can’t Tell a Book by its Cover, Thorpe Intermedia Gallery, Sparkill, NY

1982    La Bibliothèque Publique du Centre National d'Art et de Culture Georges Pompidou, Paris (traveling exhibition)

             Artists’ Books, Ben Shahn Gallery, William Paterson College, Wayne, NJ

             Sculptural Bookworks Montgomery College Gallery, Takoma Park, MD

1981    Franklin Furnace, New York, NY

1980    Grand Palais, La Première Foire, Institute de Livres, Paris, France

             Artists’ Books, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN

1979    Book Forms, Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH

             Women Artists in Washington Collections, The University of Maryland, College Park

             Illusions, Summit Art Center, Summit, NJ

1978    Artists’ Books, USA, Independent Curators Inc., Traveling exhibit, 1978-1980

             E. P. Gurewitsch Works of Art, Inc., New York, NY

             Sez Who? Language and Image, Peter M. David Gallery, Minneapolis, MN

1977    The Object as Poet, Renwick Gallery of the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

             The Book as Art II, Fendrick Gallery, Washington, D.C.

             Peter M. David Gallery, Minneapolis, MN

             Franklin Furnace, New York, NY

1976    The Year of the Woman: Reprise, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York

            The Presence and Absence in Realism, State University of New York College at Potsdam

             Franklin Furnace, New York, NY

1975    Potsdam Plastics, State University of New York College at Potsdam

             Lowenstein Library, Fordham University, New York, NY

1974    Recent Acquisitions, Finch College Museum, New York, NY

             Contemporary American Sculpture, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond

1973    Recent Acquisitions, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond

             25th Annual Ohio Ceramic and Sculpture Show, Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH

1972    University of Wisconsin, Center for 20th Century Studies, Milwaukee, WI

             Iris Clert, Paris, France

             American Women Artist Show, Gedok Kunsthaus, Hamburg, Germany

1971    Projected Art: Artists at Work, Finch College Museum, New York, NY

1970    Light, Motion and Sound, Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY

1968    Destruction Art: Destroy to Create, Finch College Museum of Art, New York, NY

 

 

Art Colonies 1974-1985

Yaddo

MacDowell

Ossabaw Island

Blue Mountain

Virginia Center for Creative Arts