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
2025 Main St. Art Centro, The Pool (and garden) Installation, Poughkeepsie, NY
2021 Beatrice M. Haggerty Gallery, Meridian: Sara Cardona and Elisa Lendvay, University of Dallas, TX
2019 Sargent’s Daughter’s, Elisa Lendvay/ Rise, NYC
Underdonk Gallery, Elisa Lendvay and Osamu Kobayashi, These Seeds Breathe, Brooklyn, NY
2018 Underdonk, 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
2026
Tappeto Volante, La Banda 2026, Brooklyn, NY
2025
Tanya Grunert Gallery, Instruments, curated by Nichole Hayes, Hudson, NY
Utopia, A Gnawing Thought, curated by Mandolyn Wilson, Kingston, NY
ROS studios, Between Days, curated by Becky Yazdan, Queens, NY
Underdonk, Winter wUnderdonk, NYC
2024
Drawing Center, 2024 Benefit Auction: A Selection of Great Art by People Who Know What They Like, – included in selection by Randy Kennedy, New York, NY
Mama Tress W 29th St, A GANG, New York, NY
PS21 Center for Contemporary Performance, Enchanted Ecologies, Chatham, NY
Albany Center Gallery, From This to That, curated by Katherine Kim, Albany, NY
Shelter Gallery, Summer Reading, NYC
Underdonk, Holidonk, NYC
Not Doughnuts, Off the Record, organized by Natalie Beall and Pierre Le Hors, Stanfordville, NY
Paul McMahon’s Mothership, To Reappear at Another Place, organized by Kenji Fujita, Woodstock, NY
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
LABpace, Holiday, Hillsdale, NY
Undercroft Gallery, Church of the Heavenly Rest, Invisible Attraction, curated by Michael Lee, NYC
Underdonk, Sunsets, Brooklyn, NY
Glenlily Grounds 2022, annual outdoor sculpture and installation exhibition in Newburgh, 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
Marist College, Turning Points, 2020 Faculty Exhibition, Poughkeepsie, 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
Glenlily Grounds 2019, Outdoor Sculpture Exhibit, Newburgh, NY
2018
White Columns Online, Wordholes, curated by Jesse Greenberg , NYC
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
Glenlily Grounds 2017, annual outdoor sculpture and installation exhibition in Newburgh, NY
583 Park Avenue, Sculpture Installation for NYFA Hall of Fame Benefit, NYC
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
TSA, Drawing for Sculpture, curated by Courtney Puckett, Brooklyn, NY
Underdonk, Onion by the Ocean, Organized by Essye Klempner and Elisa Soliven, 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
Howard Payne University, I-10, National Exhibition of Contemporary Two-Dimensional Art, curated by Christopher Schade, Brownwood, TX
Glenlily Grounds 2015, annual outdoor sculpture and installation exhibition in Newburgh, NY
2014
Asya Geisberg Gallery, About a Mountain, curated by Holly Jarrett, NYC
Jason McCoy Gallery, Domesticity, curated by Stephanie Buhmann and Samantha McCoy, NYC
Rare Gallery, Quiet Please, NYC
Underdonk Studio, Improvised Showboat #3, Brooklyn, NY
The Bruce High Quality Foundation, The Last Brucennial, NYC
HKJB, Genesis Forward Battery, Brooklyn, NY
Underdonk, Underdonk Selects, Brooklyn, NY
Bantom Switch Factory,Your Spirit Don’t Leave Knowing, Bantom, CT
Orgy Park, Alone Together, Elisa Lendvay and Adrian Ting, Bushwick, NY
Glenlily Grounds 2014, annual outdoor sculpture and installation exhibition in Newburgh, NY
2013
Nurture Art, The Order of Things, curated with catalog, by Jamillah James, Bushwick, NY
HD Projects, In Denial, Black Bile, Curated by Nicole O’Rourke, NYC
Brooklyn Parlor, Parlor Antics, Brooklyn, NY
2012
Kansas Gallery, Cheat Chains and Telephone, NYC
Clifford Art Gallery, Colgate University, External Original, Hamilton, NY
George Segal Gallery, Montclair University, 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 Studios, Ab/Ob/Ob, curated by Liz Ainsle, Brooklyn, NY
Sardine Gallery, Pieces on Earth, Brooklyn, NY
Joe Ballweg’s Studio, Wide Field, curated by Joe Ballweg and Andrea Bergart, Ridgewood, 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?
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
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
2025 Part-Time Faculty Development Grant, Marist College
2024 Ida Applebroog Grant Finalist - one of four
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, The 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
Thomas Motley. Meridian at Haggerty Gallery: Sara Cardona and Elisa Lendvay, Art Spiel. 2021
https://artspiel.org/meridian-at-haggerty-gallery-sara-cardona-and-elisa-lendvay/
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
Carl Van Brunt. The Surrealist Leanings of 5 Contemporary Hudson Valley Artists, Chronogram. November 20, 2019
https://www.chronogram.com/hudsonvalley/the-surrealist-leanings-of-5-contemporary-hudson-valley-artists/Content?oid=9354965
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
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
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/
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/)
Etty Yaniv. Till Death Do Us Part at Lorimoto, a Marriage of Art. ArtFuse. January 13, 2016
(http://artefuse.com/2016/01/13/til-death-do-us-part-at-lorimoto-a-marriage-of-art-124359/)
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/)
Ari Eshoo. Interview: Elisa Lendvay. Afangar. March 31, 2013
http://afangarblog.tumblr.com/post/46759609989/interview-elisa-lendvay
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,)
Maria Calandra, Pencil in the Studio, Elisa Lendvay, September 29, 2011
http://www.pencilinthestudio.com/2011/09/elisa-lendvay.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, Bennington, VT, Fall 2017, 2024
Painting class presentation, October 2025
University of Massachusetts, Artist Talk, Visiting Artist Lecture Series, March 2022
Artist Lecture Series, Greenpoint Brooklyn, NY, December 2016
Montclair State University, Adjunct Professor, Art and Design, Montclair, NJ Foundations: 3D Design, Concept, Application, Process; MFA Independent Studies
2011 - 2017
Ashcan Studio School, Midtown Manhattan and Little Neck, NY, 2013 - 2015
Art Instructor, Projects advisor, Creative Development and Portfolio Preparation, Sculpture classes with children, high school and college students
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
Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired, Residential Instructor, Life Skills, Austin 1996-1999
