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
2012
Dawn Clements, New Work, with Sculptures by Marc Leuthold, Pierogi, Brooklyn, NY
2011
Dawn Clements, Maele Castle, Bruges Belgium (September 9–October 15)
2010
Still Life, Hales Gallery, London, England (October)
Home Sick, Acme Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (May–June)
Boiler, The Boiler, Brooklyn, NY (2 April–7 May)
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)
2003
Drawing, Pierogi, Brooklyn, NY (February 7–March 10)
2002
Drawings, Greene Gallery, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
1995
Albany Center Galleries, Albany, NY
2011
Subjective Objective, Pierogi, Brooklyn, NY
2010
Contemporary, American Drawing, Xiang Art Museum, Sheng Zheng, China (December)
Stranger than Fiction, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
Art on Paper 2010, Weatherspoon Art Museum, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC (November 7, 2010–February 6, 2011)
Whitney Biennial 2010, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (Feb 25–May 30)
The Power of Paper, Saatchi Gallery, London (upcoming)
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 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 (upcoming,
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)2004
In Door Out, ACME Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (July–August) (organized in collaboration with Chip Tom)
Vacation Nation, Pierogi, Brooklyn, NY
The Drawn Page, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum and Hersam-Acorn Newspapers, Ridgefield, CT
Score! Action Drawing, White Columns, curated by Marisa Olson, New York, NY
Story/Line, New Langton Art Center, San Francisco, CA. Curated by Robert Harshorn Shimshak
Open House; Working in Brooklyn, The Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY (April–July)
Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, The American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
AMP, The Pierogi Flat File Project, The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA2003
Explaining Magic, Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Silver, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
(November 27, 2003–February 8, 2003
Some Panoramas, curated by Paul Hedge, Pump House Gallery, London. (August 13–October 5)
In Heat, Pierogi, Brooklyn, NY
Pierogi Presents, curated by Joe Amrhein, Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, MA (April 2–May 10)
The Incredible Lightness of Being, curated by Phong Bui, Black & White Gallery, Brooklyn, NY2002
Next Next Wave, curated by Dan Cameron, Brooklyn Academy of Music
Home Sweet Home, curated by Lisa Young, Firehouse Gallery, Garden City NY
25th Anniversary Selections, The Drawing Center, New York, NY
Boiled or Fried, Pierogi, Brooklyn, NY
Ratio 3, Brooklyn, NY
Self-Portraits, from the Collection of Bill and Ruth True, The Wright Exhibition Space, Seattle, WA
Drawings, Greene Art Gallery, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
Harlem Flophouse, curated by Rene Calvo, New York, NY2001
Harlem Flophouse, curated by Rene Calvo, New York, NY2000
Superduper New York, Pierogi 2000, Brooklyn, NY
1998
Second Skin, curated by Corinna Ripps, The University Art Museum, Albany, NY
1997
Let Me Be Frank, (set design and production), Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center, NY, NY
Mohawk-Hudson Regional, curated by Dan Cameron, The University Art Museum, Albany, NY
New York State Biennial, curated by Ken Johnson, The New York State Museum, Albany, NY
Skidmore College Faculty Exhibition, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
Berkshire Art Association Exhibition, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
Four Lives to Live, curated by Sharon Bates, Mercer Gallery, Rochester, NY
Sub Rosa, Joyce Goldstein Gallery, New York, NY
Mohawk-Hudson Regional Exhibition, curated by Jock Reynolds, The Albany Institute of History and Art, Albany, NY
Downtown Troy Window Project, Four Lives to Live, Site 2, Troy, NY1995
Side Show, curated by Karen Kimmel, New York, NY
Protective Covering, curated by Michael Oatman, Colburn Gallery, Burlington, VT
Gallery Rebolloso, Minneapolis, MN
Body Count, curated by Corinna Ripps, Russell Sage College Gallery, Troy, NY
Gradus ad Parnassum, curated by Michael Neff, Kunsthaus Welker, Heidelberg, Germany
Codex, curated by Corinna Ripps, The University Museum, Albany, NY
Drawing’94, Explorations, Sharadin Art Gallery, Kutztown University, Kutztown, PA1993
The Venice Bienniale: Aperto ’93, Venice, Italy
Anxious Art, Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, MA
The Return of the Cadavre Exquis, (traveling exhibition), Drawing Center, New York, NY, The Corcoran Gallery, Washington, DC, American Center, Paris, France, and other locations
1993
Gallery Rebolloso, Minneapolis, MN
Volume 1, curated by Andrew Boardman, Boulevard Project Space, Albany, NY
1992
Selections/ Winter ’92, The Drawing Center, New York, NY
Resuscaitating Still Life, a collaborative installation with students of Berkshire Community
College, Koussevitsky Gallery, Pittsfield, MA
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)
Art Matters, Inc. Grant, (Rockefeller Foundation)
Special Opportunities Stipend (NYFA)
1989
Distinguished MFA Thesis Award, The University at Albany
1988
Benevolent Research Grant, The University at Albany
Selected Bibliography
Baker, R.C. “James Brooks and Dan Flavin at Greenberg Van Doren Plus, Ray Parker at Washburn; Cinthia Marcelle at Galerie Lelong; and Dawn Clements at Pierogi,” The Village Voice, Wednesday, January 11, 2012
Sutton, Benjamin. “Inside the Artist’s Studio: Dawn Clements in Greenpoint,” The L Magazine, January 2012 (Pp. 42-3. Illus.)
