About
Portrait photograph — to be supplied
My artwork is very personal. It addresses substantive life situations — "universal concerns" — some of which hit close to home. I internalize global concerns and when I see injustices, I cannot sit back but feel compelled to take action through my art. Each situation dictates the medium and materials with which I work. Often I use the human body, or parts of the body, to convey an idea. I have consistently explored the use of multiplicity of forms and sensual minimalism with a variety of materials including tinted rubber, wax, plaster, and resins. Provocative elements, dark humor, and machinery to create movement are seen in my sculpture along with my core use of visual puns and irony.
Selected CV
Education
Santa Fe Art Institute
Alfredo Jaar Workshop
Pilchuck Glass School
Scholarship
New York University Graduate School
ISIA, Urbino, Italy
Enzo Cucchi, Jannis Kounellis, Eliseo Martiacci
School of Visual Arts, N.Y.C.
University of Miami
B. Ed. Magna Cum Laude
Selected Solo Exhibitions
Shirley Klinghoffer: CRT Revisited
WNMU Francis McCray Gallery, NM
Love Armor 10th Anniversary Exhibition & Community Outreach Program
Center for Contemporary Art, in collaboration with New Mexico Arts & the Military, Santa Fe, NM
Healing Objects
Fred Hutch Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA
Shirley Klinghoffer: CRT Revisited — Exhibition & Community Outreach Program
Museum of Glass, Tacoma, WA
Director's Choice
Art Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM
Shirley Klinghoffer: Secret Garden, Fertile Ground
Judy Chicago's Through the Flower Gallery, curated by Laura Addison, Contemporary Curator NM Museum of Art, NM
Love Armor
Brenda Taylor Gallery, NYC
Love Armor
Crane Arts / Ice Box Project Space, Philadelphia, PA
Love Armor (collaborator Sarah Hewitt)
Center for Contemporary Arts, Munoz/Waxman Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Intimate Details
Klaudia Marr Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
V-Day
Lensic Center for Performing Arts, Santa Fe, NM
Curves and Crevices
Harwood Art Center, Albuquerque, NM
CRT-0981
Central Fine Arts, N.Y.C.
Public Site Installation
Tribeca, N.Y.C.
Mutations
Z Gallery, N.Y.C.
Two-person exhibition
101 Wooster, SoHo, N.Y.C.
Solo exhibition
Vorpal Gallery, N.Y.C.
Selected Group Exhibitions
Known Subverts
Offroad Productions, Santa Fe, NM
Art Collision & Repair Shop
Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, NM
End of Days
SF Commission Community Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Subversive Stitching — Feminist Artists with a Needle
Through the Flower (Judy Chicago's foundation), Belen, NM
Engendered Space
SCA Contemporary Art, Albuquerque, NM
Furies (juror: Hollis Walker)
Art Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM
Originals 2007
Harwood Museum, Taos, NM
Case Studies: Art in a Valise
Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY
Group exhibition
Box Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
BLOC-BUSTA
College of Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM
FOCA (juror: Elizabeth Smith, Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art)
Lewallen Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Group exhibition
Linda Durham Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, NM
Selections
Santa Fe Art Institute, Santa Fe, NM
FOCA (juror: Lawrence Rinder, Whitney Museum)
LewAllen Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Originals 2003 — Traces of the Journey
Albuquerque Museum of Fine Art, NM
Site Unseen
James Kelly Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, NM
Life of the City
Museum of Modern Art, N.Y.C.
Group exhibition
Islip Art Museum, Long Island, NY
Group exhibition
Yeshiva University Art Museum, N.Y.C.
Originals
Harwood Museum, Taos, NM
Body Work
The Work Space, N.Y.C.
Site Unseen
James Kelly Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, NM
A Disarming Beauty — The Venus de Milo in 20th Century Art
Dali Museum, FL
Jewish Artists on the Edge
College of Santa Fe Fine Arts Gallery and Marion Arts Center, Santa Fe, NM
The Perfect Figure
Artscan Gallery, Houston, TX
Cleavage
Johnson Gallery, University Art Museum, University of New Mexico, NM
Romancing the Brain (curator: Suzanne Ramljak)
Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, PA
Modular Composite
Central Fine Arts, N.Y.C.
Frankensteinian (curator: Stuart Horodner)
Caren Golden Fine Art, N.Y.C.
Group exhibitions
The Alternative Museum; Gramercy International / Exit Art; Pat Hearn Gallery, N.Y.C.
Exit Art, The Store
Exit Art, N.Y.C.
Biennial Juried Exhibition
Staten Island Institute of Arts and Science, N.Y.C.
Women's Vision Exhibition
Corvallis Arts Center, Corvallis, OR
The Realist Figure: Contemporary Perspectives
Gallery Henoch, N.Y.C.
Made to Order: America's Most Wanted Painting
The Alternative Museum, N.Y.C.
Hiroshima: From Me to You
Fukuya Art Gallery, Hiroshima, Japan
Juried exhibition (juror: Thomas Sokolowski, Grey Art Gallery, N.Y.U.)
Heckscher Museum, N.Y.C.
I.C.I. Traveling Exhibition
Smithsonian International Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Who Chooses Who
New Museum of Contemporary Art, N.Y.C.
Solid Directions
Morris Museum, Morristown, NJ
The Walls at The Hall
Seton Hall University Law School, Newark, NJ
Monumental Propaganda
World Financial Center, N.Y.C.
Group exhibition
The Alternative Museum, N.Y.C.
New York Academy of Sciences, N.Y.C.
New York Academy of Sciences, N.Y.C.
Juried Sculpture Exhibition
City Without Walls Gallery, Newark, NJ
Group exhibition
Instituto Superior Per Le Industrie Artistiche, Urbino, Italy
Surface and Form '80
Bergen Museum, Paramus, NJ
Artist in Residence program
Brandeis University, Paramus, NJ
Main Gallery exhibition
Newark Museum, Newark, NJ
Group exhibition
National Academy Galleries, N.Y.C.
Awards and Recognition
Nominated — New Mexico Governor's Award for Excellence in the Arts
State of New Mexico
Edwina Milner "Women in the Arts" Exhibition/Lecture Series Award
McCune Charitable Foundation Grant
McCune Charitable Foundation
Visiting Artist Residency
Museum of Glass, Tacoma, WA
Brooklyn Museum Feminist Art Base — juried selection (international)
Brooklyn Museum
Nominated — New Mexico Governor's Award for Excellence in the Arts
State of New Mexico
New Mexico Arts, Public Art Program — "Acclaimed Artist" Award
New Mexico Arts
McCune Charitable Foundation Grant
McCune Charitable Foundation
Guest Speaker
New Mexico Museum of Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM
Public Art Selection Committee member
New Mexico Public Art Selection Committee
Speaker & Panelist, 18th International Sculpture Conference
International Sculpture Conference, Houston, TX
Art Grants Selection Committee member
New Jersey Art Grants Selection Committee (Union County)
Selected Collections
New Mexico Arts
Permanent Collection, Santa Fe, NM, 2011
New Mexico Museum of Art
Permanent Collection, Santa Fe, NM, 2007
New Mexico State University
Permanent Outdoor Sculpture Installation, Alamagordo, NM — Art In Public Places Program Purchase, 2002
Allstate Asset Management
Peter and Carola Kleeman
London, England
Alex and Lorraine Oliver
London, England
Jenette Kahn
New York City, NY
Glenn O'Brien
New York City, NY
Michael and Mimi Mendelson
New York City, NY
Irene Towbin
New York City, NY
Dr. Andrew and Joan Bregman
Galway, Ireland
Fred and Barbara Marcus
Wheaton, IL
Fay Savin
Key West, FL
Stephen and Kathy Weinroth
New York City, NY
Michael and Kathryn Takata
Riverdale, NY
Sam and Barbara Masket
New York City, NY
George and Lynn Goldstein
Venice, CA
Bridget Nurock Maier and Shoshanna Laiser
Santa Fe, NM
Stephen and Jacqui Rose
Philadelphia, PA
Robert and Jo Franzblau
Tel Aviv, Israel
Bob and Joyce Hartmann
Westfield, NJ
Ed and Toni Benjamin
Tampa, FL
Bob and Nancy Lehrer
Tampa, FL
Travis and Suzann Broesche
Santa Fe, NM
Carl N. Miller and Bobbie Foshay-Miller
Santa Fe, NM
William Siegal and Gabrielle Viethen
Houston, TX
Selected Publications and Press
"More Than Words"
El Palacio Magazine
"Glass Castles"
New Mexican Pasatiempo
Museum of Glass Exhibit review
Tacoma News Tribune
"Love Armor Project"
Fiber Arts Magazine
"The Love Armor Project"
THE Magazine
3-D art/techné
Fresco Fine Arts Publications
"Shirley Klinghoffer: Intimate Details"
The Magazine
"Body Language"
The New York Times
"Studio Visit"
The Magazine
"Art Matters"
Pasatiempo
"Shirley Klinghoffer, CRT-0981"
Review
"Frankensteinian"
Village Voice
Time Capsule: A Concise Encyclopedia by Women Artists
Book
"Just Perfect Imperfection"
Newsday
"Shirley Klinghoffer's Sculptural Contrasts"
Surreal
Newark Star Ledger review
Newark Star Ledger
Sculpture: Technique-Form-Content
Davis Publications, Inc.
"Jerseyan's Sculpture is Banned"
The New York Times
"Westfield Sculpture Sees Through Stone"
The Star Ledger
"Shirley Klinghoffer, The Artist"
New Jersey Art Forum, Vol. IV, #2