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EDUCATION

1968 BA St. Mary's College, Notre Dame, IN
1972 MA Goddard College, Boston, MA
1978 MFA York University, Toronto, Canada

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2003
PS 1, Brooklyn, New York, NY

2002
Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MI
Art Resources Transfer, New York, NY
Kiang Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Ogden Museum, University of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA
Breneau University, Gainesville, GA

1999
Katonah Museum, Katonah, NY, organized by Susan Edwards
Sandler Hudson Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Salem College Art Gallery, Winston-Salem, NC

1998
Colorado University Art Galleries, Boulder, CO, organized by Susan Krane

1996
Sandler Hudson Gallery, Atlanta, GA, essay by Nancy Princenthal

1993
Halsey Gallery, College of Charleston, Charleston, SC, traveling to University of Florida, Gainesville, FL

1992
Winthrop Gallery, Winthrop University, Rock Hill, SC
Sandler Hudson Gallery, Atlanta, GA

1990
McIntosh Gallery, Atlanta, GA

1988
Waterworks Art Center, Salisbury, NC
Sculpture Center: Gallery Two, New York, NY

1986
Alternative Museum, Matrix Gallery, New York, NY, organized by Jane Farver

1985
Allen Priebe Gallery, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh, WI

1984
Haggar Center, St. Mary's College, Notre Dame, IN

1983
Emily Lowe Gallery, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY

1981
55 Mercer Gallery, New York, NY


SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2002
"Sew Fine" Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY
"Domestic Traces" Dorsky Gallery, NY
"Inaugural Exhibition: Benny Andrews, Nene Humphrey" Ogden Museum, University of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA
Havana Biennale, Havana, Cuba

2000
"Months and Moons", ACA Gallery, New York, NY
"Nene Humphrey/Benny Andrews: The Art of Family", Ogden Museum, University of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA

1999
"Head to Toe: Impressing the Body", University Gallery, UMASS at Amherst, MA
"Millennium Messages", organized by SITES, Washington,DC, traveling to the Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY, and other venues

1998
"Nene Humphrey, Grace Knowleton", Workspace Gallery, New York, NY

1996
"Close to Home", Lehman College Art Gallery , Bronx, NY

1995
"Object Lessons: Feminine dialogues with the surreal", Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
"In Three Dimensions: Women Sculptors of the 90's," Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, Staten Island, NY

1994
Project Room Installation with Ellen Driscoll, Threadwaxing Space, New York, NY
"Fabricated Nature," Boise Art Museum, Boise, ID, traveling
"Sculpture Southeast", South Carolina Art Museum, Columbia, SC

1993
"Idiocognito", OIA Police Building, New York, NY and William Patterson College, Wayne, NJ
"Drawings from 55 Ferris Street", Jessica Berwind Gallery, Philadelphia, PA and Wynn Kramarsky Gallery, New York, NY

1992
"55 Ferris II," 55 Ferris Street, Brooklyn, NY
"Art on Paper," Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC

1991
"Art of Our Times," High Museum, Atlanta, GA

1990
"Sculptor's Drawings," East Hampton Center for Contemporary Art, East Hampton, NY
"The Art of Drawing," Lehman College, Bronx, NY
"Recent Acquisitions," High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
"Small Works, Cast Iron," Sculpture Center, New York, NY
"Work on Paper: Contemporary American Drawings," High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
"Collector's Exhibition," Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AK

1989
"Lines of Vision. Drawings by Contemporary Women," Hillwood Art Gallery, Long Island University, Brookville, NY
"Objects/Figures," East Hampton Center for Contemporary Art, East Hampton, NY
"Installation," Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA
"Nene Humphrey/Phillippe Bent," Leslie Cecil Gallery, New York, NY

1988
"Scale (small)," Rosa Esman Gallery, New York, NY
"Sculpture as Companion," Henry Feiwel Gallery, New York, NY
"Group Show," John Davis Gallery, New York, NY
"Black, Grey, White," Henry Feiwel Gallery, New York, NY
"Sculpture '88," White Columns, New York, NY
"Selections," Siegeltuch Gallery, New York, NY

1987
"Three Sculptors," AIR Gallery, New York, NY

1984
"Sculptors Drawings," Sculpture Center, New York, NY

1981
"Ambiance/Stimuli," Alternative Museum, New York, NY
"Ritual and Landscape," Touchstone Gallery, New York, NY

