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WENDY KLEMPERER
tel: (347) 223-8876
e-mail: wendyklemperer@gmail.com
url: www.wendyklemperer.com
born Boston, MA

EDUCATION:

  • Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY B.F.A. Sculpture

  • 83 Harvard-Radcliffe College, Cambridge, MA B.A. Biochemistry

  • Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture

COMMISSIONS/COLLECTIONS:

EXHIBITIONS (ONE AND TWO PERSON):

  • 2023 - 2025 Wrought Taxonomies, solo show at Vanderbilt Museum, Centerport, NY

  • 2023 Salvaged Beasts, solo show at Diehl Gallery, Jackson, WY

  • 2022 There Goes the Neighborhood, The Art Center at Duck Creek, Easthampton, NY

  • 2021 Wendy Klemperer: Artist at Sea, UNH Museum of Art, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH

  • 2020 INSTINCT, Red Fox Gallery, Pound Ridge, NY

  • 2017 Let the Outside In, Humanities Gallery, Long Island University, Brooklyn, NY

  • 2017 Salvage What You Can, Studio 10, 56 Bogart, Brooklyn, NY

  • 2016-17 Shadow Migrations, Summit Public Art, Summit, NJ

  • 2015-16 Shadow Migrations, Court Square Park, Queens, NY, Clare Weiss Emerging Artist Award, NYC Parks

  • 2015 Wendy Klemperer: Sculpture, The Hotchkiss School, CT through 2017

  • 2014 Wendy Klemperer: Sculpture and Drawings, Memorial Gallery, SUNY Farmingdale, NY

  • 2014 Pursuit, Henry’s Rooftop Bar, Roger Smith Hotel, NY, NY

  • 2013 Gericroix, The Sculpture Project, New Hope, PA

  • 2013 Restraint and Release, curated by Kristine Durocher, Museum of Art, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH

  • 2013 Gestures of that Other Life, curated by Kate Mullen, Four Corners Arts Center, Tiverton, RI

  • 2012 Waxing Wild, curated by Deborah Brown, Storefront Bushwick (project space), Brooklyn, NY

  • 2011 Re-Imagined: Sculpture by Wendy Klemperer, curated by June LaCombe/SCULPTURE, College of the Atlantic, Bar Harbor, ME

  • 2010 Re-Imagined: Sculpture by Wendy Klemperer, curated by June LaCombe/SCULPTURE, Maine Audubon, Falmouth, ME

  • 2009 Re-Imagined: Sculpture by Wendy Klemperer, curated by June LaCombe/SCULPTURE, Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens, Boothbay, ME

  • 2008 Shadow Migration, 38 Cameron Gallery, Cambridge, MA (2 person)

  • 2008 Two Artists, Union College Gallery, Schenectady, NY (2 person)

  • 2007 Leopard, 38 Cameron Gallery, Cambridge, MA (3 person)

  • 2000 Suspended Animation, Gallery of South Orange, NJ (solo)

  • 1999 Urban Pastures, Bridgewater/Lustberg Gallery, NY, NY (solo)

  • 1998 Anima Mundi, Bridgewater/Lustberg Gallery, NY, NY (solo)

  • 1997 Featured Artist, Nelson Art Gallery, Nelson, NH

VIDEOS:

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

2024

Sculpture at the Mount, Group Show at The Mount, Lenox, MA

Birth of a Shadow, Chesterwood, Stockbridge, MA

2023

Un/Natural Selections: Wildlife in Contemporary Art, Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY

Un/Natural Selections: Wildlife in Contemporary Art, The James Museum, St. Petersburg, FL

Un/Natural Selections: Wildlife in Contemporary Art, The Gibbes Museum, Charleston, SC

Going Outside, Curated by Dan Devine, Sculpture Space Hudson, Hudson, NY


2022

Un/Natural Selections: Wildlife in Contemporary Art, The Whatcom Museum, Bellingham, WA

Bright and Beautiful Vl, Diehl Gallery, Jackson Hole, Wyoming

Viridis, Red Fox Gallery, Pound Ridge, NY

Shelter, curated by Melinda Stickney-Gibson, Byrdcliffe Woodstock Artists Guild, Woodstock, NY

2021

Famous Artists, Store 4 Rent Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

