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Education

Bachelor of Fine Arts, Psychology, UCLA, 1968
Master of Fine Arts, UCLA, 1972

Awards

1976 New Talent Award, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA
1976 Artist Fellowship Grant, National Endowment for the Arts
1980 C.A.P.S. Artist Fellowship Grant, NY
1980 Artist Fellowship Grant, National Endowment for the Arts
1981 Japan - US Creative Artist Exchange Fellowship
1982 Artist Fellowship Grant, National Endowment for the Arts
1985 ASLA - Maryland Chapter for National Geographic Society Plaza, Washington D.C.
1986 Bessie Award - Set Design for "Memory Theater of Giulio Camillo," NY
2007 Excellence in Design for Capsouto Park, Art Commission of the City of New York
2010 Resident American Academy in Rome (RAAR '10) Roy Lichtenstein Residency
2010 Great Places in America Award (Public Spaces), from The American Planning Assoc.         for The Charles W. Ireland Sculpture Garden at the Birmingham Museum of Art, AL

Public Service

Board of Directors, LAICA, 1976-78
Board of Directors, Creative Time, Inc., 1985 - 1992
Commissioner, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, 1988 - 2000
Board of Directors, International Sculpture Center, Washington D.C., 1989 - 1995
Board of Directors, Columbia Land Conservancy, Columbia County, NY, 1989 - 2005
Commissioner, Commission on Fine Arts, Washington, DC, 2003 - 2008
Board of Directors, Bill T. Jones / Arnie Zane Dance Company, 2005 - 2009

Selected Collections (Public and Corporate)

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA
Whitney Museum of American Art, NY
Museum of Modern Art, NY
Telfair Museum, Savannah, GA
British Museum, London, UK
New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover , MA
Birmingham Museum of Art, AL
Chase Manhattan Bank Corporation
Best Products, Inc.
Commodities Corporation
General Mills Corporation
AT&T Corporation
Equitable Corporation
Clos Pegase Winery Sculpture Garden, Napa Valley, CA
Goldman Sachs Corporate Collection
Henry Buehl Collection, NY
Bear Stearns Corporate Collection, NY
Wynn Kramarsky Collection, NY

Selected One Person Exhibitions

1974 University Art Museum, Berkeley, CA
1975 Baxter Art Gallery, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
1975 Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1976 SITE, San Francisco, CA
1976 Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1977 Institute for Art & Urban Resources, PS1, New York, NY
1979 80 Langton Street, San Francisco, CA
1979 Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
1981 Galleria del Cavallino, Venice, Italy
1982 Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY
1984 Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1985 Joslyn Museum of Art, Omaha, NE
1988 Wave Hill, Riverdale, NY
1991 University of South Florida Art Museum, Tampa, FL
1992 Fred Hoffman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1992 65 Thompson Street, New York, NY
1993 Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY
1995 Galeria SALLES, Rome, Italy
1996 Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY
1998 Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2001 New Drawings, Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY
2003 Photography, Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY
2004 Photography, Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2005 New Photography, Skestos-Gabriele Gallery, Chicago, IL

