CAROLYN SALAS
EDUCATION:
2005 CUNY Hunter College, M.F.A. Sculpture, New York
2004 Glasgow School of Art, Hunter College Study Abroad Program, Fine Arts
1999 College of Santa Fe, B.F.A. (Honors) Sculpture, Santa Fe, NM
SOLO & TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS:
2009
Babel Collections, New Outdoor Commissioned Work, Art Space, New Haven, CT
Please Allow Me to Introduce Myself, Gallerie Nordine Zidoun, Luxembourg
2008
Feast of Burden, Silly Thing Gallery, Hong Kong
2007
Against Stone and Sea, Priska Juschka Fine Art Gallery, New York
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2012
Flights From Wonder, curated by Miki Garcia, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA
AIRspace Exhibition, Abrons Art Center, New York, NY
2011
The Unseen, curated by Adela Leibowitz, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA
Everything Must Go, organized by Jose Noe Suro and Eduardo Sarabia, Casey Kaplan Gallery, New York
Al-Ghaib: The Aesthetics of Disappearance, curated by Gaia Serena Simionati, STUX Gallery, New York
Purified Thoughts, curated by Jon Lutz, Rawson Projects, Brooklyn, NY
Improbable Self: Notes from the Void, curated by Fran Holstrom, St Cecelia's Gallery, Greenpoint, New York
In Back of the Real, curated by Dr. Necmi Sönmez, International Studio & Curatorial Program,Brooklyn, New York
2010
Physical Center, curated by Amanda Schmitt, St. Cecelia's Gallery, Greenpoint, New York
See you in September, curated by Leslie Rosa and Ciara Gilmartin,
Parlour NO. 18 Brooklyn, New York
Value City, Little Berlin, Philadelphia, PA
If You See Nothing, Say Something, Invisible Dog, Brooklyn, New York
Word-less, curated by Felicity Hogan, The Elizabeth Foundation, New York
Talons, Swords and Samurai: A Show of Power, Berkshire Museum, MA
2009
Trophies, Collaboration with Adam Parker Smith, Parisian Laundry, Montreal, QC
Scope Art Fair, New Commissions, Lincoln Center, New York
State of the Art: New York, Urbis City Center, Manchester, U.K.
Everybody, curated by Ryan Schneider, Envoy Gallery, New York
Hail Lampyridae, CSV Cultural Arts Center, New York
2008
Peekskill Project, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, New York,
I Held a Jewel in My Hand and Fell Asleep, Main Site Contemporary, Oklahoma, 2008
Admirer, curated by Maureen Cavanaugh, 31 Grand Gallery, New York, 2008
Home Base Project III,Curated by Anat Litwin, New York, 2008
2007
Ad Nueseam Lyceum, Group Show, New York, 2007
2006
Materiality, Kravets & Wheby Gallery, New York, 2006
2005
New Found Land, curated by Yaelle Amir, Priska Juschka Fine Art Gallery, New York
Red/White/Blue, Spencer Brownstone Gallery, New York, 2005
Breaking Ground, The New York Horticultural Society, New York, 2005
MFA Thesis Exhibition, Hunter College, Times Square Gallery, New York
AWARDS & FELLOWSHIPS:
2011
Rema Hort Mann Foundation, Grant Nominee, NY
Abrons Art Center, AIRspace Studio Residency, NY
The Elizabeth Foundation Studio Program/Space Award, NY
Franconia Sculpture Park Residency Program, Jerome Grant, MN
2009
Artspace, New Haven, CT
Djerrassi Artists Residency, CA
Chashama Studio Program, NY
2008
Blue Mountain Center, NY
Jentel Artist Residency, WY
The Santa Fe Art Institute, NM
Cha North Artist Residency, NY
Chashama Studio Program, NY
2007
Chashama Studio Program, NY
Cha North Artist Residency, NY
2006
Chashama Studio Program, NY
2004
Rita Glassier Scholarship, Study Abroad Program, Hunter College, NY
2001
Vermont Studio Center, (Pollack-Krasner Fellowship Award), VT
APPOINTMENTS:
2011
Lecturer, Sculpture, Yale University, New Haven, CT
2010
Assistant Professor, Three Dimensional Design, College of New Jersey, Trenton, NJ
LECTURES & ARTIST TALKS:
2009
Urbis City Center, Moderated by Carlos McCormick, Manchester, U.K.
Artist Space, New Haven CT
Artist in Residence, MS. 137, Brooklyn, NY
2008
Santa Fe Art Institute, NM
Radio Television Hong Kong/Morning Brew, Hong Kong
Santa Fe Radio Café, Santa Fe, NM
CURATORIAL PROJECTS:
2011
Art Book Club, Printed Matter Book Fair, PS1, Long Island City, NY
Art Book Club Presents: Cowboy Mouth, St. Cecelia's Convent, Greenpoint, NY
^..^/:), Casita Maria Center for Arts and Education, Bronx, NY
COMMISSIONS:
2007
Staten Island Yankee Stadium, Chashama Window Project, New York
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
James Kalm, Brooklyn Dispatches Game-Changer?, The Brooklyn Rail, 2011
Emmy Thelander, Dead in August; Alive in Greenpoint, The Art Blog, Sept 04, 2011
Andrew Russeth, 16 mi., "In Back of the Real":Around the International Studio & Curatorial Program, May 23, 2011,http://www.16miles.com/2011/05/in-back-of-real-in-and-around.html
Manya Schep, Philadelphia Weekly, First-Friday-Picks, May 05, 2010
Diana Mellon, The New Haven Advocate, The Lots Junkyard Art, August 05, 2009
Allan Appel, The New Haven Independent, A Recycled Babel Rises, July 31, 2009
Register Staff, The New Haven Register, The Lot shows just what student artists can do, August 10, 2009
Stacey DeWolfe, Mirror Magazine-Artsweek, Montreal, Guns n Antlers, June 25- July 01, 2009
Karen Rosenberg, New York Times, Toplessness and Taxidermy in a Bottoming Market, March 07, 2009
Angela Kelly, Trafford Metro News, Manchester, Big Apple Art, but Bite-sized, April 15, 2009
Art World, Urbis Delivers Hot Stuff From New York, April / May. 2009
Didier Damiani, d, Land Kultur, Corpus Christi Amen, January 30, 2009
Laetitia Collin, La Voix, Un Materialism Encombrant, Jan. 2009
France Clarinval, Le Quotidien, Drole De Communion, Jan. 2009, www.lequotidien.lu
Creative Force, Milk Magazine, www.milk.com.hk, 2008
Radio Television Hong Kong, htt://www.rthk.org.hk/rthk/radio3/morning brew, 2008
Benjamin Genocchio, The New York Times, In Peekskill, 2 Shows of Raw Works, 2008
Jeffrey Cyphers Wright, Chelsea Now Magazine, Admirer Calibrates the Edges of Accord, 2008
Santa Fe Radio Café, www.santaferadiocafe.org/podcasts, 2008
Shu Hung & Joe Magliaro, By Hand, Craft in Contemporary Art, Princeton Architectural Press, 2007
Alison B. Levy, New York Arts Magazine, Splendor at the Market, July/Aug., 2006
Ken Johnson, The New York Times, Art Listing, Materiality, Aug., 2006
The New Yorker, Around Town, Art, Natural Views, July 2005
The Village Voice, Voice Picks, Breaking Ground, Horticultural Society, Aug. 2005
MFA Candidates, Hunter College Publications, Spring Semester, 2005
Carey Ann Schaefer, Matrix Magazine, Au Pair, Body Parts Issue #66, 2002
Nancie L. Katz, The Daily News, Artist Revel in Frontier Space, June 13, 2000
Ruth Lopez, The Pasatiempo, With a moo-moo- here and a quack quack there... July 1999
Gussie Fauntleroy, The Pasatiempo, Stereotypes about Women Sculptures are Crumbling, Oct. 1999