statement vitae
 

DINA BURSZTYN


SOLO SHOWS
2009

ArTchealogical Artifacts-Woodstock Artists Association and Gallery. Woodstock NY

2004 Dina Bursztyn's Myhts/Mitos -Longwood Art Gallery @Hostos Center for Arts and Culture, Bronx, NY
2002 Dina Bursztyn Works: 1988-2002, Chappaqua Library Gallery, Chappaqua, NY
2001 Guests in the House of Time, Ceres Project Room, Elizabeth Foundation, NYC
1996 Dina Bursztyn: A Collaborative Project with the Center for Reading and Writing at the Francis Martin Branch of the New York Public Library,The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY.
1993 Sculptures and Prints, EX Gallery, Tokyo, Japan.
1988 Gargoyles to Scare Developers, Urban Homesteading Assistance Board, NYC
1983 Murals and Sculptures, Arsenal Gallery, Central Park, NYC
1982  Sculptures and Books, Ollantay Arts Center, Queens, NY   
1981 Sculptures and Stories, Altos de Chavon Gallery, Dominican Republic.
1981 Sculptures, Casa de Teatro, Dominican Republic
1980 Ceramics, Cayman Gallery, NYC.
1979 Imaginary Machines and Underwater Inventions, Taller Latinoamericano, NYC

PUBLIC ART COMMISSIONS

(see Public Arts)
2007 “Catskill Sundial” DCE Grant,  NYSCA, administered through the Twin Counties  Cultural Fund in Greene County by the Greene Council on the Arts for the creation of a Sculptural sundial the Dutchmen’s Landing, Catskill, NY
2006 Views from Above”, 12 faceted glass panels installed permanently on 170 St., Subway Station, line #4, in the Bronx. commissioned by NYC MTA Arts for Transit.
2002 “Lady Winter’s End”, temporary installation at the DeSanti Plaza, Hartsdale, sponsored by the Town of Greenburgh, NY
1995 Paths and Stars, 34 ceramic panels, commissioned by New York City Percent for Arts Program and NYC Board of Education for PS 376A, Brooklyn, NY
1992 Cosmic Turtle, Prospect Park Sculpture Walk, sponsored by the Prospect Park Alliance, Brooklyn, NY
1990 Telepathic Mailbox and Migrant Letters, temporary installation on the corner of 149th St. and the Grand Concourse, Bx., NY commissioned by the Public Art Fund
1988 Gargoyles to Scare Developers, 30 ceramic gargoyles installed permanently on the facades of 6 buildings in Manhattan, Brooklyn and the Bronx, sponsored by the Urban Homesteading Assistance Board, NY

FELLOWSHIPS, RESIDENCIES
2009

NYFA and The Arts Center of the Capital Region Strategic Opportunity Stipend for  Findings from the ArTchaelogical Musem

2006 Book Art and the Poetic Dream, an Arts in Education Partnership Grant with Athens Coxackie HS sponsored by the Greene County Council on the Arts
1996 The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Satellite Gallery Program, Artist in Residence.
1992 Lower East Side Printshop,NYC, Special Editions Program.
1990 Public Art Fund, NYC, grant for "Telepathic Mailbox".
1990 Greenwich House, NYC, Artist in Residence.
1988 Bronx River Arts Center, NY, Artist in Residence.
1986 Art Matters grant for "Gargoyles to Scare Developers"
1981 Altos de Chavon, Dominican Republic, Artist in Residence

INSTALLATIONS
1999 Potato Spirit Inventions, Open Studios, Westchester Council on the Arts, NY
1993 Recent Archeological Findings from the Late XX Century, Window installation at Art in General, NYC.


SELECTED GROUP SHOWS

2009 For the Love of Art, Hat Factory, Peekskill, NY
2008

Primordial Considerations, Maxwell Fine Arts, Peekskill, NY
Ceramic Expressions- Blue Door Gallery, Yonkers, NY
Playing with Fire- Paramount Center for the Arts, Peekskill, NY
Summer Show, Living with Art, NYC
Ibid- Hyogo, Yokohama, Japan –Travelling show

2007 Dreamscapes, Yonkers Public Library, NY
Collaborative Concepts at Saunders Farms, Garrison, NY
The intangible Al Fresco, Maxwell Fine Arts, Peekskill, NY
2006 Bronx Bound, Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx, NY
Unexpected Visitors, Maxwell Fine Arts, Peekskill, NY
Less is More, GCCA, Windham, NY
2005 Moving Targets, Universitat Der Kunste, Berlin/ Academy of Fine Arts, Poznan, Poland
Women's Work, Time and Space Limited, Hudson, NY
Contemporary Women Artists: New York, Indiana State University
2003 Ceramic Visions, Blue Door Gallery at Philipse Manor, NY
2002 Tributaries: 6 Sculptors respond to the Hudson River, Arts Exchange, White Plains, NY
Group Show, Coulter Young Gallery, Peekskill, NY
Monoprints, Chappaqua Library Gallery, Chappaqua, NY
2001 Locations, Real and Imagined, Arts Exchange, White Plains, NY
2000 Unbound: Reshaping Artist’s Books, Henry Street Settlement, NYC
2000 Invitational Salon, Westchester Arts Council, White Plains, NY
1999 Messages, Goethe Institute New York; Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, England; Kuppelhalle der Dresdner Bank, Leipzig, Germany
El arte de los libros de artista (The Art of Artist’s Books) Central Library of Mexico, Mexico City, Instituto de Artes Graficas de Oaxaca, Oaxaca, Mexico
1998 Jazz Club, Neuberger Museum of Art, SUNY, Purchase, NY
1997 Album, 30 Years at the Lower East Side Printshop, Chelsea Arts Building, NYC
1997 Views- Selections from the Lower East Side Printshop, Draakon Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia
Hostos Art Gallery: The First Ten Years, Bronx, NY.
L. x W, x D. =?, St. Mark's Church in the Bowery, NYC
Printed at the Lower East Side Printshop, La MaMa Gallery, NYC.
Latin American Book Arts, Center for Book Arts Gallery, NYC.
National Library of Canada, Ottawa, Traveling Show
Artists, Women, Society, Pratt Institute New Gallery, Brooklyn, NY.
1996 Deviants and Aliens; Ceres Gallery in conjunction with Vistas Latinas, NYC
1994 Images of Things to Come, Bronx River Art Gallery, Bronx, NY.
Iconography: Conversations with the Spirits, Longwood Arts Gallery, Bronx, NY.
Animal Stories, Goddard Riverside Community Center, NYC.
A Celebration of the Serpent and the Sacred of Spring, Right Bank Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
All Out, Salena Gallery, Long Island University, Brooklyn Campus, NY
Gathering Medicine, "Coast to Coast", Art in General, NYC.
1993 Contemporary Public Art in the Bronx, Lehman College Art Galley, Bronx, NY.
The Return of the Cadavre Exquis, The Drawing Center, NYC.
Vistas Latinas, Porter Butts Gallery, Madison, Wisconsin.
Current Wave, Bronx River Art Center and Gallery, Bronx. NY
1992

I don't think so, mini golf hole for Putt-Modernism at Artists Space, NYC,
Institute for Contemporary Art, Boston; Allentown Art Museum, Pa;
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY; Tampa Museum of Art, Fl. and others.

1992 Houses of Spirit, Memory of Ancestors, Woodlawn Cemetery, sponsored by the Bronx Council on the Arts and the Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx, NY
After the Voyage, ABC No Rio, NYC
Three Women Artists, International House, NYC.
Vistas Latinas V, John Jay College Art Gallery, NYC.
1991 Artists in Residence, Jane Harstock Gallery, NYC.
Six Steps, Bronx River Art Gallery, Bx. NY
1990 VII Biennial of Ibero- American Art, Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City, Mexico.
China, June 4, P.S.1, Queens, NY
Vistas Latinas, Henry Street Settlement, NYC.
Bronx Views, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Satellite Gallery, Bx, NY.
1989 Snug Harbor Sculpture Festival, Snug Harbor, S.I., NY
Martha Rosler Homefront, Dia Art Center, NYC.
Current Arrivals, Museum of Contemporary Hispanic Arts, NYC.
The Altar Image, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Satellite Gallery at Hostos Community College, Bronx, NY

VISITING ARTIST, LECTURER
  Wave Hill, Bronx, NY 2001-2, Queens Museum of the Arts 1998, Fordham University 1996, Neuberger Museum of Art 1996, Women Caucus for the Arts Conference 1994, American Craft Museum 1993, Columbia University 1990.

