DIANE SOPHRIN
24 Saint Paul Street, Montpelier, Vermont 05602, USA · (802) 223-3395
Vasvári
Pál u. 8 II/21, 1061
Budapest, Hungary · (36 1) 317-1982 · (36 20) 580-3656
· http://www.geneseo.edu/~sophrin ·
CURRICULUM VITAE
1950
Born in New York City
EDUCATION
1990
University at Buffalo. Buffalo, New York. MFA
1978
School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts
1974
Jan Van Eyck Akademie. Maastricht, Nederlands
1972
Binghamton University. Binghamton, New York. BA
1967 High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts. New York City
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATION
2007-12 Hungarian Painters' Association. Budapest, Hungary
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2012
Mercure Budapest Museum Gallery. Fragmentáció.
Budapest, Hungary
2008
Ferencváros
Pince Gallery. Witness& Form.
Budapest, Hungary
Ferencváros
Historical Museum. Łódź – The Returning. Budapest, Hungary
2007
Pestújhely
Community Center Budapest, Hungary
2005
Bálint Jewish Community Center. Strange Fires and Other
Stories.
Budapest, Hungary
Beth
Jacob Synagogue. Strange
Fires. Montpelier, Vermont
2004
Ráday Könyvesház Gallery. World Encyclopedia International Artists'
Book Project: performance/installation. Budapest, Hungary
2003
Contemporary Art Gallery of Przemysl. Summer Paintings/ World
Encyclopedia International Artists' Book Project.
Przemyśl, Poland
Mű-Terem
Gallery. World
Encyclopedia International Artists' Book Project. Debrecen,
Hungary
2001
Helen Day Art Center. Figures at Work/Patterns at
Play. Stowe, Vermont
2000
Mű-Terem
Gallery.
Debrecen, Hungary
1999
Norwich University. Selections of A Decade.
Northfield, Vermont
1997
Gallery Arta Casa. The
Opening of the Box. Amsterdam, the Netherlands
1994-95
Arts Council for Wyoming County. Perry, New York.
Women of Perry: Portraits
From Life.
Traveling Exhibition and Readings: American
Association of University Women, Rochester, New York
Finger Lakes Community College, Canandaigua, New York
1994
Adams Art Gallery. Recent Bodies of Work. Dunkirk, New York
Lyndon
State College. Small
Lessons. Lyndonville, Vermont
1990
Bethune Gallery. University at Buffalo. Reality and Myth: Works by
Diane Sophrin and Brian Hoover. Buffalo, New York
Rosefsky
Gallery. Binghamton University. The Gaze: Paintings,
Drawings and Prints. Binghamton, New York
1987
University
of Rochester. Recent
Works. Rochester, New York
1981
McCarthy Fine Arts Center. St. Michael's College.
Winooski, Vermont
Thomas
W. Wood Art Gallery. Vermont College. Montpelier, Vermont
1980 Thomas W. Wood Art Gallery. Vermont College. Montpelier, Vermont
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2012
Vízvárosi Gallery. Hungarian Painters’
Association Invitation Exhibition: New Collages.
Budapest, Hungary
2011
Vízvárosi Gallery. Hungarian Painters’
Association Invitation Exhibition: The Artist’s Objects.
Budapest, Hungary
Contemporary
Hungarian Gallery, Vermes-Villa. Hungarian Painters’ Association
Invitation Exhibition:
Black Pictures3. Dunaszerdahely, Slovakia
2010
Csepel Gallery Art Center.
Hungarian Painters' Association and the Hungarian Sculptors’
Association Invitational Exhibition: Ironic and Sublime – In
Memory of Paizs László. Budapest, Hungary
Hungarian
Creative Artists’ Center. National Association of Hungarian Creative
Artists & Hungarian
Painters'
Association Invitational Exhibition: Black Pictures – Second
Round. Budapest, Hungary
2009
Simontornya Castle Museum. Mednyánszky
Association
Exhibition. Simontornya,
Hungary
Csepel Gallery Art Center. Hungarian
Painters'
Association Invitational Exhibition: Today. Budapest,
Hungary
2008–10 Your Documents Please.
