PATRICK STRZELEC
| EDUCATION | |
| 1989 | MFA, Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ |
| 1979 | BFA, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL |
| TEACHING EXPERIENCE | |
| 2016 | Associate Professor of Sculpture, Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University New Brunswick N.J. |
| 2010-2016 | Assistant Professor of Sculpture, Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University,New Brunswick, NJ |
| 2009 | Adjunct Professor, Sculpture Department, Ramapo College of New Jersey, Ramapo, NJ |
| 1998-2004 | Rudolph Arheim Lecturer in Sculpture, Full Faculty, Visual and Environmental Studies Department, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA |
| 1996-1998 | Lecturer, Visual and Environmental Studies Department, Harvard University,Cambridge, MA |
| 1991-1996 | Instructor, Sculpture Department, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY |
| 1979 | Teaching Assistant, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL |
| OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE | |
| 1990-2002 | Technical Consultant, Joel Shapiro Inc., New York, NY |
| 1989-1991 | Supervisor, Instructor, Johnson Atelier Technical Institute of Sculpture, Mercerville, NJ |
| 1979-1988 | Head of Patination and Restoration, Johnson Atelier Technical Institute of Sculpture, Mercerville, NJ |
| 1980-1987 | Restoration Consultant, Malborough Gallery, New York, NY |
| SOLO EXHIBITIONS | |
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"Patrick Strzelec" ain't no body, Grossman Gallery, Lafayette College. PA. "Patrick Strzelec" maybe, maybe not, Garrision Arts Center, Garrison N.Y. "Patrick Strzelec" Terrace Project, Princeton Council of the Arts, Princeton N.J. "Patrick Strzelec" Garth Greenan Gallery New York, NY |
| 2015 | "Patrick Strzelec" Garth Greenan Gallery, New York, NY |
| 2014 | Mariboe Gallery, The Peddie School, Hightstown, NJ |
| 2014 | "no-gotiation" Trout Gallery, Emil R. Weiss Center for the Arts, Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA |
| 2013 | "aangelegenheid," European Ceramics Work Center (EKWC), Hertogenbosch, Netherlands |
| 2012 | "Sculpture," Gary Snyder/Garth Greenan Gallery, New York, NY |
| 2012 | "Ball Joint," Grounds for Sculpture, Mercerville, New Jersey |
| 2007 | "Patrick Strzelec," Gallerie Rackey, Bad Honnef, Germany |
| 2006 | "Distanzdialog," Michael Schultz Contemporary, Berlin, Germany |
| 2006 | "16 drawings and a sculpture," OH&T Gallery, Boston, MA |
| 2004 | "180 drawings and a dunce cap," OH&T Gallery, Boston, MA |
| 2002 | "Objects of," OH&T Gallery, Boston, MA |
| 2001 | "Patrick Strzelec, New Work," Gary Snyder Fine Art, New York, NY |
| 2001 | "Patrick Strzelec," Jay Grimm Gallery, New York, NY |
| 2000 | "Sculpture," Jay Grimm Gallery, New York, NY |
| 1997 | "Drawings," University of North Carolina, Charlotte, NC |
| 1995 | "Patrick Strzelec," The Center for the Visual Arts at the Toledo Museum of Fine Art, Toledo, OH |
| 1992 | "New Sculpture," Barbara Toll Fine Arts, New York, NY |
| 1991 | "Sculpture," Barbara Toll Fine Arts, New York, NY |
| 1990 | "Patrick Strzelec," Barbara Toll Fine Arts, New York, NY |
| 1990 | American Academy in Rome, Rome, Italy |
| 1988 | Munson Williams Proctor Museum, Utica, NY |
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GROUP EXHIBITIONS |
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2022 2109 2019 2016 |
"On Jupiter" Works from The Beth Rubin DeWoody Collection, Olin Galleries, Roanoke College,Virginia Michael Schultz Gallery, Moonlight, Mund Hotel, Berlin Germany Beth DeWoody Inaugural Exhibition, The Bunker, West Palm Beach. Fl. American Academy of Arts and Letters Invitional Exhibition , New York NY |
