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Donald Lipski
Lives and works in Philadelphia, PA.
Education

1970    BA, University of Wisconsin, Madison; American History

1973    MFA, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Michigan

Awards 2000     The Rome Prize, American Academy in Rome

1993     Academy Award, American Academy of Arts and Letters

1990     National Endowment For the Arts (Sculpture)

1988     Guggenheim Fellowship

1984     National Endowment For the Arts (Sculpture)

             New York Foundation on the Arts Fellowship

             Awards in the Visual Arts

1978     National Endowment For the Arts (Conceptual Art)

1965     Scholastic Art Award

 

Public Commissions 2010    Psyche, Auraria Campus, Denver, CO

            Jackson, Reno, Nev, –Regional Bus Terminal

2009     The Ziz, Goodyear Ball Park, Goodyear, AZ

            F.I.S.H., The River Walk, San Antonio, TX

2008    Cowcatcher, Sparks, Nev. –Regional Bus Terminal

            The Tent, Indianapolis

2007    The Doors, City of  Scottsdale, AZ

            Leaves of Grass, Levine Children's Hospital, Charlotte, NC

2006     The Lorelei Club  Minneapolis Central Library

2005     Nails' Tales  University of Wisconsin

            Intimate Apparel & Pearl Earrings  Fort Worth Convention Center

            Sylvia, Arthur  City of Chicago

2004     Got Any Jacks?  Miami International Airport

2003     Five Easy Pieces, Washington DC Convention Center

2001     Tools,  Wellington Webb Municipal Building, Denver, Colorado

2000     Rodin Rodannadanna, Avenue of the Arts, Kansas City

             Sirshasana, Grand Central Market, Grand Central Terminal, New York City

1997     The Yearling, Doris Friedman Plaza, Central Park, sponsored by The Public                            Art, Fund, New York.

                           The Yearling now resides at the Denver Public Library

             The LaGuardia Suite, Concert Hall, La Guardia High School for Music and                              Art, New York

  Public Commissions in Progress Community College of Philadelphia, –Completion date – 2012

Houston, Water Works Museum, –Completion date – 2012

Atlanta- Maynard Holbrook Jackson International Terminal-Completion date—2012

Sacramento Airport – Completion date-2011

San Diego Public Library -Completion date—2012

San Antonio Airport – Completion date-2012

El Monte, CA, Metro Bus Terminal –Completion date--2011

Public Collections Asian American Art Center, New York, NY

Brooklyn Museum, New York, NY

Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, IL

Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH

Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH

Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO

Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit, MI

Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN

Jewish Museum, New York, NY

Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis, MI

Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL

Menil Collection, Houston, TX

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Minneapolis Museum of Fine Art, Minneapolis, MN

Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL

Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX

Museum of Modern Art, Miami, FL

New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA

North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC

Raymond Nasher Sculpture Collection, Dallas, TX

Panza Collection, Italy

Phoenix Museum of Art, Phoenix, Arizona

Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, California

Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York

Witherspoon Museum of Art, Greensboro, NC

Yale University Art Gallery

Individual Exhibitions 2007    Spilt Milk, Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston, TX.

2005    Byron Cohen Gallery, Kansas City, Mo.

2004    Non-Fiction  Galerie Lelong, NY

            Books, Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston

2002    Donald Lipski, New Works, Miami Art Museum, Miami

            Marvels from the Exquisite Copse, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY

2001    Donald Lipski, Ah-Roma, American Academy in Rome, Rome, Italy

2000    Donald Lipski: A Brief History of Twine, Madison Art Center, Madison,                     Wisconsin. Traveled to Blaffer Gallery- The Art Museum of the University of                     Houston, Chicago Cultural Center

1999    Donald Lipski Bawag Foundation, Vienna, Austria (Dec 16, 1999- Feb 27, 2000)

1998    Donald Lipski, Book Works, 1982‑1997 John Gibson Gallery, NY; (also 2000)

            Barbara Davis, Houston, TX (also 2000, 2004)

1997    Donald Lipski: Pond Life, Ambrosino Gallery, Miami, Florida

             Donald Lipski: The Yearling, Central Park, The Public Art Fund of New York.

Donald Lipski: Sculpture, Cohen Berkowitz Gallery for Contemporary Art,              

Kansas City, Missouri

1996   

1995    Donald Lipski, Galerie Lelong, Paris

            Donald Lipski, Galleria Il Ponte, Roma, Italy

            Donald Lipski, Piero Cavellini, Brescia, Italy

            Donald Lipski: The Humidors, LaumeierSculpture Park, St. Louis, Missouri

            Donald Lipski, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco

1994    Oral History, South Eastern Contemporary Arts Center, Winston‑Salem, NC

            Donald Lipski: Sculpture, Tim Hill Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan (also 1998)

1993    Wave (installation), Allen Center Gallery, Houston, TX

            Pieces of String Too Short to Save, Grand Lobby installation, The Brooklyn                  Museum, NY

            The Starry Night, CappStreet Project, San Francisco, California

            Donald Lipski, Johson Community College, New York

1992    Galerie Lelong, New York City (also 1994, 2000, 2003)

            Americas, Monasterio de Santa Clara, Moguer (Huelva)

            The Bells, P.S. 1, Long Island City, November 8 ‑ January 10, 1993

1991    Robert Lehman Gallery, New York Experimental Glass Workshop, Brooklyn, NY

            The Bells, The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio

            Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio.

            Anselino Alvarez Galerie de Arte, Madrid, Spain

1990    Evenston Art Center, Evenston, Illinois.

            Donald Lipski: Poetic Sculpture, Freedman Gallery, Albright College, Reading,                  PA. Traveled to University Galleries, Normal, IL; Otis Art Institute, Los  

                Angeles; Honolulu Academy of Arts; Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY;                  Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art.

            Waterlilies, Lennon/ Weinberg Gallery, New York City.

            Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York City.

            Donald Lipski: Glass. New York Experimental Glass Workshop, Brooklyn, NY

            Who's Afraid qf Red, White, & Blue?, The Fabric Workshop; The Philadelphia                  College of Art; & Beaver College, Philadelphia; The Corcoran Gallery of Art,                  Washington, D.C.

            Lorence Monk Gallery, New York City

1989    Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, Massachusetts

1987    Dorothy Goldeen Gallery, Santa Monica, California. (also 1989, 1993)

            Galerie Pierre Huber, Geneva, Switzerland.

            Center on Contemporary Art, in cooperation with Boeing International, Seattle

            Broken Wings, Hillwood Art Gallery, C.W. Post College, Long Island Univ.,                     Brookville, NY

1986    Edward Totah Gallery, London, England

1985    University of Delaware, University Gallery, Newark, Delaware.

            New Orleans Museum of Contemporary Art, New Orleans, Louisiana.

            Carpenter & Hochman Gallery, Dallas, Texas

1984    Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, Illinois. (also 1986, 1988, 1991, 2001)

            Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, California.

            P.B. van Voorst van Beest Gallery, The Hague, Netherlands

1983    Germans van Eck Gallery, New York City. (also 1985, 1987, 1988)

            Anders Tornberg Gallery, Lund, Sweden. (also 1987, 1992)

1982    Portland Center for the Visual Arts, Portland, Oregon

1981    Braathen‑Gallozzi Gallery, New York City.

            Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, California

1980    Fort Worth Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas.

            Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

1979    Museum of Modem Art, New York City.

            Anthology Film Archives, New York City

1978    Artists Space, New York City.

            Anthology Film Archives, New York City

1977    Delahunty Gallery, Dallas, Texas

1976    MacAlaster Galleries, St. Paul, Minnesota

1975    Everson Museurn of Art, Syracuse, New York

1974    Contemporary Arts Foundation, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Selected Group Exhibitions

1977    X International Encounter on Video, Tokyo, Japan.

1978    Atlanta Film Festival. High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia.

1981    Seven Artists. Neuberger Museum, State University of New York at Purchase, Purchase, NY

            Stay Tuned. The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York City.

            Art on the Beach. Creative Time, Inc., New York City.

            The Artists at Work in America. Varna, Bulgaria. The Intn. Communications             Agency, U.S.State Department.

1982    15 Artists. Cranbrook Academy of Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.

1983    Grace Borgenicht Gallery, New York City.

            Language, Drama, Source and Vision. The New Museum of Contemporary                   Art, NY

            Awards Exhibition. The American Academy and Institute of Arts & Letters,                    New York City.

1984    Twelve on 20 x 24. School of the Boston Museum of Fine Art, Boston, MA.                    Traveled.

            The End of the World. The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York

            Awards in the Visual Arts 3.San Antonio Art Museum, Texas. Traveled

            Premio Internacional de Escultura. Museo Orensanz y Artes del Serrable,                     Spain.

1985    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozartt‑Neue Bilder. Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg.

            Working in Brooklyn/Sculpture. The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY.

