EDUCATION

2002                     Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan. ME

1996-1998            MFA, Visual Arts: New York University, New York, NY
1990-1993            BFA, Ceramics: Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI

 

ONE AND TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS                       

2012           

Samson Projects, (with Beverly Semmes) Boston, MA

2010           

Polly Apfelbaum / Nicole Cherubini: Studiowork, D’Amelio Terras, New York, NY

2009           

Project Room, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA (curated by Lisa Melandri)

2008                

D’Amelio Terras, New York, New York

Smith-Stewart, New York, New York

2007                

Samson Projects, Boston, MA

Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA

Nassau County Museum, New York (with Valerie Hegarty)

2006

Klemens Gasser and Tanja Grunert, Inc., New York, NY

Jane Harstook Gallery, Greenwich House Pottery, New York, NY

2005                

Samson Projects, Boston, MA

ADA Gallery, Richmond, VA

2004                

G-Pots and Gems, Jersey City Museum, NJ.

2001           

Transformer, La Panaderia, Mexico D.F., Mexico (with Nancy Barton and Carol Bove)


SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2012           

Larissa Goldston Gallery, New York, NY

2011           

No Object is an Island, Cranbrook Art Museum, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfeild Hills, MI.

Chain, Chain, Chain, BISCHOFF/WEISS, London, England; curated by Glenn Adamson

Thing Tang Trash – Upcycling in Contemporary Ceramics, Permanenten: The West Norway Museum of Decorative Art, Bergen, The Netherlands; curated by Heidi Bjørgan.

This is Then, DODGEgallery, New York, NY

Shapeshifters, 443 PAS Gallery, New York, NY; curated by Laurel Sparks

Affinities: Painting in Abstraction, D’Amelio Terras, New York, NY; curated by Kate McNamara

Contemporary Clay, RH Gallery, New York, NY

Dust to Settle, Cuchifritos, New York, NY

Notes on Notes on “Camp,” INVISIBLE-EXPORTS, New York, NY

2010          

Collision, The RISD Museum of Art, Providence, RI; curated by Jackie Saccoccio

Under Skirt: a Peek at the Institution of Art, Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, Canada

Illusions Lounge, David Castillo Gallery, Miami, FL

2009          

Pink Panther, Kumukumu Gallery, New York, NY, curated by Smith-Stewart with Hannah Dumes and Nicole O’Rourke

Misfeasance?, Museo de Arte Raúl Anguiano in Guadalajara, México, curated by Montserrat Albores

Harlem Postcards: Spring 2009, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY

1992009, D’Amelio Terras, New York, NY

An Expanded Field of Possibilities, Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA

On From Here, Guild & Greyshkul, New York, NY

Dirt on Delight, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA; will travel to the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN

John Jay College Gallery, New York, NY. “Nicole Cherubini and Patrick Purcell.” Curated by Roberto Visani.

2008          

Without Walls, Museum 52, New York, NY

BlueBalls, APF Lab, New York, NY

Confrontational Ceramics, The Arts Exchange, White Plains, NY

Another Peep Show, Smith-Stewart, New York.

Environments and Empires, The Rose Art Museum, Waltham, Ma. Curated by Dominique Nahas and Margaret Evangeline.

Newman Popshiavilli, New York, NY

Re-Considering Color: Postmodern Classical II, Onassis Cultural Center, New York.

2007              

Irrational Profusion, PS 1/MOMA, Queens, New York. Curated by Phong Bui.

Circumventing the City, D’Amelio Terras Gallery, New York. Curated by Rachel Uffner.

Newman Popiashvili Gallery, New York. Curated by Omar-Lopez-Chahoud.

Blood Meridian, Galerie Michael Janssen, Berlin. Curated by David Hunt.

Lucky Draw, Sculpture Center, New York, NY

Intelligent Design, Momenta Art, Brooklyn, NY. Curated by Rico Gaston& Ellie Murphy.

2006         

Trans-Hudson Project: the cultural landscape, Pelham Art Center, Pelham, NY

New Work, Happy Lion, Los Angeles, CA. Curated by David Hunt.

The Bong Show, Leslie Tonkonow, New York, NY. Curated by Beverly Semmes.

Miami Design Exhibition, Miami, FL, M*A*S*H. Curated by David Hunt.

Beauty’s Gold is Clay, Alexandre Gallery, New York, NY

Material Abuse, Caren Golden Fine Art, NY /Clifford Gallery, Colgate University.

Sci-Fi Lullabies, FirePlace Projects, Hamptons, NY.

new work, Klemens Gasser and Tanja Grunert, Inc., New York, NY.

One Part Clay, Garth Clark, New York, NY. (traveling, SOFA NY)

Brutto Gusto, Rotterdam, Netherlands

Henry Street Settlement, New York, NY. Curated by Erin Donnelly.

2005         

Make it Now: New Sculpture in New York, The Sculpture Center, New York, NY.

Maximum Volume, Atlanta College for the Arts Gallery, Atlanta, GA. Curated by Isolde Breilmeyer

2004                             

TwiLife, Caren Golden Fine Art, New York, NY.

