Aileen Bassis
234 Tenth St., #301
Jersey City, NJ 07302
e-mail: aileenbassis@hotmail.com Voice: (201) 222-0311
Website: www.aileenbassis.com
Selected Solo Exhibitions:
2011: Orbit 1 Gallery, Paul Robeson Center, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ, “Objects of Memory”
2010: Chashama Window Installation, New York City, “Memory Maps”
2009: Annunciation Center, College of St. Elizabeth, Morristown, NJ, “Aileen Bassis: Holocaust Books”
2008: Ateliers BaZtille, Zoetermeer, Netherlands
2007: Fox Art Gallery, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, “Holocaust Stories”
2006: Griffin Gallery, Madison, NJ “Holocaust Stories”
2002: Ceres Project Room at the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York, NY: "The Aftermath (9/11)"
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2013: Maloney Gallery, College of St. Elizabeth, Morristown, NJ, “Held Against Their Will”
Market Street Gallery, Newark, NJ, “Dreams Before Sleeping: Newark Open Doors 2013”
Lichtenstein Center for the Arts, Pittsfield, MA, “Contemporary Islam”
Walsh Gallery, Seton Hall University, South Orange, NJ, “Marking Territory”
The Noyes Arts Garage of Stockton College, Atlantic City, “2013 New Jersey Arts Annual: Currents in
Contemporary Crafts”
Curious Matter at the Jersey City Public Library, Jersey City, NJ, “A Time in Arcadia”
East & West Galleries, Texas Woman’s University, Denton, TX, “Seductive Alchemy: Books by Artists”
Sinclair Gallery, Coe College, Cedar Rapids, IA, “Juried Printmaking Exhibition”
The Cooperative Gallery, Binghamton, NY, “Book As Art”
Lederer Gallery, State University of New York, Geneseo, “Meditations on Emancipation”
Maloney Gallery, College of St. Elizabeth, Morristown, NJ “Persona”
Seton Hall University Law School, Newark, NJ, “ Perspective vs. Perception”
Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Wilmington, “Codicology: The Art and Science of the Book”
King St. Stephen Museum, Szekesfehervar, Hungary, “Fifth International Artists’ Book Exhibition”
University Libraries, University of South Dakota, Vermilion, “Bound & Unbound 2”
2012: Wiseman Gallery, Rogue Community College, Grants Pass, OR, “The 99%”
C.C.C.P. North Light Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, “Harvest of Dreams”
Kraft Center for Jewish Life, Columbia/Barnard University, NYC, “Context”
Mind Rewind Gallery, Seattle, WA “The Continuous Thread 2”
Printmaking Center of NJ, Branchburg, “The Continuous Thread”
Holocaust Memorial Center, Farmington Hills, MI, “Silent Witnesses”
The Art Institute of Atlanta-Decatur, Decatur, GA, “Wallbound”
Index Art Center, Newark, “See I’m Not Paranoid, I’m Right”
Step Gallery, Arizona State University, Tempe, “Crave,The Art of Dependency”
Gallery One, Newark, NJ, “Women: Realizing Perspectives”
Susan Hensel Gallery, Minneapolis, MN, “Readers Art 12: Longing for Home”
Soho20 Gallery, NYC, “Backlash (on Women’s Rights and Freedoms)”
New Lots Public Library, Brooklyn, NY “Juneteenth” a project of Arts East NY
2011: Woolpunk Studio, Jersey City, NJ, “Gaia Here and Now”
Uno Art Gallery, University of Nebraska, Omaha, “Al Mutanabbi Street Project”
Pierro Gallery of South Orange, NJ, “Identity Blueprint”
ProteusGowanus, Brooklyn, NY, “Migration”
Gallery at 14 Maple, Morristown, NJ, “Remembrance of Things Past”
Art for Change Gallery, NYC, “Millennial Yell”
Manhattan Graphics Center, NYC, “Solarplate Intaglio”
Center for Book Arts, NYC, “The (UN)Framed Photograph”
Freyberger Gallery, Penn State Berks, Reading PA, “Crisis and Reaction 9/11”
Clemente Soto Velez Center, NYC, “Distant Cousins: Jewish & Muslim Women Speak”
Noyes Museum, Hammonton and Perkins Center for the Arts, Collingswood, NJ “ YEA Artists of NJ”
Seton Hall Law School and City Without Walls Gallery, Newark, “The Newark School”
23 Sandy Gallery, Portland, OR, “Photo Book Works”
Aljira, Newark, NJ “Viewpoints”
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The Arts Center, Corvallis, OR, “Unspeakable: Artists Books”
Atelier BaZtille, Zoetermeer, NL, “What Exists, Never Comes Back”
Susan Hensel Gallery, Minneapolis, MN, “Readers Art 11: Urban/Urbane”
Altered Aesthetics, Minneapolis, MN, “Altered Pages”
Reginald F. Lewis Museum of African American History, Baltimore, MD, Stanback Museum and
Planetarium, South Carolina University and the Vivant Art Collection, Philadelphia, PA, ‘Transcending
History: Moving Beyond the Legacy of Slavery and the Holocaust,” a project of IdeaArts Arts Initiative,
Ann Street Gallery, Newburgh, NY, “Bound: Artist Book Exhibition”
Grace Church, Jersey City, “ProArts Member Show”
Fox Gallery, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, “Family Ties: The First Wave”
Printmaking Council of New Jersey, Branchburg, “Below the Surface
Truman State University, Kirksville, MO, “American Race”
Printmaking Council of New Jersey, Branchburg, “Past Present” 6 artist exhibition curated by Aileen
Bassis and including her work.
Concordia University Ann Arbor, Concordia University Ann Arbor, MI, “Reconciliation” 2009 Kreft
Juried Annual
College of St. Elizabeth, Therese A. Maloney Art Gallery, Morristown, NJ “Responding to Cuba”
Bronfman Center Gallery, New York University, NYC, “Einstein on Witherspoon Street: Expressions of
Social Justice”
Brennan Gallery, Justice William Brennan County Courthouse, Jersey City, “Human History”
Jersey City Museum, NJ, “Sprawl” The 2008 NJ Arts Annual
Abecedarian Gallery, Denver, CO, “Transparent/Opaque” Invitational Exhibition of Prints and Artists Books
Suffolk Museum, Suffolk, VA, “Beyond Reading:Books as Art”
Crown Center Gallery, Loyola University Chicago, “Reforming US: Immigration Through Art”
Gallery Kunstler, Booksmart Studio, Rochester, NY “Art of Democracy”
Pro Arts Member Exhibition, Canco Studios, Jersey City
Brennan Gallery, Justice William Brennan Court House, Jersey City, “The Nature of Duality”
Waldo Lofts, Jersey City, “Inside”
Yavapai College, Prescott, AZ, “The Human Alteration” (three artist exhibition)
DeFoor Centre, Atlanta, GA, “I/We: Case Studies”
Kraft Center for Jewish Life at Columbia University and the Rubin - Frankel Gallery at
Boston University “Words Within” Women’s Caucus for Art
NurtureArt Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, “The Occidental Artist”
Atlantic Gallery, NYC, “WHYGTS” (What Have You Got To Say?)
Brennan Gallery, Justice William Brennan County Court House, Jersey City, “Identity”
Victory Hall, Jersey City, “American Diaspora”
The University of the South Art Gallery, Sewanee, TN, “Works with Paper: Artists’ Books”
Mana Fine Arts, Jersey City, “WHYGTS” (What Have You Got To Say?)
Gallery Aferro, Newark, “Glossolalia”
5 + 5 Gallery, Brooklyn, NY; Food for Thought Student Gallery at Portland State University; traveling
exhibition, “Paper Politics Two”
Rahway Arts Guild, Rahway, NJ “A Separate Reality”
Goldman Gallery, Hebrew College, Newton, MA, “L’Dov V’Dor” From Generation to Generation”, Jewish
Women Artist Network of the Women’s Caucus for Art.
Susan Hensel Gallery, Minneapolis, MN, “Readers Art 6: Changing the Wind”
Robert A. Peck Gallery, Central Wyoming College, Riverton, WY, “Memory and Meditation”
Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ “Circa Crafts 2005”
artspace129, Montclair, NJ “Local Color”
Contemporary Artists Center, North Adams, MA, “Made in NA MA”
The Johnsonese Gallery, Chicago, IL, “Cartography 101”
Spike Gallery, NYC, “Yearbook 05” multiple edition
Griffin Gallery, Madison, NJ, “Coexistence”
New Arts Program, Kutztown, PA, “Invitational Salon Exhibition of Small Works”
Makor/Steinhardt Center Gallery, New York City,”Tikkun Olam-Healing the World” Women’s Caucus for Art
NurtureArt Gallery, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY, “Paper,Papel,Papier”
Phinney Center Gallery, Seattle Print Arts, Seattle WA, “Paper Politics (West)”
Mills Pond House Gallery, St. James, NY, “Women, Words and Images”
U. of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Union Gallery, "Women in the Middle"
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Locus-Media Gallery, NYC, “Domestic Affairs”
Frans Masereel Center, Kasterlee, Belgium: "Jubilee Exhibition"
City Without Walls Gallery, Newark, NJ: "Stop and Go"
City Without Walls Gallery, Newark, NJ: "Analog/Digital"
Institute for Community Research Gallery, Hartford, CT: "Living Spaces"
Illinois State University, University Galleries, Normal, IL: "Ready for War"
Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn, NY, “Drawings for Peace"
Exit Art, New York, NY, and Williamson Gallery, College of Design, Pasadena, CA: "Reactions"
The Bronx River Art Center, NYC and Fairleigh Dickenson Univ., Teaneck, NJ: "911: Artists Respond"
Guild Gallery II, New York, NY: "Women's Perspectives"
Morehead State University, Morehead, Kentucky: "Image Text Language"
Lowe Gallery at Hudson Guild, New York, NY: "Drawing: Line, Skill, Imagination"
Center for Photography, Woodstock, NY: "Annual Benefit"
Lowe Gallery at Hudson Guild and Rush Arts Gallery, NYC: "Lucky Draw"
Hunterdon Museum of Art, Clinton, NJ: "New Jersey State Council on the Arts Fellowship Exhibition"
Makeready's at Gallery 214, Montclair, NJ: "Time Lapse"
Raritan Valley Community College, North Branch, NJ: "The Portrait in the New Millennium
City Without Walls Gallery, Newark, NJ: "The Color Line in the 2lst Century”
City Without Walls Gallery, Newark, NJ: "Artreach 2000"
Gallery 1101, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, IL: "The Collage Show- Three Approaches to
Photographic Construction"
'Exhibit A' Gallery, New York, NY: "CWW in Soho"
The Puffin Cultural Forum, Teaneck, NJ: "Erase Hate/Create A New World"
Lump Gallery, Raleigh, North Carolina: "un/Acceptable"
Raritan Valley Community College, North Branch, NJ: “Issues of Guilt”
Gallery 402: Organization of Independent Artists, New York, NY: “Medicinal Madness”
Sponsored Reality at Union Hill Studio, Union City, NJ: “Image/Mileage”
Artemisia, Chicago, IL: "Carving the Forces of Change"
PS 122 Gallery, New York, NY: “Small Works”
Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL: "Ancient Fragments in a New Light"
Sylvia White Gallery, New York, NY: "Reality Check"
Lutheran Brotherhood Gallery, Minneapolis, Minn.: "Awareness Alert - Women and Breast Cancer
Binghamton University, SUNY, Binghamton, NY: "The Eldred Memorial Invitational"
Mill Hill Park, Trenton, NJ: “Trenton Avant Garde TAGfest” (outdoor installation)
Passaic County Community College Gallery, Paterson, NJ: “Context”
Cragin Fife Gallery, Brookline, Mass.: “Jewish Women Uncensored”
Palmyra Gallery, Bound Brook, NJ: “Saturnalia”
Prince Street Gallery, New York, NY: “A Woman’s Place”
City Without Walls Gallery, Newark, NJ: “New Members Show”
Peter Madero Gallery, New York, NY: "Diagnosis: Breast Cancer"
Ceres Gallery, New York, NY: "The Women's Health Show: Examining Room"
City Without Walls Gallery, Newark, NJ: "Metro Show"
10 on 8 (public art windows), New York, NY: "The Body Politic”
Level 3 Gallery, Philadelphia, PA.
Museum of Art, Science & Industry, Bridgeport, Conn.: "Barnum Festival Juried Art Exhibition"
City Without Walls Gallery, Newark, NJ: "Metro Show"
Foto: New York, NY: "Hand-Colored Photographs"
University of South Florida,Tampa: "Eight Contemporary Photographers"
RH Oosterom, Inc., New York, NY
Queens Museum, New York, NY: "Annual Juried Exhibition"
RH Oosterom, Inc., New York, NY
Just Above Midtown Gallery, New York, NY: "Pocket Art"
Parsons School of Design, New York, NY: "Artists’ Books"
Fellowships, Residencies and Grants:
2014: Art-doc residency, Puicheric, France
2012: MNKK Art Residency, Rebild 2012, Denmark
2010: Canserrat Artist Residency with stipend award, El Bruc, Spain
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2008: BaZtille Guest Studio, Zoetermeer, Netherlands, artist residency
2007: Puffin Foundation Grant
2006: Nelimarkka Museum, Alajarvi, Finland, artist residency
2005: Contemporary Artists Center, N. Adams MA, residency merit award
2004: Dodge Fellowship to the Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
2002: Frans Masereel Center, Kasterlee, Belgium, artist residency
1999: Fellowship in Photography, New Jersey State Council on the Arts
1971-’72: Painting Fellowship, Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA
Education:
Hunter College, CUNY, New York, NY: M.A., Creative Art
SUNY at Binghamton, NY: B.A., Studio Art
Collections:
The Newark Public Library Special Collections Division
Wellesley College Library, Special Collections
NY Public Library, Photography Collection
Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp, Belgium
Frans Masereel Center, Kasterlee, Belgium
Nelimarkka Museum, Finland
Library of Congress, Washington, DC
King St Stephen Museum, Hungary