Christy Rupp
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EDUCATION
       
 
1973 BA Colgate University
 
1974 MAT Rhode Island School of Design
 
1977 MFA Rinehart School of Sculpture, Maryland Institute College of Art

* indicates solo exhibition
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
   
2008 
“Extinct Birds Previously Consumed By Humans” Solo exhibit, Frederieke Taylor Gallery, NYC
“Person of the Crowd” Neuberger Museum SUNY Purchase, NY
“Ornithology” ,Contemporary Art Galleries, U Conn, Storrs, CT
"No one is innocent - Punk and Beyond, Kunsthalle Vienna, Austria

2007 
“The HandMaking”Abington arts Center, philadelphia PA
“Time’s Up” Protest Space , NYC
“Well Dressed” Nathan Cummings Foundation, NYC
“The Price of Nothing” Curated by Jason Murison, EfA Gallery, NYC
“The Holiday Shopping Show” Curated by Robin Kahn, Emily Harvey Foundation, NYC

2006
 “The Drop” featuring the 5 Borough Taste Test, Exit Art, NYC
  “Hybrid Fields” Sonoma County Museum, Santa Rosa Ca, Curated by Tricia Watts
“WaterWorks” Contemporary Quarterly Project Space Online
“What War?” Whitebox Gallery, NYC cur Larry Litt
“Ecolaughter” Bioneers Conference, SanRafael, CA
“The Downtown Show” Grey Art Gallery, NYC. Curated by Carlo McCormick
“The Studio Visit” Exit Art, NYC
 

2005 

“This Is Not an Archive” Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-On- Hudson, NY
  “Democracy Was Fun” White Box Gallery, NYC & L.A. Road Show
Momenta Benefit , White Columns, NYC
“Endless Summer” Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, NY
“Deja Vu” Frederieke Taylor Gallery, NYC
"A Knock on the Door" Cooper Union Gallery, NYC Curated by Lower Manhattan Cultural Council
"Hard Working Objects" The Auk, Hamden, NY Curated by Chris Rush
"Lowgo Project", Burchfield- Penney Art Center, Buffalo, NY
“Copilandia” Sevilla, Spain curated by Robin Kahn &Kirby Gookin

2004 
“GloboLoco” solo Exhibit Frederieke Taylor Gallery, NYC
  “Fuzzy Though Time”, Hunting Tavern, Andes, NY
  “Clothesline Show” ABC NoRio, NYC
  “Aquatopia”, Reynolds Gallery, University of the Pacific,  Stockton, CA
  “Made in China/Made in USA” solo exhibit Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, NY
  "Art, Culture, Insects." Turtle Bay Exploration Park, Redding CA curated by Trisha Watts
  “The Election Show”University Gallery, Illinois State U, Normal, Ill
  " Art, Culture, Insects." Turtle Bay Exploration Park, Redding Ca. curated by Trisha Watts
“Reoccurring Nature”, Erpf Gallery, Arkville, NY Cur by Inverna Lockpez
“Holiday Shoppping Show” WallspaceGallery, NYC

2003 
"10th Aniversary Exhibition" Frediereke Taylor Gallery, NY
  "H2O" Curated by JoAnne Isaak, Danese Gallery, NYC
  " The Green Home show" Cuarated by Alan More, Staten Island, NY
  “Rock, Paper, Scissors”, Catskill Mt Foundation, Hunter, NY
“The World We live In” Upstate Art, Phoenicia, NY
“Notebook” Baltimore Artscape, Maryland Institute of Art, Baltimore, MD
“Crimes & Misdemeanors” Center for Contemporary Art, Cincinati, Ohio
“Arts & The Environment”, TOTO U.S.A., NYC

2002 
"Insecta Magnifica" Wave HIll GlyndorGallery, Bronx, NY
  "Nature in Pieces" solo exhibition Ulrich Museum, Wichita State University, Wichita, KS / catalog
“Algae Works”- Upstate Art, Phoenicia, NY
“H2O”, Curated by Joanne Isaak, travelling venues- Western Gallery, Western Washington University,   Bellingham, Wa, Jacob Gallery, Wayne State, Detroit, Mi, Houghton House Gallery, Hobart College, Geneva, NY
“Unforgettable”, Chelsea Studio Gallery, NYC Curated by Judy Collischan
“Pop Patriotism”, Momenta Art, Brooklyn, Curated by Peter Scott
“A Second Look- Selections from 4 Decades of Western New York Artists, Burchfield- Penney Art Center, Buffalo, NY
“America, You’re so fine,You blow my mind”, Hallwalls Gallery, Buffalo, NY

2001 
"Patentable Future: Genetically Altered Sculpture" Frederike Taylor Gallery, NYC
  "Thanks For Taking Part In our Experiment" Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, NY
“Paradise Now” Travelling to U of Michigan Ann Arbor, Museum of Art, and to Tang Teaching Museum & Art Gallery,Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
“Nature Warp” Christy Rupp & Rob Van Erve, Pace University Gallery, Pleasantville, Ny
“The Swim” Bass Museum of Art, Miami, Curated by Bianca Lanza
“Rags to Riches” 25 years of Dieu Donne’ Papermill, Curated by Donna Stein, traveling TBA
“Natural Histories” Artists Forage in Science and Nature, Florida Atlantic U, Boca Raton
“NEW” Nina Freudenheim Gallery Buffalo
Now, Then Before, Roxbury Arts Group, Roxbury NY

2000 
"Christy Rupp, Swimming in the Gene Pool" Mass MOCA Kidspace, North Adams, MA
  "Quirky" Adam Baumgold Fine Art, NYC
  "The End...Is the beginning"20 Years Of Exit Art, NYC
  "Welded : Sculpture of the 20th Century", Neuberger Museum, Purchase, NY curated by Judy Collishan /catalog
  "Rapid"Post Petrolium gas stations, Rapid Response collaboration, American Fine Arts,NYC
  "Environmentally Concerned" Curated by Karen Jones, Nathan Cummings Foundation, NYC
  "Algae Works" solo exhibition West Korwright Centre, East Meredith, NY
  "Paradise Now" Picturing the Genetic Revolution,curated by Marvin Heifferman & Carole Kismaric, Exit Art, NYC
  “Animal Magnetism” Bucknell Art Gallery, Curated by Stuart Horodner, Lewisburg, PA
“Public Notice”organized by Exit Art at Herron Gallery, Indianapolis, Indiana
“Blockbuster” Year 2000 Show, Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo, NY
“Rapid”Post Petrolium gas stations,Rapid Response collaboration ,American Fine Arts,NYC
“Paper Trail”, Rutgers Center for Innovative Print and Paper, New Brunswick, NJ
“Nature and Her Enemies”, Upstate Art, Phoenicia, NY
The Bio-Tech Road Show, CUNY Grad Center, NYC
“Symbols of Survival” Dorsky Gallery, Curated by Margaret Mathews Berenson, NYC
   
   
1999 
"The Landscape Within", Solo Exhibition, Castellani Museum Niagara Falls, NY
  "Watershould", Erpf Cultural Center, Arkville, NY/ Brochure
  Solo Exhibition, New Work Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, NY
  "Natural Selection" Solo Survey of work from 1979  through 1990. Curated  by Nancy Weekly Burchfield Art Center, Buffalo, traveled to COCA , Seattle, Washington, &Maryland Institute, College of Art, catalog  available

1998 
"Dirty Work", Solo Show TZ Art &Co., NYC
1997 
"Moisture Seekers"Solo Show, Dieu Donne Papermill,  NYC
  Hall Clocks Series for Early Childhood Center #2  The Bronx, co-sponsored by NYC Percent for Art Program & NYC  School Construction Authority
  "Public Notice", Exit Art/The First World NYC, catalog

1996 
"Cultural Economies: Histories from the Alternative Arts Movement" curated by Julie Ault, The Drawing Center, NYC, catalog
  "Endangered Spaces"ABC NoRio, NYC

1992 
"Signs of Life," University of Illinois, Normal, IL. /Catalog
  Solo Show, "Nature Held Hostage," P.P.O.W. Gallery, NYC
  Solo Show, Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, NY
  "Rollback Bench" Permanent outdoor site work to mark 20 years of endangered species legislation, commissioned by the State of Washington Art in Public Places Program, at the U of Washington, Seattle, located on Union Bay
  Design Team Member, Knapp St. Environmental Awareness Center, Coney Island Water Pollution Control Project, Brooklyn, NY
 

"Monumental Propaganda" Smithsonian International Gallery,  Washington, D.C.,organized by Komar& Melamid/ Catalog

1991 
"Artworks," Solo exhibition at Williams College Museum of Art,  Williamstown, Mass.
  "No Laughing Matter," Curated by Nina Felshin,  traveling exhibit, / Catalog available
  "The Art of Advocacy," Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT.
1990 
"Natural Selection," Solo Survey of work from 1979 through 1990, Burchfield Art Center, Buffalo, COCA , Seattle, Washington, Curated by Nancy Weekly / Catalog available
  "Sculpture to Last A Lifetime," Solo exhibit P.P.O.W. Gallery, NYC
  "The (Un)Making of Nature," Whitney Museum of Art, Downtown Branch, traveling to Whitney Branch in Stamford, CT.
  "Natural Selection," Solo Survey of work from 1979 through 1990.
1989 
"Insufficient Data Fish," Commissioned by NYC Department of  Parks,Central Park Pond
1988 
Solo Exhibit, "The Permanent War Economy," P.P.O.W.  Gallery, NYC
  Solo Exhibit   Weatherspoon Gallery, UNC Greensboro, N. C.
  "Committed to Print," Museum of Modern Art, NYC and traveling, catalog available

1986 
"Social Progress," outdoor public sculpture installed at 23rd St. and 5th Avenue, NYC, Sponsored by the Public Art Fund
  "The Law And Order Show," to Celebrate the 200th Anniversary of the US Constitution, Center for Constitutional Rights, John Weber Gallery, NYC

1985 
National Endowment for the Arts, fellowship in sculpture
  "Americana," Curated by Group Material for the Whitney  Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art
  "America has a Ticker tapeworm" Messages to the Public, Spectacolor board in Times Square, Sponsored by the Public Art Fund, NYC

1984 
"Hire Intelligence," Dag Hammarskjold Plaza, NYC
  "Artists Call Against US Intervention in Central America," Brooke Alexander Gallery.
  "Nature and Revolution," P.P.O.W. Gallery, NYC

1983 
"Williamsburg Bridge Show," sponsored  by Collaborative Projects
  "L.A. - N.Y. Exchange Show," CO sponsored by Artist  Space and  Contemporary Exhibitions, LA, CA.
  "The Island of Negative Utopia," The Kitchen, NYC
  "Poly Tox Park," outdoor site specific installation  sponsored by New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA.

1982 
"Multiples Store," Documenta 7, Kassel, West  Germany, catalog
  "New York City Wildlife Museum," West 42 St., NYC
  "Natural History," Grace Borgenicht Gallery, NYC, catalog
  "A.More Store," Barbara Gladstone Gallery, NYC, catalog

1981 
National Endowment for the Arts, Fellowship in Sculpture Full Page
  "Monumental Confrontations," commissioned by  The SohoNews, NYC
  "Events," The New Museum invites Fashion Moda to curate a show, NYC, catalog

1979 
"The Rat Patrol," outdoor postering campaign during garbage strike, Lower Manhattan
  "The Times Square Show," NYC
  "Animals Living in Cities," Fashion Moda, South Bronx, NY
  "Segnali Urbani," (Post No Bills), Milan, Italy
  "Manifesto," 5 Bleecker Street, NYC
  "The Dog Show," 591 Broadway, NYC
  "Public Policy," curated by Peter Fend, 626 Broadway,  NYC
  "The Real Estate Show," 123 Delancy Street, NYC

1977 
"Aggressive Geese Piece," Projects Room, Artist Space, NYC
   


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