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Claudia DeMonte Bio

Drowning in My Own Expectations, Claudia DeMonte s sculpture exhibition, informed by decades of her observing the sentiments, challenges, issues, dreams, and expectations of women universally, will open at the June Kelly Gallery, 166 Mercer Street, on April 3.  The exhibition will remain on view through May 13.

Agnes Gund, president emerita of New York s Museum of Modern Art, wrote in the foreword in the monograph entitled Claudia DeMonte, that she marvels at how tenaciously and passionately DeMonte has explored the relationship of images and women.  One senses a vibrant, concerned, empathetic soul in them all.   An essay in the monograph, by art critic Eleanor Heartney, states that the artist s travels had made her increasingly aware of the way objects act as surrogates for important issues in our lives.

Determination and grit have, without exception, for decades, been key roles in DeMonte s sculpted subjects from earlier homemaker with pewter everyday items, to traveler with luggage tags from around the world, and consumer with an archetypal high-end Birkin handbag, all encrusted with pictographic configurations, and her powerful visually narrative 2022 bronze sculpture, entitled Leap of Faith, featuring a woman atop a staircase, positioned to dive into space.  In this current body of work, DeMonte s pony-tailed surrogates convey unfamiliar emotional impressions: angst and uncertainty.

To the sculpture titled Drowning in My Own Expectations, she adds the descriptive word, Worry; about the sculpture titled Next Step, she writes, This woman, with her pony-tailed head, has many legs, each going in a different direction. She must choose, as we all do in life, which way to go next   These works reflect today s moment and how women globally are attempting to navigate.  She has utilized dreams and objects symbolic of female gender materialism as sources of inspiration for her art.  Still, in this current body of work, a remarkable sense of irony is evident in her sculptural narratives.  The imagined scenarios now portray a different psychological presence.  Worry, anxiety, and uncertainty are the informers of her art. These are dilemmas DeMonte presents for viewers to take seriously.

DeMonte lives and works in New York and Miami Beach, FL.  She received a Bachelor's degree from the College of Notre Dame of Maryland in Baltimore and an MFA from the Catholic University of America in Washington, DC.  DeMonte's work has been shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions nationally and internationally.  The many public and private collections in which she is represented include the Brooklyn Museum, New York; Bass Museum, Miami, FL; Flint Institute of Art, MI; Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH; Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS; Lowe Museum, Miami Beach, FL; New Orleans Museum of Art, LA; Indianapolis Museum of Art; University of Maryland, College Park; Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA; Portland Museum of Art, ME; Contemporary Art Museum, Villa Rufolo, Ravello, Italy; Warsaw Museum of Modern Art, Poland; and University of Oldenburg, Germany.

 

 

 

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

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