Biography
BORN
1961 California, USA
EDUCATION
1994 M.F.A., Rinehart School of Sculpture, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
1983 B.A., International Relations, Scripps College, Claremont, CA
Awards, Honors and Fellowships
2013
Lotos Award of Distinction, The Lotos Club, New York, New York
2012
Art Orange County’s Helena Modjeska Cultural Legacy Award
2011
Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship
Maryland Institute College of Art, Distinguished Alumnae
2010
Barnett and Annalee Newman Foundation Fellowship
2009
LUX Art Institute, Residency, Encinitas, CA.
Pilchuck, Artist in Residence, Seattle, WA.
2003
McColl Center for Visual Art, Artist in Residence, Charlotte, NC.
2002
Kyojima Artist in Residency Program, Tokyo, Japan.
Ensemble Studio Theater, Artist in Residence (Summer), New York, NY.
2001
California State University Fullerton, Artist in Residence, Fullerton, CA.
2000
Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant.
New York City Art Commission Award for Excellence in Design, New York City Cultural Affairs.
John Michael Kohler Arts Foundation & Industry Program Artist in Residence, Sheboygan, Wisconsin.
1994
Amalie Rothschild Distinguished Artist Award, Maryland Institute College of Art.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2012
Art Kabinett/ Art Basel/ Miami Beach
Elizabeth Turk: Cages, Hirschl & Adler, New York, NY.
2008
Elizabeth Turk: Ribbons and Pinwheels, Hirschl & Adler, New York, NY.
2006
Elizabeth Turk: Collars, Hirschl & Adler, New York, NY.
Drawings, Joie Lassiter Gallery, Charlotte, NC.
Domestic Settings, Galerie Lareuse, Washington, D.C.
2004
VantagePoint III Elizabeth Turk The Collars: Tracings of Thought, Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC.
2003
(Know) Fly Zone, Installation, Santa Ana, CA.
2001
Nature Memorial to Nature I, An Installation by Elizabeth Turk, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA.
1998
Elizabeth Turk, Hemphill Gallery, Washington D.C.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2012
Miami Basel : Art Kabinett
Meticulosity, Curated by John David O’Brien and Meg Linton, Ben Maltz Gallery, Otis, CA
Loose Canon, La Louver Gallery, Venice, CA.
2011
Night Scented Stock, Curated by Todd Levin, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY.
2010
Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC.
2008
Looky See, Ben Maltz Gallery, Otis School of Art, Los Angeles, CA.
Modern Love, Podesta Collection at the National Museum for Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C.
Poetry & Works on Paper, Joie Lassiter Gallery, Charlotte, NC.
New Acquisitions, Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery, Scripps College, Claremont, CA.
Celebrating Women Artists, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, NY.
2006
Complicit, JoHanna Drucker, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA.
Draw, Paper, Scissors, Jeanne Patterson, Los Angeles, CA.
2004
3 Solo Projects: Jane Mulfinger, Ross Rudel, Elizabeth Turk, Ben Maltz Gallery, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA.
2003
Matter and Matrix, Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery, Scripps College, Claremont, CA.
Going Public, American Institute of Architecture, New York, NY.
Rat-Powered Film Festival, Santa Ana, California Video Festival, Santa Ana, CA.
2002
Japan Bank Building, Hiroshima, Japan, postcard collaboration with Koso Haranka and Kirara Kawauchi.
Johnson Atelier, Ironworks from John Michael Kohler Program, Sheboygan, WI.
2000
New York-Classicism-Now, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, NY.
1998
Objectivity – International Objects of Subjectivity, Contemporary Art Center, Virginia Beach, VA.
1997
From Here, Baumgartner Gallery, Washington D.C.
A Sculpture Show, Grimaldis Gallery, Baltimore, MD.
1996
Louise Bourgeois: Elizabeth Turk, Baumgartner Gallery, Washington D.C.
