SHARON ENGELSTEIN

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2006 New Work, Romo Gallery, Atlanta
2005 Siblit Tatu, Firehouse Gallery, Burlington, Vermont
Fetlax, The Suburban Gallery, Chicago
Claywork, Texas State University, San Marcos
2004 Tethertwin, Sioux City Art Center, Sioux City, Iowa
Shapey, Mixture Gallery, Houston, TX (link to Mixture Gallery)
2003 Cold Air, Elias Fine Art, Boston
2002 Sib Dit, University of North Texas Art Gallery, Denton, Texas
B'bleb, Locust Projects, Miami (link to Locust Projects)
Air Ga, ArtPace Foundation for Contemporary Art, San Antonio (link to ArtPace)
2001 Inflated, Glassell School of Art, Museum of Fine Art, Houston
Piggy Back, Moody Gallery, Houston

2000

Boolean Unions, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston

Models for Me, Sala Diaz, San Antonio

1996

Shiny and New, Texas Gallery, Houston

Round Five, Project Row Houses, Houston

1994

Blushes and Busts, The University of Texas at San Antonio Satellite Space

1992

Selections from an Anomalous Collection, Museum of Surgical Science, Chicago

New Work, Graham Gallery, Houston

1990

MFA Thesis Exhibition, Claremont Graduate School, Claremont, California

 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2005 Partners, Kirkland Arts Center, Kirkland, WA
2004 Conversagence, Gregory Lind Gallery, San Francisco (link to Gregory Lind Gallery)
Camp Lucky, Summer of Carnage, Deborah Colton Gallery, Houston
Perspectives at 25, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston
From the States, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC
Twang Sculpture, Art Museum of Southeast Texas, Beaumont, Texas (link to Twang Sculpture)
2002

Bandy, University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa (link to USF/CAM)

New Files, New Territories, Gregory Lind Gallery, San Francisco
Jet Set, University of Texas, Dallas
The Million Dollar Hotel Show, Holiday Inn Select, Houston

Spunky, Exit Art, New York

Works on Paper, Finesilver Gallery, San Antonio
2001

Fast Forward, Nash Hotel, Miami

25th Anniversary Show, Moody Gallery, Houston

The UFO Show, University Gallery, University of Illinois, Normal

Neo Rococo, The University of Texas at San Antonio Art Gallery

1999

Double Vision, Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA

1998

Unraveled, City Gallery at Chastain, Atlanta, GA

1997

ME, Clementine Gallery, New York

Oktoberfest, Texas Gallery, Houston

Glamour Sculpture, Houston Community College Art Gallery, Houston

1996

Bliss Project, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles

1995

Metamorphism & Biomorphism in Contemporary Sculpture, Blue Star, San Antonio

Facts of Form, Meredith Long Gallery, Houston

The University of Texas Faculty Exhibition, Hunter Gallery, Austin

Gender, Myth and Exploration, University of North Texas Art Gallery, Denton

1994

Summer Group Show, Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas

Small Objects, Inman Gallery, Houston

1993

Engelstein and Hecker, Texas Gallery, Houston

Dialogues, Blue Star Art Space, San Antonio

Texas Contemporary Acquisitions of the 90's, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

Group Exhibition, Lyons Wier Gallery, Chicago

Engelstein & Tileston, Women and Their Work Gallery, Austin

3-D Rupture, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston

Conventional Forms Insidious Visions, The Glassell School of Art, Houston
1992

Texas Art Celebration, Cullen Center, Houston

Core Fellows 1992, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

1991

Core Fellows 1991, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

Introductions, Graham Gallery, Houston

1990

The New Fabricants, Richard Green Gallery, Santa Monica, CA.

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

Kenneth Baker, Bubbling Over in Talent, Art News, September 2004, PP 94-102
Cate McQuaid, Sculptures Are Both Playful and Powerful, the Boston Globe, January 31, 2003, C18
Alison BIng, New Sculpture and Painting, SFGate.com
Kenneth Baker,What's Seen Confuses What's Read, by San Francisco Chronicle, September 4, 2004, E10
Tim Maloney, For Art’s Sake, 002 Houston, July 2004, P14
Peggy Heinkel-Wolfe, Sharon Engelstein: SIB DIT, Artlies, Winter, 2002 P. 74
Joanne Milani, Pop Goes to Houston, The Tampa Tribune, June 16, 2002, Bay Life News
Lennie Bennett, Eye Candy, The St. Petersburg Times, May 30, 2002, Weekend
Damarys Ocana, What About Blob?, The Street Miami, April 5 - 11, 2002, p. 51
Ken Johnson, Art in Review, The New York Times, October 19, 2001, p. E39
Ken Johnson, Last Chance, The New York Times, October 26, 2001, p. E36
Dave Rootes, Beam Me Up, Colorado Springs Independent, December 14 - 20, 2000, p. 41
Melissa Merli, UFO Art Show, The News-Gazette, Urbana, Illinois, March 12, 2000, pp. E1-5
John Ewing, Art/Reality at Sala Diaz, The San Antonio Current, February 10, 2000, p. 34
Alexander Dumbadze, Reviews, The New Art Examiner, April 2000, p.57
Joy Mullet and Mary Ross Taylor, The Bold and the Beautiful: Texas Woman Sculptors, Artlies, Spring 2000, pp. 2-5
Jackson Rushing, Reviews, Sculpture Magazine, June, 2000, p. 79
Victoria Lightman, Sculpture in Houston, Sculpture Magazine, June 2000, pp. 26 31
Frances Colpitt, Space City Takes Off, Art in America, October, 2000, pp. 67-75
Carlo McCormick, Houston Journal, artnet.com (link to Artnet)
Kathy Byrd, Double Double, The Creative Loafing, p. 39
Bill Davenport, On the Beach at Galveston, Art Papers, November/December 1998, pp, 61-62
Curt Holman, Unraveled at Chastain, The Creative Loafing, Atlanta, June 1998, pp. 37, 44

Frances Colpitt, Engelstein at Texas, Art in America, October, 1996, p. 125

Shaila Dewan, Shiny Happy Creatures, The Houston Press, June, 13, 1996, p. 42

Mark Frohman, Bears Trot Out Shimmery Coats, by Mark Frohman, Public News, Houston, June 12, 1996, pp. 16-18

Bill Davenport, Engelstein at Texas Gallery, Art Letter, Houston, June 1, 1996, p.1

Susie Kalil, Reviews, Circa:The Texas Journal of Art, Arlington, Winter, 1994, pp. 31-33 (cover)

Mark Frohman, 2 X 2 X 2, Public News, Houston , November 3, 1993, p. 9

Susan Chadwick, Electric Showcase, The Houston Post, October 22, 1993, p. F1

Patricia Johnson, Achieving Work That Works, The Houston Chronicle, October 22, 1993, p. E8

Susie Kalil, 3-D Falls Flat, The Houston Press, February 25, 1993, p.2

Mark Frohman, Lawndale Slouches, 3-D Ruptures, Public News, Houston, February 10, 1993, p. 11

Arisa Miller, Break Through at CAM, The Rice Thresher, January 29, 1993, p. 14

Susan Chadwick, Vitality to CAM show, The Houston Post, January 26, 1993 pp. E1, 8

Schiche Erika, Extraordinary Works of Art, The Houston Cougar (The University of Houston), January 21, 1993, p. 9

Patricia Johnson, A Rupture with Tradition, The Houston Chronicle, January 16, 1993, pp. D1, 4

Leann Alspaugh, Variations on a Theme, Museum and Arts Magazine, Houston, January, 1993, pp. 18-21

Gary McCay, People Who Make Houston Houston, Houston Metropolitan Magazine, August, 1992, pp. 48-57

Kalil, Susie. In the Abstract, The Houston Press, April 30, 1992, pp. 33-34

Susie Kalil, Soft Core, The Houston Press, April 9, 1992, pp. 36-38

Susan Chadwick, Artistic to the Core, The Houston Post, March 24, 1992, p. C1

Ludlam, Jane. Summertime News, The Houston Press, July 25, 1991, pp. 26, 28

Peter Frank, Art Pick of the Week, The L.A. Weekly, July 10, 1989, p. 23

SELECTED BOOKS AND CATALOGUES

Inflated, 2001, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, essay by Valerie Loupe Olsen
Boolean Unions, 2000, Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, essay by Dana Friis Hansen
Texas: 150 Works from the Museum of Fine Arts, by Alison de Lima Greene, Houston, 2000
Texas Draws, 1999, Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, essay by Lynn Herbert
Double Vision, 1999, Nexus Contemporary Art Space, Atlanta, essay by Michael Pittari,
Unraveled, 1998, City Gallery at Chastain, Atlanta, essay Debra Wilbur
True Bliss, 1997, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, essays by David A. Greene and Julie Joyce
Contemporary Art in Texas, by Patricia Johnson, 1994
Core Fellows 1991-92, Museum of Fine Art, Houston
Core Fellows 1990-91, Museum of Fine Art, Houston
The New Fabricants, Richard Green Gallery, 1990

EDUCATION

1990

Master of Fine Arts/Sculpture, Claremont Graduate School, Claremont, CA

1987

Bachelor of Arts, Mass Communication/Journalism, University of South Florida, Tampa

Bachelor of Arts, Fine Arts/Sculpture, University of South Florida, Tampa

 

AWARDS

2001

International Artist in Residence Program, ArtPace, San Antonio

1999

Creative Artist Program Award, Cultural Arts Council of Houston

1995

The Louis Comfort Tiffany Award

1994

Project Grant, Canada Council, Ottawa, Ontario

Creative Artist Program Award, Cultural Arts Council of Houston

1993

Mid-America Arts Alliance, National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Award

Vermont Studio Center Sculpture Residency Award

Exhibition Award, Women and Their Work, Austin

1992

Visual Arts Travel Grant, Canada Council, Ottawa, Ontario

Core Fellowship, Museum of Fine Art, Houston

1991

Core Fellowship, Museum of Fine Art, Houston

1990

Graduate Fellowship, Claremont Graduate School, Claremont, CA.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Adjunct Instructor, University of Houston
Visiting Instructor, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Visiting Artist, California College of Arts and Crafts, San Francisco
Visiting Instructior, University of Texas, Austin
Houston Community College
Scripps College, Claremont, CA
El Camino Community College, Torrence, CA
Various workships, lectures, symposia

SCULPTURE

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