RESUME


SANDY STRAUS


paintings, drawings, pastels, public works,


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EDUCATION
Art Institute of Chicago, BFA, 1976


SELECTED PUBLIC WORKS

2007       Pathways,Real & Imagined, Byrdcliff,Woodstock,NY (catalogue)
1992   Prejudice Beat It(Billboard),NYC,The Bronx,Brooklyn
1990      Patrick Buchanan Poster, NYC
1989      Billie Boggs Billboard, Detroit, Michigan
1988      Billie Boggs Billboard, NYC
1987      Jessica Hahn Mural, The Tunnel, NYC

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2006      

Cover Girls and Other Whims
Ellenville Library and Museum, Ellenville,NY

2004   Framed, Gallery Onetwentyeight, NYC
Everything, National Arts Club, NYC
2003       Everything, Teddy's, Brooklyn, NY (curated by Kozuko Miyamoto)
1998      I Arose, National Arts Club, NYC
1996      St Peters Church
1995      Flowers and Their Shadows, AIR Gallery, NYC
1987      Recent Crimes, Sensory Evolution Gallery, NYC
1986      Painted Crimes, Sensory Evolution Gallery, NYC
1985      Fashion Moda, The Bronx, NY, (curated by Stephan Eins and Joe Lewis)
1984      Special Projects, P.S. One Museum, Long Island City, NY (curated by Richard Flood)
1983      Germans vanEck Gallery, 420 West Broadway, NYC
1982      55 Mercer, NYC
1980      Marianne Deson Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
1976      Smart Museum, University of Chicago, (curated by Catherine Lee)
1975      Page Pieces, AIR Gallery, Chicago, Illinois


SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

           Paths, Real and Imagined, Byrdcliffe, Woodstock, NY
           Billboard Art, Mass MOCA
            American Women Artists, Museo de Arte Contemp., SaoPaulo, Brazil
            Documenta, Kassel, Germany
            New Visions, Germans vanEck, Gallery, NYC
            Ten Years, Artemisia Gallery, Chicago (catalogue)
            Intuition and The Block Print, John Nichols, NYC (catalogue)
            Little Works by Big Thinkers, Bess Cutler Gallery, NYC
            HOHOHO Show, Kamikaze, NYC (curated by Steven Style)
            Artists Objects, Suzan Cooper Gallery, NYC
            Summer Studios, Lake George Art Center, NY (catalogue)
            A Fete of Women, NY State Museum, Albany, NY
            University Club of Chicago
            Madison Art Center, Madison, Wisconsin
            Preparatory Notes, Thinking Drawings, NYU, NYC
            Bologna Art Fair, Bologna, Italy
            The Cow Show, Ft. Edwards Art Center, NY
            Animal Life, Erickson Gallery, NYC

SELECTED PRIVATE AND PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

National Arts Club
The Actors Institute
Mars Steel Corp.
       Elena/Will Barnet
John Bergman
Margit Pearson
       Jean Louis Bourgeois
Joe Fawbush/Tom Jones
Anthony Haden-Guest

Blake Benton
Bretta Lundell

 

 

Trudy CraneyGermans
Jerry Wenzel

       Mortala Diop, Dakar, Senega
Gail/Mike Riklin

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Whose Who in American Art
Whose Who in America
Newsweek Magazine (photo)
France Soir (photo)
NY Post (photo)
Village Voice
             NY Times
Kuala Lampur Times (photo)
Arts Magazine (photo)
Art Forum (photo)
NY Daily News (photo)
Omaha world Hereald (photo)
Schalfzimmer, Herlinde Koelbl, Knesebeck Publishers (photo)
New York Confidential, Sharon Churcher, Crown Publishers (photo)


MEMBERSHIPS
Artists Fellowship
National Arts club
Heresies Collective

AWARDS
1998/1999 National Arts Club First Prize, 100th Annual Exhibiting Artists Exhibition
2001/2001 National Arts Club, First Prize, 102nd Annual Exhibiting Artists Exhibition
2006 Residency Cial Reillig , Balinskill, Ireland

2007 Catherine Lorillard Prize, National Arts Club

COMMENTS
I I am thankful every day for my vision and my ability to execute that vision.


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