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Biography

Born Brooklyn, NY USA
Works and lives outside of Atlanta, Georgia USA

Education
1978-80     MFA Painting, Queens College of The City University of New York
1975-78     BA cum laude Art, The State University of New York at Albany

Individual Exhibitions
2006     "Circling" C4RD, London, UK
2006     "Red Eye Love" Plus Gallery, Denver, CO
2006     "Eye Contact" Ferst Center for the Arts, Atlanta, GA
2005     “It's All in My Head”, Hartsfield- Jackson International Airport, Atlanta, GA
2005     Installation, “Up to My Eyeballs” Ty Stokes Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2004     Installation, “Gestures”, Antalya Cultur Centre, Antalya, Turkey
2004     Installation, Ty Stokes Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2003     Installation, Saltworks Gallery,Atlanta, GA
2002     The Arrangement of Things, Coach Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2001     Punto di Fuga[Vanishing Point], Universita Ca' Foscari, Venezia, Venice, Italy
2000     After Painting, Laredo Center for the Arts, Laredo, TX
1999     Retracings, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
1999     Paintings, Resource Forum, Atlanta, GA
1999     Into the Blue, Solomon Projects, Atlanta, GA
1998     In Retrospect: Paintings From the Last Decade, Buckhead Plaza, Atlanta, GA
1996     Quaternity, Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA
1995     Forecasts, Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, GA. With catalog.
             Cheekwood Fine Arts Center, Nashville, TN
             Gwinnett Fine Arts Center, Duluth, GA
1994     Between Heaven and Earth, The Autrey Mill Project Alpharetta, GA
1993     Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, GA
1989     Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA
1988     Art Institute of Pittsburgh, PA
1987     Berry College, Rome, GA
1986     Philip Morris Gallery, Richmond, VA
             Catholic University, Washington, D.C.
1985     Sarah Y. Rentschler Gallery, New York City
             Long Island University Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
1983     Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, NY
1981     Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

Group Exhibitions
2007     Domestic Dragon, MAP3, Fondazione Bevilacqua, La Masa, Venice, Italy
2005     Drawing Conclusions, Rialto curated by Karen Comer Lowe, Atlanta, GA
2005     On the Road to Shambahla [with Paige Harvey] Westin, Atlanta GA
2004     Shenzhen Biennial, Guan Shanyue Art Museum, PR China
2004     Multiple Views, Madelyn Jordan Fine Arts, Scarsdale , NY
2002     Shenzhen Biennial, Guan Shanyue Art Museum, PR China
2002     Kunsthaus Invitational, Heidenheim,Germany
2001     New Orleans Triennial,Installation, New Orleans Museum of Art, LA
2000     Collaborating Couples, Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, GA
1997     Tragic Wake: The Legacy of Slavery and the African Diaspora in
             Contemporary American Art, Spirit Square, Charlotte, NC
1996     Grace and Violence, Olympic Village, Atlanta, GA
1994     Kay Garvey Gallery, Chicago, IL
             Martha Keats Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
1993     GreenSpace, Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA
1992     Atlanta Biennial, Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA
1988     Bowery Gallery, New York City
1987     Vistas:The Panoramic Landscape, GW .Einstein Gallery, NYC
             22 Wooster Street, New York City
1986     Reynolds/Minor Gallery, Richmond, VA
             Peninsula Fine Arts Center, Newport News, VA (two-person)
1984     New Scapes: Land and City/States of Mind, One Penn Plaza, NYC

Public Art
2002     The Big Picture, Fountain Mix, Atlanta Celebrates Photography, Woodruff
             Park, Atlanta, GA
             Large scale Digital work in the fountain with sound by Composer Guiseppe
             Gavazza
1998     Looking Forward, Looking Back, Spruill Oaks Northeast Regional Library,
             Fulton County Arts Council, GA
             This work consists of seven large tinted, laminated glass panels. The panels
             are suspended from the ceiling of the library's atrium.
1996     Highway Pastoral, Arts Festival of Atlanta. Paintings animated on Georgia
             Institute of Technology Matrix Billboard during the Olympics. Seven animated
             landscape paintings contrasted with the urban environment on this digital light
             billboard.

Grants and Honors
2002     Artist in Residence , Nuremberg, Germany
2002     Artist in Residence ,Kunsthaus Project- Heidenheim, Germany
2002     Artist in Communities Grant, Fulton County Arts Council, Atlanta
1999     Artist's Grant, CGR Advisors, Atlanta, GA
1998     Who's Who of American Women, 20th Edition, 21st Edition
1996     Artist's Grant, Arts Festival, Atlanta, GA
1994     Individual Artist Grant, Georgia Council for the Arts
1994     Artist's Grant, Fulton County Arts Council, GA
1992     Independent Artist Grant, Fulton County Arts Council, GA
1992     Artist Project Grant, BCA, City of Atlanta
1987     Artists' Space Grant, New York City
1983     Yaddo Foundation, Saratoga Springs, NY

Bibliography

Catalogue Essays
Carrie Przybilla, “Retracings.” High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA, 1999
Dr. Jerry Cullum, “On Meteorological and Meditative Conditions: Reflections on the Recent Paintings of Deanna Sirlin.” Forecasts, Fay Gold Gallery, 1995
Michel Moos, “Distant Early Warning Skeins: Deanna Sirlin's Forecasts.” Forecasts, Gwinnett Fine Arts Center, 1995
Dr. Alan Rauch, “Between Heaven and Earth.” Between Heaven and Earth, The Autrey Mill Project, 1994
Peter Frank, “GreenSpace: Nature as Construct.” GreenSpace, Nexus Contemporary Art Center, 1993

Magazine Articles
Larry Qualis, Art on Paper Magazine, December 2005
Rebecca Dimling Cochran, Atlanta, Sculpture Magazine, December 2005
Nancy Staab, “ Art on a Grand Scale” Southern Living Magazine, October 2004
Christina Kline, “Framing a New Paradigm: Deanna Sirlin's Windows of Transition,” Art Papers (January/February 2000), pp. 34-37
W. Eric Martin, “Art on High,” Modern Reprographics (Feb. 2000), pp. 32-34

Selected Collections
Shenzhen Insitute of Fine Arts, Shenzhen, PR China
Universita Ca' Foscari Venezia, Venice, Italy
Kunsthaus Nürnberg,Nürnberg ,Germany
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
Museum of Contemporary Art Georgia, Atlanta, GA
Macon Museum of Arts and Sciences, Macon, GA
Georgia Pacific, Atlanta, GA
United Airlines, Dulles Airport, Washington, D.C.
General Electric, Atlanta, GA
CSX Corporation, Richmond, VA
Southern Progressive, Birmingham, AL
THW and Associates, San Diego, CA
Penny McCall Foundation, New York, NY
McKinsey and Co., Atlanta, GA
Egleston Hospital, Atlanta, GA
Trouttman-Sanders, Atlanta, GA
Childress Klein, Atlanta, GA
Larson-Juhl, Atlanta, GA
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