ELISA LENDVAY

Lives and works in New York.

EDUCATION

The Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, Bard College, MFA in Sculpture, Annandale-On-Hudson, NY, 2006

The University of Texas at Austin, Bachelor of Fine Arts, 1998

Bennington College, Bennington, VT, 1993-1995


SELECTED SOLO AND TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2021
Beatrice M. Haggerty Gallery, Meridian: Sara Cardona and Elisa Lendvay, Dallas, TX

2019
Sargent's Daughters, Elisa Lendvay / Rise, New York, NY

Underdonk, These Seeds Breathe, Elisa Lendvay and Osamu Kobayashi, Brooklyn, NY

2018
Underdonk Gallery, Elisa Lendvay: Fusiform, Ruffled Waves. Brooklyn, NY

2017
Giampietro Gallery, Under the Apple Tree, Elisa Lendvay and Becky Yazdan, New Haven, CT

2016
Giampietro Gallery, Power Boothe and Elisa Lendvay, New Haven, CT

2013
Giampietro Gallery, Moon of the Moon, New Haven, CT

2012
Jason McCoy Gallery, Elisa Lendvay: Small Sculptures, NYC

2009
V&A, Force of Things, NYC

2007
Moti Hasson Gallery, Fabled Agents, NYC

2003
Lago Vista Gallery, Richland College, Accretions, Dallas, TX


SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2023
Underdonk, A Donkade, Brooklyn, NY


VERSE Work/Shop, Talk Shop 3.0, Red Hook , NY

Tappeto Volante, Library, Brooklyn, NY

Marist College, Faculty Exhibit, Poughkeepsie, NY

Canvas and Clothier, American Patchwork, Poughkeepsie, NY

KIPNTZ, Home Jams, Walton, NY

Peep Space, Flat File 2023, Tarrytown, NY

Glenlily Grounds 2023, annual outdoor sculpture and installation exhibition in Newburgh, NY 


2022
Dorsky Museum, The Material, The Thing, curated by Nichole Hayes, New Paltz, NY 

Schelfhaudt Gallery, Paier College, Any Way I See it, curated by Steve Myketin, Bridgeport, CT 

Undercroft Gallery, Church of thr Heavenly Rest, Invisible Attraction, curated by Michael Lee, NYC

Underdonk, Sunsets, Brooklyn, NY

2021
Form + Image, She Dances Like a Bomb, Santa Fe, NM

Hudson House, Phase 4, curated by Jesse Aran Greenberg, Hudson, NY

Albany International Airport, Sunrise Sunset, Albany, NY

Amenia Crossroads Studios, North of the Wall, in conjunction with Upstate Art Weekend, Amenia, NY

Mohonk Arts Invitational I: Fantasy, Mohonk Arts, High Falls, NY

Glenlily Grounds 2021, annual outdoor sculpture and installation exhibition in Newburgh, NY

2020
Jason McCoy Gallery, From Dark to Light, Artsy, NYC

SK Art, Sounds Sienna, NYC

Underdonk, Purple, Brooklyn, NY

2019
Ratio 3, Duck or Doorknob, curated by Noam Rappaport, San Francisco, CA

Dorsky Museum, Madness in Vegetables, curated by Alyson Baker and Candice Madey, New Paltz, NY

The Re institute, Earthly Delights, curated by Julie Torres, Ellen Letcher, Susan Jennings, Millerton, NY

White Columns, 2019 White Columns Benefit Auction Exhibition, NYC

Sardine Gallery, Freehand, curated by Angela Conant, Brooklyn, NY

2018
White Columns Online, Wordholes, curated by Jesse Greenberg

LABspace, Colorforms: Elisa Lendvay, Elisa Soliven, Hannah Foster and Susan Scott, curated by Julie Torres, Hillsdale, NY

Giampietro Gallery, New Geometry II, New Haven, CT

Glenlily Grounds 2018, Outdoor Sculpture Exhibit, Newburgh, NY

Garrison Art Center, Smallworks, selected by Christina Kee, Garrison, NY

LABspace, True North, curated by Julie Torres, Hillsdale, NY

Vicki, Vicki Vermicelli and Friends, Ridgewood, Queens, NY

2017
Underdonk, The Giving Body, Brooklyn, NY

Matteawan Gallery, post-magic-symbiosis, Beacon, NY

583 Park Avenue, Sculpture Installation for NYFA Hall of Fame Benefit, NYC

Glenlily Grounds 2017, Outdoor Sculpture Exhibit, Newburgh, NY

Act 1, organized by Kristen Dodge & Dawn Breeze, Hudson Hall, Hudson, NY

Hygienic Gallery, Object and Influence, organized by Jason Silva, New London, CT

2016
Underdonk, Onion by the Ocean, Organized by Essye Klempner and Elisa Soliven, Brooklyn, NY

TSA, Drawing for Sculpture, curated by Courtney Puckett, Brooklyn, NY

Sardine at Atlas, Silent Shout, Curated by Lacey Fekishazy, Newburgh, NY

Glenlily Grounds 2016, annual outdoor sculpture and installation exhibition in Newburgh, NY

Lorimoto, Till Death do Us Part, Ridgewood, NY

Perimeter Gallery, Bodies, curated by Ilse Murdock, Belfast, ME

2015
George Segal Gallery, Faculty 2015 Department of Art and Design, curated by John Rasmussen, Director and Curator at the American University Museum, Montclair State University, NJ

Lesley Heller Workspace, Object’hood, curated by Inna Babaeva and Gelah Penn, NYC

Glenlily Grounds 2015, annual outdoor sculpture and installation exhibition in Newburgh, NY

Howard Payne University, I-10, National Exhibition of Contemporary Two-Dimensional Art, curated by Christopher Schade, Brownwood, TX

2014
Asya Geisberg Gallery, About a Mountain, curated by Holly Jarrett, NYC

Jason McCoy Gallery, Domesticity, curated by Stephanie Buhmann and Samantha McCoy, NYC

Orgy Park, Alone Together, Elisa Lendvay and Adrian Ting, Bushwick, NY

Rare Gallery, Quiet Please, NYC

Glenlily Grounds 2014, annual outdoor sculpture and installation exhibition in Newburgh, NY

Underdonk Studio, Improvised Showboat #3, Brooklyn, NY

The Bruce High Quality Foundation, The Last Brucennial, NYC

Underdonk, Underdonk Selects, Brooklyn, NY

HKJB, Genesis Forward Battery, Ridgewood, NY

Bantom Switch Factory,Your Spirit Don’t Leave Knowing, Bantom, CT

2013
Nurture Art, The Order of Things, curated by Jamillah James, Bushwick, NY

HD Projects, In Denial, Black Bile, Curated by Nicole O’Rourke, NYC

Brooklyn Parlor, Parlor Antics, NY

2012
Kansas Gallery, Cheat Chains and Telephone, NYC

Clifford Art Gallery, Colgate University, External Original, Hamilton, NY

George Segal Gallery, Montclair University, Art & Design Faculty Exhibition, Montclair, NJ

Radiator Gallery, This is How my Brain Works, curated by Michael Lee, LIC, NY

Jason McCoy Gallery, Paper Band, curated by Stephanie Buhmann, NYC

EJ Hauser’s Studio, Waivers, curated by EJ Hauser and Rob Nadeau, Brooklyn, NY

Bushwick Open Spaces, Ab/Ob/Ob, curated by Liz Ainsle, Brooklyn, NY

Joe Ballweg’s Studio, Wide Field, curated by Joe Ballweg and Andrea Bergart, Ridgewood, NY

Sardine Gallery, Pieces on Earth, Brooklyn, NY

The Bruce High Quality Foundation, Harderer. Betterer. Fasterer. Strongerer, Brucennial, NYC

2011
Softspot/University of Massachusetts Amherst Museum of Art, Have You Seen This Guy’s Work? (online)

Standpipe Gallery, Taking Shape, NYC

Janet Kurnatowski Gallery, Temporary Antumbra Zone, Brooklyn, NY

St. Cecilia Gallery, Black Sunday, Art Book Club, curated by Saira McLaren, Brooklyn, NY

Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, Iced, Staten Island, NY

Samson Projects, Chain Letter Exhibition, Boston, MA

Small Black Door, small.black.show., Brooklyn, NY

2010
Christopher Henry Gallery, Friends in High Places, NYC

Artjail, Painting Comes Alive! Curated by Erik den Breejen, NYC

The Exhibition Agency, Uncrumpling This Much Crumpled Thing, Chicago, IL

Secondhome Projects/Temp IX, Born to Die, Curated by Jay Henderson, Berlin, Germany

Daily Operation, World’s Greatest, NYC

Bushwick Open Spaces, Half-Invisible, POI, Bushwick, Brooklyn, NY

The Dirty Dirty, Yard Art, Brooklyn, NYC

Verge Art Fair, ANTIDOTE Gallery, NY, New York

Fun Times Gallery, No Plans for Today, curated by Vicki Sher, Brooklyn, NY

Daily Operation, Folksmusic, Brooklyn, NY

2009
Mike Rollins Fine Arts, Crotalus Atrox (or fat over lean), Curated by Liam Everett, NYC

Daily Operation, I Wanna Be Somewhere, NYC

Bushwick Open Spaces, Time Bandits II, POI, Brooklyn, NY

2008
Klaus Von Nichtssagend Gallery, Tensegrity, Brooklyn, NY

PS122 Gallery, 122@122, NYC

Bushwick Open Spaces, Time Bandits and Portraits of Yoda, POI, Brooklyn, NY

2007
Flux Factory, Secret Clubhouse, LIC, NY

2006
V&A, You Are Not Here, NYC

Arthouse at the Jones Center, New American Talent, Austin, TX

Powerhouse (Lawn), VA4398UV, Curated by Virginia Overton, Memphis, TN

2005
Galapagos Art Space, Holiday Pageant, Brooklyn, NY

Tyler Estate, Breaking and Entering, NYC

Conduit Gallery, Paper Tigers--Exquisite Corpse, Dallas, TX

UBS, Bard MFA Thesis Exhibition, Redhook, NY  
    
Tanabe Tanaka, The Bushwick Sketchbook Biennial, Brooklyn, NY     

2004
OK Harris Gallery, Vote With Your Art, Win Back Respect, NYC   

2003
Arlington Museum of Art, Sunny Side Up, Arlington, TX

2002
500X Gallery, Sleeve, Dallas, TX

Arlington Museum of Art, Home Sweet Home, Arlington, TX

2001
500X Gallery, Feisty, Dallas, TX
                                                                                                        
The McKinney Avenue Contemporary, W, Dallas, TX 
                                                                                                                        
Rockwall Alliance for the Arts, Art 2001, Selected by Nancy Whitenack, Rockwall, TX

2000
Casa de Cameron, Drippings, Fajardo, Puerto Rico

1999
Templeton Art Center, Art in the Metroplex, Fort Worth, TX

1998
500X Gallery, Form+Image, Works By Four New Artists, curated by Kate Budd, Dallas, TX

charlieuniformtango, a Posteriori, Dallas, TX

The Wong Spot, Heavy, San Antonio, TX

500X Gallery, Expo ’98, Selected by Ted Pilsbury, Dallas, TX

1997
Santa Chiara, Mostra D’Arte, Castiligion Fiorintino, Italy

1995
Bennington College, Women’s Work, Bennington, VT


SELECTED HONORS, AWARDS AND GRANTS

2021
Interlude Artist Residency, Hudson Valley, NY

Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Emergency Grant Recipient for Meridian exhibition

Nomination for Joan Mitchell Fellowship

2019
The Norman Bird Sanctuary, Mabel Residency

2011
The Edward F. Albee Foundation, Albee Fellow

New York Foundation of the Arts, Artist’s Sculpture Fellowship, Finalist

2009
Santa Fe Art Institute, Fellowship

2008
Lower Manhattan Cultural Center, Swing Space Residency, 100 Church St.

2004- 2006
Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, Bard Fellowship Grant

2003
The Vermont Studio Center

1999
Dallas Museum of Art, Arch and Anne Giles Kimbrough Fund Award

1997
University of Texas at Austin, Sculpture Studio Research Award

University of Texas at Austin, Painting and Drawing Studio Research Award

1993
Dallas Museum of Art, DeGolyer Fund Award

1992
Marie Walsh Art Foundation, Summer Scholarship, Colorado Springs, CO


SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

Lou Ellingson. Artforum Critic’s Picks, New York, Artforum. 2019
https://www.artforum.com/picks/elisa-lendvay-80546

Howard Halle. The best free art exhibitions in NYC, TimeOut New York. August 26, 2019
https://www.timeout.com/newyork/art/the-best-free-art-exhibitions-in-nyc

Liz Ainslie. Waltz of Charms.  Two Coats of Paint. August 21, 2019
http://www.twocoatsofpaint.com/2019/08/elisa-lendvay-waltz-of-charm.html

Piotr Pillardy. Piotr’s picks: 3 gallery shows to check out in NYC this September. The Redhook Star Review. September 3, 2019
www.star-revue.com/piotrs-picks-3-gallery-shows-to-check-out-in-nyc-this-september/#sthash.Lf2tJ7Mv.dpbs

Paddy Johnson. On the Importance of Middle Market Dealers in a Thriving Art Scene. Observer, August 6, 2019
https://observer.com/2019/08/middle-market-art-dealers-importance-nyc-galleries/

Christine Smallwood. Could Papier-Mâché Be the Perfect Medium for Our Times? The New York Times Style Magazine. February 22, 2019
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/22/t-magazine/papier-mache.html

Kathy Leonard Czepiel. Shape Shift. Daily Nutmeg. February 28, 2018
http://dailynutmeg.com/2018/02/28/fred-giampietro-gallery-new-geometry-ii-shape-shift/

Gorky’s Granddaughter, November 2016,
http://www.gorkysgranddaughter.com/2016/12/elisa-lendvay-nov-2016.html

Tiana Wang. Between Lovely Lines. Yale News, November 4, 2016
(http://yaledailynews.com/blog/2016/11/04/between-lovely-lines/)

Jason Andrew. Greenpoint Open Studios: 10 Must See Artists. Norte Maar
April 25, 2016
(http://nortemaar.org/2016/04/greenpoint-open-studios-10-must-see-artist/)

Paddy Johnson. Katherine Bradford and Drawing for Sculpture: Swimmers and Gender Politics. Art F City, January 22, 2016
(http://artfcity.com/2016/01/22/katherine-bradford-and-drawing-for-sculpture-swimmers-and-gender-politics/)

Two Coats of Paint. Revitalization by contamination: OBJECT'hood at Lesley Heller. August 2, 2015
(http://www.twocoatsofpaint.com/2015/08/revitalization-by-contamination.html)

Elisa Lendvay in “About a Mountain at Asya Geisberg Gallery, New York Art Tours, August 2014
(http://newyorkarttours.com/blog/?tag=elisa-lendvay)

Speed Dating with Art: Fast times at Bushwick Beat Nite, March 5, 2014
(http://bushwickdaily.com/2014/03/bushwick-beat-nite-boasts-an-artful-evening/)

New Works by Melissa Brown and Elisa Lendvay at Fred Giampietro Gallery. Artscope, New England’s Arts and Culture Magazine. November 21, 2013
(http://archive.constantcontact.com/fs191/1101530073189/archive/1115711925307.html)

Daniel Wiener. Elisa Lendvay Small Sculpture, Art Seen, The Brooklyn Rail, February 2013
(http://www.brooklynrail.org/2013/02/artseen/elisa-lendvay-small-sculpture)

