RESUME

Fellowships, Residencies and Grants:

2024: Queens Arts Fund, Literary Project Grant

2022: Puffin Foundation Grant

Queens Arts Fund, Artist Project Grant

Consulate General of Spain, "Mixtures" artist collaboration grant

2021-2022: ProjectArt artist residency

2021: NYC Art Corps grant

2020: Queens Arts Council, Su Casa artist residency

2019: Queens Arts Fund, Artist Project Grant

Queens Arts Council, Su Casa artist residency

2018: Puffin Foundation Grant

2016: SabinARTi Residency, Casaporta, Italy

2014: Art-doc residency, Puicheric, France

2012: MNKK Art Residency, Rebild 2012, Denmark

2010: Canserrat Artist Residency with stipend award, El Bruc, Spain

2008: BaZtille Guest Studio, Zoetermeer, Netherlands, artist residency

2007: Puffin Foundation Grant

2006: Nelimarkka Museum, Alajarvi, Finland, artist residency

2005: Contemporary Artists Center, N. Adams MA, residency merit award

2004: Dodge Fellowship to the Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT

2002: Frans Masereel Center, Kasterlee, Belgium, artist residency

1999: Fellowship, NJ State Council on the Arts

Selected Solo Exhibitions:

2019: The Watson Center for International and Public Affairs, Brown University, Providence, RI, “Art for the Body Politic”

LaGuardia Community College, Long Island City, NY, “Time to Leave”

Latimer House Museum, Flushing, NY, “Time to Leave”

York College, CUNY, Jamaica, NY, “Art for the Body Politic”

2016: Associazione Culturale SabinARTi, Casaprota, Italy: "Casaprota Notebooks"

2014: Doc-art, Puicheric, France, “Framing the Medieval World”
2011: Orbit 1 Gallery, Paul Robeson Center, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ, “Objects of Memory” 2010: Chashama266, New York City, “Memory Maps”

2009: Annunciation Center, College of St. Elizabeth, Morristown, NJ, “Aileen Bassis: Holocaust Books”

2008: Ateliers BaZtille, Zoetermeer, Netherlands

2007: Fox Art Gallery, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, “Holocaust Stories”

2006: Griffin Gallery, Madison, NJ “Holocaust Stories”

2002: Ceres Project Room, New York, NY: "The Aftermath (9/11)"

Selected Group Exhibitions:

2024: Puffin Cultural Forum, Teaneck, NJ, "Democracy, 2024"

LIC-Artists, The Factory Gallery, NYC, "LIC-A Member Summer Showcase II"

University of the Arts Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, "Books as Life"

LIC-Artists, The Factory Gallery, NYC, "Drawing Beyond the Surface"

2023: Reece Museum, East TN State University, "11th annual international 2023 FL3TCH3R Exhibit: Social and Politically Engaged Art"

Westbeth Gallery, NYC, "Paroxysm"

University Libraries, U. of SD, Vermilion, “Bound and Unbound VII”

2022: Local Project, LIC, NY, "I'm From"

Newark Museum of Art, NJ, "Artful Healing"

Parkway Central Library, Philadelphia, PA, "Searching for a New Normal"

Koslowe Gallery, Westchester Jewish Center, Mamoroneck, NY, "Mayim Chayim: A Watershed"

Bethany Arts Community, Ossining, NY, "Impact 2022: Art That Bears Witness"

Bronx Art Space, NYC, "Giving Light: An Arts for Social Justice Exhibition"

Gallery Gaia, Brooklyn, NY, "Democracy Now!"

2021: Cornell Museum, Rollings College, Winter Park, FL, “Common Ground: Selected Work From The Rollins Book Art Collection"

McCabe Library, Swarthmore College, PA, "Looking Out/Looking In"

Newark Arts Festival, NJ, "Creative Resilience"

Plaxall Gallery/CultureLAB, Long Island City, NY, "LICA Members Showcase 2021"

Hamilton Street Gallery, Bound Brook, NJ, "Violent Devotion"

University of South Dakota Library, Vermilion, "Bound and Unbound IV"

Hunterdon Museum of Art, Clinton, NJ, “Crossroads”

West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, "Food Justice in Appalachia"

2020: CultureLab & Hunters Point Library, Queens, NYC, "Artists Navigating 2020"

White Columns, NYC,“El que busca, encuentra…y sigue encontrando”curated by Danny Baez

Ethan Cohen Gallery Kube, Beacon, NY, “Art in a Time of Uncertainty: Darkest Before Dawn"

Alterwork Studios, Astoria, NY, "Virus of Dehumanization"

Hudson Guild, NYC, "The Breathe Project"

Augusta Savage Gallery, U. of Massachusetts, Amherst, "Breathing While Black"

Alfa Art Gallery, New Brunswick, NJ, Women's Caucus for Art, "The Space Between"

Local Project and Departure Studio, Long Island City, NY, “Night & Day”

Moon Gallery, Berry College, Mt. Berry, GA: “Calamity"

Institut für Alles Mögliche, Berlin, Germany: “i am/an immigrant”


Freyberger Gallery, Penn State Berks College, Reading, PA: "Engaging Perceptions: A 
Collaboration of Scholars and Artists”

2019: Plaxall Gallery, Long Island City, NY: "Creative Mosaic"

Walsh Gallery, Seton Hall Univ., South Orange, NJ: "New World Water"

Space 776, Brooklyn, NY: "We Still Make and Imagine Books"

Mikhail Zakin Gallery, Demarest, NJ, “A Different Page II”

The Clemente Open, NYC, PSOS19

Center for Book Arts, NYC, Artist Member Exhibition “Sanctuary”

Center for Book Arts, NYC, “The Politics of Place”

Local Project, Long Island City, NY, “Love/Hate”

2018: Atlantic Highlands Arts Council, Highlands, NJ, “Ties That Bind”

The Gallery Space, Rahway, NJ, “What’s Next”

Hebrew Union College Museum, NYC, “Terra inFirma”

2017: Bronx Art Space and the Andrew Freedman Home, Bronx, NY, “State Property”

Jersey City University, Visual Arts Gallery, “On A Different Page”

St. Paul the Apostle Church, NYC, “Respect”

Center for Book Arts, NYC, “Protest = Profest/Global Burdens"

Minnesota Center for the Book, Minneapolis, “Reader’s Art: Control/Alt/Shift”

The Awake Reading Room 9 (traveled, now housed at the Brooklyn Museum Library) PGH Photo Fair at Carnegie Museum of Art. Pittsburgh and Magnum Foundation, NYC, Ithaca College, Mass College of Art & Design, Boston

Puffin Gallery, Teaneck, NJ, “Where We Are”

NJPAC Victoria Theater and Newark Public Library, NJ, “Women in the World”

NJ State Museum, Trenton, NJ, “Arts Annual: Special Edition”

2016: Alexander Library, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, “From Here to There”

The Pierro Gallery, South Orange, NJ: "POL!T!CO: (Do You) Know Your Place?”

Open Doors Newark, Newark, NJ: "Enjoy/Endure:The City and Its People" and "Where is Eleven O'Clock?"

Evanston Print & Paper, Chicago, IL: “Words/Matter"

The Herb & Milly Iris Gallery at SOPAC, South Orange, NJ: “POL!T!CO: Art & The Humanities” Bergen Gallery, Bergen County Community College, Paramus, NJ: "Art VOTES”

Coburn Gallery, Ashland University, Ashland, OH, “Interrupted”

Space 776, Bushwick, Brooklyn, Artists Book Fair, “We Still Imagine, Make and Read Books”

Boyle Family Gallery, Lindenwood J. Scheidegger Center for the Arts, Lindenwood University, St. Charles, MO, “Freedom Imagined/Freedom Lived”

Maryland Institute College of Art, SpaceCamp, Baltimore, “Fathers, Brothers, Sons”

Abecedarian Gallery, Denver, CO, “The Printed Page”

Bronx Art Space, NYC “Speak Out”

Gaia Gallery, Brooklyn “Bang Bang: Art Against Guns”

Westbeth Gallery, NYC, “Unpacking the 21st Century: Artists Engaging the World” (also Curator) Augusta Savage Gallery, U. Mass., Amherst, “I Breathe With You”

NJ Arts Annual 2016, Noyes Museum Arts Garage at Stockton University, Atlantic City

2015: Newark Open Doors, NJ, “Emerging Ideas” Derfner Museum of Judaica, Riverdale, NY, “To Forgive and Remember”

Local Project, Queens, NY, “Deep Breath” Harold J. Miossi Art Gallery

Cuesta College, San Luis Obispo, CA, “Artists Books 2015”

2014: Drawing Rooms, Jersey City, “Big Little Show”

Drawing Rooms, Jersey City, “Duets”

Arts Guild New Jersey, Rahway,” Yesterday’s News”

Kingsborough Community College Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, “conTEXT” (3 artist exhibit)

Gateway Gallery Two, Newark “The Emerald City”

Robeson Gallery, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ, “From There to Here”

Ellington White Contemporary, Fayetteville, NC, “Islam Contemporary”

Pierro Gallery, Baird Center, South Orange, NJ, “Those Little Things”

Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center, Auburn, NY, “Cartography: Artists as Mapmakers”

Gateway Gallery Two, Newark, NJ, “Through the Looking Glass” organized by Solo(s) Project House and Projects for Empty Spaces

Prince Georges Community College, Largo, MD, “Reimagining Rosa Parks”

Printmaking Center of NJ, Branchburg “Structure”

Rotunda Gallery, Jersey City City Hall, NJ, “ProArts 20th Year Celebration Show”

Redland Museum, Queensland, Australia, “Personal Histories: International Book Arts”

Pierro Gallery, Baird Center, South Orange, NJ, “Breaking Through Tradition”

Rosenthal Gallery, Fayetteville State University, NC, “Contemporary Art of the Muslim World”

Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust & Genocide, London, “Displaced: Book Art Exhibition” ProArts 20th Year Celebration Show, Rotunda Gallery, Jersey City City Hall, NJ

Redland Museum, Queensland, Australia, “Personal Histories: International Book Arts”

2013: Trenton City Museum at Ellarslie, NJ, “Paperwork”

Maloney Gallery, College of St. Elizabeth, Morristown, NJ, “Held Against Their Will”

Market Street Gallery, Newark, NJ, “Dreams Before Sleeping: Newark Open Doors 2013” Lichtenstein Center for the Arts, Pittsfield, MA, “Contemporary Islam”

Walsh Gallery, Seton Hall University, South Orange, NJ, “Marking Territory”

The Noyes Arts Garage of Stockton College, Atlantic City, “2013 New Jersey Arts Annual: Currents in Contemporary Crafts”

Curious Matter at the Jersey City Public Library, NJ, “A Time in Arcadia”

East & West Galleries, Texas Woman’s University, “Seductive Alchemy: Books by Artists”

Sinclair Gallery, Coe College, Cedar Rapids, IA, “Juried Printmaking Exhibition”

The Cooperative Gallery, Binghamton, NY, “Book As Art”

Lederer Gallery, State University of New York, Geneseo, “Meditations on Emancipation”

Maloney Gallery, College of St. Elizabeth, Morristown, NJ “Persona”

Seton Hall University Law School, Newark, NJ, “ Perspective vs. Perception”

Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Wilmington, “Codicology: The Art and Science of the Book” King St. Stephen Museum, Szekesfehervar, Hungary, “Fifth International Artists’ Book Exhibition” University Libraries, University of South Dakota, Vermilion, “Bound & Unbound 2”

Butler Library, Columbia University, NYC “Al Mutanabbi Street”

2012: Wiseman Gallery, Rogue Community College, Grants Pass, OR, “The 99%”

C.C.C.P. North Light Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, “Harvest of Dreams”

Kraft Center for Jewish Life, Columbia/Barnard University, NYC, “Context”

Mind Rewind Gallery, Seattle, WA “The Continuous Thread 2”

Printmaking Center of NJ, Branchburg, “The Continuous Thread”

Holocaust Memorial Center, Farmington Hills, MI, “Silent Witnesses”

The Art Institute of Atlanta-Decatur, Decatur, GA, “Wallbound”

Index Art Center, Newark, “See I’m Not Paranoid, I’m Right”

Step Gallery, Arizona State University, Tempe, “Crave,The Art of Dependency”

Gallery One, Newark, NJ, “Women: Realizing Perspectives”

Susan Hensel Gallery, Minneapolis, MN, “Readers Art 12: Longing for Home”

Soho20 Gallery, NYC, “Backlash (on Women’s Rights and Freedoms)”

New Lots Public Library, Brooklyn, NY “Juneteenth” a project of Arts East NY

2011: Woolpunk Studio, Jersey City, NJ, “Gaia Here and Now” Uno

Art Gallery, University of Nebraska, Omaha, “Al Mutanabbi Street Project”

Pierro Gallery of South Orange, NJ, “Identity Blueprint”

ProteusGowanus, Brooklyn, NY, “Migration”

Gallery at 14 Maple, Morristown, NJ, “Remembrance of Things Past”

Art for Change Gallery, NYC, “Millennial Yell”

Manhattan Graphics Center, NYC, “Solarplate Intaglio”

Center for Book Arts, NYC, “The (UN)Framed Photograph”

Freyberger Gallery, Penn State Berks, Reading PA, “Crisis and Reaction 9/11”

Clemente Soto Velez Center, NYC, “Distant Cousins: Jewish & Muslim Women Speak”

Noyes Museum, Hammonton and Perkins Center for the Arts, Collingswood, NJ “ YEA Artists of NJ” Seton Hall Law School and City Without Walls Gallery, Newark, “The Newark School”

23 Sandy Gallery, Portland, OR, “Photo Book Works”

Aljira, Newark, NJ “Viewpoints”

The Arts Center, Corvallis, OR, “Unspeakable: Artists Books”

Atelier BaZtille, Zoetermeer, NL, “What Exists, Never Comes Back”

Susan Hensel Gallery, Minneapolis, MN, “Readers Art 11: Urban/Urbane”

Altered Aesthetics, Minneapolis, MN, “Altered Pages”

Reginald F. Lewis Museum of African American History, Baltimore, MD, Stanback Museum and Planetarium, South Carolina University and the Vivant Art Collection, Philadelphia, PA, ‘Transcending History: Moving Beyond the Legacy of Slavery and the Holocaust,” a project of IdeaArts Arts Initiative

2010: Jersey City Museum, NJ: "Jersey City Artists 2010: A Splendid Energy"

Ross Beitzel Art Gallery, Gloucester County College, NJ: "Yea! YO Emerging Artists Project"

Grace Church, Jersey City, NJ: "ProArts Member Show"

Abecedarian Gallery, Denver, CO: "Photo Book Works"

Figment2010, Governor's Island, New York, NY: "Memory Maps" (participatory public art project) Space 37, Queens Media Arts Development, New York, NY: "Babel"

Washington Printmakers Gallery, Pyramid Atlantic, Silver Spring, MD: "Small Works"

Altered Esthetics, Minneapolis, MN: "Altered Pages" Vivant Art Collection, Philadelphia, PA, Reginald F. Lewis Museum of African American History, Baltimore, MD: "Transcending History: Moving Beyond the Legacy of Slavery and theHolocaust," a project of IdeaArts Arts Initiative

2009: Ann Street Gallery, Newburgh, NY, “Bound: Artist Book Exhibition”

Fox Gallery, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, “Family Ties: The First Wave”

Printmaking Council of New Jersey, Branchburg, “Below the Surface"

Truman State University, Kirksville, MO, “American Race”

Printmaking Council of New Jersey, Branchburg, “Past Present” 6 artist exhibition curated by Aileen Bassis and including her work.

Concordia University Ann Arbor, Concordia University Ann Arbor, MI, “Reconciliation”

College of St. Elizabeth, Therese A. Maloney Art Gallery, Morristown, NJ “Responding to Cuba”

Bronfman Center Gallery, New York University, NYC, “Einstein on Witherspoon Street”

2008: Brennan Gallery, Justice William Brennan County Courthouse, Jersey City, “Human History”

Jersey City Museum, NJ, “Sprawl” The 2008 NJ Arts Annual

Abecedarian Gallery, Denver, CO, “Transparent/Opaque” Invitational Exhibition of Prints and Artists Books

Suffolk Museum, Suffolk, VA, “Beyond Reading: Books as Art”

Crown Center Gallery, Loyola University Chicago, “Reforming US: Immigration Through Art”

Gallery Kunstler, Booksmart Studio, Rochester, NY “Art of Democracy”

Pro Arts Member Exhibition, Canco Studios, Jersey City

2007: Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning, “Jamaica Flux”

Brennan Gallery, Justice William Brennan Court House, Jersey City, “The Nature of Duality”

Waldo Lofts, Jersey City, NJ, “Inside”

Yavapai College, Prescott, AZ, “The Human Alteration” (three artist exhibition)

DeFoor Centre, Atlanta, GA, “I/We: Case Studies” Kraft Center for Jewish Life at Columbia University and the Rubin - Frankel Gallery at Boston University, MA, “Words Within” Women’s Caucus for Art

NurtureArt Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, “The Occidental Artist”

Atlantic Gallery, NYC, “WHYGTS” (What Have You Got To Say?)

2006: Brennan Gallery, Justice William Brennan County Court House, Jersey City, “Identity”

Victory Hall, Jersey City, “American Diaspora”

The University of the South Art Gallery, Sewanee, TN, “Works with Paper: Artists’ Books”

Mana Fine Arts, Jersey City, “WHYGTS” (What Have You Got To Say?)

Gallery Aferro, Newark, “Glossolalia”

5 + 5 Gallery, Brooklyn, NY Food for Thought

Student Gallery at Portland State University traveling exhibition, “Paper Politics Two”

Rahway Arts Guild, Rahway, NJ “A Separate Reality”

Goldman Gallery, Hebrew College, Newton, MA, “L’Dov V’Dor” From Generation to Generation”, Jewish Women Artist Network of the Women’s Caucus for Art.

Susan Hensel Gallery, Minneapolis, MN, “Readers Art 6: Changing the Wind”

Robert A. Peck Gallery, Central Wyoming College, Riverton, WY, “Memory and Meditation”

2005: Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ “Circa Crafts 2005”

artspace129, Montclair, NJ “Local Color”

Contemporary Artists Center, North Adams, MA, “Made in NA MA”

The Johnsonese Gallery, Chicago, IL, “Cartography 101”

Spike Gallery, NYC, “Yearbook 05” multiple edition Griffin Gallery, Madison, NJ, “Coexistence”

New Arts Program, Kutztown, PA, “Invitational Salon Exhibition of Small Works”

Makor/Steinhardt Center Gallery, New York City,”Tikkun Olam-Healing the World”

NurtureArt Gallery, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY, “Paper,Papel,Papier”

Phinney Center Gallery, Seattle Print Arts, Seattle WA, “Paper Politics (West)”

Mills Pond House Gallery, St. James, NY, “Women, Words and Images”

2004: U. of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Union Gallery, "Women in the Middle"

Locus-Media Gallery, NYC, “Domestic Affairs” 2003:

Frans Masereel Center, Kasterlee, Belgium: "Jubilee Exhibition"

City Without Walls Gallery, Newark, NJ: "Stop and Go"

City Without Walls Gallery, Newark, NJ: "Analog/Digital"

Institute for Community Research Gallery, Hartford, CT: "Living Spaces"

Illinois State University, University Galleries, Normal, IL: "Ready for War"

2002: Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn, NY, “Drawings for Peace"

Exit Art, New York, NY, and Williamson Gallery, College of Design, Pasadena, CA: "Reactions"

The Bronx River Art Center, NYC and Fairleigh Dickenson U., Teaneck, NJ: “911 ArtistsRespond"

Guild Gallery II, New York, NY: "Women's Perspectives"

200l: Morehead State University, Morehead, Kentucky: "Image Text Language"

Lowe Gallery at Hudson Guild, New York, NY: "Drawing: Line, Skill, Imagination" Center for Photography, Woodstock, NY: "Annual Benefit" Lowe Gallery at Hudson Guild and Rush Arts Gallery, NYC: "Lucky Draw" 2000: Hunterdon Museum of Art, Clinton, NJ: "NJ State Council on the Arts Fellowship Exhibtion" Makeready's at Gallery 214, Montclair, NJ: "Time Lapse" Raritan Valley Community College, North Branch, NJ: "The Portrait in the New Millennium City Without Walls Gallery, Newark, NJ: "The Color Line in the 2lst Century” City Without Walls Gallery, Newark, NJ: "Artreach 2000" Gallery 1101, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, IL: "The Collage Show”

Public Collections:

Rollins College, Olin Library, Winter Park, FL

William & Mary, Swem Library, Williamsburg, VA

Brooklyn Museum Library, NYC

NY Rhode Island School of Design, Fleet Library, Providence, RI

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA

Museum Art School of Tufts University Library, Boston, MA

Swarthmore College Library, Swarthmore, PA

University of Pennsylvania Libraries, Kislak Center, Philadelphia

Franklin & Marshall College, Shadek-Fackenthal Library, Lancaster, PA

James Madison University, Carrier Library, Harrisonburg, VA

Temple University, Alexander Library, Philadelphia, PA

Yale University, Robert Haas Family Art Library, New Haven, CT

Lafayette College, Skillman Library Special Collections, Easton, PA

Dartmouth College, Rauner Library Special Collections, Hanover, NH

IUPIU, Herron Art Library, Indianapolis, IN

Wellesley College Library, Special Collections, MA

The Newark Public Library Special Collections Division, NJ

NY Public Library, Photography Collection, NYC

Franklin Furnace Artists Book Collection, Brooklyn, NY

Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp, Belgium

Telavi State University, Republic of Georgia

Frans Masereel Center, Kasterlee, Belgium

Nelimarkka Museum, Finland

Library of Congress, Washington, DC

King St. Stephen Museum, Hungary

Education:

Hunter College, CUNY, New York, NY: M.A., Creative Art

Binghamton University, NY: B.A., Studio Art

Presentations and Panels:

York College Gallery, 2019

22nd NJ Book Artists Symposium, From Here to There: Concept and Technique in Artists Books, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, 2016

Indiana University Purdue, Symposium: Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here, Book Artists as Social Change Agents,2014

Artist Talk, MNKK, Rebild Denmark, 2012

Center for Book Arts, NYC, Al-Mutanabbi Street, 2013, The UnFramed Photograph, 2011