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Carol Saft

Email: carolsaftstudio@gmail.com

https://vimeo.com/205456251      carolsaft.com

Education

 2006      International Film and Television Workshop, Rockport, Maine.

1988       MFA, Purchase College, Full Fellowship, State University of New York

1984-85  New Forms Program, Pratt Institute, NY

One-person exhibitions

2023 Fiendish Plots, Lincoln, Neb. Nov.3 - Dec.22 

2022 Canada, “The Cynnie Paintings,” Nov.4-Dec.22. Tribeca, New York.

2019 Lesley Heller Fine Arts, “Fallen Men,” Feb. 20 - Apr 7, New York, N.Y.

2006 Anthology Film Archives, “ I want to be a Samurai”, New York, N.Y.

2004 artMoving, “ My Brother Todd”, Williamsburg, New York

2000 Im n IL gallery, curator by Eung Ho Park, Greenpoint, New York

Selected gallery + museum exhibitions +screenings

2024   “Christmas in July,” curator Wells Chandler, Andrew Refacz at NADA NYC,7/8 - 8/2.

           “I’ll Be Your Mirror,” curator Patrick Burton, Detroit, Michigan, June 2.

2023    M.David Co, the trevor project, Bushwick, Nov.- Dec.

            “Winter’s Long Embrace,” curator Bill Arning, Kinderhook, Dec16- Feb 21, 2024

             Marquee Projects, SelectionnTwo, Bellport, LI, Dec. January 2024

2022   Garageland, “Ladies of the Canyon,” June 24-June 26. Ridgewood, Queens

2021   Brick and Mortar, “I’m so glad I’m just like you,” Oct 29-Nov 13, Easton, Pa.

           Mount Airy Contemporary, “Staying Together,” two-person show, Aug-Sept 12, Phila,Pa

           Marquee Projects, “Pathological Landscapes,” Aug.6-Sept 12, Bellport, N.Y.

          “Trusting the River,” video production for Alyse Rosner exhibition at Rick Wester Fine Art.

          Guild Hall Museum, Annual exhibition, Mar.6- April 10, East Hampton, N.Y.

2020 “Art Off-screen,” outdoor sculpture, curator Eileen Jeng Lynch, 7/19-10/10.E.Moriches, NY

          Marquee Projects, “Strangers in Stranger Lands,” June 20- July 26, Bellport, NY

          Virtual Event: 5MAX series, Smack Mellon, May 21, ’20. 

          Timothy Taylor Gallery, video screening online, London, May-June ‘20

          Emerson/Dorsch Gallery, video screening online, Miami, May ‘20

2019 Cue Foundation Gala, exhibition and screening, Nov.18

         Wythe Hotel Screening, curated by Kimia Kline & Rachel Petach, Williamsburg, Sept. 30

         East End Arts Council, Detour Show, Riverhead, N.Y., June 1-Aug 29.

         Art Slope ’19, Shorts in the Slope, Brooklyn, NY, April 6 - 7.

2018 Pratt Institute, continuous screening, with We Make America exhibition, Oct 12-Nov 19

         Power T’s for Swing Left, Pierogi Gallery, August 7-10 

         Arete Venue and Gallery,“The Art of Protest,” curated by Elizabeth Cooper, Bklyn, 

           Mar.16-Apr 29. Continuous screenings of “We Are the Wave,” & “Mary Frank’s Studio.”

2017 Inverness Center for the Arts,“Return to the Forest,” curated by Elizabeth Whaley,       

           Cape Breton, Nova Scotia,  August 5-28

         Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, “Art on the Front Lines,” May 24 - Aug 10. NYC

         Pierogi, The Boiler, Bi-monthly screenings throughout the year with Film Club.

         Microscope Gallery, open screening, “Women with Torches,” Bushwick, April 17

2016 Making The Future, David & Schweitzer Gallery, Bushwick, Brooklyn, Sept. 30

         NOMENColorATURE, Centotto at Studio 10, curated by Paul D’Agostino, Bushwick, July

         Pierogi, The Boiler, Bi-Monthly screenings, Film Club, Brooklyn, NY

2015 Fisher Landau Center for Art in conjunction with the exhibition “ Literary devices” presents 

         Four Walls Slide and Film Club, curated by Matt Marello, Long Island City, NY

         Pierogi Gallery, lobby screen, “Identities,” Brooklyn, NY

         Mascot Studio, Mascot Studio’s 16th Annual Dog Show, New York, NY, Mar. 28

2014 Pierogi, Pierogi XX: “Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition,” Brooklyn, NY, Sept. 5 - Oct. 5

2012 The Parlour Bushwick, Brooklyn, May 19-June 29

         Herning International Short Film Festival, Denmark, Apr. 24

         Aurora Picture Show, Houston, TX April 19-24

         Anemic Film Festival, Prague,Cz, March 17

2011 Pierogi, Twin Twin, curated by Matt Friedman, Brooklyn, Sep.11

         Art101, “Williamsburg 2000,” with Meredith Allen, curated by Larry Walczak, Mar.12-Apr.17

         DiverseWorks, “Personal Boundary,” Two person show, Houston,TX, Mar.11-Apr.16

         White Box, “Sanctioned Array,”  New York, N.Y. February

2010 Pulse Miami, Winkleman Gallery, Dec.10

         SOIL GALLERY, “My Brother Todd, a video series,” two-person show, Seattle, Washington

2009 A.M. Richard Fine Art Gallery, “A contemporary Bestiary,” Williamsburg, Brooklyn

2008 CRG Gallery, “Insertions,” Video series, curated by Angela Dufresne, Nov.15.

2007 Schroder Romero Gallery,“Keeping Up with the Joneses,”

           curated by Jane Harris, Nov. - January 2008

2005 Abrons Art Center, “Looking…Seeing,” curated by Suzanne Randolph, June 7- July 17

2003 Berkeley Film & Video Festival, Nov.1-3

         Broadcast screenings on ESPN, CNN, The Weather Channel, “28 sec.Project”, July-Aug.

         SoMa Arts, San Francisco, screening, curated by Susan Joyce, April 

         Remote Lounge, “Visual Effects,” curated by Susan Joyce, New York City

2002  Wythe Studios, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, The Brooklyn Rail, curated by Phong Bui

2001 S.Cono Pizzeria, Williamsburg, Bklyn, “Made in Brooklyn,” curated by Chris Martin

         “The Brewster Project”, curated by Edward Winkleman, Brewster, New York 

          LA Arboretum, Los Angeles, CA,  “Cross Pollination,” curated by Susan Joyce

          Holland Tunnel Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, curated by Merylynn McCorkle

2000  57 Hope Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, “Me and My Friends,” curated by M.Magsamen

           Pierogi Gallery, lobby display sculpture, Williamsburg, New York.

1999  “3 Suitcases,”  curated by Omar Lopez-Chahoud & Laurie De Chiara, Mexico City

           Abrons Art Center, New York, N.Y., Line Up, and Scope, curated by Olivia Georgia

           Eyewash Gallery, Williamsburg, Bklyn, curated by Annie Heron and Larry Walczak

1998  Gaga Gallery, “Bang On a Can,” New York, N.Y. curated by Patrick Callery

          S.U.N.Y. Purchase Gallery, Art Furniture, Purchase, N.Y.

          P.S. 122, small works show, New York, N.Y. curated by Susan Schreiber

          Pelham Art Center, Domestic Curiosities, curated by Allison Paul

1996 Vermont Studio Center Gallery, Johnson, VT

1995 United Nations World Conference, Documentary Screening, Miami, Fla.

1994 The Sculpture Center, Works on Paper, New York, N.Y

1993 Guild Hall Museum,”The Young Blood Show”, East Hampton, N.Y 

         The Drawing Center, The Exquisite Corpse, New York, N.Y

1991 Suffolk community College, outdoor sculpture installation, Riverhead, N.Y

         Guild Hall Museum, Prints of the Eighties, East Hampton, N.Y

1990 Smithsonian Institute, Documentary screening, Museum of the American Indian, New

         York, N.Y

1987  Islip Art Museum, “Markers for an Uneven Sky,” site installation, Islip, NY

Awards, honors, grants

2024 New York Foundation for the Arts, Fellowship in Painting

2010 UCross Ranch, Honorary FFT Residency, Sheridan, Wyoming

2006 New Vision, grant for documentary, editorial and production funds

         Residency and exhibition, curator Jeff Gibson, Cooper Union

2003 Best of Festival, Experimental Video, Berkeley Film & Video Festival

1998 Henry Street Settlement, A.I.R Workspace Program

1996 Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, Vermont  Critics award in Sculpture

1993 New York Foundation for the Arts, SOS exhibition grant for sculpture

1990 Athens International Film Festival, Best Short Documentary, Athens, Ohio

         Suffolk County Film Festival, N.Y. Cable vision Award Best Documentary

         New York State Council on the Arts grants for video

         The New York Community Trust, grants for video

         The National Endowment for the Arts, City Arts Grant for Sculpture

Bibliography

2023  The Lincoln Journal, “ Carol Saft in Nebraska,” the Sunday magazine, Nov.12.

2022  The Brooklyn Rail, “Carol Saft: The Cynnie Paintings,”Amanda Millet-Sorsa, Nov. 2022

          https://paintersonpaintings.com/elizabeth-johnson-on-the-cynnie-paintings-by-carol-saft/ 

          Interview for “inertiastudiovists.com/2022/11/21/exhibition-visit-carol-saft/" 

2021  Catalog essay for Rick Wester Fine Art, Alyse Rosner exhibition, May/June ’21.

2020  Delicious Line, Elizabeth Johnson, “Stranger in Stranger Lands”, at Marquee Projects

             2020-7-20T1625/

2019 Two Coats of Paint, Gestures of grace: Carol Saft at Lesley Heller, Julia Couzens, Mar. 24

          Ocula Report, Armory Week: Shows to See, Sharmistha Ray, Mar.2

2018 Voyagemia, voyagemia.com/interview/meet-carol-saft/

2011 The Graduates, Robert Dinsmore, Purchase College, Fall 2011, p.23

2007 Keeping up with the Joneses, Debra Jencks, Dec. 7, Chelsea now

         Keeping up with the Joneses, The New Yorker Magazine, Dec.24, p.28

2005 Perspectives, Eric Ernst, Oct.13, p.B10, Southhampton Press

1999 Art & Idea, ART NEXUS, Nov.1999-Jan.2000,p.108

1993 Jennifer Cross, Young Blood Show Southampton Press, Dec.

1992 Leslie Santapaul, Profile, Carol Saft, Southampton Press, April 18

         Robert Long, Sense of Deja Vu, Southampton Press, April 8

Private Collections

Jason Andrew

Bill Arning

Ana Benaroya

Katherine Bradford

Sarah Braman

Andreea and Gabriel Cimoca

Angela Dufresne

Aram Ferdowsi

Lawrence Greenberg

Mariana Houston

Janet Phelps

Blanca Solar

Scott Rudin

Jeremy Wallison

Public Collections

Guild Hall Museum

Heckscher Museum

Parrish Art Museum

The Watermill Center

Cue Art Foundation 

Georges Guilbaud, Bellevigne-en-Layon, France 

Teaching, Visiting Artist, Zoom Talks 

2022  Public interview at Canada with Jane Ursula Harris and Katherine Bradford, Dec 4

          Artist guest, hosting School of Visual Arts MFA students in my studio

          Interview for “inertiastudiovists.com/2022/11/21/exhibition-visit-carol-saft/" 

2021  Interview Zoom talk with Mt. Airy Contemporary

2020  Interview Zoom round table with Eileen Jeng Lynch, Aug. 2020

2019  Visiting artist screening and talk with Nancy Bowen, S.U.N.Y. Purchase, Oct.16

2004-14 Art Teacher at Vanguard High School, New York, NY 

Sculpture, Furniture Design, Boat Building courses