Lee Tribe
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AWARDS & HONORS 2010 Elected as Member of National Academy of Arts Corange Ltd Fellowship at Djerassi Artists Program, Woodside, CA Pollock-Krasner Foundation Fellowship Winner- International Sculpture Center Bronze Casting Competition 1987-88 Guggenheim Fellow in Sculpture 1982-83 Ingram Merrill Award in Sculpture 1979-81 Supervising Artist Apprenticeship Program, Dept. of Cultural Affairs, New York City, NY Art Council of Great Britain Award in Sculpture City and Guilds of London Institute, Best Student, Thurrock Technical College, England
WORKSHIPS, RESIDENCE, AND PANELS 2005 Host Artist to Royal Academy American Patrons studio visits, chaired by Sarah Foote, NYC, NY 2003 Artist in Residence, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC 1996 Guest Artist and Workshop Leader, Contemporary Artworks, Vancouver, B.C., Canada Judge on Scholastic Awards U.S.A.- Art & Writing Guest Artist, Emma Lake Artists Workshop, University of Saskatchewan, Canada 1993 Resident, Djerassi Artists Program, Woodside, CA 1990 Panel, Triangle Workshop, Green Street, NY “Sculptor’s Drawings” Panel chaired by Stephen Williams, NY Studio School, NY 1989 Triangle Workshop, Pine Plains, NY Funded Residency, Sculpture Space, Utica, NY
ONE-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2007 Robert Steele Gallery, New York, NY 2004 Muse Etnografico, S’Bras de Alportel, Algarve, Portugal 2003 Sculpture and Drawings, EUC Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC 2002 Galeria Municipal de Arte Trem, Faro, Portugal Robert Steele Gallery, New York, NY 2001 Robert Steele Gallery, New York, NY Art at Pfizer, 150 Building, New York, NY Amerin Café, Curated by Scott Aldridge, Brooklyn, NY, NY 1998-2002 Lee Tribe at 100 Broadway, Curated by Randolph & Tate Assoc, NY 1997 Robert Steele Gallery, New York, NY 1995 J.J. Brookings Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1994 Victoria Munroe Gallery, New York, NY Robert Morrison Gallery, New York, NY Retrospective, Holden Gallery, Manchester Metropolitan Museum, Manchester, England (Funded in Part by The Dayton Trust) Phillipe Staib Gallery, Kent, CT 1991 Victoria Munroe Gallery, New York, NY Bingham Kurts Gallery, Memphis, TN Lee Tribe, RVS Fine Art, Southampton, NY Gallery of Contemporary Art, Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, CT 1990 Victoria Munroe Gallery, New York, NY 1989 Lisa Kurts Gallery, Memphis, TN 1988 Victoria Munroe Gallery, New York, NY Sculpture Space Inc., Utica, NY Madeleine Carter Fine Arts, Boston, MA J.J. Brookings Gallery, San Jose, CA 1986 Victoria Munroe Gallery, New York, NY Jan Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1985 Madeleine Carter Fine Arts, Boston, MA 1984 Victoria Munroe, New York, NY 1983 Madeleine Carter Fine Arts, Boston, MA 1981 Air Gallery, London, England 1977 Summer Show Three, Garden of the Serpentine Gallery, London, U.K.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2010 Iron: Forged, Tempered, Quenched, Houston Center For Contemporary Craft, Houston, TX 2009 Yoshi Tomikura Second Art Exhibition, Higashi Hiroshima, Japan 2009 Open City, Cur. By Sean Scully, New York Studio School, NYC, NY 2009 It’s a Beautiful Life, Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 2008 American Academy of Arts and Letters Invitational Exhibition NYC, NY 2007 Sculpture in the Park 2006-07 The C. Konner Sculpture Park, Rockland Center for the Arts, Curated by Bill Hochhausen & Harriet Hyams 2007 Juried Show, Boltax Gallery, Shelter Island, NY 2005 MOD, Broadway Gallery, N.Y., NY 2006 Robert Steel Gallery, Sculpture and Drawing, New York, NY New York Studio School, Sculptors’ Drawings, Sculpture Dept Annex, Brooklyn (Dumbo), NY 2004-6 Tom Bendham: Collector and Artist, Contemporary Art Society Traveling Exhibition, Galleries and Museums throughout Great Britain 2005 American Academy of Arts and Letters Invitational Exhibition NYC, NY 2004 September Show, Muse Etnografico, S”Bras de Aiportel, Algarve, Portugal 2004 Neither Here Nor There, curated by Dewitt Cornell, Robert Steele Gallery, N.Y., NY 2004 Pray for Peace -- Driscoll, Franks, Higashida, Tribe, Motoazabu Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Degrees of Abstraction, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC Vulnerability, New York Studio School, Curated by Bill Jensen 2003 Drawings, Greenbean Gallery, Greensboro, NC 2002 177th Annual Exhibition, National Academy of Design, N.Y., NY “Made in Brooklyn”, Curated by Phong Bui, The Brooklyn Rail, Whytetudio, Brklyn., NY 2001 Sculpture: Lee Tribe; Painting, Hector Leonardi; Robert Steele Gallery, NY, NY “Stephanie L Franks & Lee Tribe: Making & Collecting,” Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery Haverford College, Haverford, PA “Beckoning Vision,” curated By Karen Wilkin, NY Studio School, NYC 2000 Welded Sculpture of the Twentieth Century, curated by Judy Collischan, Neuberger Museum of Art, SUNY Purchase, Purchase, NY “On the City: Urban Realities and Fantasies,” Curated by Irving Sandler, New York Studio School, New York, NY 2000 “Splendid,” Splendid, curated by Matt Unterman Brooklyn, NY 1999 Marcia Childs Gallery, Princeton, NJ Alumni Drawings: Raw Seeing, New York Studio School, New York, NY 1998 Gallery Artists, Robert Steele Gallery, New York, NY M. Sugiyama Gallery, Whistler, BC, Canada Faculty +1: Drawings, New York Studio School, New York, NY 1997 Robert Steele Gallery, New York, NY Vault Series: Sculptors, New Bedford Art Museum, MA 1996 Alumni Show curated by Michael Brenson, New York Studio School, New York, NY Kouros Gallery Summer Show, New York, New York Kouros Gallery Sculpture Park, Ridgefield, CT “Slag” Sculpture at Chelsea Market, Curated by Marc Menin, N.Y., NY 1995 Art at Hammerson’s, 100 Park Lane, London, England Coming to Form, curated by G. Nichols, Marymount Manhattan College, New York, NY Sculpture Space: Celebrating 20 Years, Munson Williams Proctor Institute, Utica, NY Sculpture: Tribe, Hardy, Novatt, Witkin: Marc de Montebello Gallery, New York, NY Inaugural Show, J.J. Brookings Gallery, San Francisco, CA Past & Present Sculpture, New York Studio School, New York, NY The Box Show, K&E Gallery, New York, NY 1994 Inaugural Exhibition, Corr Contemporary Art, London, England 1994 Selected works , Bingham Kurts Gallery, Memphis, TN 1993 NY 50, Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, NY Small Works Sculpture Show: Lee Tribe, William Tucker, Isaac Witkin, Robert Morrison Gallery, New York, NY Art From New York, curated by Zero Higashida, Higashi Hiroshima Museum, Hiroshima, Japan 1992 Tribe, Franks, Knowles, Kirkland Art Center, Clinton, NY Jacques Kaplan, Sculpture Garden, Kent, CT Unicef Show, Robert Morrison Gallery, N.Y., NY 1991 Collection of Mortalla Diop, Museum of Art, Dakar, Senegal Ruth Hardinger, Lee Tribe, William Tucker, Yuriko Yamaguchi, Philippe Staib Gallery, N.Y., NY Hector Leonardi & Lee Tribe, RVS Gallery, Southampton, NY 1990 Objects and