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Alice Zinnes — Biography



 

Zinnes has had five solo exhibitions in New York City, including a 25-year retrospective at The Art Center at Queens College . She has also had one-person shows at Dartmouth and Swarthmore Colleges, and at the Simon Gallery, in Morristown, New Jersey. Ms Zinnes has been reviewed (often with illustrations) in The New York Times, New York Newsday, New York Arts Magazine, Art New England, and The Queens Tribune, and interviewed on the NPR-affiliated radio station WJFF . She has received awards from the National Academy of Design, and fellowships from the Virginia.

Center for the Arts as well as from the Cummington Community for the Arts. Zinnes’s work is in many public and private collections: in New York City it is at the First Albany Corporation, Frederick Harris, Inc., Alliance Capital, Kaye Insurance, Inc.; in New Jersey it is at Schein Pharmaceuticals; and in Philadelphia it is in the collection of Wolf Block & Solis-Cohen.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:

SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2006: Delaware Arts Center Gallery: Rama’s Light: Recent Paintings. Narrowsburg, NY
2002: Queens College Art Center: The Color of Memory: 25 Years. Queens, NY
Tribes Gallery: Orpheus Rising. NYC
1999: The Bradshaw House, Birmingham, Alabama
1998: Tribes Gallery: Inverting the Dream. NYC
1997: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
1993: Frankel Pariser & Rudder, NYC
1987: Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA
1982: The Queens College Gallery, Queens, NY
2-PERSON:
2006: Gallery64, Brooklyn, NY: The Spirit That Moves Me. Curated by Sheryll Durrant
2002: Hopper House Art Center, Nyack, NY. Curated by Bill Hochhausen
2000: Simon Gallery, Morristown, NJ

GROUP:
2005: Lori Bookstein Fine Art, NYC: New Work
The Painting Center, NYC: Crossing the Line. Curated by Cathy Diamond
Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY: Crossing Disciples-Drawing
Times Square Lobby Gallery, NYC. Curated by Cyn McLean and Cora Jane Glasser
Art Gotham, NYC: The Square Foot Show
Drawing Center Registry, NYC (continuous viewing since 2001)
Delaware Arts Center Gallery, Narrowsburg, NY: Art of the Sixies
2004: Brent Sikkema Gallery, NYC: Visual AIDS
Artist Space, NYC
2002: Sperone Westwater Gallery, NYC: Visual AIDS
Ayce de Roulet Williamson Gallery, Pasadena, CA: Reactions
Exit Art, NYC: Reactions
Pierogi 2000, Williamsburg, Brooklyn. (continuous viewing from 2000-2002)
2001: Sideshow, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Pratt Institute: The Rubelle & Norman Schafler Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Chelsea Pier 60, NYC: Art for America
John Elder Gallery, NYC
New York Studio School, NYC. Curated by Karen Wilkin
Elsa Mott Ives Gallery, NYC. “Dreams”
2000: KeySpan Corporate Galleries, Brooklyn, NY. Curator: Kiesha Hayle
Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, MD: Snapshot
William Paterson University, Wayne, NJ: Intuitive Abstract Painting.
Curator: Nancy Einrenhofer
New York Studio School. Curated by Irving Sandler
2000: 55 Mercer Gallery: Signal to Noise: Internal Narrative/Internal Form.
Curated by Joel Silverstein
New York University, NYC: Small Works Show (Juror: Tricia Collins)
Seton Hall, Newark, NJ: Silent Poetry (sponsored by City Without Walls)
1999: Artist Space, NYC
NY Studio School, NYC: Raw Seeing
Elsa Mott Ives Gallery, YWCA, NYC: Wish You Were Here
1998: The Art Showcase @ The Bond Market Asso.NYC: 7 Against the Grain
Grace Gallery: New York City Technical College, CUNY, Brooklyn, NY
College Misericordia, Dallas, PA: The Persistence of Place
1997: Elsa Mott Ives Gallery, YWCA, NYC: Vision and Verse. Curator: Janet Larose
Salena Gallery, Long Island University, Brooklyn, NY:Landscape, Vision and Spirit
New York Studio School, NYC: Curator: Dore Ashton
1996: New York Studio School, NYC: People, Places and Things
The National Academy of Design, NYC
The Bradshaw House, Birmingham, Alabama
Tribeca 148 Gallery, NYC

AWARDS and HONORS:

Fellowship: The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Residency. (2001, 1999, 1997, 1992)
Fleet Bank: Gallery reception sponsorship (1997)
Fellowship: Cummington Community for the Arts. Residency (August, 1993)
The Julius Hallgarten Prize, for best painter under 35: National Academy of Design, NYC (1990, 1988)
Barklie McKee Henry Memorial Scholarship for study at Skowhegan School (1980)

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY:

SOLO REVIEWS and INTERVIEWS
Gandalf: National Public Radio affiliate station WJFF: Community Voices. Interview. Oct. 21, 2006
John Graham: National Public Radio affiliate station WJFF: Making Waves. Interview. Oct. 8, 2006
The River Reporter: Traversing Dream Boundaries: The Art of Alice Zinnes Comes To the DVAA. Sept. 28 – Oct. 4,
2006
Carl MacGowan: New York Newsday: Inspiration’s Path: Landscape to Poetry. Dec. 8, 2002
Angela Montefinise: The Queens Tribune:When Homework Leads to Queens Artwork.Dec.5-11, 2002
Mark Cohen: NY Arts: The Exhilaration of the Dark: The Poetic Descent of Alice Zinnes. June, 2002
Mark Cohen: Art New England: Alice Zinnes: Painterly. June/July 2002
Antony Hudek: The Dartmouth: Children’s Fairy Tales Inspire Artist’s Works: Jan. 24, 1997

OTHER REVIEWS and CATALOGUE ESSAYS
Marquis Who's Who in America (56th, 57th editions (2001, 2003)
Marquis Who's Who of American Women: 21st, 22nd, 23rd editions (1998, 2000, 2003)
Piri Halasz: From the Mayor’s Doorstep (On-line column): March, 2003
Daily News: Art Opening at MetroTech. Dec. 10, 2000
Nancy Einrenhofer: William Patterson University, Catalogue essay: Intuitive Abstraction.
Dec. 2000
Piri Halasz: New York Arts Magazine: Youth, Age & Mixed Media. March, 2000
Piri Halasz: From the Mayor’s Doorstep (On-line column): March, 2000
Piri Halasz: From the Mayor’s Doorstep (On-line column): Jan.1999
Christopher Sippel: The Art Showcase, New York City. Catalogue essay: 7 Against the Grain. 1998
Courier: Lush Landscapes Come Alive On canvas. Oct. 1997
Janet Larose: The Elsa Mott Ives Gallery, New York City. Catalogue essay: Vision and Verse. 1997
Holland Cotter: The New York Times. July 26, 1996

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS:

Alliance Capitol Financial, New York City
First Albany Corporation, One Penn Plaza, New York City
Fabrico Manufacturing, Inc. Chicago
Frederic R. Harris, Inc., New York City
Kaye Insurance, Inc., New York City
Schein Pharmaceuticals, NJ
Wolf Block Schorr & Solis-Cohen
Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY, New York City
Queensborough Community College Art Gallery, New York
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Sweet Briar, VA
Gil’s Book Loft, Binghamton, NY