Bale, Miriam. “Melodramatic Interiors: Talking About the Movies with Dawn Clements,” The L Magazine, May 21, 2010
“Monumental New Drawing by Dawn Clements at The Boiler,” artdaily.org, April 30, 2010
Sutton, Benjamin. “ Dawn Clements Brings Drawing to a Boil,” The L Magazine, April 15, 2010
Schwartz, Sanford. “Innocuous Items Gone Creepily Wrong: Taking the Pulse of Art in New York,” The New York Review of Books, March 31, 2010
Viveros-Fauné, Christian. “Welcome to the Mixed-Up, Dialed-Down 2010 Whitney Biennial: Bye-bye bling! The new realists win out this year,” The Village Voice, March 2, 2010
Saltz, Jerry. “Saltz on Art’s Triumph: Women Win Slim Majority in Next Whitney Biennial,” New York Magazine, December 1, 2009
Steinhauer, Jillian. “Artist Dawn Clements Draws Big at Williamsburg’s Pierogi Gallery,” The Village Voice, October 30, 2007
Aschheim, 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
Harris, Jane. “Dawn Clements,” Time Out NY, December 16–29, 2004. p. 100
“Dawn Clements,” The New Yorker, November 29, 2004
Kotik, Charlotta and Tumelo Mosaka. “Open House: Working in Brooklyn, Brooklyn Museum” (Exhib. Catalogue), 2004. pp. 50, 217
Ollman, Leah. “Fine art, to be seen every day,” Los Angeles Times, August 13, 2004. p.E20.
Ollman, Leah. “An open-armed welcome,” Los Angeles Times, June 4, 2004. p.EE17
Cohen, David. Arts & Letters, The New York Sun, March 11, 2004.
Welch, Wendy. “Movie Mediations,” Monday Magazine, January 29–February 4, 2004.
Philbrick, Jane. “Speaking of Viewing: The Cinematic Drawing of Dawn Clements.” PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art, No. 76, January 2004. pp. 82-89.
Schmerler, Sarah. “Gift Guide,” Time Out NY, Nov. 20–29, 2003. p.89. Illus.
Ogilvie, Jen. “Some Panoramas: Pump House South,” Time Out London, September 17-24, 2003.
Kroma, Ed. “Panoramas,” Galleries, September 2003. Illus.
Campbell-Johnston, Rachel. “Rachel Campbell-Johnston’s best London exhibitions,” Times Play, August 16–22, 2003. P.1F (Illus.)
Swenson, Susan J. “Dawn Clements: Kitchen and Bathroom.” The Paris Review, No. 166, Summer 2003. p. 145.
Hedge, Paul. “The BIG Draw,” Art Review, International Edition, Vol 1, No 7, May 2003.pp. 50-3 (illus.)
La Rocco, Ben. “Dawn Clements, Drawings,” The Brooklyn Rail, April-May 2003.
Pepper, Keane A. “The March Art Crawl,” www.freewilliamsburg.com, No 36, March 2003.
Powhida, William. “Clutter and Clarity,” artnet.com, February 2003
Vartanian, Hrag. “Art Seen”, The Brooklyn Rail, August 2002
Richard, Frances, “Picks”, artforum.com, August 2002
Boiled or Fried, “Critics Picks”, Artforum, Summer 2002
Schmerler, Sarah. Boiled or Fried, Time Out New York, Issue 356, July 25-August 1, 2002
Bonami, Francesco, “Dawn Clements”, Flash Art, January/February 1993
Johnson, Ken, “Contemporary Art and the Dark Side….”, 1999 Exhibition by Artists of the Mohawk-
Hudson Region, (catalogue), Albany: Albany Institute of History and Art, 1990., pp. 6-9, 25
Moffett, Mark, “Unconscious Choice”, Metroland, July 25, 1996
The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection: Catalogue Raisonné; Ed. Christian Rattemeyer; Essays by: Isabelle Graw, Scott Gerson, Manfred Hermes,Brian Sholis, and Jan Tumlir. 2009
“I Put Marc’s Sculpture on the Kitchen Table,” (Artist Project) Esopus Magazine, Issue No. 8, 2007
“Travel Drawing” (Detail), Pierogi Press, No. 10, 2003, pp.38-39
“Project.” PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art, No. 76, January 2004. pp. 90-93.
“Kitchen and Bathroom.” The Paris Review, No. 166, Summer 2003. pp. 146-152.
La Biennale di Venezia: XLV Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte catalogue of the 1993 Venice
Biennale, Venice: Marsilio Editori, 1993. pp.236, 237, 238
Aperto’93: Emergency, XLV Biennale di Venezia, Milan: Giancarlo Politi Editore, 1993
Artists of the Mohawk-Hudson Region, (catalogue), Albany: Albany Institute of History and Art, 1990. pp. 6-9, 25.
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
The Deutsche Bank Collection
The Saatchi Collection, London
The Tang Museum, Saratoga Springs, NY
The William and Ruth True Collection, Seattle, WA
Colecção Madeira Corporate Services
Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ
University Art Museum, University at Albany, SUNY, Albany, NY
Various private collections