BERNICE SOKOL KRAMER

 

ARTIST RESUME

SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

2018  The World is not Flat: People Come Back, Carter Burden Gallery, NYC

2005  From Ghost to Goddess - Pleiades Gallery, NYC           

1995  Grandma's Room - 14 Sculptors Gallery, NYC    

1992  Sculpture and Works on Paper - 14 Sculptors Gallery, NYC 

1989  From a Childhood: Pallet of Dreams - Pleiades Gallery, NYC

GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

2020 Sanguine Expectations - Viridian Artists NYC Curator: Vernita Nemec (virtual)

2020 Chrysalistasis - Lyons Wier Gallery NYC Curator: James Austin Murray (virtual)

2020 Detritus - Viridian Artists NYC  Curator: Vernita Nemec (Virtual Exhibition)

2020 Herstory - Viridian Artists NYC (Virtual Exhibition)

2019 Shelter 14 Sculptors - Thomas Aquinas College, Sparkhill NY

2019 Holiday Madness - Viridian Artists NYC

2019  Beauties & Beasts - Pleiades Gallery NYC

2019, 2018, 2017  Shoebox Art Exhibition Tour, Kyoto Sculpture Association, Kyoto, Japan, Curator: Yu-Whuan

2019, 2018 Small Works - Carter Burden Gallery, NYC

2019, It’s a Mad Mad Mad World - Pleiades Gallery, NYC

2019, 2017, 2016, 2014  Postcards from the Edge - Bortolami Gallery, Sikkema Jenkins Gallery, Luhring Augustine Gallery, Metro Pictures lNYC

2018  Resistance Yiddish NY City - Lore Gallery NYC Curators: Tine Kinderman, Deborah Ugoretz

2018  Rise 2018 - Noho M55 Gallery, NYC (catalog)

2018  22nd Friends of Pleiades Invitational - Pleiades Gallery NYC

2017  Wise Blood Paradice Palase - Bushwick Open Studios, Brooklyn, NY, Curators: Kat Ryals, Lauren Hirschfield

2017  Art from Detritus - Viridian Artists NYC, Curator: Vernita Nemec

2017  Holiday Bazaar - Carter Burden Gallery NYC

2017  A Political/Apolitical Holiday Show - Viridian Artists NYC

2017  Selfies & Self-Portraits: 21st C Artists See Themselves - Viridian Artists NYC, Curator: Vernita Nemec

2017  Small Works Invitational - Blue Mountain Gallery, NYC

2017  Alternative Facts - Pleiades Gallery, NYC Curator: Denise Adler

2017  Wintertide - Pleiades Gallery NYC

2017  Once Upon a Time - Viridian Artists NYC Curator: Vernita Nemec

2016  Tree of Life and Evil Eyes - Clemente Soto Velez Center, NYC. Jurors: Tine Kinderman, Deborah Ugoretz

2016  Unusual Politics: The Madness of Reality - Viridian Artists NYC. Curator: Vernita Nemec

2016  Cyborgs, Crustaceans and Butterflies: Adornment and Identity in Contemporary Art - Pleiades Gallery, NYC. Curator: Denise Adler

2016  Small Works Invitational - Blue Mountain Gallery, NYC

2016  New Awakenings, New Century Artists - Central Booking, NYC

2016  Spring Fever - Pleiades Gallery

2016  20th Annual Invitational Show - Pleiades Gallery, NYC

JURIED EXHIBITIONS:

2020 107th Annual Juried Exhibition - Allied Artists of America NYC (virtual)

2020 Art at 50 Plus - Islip Art Museum NY. Juror: Holly Gordon (virtual)

2020 Ferocious Enemies - A Gathering of Tribes NYC. Juror: Chavisa Woods (virtual)

2019 Small Works Show - 440 Gallery, Brooklyn, NY. Juror: John Gagne

2019 Recycle 2019 Bklyn - Waterfront Artists Coalition, Bklyn, NY. Jurors: John Cloud Kaiser, Mary Anne Kinsella, Janice Jacob

2018  Et Tu, Art Brute? - Andrew Edlin Gallery, NYC. Curator: Jamie Sterns

2016  9th Annual Governors Island Art Fair – 4heads, NYC

AWARDS:

2011  George Condo Costume Contest - New Museum, NYC

2009  Curator’s Choice Artists Talk on Art. Jurors: Thalia Vrachopoulos, Tenri Cultural Center, NYC

2006  The Allied Artists of America Award for Graphics - 93rd Annual Exhibition, National Arts Club, NYC

2006  Honorable Mention  NYU Small Works Exhibition - 80 Washington Sq. East Galleries. Juror: Jack Shainman

2003  Third Prize-Certificate of Merit  “Self-Portrait” Theme Exhibition - Salmagundi Club, NYC

2003  William Alfred White Memorial Award Annual Combined Exhibition - Salmagundi Club, NYC

2001  Honorable Mention (Sculpture)  Annual Thumb Box Exhibition - Salmagundi Club, NYC

2001  "Fatto a Mano" Award  (Sculpture) 5th Annual Sculpture and Photo Exhibition - Salmagundi Club, NYC

2000  Alphaeus P. Cole Memorial Award (Sculpture) Annual Thumb Box Exhibition - Salmagundi Club, NYC

1999  Oscar L. Olsson Memorial Award (Sculpture), 3rd Annual Sculpture and Photo Exhibition - Salmagundi Club, NYC     

1998  President's Award  (Sculpture)  Annual Thumb Box Exhibition - Salmagundi Club, NYC

1998  Prize  Beatrice & Sidney Laufman Award (Drawing) - National Academy Museum, NYC

1989  First Prize. Juried Christmas Show - Salmagundi Club, NYC

1982  Juror's Award - NYU Small Works Exhibition, NYC. Juror: Nancy Hoffman  

PRESS:

2015  Top Five Installations to See at Governors Island, Design and Trend

2015  Governors Island Art Fair, Re: Artiste

2012  The Art Blog: Fifth Annual Governor’s Island Art Fair – A whole lot of innocence and decay, by Elizabeth Johnson

MEDIA:

1997  Making Art: Sustaining Oneself in a Cynical Environment (Panel Discussion) - Barnes & Noble, NYC           

1996  Independent Art Film (Untitled, in production) - Actress, Composer, Lyricist

1989  Artists of Union Square  Interview, Channel 31, Polish Television Network

AFFILIATION:

Carter Burden Gallery - The Pen & Brush, Inc., NYC           

Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition - Viridian Artists                       

Hullaballoo Collective - Pleiades Gallery, NYC

14 Sculptors Gallery, NYC - The Collage Assemblage Society  

Salmagundi Club, NYC - Komar & Melamid, Member, School of Bayonne                       

EDUCATION:

Norman Raeben, Carnegie Hall Studios, NYC      

Bruce Dorfman, Masters Class, NYC, NYU, B.A.