Born
New York City
Education
Art Institute of Chicago, MFA 1976
Boston Museum School of Fine Arts/Tufts University, BFA 1973
Grants/Fellowships
2007 Presidential Travel Award Hunter College CUNY
2005 Chevalier Order of Arts and Letters French Minister of Culture
2000 Residency Fondation Albert Gleizes Sablons FR
1999 John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship
1999 PSC-CUNY Research Foundation Award Hunter College CUNY
1994 PSC-CUNY Research Foundation Award Hunter College CUNY
1992 Art Commission Award for Excellence in Design for the Reconstruction of 107th ST Pier NY
1992 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Architecture
1991 Design Award Certificate for 107th ST Pier Renovation American Institute of Architects
1991 PSC-CUNY Research Foundation Award Hunter College CUNY
1986 Art Matters Inc. Fellowship
1983 Graham Foundation Fellowship for Advanced Studies in Fine Art
1978 National Endowment for the Arts Artist Fellowship
1976 National Endowment for the Arts Artist Fellowship
Public/Institutional Commission
2009 Park/Plaza Hoorgeveen, NL (not realized)
2008 Gardens+ Fountains +Summer Café MUDAM Museum Luxembourg
2007 Arcadia Place d'Italie Paris FR (commissioner: City of Paris) (not realized)
2006 Plateau University of Pennsylvania & Redevelopment Authority of Philadelphia PA
2004 New City Square London UK (Modus Operandi)(not realized)
2004 BikeHouse Stroom Center for Art & Architecture Den Haag NL
2004 Drink/Sleep Le Jardin des Deux Rives City of Strasbourg FR
2004 GreenHouse Centre des Livres D'Artistes Saint-Yrieux La Perche FR
2003 Living Spaces Institut des Jeunes Sourds et Aveugles de Marseille (IRSAM) Marseille FR (Fondation de France & Bureau des Competences et Desirs) (publication)
2003 Police Station Bobigny FR (not realized)
2003 Nomadic House ART3, Valence FR (publication) (prototype collection: Fondation Nationale D'Art Contemporaine Paris FR)
2002 Information Loop BBC News Headquarters London UK (Modus Operandi) (not realized)
2002 Rotary Garden SMAT-Metro Toulouse FR (not realized)
2001 Bureau Art3 Valence FR
2001 En Route University of Paris 8 St.Denis FR
2001 Suspended Animation SMAT-Metro Toulouse FR (not realized)
1999 Mobile Display Unit French Institute of Architects Paris FR (Caisse Des Depots)
1999 Common Meerveld Almere NL (not realized)
1998 Adolescent Playground College Daubigny D'Auvers-sur-Oise FR
1998 Pavillon University of Toulon FR (not realized)
1997 Bibliothèque Mobile l'Observatoire Marseille FR (publication)
Sites/exhibitions of Bibliothèque Mobile:
1997 Mediateque de Valence Art 3 Valence FR
1997 Bibliothèque Municipale de Lyon FR
1997 La Region Provence-Alpes Cote d'Azur FR
1997 Angle Art Contemporain St.Paul les Trois Chateaux Vasseviere FR
1997 Perceptions Nomades/Espace Urbains Ateliers d'Artistes de la Ville de Marseille FR (Le Cahier du Refuge Centre International de Poesie Marseille FR)
1997 Floating Island 2000 Millenium Project Bristol UK (Public Art Development Trust)(not realized)
1997 Agora University of Rennes FR (not realized)
1996 Information Plaza Universiteit Twente Enschede NL
1995 Camouflage Metrobus de l'Agglomeration Rouennaise(SIVOM) Rouen FR (publication)
1994 Courtyard Arrangements Inland Revenue Nottingham UK (Public Art Development Trust)(not realized)
1992 Corporate Displacement General Mills Corporation Minneapolis MN.
1992 Surveillance Stations The Campagne Stroom Center for Art & Architecture Den Haag NL
1992 Split Pavilion City of Carlsbad CA(destroyed)
1991 Livonia Art in Public Places Commission Livonia MI
1991 107th Street Pier New York City Percent for Art and Public Development Corporation NY (in cooperation: Cavaglieri & Sultan Architects)
1990 Sunken Network System with Mirrored Arbor Fillmore Center San Francisco CA
1989 Rotational Shift University of Wisconsin State Arts Commission Madison WI
1989 Street Link Dayton City Beautiful Dayton OH
1988 Landfill Bus Station The New Urban Landscape (exhibition) Battery Park City NYC (collaboration: Dennis Adams)
1988 Linear Park Center City Development Corporation San Diego CA (collaboration: Dennis Adams, Martha Schwartz, Peter Walker) (not realized)
1987 Newsstand Public Art Fund NY (collaboration: Ken Kaplan & Ted Krueger) (not realized)
1986 Rainier Washington State Arts Commission Buckley WA
1985 Benches and Walkways East Carolina University Greenville NC.
1985 Stairwell North Shore Community College Percent for Art Lynn MA
1983 3 Pavilions National Endowment for the Arts Commission City of Boulder CO (not realize
Private Commissions
2010 Treehouse/Guesthouse La Marrana Bocche di Magra IT (in progress)
2009 Flip Lounge Cumulus Studio New York
2008 Office/6ieme Galerie Insitu Fabinne LeClerc Paris FR
2005 Project Office Galerie Insitu Fabienne LeClerc Paris FR
2004 Slide Lounge Galerie Insitu Fabienne LeClerc Paris FR
2003 ZigZag Desk Galerie Insitu Fabienne LeClerc Paris FR
2003 Loveseat & Aquarium (collection: Frac Ile de France Paris FR)
1996 La Chambre de Christophe Durand-Ruel Paris FR
Solo Exhibitions/Installations
2008 Home on the Street/Landscape in the Palace start FoundationVenice IT
2008 Birdhouse Café Maison Rouge Paris FR
2008 Babel Galerie Insitu Fabienne Leclerc Paris FR
2005 Hotel/Apartment/House/Nomadic House Galerie LumenTravo Amsterdam NL
2003 Metropolitan Biography Le Crestet Centre D'art Contemporarin FR (publication)
2003 Nomadic House & Designs for Living Galerie InSitu Fabienne LeClerc Paris FR
2001 Utopie Art3 Valence FR
1999 Mobile Institute#2 archive/theater/library Henry Moore Institute Leeds UK
1999 Video Viewing Station Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporaneo Seville SP
1999 Mobile Institute#1 office/exhibitionspace/theater/library Galerie LumenTravo Amsterdam NL
1998 Centre D'art Contemporain Auvers Sur Oise FR
1997 Polder De Paviljoens Almere NL
1996 Mobile Home Galerie des Archives Paris FR
1996 Universiteit Twente Enschede NL
1995 American Center Paris FR (installation in public space)
1995 Public Affairs Stroom Center for Art & Architecture Den Haag NL (publication)
1995 Domestic Arrangement #3 Galerie LumenTravo Amsterdam NL
1994 Domestic Arrangement #1 Storefront for Art & Architecture NY
1994 Domestic Arrangement #2 Galerie Des Archives Paris FR
1991 Bain-Douche collaboration: ShirleyIrons / JeanneSilverthorne Simon Watson Gallery NY
1991 Surveillance Chamber New York Diary) Institute for Contemporary Art PS1 Long Island City NY (Ryszard Wasko & Zdenka Gabalova)
1985 Vanguard Gallery Philadelphia PA
1985 Sibell Wolle Gallery University of Colorado Boulder CO (publication)
1984 Protetch McNeil Gallery NY
1982 Marianne Deson Gallery Chicago, IL.
1982 Tibor De Nagy Gallery NY
1981 Primary Pits DeCordova Museum Lincoln MA
1980 Marianne Deson Gallery Chicago IL
1980 Courtyard Hudson River Museum Yonkers NY.
1980 Corridor Vassar College Art Gallery Poughkeepsie NY
1979 Room 218 Institute for Art and Urban Resources PS1 Long Island City NY
1978 Marianne Deson Gallery Chicago IL
1978 University of Hartford Hartford CT
1976 NAME Gallery Chicago IL
Group Exhibitions
2010 Brave New World MUDAM Fondation Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean Luxembourg
2010 Explorateurs,Centre Des Arts Enghien-les-Bains,FR
2009 Le Nouveau Festival, Centre Pompidou,Paris FR (Bernard Blistene)
2009 No Bees, No Blueberries Harris Lieberman Gallery,NY (Sarina Basta)
2009 CUMULUS Studio New York
2009 Tristes Utopies Insitu Galerie Paris FR
2007 Happiness of the Object Sculpture Center Long Island City NY (Sarina Basta)
2006 Eldorado Fondation Musée d'Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean Luxembourg (publication)
2006 Monument Minimum Château d'Avignon Camargue FR
2004 Gardens + Fountains The Experience of Art Italian Pavilion Biennale of Venice IT
Commission (publication) (Maria De Corral)
2004 Nomadic House FIAC Grand Palais Paris FR
2004 Beyond Narcissus Dorsky Gallery NY (Soko Phay)
2004 Le Paris des Maisons Objects Trouves Pavillion d'Arsenal Paris FR (publication) (Luc Babolet)
2003 Books-Machine Colette Paris FR (Jean-Max Collard)
2003 Ma Petite Entreprise Abbaye Saint Andre Centre d'art contemporain Meymac FR (publication)
2003 Le Diable Evidement Collection FRAC Bretagne Musee des Beaux Arts de Brest FR
2002 Loveseat with Aquarium FIAC Paris FR
2002 LMX etape3 Ecole Superieure des Beaux Arts du Mans FR
2001 To the Trade Diverse Works Houston TX
2001 Ambiance Magasin Abbaye Saint Andre Centre d'art Contemporain Meymac FR
2001 Groupe Exhibition Galerie InSitu Fabienne Leclerc Paris FR
2001 LMX etape 2 FRAC / PACA Marseille FR
2000 Design 2000 Espace Landowski Boulogne Billancourt FR
2000 Exurbia Theresa Luisotti Gallery Los Angeles CA (publication) (Shirley Irons)
2000 BikeCity City Hall Den Haag NL
2000 BabyBloom Galeria Luisa delle Piane Milan IT(publication)
1999 Espace modes d'emploi FRAC Bretagne FR
1999 Design me a School Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig D (Reudi Bauer)
1997 The Private Eye in Public Art Nations Bank Plaza Charlotte NC
1996 Galerie LumenTravo Amsterdam NL
1995 Contemporaneously Castle of Baia Naples IT (Christophe Boutin)
1993 Transpositions Ferme du Buisson Centre d'Art Contemporain Noisiel FR (publication) (Chantal Cusin-Berche)
1992 A Marked Difference Maatschappij Arti et Amicitiae Amsterdam NL (Saul Ostrow/Peer Veneman)
1992 Surveillance Marquee 33'11 Galerie Des Archives Paris FR (Jerome Sans)
1990 Michael Klein Inc. NY
1990 Uncommon Ground: Architecture and Sculpture at 2AES San Francisco CA (Andrea Blum Dennis Adams Ken Kaplan/Ted Krueger)
1990 Post Consumerism Storefront for Art and Architecture NY
1990 Painting Between the Paradigms Part IV: A Category of As Yet Unnamed Penine Hart Gallery NY (Saul Ostrow)
1988 Works on Paper Shea & Beker Gallery NY
1988 Contemporary Sculptors Maquettes & Drawings Hofstra University NY
1988 Art for the Public New Collaborations Dayton Art Institute Dayton OH
1988 Projects and Proposals New York City's Percent Program Department of Cultural Affairs NY
1985 Vanguard Gallery Philadelphia PA.
1985 Large Drawings Renaissance Society University of Chicago IL (Blum LeVa Morris Nauman Serra)
1984 Alternative Spaces: A History in Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago IL.
1984 Wellspring Project Baca Downtown Cultural Center Brooklyn NY
1984 Large Scale Drawing Wesleyan University CT (publication)
1983 Beyond the Monument MIT Hayden Corridor Gallery Cambridge MA (Gary Garrels)
1983 Commissioned Proposals for Louisiana World Exposition New Orleans Museum LA
1982 Momentary Halt Artpark Lewiston NY (publication)
1982 Pit Art on the Beach Creative Time Inc NY
1980 Beyond Object Aspen Center for the Visual Arts Aspen,CO (PhilipYenawine)
1980 Summer News Frank Kolbert Gallery NY (Barry Rosen)
1980 Architectural Sculpture Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art Los Angeles CA (publication)
1979 13 Trees/13 Walls Wards Island NY
1979 Art from Chicago Koffler Foundation National Museum of American Art DC
1979 Chicago Karlsruhe Karlsruhe D
1979 Three Sculptors Northern Iowa University Museum of Art Cedar Falls IO
1978 Art in Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art, Video (publication)
1978 Chicago/Texas:Texas/Chicago Delahanty Gallery Dallas TX
1978 American Drawing: New Direction University of South Florida & Miami Dade College Miami FL
1987 Works on Paper Art Institute of Chicago Chicago IL
1978 Works on Paper Feigenson-Rosenstein Gallery Detroit MI
1977 Drawing of the Seventies Art Institute of Chicago IL (Harold Joachim)
1977 All Over the Place Moming Chicago IL (performance by Meredith Monk)
1977 American Women Artists Galleria D'Arte Del Cavallino Venice IT
1977 Current Concerns University of Iowa Museum of Art Iowa City IO
1977 Blum/LeVa/Hansell Renaissance Society University of Chicago IL
1977 The Challenge of New Ideas: Contemporary Chicago Sculpture
1977 Kalamazoo Institute of Art Kalamazoo MI (publication) (Pauline Saliga)
1976 Abstract Art in Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago IL (publication) (Ira Licht)
1975 25 Years to 2000 N.A.M.E. Gallery Chicago IL
Professorial Positions
1986-present Hunter College CUNY NY Professor of Art
1985-1989 Cooper Union School of Art NY
1983-1985 SUNY College at Purchase NY
1984-1985 Sarah Lawrence College Bronxville NY
1984 Princeton University NJ
1983 Princeton University NJ
1982 University of North Carolina Chapel Hill NC
1981 Art Institute of Chicago IL
1980-1981 Rhode Island School of Design RI
1977 University of Illinois Chicago Circle Campus IL
Visiting Artist/Conferences
2009 Redevelopment Authority,Philadelphia PA
2008 La Maison Rouge.Fondation Antoine de Galbert, Paris FR
2007 Coloque International Geneva University of Art and Design & Centre d'Art Contemporain Geneva Switzerland
2006 International Laboratory on Social Sculpture – Bassano del Grappa IT
2006 Institute of Contemporary Art Philadelphia PA
2006 Pennsylvania Academy of Art Philadelphia PA
2005 Ecole D' Architecture Superior Paris FR
2005 Anti-Spectacle conversation avec critique d'art Jacinto Legeiro – Entretiens sur l'art Espace Paul Ricard Paris FR
2003 Columbia University School of Architecture Jury 5th year (studio Odile Decq)
2001 Columbia University School of Architecture Jury 5th year(studio Odile Decq)
2001 Ecole Nationale des Beaux Arts Lyon FR
2001 Utopie Symposium ART3 Musee de Valence FR
1999 Columbia University School of Urban Planning (studio: Andrea Kahn)
1997 FRAC Pays de la Loire Nantes FR
1996 Ecole des Beaux Arts Paris FR
1996 Consultant Hudson River Park Conservancy NY
1996 Scenographie Urbaine Coté Jardin(s) Seminaire École des Beaux Arts Nancy FR
1994 Storefront for Art & Architecture NY.
1993 L'Usine Fromage-GNAC Ecole D'Architecture de Normandie FR
1993 Symposium De Campagne Stroom Center for Art & Architecture Den Haag NL
1993 Trinity College CT
1992 Public Art for Public Works: Municipal Art Society NY
1990 Graduate School of Architecture Columbia University (studio Ken Kaplan)
1990 Parsons School of Art NYC
1990 Queens College CUNY
1990 International Sculpture Conference Washington D.C.
1989 Graduate School of Architecture Columbia University (studio Ken Kaplan)
1988 Graduate School of Architecture Columbia University (studio Ken Kaplan)
1987 University of Wisconsin Madison WI
1987 Harvard University Graduate School of Design Landscape Architecture Juror
1986 Tyler School of Art Temple University PA
1984 Art Institute of Chicago IL
1983 Syracuse University NY
1981 SUNY College at Purchase NY
1981 University of IllinoisChicago Circle Campus IL
1981 Hobart and William Smith Colleges NY
1979 University of Chicago IL
1978 University of Hartford School of Art CT
1977 Kalamazoo Institute of Art Gallery MI
1976 Notre Dame University IN