Biography
BORN
1961 California, USA
EDUCATION
1994 M.F.A., Rinehart School of Sculpture, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
1983 B.A., International Relations, Scripps College, Claremont, CA
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023
“Elizabeth Turk’s The Tipping Point: Echoes of Extinction”, Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, TX
2022
“Echoes of Extinction”, The Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Wausau, WS
2020
Tipping Point: Echoes of Extinction, Hirschl & Adler Modern, NY, NY
ET Projects: “Look Up”, An Immersive Art Event in Collaboration with Mt. San Antonio Gardens, Pomona, CA
2019
Think Lab Live .003, Catalina Island Museum, Catalina Island, CA
Tipping Point, Catalina Island Museum, Catalina Island, CA
2018
Shoreline Project, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA
Elizabeth Turk: Heaven, Earth, Home, Brattleboro Museum & Art Center, VT
Think Lab Live .002, Frank M. Doyle Arts Pavilion, Costa Mesa, CA
2017
Think Lab Live .001, S.C.A.P.E., Corona Del Mar, CA
Dialog in Stone, Solo Presentation, ADAA Art Fair, New York, NY
2015
Elizabeth Turk: Tensions, Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York, NY
2014 – 2015
Sentient Forms, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA
Convergence: X-ray Mandalas, S.C.A.P.E., Corona Del Mar, CA
2013
Elizabeth Turk: Wings, Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH
2012
Elizabeth Turk: Cages, Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York, NY (Art Kabinnett)
2008
Elizabeth Turk: Ribbons and Pinwheels, Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York, NY
2006
Elizabeth Turk: Collars, Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York, NY
Drawings, Joie Lassiter Gallery, Charlotte, NC
Domestic Settings, Galerie Lareuse, Washington, D.C.
2004
Vantage Point III Elizabeth Turk The Collars: Tracings of Thought, Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC
2003
(Know) Fly Zone, Installation, Santa Ana, Cal State Fullerton, Grand Central Art Center, CA
2001
Nature Memorial I, An Installation by Elizabeth Turk, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum,Santa Barbara, CA
1998
Elizabeth Turk, Hemphill Gallery, Washington D.C.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023
“The Wild”: Contemporary Art from the Barnett and Annalee Newsman Foundation Center, The Jewish Museum, NY, NY
“Collars”, The Bowers Museum, Santa Ana, CA
ET Projects: “Ridgeline”, An Immersive Art Event in Collaboration with the Oakspring Garden Foundation and the Piedmont Environmental Council in Piedmont, VA
2022
“Double Take: Mel Chin & Elizabeth Turk Features Sculpture Dealing with Themes of the Natural World”, Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park , Grand Rapids, MI
ET Projects: “Look Up”, An Immersive Art Event in Collaboration with the Boys and Girls Club, Southern California, CA
2021
ET Projects: “Look Up”, An Immersive Art Event in Collaboration with the Claremont Colleges, Scripps College, Claremont, CA
2020
COVID Diaries, SCAPE Gallery, CdM, CA
2018
Art Basel– Hirschl & Adler Modern, Miami, FL
Wrestling The Angel: Artists in Conversation, Bechtler Museum of Modern Art, Charlotte, NC
Centennial Celebration– Shoreline Project Video Installation, Laguna Art Museum, CA
2013
Alive– Moving Natural Art and Nature Laguna Art Museum Collaborative, LCAD Gallery, CA
2012
Infinite Emptiness, Art Kabinett, Miami Basel, Miami FL.
Meticulosity, Curated by John David O’Brien and Meg Linton, Ben Maltz Gallery, Otis, CA
Loose Canon, LA Louver Gallery, Venice, CA
2011
Night Scented Stock, Curated by Todd Levin, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY
2010
Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC
2008
Looky See, Ben Maltz Gallery, Otis School of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Modern Love, Podesta Collection at the National Museum for Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C.