| 2014 | Full House, Garth Greenan Gallery, New York, NY |
| 2013 | Miami Project, Garth Greenan Gallery, Miami, FL |
| 2012 | Chicago Expo for Contemporary Art, Garth Greenan Gallery, Chicago, IL Miami Basel, Gary Snyder/Garth Greenan Gallery, Miami, FL schwarz/weib trifft farbe, Cas/Salzburg Art Space, Austria Armory Show, New York, NY Welcome Back, Rutgers Faculty & Graduate Students. Rutgers, New Brunswick |
| 2011 | "Put Up or Shut UP," New York Academy of Art, New York, NY |
| 2009 | "Back to Front," OH&T Gallery, Boston, MA |
| 2008 | Untitled, OH&T Gallery, Boston, MA "Group," Michael Schultz Gallery, Berlin, Germany |
| 2007 | Summer Show, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY |
| 2005 | "Art Köln," Michael Schultz Gallery, Köln, Germany |
| 2004 | "Black/white and in between," OH&T Gallery, Boston, MA |
| 2003 | "Uptown/Downtown," JG/Contemporary, New York, NY "Vessels," Jane Hartsook Gallery, Greenwich House, New York, NY "Sculpture Project," Bristol-Meyers Squibb, New Brunswick, NJ |
| 2002 | "VES @ work," Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA "Four Gallery Artists," JG Contemporary/James Graham & Sons, New York, NY "Affinities," Gary Snyder Fine Art, New York, NY "Process on Paper," OH&T Gallery, Boston, MA |
| 2001 | "Off the Wall, Artists Affiliated with Rutgers University" Bristol-Meyers Squibb Gallery, Princeton, NJ |
| 2000 | "Drawings and Photos," Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, NY Invitational Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, American Academy of Arts & Letters, New York, NY "Inside/Outside," Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA |
| 1998 | "Biennial '98," Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE "Cast in Iron," Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton, NJ |
| 1997 | "Naturalism," Gary Snyder Fine Art, New York, NY "Artists at Harvard," Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA Grammercy International Exhibition, Grammercy Park, New York, NY "Six Contemporary Artists," Snyder Fine Art, New York, NY |
| 1996 | "Affinities," Snyder Fine Art, New York, NY "Segal, Edwards, Strzelec, Lobe, Shaun, Moore," Ramapo College Museum, Ramapo, NJ |
| 1995 | "Sculptural Cross Section," Hunterdon Art Center, Clinton, NJ |
| 1994 | Abington Art Center, 1994 Sculpture Series, Abington, PA |
| 1993 | Master Prints from the Rutgers Center for Innovative Printmaking, NoyesMuseum,Oceanville, NJ "Gallery Artists," Barbara Toll Fine Arts, New York, NY "Prints," Rosemont College, Philadelphia, PA "Scaled Down," Freedman Gallery, Albright College Center for the Arts, Reading, PA "Form and Illusion," Hicks Art Center, Newtown, PA "The Strauss Collection," Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster, PA |
| 1991 | The James Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, PA "Group Show," Barbara Toll Fine Arts, New York, NY Lawrence Oliver Gallery, Philadelphia, PA |
| 1990 | "Rome Prize Show," American Academy in Rome, Rome, Italy |
| 1989 | "Bella Roma," American Academy in Rome, Rome, Italy T.A.W.A. New Jersey Artists, Trenton, NJ Noyes Museum, Oceanville, NJ |
| 1988 | "Group Show," Zimmerli Museum, New Brunswick, NJ Princeton Gallery of Fine Art, Princeton, NJ "New Jersey Annual," Morris Museum, Morristown, NJ "Summer Show," Lawrence Oliver Gallery, Philadelphia, PA "National Iron," Birmingham Museum, Birmingham, AL "Lillian Ball, Patrick Strzelec & Steve Wood," Barbara Toll Fine Arts, New York, NY "New Jersey Artists," Princeton Gallery of Fine Art, Princeton, NJ |
