Lesley Dill

Lesley Dill

Born: Bronxville, New York, 1950

Education:

1980:
Maryland Institute of Art, M.F.A.

1974:
Smith College, M.A.

1972:
Trinity College, B.A., cum laude

Solo Exhibitions:

2009:
"I Heard a Voice," organized by the Hunter Museum of
American Art, Tennessee.
Travelling to:
Smith College Museum of Art, Massachusetts (2009)
Museum of Fine Arts, Florida (2009)
Palmer Museum of Art, Pennsylvania (2010)
Arkansas Art Centre, Arkansas (2010)
Columbia Museum of Art, South Carolina (2010)

2007:
"Lesley Dill: Word Queens," Arthur Roger Gallery, Louisiana.
"Tremendous World," Neuberger Museum of Art, New York.

2006:
"A Fine Line," Castellani Art Museum, New York.
"Lesley Dill: New Work," George Adams Gallery, New York.
"I Heard as If I Had No Ear: Lesley Dill and Tom Morgan,"
Montalvo Arts Center, California.

2005:
"The Thrill Came Slowly, Prints & Multiples 1990-2005,"
organized by the George Adams Gallery, NY
Travelling to:
Sawhill Gallery, James Madison University,
Virginia (2006)
Prichard Gallery, University of Idaho, Idaho (2006)
Centre of Contemporary Arts, St. Louis (2007)

2004:
Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA

2003:
"Lesley Dill: Voice," Dwight Hackett projects, Santa Fe, NM

2002-2003:
"Lesley Dill: A Ten-Year Survey," organized by the Samuel
Dorsky Museum of Art, Suny, New Paltz.
Travelling to:
The Chicago Cultural Center
The CU Galleries, University of Colorado, Boulder
The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu
The Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art
The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC

2001:
"Lesley Dill: Tongues on Fire", organized by the
Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC
Travelling to:
Longwood Center for Visual Arts, Virginia (2002)

2000:
George Adams Gallery, New York, NY
"Tilt," Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA

1999:
"Lesley Dill," Weinstein Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
"Lesley Dill: New Cast Works," Byron C. Cohen Gallery,
Kansas City, KS

1998:
"A Secret Told," George Adams Gallery, New York, NY

1997:
"Language and Desire," Equinox Gallery, Vancouver, BC
"In Black & White," George Adams Gallery, New York, NY
"A Mouth Full of Words: Lesley Dill," Art Museum, University of
Memphis, Tennessee
Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA

1996:
Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
"Voices in the Air," Cohen Berkowitz Gallery, Kansas City, MO
George Adams Gallery, New York, NY
"Installation and Performance," Creteil Maison des Arts
"Banners and Figurative Sculpture," Susan Cummins Gallery, Mill
Valley, California
Equinox Gallery, Vancouver, BC
"Lesley Dill: The Poetic Body," The Orlando Museum of Art,
Orlando, FL

1995:
"Voices in My Head," George Adams Gallery, New York, NY
"Lesley Dill: An Installation", Gallery at Dieu Donne
Papermill,
New York, NY
"Lesley Dill: Nerves/Skin/Bones," Drawing Gallery,
Frumkin/Adams
Gallery, New York, NY
"Lesley Dill: Clothe My Naked Body," Quartet Editions, New
York, NY

1994:
Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA
Gracie Mansion Gallery, New York, NY
Jaffe Baker Gallery, Boca Raton, FL

1993:
"Body Language," Drawing Gallery, Frumkin/Adams Gallery,
New York, NY
"The Poetic Body," Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, MA
Sandler-Hudson Gallery, Atlanta, GA
"Dill, Dickson," Ann Jaffe Gallery, Miami, FL
Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LO

1992:
Queens Museum at Bulova, New York, NY
Sandler-Hudson Gallery, Atlanta, GA

1991:
Gracie Mansion Gallery, New York, NY
Carlo Lamagna Gallery, New York, NY

1985 1987:
G.H. Dalsheimer Gallery, Baltimore, MD

1987:
Galerie Taub, Philadelphia, PA

1983:
55 Mercer Street Gallery, New York, NY


Selected Group Exhibitions:

2001:
"Sculpture", Equinox Gallery, Vancouver, B.C.

1998:
"Addressing the Century: 100 Years of Art & Fashion",
Hayward Gallery, London, England, travelling to Kunstmuseum,
Wolfsburg,Germany
"Worst Case Scenario", a performance by Larry Goldhuber,
Heidi Latsky and Lesley Dill, Whitney Museum of American Art,
New York

1997:
"Text and Touch", The Art Gallery, Hunter College, New York
"Strong Spirits", The Fine Art Center Galleries, Bowling
Green State
University. Bowling Green, Ohio
"5th Anniversary Celebration: Contemporary Art from the
Frederick R.Weisman Collections", Frederick R.Weisman Museum of
Art, Pepperdine University, Malibu, Ca.
"READ: Text and Visual", Gallery A, Chicago
"A Show of Hands", George Adams Gallery, New York
"Art Foundry Editions Sante Fe", Knoedler & Company, New York
"Instinct and Intellect", Monique Knowlton Gallery, New York
"Text and Identity: 12 Women Artists", Staller Center for
the Arts,
Stony Brook, New York
"A Singular Vision: Prints from Landfall Press", Milwaukee
Museum of Art, Wisconsin; Museum of Modern Art, New York
"REAL(ist) Women", Selby Gallery, Ringling School of Art and
Design, Sarasota, Florida
"Suture", Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
"Mixing Business with Pleasure", Sawhill Gallery, James Madison
University, Harrisonburg, Virginia
"Facets of Contemporary Sculpture", Two Sculptors, Inc., New
York,
N.Y.
"Language as Object: Emily Dickinson and Contemporary Visual
Arts", Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, Massachusetts

1996:
"Well Worn Text", Columbia College Center for Book & Paper
Arts,
Chicago

1996-1997:
"Shirts and Skins: The Absent Figure in Contemporary Art", The
Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii
"A Millennium Celebration", The Fabric Workshop and Museum,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
"The Collector's Annual", Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock
"Images of Self: The Search for Identity Through Art",
Schick Art
Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York
"Art on Paper", Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North
Carolina", Greensboro

1995-1996:
"In the Flesh", Freedman Gallery, Albright College, Reading,
Pennsylvania; traveled to Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art,
Ridgefield, Connecticut
"The Outer Layer", New Jersey Center for Visual Arts,
Summit, N.J.
Group Exhibition, Lizard/Harp Gallery, Los Angeles, Ca.
"Hudson Valley Artists ?95: Domestic Policies", The College Art
Gallery at New Paltz, New York
"Arts and Letters", June Kelly Gallery, New York
"Paper View", Cohen Berkowitz Gallery, Kansas City, Mi.
"Women's Work : An Open Book", Harper Collins Exhibition
Space,
New York
"Essence and Persuasion: The Power of Black and White",
Anderson
Gallery, Buffalo
"Reinventing the Emblem", Yale University Art Gallery,
New Haven, Ct.
Group Exhibition, Hebrew Home for the Aged, Riverdale, N.Y.

1994:
"By a Hair's Breadth", Elsa Mott Ives Gallery, YWCA, New York
"Paper Doll: Social Template", Police Building, Organization of
Independant Artists
"Disembodied", Robert Hull Fleming Museum, University of
Vermont,
Burlington, Vt.
"Works for Young Collectors", The Lemberg Gallery, St.
Louis, Mi.
"5 Women Sculptors", sponsored by Organization of
Independent Artists at XI Valparalso Bienial, Chile
"Paint, Props & Process", Castle Gallery, College of New
Rochelle,
New York
"Material Concerns", The Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
"The Body Human", Nohra Haime Gallery, New York City
"Around the House", Frumkin/Adams Gallery, New York
"The Domestic Landscape"Painting, Sculpture & Art Furniture",
Monique Knowlton Gallery, Kent Station, Ct.
"Outside from Within: Paper as Sculpture", Rosenwald-Wolf
Gallery,
University for the Arts, Philadelphia, Pa.
"Figure as Fiction: The Figure in Visual Art and Literature",
Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Oh.

1993:
"10" x 10" x 10", TZ'ART, 28 Wooster, New York City
Nine Sculptors and Their Printer", Bernard Toale Gallery,
Boston,
Ma.
"Group Exhibition", Chamber l, New York City
"White Men in Suits", Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center,
Buffalo,
New York
"The Return of Cadavre Exquis", The Drawing Center, New York
City
"Addressing the Body", Patricia Shea Gallery, Santa Monica;
Terain
Gallery, San Francisco, Ca.
"The Rag Trade", Inter Art Center, New York City, curated by
Saul
Ostrow
"Idio Cognito", Organization of Independent Artists, at the
Police
Building, New York City, curated by Caroline Cox
"Empty Dress: Clothing as Surrogate in Recent Art",Neuberger
Museum, I.C.I., curated by Nina Felshin
"Spirit House", Wilie Birch Installation, Sculpture Center,
New York City
"Fall from Fashion", Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, Ct.,
curated by
Barry Rosenberg
"Regarding Masculinity", Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, La.
"Table Top Sculpture", Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York
"International Paper Show", Hand Paper Maker's Association,
Montreal, Canada
"Group Exhibition", Rosa Esman Gallery, New York City
"American Art Today: Clothing as Metaphor", The Art Museum at
Florida International Univesity, Miami, Fl.
"Songs of Retribution", Richard Anderson Gallery, New York
City,
curated by Nancy Spero
"Paper", Fawbush Gallery, New York City, curated by Kiki Smith
"Transparency", Luise Ross Gallery, New York City
"Body and Soul", Philippe Staib Gallery, New York City

1992:
"The Word-Image in Contemporary Art", Kean College, New Jersey,
curated by Lewis Kachur
"War", Trenkmann Gallery, New York City
"Sense and Sensibility", Solo Press, New York City, curated by
Nancy Princenthal
"FASHION", Trenkmann Gallery, New York City

1991:
"Bronze", Frumkin/Adams Gallery, New York City
"Cheap Theatrics", Prudential Life Insurance, New
Jersey,curated by
S.K. Duff
"Burning in Hell", Franklin Furnace, New York City, curated
by Nancy
Spero
"American Art Today: New Directions", Florida International
University, Miami, Florida, curated by Dahlia Morgan
"Stark Contrast", Trenkmann Gallery, New York City

1990:
"Sense of Self", Triplex Gallery, Manhattan Community College,
New York City, curated by Grace Knowlton
"Sculptor's Drawings", The East Hampton Center for Contemporary
Art, Long Island, New York
"The Art of Drawing", Lehman College, The City University of
New York, New York City
"World AIDS Day", Manhattan Community College, New York City
"Sculpture Faculty", Parsons School of Design, New York City
"Landscape/Mindscape", Carlo Lamagna Gallery, New York City
"Small Works - Cast Iron", Sculpture Center, New York City
"Life Before Art: Images From the Age of AIDS", Carlo Lamagna
Gallery, New York City

1989:
"Collector's Choice", Center for the Arts, Vero Beach, Fl.
"Ground Works", Valencia Community College, Valencia, Fl.
"Lines of Vision: Drawings by Contemporary Women",
Hillwood Art Gallery, Long Island University, Brookville,
New York and Blum Helman Gallery, New York City
(exhibition toured throughout the country)

1988:
"Embodiments", Brattleboro Museum and Art Center,
Brattleboro,Vt.
"Figure It Out", Helander Gallery, Palm Beach, Fl.
"Seeing the Figure", Midtown Galleries, New York City

1987:
"Don't Knock Wood", Helander Gallery, Palm Beach, Fl.
"Art for Your Collection", Rhode Island School of Design,
Providence, R.I.
"The Human Form", The Spiritual Vision", Alexander Wood
Gallery,
New York City
"Collector's Choice", Center for the Arts, Vero Beach, Fl.
"Third Inaugural Exhibition", Carlo Lamagna Gallery, New
York City
"On Paper", G.H. Dalsheimer Gallery, Baltimore, Md.
"The Interior Self: Three Generations of Expressionists View
the
Human Image", Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, N.J.

1986:
"Traps: Elements of Psychic Seduction", Carlo Lamagna Gallery,
New York City
"New Work/New York", Helander Gallery, Palm Beach, Fl.
"Perfect", Paulo Salvador Gallery, New York City
"Two Person Show", de Facto Salon, New York City

1985:
"Anadromous", Michael Katz Gallery, New York City
"Selections 28", The Drawing Center, New York City and de Facto
Salon, New York

1984:
"Drawings by Contemporary American Figurative Artists", Robert
and Jane Meyerhoff Gallery, Maryland Institite of Art,
Baltimore, Md.
"Fall Show", Condeso/Lawler Gallery, New York City and the
Michael
Katz Gallery, New York City
"l0 Downtown", Virtual Garrison Gallery, New York City and
Alto de
Chavon, Dominican Republic

1983:
"Small Works", Zaner Gallery, Rochester, New York City

1982:
Group Exhibition, Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, N.J.

1981:
"The Positive Show", ABC No Rio, New York City
5 From New York", Fax Fallery, Maryland Art Institute of Art,
Baltimore, Md.

Articles and Exhibition Reviews:

Carlson, Donna, "White Men in Suits", Art Voice Buffalo,
Nov. l7--17-
30
Cotter, Holland, "Paper", New York Times, July 31, 1992
Cullum, Jerry, "At Sandler-Hudson, Anderson and Dill
Meditate on
Mortality", Atlanta Journal/The Atlanta Constitution,
March, 1992
Dorsey, John, "Emotion...", The Sun, December 1, 1989
"Expressions of Human Emotion", The Sun, November 6, 1987
Dreishspoon, Doug, "New Bronze Sculpture", Art News, March 1992
Frank, Peter, "Utopian Dialogues. Addressing the Body", Kerria
Peterson, L.A. Weekly,Nov. 5-11, 1993
Garber, Jon, "Poetry in Motion", The Oracle, October 26, 1993
Henry, Gerrit, "Seeing the Figure, Art News, May, 1988
Hirsch, David, "AIDS Challenging Art", The New York Native,
January 29, 1990Huntington, Richard, "Wearing Thin",
The Buffalo News, November 26, 1993
Jinker-Lloyd, Amy, "Hands and Prose", Creative Loafing, #38,
Vol.
21, February 13, 1993
Kohen, Helen, "In This Exhibit", Clothes Make the Art", The
Miami
Herald, January 10, 1993
Levin, Kim, "Songs of Retribution", The Village Voice,
February 9,
1993
Mzaumdar, Subra, "Art Times Again", City Scan, August, 1992,
New
Delhi, India
Sengupta, Ratnottama, "Art", The Times of India, July 17, 1992,
New Delhi, India
Sheldon, Louise, "Lesley Dill's Sculpture are Sensual and
Spiritual",
The Baltimore Chronicle, January 3, 1990
Smith, Nancy, "Empty Dress, Loaded Images", Ms. Magazine, Nov.-
Dec., 1993, p.81 Slivka, Rose, "From the Studio", The East
Hampton
Star, November 15, 1990
Sozanski, Edward J., "Neo-Promitives: Into the Realm of Raw
Emotion", Philadelphia Enquirer, April 4, 1985
Stapen, Nancy, "Translating Experience: Art of Words and
Spirit",
The Boston Globe, October 21, 1993
Taplin, Robert, "Lesley Dill at George Adams", Art in America,
march 1996, p. 100
Turner, Elisa, "Dickinson Poems Become Sculpture", The Miami
Herald, February 17, 1993
Zimmer, William. "The Public and Private in Robust
Dialogue", New
York Times, October 28, 1990
"Expressionism Across Generations at Montclair Museum", New
York
Times, March 29, 1987
"Sculpture at Two Displays in Wayne", New York Times, New
Jersey,
December 5, 1993, Illus.
"Lesley Dill at George Adams", Review of Exhibitions, nancy
Princenthal, Art In America, March, 2004



Exhibition Catalogues:

Brattleboro, Vermont, Brattlebora Museum and Art Centre,
"Embodiments". Text by Janie Cohen, Brattleboro, 1988
Bronx, New York, Lehman College Art Gallery, The City
University
of New York,
"The Art of Drawing". Text by Jane Farver. Bronx, 1990
Brookville, New York, Hillwood Art Gallery, Long Island
University.
"Lines of Vision: Drawings by Contemporary Women". Text by
Judy Van Wagner Collischan, Brookville, 1989
East Hampton, New York. East Hampton Center for Contemporary
Art. "Sculptors' Drawings". Text by Jennifer Cross, East
Hampton,
1990 Miami, Florida. Art Museum at Florida International
University.
"American Art Today: New Directions". Text by Eleanor
Heartney,
Miami, 1991Miami, Florida. Art Museum at Florida International
University.
"American Art Today:Clothing as Metaphor". Text by Kay
Larson.
Miami,
1993 New York, New York. Manhattan Community College, Triplex
Gallery.
"Sense of Self". Text by Grace Knowlton. New York, 1990
New York, New York. The Police Building, Organization of
Independent Artists.
"Idio Cognito". Text by Nancy Princardhal. New York, New
York,
1993
Ridgefield, Connecticut. The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary
Art.
"Fall from Fashion". Text by Richard Martin. Ridgefield, 1993
Union, New Jersey. Kean College, James Howe Gallery.
"The Word-Image in Contemporary Art". Text by Lewis Kachur.
Union, 1992 Upper Montclair, New Jersey, Montclair State
College,
Montclair State Art Galleries.
"The Interior Self: Three Generations of Expressionists View
the
Human Image". Text by April Kingsley. Upper Montclair, 1987

Grants and Awards:

1996 Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant
1995 New York Foundation for the Arts, Drawing - Printmaking
1992 Project Residency Award, Hillwood Art Museum and New
York State Council on Arts
1990 National Endowment for the Arts, Sculpture Fellowship
1984 Artist-in-Residence, Altos de Chavon, Dominican Republic
1983 Zaner Corporation Purchase Award from "Small Works
?83", Patterson Sims, curator

Public Collections:

Achenbach Foundation, M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, San
Francisco, Ca.
Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock
Art Institute of Chicago
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Elvehjern Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Florida International University, Miami, Fl.
Greenville Country Museum of Art, South Carolina
High Museum, Atlanta
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art and Design, Kansas City,
Missouri
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, New York
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio
Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, Florida
Progressive Corporation, Mayfield Heights, Ohio
The Prudential Insurance Company of America, Newark, New Jersey
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island
Spencer Museum, University of Kansas, Lawrence
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Lewis Collection, Richmond
Whitney Museum of American Art
Yale University Art Museum, New Haven
Zaner Corporation, Rochester, New York