Selected Exhibitions

Indicates Solo Exhibit or Public Art Installation

2024

2023

  • “The Vanishing World of John James Audubon,” Doheny Memorial Library, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
  • “The Avocet Portfolio,” Kentler International Drawing Space, Red Hook Brooklyn, NY
  • “Works from the Gerald Mead Collection,” Castellani Art Museum, Niagara University, NY
  • “Friends, Neighbors & Distant Comrades: Work from the Moore Family Collection,” Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, Milwaukee, WI

2022

  • “Leaf Litter,” Butler Gallery, Fordham University, Lincoln Center, New York, NY
  • “Forest Bathing,” Kleinert James Art Center, Woodstock NY
  • “Othered,” Howl! Happening, New York, NY
  • “ Somewhere Downtown,” curated by Carlo McCormick & Peter Eleey, UCCA Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
  • “Re-Connections: In Kinship with Nature,” United Nations Environmental Program, available online April—June 2022 at UN.org.

2021

  • “Birds of the Northeast: Gulls To Great Auks,” Fairfield University Museum, Fairfield, CT
  • “Hermerica,” curated by Carrie Feder, Kleinert James Center, Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild, Woodstock, NY
  • “Cataclysm,” ABC NoRio in Exile online exhibition
  • “Forces to Forms,” curated by Ellen Levy, Pratt Manhattan Gallery, New York, NY. Virtual tour.
  • “The Filters Project @StoptheMud,” ongoing turbid release collection objects, Lamb House, Saugerties, NY
  • “4th Documents,” Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, Chongqing, China, organized by the Today Museum

2020

  • “NoMore Store,” James Fuentes Gallery, New York, NY
  • “A Stitch in Time,” The Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
  • “The Natural World in the Anthropocene,” Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ

2019

  • “Basquiat, The Artist and His New York Scene,” Schunck Museum, Heerlen, The Netherlands
  • “Too Fast to Live, Too Young to Die: Punk Graphics, 1976–1986,” Museum of Arts & Design (MAD), New York, NY; originated at Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI
  • “Zeitgeist,” River House Arts, Toledo, OH
  • “Anthropocene Island: Colonization, Native Species and Invaders,” Clemente Center, New York, NY and DeKalb Gallery, Pratt Institute
  • “AESTIVUS,” Cross Contemporary Art, Saugerties, NY
  • “Athens Light” Hudson Hall, Hudson, New York

2018

  • “Zeitgeist: The Art Scene of Teenage Basquiat,” curated by Sara Driver, Carlo McCormick, Mary-Ann Monforton, and Howl! Happening, New York, NY
  • “Snagged,” storefront installation, The Wild Bird Fund, New York, NY
  • “Planet A,” David and Schweitzer, Brooklyn, NY
  • “Brand New: Art and Commodity in the ’80s,” Hirshorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC
  • “Endangered Species: Artists on the Front Line of Biodiversity,” curated by Barbara Matilsky, Whatcom Museum, Bellingham, WA

2017

  • “Catastrophozoic,” Cross Contemporary Art, Saugerties, NY
  • “Debtfair” participating artist, a project of Occupy Museums, Whitney Biennial 2017, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
  • “Art For All” organized by Jeffery Deitch Projects for Uniqlo Soho, New York, NY
  • “Person of the Crowd, The Contemporary Art of Flanerie” The Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, PA
  • “Magic City, Art of the Street” Munich, Germany, curated by Carlo McCormick
  • “Larry Clark: White Trash,” Luring Augustine, Brooklyn, NY
  • “Declaration of Sentiments,” curated by Carrie Feder, Athens Cultural Center, Athens, NY

2016

  • “Tread Lightly” Cross Contemporary Art, Saugerties, NY
  • “Emergent Ecologies: Call for Organisms,” curated by Eben Kirksey, Multi Species Salon at Kilroy, Brooklyn, NY
  • “A. More Store,” Printed Matter, New York, NY
  • “Infinite Futures,” ABC No Rio, New York, NY
  • “Cowgirls of the Hudson Valley,” BRIC Gallery, Catskill, NY
  • “Earth Shattering,” Gallery 53, Cooperstown, NY

