SIGRID BURTON

307 West Broadway New York, New York 10013
(212) 226-0169 fax: (212) 226-7189
email: sigridburton@mac.com

1951 born Pasadena, California

EDUCATION

1973	B.A., Bennington College, Bennington, Vermont
1969-1971	University of California, Berkeley and Los Angeles MA course work completed, Columbia University, New York, New York (South Asian Studies)

FELLOWSHIPS AND HONORS

1994	Recipient of 1994-1995 Indo-American Senior Research Fellowship, Fulbright Scholar Program for Faculty and Professionals to study the meaning and use of color in traditional Indian art forms
1985	Residency Fellowship, Rockefeller Foundation, Bellagio Study Center, Bellagio, Italy
1977	Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Foundation Award for a young artist of distinction who has not yet received due recognition, American Academy & Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, New York

COMMISSIONS

2001	Merck & Company, Inc., Global Headquarters, Whitehouse Station, New Jersey: site specific suite of paintings for central concourse and a painting for each of two main entrance lobbies.
1990	Georgetown Plaza, New York, New York
1986	Glick Organization, The Promenade, New York, New York

ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2013	AIR Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
2007	Inaugural Exhibition, Julie Clark Maxwell Artist in Residence Fellowship, Westridge School, Pasadena, California
2006	O’Melveny Gallery, Los Angeles, California
2004	Gallery Mebuki, Osaka, Japan Waterworks Visual Arts Center, Salisbury, North Carolina
2003	FLATFILE Contemporary, Chicago, Illinois Baum Gallery of Fine Art, University of Central Arkansas, Conway, Arkansas
2001	Rockefeller Arts Center, State University of New York, Fredonia, New York (catalogue) McArthur Gallery, Tampa, Florida
1998	State Street Gallery, Sarasota, Florida
1993	Jean Albano Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
1990	Patricia Hamilton Gallery, Santa Monica, California Hokin Kaufman Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
1988	Patricia Hamilton 112 Greene Street Gallery, New York,New York Eve Mannes Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
1987	Ivory Kimpton Gallery, San Francisco, California Hokin Kaufman Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
1986	Patricia Hamilton 112 Greene Street Gallery, New York,New York
1984	Ivory Kimpton Gallery, San Francisco, California Martha White Gallery, Louisville, Kentucky
1983	DBR Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio Grayson Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
1982	Martha White Gallery, Louisville, Kentucky
1980	Salander O’Reilly Gallery, New York, New York
1978	College of Creative Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, California
1976	Artists Space, New York, New York

 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2011	Vestiges, AIR Gallery, curated by Jill Connor, Brooklyn, New York
2006	Amy Simon Fine Arts, Westport, Connecticut O’Melveny Gallery, Los Angeles, California
2005	Amy Simon Fine Arts, Westport, Connecticut
2004	Essentials, O’Melveny Gallery, West Hollywood, California Amy Simon Fine Arts, Westport, Connecticut A Global Language, FLATFILEcontemporary, Chicago, Illinois
2003	Gallery Selections, Kreuger Gallery, Pasadena, California Inaugural Exhibition, FLATFILEcontemporary, Chicago, Illinois
2002	Six Painters, Kreuger Gallery, Pasadena, California
2000	Hunter Gallery Selects, Leubsdorf Art Gallery, Hunter College, New York, New York New Paintings by Sigrid Burton, Sharon Rosenfeld, & Jennifer Young, Hofstra Museum, Emily Lowe Gallery, Hofstra University, Hempstead, New York
1997	Gold and Silver, Jean Albano Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
1995	Perspectives on India, Krasdale Corporation Art Gallery, New York, New York Paper Works, Hurlbutt Gallery, Greenwich, Connecticut
1990	Works on Paper, Hokin Kaufman Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
1988	Downtown Perspectives, Adelphi University, Manhattan Center, New York, NY Recent Acquisitions, John & Mable Ringling Museum, Sarasota, Florida
1987	Christmas Show, Hokin Kaufman Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
1986	Pasadena Collects: Art Of Our Time, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, California (catalogue)
1984	Gallery Selections, Janus Gallery, Los Angeles, California Hundreds of Drawings, Artists Space, New York, New York DBR Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio
1983	The Nancy Yewell Collection,Baxter Art Gallery,California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California Martha White Gallery, Louisville, Kentucky Ivory Kimpton Gallery, San Francisco, California
1982	Martha White Gallery, Louisville, Kentucky Inaugural Exhibition, Grayson Gallery, Chicago, Illinois Gallery Ninety-Nine, Bay Harbor Islands, Florida
1980	Martha White Gallery, Louisville, Kentucky
1979	William O’Reilly Gallery, New York, New York
1977	Candidates for Academy Awards and Honors, American Academy & Institute of Arts & Letters Recipients Of Academy Honors, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, New York

 

SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Bucknell University, Lewisberg, Pennsylvania
Metropolitan Museum Of Art, New York, New York
John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, Florida
Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, California
Lewis and Clark College, Portland, Oregon
Auberge Du Soleil, Napa, California
Baker, Knapp and Tubbs, Chicago, Illinois
Bank of the South, Atlanta, Georgia
B.F. Goodrich, Akron, Ohio
Brown Forman Distilleries, Louisville, Kentucky
C & H Sugar, Crockett, California
Citicorp, New York, New York and Los Angeles, California
Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio
Coca Cola Corporation, Atlanta, Georgia
Digital Equipment, San Francisco, California
First City Capital, New York, New York
First Union Bank, Corporate Headquarters, North Carolina
Freddie Mac, McLean, Virginia
Georgetown Plaza (commission), New York, New York
Glick Organization, Promenade Building (commission), New York, New York
Jewish Hospital, Cincinatti, Ohio
Jim Beam Corp., Chicago, Illinois
Loew’s Theater Corporation, New York, New York
McMaster Carr, Cleveland, Ohio
Merck & Co., Inc. Global Headquarters (commission), Whitehouse Station, New Jersey
Mercantile Bank, Sacramento, California
NYNEX, White Plains, New York
Northern Telecom, Nashville, Tennessee
Pepsi Bottling Co., Chicago, Illinois
Polygram Corporation, Los Angeles, California
Prudential Bache, New York, New York
Prudential Insurance, Newark, New Jersey
Rockefeller Foundation, New York, New York
Simpson Timber Company, Seattle, Washington
Sierra Federal Savings Bank, Beverly Hills, California
Steelcase Inc., Grand Rapids, Michigan
Westridge School, Pasadena, California

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

Stephen Salny, Michael Taylor, Interior Design, W.W. Norton & Co., New York, 2008
Peter Frank, review of exhibition, LA Weekly, April 28- May 4, 2005
Phoebe Davidson, Ashville Poetry Review, review of Janice Fuller, Sex Education, 2005
Mary-Luce Boand, Espaces, Sept-Nov. 2004, page 97
Thomas Patterson, review of exhibition, Winston Salem Journal, Sunday, January, 18, 2004
Jason Kaufman, Lyrical Color, Arts & Antiques, February, 2003
Emily Santolla, The Chautauquan Daily, July 11, 2001
Bennington Alumni Magazine, fall 2001, cover and excerpt from William C. Agee catalog essay
William C. Agee, Sigrid Burton: A Personal Odyssey, catalogue, 2000, Rockefeller Arts Center, State University of New York, Fredonia, New York
Peter Frank, brochure essay, 1999
Who’s Who in America, 1997-present (also Who’s Who in American Women)
Who’s Who in the World, 2001-present
Monica Geran, Interior Design, May 1991, page 180
NYNEX Art Collection Calendar, month of May, 1991
Suzanne Slesin, The New York Times; ‘Home’ section page C1, Sept. 12, 1991
The Poetry Project, Feb-Mar.1990, cover and page 12
Tony Towle, review of exhibition, Arts Magazine, Summer Issue, 1986, page 111
Alan Artner, review of exhibition, The Chicago Tribune, June 24,1983
Sarah Lansdell, review of exhibition, The Louisville Courier Journal, February 21,1982
Architectural Digest Engagement Calendar, month of June, 1982
Irene Morrissey, Vingt Cinq Ans, November, 1981
Beverly McGuire, House Beautiful, October 1981, page 119
Irene Copeland, Cosmopolitan, September 1981, page 265
Suzanne Stark Morrow, Architectural Digest, April 1981, page 114
Jason Kantos, House Beautiful, October 1980, page 126
Mary Seehafer, House Beautiful, January 1980, page 130
Masako Togo Kosloff, LO, 1979, page 179-180
Muriel R. Chess, The Designer, December 1979, page 14-15