Luisa Caldwell
Education:
1986-87 MFA Sculpture Program, University of Iowa
1986 Bachelor of Arts, Art History, University of Iowa
1985 Italian Studies, Miami University, Urbino, Italy
One-Person Exhibitions and Projects:
2006 “Floralistic,” Florence Lynch Gallery, New York
2005 “BIV (somewhere at this end of the spectrum),” Project Space, Florence Lynch Gallery, New York
2004 “Arabesque,” Florence Lynch Gallery, New York
“Jetfire,” temporary outdoor public sculpture, Village Green, Summit, NJ
2002 Barney’s New York, Window Project, New York
"My House" Florence Lynch Gallery, New York, NY
1999 "Cow Palace" SculptureCenter, Artist-in-Residence, New York, NY
1998 "Nel Blu", Florence Lynch Gallery, New York, NY
1997 "MushRoom", Carriage House, The Islip Museum, East Islip, NY
1996 "From Scratch", window project, Art in General, New York, NY
1995 "The Girl's Room", Katherine E. Nash Gallery, University of Minnesota
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2007 “Sugar Buzz,” Lehman College Art Gallery, New York
2006 “Hallelujah Public Art Festival,” Jackie Robinson Park, The West Harlem Art Fund, New York, NY
“Site 92,” Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY
“Jetfire,” Municipal Building, Summit, NJ
2005 “Art and Illusion: Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation,“ Carnegie Art Museum,
Oxnard, CA
- FIAC, Florence Lynch Gallery, Paris
“Traces d'enfance,” GALERIE RX - Art Contemporain, Paris
“Three contemporary Artists,” Vogue, Condenast Building, Curated by Liz Morina
“Sculpture Key West: by land, sea and air,” Ft. Zachary Taylor, Key West, FL
2004 FIAC (Florence Lynch Gallery), Paris
“Brooklyn Gravity Racers”, Pierogi, 10th Anniversary Exhibition, Brooklyn, NY
“Convergence,” CCNOA, Brussels, Belgium
“Sculpture: By Land, by Sea, by Air,” Art in the Park 2004, curated by Mark Ormond, Key West, FL
“Kenya Art,” Five Myles, collaborative project, curated by Matt Freedman, Brooklyn, NY
2003 “The History of the Lagoon As it Once Was,” Site-Specific Project (Two-person show with
Janet Echelman), Cannareggio, Extra 50 Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
“Scent,” The Proposition (The Fragrance Foundation), New York, Traveled to the Rainbow
Room & Avery Fischer Hall, New York
2002 “TimeLine,” SculptureCenter, Long Island City, NY
2001 Momenta Benefit Auction, Momenta Brooklyn, NY
"Art for Air", benefit auction, Parker’s Box, Brooklyn, NY
2000 SculptureCenter at Saks 5th Avenue, New York, NY
1999 "Fin-de-Siecle Salon", P.S. 122, New York, NY
1998 "Pets", Bronwyn Keenan Gallery, New York, NY
"Ferrocious", The Bodybuilder & Sportsman Gallery, Chicago, IL
"Al & Ruth's Outpost/Kitchen Bonanza", The Kitchen, New York, NY
1997 "Current Undercurrent: Working in Brooklyn", Pierogi flat files at the, Brooklyn Museum of Art, NY
"From The Ground Up", Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, NY
Selected Group Exhibitions Continues:
1997 "In The Pink", Marymount College Gallery, New York, NY.
"The Chamber Pot Show", The Tenement Museum, New York, NY.
"Emerging Sculptors #10", Sculpture Center, New York, NY
1996 "Romper Room", Thread Waxing Space, New York, NY.
"BrookWorld", SoHo Arts Festival, New York, NY.
"Six Sculptors", Long Island University, Brooklyn Campus, NY.
1995 "Con FIGURE", APERTO 95 (Biennale di Venezia), Arci-Gay Venezia, Venice, Italy
1994 "Crest Hardware Show", Brooklyn, NY.
Sculpture Center Annex at Roosevelt Island for Public Sculpture, New York
"Visual Voices/The Female", University of West Florida
1993 "Fear of a Jewish Planet (Let My People Show)", Four Walls, Brooklyn, NY
"Out of Town: The Williamsburg Paradigm", The Krannert Art Museum,
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champagne, Illinois
1992 "Selections from the Slide Registry", Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx, NY
"The Solon of the Mating Spiders", Herron Test-Site, Brooklyn, NY
"The Body Political", Video Anthology, Herron Test-Site, Brooklyn, NY
"The Neurotic Art Show ll; The Return of the Repressed", Artists Space, New York
Awards and Grants:
1999 BCAT/Rotunda Gallery Video Workshop, Full Scholarship, Brooklyn, NY
1998 Manhattan Graphics Center Workshop, Full Scholarship, New York, NY
International Sculpture Center Grant, 17th International Sculpture
Conference- Chicago
1996 The Jerome Foundation Award, Emerging Artist Residency Program,
Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, NY
1994 Best of Show, 13th Annual Metro Show, City Without Walls, Newark, NJ
SculptureCenter Annex at Roosevelt Island for Public Sculpture, New York
1991 Artists Space Grant New York City, NY
1987 First Prize, University of Iowa Student Art Exhibition, selected by Nell Benezra
(Associate Curator, Chicago Art Institute)
Residencies and Visiting Artist Program:
2004 PS 1/MoMA Summer Celebration, collaborative project w/ Robert Hickman, PS 1, LIC, NY
2003 Workshop Artist, in conjunction with “The 1st Annual Long Island City Blimp Race,”
by Olav Westphalen, Sculpture Center, Long Island City, NY
1999 Visiting Artist, School of Visual Arts, summer program, New York, NY
1998 The 2nd US/UK Contemporary Cast Iron Sculpture Seminar,
Franconia Sculpture Park, Minneapolis, MN
1997 Vermont Studio Center, Full Fellowship, Johnson, Vermont
1996 Millay Colony for the Arts, Austerlitz, NY
Visiting Artist, School of Visual Arts, summer program, New York, NY
Visiting Artist, Long Island University, Brooklyn, NY
1998 Visiting Artist, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota
Selected Bibliography:
2006 Ken Johnson “Site 92,” The New York Times, February 24
2005 Margit Bisztray “World-altering Art,” Key Wester, January
2004 Eileen Kinsella, RG. Charles “Art Market,” article with photo, ARTnews, December
Liz Keill “Temporary transportation ‘lifts off’ on Green,” Summit
Independent Press, December 8
Ana Berlin “FIAC,” ArtMagazine.cc, Oct. 28
Kathy Chang “Artists in New York”, Discovery: Cathay Pacific, (photos), July
Selected Bibliography Continues:
2004 *** “Artiste en convergence,” Timeout, June/July, Brussels
Frederique Jourdaa “Rendezvous avec l’art contemporain,” Le Parisien, Oct 21
*** “La FIAC en Image,” Le Quotidien Le Journal des Arts, Oct. 22
Laurel Graeber “Art in Flight”, The New York Times, Fri., July 23
Melissa Camp “Elsewhere Axis,” Greenline, April 8 -30
2003 Shax Reigler “Handmade in New York,” House & Garden, June
2002 Carolyn Gray Anderson Florence Lynch Gallery Presents…, Cat. Essay
2001 Elizabeth Pochoda "The Long View," House & Garden, article w/photo, Aug.
2000 Betty Goodwin "Angeleno," Eclectic Elegance, article w/ photo, Sept/Oct
*** Artforum, photograph, September
1999 "House Beautiful: The Television Series," A&E
Network, Dec. 5 & 11
"Luisa Caldwell-Cow Palace," The New Yorker, Oct. 4
Ken Johnson "Luisa Caldwell, Cow Palace," The NY Times, Fri. Sept. 17
*** "Sculpture and Installation," New York Magazine, Sept. 13
Justing Spring "Luisa Caldwell, Cow Palace," catalogue essay, SculptureCenter
Deborah Everett "SculptureCenter A New Season," NY Arts, article, July/Aug
1998 Mason Riddle "Ironic Art," Saint Paul Pioneer Press, photograph, Sat. May 9
1997 Roberta Smith "Sculpture Adorns the Urban Terrain," The NY
Times, w/photo, Aug.8
1997 Helen A Harrison "Site-Specifics," The NY Times, review, June 8
An Landi “Taking Shape", New York Newsday, review, Friday, May 2
Resident. Cover, "The Chamber Pot Show," Feb. 14-24
Matt Freedman "Emerging Sculptors #10," Review, review, Jan. 15
1996 Janet Koplos "Brookworld," Art in America, review, December
Architecture, letter with photograph, September
Holland Cotter "Sculpture That Basks in Summer," The NY Times, Aug, 9
1995 Jennifer Annie "Twelve Directions," The Minnesota Daily, review, Feb. 9
1994 Holland Cotter "Sculpture Under the Sky: Free, Daring and Soon
Departed," The NY Times, review, Aug. 26
1993 Jonathan Fineberg “Out of Town: The Williamsburg Paradigm,”
catalogue, Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead
Pavilion, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champagne, 1993