2015

  • “Carbon Mostly,” BCB Art, Hudson, NY
  • “City Maze and Fashion Moda Revisited,” WallWorks Gallery, Bronx, NY
  • “The Value of Food,” St. John the Divine, New York, NY
  • “Taking Root,” Athens Cultural Center, Athens, NY

2014

  • “Remaining Balance Insufficient,” Volta, Frederieke Taylor Gallery, New York, NY
  • “Rats and Other Early Works,” curated by Mark Miller, Gallery 98 Bowery, New York, NY
  • “The Real Estate Show, Was Then: 1980,” James Fuentes Gallery, New York, NY
  • “RESx,” ABC No Rio, New York, NY
  • “No City Is An Island, The Lodge Gallery, New York, NY
  • “Feral Objects, CREON, Curated by Peggy Cyphers and Lucio Pozzi New York, NY
  • “Social Photography,” Carriage Trade, New York, NY
  • “Road Kill,” Athens Cultural Center, Athens, NY

2013

  • “Die Wunderkammer,” The Lodge Gallery, New York, NY
  • “XFR STN,” Transfer Station, curated by Alan Moore, New Museum, New York, NY
  • “Women’s History Month Invitational,” VanDeb Editions, New York, NY
  • “The Animals Look Back at Us,” Byrdcliffe Kleinert James Center, Woodstock, NY
  • “Ice,” Athens Cultural Center, Athens, NY
  • “Tandem Pursuits,” Wave Hill, Bronx, NY
  • “Notched Bodies: [Insects in Contemporary Art” The Arsenal, New York, NY
  • “Fugitive Methane Emissions,” Marfa Dialogs, Cooper Union, New York, NY
  • “Will Work For Love,” Muroff Kutler Gallery, Stone Ridge, NY
  • “Social Photography III,” Carriage Trade, New York, NY

2012

  • “American Dreamers,” Pallazzo Strozzi with Hudson River Museum, Florence, Italy
  • “Come Closer, Art Around The Bowery, 1969-1989,” New Museum, New York, NY
  • “Water,” SUNY Ulster County Visual Arts Gallery, Stone Ridge, NY
  • Fashion Moda Store Documenta 7, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY
  • “This Will Have Been: Art, Love and Politics in the 1980’s,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
  • “Dear Mother Nature,” Dorsky Museum of Art SUNY, New Paltz, NY
  • “Beautiful Garbage,” Kleinert James Center for the Arts, Woodstock, NY
  • “Melted,” Roos Arts, Rosendale, NY
  • “Cowgirls of the Hudson Valley,” Brik Gallery, Catskill, NY
  • “Times Square Show Revisited,” Leubsdorf Art Gallery, Hunter College, New York, NY
  • “Modern Times,” Lesley Heller Gallery, New York, NY
  • “Scenes Believing,” KMOCA, Kingston, NY

2011

  • “Art, Access, and Decay,” Curated by Peter Frank, Subliminal Projects, Los Angeles, CA
  • “Water Aid,” Bone/Levine Architects, New York, NY
  • “Outer Space,” Exit Art, New York, NY
  • “Social Photography, Carriage Trade,” New York, NY
  • “ABC No Rio Visits”, Allegra LaViola Gallery,” New York, NY
  • “City Wide Frack Blast,” Frederieke Taylor Gallery, New York, NY
  • “Godesses Return to the Garden,” Woodstock Playhouse, Woodstock, NY
  • “Pop Patriotism,” curated by Peter Scott, Carriage Trade, New York, NY
  • “Buffalo on the Bowery,” curated by Julian Montague, Charles Bank Gallery, New York, NY
  • “Living Here,” curated by Cate Woodruff, KTD Monastery, Woodstock, NY
  • “Colab Revisited,” curated by Max Schuman, Printed Matter, New York, NY

2010

  • “Dead or Alive,” Museum of Art and Design, New York, NY
  • “10th Anniversary Retrospective,” Mass MoCA Kidspace, North Adams, MA
  • “What Matters Most?” EcoArtspace, New York, NY
  • “Resurrectine,” Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, NY
  • “Lost Amazon,” A.M. Richard, Williamsburg, NY
  • “Ecstasy,” Exit Art, New York, NY
  • “Art For Water,” Artsource International Gallery, New York, NY
  • “Water 911,” Varga Gallery, Woodstock, NY
  • “Nature/Nurture Greene County Council on the Arts, Catskill Gallery, Catskill, NY
  • “Drill Baby Drill (and other Acts of God),” Sharon Goldberg Contemporary Art, Brooklyn, NY
  • “Vanishing Pollinators,” curated by WEAD, Bioneers Conference, San Rafel, CA
  • “Good Bug Blooms Pack Art 2011” Hudson Valley Seed Library, KMOCA, Kingston, NY
  • “Contemporary Heirlooms: Horticulture Society of New York,” New York, NY
  • “FRACKING: Art and Activism Against the Drill,” Exit Art SEA Project Space, New York, NY
  • Clothesline Benefit, ABC No Rio, New York, NY

2009

  • “Lowgo,”Payne Gallery, Moravian College, Bethlehem, PA 
  • “And For All This, Nature Is Never Spent” curated by JoAnne Isaak, Art Center, Pelham, NY
  • “Trash Menagerie,” Art and Nature Center Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA
  • “Speakeasy 2009,” Exit Art, New York, NY
  • “Flag Good,” curated by Rajko Radovanovic Children Gallery, New Orleans, LA
  • “You Killed My Pretty Things,” U of New Orleans St Claude Gallery, New Orleans, LA
  • “Down to Earth Artists Address Food and Agriculture,” EcoArtspace, New York, NY
  • “Me’di.ate, Green Sight + Sound,” Mina Dresden Gallery, San Francisco, CA
  • “Visual Voices, Freedom of Expression,” Fordham University Gallery, New York, NY

2008

  • ”Extinct Birds Previously Consumed By Humans,” Frederieke Taylor Gallery, New York, NY
  • “Person of the Crowd,” curated by Thom Collins, Neuberger Museum SUNY Purchase, Purchase, NY
  • “Ornithology,” Contemporary Art Galleries University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
  • “No One is Innocent: Punk and Beyond,” Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria
  • “Feasting Eyes: Artists Take on Food,” Keenan Center, Lockport, NY
  • “Rat,” Archibald Arts, New York, NY
  • “It’s Not Easy Being Green,” Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL
  • “Especes d’Espace Magasin,” Centre d’Arte Contemporain, Grenoble, France
  • “East Village/LES,” Varga Gallery, Woodstock, NY

2007

  • “America For Sale,” Protest Space, New York, NY
  • “Fragments of Change,” Rubenstein Gallery Educational Alliance, New York, NY
  • “Addressing Iraq,” College of Fine Art, Gainesville, FL
  • “The Hand Making,” curated by Amy Lipton, Abington Arts Center, Philadelphia PA
  • “Time’s Up,” Protest Space , New York, NY
  • “Well Dressed,” curated by Randall Harris, Nathan Cummings Foundation, New York, NY
  • “The Price of Nothing,” curated by Jason Murison, EFA Gallery, New York, NY
  • “The Holiday Shopping Show,” Emily Harvey Foundation, New York, NY

2006

  • “The Downtown Show,” curated by Carlo McCormick, Grey Art Gallery, New York, NY
  • “The Studio Visit,” Exit Art, New York, NY
  • “The Drop,” Exit Art, New York, NY
  • “Peace Tower Online,” Whitney Biennial, New York, NY
  • “Hybrid Fields,” Sonoma County Museum, Santa Rosa, CA
  • “Water Matters,” Yager Museum, Hartwick College, Oneonta, NY
  • “Water Works,” Contemporary Quarterly Project Space Online
  • “Watts Up?” West Kortright Centre, East Meredith, NY
  • “What War?” curated by Larry Litt, Whitebox Gallery, New York, NY
  • “Ecolaughter,” curated by WEAD, Bioneers Conference, San Rafael, CA
  • “Worx,” Enderlin Gallery, Roxbury, NY

