Luisa Caldwell - Still life w Skull
Education:
1986-87 MFA Sculpture Program, University of Iowa
1986 Bachelor of Arts, Art History, University of Iowa
1985 Italian Studies, Miami University, Urbino, Italy
One-Person Exhibitions and Projects:
2009 Jetfire, temporary public sculpture, Heckscher Park Sculpture Show, Huntington, NY
Nature Box, temporary public sculpture, collaborative project with
CEC Artslink Workshop, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
2007 Luisa Caldwell, Swarovski- Parcours St. Germain de Pres, Paris, France
2006 Floralisitc, Florence Lynch Gallery, New York, NY
2004 Arabesque, Florence Lynch Gallery, New York
Jetfire, temporary outdoor public sculpture, Village Green, Summit, NJ
2002 Barney’s New York, Window Project, New York
Whose House, Florence Lynch Gallery, New York, NY
1999 Cow Palace, SculptureCenter, Artist-in-Residence, New York, NY
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2010 Sculpture Key West, West Martello, Key West, Florida
Stuck Up, Islip Museum, Islip, New York (April)
Group show, Lucky Street Gallery, Key West, FL (April)
2009 Back To The Garden Deutsche Bank Galleries, New York, NY curated by Liz Christensen
Twin Twin III, Big & Small/Casual Gallery, LIC, NY curated by Matt Freedman
You Are What You Eat, MASSMoCA,Kidspace North Adams, MA (Dec.)
Shrink Wrap. Alliance Gallery, Narrowsburg, PA, curated by Liza Philips
2008 Sculpture Key West, West Martello, Key West, Florida
Art & Illusion:Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Foundation,
Blue Line Gallery, Roseville, CA
London Confidential, Mews 42, London
New Futures, Gallery Camino Real, Boca Raton, Florida
2007 Delicatessan Florida Atlantic University Galleries, Boca Raton, Florida (current)
Rendez-vous, La Nouvelle Athene, Paris, France
The Eclectic Eye, Contemporary Art Center New Orleans (CACNO), New Orleans
Sugar Buzz, Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx, New York
2006 Slick, Vanessa Suchar/Le Salon For Art Collectors, Paris, France
Photos & Phantasy, Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA
Site92, Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY
West Harlem Art Project, Jackie Robinson Park, Harlem, NY
2005 Art and Illusion, Carnegie Art Museum, Oxnard, CA
Traces d’Enfance, Galerie, RX, Paris, France
Sculpture Key West, Ft. Zachary Taylor, Key West, FL
2004 Brooklyn Gravity Racers, Pierogi, 10th Anniversary Exhibition, Brooklyn, NY
Convergence, CCNOA, Brussels, Belgium
2003 The History of the Lagoon As it Once Was, Site-Specific Project (Two-person show with
Janet Echelman), Cannareggio, Extra 50 Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
1999 Fin-de-Siecle Salon, P.S. 122, New York, NY
1998 Pets, Bronwyn Keenan Gallery, New York, NY
Ferrocious, The Bodybuilder & Sportsman Gallery, Chicago, IL
1997 Current Undercurrent: Working in Brooklyn, Brooklyn Museum of Art, NY
From The Ground Up, Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, NY
Emerging Sculptors #10, Sculpture Center, New York, NY
Selected Awards and Grants:
2009 MTA Arts for Transit Commission East 180th St. Bronx ($178,000), NYC
CEC Arts Link Grant, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
2007 Percent for Art Public Commission ($68,000), New York City Dept. of Cultural Affairs
PS 244, Queens, NY, to be completed September 2008
1999 BCAT/Rotunda Gallery Video Workshop, Full Scholarship, Brooklyn, NY
1998 Manhattan Graphics Center Workshop, Full Scholarship, New York, NY
1996 The Jerome Foundation Award, Emerging Artist Residency Program,
Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, NY
1991 Artists Space Grant New York City, NY
Selected Residencies and Visiting Artist Program:
2010 MASSMoCA Iron Chef at Kidspace, Hunter Theater
2009 Artist Residency, Kidspace/MASSMoCA, N.Adams, MA
CEC Arts Link VisArt Workshop Residency, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
2007 Visiting Artist, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL
2004 PS 1/MoMA Summer Celebration, collaboration w/ Robert Hickman, PS 1, LIC, NY
1999 Visiting Artist, School of Visual Arts, summer program, New York, NY
1997 Vermont Studio Center, Full Fellowship, Johnson, Vermont
1996 Millay Colony for the Arts, Austerlitz, NY
Selected Bibliography:
2010 photgraph of painting, Cooking Light, May issue
2009 Foley, Mary Beth New Sculptures Headed for Heckscher Park,
Cohen, Michele Public Art for Public Schools, The Monacelli Press, 2009
McQuaid, Cate “Exhibit Hits You Right In The Sweet Spot”, The Boston
The Boston Globe, October 25, 2009
2008 Wilkin, Karen “Art at Land’s End”, article, Art in America, Sept. 2008
Ceruti, Mary catalogue, Sculpture Key West 2008
2007 Shpungin, Diana Delicatessen, catalogue image and essay, FAU
Ryzik, Melena “Art With Marching Orders”-videos Sept.10, 2007
TheNewYorkTi
Judicael Lavrador Sweet’Art ou l’Art de la gourmandise, Beaux Arts magazine,
Martha Scwendener “Sugar Buzz” Art in Review, The New York Times, ,
Friday, May 11, 2007
Benjamin Genocchio “Fattening Goodies in All Their Glory”, photo,
2006 Ken Johnson “Site92”, The New York Times, Fri., Feb 24
*** “Mas Urticarla Plastica”, Reforma, photo, April 24, 2006
E.K. Clark “Luisa Caldwell, Floralisitc”, M, Summer 2006
2004 Eileen Kinsella, RG. Charles “Art Market,” article with photo, ARTnews, December
Ana Berlin “FIAC,” ArtMagazine.cc, Oct. 28
Kathy Chang “Artists in New York”, Discovery: Cathay Pacific, July
Frederique Jourdaa “Rendezvous avec l’art contemporain,” Le Parisien, Oct 21
*** “La FIAC en Image,” Le Quotidien Le Journal des Arts, Oct. 2
Laurel Graeber “Art in Flight”, The New York Times, Fri., July 23
2003 Shax Reigler “Handmade in New York,” House & Garden, June
2002 Carolyn Gray Anderson Florence Lynch Gallery Presents…, Cat. Essay
2001 Elizabeth Pochoda "The Long View," House & Garden, article w/photo, Aug.
2000 *** Artforum, photograph, September
1999 *** "Luisa Caldwell-Cow Palace," The New Yorker, Oct. 4
Ken Johnson "Luisa Caldwell, Cow Palace," The NY Times, Fri. Sept. 17
*** "Sculpture and Installation," New York Magazine, Sept. 13
1997 Roberta Smith "Sculpture Adorns the Urban Terrain," NYTimes, Aug 8
Helen A Harrison "Site-Specifics," The NY Times, review, June 8
1996 Janet Koplos "Brookworld," Art in America, review, December
Holland Cotter "Sculpture That Basks in Summer," The NY Times, Aug, 9