Shirley Wegner

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Lives: New York, NY

Education
2002 MFA Yale University School of Art, Painting
2000 BA, Painting and Art History, SUNY Empire State College
1994 Teaching Diploma, Hamidrasha School of Art, Israel


Solo Exhibitions
2012
Dana Gallery, Yad Mordechai, Israel (upcoming)
2007
Gray Area, Habres + Partner Gallery, Vienna (Cat.)
On Landscape, Gray, and other geographies, Goch Museum, Goch, Germany (Cat.)
inbetween, Zwischenraum, Düsseldorf
2006
Sight/Site Unseen, Theatergalerie am Museum X, Monchengladbach, Germany
2002
MFA show, Yale University Art Gallery

Group Exhibitions
2011
In Process, OMNI Gallery, Uniondale, NY
Annual Benefit Exhibition, Dieu Donne’, New York, NY
Insights – ten years of Collection, Goch Museum
Kammerspiele, Mischpoke E.V., Monchengladbach, Germany

2010
Sweat Dreams, The Zaritsky Artists House, Tel Aviv, Israel

2009
Workspace Program 2008-9: New Work in handmade paper by emerging artists in residence, Dieu Donne Gallery, NY, NY
In Process, Islip Art Museum, The Carriage House
Art Athina 2009, International Art Fair, Habres + Partner Gallery, Greece
Maco art fair, Contemporary Art Fair, Habres + Partner Gallery, Mexico City

2008
Art Athina, International Art Fair of Athens, Habres + Partner Gallery, Greece
Maco, Contemporary Art Fair, Habres + Partner Gallery, Mexico City

2007
Aqua Art Miami, Habres+Partner Gallery, FL
Connected, Altes Museum, Monchengladbach, Germany

2006
C/oncerning MG, Altes Museum, Monchengladbach, Germany
Home Base I, as part of ARTIS 2006, 126 Greenpoint Ave., Brooklyn, NY
Do You Think I'm Disco?, Longwood Art Gallery, New York, NY
Wandring, Makor Gallery, New York, NY
Seeing Elsewhere, Ernest Rubenstein Gallery, The Education Alliance Gallery, NY NY

2005
Performa 05 Radio, from: High Desert Test Sites, WFMU 91.1 FM

2004
Free Radio High Desert Test Sites, Joshua Tree, CA
Strange Animal, L A C E, featured in Free Radio High Desert Test Sites, Los Angeles
Endure, B.K. Smith Gallery, Lake Erie College, Cleveland Ohio
Slice and Dice, SVA Gallery Chelsea, New York, NY

2003
Young Israeli Artists: Jacques & Eugenie O'Hana Collection, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
Affirmative Action, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel
Control, Escape, Delete, Society for Contemporary Photography, Kansas City, MS

2002
The Land of Shadow, Tel-Aviv Museum of Art, Israel
Artnew York, Ort Kunstraune Auf Zeit, Lintz, Austria
Works by Yale MFA 2002 Painters, Battell Estate Gallery, Norfolk CT (Cat.)



Bibliography
“Graue Erinnerungen”, Der Standard, July 26, 2007

Walter Seidl, “Meiale Erinnerungen”, www.artmagazine.cc, July 30, 2007

Manisha Jothady, “Inszenierte Landschaftsblider aus Israel bei habres + partner,” Die Presse, 24, July 23, 2007

Karen Bookatz, ”Agit-Propaganda: Muti-Media Artist Shirley Wegner,” Heeb Magazine, Love Issue, no. 12, 2007

Matthew Baigell, Jewish Art in America: an Introduction, pp 166-168, Rowman and Littlefield publishing, 2006

Jens Krohn, ”Kunstlerin inszeniert Grenzschauplatze: Die Atelierstipendiatin Shirley Wegner
stellt Fotos und Installationen in Der Theatergalerie aus”, Westdeutsche Zeitung, November 25, 2006, Germany

Von Dirk Richerdt, “Stille Szenarien der Apkalypse”, Rheinsche Post, November 25, 2006, Germany

"Seeing Elsewhere: Shoshana Dentz, Shirley Wegner, Julie Weitz,, Exhibition Catalogue, Education Alliance Gallery, New York, NY 2006

Armin Kaumanns, “Auf der Suche nach dem verschwundenen Bild: Die Fotografin Shirley Wegner ist die neue Atelierstipendiatin der Stadt”, Westdeutsche Zeitung, June 21, 2006 Germany

Von Dirk Richerdt, “Fotos Malerisch Inszeniert,” Rheinsche Post, June 22, 2006, Germany

Holland Cotter, "Do You Think I'm Disco", The New York Times Art in Review, February 3, 2006

Dean Daderko, “A Mirrorball to Liberation, Gay City News Gallery, Volume 5, No. 4, January 26- February 1, 2006

Orly Shevi, “On Landscape, Construction, and Memory: Two New Works by Shirley Wegner”,
Ante magazine, Oblivion, Issue no. 4, 12-17. January 2006

Performa 05 Radio, Free Radio High Desert Test Site, WFMU 91.1 FM Nov 20, 9-10pm

Heeb magazine, “The Heeb Hundred”, Issue no. 8, July 2005, 43

Tune Raider on KZMU Radio, High Desert Test SiteMoab, Utah, 2004

n+1 Magazine, “Negation,” Issue No. 1, July 2004, 92

Mark Meszoros, “Artists Endure”, The News-Herald, August 20, 2004, A8

Young Israeli Artists: The Jacques and Eugenie O'Hana Collection, Exhibition Cat., 72,
Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel 2003

Jitka Hejtman, “New Trends: Shirley Wegner”, Fotograf Magazine, Transforming Symbols, No. 3, Vol 2, Prague 2003, 87

Theresa Bembnister, “Photo Realism: Seven Photographers Capture the Moments of Our Lives”, The Pitch, April 10, 2003

ZIB 3, "Artnew York", September 11, 2002, TV (3 min), by Wiltrud Hackl

OOE Heute, "Artnew York", September 11, 2002, TV (3 min), by Wiltrud Hackl

Deitlind Hebestreit, OOEN achrichten, "Hello, New York gibt eig noch!," Sept 6, 2002, 7

Works by MFA 2002 Painters, Cat., Yale University, Art Division Norfolk CT, 2001




Grants/Awards
2009 Islip Art Museum, Winter Residency program at the Carriage House, Islip, NY

2008-9 Workspace Program Residency, Dieu Donne’, New York City

2006 Atelier Stipendium, Monchengladbach, Germany

2005 The Ronnie Heyman Award for Emerging Visual Artist, National Foundation for Jewish Culture, New York, NY
Makor Artist in Residence, New York, NY

2002 Ely Harwood Schless Memorial Prize for Excellence, Yale University School of Art Finalist for The Alice Kimball Traveling Fellowship, Yale University

2001 Norfolk Teaching Fellowship, Yale University

1999 Honorable Mention, Artists League at Heckscher Museum of art, Huntington, NY


Publications
Interview with Shirley Wegner, Sculpture Magazine, by Paul Black (Upcoming 2012)

“On Home in Contemporary Israeli Art, One Artist A Month: Shirley Wegner”, by Ravit Harari, Nisha Magazine, Issue No. 113, June 2011 (Hebrew)

"On Landscape, Gray and other geographies." Exhibition Catalogue, Museum Goch, Germany in conjunction with Habres+Parner Gallery, Vienna, 2008

Sedek Magazine, Issue 4, 50-63, July 2009

Shirley Wegner, "Aerial Views”, The Mix, Issue no. 15, 25-27, May 2008, Vienna

Hamidrasha, "War", Issue no. 6, June 2003, Israel, 6-9