Spring Awakening, Hawk Ridge Farm, June LaCombe/SCULPTURE,Pownal, ME

2020

  • Clarity, Hawk Ridge Farm, June LaCombe/SCULPTURE,Pownal, ME

2019

  • Among Friends, curated by Patti Fabricant and Alexandra Rutsch Brock, Clemente Soto Velez Ctr, NY, NY

  • Wildflower Sculpture Park, South Orange, NJ

  • Cross Contemporary Art, Saugerties, NY

  • Lemon Fair Sculpture Park, Shoreham, VT

  • Living With Sculpture, June LaCombe SCULPTURE, ME

2018

  • Beasts of Brooklyn, curated by Elisa Jensen, Green Door Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2017

  • Embracing Earth, June LaCombe/SCULPTURE, Pownal, ME Power of Place, June LaCombe/SCULPTURE, Wells Reserve, ME

  • Spring Break Art Fair, Personal Tesseract, curated by Anne Spalter, NYC

  • The Animal That I Am, Art & Lounge, Newark Intl Airport, NJ

2016

  • Satellite Art Fair, Berlin Collective, curated by Nicole Cohen, Miami, FL

  • Ice Age, VINS, Quechee, VT

  • Celebrating a Century of Women in the Arts, Berta Walker Gallery, Provincetown, MA

  • Autumn at Hawk Ridge Farm, June LaCombe/SCULPTURE,Pownal, ME

  • Where Mountains Meet the Sea, June LaCombe/SCULPTURE, College of the Atlantic, ME

  • Garden Centennial Exhibition, Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum, Pelham Bay Park, Bronx, NY

  • Art Southampton, Elaine Baker Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY

  • Conference of the Birds, Shirley Fiterman Art Ctr, BMCC, NY, curated by Brenda Zlamany

2015

  • Lost Cat, Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis, MA

  • North Bennington Outdoor Sculpture Show, North Bennington, VT

  • Poetry of Place, June LaCombe SCULPTURE, Pownal, ME

  • The Sculpture Project, Baker Sponder Gallery, Boca Raton, FL

  • Constellation Carousel, Franconia Sculpture Park, Schafer, MN

  • New Work City, curated by Julie Torres, Momenta Art, Brooklyn, NY

2014

  • Brooklyn Gravity Racers, 20th Anniversary, Pierogi/The Boiler, Brooklyn, NY

  • Beasts of Burden, curated by Jane O’Hara, Harvard Allston Educational Portal for the Arts, Allston, MA

  • Pollinators, Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens, June LaCombe/SCULPTURE, Boothbay, ME

  • Sculpture at Maine Audubon, June LaCombe/SCULPTURE, Falmouth, ME

  • Pierogi XX: Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition, Pierogi Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

  • Second Family, Curated by Julie Torres, 2 Rivington St Gallery, NY, NY

  • Family Style, curated by Julie Torres, Formerly Pocket Utopia, NY, NY

  • NurtureArt Benefit (2009-2015), The Boiler, Brooklyn, NY

  • Smack Mellon Benefit (2008-2015), Brooklyn, NY

  • Vapors and Squalls, or Mediums, curated by Paul D’Agostino, Centotto, Brooklyn, NY

  • Back In Situ, or Turns, curated by Paul D’Agostino, Centotto, Brooklyn, NY

  • North Bennington Outdoor Sculpture, curated by Joe Chirchirilli, VT

2013

  • Bestiary, Smart Clothes Gallery, NY, NY

  • Portraits of Fern, Norte Maar, Brooklyn, NY

  • Vermont Arts Council Sculpture Garden, Montpelier, VT

  • Outdoor Sculpture, Ocala, FL

  • Outdoor Sculpture, St. John’s Sculpture Park, Portland, OR

  • Equus, Tabla Rasa Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2012

  • My Wildlife as an Animal, curated by Ron Richter, Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center, NY, NY

  • Sculpture Garden, curated by Deborah Brown and Lesley Heller, Onderdonk House, Brooklyn, NY

  • Steel and Stone, June LaCombe/SCULPTURE, Pownal, ME

  • On the Wing, June LaCombe/SCULPTURE, Maine Audubon, Falmouth, ME

2011

  • Between Earth and Sky, June LaCombe/SCULPTURE, Pownal, ME

  • Outdoor Sculpture, Southern Vermont Arts Ctr, Manchester, VT

  • Sacred Land (Featured Artist), Sculpturefest, Woodstock, VT

  • Sites for Sculpture, curated by Pam Brown, Dowling College, Oakdale, NY

  • New Year/New Work/New Faces, curated by Jason Andrew and Deborah Brown, Storefront Gallery, Bushwick, Brooklyn, NY

