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Sheila Ross sheilarossart@gmail.com www.sheilaross.com www.yurtcity.blogspot.com www.sashasteaparty.com
Born in Ottawa, Canada Dual Canadian, American citizen
Selected Solo and Two Person Exhibitions
2009 YC3, Collaborative Project with Laura Ten Eyck, art sites gallery, Riverhead, NY 2008 Lounge, Westchester Gallery, SUNYWCC, Peekskill, NY
2006 Yurt City, Collaborative Project with Laura Ten Eyck, Dam Stuhltrager Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2004 Bunker In Red Tulip and Persian Green, Holland Tunnel, Brooklyn, NY
2003 Sheila Ross and Eric Trosko, RECENT WORK, Dam Stuhltrager, Brooklyn, NY
1997 Welcome To Monster Island, MFA thesis exhibition, 80 Washington
Square East Galleries, New York, NY
1993 Recent Work, Arcadia Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
1990 Muse, Artefect, Toronto, Ontario
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024 Off the Brick, Art Retail Therapy, Queens, curated by Adrian Boremo
2021 Cat Daddy, AHA Gallery, Brooklyn, NY Co-curated by Jody MacDonald
2020 Soul Cakes, Local Project, LIC Queens, curated by Norma Homberg and Francesca Arcilesi
In Between, Local Project, LIC Queens, curated by John Baber and Juan Hinojosa
2019 And the Earth Shall Set You Free, The Factory, LIC, NY, curated by Peter Goldwater and Eric Lawrence
2017 Fire and Clay, The Factory Gallery, LIC, NY curated by Peter Goldwater and Tessa Kennedy
Making Connections, Artists Working in Queens, DeFord Gallery, LIC NY
Botanical, Local Projects, LIC, NY
Making Connections, Artists Working in Queens, Plaxall Gallery, LIC NY
Yurt City Windows, Beautification Project, BID Riverhead NY
Word Jumble, bG Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA
Neoteric Abstract, Limner Gallery, Hudson, NY
2015 Fortress, The Hatchery Art Space, Badger Hills, CA, curated by Bill Doherty, Bachrun LoMele, Anné M. Klint,
The Farm Project 2015, Colloborative Concepts at Saunders Farm, Garrison, NY
2014 Framed, Holland Tunnel Gallery and Stairmasters, Brooklyn, NY
Retrospective Part II 2005–2014, Center for the Digital Arts, Westchester Gallery, SUNYWCC, Peekskill,
2013 Memphis Social, city wide project coordinated by Tom McGlynn and Apex Art franchise
2012 Saunder’s Farm Project 2012, Collaborative Concepts Saunder’s Farm, Garrison, NY
Sculptoure 2012, SICA (Shore Institute of Contemporary Arts), Asbury Park and Long Branch, NJ
2011 East of Fresno, The Hatchery Project, Pinehurst, CA, Curated by Bill Doherty, Bachrun LoMele, Anné M. Klint, and Tom McGlynn
Gimme Shelter, Arts Guild NJ, Rahway, NJ, curated by Lawrence Cappiello
Toys, Studio Theatre Gallery, Middlesex Community College, Edison, NJ Curated by Asha Ganpat
2009 KÜF/Mold, A-Lokatie Galerie, Piekfijn site specific Location, Oud Charlois, Rotterdam, Holland
Brooklyn Artillery Art Fair, “Greenpoint Open Studios,” Castle Braid Building, Brooklyn, NY
2008 KÜF/MOLD, de Centrale Gallery and Jan Colle Gallery, Ghent, Belgium
Love without Borders, Blank Studios Gallery, Brighton, UK
2007 KÜF/MOLD, Gallery in the Old Bedesten, Shop windows, walkways, walls and
ceilings of the Grand Bazaar, Istanbul, Turkey
2007 FLOAT 2007, Yurt City II, Collaborative Project with Laura Ten Eyck, Socrates Sculpture Park, Astoria, NY
2004 Gritty, Dam Stuhltrager, Brooklyn, NY, curated by Molly Wilk and Rachel Pascua
2003 Subject Space, Felissimo Design House, New York, NY, curated by Jane Simon, organized by TURF (Trans Urban Roaming Forum)
Figures of Invention, Work Space Gallery, New York, NY, curated by Elisabeth Condon
Moved by Awe, Emerge 2001, Aljira, Newark, NJ
2001 Collaborative Fusion, Collaborative drawing project with Elisabeth Condon and Adelheid Mers, Abraham Lubelski Gallery, 450 Broadway, NY, NY
Emerald City, Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY, curated by Carolana Parlato
2000 Figures of Invention, Foreman Gallery, Anderson Center for the Arts, Hartwick College, Oneonta, NY, curated by Elisabeth Condon
One Night…New Sculpture, Sheila Ross & Laura Ten Eyck, Site Sympatico, NY
1998 Sassy Nuggets, A-1Art Space Lab: The Knoxville Intermedia Arts Cooperative Inc., Knoxville, TN, curated by Michael St. John with John Boyles
Sheila Ross sheilarossart@gmail.com www.sheilaross.com www.yurtcity.blogspot.com www.sashasteaparty.com
Selected Group Exhibitions continued
1997 Teaworks, Prime Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
New York Area MFA Exhibition: Co-sponsored by the College Art Association, Hunter College Fine Arts Building, New York, NY
1996 Night of 1000 Drawings, Artists’ Space, New York, NY
Delirious, Eighth Floor Gallery, New York, NY
The Art Market, GenArt Group Exhibition, New York, NY
1996 Twentieth Annual Small Works Competition, 80 Washington Square East Galleries, New York, NY
1995 The Artist Garden, Portfoolio Gallery, Etobicoke, Ontario, Canada
The Feminine Viewpoint: The Third Annual National Storefront Exhibition, Jacob Mississauga Square One Location, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
Exhibition of Submissions to Ecolage: An Environmental Public Art Ideas Competition, The Rotunda, City Hall, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
1994 The Feminine Viewpoint: The Second Annual National Storefront Exhibition, Jacob Hazelton Lanes Location, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Allied to Paper, Koffler Gallery, North York, Ontario, Canada, curated by John Massier
1992 Artefect III, Workscene Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
1990 Everything You Ever Wanted But Were Afraid To Ask For…Silent Auction, Artefect, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
1988 Cleveland State Photo Exchange Group Exhibition, Cleveland State University, Cleveland, OH
Performances
1988 Nieomsk, Helmut Becker and Sheila Ross, Forest City Performance Festival, Forest City Gallery, London, Ontario, Canada
1986 Under the Western Wall, participant, by Daniela Snepova, Forest City Performance Festival, Forest City Gallery, London, Ontario, Canada
Education
1998 MFA, New York University, New York, NY
1988 BFA, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada
Teaching Experience
2020 Beginning Wheel, Sunnyside Artworks, Queens, New York
1995-98 New Student Seminar, New York University, Steinhardt School of Education, Department of Art and Art Professions
1994 Children’s Art Action Group, East End Community Health Center, Toronto, ON, Canada
1989-1994 Traditional Art and Crafts Programs for Children, Riverdale Farm, Toronto, ON, Canada
1992-1993 Young Naturalists, Riverdale Farm, Toronto, ON, Canada
Awards and Other
2000 Participant, Aljira Emerge 2001 Program, Aljira, Newark, NJ
1998 E. George Payne Memorial Award, New York University, NY
1997 President’s Service Award (Programming), New York University, NY
1995 - 1998 Graduate Assistantship, New York University, NY
1993 Exhibition Assistance Grant, Ontario Arts Council
Sheila Ross sheilarossart@gmail.com www.sheilaross.com www.yurtcity.blogspot.com www.sashasteaparty.com
Selected Bibliography
Gannnon, Tim, "Businesses, artists band together in effort to spruce up downtown" Riverhead News Review, August 24, 2017, http://riverheadnewsreview.timesreview.com/2017/08/82731/businesses-artists-band-together-in-effort-to-spruce-up-downtown/ Shields, Nancy, “Public art graces Asbury Park and Long Branch” Asbury Park Press, Friday June 29, 2012, p 1
Gennocchio, Benjamin, “Symbolic Spaces” New York Times, Sunday May 10, 2009, p. L17
Beckinstein, “Home is where the art is, Two shows with a single theme open at Riverhead gallery,” The Suffolk Times, Thursday, May 7, 2009, Section A, p. 47
Ernst, Eric, “There’s no place like Home,” The East Hampton Press and Southampton Press, May 5, 2009 (http://www.27east.com/story_detail.cfm?id=208682)
http://kufsergisi.blogspot.com/2008/07/its-alivekfmold-2008.html
http://kufsergisi.blogspot.com/2007/09/sheila-ross.html
Johnson, Paddy, “Sheila Ross and Laura Ten Eyck: Yurt City,” Flavorpill NYC, (http://nyc.flavorpill.net/)
July 25-31, 2006, Issue #320
Redding, Arsenio, “Ross and Trosko at Dam Stuhltrager, ” Block, 8/13/03-8/26/03 Issue 20, Vol. 1, p. 8
Pepper, Keane A., “The July Art Crawl,” Free Williamsburg.com, July 2003, Issue 40
Bischoff, Dan, “Awe’-Some Move, New space gives Aljira prominence in downtown Newark,” The Star-Ledger, Friday January 10, 2003, p. 26
Condon, Elisabeth, “Fusion,” NY Arts Magazine, September 2001
Raven, Arlene, Emerge 2001, Catalogue for exhibition, published by Aljira, Fall 2001
Hammes, Lynda. “Oz as a Springboard for Perception and Deception,” Newsday, March 12, 2001
“Jacob Fundraiser” Globe and Mail, Fashion and Design Section, June 19, 1995
L’Art au Feminin, The Feminin Viewpoint: Works by Contemporary Women Artists Exhibition Catalogue, May 1994, The Second Annual National Storefront Exhibition: Jacob
Kalico, Hanna, “Artefect - No Fixed Address” Workscene Magazine, July 1992
Sheila Ross sheilarossart@gmail.com www.sheilaross.com www.yurtcity.blogspot.com www.sashasteaparty.com
Born in Ottawa, Canada Dual Canadian, American citizen
Selected Solo and Two Person Exhibitions
2009 YC3, Collaborative Project with Laura Ten Eyck, art sites gallery, Riverhead, NY 2008 Lounge, Westchester Gallery, SUNYWCC, Peekskill, NY
2006 Yurt City, Collaborative Project with Laura Ten Eyck, Dam Stuhltrager Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2004 Bunker In Red Tulip and Persian Green, Holland Tunnel, Brooklyn, NY
2003 Sheila Ross and Eric Trosko, RECENT WORK, Dam Stuhltrager, Brooklyn, NY
1997 Welcome To Monster Island, MFA thesis exhibition, 80 Washington
Square East Galleries, New York, NY
1993 Recent Work, Arcadia Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
1990 Muse, Artefect, Toronto, Ontario
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024 Off the Brick, Art Retail Therapy, Queens, curated by Adrian Boremo
2021 Cat Daddy, AHA Gallery, Brooklyn, NY Co-curated by Jody MacDonald
2020 Soul Cakes, Local Project, LIC Queens, curated by Norma Homberg and Francesca Arcilesi
In Between, Local Project, LIC Queens, curated by John Baber and Juan Hinojosa
2019 And the Earth Shall Set You Free, The Factory, LIC, NY, curated by Peter Goldwater and Eric Lawrence
2017 Fire and Clay, The Factory Gallery, LIC, NY curated by Peter Goldwater and Tessa Kennedy
Making Connections, Artists Working in Queens, DeFord Gallery, LIC NY
Botanical, Local Projects, LIC, NY
Making Connections, Artists Working in Queens, Plaxall Gallery, LIC NY
Yurt City Windows, Beautification Project, BID Riverhead NY
Word Jumble, bG Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA
Neoteric Abstract, Limner Gallery, Hudson, NY
2015 Fortress, The Hatchery Art Space, Badger Hills, CA, curated by Bill Doherty, Bachrun LoMele, Anné M. Klint,
The Farm Project 2015, Colloborative Concepts at Saunders Farm, Garrison, NY
2014 Framed, Holland Tunnel Gallery and Stairmasters, Brooklyn, NY
Retrospective Part II 2005–2014, Center for the Digital Arts, Westchester Gallery, SUNYWCC, Peekskill,
2013 Memphis Social, city wide project coordinated by Tom McGlynn and Apex Art franchise
2012 Saunder’s Farm Project 2012, Collaborative Concepts Saunder’s Farm, Garrison, NY
Sculptoure 2012, SICA (Shore Institute of Contemporary Arts), Asbury Park and Long Branch, NJ
2011 East of Fresno, The Hatchery Project, Pinehurst, CA, Curated by Bill Doherty, Bachrun LoMele, Anné M. Klint, and Tom McGlynn
Gimme Shelter, Arts Guild NJ, Rahway, NJ, curated by Lawrence Cappiello
Toys, Studio Theatre Gallery, Middlesex Community College, Edison, NJ Curated by Asha Ganpat
2009 KÜF/Mold, A-Lokatie Galerie, Piekfijn site specific Location, Oud Charlois, Rotterdam, Holland
Brooklyn Artillery Art Fair, “Greenpoint Open Studios,” Castle Braid Building, Brooklyn, NY
2008 KÜF/MOLD, de Centrale Gallery and Jan Colle Gallery, Ghent, Belgium
Love without Borders, Blank Studios Gallery, Brighton, UK
2007 KÜF/MOLD, Gallery in the Old Bedesten, Shop windows, walkways, walls and
ceilings of the Grand Bazaar, Istanbul, Turkey
2007 FLOAT 2007, Yurt City II, Collaborative Project with Laura Ten Eyck, Socrates Sculpture Park, Astoria, NY
2004 Gritty, Dam Stuhltrager, Brooklyn, NY, curated by Molly Wilk and Rachel Pascua
2003 Subject Space, Felissimo Design House, New York, NY, curated by Jane Simon, organized by TURF (Trans Urban Roaming Forum)
Figures of Invention, Work Space Gallery, New York, NY, curated by Elisabeth Condon
Moved by Awe, Emerge 2001, Aljira, Newark, NJ
2001 Collaborative Fusion, Collaborative drawing project with Elisabeth Condon and Adelheid Mers, Abraham Lubelski Gallery, 450 Broadway, NY, NY
Emerald City, Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY, curated by Carolana Parlato
2000 Figures of Invention, Foreman Gallery, Anderson Center for the Arts, Hartwick College, Oneonta, NY, curated by Elisabeth Condon
One Night…New Sculpture, Sheila Ross & Laura Ten Eyck, Site Sympatico, NY
1998 Sassy Nuggets, A-1Art Space Lab: The Knoxville Intermedia Arts Cooperative Inc., Knoxville, TN, curated by Michael St. John with John Boyles
Sheila Ross sheilarossart@gmail.com www.sheilaross.com www.yurtcity.blogspot.com www.sashasteaparty.com
Selected Group Exhibitions continued
1997 Teaworks, Prime Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
New York Area MFA Exhibition: Co-sponsored by the College Art Association, Hunter College Fine Arts Building, New York, NY
1996 Night of 1000 Drawings, Artists’ Space, New York, NY
Delirious, Eighth Floor Gallery, New York, NY
The Art Market, GenArt Group Exhibition, New York, NY
1996 Twentieth Annual Small Works Competition, 80 Washington Square East Galleries, New York, NY
1995 The Artist Garden, Portfoolio Gallery, Etobicoke, Ontario, Canada
The Feminine Viewpoint: The Third Annual National Storefront Exhibition, Jacob Mississauga Square One Location, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
Exhibition of Submissions to Ecolage: An Environmental Public Art Ideas Competition, The Rotunda, City Hall, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
1994 The Feminine Viewpoint: The Second Annual National Storefront Exhibition, Jacob Hazelton Lanes Location, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Allied to Paper, Koffler Gallery, North York, Ontario, Canada, curated by John Massier
1992 Artefect III, Workscene Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
1990 Everything You Ever Wanted But Were Afraid To Ask For…Silent Auction, Artefect, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
1988 Cleveland State Photo Exchange Group Exhibition, Cleveland State University, Cleveland, OH
Performances
1988 Nieomsk, Helmut Becker and Sheila Ross, Forest City Performance Festival, Forest City Gallery, London, Ontario, Canada
1986 Under the Western Wall, participant, by Daniela Snepova, Forest City Performance Festival, Forest City Gallery, London, Ontario, Canada
Education
1998 MFA, New York University, New York, NY
1988 BFA, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada
Teaching Experience
2020 Beginning Wheel, Sunnyside Artworks, Queens, New York
1995-98 New Student Seminar, New York University, Steinhardt School of Education, Department of Art and Art Professions
1994 Children’s Art Action Group, East End Community Health Center, Toronto, ON, Canada
1989-1994 Traditional Art and Crafts Programs for Children, Riverdale Farm, Toronto, ON, Canada
1992-1993 Young Naturalists, Riverdale Farm, Toronto, ON, Canada
Awards and Other
2000 Participant, Aljira Emerge 2001 Program, Aljira, Newark, NJ
1998 E. George Payne Memorial Award, New York University, NY
1997 President’s Service Award (Programming), New York University, NY
1995 - 1998 Graduate Assistantship, New York University, NY
1993 Exhibition Assistance Grant, Ontario Arts Council
Sheila Ross sheilarossart@gmail.com www.sheilaross.com www.yurtcity.blogspot.com www.sashasteaparty.com
Selected Bibliography
Gannnon, Tim, "Businesses, artists band together in effort to spruce up downtown" Riverhead News Review, August 24, 2017, http://riverheadnewsreview.timesreview.com/2017/08/82731/businesses-artists-band-together-in-effort-to-spruce-up-downtown/ Shields, Nancy, “Public art graces Asbury Park and Long Branch” Asbury Park Press, Friday June 29, 2012, p 1
Gennocchio, Benjamin, “Symbolic Spaces” New York Times, Sunday May 10, 2009, p. L17
Beckinstein, “Home is where the art is, Two shows with a single theme open at Riverhead gallery,” The Suffolk Times, Thursday, May 7, 2009, Section A, p. 47
Ernst, Eric, “There’s no place like Home,” The East Hampton Press and Southampton Press, May 5, 2009 (http://www.27east.com/story_detail.cfm?id=208682)
http://kufsergisi.blogspot.com/2008/07/its-alivekfmold-2008.html
http://kufsergisi.blogspot.com/2007/09/sheila-ross.html
Johnson, Paddy, “Sheila Ross and Laura Ten Eyck: Yurt City,” Flavorpill NYC, (http://nyc.flavorpill.net/)
July 25-31, 2006, Issue #320
Redding, Arsenio, “Ross and Trosko at Dam Stuhltrager, ” Block, 8/13/03-8/26/03 Issue 20, Vol. 1, p. 8
Pepper, Keane A., “The July Art Crawl,” Free Williamsburg.com, July 2003, Issue 40
Bischoff, Dan, “Awe’-Some Move, New space gives Aljira prominence in downtown Newark,” The Star-Ledger, Friday January 10, 2003, p. 26
Condon, Elisabeth, “Fusion,” NY Arts Magazine, September 2001
Raven, Arlene, Emerge 2001, Catalogue for exhibition, published by Aljira, Fall 2001
Hammes, Lynda. “Oz as a Springboard for Perception and Deception,” Newsday, March 12, 2001
“Jacob Fundraiser” Globe and Mail, Fashion and Design Section, June 19, 1995
L’Art au Feminin, The Feminin Viewpoint: Works by Contemporary Women Artists Exhibition Catalogue, May 1994, The Second Annual National Storefront Exhibition: Jacob
Kalico, Hanna, “Artefect - No Fixed Address” Workscene Magazine, July 1992
