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Lives and works in New York, NY

1992-96 The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Lesley College, M.A

1992-94 Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, Bard College, New York, M.F.A

1991 School of Visual Arts, New York

1987-88 Rotary Foundation Post-graduate Scholar ,University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

1985-86 International Honors Program ( in Europe, Asia and Australia)

1983-87 Harvard University, Cambridge, B.A, Magna Cum Laude with highest honors

2004 - Site-Specific Sculpture on Waterfront, Art Rotterdam

- Florence Lynch Gallery, New York

2002+ - Public Sculpture for Placa Cidade de Salvador, Porto, Portugal

Permenent sculpture 60 x 80 meters for waterfront redevelopment.

- Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, New York

Proposed Site-specific sculpture installation

- BRAC Centre, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Permanent Commission to suspend from 22-story headquarters building

2002 - Art Basel Miami Beach, Art Projects, Bass Museum Courtyard, (Florence Lynch Gallery)

- The Armory Show, Outdoor Installations, Piers 88 and 90, (Florence Lynch Gallery), NY

2001-02 - "Target swooping down....bullseye! (variation 3)" Florence Lynch Gallery, New York

2001 "Target swooping down…Bullseyes (variation II)", an installation in a stone courtyard

built in 1485 A.D. Casa di Burgos, Casa di Cordon, Burgos, Spain

- ARCO International Contemporary Art Fair "Target Swooping Down…Bullseye!",

Entrance Courtyard of Parque Ferial Juan Carlos I Madrid, Spain (Florence Lynch

Gallery, NY)

- "Floating Red Circles: Installations by Japan Foundation Fellow Janet Echelman",

Honen-In (Honen Buddhist Monastery),Kyoto, Japan

2000 - "Gravity’s Angel:" Florence Lynch Gallery, New York

- "Roadside Shrine: Cone Ridge", on interstate Highway I-45, Houston, TX

(commissioned by Buffalo Bayou Art Park for International Sculpture Center Conference)

- "Floating: a site-specific sculpture" Harvard University, Randolph Courtyard

1999 - "Site Specific Sculpture by Janet Echelman", Atrium Gallery, University of

Connecticut, Storrs, CT

- "Eye of the Storm" a Site-Specific sculpture, Harvard University, Randolph

Courtyard, Cambridge, MA

1998 - "Inside-outside" site-specific Installation, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University,

Cambridge Massachusetts

- "Trying to hide with your tail in the air"; permanent commission

Museum of the Centre of Europe ( Europos Parkas), Vilnius, Lithuania.

- "South India Project; in the garden of earthly delights" permanent commission

1997 - "Sculpture Combining Bronze and Net" traveling exhibition at

Birla Museum, Calcutta, Birla Century Bhavan Gallery, Bombay

National Institute of Design Gallery, Ahmedabad, India. Jointly sponsored by the

US Embassy in Bombay, the US Educational Foundation in India, and N.I.D.

1997 - "Sojourn: Works from Asia and America 1987-1997" TECO Plaza Gallery, Tampa Fl

1996 - "Wax Hands" Sackler Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge Massachusetts

1995 - "Casa De Luz:" Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University., Cambridge

- "The Invisible Figure: Works," Adams Artspace, Harvard College, Cambridge

1994 - "Faculty Exhibit Series, Currents," Harvard Graduate School of Design,

- "Recent Works for San Miguel by Echelman," Josh Kligerman Gallery,

San Miguel de Allende, Mexico

1993 - "Janet Echelman: New Vision" Tampa Museum of Art, Florida

- "Two Worlds, One artist: Works from Indonesia and America"

Jakarta Cultural torch Museum, Indonesia

1992 - "From Boston to Bali: Recent Work" Harvard University, Adams House,

Cambridge, MA

1991 - "Recent works from the Bali Studio" National Bank Plaza,

with assistance from Tampa Museum of Art

1990 - Fung Ping Shan Museum, University of Hong Kong

- "Acrylic-Batik-Crayon: Works from Bali," Kamarkini Gallery, Bali, Indonesia

1989 Barbara Mann Performing Arts Hall, Florida

- "Batik Collage: New Works from Bali" curated by Robert Rauschenberg,

Department of Fine Arts Gallery, university of Hong Kong

- "Recent Work from the Bali Studio" University of South Florida Art Museum,

One Tampa City Center

1988 - "Recent Work from the Bali Studio" Central Gallery, The Fringe Club, Hong Kong

1985 - "Recent Painting", Harvard University, Mather House Atrium Gallery, Cambridge

2003 "Flutter," Site-Specific Project ( Two-person show with Luisa Caldwell), Cannareggio,

Extra 50 Biennale di Venezia, Venice Italy

2002 "The Coaster Project, Destination: The World" TransCultural Exchange

Fuller Museum of Art, Brockton, Massachusetts, Florence Lynch Gallery, New York

2000 "Winner of the Massachusetts Cultural Council Awards" Boston Sculptors

Chapel Gallery, Newton, Massachusetts

1999 ART / OMI Foundation, Omi, New York

"Environmental Inc. Invitational", curated by Susan Stoops

Fuller Art Museum, Brockton, Massachusetts

1995 "Invitational commemorating International Women’s Conference in Beijing"

Harvard University, Lehman Hall Gallery

1994 "Faculty Exhibition", DeCordova Museum, School of Art Gallery

1993 "30^th Anniversary Alumni Exhibition"

Carpenter Center for Visual Arts, Luis Sert Gallery, Harvard University

1991-92 " 40^th Anniversary Juried Exhibition of Florida Craftmen"

traveling to Tampa Museum of Art, Florida State University Museum of Art

University of Florida Art Museum, Vero Beach Art Center, Daytona

Beach Museum of Fine Art

1991 "Bali International Fine Arts Exhibition", Linda Garland Gallery, Bali, Indonesia.

1988 "1988 Modern Art Competition Winners, Philippe Charriol Foundation" trveling

exhibition in Hong Kong, Kowloon, and New Territories

 

 

2000-2001 Japan Foundation, Visual Artist Grant to make sculpture in Kyoto, Japan.

Bogliasco Foundation, Residency in Genoa, Italy

American Institute of Indian Studies, Senior Creative, Artist Grant.

Heinrich Boll Artist Residency, Achill Island, County Mayo, Ireland

2000 Kohler Arts / Industry Fellowship, metal residency at Kohler Factory in Wisconsin

1999 Pollack - Krasner Foundation, New York, NY

Massachusetts Cultural Council, Individual Artist Grant, highest level.

Art/Omi International Artists in Residency, Omi, New York

1998 America Center, Lithuania. Grant for Permanent Sculpture in Lithuania.

Museum Centre of Europe, Grant for Residency and Permanent Sculpture.

Fundacion Valparaiso, Grant for Artist’s Residency in Spain.

1997-98 Fulbright Senior Lectureship in Visual Art, Extension Grant

G.V. Memorial trust, grant for building permanent sculpture in South India.

1997 Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Grant for Artist’s Residency.

1996-97 Fulbright Senior Lectureship in Visual Art. Researched and lectured in India.

1996 Harvard University of Art Museums, Grant for installation, Sackler Museum.

1995 Harvard University Art Museums, Grant for installation, Fogg Museum.

1993-99 Office for the Arts of Harvard-Radcliffe College, Multiple grants for art.

1987-88 Rotary International Foundation, one-year Graduate Art Scholarship (Hong Kong)

1987 Harvard Film Archive, Permanent Collection’s Finishing Grant for 16mm film.

2003 James E. Rondeau "‘Art Projects: Art from the Gallery to the Street, to the Parks, on the Ocean

and in the skies’ 2002-12-04 until 2002-12-08 Art Basel Miami Beach

Miami Beach, FL, USA United States of America ", Absolute arts.com/ ArtsNews

2002 Virginia Alves "Escultura marca a fusao entre Porto e Matosinhos," Jornal de noticias,

April 30.

Denise Carvalho "Janet Echelmans Sculptural Interventions - Art that integrates form and

space," Sculpture Magazine (Jan.-Feb. 2002) (reprint Catalogue Essay)

Deborah Frizzell "Nomad Installation", NYArts, February

winter ’02. (reprint Catalogue Essay)

2001 Cristina Martinez "Echelman relaciona el espacio con la escultura," El Correo de Burgos,

Tuesday, June 12

Victoria Romero "Janet Echelman, Artista noramericana," Diario de Burgos, June 13

enriqueta Antolin "La Escultura ya no es lo que era," El Pais, Feb. 17

Santiago B. Olmo "Arte Publico, el Reto de Las Ciudades," El Correo De ARCO, Feb. 15

2000 *** "Sight to See", The Boston Globe Dec. 13

Chris Kibbe The Harvard Gazette, May 4

Christin Temin Exhibit of Massachusetts Cultural Council Sculpture Award Winners,

The Boston Globe , February