Selected Group Exhibitions

1973 "The Factor Collection", Pasadena Museum of Modern Art, CA
1974 "Whitney Biennial", Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC
1976 "Biennale of Sydney", Sydney, Australia
1977 "Photography As Means", Palomar College, San Marcos, CA
1979 "Custom & Culture Part II", U.S. Customs House, NYC, Sponsored by Creative Time
1979 "Eight Artists: The Elusive Image", Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
1979 "Sculptors' Photographs", Hunter College Art Gallery, NYC
1980 "California Sculpture 1975-80", San Diego Museum of Art, CA
1980 "Drawings: The Pluralist Decade", Venice Biennale, USA Pavilion; Venice, Italy; also           Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA
1980 "Architectural Sculpture", LAICA, Los Angeles, CA
1981 "Artists' Gardens and Parks", Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
1981 "New Visions", Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
1981 "Window Room Furniture", Houghton Gallery, Cooper Union, NYC; also
          Tokyo and Osaka, Japan
1982 "Shift: LA/NY", Newport Harbor Art Museum, CA; also
          Neuberger Museum, Purchase, NY
1983 "Directions 1983", Hirshhorn Museum, Washington D.C.
1985 "Artist as Social Designer", Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA
1985 "Art & Architecture & Landscape", San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA
1985 "Artists and Architects Collaborating", Cleveland Center of Contemporary Art, OH
1986 "Sculpture for Public Spaces", Marisa Del Re Gallery, NYC
1986 "Memory Theater of Giulio Camillo", sponsored by Creative Time, NY,
          Collaborative set design and installation, Brooklyn, NY
1987 "Layers of Vision", Bette Stoler Gallery, NYC
1987 "Arena Project", Landmark Art Project, San Diego, CA
1987 "Sculpture 1987", Curated by Sam Hunter & Marisa Del Re, Monte Carlo, Monaco
1987 "New York - Los Angeles", Marianne Deson Gallery, Chicago
1988 "Private Work for Public Spaces", R.C. Erpf Gallery, NYC
1990 "Concept - Decoratif: Anti-formalist Art of the 70's", Nahan Contemporary Gallery, NYC
1990 "Natural Selection", Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY
1991 "Drawing Conclusions", Guidarte Gallery, NYC
1991 "Green", Max Protetch Gallery, NYC
1991 "Drawings", Lorence-Monk Gallery, NYC
1992 "Benchmarks", Katonah Museum, Katonah, NY
1996 "Drawings and Photographs", Betsy Senior Gallery, NYC
1996 "Sculpture 1996 - 1997", Leigh, Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Wausau, WI
1996 "Tenth Anniversary", Socrates Sculpture Park, LIC, NY
1996 "Some Grids", L.A. County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
1997  Betsy Senior Gallery, NYC
1998 "Urban Visions", Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA
1998 "Face to Face/Art and the Public", Marlborough Gallery, NYC
1999 "Waxing Poetic: Encaustic Art in America", Montclair Art Museum, NJ
2000 "Environmental Sculptures", Dorsky Gallery, New York, NY
2002 "Imaginary Homelands", Center for Photography, Woodstock, NY
2002 "New Drawings", Whitherspoon Gallery, Raleigh, NC
2002 "55 Water Street Competition", Municipal Art Society, Urban Center, NY, NY
2003 "New World's Old World", AXA Galleries at Equitable Center, New York, NY
2006 "Paper", Skestos Gabriele Gallery, Chicago, IL
2010 "Contemporary Impressionism: Light, Color, Form, Time", LA Art House, CA
2010 "Artpark: 1974-1984", UB Art Gallery, Center for the Arts, Buffalo, NY
2010 "Painting and Sculpture: To Benefit the Foundation for Contemporary Arts", Lehmann
          Maupin, NY

Chronology of Public Projects

1982 Shunyata Oakbrook, IL. Garden design with large water feature set below grade and enclosed by triangulated stone walls.

1984 Marabar National Geographic Society, Washington D.C. Plaza design featuring 60' long pool and granite boulders ranging in height from 2' to 10'. Surrounding garden includes numerous sited granite boulders.

1987 Terrain O'Hare International Center, adjacent to O'Hare airport, Chicago, IL. Commissioned by Hawthorn Realty Group & Melvin Simon & Associates. A multi-level plaza with multiple water features, sculptural treatments and landscaping.

1989 Keystone Island Dade County Justice Center, North Miami, FL. Commissioned by Dade County Art Public Places. Roughly 50' in diameter, Keystone Island is sited in the three acre pond adjacent to the new courthouse and is accessible by a short bridge.

1990 Sanctuary Moffitt Cancer Research Center, University of South Florida, Tampa. 40' diameter plaza adjacent to facility. Multi-level concentric forms include seating areas & pool with waterfall.

1991 Lithos I 865 South Figueroa Street, Los Angeles, CA. Commissioned by Manufacturers Real Estate, Toronto, Canada under the auspices of the Los Angeles Community Redevelopment Agency. Interior lobby and exterior plaza with landscaping & multiple water features with granite.

1991 First Market Plaza First Market Tower Plaza, 525 Market St. San Francisco, CA. Commissioned by Tishman/Speyer and San Francisco Arts Commission. 14,000 square foot plaza divided into three areas by two granite block waterfall walls, Lithos II, and extensive landscaping.