Entities, University Art Gallery, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM Flowers and Art, Dixon Art Gallery, Memphis, TN Selected Artists, Victoria Munroe Gallery, N.Y., NY Gallerie International Arte, Quinta Do Lago Almansil, Portugal Wood & Steel, Philippe Staib Gallery, N.Y., NY The Second Hunt’s Point Sculpture Park Exhibit, Hunt’s Point, Bronx, NY Art Connections, Harrowgate, England Before Sculpture, Sculptor’s Drawings, Cur. By Stephen Williams, N.Y. Studio school NYC, NY 1989 Snug Harbor Sculpture Festival, Ccurated by Elizabeth Egbert, Snug Harbor Culural Center, NY 1988 New Guinea Comparisons, Curated by Marc Mancini Stuben Park Gallery Utica, NY Helander Gallery, Palm Beach, FL Three Faculty Members, Suzanne Lemburg Usdan Gallery, Bennington College, Bennington, VT 1985 Twentieth Anniversary Show, New York Studio School, New York, NY Waterfront Art Show, Empire Fulton Ferry State Park, Brooklyn, NY Today’s Painters and Sculptors, 385 North, Los Angeles, CA Tenth Anniversary Show, Air Gallery, London, England 1984 Janus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Waterfront Art Show, Empire Fulton Ferry Gallery State Park, Brooklyn, Inaugural Exhibition, Victoria Munroe Gallery, New York, NY 1983 British Art, New Directions, Puck Building, New York, NY Small Works, Brooklyn Arts and Culture Association, Curated by Irving Sandler, (Juror’s Award) Brooklyn, NY Artists Choose Artists II, Curated by Jack Flam, CDS Gallery, N.Y., NY Lucky Strike Gallery, New York, NY Fourth Internat’l Biennale of Sculpture, Skironio Museum, Athens,Greece 1982 Critic’s Choice, Atlantis Gallery, London, England Summer Show, Nicola Jacobs Gallery, London, England Small Works, Brooklyn Arts and Culture Association, Brooklyn, NY 1981 Visual Arts Gallery, State University of New York, Purchase, NY Faculty Show, New York Studio School, New York, NY Third International Biennale of Sculpture, Skironio Museum, Athens, Greece 1980 Olympic Celebration Show, Sculpture Space, Utica, NY Sculpture at Columbia Plaza, Washington, DC Sculptor’s Studies, Traveling Show, Lake George Arts Project, USA 1979 Homage to David Smith, Prospect Mountain, Lake George, NY 1978-79 Sculpture, Studio School, New York, NY 1977 St. Martin’s South Bank Show, London, England Sculpture Garden, Abington Arts Centre, Oxfordshire, England 1976 Sculpture in Two Landscapes, Kenwood and Hillingdon, London, England 1975 New Contemporaries, Camden Arts Centre, London, England Sculpture at Greenwich, Crooms Hills, London, England 1974 New Contemporaries, Camden arts Centre, London, England Six Sculptors, Chelsea Gallery, London, England
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Arts Council of Great Britain Autozone, Memphis, TN Borden Inc., Columbus, OH Center for the Arts, Vero Beach, FL City of Higashi Hiroshima, Japan Contemporary Arts Society of Great Britain The Devonshire Group, Boston, MA The Grand Hyatt Hotel, Washington, DC Huntington National Bank, Ohio Leicester Education Department, Great Britain Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, England Museum of the City of Northampton, Northamptonshire, Great Britain Neuberger Museum of Art, NY Ornamental Metals Museum, Memphis, TN Pfizer Pharmaceuticals, New York City Saturn Automobile, Memphis, TN The Storm King Sculpture Center, NY University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, NC Westminster Financial Corporation, Beverly Hills, Other corporate and private collections in Great Britain and the U.S.
