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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