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Contact
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P.O. Box 1907
Long Island City, New York 11101
telephone: 718 456-2053
mobile: 646 249-5937
E-mail: annartistmccoy@earthlink.net
Site: www.annmccoy.com |
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| 1946 Born in Boulder, Colorado |
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Education
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| 1972
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M.A.,
University of California at Los Angeles |
| 1969 |
B.F.A.,
University of Colorado at Boulder |
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Awards and Grants  |
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| 2005 |
Asian Cultural Council |
| 2003 |
Trust for Mutual Understanding |
| 2002 |
Trust for Mutual Understanding |
| 1998 |
The Pollock Krasner Award |
| 1996 |
The Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation |
| 1993 |
The Pollock Krasner Award |
| 1990 |
The Alice Baber Award |
| 1989 |
Award in the Visual Arts
Prix de Rome
National Endowment for the Arts
The E. D. Foundation |
| 1978 |
National Endowment for the Arts |
| 1977 |
Berliner Kunstlerprogramm, D.A.A.D. |
| 1976 |
Norman Wait Harris Award, The Art Institute of Chicago |
| 1972 |
Contemporary Arts Council, New Talent Award
Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
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Selected Public Collections  |
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Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois
Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, Ohio
Dallas Art Museum, Texas
Des Moines Art Center, Iowa
Hirshorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
Honolulu Academy of Arts, Hawaii
Hawaii State Collection
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
The Lannan Foundation, Marina Del Ray, California
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California
The Miami Art Museum
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, N.Y.
The National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Roy L. Neuberger Museum, Purchase, New York
The Orlando Museum of Art, Florida
New Orleans Museum of Art, Louisiana
Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, California
Powis Art Gallery, Sidney, Australia
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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Selected One
Person Exhibitions  |
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The Michael S. Currier Center, Putney Vermont |
| 2008 |
Galerie Zero, Berlin
Galerie Philippe Lawson, Paris
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| 2007 |
Cosm/gallery, New York |
| 2005 |
KHOJ, New Delhi, India |
| 2004 |
St. Joseph College, West Hartford
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| 2003 |
The Majdanek Museum, Lublin, Poland |
| 1998
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Central
Fine Arts, New York |
| 1991 |
The
Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii |
| 1990
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Arnold
Herstand Gallery, New York |
| 1988 |
A.C.A.
Contemporary, New York |
| 1985 |
Brooke
Alexander, Inc., New York |
| 1984
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Brooke Alexander Inc., New
York
Greenville Museum of Art,
Greenville, South Carolina |
| 1983
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Ann McCoy”, Fine Arts Center, S.U.N.Y., Purchase, New York |
| 1982
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Brooke Alexander Gallery, New York |
| 1981
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Brooke Alexander Gallery, New York
“Ann McCoy”, the Augen Gallery, Portland, Oregon |
| 1979 |
“The Red Sea”, Brooke Alexander Gallery, New York
“The Night Sea Journey”, Portland Center for the Visual Arts, Portland Oregon
“The Red Sea and the Night Sea”, The Arts Club, Chicago
The Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles |
| 1978
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Chandler
Coventry Gallery, Paddington, Australia
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| 1977
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"The
Red Sea", Wallraf-Richartz Museum/ Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany |
| 1976
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"Ann
McCoy: Underwater Drawings", Margo Levin Gallery, Los Angeles |
| 1975
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"Ann McCoy: Large Scale Drawings and Lithographs", Institute
of Contemporary Art, Boston |
| 1974 |
Fourcade-Droll,
Inc., New York |
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Selected
Group Exhibitions  |
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| 2009 |
"Cryptorial", Francis Lewis Gallery, Flushing |
| 2007 |
"Woman Artists of Southern California Then & Now", Track 16 Gallery, Santa Monica |
| 2006 |
"Omaggio a Louise Bourgeois", Museo communale d'arte moderna di Ascona, Switzerland |
| 2002 |
“Flat Works by Sculptors”, Bennington College, Vermont |
| 1997
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"A
Natural Selection", Z Gallery, New York
"Obsessed by Magic", A.C.A. Gallery, New York |
| 1996
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"Views
from a Golden Hill", The Equitable Gallery, New York
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| 1995
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"Critters
II", Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, Iowa
"New Acquisitions", New Orleans Musuem of Art, Lousiana |
| 1993
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Gutierrez Fine Arts, Maimi, Florida
"Sanctuaries: Recovering the Holy in Contemporary Art", Museum of
Contemporary Religious Art, St. Louis University, Missouri
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| 1989
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"Awards in the Visual Arts", High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Exhibition
traveled to: La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, Henry Gallery, Seatle,
Washington
"The Boat Show: Fantastic Vessels, Fictional Voyages", Smithsonian
Institution, National Museum of American Art, Renwick Gallery, Washington,
D.C.
"Animals in Art", Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, New York |
| 1986
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"Images
of the Unknown", P.S.1, The Institute for Art and Urban Resources,
New York
"Second Sight", San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
"Art and Alchemy", Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
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| 1983
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"Young
Talent awards: 1968-1983", Los Angeles County Art Museum, California
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| 1982
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"Still Modern After All These Years", The Crysler Museum, Norfolk,
Virginia
"Selections from the Collection", Neuberger Museum, Purchase, New
York |
| 1981
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"Paintings", Brooke Alexander, Inc., New York
Southern California Artists: 1940-1980, Laguna Beach Museum of Art,
California |
| 1980
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"Painting
and Sculpture Today", Indianapolis Museum of Art. Exhibition traveled:
Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, Ohio
"On Paper", Institute of /Contemporary Art, Virginia Musuem of Fine
Arts, Richmond, Virginia
"New York/New York", Delehanty, Inc. New York
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| 1979
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"Decade in Review" , Whi tney Museum of American Art, New York |
| 1978
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"The Thirty First Annual Exhibition", The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn,
New York
"Institute of Contemporary Art, (Prints)", University of Pennsylvania,
Philadelphia |
| 1976
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"America
1976", Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Exhibition traveled:
Wadsworth |
| 1975 |
"Both
Kinds, Contemporary Art from Los Angeles", University Art Museum,
University of California at Berkeley |
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"Choice Dealers- Dealer's Choice", The New York Cultural Center, New
York
"Painting and Sculpture Today", Indianapolis Museum of Art. Exhibition
traveled: The Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, Ohio. |
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1973 |
“”Four Young American Artists”, Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, Ohio
“Whitney Biannual”, New York
“Six Visions”, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia |
| 1972 |
"15
Young American Artists", Pasadena Art Museum, California
"Los Angeles 1972", Sidney Janis Gallery, New York |
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Teaching, Lecture, and Curatorial Experience  |
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2001-2 Curated an exhibition of four photographers called “The ETHERS', at the Trynitarska Tower Museum of Contemporary Spiritual Art, in Lublin, Poland.
2002, Gave a key note lecture at Bennington College entitled: Art History and the History of Consciousness .
1980-2000, Barnard College, Visiting Artist and Associate, taught a drawing class and seminar working in the collections of the museums of New York City. Class included lectures on Native American, Egyptian, African, contemporary, Asian and Greco-Roman art. Lectures from different tribes were guest teachers. The class was featured in the first ten minutes of the award winning film Keep the River on Your Right; A Modern Cannibal Tale . The film was shown at the Museum of Modern Art and won the Amsterdam Film Festival, the Hamptons Film Festival and the Los Angeles New Spirit Award.
1978-1997, School of Visual Arts, taught painting, drawing, and color theory
1980-1982, University of Pennsylvania Graduate School, Visiting Artist, taught graduate level painting
1975-1976, Claremont Graduate School, Associate Professor, taught aesthetics seminar to graduate students in Fine Arts Department.
1974-1975, University of California at La Jolla, Visiting Artist, taught aesthetics and theory seminar to students in Fine Arts Department.
1973-1974, Art Center School of Design,Los Angeles, Instructor, taught painting and color theory
1972-1973, University of California at San Bernardino, Instructor of Painting, taught foundation level painting. |
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Scenic Design and Projection Work:  |
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2009
IMAGINE, A Tribute to John Lennon, National Dance Institute , La Guardia High School, production designer and projection designer.
IMAGINE, A Tribute to John Lennon, Hoffman Auditorium in the Bruyette Anthenaeum, Hartford, CT, production designer and projection designer.
2008
Mother Russia, Carnegie Hall, projection design, (there was no designer).
Volando a Mexico, National Dance Institute Event of the Year, La Guardia High School, scenic designer, projection designer, and charge.
Frieda and Diego, Hoffman Auditorium in the Bruyette Anthenaeum, Hartford, CT, production designer, projection designer.
2007
Post Cards from Patou, National Dance Institute Event of the Year, scenic designer, projection designer, scenic artist.
Africa, Hoffman Auditorium in the Bruyette Anthenaeum, Hartford, CT., scenic designer, costume designer, projection designer.
2006
A Mid Summer Night’s Dream, La Guardia High School, National
Dance Institute, scenic design with Leo B. Meyer, Gobo design.
A Celebration of Literature, Hoffman Auditorium in the Bruyette Anthenaeum, Hartford, scenic design, lighting design, costumes and
props.
2005
The Death and Transformation of the Monkey King, KHOJ, New Delhi,
an architectural installation using projection.
2003
Conversations with Angels, Majdanek Museum, Poland. a projection piece using 84 projectors on scrims.
2001
Romeo and Juliet, National Dance Institute, LaGuardia High School, scenic designer along with Robert Mitchell, gobo design.
1999
Event of the Year, National Dance Institute, Danny Kaye Theater, Production designer, scenic painter for African set.
1994
Rosebud’s Song, National Dance Institute, Madison Square Garden , designer along with Robert Mitchell, designed projections and lighting templates.
1992
Particles Collide, University of Austin, Texas, production designer, and scenic painter |
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Writing By The Artist:  |
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“Alchemy is not a lost art but is alive and well in the dreams of modern man”, Edinburgh International (exhibition catalogue),Edinburgh Royal Scottish Academy, December, 1897
“Alice Baber: Light as Subject”, Art International, Vol. XXIV, Nos. 1-2, September-October 1980, p. 135
“Ann McCoy”, Second Sight: Biennial IV, Sam Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1986
“The Critic and the Hare: Meditations of the Death of my Rabbit”, Ann McCoy (exhibition catalogue) , New York: A.C.A. Contemporary, l988
“The Daemon and the Night Sea”, Art International , Vol. XXIV, NOS. 3-4. November- December l980, p. 113
“Maura Sheehan's Urban Artifacts”, Arts , November l985, pp. 60-61
‘Meditations on the Red Mass”, BOMB , no. XIV, Winter 1986, pp. 38-41
“The Red Sea-Das Rote Meer” (exhibition catalogue) , Cologne: Museum Ludwig (in conjunction with Berliner Kunstlerprogramm's D.A.A.D.) 1977, pp. 4-16
“The Red sea and the Night Sea” (exhibition catalogue) , Chicago: The Arts Club of Chicago, 1979
“The Temple of Isis”, Ann McCoy, (exhibition catalogue), New York: A.C.A. Contemporary, 1988
“Alchemy and Suffering”, Ann McCoy, New Observations , #84, July 1, l991, p. 18
“Puella Aeterna, Crone Nevah!”, Crone Chronicles , Summer Solstice 1993, # 16, , pp. 13-14
“The Critic and the Hare: Meditations on the Death of My Rabbit”, MEANING #6 , November, l989, p. 34
“Overtime: A Forum on Art Making”, MEANING # 10 , November, 1991, p. 13 M/E/A/N/I/N/G, An Anthology of Artist's Writings, Theory and Criticism, Susan Bee and Mira Schor , editors, Duke University Press, Durham and London 2000, pp. 241-242, 357-359,
“Something About Mary, Memories of Mary Bancroft”, SPRING 67 , Woodstock, Connecticut, 2000, pp. 130-136
“Somewhere in My Heart: Rememberances of C.A. Meier”, SPRING 68 , Woodstock, Connecticut, 2001.
“Monica Serra, the Shadow and the Caged Bird”, SPRING 69 , Woodstock, Connecticut
"The Ethereal Forces", Wystawa prezentowana w Muzeum Archidiecezjalnym Sztuki Religijne w Lublinie, 2003, exhibition calalog.
"Mirror into Forgiveness". JAIN SPIRIT , December 2003- February 2004, pp. 36-37 |
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