1993 Untitled Birmingham Museum of Art. Collaborative design of new sculpture garden. 120' wide by 300' long site is divided into three distinct areas connected by ramps and landscaping. Upper plaza incorporates commissioned waterfall Lithos III.

1994 Untitled Conference Center, AT&T Headquarters, Basking Ridge, NJ.
30' diameter granite sculpture incorporating multiple levels, seating, waterfall, pool and related landscaping.

1995 World Trade World Trade Center, New York City. Commemorating the 1993 Center Memorial bombing of the World Trade Center. Memorial fountain is located on the plaza of the WTC and measures 30 by 30 feet by 3 feet high, surrounded by benches and trees.

1998 Campo Housatonic Community Technical College. Connecticut Commission on the Arts. Three brick and precast concrete pavilions (24' x 24' each) set into the central campus courtyard.

2001 Roundabout Burbank, CA, Sandstone sculpture, surrounding landscape set into 80' diameter entry court. Commissioned by the City of Burbank and Empire Center Developers.

2004 Free Fall Granite fountains, pools and garden alongside the entry and reception rooms of the new wing of the Cancer Institute of NJ.

2004 Wa Marafiki Mkusanyiko (Assembly of Friends) US Embassy, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Commissioned by the US State Department & Friends of Art & Preservation in Embassies. African granite, water, sandstone. Six 8' H x 3' W x 8' D carved and shaped granite panels surround sandstone pool in entry court of the embassy.

2005 Scholar's Rock Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton, NJ.
Sited along edge of the large pond, 40' long granite bench 'suspended' by a 'forest' of painted stainless steel poles. Inscribed with quotations from Institute founder and members.

2008 Watercourse at Bentall V Vancouver, B.C., Canada. Commissioned by the Vancouver Art Commission and the Bentall Development Corporation for the plaza in front of new office tower in center of Vancouver.

2008 Suspended Arcs Olympic Park, Beijing, China. Commisioned by the Beijing 2008 Olympics Committee.

2009 Capsouto Park Commissioned by the NYC Parks Department, NYC Art Tribeca Park Commission & the Mayor's Fund. A collaborative effort by the artist and Gail Wittwer-Laird of the NYC Parks Department. This new one acre park features landscape, seating and a 120' long x 10' wide stone and water 'canal' by the artist.

