Biography
Sarah Haviland’s abstract-figurative sculptures and installations have been exhibited in New York City and nationally in museums, nonprofit galleries, and private collections. Her public sculptures have been presented in parks and educational settings in six states, including a permanent bronze commission at Grounds for Sculpture in Hamilton, NJ. Honors and awards include numerous grants and artist residencies. Haviland earned an MFA from Hunter College and a BA from Yale University. She lectures independently and teaches at the Borough of Manhattan Community College, City University of New York.Artist’s Background
by Rosemary Cohane Erpf, PhD
Sarah Haviland's early work was always image-driven; figures, houses, yards, and trees took shape in painted sculptural constructions. After Yale, when Haviland was in graduate school at Hunter College, her focus was the human form and the physicality of figures in space. Like contemporary artists she admired, including Louise Bourgeois and Kiki Smith, Haviland mined the formal geometries, symbolic meanings, and the personal content that the figure could engender.
In 1993, Haviland moved to Peekskill, New York, where an energetic artists’ community was taking root. Her exposure to feminist art and theory in graduate school led her to fully explore images of women in relation to both public and private self-image. Haviland remains fascinated with the rich iconographical history of women in art, particularly early European madonnas and myth in ancient cultures.
Haviland has also expanded her range by using non-traditional sculptural materials such as wire mesh, using the material’s transparency and linear effects to create volumetric drawings. Since 1991, Haviland has fused human forms with those found in nature, such as winged and tree-like structures.
Sarah Haviland’s work has been seen in numerous individual and group exhibitions in museums and galleries throughout the United States. Since 1985, she has received grants to create new works from several noted agencies, including the New York State Council on the Arts, the New Jersey State Arts Council, Artists Space, Westchester Arts Council, and the National Endowment for the Arts.
RESUME
COMMISSIONS & PUBLIC ART INSTALLATIONS
Genie of the House, Artscape, Pittsfield, MA, 2011
Curl, Bentwoman, and Full Fathom, Summit High School, Summit, NJ, 2010
Reflection Bench, Pratt Sculpture Park, Brooklyn, NY, curator David Weinrib, 2010
Blue Immortality, Chesterwood, Stockbridge, MA, curator Richard Klein, 2010
Reflection Bench, Governors Island, NYC, 2010
Spirit of Place, Saunders Farm, Garrison, NY, 2010
Public Tile Project, community installation and public workshops with school and youth groups, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY, 2008-2009
Reflection Bench, Peekskill Project IV, Peekskill, NY, Riverfront Green, 2008
Inward Sky, mirror installation for Collaborative Concepts at Saunders Farm, Garrison, NY,2007
Portraits in Miniature, installation and public workshops at Field Library Bookstore, Peekskill Project III, Peekskill, NY, 2006
Aviary, installation for Collaborative Concepts at Saunders Farm, Garrison, NY, 2006
Inner Light, installation at Casola Gallery, Peekskill Project II, Peekskill, NY, 2005
Invisible/Invincible, installation John Jay College Lobby, NYC, curator Thalia Vrachopoulos, 2005
Looking Glass House, installation for Peekskill Project, Peekskill, NY, curator Sue Stoffel, 2004
Copper Beech: People’s Trust, NEA commission for the Arts Exchange, White Plains, NY, 2003
Trio, bronze commission for Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton, NJ, 2001
Pier Glass, installation at DeSanti Plaza Sculpture Garden, Hartsdale, NY, 2000
Dreaming the Universe, installation at Puffin Foundation, Teaneck, NJ, , 2000
Aspire, commission and student workshops for Byram Hills Education Fdn., Crittenden Middle School, Armonk, NY, 1999
Body of Water, tabletop fountain commission for Osteopathic Doctor's Office, Sharon, CT, 1994
Queens Arch, commission by NYC Parks Dept. at Flushing Meadows Park, Queens, NY, 1991
Lake Ivan Theater Set Design commissions, Symphony Space and the Medicine Show, NYC, 1986
Alumna Portrait commissions, for Theological School, Drew University, Madison, NJ, 1983
AWARDS & FELLOWSHIPS
BMCC Faculty Development Grant, 2010
PSC-Cuny Research Award, 2009
Special Opportunity Stipend, NYSCA/NYFA, 2008
NEA Creativity Grant, 2003
Puffin Foundation Grant, 1998
Special Opportunity Stipend, NYSCA/NYFA, 1998
Artist Grant, Westchester Arts Council, 1998
Queens Regrant Artist Project Grant, NYSCA funds, 1991
Artists Space Grant for Individual Project, 1991
Sculpture Space Residency, Utica, NY, 1989
Artist-in-Residence, Jamaica Arts Center, Jamaica, NY, 1988
Yaddo Residency, Saratoga Springs, NY, 1988
Artist in the Marketplace Seminar, Bronx Museum, NY, 1987
Fellowship Award, New Jersey State Council on the Arts, 1985
Artist-in-Residence, Altos de Chavon, Dominican Republic, 1982
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Garden Gallery at the Health Center, Peekskill, NY, 2009
Maxwell Fine Arts Sculpture Garden, Peekskill, NY, 2004
Ceres Project Room, Chelsea, NYC, 2001
Chappaqua Library Gallery, Chappaqua, NY, 1999
Hudson River Museum of Westchester, Yonkers, NY, 1998
Kent Place Gallery, Summit, NJ, 1994
Jamaica Arts Center, Jamaica, NY, 1989
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
Paramount Center for the Arts, Peekskill, NY, Playing with Fire for All Fired Up, 2008
John Jay College Gallery, Installation Holly Ewald: A Place to Dream, 2007
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Griffin Court, Hell's Kitchen, NYC, Tranquility, 2011
Wilderstein, Rhinebeck, NY, Modern Art & the Romantic Landscape, 2011
Broadway Gallery, Soho, NYC, Sculptors Guild Annual, 2011
Temporary Project Space, Peekskill, NY, Habitat for Artists: The Studio Recycled, 2010
Chashama, Times Square, NYC, Habitat for Artists: Recycled Drawings, 2010
Exit Art ecoartspace Benefit, Chelsea, NYC, What Matters Most?, 2010
WorkSpace Harlem, Harlem, NYC, Recycling the Studio, 2010
GAGA Arts Center, Garnerville, NY, Garnerville, 2009
Borough of Manhattan Community College, New York City, 2009
Yonkers Riverfront Library, Yonkers, NY, Ceramic Expressions, 2008
WCC Gallery, Valhalla, NY, Common Ground: Proposals for Public Art, 2007
The Studio, Armonk, NY, Contemporary Selections, 2007
Maxwell Fine Arts Sculpture Garden, Peekskill, NY, Conversations, 2006
Imaging Arts Gallery, Tappan, NY, Inaugural Sculpture Garden Exhibition, 2005
Concordia College Gallery, Bronxville, NY, Before & After: Imagining Public Art, 2005
Rockland Center for the Arts, West Nyack, NY, Sculpture in the Park, 2004
Yonkers Riverfront Library, Yonkers, NY, Sculpture Renaissance: the Figure, 2003
Garrison Art Center, Garrison, NY, The Great White Oak Exhibition, 2003
Burlington County College Sculpture Garden, Pemberton, NJ, Claudia Gould, juror, 2003
Arts Exchange, White Plains, NY, Tributaries: Six Sculptors Respond to the Hudson River, 2002
Dana Art Gallery, Wellesley, MA, Books and Collaborations, 2002
Lake View Cemetery, Cleveland, OH, Celebration of the Spirit, 2001
Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning, Jamaica, Queens, 20 Years of Workspace, 2001
Arts Exchange, White Plains, NY, Open Studios 2000 invitational, 2000
L&B Viewing Room, Portland, OR, The Notebook: The Art of the Idea, 1999
Monarch Contemporary Art Center, Tenino, WA, Transcending Boundaries, 1999
The Studio, Armonk, NY, The Studio Presents, 1998
The Puffin Room, New York, NY, Seven Women Sculptors, 1997
Artemisia, Chicago, IL, Carving the Forces of Change, Faith Ringgold, juror, 1997
Window installation, Infant to Teen, Peekskill, NY, 1996
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, WCA Regional, Pulse Points, 1997
Rye Art Center, Rye, NY, Westchester Arts Council, Fantasy in Form, 1995
Nardin Galleries, Somers, NY, Vivien Raynor, Phillip Verre, jurors, 1995
Southern Vermont Art Center, Manchester, VT, 1995
Chesterwood, Stockbridge, MA, Contemporary Sculpture, 1994
Flushing Council at Town Hall, Flushing, NY, The Surreal Landscape, 1994
Manhattan Psychiatric Center, Ward’s Island, NY, OIA-Outdoor Sculpture, 1993
Baxter Gallery, Portland, ME, Integration: Gender & Identity,1992
South Bend Art Center, IN, Her Art Works, Lynda Benglis, juror, 1992
El Bohio, NYC, Art of Resistance, 1991
101 Wooster St. Gallery, NYC, Reading Mirrors, 1991
Pepsico Gallery, Purchase, NY, Selections from AIM, 1991
Queensborough Community College, Bayside, NY, Out/In Queens, 1990
Bronx Museum, Bronx, NY, A Decade of the Marketplace, 1990
Brooklyn waterfront, NY, One Main Street Windows, 1990
Flushing Gallery, Flushing, NY, Long Island City Artists, 1989
Art In General, NYC, Embodiment/Personification, 1988
Bronx Museum, Bronx, NY, Artist in the Marketplace, 1988
55 Mercer Gallery, NYC, Intellects and Idiosyncrasies, 1988
Queens Museum Annual, NY, Irving Sandler, juror, 1988
Morris Museum, Morristown, NJ, Fellowship Exhibition, 1987
Parker/Smalley Gallery, NYC, Paint on Paper, 1986
McGovern’s Bar, NYC, Paintings/Movement, 1986
Kenkeleba Gallery, NYC, Forecast, 1985
Bronx River Art Center, NY, Garden Pieces, 1985
Interart de St. Amand Gallery, NYC, 35 Under 35, 1985
Cayman Gallery, NYC, Trends ’84, 1984
Kamikaze Club, NYC, The Kamikaze Club Carnival Show, 1984
City Without Walls, Newark, NJ, A Sea of Faces, 1984
10-on-8 Window Collaboration, NYC, Close Enough, 1984
Brooklyn Army Terminal, Brooklyn, NY, Terminal New York, 1984
Farthing Gallery, Boone, and Hickory Museum of Art, NC, Paintings by NY Artists, 1983
Summit Art Center, NJ, Hoboken, USA, 1983
Hoboken, NJ, The Pier C Show, 1982
LECTURES & PANELS
BMCC-Hong Kong Institute of Education Panel, NYC
Hat Factory/Garden Road School, Peekskill, NY
Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz, NY
University of Louisiana at Lafayette, LA
Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY
Westchester Arts Council, White Plains, NY
College of New Rochelle, NY
Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY
The Puffin Room, NYC
Kent Place School, Summit, NJ
Queens Museum, Flushing, NY
Baxter Gallery, Portland School of Art, Portland, ME
Queensborough Community College, Bayside, NY
Queens Council on the Arts, Flushing, NY
Jamaica Arts Center, Jamaica, NY
Appalachian State University, Boone, NC
SPECIAL FEATURES & WRITING
Co-Author with Anru Lee, “Public Space, Public World: An Interdisciplinary Project in Art and Anthropology,” in New Visions in Public Art, publ. by the Council for Cultural Affairs, Taipei, Taiwan, 2008
Featured in presentation video, Grounds for Sculpture Hamilton, NJ, 2007
Photographed by Rob Cardillo, A Guide to the Great Gardens of the Philadelphia Region, 2007
Cover + photo feature, 25th anniv. issue, Kalliope: A Journal of Women’s Literature &Art, 2003
Interview on White Plains Public Access TV, “This Blooming City,” 2003
Guest on Queens Public Access TV, “Queens Art Talk,” 1991
Sculpture featured in movie Laserman, directed by Peter Wang, 1988
Included in The Art of Drawing, by Bernard Chaet, 3rd ed., Holt, Rinehart& Winston, p.46, 1983
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Barry Rosen, “A Place to Sit and Reflect,“ CUNY Newswire, Dec. 1, 2010
Rachel Sokol, “Public Space, Public World,“ BMCC Website, July 29, 2009
Jane Ingram Allen, “Expanding Space/Engaging Viewers: Mirrors in Contemporary Sculpture,”
Sculpture, web special, Vol. 23, No. 9, November 2004
Veronica Thaw, “New Jersey’s Secret (Sculpture) Garden,“ Daily Princetonian, Oct. 14, 2004
Roberta Hershenson, “Banking on a Tree,” New York Times, Oct. 26, 2003
Susan Elan, “Saved Tree, Building Inspire New Artwork,” Journal News, Oct. 23, 2003
Georgette Gouveia, “A River Runs Through It,” Journal News, April 7, 2002
Roberta Hershenson, “Art That Livens Space,” New York Times, July 23, 2000
Stefanie Ramp, “Feminine Icons: Sarah Haviland,” Westchester County Weekly, May 25, 2000
Dominick Lombardi, “Two Shows Feature Human Form,” New York Times, Jan. 3, 1999
William Zimmer, “Sharing Fantasies Clothed in Geometry,” New York Times, Nov. 12, 1995
Vincent Smedile, “Entertainment Best Bets.” New York Newsday, Oct. 25, 1992
Margot Brown McWilliams, “Boys and Girls Together,” Casco Bay Weekly, July 2, 1992
Jonas Kover, “Lead, Metal, and Concrete,” Utica Observer-Dispatch, Aug. 31, 1989
Michael Brenson, “Weekend Review: Sarah Haviland,” New York Times, June 23, 1989
EDUCATION
MFA, Combined Media, Hunter College, NYC, 1987
Skowhegan School, Skowhegan, ME, 1985
BA, Distinction in Art, cum laude, Yale University, New Haven, CT, 1980
Yale-Norfolk Program, Norfolk, CT, 1979
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