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50 West 106th St, Apt. 4C
New York, NY 10025
finnart46@gmail.com
www.sharynfinnegan.com

Solo Exhibitions

2014, 2011 Blue Mountain Gallery, NYC
2008 Blue Mountain Gallery, NYC; Southern Vermont Art Center, Manchester, VT
2006 Long Island University, Brooklyn, NY
1991 Frances Schervier Gallery, Bronx, NY
1989, 1986, 1981, 1978, 1975, 1974 Prince Street Gallery, NYC
1977 Roswell Museum of Fine Arts, Roswell, NM

Selected Group Exhibitions

  • 2019 and 2017 Lakkos Mural Project, Heraklion, Greece
  • 2017 Thinking Big, Westbeth Gallery, NYC; Anderson Museum of Contemporary Art, Roswell, NM
  • 2016 Blue Mountain Gallery, NYC; Grace Church School, NYC
  • 2014 LIU Salina Gallery, Brooklyn; First Street Gallery, NYC; Longwood Gallery, Bronx, NY
  • 2013 Manhattanville College, NY
  • 2012 Anderson Museum of Contemporary Art, Roswell, NM & Fairleigh Dickenson, NJ
  • 2010 Prince Street Gallery, Blue Mountain Gallery & Manhattan Graphics Center, NYC
  • 2009 “NY in Berlin”, Galerie Mani, Germany; Better Than Ever: LIU, NY & Dishman Museum, Beaumont, TX & Rowan University Art Museum, Glassboro, NJ
  • 2007 SIM, Reykjavik, Is.; A.I.R. & Blue Mountain Galleries, NYC
  • 2006, 2005, 2004: A.I.R. Gallery, & Blue Mountain Gallery, NYC
  • 2003 “American Women Artists/Cornwall”, Painting Center, NYC; Prince St. Gallery, NYC
  • 2002 A.I.R. Gallery & Blue Mountain Gallery, NYC; Marymount College, Tarrytown, NY
  • 2001, 2000 Blue Mountain Gallery & Parsons School of Design, NYC
  • 1994 Prince Street Gallery & Parsons School of Design, NYC
  • 1989 “Interiors”, One Penn Plaza, NYC; “Nude Self-Portraits”, Prince Street Gallery, NYC
  • 1983 “Painted Light”, Artists’ Choice Museum: Reading Museum, Pa.; Butler Institute, Ohio
  • 1982 “West Side Visions”, three-person exhibit, Bank Street College, NYC
  • 1976 “Artists’ Choice: Figurative Art in NY”, Bowery Gallery, NYC
  • 1975 “Report from Soho”, Grey Gallery, New York University, NYC

Awards

2019 and 2017 A.I.R. Lakkos Residency, Heraklion, Greece
2014 A.I.R. Cill Rialaig, Co. Kerry, Ireland
2012 BRIO Award, Bronx Council of the Arts & A.I.R., Herhusid, Siglufjordur
2011, 2000 Artist-in-Residencies, Brisons Veor, Cornwall, England
2010 Artist-in-Residence, Gullkistan, Laugarvatn, Iceland
2007 Artist-in-Residence, SIM, Reykjavik, Iceland
2006 Artist-in-Residencies, Hollufgard, Denmark & Hirsholmene, Denmark
2005 Artist-in-Residence, Pouch Cove Foundation, Newfoundland, Canada
2003 Artist-in-Residence, Seydisfjordur, Iceland
1979 Artist-in Residence, MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH
1976 Artist-in-Residence, Palisades Interstate Park, NY
1976 Artist-in-Residence, Roswell Museum of Fine Arts, Roswell, NM

Reviews and Other Publications

“Finnegan's Self-Portraits,” Gallery & Studio, Sept/Oct 2011, Ed McCormack
Staten Island Sunday Advance, March 8, 2009, Michael Fressola.
“Women Artists at Cornwall,” Gallery & Studio, Sept/Oct 2003, Ed McCormack.
Who’s Who in American Art, 19th Ed., 1990, 2004, 2008
“Views of Women Artists,” NY Chapter, Women’s Caucus for Art. Cat. essay, E.Lubell ‘82.
Arts Magazine, April 1981. One page essay, Ellen Sullivan.
World’s Who’s Who of Women, 5th Ed., England, 1979.
Arts Magazine, May 1978, William Zimmer.
The New Citizen, NM Jan. 20, 1977, Nan Loy Chambers.
Roswell Daily Record, NM, Jan. 14, 1977. Interview by Andrea Austin.
Soho Weekly News, June 24, 1976, John Perreault.
Arts Magazine, April 1974, Joseph Dreiss.
Soho Weekly News, Jan. 25, 1974, Peter Frank.
New York Times, Jan. 19, 1974, James Mellow.
Published Writings by Finnegan
Exhibit and Catalog Biography, Juanita McNeely, Brandeis University, MA, May 2014
Monograph on Juanita McNeely, Woman's Art Journal, Fall/Winter 2011
Catalog essay, Better Than Ever: Women Figurative Artists of the 70s SoHo Co-ops,
March 2009
Monograph on Claire Moore, Woman's Art Journal, Spring/Summer 1981

Collections

Rowan University's Permanent Art Collection, NJ
Anderson Museum of Contemporary Art, Roswell, NM & others

Education

New York University, NYC: MA 1971
Marymount College, Tarrytown, NY: BFA, 1967
Academia di Belli Arti, Rome, Italy: 3rd Year Certificate, 1966

Teaching

  • CAA Conference Feb 2011, NYC: Co-Chair, Feminism & the Cooperative Model in the Art World
  • Art History Assoc.Teaching Prof., Parsons the New School of Design, NYC, 1987-Present
  • Drawing Instr., Parsons the New School of Design, 1987-2005,
  • Drawing & Art History Instructor, New York University, NYC, 1996-2004
  • Art History Instructor, New School for Social Research, NYC, 1988-1992
  • Painting, Watercolor & Art History Instructor, Mt. St. Vincent’s College, Bronx, NY, 1979-1982
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