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Awards
1976 New Talent Award, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA
1976 Artist Fellowship Grant, National Endowment for the Arts
1980 C.A.P.S. Artist Fellowship Grant, NY
1980 Artist Fellowship Grant, National Endowment for the Arts
1981 Japan - US Creative Artist Exchange Fellowship
1982 Artist Fellowship Grant, National Endowment for the Arts
1985 ASLA Maryland Chapter for National Geographic Society Plaza, Washington D.C.
1986 Bessie Award - Set Design for "Memory Theater of Guilio Camillo," NYC
2007 Excellence in Design for Cavala Park, Art Commission of the City of New York
Public Service
Board of Directors, LAICA 1976-78
Board of Directors, Creative Time, Inc., 1985 - 1992
Commissioner, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, 1988 - 2000
Board of Directors, International Sculpture Center, Washington D.C., 1989 - 1995
Board of Directors, Columbia Land Conservancy, Columbia County, NY, 1989 - 2005
Commissioner, Commission of Fine Arts, Washington, DC 2003 - 2008
Board of Directors, Bill T. Jones / Arnie Zane Dance Company, 2005 - 2007
Selected Collections (Public and Corporate)
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Chase Manhattan Bank Corporation
Best Products, Inc.
Commodities Corporation
General Mills Corporation
AT&T Corporation
Equitable Corporation
Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama
Clos Pegase Winery Sculpture Garden, Napa Valley, CA
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover , MA
Goldman Sachs Corporate Collection
Henry Buehl Collection, New York, NY
Bear Stearns Corporate Collection, NY
Selected One Person Exhibitions from 1990
1991 University of South Florida Art Museum, Tampa, FL
1992 Fred Hoffman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1992 65 Thompson Street, New York, NY
1993 Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY
1995 Galeria SALLES, Rome, Italy
1996 Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY
1998 Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2001 New Drawings, Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY
2003 Photography, Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY
2004 Photography, Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2005 New Work/Photography & Drawing, Skestos-Gabriele Gallery, Chicago, IL
2003 “New World’s Old World”, AXA Galleries @ Equitable Center, New York, NY
Chronology of Public/Corporate Projects
1984 Marabar National Geographic Society, Washington D.C.
Plaza design featuring 60' long pool and granite boulders ranging in height from 2' to 10'. Surrounding garden includes numerous sited granite boulders.
1987 Terrain O'Hare International Center, adjacent to O'Hare airport, Chicago, IL. Commissioned by Hawthorn Realty Group & Melvin Simon & Associates. A multi-level plaza with multiple water features, sculptural treatments and landscaping.
1989 Keystone Island Dade County Justice Center, North Miami, FL. Commissioned by Dade County Art Public Places. Roughly 50' in diameter, Keystone Island is sited in the three acre pond adjacent to the new courthouse and isaccessible by a short bridge.
1990 Sanctuary Moffitt Cancer Research Center, University of South Florida, Tampa. 40' diameter plaza adjacent to facility. Multi-level concentric forms include seating areas & pool with waterfall.
1991 Lithos I 865 South Figueroa Street, Los Angeles, CA. Commissioned by Manufacturers Real Estate, Toronto, Canada under the auspices of the Los Angeles Community Redevelopment Agency. Interior lobby and exterior plaza with landscaping & multiple water features with granite.
1991 First Market Plaza First Market Tower Plaza, 525 Market St. San Francisco, CA. Commissioned by Tishman/Speyer and San Francisco Arts Commission. 14,000 square foot plaza divided into three areas by two granite block waterfall walls, Lithos II, and extensive landscaping.
1993 Untitled Birmingham Museum of Art. Collaborative design of new sculpture garden. 120' wide by 300' long site is divided into three distinct areas connected by ramps and landscaping. Upper plaza incorporates commissioned waterfall Lithos III.
1994 Untitled Conference Center, AT&T Headquarters, Basking Ridge, NJ.
30' diameter granite sculpture incorporating multiple levels, seating, waterfall, pool and related landscaping.