2010

  • Outdoor Sculpture, curated by Jocelyn Grayson, Southern Vermont Arts Ctr, Manchester, VT

2009

  • Animal Attractions, curated by Eric Johnson, The Fells, Sunapee, NH

  • Crest Hardware Art Show, Brooklyn, NY

  • Sculpture Invitational, Millbrook Gallery, Concord, NH

  • Return, June LaCombe/SCULPTURE, Pownal, ME

2008

  • Sculpture for New Orleans, curated by Lundberg and Manjarris, NO, LA

  • Water and Gravity, June LaCombe/ SCULPTURE, Pownal, ME

  • Outdoor Sculpture: Creating Harmony with Nature, Courthouse Gallery, Ellsworth, ME

  • Structures, Redmond-Bennet Gallery, Dublin, NH

  • Nature and Balance 2, Arsenal Ctr for the Arts, Watertown, MA

  • Medley, Visions West Gallery, Livingston, MT

  • Crest Hardware 10th Anniversary, Brooklyn, NY

  • Metal-Morphosis ll, Ernest Rubinstein Gallery, NY, NY

  • Gallery in the Garden, curated by Eileen Tognini, Hawk Mountain. PA

2007

  • Where Nature and Culture Meet, Maine Audubon Society and Coastal Maine Botanic Garden, June LaCombe/SCULPTURE

  • Contemporary Sculpture at Chesterwood, curated by Janet Riker, Stockbridge, MA

  • Nature and Balance, Arsenal Ctr. for the Arts, Watertown, MA

  • Go Figure, curated by Eric Johnson, The Fells, Sunapee, NH

  • Sculpture Invitational, Millbrook Gallery, Concord, NH

  • Visions West Gallery, Livingston, MT

  • DUMBO Outdoor Sculpture, Jan Larsen Art, Brooklyn, NY

2006

  • June LaCombe/Sculpture, Coastal Maine Botanic Gardens, Boothbay Harbor, ME

  • Sculpture Installation, Chapel Hill, NC

  • Sculpture Installation, ArtInPlace, Charlottesville, VA

2003

  • Sculpture in the Park lll, Rockland Ctr for The Arts, Nyack, NY

  • Faculty Exhibit, Ernest Rubenstein Gallery, Ed. Alliance, NYC

  • Contemporary Sculpture at Chesterwood, Curated by Janice Kean Dorgan, Chesterwood Museum, Stockbridge, MA

  • 17th Rosen Outdoor Sculpture, Appalachian State Univ., Boone, NC

  • Third Annual Florida Outdoor Sculpture Competition, Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, FL

  • Sculpture Courtyard, Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, FL

2002

  • Six Sculptors, Long Island University campus, Brooklyn, NY curated by Kathleen Gilrain

  • Earthworks, North Carolina Zoological Park, Ashboro, NC

2001

  • Sculpture Installation, Artscape Public Art, Pittsfield, MA

  • The Sculpture Path, Forest Hills Educational Trust, Boston, MA

  • Sculpture Installation, Pratt Institute Sculpture Park, Brooklyn, NY

  • Celebration, Stone Quarry Hill Art Park, Cazenovia, NY, 2001

  • Sculpture in the Garden 2001, Berkshire Botanical Garden, Stockbridge, MA

  • Contemporary Sculpture At Chesterwood 2001, Stockbridge, MA

  • The Madison Mile: Contemporary Outdoor Sculpture, Madison, CT

  • Harbor Walk: Sculpture on the Boardwalk, West Haven, CT

2000

  • Chain-hounds: an Installation, DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA

  • The Dog and Pony Show, curated by Leslie Heller, The Workspace, 96 Spring St, NYC

  • Sculpture Installation, Convergence Festival, Providence, RI

  • Bridgeport Sculpture Festival, organized by Peter Lundberg, Bridgeport, CT

  • Checked, organized by Cindy Tower, Museum of Modern Art (action on coat check room), NYC

1999

  • Contemporary Sculpture at Chesterwood, curated by Janice Conner, Chesterwood Museum, Stockbridge, MA

  • Examining the Equine, Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, Virginia Beach, VA

  • The Horse Show, Sylvia White Gallery, 560 Broadway, NYC

  • Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition, Millbrook Gallery and Sculpture Garden, Concord, NH

  • Sculpture Installation, City of Poughkeepsie Sculpture Park, Poughkeepsie, NY

1998

  • Signs, Forms, Systems: Site-Specific Outdoor Sculpture, North 9th St and Kent Ave, Brooklyn, NY

  • Escape Velocity, Socrates Sculpture Park, Queens, NY

  • Indoor/Outdoor Sculpture, Greene Gallery, Guilford, CT

1997

  • Crest Hardware and Soho Hardware, curated by Gene Pool, NY

1996

  • Brookworld: Installations by 25 Brooklyn Artists in a Soho Tenement Building, curated by Cindy Tower, 24 Thompson St, NYC

  • Nine Sculptors Outdoors, Washburn University, Topeka, KS

  • Cousins, Cape Gallery, Falmouth, MA (two-person)

1995

  • Sculpture Survey Show, curated by Mariella Bisson, One Main St Exhibition Space, Brooklyn, NY

  • Exposure and Vulnerability, Empire-Fulton Ferry State Park Brooklyn, NH

  • Other Rooms, Ronald Feldman Gallery, 39 Mercer St, NYC

  • All Media Summer Exhibition, Contemporary Artist’s Ctr, North Adams, MA

1994

  • 11211: Williamsburg Artists, Jadite Gallery, 413 W.50th st, NYC

  • Art-Terre: A Site-Specific Art Exhibit, Buckingham, Canada

1993

  • Four-Walls Fundraiser, David Zwirner Gallery, 97 Green St, NYC

  • NY/93/50, Socrates Sculpture Park, Queens, NYC

  • Outdoor Sculpture, OIA sponsored exhibition, Ward’s Island, NY

  • Wild Kingdom, Bridgewater/Lustberg Gallery, NYC

1992

  • Reclaiming Land: an Exhibition of Site-Sculptures, Stone Quarry Hill Art Park, Cazenovia, NY

  • The Neurotic Art Show, Artist’s Space, NYC

  • New Dimensions, Bridgewater/Lustberg Gallery, NYC.

1991

  • In the 3rd Dimension, Bridgewater/Lustberg Gallery, NYC

  • Habitat and Plein Air, AMMO, 135 Plymouth St, Bklyn, NY

  • Alumni Show, Carpenter Center for Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

1989

  • Three Artists, The Gallery, 30 Bond St, NYC

1987

  • Bridge Space Exhibition, 40 Old Fulton St, Bklyn, NY

1986

  • Indoors/Outdoors: a sculpture invitational, curated by David Hacker Charas Cultural Ctr, 9th St at Ave B, NYC

  • Room to Swing a Cat: a multimedia exhibit, 40 Hoyt St, Bklyn, NY

VIDEO COLLABORATIONS:

  • My Pretty Pony and Summertime, with Chris Schiavo and Kara Cressman, screened at Four Walls, Brooklyn, NY, The Kitchen, NYC and Artist’s Space, NYC

GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS, AWARDS:

  • AIR Vallauris, France, (upcoming) 2023

  • Marilyn Newmark Grant, National Sculpture Society, 2022

  • Visiting Artist, ADEON cruise, 3 week residency at sea with scientists studying marine life 2019

  • Creature Conserve Research Grant for Art and Science Projects 2019

  • Visiting Artist, American Academy in Rome 2019

  • Clare Weiss Emerging Artist Award; NYC Parks, Court Square Park, Queens, NY, 2015

  • Franconia Sculpture Park Open Studio Fellowship, MN, 2015

  • Artist in Residence, Stanislaus National Forest, Sonora, CA, 11/2014

  • Artist in Residence, Denali National Park, 8/2013

  • Residency, St. John’s Sculpture Park, Portland, OR, 2013

  • Residency Fellowship, SIAS University, Zhengzhou, China, 2008, 2009

  • Residency, Salem Art Works, Salem, NY, 2007

  • Sculpture Prize, Warwick Sculpture Festival, Newport News, VA, 2005

  • Award, Rosen Sculpture, Appalachian State U, Boone, NC, 2003

  • Lotos Grant, Pratt Institute Outdoor Sculpture, Brooklyn, NY 2001

  • Merit Award, Chesterwood ,Stockbridge, MA 1999

  • Emerging Artist Fellowship, Socrates Sculpture Park, 1998

  • Funded Residency, Sculpture Space, Utica, NY, 1995

  • Residency, Pouch Cove Foundation, Newfoundland, Canada, 1992

  • Residency, MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH, 1986

  • Residency, Ucross Foundation, Wyoming, 1986

LECTURES, PANELS, TEACHING:

  • Visiting Artist, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, 11/6/2013

  • Visiting Artist, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, MA, 4/22/2011

  • Visiting Artist, Maine College of Art, Portland, ME, 11/18/2010

  • Shop Club Talk, Harvard University Faculty Club, Cambridge, MA, 2009

  • Artist Master, Catalyst Program, Dreyfus Foundation, 2008

  • Welding Instructor, 3rd Ward, Brooklyn, NY, 2006-2011

  • Instructor, Carving Studio & Sculpture Ctr, Rutland, VT, 2004-present

  • Welding Instructor, Educational Alliance Art School, New York, NY, 2002-2007

  • Workshop Artist, Morris-Jumel Mansion, NY, 1998

  • Workshop Artist, Brooklyn Arts Council, NY, 93-4

  • Panel Discussion, Outdoor Sculpture, Madison, CT 2003

  • Visiting Artist Talk, Franklin Pierce College, Ringe, NH 2002

  • Artists’ Talk, Forest Hills Cemetary, Boston, MA, 2002

  • Artists’ Talk, Gallery of South Orange, NJ, 2000

  • Cast Iron Workshop, Convergence Festival, Providence, RI, 1999

  • The Job Show Panel, Organized by Four Walls, Ronald Feldman Gallery, NYC, 1996

  • Pilgrims: Wayfarers, Visionaries, Eccentrics, organized by Cindy Tower, at Four Walls, Brooklyn, NY 1995

  • Outdoor Sculpture Lecture, at BOCES Community College, Utica, NY 1995

  • Curator’s Choice, Artists Talk on Art, NYC 1993

BIBLIOGRAPHY:

  • Osprey art lands at Martin’s Point Bridge, The Forecaster, 11/3/2014

  • Sculptor Wendy Klemperer: “Restraint and Release” in Nature’s Realm, Artes Magazine, Linda Chestney, 11/29/2013

  • Chain Hounds Launched at UNH, New Hampshire Union Leader, G. Macalaster, 9/5/2013

  • A Scene Grows in Brooklyn, ARTnews, Carolina Miranda, 2/2012

  • Outdoor Art, Mountain Living, Loneta Showell, 8/2012

  • Art Review: Wendy Klempererʼs “Glimpse”, Portland Press Herald, Daniel Kany, 11/7/2011

  • Flight Diversion, Portland Press Herald, Bob Keyes 11/2011

  • Wild Things, Maine Home and Design, Rebecca Falzano, 1/2011

  • Cover Story: Animal Dreams, Portland Press-Herald, Bob Keyes, 6/3/2010

  • Living/Arts, The Boston Globe, Christine. Temin, 8/29/01

  • Arts & Entertainment, Sunday Gazette, Karen Bjornland, 7/22/01

  • Art Review, The Berkshire Eagle, Charles Bonenti, 8/16/01 & 10/20/01

  • Resculpting the DeCordova, Boston Globe, C. Temin, 9/22/00

  • Contemporaries at Home, Albany Times Union, W. Jaeger 8/29/99

  • Art Perspectives, Boston Globe, Christine Temin, 7/28/99

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  • City, New York Times, Douglas Martin, 12/6/98

  • Art Review, New York Times, Grace Glueck, 8/21/98

  • Pilgrims and Pop Pioneers, New Observations Magazine, 9/95

  • Arts and Entertainment, Falmouth Enterprise, W. H. Adelman, 8/27/96

  • Visual Heartland, Ottowa Express, Kirk Finken, 8/24/94

  • Art – Terre, Ottowa News, Sherry Chayat 8/19/94

  • Eye on Art, The New York Post, Jerry Talmer, 7/27/90

  • Nature as Subject and Substance, The New York Times, Andy Grundberg, 4/20/90