Biography
MARGARET LANZETTA is a New York-based artist using abstract, culturally significant pattern to explore larger issues of language, political power, spirituality, and migration.
Lanzetta has exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, in the Queens Museum Biennial, Kenise Barnes Fine Art; Jason Andrew, Norte Mar venues; Elizabeth Heskin Gallery and Main Window all in New York. International exhibitions include the Kochi-Muziris Biennale Collateral Projects, India; the National Museum, Bangkok, Thailand (pop-up, solo); 2nd Bloom, Singapore; Famous Ornament, Tokyo; Reign Marks, Rabat, Morocco; Rome, ATP Gallery, London; and the Stockholm Independent Art Fair. Honors and awards include three Fulbright Fellowships, including an inaugural Global Award to India/Singapore/Thailand, 2016-19, and India /Syria, 2007-8; the MacDowell Colony, the Ucross Foundation; the British Academy in Rome; Greenwich House Pottery; Dieu Donné Papermill; and a permanent MTA Art Commission for the New York subway. Lanzetta received an MFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York. Her works are held in numerous collections including the Museum of Modern Art, NY; the British Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London; the Yale University Museum; and the Harvard Museums. Press about her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Brooklyn Rail, ArtCritical.com, Two Coats of Paint, and several Indian and Asian online and print venues. Lanzetta divides her studio time between New York and various studios in India, Morocco and Japan.
Exhibition at Clemente Center, New York. Future Ready, acrylic, rayon, sari fabric; Joffrey, porcelain; Monkey Applause, acrylic,rayon, cotton bedsheet, sari fabric
Résumé
Solo & Site-Specific Exhibitions
2021
Russell Janis Gallery, Williamsburg, Brooklyn Almost Enlightenment
2019
Another Global City, National Museum of Bangkok, Thailand. (Artist lecture and pop-up exhibition)
2018
Smart Luck Road, Windows On Main, Brooklyn, New York (site specific installation)
Second Bloom, INSTINC x Moyem, Singapore (with Valerie Ng)
2016-2017
Folded Language, site specific installation, Kochi-Muziris Biennale, India
2015
The Chanteuse and A Loaded Gun, Kenise Barnes Fine Art, New York
2014
Blues For Allah, Heskin Contemporary, New York
2013
Famous Ornament, Youkubo Art Space, Tokyo
2012
Reign Marks, Le Cube Gallery, Rabat, Morocco
Utopia Minus Project, Gwarlingo Art Journal, with Poet Susan Briante
Seven Types of Terrain, Lanzetta: Paintings, Textile Collection: Michel Biehn
Galerie du Jardin des Biehn, Fes, Morocco
Land Farthest West, French Institute Gallery, Fes, Morocco
Studio: Morocco 2011-12
2010
Pet the Pretty Tiger: Works 1990-2010, a 20 year survey show, Cantor Gallery, Worcester, MA. Curator: Carol Schwarzman. Essays by John Yau and Judy Halebsky.
2009
PS 1 MoMa New York Studio Visit
how to live elsewhere, Kenise Barnes Fine Art, New York
2006
Vapor Trail, Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston
Plaisir, Kenise Barnes Fine Art, New York
2005
World's Great Age, Queens International, New York, site specific commission for Queens Museum
2002
The Strangeness of Beauty, University of Southern Maine, Portland
2001
Blood River, New York
Papernapkin Smirk, Deborah Berke Architects, New York
Selected Collections
Museum of Modern Art, New York
The British Museum, London, UK
The Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
The Harvard University Art Museum, Massachusetts
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut
The New York Public Library
Werner Kramarsky
New York University Medical Centers
Northern Illinois University
Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, Iowa
Amerada Hess Corporation, New York
The Hallmark Art Collection
Commissions, Fellowships, & Grants
2016-2019
Inaugural Senior Fulbright Global Fellowship to India, Singapore and Thailand
2018
VCCA, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts Residency
INSTINC Art Residence, Singapore
2016
Artist-in-Residence, Greenwich House Pottery, New York
2015
Commissioned art for Mirror Mirrored: A Contemporary Artists' Edition of 25 Grimm's Tales. Editors: Michelle Aldredge and Corwin Levi, Gwarlingo Press
2010
Ucross Foundation Artist Residency, Wyoming
2007-8
Fulbright Senior Research Fellowship to India and Syria see images:
India fall, winter and spring and Syria spring and fall
2007
Culture Swirl, Permanent commission for the NYC Subway for the MTA Arts for Transit Program
2007, 2004, 2001
The MacDowell Colony Residencies
2003
British Academy in Rome: Abbey Fellowship in Painting
1998-99
Dieu Donne Papermill Workspace Residency Grant
Selected Group Exhbitions
2019
Among Friends, Clemente Soto Velez Center, New York curators: Beth Dary, Alexi Brock and Patricia Fabricant
2018
Potters and Printmakers, Russell Janis Gallery, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
2017
Club 57: Film, Performance, and Art in the East Village, 1978–1983 Museum of Modern Art, New York.
The first major exhibition to fully examine the scene-changing, interdisciplinary life of this seminal downtown NY alternative space
2016
Ceramics Now with Sheila Pepe, Halsey Rodman, Giselle Hicks, Greenwich House Pottery, New York
Portable Mind SPRING/BREAK, New York's curator-driven Art Fair
Mirror, Mirror: Art Meets the Monsters, Washington D.C. Project for the Arts
Flower Power, with Cara Enteles, David Koninsberg and Mary Judge, Kenise Barnes Fine Art, New York
2015
CLIPBOARD Durbar Hall Art Centre, Kochi, India curator: Shijo Jacob
between a place and candy: new works in pattern + repetition + motif, 1285 Ave of the Americas Gallery, curator: Jason Andrew/Norte Maar
Type Indicators, Art Helix, Bushwick, NY. curator: Wilson Duggan
2014
PULL: Chronically Undifferentiated, Curatorium, Hudson, NY. curator: Robert Godfrey
2013
SuperMarket 2013: Stockholm Indpendent Art Fair, Le Cube Gallery, Rabat, Morocco
Spark, Cantor Gallery, Worcester, Ma. curator: Roger Hankins
2012
Place Angle Position, Heskin Contemporary, New York
Permanent Collection, Nancy Margolis Gallery, New York, curator: Edward del Rosario
Super Saturated:Pattern and Pigment, Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center, New York curator: Kenise Barnes
2011
The Unfunny Show, Small Black Door Gallery, Bushwick, NY. curator: Mattrew Fisher
Flowers, Follies and Other Rites of Spring, Rockland Center for the Arts, NY, curator: Kenise Barnes
New Prints 2011:WINTER, International Print Center, New York
2010
Autosemblematic, Local Projects Gallery, New York, curator: Jennifer Junkermeier
Ucross: 27 Years of Art, Nicolaysen Museum of Art, Wyoming curator: Lisa Hatchadorian
2009
Fresh Asphalt, Gallery Satori, Lower Eastside New York, curator: Eun Young Choi
Rococo Pop, Dean Projects and Crossing Art Gallery, New York
2008
New Editions/Artists Book Fair, Jean-Yves Noblet Editions, New York
2006
Global Pop, Mills Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts curator: Joseph Carroll
2005
Plane and Form, Minnesota Center for Art, Minneapolis
All Terrain, Average Industries Gallery, Art Basel, Miami
Private View, APT Gallery, London, UK
2004
New Projects, Dieu Donne Papermill, New York
2003
The Fine Arts, British Academy in Rome, Italy
2001
Remix, Dieu Donne Papermill, New York, curator: Edwin Ramoran
2000
Art on Paper 2000, Weatherspoon Art Museum, North Carolina
25 Years of Dieu Donne Paper, Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin
Six Abstract Painters, Karen McCready Fine Art, New York
Paper Trail, Mason Gross Arts Gallery, Rutgers University, New Jersey
Press & Media
2017
The Language of the Sari,
The Hindu National, Priyadershini S
In the Spirit of Enquiry,
Kerala Review
Indulge: Art in Kochi
New Indian Express, Arya P Dinesh
2016
One Question,One Answer
Romanov Grave Art Journal, Bonnie Rychlak
2015
Blues For Allah: Reflections on Patterns Across Time & Space,
Muftah.org, Anna Jacobs and George Bajalia
2014
Blues For Allah at Heskin Contemporary,Gallery Travels, Anne Russinof
Margaret Lanzetta, Painting Mockingbird Blog, Steve Gibson
2012
Margaret Lanzetta, Reign Marks, The Brooklyn Rail, Carol Schwarzman
A Fes Inspire des Artistes New-Yorkais, Casablanca Diptich Magazine, Syham Weigant
Superb Art in the Fes Medina, A View From Fez, Susanna Clarke
Reign Marks, Babelfan, Morocco, Carine Adam-Destang
2011
Sneaky Fun in Ridgewood-The UnFunny Show, Two Coats of Paint, Sharon Butler
I Heart Ridgewood-The UnFunny Show, Bushwick Daily, Katarina Hybenova
2010
A Post Modern Garden: The Work of Margaret Lanzetta, ArtCritical.com, John Yau
Ways to Leave Homecatalog essay, poet Judy Halebsky
2006
560 Broadway: The New York Drawing Collection of Werner Kramarsky editor, Amy Eshoo
2006
Vapor Trail, Bernard Toale Gallery review: Hand Papermaking Lournal, editor: Mina Takahashi
Global Pop: We ARE What We Buy, review: The Boston Globe, Cate McQuaid. Oct 12
Prints Now, Directions and Definitions, The Victoria and Albert Museum Publications,
Gill Saunders,Rosemary Miles
Plane and Form at Minnesota Center for Arts, review: K. Searle, Hand Papermaking Journal
2003
Collecting the Contemporary, The Victoria and Albert Museum, Art Libraries Journal UK, Gill Saunders
Cosi La Mostra, La Republica Rome, Mario de Candia. June 20
2002
Unframed, Artists Respond to AIDS, CRIA Foundation, editor: Manuel Gonzales
2000
Six Abstract Painters,review: The New York Times, Ken Johnson. July 2
Teaching & Lectures
2015
Pace University, New York, visiting lecturer
2014
Contents May Have Shifted, Artist Talk at the Elizabeth Foundation, New York
2010
College of the Holy Cross, Massachusetts visiting artist
2008
University of Baroda, India, visiting lecturer
Institute of Art and Design, Jaipur, India visiting lecturer
2006
Makor-Steinhardt Center, NYC “Beauty’s Burden” panel, moderator: David Gibson
2005, 2000, 2001
Western Carolina University, professor, MFA program
Asheville Museum of Art, North Carolina, public lecture
2000
The Isamu Noguchi Museum, Long Island City, staff lecturer
Education
School of Visual Arts, New York City MFA
Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, Skowhegan, Maine
Parsons School of Design, New York City
Tyler School of Art, Rome, Italy
Studio Art Center International, Florence, Italy
College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA. cum laude BA in Fine Arts