Peekskill Project, New York, NY. Curated by Koan Jeff Baysa.

Art on the Installment Plan, Abrons Art Center, New York, NY. Curated by Lilly Wei.

RISD Biennial NYC 2004, Claire Oliver Fine Art, New York, NY. Curated by Shamim Momin.

Super Salon, Samson Projects, Boston, MA.

2003                

Pantone, Massimo Audiello Fine Art, New York, NY. Curated by David Hunt.

City Mouse/Country Mouse, Space 101, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY. Curated by David Hunt.

Dress Me Up, Soil Gallery, Seattle, WA.

Aljira, a Center for Contemporary Art, Newark, NJ. Curated by Calvin Reid.

Tomoyo Saito Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

A Theory of Relative Power, Henry Street Settlement, New York, NY. Curated by Franklin Sirmans.

2002                

4 Brooklyn Artists, Tomoyo Saito Gallery, Tokyo, Japan.

Innovation and Tradition, Henry Street Settlement, New York, NY.

2000                

Kravets/Wehby Gallery, New York, NY. 2000 Part 2: Photographs

Here, Here Gallery, Cleveland, OH. Photographic Imagination.

SnapShot, The Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, MD.

1999                

New York, NY: Big City of Dreams, OpenSpace, Milan, Italy. (curated by Franklin Sirmans)

 

SELECTED HONORS AND AWARDS

2009                

Art Matter Grant, Travel to Mexico

2007                

The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award

2001-02              

Emerge 2002 Artist Development Program, Aljira Center for Contemporary Art, New Jersey, NJ

Artist-in-Residence, Henry Street Settlement, New York, NY

2000                

Greenwich House Pottery Artist Residency, Summer-Fall 2000

1998                

Jack Goodman Award for Art and Technology, New York University

1997                

Watershed Center for Ceramic Arts Residency Fellowship

1995                

The New England Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, Sculpture

Massachusetts Arts Council, National Endowment for the Arts

1994                

The Travel Grants Fund for Artist (México), Arts international, NEA

 

BIBLIOGRAPHY

2012                       

No Object is an Island: New Dialogues with the Cranbrook Collection. (Exhibition Catalog) Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfeild Hills, MI.

2011

Thing Tang Trash-Upcycling in Contemporary Ceramics. (Exhibition Catalog)  Bergen National Academy of the Arts and Art Museums, Bergen, Norway. 

2010

Smith, Roberta. “Spray!, Polly Apfelbaum/Nicole Cherubini: StudioWork”. NY Times, 7/16/10, p. C26

2009
Miles, Christopher. “Nicole Cherubini at Santa Monica Museum of Art,” Los Angeles Times, Oct 14

Smith, Roberta. “Crucible of Creativity,”New York Times, 3/20/09

Reichert, Elizabeth. “Nicole Cherubini’s Art Pot,” Ceramics Art and Perception, Issue 77

Rosof, Libby. “Dirt on Delight: Impulses That Form Clay,” Reviews, Ceramics Monthly, Mar 2009

Dirt on Delight: Impulses That Form Clay. (Exhibition catalog) Institute of Contemporary Art,Univ. of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.

Garcia, Mike. Expanded Field of Possibilities. (Exhibition catalog) Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum.

Smith, Roberta. “A Gallery Goes Out In a Burst of Energy,” New York Times, 2/7/09

2008
Top Ten, ArtForum, November, 2008

Goings on About Town: Nicole Cherubini, The New Yorker, 10/28/08

Cotter, Holland. “Lower East Side: Art Shoehorned Amid Charm”. NY Times 11/14/08

New York Times, New Yorker Pick.

Goings on About Town: Nicole Cherubini, The New Yorker, 10/28/08

Schwartz, Judith S. Confrontational Ceramics: The Artist as Social Critic. A&C Black Publishers, London, Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia.


2007
Norden, Linda. "PotBox Boxing: The Author & The Other".

Smith, Roberta. "The Material is the Message," New York Times 9/10/08

Breaking the Mould, New Approaches in Ceramics. Black Dog Publishing.

Albores, Montserrat: Brielmaier, Isolde; Davis, Taylor; Hunt, David. “Nicole Cherubini”; catalog in conjunction with exhibition at Samson Projects.

Johnson, Ken. “Critics Pick”, Boston Globe. 4/14/07

Nadelman, Cynthia, ArtNews, “Critic’s Pick”, 4/07

Porter, Jenelle. Assem-bling. Catalog in conjunction with ICA exhibition.

Perreault , John. American Craft 2/2007: One Part Clay

Reichert, Elizabeth. Ceramics Arts & Perception, 5/2007: One Part Clay.

Tarkassis, Kostas. Clay Art International Yearbook, Greece, March

2006
Porter, Jenelle. The Believer Magazine, “The Top Ten”

Johnson, Ken. New York Times, “Art Listings” 7/28/06

Cohen, David. NY Sun. “Not resigned to the Realm of Craft” 7/27/06

Palmerton, Elwyn. NYArts “Nicole Cherubini” Vol 11 no 7/8

Hunt, David. “Are Ceramicists to bother…” Essay for exhibition at Gasser and Grunert.

