Born Auburn, New York. April 30, 1950
Education
BFA Eckerd College, Art and Communications
MA New York University
Awards
2007-08
The Joan Mitchell Foundation Award for Painting and Sculpture
2005-06
Prix de Rome
2002
Installation/New Media “Bessie” Award, New York Dance and Performance Awards Committee and Dance Theater Workshop
2001
New York Foundation for the Arts, New Media Fellowship Jerome Foundation, Sculpture
1998
Emerging Artist Fellowship, Socrates Sculpture Park
1997
New York Foundation for the Arts, Sculpture Fellowship
1996
Pollock Krasner Grant
1991
Southern Arts Federation/National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Award for Sculpture
1993
Goodman Award for Art and Technology
1989
Florida State Visual Arts Fellowship
Selected Residencies
Guest Artist Program, North Rhein Westphalia, Dusseldorf, Kunstlerverein Malkasten
Farpath, Dijon, France
Art/Omi International Artist’s Residency
Longwood Cyber Residency, Bronx Council on the Arts
Art in General East European Residency Program
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2012
Unreliable Narrator, Pierogi, Brooklyn, NY
2009
“Who Invented the Avant Garde (and other half-truths),” Pierogi, Brooklyn, NY (17 April–17 May)
“Stability–And Other Tenuous Positions,” Lawrimore Project, Seattle, WA (22 March–2 May)
(Two-person, with Alex Schweder)
2008
“Man Draws Time,” Parkhaus Im Malkasten, Dusseldorf, Germany
2006
“Rematerializing Art: A Show of Paintings,” Pierogi, Brooklyn, NY.
Traveled to Leipzig, Germany
2004
“We Have Mice,” Pierogi Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2003
“Operation:Mice,” Bunkier Sztuki, Krakow, Poland
2002
“Colony,” (Mir2 group) Islip Art Museum, New York
2001
“The Cube,” Pierogi Gallery, Brooklyn, NYC
“Mir2,” Smack Mellon Gallery, Brooklyn, NYC
2000
“Tunnel,” La Friche Belle de Mai, Marseille, France
1999
“This Salient Moment,” Kunstverein Recklinghausen, Germany
Neuer Kusntverein, Aschaffenburg, Germany
“Berlin Platform,” Ateliers Megerzeile, 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
2010
“Energy Effects: Art and Artifacts from the Landscape of Glorious Excess,” Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
(1 July–15 October)
“Archive,” Santa Fe Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, NM
“The 2010 DeCordova Biennial,” DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA (23 January–11 April)
2008
“Burning Down the House: Building a Feminist Art Collection,” Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
“Slightly Unbalanced,” Chicago Cultural Center, Organized by Susan Hapgood of Independent
Curators International, Chicago, IL
“Pierogi et al,” Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
“Elusive Truths,” Firehouse Gallery, Burlington, VT
“Nieuwe Collectie, Stedelijk Museum Wuyts-Van Campen & Baron Caroly, Lier, Belgium
2007
“New York: State of Mind,” The House of World Cultures, Berlin, Germany.
Curated by Shaheen Merali (August 24–November 4)
Traveled to the Queens, Museum, Queens, NY
“The Happiness of Objects,” Sculpture Center, LIC, New York (Flatland Project)
“The Accidentally Real,” Sara Tecchia Gallery, New York, NY
“Cosmologies,” James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY (January 11–February 10)
2006
Group Exhibition, PIEROGI Leipzig, Germany
“Twice Drawn,” Wachenheim Gallery, Tang Museum, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
(October 7–December 30)
“Personal Geographies,” Hunter College, Times Square Gallery, (October 4–November 18)
Curated by Joanna Lindenbaum
“Text Formed Drawing,” Contemporary Art Galleries, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
Curated by Barry Rosenberg (November 6–December 13)
“Work In Progress,” d.u.m.b.o. arts center, Brooklyn, NY (Archive installation)
2005
“There Is Always An Alternative,” Temporary Contemporary, London
2004
“Para Sites…when space comes into play,” MUMOK (Museum of Modern Kunst), Vienna, Austria
“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, MA
“Re-Do China,” Ethan Cohen Gallery, New York, NY
“Tentworm,” Lokaal 01, Breda, Netherlands
2003
“Haifa International Installation Triennial,” Haifa Museum, Israel
“Re-Construction Biennial,” Exit Art, NYC
“Street Selections,” The Drawing Center, NYC
2002
“To Actuality,” ARGE Museum, Bolzano, Italy
“Enactments of the Self,” Steirischer Herbst, Graz, Austria
“Crafting Space,” Smart Project Space, Amsterdam
“Made In Brooklyn,” Brooklyn Rail/Wythe Studio, NY
“Touchy Feely,” Eyewash, Brooklyn, NY
“Globe>Miami>Island,” Bass Museum, Miami Beach, Florida and Museum of 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
“Selections, Southern Sculpture,” Woodruff Art Center, Atlanta, GA
“Putt Modernism,” Artist’s Space, NYC and SECCA, NC.
1990
“Florida’s Finest,” touring show: Center for Contemporary Art in North Miami, Capitol Gallery in Tallahassee.
Selected Bibliography
Maine, Stephen. “David Shapiro: Pierogi,” Art In America, May 2009
Johnson, Ken. “The Sleeper Experiment,” The New York Times, April 24, 2009
Foumberg, Jason, “Slightly Unbalanced,” Frieze, Issue 115, May 2008
Saltz, Jerry. “The Biggest Picture,” The Village Voice, February 1, 2007
Schmerler, Sarah. “Work In Progress,” Time Out New York, Issue 553: May 4–10, 2006 (llus)
Baker, R.C. “Best in Show: Spring at Last,” The Village Voice, April 5, 2006
Volk, Gregory. “Big Brash Borough,” Art in America, September 2004. Pp 93-97, (Illus)
Schmerler, Sarah. “Ward Shelley at Pierogi,” Art in America, May 2004 (Illus)
Cotter, Holland. “Sampling Brooklyn, Keeper of Eclectic Flames,” The New York Times, January 23, 2004
Schwendener, Martha. “Ward Shelley: Pierogi,” Artforum, April 2004 (Illus)
Heuer, Megan. “Ward Shelley: We Have Mice,” The Brooklyn Rail, February 2004 (Illus)
“Artist Takes Mouse as Model,” Artnet News, January 20, 2004
Smith, Roberta. “The Art and Artists of the Year,” The New York Times, December 28, 2003
Vine, Richard. Report from China: The Wild, Wild East,” Art in America, Sept 2003 (Illus)
Powhida, William. “Exit Biennial: The Reconstruction, Exit Art,” The Brooklyn Rail, June–July 2003
Schmerler, Sarah. “Street Selections: the Drawing Center,” Time Out New York, Issue 398,
May 15–22, 2003, by
Schmerler, Sarah. “Painting the Town: Art in the Making,” Time Out New York, Issue 395,
April 24–May 1, 2003
“Ward Shelley: Decade,” The New Yorker, May 12, 2003 (Illus)
Garden Castro, Jan. “Globe-Miami-Island,” Sculpture, Vol. 22, No. 2, March 2003 (Illus)
Perra, Daniele. “Enactments of the Self,” Tema Celeste, March 2003. P112
Schwabsky, Barry. “Enactments of the Self,” Artforum, Feb 2003 (Illus)
“Site Specifics ’02,” The New York Times, July 6, 2002
Hongman, Ana. “Brooklyn NYC, Ana Hongman celebrates New York’s new vibrant art scene,”
Contemporary, May 2002 (Illus)
Volk, Gregory. “Ward Shelley at Pierogi,” Art in America, Feb 2002 (Illus)
Caniglia, Julie. “Mir2,” Artforum, February 2002 (Illus)
Dannatt, Adrian. “Brooklyn!,” Flash Art, November–December 2001
Cotter, Holland. “Mir2,” The New York Times, Nov 9, 2001 (Illus)
Richard, Frances. “Ward Shelley at Pierogi Gallery,” Artforum On-Line, Sept, 2001
Ortiz, Ori. “The Cube: Ward Shelley,” The Brooklyn Rail, September 7–October 8, 2001 (Illus)
Rivoire, Annick. “Flesh and Bits,” Liberation, March 24, 2000
Euler, Anneliese. “Kletternder Toaster, rollende Ölfässer,” Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Nr 261,
November 9, 1999 (Illus)
A.B. “Von Woodstock zur Gentechnik,” Stadt Aschaffenburg, November 1999 (Illus)
T.I.B. “Wenn Metallfässer anfangen zu rempeln,” Recklinghausen Zeitung, No 218, September 18, 1999
E.L.L. “Fässen rollen durchs Haus,” Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung (WAZ), No 218, Sept. 18, 1999
Suhr, Von Constanze. “Die unfreiwillig komische Wichtigkeit,” Der Tagesspiegel, July 9, 1999, Nr. 16 746
Lützow, Gunnar. “Plattform auf Reisen,” Berliner Morgenpost, July 4, 1999
Friebe, Holm. “Treptower Lava-Spiel,” Berliner Zeitung, No 152, July 3-4, 1999
Braun, Alexander. “Ward Shelley: Voyage Platform,” Kunstforum International, No. 144, March–April, 1999
(Illus)
Schmerler, Sarah. Ward Shelley and Lynn Mullins,” Time Out New York, Issue 167, December 3–10, 1998
Smith, Roberta. “Brooklyn Haven for Art Heats Up,” The New York Times, November 6, 1998
Mirapaul, Matthew. “Tracking a Voyage of 600 Feet,” The New York Times online, September 24, 1998
Turner, Elisa. “An artsy link between Brooklyn, Miami Beach,” The Miami Herald, September 18, 1998
(Illus)
Jast, Frank. “Installationen mit hintersinnigem Humor,” Potsdamer Neueste Nachrichten, August 9, 1997
Schiff, Hajo. “Verschlagener Bodenstaubsauger,” Kultur / Taz Hamburg, December 7-8, 1996
“Aschenbecher versucht aufzustehen–vergeblich,” Ruhr Nachrichten Dortmunsd, June 21, 1995
Schütz, Marco. “Fässer, die von selber rollen,” Frankfurter Allgemeine, 1995
Kampmann, Matthias. “Toaster spielt Clown,’ Westfälischer Auzeiger Hammer Freitung, June 30, 1995
Potthoff, Von Jürgen. “Die vergeblichen Mühen des Toasters,” Westfälische Rundshau, Dortmund,
June 21, 1995
Sira. “Objekte spielen mit dem Thema Vergeblichkeit,” No 1141, Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung (WAZ),
No 141, June 21, 1995
Seward, Keith. “Putt-Modernism,” Artforum, November 1992
Rose, Matthew. “Playing a Round in TriBeCa,” The New York Times, August 1992
“Tee Time,” The New Yorker, August 3, 1992