Résumé
MARGARET LANZETTA
lives and works in New York, NY
EDUCATION
School of Visual Arts, NYC MFA 1989
College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA. BA Fine Arts 1979
SELECTED SOLO/TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2021: Russell Janis Gallery, Williamsburg, Brooklyn Almost Enlightenment
2020: Norte Maar/Mark Morris Dance Center, New York, Strategy Royale. Commission for CounterPointe 8
2019: National Museum of Bangkok, Thailand: Another Global City,
2019: The Clemente, New York: Open Doors, with Jodie Manasevit and Elisabeth Condon
2018: Windows-On-Main, Brooklyn, New York: Smart Luck Road, (site specific installation)
2018: INSTINC, Singapore: Second Bloom
2016-7: Kochi-Muziris Biennale India, Collateral Projects: Folded Language,
2015: Kenise Barnes Fine Art, New York: The Chanteuse and A Loaded Gun
2014: Heskin Contemporary, New York, NY: Blues For Allah
2013: Youkubo Art Space, Tokyo, Japan: Famous Ornament
2012: Le Cube Independent Art Room, Rabat, Morocco: Reign Marks
2012: The French Institute, Fes, Morocco: Land Farthest West
2012: Galerie du Jardin des Biehn, Fes, Morocco: Seven Types of Terrain
2010: Cantor Gallery, Worcester, Ma. Pet the Pretty Tiger: Works 1990-2010 (Curator: Carol Schwarzman, catalogue essays: John Yau and Judy Halebsky)
2009: Kenise Barnes Fine Art, New York: how to live elsewhere
2006: Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston: Vapor Trail
2004: Queens Museum of Art, NY: The Queens International: site specific commission
2002: University of Southern Maine, Portland: The Strangeness of Beauty
2000: Deborah Berke Architects, New York, NY: Paper Napkin Smirk
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
Project ARTSpace, New York, Anywhere But Here
Rara Avis, New York, The Beautiful Forevers (part of New York Textile Month IX)
Garrison Art Center, Garrison, NY, Travelers, Liars and Thieves
Art Spaces @ Krasdale, White Plains, New York, New Works in Collage
Alterworks Studio, New York, Works on/with/about PAPER
2023
White Box, New York: Off the Cloth 2, curators: Karen Cordero Reiman, Yohanna M. Roa
2022
Cedar Rapids Museum of Art Abstract Ideas: Abstract Art from the Collection
Planthouse, New York: Carnival
2021
ChaShaMa 81 Essex, New York: Houston, We Have a Problem, curator: David Packer
Ojas Gallery, Delhi, India: Reciprocations: American Fulbright Artists/ Indian Connections,
Kenise Barnes Fine Art, New York: Let The Sky Soak In
Hewitt Gallery of Art, Marymount College, New York, NY: Changing Lanes
2019
Clemente Soto Velez Center, New York, NY: Among Friends,
2018
Russell Janis Gallery, Williamsburg, Brooklyn: Potters and Printmakers
2017
Museum of Modern Art, New York: Club 57: Film, Performance and Art in the East Village 1978–1983, The first major exhibition of the scene-changing, interdisciplinary life of this seminal downtown NY alternative space
2016
Greenwich House Pottery, New York, NY: Ceramics Now, with Sheila Pepe, Halsey Rodman
SPRING/BREAK, New York’s curator-driven art fair: Portable Mind
Washington Project for the Arts, Washington D.C.: Mirror, Mirror: Art Meets the Monsters,
Kenise Barnes Fine Art, New York: Flower Power
2015
Durbar Hall Art Centre, Kochi: CLIPBOARD, curator: Shijo Jacob
1285 Avenue of the Americas Art Gallery: between a place and candy: new works in pattern + repetition + motif, curator: Jason Andrew/Norte Maar
SPRING/BREAK, New York’s curator-driven art fair: New/Now!
Art Helix, Bushwick, NY: Type Indicators, curator: Wilson Duggan
2014
Curatorium, Hudson, NY: PULL: Chronically Undifferentiated, curator: Robert Godfrey
2013
Fez Medina, Morocco: Al Andaluz, curator: Jess Stephen
Cantor Gallery, Worcester, Ma.: Spark, curator: Roger Hankins
Le Cube Gallery, Morocco at the Stockholm Independent Art Fair: Super Market
2012
Heskin Contemporary, New York, NY: Angle-Place-Position: Three Sculptors, One Painter
Nancy Margolis Gallery, New York, NY: Permanent Collection, curator: Edward del Rosario
2011, 12
Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center, New York: Super Saturated: Pattern and Pigment
Small Black Door Gallery, New York, NY: The Unfunny Show, curator: Matthew Fisher
2011
Allegra LaViola Gallery, New York, NY: Draw the Line
International Print Center, New York, NY: New Prints 2011/Winter
Kenise Barnes Fine Art, New York: Baby Its Cold Outside
Rockland Center for the Arts, New York: Flowers, Follies and Other Rites of Spring,
2010
Local Projects, New York, NY: Autosemblematic
Nicolaysen Art Museum, Wyoming: Ucross: Twenty-Seven Years of Visual Art,
2009
Gallery Satori, New York, NY: Fresh Asphalt
Dean Projects, and Crossing Art Gallery, New York, NY: RocCoPop,
2008
Editions/Artists Book Fair, New York, NY with Jean-Yves Noblet Editions
2006
Mills Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts: Global Pop, curator: Joseph Carroll
Kenise Barnes Fine Art, Miami Art Fair: FLOW Miami
2005
Average Industries Gallery, Art Basel, Miami: All Terrain
APT Gallery, London, UK: Private View
Minnesota Center for Art, Minneapolis: Plane and Form
2004
Dieu Donne Papermill, New York, NY: New Projects
International Print Center, New York, NY: Prints 2004/Summer
2003
British Academy Rome, Italy: Fine Arts, catalogue
2001
Dieu Donne Papermill, New York, NY: Remix, curator: Edwin Ramoran, Bronx Museum
2000
Karen McCready Fine Art, New York, NY: Six Abstract Painters,
Weatherspoon Art Museum, North Carolina: Art on Paper 2000, catalogue
Milwaukee Art Museum: 25th Years of Art from Dieu Donne, catalogue
Mason Gross Arts Gallery, Rutgers University, NJ: Paper Trail, catalogue
1999
CRIA Benefit, New York, NY: organized by Ross Bleckner, catalogue
1997
Barrett Gallery Poughkeepsie, NY: Printworks, curator: Roberta Waddell
1995
Katonah Museum, NY: All-of-a-Piece, curator: Robert Storr
Dakar, Accra, Lagos and Kinshasha + 14 other African cities: Recycle, Re-use, Recreate
FELLOWSHIPS, RESIDENCIES, COMMISSIONS
2020: Strategy Royale, commission for Norte Maar’s Counter Pointe 8
2016-2019: Inaugural Senior Fulbright Global Fellowship: India, Singapore and Thailand
2018: VCCA, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, residency
2018: INSTINC Art Residence, Singapore
2016: Artist-in-Residence Fellowship, Greenwich House Pottery, New York
2015: Commissioned art for Mirror Mirrored: A Contemporary Artists' Edition of 25 Grimm's Tales (Creative Editors: Michelle Aldridge and Corwin Levi, Gwarlingo Press, NH.)
2010: Ucross Foundation, Wyoming, Artist Residency
2007-8: Fulbright Senior Research Fellowship (India and Syria)
2007: Culture Swirl, Permanent Public Art Commission for Arts for Transit and Urban Design at the Metropolitan
2007: Transportation Authority (New York City subway system)
2007, 04, 01: MacDowell Art Colony Residency
2003: British Academy in Rome: Abbey Fellowship in Painting,
1998-99: Brittle Spring: Dieu Donne Papermill Workspace Residency Grant
1996: National Endowment for the Arts-Council on Arts Fellowship
1994: Jan Aronson and Edgar M. Bronfman Arts Program Award (co-recipient)
1989: Fulbright-Hays Award (Germany)
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Museum of Modern Art, New York
British Museum, UK
Victoria and Albert Museum, UK
The Fogg Museum, Harvard University
Yale University Art Museum
The New York Public Library
New York University Medical Center
Northern Illinois University Museum
Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, Iowa
Amerada Hess Corporation
Werner Kramarsky
PRESS
2024: Travelers, Liars, Thieves at Garrison, Art Spiel, Etty Yaniv
2024: In Their Studios: conversation with artist/writer Meg Hitchcock
2023: Italianità, The Essence of Being Italian, editor: Joanne Matera
2021: Beyond Definition, Visual Arts Journal, SVA, Diane McClure
2017: The Language of the Sari, The Hindu National, Priyadershini S
2017: Kochi-Muziris Biennale: In the Spirit of Enquiry, Kerala Review
2017: Indulge: Art in Kochi, New Indian Express, Arya P Dinesh
2016: One Question, One Answer, Art Journal RomanovGrave.com, Bonnie Rychlak
2015: Blues For Allah: Reflections on Patterns Across Time & Space, Muftah.org,
2014: Blues For Allah at Heskin Contemporary, Gallery Travels, Anne Russinof
2014: Margaret Lanzetta, Painting, Mockingbird Blog, Steve Gibson
2012: Margaret Lanzetta, Reign Marks, The Brooklyn Rail, Carol Schwarzman
2012: A Fes inspire des artistes new-yorkais, Diptyk Magazine, Syham Weigant
2012: Reign Marks, Babelfan blog, Rabat, Carine Adam-Destang
2012: Superb Art in the Fes Medina, View From Fes blog, Suzanna Clark
2011: Sneaky Funny in Ridgewood, Two Coats of Paint.com review, Sharon Butler
2010: A Postmodern Garden: The Work of Margaret Lanzetta, John Yau. Art Critical.com
2010: Ways To Leave Home catalogue essay by Judy Halebsky
2008: 560 Broadway: A New York Drawing Collection at Work, Amy Eshoo. editor
2006: Review: Global Pop: We ARE What We Buy, The Boston Globe, Cate McQuaid. Oct 12
2006: Review: Vapor Trail at Bernard Toale Gallery, M. Takahashi, ed., Hand Papermaking
2006: Prints Now, Directions and Definitions, Gill Saunders, Rosemary Miles, V&A Publications
2006: Review: Plane and Form, Minnesota Center for Arts, K. Searle, Hand Papermaking
2003: Collecting the Contemporary, Gill Saunders, V&A Museum, Art Libraries Journal UK
2002: Cosi La Mostra, Mario de Candia La Republica Rome June 20
2002: Unframed, Artists Respond to AIDS, forward by Manuel Gonzales
2000: Six Abstract Painters” The New York Times, Ken Johnson. July 29
2000: “Margaret Lanzetta at Deborah Berke Architects”, Zingmagazine, Carol Schwarzman
TEACHING and LECTURES
2023: University of Connecticut, Visiting Artist, MFA Department
2023: Eastern Connecticut College and St Joseph’s College, Ct Visiting Artist
2022: British Academy in Rome: Visiting Artist Talk
2019: National Museum of Bangkok, Thailand: Artist lecture and pop-up exhibition
2018: La Salle College of Art, Singapore: visiting artist
2017: National Institute of Fashion Technology, Kannur, India: visiting artist and lecturer
2017: TAOS, The Art Reach Society, Kochi, India: printmaking workshops
2015, 10: Pace University: visiting artist
2014: Elizabeth Foundation, New York, NY: Artist Talk: Contents May Have Shifted
2010: College of the Holy Cross: visiting artist
2008: University of Baroda and Institute of Art and Design, Jaipur, India: visiting artist
2006: Makor-Steinhardt Center, New York, NY: “Beauty’s Burden” panel, moderator: David Gibson
2005, 01, 00: Western Carolina University: professor, MFA Department
2002: Mount Holyoke College, Massachusetts: visiting artist residency
2002: University of Southern Maine: semester artist residency
1998: Parsons School of Design: adjunct faculty
1995: The Isamu Noguchi Museum, Long Island City: staff lecturer
OTHER EDUCATION
Kunstakademie Dusseldorf, Germany 1989-90
Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, Skowhegan, Maine 1981
Tyler School of Art, Rome, Italy 1978
Studio Art Center International, Florence, Italy 1977