Resume - 2012
GAE SAVANNAH
www.gaesavannah.com 411@gaesavannah.com
133 Avenue D New York, NY 10009
85 Market Street Newark, NJ 07102
917 607-7887
EDUCATION
1993-95 MFA, Installation/Sculpture, School of Visual Arts, NY
1991-92 AAS, Fine Art, Parsons School of Design, NY
1996-00 BA, Art History/Comparative Literature, Colby College, ME
AWARDS
2010
Artist of the Month (December), Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL 2007
Malka Lubelski Foundation grant, NY
1995 Most
Contemporary Artist award, MFA dept
. SVA, NY
1993-95
Edward Zutrau Fund grant; (awarded twice) MFA dept. SVA, NY 1990
Charles E. Revson Foundation grant, NY
SOLO
EXHIBITIONS
2009 Cake Rupert Ravens Contemporary, NJ
2006 A Fool and His Froth Are Soon Parted, Dam, Stuhltrager Gallery, NY
2005 Chinoiserie, Curcioprojects, -scopeNY
2003 Patisserie Chinoise, Art Resources Transfer, NY
2002 Blush, The Scene Gallery, NY
2001 Meraharem, Art Resources Transfer
1988 Connections and Forces, Ramune Gallery, NY
SELECTED GROUP
EXHIBITIONS 2012
Paperazzi, Janet Kurnatowski, Greenpoint, NY
Mic Check, Sideshow, Williamsburg, NY
2011 Chain Letter, Samson Projects, Boston, MA Peace Project, San Antonio Museum of Art, TX Apocalyse Now, Sideshow, Williamsburg, NY Paperazzi, Janet Kurnatowski, Greenpoint, NY
2010
Material Girls, New Jersey Center for the Arts, NJ
Off the Wall, Allegra La Viola Gallery, LES, NY
Vanitas, curated by Melissa Caldwell, Philadelphia Art Alliance, PA
2009
ArtViceroy, curated by Renee Vara, Miami
Squishy Universe, curated by Walter Patrick Smith, Miami Neo Rococo, Shore Institute of Contemporary Art, NJ
2008
Boson Exotic, Rupert Ravens Contemporary, NJ
Summer Mixer, Umbrella Arts, NY
Surfactant, Rupert Ravens Contemporary, NJ
2007
Meet Cute, Heskin Contemporary, NY
Sanctuary, Rupert Ravens Contemporary, NJ
#5 and Beyond, Supreme Trading, curated by Vellum magazine editor
Stephanie Young, NY
Gyeong Nam International Art Festival, Gyeong Nam Museum , KOREA
Dream Palace, Art Base 1, curated by A. Martinez & Feixe Li, CHINA
CIGE Art fair, Beijing, China Arts Contemporary, CHINA
Singularity in the Cultural Tide, Gallery Pierro, curator Rupert Ravens, NJ
Dangerous Beauty, Chelsea Museum, curator Manon Slome, NY;
Dangerous Beauty Palazzo Arti del Napoli Museum, ITALY.
2006
ScopeMiami, Curcio projects, FLA
Art Toronto, Curcio projects, CANADA
The Raw and the Cooked, (contemporary sculpture,) UMass at Amherst, MA
Paper and Plastic, Swope Museum, IN
Thread; Artspace, New Haven, CT
NOVA art fair, presented by Creative Thriftshop, curator Lynn del Sol, IL.
