June Kelly Gallery

Sky Pape
Sky Pape
Winterlude, 2009
39 x 25 ½ inches
Ink on handmade paper

1963 Born Toronto, Canada
Lives and works in New York City

Education
1983-85 The Art Students League of New York, studied with Richard Pousette-Dart,
   Bruce Dorfman and Knox Martin
1982-83 Parsons School of Design, New York
1981-82 Queens University, Canada

Solo Exhibitions
2010 Water Works: Surface Tension-Drawings, June Kelly Gallery, New York
2007 Ink Scissors Paper, 10-year retrospective, River Stone Arts, Haverstraw, NY
Sky Pape: Drawing Breath, Tompkins Gallery, Cedar Crest College, Allentown,
  PA
2006 Drawing Breath, June Kelly Gallery, New York
Drawing Breath: New Work on Paper, d.e.n. contemporary art, Los Angeles,
2004 Sky Pape and Jill Odegaard, Lake George Art Projects, Courthouse Gallery, Lake
  George, NY
2003 Behind the Seen: Saturated Ink Drawings, June Kelly Gallery, New York
2001 Silver Lining: Graphite Drawings, June Kelly Gallery, New York
1999 Inklings, essay by Jonathan Goodman, June Kelly Gallery, New York
1997 Mortal Touchstones, Shenandoah Valley Fine Art Center (Affiliate of the
   Virginia Museum of Fine Arts) Waynesboro, Virginia. Funded in part by
    grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Virginia Commission
    for the Arts, the County of Augusta, and the City of Waynesboro
1995 Terra Incognita, Treasure Room Gallery, New York
1994 Peripheral Visions, Prezant Gallery, Bronx, New York
1993 Private Viewing curated by Francis de Montebello, Marc de Montebello Fine
    Art, Inc., New York
Recent Paintings, Jadite Galleries, New York
1992 Recent Paintings, Ward-Lawrence Gallery, New York
1991 Odd and Normal Scenes, Ward-Lawrence Gallery, New York
1990 Two Worlds Away, Lawrence Gallery, New York

Selected Group Exhibitions
2009 New Digs, d.e.n. contemporary at the Pacific Center, West Hollywood, CA
Creative Venues: Projection Project, curated by Peter Ferko and Anthony
  Archibald J., produced by Artists Unite, an outdoor projection at Nagle Ave.
  & Thayer St., New York
NoMAA 2008/09 Visual Arts Grantees, Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance, New
  York, curated by Rocio Aranda – Alvarado, Special Projects Coordinator, El
  Museo del Barrio, New York
2008 TIMELESS: The Art of Drawing, curated by Ann Aptaker, Morris Museum,
  Morristown, NJ; catalogue
Art on Paper: 40th Anniversary Exhibition, curated by Xandra Eden,
  Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC
2007-08 Visions: Contemporary Drawings from the James T. Dyke Collection, curated by
  Townsend Wolfe, Naples Museum of Art, Fl; traveling exhibition with
  catalogue
2006 cARTalog, The University of Iowa Libraries, Iowa City, IA
Postcards from the Edge, benefit for Visual AIDS, Sikkema Jenkins & Company,
  New York
Holiday Show, George Billis Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2005 Pulp Friction: New Takes on Paper, Betty Barker Gallery, Carriage Barn Arts
  Center, New Canaan, CT
Now: Here: This, Studio Gallery 88, New York
Span, Collaborative Concepts, Beacon, NY
Drawing National II, Montgomery College, Rockville, MD
2003 Cycles, Patterns, Intervals, Fredericksburg Center for the Creative Arts,
  Fredericksburg, VA
2002 Memory and Metaphor, Walsh Library Gallery, Seton Hall University, South
  Orange, NJ
2001 Drawing National, Montgomery College, Rockville, MD
Women & Books: Uncovered, Converse College, Spartanburg, SC
2000 The Collector’s Show, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR
1999 From Hairbread to Wishing Machines, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
1998 Priva B. Gross International, Works on/of Paper, curated by Marilyn Kushner,
  curator of prints and drawings, Brooklyn Museum of Art; City University of
  New York, Queensborough College, NY
Small Works, curated by Ealan Wingate and Ruth Newman, 80 Washington
  Square East Galleries, New York University, New York

Public Collections
Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York
Museum of Modern Art, New York
National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, CA
Solomon R.Guggenheim Museum, New York
The University of Iowa Libraries, Iowa City, IA
Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst, Berlin, Germany
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
Women's Studio Workshop, Rosendale, NY
Dyke Industries Incorporated, Little Rock, AR
The Brain Tumour Foundation of Canada

Selected Grants and Awards
2010 Residency at the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center, Italy
2009 Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance, New York
2008 Northern Manhattan Art Alliance, New York
2005 The E.D. Foundation, New Jersey
2000 The Canada Council for the Arts/Le Conseil des Arts du Canada
1998 The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Inc., New York
1985 Kenneth Hayes Miller Memorial Scholarship, The Art Students League of
  
New York

Lectures
2008 Presentation & roundtable discussion with Northern Manhattan Arts
  Alliance 2007/08 Grantees, Malcolm X and Dr. Betty Shabazz Memorial
  Educational Center, New York
2007 Guest lecturer and visiting artist residency, papermaking studio, Cedar Crest
  College, Allentown, PA
2002 Panel Discussion, Memory and Metaphor, Seton Hall University, South Orange,
  NJ
1999 Gallery Talk, Silver Lining: Graphite Drawings, for Rhode Island
  School of Design MFA class at June Kelly Gallery, New York
1997 Gallery Talk, Mortal Touchstones, Shenandoah Valley Fine Art Center (Affiliate
  of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts), Waynesboro, VA

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