DEBORAH ZLOTSKY

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Deborah Zlotsky received a 2019 Guggenheim Fellowship and NYFA Artist Fellowships in Painting in 2012 and 2018. Zlotsky’s work is in a variety of public, private and corporate collections in the US and abroad and she has been awarded recent residencies at MacDowell, Yaddo, the Bogliasco Foundation, and the Bemis Center. She is represented by Robischon Gallery in Denver and her work can be found at FURNACE-Art on Paper Archive and the Pierogi Flat Files. Zlotsky has a BA in art history from Yale University and an MFA in painting and drawing from the University of Connecticut. She teaches at the Rhode Island School of Design and lives in the Hudson Valley.

Gemini

Recent Paintings, Drawings, and Tapestries

Zillman Museum of Art

May 20 – August 18, 2022

University of Maine

Bangor, ME

Galatea
Robischon Gallery
1740 Wazee Street Denver
January 20 - March 26 2022

Gemini
Kathryn Markel Fine Arts
October 30 – December 4, 2021
529 West 20th, Suite 6W
New York, NY 10011

New print project with Sue Oehme, Master Printer
Oehme Graphics
Steamboat Springs, CO

Residency Fellowship

Monson Arts, Monson, ME

August 2021

Residency Fellowship

Ellis Beauregard Foundation
Rockland, ME
July 2021

HOUSE & UNIVERSE

Woodstock Artists Association and Museum

February 12 – March 28, 2021

Curated by Yael Eban and Jackie Hoving, co-directors of Tiger Strikes Asteroid NY

Interview with Amy Diplacido, Curator

San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles
March 2021

DNA Paintings
Kathryn Markel Fine Arts
June-August 2020
529 West 20th Street New York, NY

Adapt

Group Exhibition
Robischon Gallery
May-July 2020
1740 Wazee Street
Denver, CO

Interview with Susan Melrath for Art to Life studio program

Bogliasco Foundation Fellowship

Bogliasco, Italy Spring 2020

The Bogliasco Foundation awards one-month Fellowships to individuals of all ages and nationalities who have made significant contributions in the arts and humanities.”

2019 Guggenheim Fellowship in the Creative Arts

"Guggenheim Fellowships are intended for individuals who have already demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts."

Loopholes

Robischon Gallery

January 12 - March 4, 2019

1740 Wazee Street

Denver, CO

Residency Fellowship

Yaddo

Alma B. C. Schapiro Funded Residency

Saratoga Springs, NY

Summer 2019

Now and later

Kathryn Markel Fine Arts
529 West 20th Street New York, NY
September 12 - October 19, 2019

Here and Now

Dolby Chadwick Gallery

210 Post Street

San Francisco, CA

December 6, 2018- January 19, 2019

Awarded a 2018 New York Foundation for the Arts Artist Fellowship in Painting

Residency Fellowship

Bene Nota

Cadaqués, Spain

Summer 2018

Artist-in-Residence

Skidmore College

Saratoga Springs, NY

Summer 2018

Best-kept Secret

Geoffrey Young Gallery

Great Barrington, MA

Sept 2017

btw: New paintings by Deborah Zlotsky

Markel Fine Arts

529 West 20th Street 6th floor

New York, NY

STACK

Group show curated by Deborah Zlotsky

Markel Fine Arts

529 West 20th Street 6th floor

New York, NY

Works by Joe Amrhein, Ginny Casey, Ashley Norwood Cooper, Susan D'Amato, Deborah Dancy,

Torkwase Dyson, James Esber, Valerie Hegarty, Nina Katchadourian, Joan Linder, Mary Lum,

Thomas McArdle, Susan Meyer, Gina Occhiogrosso, Crit Streed, Craig Taylor, and Heeseop Yoon

Out of Site: Contemporary Sculpture at Chesterwood

Chesterwood

Stockbridge, MA

June 2017 - October 2017

The Variable Line: Master Drawings from Renaissance to Contemporary

Redwood Library and Athenæum

Newport, RI

December 2016 - March 2017

Interview with Antrese Woods on the podcast, Savvy Painter

Fata Morgana

Robischon Gallery

1740 Wazee Street

Denver, CO

January 12 - March 4, 2017

CELEBRATING 40

Kathryn Markel Fine Arts

December 1 - 23 2016

529 West 20th Street

New York, NY

Alumni Biennial 3

UCONN Contemporary Art Galleries

Jenn Dierdorf, Jared Holt, Siobhan Landry, and Deborah Zlotsky

Juried by Jay Lehman, Morgan Lehman Gallery

January 26 – March 11, 2016

University of Connecticut Storrs, CT

Residency Fellowship

The MacDowell Colony

Peterborough, NY

Summer 2016

Residency Fellowship

Yaddo

Saratoga Springs, NY

October 2016

Remains to be seen

Geoffrey Young Gallery

Great Barrington, MA

November 7 - November 28, 2015

Under Construction:

Work by Henry Ferreira, Viera Levitt and Deborah Zlotsky

Chazan Gallery

228 Angell Street

Providence, RI

September 18 to October 8, 2015

Wabi-sabi Works by Deborah Zlotsky

Prescott Gallery

University of Nebraska

4728 Prescott Avenue

Lincoln, Nebraska

August 21- September 26, 2015

Ephemera/Collage Works by Deborah Zlotsky

Studio Art Center International

SACI Gallery Palazzo dei Cartelloni

Via Sant'Antonino, 11

Florence, Italy

July 2-30 2015

Residency Fellowship

Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts

Ithaca, NY

Summer 2015

On the Wall: Deborah Zlotsky

Reilly Gallery Smith Center for the Arts

Providence College

Providence, RI

June 3-August 1 2015

Four in the morning

New work by Deborah Zlotsky

Robischon Gallery, Denver, CO

May 14 - July 3, 2015

The Circle/Square Game

Strohl Art Center

Chautauqua Institution

Chautauqua, NY

Work by Macyn Bolt, Rosemarie Fiore, Alison Helm, Ted Larsen, Paula Overbay, Margaret

Spacapan, Justin Teilhet, Tim Yankosky, and Deborah Zlotsky.

July 22 - August 25, 2015

It happened, but not to you

Kathryn Markel Fine Arts

529 West 20th Street Suite 6W

New York, NY 10001 212.366.5368

September 11 - October 11, 2014

20th Anniversary Exhibition

Pierogi Gallery

177 North 9th Street

Williamsburg, Brooklyn

September 5 - October 5, 2014

REVERB: Recent Abstraction in Painting

Fine Arts Center

School of Art

Bowling Green University

Bowling Green, IN

August 29 -- September 28, 2014

Color as Structure

Mckenzie Fine Art

55 Orchard Street, New York, NY

Review in The L Magazine by Paul D'Agostino

June 20 - August 2, 2014

Residency Fellowship

Bemis Center for Contemporary Art

Omaha, NE

Jun/July 2014

Shifting Ecologies

The Painting Center

547 West 47th Street

New York, NY

June 17, 2014- July 12, 2014

New American Paintings

Northeast Issue 110 Spring 2014

Juried by Al Miner, Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

abstract

Marcia Wood Gallery

Atlanta, GA

December 28, 2013- January 18, 2014

ArtsAtl review

Deborah Zlotsky Q & A

Pierogi

177 North 9th Street

Brooklyn, NY

L ifeLike

Santa Barbara City College

Atkinson Gallery

Review in the Santa Barbara News-Press

Santa Barbara, CA

August 30 - September 27, 2013

An Armory Show

Opalka Gallery

Sage College

Curated by Michael Oatman and Ken Ragsdale

Albany, NY

26– December 15, 2013

UNHINGED

Pierogi

July 5 – July 28, 2013

NYFA MARK

Islip Museum of Art

Curated by Beth Giacmmuno

Islip NY

June 16 – September 1, 2013

Falling Through Space Drawn By Line

UB Art Gallery University at Buffalo

Curated by Joan Linder and Sandra Q. Firmin

Participating artists: Reed Anderson, George Boorujy, Saul Chernick, Marsha Cottrell, David Dupuis, Lori Ellison, Edie Fake, Rosemarie Fiore, Ellen Lesperance, Schuyler Maehl, Anne Muntges, Toyin Odutola, Michelle Oosterbaan, Tony Orrico, Charles Ritchie, Stan Shellabarger, Molly Springfield, Allyson Strafella, Charmaine Wheatley, Ripley Whiteside, and Deborah Zlotsky

Sep 20 - Dec 8, 2012

2012 NYFA Fellowship Award in Painting

Natural/Constructed Spaces

The Painting Center

547 West 27th Street #500New York, NY

July 17 - August 11, 2012

Residency Fellowship

Kimmel-Harding-Nelson Center for the Arts

Nebraska City, NE

June 2012

New Directions

Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY

Juried by Susan Cross, Curator, Mass MoCA

January 21 - March 11, 2012

It happened, but not to you won the Juror's First Place Award

Art in Embassies

U.S. Department of State

Guatemala City, Guatemala

2012/2013

Residency Fellowship

Yaddo

Saratoga Springs, NY

Summer 2011

Residency Fellowship

Virginia Center for the Creative Arts

Amherst, VA

Summer 2011 (also 1998, 2002, 2005, 2008)

Interview with Gorky's Granddaughter

Zach Keeting and Chris Joy

November 12, 2011

Adjacent Possibilities

Kathryn Markel Fine Arts

529 West 20th, Suite 6W

New York, NY

October 13 - November 13, 2011

Residency Fellowship

OxBow

Saugatuck, MI

Summer 2010

Residency Fellowship

Weir Farm Art Center

Wilton, CT

Summer 2008

Residency Fellowship

Millay Colony for the Arts

Austerlitz, NY

Summer 2004

Residency Fellowship

Ragdale Foundation

Lake Forest, IL

Summer 2001