b. 1959, Morristown, NJ
Education
MFA, School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University, Boston
BFA, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston
BA, Albertus Magnus College in New Haven
Collections
Arts on the Point, University of Massachusetts, Boston
Chambers Hotel, New York, NY
DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA
DesMoines Art Center, IAEverson Museum, Syracuse, NY
Fidelity Investments, New York, NY
Goldman Sachs, New York, NY
Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, MA
List Visual Art Center, MIT, Cambridge, MA
Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, MA
Minnesota Museum of American Art, St.Paul, MN
Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME
Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
Simmons College, Boston, MA
Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA
Ritz Hotel, Boston, MA
Wooster Art Museum, Wooster, MA
Zimmerli Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NY (Gift of the Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ)
Awards/Grants
2024
Dartmouth College Artist in Residence, Hanover, NH (Jan2 - March 2)
2023
Artist in Residence, UAP, New York (fall, returning in March 24)
2018
Civitella Ranieri Foundation Fellow, Umbertide, Province of Perugia, Italy
2016
Sharpe - Wallentas Studio Program, New York, NY
Joan Mitchell Center Artist-in-Residence, New Orleans, LA\
2016
Greenwich House Pottery, Artist-in-Residence, New York, NY
2015
Distinguished Alumni Award, Massachusetts College of Art + Design, Boston
2013
Artist-in-Residence, Siena Art Institute, Siena, Italy
2012
Folgli - Scritte Residency, Asilo Bianco: An Open Space for Contemporary Culture, Ameno, Italy
2011
Anonymous Was A Woman Award
Art Matters Grant, Art Matters Foundation, New York, NY
The Milton and Sally Michel Avery Residency for a Visual Artist, Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, New York
2009
Joan Mitchell Foundation Artist Grant, The Joan Mitchell Foundation, New York, NY
2008
Nominee, Anonymous Was A Woman Award
2004
Lower East Side Printshop Publishing Residency, New York, NY
Rhode Island School of Design Professional Development Grant
2001
The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award
1999
Art Omi International Artists Residency, Ghent, NY
1998
Radcliffe Fellow (Mary Ingraham Bunting Fellowship), Radcliffe College, Cambridge, MA
Travel Scholarship, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
1997
Provincetown Art Association and Museum National Annual Award Juror: Milena Kalinovsk)
1994
Geraldine R. Dodge Fellowship, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture: Ann and Graham Gund Fellowship/Skowhegan School of Painting &Sculpture
1984
Scholarship, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Deer Isle, ME
Selected solo exhibitions
2024
Sheila Pepe at Dartmouth, Black Family Visual Arts Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
2023
My Neighbor’s Garden, sculpture commission for the Madison Square Park Conservancy, New York, NY June 26 - December 10
Redhook at Bedford Terrace reinstalled with old and new acquisitions, Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA, Spring 2022 - Winter 2023
2018
Sheila Pepe: Hot Mess Formalism, deCordova Sculpture Park & Museum, Lincoln, MA
Sheila Pepe: Hot Mess Formalism, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY
Sheila Pepe: Hot Mess Formalism, Bemis Center for the Arts, Omaha, NE
Softly.. before the Supreme Court. Minnesota Museum of American Art, St. Paul, MN
2017
Sheila Pepe: Hot Mess Formalism, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ
2013
T-7 Pauseway, Art International with PASAJ, Artist’s Space, Istanbul, Turkey
2012
Common Sense Athens, American College of Greece: Deree, Aghia Paraskevi, Greece
2011
Common Sense and Other Things, Carroll and Sons Art Gallery, Boston, MA
Common Sense, He Said She Said, Oak Park, IL
2010
Simple Drawing (public commission), Arts on the Point, University of Massachusetts, Boston, MA
2009
Yo Mama, Dust Gallery, Las Vegas, NV
Common Sense (collaboration with curator Elizabeth Dunbar), testsite, Fluent~Collaborative, Austin, TX
2008
Red Hook at Bedford Terrace, Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA
2007
Bus Lines, Drawing Center and River to River Festival’s “Big Draw,”
