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RESUME & BIO
BIOGRAPHY LISA DAHL is a visual artist who works in painting, photography, sculpture and video. Born in Minneapolis in 1971, Dahl currently lives and works in New York City. She received her BA in Art History from Bowdoin College in Maine and her MFA from Rutgers the State University of New Jersey. Her work has recently been exhibited in museums, galleries, art fairs and video festivals both nationally and internationally. Dahl received a residency fellowship to the MacDowell Colony in 2006, and was awarded a Project Space studio at PS122 in 2004. Her work has received print and online reviews in The New York Times, The Star-Ledger, New York Magazine, Artinfo, and Metro, among others.

EDUCATION
MFA
Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, 1998
BA
Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME, 1993

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2008
The Garage, Park Place, Jersey City, NJ
The Hunterdon Art Museum, Lisa Dahl: No Place Like Home, Clinton, NJ
DiVA Digital & Video Art Fair with Kenise Barnes Fine Art, New York, NY (catalog)
2004
Pentimenti Gallery, Home Sweet Home, Philadelphia, PA
1998
Mason Gross School of the Arts Galleries, Direct Association, MFA thesis show, New Brunswick, NJ

SELECTED TWO & THREE PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2008
Cheryl McGinnis Gallery, Dwell, New York, NY (catalog)
2007
SPACE Gallery, A Time and a Place, curated by Alexandra Sax, Portland, ME
AG Gallery, Home Sweet Home, Brooklyn, NY
2005
PS122 Gallery, Lisa Dahl and Haejae Lee, New York, NY

SELECTED RECENT GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2008
Kenise Barnes Fine Art, Gifts from the Studio, Larchmont, NY
Yoo Art Space, Over the Rainbow - Next (I)s Seoul 2008, curated by Sisun Song of Mushroom Arts, Seoul, Korea
One-Minute Film & Video Festival, Aarau, Switzerland
LIMN Gallery, Forces of Nature, San Francisco, CA
Lumen Eclipse, Home – June Video Showcase, Cambridge, MA
Jersey City Museum, Sprawl, Jersey City, NJ (catalog)
chashama, Accumulation Project: Selections, New York, NY
Brooklyn Arts Council Gallery, Lack of Desire, curated by Scott Henstrand, Brooklyn, NY
2007
Flow Invitational Art Fair with Kenise Barnes Fine Art, Miami, FL
Winkleman Gallery Project Space, Seed Project, New York, NY
Kenise Barnes Fine Art, Surf & Turf, Larchmont, NY
Sharon Arts Center, Viewing MacDowell, Peterborough, NH
video_dumbo, Eye Candid, curated by Gabriela Monroy and Caspar Stracke, Brooklyn, NY
Homeland: Borders and Boundaries, curated by Colette Copeland, Mexicali, Mexico and Woodstock, NY
Kunstfort, HOME show, curated by Michelle Provenzano, Vijfhuizen, The Netherlands
New American Paintings, Exhibition in Print, curated by Darsie Alexander, Issue # 68 Northeast Edition
New Jersey City University, Homegirls, curated by Margaret Murphy, Jersey City, NJ (catalog)
2006
Jersey City Museum, Video Showcase, curated by Kim Su Theiler, Jersey City, NJ
video_dumbo, Flooded, curated by Gabriela Monroy and Caspar Stracke, Brooklyn, NY
Kouros Gallery, Wrote For Luck, curated by Kevin Reay, New York, NY
Bronx Museum of the Arts, AIM 26, curated by Lydia Yee and Erin Salazar, Bronx, NY (catalog)
Joyce Goldstein Gallery, Flash, Chatham, NY
Nurture Art, Once Upon a Time, curated by Stephanie Jeanjean, Brooklyn, NY
2005
Lunar Base Gallery, Accumulation Project: Discarded Dreams, Brooklyn, NY
Leonardo Gallery, Cut Out, curated by Alisha Linseman, Toronto, Canada
The Matzo Files, flat file gallery, New York, NY
2004
Tattfoo Gallery, XS: The Mini Works Exhibition, curated by Ensze Tan, Staten Island, NY
2003
The Parrish Art Museum, 38th Biennial Juried Exhibition, Southampton, NY

AWARDS / HONORS
2006
The MacDowell Colony, Residency Fellowship and Travel Award, Peterborough, NH
2005-06
Artist in the Marketplace, Bronx Museum of the Arts Seminar Program, Bronx, NY
2004-05
Painting Space 122, Project Studio Award, New York, NY
2003
The Parrish Art Museum, Best in Show Award, Southampton, NY. Jurors: Tom Eccles, Wendy Olsoff, and Amei Wallach
1998
Frans Masereel Center, Residency Fellowship, Kasterlee, Belgium
1997-98
Mason Gross School of the Arts, Graduate Teaching Fellowship, New Brunswick, NJ

BIBLIOGRAPHY
2008
Balkin, Adam. “Digital Art Fair Brings Video Installations to the Streets of New York,” NY1 News (TV), March 24, 2008.
Bellantoni, Ralph J. "Artists Reflect on Suburbia in Pair of Hunterdon Exhibits," MyCentralJersey.com, July 24, 2008.
Bischoff, Dan. "Taking Another Look at the Suburban Idea," The Star-Ledger, July 18, 2008.
Cheng, DeWitt. "Forces of Nature at Limn Gallery," ArtSlant, August 3, 2008.
Genocchio, Benjamin. "Seeking Truth, Not Always Beauty," The New York Times, June 8, 2008. (image)
Goodman, Jonathan. "Dwell: Lisa Dahl, Susan Hamburger, Margaret Murphy," exhibition catalog essay for Cheryl McGinnis Gallery, 2008.
Hanley, William. “DiVA Hits the Streets,” Artinfo, March 25, 2008.
Herting, Nora. “Interview with Lisa Dahl,” Proof of Concept at Con10NY.com, February 4, 2008.
Pearse, Emma. “Artist Lisa Dahl Gets the Housing-Market Blues,” New York Magazine Vulture, April 1, 2008.
Whiten, Jon. "Artist Lisa Dahl Talks 'Sprawl'," NEW magazine online interview, June 23, 2008.
2007
Ayers, Robert. "AI Reviews: Homegirls at Jersey City Museum," Artinfo, March 21, 2007.
Birmingham, Mary. "Women's Work," The Jersey Journal, March 2, 2007. (48Kb pdf file)
Murphy, Margaret. "Homegirls" exhibition catalog essay for New Jersey City University, 2007.
2006
Ducts magazine, “The Accumulation Project,” Issue 17: Summer 2006.
Yamamura, Midori. “Once Upon a Time,” Gekkan Bijutsu, No. 367, 2006
Yee, Lydia and Erin Salazar. “AIM 26” exhibition catalog essay for the Bronx Museum of the Arts, 2006.
2005
Benfer, Amy. “Suburban Mystique: At Home, They Are Tourists,” Metro, October 7-9, 2005. (725Kb pdf file)
Markel, Carol. “Home Is Where the Art Is,” Grand Street News, Vol. 2 Issue 1, January 2005.
Vila, Arturo. “PS122: Dos mujeres que uno debe ir a visitar,” Tribuna Hispana, October 11, 2005.
2004
Fallon, Roberta. “Friday Sampler,” Fallon and Rosof’s Artblog, December 6, 2004.
Strauss, R.B. “Pentimenti,” Around Philly.com, December 6, 2004.
2003
Ernst, Eric. “Art World Window in Juried Show,” The Southampton Press, October 30, 2003. (3MB pdf file)
Harrison, Helen A. “38th Juried Exhibition,” The New York Times, November 2, 2003.
Long, Robert. “Familiarity and Restraint at the Parrish,” The East Hampton Star, November 6, 2003.
( for a more extensive resume, download the printable pdf at top right of page )