| 1987 | "Sculpture," Douglas Campus, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ "New Jersey Artists," West New Jersey Arts Center, Trenton, NJ Trenton City Museum, Trenton, NJ |
| 1986 | Carnegie Center, Princeton, NJ "33rd Juried Exhibition," Hunterdon Art Center, Clinton, NJ Perkins Art Center, Moorestown, NJ "Sculpture at Ramapo," Ramapo Galleries, Mahwah, NJ |
| 1985 | Susanne Hillberry Gallery, Birmingham, MI "New Talent, New Jersey," Princeton Gallery of Fine Art, Princeton, NJ "Invitational Exhibition," Holland, MI |
| 1984 | "Recent Sculpture," New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ "Group Show," H.F. Manes Gallery, New York, NY "Original Cast," Warner Communications, New York, NY |
| 1983 | "Group Show," 14 Sculptors, New York, NY |
| 1982 | Potsdam State University, Utica, NY "Ellarslie Open," Trenton Museum, Trenton, NJ Hunterdon Art Gallery, Clinton, NJ |
| 1981 | Grace Gallery, New York, NY "22nd Annual Invitational Art Exhibit," Union, NJ Towson State Gallery, Towson, MD Canal House Gallery, Georgetown, Washington, DC |
| 1980 | "21st Annual Invitational Art Exhibit," Union, NJ Atelier Group Show, Princeton, NJ |
| 1979 | "Traveling Sculpture Show - Midwest Sculptors - Metal Sculptures from Southern Illinois University," Carbondale, IL Richert Ziebolt Trust Award Exhibition, Carbondale, IL |
| 1978 | "Regional Mid-state Show," Evansville, IN |
| PUBLICATIONS | |
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2019 2016 |
60th anniversity Issue "Ambit" (Edition 237) Olivia Bax, Ambit, Cover and interview,London England, (Edition 223) |
| 2015 | Fichner-Rathus, Lois, "Foundations of Art and Design," Cengage Learning Inc., Nelson EDUCATION LTD.,ISBN-13:9781285456546. [Referenced Artist, p. 223] |
| 2014 |
Ana Cardeira Mafalda, Rodrigo Bettencourt da Câmara, Patrick Strzelec, Nick Schiavon, José Mirão, António Candeias, Maria Luísa Carvalho and Marta Manso; "White Spots on Smoke Rings by Bruce Nauman: A Case Study On Contemporary Art Conservation Using Microanalytical Techniques," Microscopy and Microanalysis, Volume 21/ Issue01/ February 2015, pp 15 - 19. |
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2013 2012 |
Published sculpture "Expo Chicago" Chicago Illionis Published Drawings, Harvard Review, Number 41. |
| REVIEWS AND CATALOGUES | |
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2022 2019 2016 |
"On Jupiter" (exhibition catalogue) 60th anniversity Issue "Ambit" (Edition 237) London, England Raina Mehler Sculpture "NewYork- Review Patrick Strzelec Garth Greenan Gallery" (May Vol.35) |
| 2015 | Mergel, Jen, "Patrick Strzelec," (exhibition catalogue) Yau, John, "Patrick Strzelec, It is What it isn’t," Hyperallergic ( September 25, 2015) Gordon, William, "Public to Choose Sculpture for Easton’s Karl Stirner Arts Trail," The Morning Call (August 1, 2015) |
| 2014 | Sim, Julius, "A Simpler Way of Looking at Art," Peddie News (October 15, 2014) Bitts-Jackson, MaryAlice, "Art Can Do That," Dickinson Magazine News (April 3, 2014) Yau, John, "Patrick Strzelec’s Sculptures Are In The Middle of an ImprobableThought," Hyperallergic, (June 2014) |
| 2013 | Moore, Jenny, "Patrick Strzelec," (exhibition catalogue) Aubrey, Dan, "Myth and Legend Run Wild in GFS Exhibits," U.S.1 (January 9, 2013) |
| 2007 | "Sculpturen Kombinient," Anzeiger Koln (March 19, 2007) |
| 2006 | Temin, Christine, "Noodling Around", Boston Globe (September 21, 2006) Frank, Pamela, ""Distanzdialog," (exhibition catalogue) Krogerman, Bettina, "Distanzdialog," Die Welt, (June 2006) |
| 2005 | Summers, Pat, "Sculpture Project," Sculpture, (March 2005) |
| 2002 | Temin, Christine, "VES @ work," Boston Sunday Globe, (October 27, 2002) Millis, Christopher, "Process on Paper," The Boston Phoenix, (January 10, 2002) |
| 2001 | "Patrick Strzelec Sculpture," in Art Reviews, The New Yorker, (December 10, 2001) |
| 2000 | Heartney, Eleanor, "Patrick Strzelec at Jay Grimm," in Art in America, (July 2000) Johnson, Ken, "Patrick Strzelec Sculpture," New York Times, (2000) "Patrick Strzelec Sculpture," in Art Reviews, The New Yorker, (March 2000) Johnson, Ken, Review/Art, "American Academy of Arts & Letters," New York Times, (2000) |
| 1999 | Chase, Joseph P., "VES Visitors," The Harvard Crimson (May 17, 1999) |
| 1997 | Burnham, Laura E., The Garden Matrix, (exhibition catalog) |
| 1996 | Wilkin, Karen, "Contemporary and Historical Art," Partisan Review, (December 1996) Smith, Roberta, "Across the Generations, Side by Side, Review of ‘Affinities’ Show at Snyder Fine Art," New York Times, (August 2, 1996) Watkins, Eileen, "Sculpture New Jersey," Star Ledger, (September 27, 1996) Gear, Josephine, Sculpture New Jersey, (exhibition catalog) |
| 1995 | Meyerowitz, Jacob, "Sculpture Cross Sections," Express Times, (April 1995) Watkins, Eileen, "True Partnerships," Sunday Star Ledger, (April 30, 1995) |
| 1994 | Donohoe, Victoria, "Garden Matrix," Philadelphia Inquirer, (July 3, 1994) |
| 1993 | Fox, Marilyn J., "Scaled Down," Times, (June 20, 1993) |
| 1992 | The New Yorker, Art Review, (March 1, 1992) |
| 1991 | Kimmelman, Michael, Review/Art, New York Times, (March 22, 1991) Heartney, Eleanor, Sculpture from the Strauss Collection, (exhibition catalog) |
| 1989 | New Jersey State Council on the Arts (exhibition catalog), (September 1989) |
| 1988 | Connors, Joseph, American Academy in Rome (exhibition catalog) |
| PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES | |
| Upcoming | Visiting Artist, Akademie der Bildenden Künste München, Germany |
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2019 2014
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Guest Spaeker "Interdisplinary Dimensionalism" Zimmerli Museum, New Brunswick New Jersey Lead Panelist in Panel Discussion, "The Future of Art Programs in Academia," Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton, NJ, October 29, 2014 |
| 2013 | Artist Residency, European Ceramics Work Center (EKWC), Hertogenbosch, Netherlands (September – November 2013) Visiting Artist, American Academy in Rome, Rome, Italy |
| 2012 | Visiting Artist, Akademie der Bildenden Künste München, Germany Visiting Artist Lecturer, College of Visual & Performing Arts, University of Toledo, Toledo, OH |
| 1995 | Visiting Artist Lecturer, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA |
| 1993 | Visiting Lecturer, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, NC |
| 1992 | Artist in Residence, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL Artist in Residence, Printmaking Center, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ |
| 1991 | Artist in Residence, Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH Visiting Artist, University of Connecticut, Hartford, CT Lecturer, Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster, PA |
| 1990 | Visiting Artist, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA |
| 1989 | Visiting Artist and Lecturer, Tyler School of Art, Rome, Italy |
| 1987 | Visiting Artist, Murray State University, Murray, KY |
| 1986 | Visiting Lecturer at the Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH |
| 1985 | Visiting Artist, Munson Williams Proctor Museum of Art, Utica, NY |
| 1992 | Lecturer and Demonstrator of Patination for Nonferrous Metal; 13th International Sculpture Conference, Oakland, CA |
