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solo & 2-person exhibitions
2010
Shadow of a Doubt, Carl Berg Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2009
Clash By Night, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT
2008
The Narrow Margin, Rowan University Art Gallery, Glassboro, NJ (brochure)
The Notion of Line: Serena Bocchino & Gelah Penn, Alpan Gallery, Huntington, LI
2006
Detour, Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn, NY (brochure)
Swing Time, Dam Stuhltrager Gallery, Project Room, Brooklyn, NY
2005
On Dangerous Ground, Realform Project Space, Brooklyn, NY
2001
354 Exhibitions, Brooklyn, NY
selected group exhibitions
2012
Morphed, Janet Kurnatowski Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
The Annual: 2012, National Academy Museum, NYC (catalog)
Textility, Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, Summit, NJ (catalog)
Paperazzi, Janet Kurnatowski Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2011
Chain Letter, Samson Projects, Boston, MA
Summer Paper, Lori Bookstein Fine Art, NYC
2 + 2 = 4, Elizabeth Harris Gallery, NYC
On the Wall/Off the Wall, Lori Bookstein Fine Art, NYC
Paper 2011, Janet Kurnatowski Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
It's All Good: apocalypse now, Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2010
Off the Wall, Allegra LaViola Gallery, NYC
Paper Works, Janet Kurnatowski Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
It's a Wonderful 10th, Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2009
Gelah Penn, Daniel Brodo, David Brody, Jancar Gallery/Jancar Projects, Los Angeles, CA
Drawing Itself: A Survey of Contemporary Practice, Brattleboro Museum, Brattleboro, VT
Multi[Ply], Middlesex County College, Edison, NJ
UrbanSuburban, Kansas City Jewish Museum, Overland Park, KS
Partners in Art and Life, Brooklyn Public Library, NY, curated by Lynn Saville
Summer Session, Dam Stuhltrager Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Inside Abstraction, Janet Kurnatowski Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Degrees of Density, Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn, NY, curated by Marilyn Symmes (traveling exhibition: Arkansas Arts Center and Columbus Museum, GA 2010) (brochure)
Linear Abstraction, McKenzie Fine Art, NYC
It's a Wonderful Life, Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2008
Present, Perfect, Continuous, Nurtureart, Brooklyn, NY (brochure)
The Persistence of Line, Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn, NY, curated by Charlotta Kotik (brochure)
Your Documents Please, Museum of Arts and Crafts, Itami, Japan (traveling exhibition: Budapest, Berlin, Bratislava, Guadalajara, NYC)
Site 92: Phase II, Smack Mellon, Brooklyn NY
Peace, Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2007
Radius, Metaphor Contemporary Art, Brooklyn, NY
Variations in Black & White, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, NY
War is Over "Again," Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2006
New Works: Chris Martin, Leslie Roberts, Gelah Penn, Holiday, Brooklyn, NY
Major Drawings, Carl Berg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Parts to the Whole, Vox Populi, Philadelphia, PA, curated by Elizabeth M. Grady
War is Over, Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2005
Gyrations, Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn, NY
Project Diversity, Corridor Gallery, Brooklyn NY
New ’05, Nurtureart at Spike Gallery, NYC
2004
Drawings: Form, Content, Materials, Delaware Valley Arts Alliance, Narrowsburg, NY
Merry/Peace, Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2003
354 Exhibitions, Brooklyn, NY
2001
Momenta Art Benefit, Momenta Art at White Columns, Brooklyn & NYC, curated by Eric Heist
2000
The Brooklyn Project, Semi-Public at 354 Exhibitions, Brooklyn, NY
1999
Pierogi 2000 flatfiles
1998
Eich Space, NYC
Seeing Money, Rotunda Gallery, NYC
1997
Artwalk NY, NYC
1995
Buoys: Marking the Place, Art Initiatives, NYC, curated by Bill Bace (catalog)
Art Initiatives/Bill Bace Gallery, NYC
1994
Sculpture Center, NYC
Mass Exposure, Art Initiatives, NYC
1993
Songs of Retribution, Richard Anderson Gallery, NYC, curated by Nancy Spero
Sculpture Center, NYC
1992
On Paper, Sculpture Center, NYC, curated by Peter Hristoff
1991
Small Works, Sculpture Center, NYC
1986
The Inspiration Comes from Nature, Jack Tilton Gallery, NYC
publications
"Chroniques," artist Gelah Penn, poet Claude Minière; a project of Gervais Jassaud, publisher Collectif Generation, 2011
"Criss Cross" by Gelah Penn, NYFA Current, Oct. 2011
"Limits," Allotrope, Issue #03, Oct. 2011
fellowships/awards
Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation/The Space Program 2010/2011, Brooklyn, NY
Saatchi Online Magazine Critic's Choice, by Rebecca Wilson, 2006
MacDowell Colony Fellowship, 1989
teaching experience
SUNY New Paltz, adjunct lecturer, spring 2012
School of Visual Arts, NYC, guest lecturer, 2011
SUNY Purchase, NY, guest lecturer, 2010
University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, guest lecturer, 2010
Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT, artist's talk, 2009
Lehman College, NYC, guest lecturer, 2008, 2007
Rowan University Art Gallery, Glassboro, NJ, artist's talk, 2008
"Women in the Arts," Dam Stuhltrager Gallery, NYC, panel, 2006
Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn, NY, artist's talk, 2006
selected collections
The Columbus Museum, Columbus, GA
Chase Manhattan Bank, NYC
Fox Rothschild, LLP, Philadelphia
NV/da Architects, NYC
Brenda Nelson Design, NYC
selected bibliography
Price, Marshall N. "Constellation: The 2012 Annual," National Academy Museum, exhibition catalog, January, 2012
Birmingham, Mary. "Shifting Dimensions in Textility;" Mattera, Joanne. "Material Means: Diverse Practices, Common Threads;" Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, "Textility," exhibition catalog, January 2012
Rosoff, Patricia. "Gelah Penn: Surface Tensions," Sculpture Magazine, November 2010, Vol. 29, No. 9
Kalm, James. "Off the Wall at Allegra LaViola Gallery," Rough Cuts: YouTube, July 10, 2010
Martin, Karen. "Degrees of Density at Arkansas Arts Center," InArkansas.com, July 2, 2010
Catlin, Roger. "Clash By Night: Shadows Become Art," Hartford Courant, August 20, 2009
Symmes, Marilyn. "Degrees of Density," Kentler International Drawing Space, exhibition brochure, June 2009
Wong, Denise. "Present, Perfect, Continuous," Nurtureart, exhibition brochure, November 2008
Kotik, Charlotta. "The Persistence of Line," Kentler International Drawing Space, exhibition brochure, June 2008
Genocchio, Benjamin. "Drawings Set Apart in a World of Lines," The New York Times, March 9, 2008
Budick, Ariella. "Review: Serena Bocchino, Gelah Penn, Art at Alpan," Newsday, March 7, 2008
Frank, Peter. "Gelah Penn: Drawinstallations," Rowan University Art Gallery, exhibition brochure, January 2008
Deliso, Meredith. "Smack Mellon Breaks Out of the White Cube in Dumbo," Brooklyn Heights Courier, January 2008
Miller, Leigh Anne. “Gelah Penn at Kentler and Dam Stuhltrager,” Art in America, October 2006
Frank, Peter. “Major Drawings at Carl Berg Gallery,” Artweek, April 2006, vol. 37, issue 3
Ollman, Leah. “Around the Galleries: Major Drawings at Carl Berg,” The Los Angeles Times, March 10, 2006
La Rocco, Ben. “Gelah Penn, International Drawing Center,” The Brooklyn Rail, March 2006
Schmerler, Sarah. “Gelah Penn: Detour," Kentler International Drawing Space, exhibition brochure, January 2006
Kalm, James. “Critics Pics: Gelah Penn at Realform Project Space,” Wagmag, May 2005
Bace, Bill. “Buoys: Marking the Place,” exhibition catalogue, 1995
Henry, Gerrit. "Review," ArtNews, November 1982
selected art blogs
Hurst, Howard. "Summer in Dumbo: A Visit to the Sharpe Foundation," Hyperallergic, July 6, 2011
Naves, Mario. "Art in Brooklyn. Who Knew?" Too Much Art, June 25, 2011
Contarino, Vince. "The Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation The Space Program Open Studios," KCLOG, April 23, 2011
artSPACE@16online Gallery, "Featured Artist: Gelah Penn," Making the Art Seen, Nov. 16, 2010
Butler, Sharon. “I like line, too,” Two Coats of Paint, Jan. 22, 2009
Rosof, Libby. “Parts of What’s Up,” Roberta Fallon and Libby Rosof’s Artblog, Jan. 8, 2006
education
San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco CA, BFA
Brandeis University, Waltham, MA |
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