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BORN:

Bronxville, New York, 1950.

LIVES:

New York City.

EDUCATION:

Maryland Institute of Art, Baltimore, M.F.A., 1980.
Smith College, Northampton, MAT, 1974.
Trinity College, Hartford, B.A., cum laude, 1972.

AWARDS/GRANTS:

Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant, 1996.
New York Foundation for the Arts, Drawing - Printmaking Category, 1995.
Project Residency Award, Hillwood Art Museum and New York State Council on Arts, 1992.
National Endowment for the Arts, Sculpture Fellowship, 1990.
Artist-in-Residence, Altos de Chavon, Dominican Republic, 1984.
Zaner Corporation Purchase Award from Small Works ‘83, 1983.

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

"Lesley Dill — New Sculpture." George Adams Gallery, New York, 2000.
"Lesley Dill: Word and Image." Suzanne H. Arnold Art Gallery, Lebanon Valley College, Annville, PA, 2000.*
"Lesley Dill — Tilt." Arthur Roger Gallery. New Orleans, Louisiana, 2000.
"These Saw Visions: Billboards by Lesley Dill." Organized by Presentation House Gallery. Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, January- February, 2000.
"Lesley Dill - New Works." Bernard Toale Gallery. Boston, November, 1999.
"Lesley Dill." Weinstein Gallery. Minneapolis, October, 1999.
"New Cast Works." Byron Cohen Gallery. Kansas City, March, 1999.
"Work In Progress: Lesley Dill." Mississippi Museum of Art. Jackson, Mississippi, 1999.
"Lesley Dill: The Poetics of Form." Widener Gallery, Trinity College, Hartford; Portland Art Museum, Maine; List Gallery, Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania; Selby Gallery, Ringling School of Art and Design, Sarasota: 1998-99.*
"Lesley Dill: A Secret Told..." George Adams Gallery. New York City, October, 1998.
"I Reach Along the Cord of Speech." Quartet Editions. New York City, 1998.
"These Saw Visions..." University of West Florida Art Gallery. Pensacola, 1998.
Two-person exhibition (with Sudarshan Shetty): Nature Morte Gallery. New Delhi, India, 1998.
"Lesley Dill." Locus Gallery. St. Louis, 1998.
"Lesley Dill." Galeria Thomas Cohn. Sao Paulo, 1997.*
"Language and Desire." Equinox Gallery. Vancouver, 1997.
"Lesley Dill: In Black and White." George Adams Gallery. New York City, 1997.*
"Lesley Dill: A Mouth Full of Words." Art Museum, University of Memphis. Tennessee, 1997.*

*Catalogue

Lesley Dill, page 2

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS CONTINUED:

"Banners and Figurative Sculpture." Susan Cummins Gallery. Mill Valley, California, 1996.
"Installation and Performance." Creteil Maison des Arts. 1996.
"Voices in the Air." Cohen Berkowitz Gallery. Kansas City, 1996.
"Lesley Dill: The Poetic Body." Orlando Museum of Art. Florida, 1996.*
"Voices in My Head." George Adams Gallery. New York City, 1995.
"Lesley Dill: An Installation." Gallery at Dieu Donne Papermill. New York City, 1995.
"Clothe My Naked Body." Quartet Editions. New York City, 1995.
Frumkin/Adams Gallery. New York City, 1993, 1995.
Bernard Toale Gallery. Boston, 1993, 1996.
Arthur Roger Gallery. New Orleans, 1993, 1994*, 1997.
Queens Museum. New York City, 1992.*
Sandler-Hudson Gallery. Atlanta, 1992, 1993.
"Dill, Dickson." Ann Jaffe Gallery. Miami, 1993.
Gracie Mansion Gallery. New York City, 1991, 1994.
G.H. Dalsheimer Gallery. Baltimore, 1987.
Carlo Lamagna Gallery. New York City, 1987.
Galerie Taub. Philadelphia, 1985.
55 Mercer Street Gallery. New York City, 1983.

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS (1999-2000):

"Domesticity Revisted." The von Liebig Art Center, Naples, FL, 2000.*
"Ethereal & Material." Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, Wilmington, 2000.*
"The Image of Text." Sawhill Gallery, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Virginia, 2000.
American Embassy Windhoek, Namibia, 2000.
"Collecting...Passion and Perspective of Jodi Caron." Sandy Carson Gallery, Denver, CO 2000.
"Back East: Artist's Books from the Northeastern States." San Francisco Center for the Book, 2000.
"Mt. Royal 25th Exhibition (tribute to Babe Shapiro)." Maryland Institute, College of Art, 2000.
"Recent Works." Jim Kempner Fine Art, New York, 2000.
"Confluence: Artists’ Books at Five Miles." Five Miles, Brooklyn, NY, 2000.
"Heaven and Earth: The Figure in Religious and Secular Art." Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, 2000.
"Remnants of Memory: Contemporary American Art in Textile." Asheville Art Museum. Asheville, North Carolina, 2000.*
"Moving Picture Show — Featuring Lesley Dill, Sara Hornbacher, Elizabeth Prouvost, & Cornel Rubino with Dan Walsh." Dalton Galleries, Agnes Scott College. Atlanta, Georgia, 2000.*
"Beyond the Press: Innovations in Print." Hand Workshop Art Center, Richmond, 2000.
"Trunk Show." Zoller Gallery, Penn State University. University Park, Pennsylvania, 2000.
"The Likeness of Being." DC Moore Gallery. New York City, 2000.
"Large Drawings from the Arkansas Arts Center Foundation Collection." Circulated by Smith-Kramer Fine Art Services, Kansas City, MO; traveled to the Columbus Museum, Georgia; Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio; Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson; Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, Iowa; Hunter Museum of Art, Chattanooga, Tennessee; Center for the Visual Arts, Metropolitan State College, Denver, Colorado; Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia, Athens; Dubuque Museum of Art, Iowa; Washington State University Museum of Art, Pullman, Washington; 1999-2001.*
"Contemporary Narratives in American Prints." Whitney Museum of American Art at Champion, New York, 1999-2000.
"Female." Wessel and O’Connor Gallery. New York, 1999.
"Artists for Mumia 911." George Adams Gallery, 1999.
"The Body in Question: Tracing, Displacing, and Remaking the Human Figure in Contemporary Art." The Speed Art Museum. Louisville, Kentucky, 1999.
"Photo99@thomascohn.br." Galeria Thomas Cohn. Sao Paulo, Brazil, 1999.
"Contemporary Art from India." The Mary Place Gallery. Paddington, India, 1999.
"Body." Salina Art Center, Salina, Kansas, 1999.
American Embassy Geneva, Switzerland, 1999.

*Catalogue

Lesley Dill, page 3

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS (1999-2000) CONTINUED:

"Looking Foward Looking Black." Elaine L. Jacob Gallery, Detroit, Michigan; traveled toHoughton House Gallery, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, New York; The Yager Museum, Hartwick College, Oneonta, New York; Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Arizona, 1999-2000.*
"Art About Art." George Adams Gallery, New York, 1999.
"Addressing the Century: 100 Years of Art & Fashion." Hayward Gallery. London, 1998; traveled to Kuntsmuseum Wolfsburg. Germany, 1999.*

*Catalogue

PERFORMANCES:

"Worst Case Scenario." P.S. 122. New York City, April 22, 1999.
"Worst Case Scenario." Whitney Museum of American Art. New York City, June 4, 1998.
"Paris Speaking Dress." Maison des Arts de Creteil. Paris, April, 1996.*
"Sometimes I Feel Skinless (with Donna Masini and Tom Sleigh)." George Adams Gallery. New York City, October 12, 1995.*
"Speaking Dress." Guggenheim Museum (Soho). New York City.
"Dada Poem Wedding Dress." Dada Ball, Webster Hall. New York City, October 12, 1994.
"Dada Poem Wedding Dress." Exit Art. New York City, September 28, 1994.
"Speaking Dress." Gracie Mansion Gallery. New York City, May 3, 1994.
"Speaking Dress" (with Sue de Beer, Petra Katrina Haff, Erin Loughran and Allison Smith). The Kitchen. New York City, April 2, 1994.

*performances on video

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS:

Achenbach Foundation, M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco
American Embassy, Geneva
Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock
Art Institute of Chicago
Cleveland Museum of Art
Elvehjem Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Florida International University, Miami
Greenville County Museum of Art, South Carolina
High Museum, Atlanta
Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art and Design, Kansas City
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, Washington
Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, New York
Museum of Modern Art, New York City
Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio
Orlando Museum of Art
Progressive Corporation, Mayfield Heights, Ohio
The Prudential Insurance Company of America, Newark
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence
Spencer Museum, University of Kansas, Lawrence
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Sydney and Frances Lewis Collection, Richmond
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City
Yale University Art Museum, New Haven
Zaner Corporation, Rochester, New York