Born
Brooklyn, New York
Education
1980 MFA Painting, Queens College of The City University of New York
1978 BA cum laude, Art, The State University of New York at Albany
Individual Exhibitions
2023 Wavetable, Alchemy-ABR, 211 East 43rd Street, New York, New York
2022 Watermark, Crosland Library, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA
2022 Wavelength, Chastain Art Center, Mayor's Office of Cultural Affairs, City of Atlanta, GA
2020 Strata, Fundação Eugénio de Almeida, Évora, Portugal
2019 Variation, Alpharetta Arts Center, Alpharetta, GA
2018 Translucence, Gallery 72, Office of Cultural Affairs, City of Atlanta, GA
2015 Upended, Neuer Worpsweder Kunstverein, Worpswede, Germany
2012 Emergency Orange, M55 Art, LIC, NY
2012 Under and Over, BOA Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2009 Everything is Optional, Whitespace, Atlanta, GA
2006 Circling, Centre for Recent Drawing, London, UK
2006 Red Eye Love, Plus Gallery, Denver CO
2006 Notes to Self, Ferst Center for the Arts, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta GA
2005 It’s All In My Head, Hartsfield- Jackson International Airport, Atlanta GA
2005 Up to My Eyeballs, Ty Stokes Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2004 Gestures, Antalya Cultur Centre, Antalya. Turkey
2004 New Work, Ty Stokes Gallery, Atlanta. GA
2003 New Work, Saltworks Gallery,Atlanta, GA
2002 The Arrangement of Things, Coach Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2001 Punto di Fuga (Vanishing Point), Universita Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Venice,
2000 After Painting, Laredo Center for the Arts, Laredo, TX
1999 Retracings, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
1999 Retracing Retracing, Resource Forum, Atlanta, GA
1999 Into the Blue, Solomon Projects, Atlanta, GA
1998 In Retrospect: Paintings From the Last Decade, Buckhead Plaza, Atlanta
1996 Quaternity, Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA
1995 Forecasts, Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, GA with catalogue-traveled to
Cheekwood Fine Arts Center, Nashville, TN
Hudgins Center, Duluth, GA
1994 Between Heaven and Earth, The Autrey Mill Project, Alpharetta, GA.
1993 Paintings, Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, GA
1989 Paintings, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA
1988 Paintings, Art Institute of Pittsburgh, PA
1987 Paintings, Omni Gallery, Atlanta, GA
1987 Paintings, Berry College, Rome, GA
1986 Paintings, Philip Morris Gallery, Richmond, VA
1986 Paintings, Catholic University, Washington, D.C.
1986 Paintings, Foundation Gallery, Norfolk, VA
1985 Paintings, Sarah Y. Rentschler Gallery, New York City
1985 Paintings, Long Island University Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
1983 Paintings, Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, NY
1993 Paintings, The Studio School and Gallery, Johnson City, NY
1981 Paintings, Smedley’s Gallery, Ithaca, NY
1981 Paintings, Willard Straight Gallery, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Group Exhibitions
2024 Off the Wall, 725 Ponce, video installations curated by Gregory Zinman, Atlanta, Georgia
2024 Please Be Seated, Museum of Design Atlanta, Georgia
2022 Borders of Light and Water, European Cultural Centre, 59th Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
2021 Exhibition: Geo from the Collection of the Mark Rothko Centre Daugavpils, Riga Art Space, Latvia
2020 Drawing Challenge I - XXIII, Jason McCoy Gallery, NYC, New York
2017 Group Show, Ille Arts, Amagansett, New York
2017 Unanswered Letter with Lenka Clayton, Fabric Workshop And Museum, Philadelphia, PA
2016 Painting, Mark Rothko Centre, Daugavpils, Latvia
2016 Academy/Academia Marietta Cobb Museum of Art, Marietta, GA
2015 Rooted, Manny Cantor Center, New York City, NY
2015 Selections from the Permanent Collection, MOCA GA, Atlanta, GA
2014 Draftsmen’s Congress, The New Museum, New York, NY invited by Pawel Althamer
2013 kleineaberKunst, Neuer Worpsweder Kunstverein, Worpswede, Germany
2012 Billboard Project, Atlanta, GA
2011 C-Flow, Elevate Atlanta, Office of Cultural Affairs, Atlanta, GA
2011 Days oF Awe, Flux Projects, Atlanta, GA
2010 5 + 15 + 5, Ateilerhaus Bahnhof Sagehorn, Oyten, Germany
2010 From Padies, Galerie 22, Toulouse, France
2009 Majestic Sunrise, The Rialto ,Atlanta, GA
2007 Genius Loci, Soranzo Cappello Palace, Venice, Italy
2007 Viva Frida, Whitespace Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2007 Drawings, City Gallery East , Atlanta, GA
2006 Color, Space 301 , Mobile, Alabama
2005 Drawing Conclusions, Rialto curated by Karen Comer Lowe , Atlanta
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
1996 Gone With the Wind, Taboo, Chastain Gallery, City of Atlanta
1994 Kay Garvey Gallery, Chicago, IL
1994 Martha Keats Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
1993 GreenSpace, Nexus Contemporary Art Center (Atlanta Contemporary), Atlanta, GA;
1992 Atlanta Biennial, Contemporary Art Center Atlanta,
1988 Bowery Gallery, New York City
1987 Vistas: The Panoramic Landscape, GW Einstein Gallery, NYC, NY
1987 Landscape, 22 Wooster Street, New York City
1986 New York Artists Reynolds/Minor Gallery, Richmond, VA
1986 Peninsula Fine Arts Center, Newport News, VA (two-person)
1985 Muscarelle Museum, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA
1985 Four Artists on Paper, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, VA
1985 Small Works Invitational, Bowery Gallery, NYC
1984 BFM Gallery, NYC, NY
1984 New Scapes: Land and City/States of Mind, One Penn Plaza, NYC
1982 Wells College, Aurora, NY
1982 Goldwin-Ternback Museum, Flushing, Queens, NY
Book
2013 She’s Got What It Takes: American Women Artists in Dialogue. Published by Charta Art Books, Milan, Italy.
Journal
2018 Deanna Sirlin: New Collages in Black Renaissance/Renaissance Noire published by the
Institute of African American Affairs at New York University, New York, NY edited by Quincy Troupe
Collaborative Projects
2023 Opal Moore, Color of Healing, poetry and video, Ga Tech Media Bridge, Atlanta, Georgia
2022 Nuno Veiga, Wavelength, video collaboration, Atlanta, Georgia
2021 Nuno Veiga, 3 Scherzi 4 Strata, Three video, sound and dance collaborations, Evora, Portugal
2018 Matthew Ostrowski, UUU, video collaboration, Gallery 72, Atlanta, GA
2017 Lenka Clayton, Unanswered Letter, Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA
1991 Vinnie Murphy, The Vincent Project, Emory University, Atlanta, GA
1983 Chris Kraus, Readings From The Diaries of Hugo Ball, St Marks Poetry Project , NYC, NY
1980 Ronald Tavel set design and installation “The Understudy” Cornell University Theatre, Ithaca, NY
Catalogues
2022 J. Andrew Salyer, A Chromatic Lens for Reflection
2020 José Alberto Ferreira, Deanna Sirin: STRATA, Fundação Eugénio de Almeida, Portugal
2019 Cinque Hicks, Deanna Sirlin: Variation
Articles and Reviews
July 2023 Artist Profile, Deanna Sirlin: Wavetable, Art Spiel, NYC NY
October 2022 Review: Deanna Sirlin’s is a love song to paint and color by Jerry Cullum for ArtsATL and the AJC
August 2022 Making a Splash: Deanna Sirlin, Watermark at GA Tech Library, by Robert Stalker for Arte Fuse
August 2022. Deanna Sirlin: Borders of Light and Water at Palazzo Bembo by ART SPIEL, NYC, NY
June 2021 Yiyao Yang, Looking Inward, Strata in Evora, Imprint Magazine, UK
June 2021 Geo from the collection of the Mark Rothko Centre at Riga Art Space
April 2021 Tijana Lehtikoski Zest & Curiosity: Deanna Sirlin: STRATA in Portugal
December 2020 Celso Martins, Strata, Expresso Magazine, Portugal
January 2018 Quincy Troupe, Black Renaissance Noire
May 2015 Donata Wood, Painting Is Its Own Language, Wümme-Zeitung
October 2006 Sandi Toksvig, My Skull Was A Credit To Me, London Telegraph
Spring 2006 Quandra Rodriguez, Art of Deanna Sirlin, Catalyst Magazine
December 2005 Rebecca Dimling Cochran, Atlanta: Deanna Sirlin, Sculpture Magazine
October 2002 Nancy Staab, Grand Scale Art, Southern Living
June 2001 John Villani, Catching the World’s Emerging Art Voices, Art Business News
January 2001 Christina Kline, Framing a New Paradigm, Art Papers Magazine
Interviews
November 2023 Life & Work with Deanna Sirlin, VoageATL, Atlanta, Georgia
February 2023 In conversation with the multimedia artist Deanna Sirlin, by Sara Buoso, Juliet Magazine, Italy
February 2023 Meet Deanna Sirlin, CanvasRebel Magazine
May 2022 Climate change inspires artist Deanna Sirlin's Venice Biennale Installation, Arts ATL by Gillian Renault
September 2020 Shoutout Atlanta: Deanna Sirlin Artist
November 2019 VoyageATL Conversations with the Inspiring Deanna Sirlin
November 2018 IdeelArt US American Artist Deanna Sirlin
August 2018 ArtsATL, Deanna Sirlin by Andrew Alexander
July 2018 VoyageATL, Deanna Sirlin
Audio Interviews
April 2022 LOST IN THE STACKS: THE RESEARCH LIBRARY ROCK'N'ROLL RADIO SHOW
Episode 516: Artist in Residence II interviewed by Charlie Bennett
August 2018 Storycorps interviewed by Ed Austin Hall
August 2018 City Lights, NPR interviewed by Lois Reitzes
Grants and Honors
2023-24 Artist in Residence, Midtown Alliance and Emory University, Atlanta, GA
2023 Warhol Foundation Grant, New York New York
2022 Individual Artist Grant, Fulton County Arts Council, GA
2022 Artist in Residence, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia
2021 Grant, South Arts, Atlanta, GA
2021 Individual Artist Grant, Fulton County Arts Council, GA
2020 Grant, United States Artists, Chicago, IL
2020 Grant, Georgia Chapter of The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC
2020 Grant, Judith Alexander Foundation, Atlanta, Georgia
2020 Nexus Fund, Atlanta, Georgia
2019 Artist in Residence, City of Alpharetta, Georgia
2019 Artist in Residence, Cini Foundation, Venice, Italy
2017 Individual Artist Grant, Fulton County Arts Council, Georgia
2016 State Department Grant, United States of America
2016 Rothko Foundation International Painting Symposium Artist in Residence
2012 Mini-Grant, City of Milton, GA to make art with the community
2010 Creative Capital Warhol Foundation Award for Art Writing Mentor
Program working with Hayden Herrera
2009 Artist in Residence, Padies Chateau, Lempaut , France
2008 Fulton County Arts Council, Small And Emerging Arts Organizations Grant
2002 Artist in Residence, Nuremberg, Germany
2002 Artist in Residence ,Kunsthaus Project- Heidenheim, Germany
2002 Artist in Communities Grant, Fulton County Arts Council, Atlanta
1994 Individual Artist Grant, Georgia Council for the Arts
1992 Artist Project Grant, BCA, City of Atlanta
1987 Artists’ Space Grant, New York City
1983 Yaddo Foundation, Saratoga Springs, NY
Selected Collections
Mark Rothko Centre, Daugavpils, Latvia
Shenzhen Institute 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
Wohnbau Studio, Stuttgart, Germany
Macon Museum of Arts and Sciences, Macon, GA
Atlanta Gas Light, Atlanta, 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
Citihome Developers, Atlanta, GA
Troutman-Sanders, Atlanta, GA
Childress Klein, Atlanta, GA
Hewitt and Associates, Atlanta, GA
Larson-Juhl, Atlanta, GA
Colorchrome, Atlanta,GA
Casas, Benjamin, and White LLC Atlanta, GA
Wells Corporation, Minneapolis, MN
Georgia Power, Atlanta, GA
Hartsfield Jackson International Airport, Atlanta, GA
Herman Miller, Atlanta, GA
Pope and Land, Atlanta, GA
Cousins Properties, Atlanta, GA
State Farm, Dunwoody, GA