Ursula Von Rydingsvard
Born 1942, Deensen, Germany
Lives and works in New York, New York
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2011
“Ursula von Rydingsvard: Sculpture 1991-2009,” SculptureCenter, Queens, New York; Traveled to deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, Massachusetts and Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, Ohio through March 2012
2010
"Deckle Deckle," Dieu Donné, New York, New York
"New Works with Paper from Dieu Donne and a Recent Sculpture," Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
"ERRATUS," Galerie Lelong, New York, New York
2009
"Primitive Pull," Arranged by Pilane Heritage Society & supported by the National Heritage Board of Sweden, Tjorn, Sweden
2007
Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon
Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, New York
2006
"Sylwetka," Galerie Lelong, New York
"Mad. Sq. Art: Ursula von Rydingsvard," Madison Square Park, New York, New York
2004
Galerie Lelong, Zürich, Switzerland
2003
"Recent Sculpture," Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania
"A Psychological Landscape," Butler Gallery, The Castle, Kilkenny, Ireland
"Primitive Jarring," Galerie Lelong, New York, New York
2002
"On an Epic Scale," Neuburger Museum, SUNY Purchase, New York
Galerie Lelong, Paris, France
2000
Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
Hill Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan
"Bowl With Folds," Doris C. Freedman Plaza, Central Park, New York
Galerie Lelong, New York, New York
Galerie Lelong, Zurich, Switzerland
1999
Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
1998
"Ursula von Rydingsvard: Sculpture," Madison Art Center, Madison, Wisconsin; traveled through 1999 to Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire; Chicago Cultural Center; Chicago, Illinois; and The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii
Byron Cohen Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri
1997
Yorkshire Sculpture Park, England; traveled to Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri; and Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, Indiana
Galerie Lelong, New York, New York
"For Ursie A," T.F. Green Airport, Providence, Rhode Island
1996
Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island
1995
"Socks on my Spoons," University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts
University of Wyoming Art Museum, Laramie, Wyoming
1994
Galerie Lelong, New York, New York
Metro Tech Plaza, Brooklyn, New York
1992
Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, New York (Ten-year retrospective)
Zamek Ujazdowski- Contemporary Art Center, Warsaw, Poland
1991
Lorence Monk Gallery, New York, New York
1990
Lorence Monk Gallery, New York, New York
1990
The Fabric Workshop, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Capp Street Project, San Francisco, California
1989
Feigenson/Preston Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan
Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
1988
Exit Art, New York, New York
Laumeier Sculpture Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri
1985
Studio Bassanese, Trieste, Italy
1984
Bette Stoler Gallery, New York, New York
1982
Rosa Esman Gallery, New York, New York
1981
Rosa Esman Gallery, New York, New York
1980
55 Mercer, New York, New York
1979
55 Mercer, New York, New York
1978
Robert Freidus Gallery, New York, New York
1977
55 Mercer, New York, New York
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2011
“Glasstress 2011,” Istituto Veneto di Scienze ed Arti, collateral event to the 54th international art exhibition, Venice Biennale, Italy
“GOLDMINE: Contemporary Works From the Collection of Sirje and Michael Gold,” University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach, California
“Drawn/Taped/Burned: Abstraction on Paper,” Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, New York
2010
"5+5: New Perspectives," Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, New York
“Summertime,” Hill Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan
"Five Decades of Passion," Part Two: The Founding of the Center, 1989 -1991 – We are the World: Figures and Portraits, Fisher Landau Center for Art, Long Island City, New York
2009
"Modern and Contemporary Art at Dartmouth," Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire
"With You I Want to Live: The Collection of Francie Bishop Good & David Horvitz," Museum of Art Ford Lauderdale, Nova Southeastern University, Fort Lauderdale, Texas
"The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection: Fifty Works for Fifty States," Speed Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky
"Sculpture at Pilane 2009," Arranged by Pilane Heritage Society & supported by the National Heritage Board of Sweden, Tjorn, Sweden
2008
"Landmarks," University of Texas, Austin, Texas
"Origins," Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, New York
"Drawn by Sculptors," William Shearburn Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri
"Sculpture: A Wyoming Invitational," University of Wyoming Art Museum, Laramie, Wyoming
"A Year in Drawing," Galerie Lelong, New York, New York
2007
"Out There," The Art Students League of New York, New York, New York
2006
Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, Miami, Florida
"From Postwar to Postmodernism: Three Decades of Columbia Visual Arists," LeRoy Neiman Gallery, Columbia University, New York, New York
"The Bong Show," Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York, New York
POZA, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT
From Postwar to Postmodernism, LeRoy Neiman Gallery, Columbia University School of the Arts
2005
"The Art of 9/11," Apexart, New York, NY
"City Art," Center for Architecture, New York, New York
"Eco-photo: Art as if Nature Mattered," Dorsky Gallery, Long Island City, New York
"Material Terrain: A Sculptural Exploration of Landscape and Place,"Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis, Missouri; traveling through 2008 to Museum of Art and History, McPherson Center, Santa Cruz, CA; Palm Springs Art Museum, FL; University of Arizona, AZ; Amarillo Museum of Art, TX; Memphis Brooks, TN; Herron School of Art, Purdue, IL; Cheekwood Museum and Botanical Garden, TN; Columbia Museum of Art, SC; Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, FL; Beach Museum of Art, Manhattan, Kansas
"New at the Neuberger: Recent Acquisitions," Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, New York
2002
"Lesley Dill and Ursula Von Rydingsvard," Byron C. Cohen Gallery, Baltimore, Maryland
"Encounter at the Bass Museum: Installation Performances," Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, Florida
2001
"Clay On The Wall," Gallery 128, New York, New York
2000
"Silver and Gold," Imago Galleries, Palm Desert, California
"The End: An Independent Vision of the History of Contemporary Art," Exit Art, New York, New York
1999
"GEEZE LOUISE, Art After Louise Nevelson," Educational Alliance Gallery, New York
"Drip, Blow, Burn: Forces of Nature in Contemporary Art," Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, New York
1998
"Sculptors and Their Environments," Pratt Institute, New York, New York
"Masters of the Masters: MFA Faculty of the School of Visual Arts," Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio
1997
"A Moveable Feast," David Klein Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan
"Wood Work," Fisher Landau Center, Long Island City, New York
1995
"The Shape of Sound," Exit Art, New York, New York
"Beyond Gender," Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, New York
"Body as Metaphor," curated by Josephine Gear, Procter Art Center, Bard College, Annandale-On-Hudson, New York
"Crossing Counties: 20th Century Art from Private Collections in Westchester and Fairfield Counties," Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, New York
1994
29th Annual Exhibition of Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, North Carolina
"Landscape/Not Landscape," Gallery Camino, Boca Raton, Florida
"Landscape as Metaphor," curated by Martin Friedman, Columbus Art Museum, Columbus, Ohio and Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado
"Beyond Nature: Wood into Art," Lowe Art Museum, Coral Gables, Florida
"American Academy Invitational Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture," The American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, granted award
Galerie Lelong, New York, New York
Three Rivers Art Festival, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
1993
"Art on Paper," Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, North Carolina
"Drawings," Montgomery-Glasoe Fine Art, Minneapolis, Minnesota
"The Second Dimension: Twentieth Century Sculptors' Drawings from the Brooklyn Museum," Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York
Galerie Lelong, New York, New York
"Grounds for Sculpture," Johnson Atelier, Technical Institute of Sculpture, Merceville, New Jersey
1992
"Zygmunt, A Collaboration by Judy Pfaff and Ursula von Rydingsvard," The Cultural Space, New York, New York
"Then & Now," Philippe Staib Gallery, New York, New York
1991
"The Hybrid State," Exit Art, New York, New York
"Five Central European Artists," Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, Illinois, curated by Gregory Knight and Lanny Silverman
"Sowers of Myth," Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, Illinois
"Jestesmy," Central Bureau for Art Exhibitions-ZACHETA, Warsaw, Poland; curated by Wieslawa Wierzchowska and Elizabeta Dzikowska
1990
Outdoor Sculpture, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota (through 1993)
"Out of Wood," curated by Josephine Gear, Whitney Museum of Contemporary Art,"Philip Morris Branch, New York, New York
"The Art of Drawing," Lehman College of Art Gallery, Bronx, New York
"Diverse Representations," The Morris Museum, Morristown, New Jersey
1989
"Recent Acquisitions," Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York
"New Acquisitions," Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York
"100 Drawings by Women," Hillwood Art Gallery, C. W. Post, Greenvale, New York
Blum-Helman, New York, New York, curated by Judy Collischan van Wagner
"Totem," Addison Gallery, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts, curated by Jock Reynolds
"Ellen Driscoll, Robert Lobe, and Ursula von Rydingsvard," Damon Brandt Gallery, New York, New York
"Encore: Celebrating Fifty Years," Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, curated by Sarah Rogers-Lafferty
"Sculpture," Krygier/Landau Contemporary Art Gallery, Santa Monica, California
1988
"Life Force," Robeson Center Gallery, Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey, curated by Alison Weld
1987
"Sculpture of the Eighties: Aycock, Ferrara, Frank, Lasch, Miss, Pfaff, Saar, Sperry, von Rydingsvard, Zucker," Queens Museum, Flushing, New York, curated by Ileen Sheppard
"Standing Ground," Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, curated by Sarah Rogers-Lafferty
The Levels of Volume, Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio, curated by Judy Pfaff
1985
"Selections from the Collection," Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut
"Judith Murray and Ursula von Rydingsvard," Hillwood Art Gallery, C.W. Post Campus, Greenvale, New York
"In Three Dimensions: Recent Sculptures by Women," Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York, curated by Jessica Cusick
1984
"The Ways of Wood," OIA, Queens College, NY
Henri Gallery, Washington, D.C.
"Transformation of the Minimal Style," SculptureCenter, New York, New York
Jack Tilton Gallery, New York, New York
1983
Group Sculpture Exhibition, Bette Stoler Gallery, New York, New York
"55 Mercer/12 Years," 55 Mercer Gallery, New York, New York
1981
"Architecture by Artists," Rosa Esman Gallery, New York, New York
"55 Mercer: 10 Sculptors," Fine Arts Gallery, Stony Brook, New York, curated by Lawrence Alloway
1980
Sculpture exhibition in conjunction with the XI International Sculpture Conference, Maryland Institute, College Art Gallery, Baltimore, Maryland
"Nineteen at Twenty Six," 26 Federal Plaza, New York, New York, sponsored by the Cultural Council Foundation
"Site Sights: Outdoor Sculpture at Pratt," Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York
1979
"NY/8," Joe and Emily Lowe Art Gallery, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York, sponsored by the N.Y. State Council on Arts
"Seven Sensibilities," Thorpe Intermediate Gallery, Sparkill, New York
"Twin Tower I, New York City," a sculpture installation Artists by the Sea, Newhouse Gallery, Snug
Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, New York
1978
"Small Works," 55 Mercer, New York, New York
Indoor-Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition, P.S. 1, Long Island City, New York
OIA Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition, Wards Island, New York
Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition, East Hampton, Long Island, New York, curated by Doris Freedman
New York Institute of Technology, Long Island, New York
Battery Park, New York, New York
Pelham Bay Park, Bronx, New York
1977
"Wood and Other Works," Central Hall Gallery, Port Washington, New York
"Wood," Nassau County Museum of Fine Arts, Roslyn, New York
1976
"This Doesn't Look Like a Work of Art II," Truman Gallery, New York, New York
"Contemporary Reflections," Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut
1975
Bronx Museum of Art, Bronx, New York
Corcoran Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Lowe Art Museum, Coral Gables, Florida
GRANTS AND AWARDS
2008
Rappaport Prize, DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA
Member, American Academy of Arts and Letters
2007
Artist in Residence, American Academy in Rome, Rome, Italy
2000
2nd prize, Best Show in a Commercial Gallery, International Association of Art Critics
1997
Joan Mitchell Award
1994
Academy Award in Art, American Academy of Arts and Letters, NY, NY
American section of the International Art Critics, best small museum exhibition award for
1991-92 season for "Ursula von Rydingsvard: Sculpture" at Storm King Art Center
1991
Honorary Doctorate, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
1986-87
National Endowment for the Arts, Individual Artists Grant
1985
Griswald Traveling Grant - Yale University
1983-84
Guggenheim Fellowship
Athena Foundation Grant
1980
CAPS, Creative Artists Program Service
1979
National Endowment for the Arts
1978
America the Beautiful Fund
1978
New York State Council on the Arts
1975
Fulbright-Hays Travel Grant
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut
Baruch College, City University of New York, New York
William Benton Museum of Art, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut
Bloomberg Building, New York, New York
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York
Centre for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland
Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio
Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan
Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, Coral Gables, Florida
T.F. Green Airport, Providence, Rhode Island
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth, New Hampshire
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri
Laumeier Sculpture Park, St Louis, Missouri
Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, Wisconsin
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, Washington
Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, Florida
Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, New York
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri
North Carolina Art Museum, Raleigh, North Carolina
Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida
Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, Florida
Queens Family Courthouse, Jamaica, New York
Speed Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky
Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, New York
Virginia Museum of Fine Art, Richmond, Virginia
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York
Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut
www.ursulavonrydingsvard.net
Lives and works in New York, New York
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2011
“Ursula von Rydingsvard: Sculpture 1991-2009,” SculptureCenter, Queens, New York; Traveled to deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, Massachusetts and Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, Ohio through March 2012
2010
"Deckle Deckle," Dieu Donné, New York, New York
"New Works with Paper from Dieu Donne and a Recent Sculpture," Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
"ERRATUS," Galerie Lelong, New York, New York
2009
"Primitive Pull," Arranged by Pilane Heritage Society & supported by the National Heritage Board of Sweden, Tjorn, Sweden
2007
Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon
Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, New York
2006
"Sylwetka," Galerie Lelong, New York
"Mad. Sq. Art: Ursula von Rydingsvard," Madison Square Park, New York, New York
2004
Galerie Lelong, Zürich, Switzerland
2003
"Recent Sculpture," Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania
"A Psychological Landscape," Butler Gallery, The Castle, Kilkenny, Ireland
"Primitive Jarring," Galerie Lelong, New York, New York
2002
"On an Epic Scale," Neuburger Museum, SUNY Purchase, New York
Galerie Lelong, Paris, France
2000
Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
Hill Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan
"Bowl With Folds," Doris C. Freedman Plaza, Central Park, New York
Galerie Lelong, New York, New York
Galerie Lelong, Zurich, Switzerland
1999
Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
1998
"Ursula von Rydingsvard: Sculpture," Madison Art Center, Madison, Wisconsin; traveled through 1999 to Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire; Chicago Cultural Center; Chicago, Illinois; and The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii
Byron Cohen Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri
1997
Yorkshire Sculpture Park, England; traveled to Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri; and Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, Indiana
Galerie Lelong, New York, New York
"For Ursie A," T.F. Green Airport, Providence, Rhode Island
1996
Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island
1995
"Socks on my Spoons," University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts
University of Wyoming Art Museum, Laramie, Wyoming
1994
Galerie Lelong, New York, New York
Metro Tech Plaza, Brooklyn, New York
1992
Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, New York (Ten-year retrospective)
Zamek Ujazdowski- Contemporary Art Center, Warsaw, Poland
1991
Lorence Monk Gallery, New York, New York
1990
Lorence Monk Gallery, New York, New York
1990
The Fabric Workshop, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Capp Street Project, San Francisco, California
1989
Feigenson/Preston Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan
Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
1988
Exit Art, New York, New York
Laumeier Sculpture Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri
1985
Studio Bassanese, Trieste, Italy
1984
Bette Stoler Gallery, New York, New York
1982
Rosa Esman Gallery, New York, New York
1981
Rosa Esman Gallery, New York, New York
1980
55 Mercer, New York, New York
1979
55 Mercer, New York, New York
1978
Robert Freidus Gallery, New York, New York
1977
55 Mercer, New York, New York
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2011
“Glasstress 2011,” Istituto Veneto di Scienze ed Arti, collateral event to the 54th international art exhibition, Venice Biennale, Italy
“GOLDMINE: Contemporary Works From the Collection of Sirje and Michael Gold,” University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach, California
“Drawn/Taped/Burned: Abstraction on Paper,” Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, New York
2010
"5+5: New Perspectives," Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, New York
“Summertime,” Hill Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan
"Five Decades of Passion," Part Two: The Founding of the Center, 1989 -1991 – We are the World: Figures and Portraits, Fisher Landau Center for Art, Long Island City, New York
2009
"Modern and Contemporary Art at Dartmouth," Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire
"With You I Want to Live: The Collection of Francie Bishop Good & David Horvitz," Museum of Art Ford Lauderdale, Nova Southeastern University, Fort Lauderdale, Texas
"The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection: Fifty Works for Fifty States," Speed Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky
"Sculpture at Pilane 2009," Arranged by Pilane Heritage Society & supported by the National Heritage Board of Sweden, Tjorn, Sweden
2008
"Landmarks," University of Texas, Austin, Texas
"Origins," Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, New York
"Drawn by Sculptors," William Shearburn Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri
"Sculpture: A Wyoming Invitational," University of Wyoming Art Museum, Laramie, Wyoming
"A Year in Drawing," Galerie Lelong, New York, New York
2007
"Out There," The Art Students League of New York, New York, New York
2006
Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, Miami, Florida
"From Postwar to Postmodernism: Three Decades of Columbia Visual Arists," LeRoy Neiman Gallery, Columbia University, New York, New York
"The Bong Show," Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York, New York
POZA, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT
From Postwar to Postmodernism, LeRoy Neiman Gallery, Columbia University School of the Arts
2005
"The Art of 9/11," Apexart, New York, NY
"City Art," Center for Architecture, New York, New York
"Eco-photo: Art as if Nature Mattered," Dorsky Gallery, Long Island City, New York
"Material Terrain: A Sculptural Exploration of Landscape and Place,"Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis, Missouri; traveling through 2008 to Museum of Art and History, McPherson Center, Santa Cruz, CA; Palm Springs Art Museum, FL; University of Arizona, AZ; Amarillo Museum of Art, TX; Memphis Brooks, TN; Herron School of Art, Purdue, IL; Cheekwood Museum and Botanical Garden, TN; Columbia Museum of Art, SC; Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, FL; Beach Museum of Art, Manhattan, Kansas
