Nationality:
american
Gender:
Female
Birth Date:
1937
Birth Place:
New York, New York
Résumé
Born 1937, New York City
Education and Awards
Cooper Union Art School - Graduated 1958
2003 Fellow of the American Crafts Council
2002 Connecticut Commission on the Arts, Visual Arts Fellowship
2000 United Nations Association, Award honoring 100 outstanding Connecticut Women
1992 Connecticut Commission on the Arts, Purchase Award
1987 Visual Reservoirs: Object and Images In-Of-Under- About Surface; Monterey Peninsula Museum of Art, CA
1986 National Endowment for the Arts; Visual Arts Fellowship
1986 Artquest '86, Parsons School of Design
1976 Convergence '76; Fibre Structures; Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute
Selected Collections
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
National Museum of Art/Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT
Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY
M.H.de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, CA
Denver Museum of Art, CO
The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI
Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, RI
Detroit Institute of Arts, MI
Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC
Kwang Ju Museum, Kwang Ju, Korea
Museum of International Folk Art, Santa Fe, NM
Erie Art Museum, Erie, PA
Charles A. Wustum Museum of Fine Arts, Racine, WI
Jack Lenor Larsen/Long House Foundation
Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa OK
Decordova Museum of Art, Lincoln, MA
State of Connecticut Commission on the Arts
Selected Exhibitions
2004 Traditions/Transitions/The Changing World of Fiber Art, Wadsworth Atheneum, Curated by Carol Dean Krute
2003 Corporal Identity-Body Language, 9th Triennial for Form and Content: Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany; Museum of Arts and Design, NYC, Catalog
2003 College of Fellows, Aileen Osborn Webb Award Exhibition, SOFA, Chicago, Curated by Paul Smith
2003 Connecticut Commission on the Arts, Visual Arts Fellowship Exhibition, Hartford, CT
2002 Fiber Art: Following the Thread, Smithsonian Archives of American Art Research Center, New York
1999 Weaving the World, Contemporary Art of Linear Construction, Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan, Catalog
1998 9th International Triennial of Tapestry, Invitational, representing USA, Lodz, Poland, Catalog
1992 Modern Design: 1880-1990, Twentieth Century Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC, Exhibition book published
1991 Art in Embassies Program, US Dept of State, Warsaw, Poland
1990 The Female Form in Contemporary Art, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT, from Permanent Collection, Curated by Andrea Miller-Keller
1990 Exploring the Figure through Sculptured Form, Newport Art Museum, Newport, RI, Curated by Allison Cywin
1987 A Sensitivity of Textile - A Proposal for a New Century, International Textile Competition, Kyoto International Conference Hall; Japan
1986 Fiber R/Evolution, Milwaukee Art Museum and the University Art Museum at UWM; Tour; Catalog
1985 The Flexible Medium: Art Textiles from the Museum Collection, Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
1977 Fiberworks, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland,Ohio, Catalog
1976 Fibre Structures, Museum of Art, Carnegie Insitute, Pittsburgh,PA, International; Catalog
1976 Second International Competition of Miniature Fibre Work, British Craft Centre, London, England; Catalog; Tour
1974 Portable World, Cranbrook Academy of Art Museum; Catalog
Solo Exhibitions
2002 Portraits and Passages, Bellas Artes Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
1999 New Sculpture, Bellas Artes Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
1996 Out on a Limb, Bellas Artes Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Bridge IV, Norma Minkowitz, Society of Contemporary Crafts, Pittsburgh, PA
1995 Exposed/Enclosed, Norma Minkowitz, H. Pelham Curtis Gallery, New Canaan, CT
1994 Sculpture, Bellas Artes Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
1993 Norma Minkowitz 1986-1993, The Wetsman Collection, Birmingham, MI
1992 Exposed/Enclosed, Bellas Artes Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
1991 The Body as Vessel, Bellas Artes Gallery, NYC
1990/1989 Norma Minkowitz, Bellas Artes Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
1987 Two Person Award Show, Monterey Peninsula Museum of Art, Monterey, CA
Selected Publications
2004 SOFA CHICAGO Catalog, "Spaces Within," Essay by Kathleen Whitney
2003 Corporal Identity - Body Language, 9th Triennial for Form and Content, Catalog, Museum of Arts and Design, NYC
2003 CRART Magazine, September 2003, No. 25, Essay by Mee Hye Lee, Seoul, Korea
2003 Art News, January 2003, Norma Minkowitz/Bellas Artes, Review by Dottie Indyke
2003 Fiberarts Magazine, March/April, "Portraits and Passages", Bellas Artes, Review by Ruth Lopez
2002 Surface Design Journal, "The Importance of Being Fiber", Twylene Moyer, Vol 26, #4
2002 Smithsonian Archives of American Art, Oral History program
2000 Nouvel Object III and V, Sept 1997 and 2000, Seoul, Korea
2000 American Craft, Feb/March, Norma Minkowitz/ Bellas Artes Gallery, Review by Kathleen Whitney
Weaving the World, Contemporary Art of Linear Construction, Yokohama Museum of Art, Catalog.
1996 The Magazine: Santa Fe, Out on a Limb, works by Norma Minkowitz, Review by Christine Hemp
1992 Fiberarts Magazine, Norma Minkowitz: The Body as Vessel, Reviewed by Betty Freudenheim
1990 The New Textiles, Trends and Traditions, Chloe Colchester, Rizzoli
1990 Modern Design 1890-1990 in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, R. Craig Miller
1990 Norma Minkowitz: Shadow Boxes, Review by Margo Shermeta, American Craft Magazine, Dec/Jan
1989 The Tactile Vessel, Jack Lenor Larsen, Erie Art Museum
1988 Columbia University ; Oral History Archives of Fiber Artists, Greenwood Press
1986 Fiber R/Evolution; Milwaukee Art Museum; Rosalie Goldstein; Burton & Mayer
1977 Fiberworks; The Cleveland Museum of Art; Catalog
Professional
2004 Museum of Arts and Design, Illustrated Lecture
1990/2003 Juror, Connecticut Commission on the Arts, grant applicants
2001 Katonah Museum of Art, Illustrated Lecture
1998 Connecticut Artist's Collection Advisory Committee, Connecticut Commission on the Arts
1987 Lecture and Panel Discussion - Fiber R/Evolution, Brockton Art Museum