RESUME
PUBLIC ART PROJECTS
2014
2013
2012
2011
2010
2008
2005
2004
West 10th Street Window, Time Equities Inc. Art in Buildings Program, New York, NY (upcoming)
Awarded New Britain Police Station Public Art Project, New Britain, CT, to be installed in 2014
"Luminaria San Antonio" Light Festival, San Antonio, TX
"Rock Street" outdoor sculpture show curated by Lesley Heller and Deborah Brown
Finalist, Seattle Department of Transportation Safe Routes to School, Seattle, WA
“Park Lights,” window installations commissioned by 254 Park Avenue South and presented by Smart Spaces,
New York, NY
Finalist, PS 290 Public Art for Public Schools, New York City School Construction Authority, New York, NY
DUMBO Arts Festival Curated Exhibition, Brooklyn, NY
“Diaphany”, Mixed Greens Gallery Glow Room Project, New York, NY
Finalist, Louisiana Station Percent-for-Art (rapid transit station), Denver, CO
“Luminous Layers” Elevator Light Installations, d.u.m.b.o. art under the bridge festival, Brooklyn, NY
SELECTED
Solo
2014
2013
2012
2007
2005
2004
2003
1997
1996
1995
1994
1992
EXHIBITIONS
and Two-Person
“Light/Weight, Brian Morris Gallery, New York, NY (two-person with Ruth Hardinger)
Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, Summit, NJ
Storefront Bushwick, Brooklyn, NY
“Upon Reflection”, Dam, Stuhltrager Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
“Luminous Layers”, Dam, Stuhltrager Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
“Luminous Layers”, PS122 Gallery Hallway Project, New York, NY
“Perceptual Architecture”, Narthex and Stairwell Gallery, St. Peter’s Church, New York, NY
“Surroundings”, Safe-T-Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (two-person with Susan Hamburger)
Gallery Ju-ichi gatsu, Tokyo, Japan
La Mama La Galeria, New York City, NY
Gallery 128, New York City, NY
Edward Williams Gallery, Fairleigh Dickinson University, Hackensack, NJ
Quimby Gallery, Lyndon State College, Lyndonville, VT
26 Federal Plaza, New York, NY
Treasure Room Gallery at the Interchurch Center, New York, NY
Catamount Arts, St. Johnsbury, VT
Group
2014
“Color Formed” curated by Jim Osman, FiveMyles, Brooklyn, NY
2013
“Illuminated,” OK Harris Gallery, New York, NY
"Summer Break," Station Independent Gallery, New York, NY
"Paperazzi," Janet Kurnatowski Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2012 "Space Invaders," curated by Karin Bravin, Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx, NY
"Hogarth Biannual," Hogarth Worldwide New York Office, New York, NY
2011
"Paperazzi," Galeria Janet Kurnatowski, Brooklyn, NY
2010 “Resplendency,“ East/West Project, Berlin, Germany
2009 10th Anniversary Show, Mixed Greens Gallery, New York, NY
2008 “Trellis, A Sculpture Survey,” Rupert Ravens Contemporary, Newark, NJ
“Incandescent”, 532 Gallery Thomas Jaeckel, New York, NY
2007 “Host”, curated by Elizabeth M. Grady, The Soap Factory, Minneapolis, MN
“A Certain Slant of Light”, Danny Simmons’ Corridor Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
“Corpse of Time”, curated by Benjamin La Rocco, Galeria Janet Kurnatowski, Brooklyn, NY
2006 “Newark Between Us,” curated by Rupert Ravens and the Newark Arts Council, Newark, NJ
“The Raw and the Cooked”, curated by David Gibson, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
2005 “Bright and Shining”, Safe-T-Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
“Facing Newark”, curated by Rupert Ravens and the Newark Arts Council, Newark, NJ
“Lost in Place”, curated by David Gibson, Planet Thai, Brooklyn, NY
2004 Kawaguchi Art Factory, Kawaguchi, Japan
“Merry Peace”, Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
1st Annual Benefit for Breast Cancer, Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
“Seen It All”, Williamsburg Art & Historical Center, Brooklyn, NY
2003 “Merry Peace”, Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Carol Salmanson, page 2
2002
1999
1998
1997
1996
“Multiple Memorials”, organized by Mary Miss, Viridian Gallery, New York, NY
“Art Against War”, curated by Frank Shifreen, Macy Gallery, Teachers College, Columbia University,
New York, NY
“Mixed”, 450 Broadway Gallery, New York, NY
“Reactions”, Exit Art, New York, NY
“WTC: Living in the Shadows/A 25 Year Collective Retrospective”, Bronx River Art Center, Bronx, NY
"To Scale”, Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
“Peace Show”, Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn, NY
“Conflux”, Lamia Ink! Gallery, New York City, NY
“War”, Postmasters Gallery, New York City, NY
“Marvelous Miniatures”, Cortland Jessup Gallery, New York, NY
“Bridge”, Sakai City Museum, Sakai City, Japan
“Women Draw”, Gallery 128, New York, NY
HONORS AND AWARDS
2010
2005
Abbey Mural Workshop Fellowship, National Academy Museum and School of Fine Arts, New York, NY
Residency in Public Art, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY and MEDIA
“In Conversation: Leah Oates talks to Carol Salmanson,” NY Arts Magazine, online: June, 2013,
http://www.nyartsmagazine.com/?p=10650; in print, September, 2013
"Carol Salmanson: From Painting about Light to Painting with Light," The Engine Institute, Inc., February 4th, 2013
(http://theengineinstitute.org/carol-salmanson-from-painting-about-light-to-painting-with-light)
Michael Sorgatz, "Artist Profile: Carol Salmanson," Art in New York City, January 28th, 2013
(http://www.artinnewyorkcity.com/2013/01/28/artist-profile-carol-salmanson/)
Yuneikys Villalonga, "Space Invaders," Art Experience: New York City, Vol I, No. 10, Fall 2012
James Panero, "Gallery Chronicle," The New Criterion, June 2012 and "Carol Salmanson & Stephen Truax at Storefront
Bushwick," Supreme Fiction (http://www.supremefiction.com/theidea/2012/05/carol-salmanson-stephen-truax-atstorefront-bushwick.html), May 26, 2012
Lili Rusing and Kerosene Rose, "Artist Carol Salmanson and the Electric Glow," Arts in Bushwick blog,
(http://artsinbushwick.org/bos2012/2012/05/29/artist-carol-salmanson-the-electric-glow/), May 29, 2012
Sharon Butler, "Sunday Stroll in Bushwick," Two Coats of Paint (http://www.twocoatsofpaint.com/2012/05/sundaystroll-in-bushwick.html), May 21, 2012
Elisabeth Condon, "Bushwick Sunday," Raggedy Ann's Foot
(http://elisabethcondon.blogspot.com/2012_05_01_archive.html), May 21, 2012
Katarina Hybenova, "Mesmerized by the Lights." Bushwick Daily (http://bushwickdaily.com/mesmerized-by-theligthts/), April 23, 2012
Edward Rubin, “Complex but Not Complicated,” NY Arts Magazine, October, 2010
Lope Gutierrez-Ruiz, “Carol Salmanson’s light and refraction,” Gopher Illustrated, May 12, 2010
(http://www.gopherillustrated.org/2010/05/carol-salmanson’s-light-and-refraction/)
Jill Conner, “Carol Salmanson at Mixed Greens,” Art Quips: Writing Outside the Mainstream, July 21, 2009
(http://artquips.blogspot.com/2009/07/diaphany-by-carol-salmanson.html)
John Majeski, “Architecture Inspires Installation Artist”, Real Estate Weekly, February 11, 2009, p.12B
"Carol Salmanson - Diaphany 2009" PIC OF THE DAY, artcritical.com, February 9, 2009 (http://www.artcritical.com)
"Artists at Work" by Shaq Melamed, January 18, 2009 (http://mylineandcolor.blogspot.com)
"Carol Salmanson: Diaphany, Mixed Greens, New York, NY", Minus Space Log, December 2, 2008
(http://www.minusspace.com/tag/carol-salmanson)
Sarah Norris, "The A-list", Chelsea Now, December 17-23, 2008, p.10 and online, (http://www.chelseanow.com)
"Carol Salmanson 'Diaphany'", NY Art Beat (http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2008/4B65)
"Carol Salmanson 'Diaphany'", Artlog, (http://artlog.com/events/2628-carol-salmanson-diaphany)
Joe Walentini, “Corpse of Time”, Abstract Art Online, June 1, 2007 (http://www.abartonline.com/ - corpse)
“Corpse of Time: Top Pick”, ArtCal, May, 2007 (http://www.artcal.net/event/view/2/4732)
Jill Conner, “China Blue, Carol Salmanson”, the Brooklyn Rail, June, 2007, p. 36
“Williamsburg Galleries on Sunday”, jameswagner.com, April 24, 2007 (http://jameswagner.com/mt_archives/006232.html)
James Kalm (Loren Munk), “Carol Salmanson and China Blue at DAM STUHLTRAGER Gallery,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8RPETJueaE, April 24, 2007
“Gatormans Minx or Illuminated Antifolk”, Art or Something Like It, CUNY TV, December 15, 2006
“Gallery Hopping”, The New York Sun, October 14, 2005, p. 14
“Taking It to the Streets of DUMBO”, Brooklyn Courier, October 10, 2005, p. 10
James Kalm, “Carol Salmanson and Jae Hi Ahn”, Dam, Stuhltrager Gallery”, the Brooklyn Rail, April 2005, p. 26
Jeffrey Cyphers Wright, “Playing the Grotto,” offoffoff.com, November 28, 2004
Matt Windman, amNewYork, Weekend, August 6-8, 2004, “Carol Salmanson”, p. 23
Carol Salmanson, page 3
OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Visiting Artist, Department of Art and Design Art ForumLecture Series, Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ, March,
2013
Curatorial: "The Language of Painting, Lesley Heller Workspace, New York, NY 2013 (upcoming)
Vice President of Board of Trustees, NURTUREart Non-Profit, Inc.
Guest Panelist, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs Percent-for-Art, May 2008
Guest Lecturer, New York School of Interior Design, February 2006
EDUCATION
Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Art Students League, New York, NY
School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
Born in Providence, Rhode Island, lives and works in Brooklyn, NY