Claudia DeMonte Bio

	Born Astoria, New York Lives and works in New York City and Miami Beach, FL
Education
	B.A., College of Notre Dame of Maryland, Baltimore, MD M.F.A., Catholic University of America, Washington, DC
Solo Exhibitions
	2025	Drowning in My Own Expectations, June Kelly Gallery, New York
	2022	Songi: Sculpture, Drawings and Installation, June Kelly Gallery, New York
	2020	Navigation: Sculpture and Paintings, June Kelly Gallery, New York
	2019-20	Binomial: Claudia DeMonte and EdMcGowin, Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, catalogue.
	2018	A World View, Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis, MA Memento Vivere: Sculpture and Installations, June Kelly Gallery, New York PARTNERS: Claudia DeMonte and Ed McGowin, Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, CT
	2017	Celebrating 30 Years: Group Show Gallery Artists Drawings and Photographs, June Kelly Gallery, New York
	2016	Memory Keepers: Sculpture and Installations, June Kelly Gallery, New York
	2014	Claudia DeMonte: La Forza del Destino, June Kelly Gallery, New York A Woman’s Work is Never Done, Five Points Gallery, Torrington, CT Claudia De Monte, Cullis Wade Depot Art Gallery, Mississippi State University, Starkville, MS
	2012	Abundance: Sculpture/Installation, June Kelly Gallery, New York
	2011	Claudia DeMonte: Retrospective, Cora Miller Gallery, York College of Pennsylvania Claudia DeMonte: Real Beauty, Cecille R. Hunt Gallery, Webster University, St. Louis, MO Self and the Everywoman: Mixed Media Works by Claudia DeMonte, Trustman Art Gallery, Simmons College, Boston, MA CLAUDIA DEMONTE - OPERA di DONNA, Marsh Hall, University of Southern Mississippi Museum of Art, Hattiesburg, MS
	2010	Claudia DeMonte, Nordstrand Gallery, Wayne State University, Wayne, NE Real Beauty, Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, AL Real Beauty, Katzen Center for the Arts, American University, Washington, DC Claudia DeMonte, Heffernan Gallery, West Valley Art Museum, Surprise, AZ Claudia DeMonte: Mapping Beauty, Sarah Moody Gallery of Art, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL; traveling retrospective exhibition The Luxury of Exercise: Small Sculpture and Works on Paper by Claudia DeMonte, Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS
	2009	Claudia DeMonte: The Luxury of Exercise, June Kelly Gallery, New York, monograph with an essay by Eleanor Heartney and foreword by Agnes Gund, Pomegranate Books, San Francisco, CA Claudia DeMonte and Ed McGowin, Jan Colle Gallery, Ghent, Belgium Claudia DeMonte: Retrospective, University of New Haven, West Haven, CT Everyday Matters, Flint Institute of Arts, MI
	2008	Claudia DeMonte: Real Beauty, Kasser Family Exhibition, The Gottesman Libraries, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York
	2007	Empowered Objects: New Sculpture, June Kelly Gallery, New York; catalogue Claudia DeMonte: Mapping Beauty, Holzhauer Gallery, Mattie Kelly Fine and Performing Arts Center, Okaloosa-Walton College, Niceville, FL Mapping Beauty: 3 decades of installations, Makan Gallery, Amman, Jordan; brochure
	2006	A Couple of Litchfield County Artists, Silo Gallery, New Milford, CT Claudia DeMonte: A Silhouette, Selected Works, 1976–2005, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; brochure Claudia DeMonte, Women’s Art Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
	2005	Claudia DeMonte, Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, LA Claudia DeMonte, Cole Pratt Gallery, New Orleans, LA
	2004	Retrospective, Tallinn Kunstihoone, Tallinn, Estonia Claudia DeMonte, Gerdunberg Cultural Center, Reykjavik, Iceland Personal Journeys, Salem College, Winston Salem, NC
	2003	Female Fetishes, International Museum of Women, San Francisco, CA Claudia DeMonte, Spring Hill College, Mobile, AL Claudia DeMonte, Brenau University, Gainesville, GA Claudia DeMonte, Cole Pratt Gallery, New Orleans, LA
Selected Group Exhibitions
	2024	Remnants of Childhood, Academy of the Art Museum, Easton, MD. The Psychology of Portraiture, Godwin-Ternbach Museum, Queens College, NY The Women of the June Kelly Gallery, June Kelly Gallery, New York
	2023	Monuments to Unknown Heroes, Contemporary Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH The World Is A Handkerchief The World In A Handkerchief, Coral Gables Museum, FL
	2022	Work It! Women Artists on Women’s Labor,” Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, CT
	2021	Art at Home, drawing from The Vogel Collection, Academy Art Museum, Eason, Maryland Permanent Collection, curated by John Stewart Gordon, Yale University Museum of Art, New Haven, CT
	2019-20	Bionomial: Claudia DeMonte and Ed McGowin, Jill Deupi, J.D., Ph.D, Beaux Arts Director and Chief Curator, Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, FL; catalogue
	2017-10	Selections from the Collection, 40 Years Retrospective at the Islip Art Museum, NY
	2017	Permanent Collection from Around the World, Flint Institute of Art, Flint Airport Exhibition, MI Contemporary Consolidated, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa Lavori Su Carta, Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimo, New York University Un Incontro a Venezia, Archivio Emily Harvey, Venice, Italy 387, Archivio Emily Harvey, Venice, Italy Art for Arts Sake, Cole Pratt Gallery, New Orleans, LA
	2010	Vogel 50x50: Selections from the Nevada Collection of Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection:
Public and Corporate Collections
	Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, FL Boca Raton Museum of Art, FL Brooklyn Museum, New York Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, Sedalia, MO Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE Grand Rapids Art Museum, MI Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH Housatonic Museum of Art, Bridgeport, CT Indianapolis Museum of Art, IN Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, FL Minnesota Museum of American Art, Saint Paul, MN Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS Mobile Museum of Art, AL Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL Museum of South Texas, Edinburgh, TX New Orleans Museum of Art, LA Portland Art Museum, ME Speed Museum, Louisville, KY St. Louis University Art Museum, Sedalia, MO The Patterson Museum, NJ Queens Museum of Art, Flushing Meadows, NY Stamford Museum and Nature Center, CT Tucson Art Museum, AZ Flint Institute of Art, MI Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC Center for the Fine Arts, Vero Beach, FL Brenau University Galleries, Simmons Visual Arts Center, Gainesville, GA Frederick S. Wright Art Gallery, University of California, Los Angeles, CA University of Maryland, College Park, MD Yale Museum of Art, New Haven, CT New School for Social Research, New York St. Lawrence University, NY Miami-Dade Community College, FL Queensborough Community College, Bayside, NY Academy Art Museum, Easton, MD Contemporary Art Museum, Villa Rufolo, Ravello, Italy Konin Museum, Poland Museum Artystow, Lodz, Poland Museum of Modern Art of Salerno, Italy Sweenter Shoe Museum, Antwerp, Belgium Warsaw Museum of Modern Art, Poland University of Oldenburg, Germany Siemens Company, West Germany Bellevue Hospital, New York Exxon Corporation, New York J .P. Morgan/Chase, New York Prudential Life Insurance, Parsippany, NJ
Curated Exhibitions
	2023	The World is a Handkerchief, conceptual installation, organized by Yuni Villalonga, Director of Curatorial Programs,
	2004-07	Real Beauty: A Celebration of Diversity and Global Culture, 140 handmade dolls by women artists from around the world; touring exhibition, brochure
	2000-07	Women of the World: A Global Collection of Art, works by women artists from 177 countries addressing the question, “What image depicts women?” traveled to 22 venues nationally and internationally, book published by Pomegranate, San Francisco, CA
	1994	Significant Losses, curatorial consultant, The Art Gallery, University of Maryland, College Park, MD Collection of Jim & Danielle Sotet, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; catalogue International Folk Art Exhibition, Sarlinger, co-curator, lender and essayist