Poetry & Works on Paper, Joie Lassiter Gallery, Charlotte, NC
New Acquisitions, Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery, Scripps College, Claremont, CA
Celebrating Women Artists, Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York, NY
2006
Complicit, Johanna Drucker, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
Draw, Paper, Scissors, Jeanne Patterson, Los Angeles, CA
2004
3 Solo Projects: Jane Mulfinger, Ross Rudel, Elizabeth Turk, Ben Maltz Gallery, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA
2003
Matter and Matrix, Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery, Scripps College, Claremont, CA
Going Public, American Institute of Architecture, New York, NY
Rat-Powered Film Festival, Santa Ana, California Video Festival, Santa Ana, CA
2002
Japan Bank Building, Hiroshima, Japan, postcard collaboration with Koso Haranka and Kirara Kawauchi
Johnson Atelier, Ironworks from John Michael Kohler Program, Sheboygan, WI
2000
New York-Classicism-Now, Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York, NY
1998
Objectivity – International Objects of Subjectivity, Contemporary Art Center, Virginia Beach, VA
1997
From Here, Baumgartner Gallery, Washington D.C.
A Sculpture Show, Grimaldis Gallery, Baltimore, MD
1996
Louise Bourgeois: Elizabeth Turk, Baumgartner Gallery, Washington D.C.
A Sculpture Show, Grimaldis Gallery, Baltimore, MD
Fresh Out, Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, MD
Superbia, Washington Project for the Arts, Washington D.C.
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
- Jewish Museum; Barnett and Annalee Newman Foundation, New York City, NY
- Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis, TN
- Keck Science Center, Chapman University, Orange, CA
- Perimeter Institute, Waterloo, Ontario
- CalState University Channel Islands, Camarillo, CA
- Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
- Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
- National Museum for Women in the Arts, Washington D.C.
- Weatherspoon Gallery, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, NC
- The Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC
- Scripps College, Claremont, CA
- The Bechtler Art Museum, Charlotte, NC
- American Embassy, Baghdad, Iraq
- Fidelity Investments Collection
- Jacob’s Medical Center at UC San Diego, CA
- Phyllis and Ross Escalett Permanent Collection of Art, Chapman University, Chapman’s Center for Science and Technology
- Atelier, Downtown Los Angeles, CA
CATALOGUE ESSAYS
- “Authenticity; Prioritize Your Vision,” 2018, Elizabeth Turk, OZ, The Journal of the College of Architecture, Planning and Design: Volume 40
- “Systems and Patterns”, 2006, Elizabeth Reede, Independent Curator, New York, NY
- “Fragile Realities,” 2001, Olga M. Viso, Curator of Contemporary Art, Hirschhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institute, Washington D.C.
- “Art, Science, and Democracy”, 2001, Lee Smolin, Theoretical Physicist, Perimeter Institute for Gravitational Physics
- “Musings on Classicism,” Barbara J. Bloemink, Ph.D., Then-Director of Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York, NY
AWARDS/GRANTS/RESIDENCIES
- 2020 CODAworx 25 Creative Revolutionaries of the Year
- 2013 Lotos Award of Distinction, The Lotos Club, New York, NY
- 2012 Helena Modjeska Award, Arts Orange County
- 2011 Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship
- Featured speaker, TEDxAtlanta “Creativity”
- 2010 John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellowship
- Barnett & Annalee Newman Foundation Fellowship
- 2009 Lux Art Institute, Artist in Residence, Encinitas, CA
- Pilchuck, Artist in Residence, Seattle, WA
- 2003 McColl Center for Visual Art, Artist in Residence, Charlotte, NC
- 2002 Kyojima Artist in Residency Program, Tokyo, Japan
- Ensemble Studio Theater, Artist in Residence (Summer), New York, NY
- 2001 California State Fullerton, Artist in Residence, Santa Ana, CA
- 2000 Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant
- New York City Art Commission Award for Excellence in Design
- John Michael Kohler Arts & Industry Program, Artist in Residence, Sheboygan, Wisconsin
- 1994 Amalie Rothschild Award
BIBLIOGRAPHY
“50 Contemporary Women Artists,” Elizabeth Sackler, John Gosslee & Heather Zises, Schiffer Books, November 2018
“Elizabeth Turk: Sentient Forms: at the Laguna Art Museum; An Intricate Study of Mathematical Principles in the Natural World,” Natalie M Goldman, SciArt in America, January 2015
“Elizabeth Turk: Sentient Forms’ Swirls Around the Laguna Art Museum”, Dave Barton, OC Weekly Arts, Dec 2014
“Stoner: Elizabeth Turk, Artist Brings New Life to Old Materials,Liz Goldner, Artillery, November 2014
“The Marvelous Marble of Elizabeth Turk”, Evan Senn, KCET Artbound, October 2014
“The Art of Elizabeth Turk”, Daniella Walsh, Laguna Independent, October 2014
“From Marble to Ribbons, Cages and Collars”, Laura Bleiberg, Orange Coast Magazine, August 2014
“Masterpiece by Design”, Henrietta Thompson, The Telegraph, June 2014
“Paradox at Masterpiece London”, Bob Chaundry, Huffington Post UK, June 2014
“See 15 Exceptional Finds at Masterpiece London”, Colline Millard, Artnet News, June 2014
“What Lies Beneath: Elizabeth Turk,” Tate Gunnerson, Luxe Magazine: Volume 10, Issue 2, June 2012
“Finding Strips of Ribbon in Chunks of Stone,” Rachel Wolff, The Wall Street Journal, 22 June 2012
“Elizabeth Turk: Hirschl and Adler” Max Weintraub, ARTnews, May 2012 Reviews: New York
“Meticulosity’ aims to reconnect the conceptual, visual”, Leah Ollman, LA Times, 29 April 2012
“Breaking Free,” Art and Auction, March 2012
“The Line Defining Three-Dimensional Space, A Conversation with Elizabeth Turk,” Sculpture Magazine, Rebecca Dimling Cochran, January/February 2012
“Marble Marvels”, Modern Magazine, Richard and Shelia Schwartz, Winter 2012
“An Artist Gets a Backstage, Behind-the-Scenes Ticket to Tour the Smithsonian”, Gambino Megan, Smithsonian.com, Oct. 10, 2011
“Who is Elizabeth Turk? Interview with a MacArthur Genius”, Burnaway, Susannah Darrow, 4 October 2010
“MacArthur Foundation Honors 23″, The New York Times, Felicia R. Lee, 28 September 2010
Bloomberg, Patrick Cole, 28 September 2010
“Conversation with Elizabeth Turk”, Jeffery Brown, PBS NewsHour, September 2010
“Recent Acquisitions”, Women in the Arts Bulletin of The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Jordana Pomeroy, Kathryn A. Wat, Spring 2009
“Sculptor Support”, Fortune Small Business, Maggie Overfelt, October 2006
“Elizabeth Turk: The Collars”, Sculpture Magazine, Laura Richard Janku, September 2006
“It Figures”, Robb Report, Richard Green, June 2006
“On the Drawing Board- No Neckties”, Women’s Wear Daily, Rosemary Feitelberg, February 2006
“Revealing the Heart of Stone”, Los Angeles Times, Leah Ollman, July 2004
“When City Hall Smiles on Public Art”, The New York Times, David Dunlap, April 2001
“All Natural”, Los Angeles Times, Joseph Woodward, March 2001
“New York Classicism Now”, The New York Times, Ken Johnson, September 2000
“Marble on the Wing, Elizabeth Turk Carves a Paradox into Hunks of Stone”, The Washington Post, Ferdinand Protzman, November 1998
“Thingness & Objectness”, Sculpture Magazine, Johanna Druker, April 1997
“From Here”, The Washington Post, Ferdinand Protzman, January 1997
“An Amazing Website”, The Washington Post, Ferdinand Protzman, July 1996
“Nuances in Cool and Spare Sculpture”, The Baltimore Chronicle, Louise Sheldon, February 1995
SPEAKING
2019
Virginia Commonwealth University; 2019 Commencement Speaker Richmond, VA
2018
The Frost Museum; Breakfast In The Park Miami, FL
Mid-South Sculpture Alliance; Elizabeth Turk Knoxville, TS
MacArthur Foundation Conference Chicago, IL
Coast Magazine; Women of Coast Newport Beach, CA
The Getty Center; Wonders of Art & Science: A Day of Discovery Los Angeles, CA
2017
The Getty Center; The Getty 360 & MacArthur Fellows Los Angeles, CA
Stanford University; The Red & The Black Palo Alto, CA
Spencer Museum of Art; Research Integrated Art University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
2016
Laguna College of Art & Design; Commencement Address Laguna Beach, CA
MacArthur Foundation Conference Chicago, IL
2015
Coastline Community College Newport Beach, CA
Santa Ana Community College Santa Ana, CA
2014
Laguna Art Museum Laguna Beach, CA
Scripps College Claremont, CA
Harbor Day School Corona Del Mar, CA
2013
The Dayton Art Institute Dayton, OH
Lotos Club New York City, NY
2012
MacArthur Fellowship The Johnson Foundation at Wingspread, Racine, WI
2004
The Mint Museum Charlotte, NC