COLLECTIONS
  NYC Metropolitan Transit Authority, New York City Central Library, Department of Prints and Artist’s Books; Long Island University, Brooklyn, NY; Joseph Blank, New Rochelle NY; Ginsberg Development Corporation, Hawthorne, NY; Muller-Schwan, Verlag, Nuonberg, Germany; NYC Public Schools Collection; Museo del Barrio, NYC; Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton, NYC.


SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

PUBLICATIONS

2008 WHAT OF THE NIGHT by Maria Ines Fornes, Paj Publications, Book cover image
2007 DOUBLE TAKE, Honoring the Femenine, essay ,Spring/Summer issue
2004 REALIDADES/ PRENTICE HALL 3 –Entrevista con Dina Bursztyn  
ARCHIVES
  COOPER HEWITT DESIGN MUSEUM LIBRARY/ LATINO-HISPANIC DESIGN ARCHIVE FRANKLIN FURNACE / MUSEUM OF MODERN ART ARCHIVE Hand to Hand (group portfolios 1991-2002)
BOOKS
  ALONG THE WAY MTA ARTS FOR TRANSIT, by Sandra Blood and William Ayres The Monacelli Press
  LIBROS DE ARTISTA  by Martha Hellion,- Turner - 2003
  CITY ART NEW YORK’S PERCENT FOR ART PROGRAM- Merrell Publishers
  HANDBOOK OF HISPANIC CULTURES IN THE UNITADES STATES by Alfredo Jimemez Instituto de Cooperacion Ibereoamericana, 1993
  IF YOU LIVED HERE. "Discussions in Contemporary Culture" by Martha Rosler
  DIA ART FOUNDATION- Bay Press 1991
NEWSPAPERS
 

WOODSTOCK TIMEs Finding the "Art" in Archeology by Paul Smart, March 2009

  NORTHEAST, Tweaking Tradition by Noah Fleisher, August 2005
  TIMES UNION, Best New Art Gallery, 2005
  NEW YORK TIMES, Artifacts With a Modern Appeal by Benjamin Genocchio, 5/9/04
CATALOGUES
  DINA BURSZTYN MYTHS/MITOS, Hostos Center for Arts and Culture. Longwood Art Gallery, 2004
  MESSAGES, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, ENGLAND, 1999
  ALBUM, SELECTIONS FROM THE LOWER EAST SIDE PRINTSHOP, 30 ANNIVERSARY, 1999
  JAZZ CLUB, Neuberger Museum of Art, NY, 1999
  CENTER FOR BOOKS ARTS, Latin American Book Arts, NYC 1995
  BRONX COUNCIL ON THE ARTS AND THE WOODLAWN CEMETERY, Houses of Spirit, Memories of Ancestors, Bronx, NY 1992
  PUBLIC ART FUND, Exhibitions Fall 1990, NYC
  CONTEMPORARY HISPANIC ART, Current Arrivals, NYC, 1989
JOURNALS
  Art in General, 1993-1994
  PERCENT FOR ART, NYC DEPARTMENT OF CULTURAL AFFAIRS, Art for Learning, 1993
  BRONX COUNCIL ON THE ARTS. Longwood Arts Journal, 1993-1994
  LEHMAN COLLEGE ART GALLERY, Public Art in the Bronx, 1993
RADIO
  WBAI, The Latin American Review produced by Annette Walker, 3/31/94
  NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO, All Things Considered, 8/21/93
  NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO, CROSSROADS, Profile of Dina Bursztyn by Deborah Begel, May 1989.
© DINA BURSZTYN 2004.
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