2005

  • “Lowgo Project,” Burchfield Penney Art Center, Buffalo, NY
  • “This is Not an Archive,” Center for Curatorial Studies Bard College, Annandale on Hudson, NY
  • “Democracy Was Fun,” White Box Gallery, New York, NY
  • “Momenta Benefit,” White Columns, New York, NY
  • “Endless Summer,” Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, NY
  • “Déjà vu,” Frederieke Taylor Gallery, New York, NY
  • “A Knock on the Door,” curated by LMCC, Cooper Union Gallery, New York, NY
  • “Hard Working Objects,” curated by Chris Rush, The Auk, Hamden, NY
  • “Copilandia,” curated by Robin Kahn and Kirby Gookin, Sevilla, Spain

2004

  • “GloboLoco” Frederieke Taylor Gallery, New York, NY
  • “Made in China/Made in USA,” Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, NY
  • “Fuzzy Though Time,” Hunting Tavern, Andes, NY
  • “Clothesline Show,” ABC No Rio, New York, NY
  • “Aquatopia,” Reynolds Gallery University of the Pacific, Stockton, CA
  • “Bug-eyed, Art, Culture, Insects,” curated by Trisha Watts, Turtle Bay Park, Redding, CA
  • “The Election Show,” University Gallery Illinois State University, Normal, IL
  • “Holiday Shopping Show,” Wallspace Gallery, New York, NY

2003

  • “10th Anniversary Exhibition,” Frediereke Taylor Gallery, New York, NY
  • “H2O,” Curated by JoAnne Isaak, Danese Gallery, New York, NY
  • “The Green Home Show,” curated by Alan Moore, Staten Island, NY
  • “Rock, Paper, Scissors,” Catskill Mountain Foundation, Hunter, NY
  • “The World We Live In” Upstate Art, Phoenicia, NY
  • “Notebook Baltimore,” Artscape Maryland Institute of Art, Baltimore, MD
  • “Crimes and Misdemeanors,” Center for Contemporary Art, Cincinnati, OH
  • “Arts and the Environment,” TOTO U.S.A., New York, NY

2002

  • “Nature in Pieces,” Ulrich Museum Wichita State University, Wichita, KS catalog available
  • “Insecta Magnifica,” Wave Hill Glyndor Gallery, Bronx, NY
  • “Algae Works,” Upstate Art, Phoenicia, NY
  • “H2O,” Curated by Joanne Isaak, Western Gallery, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA
  • Jacob Gallery, Wayne State, Detroit, MI, Houghton House Gallery, Hobart College, Geneva, NY travelling
  • “Unforgettable,” curated by Judy Collischan, Chelsea Studio Gallery, New York, NY
  • “Pop Patriotism,” curated by Peter Scott, Momenta Art, Brooklyn, NY
  • “A Second Look: Selections from Four Decades of Western New York Artists,” Burchfield Penney Art Center, Buffalo, NY
  • “America, You’re So Fine, You Blow my Mind,” Hallwalls Gallery, Buffalo, NY

2001

  • “NEW,” Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, NY
  • “Paradise Now,” U.of Michigan Ann Arbor, Museum of Art &Tang Teaching Museum, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
  • “Nature Warp: Christy Rupp and Rob Van Erve,” Pace University Gallery, Pleasantville, NY
  • “The Swim,” curated by Bianca Lanza, Bass Museum of Art, Miami, FL
  • “Rags to Riches: 25 years of Dieu Donne Papermill,” Curated by Donna Stein, Dieu Donne Papermill, New York, NY
  • “Patentable Future: Genetically Altered Sculpture,” Frederieke Taylor Gallery, New York, NY
  • “Natural Histories: Artists Forage in Science and Nature,” Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL
  • “NEW,” Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, NY
  • “Now, Then Before,” Roxbury Arts Group, Roxbury, NY

2000

  • “Christy Rupp, Swimming in the Gene Pool,” Mass MOCA Kidspace, North Adams, MA
  • “Algae Works,” West Kortright Centre, East Meredith, NY
  • “Quirky,” Adam Baumgold Fine Art, New York, NY
  • “The End…Is the beginning, 20 Years Of Exit Art,” Exit Art, New York, NY
  • “Animal Magnetism,” Bucknell Art Gallery, Curated by Stuart Horodner, Lewisburg, PA
  • “Welded: Sculpture of the 20th Century,” curated by Judy Collishan, Neuberger Museum, Purchase, NY
  • “Public Notice,” organized by Exit Art at Herron Gallery, Indianapolis, IN
  • “Blockbuster Year 2000 Show,” Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo, NY
  • “Rapid” Post Petroleum, Rapid Response collaboration American Fine Arts, New York, NY
  • “Environmentally Concerned,” Nathan Cummings Foundation, New York, NY
  • “Paper Trail,” Rutgers Center for Innovative Print and Paper, New Brunswick, NJ
  • “Paradise Now: Picturing the Genetic Revolution,” curated by Marvin Heifferman & Carole Kismaric, Exit Art, New York, NY
  • “Nature and Her Enemies,” Upstate Art, Phoenicia, NY
  • “The Bio-Tech Road Show,” CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY
  • “Symbols of Survival,” curated by Margaret Berenson, Dorsky Gallery, New York, NY

1999

  • “The Landscape Within,” Castellani Museum Niagara Falls, NY
  • “New Sculpture,” Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, NY
  • “Watershould,” Erpf Cultural Center, Arkville, NY
  • World War 3 Illustrated, “Tap Water Expose” Strip, Land Issue Vol 27, 4/99
  • “Mountain River,” Art Awareness Gallery, Lexington, NY
  • “Heroines and Heroes” curated by Willoughby Sharp, Cynthia Broan Gallery, NY, New York
  • “Urban Mythologies: The Bronx Represented Since the 1960’s,” Curated by Betty Sue Hertz, Bronx Museum, NY
  • “Public Notice,” curated by Exit Art, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA
  • “Seeing Money,” Portland Opera Rehearsal Hall, Portland, OR
  • “Unintended Consequences,” Art Center of Battle Creek, Battle Creek, MI
  • “Zooaltry,” M and T Center One Fountain Plaza, Curated by Burchfield Center, Buffalo, NY
  • “Y2Kaos,” Dieu Donne Papermill, New York, NY
  • “Small Works,” Upstate Art, Phoenicia, NY
Christy Rupp with wall of plankton

1998

  • “Dirty Work,” TZ’Art and Co., New York, NY
  • “Women Artists in the Vogel Collection,” Brenau Art Galleries, Gainesville, GA
  • “Wacko,” curated by Donald Moffet, St. Lawrence University, Canton, NY
  • “Works on Paper,” Adam Baumgold Fine Art, Park Avenue Armory, New York, NY
  • “Gathering of the Tribes” Issue #8, pp.56, curated by David Hammons

1997

  • “Moisture Seekers,” Dieu Donne Papermill, New York, NY
  • “Time Flies,” Hall Clocks Series for Early Childhood Center #2, The Bronx, New York, NY, Percent for Art, and the School Construction Authority of NYC
  • “Degrees of Presence,” A.T. Kearney, New York, NY
  • Splice,” Side Street Projects, Santa Monica, CA
  • “Tiny Work,” Project, Wichita, KS
  • “Public Notice,” Exit Art/The First World, New York, NY
  • “Lehman College Faculty Art Show,” Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx, NY
  • “Beneath The Surface,” Kendall Art and Design, Hudson, NY

1996

  • “Time Flies: Snail Clock,” sponsored by Municipal Arts Society of Baltimore, and Artscape Baltimore, MD
  • Counterculture: Alternative Information from the Underground Press to the Internet,” curated by Brian Wallis, Exit Art, New York, NY
  • “Fashion Moda,” Photos by Lisa Kahane, Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx, NY
  • “Water Lines,” Black and Herron Gallery, New York, NY
  • “The Act,” Gallery at Art Awareness, Lexington, NY
  • “The Artist at Play,” Burchfield Art Center, Buffalo, NY
  • “Body Language,” Florida State Museum of Fine Arts, Tallahassee, FL
  • “Time Flies: Snail Clock,” sponsored by Municipal Arts Society of Baltimore and Artscape, Baltimore, MD
  • “Endangered Spaces” ABC No Rio, New York, NY

1995

  • “Centennial Time Capsule,” Commissioned by the Elmwood Franklin School, Buffalo
  • “The Act,” Weatherspoon Gallery, Works on paper, UNC Greensboro, NC
  • “Hallwalls 20th Anniversary Show,” Burchfield Art Center, Buffalo, NY
  • “Brooklyn College Art Faculty Show,” LaGuardia Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
  • “Group Show,” Anita Shapolsky Gallery, New York, NY
  • “Fake Nature,” City of Atlanta Gallery, Atlanta, GA
  • “Sculpture Space 20 Years,” Munson Williams Proctor Institute, Utica, NY
  • “Folie a Deux,” Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA
  • “Imaginary Beings,” Exit Art The First World, New York, NY
  • “The Act,” Weatherspoon Gallery, Works on paper, Greensboro, NC
  • “Cultural Economies: Histories from the Alternative Arts Movement,” Curated by Julie Ault,The Drawing Center, New York, NY
  • “Transformations: Art Faculty Exhibition,” Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx, NY
  • “Art About The Environment II,” Center for Art and Earth, New York, NY
  • “Listening to Clay,” Greenwich House, New York, NY
  • “Rinehart 100,” Decker Gallery, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
  • “Instant Visions,” The New York Woman’s Foundation, New York, NY
  • “Momenta Art’s Spring Raffle,” Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, NY

1994

  • “Food and Water,” Longwood Arts Gallery, Bronx, NY
  • “Waterworks,” Patrick Lannan Gallery, Palm Beach Community College Museum of Art, Lake Worth, FL
  • “Signs of Life”, Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, NY
  • “Reuse Refuse,” Honolulu Academy of Art, Honolulu, HI
  • “Health Show,” Women’s Caucus for Art, Denise Bibro Gallery, New York, NY
  • “Faculty Exhibition,” Bard College Art Department, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
  • “Works on Paper,” Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, NC
  • “Monumental Propaganda,” organized Komar and Melamid, Smithsonian International Gallery, Washington, D.C.
  • “Spring,” The Sculpture Center, New York, NY

1993

  • “Contemporary Animal Imagery,” John Michael Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, WI
  • “Forest of Visions,” Knoxville Museum, Knoxville, KY
  • “From Destruction to Reclamation: Endangered Life,” Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC
  • “Science Fair,” Hallwalls, Buffalo, NY
  • “Monumental Confrontations,” organized by Komar and Melamid for Independent Curators, Inc.,
  • “Something Lost, Something Gained,” organized by Artist and Homeless Collaborative, Henry Street Settlement, New York, NY
  • “About Nature,” Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Group Exhibition, Nathan Cummings Foundation, New York, NY
  • “Anxious Art,” Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, MA
  • “10 x 10 x 10,” T ‘Z Art and Co., New York, NY

1992

  • “Rollback Bench” Permanent outdoor site work to mark 20 years of endangered species legislation, commissioned by the State of Washington Art in Public Places Program, at the University of Washington, Seattle, located on Union Bay
  • “Nature Held Hostage,” P.P.O.W. Gallery, New York, NY
  • Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, NY
  • “Signs of Life,” University of Illinois, Normal, IL
  • “Imperiled Shores,” Baxter Gallery, Portland School of Art, Portland, ME
  • “Environmental Terror,” University of Maryland Baltimore,&Roper Gallery, Frostburg State University, Frostburg, MD
  • Main Gallery/Artist Space,Richmond, VA; Parrish Art Museum, Southampton
  • “Against the Tide,” Pelham Art Center, Pelham, NY
  • “Sheltering Earth,” Artspace, New Haven, CT
  • “Completing the Circle: Artists Books on the Environment,” Minneapolis Center for Books Arts, Minneapolis, MN
  • “Material Revisions” Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, Brattleboro, VT
  • “The Edge of Childhood,” Hecksher Museum, Huntington, L.I., NY
  • “Vote,” Terry Dintenfass Gallery, New York, NY
  • “A New American Flag” Max Protech Gallery, New York, NY
  • The Productive Park Urban Center, sponsored by The Architectural League, and the NYC DEP

1991

  • “Artworks,” solo exhibition at Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA
  • Design Team Member, Knapp St Environmental Awareness Center, Coney Island Water Pollution Control Project, Brooklyn, NY
  • “Natural Selection,” Solo exhibition survey of work from 1979-1990, COCA (Center of Contemporary Art), Seattle, WA
  • “No Laughing Matter,” curated by Nina Felshin, traveling to: U. of North Texas, Denton; Alberta College Art Gallery, Calgary, Alberta, Canada; Art Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia; Sheldon Memorial Gallery, Lincoln NE; Tufts University Gallery, Medford, MA
  • “The Art of Advocacy,” Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
  • “Art at the Gateway Center,” The Prudential Art Program, Gateway Center, NJ
  • “Infusion,” Art Gallery, Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY
  • “Height x Width x Length,” Weatherspoon Gallery, Greensboro, N.C.
  • “Residue Politics,” Beaver College, PA
  • “The Order of Things: Toward a Politic of Still Life,” Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT

1990

  • “Sculpture to Last A Lifetime,” solo exhibition, P.P.O.W. Gallery, New York, NY
  • “Natural Selection,” survey exhibit Burchfield Art Center, Buffalo, Curator, Nancy Weekly
  • “The (Un)Making of Nature,” Whitney Museum of Art, Downtown Branch, traveling to Whitney Branch in Stamford, CT
  • “Natural Selection,” solo Exhibition of work from 1979 through 1990. Burchfield Art Center, Buffalo, NY. Curated by Nancy Weekly.
  • “The Political Landscape,” curated by Mary Ann Wadden, Hillwood Art Gallery, Long Island University, Brookville, NY
  • “Environmental Impact,” Gallery 55 Artworks, Cooperstown, NY
  • “Mayday M’aidez,” Tallahassee Gallery, FL
  • “Art What Thou Eat,” Edith Blum Institute, Bard College, Annandale, NY

1989

  • “Insufficient Data Fish,” Commissioned by New York Dept of Parks, Central Park, New York, NY
  • “Tidal Filter Fence” Percent for Art Commission, collaboration with the Department of Environmental Protection at the Coney Island Water Pollution Control Project, Brooklyn, NY (unbuilt)
  • “The Nature of the Beast,” Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY
  • “Urban Images,” Madison Art Center, Madison, WI

1988

  • “The Permanent War Economy,” P.P.O.W. Gallery, New York, NY
  • Weatherspoon Gallery, UNC Greensboro, North Carolina
  • “Committed to Print,” Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, and traveling to Wright State University, Dayton; The Peace Museum, Chicago; New York State Museum; Spencer Art Museum, Lawrence, Kansas; Newport Harbor Art Museum, CA; Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
  • “All the News That’s Fit for Prints,” P.P.O.W. Gallery, New York, NY
  • “Grass Roots: Agriculture in Transition,” Gallery 55, Cooperstown, NY
  • “Madness in America,” Elizabeth Galasso Fine Art, Ossining, NY
  • “The Debt,” Exit Art, New York, NY
  • “20 from New York,” Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, NY

1987

  • “Social Progress,” installed at the Queens County Farm Museum, NY
  • “Water Works,” SSCandB Lintas Worldwide, New York, NY
  • “The Art Of Politics,” Richard Bennet Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
  • “Standing Ground: Sculpture by American Women,” The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH

1986

  • “Social Progress,” outdoor public sculpture installed at 23rd St and 5th Avenue, New York, NY, Sponsored by the Public Art Fund
  • solo Exhibition, P.P.O.W. Gallery, New York, NY
  • “War and Peace: A Cultural Approach to Freedom,” Lawndale Center, Houston, TX
  • “The Law And Order Show,” to Celebrate the 200th anniversary of the U.S. Constitution, Center for Constitutional Rights, John Weber Gallery, New York, NY
  • “Art on Paper,” Weatherspoon Gallery, U of NC, Greensboro, N.C.
  • “R.I.S.D. New York,” Diane Brown Gallery, New York, NY
  • “Oppression/Expression,” Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA

1985

  • National Endowment for the Arts, fellowship in sculpture
  • “Americana,” Curated by Group Material for the Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art
  • “Mile 4,” outdoor sculpture exhibition, Chicago Sculpture International, Chicago, IL
  • “Out of Context,” Piccadilly Gallery, London
  • “Animals!,” Public Art Trust, Washington, D.C.
  • “Send it to Washington,” Washington Project for the Arts, D.C.
  • “Messages to the Public,” Spectacolor board in Times Square, Sponsored Public Art Fund, New York, NY

