Skye GILKERSON

SOLO & TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2023 A Kind of Ecstasy, Rick Wester Fine Art, New York, NY

A Planet I Can Walk On, Bloomsburg University Gallery, Bloomsburg, PA

2020 Close Your Eyes, Library Exhibitions, Fayetteville, AR

2017-2018 There and Back, South Dakota Art Museum, Brookings, SD

Nowhere Better Than This Place, Webb School Gallery, Knoxville, TN

2016 Unending, Institute of Contemporary Art, Baltimore, MD

2014 New Works, K&K Project Space, Stuttgart, Germany

2013 The Sunrise Watches the Sunset, Bethel University, St Paul, MN

2011 Out of Context, Grizzly Grizzly, Philadelphia, PA

2010 Portable Horizon Project, Seed Space, Nashville, TN

2004 Nervous Expression, Eastern University, St. Davids, PA

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2023 Artist-In-Residence Exhibition, Kleinert/James Center for the Arts,Woodstock, NY

2022 Open Studios Exhibition Series, Byrdcliffe Artist Colony, Woodstock, NY

2021 Summer Reading, Center for Book Arts, New York, NY

The Phenomenology of Outer Space, SOIL Art Center, Seattle, WA

2020 No Place But Home, University of West Florida, Pensacola, FL

Making a Way, South Bend Museum of Art online exhibition

Making a Way, Winfisky Gallery at Salem State University online exhibition

ICA Flat Files, Institute of Contemporary Art, Baltimore, MD

2019 52 Hertz, Whale Stove Works, Chattanooga, TN

C for Courtside, Knoxville, TN

Double Negative, ChaShaMa, New York, NY

Art Is…, Borgia Gallery, Chicopee, MA

2018 Between Days, Honey Ramka, Brooklyn, NY

Nighttime For Strangers, NARS Foundation, Brooklyn, NY

Summer Reading, Woskob Family Gallery, State College, PA

Bibliotheek Driehoek, Ekeren, Belgium

Stone’s Throw: On Borders, Boundaries and The Beyond, Pensacola Museum of Art, Pensacola, FL

2017 The Times, FLAG Art Foundation, New York, NY

Reader’s Art, Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Minneapolis, MN

Bound and Unbound IV, University Libraries, Vermillion, SD

Trace/Limit, Jackson Meadows, Marine on St Croix, MN

Endless and Mobile Beautiful Collapsible Labyrinth, Flux Factory, Queens, NY

The Video Show, Raritan Valley Community College, Raritan, NJ

2016 20th Anniversary Show, Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY

Transmitter, Independent Art Book Fair, Brooklyn, NY

Edgehill Muses, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN

One Hour of Birds (collaboration with Jenny Kendler), Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art, Indianapolis, Indiana

2015 "...And I Feel Fine,” The Re-Institute, Millerton, NY

From Lourdes, Figment, New York, NY

Sunsets, The Wassaic Project, Wassaic, NY

Transmitter Presents, Select Art Fair, New York, NY

6 x 6, Transmitter, Brooklyn, NY

2014 Re:Collect, Re:View Gallery, Detroit, MI

Art On Paper: Works from the Collection, Gormley Gallery, Notre Dame of Maryland University, Baltimore, MD

In The Details, The Wassaic Project, Wassaic, NY

2013 All My Ghosts, College Art Gallery Collaborative, St Paul, MN

Selfie, Guest Spot, Baltimore, MD

Triangulation, Co-Prosperity Sphere, Chicago, IL

2012 Grand Prix, Nudashank, Baltimore, MD

Flooded Art Party,153 Imlay, Red Hook Brooklyn, NY

Invited: Celebration Station, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD

Trawick Prize Finalist Exhibition, Gallery B, Bethesda, MD

Baltimore Liste, Baltimore Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, MD

Residency Re-imagined, City Hall, Philadelphia, PA

23rd National Drawing and Print Exhibition, Gormley Gallery,

Notre Dame of Maryland University, Baltimore, MD

Textuality, Manifest Creative Research and Drawing Center, Cincinnati, OH

2011 Trawick Prize Finalist Exhibition, Artery Plaza Gallery, Bethesda, MD

KISS: New Sincerity And New Romanticism in Art, Murray State University, Murray, KY

365 Days of Print, DUMBO Arts Festival, Brooklyn, NY

The Visual Arts Gallery, New Jersey City University, Jersey City, NJ

Chain Letter, Samsøn Projects, Boston MA

Out of Context, Grizzly Grizzly, Philadelphia, PA

Edited States, Guest Spot, Baltimore, MD

Medium of Exchange, Center for the Arts Gallery, Towson University, Towson, MD

Regeneration, Second Chance, Baltimore, MD

Economy and Mapping, Temple Gallery, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA

2010 All or Nothing, Denler Gallery, St Paul, MN

Stop. Start. Repeat., Anton Art Center, Mt Clemens, MI

Crystalline Justice, Patton-Mallott Gallery, Anderson Ranch Art Center, Snowmass Village, CO

2009 Paperworks, BJ Spokes Gallery, Huntington, NY

Majestic Gallery Juried Exhibition, Majestic Gallery, Northville, OH

Loose Cannon: MFA Thesis Exhibition, Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI

Bookends, Torpedo Factory Art Center, Alexandria, VA

2008 Yellow # 5, Forum Gallery, Bloomfield Hills, MI

Ephemeral Sensuality, Forum Gallery, Bloomfield Hills, MI

Nothing is Everything, Forum Gallery, Bloomfield Hills, MI

In Vibrio, Forum Gallery, Bloomfield Hills, MI

Daimler Chrystler New Art Exhibition, Daimler Chrystler, Farmington Hills, MI

2007 Where the Aero Lands, Forum Gallery, Bloomfield Hills, MI

The Greatest Damn Sculpture Show on Earth, Forum Gallery, Bloomfield Hills, MI

Earth From Above: No Name Exhibitions Biennale, Soap Factory, Minneapolis, MN

AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES

2023 Chateau Orquevaux Artist Residency, Orquevaux, France

2022 Byrdcliffe Colony Artist Residency, Woodstock, NY

2020 Mass MoCA Artist Residency, North Adams, MA

2018 Tilleard Projects Artist Residency, Lamu Island, Kenya

2017 Webb School Teaching Artist Residency, Knoxville, TN

Jentel Artist Residency, Sheraton, WY

2015 Art of Consciousness Artist Residency, Springfield, NH

2014 La Napoule Art Foundation Artist Residency, La Napoule, France

2013 Vermont Studio Center Full Fellowship, Johnson, VT

Byrdcliffe Colony Artist Residency, Woodstock, NY

2012 Notre Dame of Maryland Purchase Award

Trawick Prize Finalist

Smack Mellon Studio Fellowship

2011 Philadelphia Art Hotel Artist Residency, Philadelphia, PA

Trawick Prize Finalist

2010 Chenven Foundation Artist Grant

Anderson Ranch Artist Residency, Aspen, CO

Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts Artist Residency, Nebraska City, NE

2009 Majestic Gallery Exhibition, First Place Award

2008 Detroit Symphony Orchestra Artist Residency, Detroit, MI

2007-2009 Pamela Applebaum Scholar, Cranbrook Academy of Art

2007 Lifeworks, Inc., Artist Grant

COLLECTIONS

Tilleard Projects Collection, Nairobi, Kenya

Notre Dame of Maryland Collection, Baltimore, MD

Vanderbilt University Collection, Nashville, TN

Webb School Collection, Knoxville, TN

Bethel University Collection, St Paul, MN

Robert F. Pfannebecker Collection, Lancaster, PA

Philadelphia Art Hotel Collection, Philadelphia, PA

Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts Collection, Nebraska City, NE

Numerous Personal Collections in the US and Germany

Drawing Center Curated Online Registry, New York, NY

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Courter, Barry, “52 Hertz Whale headed to Knoxville,” Times Free Press, August 2019

Roberts, Mike, "'Stone's Throw' goes the distance at Pensacola Museum of Art," Pensacola News Journal, December 2018

Brown, Danielle, “Stones Throw Exhibition at Pensacola Museum of Art Opens with Featured Artists,” September 2018

Carey, Maryanne, "Nowhere Better Than This Place," Number: Ninety Three, March 2018

“Top 10 Art Shows of 2016,” Baltimore Sun, December 2016

Sweeney, Erin, “Skye Gilkerson and the Edge of Space,” Exhibition Catalogue, October 2016

Johnson, Paddy, “This Week’s Must-See Events,” Art F City, November 2016

“Experiments in Utopia,” Edgehill Muses Catalogue, January 2016

Chu, Christie, “Forget Chelsea—The 15 Brooklyn Art Galleries You Need to Know Now,” Artnet News, March 2015

“This Week’s Must-See Art Events,” Art F City, November 2015

365 Artists/365 Days, "Skye Gilkerson-Brooklyn, NY," September 2014

Seed Space Catalogue, "Portable Horizon Project," July 2014

Kind Aesthetic, "Five Alive: Skye Gilkerson," March 2014

La Napoule Art Foundation Blog, "Spotlight on Skye Gilkerson," April 2014

Rehm, Rebecca, "UNW participates in art tour with Bethel, MCAD," UNW Column, October 2013

Helton-Gallagher, Chloe, Exhibition Celebrates the Allure of the Arduously Handmade, Baltimore Sun, March 2012

Ober, Cara, “The Real America: To Go,” Urbanite, February 2012

Ober, Cara, “Strange Magic,” Urbanite Online, November 2011

“Seen and Liked: ‘Out of Context’ at Grizzly Grizzly,” Heavybubble, September 2011

Schwartz, Chip, “The Parallel Processes of Skye Gilkerson and Sarah Steinwachs,” The Art Blog, September 2011

Pastan, Rachel, “Field Trip: Alternative Spaces,” Institute of Contemporary Art Blog, September 2011

Stewart-Sanabria, Denise, “New Horizons,” Exhibition Catalogue, 2010

Bubis, Rachel, “Portable Horizon Project,” Exhibition Catalogue, 2010

Bubis, Rachel, “Interactive Art Exhibition at Seed Space,” Nashville Examiner, 2010

Cover Art, Open Letters Monthly, October 2010

“An Authorless Chorus,” Open Letters Monthly, October 2010

Gilkerson, Skye, Cranbrook Academy of Art Graduate Catalogue, 2009

Umass Small Press Bonanza, Microfilme Magazine, Issue 1, 2009

Anna Dezeuze “Express Yourself,” Variant Magazine, Issue 31, 2008

Harrell Fletcher and Miranda July “Learning to Love You More,” Prestel Publishing, 2007

Lukas Gohl “Badass Bienalle,” The Wake Magazine, Volume 5 Issue 6, 2006

EDUCATION

2009 MFA, Sculpture, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI

2004 BA, Studio Art with Honors, Bethel University, St Paul, MN

2004 Altos de Chavon/Parsons School of Design, La Romana, Dominican Republic

2003 Oregon Extension Women’s Studies Program, Ashland, OR

2002 Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland, UK