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| Alison Moritsugu |
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| Born: |
Honolulu, Hawaii, 1962. Lives and works in Beacon, New York |
Education:
| 1989-1991 |
School of Visual Arts, MFA Program, New York City |
| 1980-1984 |
Washington University, School of Fine Arts, St. Louis |
Solo Exhibitions:
| 2007 |
Paridise Revisited, Hawaii, The Contemporary Museum at First Hawaiian Center, Honolulu |
| 2005 |
Judy Ann Goldman Fine Art, Boston, Natural Perspectives
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| 2003 |
Beacon Project Space, Beacon, NY, Selected Views |
2001
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Littlejohn Contemporaty, New York City, The Landscape Within |
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Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, TN, Beyond the Frame |
| 2000 |
Littlejohn Contemporary, New York City, Paradise Lost |
| 1999 |
John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI, Alison Moritsugu: A Landscape pf Promise |
| 1998 |
Monique Knowlton Gallery, New York City, Of Nature and Conquest |
| 1996 |
Monique Knowlton Gallery, New York City, The Forest and the View |
Group Exhibitions:
| 2007 |
Environmental Renaissance, Natural World Museum at San Francisco City Hall |
| 2006 |
Utopia, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI |
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Wave Hill, Bronx, NY, Survive Thrive Alive
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| 2005 |
ParaSite Art Space, Beacon, NY, PpAaIiNnTtIiNnGg |
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Kleinert/James Art Center, The Woodstock Byrdcliff Guild, Woodstock, NY, B5: Five Artists from Beacon |
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The Berkshire Hills and Beyond, Berkshire Museum of Art, Pittsfield, The Power of Place |
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Islip Museum of Art, East Islip, NY, The Nature of Things |
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Bulldog Studios, Beacon Cultural Foundation, Beacon, NY, Elements of Nature |
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Abington Art Center, Jenkintown, PA, Trouble in Paradise (curated by Amy Lipton) |
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Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, This must be the place |
| 2004 |
Germaine Keller Gallery, Garrison, NY, Rustic Artifice |
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Jim Kempner Fine Art, New York City, Outside: Contemporary Landscapes
Visual Arts Gallery, New York City, Beginning Here: 101 Ways, an exhibition of works by 101 distinguished alumni of the
School of Visual Arts (curated by Jerry Saltz)
Van Brunt Gallery, New York City, Trouble in Paradise (curated by Amy Lipton)
Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME, Exquisite Corpses Today: 25 Curiosities Commissioned by the Bowdoin College Museum of Art |
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The Palmer Museum of Art, Pennsylvania State University,
University Park, PA, Intimate Purlieus
Lake George Arts Project, Lake George, NY, Artists Choose Artists |
| 2003 |
The Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY, Imaging the River (curated by Amy Lipton)
Phillips, de Pury & Luxembourg, New York City, On and Off the Wall: New York Foundation for the Arts’ Painting Fellows (curated by
William Stover)
New York Academy of Sciences, New York City, Look Up! Contemplating the Skies (curated by Thomas Woodruff)
Bedford Gallery, Dean Lesher Regional Center for the Arts,
Walnut Creek, CA, The Big Tree Project
Castle Gallery, The College of New Rochelle, New Rochelle, NY, Paradise Paradox |
| 2002 |
Maier Museum of Art, Randolph-Macon Women’s College, Lynchburg, VA, The View from Here: The Contemporary Landscape
Sun Valley Center for the Arts, Sun Valley, ID, The Morals of Nature: Manifest Destiny and the Contemporary American Landscape
Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto, CA, Cabinets of Wonder/Redux
ACE Gallery, New York City, Artists to Artists: A Decade of the Space Program of the Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation |
| 2001 |
Bellevue Museum of Art, Bellevue, WA, Shaping Stories
Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, Virginia Beach, VA, All-Terrain: An Exploration of Landscape and Place |
| 2000 |
Florida International University, Miami, FL, Fantasies & Curiosities
Littlejohn Contemporary, New York City, Information, Interpretation, Revelation
Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto, CA, The Great Novel Exhibition
New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, Summit, NJ, On the Horizon: Landscape at the Millennium |
| 1999 |
Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, PA, New Visions of the Landscape
Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA, Introductions 1999
