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"
- 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"
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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"
- 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"
- Union Art Gallery, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee: "Women in the Middle"
- Locus Media Gallery, New York, NY: "Domestic Affairs"
- 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"
- 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"
- 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"
- 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"
- '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"
- 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”
- 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"
- 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”
- Palmyra Gallery, Bound Brook, NJ: “Saturnalia”
- Prince Street Gallery, New York, NY: “A Woman’s Place”
- 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”
- Level 3 Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
- Museum of Art, Science & Industry, Bridgeport, CT: "Barnum Festival Juried Art
Exhibition"
- City Without Walls Gallery, Newark, NJ: "Metro Show"
- Foto: New York, NY: "Hand-Colored Photographs" (curated by Geno Rodriguez)
- University of South Florida,Tampa, FL: "Eight Contemporary Photographers"
- RH Oosterom, Inc., New York, NY
- Queens Museum, New York, NY: "Annual Juried Exhibition" (curated by Robert
Pincus-Witten)
- RH Oosterom, Inc., New York, NY
- 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