Beverly SEMMES (American, b.1952)

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Solo Exhibitions:
*denotes catalogue

2005
La Flor del Paraiso #2, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York

2004
La Flor del Paraiso, Kunsthallen Brandts Klædefabrik, Odense, Denmark (20 May - 10 October) *

2003
In the O, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York

2002
Sea Green Petunia, Galerie Bugdahn und Kaimer, Düsseldorf

2001
Beverly Semmes, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York

2000
Beverly Semmes, Ginza Artspace, Shiseido Co., Tokyo
Beverly Semmes: Watching Her Feat, The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia

1999
Beverly Semmes: Photographs, Susan Inglett, New York
Beverly Semmes: Super-8 Films, GAGA, New York
Beverly Semmes, Kunstverein Ulm, Germany
Beverly Semmes, Not Here, Ezra & Cecile Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conneticut (01 September - 24 October) *
Beverly Semmes, Galerie Bugdahn und Kaimer, Düsseldor, Germany
Beverly Semmes, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

1998
Beverly Semmes, Galleria Marabini, Bologna

1997
Beverly Semmes: Stuffed Cat, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio
Beverly Semmes: New and Recent Sculpture, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (thru 16 February) *


1996
Beverly Semmes, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C. (21 March - 23 June) *
Beverly Semmes, Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Massachusetts (12 April - 30 June) *
Beverly Semmes, Norton Gallery of Art, West Palm Beach (27 April - 07 July) *
Beverly Semmes, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond (22 July - 08 September) *
Beverly Semmes, Galerie Bugdahn und Kaimer, Düsseldorf, Germany
Beverly Semmes: New and Recent Sculpture, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (02 October - 16 February 1997) *
Beverly Semmes: She Moves, Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris, New York
Beverly Semmes: Big Silver, Michael Klein Gallery, New York

1995
Beverly Semmes, Kemper Museum for Contemporary Art and Design, Kansas City, Missouri
Beverly Semmes, Baxter Gallery, Maine College of Art, Portland, ME
Beverly Semmes, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago

1994
Beverly Semmes, Michael Klein Inc., New York
Beverly Semmes, Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris, France
Beverly Semmes, Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy
Beverly Semmes, James Hockey Gallery, WSCAD, Farnham, England
Beverly Semmes, Southampton City Art Gallery, Southampton, England

1993
Investigations: Beverly Semes, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia *
5501 Columbia, Contemporary Culture Inc., Dallas
South Eastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, North Carolina

1992
Beverly Semmes, The Sculpture Center, New York

1990
Beverly Semmes, Special Projects, P.S.1 Museum, Long Island City, NY
Beverly Semmes, Artists Space, New York

Group Exhibitions:
2003
Imago: 10 Ans D'acquisitions du FRAC Franche-Comte, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Dole, France
New Material as New Media: The Fabric Workshop and Museum at 25 Years, The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia
Wrapture, Consolidated Works, Seattle
Me, Myself & I: Looking at Portraiture, CRG Gallery, New York

2002
New York, New Work, Now, The Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, New Hampshire
Rapture: Art’s Seduction by Fashion 1970-2002, The Barbican Centre, London
Almost Warm and Fuzzy: Childhood and Contemporary Art, Cleveland Center for the Arts, Cleveland
Art Unlimited, Art 33, Basel, Switzerland
Into the Woods, Julie Saul Gallery, New York
Nicole Klagsburn Gallery, New York
Dangerous Beauty, The Jewish Community Center, New York
Knockout Fairground, New York University Galleries, New York
Primal Screams and Songs: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami
Objects of Desire, Jan Abrams Fine Arts, New York

2001
Recent Acquisitions, The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
Objective Color, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conneticut
Uncommon Threads, Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
Sonsbeek 9: Locus/Focus, Arnheim, The Netherlands
Untragbar: Mode als Skulpture, Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Cologne
About the Bayberry Bush, The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New York
Issue 17: World View, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston (traveling exhibition)
Skowhegan Faculty 2001, Colby College Art Museum, Waterville, Maine
The First 10 Years: Selected Works from the Collection, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
New Work: Recent Additions to the Collection, Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts
Brooklyn Collects, The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York
Selections from the Permanent Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami
Ellipsis, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York

2000
The Likeness of Being: Contemporary Self-Portraits by Sixty Women Artists, DC Moore Gallery, New York
Multiples, Galerie Bugdahn und Kaimer, Düsseldorf
Beauty Now, Haus der Kunst, Munich

1999
Textil, Nassauischer Kunstverein, Wiesbaden
Regarding Beauty, Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, D.C.
The Rubell Family Collection of Contemporary Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
The Body in Question, Speed Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky
School Reunion, Anthony Wilkinson Gallery, London
A Space to Grow, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
Almost Warm and Fuzzy; Childhood and Contemporary Art, Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines (traveling exhibition

1998
Masters of the Masters, Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio
L'entrelacement et l'enveloppe, La Villa du Parc, Annemasse, France
The Secret Life of Clothes, Artium Gallery, Fukuoka, Japan
Fashion Happening, Gallery K, Washington, D.C.
Fashioned, White Box, New York
Cathedral City, St. Ann's Church, Manchester, England
Pusan International Contemporary Art Festival, Pusan Metropolitan Art Museum, Pusan, South Korea
Seven Year Itch, Ambrosino Gallery, Miami
Douzieme Rencontres Video Art Plastique, Centre d'art contemporain de Basse-Normandie, Caen