The City Gallery at Chastain, Atlanta, GA, As Far as the Eye Can See |
| 1998 |
Courthouse Gallery, Lake George Arts Project, Lake George, NY, The Mind’s Eye, Contemporary Landscapes (curated by Holly Block)
Transamerica Pyramid Gallery, San Francisco, CA, Inside Outside
The Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, Reading Between the Lines |
| 1997 |
Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, NY, Re-presenting Representation III
The Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art and Design, Kansas City, MO, Out of Eden
Apex Art, New York City, Ornament and Landscape,On the Nature of Artifice
Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto, CA, The Intimate Brush |
| 1996 |
Monique Knowlton Gallery, New York City, Splash: Sculpture, Paintings, Photography
Bedford Gallery, Dean Lesher Regional Center for the Arts, Walnut Creek, CA, Natural Phenomena: Exploring the Wonders of Nature
Monique Knowlton Gallery, New York City, Field and Stream |
| 1995 |
The Alternative Museum, New York City, Made To Order, America’s Most Wanted Paintings
The Alternative Museum, New York City, 1995 Artist Showcase Exhibition
The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY, AIM 15th Annual Exhibition |
Awards and Grants
| 2002 |
New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship |
| 1998 |
The Vermont Studio Center Residency, Johnson, VT |
| 1997 |
The MacDowell Colony for the Arts Fellowship, Peterborough, NH
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| 1995 |
Djerassi Resident Artists Program Fellowship, Woodside, CA |
| 1995 |
The AIM Program, The Bronx Museum of the Arts |
| 1994 |
The Marie Walsh Sarpe Art Foundation, The Space Program, New York City |
| 1993 |
Yaddo, The Alma B. C. Schapiro Endowment Residency, Saratoga Springs, NY |
| 1992 |
Cite International des Arts Residency, Paris |
Selected Collections:
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Djerassi Resident Artists Program, Woodside, CA |
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Fidelity Investments, Boston |
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Johnson Company, New York City |
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Knoxville Museum of Art |
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Phillip Morris Companies, Inc., New York City |
Bibliography:
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Harrison, Helen. “When Nature is the Subject, and the Canvas,” New York Times, May 15, 2005.
Moll, Sebastian. “From Broadway to the American Loire,” BMW Magazine, February, 2005.
Art Listings, “Goings On About Town,” New Yorker, January 24 &31, 2005.
Sozanski, Edward. “A Show Laments Damage to the Earth,” Philiadelphia Inquirer, March 18, 2005.
Lipton, Amy. “Trouble in Paradise,” Orion Magazine, September/October 2004.
Rendon, Jim. “Moving Out, Seeking the Next Soho,” New York Times,
September 12, 2004.
Gouveia, Georgette. “Artists Cast Wide Net Interpreting the Hudson,” Journal News, October 2003.
Taylor, Robert. “A Tree Reborn,” Contra Costa Times, June 26, 2003.
Zimmer, William. “Out of the Water, Inspiration,” New York Times, December 28, 2003.
Hall, Katherine. “Gallery Watch,” Art & Antiques, November, 2001.
Joyner, Heather. “Slices of Life,” Metropulse, May 2001.
Korotkin, Joyce. “Short List,” New York Art World, December 2001.
Bischoff, Dan. “Worlds of Wonder,” New Jersey Sunday Star-Ledger, April 23, 2000.
Triff, Alfredo. “Modern Wonders,” Miami New Times, October 19-25, 2000.
Zimmer, William. “Getting Back to the Land in Summer Gallery Shows,” New York Times, May 14, 2000.
Auer, James. “Natural Wonders,” Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, July 1999.
Baker, Kenneth. “Date Book,” San Francisco Chronicle, August 7, 1999.
Fox, Catherine. “The New Landscape,” Atlanta Journal Constitution,
February 19, 1999.
Robinson, Joyce Henri. “As Far As the Eye Can See,” exhibition catalog, Atlanta College of Art Gallery/City Gallery at Chastain, Atlanta, GA, 1999.
Umberger, Leslie. “Alison Moritsugu – A Landscape of Promise,” exhibition program, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI, 1999.
Johnson, Ken. “Art in Review,” New York Times, August 11, 1998.
Levin, Kim. “Voice Choices: Art,” Village Voice, July 31, 1998.
Art Listings, “Goings On About Town,” New Yorker, August 17, 1998.
Self, Dana. “Out of Eden,” exhibition catalog, The Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art and Design, Kansas City, MO, 1997.
Welsh, Clarissa, J. “‘The Intimate Brush’ at the Palo Alto Cultural Center,” Artweek, June, 1997.
Webster, Mary Hull. “‘Natural Phenomena’ at the Bedford Gallery,” Artweek, June 1996.
Cotter, Holland. “Eclectic Group New to the Limelight,” New York Times, August 11, 1995.
Raynor, Vivien. “In Kent: 2 Galleries, 3 Sites, 4 Shows,” New York Times, August 15, 1993. |
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