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Ward Shelley 427 Manhattan Avenue Brooklyn, New York 11222 tel. 917. 693.2917 e-mail: wardshell@aol.com Born Auburn, New York BFA Eckerd College, Art and Communications MA New York University |
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Awards: | |||
The Joan Mitchell Foundation Award for Painting and Sculpture, 2007-08 | |||
American Academy in Rome Fellowship, 2005-06 | |||
Installation/New Media "Bessie" Award, New York Dance and Performance Awards Committee and Dance Theater Workshop | |||
New York Foundation for the Arts, New Media Fellowship | |||
Rema Hort Mann Foundation | |||
Farpath Foundation | |||
Jerome Foundation, Sculpture | |||
Emerging Artist Fellowship, Socrates Sculpture Park | |||
New York Foundation for the Arts, Sculpture Fellowship | |||
Pollock Krasner Grant | |||
Southern Arts Federation/National
Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Award for Sculpture |
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Goodman Award for Art and Technology | |||
Florida State Visual Arts Fellowship | |||
Recent
Residencies: |
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Guest Artist Program, North Rhein Westphalia, City of Dusseldorf, Kunstlerverein Malkasten | |||
Art/Omi International Artist's Residency | |||
Longwood Cyber Residency, Bronx Council on the Arts | |||
Art in General East European Residency Program | |||
Selected
Solo Exhibitions: |
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2008 | Man Draws Time, Parkhaus Im Malkasten, Dusseldorf | ||
2006 | Re-Materializing Art, Pierogi Gallery, Brooklyn, NY | ||
Timelines, Pierogi Gallery, Leipzig, Germany | |||
2004 | We Have Mice, Pierogi Gallery, Brooklyn, NY | ||
Archive, Bonner Kunstverein, Germany | with Douglas Paulson | ||
2003 | Operation:Mice, Bunkier Sztuki, Krakow, Poland | ||
2002 | Colony, (Mir2 group) Islip Art Museum, New York | with Mir2 Group | |
2001 | The Cube, Pierogi Gallery, Brooklyn, NYC | ||
Mir2, Smack Mellon Gallery, Brooklyn, NYC | with Mir2 Group | ||
2000 | Tunnel, La Friche Belle de Mai, Marseille, France | ||
1999 | This Salient Moment, Kunstverein Recklinghausen, Germany | ||
Neuer Kusntverein, Aschaffenburg, Germany | |||
Berlin Platform, Ateliers Mengerzeile, Berlin | |||
Naked, With Special Love, Ateliers Hoherweg, Dusseldorf | |||
1998 | Voyage Platform, Socrates Sculpture Park, NYC | ||
Flipside Gallery, Brooklyn, NY | |||
1997 | Waschhaus KunstHalle, Potsdam, Germany | ||
1996 | Werth Gallery, Dusseldorf, Germany | ||
1995 | Bruise on My Forehead, Museum Am Ostwall, Dortmund, Germany | ||
1993 | Range, Diversworks, Houston, Texas. | ||
1992 | PS 122 Gallery, NYC. | ||
1991 | Metro Dade Cultural Resource Center, Miami, Florida. | ||
Reef, Center for Contemporary Art, North Miami, Florida | |||
1990 | Olaf Clasen Gallery/Art 54, New York City, New York. | ||
1989 | Barbara Gillman Gallery, Miami, Florida. | ||
Selected
Group Exhibitions: |
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2008 | Slightly Unbalanced, Chicago Cultural Center | ||
Burning Down the House, Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum | |||
Elusive Truths, Firehouse Gallery, Burlington, Vermont | |||
Nieuwe Collectie, Stedelijk Museum Wuyts-Van Campen & Baron Caroly, Lier, Belgium | |||
Pierogi et al, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles | |||
2007 | Cosmologies, James Cohen Gallery, NY | ||
The Happiness of Objects, Sculpture Center, NY ----(Flatland Project) | with Douglas Paulson, Alex Schweder, Maria Petschnig, Eva La Cour, Pelle Brage | ||
The Accidentally Real, Sara Tecchia Gallery, NYC | |||
New York - State of Mind, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, and Queens Museum, NYC | |||
2006 | Mapping, Hunter College/Times Square Gallery, NYC | ||
Twice Drawn, Tang Museum, Saratoga, NY | |||
Text Formed Drawing, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT | |||
Archive Installation, Dumbo Art Center, NYC | with Douglas Paulson | ||
2005 | There is Always an Alternative, Temporary Contemporary, London | ||
2004 | Para Sites...when space comes into play, MUMOK (Museum of Modern Kunst) Vienna, Austria | with Douglas Paulson | |
Open House: Working in Brooklyn, Brooklyn Museum of Art | |||
Home Extension, University Art Museum, SUNY, Albany NY | |||
Self-Sufficient (Truck Drawing 2), Cambridge Arts Council, Massachusettes | with BBS | ||
