About

Studio: 323 West 39th Street, #814, New York, NY 10018
(The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, Studio Member)
(c) 917-596-6887
hilda1.shen@gmail.com

Selected Exhibitions

2011
Jan-Mar / International Print Center New York (IPCNY), NY, NY / “New Prints/2011 Winter”

2010
Dec-Jan 2011 / SUGAR, Bushwick, NY / “Ace of Spades”
Aug / Storefront Gallery, Brooklyn, NY / “Black and White”
Aug / 20/20 Gallery, Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop / Fellowship Show
April-June / Cheryl McGinnis Gallery, NY, NY / Reconstructing Paper
Jan-Feb / Storefront Gallery, Brooklyn, NY / Inaugural show

2008
Oct-Nov / Jeanie Tengelsen Gallery, Dix Hills, NY / Process/Presence
Sept-Oct / Marymount Manhattan College, Hewitt Gallery / Drawings
Feb-April / Cheryl McGinnis Gallery, NY, NY / “Touched by Women’s Hands”
Jan-April / Concordia College, Osilas Gallery / “The Flying Dragon”

2007
Nov-Jan ’08 / Flushing Town Hall, Queens, NY / “Touched by Women’s Hands”
Sept-Nov / The ‘temporary Museum of Painting / “The Impermanent Collection V”
June-Aug / Lesley Heller Gallery, NY, NY / “Town and Country”
June-Aug / St. Petersburg Arts Center, St. Petersburg, FL / “Collage in the Expanded Field”

2006
May-Dec / William Fellows Architects, NY, NY / “Beyond Landscape”
Mar-May / Wave Hill, Bronx, NY / “Out of Bounds”

2005
Mar-April / Tenri Cultural Institute, New York, NY / “Cursive”

2004
Oct-Dec / Lehman College Art Gallery, New York, NY / “Intricate Subtleties”

2003
Nov / Art Projects International, New York, NY / Sculpture and Drawing
Oct / China2000 Fine Arts, New York, NY / “Between the Lines”

2002
Nov / Art Projects International, New York, NY / Sculpture and Drawing

2000
Albright-Knox Members’ Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY / Drawings
June / TransHudson Gallery, New York, NY / “Drawing”

1999
July / Kim Foster Gallery, New York, NY / “Small Abstractions”

1998
Dec-Feb / Longwood Arts Gallery, Bronx, NY / Solo Exhibition
July / LiebmanMagnan, New York, NY / “Body Snatchers”
March-April / Taipei Gallery, New York, NY / “Site of Asia, Site of Body”

1996
Sept / Leonora Vega Gallery, New York, NY / Solo Exhibition
Sept / TransHudson Gallery, New York, NY / “Personal”

1995
June / Kouros Gallery, New York, NY / Group Invitational

1991, 1992
Artists Space, New York, NY / “Selected Works” “Small Works”

1988
Oct / Asian American Arts Centre, New York, NY / “Ten Chinatown”

1984
Nov / Wayne Art Center, Wayne, PA / Four Artists

Awards
Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop, Project Fellow / 2008
The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, Studio member / 2001-present
Yosemite National Park, Artist-in-Residence / 2004
Riverdale Country School, Faculty Grants / 1996,1999, 2002, 2007, 2010
The Millay Colony for the Arts, Resident Artist / 1998
The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Ware Traveling Prize (to Italy) / 1985

Visiting Artist
Hartford Art School / MFA Visiting Artist / Winter 2006
Yosemite National Park / Artist in Residence / 2004
SUNY Rockland / Winter 2002, 2006
The Nightingale-Bamford School, NY, NY / Spring 2002, Spring 1999
CUNY Queens College Graduate Art Department, Flushing, NY / Spring 1996
New York Studio Program (AICAD), NY, NY / Spring 1991

Selected Reviews
2011
Jan 3 / Wagmag / Gomez, Enrico: “Ace of Spades”
Feb / Brooklyn Rail / Schultz, Charles: “Ace of Spades”

2010
April 27 / The Village Voice / Shuster, Robert: “Reconstructing Paper”
Feb / The New Criterion /Panero, James: “Gallery Chronicle”
Jan / Hyperallergic / Vartanian, Hrag: “A Gallery Grows in Bushwick, Storefront Appears on the Scene”

2007
Nov / The Brooklyn Rail / Kalm, James: “An Unobstructed View: Brooklyn Dispatches”
June / Tampa Creative Loafing / Voeller, Megan: “A Blender” and Hanging It on the Walls”

2005
March 20 / The New York Times / Genocchio, Ben: “Bringing the Outdoors Inside and Hanging It on the Walls”
July-Aug / NY ARTS / Lien, Fu Chia-Wen: “Poetics of Landscape: Out of Bounds and In Bounds”
May / The Brooklyn Rail / La Rocco, Ben: “Out of Bounds

2004
May / ArtAsia Pacific / Wei, Lilly: “Between the Lines”
Feb / ARTnews / Jana, Reena: “Hilda Shen”
Jan-Feb / Asian Art News / Malhotra, Priya: “A Week of Surprises

1998
Spring / Contemporary Visual Arts, #19 / Fulcher, Dawn: “Previews:Body Snatchers”
Summer / ARTnews / Nadelman, Cynthia: “Site of Asia, Site of Body”
July / Asian Art News / Lien, Fu-Chia-Wen: “The Body as Metaphor for Feminist Expression”
April 20 / The New York Times / Cotter, Holland: “Site of Asia, Site of Body: Contemporary Asian Women Artists”

1996
May / Artist (in Chinese) / Lien, Fu: “Site of Asia, Site of Body”
Autumn / Asia-Pacific Sculpture News / Su, Ying: “Hilda Shen at Leonora Vega Gallery”

Catalogues and Brochures
Touched by Women’s Hands, text and interview by Lin Yan
Collage in the Expanded Field, essay by Sangoyemi A. Ogunsanya
The Flying Dragon: Tradition & Innovation in Chinese Art, essay by Yoo-Jong Kim
Beyond, text by Tshen Shue and Lin Yan
Out of Bounds, essay by Jennifer McGregor
Cursive, essay by Thalia Vrachopoulos
Between the Lines, text by Karen Wender
Art Projects International: Ten Years, essay by Jonathan Goodman
Site of Asia, Site of Body, essay by Fu-Chia-Wen Lien

Juror
The Millay Colony for the Arts (sculpture), 1998, 1999, 2000

Education
City University of New York, Queens College, NY, NY, M.F.A. in Sculpture, 1988
The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA, Certificate in Sculpture, 1984
Oberlin College, B.A. in Music and East Asian Studies

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