World Financial Center Plaza and Wintergarden, New York, NY
2005
Mind the Gap, University Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
Hot Lesbian Formalism, Sesnon Gallery, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA
Tunnel, Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ
2004
Bridge and Tunnel, Susan Inglett Gallery, New York, NY
I Love New York, Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, MA
2003
From Delancey and Clinton, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA
Under the F & G,Visual Art Center of Richmond, VA
2002
Sheila Pepe, Susan Inglett Gallery, New York, NY
Come Fly with Me, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC
2001
Shrink, Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT
Josephine, Thread Waxing Space, New York, NY
Selected group exhibitions
2023
The Triumph of Death, Marinaro, New York, NY
A Ribbon Runs Through It, Columbus Museum at the University of Columbus, GA
2022
Threading the Needle, The Church, Sag Harbor, New York, curators: Sara Cochran and Eric Fischl
American Stories: Gifts from the Jersey City Museum Collection, Zimmerli ArtMuseum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
2021
AbStranded: Fiber Abstraction in Contemporary Art, Everson Museum, Syracuse, NY
Carrie Moyer & Sheila Pepe: Tabernacles for Trying Times, Museum of Art & Design, New York, NY (two-person)
OMNISCIENT: Queer Documentation in an Image Culture, Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, New York, NY
2020
Carrie Moyer & Sheila Pepe: Tabernacles for Trying Times, Portland Museum of Art, ME , Portland Museum of Art, ME (two-person)
2019
Queer Abstraction, DesMoines Art Center, IA. Curator: Jared Ladesma
Queer Abstraction, Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS
Even Thread Has a Speech, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI. Curator: Shannon Stratton
Yoko Ono: Remembering the Future, Everson Museum, Syracuse, NY. Curator: D.J. Hellerman
Give me your hand, dove, so that I may climb into your nest, TEN AT SEVEN at the SJ Weiler Foundation, New York, NY
2018
Toward a New Archeology, Dorothy W. Levitt Lobby, Peter Jay Sharp Building, Brooklyn Academy of Music, NY
Objects Like Us, Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT
Queering Space, Alfred University, Alfred, NY
Women House: Une exposition collective d’artistes femmes, National Museum of Women in Arts, Washington D.C
2017
Elaine, Let Get the Hell Out of Here, Nicelle Beauchene Gallery, New York, NY, Curator: Ashton Cooper
Without God or Governance, Marinaro Gallery, New York, NY, Curator: Jesse Greenberg
Near And Dear, EFA Project Space, New York, NY. Curator: Carrie Moyer
Women House: Une exposition collective d’artistes femmes, Monnaie de Paris, France
2016
Sheila Pepe, Sondra Perry—Put me down Gently: A Cooler Place + I’m Afraid I Can’t Do That, Diverseworks, Houston, TX (two-person)
Carrie Moyer and Sheila Pepe, The Suburban, Milwaukee, WI (two-person)
Queering Space, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT
Risky Behavior, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Los Angeles with/Field Projects, New York, NY
Ceramics Now, Jane Hartsook Gallery, Greenwich House Pottery, New York, NY
No Boys Allowed, Carrol & Sons, Boston, MA
Love, Neiman Gallery, Columbia University, New York, NY. Curator: Rachel Stern
Drawing for Sculpture, TSA New York, Brooklyn, NY Curator: Courtney Pucket
Sew What?, Children’s Museum of the Arts, New York, NY. Curator: Jil Weinstock
Cut Up, Franklin Street Works, Stamford, CT. Curator: Kate Vida
Queer Threads, Mills Center for the Arts, Boston, MA. Curator: John Chaich
2015
Sheila Pepe: A Place for Looking with Paola Ferrario, Fabiola Menchelli, and Julie Ryan, Carroll & Sons Art Gallery, Boston, MA (two-person)
Fiber: Sculpture 1960–Present, Wexner Center for Contemporary Art, Columbus, OH Curator: Jenelle Porter
A Tendency Toward Textiles, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI, Curator: Allison Ferris
Sampling, Pavel Zoubok Gallery, New York, NY Curator: Dara Meyers Kingsley
2014
Fiber: Sculpture 1960–Present, ICA/Boston, MA. Curator: Jenelle Porter
We Have Never Participated: The 8th Shenzhen Sculpture Biennale, OCAT, Shenzhen, China. Curator: Marko Daniel
Queer Threads, Leslie-Lohman Museum, New York, NY. Curator: John Chaich
2013
Come Together: Surviving Sandy, Industry City Brooklyn, NY. Curator: Phong Bui
Journeys, Tea for Three, Berlin, Germany
Wild Flowers, Galleria NOPX, Turino, Italy
Invitational Exhibition of Visual Artists, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
2012
Collaboration with shoe designer Alejandro Ingelmo, High Line Room, The Standard Hotel, for New York Fashion Week, New York, NY (two-person)
Participant, Inc. Presents Pepe & Puntar’s Lucid Dream Lounge with Special Guests…(with Diana Puntar), Participant, Inc., New York, NY (two-person)
Untold Stories: Alexandre, Yulim, Sheila Pepe, Tea for Three Curatorial Group, RAM Studios, Milan, Italy (three-person)
ARTInRETI: Artistic Practices and Urban Transformation in Piedmont, Cittadellarte–Fondazione Pistoletto, Biella, Italy. Curator: Giorgio Caione
Paper Space: Drawings by Sculptors, Inman Gallery, Houston, TX
Space Invaders, Lehman College Art Gallery/CUNY, Bronx, NY. Curator: Karin Bravin
B-OUT, Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York, NY. Curator: Scott Hug
Studio Aperti, Ameno, Italy. Curator: Asilo Bianco
Volta8 (with Sue Scott Gallery), Basel, Switzerland
Fancy Balls for Girls, Brooklyn Artists Ball Table, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
2011
A Room, in Three Movements: Katy Heinlein, Sheila Pepe, and Halsey Rodman, Sue Scott Gallery, New York, NY (three-person)
2010
Chime In, Artisterium, Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia. Curators: Lydia Matthews and Laurie Lazer
Hand + Made: The Performative Impulse in Art & Craft, Contemporary Art Museum Houston, TX. Curator: Valerie Cassel Oliver
2008
The Future Must Be Sweet: Lower East Side Printshop Celebrates 40 Years, International Print Center New York, NY Curator: Marilyn S. Kushner
Radical Lace and Subversive Knitting, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ
This Show Needs You, San Jose ICA, CA. Organizers: Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens
Break the Rules!, Manheim Kunstverein, Manheim, Germany
2007
Liquid Sky (collaboration with Ball-Nogus Architects), Young Architects Program, MoMA PS1, Long Island City, NY
Material Pursuits, Robert Hull Fleming Museum, Burlington, Vermont Curator: Evelyn C. Hankins
Arte Povera Oggi. Per una nuova arte di guerriglia (Poor Art Today. For a New Guerrilla Art), ESSO Gallery, New York, NY
Shared Women, LACE, Los Angeles, CA
2006
Radical Lace and Subversive Knitting, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY
When Artists Say We, Artists Space, New York, NY
Decelerate, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MI
New Prints 2005/Winter, International Print Center New York, NY
2004
Two Women: Carrie Moyer and Sheila Pepe, Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, Lake Worth, FL (two-person)
2003
Project Spaces,Artists Space, New York, NY.Curators: Lauri Firstenberg and Jenn Joy Manic, DUMBO Arts Center, Brooklyn, NY. Curator: Nancy Doll
2002
The Photogenic, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA Curator: Ingrid Schafner Brooklyn: NextNext Visual Art, Brooklyn Academy of Music, NY Curator: Dan Cameron
2001
Verging on Real, Wave Hill, Bronx, NY Curator: Jennifer McGregor
The Energy Inside, Faulconer Gallery, Grinnell College, Grinnell, IACurator: Dan Strong
2000
Greater New York,P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY
The End, Exit Art/The First World, New York, NY
1999
Arrested Ambition, Apex Art, New York, NY. Curator: Gregory Williams
Museum School Traveling Scholars 1998, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
1998
Art on Paper, The Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC
Drawing the Question, Dorsky Gallery, New York, NY. Curators: Jennifer Gross and Susan Harris
Elbowroom, Tredje Sparet, Stockholm, Sweden. Curators: Maria Friberg and Monica Larsen Dennis
1997
Drawing and Painting, Wooster Gardens, New York, NY ( now Sikema/Jenkins)
Gothic: Transmutations of Horror in Late-Twentieth-Century Art, Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, MA Curator: Christoph Grunenberg
1996
The Lois Foster Exhibition of Boston Area Artists, Part Two, Rose Art Museum, Waltham, MA
Fuzzy Logic, a screening, Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, MA
Hippie, 88Room, Allston, MA. Curator: Andrew Guthrie
1995
Way Cool, Exit Art/The First World, New York, NY
Fake I.D., 88Room, Allston, MA. Curator: Lia Gangitano