1955 Born in Abington, PA
EDUCATION
1978 Tyler School of Art, BFA, Elkins Park, PA
SUNY at Purchase, Purchase, NY
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022 (Upcoming) "For the Love of Una Hale," Arcadia University, Glenside,
PA, February
2021 (Upcoming) "Red Desert, Red Mountain, Red Sea," Magazin III, Jaffa,
Israel, October
2019 Frequently the Woods are Pink, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at
Washington State University, Pullman, WA, August 27-March14
Haystack Hands, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Deer Isle, ME,
July 21 - September 15
Mugs and Mutts: Chicken Little was Right! The Sky is Falling, Materia,
part of "Manif d’art, The Quebec City Biennial" Quebec,
Canada, February 16 - April 21
Waiting For the UFO's (a space between a landscape and a bunch
of flowers): Kemper Museum, Kansas City, MO, opens January
24th - April 28th
2018 Waiting for the UFOs (a space between a landscape and a bunch
of flowers), Ikon gallery, Birmingham, UK
Happiness Runs in a Circular Motion, Belvedere 21, Vienna, Austria,
curated by Stella Rollig
2017 Chromatic Scale: Prints by Polly Apfelbaum, National Museum of
Women in the Arts, Washington DC
2016 As You Change So Do I/ Any Dream Will Do, Luton Town Centre,
Luton UK
Atomic Mystic Portraits, Senior and & Shopmaker, New York NY
Face Geometry, Naked Eyes, Curated by Kate McNamara, Ben
Maltz Gallery, OTIS College of Arts and Design, Los Angeles CA
2015 Free, 56 Henry New York NY
Deep Purple, Red Shoes, be part, Waregem Belgium
City of Lights, Center for the Arts at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg VA
2014 Color Sessions, Fifth Street Gallery, London UK
Nevermind, Contemporary Gallery, Worcester Art Museum,
Massachusetts
A Handweaver’s Pattern Book, Clifton Benevento, New York NY
Evergreen Blue Shoes, Burlington City Arts, Burlington VT
Color Stations, Lumber Room, Portland OR
2013 Second That Emotion, Mumbai Art Room, Mumbai India
2012 Haunted House: Elizaville, T Space, Milan NY
Flatland: Funkytown, D’Amelio Gallery, New York NY
Flatland: Color Revolt, Hansel & Gretel Picture Garden, NY
Planiverse, Galerie nächst St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, Austria
Polly Apfelbaum: Funkytown Flatterland, D’Amelio Gallery, New York, NY
2011 Double Nickel's on the Dime, Benevento Gallery Los Angeles, CA
Haunted House, Amden, Switzerland
2010 Off Colour, D'Amelio Terras, New York, NY
Polly Apfelbaum: Mini-Hollywood, Yellowstone Art Museum, Billings, MT, (catalogue)
Color Notes, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA,
2009 Stax, Inaugural Show, Carlow Visual Center for Contemporary Art, Carlow, Ireland, (catalogue)
Black Vegas and Fools Gold, Naomi Arin Contemporary Art, Las
Vegas, NV
Anything Can Happen in a Horse Race, Milton Keynes Gallery,
Milton Keynes, England, January 31 - March 29 (catalogue)
2008 Monochromes 2003-2007, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA,
2007 Basic Divisions, Lab Grant, Dieu Donne Papermill, New York, NY, (brochure)
Big Love, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Love Sculpture, Frith Street, London
Lovecraft, Solvent Space, VCU, Richmond, VA, (catalogue)
Love Street, Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2006 Flags of Revolt and Defiance, Print Publishers Spotlight: The Leroy
Nieman Center for Print Studies Columbia University, Barbara
Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA
2005 Cartoon Garden, D’Amelio Terras, New York, NY
Good and Plenty, Galerie Nächst St. Stephan, Vienna, Austria
2004 Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis, MO “Crazy Love, Love Crazy”
2003 Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA, “What Does Love Have
To Do With It?” curated by Lisa Tung, catalogue
Institute of Contemporary, Philadelphia, PA; travels to Contemporary Arts Center,
Cincinnati, OH
Kempner Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO
Triple Candie, Harlem, NY
2002 Karyn Lovegrove Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2000 D'Amelio Terras, New York, NY
Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME, catalogue
Karyn Lovegrove, Los Angeles, CA
1999 Galeria Camargo Vilaça, São Paulo, Brazil
1998 Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland, catalogue
D'Amelio Terras, New York, NY
1997 Walter McBean Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute,
San Francisco, CA
RealismusStudio der NGBK Künstlerhaus Am Acker, Berlin, Germany, brochure
1996 Boesky & Callery Fine Arts, New York, NY
1995 Hirschl and Adler Modern, New York, NY
1994 Project Room: Postmasters Gallery, New York, NY
Neuberger Museum, Purchase, NY, brochure
Residence Secondaire, Paris, France
1993 Galerie Etienne Ficheroulle, Brussels, Belgium
1992 Amy Lipton Gallery, New York, NY
1991 Galerie Etienne Ficheroulle, Brussels, Belgium
Sue Spaid Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA
1990 Amy Lipton Gallery, New York, NY
Special Projects, P.S.1, Long Island City, NY
1989 Loughelton Gallery, New York, NY
1988 Loughelton Gallery, New York, NY
1986 Hallwalls, Buffalo, NY
Paulo Salvador Gallery, New York, NY
TWO PERSON EXHIBITION
2022 (Upcoming) Polly Apfelbaum and Josef Herzog, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Luzern Switzerland
2021 "Some People See Time" with Madeline Hollander, Dries Van Noten's The Little House,
August 7 - September 112019 "Through Thick & Thin" with Betsy Kaufman at Kerry
Schuss, NYC, June 20 - July 26
"Via Appia," Polly Apfelbaum and Isa Melsheimer, Galerie Nächst St.
Stephan, Vienna, Austria, May 2 - June 15
"Snail bros forever and/or What's buzzin cousin?" Polly Apfelbaum
and Madeline Hollander, Zak's, Brooklyn, NY, April 6
2016 The Sounds of Ceramics, Polly Apfelbaum and Wang Lu, Cohen
Gallery at Brown University, Providence RI
Erasing Tracing Racing Paint, Polly Apfelbaum and Dona Nelson,
Michael Benevento, Los Angeles CA
2015 Karma Funk Factory, Polly Apfelbaum and Steven Westfall, The
Suburban, Milwaukee WI
Free Fall: Lynda Benlis and Polly Apfelbaum, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia PA
Magic Mushrooms, Polly Apfelbaum and Joanne Greenbaum, Halsey McKay
gallery, East Hampton
2014 Tony & Polly, Polly Apfelbaum and Tony Feher, Lumber room, Portland OR
Electric Zinnia Factory: Polly APfelbaum, Stephan Westfall, Kunstgalerie Bonn,
Bonn Germany
For the love of Gene Davis: Polly Apfelbaum, Dan Cole, Temple Contemporary,
Philadelphia
2010 Polly Apfelbaum/ Nicole Cherubini: Studiowork, D’Amelio Terras, New York NY
2007 Welcoming the Flowers: Polly Apfelbaum, John Giorno, Senior Shopmaker
Gallery, New York NY
2003 Hover: Polly APfelbaum and Pae White, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle WA
2002 Polly Apfelbaum and Beatriz Milhazes, D’Amelio Terras, New York NY
1998 Conversations: Polly APfelbaum and Lynn McCarty, Art Resources Transfer
INC, New York NY
Beyond Minimalism: Polly Apfelbaum and Tony Feher, Koyanagi Gallery, Tokyo Japan
1997 Polly Apfelbaum/Lucky Debellevue, Dalarnas Museum, Falun Sweden
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021 "Flames: The Age of Ceramics," Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris, Paris, France, October 15 -
February 6
"Glasstress: Window to the Future," The State Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia,
September 11 - October 31
"Abstranded: Fiber and Abstraction in Contemporary Art," Everson Museum of Art,
Syracuse, NY, (postponed until September)
'Toes, Knees, Shoulders, Heads + Butts & Guts' organized by Zak Kitnick, Meredith Rosen Gallery,
New York, June 17th
10th Anniversary Show, Halsey McKay Gallery, Easthampton, New York, May 28
'DOWNTOWN 2021' curated by Sam Gordon at La MaMa Galleria, January 4 - 30
'Taking Space: Contemporary Women Artists and the Politics of Scale' Pennsylvania Academy
of Fine Arts Contemporary Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, January 21
2020 "Animal Crossing" Inman Gallery, Houston, Texas (Digital-LINK) on view July 3 - August 29
"Pattern II" curated by Michelle Grabner, Anne Mosseri-Marlio
Galerie, Basel, Switzerland (Digital-Link) April 14 - June 27
"Abstranded: Fiber and Abstraction in Contemporary Art," Everson
Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY, (postponed)
"From the Collection: Polly Apfelbaum, Bones, 2000" Kunstmuseum
Liechtenstein, Liechtenstein, February 7 - May 17
"The Future is Female | Love Letters" CODA Museum Apeldoorn,
Netherlands, March 8 - May 31
"When We First Arrived" curated by Ruth Noack, organized by
DYKWTCA, Mary Ellen Carroll and Lucas Michael, The Corner
at Whitman-Walker, Washington DC January 25- March 29
"Out of Place: A Feminist Look at the Collection" Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY,
January 24 - September 13
"Color & Complexity: 30 Years at Durham Press" Allentown Art Museum, Allentown,
PA, January 19 - May 3
2019 "Spinning Ideas. Weaving Art" IVAM, Valencia, Spain, June 26 - October 27
"Maneuver", Artist’s Institute, Hunter College, New York, NY,
September 18 - December 14, curated by Lynne Cooke
"The Interaction of Color" Alan Cristea Gallery, London, England,
September 7 - October 26
"It's Necessary to Talk about Trees" River Valley Arts Collective,
Catskill NY September 7-29
"What Beauty Is, I Know Not", König Gallerie, Berlin, Germany,
August 20 - October 13 curated by Kasper König
"Painter's Reply: Experimental Painting in the 1970s and Now" Lisson
Gallery, New York, NY, June 27 - August 9
"Closer Look: Intimate-Scale Sculpture from the Permanent Collection"
Orange County Museum of Art, Santa Ana, CA, April 7 - September 1
"Count of Three" Alexander Gray Associates, New York, NY, April 18 - May 25
"Notebook" Curated by Joanne Greenbaum, 56 Henry, New York, NY, February 9 -
March 31, 2019
"The Aerodrome, an exhibition dedicated to Michael Stanley"
Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK, June 12 - September 8
"Less Is a Bore: Maximalist Art & Design" ICA Boston, Boston, MA,
June 26 - September 22
2018 PLAY:Kortrijk, Kortrijk, Belgium
Paper/Print: American Hand Papermaking, 1960s and Today, IPCNY, New York,
NY, curated by Susan Gosin and Mina Takahashi
Just So Stories 1978/2018, Gallerie Nacht St Stephan, Vienna, Austria
Effects That Aren't Special, 40th Annual Photography Regional, Opalka Gallery,
Sage College of Albany, Albany, NY (catalogue)
Carry the Bend, Brennan & Griffin, New York, NY
Spieltrieb, Jack Hanley Gallery, New York, NY
The Pulse of Color, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, KS
Stitch, Columbus College of Art and Design, Columbus, OH
An Incomplete History of Protest: Selections from the Whitney’s Collection, 1940–2017,
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Austin Collects Contemporary: Selections from the Blanton’s Recent Gift from The
Contemporary, Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX
Wall to Wall: Carpets by Artists, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY, curated by
Dr. Cornelia Lauf
Summer Breeze: An Ensemble of Gallery Artists, Frith Street Gallery, London, UK
Tie Up, Draw Down, Center for Creativity and Design, Asheville, NC, co-curated by Natalie
Campbell & Carissa Carman (catalogue)
2017 Throwing Up Bunnies: The Irreverent Interlopings of Triple Candie, Addison Gallery of
American Art, Andover MA
Post Election, September, Hudson NY
Bound by Paper-Books, LMAK Gallery, New York NY
Nasty Women Exhibition, The Knockdown Center, Maspeth Queens NY
Forms of Identity: Women Artists in the 90’s, Orange County Museum of Art, New
Port Beach CA
2016 An Irruption of the Rainbow: Color in 20th Century Art, LACMA, Los Angeles CA
Art on Paper: 10 Women Artists, The Shneider Museum of Art, Ashland Oregon
The Natural Flow of Things, Curated by Tania Pardo, La Casa Encendida, Madrid
Wall to Wall: Carpets by Artists, Curated by Dr. Cornelia Lauf, MOCA Cleveland,
Cleveland OH
Routes of Influence, Perez Art Museum, Miami FL
Defining Sculpture, Curated by Douglas Dreishpoon, Albright Knox Art Gallery,
Buffalo NY
Making and Unmaking, Curated by Duro Olowu, Camden Arts Centre, London UK
Found, Curated by Cornelia Parker, Foundling Museum, London UK
Beyond the Veil: Works from the Permanent Collection, The Bronx Museum of Arts,
Bronx NY
2015 3 Graces, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse NY
Pathmakers: Women in Art, Craft, and Design, Midcentury and Today, National
Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington DC
Le Musee Imaginaire, Lefebvre& Fils Gallery, Paris France
Towards Textiles, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan WI
Pretty Raw: After and Around Helen Frankenthaler, Rose Art Museum, Waltham MA
2014 Electric Zinnia Factory: Polly Apfelbaum, Stephan Westfall, Kunstgalerie Bonn, Bonn Germany
For the Love of Gene Davis: Polly Apfelbaum, Dan Cole, Temple Contemporary, Philadelphia PA
Colour on Paper, Galeria Leme, San Paolo, Brazil,
Domesticity, Jason McCoy Gallery, New York, NY
Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London, England Radical Repetition: Albers
to Warhol, Whatcom Museum, Bellingham, WA
If You’re Accidentally Not Included, Don’t Worry About It., Zurcher Studio, New York, NY
Cherub, 2nd Cannons Project Space, Los Angeles, CA
Petroleum Jelly, Clifton Benevento, New York, NY
The Last Brucennial, New York, NY
2013 Une manifestation mono/polygraphique de Noël Dolla, Villa Arson,
Nice, France
Glasstress: White Light/White Heat, curated by James Putnam and Adriano Berengo,
Glasstress, Venice, Italy
Untitled (Hybrid): Lee Krasner, curated by Kate McNamara, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY
Through the Eyes of Texas: Masterworks from Alumni Collections, Blanton Museum of Art,
The University of Texas at Austin,
The Annual: 2013, National Academy Museum, New York, NY
Wit, The Painting Center, New York, NY
2012 Regarding Warhol: Fifty Artists, Fifty Years, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Simpatico, Boston University Art Gallery, Boston, MA
Cosmo, Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery, New York, NY
Stone Gravey, Ameringer, McEnery, Yohe, New York
Watch Your Step, Flag Art Foundation, New York
Women’s Work, National Academy Museum, New York
Loughelton Revisited, Winkleman Gallery, New York, curated by Barbara Broughel
Spectral Landscape with Viewing Stations / Color and Contemporary Art, curated by Pamela
Fraser and John Neff, Gallery 400 at The University of Illinois at Chicago IL
Salon Zurcher, Zurcher Studio, New York
Repeat after me, New Mexico Museum of Art, Sante Fe, NM
2011 Painting... E X P A N D E D, Espacio 1414, Santurce, Puerto Rico,
curated by Marysol Nieves, Puerto Rico
Dorothea, Ancient & Modern, London
Affinities: Painting in Abstraction, D’Amelio Terras, New York, NY, curated by Kate McNamara
Women and Weaving, Southfirst Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Pressing Ideas: Fifty Years of Women’s Lithographs from Tamarind, National Museum of Women
in the Arts, Washington, D.C.
Print Publisher Spotlight, The Leroy Neiman Center for Print Studies Columbia University School
of the Arts, Pace Prints Chelsea, New York
A Painting Show, Harris Lieberman, New York
2010 It's All American, NJ MOCA, Asbury Park, NJ
Anguish, Downtown Gallery, Memphis College of Art, Memphis, TN,
The Jewel Thief, The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College,
Saratoga Springs, NY
Polly Apfelbaum / Nicole Cherubini: Studiowork, D'Amelio Terras,
After the Volcano: a summer show of gallery artists, Frith Street Gallery, London, UK
Not Extractions, But Abstractions (Part 2), Clifton Benevento Gallery, New York, NY
Wild Things, Kunsthallen Brandts, Odense, Denmark, (catalogue)
Dr. Zomb, Glendale Community College, Glendale, CA
75 Seconds: Selected Polaroid Projects, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA
Better Half, Better Twelfth, Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, NE
Hecate's Lab, Senior & Shopmaker Gallery, New York, NY
2009 Topographies, Albright Knox Museum, Buffalo, NY
Vortexhibition Polyphonica, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, curated
by Sara Krajewski
Blocks of Color - American Woodcuts from the 1890's to the Present, Zimmerli Art Museum,
Rutgers University, NJ
Besides, With, Against and Yet - Abstraction and the Ready-made Gesture, The Kitchen,
New York, NY
New Now: Building the Collection, The Nerman Museum, Overland Park, MO
Painting and its Surroundings Palacio de Sastago, Zaragoza, Spain
Boden und Wand / Wand und Fenster Helmhaus, Zurich (catalogue)
Seduction of a Blossom Long Beach City College, Long Beach CA
Drawing in the world Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery, The University for the
Arts. Philadelphia, PA
Sparkle and Glitter Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Great Women Artists: Artist’s from the Permanent Collection Neuberger Museum of Art,
Purchase College, Purchase, NY
Burning Down the House Elizabeth Sackler Center for Feminist Art, Brooklyn Museum of Art,
Brooklyn, NY
2008 Notations: the Closing Decade, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Burning Down the House: Building a Feminist Art Collection, Brooklyn Museum, Elizabeth
A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, Brooklyn, NY
Present Tense, Spanierman Modern Gallery, New York, NY
Lines, Grids, Stains, Words, Fundacao de Serralves Porto, Portgal May 9, 2008 - July 13,
2008, travels to Museum Weisbaden, Germany September 28, 2008 - January 19, 2009
In the trees, Art OMI Sculpture Fields, Ghent, NY
Hair of the Dog, Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, NM
Flower Power: A Subversive Botanical, New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe New Mexico
Revision, Reiteration, Recombination: Process and the contemporary print, University of
Florida in Orlando, Orlando, Florida, January 17 - February 21 travels to Gallery
at the College of Visual Arts, St. Paul, Minnesota, March 6 - April 5
2007 Polly Apfelbaum, Goldiechiari, Ann Veronica Janssens, Blancpain
Art Contemporain Geneva, Switzerland
Deja-Vu, Collection FRAC Nord, Noyon Boutique, Calais, France
PostDec Beyond Pattern and Decoration, Joseloff Gallery, Hartford Art School, University of
Hartford, West Hartford, Conn, Wt Hartford, Conn November 9-December 23 (catalogue)
Pink, Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke, Mumbai, India, August 8 - September 21 (catalogue)
Whole Fragment, Sheppard Fine Arts Gallery, University of Nevada, Reno, October 15-
November 9 (catalogue)
Taking Shape, Lennon, Weinberg, New York, July 12-September 15
Lines , Grids, Stains, Words, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, June 13-September 10
Viewfinder, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA, July 7 - September 9 (catalogue)
Slingball, Mönchehaus-Museum for Modern Art, Goslen, Germany, May 12 - July 1
Welcoming the Flowers: Polly Apfelbaum, John Giorno, Senior Shopmaker Gallery, New
York, NY, May 3 - June 22
Painterly Abstraction, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, May 1 - 31
Conversations, Travesia Cuatro, Madrid, Spain, April 12 - May 7
A Consuming Vision: Selections from the Kemper Museum, Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah,
GA, March 15 - June 10
The Handmaking, Abington Art Center, Jenkintown, PA April 14 - July 29 (catalogue)
Comic Abstraction: Image Breaking, Image Making, The Museum of Modern Art, New York,
NY, March 4 – June 11, 2007 (catalogue)
Like Color in Pictures, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO, February 16 – April 15 (catalogue)
2006 Resonance, Frith Street Gallery, London, UK, Nov 2-Dec 21
Materiality, Kravets/Wehby, New York, NY, June 29 – August 25, 2006
Garden, Handcenter for the Arts, Richmond, VA Settember 8 - October 15
Zeigen. Eine Audiotour, Galerie Nächst St. Stephan, Vienna, Austria, April 8–May 20
Contemporary Masterworks: St. Louis Collects, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, St. Louis,
MO, April 7 - June 11, 2006
The Big Picture in the Small Gallery, Peggy Phelps Gallery, Claremont Graduate University,
Claremont, CA
Selections from the Leroy Neiman Center for Print Studies-Columbia University, Marianne Boesky
Gallery, New York, NY, January 10 February 4, 2006
Print Run: An Exhibition of Prints, Frith Street Gallery, London, UK January 13 - February 26, 2006
2005 Resis-tances Hommage a Remy Zaugg Fonds, Regional d'art Contemporain, Dunkerque, France
Frontiers: Collecting the Art of Our Time, Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA,
November 13, 2005 – February 12, 2006
Eccentric Modern, The Foundation To-Life, Inc., Mount Kisco, NY, October 2005 – Summer 2006
Extreme Abstraction, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, July 8- October 16, (catalogue)
The Shape of Colour: Excursions in Colour Field, The Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada,
June 1- August 7, (catalogue)
POPulence, Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, Houston, TX, June 25- August 27, 2005;
travels to Cleveland Museum of Contemporary Art, June 25- December 30, 2005 and
Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston- Salem, North Carolina
January 21- April 2, 2006 (catalogue)
Polly Apfelbaum, Katharina Grosse, Karin Sander, Jessica Stockholder, Galerie Nächst St.
Stephan, Vienna, Austria
Very Early Pictures, Luckman Gallery, California State University, Los Angeles, CA, May 26-
July 23, 2005: travels to Arcadia University Art Gallery, Glenside, PA, August 26- October 30
One-Armed Bandit, D'Amelio Terras, New York, NY
In the Abstract, Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
30 Ways to Make a Painting, Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnatti ,OH
Color/Pattern/Grid: Selections from the Austin Museum of Art,
The Austin Museum of Art, Austin, TX
POPulence, Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, Houston, TX
Extreme Abstraction, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
2004 Lodz, Poland, “Lodz Biennale” Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL, “Soft Edge,”
curated by Staci Boris
The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA, “Flowers Observed, Flowers Transformed”
Ballroom Marfa, Marfa, TX, “Optimo: Manifestations of Optimism in Contemporary Art”
Musee d’art Moderne, La Terrasse, Sainte-Etienne, France, “Settlements,” curated by Lorand Heygi
Galerie nachst St. Stephan, Vienna, Austria, “Kunst Stoff”
The Drawing Room, London, England, travels to Mead Gallery, University of Warwick,
Coventry, England, “A Kind of Bliss,” organized by Kate McFarlane
2003 Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX, “Celebrating Sculpture:
Modern and Contemporary Works from Dallas Collections”
Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA, “Hover: Polly Apfelbaum and Pae White”
Magasin 3, Stockholm, Sweden, “Plingeling”
Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, “NYPD: New York Pattern & Decoration,” curated
by Michael Duncan
Various locations, Valencia, Spain, “Bienal de Valencia”
Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX, “Splat, Boom, Pow: The Influence of Cartoons
on Contemporary Art” D’Amelio Terras, New York, NY, “Stacked”
2002 Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee, Scotland, “Eye of the Beholder”
Galeria d'Arte Moderna, Bologna, Italy, “Officina America,”
curated by Renato Barilli
2001 The University of Memphis Art Museum, Memphis, TN, “About Paint,” curated
by Holly Block
Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH, “As Painting: Division and Displacement,”
catalogue
Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
Frith Street Gallery, London, England, “Drawing”
Apex Art, New York, NY, “Making the Making,” curated by Charles Goldman
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT, “Objective Color”
Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico, “Operativo”
Kunsthallen Brandts Klaedefabrik, Denmark, “Patterns: Between Object and Arabesque,”
traveled to Pori Art Museum, Pori, Finland
Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel, “The Return of the Real: A Selection from the Daniel
Hechter Art Collection”
Kunstverein Gottingen, Gottingen, Germany, “Sculpture as Field,” catalogue
Clifford Gallery, Colgate University, Hamilton, NY, “Six Contemporary Artists,” curated
by Michael Jenkins
Nordiska Akvarellmuseet, Skarhamn, Sweden, “Waterworks: U.S.Akvarell 2001,”
curated by Kim Levin
2000 Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA, “Painting Pushed to Extremes”
Lemon Sky Project, Los Angeles, CA, “Paint Land,” curated by Terry R. Myers
Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA, “Live From New York”
D'Amelio Terras, New York, NY, Summer group show
SPACES, Cleveland, OH, “Painting Function: Making It Real”
Blackwood Gallery, The University of Toronto at Mississauga, Canada, “soft corner
hard edge,” traveled to Galerie Christiane Chassay, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
1999 Educational Alliance Gallery, New York, NY, “Geez Louise: Art After Louise Nevelson”
Nevada Institute for Contemporary Art, Las Vegas, NV, ”Chromaform: Color in Sculpture,”
traveled to New Mexico State University Art Gallery, Las Cruces, NM and
University of Texas Art Gallery, TX, catalogue
Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY, “The Body in Question: Tracing, Displacing, and
Remaking the Human Figure in Contemporary Art”
Grand Arts, Kansas City, MO, “Neither/Nor,” brochure
Site Santa Fe, NM, “Postmark: An Abstract Effect,” curated by
Louis Grachos andBruce W. Ferguson, catalogue
The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, “Hindsight”
1998 Luckman Fine Arts Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, “Colorfields,”
curated by David Pagel
11th Biennale of Sydney, Australia, “Everyday,” organized by Jonathan Watkins, catalogue
Koyanagi Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, “Polly Apfelbaum and Tony Feher,” brochure
Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX, “Abstract Painting, Once Removed,”catalogue,
traveled to The Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art and Design, Kansas City, MO
D'Amelio Terras, New York, NY, “Humble County”
Galerie Evelyne Canus, France, “Painting Objectives”
The Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on the-Hudson, NY, “Decorative
Strategies,” brochure
Magasin 3 Stockholm Konstall, Stockholm, Sweden, “Spatiotemporal,” catalogue
College of New Rochelle, NY, “Alternative Measures,”
curated by Susan M. Canning, catalogue
Claremont Graduate University, CA, “Homemade Champagne,” organized by David Pagel, catalogue
Art Resources Transfer Inc., New York, NY, “Conversations:
Polly Apfelbaum and Lynn McCarty,” brochure
1997 Dalarnas Museum, Falun, Sweden, “Polly Apfelbaum/Lucky Debellevue”
Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, “Simple Form”
Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, New York, “Hanging by a Thread,” catalogue
Nassauischer Kunstverein Weisbaden e.V., Germany,
"Divergent Models,” curated by Saul Ostrow, catalogue
4th Biennale D'art Contemporain de Lyon, France, “Other,“ curated by Harald Szeemann, catalogue
Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC, “Women's Work: Examining the
Feminine in Contemporary Painting,” brochure
James Graham & Sons, New York, NY, “Sculpture”
Studio La Cittá, Verona, Italy, “Onomatopoeia,”
curated by Anthony Iannacci, brochure
Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH,
“Fashion Moda,” curated by Lisa Marks, brochure
Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, NY, “After the Fall,” curated by Lilly Wei, catalogue
Le Magasin, Grenoble, France, “Vraiment:feminisme et art,” curated by Laura Cottingham, catalogue
Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art, Malmö, Sweden,
“Painting the Extended Field,” catalogue
1996 Johnson County Community College, Kansas City, MO,
“Getting Physical,” brochure
Magasin 3, Stockholm, Sweden, “Painting-The Extended Field,” catalogue
St.Marks Positions, New York, NY, “Installations”
Ayuntamiento De Zaragoza, Zaragosa, Spain, “Painting All-Over, Again,” curated by Saul Ostrow, catalogue
Galerie Im Kornerpark, Berlin, Germany, “Der Fleck,”
curated by Dr. Peter Flunken
Bennington College, Bennington, VT, “Painting in an Expandin Field,” curated by Saul Ostrow
Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA,
“The Kingdom of Flora”
1995 44th Corcoran Painting Biennial, Corcoran Museum of Art, Washington, D.C., “Painting Outside
Painting,” curated by Terri Sultan, catalogue
Gallery 400, The University of Illinois at Chicago, IL,
“Skew: Un-Ruly Painting”
USF Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, FL, “Re: Fab,”
traveled 1995-1997, catalogue
Postmasters Gallery, New York, NY, “Raw”
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA, “Tampering: Artists and Abstraction Today,” brochure
Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI, “Conceptual Textiles,” catalogue
The Painting Center, New York, NY, “Painting The Intimate View,” curated by Betty
Cunningham Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY, “Permanent Collection Exhibition”
Entwistle, London, England, “Fashion Moda,” curated by Lisa Marks
Stark Gallery, New York, NY, “Color: sign, system, sensibility”
Three Rivers Festival, Pittsburgh, PA, “Like Young: Twelve New York Painters”
Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, NY, and The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel,
“30th Anniversary of the Israel Museum”
Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum Graz, Austria, “Pitturaimmedia,” catalogue
1994 White Columns, New York, NY, “D.I.Y.,”
curated by Paul Ha
Beaver College Gallery, Glenside, PA, “The Social Fabric,” catalogue
Zilkha Gallery, Weslyan University, Middletown, CT,
“Revisioning the Familiar,” catalogue
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, “Sense and Sensibility: Women and
Minimalism in the 90's,” curated by Lynn Zelevansky, catalogue
Pamela Auchincloss Gallery, New York, NY, “Redefining the Pop Icon in the 90's”
Postmasters Gallery, New York, NY, “Untitled”
1993 Patrick Callery Gallery, New York, NY, “Polly Apfelbaum/Tony Feher/Claudia Matzko”
Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL, “Legend In My Living Room,” curated by
Terry R. Myers, brochure
Traveling exhibition 1993-1996, organized and circulated by ICI,
New York, NY, “Empty Dress: Clothing as Surrogate in Recent Art,”
curated by Nina Felshin, catalogue
Heiligenkreuuzerhof, Vienna, Austria, “Future Perfect,”
curated by Dan Cameron, catalogue
Wooster Gardens, New York, NY, “Yours,” curated by Michael Jenkins
Depauw University and Indiana State University, IN, “Object Bodies,” curated
by Terry R. Myers, catalogue
Horodner Romley Gallery, New York, NY, “Surf’s Up,” brochure
Barbara Weiss Gallery, Berlin, Germany, “Just to name a few”
1992 Kim Light Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, “Anti-Masculine,”
curated by Bill Arning
Julia Arts Foundation, New York, NY, “In and out, Back and Forth,” catalogue
Galerie Jousse Seguin, Paris, France, “Selected Passages”
Threadwaxing Space, New York, NY, “Mssr. B's Curio Shop,”
curated by Saul Ostrow,catalogue
International House, Columbia University, New York, NY, “Detour,” catalogue
Amy Lipton Gallery, New York, NY, “There Is A Light That Never Goes Out,” curated
by Terry Myers, brochure
1991 BlumHelman Warehouse, New York, NY, “Fantastic Fantastic Lover,'objet a,’”
curated by Catherine Liu, catalogue
Jack Tilton Gallery, New York, NY, “When objects dream and talk in their sleep”
1990 Galerie Antoine Candau, Paris, France, “All Quiet on the Western Front,” catalogue
Amy Lipton Gallery, New York, NY, “Reconciling the Unverified: New Metaphysical Art,”
curated by Roger Denson, brochure
Lowe Gallery, Syracuse University; Syracuse, NY, Gibson Gallery, SUNY Potsdam,
NY, “Animation and Ornament,” brochure
Barbara Toll Gallery, New York, NY, “In Her Image”
1990 Sue Spaid Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA, “Corporealities,” brochure
New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ, “A Force of Repetition,” catalogue
Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris, France, “Je Viens de Chez le Charcutier”
Gracie Mansion Gallery, New York, NY, “Catalog”
The Bayley Museum, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, “The Humanist Icon,” catalogue
FNAC, Paris, France, “Acquisitions 1989,” catalogue
White Columns, New York, NY, “Fragments, Parts, Wholes:
The Body and Culture,” curated by Saul Ostrow
1989 Wolff Gallery, New York, NY, “Drawings”
CCA, Chicago, IL, “Polly Apfelbaum, Richard Rezac, Joe Smith”
Feigen Gallery, Chicago, IL, “Filling in the Gap,” catalogue
Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica,CA, “Containers,”
curated by David Pagel
White Columns, New York, NY, “About Devices”
Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, “The Milky Way,” curated by Stephen Westfall,
catalogue
1988 Castello di Rivara, Rivara, Italy, “Palestra,”
curated by Vera Vita Gioa, catalogue
Loughelton Gallery, New York, NY, “Fabricated Not Found”
New York, NY, “Contemplating Things, fiction/non/fiction”
1987 Carl Soloway Gallery, Cincinnati, OH, “The Level of Volume”
1986 White Columns, New York, NY, “New Uses”
Artists Space, New York, NY, “Selections,”
curated by Valerie Smith, catalogue
Bronx Museum of Art, Bronx, NY, “AIM,” catalogue
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA
Armand Hammer Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Belvedere 21 Museum of Contemporary Art, Vienna, Austria
Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX
Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME
Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
Bronx Museum of Art, Bronx, NY
Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University, Stanford, CA
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA
Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY
FRAC Nord-Pas de Calais, Dunkerque, France
Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore Saratoga Springs, NY
College, Saratoga Springs, NY
Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA
Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO
Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Liechtenstein
Magasin 3, Stockholm, Sweden
Minneapolis Museum of Art, Minneapolis, MN
Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
National Academy Museum, New York
Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KA
New Mexico of Art, Santa Fe, NM
Orange County Museum, CA
Perez Museum, Miami, FL
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, Philadelphia, PA
Princeton Art Museum, Princeton, NJ
RISD Museum of Art, Providence, RI
Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Williams College Art Mueseum, Williamstown, MA
Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
GRANTS AND AWARDS
2013 Distinguished Alumna, Temple Contemporary, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
12-13 Rome Prize, American Academy in Rome, Italy
2011 Residency Fellowship, National Academy
09-10 Residency Fellowship, Yaddo
2009 Certificate of Honor Award, Temple University, Philadelphia
2005 Peter S. Reed Artist Grant, New York, NY
2003 Gallery of Success Seasoned Alumni Award, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
2002 Arts and Letters Award, American Academy of Arts and Letters
Hassam, Speicher, Betts, and Symons Purchase Fund, American Academy of Arts and Letters
1999 Joan Mitchell Grant
Diebenkorn Teaching Fellowship, San Francisco Art Institute and Headlands Center for the Arts
1998 Anonymous Was A Woman Grant
1995 Artist's Fellowship (Sculpture) New York Foundation For The Arts
94-95 Residency Fellowship, Yaddo
1993 John Simon Memorial Guggenheim Fellowship in Sculpture
92-93 Residency Fellowship, The MacDowell Colony
1987 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant
1986 Artist Grant, Artists Space
1984 Residency Fellowship, Ucross Foundation
1982 Residency Fellowship, The Millay Colony