Traveling: Museum of Arts & Crafts, Itami-shi,
Japan
ZAIM, Yokohama, Japan
2B Gallery, Budapest,
Hungary
Gallery Kurt im Hirsch,
Berlin, Germany
GALLERY Z - Bratislava,
Slovakia
Ajolote
Contemporary
Art Gallery, Guadalajara, Mexico
Alma in Manhattan, New York City
2008
Csepel Gallery Art Center. Hungarian
Painters' Association Invitational Exhibition: Black Pictures. Budapest,
Hungary
The Szekszárd Cultural Center Szekszárd
Painting Triennale: Szekszárd,
Hungary
2007
Csepel Gallery Art Center. Hungarian
Painters'
Association National Exhibition: The Face of Dreams. Budapest,
Hungary
Art Mill Cultural Center. Hungarian Painters'
Association National Exhibition Szentendre, Hungary
2005 – 09 Lessedra Gallery. International Art Print Annual. Sofia, Bulgaria
2004
Contemporary Art Gallery of Przemysl.
Słonne 15. Przemyśl,
Poland
Gallery U
Jaksy. International
Painting Meeting Exhibition. Miechów, Poland
2003
Dwór
Karwacjanów Museum. East-West
Symposium Exhibition.
Gorlice, Poland.
2002,
03 Art Museum of Satu
Mare. East-West
Artists’ Symposium.
Satu Mare, Romania
2002
International Fair of Visual Arts. Bucharest, Romania
2000
Second Debrecen
Contemporary Art Expo. Debrecen, Hungary
20 X 20 Small
Pictures Festival, Fony, 1997- 2000. Fony, Hungary
1999
Chandler Music Hall. Images of Women. Randolph,
Vermont
1996
Gallery Vieleers. Amsterdam, Nederlands
Vigadó Gallery. Budapest, Hungary
1995
Adams Art Gallery. R.E.C.Y.C.L.E. Dunkirk, New York
1994
Albright-Knox Art Gallery.
45th Western New
York. Buffalo,
New York.
1993
-94 Boise Art Museum,
Boise, Idaho. American
Realism: The Urban Scene
Traveling: Redding Museum of Art, Redding, California
Albany Museum of Art, Albany, Georgia
Canton Art Institute, Canton, Ohio
Paine Art Center, Oshkosh, Wisconsin
Naples Museum of Art, Naples, Florida
Sunrise Art Museum, Charleston, West Virginia
Rockwell Museum, Corning, New York
1993
University of Tennessee. 1993 Visiting Artists'
Exhibition. Knoxville, Tennessee
Bethune Gallery. University at Buffalo. UB Printmakers.
Buffalo, New York
1991,92 Memorial Art
Gallery. Rochester
Finger Lakes Exhibition. Rochester, New York
1991
Hudson River Museum. Hudson River Open '91.
Yonkers, New York
1989
Albright-Knox Art Gallery. In Western New York 1989.
Buffalo, New York
1988
Memorial
Art Gallery. Rochester
Finger Lakes Exhibition. Rochester, New York
1988
Chautauqua Institution. 31st Annual National
Exhibition. Chautauqua, NY
1986-88
National Academy of Design. Realism Today. New York
City
Traveling: Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts
Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, Arkansas
Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio
1986-88
Rochester Institute of Technology. Faculty Exhibition. Rochester, New York
1985-87
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. American Realism: 20th Century Drawings and
Watercolors.
Traveling: Decordova Museum, Lincoln, Massachusetts
Huntington Art Gallery, Austin, Texas
Block Museum of Art, Evanston, Illinois
Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts
Madison Art Center, Madison, Wisconsin
1985 Boise Gallery
of Art. Focus on Realism.
Boise, Idaho
1984
Wells
College. Five Realist
Painters. Aurora, New York
1983
Brattleboro Museum. Local Landscapes.
Brattleboro, Vermont
Bromfield Gallery. Fifteen
Vermont Artists. Boston, Massachusetts
Salmagundi
Club.
American Artists League
55th National Exhibition. New York
1983
University of Massachusetts. Amherst, Massachusetts
1982
Berkshire Museum. Works
on Paper. Pittsfield, Massachusetts
RESIDENCIES
2006
Kecel Bozsó János Artists' Colony. Kecel,
Hungary
2005
Széchényi Artists' Colony. Gyermely,
Hungary
Hel-Bór International Artists' Symposium.
Hel-Bór, Poland
2004
5th International Painting Meeting. Gallery U Jaksy.
Miechów, Poland
2003
International Visual Art Symposium. Słonne, Poland
Dwór
Karwacjanów Museum East-West
Painting Symposium. Gorlice, Poland
2002
Miskolc
Gallery Printmaking Residency. Miskolc, Hungary
4th Dorothea Fleiss East-West Artists Symposia and
Residency. Carei, Romania
2001-08
Cívis International Artists' Colony.
Hajdúszoboszló, Hungary
2000-05
Vámospércs International Artists' Colony
Vámospércs, Hungary
2000-07
Hortobágy International Artists' Colony.