1980
"Inaugural Show," Touchstone Gallery, New York, NY



GRANTS AND AWARDS

2001
Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Individual Artist Grant

1999
Hambidge Center, CRG Corporation Fellowship, Rabun Gap, GA
Anonymous was a Woman Award

1986
Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship, Bellagio, Italy

1983 br> National Endowment for the Arts, Individual Artist Grant

1982
Karolyi Foundation Fellowship, Venice, France

1978
MacDowell Colony Fellowship, Peterborough, NH

SELECTED COLLECTIONS

Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
The High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
Wilfredo Lam Contemporary Art Center, Havana, Cuba
The Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, Atlanta, GA
Ogden Museum, University of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA
Morris Museum, Morristown, NJ
Haggar Center, St. Mary's College, Notre Dame, IN
Best Products Inc., Richmond, VA
Agnes Gund
Stephania & James McClennon
Mr. & Mrs. James Reinish
Dr. Stephan Weitzman
Henry Feiwel


SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

Ken Johnson, "Domestic Traces," The New York Times, June 1, 2001.
Ariella Budick, "Woman to Woman," Newsday, April 23, 2000.
Susan H. Edwards," Common Touch/Nene Humphrey," Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, N.Y. July, 1999 Common Touch, A Site Specific Installation by Nene Humphrey. Videotape directed by Dianna Smith: Scapes Productions, Katonah Museum of Art, 1999.
Agnes Gund, "The Passion of a Collector," Civilization, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Jan./Feb.1999.
Susan Krane, "Nene Humphrey, A Wild Patience," University of Colorado, Boulder, Jan.1998.
Dinah Zeiger, "Urge to touch torments viewer at gallery showing," The Denver Post, Jan. 31,1998.
"Hand in Hand", Daily Times, Boulder, Colorado, Jan. 29, 1998.
Jennifer Heath, "Hands", Boulder Planet, Jan. 30, 1998.
Joe Miller, "Asking Nene about art," Boulder Weekly, Jan.1998.
Michael Rush, "Five Connecticut Artists Turn to Installation," Art New England ,Feb./Mar. 1998.
William Zimmer, "Honoring Women as Keepers of the Home, " The New York Times, Oct. 20,1996, p. 10.
Jerry Cullum, "The two sides of domesticity," The Atlanta Constitution, Nov. 15, 1996.
Cathy Byrd,?The Tree Beyond its Leaves," Creative Loafing, Atlanta, GA Nov. 16, 1996.
Suzanne Ramljak,"Carnal Knowledge," Object Lessons, Feminine dialogues with the surreal , Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, Jan. 1995, p.5.
Susan Hapgood,"Feminine Strategies", Object Lessons, Feminine dialogues with the surreal, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, Jan. 1995, p.9.
Nancy Stapen, "Feminine Dialogues: a tempest from Oppenheim's teacup," The Boston Sunday Globe, Jan.29, 1995 p.42.
Mary Sherman, "Female artists express their gender," The Boston Herald, Jan. 25,1995 p. 46.
Cynthia Nadelman, "Recent Drawings by Sculptors: A Common Language", Drawing, July/August 1994.
Chris Schnoor, "Sculptural Dualities," Reflex, Aug./Sept, p.13.
William Zimmer, "Sculpture at Two Displays at Wayne," New York Times, December 5, 1993, p. 16.
Eileen Watkins, "Art at WPC," Sunday Star-Ledger, New Jersey, December 5, 1993.
Arlene Raven," Days Without Art," Village Voice, October 5, 1993.
Kristina Montvidas-Kutkus,"Dimensions of Slavery Explored", Post and Courier, Charleston, SC, April 4, 1993.
Janet Koplas, "55 Ferris II," Art in America, February, 1993, p. 106.
Amy Jinker Lloyd, "Nene Humphrey, Sandler Hudson Gallery," Art in America, December, 1992, p. 122.
Susan Krane,"Matrix: Nene Humphrey," Winthrop Gallery, Winthrop University, Rockhill, South Carolina, 1992.
Jerry Cullum,"'Dream' Objects Probe Landscape of the Emotions," The Atlanta Journal, March 6, 1992, p. F2.
Tom Patterson, "Two Exhibits: One Shouts, One Whispers," The Charlotte Observer, September 13, 1992.
Judith Page, "Embracing the Void," Valencia College, Orlando, Florida, 1992.
William Zimmer, "The Public and Private in Robust Dialogue," New York Times, October 28, 1990.
Jennifer Cross, "Sculptor's Drawings," EHCCA, Long Island, New York, 1990.
Jane Farver, "The Art of Drawing," Lehman College, Bronx, New York, 1990.
Jerry Cullum,"Artists' Styles Contrast Nicely in McIntosh Exhibit of Sculptures, Drawings, Paintings," The Atlanta Journal, April 5, 1990, P.C-6.
Carrie Przybilla, Working on Paper, Contemporary American Drawing, (High Museum of Art, Atlanta, 1990).
Karen Lipson, "Dip into these Drawings by Contemporary Women," Newsday, New York, June 9, 1990.
Rose C.S. Slivka, "From the Studio," East Hampton Star, September 11, 1990.
Dr. Judy C. Van Wagner,Lines of Vision. Drawings by Contemporary Women, (Hudson Hills Press, New York, 1989).
Tom Patterson,"Subtle Images Give Salisbury Show its Power," Winston-Salem Journal, September 11, 1988, p. 4.
Chris Redd,"Nene Humphrey's Modernist Metaphors," The Arts Journal, North Carolina, October 1988, Vol. 14, No.
Thomasine Bradford,"Small Scale Sculpture/Large Scale Sculpture," Art Papers, Atlanta, Georgia, January/February 1988, Vol. 12, No. 1, p. 49 Juli Carson, Howard McCalebb, Blue Angel:The Decline of Sexual Stereotypes in Post Feminist Sculpture, (Longwood Art Center, New York, 1987) Lisa Tuttle, Small Scale Sculpture/Large Scale Sculpture, Atlanta College of Art, Atlanta, Georgia, 1987.
B. McKenzi, "Road is Primary Motif in Nene Humphrey's Art," Atlanta Journal-Constitution, April 13, 1987.
Phil Williams, "Nene Humphrey: Recent Drawings and Sculpture," Art Papers, Vol. 11, No. 4, July-August.
Eric Siegeltuch, Nene Humphrey: Situations, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh, Wisconsin, 1985.
Pat Stenson,"Wisconsin Upbringing Still Inspiring Modernist Artist," Post Crescent, Oshkosh, Wisconsin, March 31, 1985.
Karen Heisler, "Sculptor Nene Humphrey Creates Passages," Courier, South Bend, Indiana, Summer 1984.
Martin Ries, "Ambiance/Stimuli," Re.Dact, An Anthology of Art Criticism, Peter Frank, ed. (New York: 1984).
Michael Perri, "On-Site Sculpture," Art Papers, Vol. 8, No. 3, 1984.
Janet Heit,Sculpture at Greene Space, (New York OIA,1983).
Grace Glueck, "Engaging Experiments Transform a Sandy Site," New York Times, July 31, 1983.
Kay Larson, "On the Beach," New York Magazine, September 5, 1983.
Donald Kuspit, "OIA at Greene Space," Artforum, April 1983.
Bruce Eder, "Provocative Modern," Arts Weekly, New York, February 2, 1983.
Benny Andrews, Ambiance/Stimuli, (Alternative Museum, New York, 1982).
Linda Shearer, Artists Space: Independent Exhibitions Program, (Artists Space, New York, 1982).
John Caldwell, "Modernism in Morristown," New York Times (New Jersey edition), August 30, 1981.
Judith Wilson, "Small-Crafted Warnings," Village Voice, May 26, 1981.
Gail Gelburd, Environmental Art Projects 1981, (Morris Museum, New Jersey, 1981).
Janet Heit, "Nene Humphrey: Medieval Landscape," Arts Magazine, June 1981.
Richard Huntington, Artpark 1980, (Artpark, Lewiston, New York ,1980).
Vivienne Thaul Wechter, AREA Sculpture-Ward's Island, (AREA Inc, New York, 1980).
Grace Glueck, "Outdoor Sculpture," New York Times, September 11, 1980.
Sarah McFadden, "Going Places Part II," Art in America, Summer 1980.
Carrie Rickey, Kay Larson, "Stalking the Wild Sculpture," Village Voice, June 25, 1980.


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