Sheila Pepe
Installation view of Come Fly with Me, 2002, at Weatherspoon Art Museum,
The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Shoelaces, 12 x 26 x 39 feet. Photo Tim Barkley.
Detail of installation view of 55 Hillcrest Avenue, 2001, at Glyndor Gallery, Wave Hill, Bronx, New York. Objects, lights, shadows, and wall drawings, dimensions variable. Photo Cathy Carver.
BIOGRAPHY
Born: Morristown, New Jersey, 1959
Resides: New York
Education: School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (M.F.A., 1995); Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (1994); Haystack Mountain School of Crafts (1984); Massachusetts College of Art (B.F.A., 1983); Albertus Magnus College (B.A., 1981)
Solo Exhibitions:
2002
"Come Fly with Me," Weatherspoon Art Museum, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
2002
"High Hopes,"The Clifford Gallery, Colgate University, Hamilton, New York.
2000
"Shrink," Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut.
2000
"Josephine," Thread Waxing Space, New York. Catalogue.
1999
"R&D," Judy Ann Goldman Fine Art, Boston.
1999
"Strings, Things and Pictures," The Mills Gallery at the Boston Center for the Arts. Catalogue.
1999
jennjoy Gallery, San Francisco.
1998
Susan Inglett Gallery, New York.
1997
"Fix, Flex, Reflux," Judy Ann Goldman Fine Art, Boston.
1996
"Part and Parcel," Trustman Gallery, Simmons College, Boston.
1996
"Exquisite Corpse For One: The Many Betweens," Mobius, Boston.
1994
"Work from the Doppelganger Series," 88Room, Allston, Massachusetts.
Group Exhibitions:
2002
"The Photogenic," Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
2001
"Verging on Real," Wave Hill, Bronx, New York.
2001
"The Energy Inside," Falcouner Gallery, Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa. Catalogue.
2000
"Greater New York," P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, New York. Catalogue.
2000
"The End," Exit Art/The First World, New York.
2000
"Group Show," Brent Sikkema Gallery, New York.
1999
"Arrested Ambition," Apex Art, New York. Catalogue.
1999
"Museum School Traveling Scholars 1998," Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Catalogue.
1998
"Art on Paper," Weatherspoon Art Museum, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Catalogue.
1998
"Drawing the Question," Dorsky Gallery, New York. Catalogue.
1998
"Elbowroom," Tredje Sparet, Stockholm, Sweden.
1997
"Drawing and Painting," Wooster Gardens, New York.
1997
"Gothic," Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston. Catalogue.
1996
"The Lois Foster Exhibition of Boston Area Artists, Part Two," Rose Art Museum, Waltham, Massachusetts.
1996
"Integer," Woodstock Center for Photography, New York.
1996
"Fictions," Guido Carbone Gallery, Turin, Italy. Catalogue.
1995
"Way Cool," Exit Art/The First World, New York.
Selected Bibliography:
2000
Buskirk, Martha. "Planning for Impermanence."Art in America (April).
2000
Hammond, Harmony.Lesbian Art in America: A Contemporary History. New York: Rizzoli.
2000
Lloyd, Ann Wilson. "Sheila Pepe at the Boston Center for the Arts." Art in America (July).
2000
Sirmans, Franklin. "Greg Coates... + Sheila Pepe..."Time Out New York (February 24-March 2).
1999
Sherman, Mary. "Shape, Shadow Prime Viewers at Bunting."Boston Sunday Herald (April 18).
1997
Cotter, Holland. "Drawings and Paintings."The New York Times (September 19).
1997
Gangitano, Lia. "Integer."Photography Quarterly (no. 69).
1997
Smith, Roberta. "The Horror: Updating the Heart of Darkness." The New York Times (June 1).
1996
Temin, Christine. "Perspectives."The Boston Globe (May 22).