Mariella Bisson
P.O. Box 162, Stone Ridge, NY 12484
Studio: 845-331-4634
mariellabisson@verizon.net
Solo Exhibitions
2007 Elena Zang Gallery, Woodstock, NY
2003 Adirondack Lakes Center for the Arts, Blue Mountain Lake, NY
1999 Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn, NY
1996 Stadtischen (City) Museum, Gelsenkirchen, Germany, catalogue
1995 The Bridge Alternative Space, New York
Artists Window, ONE MAIN Sculpture Space, New York
1993 Kentler International Drawing Space, New York
1992 Catamount Art Center, St. Johnsbury, Vermont
Grace Gallery, Lyndon State College, Vermont
1989 Mi Casa Su Casa, billboard, ZONE on Avenue B & East 2nd St. NYC
Grants and Artist Residencies
2008 Women's Studio Workshop, Rosendale, NY
2007 The Tin Residency, Breckenridge, Colorado
2007 Hambidge Center for the Creative Arts and Sciences
2007 Andy Warhol Foundation, Nature Conservancy Residency, Montauk, NY
2004, 2007 Leighton Fellowship, Banff Art Centre, Canada
2005 Il Chiostro , Painting-Teaching Residency, Tuscany, Italy
2004 Blue Mountain Center, Blue Mt. Lake, NY
2003 Ragdale Foundation, Lake Forest, Ill
Special Opportunity Stipend, New York Foundation of the Arts Hudson Valley
2002 Santa Fe Art Institute, Visiting Artist, work on paper
2002,1999 Catskills Center for Conservation & Development, Platte Clove Residency
2001 Weir Farm Trust • National Park Service, Wilton, CT, landscape painting
2000, 1999 Woodstock School of Art, Summer AIR in Landscape Painting
2000 Artists Fellowship Grant
1999 Change Foundation grant
1995, 97 Byrdcliffe Arts Colony, Woodstock, NY
1996 Gelsenkirchen, Germany, Statdische Museum
1996 Dorland Mountain Arts Colony, Temecula, CA
1993 Vogelstein Foundation grant
1992 Gottlieb Foundation grant
1991 Vermont Studio Colony
1990 Pollock-Krasner Fellowship
1989, 90 Palenville Interarts Center, Palenville, NY
Group Exhibitions, Woodstock, NY
Elena Zang Gallery, Woodstock, NY, On-going Gallery artists groups shows 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, NY Times mention Jan. 2, 2005, Featured in group shows:
Collage: The Art of Attachment and Inside and Out, summer 2004, Photo in Sunday,
Apr. 18, 2004 Westchester
Woodstock School of Art Gallery, Annual Instructors’ Show, July 2005, 2004, 2003
Slide Lecture: July, 2004
Annual Benefit Print, Lithograph, “Fawn’s Leap”, 2005
Annual Benefit show, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003
Kleinert-James Gallery, Woodstock Guild, Woodstock, NY, Passionate About Art, Sonia Sudak, Curator, July/August 2005, Photo: Kingston Daily Freeman, Aug19, 2005, mention, Chronogram, July 2005
Byrdcliffe Arts Colony, Woodstock Guild, Open Studios AIR, June 1998, AIR July
1998, August 1998, September 1994
Erpf Gallery of the Catskill Center, Arkville, NY
Artists in Residence Group Show, Inverna Lockpez, Curator, Dec- Feb 2001
Fred Gutzeit, Curator, Nov- March 2002
Platte Clove AIR Show, Inverna Lockpex, Curator, Dec- Feb 2003
Past Residents, Inverna Lockpez, Curator November to March, 2004, mention Ulster
Publishing, Almanac, Feb. 2004
Artists in Residence Group Show, 1999
Workshop Instructor, Artists’ Cabin, Photos, Windham Journal ,July 29, 1999
The Shirt Factory, Kingston, NY
Group Show and Open Studios, October 2006
Group Show and Open Studios, April 2003
Esopus Art Studios, A Reverence for the Earth, Judy Abbot, Curator
Lake Hill, (Woodstock) NY, Aug- Sept. 2001
The Art Studio at Woodstock Winter Works, Shelley Parriott, Curator, Dec- Jan, 1997
Tom Fletcher Gallery, Woodstock, Spring Group Show, 1999
Group Exhibitions, Brooklyn, NY
Kentler International Drawing Space:
Nature Trails: Selections from the Flat Files, July 2004
Annual Benefit Shows: each year since 1990 (16 in all)
Brooklyn Waterfront Artist Coalition Group Shows at the Kentler
Small Works on Paper, annually 1990- 1998
Gone to Pieces, Extremists in Collage, Feb. March 1994
In the Waterfront: Art About Brooklyn, Florence Neal, Curator, Nov. 1996
Photo “Footing”, lithograph, The Phoenix, Brooklyn Weekly newspaper
Paper Works, April 1994
Celebrate Labor Day, Sept. 1991
Proteus Gowanus, Brooklyn, NY “Travel”, 2005, Sasha Chavchavadze, Curator
Rotunda Gallery Benefit Show, March, 1995
Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition: ONE MAIN
(Note: I was founder and curator for ONE MAIN, a 2500 sq.ft. sculpture space in DUMBO for its ten-year run 1985-1995
In the Cards: Site-specific Installations on the Theme of Tarot Card Imagery
Collaboration with boat-builder, Don Betts
River Styx, ONE MAIN, Feb- April 1995, 2-person show with James Elaine
Kingsborough Community College Art Gallery, CUNY, The Machine in the Garden, Janet Riker Curator, catalogue, Nov- Jan 1993/4
Aquarelle, 2-person show, Brooklyn, April – June 1993
Hook Gallery, Earth Remembered, Richard Mock, Curator, April- May 1989
The Brooklyn Museum Community Gallery, Brooklyn Paper Works, Dec. – Jan. 1982
AMMO Artists Exhibition Space, DUMBO, Group shows, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1990
Group Exhibitions, Other NYC Shows
Artists Space Benefit show, 2006
The Creative Center, Arts in Hospitals, Benefit Show, 2006
Visual AIDS, Benefit show, 2006
Bronx River Arts Center, One World One River, BX, NY Mar-April 1993
Krasdale Foods Gallery Community Spirit, Artistic Vision, BX, NY Oct-Jan 1993
10 on 8, Wanted, Dead or Alive, window installations, Feb 1991
The Gas Station, Billboard “Mi Casa Su Casa” Ave B & East 2nd St. March-April 1989
The Drawing Center, Return of the Cadavre Exquis, 1986
Arsenal Gallery, Trees and Trails, Dept of Parks, NYC, Sept- Oct. 1984
DCA City Gallery, Reverse Impressions, John Neeley, Curator, NYC Aug. Sept 1984
The Women’s Bank, Wendell Walker, Curator, Jan 1982
Tweed Courthouse, Paperworks, Feb 1981, Going Out Guide, NY Times, Feb 10, 1981
Group Exhibitions, Vermont
Gallery North Star, Grafton, VT, ongoing Gallery artists Group shows, 2005, 2006
Vermont Studio Colony, Johnson, VT Group Show and Open Studio, Jan 1990
Catamount Art Center, St. Johnsbury, VT Benefit Shows, 1994, 1995, 1996
Green Mountain Trading Post, Cover Image, Collage, “Burke Mountain”, Feb 12, 1997
Group Exhibitions, Tennessee
2007, The Basement Gallery, Knoxville, TN
Group Exhibitions, Florida
Miramar Art Gallery, Groups shows of Gallery artists, Sarasota, FL, 2005, 2004
Mention in Herald Tribune Aug. 2005
Group Exhibitions, Canada
Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff, Alberta, Canada
Leighton Studios Fellowship, Open Studio, May 2004
Group Exhibitions, Germany
Galerie Kabuth, Group show, Gallery Artists, Oct. 1995, Jan. 1996
Public and Corporate Collections
White & Case, LLP
Pfizer Corporation
Stadtische Museum, Gelsenkirchen, Germany, charcoal mural drawings
Jane Vorhees Zimmerli Museum, New Jersey, silk-screen print
Rutgers National Print Archive, Princeton, New Jersey, silk-screen print
The Philip Morris Companies, Inc., collage
Dunn and Bradstreet, collage
Cowan, Latman & Liebowitz (law firm), collage
Standard & Poors, drawing
Houlihan, Lokey, Howard & Zukin (investment firm), NYC, paintings
Education
BFA (Bachelor of Fine Arts) Drawing, 1978 with honors
Pratt Institute MS Museum Education, 1981
Bank Street College of Education, NYC
Instructor: The Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock, NY
