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Alison Moritsugu


 


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

2003 Beacon Project Space, Beacon, NY, Selected Views
2001
Littlejohn Contemporaty, New York City, The Landscape Within
  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
 

Wave Hill, Bronx, NY, Survive Thrive Alive

2005 ParaSite Art Space, Beacon, NY, PpAaIiNnTtIiNnGg
  Kleinert/James Art Center, The Woodstock Byrdcliff Guild, Woodstock, NY, B5: Five Artists from Beacon
  The Berkshire Hills and Beyond, Berkshire Museum of Art, Pittsfield, The Power of Place
  Islip Museum of Art, East Islip, NY, The Nature of Things
  Bulldog Studios, Beacon Cultural Foundation, Beacon, NY, Elements of Nature
  Abington Art Center, Jenkintown, PA, Trouble in Paradise (curated by Amy Lipton)
  Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, This must be the place
2004 Germaine Keller Gallery, Garrison, NY, Rustic Artifice
  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
  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

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:


Djerassi Resident Artists Program, Woodside, CA

Fidelity Investments, Boston

Johnson Company, New York City

Knoxville Museum of Art
  Phillip Morris Companies, Inc., New York City

                

Bibliography:

  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.
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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.
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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.
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