Sculptor Carole A. Feuerman Info

BIOGRAPHY 

by Peter Frank

Carole Feuerman is acknowledged as one of the world’s prominent hyper-realist sculptors. Among the notable honors Feuerman has received are the Amelia Peabody Sculpture Award, the Betty Parsons Award in sculpture, the Lorenzo de Medici Prize at the 2001 Biennale di Firenze, and First Prize at the 2008 Beijing Biennale. Her work is in collections of His Majesty the Emperor of Japan, President Bill Clinton and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, former Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev, the Absolute Art Collection, and Forbes Magazine. Public collections include The Amarillo Museum of Art, The Fort Lauderdale Museum of Art, The Bass Museum, The Tampa Museum, The Boca Raton Museum, The San Antonio Museum of Art, The Miami Children's Museum, Queensborough Community College Art Museum, Brandeis University, and Grounds For Sculpture.

This decade alone has seen Feuerman honored with prominent solo exhibitions, inclusion in prestigious shows around the world, and numerous publications. Her work was featured in “An American Odyssey, 1945/1980: Debating Modernism,” a survey including over a hundred works and seen in Spain and New York in 2004. The following year she was given a comprehensive one-person show, entitled “Resin to Bronze Topographies,” at Queensborough Community College of the City University of New York. In 2007 Feuerman's solo exhibition, “By the Sea,” appeared at the Pavilion Paradiso in connection with the Biennale di Venezia, followed by a solo show, “Lust & Desire,” at the art-st.-urban sculpture center outside Luzern, Switzerland. The following year, besides recognition in both the Third International Beijing Biennale and in the same city’s Olympic Fine Arts Exhibition, Feuerman mounted a solo show, “La Scultura incontra la realta,” at Florence’s Moretti Fine Art, and was included in Venice’s OPEN International Sculpture Exhibition. At the end of 2008, Feuerman’s retrospective, “Silence-Passion-Expression,” opened at the Amarillo Art Museum in Texas, which has been nominated by the AISEI for the best Monographic Exhibition for 2008-2009. Her next retrospective will be in August 2010 at the El Paso Museum of Art.

In 2009 Feuerman showcased in a solo outdoor exhibition along with Etruscan sculpture at the Archeological Museum in Fiesole, Italy; had a solo exhibition, “Swimmers, Bathers, Nudes,” at Jim Kempner Fine Art in New York; and was included in “Art and Illusion: Masterpieces of trompe-l’oeil from Antiquity to the Present” at the Palazzo Strozzi. This past January saw her Monumental Shower included in “intimacy!”, a new exhibition at the Kunstmuseum Ahlen in Germany.

This spring and summer will also find Feuerman at Art Chicago, the San Francisco Fine Art Fair and Scope Art Basel. Two group shows at Rarity Gallery in Mykonos, Greece and Louise Alexander and Ilan Engel Gallery in Porto Cervo, Italy are also scheduled.

Finally, just published by Hudson Hills Press this February 2010, is the second edition of Carole A. Feuerman: Sculpture, written by Eleanor Munroe and David Finn, the latest in a long string of publications and catalogues going back more than thirty years.

EDUCATION

• Hofstra University

• Temple University

• School of Visual Arts, BFA

SELECTED HONORS & AWARDS

2008 1st Prize Winner, Beijing Beinnale, Beijing, China

2007 Industry Service Award, Dress for Success, Jersey City, NJ

2006 Achievement Award, Cadillac & Hummer, 2nd International Biennale of Austria, Ausstellungszentrum Heft, Hutenberg, Austria; Member of the Review Panel, Annual State Arts Block Grant Program, Country of Hudson, NJ

2005 Award from the City of Florence, Florence Biennale Internazionale Dell’Arte Contemporanea, Florence, Italy

2003 Artist Showcase Award, The Healing Power of Art, Manhattan Arts International, NY

2002 Prize of Honor, Ausstellungszentrum Heft, Huttenberg, Austria

Preliminary Winner, The 1st Guilin Yuzi Paradise International Sculpture Awards, Guangxi, China; Artists Showcase Award, I Love Manhattan Art Competition, Manhattan Arts International, NY

2001 Lorenzo De Medici Prize, Biennale Internazionale: Dell' Arte Contemporanea, Florence, Italy

1995 The 2nd Fujisankei Sculpture Biennale, Hakone Open-Air Museum, Kanagawa-Ken, Japan

1985 “Compromising Positions”, Paramount Pictures, Art Credit, Susan Sarandan, CA, NY

1984 First Prize, US & International Fine Arts Exhibition, Germany , France, Italy; National International Fine Art Competition, FL; 1982 Amelia Peabody Sculpture Award, NY

1981 Charles D. Murphy Sculpture Award, NY

SELECTED ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2010 El Paso Museum of Art, "Earth, Water, Air, Fire: The Work of Carole A. Feuerman", El Paso, TX; Elaine Baker Gallery, "Survival of Serena, Blue Cap", Boca Raton Beach Resort, FL; Louise Alexander Gallery, Porto Cervo, Italy; Sculpturesite Gallery, “CAROLE A FEUERMAN: Reality Check”, San Francisco, CA

2009 Jim Kempner Fine Art, “Carole Feuerman: Swimmers, Bathers, Nudes,” Curated by Dru Arstark, New York, NY; Roman Theatre, Fiesole, "Carole Feuerman: Maxima", Florence, Italy; Art-st-Urban, "East Meets West", Lucerne, Switzerland

2008 Amarillo Museum of Art, One Person Retrospective, curated by Graziella Marchicelli, Ph.D., Amarillo, TX; Centro Cultural Borges, “Between Realities”, Buenos Aires, Argentina

2007 Scott Richards Contemporary Art, One Person Exhibition, curated by Scott Richards, San Francisco, CA

2005 Queensborough Community College Museum, CUNY, Retrospective, curated by Faustino Quintanilla, NY

2004 “Carole A. Feuerman: Erotica, Taboos of Endearment”, Janos Gat Gallery, curated by Stephen Foster, NY

2001 The Durst Organization, Lobby Gallery, Carole A. Feuerman: Presences, curated by Larry Powers, NY

2000 Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, From Studio to Foundry: Three Decades of Sculptures, curated by Michael A. Tomor, Ph. D., Loretto, PA

1999 “Painting with Fire”, Borders Bookstore, Barnes & Noble, Rockefeller Center, New York, NY; “Carole A. Feuerman: Sculpture”, Elinor Munro & David Finn, Hudson Hills Press, NY

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2010 Art Chicago, Chicago, IL; Galerie Klose, Essen, Germany; San Francisco Fine Art Fair, San Francisco, CA; Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland; Kunstmuseum Ahlen, “Intimacy! Bathing in Art”, Ahlen, Germany; Rarity Gallery, Mykonos, Greece

2009 "Art and Illusion: Masterpieces of Trompe-l'oeil from Antiquity to the Present Day", Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, Italy; Louise Alexander Gallery, Paris, France & Porto Cervo, Italy; Salamatina Gallery, "46XX", curated by Oksana Salamatina, Long Island, NY; Na Solyanke Gallery, "46XX", curated by Oksana Salamatina, Moscow, Russia; Nassau County Museum, "Long Island Collects", New York, NY

2008 Art Miami, Miami FL; SCOPE Miami, Miami, FL; Beijing Biennale, Beijing, China; Olympic Fine Arts, Beijing, China; Art Shanghai, China; OPEN 2008, International Exhibition of Sculptures, curated by Paolo de Grandis, Arte Communications, Venice & Lido, Italy

2007 OPEN 2007, International Exhibition of Sculptures, curated by Paolo de Grandis, Arte Communications, Venice & Lido, Italy

2006 2nd International Biennale of Contemporary Art, Ausstellungszentrum Heft, Austria; 2nd International Biennale of Contemporary Art, Ausstellungszentrum Heft, Austria; EROS 2006, 2 Degrees Festival of Art, Carrara, Italy

2005 City of Florence, Florence Biennale of Contemporary Art, Italy; ALVA Gallery, Being Good, Women’s Moral Values in the Millennium, New London, CT; Jersey City Museum, Lobby Exhibition, Jersey City, NJ; Bass Museum, Lobby Installation, Miami Beach, FL; The State Hermitage, Spheres, St. Petersburg, Russia; The Circulo de Bellas Artes, “The Modernist Debate”, curated by Stephen Foster, Madrid, Spain; The Centro de Arte de Salamanca, “The Modernist Debate”, curated by Stephen Foster, Salamanca, Spain; The Santilla del Mar in the Palacio de Caja, “The Modernist Debate”, curated by Stephen Foster, Cantabria, Spain

2003 ACA Galleries, “Small and Everlasting, 19th, 20th, and 21st. century Painting, Drawings, and Sculpture”, New York, NY; Boca Raton Museum, Selections from the Permanent Collection, curated by George Bolge, Boca Raton, FL; Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Selections from the Permanent Collection, Miami, FL; Bass Art Museum, Selection from the Permanent Collection, Miami, FL; Rutgers Art Museum, Forging Memorial Art for Public Memory, New Brunswick, NJ; Chelsea Museum, The Sonic Self, curated by Jolenta Gora-Wita, New York, NY; Southwest State University, William Whipple Gallery, International Works on Paper, curated by Edward Evans, Marshall, MN

2002 Ausstellungszentrum Heft: International Biennale of Contemporary Art, Huttenberg, Austria; Queensborough Community College Art Gallery CUNY, curated by Faustino Quintanilla, Bayside, NY; Southwest State University, William Whipple Gallery, Master Paintings and Works on Paper, Marshall, MN

2001 Biennale Internazionale dell'ARTE, Culture Counts, Fortezza da Basso, curated by Dr. George Preston, Florence, Italy

SELECTED PUBLIC & CORPORATE COLLECTIONS

• The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

• The State Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Russia

• Fort Lauderdale Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL

• Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL

• Brandeis University, Waltham, MA

• Bass Museum of Art, Miami, FL

• Lowe Museum of Art, University of Miami, FL

• President Mihail S. Gorbachov Foundation, Moscow, Russia

• The Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL

• Pepperdine University, Frederick R. Weisman Museum, Malibu, CA

• Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton, PA

• Art- St-Urban, Pavillon E, Lucerne, Switzerland

• Appollon Art Research Foundation, Mihail Chemiakin, Russia

• Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Loretto, PA

• Queensborough Community College Museum, CUNY, NY

• Miami Children’s Museum, Miami, FL

• V & S, The Swedish Wine and Spirits Corp., Stockholm, Sweden

• The Malcolm Forbes Magazine Collection, New York, NY

• Absolut Vodka Art Collection, Stockholm, Sweden

• The Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, Los Angeles, CA

• Good Samaritan Medical Center, West Palm Beach, FL

SELECTED PRIVATE COLLECTIONS

• President & Senator Mrs. Hillary Rodham Clinton

• Dr. Henry Kissinger, River House, New York, NY

• Mr. Pierre Cornette de Saint-Cyre, Paris, France

• Dr. & Mrs. Henry Foster, Wilmington, MA

• Mr. & Mrs. Theodore Baum, Southampton, NY

• Mr. JNA Van Caldenborgh, The Caldic Collection, Rotterdam, Holland

• Ms. Marilia Gabriela Baston de Toledo Cochrane, Brazil & NY

• Mr. & Mrs. Norman Braman, Philadelphia, PA, Miami, FL

• Mr. & Mrs. Burton Resnick, NY

• Dr. Norman S. Jaffe, Miami, FL

• Mr. & Mrs. Alan Potamkin, Miami, FL

• Mr. Alfons Van Hool, Brussels, Belgium

• Mr. David Finn, NY

• Mr. & Mrs. William Mack, Southampton, NY

• Mr. Jeffrey Steiner, Southampton, St. Tropez, NY

• Mr. & Mrs. Allen Safir, Bedford Hills, NY

• Mr. & Mrs. Richard Shack, Miami, FL

• Mr.& Mrs. Sid Singer, Mamaroneck, NY

• Mrs. Caroline Goldsmith, New York, NY

• Mr. Morton Swinsky, New York, NY

• Mr. Douglas Durst, New York, NY

• Ms. Loreen Arbus, Los Angeles, CA

• Ms. Gertrude Kohler Aeschliman, Zofingen, Switzerland

• Mr. & Mrs. Peter Tilles, NY

• Mr. Camolo, Switzerland

• Mr. Michael Greenberg, President of Sketchers, Switzerland

CURRENT PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

• Boca Raton Museum of Art, FL

• National Women Caucus for Art, NY

• International Women's Forum, NY

• International Sculpture Center, NJ

• Who's Who in the World

• Who’s Who of American Women