| 1980 | Demonstration in Patination, International Sculpture Conference, Washington, DC [Restored eight Rodin sculptures.] |
| 1975-78 | Foundry Technician, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL |
| AWARDS | |
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Educator of the year Award, International Sculpture Center, Hamilton Township, N.J. American Academy in Rome, Affiliate Fellow, Rome Italy Chancelor Scholar Award, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey Presidential Award for Teaching Excellence, Rutgers University, New Brinswick, New Jersey |
| 2013 | Artist Residency Award, European Ceramics Work Center (EKWC), Hertogenbosch, Netherlands |
| 2003 | Cill Rialaig Project, Ballenskillings, Ireland |
| 1990-91 | John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship Award, Sculpture |
| 1988-89 | Rome Prize, American Academy in Rome, Rome, Italy, Awarded in Sculpture |
| 1988 | National Endowment for the Arts Award, Sculpture New Jersey State Council of the Arts, Sculpture |
| 1985 | New Jersey State Council of the Arts, Sculpture |
| 1979 | Richert Ziebolt Trust Award Johnson Foundation Grant |
| COMMISSIONS | |
| 2017 | Einstein's Brain, Princeton, New Jersey |
| 2014 | Dickinson College, Weiss Center of the Arts, Carlisle, PA |
| 2012 | MIMA, New York, NY |
| 2011 | Hyatt Hotel, New York, NY |
| 2008 | Michael Schultz, Berlin, Germany |
| 2007 | Bella Condominiums, Atlantic City, NJ |
| 2006 | Private Collection, Garrison, NY |
| 2002 | Private Residence, Wellesley, MA |
| 1999 | J. Lane, Oakland, CA |
| 1996 | Buckhorn, Pound Ridge, NY |
| 1995 | United States Holocaust Museum, Washington, DC Robert & Annemarie Shapiro Collection, Greenwich, CT |
| 1994 | Private Residence, Fisher Island, NY |
| 1993 | Rutgers University, Busch Campus, New Brunswick, NJ |
| OUTDOOR INSTALLATIONS | |
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2018 2015 |
Bucks County Community College, Newtown , PA Karl Stirner Arts Trail, Easton, PA |
| 2012 | Grounds for Sculpture, Mercerville, NJ |
| 2003-2005 | Bristol-Meyers Squibb, New Brunswick, NJ |
| 1991-2002 | Toledo Museum, Toledo, OH Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT |
| 1994-1997 | Abington Art Center, Abington, PA |
| COLLECTIONS | |
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Zimmerli Museum, New Brunswick New Jersey Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT Toledo Museum, Toledo, OH Newark Museum, Newark, NJ Noyes Museum, Oceanville, NJ Buckhorn, Pound Ridge, NY Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ Joan Sonnabend, Boston, MA Vera List Collection, New York, NY Johnson & Johnson, New Brunswick, NJ Trenton Museum, Trenton, NJ Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ Bristol-Meyers Squibb, Princeton, NJ Camellia Genovese, Boston, MA Iwan Steichberger, Boston, MA Linda Daitz, New York, NY Leda Hornick Collection, New York, NY Edward R. Downe, Jr. Collection, New York, NY Barbara Toll, New York, NY Robert and Anne Marie Shapiro, Greenwich, CT Marc & Livia Strauss Collection, Chappaqua, NY The Mallin Collection, Pound Ridge, NY Joel Shapiro, Ellen Phelan, New York, NY Jane Vorhees, Zimmerli Museum, New Brunswick, NJ Judith and David Brodsky, Princeton, NJ Jeff Lane, Oakland, CA Lynn and Barbara Wickwire, Boston, MA Barbara Plumeri, Boston, MA Ned Richardson, Boston, MA Mark and Barbara Todd, Chicago, IL Dr. Michael Alpert, Garrison, NY Dr. Ira Gouterman, Carversville, PA Lee Balter, Garrison, NY Gary Snyder, New York, NY Dr. Steven and Kate Somers Beth Rudin DeWoody Garth Greenan and Bryan Davidson Blue Tom Papa James Keith (JK) Brown Eric Diefenbach |
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