Kley, Elisabeth. Art News, 2/2006. “Just Bead It” pp.114-115.

Clark, Garth and Delvecchio, Mark. “One Part Clay: Advent-Garde and Mixed Media” SOFA

Dean, Mark. “One Part Clay” Catalog for Traveling Exhibition.

Pfannkuche, Bernd. Neue Keramik, magazine, Germany. 11/2006: One Part Clay

Reichert, Elizabeth. Ceramics Monthly, 11/2006. One Part Clay

2005
TimeOut New York, “TwiLife”

Korotkin, Joyce. NY Arts/ M Magazine/ January 2005. “TwiLife”

Coates, Jason. Style Weekly/ February 2nd, 2005. P.31

The Improper Bostonian/ April 6, 2005. P. 69

Artforum. May 2005. “Preview”

Smiith, Roberta. The New York Times/ May 27, 2005. P. E37 “The Many Shades of Now,…”

Ammirati, Domenick. Art Forum. October 2005. “Reviews”
Ins and Outs: Long Island City, NY / June 2005. “The Skinny on Sculpture”

Pappalaro, Anne. Artforum / June 2005. “Critics’ Picks’.

McGee, Celia. Daily News / May 27th, 2005. “What’s Old is New”.

Scott, Andrea K. TimeOut New York / June 2-8, 2005. “The New New Thins”

The Queens Courier / June 15, 2005. “ ‘Make It Now’ In Long Island City”

The New Yorker / June 27th, 2005.

TimeOut New York / July 14-20, 2005.

Kunitz, Daniel. The New York Sun / July 28th, 2005. “Better See it Now”

2004
Aranda-Alvarado, Rocio. “Nicole Cherubini: G-Pots and Gems” 1x1 Exhibition Catalogue

Smith, Roberta. New York Times 1/9/2004. Art in Review: "Pantone"

Smith, Roberta. New York Times 1/23/2004. Last Chance.

Wei, Lilly. "Art on the Installment Plan" Henry Street Settlement.

Momin, Shamim. "RISD Fine Art Biennial" (catalog)

Plummer, D'Lynne. South End News. May 13, 2004. Vol.25 no.17.

2003
Korotkin, Joyce. NY ARTS / April 2003 "Brooklyn"

Honigman, Ana Finel. Contemporary Magazine/ vol. 51. "NY: Space 101. "

Sirmans, Franklin. "A theory of relative power" Catalog

Bischoff, Dan. The Star-Ledger/Sunday June 1, 2003. "Aljiras new gallery emerges.."

Black, Mary. The Tablet, Seattle 05/01. " what to check out when you're out and about"

Stoezs, David. Seattle Weekly 5/30. "Dress Me Up"

2002
Sirmans, Franklin. "Henry Street Settlement: Artists-in-Residence" catalog

Ting, Mary. "Tradition and Innovation"

2001
Riekels, Lawrence. Transformer. La Panaderia, Mexico D.F.

Lopez, Maria Luisa. “Transformer Femenino en La Panaderia” Culture, Milenio Diario. 12/01

Ruiz, Blanca. “Mujeres en Accion” Primera Fila, Reforma. 1/19/2001

Sirmans, Franklin. Atmosfere Metropolitane . Comune di Milano, da Punto Erre, 2001

2000
“Here,Here” 6/24/200, The Plain Dealer/ Entertianment Section, Cleveland, Ohio

Photographic Imagination Catalog, in conjunction with the exhibition 6/2000


 

Visiting Artist/ Teaching/ Panels


2012               

Cranbrook Art Museum, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI.

Visiting Artists, Ceramic, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI.

Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA.

Visiting Artist, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI.

Visiting Artist, Ecole des Arts Visuels et Mediatiques, Universite du Quebec, Montreal

2011

Visiting Faculty, Ox-Bow, Saugatuck, MI

Visiting Artist, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI.

Visiting Artist, Museum School, Boston, MA.

2010                

Visiting Artist, Rutgers University, MFA program, New Jersey.

Visiting Artist, SVA MFA Program, New York.

Visiting Artist, University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Visiting Artist, École des arts visuals et médiatiques de l’UQAM

Visiting Artist, Corcoran College of Art, Washington DC

2009-10           

Mentor, University of the Arts, MFA program, Philadelphia, PA.

2009                

Visiting Artist, University of the Arts, MFA program, Philadelphia, PA.

Visiting Artist, Tyler University, MFA program, Philadelphia, PA.

Visiting Artist, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI

Visiting Artist, Bennington College, Bennington, VT

2007                

Visiting Artist, Massachusetts College of Art & Design, Boston, MA

Visiting Artist, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

2005-07                       

Visiting Professor, Hunter College, New York, NY

2006                

Visiting Artist, RISD, Providence, RI

Visiting Artist, Cooper-Union, New York, NY

Visiting Artist, NYU, New York, NY

2005                       

Adjunct Faculty, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY

Adjunct Faculty, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA