Sky
Pape

Day into Night, 2016
Water, Sumi ink, Flashe on hot press watercolor paper
51 1/4 x 69 3/16 inches
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1963 |
Born
Toronto, Canada
Lives and works in New York City |
Education |
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1983-85 |
The
Art Students League of New York, studied with Richard Pousette-Dart,
Bruce Dorfman
and Knox Martin |
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1982-83 |
Parsons School of Design, New York |
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1981-82 |
Queens University, Canada |
Solo Exhibitions |
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2017 |
Passing Through: New
Works on Paper, June Kelly Gallery, New York |
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2014 |
Sky Pape: Traces and
Places, Hunterdon Art Museum, Clinton, NJ |
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2013 |
Time Being: Recent
Work, June Kelly Gallery, New York
Selections from the Bellagio Suite, Yellow Box Gallery, St. Thomas
University, Fredericton,
New Brunswick, Canada, catalogue |
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2012 |
Inkternal, with
Kari Lindstrom, Edward Hopper House Art Center, Nyack, NY
Brushless, Curtis Gallery, New Canaan, CT |
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2010 |
Water Works: Surface
Tension-Drawings, June Kelly Gallery, New York |
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2007 |
Ink Scissors Paper,
10-year retrospective, River Stone Arts, Haverstraw, NY
Sky Pape: Drawing Breath, Tompkins Gallery, Cedar Crest College,
Allentown, PA |
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2006 |
Drawing Breath,
June Kelly Gallery, New York
Drawing Breath: New Work on Paper, d.e.n. contemporary art, Los
Angeles, |
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2004 |
Sky Pape and Jill
Odegaard, Courthouse Gallery, Lake George, NY |
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2003 |
Behind
the Seen: Saturated Ink Drawings, June Kelly Gallery, New York |
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2001 |
Silver
Lining: Graphite Drawings, June Kelly Gallery, New York |
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1999 |
Inklings: Drawings,
essay by Jonathan Goodman, June Kelly Gallery, New York |
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1997 |
Mortal
Touchstones, Shenandoah Valley Fine Art Center (Affiliate of the Virginia Museum of
Fine Arts) Waynesboro, Virginia. Funded in part by grants from the National Endowment
for the Arts, the Virginia Commission
for the Arts, the County of Augusta, and the City of
Waynesboro |
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1995 |
Terra
Incognita, Treasure Room Gallery, New York |
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1994 |
Peripheral
Visions, Prezant Gallery, Bronx, New York |
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1993 |
Private
Viewing curated by Francis de Montebello, Marc de Montebello
Fine Art, Inc.,
New York
Recent
Paintings, Jadite Galleries, New York |
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1992 |
Recent
Paintings, Ward-Lawrence Gallery, New York |
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1991 |
Odd and
Normal Scenes, Ward-Lawrence Gallery, New York |
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1990 |
Two
Worlds Away, Lawrence Gallery, New York |
Selected
Group Exhibitions |
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2017 |
Paper Worlds,
Spartanburg Art Museum, Spartanburg, SC
Celebration! Artists Unite-MTA Poster Project, Hudson View Gardens
Lounge, New York
Drums on Paper III, curated by Cem Kacyildirim, Ground Floor Gallery,
Brooklyn, NY |
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2015 |
Tribute to the
Disappeared, curated by Andrea Arroyo, Women’s Rights National
Historical
Park, Seneca Falls, NY
Tribute to the Disappeared, as part of “Works in Daialogue,” curated
by Andrea Arroyo,
Kimmel Gallery, New York University
Tribute to the Disappeared, Malcolm X and Dr. Betty Shabazz Memorial
and Educational
Center, New York
Going Big, curated by Susan Shutan and Susan Carr, Central Booking,
New York
Crossing the Line: Drawings, Paintings and Sculpture, Mark Alsterlind,
Norman Lewis, Elia
Nadelman, Sky Pape, Rebecca Welz and Nola
Zirin, June Kelly Gallery, New York
Crossing the Line: Drawings, Paintings and Sculpture, Mark Alsterlind,
Norman Lewis, Elie
Nadelman, Sky Pape, Rebecca Welz and Nola
Zirin, June Kelly Gallery, New York |
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2013 |
Drawn to Nature,
Glyndor Gallery, curated by Jennifer McGregor, senior curator and
director of arts, Wave Hill, Bronx, NY |
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2012-13 |
GRAM Selects,
Grand Rapids, MI |
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2012 |
Transformation,
Grands Rapids Art Museum, MI
Hammond Museum, North Salem, NY
Celebrating 25 Years, June Kelly Gallery, New York
Northern Manhattan as Muse, NoMAA, June Kelly Gallery, New York |
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2011 |
Drawing Resurfaced,
curated by Kathryn Reeves, Christine Wuenschel and Craig Martin,
Stewart Center Gallery, Purdue University,
West Lafayette, IN, catalogue |
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2009 |
New Digs, d.e.n.
contemporary at the Pacific Center, West Hollywood, CA
Creative Venues: Projection Project, curated by Peter Ferko and
Anthony Archibald J.,
produced by Artists Unite, an
outdoor projection at Nagle Ave. & Thayer St., New York
NoMAA 2008/09 Visual Arts Grantees, Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance,
New York,
curated by Rocio Aranda – Alvarado,
Special Projects Coordinator, El Museo del Barrio,
New York |
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2008 |
TIMELESS: The Art of
Drawing, curated by Ann Aptaker, Morris Museum,
Morristown, NJ;
catalogue
Art on Paper: 40th Anniversary Exhibition, curated by Xandra Eden, Weatherspoon Art
Museum, Greensboro, NC |
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2007-08 |
Visions: Contemporary
Drawings from the James T. Dyke Collection, curated by Townsend
Wolfe, Naples Museum of Art, Fl;
traveling exhibition with catalogue |
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2006 |
cARTalog, The
University of Iowa Libraries, Iowa City, IA
Postcards from the Edge, benefit for Visual AIDS, Sikkema Jenkins &
Company, New York
Holiday Show, George Billis Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
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2005 |
Pulp Friction: New
Takes on Paper, Betty Barker Gallery, Carriage Barn Arts Center, New
Canaan, CT
Now: Here: This, Studio Gallery 88, New York
Span, Collaborative Concepts, Beacon, NY
Drawing National II, Montgomery College, Rockville, MD |
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2003 |
Cycles, Patterns,
Intervals, Fredericksburg Center for the Creative Arts, Fredericksburg, VA |
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2002 |
Memory and Metaphor,
Walsh Library Gallery, Seton Hall University, South
Orange, NJ |
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2001 |
Drawing National,
Montgomery College, Rockville, MD
Women & Books: Uncovered, Converse College, Spartanburg, SC |
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2000 |
The Collector’s Show,
Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR |
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1999 |
From Hairbread to
Wishing Machines, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada |
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1998 |
Priva B. Gross
International, Works on/of Paper, curated by Marilyn Kushner, curator of prints
and drawings, Brooklyn
Museum of Art; City University of New York,
Queensborough
College, NY
Small Works, curated by Ealan Wingate and Ruth Newman, 80 Washington
Square East
Galleries, New York University,
New York |
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1996 |
Three Rivers Arts
Festival, curated by Dan Cameron of the New Museum of Contemporary
Art, New York, sponsored by the Carnegie
Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
The 41st Annual Exhibition, sponsored by the Long Island Art League,
Heckscher Museum
of Art, Huntington, NY |
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1995 |
Hiroshima: From Me to
You, Fukuya Art Gallery, Hiroshima, Japan
Emerging Artists, Harper Gallery, New York |
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1994 |
In the Spirit of
Fluxus, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, CA
The Nude, The Joe and Emily Lowe Art Gallery at Hudson Guild, New
York
Small Works, curated by Stephen Haller and Ruth Newman, 80 Washington
Square East
Galleries New York University, New York |
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1992 |
Mein Vaterland Ist
International, organized by the Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst,
Berlin. Exhibited in Berlin, Turin, Trieste
and other major European cities |
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1990 |
Kunst und Krieg,
1939-1989, Haus Der Kulturen Der Welt Berlin, Germany
Das Andere Amerika, organized by Reinhard Schultz and the Neue
Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst, Berlin, Shown throughout Europe including
Berlin, London, Dublin, Brussels, Antwerp, Copenhagen, Stockholm, Vienna,
Zurich, Milan, and Barcelona |
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1986 |
The Africa Peace Tour,
traveled to 20 U.S. cities, including New York and Washington, DC |
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1985 |
Art Against Apartheid,
organized by Art Against Apartheid, West Chester University, West
Chester, PA
Issues In Focus, organized by Art Against Apartheid, Boricua College,
New York
Small Works, curated by Ealan Wingate and Ruth Newman, 80 Washington
Square East
Galleries, New York University |
Public and Corporate Collections |
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Art Gallery of Ontario,
Toronto, Canada
Brooklyn Museum of Art, NY
Grand Rapids Art Museum, MI
Museum of Modern Art, New York
National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC
Sheldon Art Museum, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
The University of Iowa Libraries, Iowa City, IA
Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst, Berlin, Germany
Women's Studio Workshop, Rosendale, NY
Cirque du Soleil, Montreal, Canada
Dyke Industries Incorporated, Little Rock, AR
Tiffany & Company, Tokyo, Japan; Hong Kong, China; and Beverly Hills, CA |
Awards, Grants & Honors |
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2013 |
Grant, The
Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Inc. New York |
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2012 |
United States Department
of State, Office of Art in Embassies, Montevideo, Uruguay |
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2011 |
Residency at The
Bogliasco Foundation, Liguria Study Center for the Arts & Humanities,
Village of Bogliasco, Italy, and recipient
of the Bogliasco Special Fellowship in the Visual
Arts
Grant, A
book of new drawings—Upper Manhattan, Northern Manhattan Arts
Alliance,
New York |
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2010 |
Residency, Rockefeller
Foundation Bellagio Center, Italy |
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2009 |
Grant, Northern Manhattan
Arts Alliance, New York |
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2008 |
Grant, Northern Manhattan
Arts Alliance, New York |
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2005 |
The E.D. Foundation,
Kearny, New Jersey |
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2000 |
The
Canada Council for the Arts/Le Conseil des Arts du Canada |
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1998 |
Grant, The
Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Inc., New York |
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1985 |
Kenneth
Hayes Miller Memorial Scholarship, The Art Students League of New York |
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