Bio
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
Solo
2008
- “Diaphany”, Mixed Greens Gallery Glow Room Project, New York, NY
2007
- “Upon Reflection”, Dam, Stuhltrager Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2005
- “Luminous Layers”, Dam, Stuhltrager Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
- “Luminous Layers”, PS122 Gallery Hallway Project, New York, NY
- “Perceptual Architecture”, Narthex and Stairwell Gallery, St. Peter’s Church, New York, NY
- Elevator Light Installations, d.u.m.b.o. art under the bridge festival, Brooklyn, NY
2003
- Gallery Ju-ichi gatsu, Tokyo, Japan
1997
- La Mama La Galeria, New York City, NY
- Gallery 128, New York City, NY
1996
- Edward Williams Gallery, Fairleigh Dickinson University, Hackensack, NJ
1995
- Quimby Gallery, Lyndon State College, Lyndonville, VT
1994
- 26 Federal Plaza, New York, NY
- Treasure Room Gallery at the Interchurch Center, New York, NY
1992
- Catamount Arts, St. Johnsbury, VT
- The Knitting Factory Gallery, New York City, NY
Two- and Three- Person
2008
- “Incandescent”, 532 Gallery Thomas Jaeckel, New York, NY
2004
- “Surroundings”, Safe-T-Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
- Kawaguchi Art Factory, Kawaguchi, Japan
Group
2010
- East/West Project, Berlin, Germany (upcoming)
2009
- 10th Anniversary Show, Mixed Greens Gallery, New York, NY
2008
- “Trellis, A Sculpture Survey,” Rupert Ravens Contemporary, Newark, NJ
2007
- “Host”, curated by Elizabeth M. Grady, The Soap Factory, Minneapolis, MN
- “A Certain Slant of Light”, Danny Simmons’ Corridor Gallery, Brooklyn, NY“Corpse of Time”, curated by Benjamin La Rocco, Galeria Janet Kurnatowski, Brooklyn, NY
2006
- “Newark Between Us,” curated by Rupert Ravens and the Newark Arts Council, Newark, NJ
- “The Raw and the Cooked”, curated by David Gibson, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
- “Bright and Shining”, Safe-T-Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
- “Facing Newark”, curated by Rupert Ravens and the Newark Arts Council, Newark, NJ
- “Project Glow”, d.u.m.b.o art under the bridge festival, Brooklyn, NY (canceled due to weather)
- “Lost in Place”, curated by David Gibson, Planet Thai, Brooklyn, NY
- “Merry Peace”, Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
- 1st Annual Benefit for Breast Cancer, Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
- “Seen It All”, Williamsburg Art & Historical Center, Brooklyn, NY
- “Merry Peace”, Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
- “Multiple Memorials”, organized by Mary Miss, Viridian Gallery, New York, NY
- “Art Against War”, curated by Frank Shifreen, Macy Gallery, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, NY“Mixed”, 450 Broadway Gallery, New York, NY
- “Reactions”, Exit Art, New York, NY
- “WTC: Living in the Shadows/A 25 Year Collective Retrospective”, Bronx River Art Center andGallery, Bronx, NY“To Scale”, Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY“Peace Show”, Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn, NY
- “Galaxy 128”, Gallery 128, New York, NY
- “Conflux”, Lamia Ink! Gallery, New York City, NY
- “War”, Postmasters Gallery, New York City, NY
- “Marvelous Miniatures”, Cortland Jessup Gallery, New York, NY
- “Bridge”, Sakai City Museum, Sakai City, Japan
HONORS AND AWARDS
- Residency in Public Art, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
- Finalist, Louisiana Station Percent-for-Art (rapid transit station), Denver, CO
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
- Qi Peng, “EXCLUSIVE ASSASSINATION: Carol Salmanson,” Salt Lake City Fine Arts Examiner, October 15, 2009 (http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-3879-Salt-Lake-City-Fine-Arts-Examiner~y2009m10d15-EXCLUSIVE-ASSASSINATION-Carol-Salmanson-Artist-Represented-by-Dam-Stuhltrager-Gallery)
- Jill Conner, “Carol Salmanson at Mixed Greens,” Art Quips: Writing Outside the Mainstream, July 21, 2009 (http://artquips.blogspot.com/2009/07/diaphany-by-carol-salmanson.html)
- John Majeski, “Architecture Inspires Installation Artist”, Real Estate Weekly, February 11, 2009, p.12B
- “Carol Salmanson – Diaphany 2009″ PIC OF THE DAY, artcritical.com, February 9, 2009 (http://www.artcritical.com)
- “‘Diaphany’ by Carol Salmanson: Mixed Greens Glow Room, NY”, Storm From the East Online, January 12, 2009 (http://www.storm-from-the-east.com/2009/01)
- “Artists at Work” by Shaq Melamed, January 18, 2009 (http://mylineandcolor.blogspot.com)
- “Carol Salmanson’s Diaphany”, Dexigner Online, January 9, 2009, http://www.dexigner.com/art/news-g16574.html)
- “Carol Salmanson: Diaphany, Mixed Greens, New York, NY”, Minus Space Log, December 2, 2008 (http://www.minusspace.com/tag/carol-salmanson)
- Sarah Norris, “The A-list”, Chelsea Now, December 17-23, 2008, p.10 and online, (www.chelseanow.com)
- “Carol Salmanson: Diaphany”, InLiquid, (http://www.inliquid.com/gallery/mixedgreens/mixedgreens.php)
- “Carol Salmanson ‘Diaphany’”, NY Art Beat (http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2008/4B65)
- “Carol Salmanson ‘Diaphany’”, Artlog, (http://artlog.com/events/2628-carol-salmanson-diaphany)
- Joe Walentini, “Corpse of Time”, Abstract Art Online, June 1, 2007 (http://www.abartonline.com/#corpse)
- “Corpse of Time: Top Pick”, ArtCal, May, 2007 (http://www.artcal.net/event/view/2/4732)
- Jill Conner, “China Blue, Carol Salmanson”, the Brooklyn Rail, June, 2007, p. 36§“Williamsburg Galleries on Sunday”, jameswagner.com, April 24, 2007 (http://jameswagner.com/mt_archives/006232.html)
- Recent Art News: “Upon Reflection” light installation by Carol Salmanson”, Art Knowledge News, (http://www.artknowledgenews.com/Carol_Salmanson.html)
- “Gatormans Minx or Illuminated Antifolk”, Art or Something Like It, CUNY TV, December 15, 2006
- “Gallery Hopping”, The New York Sun, October 14, 2005, p. 14
- “Taking It to the Streets of DUMBO”, Brooklyn Courier, October 10, 2005, p. 10
- James Kalm, “Carol Salmanson and Jae Hi Ahn”, Dam, Stuhltrager Gallery”, the Brooklyn Rail, April 2005, p. 26
- Jeffrey Cyphers Wright, “Playing the Grotto,” offoffoff.com, November 28, 2004
- Matt Windman, amNewYork, Weekend, August 6-8, 2004, “Carol Salmanson”, p. 23
OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
- Member, Board of Trustees, NURTUREart Non-Profit, Inc.
- Guest Panelist, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs Percent-for-Art, May 2008
- Presenter, 9,000,002nd Dorkbot Meeting, New York City, NY, November 2005
- Guest Lecturer, New York School of Interior Design, February 2006
EDUCATION
- Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
- University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
- Art Students League, New York, NY
- School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
Born in Providence, Rhode Island, lives and works in Brooklyn, NY