Sculpture Commissions

1982 Shunyata Private residence, Oakbrook, IL

1991 Portal Meidum Private residence, Amagansett, NY

1992 Morbihan General Mills Art Collection, Minneapolis, MN

1992 Stalled Cairn Private residence, Bedford, NY

1993 Vessel Private residence, Princeton, NJ

1993 Triad Nassau County Art Museum, Long Island, NY (Extended loan by owner)

1995 Agate Private Residence, Darien, CT.

1996 XX Telfair Museum, Jepson Center for Art, Savannah, GA

1996 XY Private residence, Spencertown, NY

2000 Tetra Private residence, Southhampton, NY

2006 Archeos Private residence, Kent, NY

Selected Exhibition Catalogues

1974 Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC
1976 McCullough, Thomas. Intro. Biennial of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
1978 Tyson, Rae. Intro. Artpark 1978, The program in Visual Arts, Lewiston, NY
1979 Lyons, Lisa. Eight Artists: The Elusive Image, Design Quarterly, Walker Art Center,          Minneapolis, MN
1979 Neff, John. Options I: Elyn Zimmerman, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
1980 Armstrong, Richard. Intro. California Sculpture 1975-1980, San Diego Museum of Art,          San Diego, CA
1980 Owens, Craig. Intro. Art at the Olympics, A Survey of the National Fine Arts Program,
         1980 Winter Olympics, Lake Placid, NY
1980 Kardon, Janet. Intro. Drawings: The Pluralist Decade, 1980 Venice Biennale, United          States Pavilion, Venice, Italy: Institute of Contemporary Art, University of          Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
1980 Burchett, Deborah. Intro. Architectural Sculpture, Los Angeles Institute of
         Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
1981 Anderson, Richard. Intro. New Visions, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art,          Ridgefield, CT
1981 Williams, Tod and Scofidio, Ricardo. ed. Window Room Furniture Projects,
         Houghton Gallery, The Cooper Union, NYC
1982 Stuckey, Charles. Palisades Project & Related Works, Hudson River Museum,
         Yonkers, NY
1982 Schimmel, Paul. Shift: LA/NY, Newport Harbor Art Museum, CA
1983 Rosenweig, Phyliss. Directions 1983, Hirshhorn Museum, Washington D.C.
1983 Wortz, Melinda. NES Park, Santa Monica Arts Commission, CA
1985 Filler, Martin. Art & Architecture & Landscape, San Francisco Museum of
         Modern Art, CA
1985 Schwartz, Joyce. Artists & Architects Collaborating, Cleveland Center for
         Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH
1985 Schwartz, Joyce. Art in the Environment, Boca Raton Museum of Art, FL
1986 Senie, Harriet. Sculpture for Public Spaces, Marisa Del Re Gallery, NYC
1990 Morgan, Robert. Concept - Decoratif: Anti-Formalist Art of the 70's, Nahan Gallery, NYC
1990 Bloemink, Barbara. Natural Selection, Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY
1991 Carlucci, Pietro. Drawing Conclusions, Guidarte Gallery, NYC
1991 Beardsley, John. Elyn Zimmerman, Art Museum, University of South Florida,
         Tampa, FL
1993 Newman, Sasha. Elyn Zimmerman, Gagosian Gallery, NYC
1996 Pincus-Witten, Robert. Elyn Zimmerman, Gagosian Gallery, NYC
1988 Treib, Marc. Elyn Zimmerman: A Decade of Projects, Illustrated catalogue, NY
1999 Staviatsky, Gail, Waxing Poetic, Encaustic Art in America, Montclair Art Museum, NJ
2000 Chambers, Christopher. Environmental Sculpture, Dorsky Gallery, NYC, NY
2001 Karmel, Pepe & Hempel, Amy. Elyn Zimmerman: New Drawings, Gagosian Gallery, NY
2003 Feinstein, Roni. Elyn Zimmerman: Photography, Gagosian Gallery, NY

Selected Periodicals & Books

1975 Hoesterey, Ingebord. "New York", Art International, May
1975 Varnedoe, Kirk. "Artifact or Fact Art: Transparent Problems in Photography", Arts           Magazine, June
1976 Albright, Thomas. "Zimmerman's Sense of Magic", San Francisco Chron., December 6
1977 "Elyn Zimmerman", DATA ARTE #27, Milan, Italy
1977 Marmer, Nancy. "Reviews: Los Angeles", ArtForum, May
1977 Zimmer, William. "Rectangular Sentinels", Soho Weekly News, April 7
1978 Newman, Jay Hartley. The Mirror Book, Crown Publishers, NY
1978 Varnedoe, Kirk. "Site Lines: Recent Work by Elyn Zimmerman", Arts Magazine,           December
1980 McFadden, Sarah. "The Big Secret: Art at the Olympics", Art in America, April
1980 Larsen, Kay. "Expulsion from the Garden: Environmental Sculpture at the Winter           Olympics", ArtForum, February
1980 Frueh, Joanna. "Reviews: Chicago", ArtForum, February
1982 Raynor, Vivian. "Arts Review", New York Times, February 14
1982 Tsai, Eugenie. "Elyn Zimmerman: Palisades", Arts Magazine, April
1982 Lubell, Ellen. "Reviews", Art News, June
1982 Phillips, Deborah. "Reviews", Art News, June
1982 Mizumoto, Shuji. "New York Art", Bijitsu Techo, Tokyo, Japan
1983 Shinoda, M. "Women Artists", Bijitsu Techo, Tokyo, Japan
1983 Silverthorne, Jeanne. "Reviews", ArtForum, October
1984 Gopnik, Adam. "Marabar", Arts Magazine, October
1985 Garris, Laurie. "The Changing Landscape", Arts & Architecture, Vol. 3, No. 4
1985 Filler, Martin. "Design Award Competition: Domaine Clos Pegase Winery", Architectural           Record, February
1986 "Design News - Davenport Plaza", Architectural Record, April
1987 Zelanski, P. & Fisher, M. The Art of Seeing, John Calmann & King, Publishers
1987 Sergeat, Georgia. "Washington D.C. - Sculpture in Architectural Settings", International           Sculpture, January/February
1987 Treib, Marc. "Design Vocabulary III: Rock", Landscape Architecture, Vol. 77, No. 3,           May/June
1988 Feinberg, Jean E. "Terrain: Elyn Zimmerman's Garden Courtyard", Landscape           Architecture, Vol. 78, No. 2, March/April
1988 Korza, Pam., & Cruikshank, Jeffery. "Going Public: Art in Public Places", AES,           University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Publishers
1988 Zimmer, William. "Public Art by Elyn Zimmerman", New York Times, July 10
1988 Bresnson, Michael. "Arts Review", New York Times, July 22
1988 Higuchi, Shoichiro, "Terrain", Shoten Kenchiku, Tokyo, Japan
1989 Beardsley, John. Earthworks and Beyond, Abbeville Press, NY
1989 Sasaki, Yoji. "Artwork: Elyn Zimmerman", Japan Landscapes, #10, Tokyo, Japan
1989 Kohen, Helen. "Island: A Winning Piece of Public Art", Miami Herald, July 16
1989 Pittas, Michael. "Contemporary California Competitions", Urban Design International,           Vol.10
1989 Malone, Maggie. "The Great Outdoors", ARTS Report, Newsweek, October 28
1990 Hitt, Jack. "Whatever Became of the Public Square?" Harpers, July
1990 Turner, Elise. "Miami", Contemporanea, April
1990 Joselit, David. "Public Art and the Public Purse", Art in America, July
1990 Southerland, Lyle. Designing the New Landscape, Thames & Hudson, London
1990 Higuchi, Shoichiro. Public Art: Urban Sculpture in USA, Japanese Press
1990 Rubinstein, Charlotte. American Women Sculptors, G. K. Hall and Company,           Publishers, Boston
1991 Broude, Norma. "Alternative Monuments", Art in America, February
1991 Marger, Maryann. "A Moment of Solace", St. Petersburg Times, March 23
1991 Higuchi, Shoichiro. Water as Environmental Art, Kashiwashobo Publishing Company,          Tokyo, Japan
1991 Berman, Avis. "Public Sculpture's New Look", Art News, Vol. 90, No. 7 September
1991 Castagliola, M.E. "Elyn Zimmerman: Sanctuary", Art Papers, September - October
1992 Senie, Harriet, Contemporary Public Sculpture, Oxford University Press
1992 Princenthal, Nancy. "Review of Exhibitions", Art in America, November
1992 Beardsley, John. "Museum Landscapes: More Space for Sculpture", Landscaping           Architecture, January
1994 Morris, Philip. "Grand Opening", Southern Accents, September/October
1996 Hartney, Elenor. "Review of Exhibitions", Art in America, March
1996 Sandler, Irving. Art of the Postmodern Era, Harper Collins
1997 Hummer, Tracey. "Interview with Elyn Zimmerman", Sculpture, May/June
1998 Lieberman, Clair. "Stone Sculpture", Sculpture, February
1998 Frank, Peter. "New Sculpture", LA Weekly, June
2001 Lin, Jeremy. "Unrealized Projects", Surface, March
2002 Emory, David. "World Trade Center Art Works Destroyed", Art in America, January
2002 Ruas, Charles. "Review of Exhibitions", ArtNews, January
2002 Feinstein, Roni. 'Review of Exhibitions", Art in America, March
2003 Castleberry, May. New World's Old World, University of New Mexico Press
2003 Leffingwell, Edward. "Review of Exhibitions", Art in America, October
2005 Melkisethian, Angela. "Elyn Zimmerman", Sculpture, March
2008 Falkernstein, Michelle. "Showing Our Best Side", Art News, Summer
2008 Yilang, Zhu. "The Sculpture Olympics", Sculpture, November
2009 Van Uffelen, Chris. 1000X Landscape Architecture, Verlagshaus Braun
2009 Cohen, Patricia. "Employing Art Along with Ambassadors", New York Times, June 27
2009 "Microparks Everywhere", New York Magazine, August 10 - 17
2010 Kienholz, Lyn. L.A. Rising: SoCal Artists Before 1980, Getty Publishing