"New at the Neuberger: Recent Acquisitions," Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, New York
2002
"Lesley Dill and Ursula Von Rydingsvard," Byron C. Cohen Gallery, Baltimore, Maryland
"Encounter at the Bass Museum: Installation Performances," Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, Florida
2001
"Clay On The Wall," Gallery 128, New York, New York
2000
"Silver and Gold," Imago Galleries, Palm Desert, California
"The End: An Independent Vision of the History of Contemporary Art," Exit Art, New York, New York
1999
"GEEZE LOUISE, Art After Louise Nevelson," Educational Alliance Gallery, New York
"Drip, Blow, Burn: Forces of Nature in Contemporary Art," Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, New York
1998
"Sculptors and Their Environments," Pratt Institute, New York, New York
"Masters of the Masters: MFA Faculty of the School of Visual Arts," Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio
1997
"A Moveable Feast," David Klein Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan
"Wood Work," Fisher Landau Center, Long Island City, New York
1995
"The Shape of Sound," Exit Art, New York, New York
"Beyond Gender," Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, New York
"Body as Metaphor," curated by Josephine Gear, Procter Art Center, Bard College, Annandale-On-Hudson, New York
"Crossing Counties: 20th Century Art from Private Collections in Westchester and Fairfield Counties," Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, New York
1994
29th Annual Exhibition of Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, North Carolina
"Landscape/Not Landscape," Gallery Camino, Boca Raton, Florida
"Landscape as Metaphor," curated by Martin Friedman, Columbus Art Museum, Columbus, Ohio and Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado
"Beyond Nature: Wood into Art," Lowe Art Museum, Coral Gables, Florida
"American Academy Invitational Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture," The American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, granted award
Galerie Lelong, New York, New York
Three Rivers Art Festival, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
1993
"Art on Paper," Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, North Carolina
"Drawings," Montgomery-Glasoe Fine Art, Minneapolis, Minnesota
"The Second Dimension: Twentieth Century Sculptors' Drawings from the Brooklyn Museum," Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York
Galerie Lelong, New York, New York
"Grounds for Sculpture," Johnson Atelier, Technical Institute of Sculpture, Merceville, New Jersey
1992
"Zygmunt, A Collaboration by Judy Pfaff and Ursula von Rydingsvard," The Cultural Space, New York, New York
"Then & Now," Philippe Staib Gallery, New York, New York
1991
"The Hybrid State," Exit Art, New York, New York
"Five Central European Artists," Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, Illinois, curated by Gregory Knight and Lanny Silverman
"Sowers of Myth," Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, Illinois
"Jestesmy," Central Bureau for Art Exhibitions-ZACHETA, Warsaw, Poland; curated by Wieslawa Wierzchowska and Elizabeta Dzikowska
1990
Outdoor Sculpture, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota (through 1993)
"Out of Wood," curated by Josephine Gear, Whitney Museum of Contemporary Art,"Philip Morris Branch, New York, New York
"The Art of Drawing," Lehman College of Art Gallery, Bronx, New York
"Diverse Representations," The Morris Museum, Morristown, New Jersey
1989
"Recent Acquisitions," Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York
"New Acquisitions," Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York
"100 Drawings by Women," Hillwood Art Gallery, C. W. Post, Greenvale, New York
Blum-Helman, New York, New York, curated by Judy Collischan van Wagner
"Totem," Addison Gallery, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts, curated by Jock Reynolds
"Ellen Driscoll, Robert Lobe, and Ursula von Rydingsvard," Damon Brandt Gallery, New York, New York
"Encore: Celebrating Fifty Years," Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, curated by Sarah Rogers-Lafferty
"Sculpture," Krygier/Landau Contemporary Art Gallery, Santa Monica, California
1988
"Life Force," Robeson Center Gallery, Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey, curated by Alison Weld
1987
"Sculpture of the Eighties: Aycock, Ferrara, Frank, Lasch, Miss, Pfaff, Saar, Sperry, von Rydingsvard, Zucker," Queens Museum, Flushing, New York, curated by Ileen Sheppard
"Standing Ground," Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, curated by Sarah Rogers-Lafferty
The Levels of Volume, Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio, curated by Judy Pfaff
1985
"Selections from the Collection," Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut
"Judith Murray and Ursula von Rydingsvard," Hillwood Art Gallery, C.W. Post Campus, Greenvale, New York
"In Three Dimensions: Recent Sculptures by Women," Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York, curated by Jessica Cusick
1984
"The Ways of Wood," OIA, Queens College, NY
Henri Gallery, Washington, D.C.
"Transformation of the Minimal Style," SculptureCenter, New York, New York
Jack Tilton Gallery, New York, New York
1983
Group Sculpture Exhibition, Bette Stoler Gallery, New York, New York
"55 Mercer/12 Years," 55 Mercer Gallery, New York, New York
1981
"Architecture by Artists," Rosa Esman Gallery, New York, New York
"55 Mercer: 10 Sculptors," Fine Arts Gallery, Stony Brook, New York, curated by Lawrence Alloway
1980
Sculpture exhibition in conjunction with the XI International Sculpture Conference, Maryland Institute, College Art Gallery, Baltimore, Maryland
"Nineteen at Twenty Six," 26 Federal Plaza, New York, New York, sponsored by the Cultural Council Foundation
"Site Sights: Outdoor Sculpture at Pratt," Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York
1979
"NY/8," Joe and Emily Lowe Art Gallery, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York, sponsored by the N.Y. State Council on Arts
"Seven Sensibilities," Thorpe Intermediate Gallery, Sparkill, New York
"Twin Tower I, New York City," a sculpture installation Artists by the Sea, Newhouse Gallery, Snug
Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, New York
1978
"Small Works," 55 Mercer, New York, New York
Indoor-Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition, P.S. 1, Long Island City, New York
OIA Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition, Wards Island, New York
Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition, East Hampton, Long Island, New York, curated by Doris Freedman
New York Institute of Technology, Long Island, New York
Battery Park, New York, New York
Pelham Bay Park, Bronx, New York
1977
"Wood and Other Works," Central Hall Gallery, Port Washington, New York
"Wood," Nassau County Museum of Fine Arts, Roslyn, New York
1976
"This Doesn't Look Like a Work of Art II," Truman Gallery, New York, New York
"Contemporary Reflections," Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut
1975
Bronx Museum of Art, Bronx, New York
Corcoran Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Lowe Art Museum, Coral Gables, Florida
GRANTS AND AWARDS
2008
Rappaport Prize, DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA
Member, American Academy of Arts and Letters
2007
Artist in Residence, American Academy in Rome, Rome, Italy
2000
2nd prize, Best Show in a Commercial Gallery, International Association of Art Critics
1997
Joan Mitchell Award
1994
Academy Award in Art, American Academy of Arts and Letters, NY, NY
American section of the International Art Critics, best small museum exhibition award for
1991-92 season for "Ursula von Rydingsvard: Sculpture" at Storm King Art Center
1991
Honorary Doctorate, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
1986-87
National Endowment for the Arts, Individual Artists Grant
1985
Griswald Traveling Grant - Yale University
1983-84
Guggenheim Fellowship
Athena Foundation Grant
1980
CAPS, Creative Artists Program Service
1979
National Endowment for the Arts
1978
America the Beautiful Fund
1978
New York State Council on the Arts
1975
Fulbright-Hays Travel Grant
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut
Baruch College, City University of New York, New York
William Benton Museum of Art, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut
Bloomberg Building, New York, New York
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York
Centre for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland
Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio
Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan
Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, Coral Gables, Florida
T.F. Green Airport, Providence, Rhode Island
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth, New Hampshire
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri
Laumeier Sculpture Park, St Louis, Missouri
Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, Wisconsin
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, Washington
Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, Florida
Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, New York
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri
North Carolina Art Museum, Raleigh, North Carolina
Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida
Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, Florida
Queens Family Courthouse, Jamaica, New York
Speed Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky
Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, New York
Virginia Museum of Fine Art, Richmond, Virginia
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York
Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut
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