Re-Do China, Ethan Cohen Gallery, NYC | |||
Tentworm, Lokaal 01, Breda, Netherlands | |||
2003 | Haifa International Installation Triennial, Haifa Museum, Israel | ||
Re-Construction Biennial, Exit Art, NYC | with BBS | ||
Street Selections, The Drawing Center, NYC | with BBS | ||
2002 | Enactments of the Self, Steirischer Herbst, Graz, Austria | ||
To Actuality, ARGE Museum, Bolzano, Italy | |||
Long March, ddm warehouse, Shanghai, China | with Zhao Gang | ||
Crafting Space, Smart Project Space, Amsterdam | |||
Made In Brooklyn, Brooklyn Rail/Wythe Studio, NY | |||
Touchy Feely, Eyewash, Brooklyn, NY | with Anne Thulin | ||
Globe>Miami>Island, Bass Museum, Miami Beach, Florida and Museum od Contemporary Art, Wash., D.C. | |||
2001 | Outsourcing, Flipside Galley, Brooklyn, NY | ||
If We Were Kings, Kunst- und Medienzuntrum Aldershof, Berlin | |||
Drawing Show, London, UK | |||
2000 | Construction In Process, Bydgosczc, Poland | ||
Picture This, Flipside Gallery, Brooklyn, NY | |||
1999 | Valentines, Eyewash, Brooklyn, NY | ||
1998 | Offbeat, Eyewash, Brooklyn, NY | ||
Gothic Distress, Trans Hudson Gallery, NYC | |||
1997 | Canny, Art Projects International, SoHo, NYC | ||
1996 | Machine, Andreas Schluter Gallery, Hamburg, Germany | ||
1995 | Fun House, E.S.Vandam Gallery, Soho, NYC. | ||
Sauce IV, Brooklyn, NY | |||
1994 | Live Art, Art Projects International, Soho, NYC. | ||
Page 4, 450 Broadway Gallery, NYC. Also curated “Page 9”. | |||
Group Show, TZArt and Co., Soho, NYC | |||
Dyad, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY | |||
1993 | Images Du Futur International Exhibition, Montreal. | ||
Fiction And Experience, Gallery Korea, NYC. | |||
1992 | 1992 Selections, Southern Sculpture, Woodruff Art Center, Atlanta. | ||
Putt Modernism, Artist's Space, NYC and SECCA, NC. | |||
1990 | 1990 Florida's Finest, touring show: Center for Contemporary Art in North Miami, Capitol Gallery in Tallahassee. | ||
Educational Institutions - Classes or Workshop |
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Biography |
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Ward Shelley works as an artist in Brooklyn, New York. He specializes in large projects that freely mix sculpture and performance. Utilizing eclectic influences and a variety of media, Shelley’s installations defy classification. Over the last five years, Shelley has concentrated on bizarre functioning architectural pieces in which he lives and works during the exhibition monitored with live surveillance video equipment. Shelley also works on a series of diagramatic paintings, timelines of art-related subjects such as the careers of artists working in de-materialized media and the history of art scenes. The best known of these is the Williamsburg Timeline Drawing and Downtown Body, recently published in Bomb Magazine. He first exhibited as an artist in Miami. He earned his Masters degree from NYU and has been working and showing in New York since then. He moved his studio to Williamsburg in 1994 and also began exhibiting in Europe at that time. Shelley has exhibited in more than 10 countries. Among works from the last 10 years are the interactive video-environment “the Cube”, the legendary Mir 2 Project, and the Voyage Platform. In 2004 Shelley lived and worked inside the walls of Pierogi Gallery for 5 weeks for an exhibition called “We have mice”. Shelley also works with the collaborative artist group BBS and talented young artists such as Douglas Paulson and Alex Schweder with whom he realized the monumental Flatland project at New York's SculptureCenter in 2007. Ward Shelley's work is in a number of museum collections including the Museum of Modern Art, the Brooklyn Art Museum, and The Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art. Last year Shelley received a painting and Sculpture award from the Joan Mitchell foundation, and has been a fellow of the American Academy in Rome since 2006. He has received NYFA and NEA fellowships in sculpture and new media categories, a Bessie Award for installation art, as well as private foundation grants from the Jerome Foundation and the Pollock-Krasner Foundation. He is represented by Pierogi Gallery in Brooklyn, New York. Before and during his art career he has also worked in advertising, construction, teaching, special events, theater, rock bands, and built a 37-foot sailing sloop. |
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