Purgatory
Pie Press: Dikko Faust & Esther K Smith
Museum Exhibitions
1991 Victoria and Albert Museum (London)
1986 Metropolitan Museum of Art: Paradise &
Purgatory: West Meets East
Museum's Collections
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Museum of Modern Art
Guggenheim Museum
Whitney Museum
The Tate (London)
Victoria & Albert Museum (London)
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum (NYC)
Brooklyn Museum
Corcoran (DC)
National Museum of Women in the Arts (DC)
Walker (MN)
Spencer Museum (KS)
Museum of the City of New York
Retrospective Exhibitions
2004-5 Backspace Book Arts, CA
1999 Salena Gallery, Long Island University,
Brooklyn Campus
Rhode
Island School of Design
San Francisco
Center for the Book -Postcards from Purgatory
1997
Smith
College
1996 Harvard University
Rhode
Island School of Design
1995 State University
of New York, Purchase
University
of Kansas
1994 New Mexico State
University Graphic Design: Vision/Process/Print
1992 Harper Collins Gallery
(NYC)
1991 Small Press Center
(NYC)
American
Institute of the Graphic Arts (Portland, OR)
Aoyama
Artists' Gallery (Tokyo)
1990 MJS Books &
Graphics (NYC) Intimate Typography
1986 Washington Project
for the Arts (DC) Paradise to Purgatory
Exhibitions
Featured
2000
Sandusky
Cultural Center (OH) Word Pictures/Picture Words
1998
Hasting
College (NB): In Relief: Printmakinging Invitational
Haydon
Gallery (Lincoln, NB)
Museum
of Nebraska Art
Minnesota
Center for Book Arts, Winter Book Project
San Francisco
Center for Book Arts- Make Ready
1994
Diana
Burke Gallery (NYC) The Wedding Party
1992
Cooper
Union: Letterpress Works
1989
Queensborough
Community College (NY) Sculpture Works
1988
Center
for Book Arts (NYC) Printers in Residence
Selected Group Exhibitions
2000
Harper
Collins (NYC)
Cooper
Union Instructor's Exhibit (scheduled for autumn)
1999
Minnesota
Center for Book Arts: Big City Bound:NYC Books
Women
of the Book, (travelling around USA)
1998
Krannert
Art Museum, (Champaign IL) The Reading Room
Astra
Design Gallery (Richmond, VA) Bookatecture
City
College (NYC) Faculty Show
University
of Illinois (Champaign)
1997
Museum
of the City of New York: New York Gets Married
1996
Montgomery
College (MD) Artist Books Now
Iowa
State University: From Cover to Cover : Transformation of
the Book
1995
Forum
for Contemporary Art (St. Louis MO) On Beyond the Book
Yale
University : Text & Image
1994
Columbia
University: Metropolitan Printers
Hand
Workshop (Richmond, VA) Milliseconds to Millennia
De Paul
University (Chicago) Books & Bookishness
Center
for Book Arts: Masters of the Craft & Inky Fingers
1992
Granary
Books (NYC) Library Show
1991
New
York Public Library: Eighty from the Eighties
1990
US
Information Agency (toured Africa) Book Arts in America
Granary
Books (NYC) Grand Opening
Battle
Creek Art Center (MI) Artist Books
Adelphi
University (NY) Artist Book
National
Museum of Women in the Arts (DC) Artist Books
Anchorage
Museum (AK) Artist Books
1989
American
Institute of Graphic Arts (world tour) Best Books of 1988
Arvada
Center for the Arts (CO) A Book in Hand
Maryland
Arts Center (toured USA) Books and Bookends
Ted Cronin
Gallery (NYC) Alphabet Books
1988
The
University of the Arts (Philadelphia) Arts of the Book
Pyramid/Atlantic
(DC) Printed Matter
Glen
Echo Gallery (MD) An Eclectic Library
Beall
Park Art Center (Bozeman, MT) Between the Lines
American
Institute of the Graphic Arts (world tour) Best Books of 1987
American
Institute of the Graphic Arts (Philadelphia)
Book
Design: Practical & Provocative
Center
for Book Arts/Sackner Archive: The Altered Page
1987
National
Museum of Women in the Arts (DC) Library Inaugural
American
Institute of Graphic Arts (world tour) Best Books of 1986
1986
School
of The Art Institute of Chicago Artists' Produced Periodicals
Barcelona
Institute of American Studies (Spain) New Narratives
Atheneum
(Alexandria VA) In Context
University
of California Riverside International Bookworks
1985
US
Information Agency (world tour) American Artist Books
SUNY
Purchase (NY) Books in Time
Museum
of Contemporary Arts (Chicago) Artist Books
Dallas
Public Library (TX) Artworks/Bookworks
Arizona
State University (California tour) International Bookworks
1984
New
York Public Library Center for Book Arts: First Decade
1983
Elvehjem
Museum (Madison WI) Breaking the Bindings
Collections
Rhode Island School of Design
Newberry Library (Chicago)
Miami-Dade Public Library (FL)
Metronóm (Spain)
President's Collection (Dakar, Senegal)
New York Public Library
Ruth & Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete & Visual Poetry
(FL)
Newark Public Library (NJ)
Library of Congress Rare Book Room
Harvard University
Yale University
Smith College (MA)
Dartmouth College (NH)
Amherst College (MA)
London College of Printing
School of The Art Institute of Chicago
Stanford University (CA)
Mills College (CA)
University Of California, Santa Barbara
University Of California, San Diego
University Of California, Los Angeles
Scripps College (CA)
University of Delaware
Virginia Commonwealth University
New Mexico State University
Ringling School of Art & Design (FL)
University of Washington
Rutgers University (NJ)
Lectures
1999
School
of Visual Art (NYC)
San Francisco
Center for the Book
1998
Rutgers
University, Newark, NJ
Cooper
Union-Art of the Book Class
State
University of New York, Purchase
School
of Visual Arts (NYC)
1997
Smith
College, Northampton, MA
1995
State
University of New York, Purchase
University
of Kansas, Lawrence
1994
New
Mexico State University, Los Cruces
1992
New
York Chapter AIGA
Chinese
American Designers Association (NYC)
Harper
Collins, Children's Division (NYC)
1991
Small
Press Center (NYC)
Victoria
& Albert Museum
London
College of Printing
Camberwell
School (London)
1990
Book
Arts Guild (Seattle, WA)
1989
School
of Visual Arts (NYC)
1988
Parsons/New
School (NYC)
1987
Parsons/New
School (NYC)
Rutgers
University (NJ)
WPA/Bookworks
(DC)
University
of California Santa Barbara
School
of The Art Institute of Chicago
1985
Cooper
Union (NYC)
Artist
Bookworks, Chicago
Classes, Workshops, Demonstrations
1992-present
Cooper
Union
1978-05
Center for Book Arts
2001
Penland School- North Carolina
2000
Women's
Studio Workshop
1999
City
College, CUNY
1999
Long
Island University
San Francisco
Center for the Book
Mills
College, Oakland, CA
California
College of Arts& Crafts
1996
Bow
& Arrow Press, Harvard University
Massachusetts
College of Art, Boston
1995
University
of Kansas
State
University of New York, Purchase
1994
New
Mexico State University, Los Cruces
Branigan
Center for the Arts, Los Cruces, NM
1990
Seattle
Book Arts Guild
1988
University
of California, Santa Barbara
Woman's
Building, Los Angeles, CA
1986
Pyramid/Atlantic,
Washington, DC
1986
Wayne
State, Detroit, MI
University
of Windsor, Ontario, Canada
1985
Otis-Parsons,
Los Angeles, CA
Medieval
Monestary Week, Nupauls, NYExhibition Curation
2000
Organizaton
of Independant Artists- FIREWORKS: ArtistBooks
1999
Long
Island University Artists in Purgatory
1985
Center
for Book Arts (NYC) BookRate
BookArtists
in Residence:5 Places
Books, Reviews & Write Ups
2000
The
Perfect Wedding Reception (book- autumn publlication)
On
Paper (spring publication)
1998
Jerry
Frank's Frankly Speaking New York Guide (book)
On
Paper
Time
Out New York
Organization
of Independant Artists Newletter
Beloit
Magazine
Tribeca
Trib
1997
Eco-Friendly
Design (book)
The
Perfect Wedding: Harper Collins (book)
Handmade
Books & Cards (book)
The
Book Arts Classified
1996
AIGA
Journal
Time
Out New York
1995
Tribeca
Trib
1994
Print
Collectors' Newsletter
New York
Times (3/31)
1993
Print
Collectors' Newsletter
Confetti
1992
Print
Collectors' Newsletter
BAT (France)
U&LC
1990
Print
Collectors' Newsletter
Direction
(London)
1989
Picabia
(Japan)
Gift
Reporter
1988
New
York Times (12/20)
Print
Collectors' Newsletter
1987
Metropolis
HOW
1986
Metropolis
HOW
SanFrancisco
Examiner
Indiskret
in Dusseldorf
1985
Paper
(fall)
1984
Small
Press (June)
New
York Times (Sept)
1982
Village
Voice (Jan)
