BIOGRAPHY
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| RONA PONDICK | |
| 1952 | Born in Brooklyn, New York |
| Lives and works in New York | |
| Education | |
| 1977 | M.F.A., Yale University School of Art |
| 1974 | B.A., Queens College |
| Solo Exhibitions | |
| 2012 | Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris |
| 2010 | Metamorphosis: Rona Pondick, Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn, NY |
| Rona Pondick: The Metamorphosis of an Object, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Editions Space, Salzburg | |
| 2009 | Rona Pondick: The Metamorphosis of an Object, Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, Massachusetts |
| Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston | |
| 2008 | Rona Pondick, Head in Tree and other works 1999–2008, TR3, Ljubljana, Slovenia |
| Rona Pondick, Die Internationale Stiftung Mozarteum, Salzburg, Austria | |
| 2006 | Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg |
| Sonnabend Gallery, New York | |
| 2004 | Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, Cleveland, Ohio |
| 1987–2001, Akira Ikeda Gallery, Taura, Japan | |
| 2003 | Sculpture 1992–2003, Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan |
| 2002-2003 | DeCordova Sculpture Park + Museum, Lincoln, Massachusetts |
| Groninger Museum, Groningen, Netherlands | |
| 2002 | Galleria d’Arte Moderna Bologna, Bologna, Italy |
| Sonnabend Gallery, New York | |
| Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris | |
| 2001 | Patricia Faure Gallery, Santa Monica, California |
| 1999 | Positionenreihe 7, Rupertinum Museum für moderne und zeitgenössische Kunst, Salzburg |
| 1998 | Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston |
| 1997 | tree head room, Sidney Janis Gallery, New York |
| 1996-1997 | Mine, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Lobby Project, Brooklyn, New York |
| 1996 | Mine, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Next Wave Festival, site: Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, New York, |
| Susan Inglett, I. C. Editions, New York | |
| Patricia Faure Gallery, Santa Monica, California | |
| Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston | |
| 1995 | New Art 4, Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio |
| Jose Freire Fine Art, New York | |
| 1993 | Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston |
| Jose Freire Fine Art, New York | |
| 1992 | Pink and Brown, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem |
| Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris | |
| Transepoca, Milan | |
| 1991 | Scrap, a site-specific installation, Beaver College Art Gallery, Glenside, Pennsylvania |
| Asher-Faure Gallery, Los Angeles | |
| Foot and Mouth, fiction/nonfiction, New York | |
| 1990 | mamamamama, Asher-Faure Gallery, Los Angeles |
| 1989 | Currents, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston |
| Bed Milk Shoe, fiction/nonfiction, New York | |
| Hillman Holland Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia | |
| 1988 | Beds, Sculpture Center, New York |
| fiction/nonfiction, New York | |
| Group Exhibitions | |
| 2012 | Changing states of matter, Brand New Gallery, Milan, Italy |
| Do Not Destroy: Trees, Art, and Jewish Thought, Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA | |
| 2011 | Ileana Sonnabend: An Italian Portrait, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, Venice, Italy |
| Everyday Disturbances, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | |
| Circa 1986, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, New York | |
| Froschbärfant und andere Tiere in der Kunst, Galerie im Traklhaus, Salzburg, Austria | |
| Fundamentally Yours: Visual Art and Neuroscience, Pera Museum, Istanbul, Turkey | |
| Naked, Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston | |
| Never Let Me Go, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago | |
| American Dream, Valentina Bonomo Roma, Rome, Italy | |
| Simmons Collects: Celebrating Women Artists, Trustman Art Gallery, Simmons College, Boston | |
| The Museum’s Collection of Art Since the Mid-20th Century, Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, Massachusetts | |
| Sonnabend Gallery, New York, One Room Show | |
| 2010 | The Uncanny Valley, Royal Institution of Australia, The Science Exchange, Adelaide, Australia |
| Sonnabend Gallery, New York | |
| Odd Bodies: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, North Carolina | |
| 2009-2011 | Speaking with Hands, Kaoshiung Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan |
| 2009-2010 | Medicine and Art: Imagining a Future for Life and Love, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2009 | Stardust, Fundament Foundation, park De Oude Warande, Tilburg, The Netherlands |
| Sonnabend Gallery, New York | |
| The Buhl Collection: Speaking with Hands, Daelim Contemporary Art Museum, Seoul, Korea | |
| 2008 | Sonnabend Gallery, New York |
| Human Nature(s), Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, Massachusetts | |
| Origins, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, New York | |
| Sonsbeek 2008: Grandeur, Sonsbeek 2008, Arnhem, Netherlands | |
| Goya. Les Caprices & Chapman, Morimura, Pondick, Schutte, Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille, Lille, France | |
| The Florence and Daniel Guerlain Collection: Dessins, Cultural Services of the French Embassy, New York | |
| 2007 | Sonnabend Gallery, New York |
| Exposures: The Contemporary Self-Portrait, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg | |
| Unnatural: Neeta Madahar and Rona Pondick, Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston | |
| Uncontained, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, | |
| 2006 | Eccentrics,Ursula Blickle Stiftung, Kraichtal, Germany |
| Ego, CAM Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey | |
| Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg | |
| 2005 | Francisco de Goya: Los Caprichos and Here Comes the Bogey-Man, Chelsea Art Museum, New York |
| Figure It Out, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, New York | |
| Collection 2, Fondation pour l’art contemporain Claudine et Jean-Marc Salomon, Annecy, France | |
| Head Count, Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston | |
| Sonnabend Gallery, New York | |
| Visions of America: Contemporary Art from the Essl Collection and the Sonnabend Collection, Kunst der Gegenwart Sammlung Essl, Vienna, Austria | |
| 2004 | Some of Their Parts, Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston |
| Making the Body in Contemporary Sculpture, Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, Ohio | |
| Animals and Us: The Animal in Contemporary Art, Galerie St. Etienne, New York | |
| Sonnabend Gallery, New York | |
| 2003 | A Dialogue of Two Collections: Ileana Sonnabend, New York and DaimlerChrysler, DaimlerChrysler, Berlin |
| Skulptur 03, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac,Salzburg | |
| Triennial 9 Form and Contents: Corporal Identity—Body Language, Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany | |
| Skin: Contemporary Views of the Body, Jacksonville Museum of Modern Art, Jacksonville, Florida | |
| Sonnabend Gallery, New York | |
| 2002 | From Pop to Now: Selections from the Sonnabend Collection, Tang Museum, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York |
| Text/Textile, Deutsche Bank, New York | |
| Sonnabend Gallery, New York | |
| 2001 | Alumni Choice, Yale University School of Art, New Haven, Connecticut |
| 2000 | Sculpture, Sonnabend Gallery, New York |
| Sharing Exoticism, Biennale d’art contemporain de Lyon, Lyon, France | |
| Anniversary Exhibition, Sonnabend Gallery, New York | |
| Blondies and Brownies, Torch Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands | |
| 1999 | Der Anagrammatische Körper, Kunsthaus Mürzzuschlag, Mürzzuschlag, Austria |
| Calendar 2000, Center for Curatorial Studies Museum, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York | |
| Drawing in the Present, Parsons School of Design, New York | |
| The Body in Question: Tracing, Displacing and Remaking the Human Figure in Contemporary Art, Speed Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky | |
| Comfort Zone: Furniture by Artists, PaineWeber Art Gallery, New York | |
| 1998 | Multiples + Editions, Susan Inglett, I. C. Editions, New York |
| Contemporary Sculpture and Sculptors’ Drawings, The Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts | |
| Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, North Carolina | |
| What Remains MCMLXXXXVII, Groninger Museum, Groningen, Netherlands | |
| Inner Eye: Contemporary Art from the Marc and Livia Straus Collection, Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida | |
| Sculpture Figure Women: Forms of Representation of the Female Body, Landesgalerie Oberösterreich Landesmuseum, Linz, Austria | |
| Mirror Images: Women, Surrealism, and Self-Representation, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts | |
| From Head to Toe: Concepts of the Body in Twentieth-Century Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles | |
| 1997 | Lust, Patricia Faure Gallery, Santa Monica, California |
| Alternating Currents, 2nd Johannesburg Biennale, Johannesburg, South Africa | |
| No Small Feet, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago | |
| Frankensteinian, Caren Golden Fine Art, New York | |
| Sous le manteau, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris | |
| New Grounds: Prints and Multiples, Contemporary Art Museum, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida | |
| 1996 | Millennium Eve Dress, Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia |
| The Persistence of Pop, The Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts | |
| Body Language, Florida State University Museum of Fine Arts, Tallahassee, Florida | |
| Embedded Metaphor, John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, Florida | |
| B.A.B.Y. , Hand Workshop Art Center, Richmond, Virginia | |
| Sexual Politics: Judy Chicago’s Dinner Party in Feminist Art History, UCLA at the Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center, Los Angeles | |
| Too Jewish? Challenging Traditional Identities, Jewish Museum, New York | |
| Home/Salon (Salon of the Present), The Institute for Contemporary Art (Clocktower Gallery), New York | |
| Frankenstein, University Galleries, Illinois State University, Normal, Illinois | |
| 1995 | Altered and Irrational, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
| Intersections: The Personal and the Social in the Permanent Collection, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles | |
| The Figure/The Body: American Art 1945–1995, Armory, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | |
| The Outer Layer, New Jersey Center for the Visual Arts, Summit, New Jersey | |
| Women on the Verge (Fluxus and Not), Elga Wimmer, New York | |
| Autour de Roger Vivier, Galerie Enrico Navarra, Paris | |
| Fetishism: Visualizing Power and Desire, The South Bank Centre, London | |
| Dialog der Kulture, Configura 2, Erfurt, Germany | |
| The Muse? Transforming the Image of Women in Contemporary Art, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg and Paris | |
| Inside Out: Psychological Self-Portraiture, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut | |
| Foundations: Underwear/Under Where?, Rosemont College Art Gallery, Rosemont, Pennsylvania | |
| Imperfect, Herter Art Gallery, University of Massachusetts at Amherst,Amherst, Massachusetts | |
| Object Lessons: Feminine Dialogue with the Surreal, Huntington Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston | |
| Robert Feintuch, John O’Reilly, Rona Pondick, Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston | |
| 1994 | Thirteenth Annual Exhibition of Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, North Carolina |
| Puber Alles (Why Am I Who I Am?), Stedelijk Museum Bureau, Amsterdam, Netherlands | |
| Object Bodies, Turman Gallery, Indiana State University, Terre Haute, Indiana | |
| Bad Girls, UCLA Wight Gallery, Los Angeles | |
| In the Lineage of Eva Hesse, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut | |
| 1993 | Normality as Art, Palazzo della Stelline, Milan |
| Über-Leben, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany | |
| Legend in My Living Room, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago | |
| Object Bodies, William Weston Clark Emison Art Center, DePauw University, Greencastle, Indiana | |
| Return of the Cadavre Exquis, The Drawing Center, New York | |
| Regarding Masculinity, Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana | |
| Venice Comes to the Hamptons, Art Finds: Marsha Fogel Gallery, East Hampton, New York | |
| “I Love You More Than My Own Death: A Melodrama in Parts by Pedro Almodovar”, Biennale di Venezia, Venice | |
| Yale Collects Yale , Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut | |
| 1920, Exit Art, New York | |
| Korper I, Annette Messager, Giuseppe Penone, Rona Pondick, Wilfried Riess, Klaudia Schifferle, Anselm Stalder, Elisabeth Kaufman, Basel, Switzerland | |
| Fall from Fashion, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut | |
| I Am the Enunciator, Thread Waxing Space, New York | |
| 1992 | Corporal Politics, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts |
| Effected Desire, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania | |
| Aesthetics and Violence, Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany, Spielholle | |
| Bedroom Eyes: Room with a View, Fullerton Art Gallery, California State University, Fullerton, California | |
| The Edge of Childhood, Heckscher Museum, Huntington, New York | |
| Erotiques, AB Galerie, Paris | |
| Mssr. B’s Curio Shop, Thread Waxing Space, New York | |
| Hands and Eyes (Modeled Sculpture), Barbara Toll Fine Arts, New York | |
| The Whole Part: John Coplans, Rona Pondick, and John Wesley, fiction/nonfiction, New York | |
| Psycho, Kunsthalle, New York, | |
| Power Play, The Gallery of the Art Institute of Chicago | |
| 1991 | 1991 Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
| Experiencing Sculpture: The Figurative Presence in America, 1870–1990, Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, New York | |
| Sense and Sensibility, Solo Press, New York | |
| Plastic Fantastic Lover (Object A), Blum Helman Warehouse, New York | |
| The Childhood Show, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco | |
| Rope, Galería Fernando Alcolea, Barcelona | |
| Forbidden Games, Jack Tilton Gallery, New York | |
| Just What Is It That Makes Today’s Homes So Different, So Appealing?, The Hyde Collection, Glen Falls, New York | |
| 1990 | Vertigo II, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg |
| Collaborations, Greenberg/Wilson Gallery, New York | |
| Vertigo, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, | |
| The Home Show, Asher-Faure Gallery, Los Angeles | |
| Diverse Representations, Morris Museum, Morristown, New Jersey | |
| Once Removed, Emily Sorkin Gallery, New York, Body | |
| Detritus: Transformation and Construction, Jack Tilton Gallery, New York | |
| Spellbound, Marc Richards Gallery, Los Angeles | |
| Fragments, Parts, and Wholes: The Body and Culture, White Columns, New York | |
| 1989 | Lines of Vision: Drawings by Contemporary Women, Hillwood Art Gallery, CW Post Campus, Long Island University, Brookville, New York, and BlumHelman Warehouse, New York |
| Summer Group Show, Asher/Faure Gallery, Los Angeles | |
| Invitational with Gallery Artists, fiction/nonfiction, New York | |
| Invitational, Doug Milford Gallery, New York | |
| Erotophobia: A Forum in Contemporary Sexuality, Simon Watson Gallery, New York | |
| Form and Fetish, Emily Sorkin Gallery, New York | |
| On the Cutting Edge, Fine Arts Museum of Long Island, Hempstead, New York | |
| Towards Form, Greenberg/Wilson Gallery, New York | |
| 1988 | Collaborations in Monotype: Garner Tullis Workshop, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, University of California at Santa Barbara, California |
| Girls Night Out (Femininity as Masquerade), New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York | |
| Invitational, Simon Watson Gallery, New York | |
| Sculpture 1988: A Salon of Small-Scale Work, White Columns, New York | |
| New Artists/New Drawings, Lyman-Allyn Art Museum, New London, Connecticut | |
| The Other New York: Sculpture by Maureen Connor, Rona Pondick, and Kate Ritson, Galerie Alfred Kren, Cologne, Germany | |
| 1987 | Small Works, Sculpture Center, New York |
| Summer of 1987, Zabriskie, New York | |
| Contemplating Things: A Sculpture Group Show in Two Parts; Part One: Polly Apfelbaum, Jill Levine, and Rona Pondick, fiction/nonfiction, New York | |
| Peter Flaccus, Helen Miranda Wilson, and Rona Pondick, Zabriskie, New York | |
| The Level of Volume, Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio | |
| 1986 | Emerging Sculptors: 1986, Sculpture Center, New York |
| Invitational, Jack Tilton Gallery, New York | |
| Transformations, Richard Green Gallery, New York | |
| Invitational, John Davis Gallery, Akron, Ohio | |
| Sculptors’Drawings, Parsons School of Design, New York | |
| 1985 | Mystery Show, Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, New Jersey |
| Friends of the Gallery, Rosa Esman Gallery, New York | |
| Working with Wood, Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania | |
| 1984 | Exhibition One: Jill Levine, Marilyn Levin, Rona Pondick, Madeleine Carter Fine Arts, Brookline, Massachusetts |
| Exceptional and New, Rosa Esman Gallery, New York | |
| Bronze Sculpture, Prospect Park, Brooklyn, New York | |
| Awards | |
| 2000 | Cultural Department of the City of Salzburg, Kunstlerhaus |
| 1999 | Bogliasco Foundation Fellowship |
| 1996 | Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship |
| 1992 | Guggenheim Fellowship |
| 1991 | Mid-Atlantic Arts Grant |
| 1988 | Art Matters Inc. |
| New York State Council on the Arts (for Beds installation) | |
| Artists Space Grant | |
| 1985 | Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation Grant |
| 1977 | Fannie B. Pardee Prize in Sculpture |
