Adela Leibowitz

Page 1 | Biography

Born: Hartford, CT
Lives: New York City

Education
2000 M.F.A., New York Academy of Art, New York, NY.
1998 B.F.A., F.I.T. College of Art & Design, New York, NY

Solo Exhibitions
2007/8 Adela Leibowitz, Jack the Pelican Presents Gallery, Brooklyn, NY.
2007 Adela Leibowitz, Gallery 10G, New York, NY.
2006 The Cassandra Prophesies, HPGRP Gallery, New York, NY.
2005 Adela Leibowitz&Ginna Triplett, Dabora Gallery, Brooklyn, NY.
2004 Fairytales of the Macabre, Jack the Pelican Presents Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
2003 Landscapes, OK Harris Gallery, New York, NY

Group Exhibitions
2008 LA Art Fair in NY, Richard Heller Gallery, New York, NY.
2008 Indifference & Apocrypha, Fuel Collection, Philadelphia, PA. Curated by Katerina Lydon-Warner.
2008 Becoming:Visions of Childhood, The Bronfman Gallery at New York University, NY, NY. Curated by Lois Stavsky.
2007 Miami University 9th Annual Young Painters Exhibition, Miami University, Oxford, OH.
2007 Scope Miami, Jack The Pelican Presents, Miami, Fl.
2007 Scope Miami, Gallery 10G, Miami, Fl.
2007 Once There Was, Once There Wasn’t: Fairy Tales Retold, Eight Modern, Santa Fe, NM.
Featuring: Jim Dine, David Hockney, Peregrine Honig, Fay Ku, Elizabeth Layton, Adela Leibowitz, David Levinthal, Paula Rego, Kiki Smith, and Richard Tuttle.
2007 Scope Hamptons, Jack the Pelican Presents, East Hamptons, NY.
2007 American Woman:New Feminism, HPGRP Gallery, Tokyo, Japan.
2007 NYAA Summer exhibit, Wilkinson Hall, New York Academy of Art, NY.
(chosen by Eric Fischl, Vincent Desiderio, Jenny Saville)
2007 L.A. Art Fair with Julie Baker Fine Arts, Santa Monica, CA.
2007 Art Chicago, Julie Baker Gallery, Chicago, IL.
2007 Lovely, Dark and Deep, Pelham Art Center, Pelham, NY.
(curated by Titia Hulst and Barbara Mundy)
2007 Scope Art Fair, Gallery 10G, New York, NY.
2007 Wild and Scenic, Julie Baker Fine Art, Nevada, CA.
2007 Blue, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, New York, NY.
2006 Winter Haikus, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
2006 Contemporary Imaginings: The Howard A. and Judy Tullman Collection, traveling to:
Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, AL
National Museum of Gdansk, Gdansk, Poland.
Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL.
2006 Art 212, 69th Regiment Armory, New York, NY.
2006 American Eden, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, New York, NY.
2006 Woman:Self-Portrait, curated by Dalit Anolik, Kashya Hildebrand Gallery, NY, NY.
Scope Art Fair, Jack the Pelican Presents, New York, NY.
2006 Fresh Start, Arena 1 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA.
2006 Miami University Young Painters Competition, Heistand Gallery, Miami University, OH.
2005 David Caspar Séance-A Group Show, Jack the Pelican Presents, Brooklyn, NY.
2005 Kunst 05 Zurich c/o Jack the Pelican Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland.
2005 Day-Dreaming, curated by Tomoko Ashikawa, HPGRP Gallery, New York, NY.
2005 By-Proxy, Broadway Gallery, New York, NY.
2005 Nova Young Art Fair, Jack the Pelican Presents, Chicago.
2005 Girl Memories, curated by Tomoko Ashikawa, AG Gallery, Brooklyn, NY.
2005 Animal Tales, DFN Gallery, New York, NY.
2004 Scope Miami Art Fair c/o Jack the Pelican Gallery, Miami, FL.
2004 Innocence Found, DFN Gallery, New York, NY.
2003 P.S. 122 Project studio artists, PS 122 Gallery, New York.
2003 New Lawn, Jack the Pelican Presents, NY.
2002 Night of 1,000 Drawings, Artists Space, NY.
2002 5 Artists curated by Kim Foster, 450 Broadway Gallery, NY.
2002 Take home a nude, Sothebys, NY.
2001 Works on Paper, LSU Union Art Gallery, LA
(Juried by David Kiehl, Curator of Prints, Whitney Museum of American Art.)
2000 Centerfold, toured: Leslie Powell Gallery to University of Arts and Sciences, OK
2000 New York Area Exhibition, Hunter College Times Square Gallery, NY.









Bibliography
Ever After, SF Reporter, Sept. 19-25, 2007.
Scarsdale Schools, Fifth Graders learn to look, April 27,2007.
Art by and for women in Pelham and New Rochelle, by Georgette Gouveia, Lower Hudson Online, March 30,2007.
Adela Leibowitz, NY Arts Magazine International Edition, Vol. 11 no 9/10
Art Pick, The Daily News, August 4, 2006.
On the Town, NY Sun, August 10,2006.
Featured artwork, Mastermind Magazine, Issue#3, April 2006.
From Vulnerability, to Power, to desire, Brian Zalpin, The Improper, Vol. 5 September 2005.
Critics Pick, Village Voice, Vol. L No. 26 June 29-July 5,2005
April Review by James Kalm, NY Arts Magazine, Vol. 10 April 2005.
Adela Leibowitz at OK Harris, Abstract Art Online, December 2003
Expo XX, Helen A. Harrison, The New York Times, March 2001.


Grants/Awards
2007/8 Chashama Studio Residency, Brooklyn, NY.
2007 Barbera Deming Foundation Grant
2005 Dorothy Yeck 2nd place Young Painters Award
2004 George Sugarman Foundation Grant
2003 Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation Grant
2002 E.D. Foundation Grant
2001 Barbera Deming Foundation Grant
2000 Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation Grant
Juror’s choice award, Centerfold, OK.
IFCS Fellowship Award, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT.
1998 Sylvia B. Nulman Award, Painting, 22nd Annual Exhibit, NY.


FELLOWSHIPS/RESIDENCIES

2002 Painting Space 122, Project Space, New York, NY.
Weir Farm Trust, CT.
2001 Millay Colony for the Arts, Austerlitz, NY.
2000 Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT.

Publications
Featured Artists, Iniciativa Colectiva, September 2007 No. 1 Vol. 6.
Surreal South, “tulip, 2006” on book cover, A collection of short stories, Press 53, 2007.
Creative Imaginings:The Howard A. and Judith Tullman Collection, Mobile Museum of Art, catalogue, November 2006.
New American Paintings, Issue #62, February 2006: The Open Studios Press