A Sculpture Show, Grimaldis Gallery, Baltimore, MD.
Fresh Out, Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, MD.
Superbia, Washington Project for the Arts, Washington DC.
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
National Museum for Women in the Arts, Washington D.C.
Weatherspoon Gallery, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, NC
The Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC
Scripps College, Claremont, CA
The Bechtler Art Museum, Charlotte, NC
American Embassy, Baghdad, Iraq
CATALOGUE ESSAYS
“Systems and Patterns”, 2006, Elizabeth Reede, Independent Curator, New York, NY.
“Fragile Realities,” 2001, Olga M. Viso, Curator of Contemporary Art, Hirschhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institute, Washington D.C.
“Art, Science, and Democracy,” http://www.pantaneto.co.uk/issue19/smolin.htm 2001, Lee Smolin, Theoretical Physicist, Perimeter Institute for Gravitational Physics.
“Musings on Classicism,” Barbara J. Bloemink, Ph.D., Then-Director of Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York, NY.
ARTICLES
“What Lies Beneath: Elizabeth Turk,” Tate Gunnerson, Luxe Magazine: Volume 10, Issue 2, June 2012.
“Finding Strips of Ribbon in Chunks of Stone,” Rachel Wolff, The Wall Street Journal, 22 June 2012.
“Elizabeth Turk: Hirschl and Adler,” Max Weintraub, ARTnews, May 2012 Reviews: New York.
“‘Meticulosity’ aims to reconnect the conceptual, visual”, Leah Ollman, LA Times, 29 April 2012.
“Breaking Free,” Art and Auction, March 2012.
“The Line Defining Three-Dimensional Space, A Conversation with Elizabeth Turk,” Sculpture Magazine, Rebecca Dimling Cochran, January/February 2012.
“Marble Marvels”, Modern Magazine, Richard and Shelia Schwartz, Winter 2012.
“An Artist Gets a Backstage, Behind-the Scenes Ticket to Tour the Smithsonian”, Gambino Megan, Smithsonian.com, Oct. 10, 2011.
“Who is Elizabeth Turk? Interview with a MacArthur Genius”, Burnaway, Susannah Darrow, 4 October 2010.
“MacArthur Foundation Honors 23″, The New York Times, Felicia R. Lee, 28 September 2010.
Bloomberg, Patrick Cole, 28 September 2010.
“Atlanta a hide-out for new MacArthur Genius”, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Howard Pousner, 28 September 2010.
“Conversation with Elizabeth Turk”, Jeffery Brown, PBS NewsHour, September 2010.
“Recent Acquisitions”, Women in the Arts Bulletin of The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Jordana Pomeroy, Kathryn A. Wat, Spring 2009.
“Sculptor Support”, Fortune Small Business, Maggie Overfelt, October 2006.
“Elizabeth Turk: The Collars”, Sculpture Magazine, Laura Richard Janku, September 2006.
“It Figures”, Robb Report, Richard Green, June 2006.
“On the Drawing Board- No Neckties”, Women’s Wear Daily, Rosemary Feitelberg, February 2006.
“Revealing the Heart of Stone”, Los Angeles Times, Leah Ollman, July 2004.
“When City Hall Smiles on Public Art”, The New York Times, David Dunlap, April 2001.
“All Natural”, Los Angeles Times, Joseph Woodward, March 2001.
“New York Classicism Now”, The New York Times, Ken Johnson, September 20oo.
“Marble on the Wing, Elizabeth Turk Carves a Paradox into Hunks of Stone”, The Washington Post, Ferdinand Protzman, November 1998.
“Thingness & Objectness”, Sculpture Magazine, JoHanna Druker, April 1997.
“From Here”, The Washington Post, Ferdinand Protzman, January 1997.
“An Amazing Website”, The Washington Post, Ferdinand Protzman, July 1996.
“Nuances in Cool and Spare Sculpture”, The Baltimore Chronicle, Louise Sheldon, February 1995.