MARTHA WALKER

 

Sculpture
About the Artist

 

EDUCATION

Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York
1975 BFA, Fine Arts
Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York
2001 Masters in Art Education, Honors

EXHIBITIONS (selected)

2010 Solo Exhibition Kouros Gallery 23 East 73rd Street, 1st Floor, New York, New York
2009 Toren Exhibition, Toren Exhibition, 150 Myrtle Avenue, Brooklyn, New York. Curated Show, six sculptures
2009 UBS Art Gallery, in conjunction with the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum: A
Parallel Presence: National Association of Women Artists, 1889-2009. New York, New York
2009 Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, A Parallel Presence: : National Association of Women Artists, 1889-2009. Rutgers University, New Jersey
2008 Kouros Sculpture Center, Installed Passion Unfurled and Tempest, Ridgefield, Connecticut
2008 Broadfoot & Broadfoot, 'Tween Woods and Water New York, New York
2008 Denise Bibro Fine Art, Winter Salon, Gallery and Invited Artists, New York, New York
2007 440 Gallery, Holiday Show , Brooklyn, New York
2007 440 Gallery, Undercurrents, Solo Exhibition Brooklyn, New York
2007 Saks Fifth Avenue, Windows on 5th, New York, New York
2007 Vermont Studio Center, 2 week residency
2007 440 Gallery, Process, Group Show, Brooklyn, New York
2007 National Association of Women Artists, Group Show
2007 Belskie Museum, Closter, New Jersey, Moving Forward
2006 Lyceum Theater, Habitat
2006 Gowanus Artists Studio Tour, Brooklyn, New York
2006 Denise Bibro Fine Art, Chelsea New York
2006 Smithtown Township Arts Council, Mills Pond Gallery, Art of Music
2006 Monster Gallery and Lyceum Theater, Womanhouse Too!
2006 Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition, Pier Show, Transformations Show
2006 440 Gallery Group Show, Brooklyn, New York
2006 Connections, Studio Montclair's 2006 National Juried Exhibition William Patterson University, Wayne, NJ
2006 Liberty Site Group Show, Brooklyn, New York
2005 440 Gallery, Polymorphism in Steel Solo Exhibition, Brooklyn, New York
2005 440 Gallery Group Exhibition, Brooklyn, New York
2004 Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition, Pier Show, Water Show, and Solo Works Exhibitions.
2004 Gowanus Arts Studio Tour, Brooklyn, New York
2003 Gowanus Arts Studio Tour, Brooklyn, New York
2003 Columbia County Artswalk, Hudson, N.Y.
2001 Collaborative Concepts Exhibition, Beacon, New York.

ACHIEVEMENTS (selected)

2009 Installed End Justifies the Means, Justifies the End Pratt Institute Campus
2009 Solo Exhibition, Expanding Universe at the Phillips Museum, Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
2008 Birth and Venus sold and installed at the Boca Beach Resort & Club, Boca Raton, Fla.
2007 Works selected by television show, “Gossip Girls” for set props in an art gallery setting
2007 Solo show reviewed by Olympia Lambert, Oly's Musings:
http://lamgelinaoly.blogspot.com/ Martha Walker at 440 Gallery, Sunday October 7th, 2007
2007 Featured on Long Island News Channel 12, Chauncey Howell interview
2007 Aphrodite acquired by the Jane Vorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick , New Jersey.
2006 Interviewed by Manhattan Arts International, also featured as the Artist of the week.
2006 Interviewed by MyArtSpace.
2006 Installed Birth, a seven foot high sculpture on the campus of Pratt Institute.
2001 Named “New Yorker of the Week” by New York 1 News
A volunteer collaboration project which I coordinated and intitiated with New York City
Elementary schools, entitled, New York City's Kids Imagine World Peace. Can You?
The projects parameters consisted of a giant banner, made up of individually designed
sections, and composed of visual symbols and words proclaiming a vision of world
peace. Installed at Brooklyn Borough Hall, Brooklyn, NY.

ORGANIZATIONS

Sculptors Guild, International Sculpture Center, National Association of Women Artists,
Sculptor.org


COLLECTIONS (selected)

Zimmerli Art Museum
Anne Frank Center, USA
Kouros Sculpture Center
Boca Beach Club & Resort
Morgan Stanley Corporation
Pratt Institute