Rebecca Welz

	Born Sausalito, California Lives and works in New York City
Education
	Boston Museum School of Fine Art, Boston, Massachusetts BA, Empire State College, City University of New York
Solo Exhibitions
	2021	Displacement: Sculpture, June Kelly Gallery, New York
	2017	Sunstalks and Barnacles: Sculpture, June Kelly Gallery, New York
	2014	Smoke Trees and Jellyfish: Sculpture and Collages, June Kelly Gallery, New York
	2010	Steel Nets: Sculpture, June Kelly Gallery, New York Rebecca Welz, Sculpture, Humanities Gallery, Long Island University, Brooklyn, NY
	2008	Inner and Outer Spaces: Sculpture, June Kelly Gallery, New York
	2005	Steel Kites: Painted Steel Sculpture, June Kelly Gallery, New York; catalogue
	2004	Rebecca Welz: Wishing Poles and Other Incarnations, Gallery 555, Oakland Museum of California at City Center, CA
	2003	Shingle Pieces, Wishing Poles and Floating Arcs, Butters Gallery, Portland, OR
	2002	Arcs, Orbs and Other Flying Objects: Sculpture, June Kelly Gallery, New York
	2001	Constructions, Butters Gallery Ltd., Portland, OR
	2000	Constructions, June Kelly Gallery, New York; catalogue
	1997	Constructions, June Kelly Gallery, New York
	1994	New Work, Grace Borgenicht Gallery, New York
	1991	Constructions, Grace Borgenicht Gallery, New York; catalogue
	1989	Constructions, Grace Borgenicht Gallery, New York
	1985	Constructions, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, New York
	1979	Landmark Gallery, New York
Selected Group Exhibitions
	2018	Grúpa, Rebecca Welz, Barbara Kruger, C. R. Grigg, Paul Bowen, Jennifer Ellwood, David Loeffler Smith, Laura Petrovich-Cheney, Cherry Stone Gallery, Wellfleet, MA, July-Sept
	2017	Celebrating 30 Years, Gallery Artists: Drawings and Photographs, June Kelly Gallery, New York
	2016	The New Memesis, SciArt Center, Easton, PA Sally’s Party, Cherrystone Gallery, Wellfleet, MA
	2015	Design is Everything, Schafler Gallery, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY 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
	2014	Line, Butters Gallery, Portland, OR
	2013	Unsteady Ground, City Without Walls, Newark, NJ Sculpture Garden, Butters Gallery, Portland, OR
	2008	To Infinity and Beyond: Mathematics in Contemporary Art, co-curated by Elizabeth Meryman and Lynn Gamwell, Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, NY
	2006	The Shape of Things, Butters Gallery, Portland, CA
	2005	Vernissage, Sculpturesite Gallery, San Francisco, CA
	2003	Uncommon Threads, curated by Kathleen Spicer, Delaware Valley Arts Center Loft Gallery, Narrowsburg, NY
	2001	Collections Installed: Ten Women Who Make Sculpture, curated by Judith K. Brodsky, Mason Gross School of the Arts Galleries, Rutgers Center for Innovation Print and Paper, New Brunswick, NJ Collage, Butters Gallery, Portland, Oregon
	1998	Small Works, PSD-X Gallery, New York Faculty Group Show, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
	1996	Akim Masks, Invitational, Sotheby’s, New York; catalogue
	1995	Selections, Adam Baumgold Gallery, New York Faculty Group Show, Pratt Institute Manhattan Gallery and The Schafler Gallery, Brooklyn, NY Collaborative Work for Grace Borgenicht, Borgenicht Gallery, New York Group Show at Office Environments, organized by Joyce Creiger Gallery, Boston, MA; catalogue
	1993	Hand Workshop, Virginia Center for the Craft Arts, Richmond, VA Rockville Arts Place, Rockville, MD
	1992	Benefit for the Organization of Independent Artists, Rosa Esman Gallery, New York Process as Issue, College of New Rochelle, NY
	1989	Climate‘89, Grace Borgenicht Gallery, New York; catalogue Plane Into Form, World Trade Center, New York
	1987	Invitational, Grace Borgenicht Gallery, New York; catalogue
	1983	Put Together Again, 4 Sculptors, 22 Wooster Gallery, New York
	1982	Polychrome Sculpture: Views by Women Artists, Lever House, New York; catalogue Put Together, 4 Sculptors, 22 Wooster Gallery, New York 10th Anniversary Show, Landmark Gallery, New York
	1976	Auction 393, 393 West Broadway, New York; catalogue
	1973	Boston City Hall, Boston, MA
Selected Bibliography Articles and Reviews
	2011	McClermont, Doug, review, ARTnews
	2006	Little, Carl, “Rebecca Welz at June Kelly,” review, Art in America, January
	2005	Wright, Jeffrey Cyphers, review, Hung Steel, Offoffoff.com
	2004	Goodman, Jonathan, review, Sculpture Magazine, March
	2003	Morgan, Robert, review, ARTnews, January
	2001	Ellertson, Karen, “A sense of place infuses the work of two artists,” The Oregonian, Friday, July 20
	1997	Bell, J. Bowyer, “Constructions,” Review, September 15 Youens, Rachel, “Curving Space Frees Her Form,” Cover, Vol.11, No.4
	1994	Nunn, Emily, review, The New Yorker, July 11
	1991	Wright, Jeff, review, Cover, September
	1989	Wright, Jeff, review, Cover, May
	1985	Moss, Jacqueline, article, Arts Magazine, September
	1983	Wolff, Theodore F., “The Many Masks of Modern Art Series,” The Christian Science Monitor, October 27 Morris, Diana, review, Women Artists News, summer, pp. 8 and 9
	1982	Wolff, Theodore F., “Series on Art,” The Christian Science Monitor, February 10, p.18
	1979	Erlich, Robbie, review, Arts Magazine, September, p.34 Kingsley, April, “Nature Takes It’s Course,” The Village Voice, April 2, p. 79 Wolff, Theodore F., review, The Christian Science Monitor, March 9, p. 15
Selected Bibliography Books and Catalogues
	2005	Steel Kites, essay by Jonathan Goodman, June Kelly Gallery, New York
	2000	Constructions, essay by Gerrit Henry, June Kelly Gallery, New York
	1997	Wolff, Theodore F., exhibition essay, June Kelly Gallery, New York; brochure
	1994	Doering, Erika, Switzky, Rachel, Welz, Rebecca, Goddess in the details: product design by women, publishers: Association of Women Industrial Designs, New York, book
	1991	Constructions, essay by Theodore F. Wolff, Grace Borgenicht Gallery, New York
Selected Public Collections
	AXA Corporation, New York Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton, New York Cortec Corporation, New York Credit Lyonnais, New York Goldman Sachs & Company, New York Merck, New Jersey Mound, Cotton, Wollan, New York Pfizer Incorporated, New York Prudential Life Insurance Corporation, New York Sabre Corporation, Dallas/Fort Worth, TX Sidney Lewis, Richmond, VA Warburg Pincus, New York William Kaufman Organization, New York Windmueller Fine Arts, Scarsdale, New York
Projects
	2017,2016	Organizer and Participant, Antigua Project
	2015	Traveled to Antigua, Guatemala with a group of artists/designers from New York to collaborate with weavers, woodcarvers, carpenters, a shoemaker, a ceramicist, a leather worker and a silversmith to create a collection of products that represented the local traditions and skills combined with the design expertise of the designers from New York. traditions and skills that combines the expertise of designers from New York.
	2013	Organizer and Participant, The Malinalco Project
		Organized by Pratt professor Rebecca Welz and Traveled to Malinalco, in Central Mexico with a group of 12 artist/designers from the graduate program at Pratt Institute and sponsored by the not for profit organization Project El Rincón de Malinalco. Worked with local woodcarvers, carpenters, and weavers to create a product line that represented the local traditions and skills combined with the design expertise of designers from New York.
	2010	Co-organizer and Participant, The Guyana Project
		An initiative that combined cultural, material and process research with design competencies and onsite manufacturing in a factory focused on sustainable and ecological manufacture in Guyana, South America. Eleven designers from the graduate program at Pratt Institute worked in close collaboration with artisans at the Liana Cane Factory and with the indigenous Wai Wai community to produce a new collection of products and furniture made from renewable and local non timber forest products. The project was aimed at developing a partnership with the artisan workers, creating an exchange rather than a traditional model of manufacturing used by industrialized nations.
	2001-2003	Smart Design and OXO; and Coalition for the Homeless; directed research for Industrial Design Graduate Students
	1990	Founded The Association of Women Industrial Designers, AWID, in conjunction with a
		group of graduate students. Mounted the first exhibition of women product design in the United States, funded by Timex group USA, Inc., Middlebury, CT., Knoll Manufacturing Company, East Granville, PA, New York, Pratt Manhattan Gallery and the Pratt Schaffler Gallery, Brooklyn, NY