Sandra Lerner



Biography

Born New York City
Lives and works in New York City and Sherman, Connecticut

Education
1981 Studied calligraphy and philosophy with Soshi Kampo Harada at Kampo Kaikan, Kyoto and Sumera, Japan
1978 BA, Hofstra University, NY
1977-60 Studied painting with Jerry Okimoto (1973-1977), Leo Manso (1965-1972), Harry Sternberg (1960-1964)
1968-66 Pratt Graphics Center, NY

Solo Exhibitions
2010 "Parallel Universes", June Kelly Gallery, essay by Phyllis Braff, New York
2005 "Mystic Realms", Washington Art Association Gallery, Washington, Connecticut
2004 "Mystic Realms", June Kelly Gallery, New York
2002 "Paintings", The Gallery at White Silo Farm, Sherman, CT
1999 "Empty and Full", June Kelly Gallery, New York
"Mountains and Mists", Kimberly Greer Gallery, Northport, CT
1997 "Light Reflections", Washington Art Association, Washington Depot, CT
1996 "Particle Physics", June Kelly Gallery, New York
1993 Kampo Museum, Kyoto, Japan
1992 "Mist Series", June Kelly Gallery, New York
1991 Kauffman Gallery, Houston, TX
1990 "The Sensibility of Transcendence", June Kelly Gallery, NY
1989 Dubins Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Pace University, Peter Fingesten Gallery of Fine Arts, New York
1986 Kauffman Gallery, Houston, TX
Dubins Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1984 Kampo Museum, Kyoto, Japan
Gallery Don, Fukuoka, Japan
Kauffman Gallery, Houston, TX
1983 Elaine Benson Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY
1982 "Inland Sea Series", Betty Parsons Gallery, New York
Burnside Gallery, Greenport, NY
1979 Elaine Benson Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY
1978 Louise Himelfarb Gallery, Watermill, NY
1977 Central Hall Gallery, Port Washington, NY
1977 SoHo Center for Visual Artists, New York
1977 "Five Year Retrospective", Nassau County Museum of Fine Arts, Roslyn, NY
1976 Central Hall Gallery, Port Washington, NY
1975 Pleiades Gallery, New York
1974 Central Hall Gallery, Port Washington, NY
1968 Mercer Gallery, New York

Group Exhibitions
2009 "Hidden Gems", June Kelly Gallery, N.Y.
"Spring Selections", Ober Gallery, Kent, Connecticut
2006 "Hunters and Gatherers, the Art of Collecting", The Shore Institute of Contemporary Art, Long Branch, New Jersey
2004 Art in Embassies Program, (Bangladesh), U.S. State Department, Washington, DC
1999 The National Association of Women Artists Collection at Rutgers: Recent Acquisitions, Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
1996 "A Woman's Place: The Central Hall Gallery in the 70s", Museum at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY
"A Woman's Place: Central Hall Gallery Artists in the 90s", Gallery North, Setauket, NY
1994 "June Kelly: A Particular Vision", Anderson Gallery, Buffalo, NY
1992 Perimeter Gallery, Chicago, IL
1991 Dubins Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
"Free Spirits", Elaine Benson Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY
1988 "Small Works", June Kelly Gallery, New York
1987 "Works on Paper", Dubins Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1987 Fundraiser Exhibit, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
1986 Fundraiser Exhibit, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
1985 Armstrong Gallery, New York
1984 Armstrong Gallery, New York
1985 Perri Renneth Gallery, Southampton, NY
Fukuoka Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
"Art of the 1970's and 80's", Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut
Perri-Rennth Gallery, Southampton, New York
1984 Tokyo Museum, Tokyo, Japan
1983 "Federation of Modern Painters and Sculptors", New York Cultural Center, NY
1982 "Miro in America", Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, curated by Barbara Rose and Judith McCandles
Fine Arts Museum of Long Island, curated by Eleanor Flomenhaft
1983 Guild Hall, East Hampton, NY
1982 Guild Hall, East Hampton, NY
1981 Heresies Fundraiser, New York
Striped House Museum, Tokyo, Japan
1981 "Acquisitions Plus", Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art. Ridgefield, Ct.
1980 NY Carlsberg Glyptotek Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark
1979 "Women Painters and Sculptors" Connecticut College, New London, Connecticut
New York State Capital, Albany, NY
1978 "Acquisitions Plus", Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art. Ridgefield, Ct.
1978 Sarah Campbell Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, Houston, TX
"Women Artists '78", The Graduate Center, City College of New York
1977 "Artists' Choice", Women in the Arts, Arts Museum, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
"Contemporary Issues, Works on Paper by Women", Randolph Macon College, College Art Association, Richmond, VA
"Works on Paper", York College, PA
"Artists' Choice", Lehigh College, PA
1976 "Paper Art", Central Hall Gallery, Port Washington, NY
"Contemporary Reflections", Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Ct.
1975 National Association of Women Artists, New York
1975 Guild Hall, East Hampton, NY
1975 Audubon Artists, New York
1974 National Association of Women Artists, New York
1974 Audubon Artists, New York
1974 Heckscher Museum, New York
C.W. Post Art Gallery, Greenvale, NY
City College of New York Art Gallery, "Women Artists, Award Winners"
1975 Brooklyn Museum, "Works on Paper", Brooklyn, NY
1973 National Academy of Design, New York
Pratt Graphic Center, New York
1973 National Association of Women Artists, New York
1972 National Arts Club, New York
1972 Audubon Artists, New York
1972 National Academy of Design, New York
Pratt Graphic Center, New York
1969 Heckscher Museum, Huntington, NY
1968 Heckscher Museum, Huntington, NY
Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY
New York University, NY
1966 National Academy of Design, New York
Pratt Graphic Center, New York
1965 Audubon Artists, New York
1963 Heckscher Museum, Huntington, NY

Prizes and Honors
1986-78 Consultant on the Arts, New York State Senate Special Committee on the Arts
1981 International Communications Agency Stipend to lecture in Japan
1978 Museum Purchase Grant, Aldrich Museum Acquisition, National Endowment for the Arts
1974 Purchase Award, Nassau Community College, Garden City, NY
1973 Anne Eisner Putnam Prize, National Association of Women Artists
1972 Benjamin Altman (Landscape) Prize, National Academy of Design, NY
Silvermine Guild, Hat Corporation of America Award for Painting, Norwalk, CT
Hat Corporation of America Award for Painting, Silvermine Guild, CT
1970 Purchase Award, Nassau Community College, Garden City, NY
1969 Heckscher Museum, Huntington, NY

Selected Public and Corporate Collections
Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
Heckscher Museum, Huntington, NY
Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
Kampo Museum, Kyoto, Japan
World Study Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
Martin Art Gallery, Muhlenberg College, Allentown, PA
Nassau Community College, Long Island, NY
Radford University, Radford, VA
Betty Parsons’ Collection
Brauner, Baron, Rosenzweig and Kligler, New York, New York
Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton, New York
Connally and Alterman, Houston, TX
Curtis H. Lamar Company, Inc., Houston, TX
Eighteenth Street Gallery, Houston, TX
First Texas Properties, Inc., Austin, TX
Gilliam Investments, Houston, TX
Hamptons Medical Group, Hampton Bays, NY
Lawyers Club, New York
Northern Trust Company, Newport, CA
Olla Corporation, LA
Peter B. Cannell & Co., Inc., New York
Porter & Clements, Houston, TX
Price Waterhouse, New York
Ralph Schlesinger Company. New York
Russtogs Corporation, New York
Shearman & Sterling, New York
Saint Lukes Hospital, Houston, TX
Texas American Bank, Houston, TX
3M Corporation, MN
Township of Wantagh, NY
Vantage Companies, LA
Vesti Corporation, Boston, MA
Walter and Samuels, Inc., New York
Wolfe & Company, Chicago, Illinois

Catalogues published for Solo Exhibitions
2004 Donald Kuspit, Mystic Realms, June Kelly Gallery, New York
1992 Donald Kuspit, Mist Series, June Kelly Gallery, New York
1990 Donald Kuspit, Sensibility of Transcendence, June Kelly Gallery, New York
1982 Lowery Stokes Sims, Inland Sea Series, Betty Parsons Gallery, New York

Reviews and Articles
Gladstone, Valerie, review, ARTnews, March 2000
Johnson, Ken, review, New York Times, December 24, 1999
Wallace, George, Through the Asian Mists: The Artistry of Sandra Lerner, The Northport Journal, September 16, 1999
Zimmer, William, Womenis Work, Not All Of It Ladylike, The New York Times, Janaury 24, 1999
The Litchfield County Times, interview by Alistair Highet, November 7, 1997
Citizen News, Section 1, Sherman artist Sandra Lerner Joins 2 Others in Art Show, October 29, 1997
Moorman, Margaret, review, ARTnews, October 1996
McCracken, David, review, Chicago Tribune, August 21, 1992
Dunning, Jennifer, dance review, New York Times, November 5, 1991
Kisselgoff, Anna, dance review, New York Times, November 7, 1991
Berman, Janice, review, New York Newsday, November 7, 1991
Tobias, Tobi, dance review, New York Magazine, November 25, 1991
Jowitt, Deborah, dance review, Village Voice, November 26, 1991
Johnson, Robert, Dance Magazine, review, November 1991
Ruhe, Barnaby, review, Art World, November 15, 1987
Wepman, Dennis, Sandra Lerner's Abstractions, Manhattan Arts, November 1987
Shirey, David, review, New York Times, June 20, 1982
Cecil, Sara, review, ARTnews, April 1982
Ferretti, Fred, review, New York Times, June 12, 1982
Natsios, Valerio, review, New York Art Journal, January 1982
Paris, Jeanne, review, Newsday, January 1982
Bourdon, David, A Critic's Diary, Summer Issue 1977, New York
Preston, Malcolm, Tao & Cubism, Newsday, April 30, 1976
Canady, John, It's Spring in Connecticut and New Talent Blooms, The New York Times, May 9, 1976
Tannenbaum, Judith, review, Arts Magazine, October 1975
Paris, Jeanne, review, Long Island Press, October 26, 1974
Paris, Jeanne, review, Long Island Press, December 29, 1974

Miscellaneous
1995 Slide image for ECHO, a dance commissioned by the Japan Society in celebration of Eiko & Koma's 20th anniversary in the United States. Funding for its creation was provided by the New York State Council on the Arts. It was developed at Art Awareness in Lexington, New York, during creative residencies made possible by the Dance Program of the National Endowment for the Arts.

LAND, performed by Eiko & Koma with stage set by Sandra Lerner, Jacob's Pillow, Massachusetts
1991 Designed and executed a stage set for LAND, a dance performance created, choreographed and performed by Eiko and Koma. LAND, a collaboration between Eiko and Koma, Sandra Lerner, and Native American composer Robert Mirabel was made possible by the Rockefeller Foundation's Multi-Arts Production Fund. Additional support was provided by the National Endowment for the Arts, The New York State Council on the Arts, the Greenwall Foundation, the Joyce Mertz-Gilmore Fund and Art Matters. Support provided by the Japan-U .S. Friendship Commission, the Sezon Foundation and the Asian Cultural Council made it possible for Eiko and Koma to present LAND at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Hiroshima, Japan.
   

Performances of LAND
1992 University of Nebraska, Lied Center, Lincoln, NE
Colorado College, Armstrong Theatre, Colorado Springs, CO
Kennedy Center, Terrace Theater, Washington Performance Art Society, Washington, DC
Boston Dance Umbrella, Majestic Theater, Boston, MA
Flynn Theater, Burlington, VT
1991 Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan
American Dance Festival, Duke University, NC
Brooklyn Academy of Music, Next Wave Festival, New York
Dance Umbrella Place Theatre, London, England
University Theatre, Cambridge, England
Dartmouth College, Hopkins Center, Hanover, NH
Art Awareness, Lexington, NY