Exhibitions, Solo:
    2011: Orbit 1 Gallery, Robeson Center, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ: "Objects
    of   Memory"
    2010: Chashama266, New York, NY: "Memory Maps" window installation
       2009: College of St. Elizabeth, Morristown, NJ: "Aileen Bassis: Holocaust Books"
    2008: Ateliers BaZtille, Netherlands
    2007: Fox Gallery, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia: "Holocaust Stories"
    2006: Griffin Gallery, Madison, NJ: "Holocaust Stories"
    2002: Ceres Project Room at the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York, NY:
    "The Aftermath (9/11)"
    2000: Gallery 402: Organization of Independent Artists, New York, NY:  "Needs –
    Unmet"
    1994: Seigfred Gallery, Ohio University, Athens, OH: "In the Flesh"
    1983: Hudson D. Walker Gallery, Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, Mass.
    1979: RH Oosterom, Inc., New York, NY
             Moravian College, Bethlehem, PA

    Selected Group Exhibitions:
    2012:
  • Holocaust Memorial Center of Detroit, MI: "Silent Witnesses: Migration Stories
    through Synagogues"
  • AID Gallery, Art Institute of Atlanta-Decater, GA: "Wallbound"
  • Printmaking Center of New Jersey, Branchburg, "The Continuous Thread"
  • Step Gallery, Arizona State University, Tempe, "Crave: The Art of Dependency"
  • Gallery One, Newark, NJ, "Women: Realizing Perspectives"
  • Susan Hensel Gallery, Minneapolis, MN, "Readers Art 12: Longing for Home"

    2011:
  • Wool Punk Studio, Jersey City, NJ: "_Gaia Then and Now"
  • Pierro Gallery of South Orange, NJ: "Identity Blueprint"
  • UNO Art Gallery, University of Nebraska, Omaha: "Al-Mutanabbi Street Project"
  • Gallery at 14 Maple, Morristown, NJ: "Remembrance of Things Past"
  • Proteus Gowanus, Brooklyn, NY: "Migration"
  • Freyberger Gallery, Penn State Berks, Reading, PA: "Crisis/Reaction"
  • Art for Change Gallery, New York, NY: "Millennial Yell"
  • Center for Book Arts, New York, NY: "The (UN)Framed Photograph"
  • Aljira Gallery, Newark, NJ: "Viewpoints"
  • Manhattan Graphics Center, Project Space, New York, NY: "Solarplate Intaglio"
  • Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center, New York, NY: "Distant Cousins: Jewish &
    Muslim Women Speak"
  • Gallery 9 at JCity Theater, Jersey City, NJ: "Private Eyes" (2-artist exhibition)
  • Seton Hall University School of Law and City Without Walls Gallery, Newark, NJ:
    "The Newark School"
  • Perkins Center for the Arts, Collingswood, NJ and Noyes Museum, Hammonton, NJ:
    "YEA: Emerging Artists Project"
  • The Arts Center, Eugene, OR: "Unspeakable"
  • 23 Sandy Gallery, Portland, OR: "Photo Book Works"
  • Susan Hensel Gallery, Minneapolis, MN: "Readers Art 11: Urban/Urbane"
  • Atelier BaZtille, Zoetermeer, Netherlands: "What is Past, Never Returns"

    2010:
  • Jersey City Museum, NJ: "Jersey City Artists 2010: A Splendid Energy"
  • Ross Beitzel Art Gallery, Gloucester County College, NJ: "Yea! YO Emerging Artists  
    Project"
  • Grace Church, Jersey City, NJ: "ProArts Member Show"
  • Abecedarian Gallery, Denver, CO: "Photo Book Works"
  • Figment2010, Governor's Island, New York, NY: "Memory Maps" (participatory public
    art project)
  • Space 37, Queens Media Arts Development, New York, NY: "Babel"
  • Washington Printmakers Gallery, Pyramid Atlantic, Silver Spring, MD: "Small Works"
  • Altered Esthetics, Minneapolis, MN: "Altered Pages"
  • Vivant Art Collection, Philadelphia, PA, and Reginald F. Lewis Museum of African  
    American History, Baltimore, MD: "Transcending History: Moving Beyond the  
    Legacy of Slavery and the Holocaust," a project of IdeaArts Arts Initiative

    2009:
  • Truman State University Art Gallery, Kirksville, MO: "American Race"
  • Ann Street Gallery, Newburgh, NY: "Bound: Artists Books"
  • Printmaking Council of New Jersey, Branchville: "Below the Surface"
  • Fox Art Gallery at UPenn, Philadelphia, PA: "Family Ties: The First Wave"
  • ProArts Member Show, Grace Church, Jersey City, NJ
  • Printmaking Council of NJ, Branchville: "Past Present" curated by Aileen Bassis,       
  • Kreft Juried Exhibition, Concordia University Ann Arbor, MI: "Reconciliation"
  • NYU Bronfman Center Gallery, New York, NY: "Einstein on Witherspoon Street:
    Expressions for Social Justice"
  • Theresa A. Maloney Gallery, College of St. Elizabeth, Morristown, NJ: "Responding
    to Cuba"

    2008:
  • Booksmart Studio, Rochester, NY: "Art of Democracy"
  • Brennan Gallery, Justice William Brennan Courthouse, Jersey City, NJ: "Human
    History"
  • Jersey City Museum, NJ: "Sprawl"
  • Abecedarian Gallery, Denver, CO: "Transparent/Opaque"                    
  • Suffolk Museum, Suffolk, VA: "Beyond Reading: Books as Art"
  • Crown Center Gallery, Loyola University Chicago, IL: "Reforming US: Immigration
    Through Art"
  • ProArts Member Show, Canco Lofts, Jersey City, NJ

    2007:
  • John Cotton Dana Library, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ: "Book as Body? Body as
    Book!"
  • Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning New York, NY: "Jamaica Flux: Workspace and
    Windows: 2007" (public art and gallery exhibition)                    
  • Yavapai College, Prescott, AZ: "The Human Alteration" (3-artist exhibit)
  • Williamsburg Art and Historical Center, Brooklyn, NY: “Sun Pictures to Megapixels”
  • Brennan Gallery, Justice William Brennan Court House, Jersey City, NJ: “The Nature
    of Duality"            
  • Waldo Lofts, Jersey City, NJ: “Inside”
  • Defoor Centre Gallery, Atlanta, GA: "I/WE: Case Studies"
  • Nurtureart Gallery, Brooklyn, NY: "The Occidental Artist"
  • Kraft Gallery, Columbia University, New York, NY and Rubin-Frankel Gallery,
    Boston University, MA: "Words Within" organized by the WCA, Jewish Women
    Artists Network

    2006:
  • Brennan County Courthouse, Jersey City, NJ: "Identity"
  • Victory Hall, Jersey City, NJ: "American Diaspora"
  • Mana Fine Arts, Jersey City, NJ and Atlantic Gallery, New York, NY: "WHYGTS"
    (What Have You Got to Say?)     
  • Gallery Aferro, Newark, NJ: "Glossolalia"
  • University of the South, Sewanee, TN: "Beyond Words - Artists Books"
  • Susan Hensel Gallery, Minneapolis, MN: "Reader's Art 6: Changing the Wind"
  • Rahway Arts Guild, NJ: "A Separate Reality" curated by Samantha Dorfman
  • 5 plus 5 Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, and Food for Thought Student Gallery at Portland
    U., WA: "Paper Politics 2," curated by Josh McPhee
  • Hebrew College, Newton, MA: "L'Dov V'Dov - From Generation to Generation",
    WCA Jewish Women Artist Network
  • Robert A. Peck Gallery, Central Wyoming College: "Memory and Meditation"

    2005:
  • Makor Gallery of the 92nd St Y, New York, NY: "Tikkun Olam  - Healing the
    World"     
  • Jewish Women Artist Network of the Woman's Caucus for Art, New York, NY
  • NurtureArt Gallery, Brooklyn, NY: "Paper, Papier, Papel"
  • Seattle Print Arts, WA: "Paper Politics (West)"
  • Mills Pond House Gallery, Smithtown Township Arts Council, St. James, NY:
    "Women, Words and Images"
  • New Arts Program, Kutztown, PA: "Invitational Salon Exhibition"
  • Griffin Gallery, Madison, NJ: "Coexistence"
  • Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ: "Circa Crafts 2005"
  • artspace 129,  Montclair, NJ: "Local Color"
  • Contemporary Artists Center, North Adams, MA: "Made in NA MA"  

    2004:  
  • Union Art Gallery, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee: "Women in the Middle"
  • Locus Media Gallery, New York, NY: "Domestic Affairs"

    2003:
  • Frans Masereel Center, Kasterlee, Belgium: "Jubilee Exhibition"
  • City Without Walls Gallery, Newark, NJ: "Stop and Go"
  • City Without Walls Gallery, Newark, NJ: "Analog/Digital"
  • Institute for Community Research Gallery, Hartford, CT: "Living Spaces"
  • Illinois State University, University Galleries, Normal, IL: "Ready for War"
  • Monroe Center for the Arts, Hoboken, NJ: "First Sundays"

    2002:
  • Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn, NY: "Drawings for Peace"
  • Exit Art, New York, NY, and Williamson Gallery, College of Design, Pasadena, CA:    
    "Reactions"
  • The Bronx River Art Center, New York, NY and Fairleigh Dickenson Univ., Teaneck,
    NJ: "911:  Artists Respond"
  • Guild Gallery II, New York, NY: "Women's Perspectives"

    2001:  
  • Morehead State University, Morehead, Kentucky: "Image Text Language"
  • Lowe Gallery at Hudson Guild, New York, NY: "Drawing: Line, Skill, Imagination"
  • Center for Photography, Woodstock, NY: "Annual Benefit"
  • Lowe Gallery at Hudson Guild and Rush Arts Gallery, NYC: "Lucky Draw"

    2000:
  • Gallery 1101, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, IL: "The Collage Show-
    Three Approaches to  Photographic Construction"
  • Hunterdon Museum of Art, Clinton, NJ: "New Jersey State Council on the Arts
    Fellowship Exhibition"
  • Makeready's at Gallery 214, Montclair, NJ: "Time Lapse"
  • Raritan Valley Community College, North Branch, NJ: "The Portrait in the New
    Millennium"
  • City Without Walls Gallery, Newark, NJ: "The Color Line in the 2lst Century”
  • City Without Walls Gallery, Newark, NJ: "Artreach 2000"

    1999:
  • 'Exhibit A'  Gallery, New York, NY: "CWW in Soho"
  • The Puffin Cultural Forum, Teaneck, NJ: "Erase Hate/Create A New World"
  • Lump Gallery, Raleigh, NC: "un/Acceptable"

    1998:
  • Raritan Valley Community College, North Branch, NJ: “Issues of Guilt”
  • Gallery 402: Organization of Independent Artists, New York, NY: “Medicinal
    Madness”
  • Sponsored Reality at Union Hill Studio, Union City, NJ: “Image/Mileage”

    1997:
  • Artemisia, Chicago, IL: "Carving the Forces of Change"
  • PS 122 Gallery, New York, NY: “Small Works”
  • Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL: "Ancient Fragments in a New Light"

    1996:
  • Sylvia White Gallery, New York, NY:  "Reality Check"
  • Lutheran Brotherhood Gallery, Minneapolis, MN: "Awareness Alert - Women and
    Breast Cancer"
  • Binghamton University, SUNY, Binghamton, NY: "The Eldred Memorial Invitational"
  • Mill Hill Park, Trenton, NJ: “Trenton Avant Garde TAGfest” (outdoor installation)
  • Passaic County Community College Gallery, Paterson, NJ: “Context”
  • Cragin Fife Gallery, Brookline, MA: “Jewish Women Uncensored”

    1995:
  • Palmyra Gallery, Bound Brook, NJ: “Saturnalia”
  • Prince Street Gallery, New York, NY: “A Woman’s Place”

    1994:
  • City Without Walls Gallery, Newark, NJ: “New Members Show”
  • Peter Madero Gallery, New York, NY: "Diagnosis: Breast Cancer"
  • Ceres Gallery, New York, NY: "The Women's Health Show: Examining Room"

       1993:
  • City Without Walls Gallery, Newark, NJ: "Metro Show"
  • 10 on 8 (public art windows), New York, NY: "The Body Politic”

    1989:
  • Level 3 Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

    1988:
  • Museum of Art, Science & Industry, Bridgeport, CT: "Barnum Festival Juried Art
    Exhibition"

    1982:
  • City Without Walls Gallery, Newark, NJ: "Metro Show"

    1981:
  • Foto: New York, NY: "Hand-Colored Photographs" (curated by Geno Rodriguez)
  • University of South Florida,Tampa, FL: "Eight Contemporary Photographers"

    1980:
  • RH Oosterom, Inc., New York, NY
  • Queens Museum, New York, NY: "Annual Juried Exhibition" (curated by Robert
    Pincus-Witten)

    1979:
  • RH Oosterom, Inc., New York, NY

    1978:
  • Just Above Midtown Gallery, New York, NY: "Pocket Art"
  • Parsons School of Design, New York, NY: "Artists’ Books"

    Education:
1976:
Hunter College, CUNY, New York, NY: M.A., Creative Art
1971: SUNY at Binghamton, NY: B.A., Studio Art

    Fellowships, Residencies and Grants:
2010:
Canserrat stipend residency award, El Bruc, Spain
2008: Baztille Guest Studio Award, Zoetermeer, Netherlands
2007: Puffin Foundation Grant
2006: Nelimarkka Museum, Alajarvi, Finland: residency
2005: Contemporary Artists Center, Johnson, MA: residency merit award
2004: Vermont Studio Center: Dodge Foundation fellowship
2002: Frans Masereel Center, Kasterlee, Belgium: printmaking residency
1999: New Jersey State Council on the Arts: photography fellowship
1971-’72: Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA: painting fellowship

    Collections:
Newark Public Library Special Collections Division
Wellesley College, Massachusetts
Nelimarkka Museum, Finland
Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp, Belgium
Frans Masereel Center, Kasterlee, Belgium
NY Public Library, Photography Collection
    and private collections
                                                                    
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