Education

1980 M.F.A., Painting, Maryland Institute of Art

1974 M.A., Art Education, Smith College

1972 B.A., English (cum laude), Trinity College

1968-70 Skidmore College

Selected Awards

1996 Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant

1995 New York Foundation for the Arts, Drawing-Printmaking Category

1992 Project Residency Award, Hillwood Art Museum and New York State Council on Arts

1990 National Endowment for the Arts, Sculpture Fellowship

1984 Artist-in-Residence, Altos de Chavon, Dominican Republic

1983 Zaner Corporation Purchase Award from "Small Works '83," Patterson Sims, curator

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2000 Tilt, Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA

These Saw Visions: Billboards by Lesley Dill, organized by Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada (January-February)

1999 Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston

Weinstein Gallery, Minneapolis, MN

New Cast Works, Byron Cohen Gallery, Kansas City

Work in Progress: Lesley Dill, Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS

1998-99 Lesley Dill: The Poetics of Form, Widener Gallery, Trinity College, Hartford; Portland Art Museum, Maine; List Gallery, Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania; Selby Gallery, Ringling School of Art and Design, Sarasota (catalogue)

1998 Lesley Dill: A Secret Told…, George Adams Gallery, New York, NY

I Reach Along the Cord of Speech, Quartet Editions, New York, NY

These Saw Visions, University of West Florida Art Gallery, Pensacola, FL

Locus Gallery, St. Louis, MO

1997 Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA

Memphis University Art Museum, Memphis, TN

Galeria Thomas Cohn, Sao Paulo (catalogue)

Language and Desire, Equinox Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Lesley Dill: In Black and white, George Adams Gallery, New York, NY (catalogue)

1996 Banners and Figurative Sculpture, Susan Cummins Gallery, Mill Valley, CA

Installation and Performance, Creteil Maison des Arts

Voices in the Air, Cohen Berkowitz Gallery, Kansas City, MO

Lesley Dill: The Poetic Body, Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL (catalogue)

Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, MA

1995 Voices in My Head, George Adams Gallery, New York, NY

Lesley Dill: An Installation, Gallery at Dieu Donne Papermill, New York, NY

Clothe My Naked Body, Quartet Editions, New York, NY

Frumkin/Adams Gallery, New York, NY

1994 Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA

Gracie Mansion Gallery, New York, NY

1993 Sandler-Hudson Gallery, Atlanta, GA

1992 Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA

Sandler-Hudson Gallery, Atlanta, GA

Queens Museum, New York, NY

1991 Gracie Mansion Gallery, New York, NY

1989 Carlo Lamagna Gallery, New York, NY

1987 G.H. Dalsheimer Gallery, Baltimore, MD

Carlo Lamagna Gallery, New York, NY

1985 Galerie Taub, Philadelphia, PA

1983 55 Mercer Street Gallery, New York, NY

Selected Group Exhibitions

2000 Trunk Show, Zoller Gallery, Penn State University, University Park, PA

The Likeness of Being, DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY

1999-2000 Contemporary Narratives in American Prints, Whitney Museum of American Art at Champion, NY

Looking Forward Looking Black, Blaine L. Jacob Gallery, Detroit, MI; traveled to Houghton House Gallery, Hobart House Gallery, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY; The Yager Museum, Hartwick College, Oneonia, NY; Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, AZ

1999 Female, Wessel and O’Connor Gallery, New York, NY

Artists for Murnia 911, George Adams Gallery, New York, NY

The Body in Question: Tracing, Displacing, and Remaking the Human Figure in Contemporary Art, The Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY

Photo99@thomascohn.br., Galeria Thomas Cohn, Sao Paulo, Brazil

Contemporary Art from India, The Mary Place Gallery, Paddington, India

Body, Salina Art Center, Salina, KS

Art About Art, George Adams Galelry, New York, NY

Addressing the Century: 100 Years of Art & Fashion, Hayward Gallery, London; traveled to Kuntsmuseum Wolfsburge, Germany (catalogue)

1998 Annual Collector’s Show, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AK

Twenty Years/Twenty Artists, Maryland Institute/College of Art, Baltimore, MD

List Gallery, Swarthmore College, PA

Meza Fine Art, Coral Gables, FL

Susan Cummins Gallery, Mill Valley, CA

Obsessive Compulsive Order, Hillwood Art Museum, Long Island University (C.W. Post Campus, Brookville, NY

In the Details, Barbara Gross Galerie, Munich

Bodies in Flux, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC

Drawings IV, Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Wellness, Disease and the Visual Arts Series—The Body Reclaimed: Self-esteem, Social Stature and Expression, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, ARTS, Iowa City, IO

Burton/Marinkovich Gallery, Washington, D.C.

1992 Transparency, Luise Ross Gallery, New York, NY

Body and Soul, Philippe Staib Gallery, New York, NY

The Work-Image in Contemporary Art, Kean College, NJ, curated by Lewis Kachur

War, Trenkmann Gallery, New York, NY

Sense and Sensibility, Solo Press, New York, NY, curated by Nancy Princenthal

FASHION, Trenkmann Gallery, New York, NY

1991 Bronze, Frumkin Adams Gallery, New York, NY

Cheap Theatrics, Prudential Life Insurance, New Jersey, curated by S.K. Duff

Burning in Hell, Franklin Furnace, New York, NY, curated by Nancy Spero

American Art Today: New Directions, Florida International University, Miami, FL

Stark Contrast, Trenkmann Gallery, New York, NY

1990 Sense of Self, Triplex Gallery, Manhattan Community College, New York, NY, curated by Grace Knowlton

Sculptors' Drawings, The East Hampton Center for Contemporary Art, Long Island, NY

The Art of Drawing, Lehman College, The City University of New York, New York, NY

World AIDS Day, Manhattan Community College, New York, NY

Sculpture Faculty, Parsons School of Design, New York, NY

Landscape/Mindscape, Carlo Lamagna Gallery, New York, NY

1989 Collector's Choice, Center for the Arts, Vero Beach, FL

Lines of Vision: Drawings by Contemporary Women, Hillwood Art Gallery, Long Island University

Ground Works, Valencia Community College

1988 Embodiments, Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, Brattleboro, VT

Figure It Out, Helander Gallery, Palm Beach, FL

Seeing the Figure, Midtown Galleries, New York, NY

1987 Don't Knock Wood, Helander Gallery, Palm Beach, FL

Art for Your Collection, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI

The Human Form, The Spiritual Vision, Alexander Wood Gallery, New York, NY

Collector's Choice, Center for the Arts, Vero Beach, FL

Third Inaugural Exhibition, Carlo Lamagna Gallery, New York, NY

On Paper, G.H. Dalsheimer Gallery, Baltimore, MD

The Interior Self: Three Generations of Expressionists View the Human Image, Montclair Art Museum, NJ

1986 Traps: Elements of Psychic Seduction, Carlo Lamagna Gallery, New York, NY

New Work/New York, Helander Gallery, Palm Beach, FL

Perfect, Paulo Salvador Gallery, New York, NY

Two Person Show, de Facto Salon, New York, NY

1985 Anadromous, Michael Katz Gallery, New York, NY

Selections 28, The Drawing Center, New York, NY

de Facto Salon, New York, NY

1984 Drawings by Contemporary American Figurative Artists, Robert and Jane Meyerhoff Gallery, Maryland Institute of Art, Baltimore, MD

Fall Show, Condeso/Lawler Gallery, New York, NY

Michael Katz Gallery, New York, NY

10 Downtown, New York, NY

Altos de Chavon, Dominican Republic

Virtual Garrison Gallery, New York, NY

1983 Small Works, Zaner Gallery, Rochester, NY

Curatorial Experience

1991 Stark Contrast, Trenkmann Gallery, New York, NY

1987 Traps: Elements of Psychic Seduction, Carlo Lamagna Gallery, New York, NY

1984 Fall Show, Condeso/Lawler Gallery, New York, NY

Academic Positions

1990-92 Parson School of Design, New York, NY - Faculty

1984-91 St. Ann's School, Brooklyn, NY - Faculty

1990 Art in New York City," The State University of New York Middlebury

Parsons School of Design, Graduate Sculpture Department - Visiting Critic

1989 Maryland Institute of Art - Visiting Critic, Parsons School of Design, Graduate Sculpture Department – Visiting Critic

Valencia Community College, Valencia, FL - Visiting Critic

1987 Maryland Institute of Art - Visiting Critic

1986 Maryland Institute of Art - Visiting Critic

Selected Collections

ABC Motion Picture, New York, NY

Best Productions Inc., Richardmond, VA

S.K. Duff, New York, NY

Whoopi Goldberg, Los Angeles, CA

Barbara Guggenheim, New York, NY

Carlo Lamagna, New York, NY

Max Landau, New York, NY

Progressive Corporation, Mayfield Heights, OH

The Prudential Insurance Company of America, Newark, NJ

Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI

Sique Spence, New York, NY

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