Born: Bronx, NY, 1953 Lives New York City

ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2023	"taking shapes", Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York, NY
	"Balancing Acts", Pamela Salisbury Gallery, Hudson, NY
2021	"materializing: recent ceramics", Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York, NY
2019	"in the moment", Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York, NY
2016	"vases and drawings", Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York, NY
2012	"Some Vases", Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York, NY
2011	Bannister Gallery, Rhode Island College, Providence, RI, curated by Doug Bosch
	"Constructed, Folded, Sewn," Flippo Gallery, Randolph-Macon College, Ashland, VA, curated by Karen Shaw
2009	"Constructed, Folded, Sewn," Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York, NY
2008	"Sewn Constructions", PanAmerican ArtProjects, Dallas, TX
2007	Elizabeth HarrisGallery, New York, NY
2003	Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York, NY
2000	"Drawings", Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York, NY
1999	Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York, NY
1996	Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York, NY
1994	Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York, NY
	Sandler Hudson Gallery, The Niche Gallery, Atlanta, GA
1991	David Beitzel Gallery, Project Room, New York, GA
1990	"Art at the Edge", The High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA, traveled to Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx, NY
1989	Bill Bace Gallery, New York, NY
1988	Luise Ross Gallery, New York, NY
1987	Bronx Museum of the Arts Satellite Gallery, Bronx, NY

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023	"Italianitá", The Calandra Institute, New York, NY
	"Two Artists: Mildred Beltre and Elisa D’Arrigo", Five Myles, Brooklyn, NY
2022	"Absurd Petunias", Patricia Sweetow Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
	"Hybrid Histories", (three person exhibition), M.David & Co, Brooklyn, NY
2021	"Shapes From Out Of Nowhere: Ceramics From The Collection of Robert A. Ellison Jr." Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (Book/Catalogue with same title by August Editions)
2020	"Art For Your Collection" Catherine Fosnot Gallery, New London, CT (Catalogue, text by Helaine Posner and others)
2019	"!QUiRk", curated by Fran Shalom, Kathryn Markel Gallery, New York, NY
	"Polishing the Jewelbox", curated by Underdonk, Disturb the Neighbors, New York, NY
	"Plus 2: Pix from PS122", PS 122, New York, NY
2018	"Surface and Substance" Painting Center, New York, NY Curated by Hester Simpson
2017	"Bete Noir" FiveMyles, Brooklyn, NY Curated by Mario Naves
	"Domestic Disturbances", 490 Atlantic Gallery, Brooklyn, NY Curated by Joanne Freeman
	New Gallery/New Work, Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York
2016	"Ceramics-A Concept of Function", LMAKbooks+design, New York, NY
2014	"Soft", The Center For Contemporary Art, Bedminster, NJ, curated by Wes Sherman
2012	"Pencil Pushed: Exploring Process and Boundaries in Drawing", Curated by Creighton Michael, UT and Ewing Galleries, University of TN, Knoxville, TN
	"Close Relations and a Few Black Sheep", Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC curated by Nancy Doll
	"Art/Sewn: Tradition, Innovation, Expression" curated by Ward Minsk, Ashland Art Museum, Ashland, NC. Catalog, text by Ward Minsk
	"Textility," Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, Summit, NJ, curated by Mary Birmingham and Joanne Mattera
	"Not Your Usual Knit", City without Walls, Newark NJ, curated Lovina Purple
2011	"Obsessive Worlds," Art Museum of Southeast Texas, Beaumont, Texas, curated by Sarah Hamilton
	"Art/Sewn: Tradition, Innovation, Expression," FiveMyles, Brooklyn, NY, curated by Ward Mintz
2009	"By a Thread," Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York, NY curated by Miles Manning
2008	“The Idea of Nature”, 33 Bond Gallery, New York , NY , curated by Bill Weiss
2007	"Bits and Pieces: The Collage Impulse", curated by Susan Hoeltzel, Lehman College Art Gallery, Lehman College, Bronx, NY
	"Back to the Future: Contemporary American Art from the Collection", Mead Art Museum, Amherst, MA
2006	"Some Assembly Required", Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, Amherst, MA, curated by Trinket Clark
	"Threads of Memory", Dorsky Gallery, Long Island City, NY, curated by Margaret Mathews-Berenson
2005	"New Art, New York: Reflections on the Human Condition", Trierenberg Headquarters, Traum, Austria, curated by Margaret Mathews-Berenson
2004	"New York Show", Opalousas Museum of Art, Opalousas, LA
2002	"Accumulations", curated by Karen Shaw, Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY
	"Blobs, Wiggles and Dots, Webs and Crustillations", curated by Lucio Pozzi, The Work Space, New York, NY
2001	"Cool and Collected, Recent Contemporary Acquisitions", Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greenville, NC
2000	"As If Alive: Animate Sculpture", curated by Sara Lynn Henry, New Jersey Center for the Visual Arts, Summit, NJ
	"Palimpsest", curated by Margaret Lanzetta, Chelsea Gallery, A.K. Hinds, University Center, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC
1999	"Common Threads", curated by Edie Bazzano & Gita Padegs, The Gallery on the Hudson, Irvington, NY
	"A Fine Line Between…New Drawings: Elegant Investigations By Nine Artists Fascinated With Abstraction", curated by Carol Edelson & Leslie Scheiblberg, The Gallery on the Hudson, Irvington, NY
	"Waxing Poetic: Encaustic Art in America", curated by Gail Stavitsky, the Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ, Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, TN
	"A Common Thread", curated by Kimberly Richter, Preconceived Notions about Sewing, Weaving and Quilting", New Art Center in Newton, Newtonville, MA
1998	"Shaping Space - Drawings by Six Contemporary Sculptors", curated by Genevieve Linnehan, Dunedin Fine Art Center, Dunedin, FL
	"Form and Space: A Dialogue", Hunterdon Museum of Art, Clinton, NJ
	"Growing Obsession", curated by Donna Harkavy & Margaret Mathews- Berenson, Dorsky Gallery, New York, NY
	"Oud En Nieuw", Museum Voor Moderne, Arnheim, Netherlands
	"Obsessive Compulsive Order", Hillwood Art Museum, Brookville, NY
1996	"Paper in Disguise", Dieu Donne Papermill Gallery, New York, NY
	"Heat Exhaustion", curated by Ron Kelman, Fine Arts Museum of Long Island, Hempstead, NY
	"Pulp Fusion", Columbia Art Center, Dallas, TX
1995	"In Three Dimensions: Women Sculptors of the '90s - Part II: Beyond Gender", curated by Charlotte Streifer Rubinstein, SnugHarbor, Cultural Center, Staten Island, NY
	"X-Sightings 1995", Anderson Gallery, Buffalo, NY
	"Workspace Program: 5 Years", Dieu Donne Papermill, Inc., NewYork, NY
	"In Making it Actual: Works on Paper by 5 Sculptors", curated by Nade Haley, Wheeler Gallery, Providence RI
	"January Exhibition", Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York, NY
1994	"The Art of Italian Americans: Is Ethnicity Relevant?", curated by Sigmund Balka and Susan Hoetzel, Krasdale Gallery, White Plains, NY
	"Fabricated Nature", Boise Art Museum, Boise, ID, traveling exhibition
	"D'Arrigo & McCurdy", Victoria Anstead Fine Art, New York, NY
	"Biomorphosis", curated by Kate Rawlinson, InterAmerican Art Gallery, Miami-Dade Community College, Miami, FL
	"The Return of the Cadavre Exquis", The Drawing Center, New York, NY, travelling exhibition
1993	"Invitational", Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York, NY
	"Art on Paper", Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, NC
	"A Moment Becomes Eternity: Flowers as Image", curated by Michael Walls, The Bergen Museum, Paramus, NJ
	"Summer Group Exhibition", Michael Walls Gallery, New York, NY
	"Paper Trails: The Eidetic Image", Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, NY
1991	Group Show, Germans Van Eck Gallery, New York, NY
	"Covariants: Abstract Painting and Sculpture", OIA, Tribeca 148 Gallery, New York, NY
	"The Artist at Home", Bill Bace Gallery, New York, NY
	"Artifacts of Thought; Sculptors' Drawings", Marymount College Gallery, New York, NY
	"Vital Forces; Nature in Contemporary Abstraction", The Heckscher Museum, Huntington, NY
1990	"Sculptors' Drawings", East Hampton Center for Contemporary Art, East Hampton, L.I., NY
	"Working on Paper: Contemporary American Drawings", The High Museum at Georgia-Pacific Center, Atlanta, GA
	"Out of Abstraction", Islip Art Museum, East Islip, New York, NY
	"Image, Object Abstracted", OIA, CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY
	"Bad Girls", curated by Corinne Robins, Aljira, Newark, NJ
	"The New School Collects: Recent Acquisitions", curated by Kathleen Goncharov Parsons School of Design, Exhibition Center, New York, NY
1989	"Image and Possibility", Triplex Gallery, BMCC, New York, NY
	"Natural Inflections", Junior College of Albany, Albany, NY
	"Made in New York: Encounters with Contemporary Sculpture", Lafayette College, Easton, PA
	"Lines of Vision: Drawings by Contemporary Women", Hillwood Art Gallery, C.W. Post College, Greenvale, LI, traveled to Blum Helman Warehouse, New York, NY
1988	"Sculpture 1988", White Columns, New York, NY
	"Sculpture 1988", White Columns, New York, NY
1987	"Natural Inflections; Inside/Outside", Sculpture Center, New York, NY
	"Art on Paper 1987", Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, NC
	"Abstraction", Luise Ross Gallery, New York, NY
	"Biomorphic Sculpture", Art in General, New York, NY
	"Unaffiliated Artists V", Hillwood Art Gallery, CW Post, Greenvale, NY
1986	"Square and...", Ruth Siegel Gallery, New York, NY
	Natural Sources/Sculpture", PS 122, New York, NY
1985	"Small Works by Big Thinkers", Bess Cutler Gallery, New York, NY
	"35 Under 35", Women's Interart Center, New York, NY
1984	"Drawings", Sculpture Center, New York, NY
1983	"Hundreds of Drawings", Artists Space, New York, NY
1982	"Ambiance/Stimuli", curated by Benny Andrews, Alternative Museum, New York, NY
	"Icon and Environment", curated by Susan Sollins, Women's Caucus on Art, New York, NY
1980	"Directions", Rosa Esman Gallery, New York, NY
1979	"Architecture for the Mind and Child", Newark Museum, Newark, NJ

BIBLIOGRAPHY
2022	Koplos, Janet, Ceramics Art and Perception, “Elisa D’Arrigo: Materializing at Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York City”, issue #119
	Couzens, Julia, Medium, “Tender Pricks and Present Edges: Elisa D’Arrigo and Cornelia Shulz”
2021	“Shapes From Out of Nowhere: Ceramics From The Collection of Robert A. Ellison, Jr.” August Editions. Essays by Robert A. Ellison Jr., Glenn Adamson, Intro by Adrienne Spinozzi, Artist Bios by Elizabeth Essner
	Hill, Robin, Two Coats of Paint, “The inside creates the outside and vice versa” interview
	Weiner, Daniel, “One Question, One Answer”, Romanov Grave
2019	John Yau, "The Pleasures of DIY Art", Hyperallergic
	Nathanson, Jill, Delicious Line, review
	Yaniv, Etty, “Elisa D’Arrigo - From the Inside Out”, interview in Artspiel
2016	John Yau, "When Was the Last Time You Thought About a Hookah-Smoking Caterpillar?", Hyperallergic
2012	Naves, Mario, Too Much Art, “Elisa D’Arigo at Elizabeth Harris Gallery”
2011	Cotter, Holland, "Art in Review: 'Art/Sewn: Tradition, Innovation,Expression," The New York Times
	Shuster, Robert, The Village Voice, Arts: "Art/Sewn"
	Naves, Mario, City Arts, "Arts/Sewn: Tradition, Innovation, Expression"
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2009	Taffet, David THE Magazine, "Elisa D'Arrigo: Sewn Constructions"
2008	Koplos, Janet, "Elisa D'Arrigo at Elizabeth Harris", Art in America, January, ill. Pp. 132-3
2007	"Elisa D'Arrigo at Elizabeth Harris Gallery", Reviews, Artnews, Summer, p. 200
	"Sew It Up", Arts, The New York Sun, May 10, p 10
2004	Sheffield, Margaret, "Chaos and Containment: Elisa D'Arrigo", Sculpture, March, vol. 23, no. 2, pp. 20-21
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	Goodman, Jonathan, catalogue essay for exhibit at Elizabeth Harris
2002	Harrison, Helen A., "More Is More: Repetition Adds Dimension to Patterns", The New York Times, L.I. Section, Oct 13, p 20
2000	Henry, Sara Lynn, catalogue essay for exhibit, "As If Alive: Animate Sculpture", New Jersey Center for the Visual Arts, Summit, New Jersey
1999	Zimmer, William, "Precision Marks Show of Mostly Black and White Drawings", The New York Times, Westchester Section, November 14, 1999, p. 18
	Goodman, Jonathan, "Reviews New York: Elisa D'Arrigo", Sculpture, September, pp. 66-7
	Wilkin, Karen, "At the Galleries", Partisan Review, Summer, 3, p.490
1998	Dischoff, Dan, "Sculptors Share Space at Museum", The Star Ledger, Newark, NJ
	Marger, Mary Ann, "Not by Sculpture Alone…", St. Petersburg Times, St. Petersburg, FL, September 4, p. 24
1996	Sheffield, Margaret, "Elisa D'Arrigo", Review, October 15, 1996, p. 25
	Naves, Mario, essay for brochure for exhibit at Elizabeth Harris
1995	Faxon, Alicia Craig, "In Making it Actual", Art New England, August
1994	Raynor, Vivien, "Exhibit by Italian-Americans Poses Questions about Ethnicity", New York Times, December 25, p. 14
	Scott, Sue, catalogue essay for "Biomorphosis", Miami-Dade Community College, Miami, FL
	Naves, Mario, New York Review of Art, December, Vol.1, No. 5.
	Melrod, George, "Elisa D'Arrigo", Sculpture, reproduction, September/October, p. 44
	Mahoney, Robert, "Elisa D'Arrigo", Cover, September, p.13
	Glueck, Grace, "Gallery Watch", The New York Observer, June 13, p 17
	Cullum, Jerry, "Twosome Draws Beauty from the Disturbing", The Atlanta Journal/The Atlanta Constitution, reproduction, February 4, p 17
	Scott, Sue, "Group Show: Elizabeth Harris Gallery", Art News, reproduction, January, p. 164
1993	Naves, Mario, "Studio View", New Art Examiner, Summer
	Phillips, Patricia C., "Alumni Art". catalogue essay, SUNY at New Paltz, NY
1992	Schetzel, Florence, "Alumni Art Graces the SUNY Gallery", Poughkeepsie Journal, September
	Melrod, George, "Cross Currents, Korean Cultural Center", ARTnews, March
	Melrod, George, "Elisa D'Arrigo, David Beitzel Gallery", ARTnews, February
	Twardy, Chuck, "Embracing the Void Fills the Bill with Imagination", The Orlando Sentinel, February 23
1991	Holl, James, "Vital Forces; Nature in Contemporary Abstraction", brochure essay, Marymount College Gallery, New York, NY
	Noll, Anna C., "Vital Forces; Nature in Contemporary Abstraction", brochure essay, the Heckscher Museum, Huntington, NY
	Koplos, Janet, "Elisa D'Arrigo at Lehman College Art Gallery", Art in America, December
	Harrison, Helen A., "The Natural World and Its Mysteries", The New York Times (L.I.), August 11
	Smith, Roberta, "On Long Island, Photos, Portraits, Pollock and Stereotyping",The New York Times, August 9
	Lipson, Karin, "Nature in the Abstract, Around Us and Within", Newsday, July 26
	Cullum, Jerry, "Elisa D'Arrigo", Sculpture, March/April
	Bradford, Thomasine, "Elisa D'Arrigo", Art Papers, March/April
1990	Przybilla, Carrie, "Working on Paper: Contemporary American Drawings", catalogue essay, the High Museum, Atlanta, GA
	Burnside, Madeline, "Out of Abstraction", brochure essay, Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY
	Slivka, Rose C.S., "From the Studio", The East Hampton Star, November 15
	Fox, Catherine, "D'Arrigo Work on the 'Edge' of Surrealism", The Atlantic Journal and Constitution, November 2
	Harrison, Helen A., "Blurring Artistic Distinctions", The New York Times (L.I.), July 8
	Amman, Gloria, "Elisa D'Arrigo", Cover, January
1989	Tully, Judd, "Made in New York: Encounters with Contemporary, Sculpture",Catalogue essay, Lafayette College, Easton, PA
	Van Wagner, Judy K. Collischan, Lines of Vision: Drawings by Contemporary Women, Hudson Hills Press
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	Harrison, Helen A., "8 with Diverse Narrative Lines", The New York Times (L.I.) June 21
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1983	Speight, Charlotte F., Images in Clay Sculpture, Harper and Row

GRANTS & AWARDS
2003	NYFA Fellowship Award for Works on Paper
1993	Work Space Program, Dieu Donne Papermill, New York, NY
1987	Artist in Residence, The MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH
1986	Artist in Residence, The MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH
	Artist in Residence, Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY
1984	Grant, Ariana Foundation for the Arts, Inc.

COLLETIONS
Amoco Corporation AT&T Best Products, Inc. Bryn Mawr Library Collection, Bryn Mawr, PA Dieu Donne Papermill The Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY The High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA The Mead Art Museum, Amherst, MA The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC The New School for Social Research The Prudential, Newark, NJ Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz, NY The Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC
SELECTED FEATURES
Miami University, Oxford, OH Valencia Community College, Orlando, FL The Heckscher Museum, Huntington, NY The High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA Staten Island Museum, S.I., NY Drew University, Madison, NJ Trinity College, Hartford, CT New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ State College of New York at New Paltz, NY Suffolk County Community College, NY The Women's Interart Center, New York, NY The 92nd St. YM-YMHA, New York, NY
EDUCATION
1975	BFA, State College of New York at New Paltz

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