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Anita Glesta
email: anitaglesta@hotmail.com
 
SOLO EXHIBITIONS    
2009   Museo Nacional de Arte, La Paz, Bolivia
2008   Bridge Art Fair Berlin, special project, video installation feature.
Instituto Cervantes, Belgrade, Guernika Installation
2007   White Box Exhibition Space, New York, NY, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council,
outdoor installation, Chase Manhattan Plaza, New York, NY
2003   Black and White Gallery, Outdoor Space, Williamsburg, NY
1996   Annandale Galleries, outdoor site specific sculpture, Sydney,
Australia The Performance Space, Sydney
1989   Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY
1985   White Columns Gallery, New York, NY
 
GROUP EXHIBITIONS  
2009   Two Person Show, Five Myles Gallery, Brooklyn NY
2008   BOMB benefit auction
2007   9-11 Film Festival, Brooklyn Arts Council, video “Market Day”,
White Box Benefit Auction
2005   Biennale de Deshechos , Castellon, Spain
2004   “Sculptor’s Drawings” Black and White Art Gallery, New York, NY
1998   Sculpture Symposium, Sydney, Australia
1997   “Art Inter Change”, Benefit for Sydney Children’s Hospital, Sydney, Australia
“Perspecta” Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney, Australia
1995   “Artful Park”, Centennial Park, Outdoor Sculpture, Sydney, Australia
1994   “Tongue in Cheek” group show, 464 Broadway Gallery, New York, NY
1993   Group show OIA, Brooke Alexander Gallery, New York,
NY Outdoor sculpture show, Wards Island, New York, NY
Outdoor sculpture, Triangle Collaborative, Brooklyn, NY
1992   “Emerging Sculptors”, The Sculpture Center, New York, NY
1991   “Small works”, A.C. Project Space, New York, NY
1990   “Expressions of the Surface”, Queens Museum, Queens, NY
“Forces of Nature”, Long Island University,
Outdoor Sculptures, Brooklyn, NY
1988   Rotunda Gallery: “Painting into Sculpture”, Brooklyn, NY
1985   “Gallery Artists”, White Columns Gallery, New York, NY
 
AWARDS, COMMISSIONS, RESIDENCIES (Click to Go Top of Page)  
2008   General Services Administration Commission, Sculpture for Skidmore,
Owings, & Merrill Federal Census Bureau Building, Suitland, MD
2007   Lower Manhattan Cultural Council outdoor commission, Puffin Foundation
2006   New York State Council for the Arts grant for Gernika/Guernica Project
2003   Fiscal Sponsorship NYFA for project, Desde El Cielo, Hasta El Fondo
2002   New York Foundation for the Arts Grant
2001  

Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant

2001   “Chianti Sculpture Park” commission, Chianti, Italy
2000   “Yurong Water Gardens” completion of Permanent Commission,
Cook and Phillip Park, Sydney, Australia
1999   Sydney Olympic Millennium Park Commission in Collaboration with
EDAW Landscape Architects, Sydney, Wynyard Park, Sydney City
Council CommissionSignage/Sculpture “Lenticular Lens”
1997   Mt. Annan Botanic Gardens: Sydney, Australia Sculpture Commission
Sydney City Council Priority One Projects; “Lang Park” In collaboration
with EDAW, Landscape Architects National Association of Visual Artist,
Promotion and Development Grant for “Perspecta”, AGNSW, Sydney, Australia
1995   Australia Council: CEAD Grant, for Rushcutters Bay Kindergarten Outdoor Sculpture
 
TEACHING POSTS (Click to Go Top of Page)  
2008   Visiting Artist, Public Art Residency Program School of
Visual Arts,New York, NY
2005   Visiting Artist, Public Art Residency Program School of
Visual Arts, New York, NY
2006   Visiting Artist, Public Art Residency Program School of
Visual Arts, New York, NY
1999   Adjunct Professor, University New South Wales, School of Architecture
1996–1997   Adjunct Professor, Sydney College of the Arts, Sydney University,
Sydney, Australia
1996   Visiting Adjunct Professor, University of Wollongong,
New South Wales, Dept of Fine Arts
1995–1996   Adjunct Professor; University of New South Wales, School of
Landscape Architecture, Sydney, Australia Sydney College
of the Arts, Department of Sculpture
1986–1994   Adjunct Professor, Long Island University, Brooklyn Campus, Brooklyn NY
 
PAPERS & CONFERENCES (Click to Go Top of Page)  
2005   Guest Speaker, AIA, New York, NY
2004   Guest Speaker: FOCA Arts Festival, Castellon, Spain
2003   Guest Speaker From Guernica to Gernika, Art and Peace conference
2002   Art to Start, guest speaker and moderator, VanAlen Institute,
2002 April Gernika Gogoratuz, Annual Peace Conference Guernica, Spain
2002   University of Barcelona, School of Fine Arts, lecture
2001   Waterfront Cities, Public Art, workshop, Barcelona, Spain
2001   Common Places Workshop, Guest Speaker, Oporto, Portugal 2000
Lecture, Harvard University, School of Landscape Architecture
2000 Lecture, International Sculpture Park Symposium, Fanano, Italy
1998   Lecture, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia School of
Landscape Architecture
1998   Award; Best Practice, Sydney Collage of the Arts, Sydney, Australia
1997   “Intersections”, Conference, College of Fine Arts, UNSW Art Gallery
of New South Wales for “Perspecta” Emerging Paradigms in Design
University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
1995   Big Sky, Conference of Landscape Architecture, University of New
South Wales, Sydney, Australia
 
RESIDENCIES (Click to Go Top of Page)  
2008   Bogliasco Foundation, Italy
2004   Fundacion El Paraiso, Mojacar, Spain
1998   University New South Wales, Sydney Australia
 
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY (Click to Go Top of Page)  
2009   March Comissions, Sculpture Magazine for Census project
2009   Sculpture magazine, Feature article, Carol Schwartzman
    Magazines
2007   BOMB LIVE Magazine interview
2005   Sculpture Magazine, “Pedazos” by Jill Conover
2003   Radio interview, Radio Euskadi
2000   Sculpture Magazine, feature article, by T. MacGowan Architectural
Review Magazine “Body and Mind, Sydney’s Olympean Feats”
1999   Monument Magazine Review by Paul McGillick
1998   Monument Magazine, Art in Australia; Review of “Perspecta”
by Paul McGillick, City Weekly “Metro Sydney gossip”
1997   Monument Magazine “Public Art, Public Places, by Tempe
MacGowan Sydney Morning Herald, by J. MacDonald
“Perspecta”Review June ABC Radio, Australian National Radio,
“Earthbeat” Interview for Botanic Gardens Sculpture
1996   Sydney Morning Herald, B.James, “Art Talk”, Review
1994   SBS “IMAGINE” Television program interview for
Centennial Park Sculpture
1992   New York Times, by Michael Brenson “Forces of Nature”
Television, Radio Books, Catalogues
2005   Catalogue Essay, Biennale de Deshechos
2003   Catalogue essay, Elisabeth Sussman, for Black & White Gallery
2003   Design de espacao publico Centro Portuges publication
2001   CITY SPACES Published by Craftsman House, edited by E. Mossop
2001   The Arts in Urban Development, University of
Barcelona Press, by A. Remesar
1997   Catalogue for “Perspecta” Art Gallery of New South Wales Essay
by Barbara Matilsky, Curator Ackland Art Museum
 
EDUCATION (Click to Go Top of Page)  
1980–1982   School of Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
1976–1980   Parsons School of Design and the New School, BA & BFA
1977   Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture