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  PATRICIA DAHLMAN
738 Second Ave. Lyndhurst, New Jersey 07071
201-372-9198 watpaetki@aol.com
www.patriciadahlman.com
www.local-artists.org/user/4498
www.columbuslibrary.org/cmlarts/artsbrowseresults.cfm?searchlist=D
www.jerseyarts.com/ArtistGallery.aspx
Born Cincinnati, Ohio
EDUCATION
Wright State University, Dayton, OH B.F.A. 1975
Yale University Summer School of Music and Art, Norfolk, CT 1974
GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS, AND AWARDS
Wright State University School of Art, Jason W. McCoy Memorial Fund, Alumni Exhibition Award, 2007
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Sweet Briar, VA, Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Fellowship, 2006
Puffin Foundation, Grant Award for The War And Peace Print Project, 2005
Vermont Studio Center, Johnson,Vermont, Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Fellowship, 2004
New Jersey Printmaking Fellowship, Rutgers Center for Innovative Print and Paper, Mason Gross School of the Arts, New Brunswick, NJ, 2002
Aljira Emerge 2000, Artist Development Program, Newark, NJ, 1999
Yaddo Artist Residency, Saratoga Springs, NY, 1987
ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2010 The Dana Women Artist Series, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, "The Art and Science of Happiness" curated by Judith Brodsky and Ferris Olin
2007 New York Public Library, Mid Manhattan Library, NYC, two site specific installations "Spring" at "Art in the Windows" curated by Arezoo Moseni
1992 King County Arts Commission Gallery, Seattle, WA, "Patricia Dahlman, Recent Paintings and Drawings"
1980 Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ, "Patricia Dahlman, Recent Paintings and Drawings"
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2012 Susan Hensel Gallery, Minneapolis, Minnesota, "Readers's Art 12: Longing for Home"
2012 Arthur M. Berger Art Gallery, Manhattanville College, Purchase, NY, "LOVE?" curated by Christine Dehne and Charles McGill
2011 Penn State Lehigh Valley, Center Valley, PA, "Reaction and Healing: the 10th Anniversary of 9-11"
2011 Studio Theater Gallery, Middlesex County College, Edison, NJ, "TOYS" curated by Asha Ganpat
2009 Paul Robeson Galleries, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ, "Exquisite Corpse"
2009 The Center for Book Arts, NY, NY, “Threads: Interweaving Textu[r]al Meaning” curated by Alexander Campos and Lois Morrison
2009 Arts Council of the Morris Area, Morristown, NJ, “New Jersey Green”
2009 Printmaking Council of New Jersey, Branchburg, NJ, “Past Present” curated by Aileen Bassis
2009 South Seattle Community College, Seattle, WA, “Stitch: The Art of Clothing, Textiles and Soft Sculptures”
2009 Wright State University Galleries, Dayton, OH, “Kiser Invitational”
2008 Levy Art & Architecture and Department of Interior, San Francisco, CA, “Twenty Artists, Two Galleries, Four Blocks” curated by Robert Geshlider
2008 516 ARTS, Albuquerque, NM, “Speak Out: Art, Design + Politics,” curated by Abby Goldstein
2008 Susan Hensel Gallery, Minneapolis, MN, “All Things Electoral: Redux”
2008 Sragow Gallery, NY, NY, Collaborative print with Michael Dal Cerro and two projects from the War and Peace Print Project in conjunction with the exhibition “Strength In Numbers”
2007 Gallery Aferro, Newark, NJ, “In the Country of Last Refuge,” curated by Emma Wilcox and Evonne M. Davis
2007 Rutgers University Libraries, John Cotton Dana Library, Newark, NJ, “Corporeal- Book as Body, Body as Book” as part of selections from the Brodsky Center Collection
2007 University Art Galleries, Wright State University, Dayton, OH, “2007 Alumni Exhibition”
2007 Columbia Art Center, Columbia, Maryland, “Conflict/Peace- Finding Common Ground Exhibition”
2007 Victory Hall/Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ, “99 Cents Exhibition,” curated by Rocio Aranda-Alvarado
2006 Bedford Gallery, Dean Lesher Regional Center for the Arts, Walnut Creek, CA, “Embroidered Stories/Knitted Tales,” curated by Carrie Lederer
2006 Gallery Artists Studio Projects, Brookline, MA “The Thread Counts Project-Virtual Gallery Space,” www.threadcountsproject.com curated by Luanne Stovall and Leila Lee Mitchell
2005- 2010 West Central Illinois Arts Center, Macomb, Illinois, Ghostprint Gallery, Richmond, VA, Joan Lukas Rothenberg Gallery, Redhouse Arts Center, Syracuse, NY, Dowd Fine Arts Gallery, SUNY Cortland, Cortland, NY, K Space Contemporary, Corpus Christi, Texas, Crossman Gallery, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, Walker’s Point Center for the Arts, Milwaukee, WI, Esplanade Loft Project, “Art + Anarchy Montreal 2007, Montreal, Canada, Food for Thought Cafe, Student Gallery, Portland State University, Portland, Oregon, 5+5 Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, Phinney Center Gallery, Seattle, WA, “Paper Politics,” curated by Josh MacPhee
2005 Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ “Circa Craft 2005,” curated by Rocio Aranda Alvarado and Ursula Ilse-Neuman
2005 Amnesty International Firefly Project, Brooklyn, NY “Image Acts,” exhibition of activist art in conjunction with the conference “And So Forth” curated by Apsara Diquinzio and Tina Kukielski
2004 George Adams Gallery, New York, NY, “BUSH-WHACK!”
2004 621 Gallery, Tallahassee, Florida, “Make Believe,” Three Person Exhibition, Patricia Dahlman, Janae Easton, Carol Golemboski, curated by Linda Hall
2003 Noyes Museum of Art, Oceanville, NJ, “New At The Noyes: Recent Acquisitions”
2003 Newark Public Library, Newark, NJ, “Just 4 U” curated by William J. Dane
2003 Rutgers University, Mason Gross Galleries, New Brunswick, NJ, “Personal Perspectives,” Rutgers Center for Innovative Print and Paper Fellowship Exhibition
2002 The Morris Museum, Morristown, NJ, New Jersey Arts Annual, “Cultural Exploration,” curated by Willie Cole and Laura Galvanek
2002- 2004 Arkansas State University Galleries, Jonesboro, Arkansas, New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ, The Morris Museum, Morristown, NJ, “100 New Jersey Artists Make Prints, Fifteen Years of the Rutgers Center for Innovative Print and Paper”
2002 Hunterdon Museum of Art, Clinton, NJ “In Memorian: September 11, 2001”
2002 Pelham Art Center, Pelham, NY “Artist’s September 11 Response Show”
2001 Fine Arts Building Gallery, Chicago, IL “Member And Guest Exhibition”
2001 Barbara Ann Levy Gallery, Cherry Grove, Fire Island, NY “Firesland 2001”
2000 Williamsburg Art & Historical Center, Brooklyn, NY “Celebrating Yaddo Artists”
2000 Aljira Center for Contemporary Art, Newark, NJ “Aljira Emerge 2000 Exhibition” curated by Richard Klein
1999 Confluence Gallery, Twisp, WA “To The Bone” curated by Caryl Campbell
1998 Armory Art Center, West Palm Beach, FL “Lest We Forget” Artists’ Responses to the Gulf War
1998 Centre Space, Easton, PA “Group Exhibition”
1995 Trojanowska Gallery, San Francisco, CA “(Art) Word (Art)”
1994 The Luggage Store Gallery, San Francisco, CA “The Luggage Show” curated by Laurie Lazer and Renny Pritikin
1990 Seattle Center, Seattle, WA “Art Works For Aids” curated by Margery Aronson, Chris Bruce, and Patterson Sims
1990 North Seattle Community College, Seattle, WA “Women’s View”
1989 Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio “Alumni 1 Exhibition”
1988 Prince Street Gallery, New York, NY “Invitational”
1984 Ammo Exhibition Space, Brooklyn, NY “The Brooklyn Landscape”
1984 Yale University Summer School Gallery, Norfolk, CT “Ten Years Later”
1974 Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH, “Art From the Rental Gallery”
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2011 "We Remember, 10th Anniversary of 9-11" Catalogue, Penn State, Berks, PA
2011 Online Exhibition Catalogue "The Art and Science of Happiness: Patricia Dahlman http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/rul/exhibits/dwas_2010.shtml
2011 On the Issues Magazine, "Women, War & Peace"  
www.ontheissuesmagazine.com/2011summer/2011summer_weiss.php
2011 "CALYX, A Journal Of Art And Literature By Women," Winter 2011
2010 Helen Schwartz, "An Artist Creates Happiness--in Three Dimensions," U.S.1, Princeton, New Jersey, November. 17, 2010
2010 Cliff Wang, "Multimedia exhibit illustrates happiness through art," The Daily Targum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, September 21, 2010 www.dailytargum.com/university/multimedia-exhibit-illustrates-happiness-through-art-1.2337477
2009 "Exquisite Corpse, Paul Robeson Galleries 30th Anniversary" Catalogue, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ
2009 "Paper Politics: Socially Engaged Printmaking Today" Catalogue, PM Press,
Oakland, CA
2009 "Threads: Interweaving Textu[r]al Meaning," Catalogue, New York, NY
2009 Ralph J. Bellantoni, "Time Warp" Prints consider how past colors present, Courier News, Central New Jersey, March 13, 2009
2007 “In the Country of Last Refuge,” Catalogue, Newark, NJ
2007 Pamela Dillon, “Artists Together Again,” Dayton Daily News, Dayton, Ohio, July 1
2006 Robert Taylor, “Yarn Art Gets a Modern Makeover at Bedford,” ContraCostaTimes.com Sept. 28
2005 “Circa Craft 2005” Catalogue, Jersey City, NJ
2005 “Paper Politics,” Catalogue, Seattle, WA
2003 Dan Bischoff, “Prints Charming,” “100 NJ Artists Make Prints,” The Star Ledger, Newark NJ., Jan. 24
2002 “100 New Jersey Artists Make Prints, Fifteen Years of the Rutgers Center for Innovative Print and Paper” Catalogue New Brunswick, NJ
2002 “Cultural Exploration, New Jersey Fine Arts Annual” Catalogue Morristown, New Jersey
2000 “Aljira Emerge 2000 Exhibition” Catalogue Newark, NJ
1992 “Patricia Dahlman at the King County Arts Commission Gallery,” Sharon Baerny, Reflex Magazine, Seattle, WA March/April 1992
1990 Bryant, Elizabeth “Art Works For Aids” Seattle Post Intelligencer, Seattle, WA Nov.30
1990 “Art Works For Aids” Catalogue Seattle, WA
ARTIST TALKS
2012 Artist Lecture, Conversations With Artists 2012, SUNY Rockland
2010 Artist Lecture, "The Art and Science of Happiness: Patricia Dahlman", Dana Women Artists Series, Douglass Library, New Brunswick, NJ
2010 Artist Lecture, Conversations With Artists 2010, SUNY Rockland
2009 Artist Lecture at Center for Book Arts in conjunction with "Threads: Interweaving Textu[r]al Meaning"
2006 Artist Talk, to docents at Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA in conjunction with "Embroidered Stories/Knitted Tales"
2003 Discussed and showed slides in conjunction with "Cross Sections 2: Artists and Their Rutgers Center for Innovative Print and Paper Collaborators Discuss Their Work," Morris Museum, Morristown, NJ
PROJECTS, COLLABORATIONS, EXHIBITIONS, ONLINE EXHIBITIONS, AND COLLECTIONS
2012 http://iwa.rutgers.edu/home/ "40 Years of Women Artists at Douglass Library, Mary H. Dana Women Artists Series-40th Anniversary Virtual Exhibit (1971-2011)
2010 http://littleyellowbirds.blogspot.com/2010/08/art-and-science-of-happiness.html
2010 http://stitchmomshop.blogspot.com/2010/08/embroidery-in-art-patricia-dahlman.html
2009 "Remarked Upon Book" Collaborative artist book project with Robin Ross as part of Robin Ross collaborates with 48 artists. Included in the Kentler International Drawing Space Collection www.kentlergallery.org
2009 "Art For Health Care Reform Online Exhibition" http://artforhealthcarereform.googlepages.com
2008 Collaborative woodcut print “Hope to Rebuild” made with Michael Dal Cerro as a benefit to the Barack Obama Campaign. Print shown and sold at Sragow Gallery and at Obama benefits at Pisticci Restaurant, artobama.org, Art101 Gallery and Artbreak Gallery.
2006 Online exhibition www.politicalartwork.blogspot.com “Have You Had Enough?” Oct. 19 and www.dailykos.com/story/2006/10/20/02543/691
2004-present Organized “The War And Peace Print Project,” artists’ prints made by Patricia Dahlman, Michael Dal Cerro and Deborah Harris, sold to benefit MoveOn. Prints included in Amendicons Project- Responses to the Israeli-Lebanon War shown at Makor Gallery, NYC and at Haven Arts, Bronx, NY and included in “Violence Transformed 2008,” Digital Display, Doric Hall, Massachusetts State House, Boston, MA. Digital prints from “The War And Peace Project” in the collection of the Center for the Study of Political Graphics, Los Angeles, CA
Organized “We Live In a Divided Country, Try to Bridge That Gap,” small edition book of 12 artists’ prints made by the artists from “The War And Peace Print Project.” Book shown at Wessel and Lieberman Booksellers, Seattle WA and Babylon Lexicon at Barrister Gallery in conjunction with the 2006 New Orleans Book Fair and online at
politicalartwork.blogspot.com/2006_08_01_politicalartwork_archive.html “What’s So Funny About Peace, Love and Understanding?”
Print shown from book at “Hope, Change, Progress: Art Forms for Obama,” Benefit for Barack Obama, G.R.N’Namdi Gallery, NY, NY.
“We Live in a Divided County, Try to Bridge That Gap” is included in the Special Collections at the Newark Public Library, Newark, New Jersey
2002 As a recipient of the New Jersey Fellowship at Rutgers Center for Innovative Print and Paper, print-paper edition, a collaborative work with master papermaker Anne Q. McKeown, is in the collections of The New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ, New Jersey State Council on the Arts, Trenton, NJ, Zimmerli Museum of Art, New Brunswick, NJ, Morris Museum, Morristown, NJ, Newark Public Library, Newark, NJ, Hunterdon Museum of Art, Clinton, NJ, Noyes Museum of Art, Oceanville, NJ, Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ and the Brodsky Center Collection, New Brunswick, NJ
2002-2007 Assist in organizing and art work included in the “Unity Canvas,” 9/11 project, art work in response to the WTC Disaster.
“Unity Canvas” as of September 2007 in the collection of the National September 11 Memorial & Museum at the World Trade Center, NY, NY.
“Unity Canvas” exhibited September 2007 in “Preserving 9/11,” Voices of September 11 Sixth Anniversary Forum, NY, NY, May 2006 at Port Authority Bus Terminal, NY, NY and September 2002 at Williamsburg Art & Historical Center, Brooklyn, NY http://www.lmcc.net/news/2006.5.2unity/
2000 “Yaddo Open Studios” Celebrating the 100th Anniversary of Yaddo, Brooklyn, NY
1984 Organized “Ten Years Later,” Yale at Norfolk” 1974 Alumni Exhibition, Norfolk, CT
“Yale at Norfolk Prints” print portfolio made by students at Yale University Summer School of Music and Art at Norfolk in 1974, in the collection of Guilford College Art Gallery, Greensboro, North Carolina and in the collection of Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT