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Philemona
Williamson
Sudden Passages
Boundary Crossing,
2008
Oil on linen, 48 x 60
inches
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Born
in New York
Lives and works in Upper Montclair, New Jersey |
Education |
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1979 |
MA,
New York University, NY |
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1973 |
BA,
Bennington College, VT |
Selected Solo Exhibitions |
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2008 |
Sudden Passage, essay by Cynthia Nadelman, June Kelly Gallery, New
York |
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2006 |
New
Paintings, June Kelly Gallery, New York |
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2003 |
New
Paintings, June Kelly Gallery, New York; catalogue |
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2001 |
Philemona Williamson/Barbara Friedman, curated
by Catherine Bernard, Amelie A. Wallace
Gallery, SUNY College at Old Westbury, NY |
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2000 |
New
Paintings, June Kelly Gallery, New York |
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1999 |
Time
and Memory: Paintings by Philemona Williamson, John Michael Kohler
Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI |
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1998 |
Recent
Paintings, June Kelly Gallery, New York |
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1995 |
New
Paintings, June Kelly Gallery, New York |
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1994 |
Philemona
Williamson: Fables and Fantasies, Hypo-Bank, New York;
catalogue |
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1993 |
Inaugural
Exhibition, Flushing Council on Culture & Arts, New York
Selected Paintings, Pennsylvania State University,
University Park, PA |
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1992 |
New
Paintings, June Kelly Gallery, New York
Powers Art Gallery, East Stroudsburg University, PA |
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1991 |
African
American Museum, Hempstead, New York |
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1990 |
Paintings,
June Kelly Gallery, New York
Fine Arts Gallery, Southampton College of Long Island University,
Southampton, New York |
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1989 |
Wenger
Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
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1988 |
Philemona
Williamson: Recent Paintings, Queens Museum of Art,
Queens, NY |
Grants and Awards |
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2008 |
Two-week
Residency, Bau Institute, Otranto, Italy |
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1997 |
Award in
Painting, Joan Mitchell Foundation , New York |
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1993-1994 |
Ludwig
Vogelstein Grant, NY |
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1992 |
Arts
in Transit Poster Commission, Union Square Station, NY |
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1991 |
Fellowship in Painting, New York Foundation for the Arts |
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1989-1990 |
Pollock-Krasner
Foundation Grant, New York |
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1988 |
Exhibition Grant, Artists Space, New York |
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1987-1988 |
Fellowship in Painting, National Endowment for the Arts, Washington, DC |
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1983 |
Artist-in-Residence, The Millay Colony for the Arts, Austerlitz, NY |
Public and Corporate Collections |
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Mint Museum of Art,
Charlotte, NC
Hampton University Museum, VA
Reader's Digest, Pleasantville, NY
AT&T, NJ |
Special Projects/Commissions |
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2006-2007 |
"Seasons," 18 painterly fused glass panels, commissioned by the MTA-Art in Transit,
Livonia Avenue Station,
Brooklyn, New York |
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2003-2004 |
“Folktales from Around the World,” four glass mosaic murals, measuring
6 feet x 15 feet & 6 feet x 8 feet,
commissioned by the New York City Board of Education,
the New York City School Construction
Authority, the New York City Department of
Cultural Affairs and Percent for Art
Program, Glen Oaks Campus School, Queens |
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1999 |
Art in
Embassies Program, painting selected for loan to the US Embassy in
Madagascar |
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