1997
Thread, Christinerose Gallery, New York
Scene from Behind, Sarah Morthland Gallery, New York
Changing Spaces, The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia (traveling exhibition)
Angel, Angel, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria; Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague, Czech Republic
Photography, From the Beginning, or Almost, Robert Miller Gallery, New York
Art/Fashion, Guggenheim SoHo, New York
Fashion Moda, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland
Feminine Image, Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, New York
Ceramics, White Columns, New York
New York University Faculty Show, Washington Square East Gallery, New York
Hanging by a Thread, Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, New York
International Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, Turkey
Art on the Edge of Fashion, Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ
The Hirshhorn Collects: Recent Acquisitions, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.

1996
A Labor of Love, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
Handmade Readymades, Leubsdorf Art Gallery, Hunter College, City University of New York, New York
A Bare Wall!..., Michael Klein Gallery, New York
Black, White and Gray, Galerie Bugdahn und Kaimer, Düsseldorf
Bodyscape, Barbara Gross Galerie, Munich, Germany
Landscape Reclaimed, Aldrich Museum of Art, Ridgefield, Conneticut
Recent Sculpture, Galerie Bugdahn und Kaimer, Düsseldorf
Functionally Challenged, Ubu Gallery, New York
Biennale di Firenze: il tempo e la moda. Florence, Italy
Practicas Transgressivas: Women in Red, Galeria Luis Serpa, Lisbon, Portugal
Container '96: Art Across Oceans, Copenhagen, Denmark
L'art au Corps, le corps expose de Man Ray a nos jours, Mac Galeries contemporaines des Musées de Marseilles, Marseilles
Making Pictures: Women and Photography, 1975 - Now, Nicole Klagsbrun, New York and Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston
Millennium Eve Dress, The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia

1995
Cathy de Monchaux, Byron Kim, Beverly Semmes, Todd Gallery, London, England
Material Dreams, Takashimaya Gallery, New York
Object Lessons: Feminine Dialogues With the Surreal, Huntington Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston
Blue, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco
Mit sicherem Griff, Galerie Bugdahn und Kaimer, Düsseldorf
Universe of Meaning, Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, Brattleboro, Vermont
New York University 1995 Faculty Show, Apex Art, New York, NY
In Three Dimensions: Women Sculptors of the 90s, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, New York
Fashion Moda, Entwhistle, London
Currents 95: Familiar Places, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
This End Up, University of Wyoming Museum of Art, Laramie, Wyoming (travling exhibition)
Conceptual Textiles: Material Meanings, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, Wisconson
Blind Spot Exhibition, Soho Arts Festival, New York


1994
Bad Girls, Wright Art Gallery, U.C.L.A., Los Angeles and New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
Bespoke, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles
Skulptur, Galerie Bugdahn und Kaimer, Düsseldorf
From Beyond the Pale, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
Written/Spoken/Drawing in Lacanian Ink, Thread Waxing Space, New York

1993
Addressing the Body, Terrain Gallery, San Francisco; Patricia Shea Gallery, Santa Monica
Meddlesome and Mettlesome: Selections from the Collection of Robert J. Schiffler, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati
American Art Today: Clothing As Metaphor, Art Museum, Florida International University, Miami
Interzone, John Post Lee Gallery, New York
Mapping: An Index of Experience, Germans van Eck Gallery, New York
Contemporary Women Artists and the Issue of Identity: My/Self: Your/Other, Castle Gallery, College of New Rochelle, New Rochelle, New York
First Sightings, Denver Art Museum, Denver
Three Sculptors, Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo
Yale Collects Yale, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven
Extravagant: The Economy of Elegance, Russisches Kulturzentrum, Berlin
Big Girls, Janet Borden Inc., New York
Times: New Art from the USA, Anderson O'Day Gallery, London
Surface Tension, Michael Klein Inc., New York
Fall from Fashion, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Conneticut
The Rag Trade (Right Off the Rack), InterArt Center, New York
Image Makers, Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, New York
Empty Dress: Clothing as Surrogate in Recent Art, Independent Curators Inc. (traveling exhibition)
Kurswechsel, Michael Klein Inc. at Transart Exhibitions, Cologne

1992
Invitational, Stux Gallery, New York
In Praise of Folly, Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, Wisconson
Patently Missing, Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston
Susan Watkins Award Exhibition, New Langton Arts, San Francisco
Photoworks, Michael Klein Inc., New York
Pop Body, Sally Hawkins Gallery, New York
Installations and Constructions, Tavelli Williams Gallery, Aspen
Tennisport Arts Inaugural Exhibition, Tennisport Arts, Long Island City, New York

1991
Plastic Fantastic Lover (Object A), Blum Helman Warehouse, New York
Emerging Sculptors, Sculpture Center, New York
Ornament, John Post Lee Gallery, New York

1990
Drawings, Althea Viafora Gallery, New York

1989
Eccentric Natures, Art Awareness Gallery, Lexington, New York

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