The Order of Things, Curated by Jamillah James, Exhibition Catalog, NURTUREart, 2013
(http://issuu.com/nurtureart/docs/jamillah_james_ebook)

6 Things to Do in New York’s Art World Before January 7th. Gallerist NY, The New York Observer. January 4, 2013
(http://galleristny.com/2013/01/6-things-to-do-in-new-yorks-art-world-before-january-7/)

William Eckhardt Kohler. Elisa Lendvay: How the Eye Speaks. Huffington Post. October 25, 2012
(http://www.huffingtonpost.com/william-eckhardt-kohler/elisa-lendvay_b_1953160.html)

Kevin Kinsella, Randomly Determined. Bomb Magazine. September 26, 2012                                                            
(http://bombmagazine.org/article/6842/randomly-determined)

Paddy Johnson. There’s no Place like Kansas. The L Magazine. February 1, 2012  (http://www.thelmagazine.com/newyork/theres-no-place-like-kansas/Content?oid=2207301)

Painter’s Bread, Visual Sustenance, Elisa Lendvay: Painting, Sculpture, and No Boundaries. November 12, 2011
(http://www.paintersbread.com/2011/11/elisa-lendvay-painting-sculpture-and-no.html,)

Gorky’s Granddaughter, November 2011,
(http://www.gorkysgranddaughter.com/2011/12/elisa-lendvay-nov-2011.html)

Sharon Butler, Two Coats of Paint, Making our post-neo-faux-expressionist-prefigurative-protoconceptual heads spin. September 24, 2010
(http://www.twocoatsofpaint.com/2010/09/making-our-post-neo-faux-expressionist.html)

Julia V. Hendrickson. Review Uncrumpling This Much Crumpled Thing/The Exhibition Agency. New City Art. August 30, 2010
(http://art.newcity.com/2010/08/30/review-uncrumpling-this-much-crumpled-thingthe-exhibition-agency/)

Nora Griffin. Tensegrity. artcritical.com.  August 2008.
(http://www.artcritical.com/griffin/NGTensegrity.htm)

James Kalm. Tensegrity. Wagmag. July 1, 2008. 
(http://wagmag.org/reviews.php)

James Wagner. Elisa Lendvay at Moti Hasson. JamesWagner.com. April 13, 2007. (http://jameswagner.com/mt_archives/006194.html)

Amanda Douberly. From Stuff.  Austin Chronicle. July 14, 2006.

Jean Claire Van Ryzin. Diverse Show of ‘New American Talent". Austin American-Statesman.  June 29,2006.  pg.16

Sunny Side Up, Exhibition Catalogue, Arlington Museum of Art, Arlington, TX 2003                                                                                                                                                                                           

Tom Sime. Flow Art. Dallas Morning News. October 16, 2002

Mike Daniel. ‘Feisty” At 500X. Dallas Morning News. September 21, 2001

Silo Publication, Bennington College, Bennington VT 1993, 1994

Student Portfolio, Art in Focus. NY: Glencoe, 1994, pg.335


TEACHING/ ACADEMIC PRESENTATION
Marist College, Part-time Art Faculty, Poughkeepsie, NY 2017 - present

Bennington College, Visiting Faculty, Visual Arts, Fall 2017

Montclair State University, Adjunct Professor, Art and Design, Montclair, NJ Foundations: 3D Design, Concept, Application, Process; MFA Independent Studies
2011 - 2017

Ashcan Studio School, Art Faculty, Manhattan and Little Neck, NY, 2013 - 2015

Colgate University, BFA/MFA Students, Studio Talk, 2014

University of Minnesota Graduate Studies NYC Program, Studio Visit, 2011

Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Artist Talk and Class Demonstration, Form Study, Boston, MA, 2010

Noguchi Museum, Visiting Artist, Family Literacy Program, NYC, 2010

California College of the Arts, Painting/Drawing students, Studio LIC, NY,2008