Shirley Wegner
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Lives: New York, NY
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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
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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
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2008
Art Athina 2008, International Art Fair of Athens, Habres + Partner Gallery, Greece
Maco 2008, 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.)
2001
Stimulata, Howard Gardens Gallery, Cardiff, Wales
1999
44 Annual Artists Exhibition, Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, NY
War, Postmasters Gallery, New York, New York
Flesh, Studio Program Gallery, SUNY, New York, NY
1998
Absolute Secret, McKee Gallery, New York, NY
1996
Lost & Found, Mary Fauzi Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
Untitled, Mary Fauzi Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
1994
Painting above & Beyond, Museum of Israeli Art Ramat-Gan, Israel
Young Emerging Artists, Artists Space, Tel Aviv, Israel
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“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
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
Jitka Hejtman, “New Trends: Shirley Wegner”, Fotograf Magazine, Transforming Symbols, No. 3, Vol 2, Prague 2003, 87
Hamidrasha, "War", Issue no. 6, June 2003, Israel, 6-9
Young Israeli Artists: The Jacques and Eugenie O'Hana Collection, Exhibition Cat., 72,
Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel 2003
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
Painting above & Beyond, Cat., The Museum of Israeli Art Ramat-Gan, Israel, 1994
Smadar Shefi, “Painting above & Beyond," Exhibition Review, Haaretz Daily, June 15, 1994
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2006 Atelier Stipendium, Monchengladbach, Germany
2005 The Ronnie Heyman Award for Emerging Visual Artist, National Foundation for Jewish Culture, New York, NY
Tiffany Award Nomination
Makor Artists 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
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"On Landscape, Gray and other geographies." Exhibition Catalogue, Museum Goch, Germany in conjunction with Habres+Parner Gallery, Vienna, Upcoming
Shirley Wegner, "Aerial Views”, The Mix, Issue no. 15, 25-27, May 2008, Vienna
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