1984

  • “Hire Intelligence,” Dag Hammarskjold Plaza, New York, NY
  • “Artists Call Against U.S. Intervention in Central America,” Brooke Alexander Gallery
  • “In Celebration of Women Artists: The Younger Generation,” Sidney Janis
  • “Nature and NATO,” Two person installation at Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY
  • “ID,” Betty Stoler Gallery, New York, NY
  • “Sculpture Space Invitational,” Munson Williams Proctor Institute, Utica, NY
  • “12 Artists From New York,” Organized by Civilian Warfare Gallery for Engstrom Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
  • “Nature and Revolution,” P.P.O.W. Gallery, New York, NY
  • “East Village at the Center,” curated by Katya Arnold, Saide Bronfman Center, Montreal, Canada

1983

  • “1984 – A Preview”. Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, NY
  • “The Ritz,” Collaborative projects and Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, D.C.
  • “Williamsburg Bridge Show,” installation on the promenade of the bridge, Collaborative Projects Inc.
  • “L.A.–N.Y. Exchange Show,” Artist Space and L.A.C.E.
  • “The Island of Negative Utopia,” The Kitchen, New York, NY

1982

  • “Food, Farming, And Foreign Policy,” Commodities Exchange, 4 World Trade Center. LMCC, New York, NY
  • “Fashion Moda Traveling Show,” New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA
  • “Poly Tox Park,” site-specific installation sponsored by New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA
  • “Multiples Store,” Documenta 7, Kassel, West Germany
  • “New York City Wildlife Museum,” West 42 St., New York, NY
  • “Natural History,” Grace Borgenicht Gallery, New York, NY
  • “A.More Store,” Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY

1981

  • “Food, Farming and Foreign Policy,” Cummington County Fair, Cummington, MA
  • National Endowment for the Arts, Fellowship in sculpture
  • “Monumental Confrontations,” commissioned by The Soho News, New York, NY
  • “Group Show,” Brooke Alexander, New York, NY
  • “Events,” The New Museum invites Fashion Moda to curate a show, New York, NY
  • “Artists Make Art,” The Queens Museum, Queens, NY
  • “Food, Farming and Foreign Policy,” Cummington County Fair, Cummington, MA
  • “Childsplay, Wit and Whimsy in Contemporary Sculpture,” Queens Museum, NY
  • “The Suitcase Show,” Collaborative Projects visits And/Or, Seattle, WA
  • “Summer Invitational,” Monique Knowlton, New York, NY
  • “Heresies Benefit,” Grey Art Gallery, New York, NY
  • “Animals In The Arsenal,” organized by City Wildlife Projects, Central Park Zoo, New York, NY
  • “Small Works Show,” 80 Washington Square East Galleries, Award, New York, NY

1980

  • “The Deer Museum,” commissioned by America the Beautiful Fund, Bear Mountain State Park, NY
  • “Animals Living in Cities II,” ABC No Rio, New York, NY
  • “Project Grand Central,” commissioned by Remy Martin Corporation inside Grand Central Station, New York, NY
  • “Animals and Energy,” permanent installation Commissioned by the Staten Island Zoo
  • “City Wildlife,” a videotape at the Kitchen, New York, NY
  • “Public Policy,” curated by Peter Fend, 626 Broadway, New York, NY
  • “The Real Estate Show,” 123 Delancey Street, New York, NY

1979

  • “The Rat Patrol,” outdoor postering campaign during garbage strike, Lower Manhattan
  • “The Times Square Show,” New York, NY
  • “Animals Living in Cities,” Fashion Moda, South Bronx, NY
  • “Segnali Urbani,” (Post No Bills), Milan, Italy
  • “Manifesto,” 5 Bleecker Street, New York, NY
  • “The Dog Show,” 591 Broadway, New York, NY
  • “3 Artists,” Colgate University, Hamilton, NY

1978

  • “Food Chain Piece: Sculpture as Prey and Predator,” Central Park, New York, NY. Sponsored by Daniel Wolf Gallery
  • “Aggressive Geese Piece,” Projects Room, Artist Space, New York, NY
  • “Carnivores,” 2 World Trade Center, New York, NY

1977

  • “Maryland Biennial,” Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
  • “Selections from the File,” Artist Space, New York, NY
  • “Artist Immigrants to Washington,” Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, D.C.

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