1995 World Trade World Trade Center, New York City. Commemorating the 1993 Center Memorial bombing of the World Trade Center. Memorial fountain is located on the plaza of the WTC and measures 30 by 30 feet by 3 feet high, surrounded by benches and trees.
1998 Campo Housatonic Community Technical College. Connecticut Commission on the Arts. Three brick and precast concrete pavilions (24' x 24' each) set into the central campus courtyard.
2001 Roundabout Sandstone sculpture and surrounding landscape set into an 80’
diameter entry court. Commissioned by the City of Burbank and Empire Center Developers, Burbank, CA
2004 Free Fall Granite fountains, pools and garden alongside the entry and
reception rooms of the new wing of the Cancer Institute of NJ.
2004 Mkusanyiko US Embassy, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Commissioned by the
Wa Marafiki US State Department & Friends of Art & Preservation in
(Assembly of Embassies. African granite, water, sandstone. Six 8’ H x 3’ W x
Friends) 8” D carved and shaped granite panels surround sandstone pool in entry court of the embassy.
2005 Scholar’s Rock Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton, NJ.
Sited along edge of the large pond, 40’ long granite bench “suspended by a forest” of painted steel poles. Inscribed with quotations from Institute founder and members.
2008 Watercourse at Vancouver, B.C., Canada. Commissioned by the Vancouver Art
Bentall V Commission and the Bentall Development Corporation for the
plaza surrounding new office towers in downtown of Vancouver.
Water features, sculpture and garden design.
2008 Suspended Arcs Olympic Park, Beijing, China. Twenty artists from around the world and Sections were commissioned by the China Sculpture Institute and Beijing Olympic Committee to create permanent, site specfic works for the new Olympic Park. Granite benches (sections of Olympic linked rings symbol), supported by painted steel poles.. 50’ l x 25’ w x varying heights. Curved granite benches suspended by steel poles, sited along edge of tree line.
2009 Cavala Commissioned by the NYC Parks Department, NYC Art
Tribeca Park Commision & The Mayor’s Fund. A collaborative effort by artist Gail Wittwer-Laird of the NYC Parks Department. This new one acre park features landscape, seating and a 120’ long x 10’ wide x varying height. Stone and water ‘canal’ by the artist.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Exhibition Catalogues from 1990
1990 Bloemink, Barbara. Natural Selection, Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY
1991 Beardsley, John. Elyn Zimmerman, Art Museum, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL
1993 Newman, Sasha. Elyn Zimmerman, Gagosian Gallery, NYC
1996 Pincus-Witten, Robert. Elyn Zimmerman, Gagosian Gallery, NYC
1988 Treib, Marc. Elyn Zimmerman: A Decade of Projects, Illustrated catalogue, NY
1999 Staviatsky, Gail, Waxing Poetic, Encaustic Art in America, Montclair Art Museum, NJ
2000 Chambers, Christopher. Environmental Sculpture, Dorsky Gallery, NYC, NY
2001 Karmel, Pepe & Hempel, Amy. Elyn Zimmerman: New Drawings, Gagosian Gallery, NY
2003 Feinstein, Roni. Elyn Zimmerman: Photography, Gagosian Gallery, NY
Periodicals & Books since 1990
1989 Malone, Maggie. "The Great Outdoors," ARTS Report, Newsweek, October 28
1990 Hitt, Jack. "Whatever Became of the Public Square?" Harpers, July
1990 Turner, Elise. "Miami," Contemporanea, April
1990 Joselit, David. "Public Art and the Public Purse," Art in America, July
1990 Southerland, Lyle. Designing the New Landscape, Thames & Hudson, London
1990 Higuchi, Shoichiro. Public Art: Urban Sculpture in USA, Japanese Press
1990 Rubinstein, Charlotte. American Women Sculptors, G. K. Hall and Company, Publishers, Boston
1991 Broude, Norma. "Alternative Monuments," Art in America, February
1991 Marger, Maryann. "A Moment of Solace," St. