| Education | |
| 2006 | Whitney Independent Study Program, Whitney Museum of American Art |
| 2004 | MFA, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, Sculpture |
| 2004 | Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME |
| 2001 | BA, Brown University, Providence, RI, Visual Art & Economics, Honors in Visual Art |
| Artistic Awards | |
| 2008 |
The Franklin Furnace Fund Grant for Performance Art |
| 2007 |
Artist-in-Residence,
Studio Museum in Harlem NYFA Fellowship - Cross-Disciplinary/Performance Art Matters Grant - travel to Japan for the study of performance and craft traditions |
| 2005 |
Fulbright IIE Grant:
Brazilian Fulbright Commission - for the study of performance and craft
traditions Jerome Fellowship, Franconia Sculpture Park, Shafer, Minnesota Special Opportunity Stipend, New York Foundation for the Arts |
| 2004 | Joan Mitchell Foundation
MFA Fellowship School of the Art Institute MFA Fellowship |
| 2003 | World Studio Foundation
Fellowship Art Institute of Chicago Academic Incentive Scholarship |
| 2002 | World Studio Foundation
Fellowship Art Institute of Chicago Academic Incentive Scholarship |
| Solo/Shared Exhibitions | |
| 2009 | No Place, University of Buffalo Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY |
| 2008 | Saya
Woolfalk: 3 Video Works, Paul Robeson Galleries, Rutgers, Newark, NJ New Intuitions: Artist-In-Residence, Studio Museum in Harlem, NY, NY (three person) |
| 2007 | No Place: Wonders from that World, Zg Gallery, Chicago, IL |
| 2006 | Saya Woolfalk and James Fotopoulos, Momenta Art, Williamsburg, NY curated by Eric Heist |
| 2005 | Featured Artist: Heidi
Cho Gallery, Scope Art Miami, Miami, FL Jumble Patch: Transitional Love Objects, Heidi Cho Gallery, New York, NY Trousseaux: Love Object, SubCity, Chicago, Curated by Candida Alvarez |
| 2004 | Paradise
Imagined, 12x12 New Artists/New Work, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago Lovescape, Zg Gallery, Chicago Featured Artist: Richard Levy Gallery, Scope Art New York, New York, NY |
| Selected Group Exhibitions | |
| 2009 | Psychedelic: Optical
and Visionary Art since the 1960s, San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio,
TX curated by David Rubin |
| 2008 | In Transit, Moti Hasson Gallery, NY, NY, curated by Omar Lopez-Chahoud |
| 2007 | Simulasian, Asian Contemporary
Art Fair, NYC, curated by Eric Shiner Kazuo Ohno 101: Three-Week Butoh Parade, Japan Society, NYC, NY curated by Eric Shiner Jamaica Flux, Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning, Queens, NY Float, Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, NY, curated by Sara Reisman Whitney ISP, Artists Space, New York, NY |
| 2006 | Treemendous, Islip
Art Museum, East Islip, NY curated by Karen Shaw Works on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC curated by Xandra Eden Dead of Winter, Hudson Valley Center of Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY curated by Dan Fuller |
| 2005 | Holiday Windows, Exit
Art, New York, NY Greater New York 2005, PS 1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY Production of Escapism - a project by Rashid Johnson, Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art, IN |
| Film Festivals | |
| 2008 | Ethnography of No Place, Brooklyn International Film Festival, Experimental Film Section |
| Performances | |
| 2007 | Coloring Book Cart
featuring: The Cleaners, Kitchen Highline Block Party, The Kitchen, NY,
NY The Cleaners, Resistance and the Law: Radicalism, Extremism, Legitimacy, Co-Optation, Harvard Law School Conference, Cambridge, MA |
| 2006 | The Cleaners, Art Parade, Deitch Projects,
NY, NY |
| 2005 | Love Monster, Metro Color Collision, Frisbee
Art Fair, Miami, FL ,curated by Julie Fishkin and Matt Lucas Terra de Lixo, Federal University of Maranhão, Sao Luis, Maranhão, Brazil Mardi Gras, Sculpture Space, Utica, NY |
| 2004 | One Night Stand, Performing Art Chicago, Chicago |
| Outdoor Sculpture | |
| 2008 | Into the Trees, The Fields, Art Omi, Ghent, NY, curated by Lilly Wei |
| 2005 | Terra de Lixo, Franconia Sculpture Park, Shafer, Minnesota |
| Collaborations | |
| 2003 | Saya Woolfalk, Flo McGarrell, Leah Meyerhoff, The Anti-Spacesuit Show, G-2 Gallery, Chicago, IL |
| Group Exhibitions | |
| 2009 | If I Didn’t Care:
Generational Artists Discuss Cultural Histories, The Park School, Baltimore,
MD, curated by Rick Delaney |
| 2007 | Yokohama Boogie: Under
the Influence, ZAIM, Yokohama, Japan, curated by Koan Jeff Baysa U Can’t Touch Dis: The New Asian Art, Zone Chelsea, New York, NY, curated by Eric Shiner Young Sculptors Competition, Hiestand Galleries, Miami University, Oxford, OH, curated by Mary Ceruti |
| 2006 | Peace King Mother Nature,
Second Gallery, South Boston, MA, curated by Rebecca Gordon YEA! Young Emerging Artists, Westchester Arts Council, White Plains, NY Joan Mitchell Foundation MFA 2004 and 2005 Recipient Exhibition, CUE Art Foundation, NY The Jaundiced Eye, Scope-NY, entrance installation, curated by David Hunt d'Afrique d'Asie, Artist Commune, Hong Kong, China Chimaera, Tenri Cultural Institute, New York, NY National Psyche, Lab Art Space, San Francisco, CA, curated by Elliot Lessing The Studio Visit, Exit Art, New York, NY |
| 2005 | d'Afrique d'Asie, Ethan
Cohen Fine Arts, New York, NY, curated by Koan Jeff Baysa Working Process: a glimpse into the artist's studio practice, Zg Gallery, Chicago Momenta Art, Nada Art Fair, Miami Beach, FL Metro Color Collision, Frisbee Art Fair, Miami Beach, FL Sinister, The Museum at the Tarble Arts Center, Eastern Illinois University, IL, curated by Christopher Kahler |
| 2004 | Scary/Cute, Flux Factory,
Queens, New York, curated by Jean Barberis Social Seduction, The Betty Rymer Gallery, Chicago The Chicago 11, Florida Southern College, Lakeland, FL, curated by Terrence Hanum Richard Levy Gallery, Scope Art LA, Los Angeles, CA MFA Thesis Exhibition, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Spring Fever, Richard Levy Gallery, Albuquerque, NM Unlucky in Love, School of the Art Institute Performance Event, Chicago |
| 2003 | MFA 2003, New American
Painting, Boston, MA, curated by Lawrence Rinder As Small As Possible, Zg Gallery, Chicago December Group Show, G-2 Gallery, Chicago Extension, Student Union Gallery, Chicago November Group Show, G-2 Gallery, Chicago Remark/Remarket, 1926 Halsted Gallery, Chicago Project Room: Richard Levy Gallery, Scope Art LA, Los Angeles, CA The Anti-Spacesuit Show, Gallery 2, Chicago Art Hotel 2003, Embassy Suites, Chicago Group Exhibition, 2003, Stray Show, Chicago Artwindows 2003, G'Bani, Chicago Kink or Pink, Dollhouse Gallery, Chicago Fieldwork; in honor of national women’s history month, 1926 Halsted, Chicago |
| 2002 | National Juried Exhibition,
Ceres Gallery, New York Curator: Charlotta Kotik, Curator of Contemporary Art, Brooklyn Museum unfoldingobject: critical selections. Miranda Fine Arts & Henaine Fine Art, Port Chester, NY EA50: HEREart’s 6th Annual Emerging Artists Show, HEREart, New York Emerging Artists, The Hell's Kitchen Show, New York Exhibition to Benefit Breast Cancer Research, Fashion Institute of Technology, New York |
| 2001 | Annual Group Exhibition,
The Museum at F.I.T., New York Juried Exhibition, David Winton Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence |
| 1998 | Sarah Doyle Woman's Center, Providence |
| Slide Registries | |
| The
Drawing Center, Viewing Program, New York Momenta Art, Williamsburg, NY Percent for Art, City of New York Department of Cultural Affairs, New York |
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Residency
Programs |
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| Artist-in-Residence
2005, Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY Artist-in-Residence 2005, Sculpture Space, Utica, NY Artist-in-Residence 2004, Millay Colony for the Arts, Austerlitz, NY |
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| Visiting Artist | |
| 2008 | panel member, Art and Craft: Closing the Gaps, Transformations: New Directions in Black Art, 3rd Annual African American Art Conference, Center for Race and Culture, Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), MD, organized by Lowery Stokes Sims |
| 2007 | Art Department, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign,
IL |
| 2006 | panel member, Variations:
Installations and Performance Art, International Sculpture Center Crossroads
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| 2005 | Visual Art Department,
Brown University, Providence, RI |
| Teaching Experience | |
| 2007 | Performance Workshop, Alfred University, Alfred, NY |
| 2006 | Thesis
Project Advisor for a graduating senior at Minneapolis College of Art and
Design, MN Workshop, More Art, NYC |
| 2005 | Workshop,
PS1 Contemporary Art Center, NYC Workshop, Flux Factory, NYC Workshop, Pratt at Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute, Utica, NY |
| 2003 | Teaching
Assistant, School of the Art Institute of Chicago First Year Program: 3D Teaching Assistant, School of the Art Institute of Chicago Art History Department: African Cinema Artist/ Educator, Architreasures, worked with teenagers to produce public art |
| 2002 | Artist/Site Leader, Publicolor, painted and revitalized two New York City public schools with local teens |
| Bibliography | |
| Banerjee,
Debra “YEA!: a shout-out for young emerging artists,” The Scarsdale
Inquirer, Scarsdale, NY, June 16, 2006: p 17 Fishkin, Julie “Greater NY 2005,” Art Fairs International, New York, NY (May/June 2005) pictured on cover Gardner, James “They’re unknown, under 30 and from New York,” New York Post, NY, NY, March 21, 2005 Goddu, Jean Q. “Artists explore the world through playful means,” Chicago Tribune, March 12 2004. (pictured) Gopnik, Blake “At PS1 Few Artists are Ready to Graduate,” Washington Post, Washington, DC, May 15, 2005 Hernandez, Jorge “Artist’s work investigates issues of racial identity,” Observer Dispatch, Utica, NY, 2/15/05 (pictured) Hinkel, Joanne “Saya Woolfalk’s Material World,” CenterStageChicago.com, 1/22/07 Kimmelman, Michael "Youth and the Market: Love at First Sight," The New York Times online, NY, 3/18/05. slideshow (pictured) Mast, Audrey M “Saya Woolfalk: No Place: Wonders from that World,” ArtKrush.com, 1/24/07 McQuaid, Kate “At Second Gallery A Colorful Combination of Culture and Nature,” Boston Globe, Boston, MA, October 5, 2006 Patterson, Sunita Performing Desire, performance still in Fiberarts Magazine, vol. 30, no. 2 (Sept/Oct 2003): p 48 Sandler, Carrie “Short and Sweet,” UR Chicago, September 16, 2004. p 17 (pictured/interview) Sandler, Carrie “Pop Goes the World,” UR Chicago, March 11, 2004. p 19 STUDIO, Magazine of the Studio Museum in Harlem, Spring 2007, The Lighthouse Workman, Michael “Breakout Artists: Chicago’s Next Generation of Image Makers,” New City, May 6, 2004. p 1 (pictured) Workman, Michael “Love Toys,” New City, March 18, 2004. p 16 Uovo Magazine, Drawing Issue 2005 p 204-229 |
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| Publications | |
| “Trenton Doyle
Hancock: The Birth of Antagonistic Difference,” Studio Magazine, The
Studio Museum in Harlem, Spring 2008 “The Vernacular in Contemporary Art: Mobilizing the Utopian Imagination,” www.nyfa.org/level3.asp?id=607&fid=6&sid=17, 2007 “Karmen Gei: Political Sex Icon,” www.africanfilmny.org/network/news/Rwoolfalk.html, 2001 |
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