b. 1943, Brooklyn, NY
Education
1964
BFA, Yale University, New Haven, CT
1963
BA, Brooklyn College, NY
Collections
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA
Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA
Francis Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
Girls' Club, Fort Lauderdale, FL
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, IR
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, MA
The Jewish Museum, New York, NY
Menil Collection, Houston, TX
Munson Williams Proctor Arts Institute, Utica, NY
Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY
Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, FL
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Norton Museum of Art, Palm Beach, FL
NSU Art Museum, Nova Southeastern University, Fort Lauderdale, FL
Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA
Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
The Textile Museum at The George Washington University, Washington, DC
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Awards/Grants
2013
Francis J. Greenburger Award
2012
Art Matters Foundation Grant
2011–12
Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship
2005
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship
2001
Artist-in-Residence, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
1993
The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award
1988
New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship
1983
C.A.P.S. [Creative Artist Public Service Program] Fellowship
Selected solo exhibitions
2023
Frock-Conscious, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2022
MATERIAL GIRL, Marinaro, New York
A Swatch Sampler, Pamela Salisbury Gallery, Hudson NY
2020
Between the Needle and the Book, McClain Gallery, Houston, TX
2019
Sight Unseen, Marinaro, New York
2018
Now If I Had Been Writing This Story, Secession, Vienna, Austria
2017
Invisible Citings: Elaine Reichek and Jeanne Silverthorne, The Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA
Ever Yours, Henry James. Anne H. Fitzpatrick Façade, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, MA
2016
Minoan Girls, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2015
SWATCHES, Zach Feuer, New York, NY
2014
Elaine Reichek: The Eye of the Needle, Boca Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL
2013
Elaine Reichek: A Précis 1972–1995, Zach Feuer, New York, NY
A Postcolonial Kinderhood Revisited, The Jewish Museum, New York, NY
2012
Ariadne’s Thread, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, NY
2011
Ariadne’s Thread, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2007
Pattern Recognition, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, NY
2006
Glossed in Translation, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2004
After Babel Alpha Beta, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, NY
2003
madamimadam, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, MA
2002
MADAMI’MADAM, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2000
At Home & in the World, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium. Traveled to Tel Aviv Museum, Israel
1999
Projects 67: Elaine Reichek, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
When This You See . . ., Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, NY
1996
Guests of the Nation, Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery, The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA Traveled to Van Every/Smith Galleries, Davidson College, Davidson, NC.
1995
Form Security Administration, Michael Klein Inc., New York, NY
1994
A Postcolonial Kinderhood, The Jewish Museum, New York, NY. Traveled to San Francisco Museum of Jewish Art, San Francisco, CA; Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH
Model Homes, Stichting De Appel, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Consider the Lilies, The Reading Room, Ruskin School of Art, Oxford University, Oxford, UK
At Home in America. Center for Research in Contemporary Art, The University of Texas at Arlington, TX
1993
Home Rule, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland. Traveled to Orchard Gallery, Derry, Northern Ireland
Sign Language, Norton Gallery of Art, West Palm Beach, FL.
1992
Tierra del Fuego, Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH.
Native Intelligence, Grey Art Gallery, New York University, New York. Traveled to Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, SC; Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH; Western Gallery, Western Washington State University, Bellingham, WA.
1990
Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA
The War Room, Carlo Lamagna Gallery, New York, NY
1989
Fatal Passage, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY
Visitations, Carlo Lamagna Gallery, New York, NY
1988
Desert Song, Barbara Braathen Gallery, New York, NY
Revenge of the Cocoanuts: A Curiosity Room, 56, Bleecker Gallery Ltd., New York, NY
1987
Sol Mednick Gallery, The University of the Arts, Philadelphia College of Art and Design,
Philadelphia, PA
Transfigurations, Carlo Lamagna Gallery, New York, NY
Trouble in Paradise, A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY
1986
Investigations 1986: Elaine Reichek, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.
1985
Houses, Snug Harbor Museum, Staten Island, NY (with Vito Acconci and Ira Joel Haber).
New Work, A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY
1982
Concord Gallery, New York, NY
1981
A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY
1980
Lois I. Clifford Gallery, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA
Beds, Quilts and Knitting Pieces, Brownson Art Gallery, Manhattanville College, Purchase, NY
Douglass College Art Gallery, Walters Hall, New Brunswick, NJ
1979
Special Projects: The Artist’s Bedroom, P.S. 1, a Center for the Experimental Arts, the Institute for Art and Urban Resources, Inc., Long Island City, NY
Parsons Dreyfuss, New York, NY
1978
Parsons Dreyfuss, New York, NY
1975
Rina Gallery (Bertha Urdang Gallery), New York, NY
Selected group exhibitions
2024
Beverly Pepper // Elaine Reicheck, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, NY
Painted with Silk: The Art of Early American Embroidery, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI (forthcoming)
The Golden Thread: A Fiber Arts Exhibition, BravinLee Programs, New York, NY
Amigos y Amigas, Palazzo Tiepolo, APALAZZOGALLERY, Venice, IT
2023
Downtown Amigos y Amigas, APALAZZOGALLERY, Brescia, IT
Think Pinker, curated by Beth Rudin DeWoody, Gavlak, Los Angeles, CA
2022
Joan Didion: What She Means, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Reciprocity (curated by David Pagliarulo), Marinaro, New York, NY
Art and Embroidery, Bündner Kunstmuseum, Chur, CH
Women's Work, Lyndhurst Mansion, Tarrytown, NY
On Hannah Arendt: The Conquest of Space, Richard Saltoun, London, UK
2021
TEXTiles: The Woven Word, Curated by Deborah Davis, Bookstein Projects, NY, NY. Conscious Becoming, Tatjana Pieters, Ghent, Belgium
2020
Surely Some Revelation Is at Hand. Marinaro, New York, NY
Delight in Discovery: The Global Collections of Lloyd Cotsen. The Textile Museum at The George Washington University, Washington, DC
*Blumensprengung: Künstlerinnen der Sammlung Ludwig [Bursting Flowers: Women Artists from the Ludwig Collection], Ludwig Forum, Aachen, Germany
2019
Making Knowing: Craft in Art, 1950–2019, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
2018
This Must Be the Place, 55 Walker, New York, NY
Downtown: Collage Culture in the East Village, McClain Gallery, Houston, TX
Common Threads: Weaving Stories Across Time, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, MA
Through Her Eye, Mana Contemporary, Chicago, IL
SUTURES, in Honor of ROMAN COTTON GOODS, Marc Straus Gallery, New York, NY
Please Touch: Body Boundaries. Mana Contemporary, Jersey City, NJ
Nomadic Murals: Contemporary Tapestries and Carpets, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL
Harlem Perspectives. Faction Art Projects, New York, NY
2017
A Thread of Execution. Dimensions Variable, Miami, FL
Love Among the Ruins: 56 Bleecker Gallery and Late 80s New York. Howl!
Happening: An Arturo Vega Project, New York, NY
Uptown, The Miriam & Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, New York, NY
The Unreliable Narrator, ArtHelix, Brooklyn, NY
Social Fabric/Moral Fiber. Gallery West, Suffolk County Community College, Brentwood, NY
2016
Belief + Doubt: Selections from the Francie Bishop Good and David Horvitz Collection, NSU Art Museum, Nova Southeastern University, Fort Lauderdale, FL
Happiness, Liberty, Life?
American Art and Politics, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Hey You! ~ Who Me?!, 32 Edgewood Gallery, Yale School of Art, Yale University, New Haven, CT
Homage, Frank Williams Collection, Wellesley, MA
Of Whales in Paint: Rockwell Kent’s moby dick, Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME
Portable Magic: Reading and Writing in the Visual Arts, Munson Williams Proctor Arts Institute, Utica, NY
2015
Art_Textiles, The Whitworth Art Gallery, The University of Manchester, UK
Framing Fraktur, Word & Image: Contemporary Artists Connect to Fraktur, Free Library of Philadelphia, Parkway Central Library West Galleries, Philadelphia, PA
Harlem Postcards Spring 2015: Awol Erizku, Sierra Odessa, Kameelah Janan Rasheed, Elaine Reichek. The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
Rhizome: Multiplicities of Abstraction, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2014
Kunst/Geschichten—Art/Histories, Museum der Moderne, Salzburg, AT
Beyond the Cut-Out, MoMA STUDIO, The Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman Education and Research Building, Mezzanine, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Thread Lines, The Drawing Center, New York, NY. Traveled in 2017 to Kentucky Museum
of Art and Craft, Louisville, KY
Reliable Tension, or: How to Win a Conversation about Jasper Johns. 32 Edgewood Gallery,
Yale School of Art, Yale Univeristy, New Haven, CT
Post-Picasso: Contemporary Artists’ Responses to His Art, Museu Picasso, Barcelona, ES
2013
TEXTILES: OPEN LETTER: Abstraktionen, Textilien, Kunst. Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, DE
Jew York, Zach Feuer, New York, NY
Chick Lit: Revised Summer Reading, Tracy Williams, Ltd., New York, NY
Cinematic Visions: Painting at the Edge of Reality, Victoria Miro, London, UK
Vanishing Point, Bitforms Gallery, New York, NY
The Distaff Side, The Granary, Sharon, CT
TEXTURES: The Written Word in Contemporary Art, ACA Galleries, New York, NY
Morphology of the Print, Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx, NY
2012
The Imminence of Poetics, 30th São Paolo Biennial, São Paolo, BR
Whitney Biennial 2012, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Stretching the Limits: Fibers in Contemporary Painting, SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah
College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA
The Female Gaze: Women Artists Making Their World, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Context Message, Zach Feuer Gallery, New York, NY
13.0.0.0.0, RH Gallery, New York, NY
Points of View: Twenty Years of Artists-in-Residence, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, MA
2011
Body Gesture, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR
The Unseen Eye: Photographs from the W. M. Hunt Collection, The George Eastman House, Rochester, NY
Cheongju International Craft Bienniale 2011, Cheongju, KR
2010
Facsimile, Girl’s Club, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
Huiselijkheid [Domesticity], Roger Raveel Museum, Machelen-Zulte, BE.
Americanana, The Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery at Hunter College, New York, NY
Shifting the Gaze: Painting and Feminism, The Jewish Museum, New York, NY
Material/Immaterial, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
The Collaborative Print: Works from SOLO Impression, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC
A Stitch in Jewish Time, Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion Museum, New York, NY
A Torrent of Words, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
2009
In Stitches, Leila Taghinia-Milani Heller Gallery, New York, NY
Set to Manual, Girl’s Club, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
That’s What She Said, KWH Art, Kelly Writers House, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Knitted Worlds, Audax Textiel Museum, Tilburg, NL
Dress Codes: Clothing as Metaphor, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY
Half Dust, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, IR
2008
Permanently MAD: Revealing the Collection, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY
Pixellated, Winston Wächter Gallery, New York, NY
Part II: A.I.R. Gallery: The History Show, work by A.I.R. artists from 1972 to the present,
A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
The Fabric of Myth, Compton Verney, Warwickshire, UK
New Prints: Spring 2008, International Print Center New York, NY
2007
Pricked: Extreme Embroidery, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY
Jackson, Contemporary Art Galleries, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
New York States of Mind, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, DE. Traveled to Queens Museum of Art, Queens, NY
What is Painting? Contemporary Art from the Collection, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
What F Word?, Cynthia Broan Gallery, New York, NY
Spectral Evidence, Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Gender Stitchery, Carleton College Art Gallery, Northfield, MN
2006
Hot Off the Press: Prints of 2006 From New York Printshops, The Grolier Club,
New York, NY
THE BONG SHOW or This Is Not a Pipe, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York, NY
Material Culture: The Fine Art of Textiles, Salt Lake Art Center, Salt Lake City, UT
The Workmanship of Risk, The Richard F. Brush Art Gallery and Permanent Collection, St. Lawrence University, Canton, NY
Threads of Memory, Dorsky Gallery Curatorial Programs, Long Island City, NY
2005
The American West, Compton Verney, Warwickshire, UK
Upstarts and Matriarchs: Jewish-American Women Artists and the Transformation of American Art, Mizel Arts Center, Denver, CO
2004
fitter happier: an exhibition concerning technology, DePaul University Art Museum, Chicago, IL
New Spring Faculty Show, Department of Visual & Environmental Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
2003
Influence, Anxiety and Gratitude, List Visual Arts Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
Migrating Motifs: Faye HeavyShield, Elaine Reichek, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on- Hudson, NY
Mind Over Matter, The Art Gallery of the Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe, NM
The Art of Aging, Hebrew Union College, Jewish Institute of Religion, New York, NY
2002
Boundless/Silence, DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY
Objects of Desire: Art as Design; Design as Art, Barbara Toll Fine Arts and Jan Abrams Fine Arts, New York, NY
Collecting Contemporary Art: A Community Dialogue, Ackland Art Museum, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC
2001
Painted with Thread: The Art of American Embroidery, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA
House Guests: Contemporary Artists in The Grange, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, CA
Alterations, James Graham and Sons, New York, NY
2000
The Likeness of Being: Contemporary Self Portraits by Sixty Women, DC Moore
Gallery, New York, NY
Remnants of Memory, Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, NC
Déjà-vu: Re-working the Past, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY
1999
The Perpetual Well: Contemporary Art from the Collection of The Jewish Museum,
Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL. Traveled to:
Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery and Sculpture Garden, University of Nebraska,
Lincoln, NE; and The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY
Other Narratives, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX
Referencing the Past: Six Contemporary Artists, Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips
Academy, Andover, MA.
GIRLSCHOOL, Brenau University Galleries, Gainesville, GA
1998
Loose Threads, Serpentine Gallery, London, UK
Ethno-Antics, Nordiska Museet, Stockholm, Sweden.
Dimensions of Native America: The Contact Zone, Museum of Fine Arts, School of Visual Arts & Dance, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL. Traveled to Appleton Museum of Art, Ocala, FL
1997
Art on the Edge of Fashion, Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ; traveled to Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI
Women Artists of the 1970s, Jan Abrams Fine Arts, New York, NY
Hanging by a Thread, The Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY
1996
Too Jewish, The Jewish Museum, New York, NY; traveled to The Jewish Museum San
Francisco, CA; UCLA/Hammer Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; National Museum of American Jewish History, Philadelphia, PA; The Contemporary Museum, and The Jewish Museum of Maryland, Baltimore, MD
Labor of Love, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY
Embedded Metaphor, John and Mabel Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL. Traveled to Dalhousie Art Gallery, Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia, CA (1997); Western Gallery, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA (1997); Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME (1998); and Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT (1998).
Making Pictures: Women and Photography, 1975–Now,
Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, NY. Traveled to
Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, MA
Model Home, Clocktower Gallery, The Institute
of Contemporary Art, New York, NY
1995
Conceptual Textiles: Material Meaning, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
Division of Labor: Women’s Work in Contemporary Art, Bronx Museum of the Arts,
Bronx, NY; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
From Behind the Pale: Art & Artists at the Edge of Consensus, Irish Museum
of Modern Art, Dublin, IE
Kunst Kabinett, Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA
Recreation, Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY
Thirty-First Annual Exhibition of Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, NC
Laughter Ten Years After, Cecile and Ezra Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT. Traveled to Beaver College Art Gallery, Glenside, PA (1996).
Thread Bare: Revealing Content in Contemporary Fiber, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC
Zimmerdenkmäler, Museum Bochum, Bochum, DE
1994
Localities of Desire: Contemporary Art in an International World, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, AU
From Beyond the Pale: Art & Artists at the Edge of Consensus, Selected Works and Projects (Part Two), Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, IE
1993
The Figure as Fiction: The Figure in Visual Art and Literature, The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH
Ciphers of Identity, Fine Arts Gallery, University of Maryland/Baltimore County, Catonsville, MD. Traveled to Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York (1994).
USA Today, Nederlands Textielmuseum, Tilburg, NL; traveled to Konstindustriemuseet, Helsinki, FI.
Spoleto Festival, Spoleto, IT
Surface Tension, Michael Klein Inc., New York, NY
Kurswechsel, Michael Klein Inc., at Transart Exhibitions, Cologne, DE
Songs of Retrubution, Richard Anderson Fine Arts, New York, NY
The Return of the Cadavre Exquis, The Drawing Center, New York, NY
Contacts / Proofs, Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ
1992
Dark Decor, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
Photoworks, Michael Klein Inc., New York, NY
SPECS: Photography Group Show, Annina Nosei Gallery, New York, NY
Imaging Indians, Longwood Arts Gallery, P.S. 39, Bronx Council on the Arts, Bronx, NY
1991
Site Seeing: Travel and Tourism in Contemporary Art, Whitney Museum of American
Art, Downtown at Federal Plaza, New York, NY
Inherent Vice, Center for Photography, Woodstock, NY
The Subversive Stitch, Simon Watson, New York, NY
The Interrupted Life, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY
Constructing Images: Synapse between Photography and Sculpture, Lieberman & Saul Gallery, New York, NY. Traveled to San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA (1992).
American Art Today: New Directions. The Art Museum at Florida International University, Miami, FL
Constructions of Meaning, University Galleries, Illinois State University, Normal, IL
World Disorder, The Cultural Space, New York, NY
1990
Exoticism, Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT
The New School Collects: Recent Acquisitions. Exhibition Center, Parsons School of Design, New York, NY
Words and Images—with a message, Women’s Studio Workshop, Rosendale, NY
Empty Dress: Clothing as Surrogate in Recent Art, Neuberger Museum, State University of New York, Purchase, NY. Traveled to University Gallery, University of North Texas, Denton, TX (1991); Virginia Beach Center for the Arts, Virginia Beach, VA (1994); MacKenzie Art
Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan, CA (1994); The Gallery / Stratford,
Stratford, Ontario, CA (1995); Selby Gallery, Ringling School of Art and
Design, Sarasota, FL (1995); The Rubelle & Norman Schafler Gallery, Pratt
Institute, Brooklyn, NY (1996).
Cultural Artifacts, Ehlers Caudill Gallery, Chicago, IL
1989
Photocollage/Photomontage: The Changing Picture, 1920–89, Jan Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
The Big Picture, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Fiber Explorations: New Work in Fiber Art, Staller Center Art Gallery, State University of New York, Stony Brook, NY
Archeology II: Or, History That Repeats Itself after Lunch, Roy Boyd Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1988
Just Like a Woman, Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, SC.
Dwelling, 56, Bleecker Gallery Ltd., New York, NY
Frontiers in Fiber: The Americans, North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, ND; traveled to Metropolitan Museum of Art, Manila, PH; and Taipei Fine Arts Museum, American Institute in Taiwan, Taipei, TW
1987
Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC
A.I.R. Group Exhibition: 9, A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY
Fiber, Rice Gallery of the Albany Institute of History and Art, Albany, NY
1986
Connections, Three Rivers Arts Festival, Pittsburgh, PA
Traps: Elements of Psychic Seduction, Carlo Lamagna Gallery, New York, NY
Let’s Play House, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, New York, NY
New Work — New York, Helander Gallery, Palm Beach, FL
1985
Nancy Spero and Elaine Reichek, Center on Contemporary Art (CoCA), Seattle, WA
New York Art Now: Correspondences, La Forêt Museum, Tokyo, JP; traveled to Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, Tochigi, JP; Tazaki Hall Espace Media, Kobe, JP
1984
Ecstasy, Monique Knowlton Gallery, New York, NY
Neue Stofflichkeit, Frauen Museum, Bonn, West Germany.
Structures: 5 Perspectives, The Manhattan Laboratory Museum, New York, NY
1983
Day In/Day Out: Ordinary Life as a Source for Art, Freedman Gallery, Albright College, Reading, PA
Walls of the 70s, The Queensborough Community College Art Gallery, Bayside, NY
The Third Annual Holiday Invitational Exhibition, A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY
Women in Definition, The First Women’s Bank, New York, NY
C.A.P.S. Fellowships Recipients Graphics Exhibition, Kirkland Art Center on the Park, Clinton, NY. Traveled to Community College of the Finger Lakes, Canandaigua, NY; Marist College Gallery, Poughkeepsie, NY; and Fashion Institute of Technology Gallery, New York, NY (1984)
1982
Women Sculptors’ Drawings, Max Hutchinson Gallery, New York, NY
Homework: domestic environment reflected in work by contemporary women artists, Amelie A. Wallace Gallery, State University of New York, College at Old Westbury, NY
Concord Contemporary Art, New York.
1981
A.I.R. Gallery, New York, Lunds Konsthalle, Lunds, SE.
A.I.R. Gallery Group, Helen Shlien Gallery, Boston, MA
A.I.R. Gallery Group Show, A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY
Home Work: The Domestic Environment Reflected in the Work of Contemporary Women Artists, National Women’s Hall of Fame, Seneca Falls, NY. Traveled to: Jo & Emily Lowe Art Gallery, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
1980
American Women Artists, Museo de Arte Contemporanea, São Paulo, BR
Structure/Narrative/Decoration, McIntosh/Drysdale Gallery, Washington, DC
A.I.R. Group Show, A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY
1979
System, Inquiry, Translation, Touchstone, New York, NY
Illusions: Works in Clay, Fiber, Glass, Wood, Metal, Plastic, Summit Art Center, Summit, NJ
1978
10 Cases on 8th Ave., Artists Space with New York City Department of Transportation, New York, NY
Out of the House, Whitney Museum of American Art, Downtown at Federal Plaza, New York, NY
New York Collection, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Serial Drawing, HERA, Womens’ Cooperative Gallery, Wakefield, RI
The Line, Parsons Dreyfuss, New York, NY
Visions: Paper/Multiples, Diane Gilson Gallery, Seattle, WA
1977
Drawing One: An Exhibition of Contemporary Drawing, Double U Gallery, New York, NY
Introductions, Gallery 210, University of Missouri, St. Louis, MO