Group Exhibitions
2024
Holiday Exhibition
LABSpace
Hillsdale, NY
2015
A Place At the Table
Ali Forney Annual Benefit
Capitale, New York, NY
2010, 2008
Annual Benefit
Dieu Donné, New York, NY
Group exhibition and benefit
Momenta Gallery Benefit
Momenta Gallery/White Columns
Group exhibition and benefit
2007
Per Square Foot
Dieu Donné, New York, NY
Group exhibition and benefit
2005
Shangra La
Dieu Donné, New York, NY
Group exhibition and benefit
2003
Water Marks /Inside-Outside
Mount Desert Symposium on the Arts/LandEscapes
Site-specific installation on the water, Mount Desert, Maine
2002
Generations III
AIR Gallery, New York, NY
An invitational exhibition of emerging and mid-career women artists
2001
Reactions
Exit Art, New York, NY
Responses to the September 11th tragedy.
Milton Avery Graduate School of Fine Arts
Red Hook, NY
MFA Thesis exhibition
1998
Generations II, A Survey of Woman Artists at the Millennium
AIR Gallery, New York, NY
Invitational exhibition of emerging and mid-career women artists
1995
First Street Gallery, New York, NY
Finalist, National Competition
Selected Curatorial Projects
2008
Opportunity as Community, Parts One & Two, Dieu Donné Gallery, New York, NY
Former resident artists invite fellow artists to create new work on Dieu Donné paper
Same Sweet Dream, curated in conjunction with Martina Batan, Dieu Donné Gallery, New York, NY
First exhibition featuring new works on Dieu Donné paper by self taught artists.
2007
Emerging Workspace Exhibition, curated by Patricia C. Phillips, Dieu Donné Gallery, New York, NY
Emerging residency artists from over the last six years present new work. Accompanied by panel discussion on artists workspaces.
Polly Apfelbaum, Basic Divisions, Dieu Donné Gallery, New York, NY
Lab grant residency exhibition featuring new works in paper by the artist. Online video interview with Polly Apfelbaum.
2004
Food, Clothing and Shelter, Onisaburo Gallery, New York, NY
Surveys work by a group of women artists using the categories of food, clothing and shelter within the context of culture or religion to express concepts of domesticity, rebellion, reverence and difference. The show includes installation, photography, painting and video by artists Petah Coyne, Carrie Mae Weems, Phyllis Galembo, Suzanne Bocanegra, Orit Raff, Marion Wilson, Siona Benjamin, Debra Priestly, Suzanne Silver, Elizabeth Riley and Valerie Hird.
2003
Immersion - Curated by Tara Ruth and Patricia Phillips
Onisaburo Gallery, New York, NY
This exhibition explores water and ritual cleansing. The works range from artistic responses to water as the earth’s “circulatory system,” purification of the body, and the containers that facilitate those processes. Included in the exhibition are works by Allan Wexler, Lesley Dill, Carrie Moyer, Kiki Smith, Arlene Shechet, Hope Sandrow, Thomas Lanigan Schmidt, Frances Whitehead, Heide Fasnacht, Suzanne Joelson, Karen Shaw, Mary Beth Reed, Shari Rothfarb, and Martyn Ware.
Sacred Waters
Site Specific Exhibition
Riverside Park at 68th Street
The Interfaith Center of New York in collaboration with The Metropolitan Waterfront Alliance & Riverside Park
Site-specific exhibition created by local artists to explore the connection between religion and the environment. Artists Lesley Dill, Nancy Bowen, Kelly Kaczynski, and the team Martyn Ware and Vince Clarke of the Illustrious Co., Ltd., Rotunda Gallery’s KidsArt and Parsons University Graduate Students, with artist Nathalie T.A. Pham. Multi-denominational ritual blessing of water by Hindu, Shinto and Yoruba religious leaders.
A Time to Rebuild: Daniel Libeskind in Exhibition
Onisaburo Gallery, New York, NY
Gallery Conversation with Nina Libeskind June 16, 2003
This exhibition looks at the finalist selected to rebuild Lower Manhattan and the spiritual and civic needs it addresses through an exhibition of prints and the architectural model submitted for the site.
Lesley Dill; Tongues on Fire; Visions and Ecstasy
Onisaburo Gallery, New York, NY
Exhibition and Panel Discussion
A multitiered project Dill created as an artist-in-residence while at the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art in North Carolina.
“The Word that Means” - Panel Discussion with Lesley Dill, Professor of Art History Erika Doss, Reverend John Mendez, Rabbi Craig Miller, and Islamic Professor R. Bayoumi
2002
Objects of Joy II
Co –curated with Alexandra Munroe & Edward Gomez
Onisaburo Gallery, New York, NY
This exhibition brings together works from different time periods and cultural backgrounds to consider the nature of joy in painting, sculpture, jewelry and works on paper.
Tantric Connections
Co –curated with Alexandra Munroe (Director, Japan Society Gallery)
Onisaburo Gallery, New York, NY
An Exhibition of Contemporary and Ancient Works: Nora Aslan, Tibetan Tankas, Indian Tantric works on Paper and Sound Art by Margaret de Wys.
Publications
“Double or Nothing, Mimicry in the Art of Contemporary Handmade Paper,” Handpapermaking Magazine, January 2010
“A Meditation on Contradictions”, Exhibition Review, Pulp Newsletter, 2007
Employment Experience
2005 - 2008
Interim Executive Director/Deputy Director/Director of Exhibitions
Dieu Donné Papermill, NY, NY
The Deputy Director for nonprofit artist’s residency and gallery. Responsible for developing strategies to reach the annual fundraising targets of the organization with the Board, design annual benefit, build relationships with foundations, corporate and individual donors and report on institutional progress. Director of Exhibitions, developed and oversaw exhibitions program, including designing curatorial direction of the organization.
Development Director/Curator
Dieu Donné Papermill, NY, NY
The Development Director for nonprofit artist’s residency and gallery. Responsible for developing strategies and fundraising for capital campaign, maintaining annual fundraising targets including developing grant proposals, foundation, corporate and individual donor relations.
2002 - 2004
Curator/Arts & Culture Program Director
Interfaith Center of New York, New York, NY
Curator and Program Director for educational nonprofit organization managing cross-cultural programming. Responsible for all aspects of curating and program development, design and outreach for the Arts & Culture department, creating and organizing more than 14 exhibitions and 50 public events. Responsible for creating new models for exhibitions, focusing on contemporary and historical perspectives. Program Director responsible for creating integrated and relevant programming, including symposiums, panels, lectures, poetry readings and performances with distinguished artists, curators, educators and art critics. Re-focused the public programming towards thematic and current events-sensitive topics. Guests have included Patricia Phillips, Nina Felshin, Saul Ostrow, Lynne Tillman, Tony Kushner, Phillip Glass, Mira Schor and others.
2003
Visiting Artist/Curator
LandEscapes
Mount Desert, ME
Weeklong program focusing on the intersections between art and science.
2001 - 2002
Post-Graduate Teaching Assistant
Foundation, Advanced Painting, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
Team-taught with Fine Arts Professor
Graduate Seminar, New York University, New York, NY
Team-taught with Fine Arts Professor
Education
2002
Milton Avery Graduate School for the Fine Arts, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
Masters of Fine Arts
Milton Avery Graduate Fellowship 2001
1995
Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY Bachelor of Arts
Summa Cum Laude
Concentration in Painting, Literature, and Philosophy
Recipient, Sarah Lawrence merit-based grants. Worked 25 hours per week while in school.
2024
Holiday Exhibition
LABSpace
Hillsdale, NY
2015
A Place At the Table
Ali Forney Annual Benefit
Capitale, New York, NY
2010, 2008
Annual Benefit
Dieu Donné, New York, NY
Group exhibition and benefit
Momenta Gallery Benefit
Momenta Gallery/White Columns
Group exhibition and benefit
2007
Per Square Foot
Dieu Donné, New York, NY
Group exhibition and benefit
2005
Shangra La
Dieu Donné, New York, NY
Group exhibition and benefit
2003
Water Marks /Inside-Outside
Mount Desert Symposium on the Arts/LandEscapes
Site-specific installation on the water, Mount Desert, Maine
2002
Generations III
AIR Gallery, New York, NY
An invitational exhibition of emerging and mid-career women artists
2001
Reactions
Exit Art, New York, NY
Responses to the September 11th tragedy.
Milton Avery Graduate School of Fine Arts
Red Hook, NY
MFA Thesis exhibition
1998
Generations II, A Survey of Woman Artists at the Millennium
AIR Gallery, New York, NY
Invitational exhibition of emerging and mid-career women artists
1995
First Street Gallery, New York, NY
Finalist, National Competition
Selected Curatorial Projects
2008
Opportunity as Community, Parts One & Two, Dieu Donné Gallery, New York, NY
Former resident artists invite fellow artists to create new work on Dieu Donné paper
Same Sweet Dream, curated in conjunction with Martina Batan, Dieu Donné Gallery, New York, NY
First exhibition featuring new works on Dieu Donné paper by self taught artists.
2007
Emerging Workspace Exhibition, curated by Patricia C. Phillips, Dieu Donné Gallery, New York, NY
Emerging residency artists from over the last six years present new work. Accompanied by panel discussion on artists workspaces.
Polly Apfelbaum, Basic Divisions, Dieu Donné Gallery, New York, NY
Lab grant residency exhibition featuring new works in paper by the artist. Online video interview with Polly Apfelbaum.
2004
Food, Clothing and Shelter, Onisaburo Gallery, New York, NY
Surveys work by a group of women artists using the categories of food, clothing and shelter within the context of culture or religion to express concepts of domesticity, rebellion, reverence and difference. The show includes installation, photography, painting and video by artists Petah Coyne, Carrie Mae Weems, Phyllis Galembo, Suzanne Bocanegra, Orit Raff, Marion Wilson, Siona Benjamin, Debra Priestly, Suzanne Silver, Elizabeth Riley and Valerie Hird.