            Selections from the Collection of William J.Hokin. Museum of Contemporary                      Art, Chicago, IL.

1986    Joseph Cornell and His Legacy: Part II. A.C.A. Galleries, New York City.

             Donald Lipski, Matt Mullican, Kiki Smith. The Clocktower, New York.

1988    Sculpture/Aspen 88. Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, Colorado.

            Sculpture Inside/Outside. Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Traveled

           The Objects of Sculpture. Chicago Arts Club, Chicago, Illinois.

1989   Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, New York.

           Clockworks. List Visual Arts Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,                     Cambridge, MA

           Arts Festival of Atlanta, Piedmont Park

1990   Corcoran Gallery of Art, Wash., D.C. Two person show with Buzz Spector.

           National Garden Festival, Gateshead, England.

1991   Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City.

            Le Verre, International Exhibition of Contemporary Glass, Espace                      Duchamp‑Villon, Rouen, France.

1992   Eva & Adele, Christian Boltanski, Barbara Kruger, Donald Lipski, Allan                      McCollum, Bruce Nauman, Galleri Faurschou, Copenhagen.

1993    Simply Made in America, The Aldrich Museum, CT. Exhibition. Traveled

            Annual Invitational Exhibition, American Academy of Arts and Letters, NY

            Annual Summer Exhibition, Wånas Castle, Sweden

1994    Old Glory: The American Flag in Contemporary Art, Cleveland Center for                      Contemporary Art

1996    The Northeast, curated by Marcia Tucker,

                      The White House Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC,

1997   Neuberger Museum of Art Biennial Exhibition of Public Art, State University of                       New York, Purchase

            20/20: CAF Looks Forward and Back, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts                       Forum, California

            Recent Glass Sculpture: A Union of Ideas, Milwaukee Art Museum,                       Milwaukee,Wisconsin

           Hanging By a Thread, The Hudson Museum, Yonkers, NY

1999    Drip, Blow, Burn: Forces of nature in Contemporary Art,The Hudson           Museum, Yonkers, NY

2000    Pleasure Treasure:From the Collections of Eileen & Peter Norton, California           State Univ., LosAngeles,

2002    Five by Five: Contemporary Artists on Contemporary Art,

                      Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris

            The 177th Annual National Academy of Design, National Academy of Design     

                       Museum

2004    North Fork-South Fork, The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY

            Bottle: Contemporary Art and Vernacular Tradition,  Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum

2005    Life Understood Hill Gallery, Birmingham, Mi.

            Material Terrain, Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis (traveled)

            Now and Then: Opening Bloom, Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston, TX

            Dual Vision, Museum of Arts & Design, NYC

            City Art,  Center for Architecture, New York, New York

2006    Big Juicy Paintings, Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL

            Furniture as Metaphor: Contemporary Sculpture and the Poetics of Domesticity, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas

            The Emergent Garde: Engulfed,  Gulf Coast Museum of Art, Largo, Florida

2007    Simply Red,  The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA

            Tools as Art: The Hechinger Collection,  Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY

            New Media/New Materials,  Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio

2008    Points of Convergence: Masters of Fine Arts, The Gallery, UT Arlington, Texas

Sand: Memory, Meaning, and Metaphor, The Parish Art Museum,

            Southampton, NY

Ithaca Collects, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary, Museum of Arts and Design, NYC

Dialog: City, Denver, Colorado; In Conjunction with the Democratic National                         Convention

2009    INTERPLAY:Art*Audience*Architecture, Perelman Center for Advanced                         Medicine, Philadelphia, PA

            Favorites from the Contemporary Glass Collection, Corning Museum of Glass,                         Corning, New York

            Civic Duty: Building Art, Building Houston,” Houston Center for the Arts,                         Houston, Texas

            Walls, Floors and Ceiling, Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinatti, Ohio

2010    Pleasure Point: Celebrating 25 Years of Contemporary Collectors, Museum of

                        Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego, CA

Designing Art for the Sacramento International Airport

            Center For Contemporary Art, Sacramento

            The Facebook Show   Museum of New Art, Rochester, MI., also online

            The Art of the Artist’s Book, Oakland University Art Gallery, Oakland                          Rochester, MI

            Normal Editions Workshop Collaborative: Prints, 1976-2008, Lancaster                         Museum  of Art;  Lancaster, PA (traveled)

2011    Anatomy/Academy, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, Philadelphia, PA

            Plenitude, Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston, TX

2012    Eye on a Century: Modern and Contemporary Art from the Charles B. Benenson                          Collection, Yale University Art Gallery