Icons of the 21st Century, the Lab Space, Roger Smith Hotel, NYC,
Lisa Paul Streitfeld, curator
2005
ScopeMiami, Curcioprojects, FLA
Multiple Partners; Pablo’s Birthday, NY
Beautiful Dreamer; Spaces, OH
the New Beasts; Chelsea Hotel, NY, Renee Vara, curator
Culture Vulture; Jack the Pelican, NY, David Gibson, curator
Hi-Lo; Sara Nightingale Gallery, South Hampton, NY
Botany 5000; the Lab Gallery, Roger Smith Hotel, NY, Christopher
Chambers, curator
Boundless; Stenersen Museum, Oslo, Norway; Henry Meyric Hughes, curator
2004
Intimacy; Brooklyn Fireproof gallery, NY; David Gibson, curator
Big America; Fish Tank Gallery, NY; Pan Xing Lei and Linda Dennis, curators
LZ Gallery; Seoul, South Korea
Scope Art Fairs with Curcio Projects; NYC, L.A., London, Miami
2003
ID_ENTITY; Nurture Art Gallery, NYC; David Gibson, curator
Williamsburg Bridges Asia; Cristine Wang Fine Art, NY
$99 Store Show; Cynthia Broan Gallery, NY
Scope Art Fairs with Curcio Projects; NY, L.A., and Miami
2002
Anywhere but Here; Media Merge Project Space, NY; David Gibson, curator
Unraveling; Superior, Claire McConaughy, curator, OH
New Jersey Now, Hunterdon Museum, NJ;
Scope Art Fair with curcioprojects; Miami
Shiny Show, Bullet Space, NY; Susan Jung, curator
2001 Response; Exit Art, NY
The Fireplace Room Show; Willoughby Sharp Gallery, NY
2000 The Connecticut Vision; Mattatuck Museum, CT
1999 Size Matters; Gale Gates Gallery, NY; Mike Weiss, curator
1998 Inspiration; Visual Arts Museum, NY
1996 Crafted; Crocker Art Museum, CA
1994 Drawing Selection, Artists Space, NY
1988 Class Act; Bronx Museum, NY
BENEFITS
2011 Flux Factory Auction
2008 Constance Collins and Martin Margulies’s Lotus House shelter, FL
2005-08 Benefit Committee, SVA Alumni Society Auction
2006 Drawing the Line Against Domestic Violence, NY
2004 Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, NY
2003 P.S. 122, NY
Fragrance Foundation; the Proposition, NY; Mary Dinaberg, curator
Foundation of East Village Artists, NY
COLLECTIONS
Steve Shane, Ellen Donahue, Louise Grantham, Toshimasa Kaga, James Larkin, Westover School, Laurice Rahme, Princeton Review, Steven Taft, Builder Levy, William Bartman, Patricia Wineapple, Emily Stern, Laura Dail, Raul and Emilie Debrigard, Claudette Sutherland, Carmela Rea, Emily Stern, Annemarie Minke, William Stark, Rupert Ravens, Sophie Dail, Rupert Ravens, Renee Vara and the Sundari Foundation.
PRESS
2011
James Kalm Report (video) Apocalyse Now, Sideshow Gallery, January
2010
Art.Es (Madrid,) Work and Words, July
All Art News, Allegra LaViola Opens With Sculptural Works…, July
Chikuwa Stumbles, Gae Savannah, Rhydal, June
artimageslibrary, Gae Savannah, Rhydal, June
ART YOU KNOW, Allegra LaViola…Sculptural Works Attached to the Wall, June
Art.Es (Spain) Newark Next, Laura Cincotta, February
2009
Daily News, NJ's New Creative Space, Karen Angel, December
dART International, Boson Exotic Katherine Hennesey, October
NewarkUSA, Savanitas, interview with Craig Schoonmaker, October
Glocally, Live With Gae Savannah, Mary Mann, June
Flash Art, Next Post, 18 Solos, Tate Osten, April
Time Out, Own This City, Grace Smith, April
NowhereHere (contemporary art blog,) Nancy Tobin, This Post: Next Post, March
Visual Opinion, Brian Glaser, Artworld Life After Slowdown, March
New York Times, Benjamin Genocchio, Works from New Talent…, March
2008
Go Live Miami interview, December
The Art Newspaper, Martin Parr, December
Wordpress, Nancy Tobin, Boson Exotic, December
Baristanet, Frances Pelzman Liscio, Boson Exotic, December
NewarkUSA, L. Craig Schoonmaker, Boson Exotic, October
Artcat (Artcal magazine), Surfactant, Patty Jordan, June
NewarkUSA, L. Craig Schoonmaker, Surfactant, April
2007
Seattle Art Blog, Carolyn Zick, December
NewarkUSA, L. Craig Schoonmaker, Sanctuary, October
Art Key Magazine (Italy,) Anna Rescina, August
New York Times, Benjamin Genoocio, June
Kalm Report, Youtube video, James Kalm, June
the Star Ledger, Dan Bischoff, May
the Essex Journal, May
wburg.com, interview with Carol Schwarzman, February
2006
NY Arts magazine, interview with Leah Oates, December
Sculpture magazine, D. Dominick Lombardi, September
Animal magazine Q & A, August
NY Arts magazine, Lisa Paul Streitfeld, April
M magazine, Mary Hrbacek, March
Vellum, Stephanie Young editor, March
Artnet, Stephen Maine, January
Flavorpill flavorwire, Jessica Bauer-Greene, January
jameswagner.com, James Wagner, January
2005
absolutearts.com, Multiple Partners, October
Cleveland Plain Dealer, Dan Tranberg
Art in America, Stephanie Cash & David Ebony, May
Village Voice, Jennifer Snow, April
Blender, Stephanie Young, April
Artnet, Stephen Maine, April
jameswagner.com, James Wagner, March
2004
dART International, Christopher Chambers, November
Delicate Monster, Amie Oliver, May
NY Arts, Lydia Kenyon, June
wburg.com, Howard Stier, May
Joong-Ang Daily, Ahn Yu-Hue, May
2003
Downtown Express; December
NY Arts; Jamey Hecht; November
Coagula; Shana Nys Dambrot; September
M Magazine; Lily Faust; September
aparelsearch.com; Debra Stevenson; August
The New York Times; Ken Johnson; July 18
Angle Magazine; J. Utter; May
2002
NY Arts; Joyce Korotkin; January
1998
Women in Higher Education, Doris Green, April
1995
Darien News Review, Felicity Hoffecker, July
CURATING
2008-2011 Associate Curator, Rupert Ravens Contemporary, NJ
2006 Juror ‘SCULPTOURE,’ Shore Institute for Contemporary Art, NJ
Katherine Daniels, Sculpture Window, Lab Gallery—Roger Smith Hotel, NY
M. Krumenacker, Sculpture Window, Lab Gallery, NY
2005 Choice Cuts Critics Pick – Shore Institute of Contemporary Art, NJ
2003-04 Drawing Conclusions II – Work by Artist-Critics (70 participants), NY Arts Gallery
WRITING
2001-11 Flash Art International exhibition reviews; Sculpture magazine, exhibition reviews
2001-12 dART International; exhibition reviews
2006 Daily Constitutional; A Fool and His Froth are Soon Parted - excerpt
1999-01 ART AsiaPacific, and M magazine reviews
2004 Performing Arts Journal; On the Veranda – A Conversation between Wysteria and
Meung Shei
TALKS
2010
Glamour Trance, MOCA North Miami,
2009
The New Next Paradigm in Art, moderator for panel discussion with Peter Nesbett/Shelly
Bancroft, (Art on Paper, ) Beth Venn, (Newark Museum,)
2008
When New is Old Art After Meltdown, moderator for panel discussion with Robert
Storr, (Venice Biennial,) PhongBui, (Brooklyn Rail,) Mary Birmingham,(Hunterdon Museum,) Rocio Aranda-Alvarado, (Jersey City Museum,) and Pat Bell, (collector.)
Rupert Ravens Contemporary, Newark.
Asian Fling, gallery talk on Chinese and Japanese art in the Metropolitan
Museum’s Asian wing, NY
Navigating the New York Art World, New York University, NY
Footstools and Vanity Benches, Montclair State University, NJ
2007 Dangerous Beauty, panelist, Chelsea Museum, NY
2006 Beauty’s Burden, the New Romanticism, Makor Gallery, NY
2005 Crazy for Construction, Real Art Today series, Makor Gallery, NY
2004 Patisserie Chinoise, Collectors Circle, NY
2002 Material Culture, Fabricated Space --Contemporary Sculpture in New Materials, Scene Gallery, NY
PROFESSIONAL POSITION
1995-2012 Instructor, Contemporary Art, Film, and Thesis Writing, MFA dept., SVA, NY
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