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Carmen Cicero Bio

Born Newark, New Jersey
Lives and works in New York City

Education
1991 MFA, Montclair State College, NJ
1952 Graduate Studies with Robert Motherwell, Hunter College, NY
1947-1951 BA, Newark State Teachers College, Newark, NJ

Solo Exhibitions
2024 Carmen Cicero Drawings And Watercolors, June Kelly Gallery, New York
2021 Watercolors: 1985-2017, June Kelly Gallery, New York
2020 The Human Condition, essay by John Yau, June Kelly Gallery, New York
2018 Battle of the Sexes 1965-1982, June Kelly Gallery, New York
2015 Carmen Cicero: Early Works: 1970s-1980s, June Kelly Gallery, New York
2012 Visionary Paintings, June Kelly Gallery, New York
Carmen Cicero: The Visionary Work, curated by William Evaul, Provincetown Art
  Association and Museum, MA
2010 Carmen Cicero: Watercolors, The Shore Gallery, Provincetown, MA
In the Still of the Night: New Paintings
, June Kelly Gallery, New York
2007 Things That Happen In the Moonlight: Watercolors, June Kelly Gallery; catalogue
2004 New Paintings, June Kelly Gallery, New York; catalogue
2001 Recent Work, June Kelly Gallery, New York
2000 Carmen Cicero: A Survey of Paintings, Provincetown Art Association and Museum, MA;
  catalogue
Carmen Cicero: Watercolors, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1998 Recent Paintings, June Kelly Gallery, New York
Paintings and Watercolors, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1997 Long Point Gallery, Provincetown, MA
1995 Paintings and Watercolors, June Kelly Gallery, New York
1993 New Paintings, June Kelly Gallery, New York
1991 Montclair State College Art Gallery, Montclair, NJ
1990 Paintings and Watercolors, June Kelly Gallery, New York
1988 Paintings, Graham Modern Gallery, New York
Watercolors, June Kelly Gallery, New York
1987 Watercolors and Sculpture, Graham Modern Gallery, New York
1986 Cherrystone Gallery, Wellfleet, MA
1985 Recent Paintings, Graham Modern Gallery, New York
1984 Paintings and Drawings, 1975-1984, Graham Modern Gallery, New York
1983 Art Academy, Museum of Cincinnati, OH
1982 Gracie Mansion Gallery, New York
1979 Gurewitsch Gallery, New York
1978 Dubins Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1976 Caldwell College, Caldwell, NJ
1975 Leslie Rankow Gallery, New York
1972 Simone Stern Gallery, New Orleans, LA
1970 Wellfleet Art Gallery, Cape Cod, MA and Palm Beach, FL
Drawings and Serigraphs, New School for Social Research, NY

Selected Group Exhibitions
2017 Celebrating 30 Years, Gallery Artists: Drawing and Photography, June Kelly Gallery, New York
2012 Art of Another Kind: International Abstraction and the Guggenheim, 1949-1960, Solomon R.
  Guggenheim Museum; travelled to the Cobra Museum of Modern Art, Amstelveen,
  Netherlands; catalogue
Art of Another Kind: International Abstraction and the Guggenheim, 1949-1960, Solomon R.
  Guggenheim Museum; catalogue
Long Point: An Artists’ Place, curated by Mary E. Abell, Provincetown Art Association and
  Museum, MA; catalogue
Celebrating 25 Years, June Kelly Gallery, New York
2009 Hidden Gems: Works on Paper, June Kelly Gallery, New York
2007 THE 182ND ANNUAL EXHIBITION OF CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN ART,
  National Academy Museum, New York; catalogue
2006 The Figure in American Painting and Drawing 1985-2005, Ogunquit Museum of American
  Art, ME; brochure
2005 180th Annual Exhibition, National Academy Museum, New York
Art Chicago In The Park, Chicago, IL
2004 Art Dealers Association of America, 69th Street Armory, New York
Art Chicago At The Pier, Chicago, IL
2001 Many Moons, curated by Barbara J. Bloemink, Hammond Museum & Japanese Stroll
 
Garden, North Salem, NY
1998 Long Point Gallery at Fine Art Work Center, Hudson D. Walker Gallery, MA
A Tribute to Long Point Gallery, Cape Museum of Fine Arts, Dennis, MA
A Salute to the Long Point Gallery, Nardin Gallery, New York
Long Point Gallery at Provincetown Art Association and Museum, MA
Contemporary Selections from The National Academy at Silvermine, New Silvermine Guild
  Galleries, New Canaan, CT
1997 The Artist’s Eye: Will Barnet Selects Portraits from the Permanent Collection, National Academy
  Museum, New York

Selected Public Collections
Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive USC (University of Southern California)
Boca Raton Museum of Art, FL
Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
Cahoon Museum of American Art, Cotuit, MA
Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis, MA
Fisher Museum of Art, Los Angeles
George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum, Springfield, MA
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Cambridge,
High Museum of Art, Atlanta. GA
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC
National Academy of Design Museum, New York
National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
Netherlands Museum of Modern Art, Amsterdam
Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY
Newark Museum, Newark, NJ
New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ
New York National Academy of Design, New York
Montclair Art Museum, Upper Montclair, NJ
Museum of Modern Art, New York
San Diego Museum of Art, CA
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA
Herbert F. Johnson Museum, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Bridgewater State University, Bridgewater, MA
University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, CA
University of Michigan, Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI
University of Southern California, Fisher Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
University of Texas Art Collection, San Antonio, TX
Provincetown Art Association and Museum, MA
Art Gallery of Toronto
Art Institute of Chicago
Musei Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Holland
Jacobs, Visconsi & Jacobs, Cleveland, OH
La Mont Gallery, Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, NH
Wallace L. Anderson Gallery, Bridgewater, MA
George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum, Springfield, MA
West Publishing Company, St. Paul, MN

Fellowships and Awards
2024 Gladys Emerson Cook Prize for "best animal sketch or painting or best academic work” at
  the 191 Annual exhibition of the National Academy of Design Annual
2016 Jacob Lawrence and Gwendolyn Knight Award, American Academy of Arts and Letters,
  New York
2012 Lifetime Achievement Award, Provincetown Art Association and Museum, MA
2007 Lifetime Achievement Award, Pollock-Krasner Foundation, New York
1997 American Academy of Arts & Letters, Purchase Prize
1995 Mikhail and Ekateryna Shatalov Prize for “a romantic realist landscape executed in a free
  manner” at the 170th annual National Academy of Design exhibition.
1993 Designated National Academician (NA), National Academy Museum and School (formerly
  National Academy of Design), New York, NY
1991 Admitted as Associate Member (ANA), National Academy Museum and School, New York
1965 Ford Foundation Purchase Prize
1963 Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship
1961 Ford Foundation Purchase Prize
1957 Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship

Bibliography
Books/Monographs
2024 Carmen Cicero Drawings And Watercolors, Foreword by Annette Blaugrund, “Tales of Intrigue,
  Danger, and Humor,” Essay by David Ebony, Abbeville Press, New York, London
Charow, Josh. The Last of New York City’s Original Artist Lofts. Bologna, Italy: Damiani Books,
  2024: 40-49.
Falconer, Morgan. “Books: Turn on, Tune In, Walk up: Loft Law: The Last of New York City’s
  Original Artist Lofts
(by Joshua Charow; Damiani), World of Interiors, May 2024: 68.
Keenan, Annabel. “Photographer Joshua Charow Takes You Inside New York’s Last
  Remaining Artist Lofts, Cultured Magazine, May 3.
Latu, Dan. “Look inside the last lofts of New York City’s artists shielded 40 years ago from
  the city’s soaring rents, Business Insider, May 4.
2022 Storer, Abraham. “Carmen Cicero’s Pursuit of Deep Expression: A lifetime of stories and
  styles emerge from a studio in Truro.” Provincetown Independent, November 3, 2022: C1.
2019 Brown, Susan Rand. “The fascinatin’ rhythms of Cicero & Abell.” Provincetown Banner, June
  27, 2019, Arts & Entertainment: 19.
2015 Smith, Roberta. “Carmen Cicero: Early Works: 1970s–1980s.” The New York Times, April 2.

Teaching
1959-1968 Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY
1970-2001 Montclair State University, Upper Montclair, NJ

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