Lynda Abraham
www.LyndaAbraham.com
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EDUCATION
Coney Island Sideshow School, Coney Island, NY
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, Maine
MFA: Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY (Major: Sculpture)
BFA: Columbus College of Art and Design, Columbus, OH (Major: Sculpture)
AWARDS
2004 Vermont Studio Center (Johnson, VT): Partial Fellowship/Work Exchange Grant
2002 Artist in the Marketplace (AIM) Program, The Bronx Museum of the Arts (Bronx, NY)
1999 Sculpture Space (Utica, NY): Full Fellowship and residence
1996 Art Matters Fellowship
1995 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (Skowhegan, MN): Partial scholarship and residency
EXHIBITIONS
2007 Pierro Gallery of South Orange: Singularity in the Communal Tide, South Orange, NJ (group show)
Guest Curator: Rupert Ravens
2006 Newark Arts Council: Newark Between Us, Newark, NJ (group show)
Curator: Rupert Ravens
Dam Stuhltrager Gallery: Little Women, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY (group show)
Dam Stuhltrager Gallery: Compassion, Williamsburg, Brooklyn NY (solo show)
2004 Dam Stuhltrager Gallery: Gritty, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY (group show)
2003 Bronx Museum of the Arts: AIM 23, Bronx, NY (group show)
2001 31 Grand: Medical Contraptions and Conceptions, Brooklyn, NY (group show)
International Contemporary Art Fair: ArtBrussels 2001, Brussels, Belgium (group show)
Ad!dict Magazine: Noise, Brussels, Belgium (group show)
2000 The Space: Ad!dict Declares Love, New York, NY (group show)
1999 Holland Tunnel: 100, Brooklyn, NY (group show)
1998 Williamsburg Art & Historical Center, Year End Ensemble II, Bklyn, NY (group show)
Mother/Click and Drag: Soryama, New York, NY (group show/performance)
1997 Williamsburg Art & Historical Center, Year End Ensemble, Brooklyn, NY (group show)
Exit Art: Shape of Sound, New York, NY (group show)
Exit Art: Sweat, New York, NY (group show)
1996 Art Without Walls/Fourth World: Recoil, New York, NY (group show)
Exit Art: Checkers and Chess, New York, NY (group show)
Exit Art: Way Cool, New York, NY (group show/performance)
PUBLISHED
The Brooklyn Rail: April 2006 issue, Artseen: Lynda Abraham (by Thomas Micchelli)
We Make Money Not Art: November 2006, The Teach Yourself Compassion Machine
Art Soldier: March 28, 2006, A Medieval, Clockwork-Orangish, Foucaultian Nightmare in Brooklyn (by Jason Laning)
Village Voice: August 27, 2003, Market Share (by Karen Rosenberg)
Ad!dict Magazine: September-November 2002 issue, Fake: Lynda Abraham / Art Portfolio (by Jan Von Mol)
Waterfront Week: September 18, 2001, Art, Film & Video (by Susan Hamburger and Mary Magsamen)
Ad!dict Magazine: December-February 2001 issue, Noise
Ad!dict Magazine: September-November 2000 issue, Love
Extreme Fetish Magazine: January 1999 issue, Featured Artist: Lynda Abraham (by Abby Ehmann)
Waterfront Week: January 15, 1998, Artburger: The Curmudgeon Report (by Susan Hamburger)
Time Out New York: November 16, 1997, Critics Pick / Lots
Greenpoint Gazette: November 5, 1997, Lots
Village Voice: September 23, 1997, Art Choices / Click and Drag
Village Voice: July 16, 1996, Art Choices / Sweat
Cover Magazine: November 1995 issue, Recoil (by Anthony Crisafulli)
New York Press: October 11, 1995, Art Review / Fourth World
Tampa Tribune: June 4, 1995, Art Review
Village Voice: May 23, 1995, Never-Never Wasteland (by Elizabeth Hess)
New York Press: May 31, 1995, Art Review / Exit Art (by A. Servetar)