Education:

1956-59 Cooper Union, New York
1959-61 BFA, Yale University, New Haven

The artist lives and works in Washingtonville, New York

ONE-PERSON EXHIBITIONS:

2003 Sylvia Plimack Mangold recent paintings and watercolors, Alexander and Bonin, New
York
2000 Sylvia Plimack Mangold, Alexander and Bonin, New York
1998 Sylvia Plimack Mangold: Trees, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University,
Ithaca, NY
1997 New Paintings and Watercolors, Annemarie Verna Galerie, Zürich
1995 Sylvia Plimack Mangold, Paintings, 1990-1995, Brooke Alexander, New York
1994 The Paintings of Sylvia Plimack Mangold, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY;
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT; Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston;
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
1992 Sylvia Plimack Mangold: Works on Paper 1968-1991, University of Michigan Museum
of Art, Ann Arbor; The Minneapolis Institute of Arts; Grunwald Center for the
Graphic Arts, UCLA; Neuberger Museum, State University of New York at
Purchase; Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University
Sylvia Plimack Mangold: Prints and Related Works, Brooke Alexander, New York
Sylvia Plimack Mangold: Work Done in the Elk River Valley in August 1992, The New
Van Straaten Gallery, Chicago
1991 Sylvia Plimack Mangold: The Elm Tree, Annemarie Verna Galerie, Zürich
1989 Sylvia Plimack Mangold: Paintings 1987-1989, Brooke Alexander, New York
1987 Sylvia Plimack Mangold: Landscape Paintings, Fuller Goldeen Gallery, San Francisco
1986 Sylvia Plimack Mangold: Drawings, Brooke Alexander, New York
Sylvia Plimack Mangold: Paintings & Pastels, Texas Gallery, Houston
1985 Sylvia Plimack Mangold: Paintings, Brooke Alexander, New York
Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago
1984 Sylvia Plimack Mangold: Pastels, Brooke Alexander, New York
1982 Sylvia Plimack Mangold: Paintings 1965-1982, Madison Art Center, WI; Grand Rapids
Art Museum, MI; Traveled with changes to Brooke Alexander, New York and
traveled with title change to Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago (Sylvia Plimack
Mangold: Paintings 1965-1983)
The Art of Sylvia Plimack Mangold, Duke University Museum of Art, Durham, NC
Sylvia Plimack Mangold: Recent Paintings, Brooke Alexander, NY
1981 Perspectives: Sylvia Mangold: Nocturnal Paintings, Contemporary Arts Museum,
Houston Matrix Gallery, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford
1980 Droll/Kolbert Gallery, New York
Young Hoffman Gallery, Chicago
Sylvia Mangold, Ohio State University Gallery of Fine Art, Columbus
1979 Droll/Kolbert Gallery, New York
1978 Annemarie Verna Galerie, Zürich


SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

2005 American Academy Invitational Exhibition of Painting & Sculpture, The American
Academy of Arts and Letters, New York
2004 Outside, Jim Kempner Fine Art, New York
Neil Jenney, Ree Morton, Sylvia Plimack Mangold: early works 1965-1975, Alexander
and Bonin, New York
Picasso to Thiebaud: Modern and Contemporary Art from the Collections of Stanford
University Alumni and Friends, Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at
Stanford University, CA
Watercolor Worlds, Dorsky Gallery, Long Island City, NY
2003 Mirror Tenses: Conflating Time and Presence, University Gallery, Fine Arts Center,
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Lyrical Landscapes, Widener Gallery, Trinity College, Hartford, CT
Land and Sea, Alexander and Bonin, New York
Working from Nature, Butler Gallery, Marymount College of Fordham University,
Tarrytown, New York
2002 Highlights from the Permanent Collection, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art
177th Annual Exhibition, National Academy of Design
110 Years: The Permanent Collection of the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth,
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
Northern Light, Danese Gallery, New York
RETROSPEKTIV III: Sylvia Plimack Mangold and James Bishop, Werke 1969-2002
Annemarie Verna Galerie, Zurich
2001 (Self) Portraits Alexander and Bonin, New York
MEASURE/MASS, Annemarie Verna Galerie, Zurich
2000 Still, Alexander and Bonin, New York
1999 Rita McBride, Sylvia Plimack Mangold & To Be Announced, Alexander and Bonin, New York
1997 Selections from the Collection, May 30-August 19, The Museum of Modern Art
Private Worlds: 200 Years of American Still Life Painting Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO
Queens Artists: Highlights of the 20th Century, Queens Museum of Art
1996 Private Worlds: 200 Years of American Still Life Painting, Aspen Art Museum, CO
1995 Karo Dame - Konstruktive, Konkrete unde Radikale Kunst von Frauen von 1914 bis
heute, Aargauer Kunsthaus Aarau, Austria
1994 Inspired by Nature, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY
Block/Plate/Stone: What a Print Is, Katonah Museum of Art, NY; Davison Art Center,
Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT (catalogue with essay by Ellen G. D'Oench)
1993 Yale Collects Yale, 1950-1993, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT (catalogue
with essays by Sasha M. Newman and Nicholas Fox Weber)
Building a Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
1989 Coming of Age: Twenty-one Years of Collecting by the Madison Art Center, Madison
Art Center, WI
Making Their Mark: Women Artists Move into the Mainstream 1970-1985, Cincinnati
Art Museum; New Orleans Museum of Art; Denver Art Museum, Pennsylvania
Academy of Fine Arts (catalogue with essays by Randy Rosen and Catherine C.
Brawer, eds., et al.)
1988 Art on Paper 1988, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, The University of North Carolina at
Greensboro
1987 From the LeWitt Collection, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford
1986 The Window in Twentieth-Century Art, Neuberger Museum, State University of New
York at Purchase (catalogue with essay by Suzanne Delehanty)
A Contemporary View of Nature, Inaugural Exhibition, The Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield,
CT (catalogue introduction by John Yau)
Landscape in the Age of Anxiety, Lehman College Art Gallery.The City University of New
York, Bronx; Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art (catalogue with essay by Nina
Castelli Sundell)
NYC: New Work, Delaware Museum of Art, Wilmington
Logical Foundations, The Museum of Modern Art, Art Lending Service, New York
1985 Night Lights: 19th and 20th Century American Nocturne Paintings, The Taft Museum,
Cincinnati (catalogue with essay by Heather Hallenberg)
American Realism: Twentieth-Century Drawings and Watercolors from the Glenn C.
Janss Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; De Cordova and Dana
Museum and Park, Lincoln, MA; Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, University of
Texas, Austin; Mary and Leigh Block Gallery, Northwestern University, Evanston,
IL; Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA; Akron Art Museum, OH;
Madison Art Center, Madison, WI (catalogue with essay by Alvin Martin)
1984 New Vistas: Contemporary American Landscapes, The Hudson River Museum, Yonkers,
NY; Tucson Museum of Art, AZ (catalogue with
1981 Recent Acquisitions: Drawings, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Real, Really Real, Super Real: Directions in Contemporary American Realism, San
Antonio Museum of Art; Indianapolis Museum of Art, Tuscon Museum Art;
Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh (catalogue with essays by Sally Boothe-Meredith,
Alvin Martin, Linda Nochlin and Philip Pearlstein)
1980 Drawings: The Pluralist Decade, United States Pavillion, Venice Biennial XXXIX;
Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia; Henie
Onstad Museum, Hovikodden, Norway; Biblioteca Nationale Madrid; Gulbenkian
Musuem, Lisbon, Spain (catalogue with essays by Janet Kardon, John Hallmark
Neff, Rosalind Krauss, et al.)
Painting and Sculpture Today 1980, Indianapolis Museum of Art (catalogue with essay by
Hillary D. Bassett, Judith A. McKenzie and Robert A. Yassin)
1979 Eight Artists: The Elusive Image, The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (catalogue with
essay by Lisa Lyons, Melinda Ward, Marie Cieri, Martin Friedman, Nancy Rosen
and Christopher Knight)

Monographs:

1994 The Paintings of Sylvia Plimack Mangold with an essay by Cheryl Brutvan. Co-published
by Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo and Hudson Hills Press, New York.
1992 Sylvia Plimack Mangold: Works on Paper 1968-1991 with essays by Hilarie Faberman and
Ellen G. D'Oench. Co-published by Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University and
University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor.
1989 Sylvia Plimack Mangold Paintings 1987-1989 with an essay by Carter Ratcliff Published by
Brooke Alexander, New York
1982 Sylvia Plimack Mangold Paintings 1965-1982 with an essay by Thomas H. Garver Published
by Madison Art Center, Madison, Wisconsin
1978 Inches and Field Published by Lapp Princess Press Ltd., New York
Articles and Reviews
2004 Schjeldahl, Peter. “Neil Jenney/Ree Morton/Sylvia Plimack Mangold.” The New York
(November 1, 2004): 24
2003 Rosoff, Patricia. “Knowing Where to Stand: The secret landscape in the Modern Age.” The
Hartford Advocate (October 16, 2003): 19
Brandl, Mark Staff. “Reviews.” Art in America (June 2003): 135
2002 Anderson-Spivy, Alexandra. “The Pin Oak 6/01 (Looking West 5 pm) by Sylvia Plimack
Mangold.” Artnet (November 2002)
http://www.artnet.com/Magazine/reviews/boettger/boettger10-11-02.asp?C=1
2000 Hirsch, Faye. “Bob and Sylvia and Chris and Doris: A Collaboration.” Art on Paper
(December 2000): 68 – 73, 106-107
Scott, Sue. “Sylvia Plimack Mangold.” Review Magazine (February 15, 2000): 30
1996 Miller, Francine Koslow. "Sylvia Plimack Mangold." Artforum (March 1996)
1995 Johnson, Patricia C. "Plimack Mangold paintings lure us across borders for dialogue."
Houston Chronicle (September 18, 1995): 1D – 3D
Licata, Elizabeth. "Sylvia Plimack Mangold, Albright-Knox Gallery." ArtNews (March
1995)
Kushner, Robert. “Sylvia Plimack Mangold at Brooke Alexander.” Art in America 83, no. 12
(December 1995): 93-94
Temin, Christine. "Lovely, Uplifting Landscapes at the MFA." The Boston Globe
(November 9, 1995): 76
1993 Raynor, Vivien. "An Elusive Art." The New York Times (January 24, 1993)
1992 Knight, Christopher. "Mangold: Probing the Nature of Perceptual Space." Los Angeles Times
(October 13, 1992): F1, 5
Pollard, Lauren Ray. "Sylvia Plimack Mangold; University of Michigan Museum of Art."
ArtNews (December 1992): 129
1991 Ratcliff, Carter. "Easy as Leaves: Sylvia Plimack Mangold sees the forest for its trees." Elle
Decor 2, no. 1 (May 1991): 120-23
1990 Cyphers, Peggy. "New York in Review: Sylvia Plimack Mangold." Arts Magazine 64, no. 6
(February 1990): 99-100
1984 Florescu, Michael. "Sylvia Plimack Mangold." Arts Magazine 58, no. 7 (March 1984): 6
1983 Ellenzweig, Allen. "Sylvia Plimack Mangold at Brooke Alexander." Art in America 71, no.
10 (November 1983): 229, 231
Paoletti, John. "Sylvia Plimack Mangold: Uses of the Past." Arts Magazine 57, no. 9 (April
1983): 90-93
Ravenal, John B. "Sylvia Plimack Mangold: Framework." Arts Magazine 57, no. 9 (April
1983): 94-96
Silverthorne, Jeanne. "Sylvia Plimack Mangold: Brooke Alexander, Inc." Artforum 21, no. 6
(February 1983): 81

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS:

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Brooklyn Museum, NY
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo
Dallas Museum of Art
Detroit Institute of Art
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, TX
Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, NC
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Indianapolis Museum of Art
Madison Art Center, WI
Milwaukee Art Museum
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
New York Public Library, New York
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Smith College Museum, Northampton, Massachussetts
Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH
University of Utah, Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City
Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, San Francisco
Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, GA
St. Louis Art Museum
The Tampa Museum