DAWN CLEMENTS - Selected Resume

BORN    

Woburn, Massachusetts. 1958

EDUCATION

1989    Master of Fine Arts, State University of New York at Albany, NY
1986    Bachelor of Arts, Brown University, Providence, RI

GALLERY REPRESENTATON

PIEROGI, 177 NORTH 9TH STREET, BKLYN, NY  11211  T.718.599.2144   
The BOILER, 191 N. 14TH STREET, BKLYN, NY  11211  T.718.599.2144

RECENT SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2009 

• Portrait Rooms, Mark W. Potter Gallery at the Taft School, Watertown, CT (Jan. 9–Feb. 5)

2008

• Conditions of Desire, Pierogi, Leipzig, Germany (March 8–April 26)

2007

• Conditions of Desire, Pierogi, Brooklyn, NY (October 12–November 12)
• Movie, John and June Allcott Gallery, The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (August 21–September 20)

2006

• Art Now; Dawn Clements, Middlebury College Museum of Art, Middlebury, VT (September 5–December 10)
• Dawn Clements; Recent Drawings,  Herter Art Gallery, University of Massachusetts Amherst (March 7–April 7)

2004 

• Drawing, Pierogi, Brooklyn, NY (19 November–20 December)
• Feigen Contemporary, New York, NY (October–December)

RECENT GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2009  

• Same Sweet Dream, Dieu Donne, New York, NY (Jan. 9–Feb. 14). Curated by Martina Batan
• Contemporary Large-Scale Drawings from the West Collection, Pollock Gallery, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX
• Modernizing Melodrama, Carleton College, Northfield, MN (January 9–March 11)

2008  

• Edward Hopper and Contemporary Art, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria. Curated by Gerald Matt and Ilse Lafer (October 10, 2008–February 15, 2009)
• Light, Seeking Light, Western Bridge, Seattle, WA (December)
• Pierogi et al, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (July 12–August 23)
• Uncanny Drawings, Porta 33; Colecção Madeira Corporate Services (February 22–May 3)

2007 

• Nieuwe Collectie, Wuyts Van Campen Museum, Lier, Belgium (Dec. 1, 2007–March 2, 2008). Curated by Rik de Boe
• Per Square Foot, Benefit Auction and Inaugural Exhibition, Dieu Donné (September 6–October 8)
• Cosmologies, James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY (January 11–February 10)
• Continuum, The 'temporary Museum of Painting, Brooklyn, NY (February 10–April 15)
• Come One, Come All, 3rd Ward, Brooklyn, NY

2006 

• Storylines, Snug Harbor, 4-person show, Staten Island, NY (November 29, 2006–March 25, 2007)
• The Ink Painting Biennial, Taipei, Taiwan (November 2006–September 2007)
• Twice Drawn, Wachenheim Gallery, Tang Teaching Museum, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY (October 7–December 30)
• The Means Justified, Central Connecticut State University, New Britain, CT (October 1–18)
• Our Town: Artists on Architecture, HUT (Hudson Untitled Foundation), Hudson, NY. Curated by David Scher (June 17–October 8)
• Double Monde, CIAC Gallery, Pont-Aven, France
• Group Exhibition, PIEROGI Leipzig, Germany (April 29–July 1)
• Available (A Still Life Show), Monya Rowe Gallery, New York, NY (March 23–April 29). Curated by Angela Dufresne and Monya Rowe
• Drawing Conclusions on the Wall, Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman University (Feb. 6–Mar. 18)
• The Space Between Us, University Art Museum, University at Albany, New York (January 24–April 9)

2005

• DRAWN 2: Contemporary Drawings, Schick Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY (November 11–December 18)
• Galerie Rolf Hengesbach, Koln, Germany (March 5–April 5)
• True North, Miami Int'l Airport, Miami, FL (April 3–May 8)
• SAFN Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland (February–March)

HONORS

2005    Fellow in Printmaking/Drawing/Artists' Books from the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA)
2003    Farpath, Residency, Dijon, France
2000    Artist in residence, Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT
1996    Panelist, New York Foundation for the Arts, (NYFA), Artists' Fellowships (Painting)
1995    Special Opportunities Stipend (NYFA)
1993    Arts International Grant, (Rockefeller Foundation)
1993    Art Matters, Inc. Grant, (Rockefeller Foundation)
1993    Special Opportunities Stipend (NYFA)
1989    Distinguished MFA Thesis Award, The University at Albany
1988    Benevolent Research Grant, The University at Albany

RECENT SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

• Steinhauer, Jillian. "Artist Dawn Clements Draws Big at Williamsburg's Pierogi Gallery," The Village Voice, October 30, 2007
• Ashheim, Eve. "Dawn Clements with Eve Aschheim, The Brooklyn Rail, October 2007
• "Goings on About Town: Dawn Clements," The New Yorker, November 12, 2007
• Cohen, David. "The Master of Minutiae," The New York Sun, November 1, 2007
• Smith, Roberta. "Cosmologies," The New York Times, Friday, February 2, 2007
• Saltz, Jerry. "The Biggest Picture," The Village Voice, February 1, 2007
• Schmerler, Sarah. "STORY/lines," Time Out New York, February 1–7, 2007. P.69
• Maine, Stephen. "Dawn Clements at Pierogi and Feigen," Art In America, May 2005. pp. 169-170
• O'Neill Butler, Lauren. "Domestic Disturbances (Eight female artists reinvent the domestic sphere)," Bitch, Issue No. 27, Winter 2005. pp. 51-60

COLLECTIONS

• The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
• The Museum of Modern Art, New York (Gift of the Judith Rothschild Foundation)
• The Tang Teaching Museum, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
• The William and Ruth True Collection, Seattle, WA
• Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ
• University Art Museum, University at Albany, SUNY, Albany, NY
• Various private collections