BIOGRAPHY

Roberley Bell spent her childhood in Latin America and Southeast Asia, before returning to the United States to attend the University of Massachusetts and State University of New York at Alfred from she holds an MFA in Sculpture. Bell is the recipient of many grants and fellowships including two from the New York Foundatio for the Arts, a Pollock Krasner Fellowship, a Fulbright to the Netherlands and several residency awards.

Bell's work has been exhibited in both one person and group exhibitions, nationally and internationally. Her work has been included in exhibitions at the State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Dieu Donne Gallery, NYC, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Fassbender-Stevens Gallery Chicago. Bell has completed public site projects in Pittsburgh, Baltimore and New York.

Bell's projects center around the ideas of domesticity and the extension of the domestic realm into the landscape. Questioning the real and the artificial within nature (the control of the landscape) she creates site-specific projects both in the landscape and in gallery settings. Her new series Flower blobs expand on the themes surrounding the control of nature. They are in fact nothing from nature thought they reveal themselves as natural forms.

EDUCATION

1980-1982	State University of New York
	College of Ceramics at Alfred University, Alfred, New York MFA Sculpture
1979	Tyler School of Art
	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1973-1977	University of Massachusetts at Amhrerst BFA
	Amherst, Massachusetts
1974	Institutio Allende
	San Miguel de Allende, Mexico

ONE-PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2004	Dressing, Black and White Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2002	Trace, Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center, Buffalo, NY
2001	Always the Immigrant, Old Dominion University Gallery, Norfok, VA
	Print Projects Fine Arts Gallery, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI
1998	Geography and Other Work SUNY College, Fredonia
	Rockefeller Art Center, Fredonia, NY
1997	Place Memory, Allegheny College, Meghan Gallery, Meadville, PA
1996	The Site of Memory, Wright State University, Contemporary Art Museum,
	Dayton, OH brochure

FELLOWSHIPS AND RESIDENCIES

2003	Artist residency, Weir Farm, Wilton, CT
2001	Artist’s Fellowship, Pollaock Krasner Foundation
2001	Artist’s Fellowship, New York Foundation For The Arts (also ’93)
2000	Studio Residency, International Studio Program, NY, NY
1998	Artist as Catalyst, Residency Award, Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation
1995	Artist Residency Exchange, Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY
1993	Sculpture Space Residency Award, Sculpture Space, Utica, NY
1990	Fulbright: Summer Seminar in the Netherlands

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2004	Drawings by Sculptors, Black and White Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
	Against Tradition: Trends in Contemporary Printmaking, University Gallery, Indian University, Terra Haute, IN
2003	Public Art Biennial, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY
	Built by Hand: The Book as Art, Eleven Sculpture Space, Washington, DC
	Publishing Paper, Hand workshop, Richmond, VA
	Paper remix, Dieu Donne Gallery, NY, NY catalogue
2001	Books at Evergreen, Evergreen House, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, catalogue
	Small Treasures, Fassbender-Stevens gallery, Chicago, IL
2000	The View From Here, State Tertyakov Gallery, Moscos, Russia, catalogue
	Welcome, Wave Hill, Bronx, New York

PUBLIC AND OUTDOOR SITE PROJECTS

2004	Garden 2004, Grant Park, Chicago, IL
2002-2003	Art in Transit, B Line Bus Genesee County, NY
2002	Three Rivers Park, Pittsburgh, PA
2002	Sculpture at Evergreen, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
2002	Connemara Sculpture Park, Dallas, TX
2001-2003	St. Paul Western Sculpture Park, St Paul, MN
1999-2000	Public Sculpture @ NPR, Washington, DC