2003
Immersion - Curated by Tara Ruth and Patricia Phillips
Onisaburo Gallery, New York, NY
This exhibition explores water and ritual cleansing. The works range from artistic responses to water as the earth’s “circulatory system,” purification of the body, and the containers that facilitate those processes. Included in the exhibition are works by Allan Wexler, Lesley Dill, Carrie Moyer, Kiki Smith, Arlene Shechet, Hope Sandrow, Thomas Lanigan Schmidt, Frances Whitehead, Heide Fasnacht, Suzanne Joelson, Karen Shaw, Mary Beth Reed, Shari Rothfarb, and Martyn Ware.
Sacred Waters
Site Specific Exhibition
Riverside Park at 68th Street
The Interfaith Center of New York in collaboration with The Metropolitan Waterfront Alliance & Riverside Park
Site-specific exhibition created by local artists to explore the connection between religion and the environment. Artists Lesley Dill, Nancy Bowen, Kelly Kaczynski, and the team Martyn Ware and Vince Clarke of the Illustrious Co., Ltd., Rotunda Gallery’s KidsArt and Parsons University Graduate Students, with artist Nathalie T.A. Pham. Multi-denominational ritual blessing of water by Hindu, Shinto and Yoruba religious leaders.
A Time to Rebuild: Daniel Libeskind in Exhibition
Onisaburo Gallery, New York, NY
Gallery Conversation with Nina Libeskind June 16, 2003
This exhibition looks at the finalist selected to rebuild Lower Manhattan and the spiritual and civic needs it addresses through an exhibition of prints and the architectural model submitted for the site.
Lesley Dill; Tongues on Fire; Visions and Ecstasy
Onisaburo Gallery, New York, NY
Exhibition and Panel Discussion
A multitiered project Dill created as an artist-in-residence while at the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art in North Carolina.
“The Word that Means” - Panel Discussion with Lesley Dill, Professor of Art History Erika Doss, Reverend John Mendez, Rabbi Craig Miller, and Islamic Professor R. Bayoumi
2002
Objects of Joy II
Co –curated with Alexandra Munroe & Edward Gomez
Onisaburo Gallery, New York, NY
This exhibition brings together works from different time periods and cultural backgrounds to consider the nature of joy in painting, sculpture, jewelry and works on paper.
Tantric Connections
Co –curated with Alexandra Munroe (Director, Japan Society Gallery)
Onisaburo Gallery, New York, NY
An Exhibition of Contemporary and Ancient Works: Nora Aslan, Tibetan Tankas, Indian Tantric works on Paper and Sound Art by Margaret de Wys.
Publications
“Double or Nothing, Mimicry in the Art of Contemporary Handmade Paper,” Handpapermaking Magazine, January 2010
“A Meditation on Contradictions”, Exhibition Review, Pulp Newsletter, 2007
Employment Experience
2005 - 2008
Interim Executive Director/Deputy Director/Director of Exhibitions
Dieu Donné Papermill, NY, NY
The Deputy Director for nonprofit artist’s residency and gallery. Responsible for developing strategies to reach the annual fundraising targets of the organization with the Board, design annual benefit, build relationships with foundations, corporate and individual donors and report on institutional progress. Director of Exhibitions, developed and oversaw exhibitions program, including designing curatorial direction of the organization.
Development Director/Curator
Dieu Donné Papermill, NY, NY
The Development Director for nonprofit artist’s residency and gallery. Responsible for developing strategies and fundraising for capital campaign, maintaining annual fundraising targets including developing grant proposals, foundation, corporate and individual donor relations.
2002 - 2004
Curator/Arts & Culture Program Director
Interfaith Center of New York, New York, NY
Curator and Program Director for educational nonprofit organization managing cross-cultural programming. Responsible for all aspects of curating and program development, design and outreach for the Arts & Culture department, creating and organizing more than 14 exhibitions and 50 public events. Responsible for creating new models for exhibitions, focusing on contemporary and historical perspectives. Program Director responsible for creating integrated and relevant programming, including symposiums, panels, lectures, poetry readings and performances with distinguished artists, curators, educators and art critics. Re-focused the public programming towards thematic and current events-sensitive topics. Guests have included Patricia Phillips, Nina Felshin, Saul Ostrow, Lynne Tillman, Tony Kushner, Phillip Glass, Mira Schor and others.
2003
Visiting Artist/Curator
LandEscapes
Mount Desert, ME
Weeklong program focusing on the intersections between art and science.
2001 - 2002
Post-Graduate Teaching Assistant
Foundation, Advanced Painting, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
Team-taught with Fine Arts Professor
Graduate Seminar, New York University, New York, NY
Team-taught with Fine Arts Professor
Education
2002
Milton Avery Graduate School for the Fine Arts, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
Masters of Fine Arts
Milton Avery Graduate Fellowship 2001
1995
Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY Bachelor of Arts
Summa Cum Laude
Concentration in Painting, Literature, and Philosophy
Recipient, Sarah Lawrence merit-based grants. Worked 25 hours per week while in school.