Hortobágy, Hungary
2000
International Colony of Artists of Hajdú County.
Hajdúböszörmény, Hungary
GRANTS AND
AWARDS
2002
Fulbright Alternate Fellow. University of Debrecen,
Hungary
1998-99
Vermont Arts Council Grant. Body and Soul: Painting the Human
Figure.
1995
New
York State Council on the Arts Grant. Women of Perry, Portraits From Life. Writing
project
1994
New York State Council on the Arts Grant. Women of Perry, Portraits From Life. Painting
project
1992
Memorial
Art Gallery. Excellence
in Painting Award. Rochester,
New York
1988
Chautaqua Institute. Drawing Award,
Chautaqua, New York
1988-90
University at Buffalo. Diamond Research Grant. Buffalo, New York
1988-90
University at Buffalo. Presidential Research Fellowship. Buffalo, New
York
1981-82
Vermont State Council on the Arts Grant
GALLERY AFFILIATIONS
2001-04
Patak Gallery. Szigetszentmiklós (Budapest),
Hungary
1996-97
Galerie Arta Casa. Amsterdam, the Netherlands
1996
Galerie Vieleers. Amsterdam, the Netherlands
1983-97
Nancy Hoffman Gallery. New York City
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Miskolc Gallery. Miskolc, Hungary
Satu-Mare Museum of Art. Satu-Mare, Romania
Municipalities of Hortobágy,
Hajdúböszörmény,
Jászdózsa, Vámospércs, Fony, Hungary
University of Tennessee. Knoxville, Tennessee
Amarada Hess Corporation. New York City
Chemical Bank. New York City
St. Michael's College. Winooski, Vermont
CURATING AND JURYING
2003
Thomas Waterman Wood Gallery and Art Center. Contemporary Drawing 2003.
Montpelier, Vermont
2001-04
World Encyclopedia
International Artists' Book Project.
http://www.geneseo.edu/~sophrin/worldencyclopedia.html
Helen Day Art Center, Stowe, Vermont
Mű-Terem Gallery, Debrecen, Hungary
Contemporary Art Gallery of Przemysl, Poland
Ráday Könyvesház Gallery,
Budapest, Hungary
1995
Genesee
Center For the Arts. The Letchworth Muse. Batavia, New
York
EDITING
2006
Budapest Museum of Fine Arts, Re:mbrandt 400, Modern Hungarian Artists
Respond: Exhibition catalog. Curator, Rényi András. Budapest, Hungary
LECTURING
2002
Beth Jacob Synagogue. Central European Art and
Synagogue Architecture. Montpelier,
Vermont
2001
Helen Day Art Center. Figures at Work/Patterns at
Play. Stowe, Vermont
Hortobágy
International Creative Arts Colony. Recent Works
Twentieth-Century Jewish-American Artists. Hortobágy,
Hungary
1999
Thomas Waterman Wood Arts Center. Women Figurative Artists:
Contemporary Voice and Vision. Montpelier, Vermont
Norwich University. Selections of a Decade: Drawings by Diane Sophrin
/Historical Influences. Northfield, Vermont
1998
College Art Association. Contemporary Women
Figurative Artists. Toronto, Canada
1997
Women's Caucus for Art Conference. Panel Chair.
Tradition: Who Names It,
Who Claims It? Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1994
Maine College of Art. Recent Work/ Historical
Influences. Portland, Maine
1994
American Association of University Women. Women of Perry: Portraits
from Life. Rochester,
New York
1993
University
of Tennessee. A Body
of Work and Historical Contexts: Recent Paintings and
Drawings. Knoxville, Tennessee
1991
State University of
New York at Geneseo. Gender
and Image: Recent Paintings and Drawings. Geneseo,
New York
1990
Binghamton University. Rosefsky Visiting Artist.
The Gaze: Paintings, Drawings
and Prints. Binghamton, New York
1988
Bowdoin College. Recent
Work. Brunswick, Maine
TEACHING
2002-03
Union Institute. Montpelier, Vermont
1999-02
Norwich University. Northfield, Vermont
1997-01
Vermont College. Montpelier, Vermont
1993
University of Tennessee at Knoxville. Artist-in-Residence
1992
Alfred University. Alfred, New York
1988-90
University at Buffalo. Buffalo, New York
1985-88
Rochester Institute of Technology. Rochester, New York
1987
University of Rochester. Rochester, New York
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2002
The Ancient Art of Emulation. Elaine K. Gazda,
Editor. University of Michigan Press
1989
In
Western New York. Albright-Knox Art Gallery
1987
Realism Today: Drawings and Watercolors from the
Collection of Rita Rich National
Academy of Design