EDUCATION
Recipient of Barnett Newman Scholarship, New York Studio School, NY, NY 1976-77 Birmingham School of Art, England, M.A. (European Equivalent to M.F.A.) 1974 -75 St. Martin’s School of Art, England, Advanced Certificate in Sculpture / M.F.A. Equivalent 1971-74 St. Martin’s School of Art, England, B.A., 1st Class Honors 1970-71 Thurrock Technical College, England, Foundation Course 1961-69 Apprentice and journeyman, boilmaker/plater, City and Guilds Full Technical Certificates in Welding, London Docks, Eng.,
TEACHING
1979-present New York Studio School, NY Teaching at all levels including regular program, running marathons, and summer programs in sculpture; giving tutorials and crits in sculp. and painting 2003 University of North Carolina Greensboro, Artist in Residence 2002 Hunter College at CUNY, N.Y., NY, Visiting Professor, Seminar Class, M.F.A. Program 1990 -present Chautauqua Summer School, Chautauqua, NY Teaching Sculpture including tutorials and crits in sculpture and painting. Giving public lectures. Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY Taught 3-dimensional design at Foundation Level. 1992 Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, U.K. Guest artist/lecturer working with graduates and post-graduates 1985-1989 Bennington College, VT Head of Sculpture. Teaching all levels of undergraduates and graduates. Extensive committee work 1980-81 Columbia University, NY, NY Taught all levels of undergraduates. 1979-present Visiting Lecturer and Teacher, Colleges throughout U.S.A.and U.K.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Beckett, Alison Contemporary Art, Critic’s Choice: Lee Tribe, Vol.3, No. 1, Winter 1995/96, London, England Brenson, Michael The New York Times, Welded Steel From Lee Tribe, Friday, June 28, 1991 Brenson, Michael The New York Times, Friday, January 11, 1991 Brenson, Michael The New York Times, Bold Sculpture for Wide Open Spaces, Friday, July 21, 1989 Brenson, Michael The New York Times, Friday, November 7, 1986 Collischan, Judy Welded Sculpture of the Twentieth Century, Hudson Hill Press, NY, 2000 Cyphers, Peggy Arts Magazine, Lee Tribe, February 1989 Donohoe, Victoria, Creative Couple pay Homage to Primitive Art, February 2001, Philadelphia Enquirer Gooding, Mel Arts Review, London, August 1981 Handy, Ellen Arts, Reviews, October 1991 Hilton, Tim Arts Sunday Observer, Limits to Leger, August 1981 Johnson, Ken New York Times, Testing the Durability of Welding as a Creative Form, Aug11, 2000 Koeppel, Fredric The Commercial Appeal, October 1991 Koeppel, Fredric The Commercial Appeal, Kurts’s steel sculptures flow with grace, power. April 21,1989 Kover, Jonas Observer-Dispatch, Boilermaker to Sculptor, Utica, NY Kover, Jonas Observer-Dispatch, Works Stimulate, Utica, NY Melrod, George New York, New York, Sculpture Magazine, February 1994 Moffett, Kenworth Moffet’s Art Letter, December-January 1988 Morgan, Stuart Artscribe, Critic’s Choice at Atlantis, No. 36, London Naves, Mario New York Observer, Herculean Tribe Beats His Chest, May 20, 2002 Naves, Mario New York Observer, Gnarled Steel That Burlesques the Macho, April 30, 2001 Oxlade, Roy Modern Painters, Spotlight, British Artist In New York, Autumn 1990 Princenthal,Nancy Art in America, Lee Tribe at Robert Morrison & Victoria Munroe, July , 1994 Severinghas,Wendy Bennington Banner,From Folly to Abstraction,Faculty Shows Off, Oct 10. 1987 Taplin, Robert Art in America, Lee Tribe at Robert Steele, November 2001 Walker, James Faure Artscribe, No. 321, London Wilkin, Karen Litchfield County Times, “ Drawings in Space” at Purchase College, A Survey of Welded Sculpture, May 19, 2000 Wilkin, Karen Partisan Review/3, At The Galleries, 1990, pp.444-455
SCULPTURE FEATURED IN:
2004 Japanese Television Interview about my sculptures with Kumico Akiyoshi Movie Something in Common, Mary Tyler Moore. Directed by Alan Burns. Movie Boomerang. Eddie Murphy. Directed by Reginald Hudlin.
DRAWINGS PUBLISHED IN: Portfolio, The Paris Review, No.131, 1994, pp.134-140
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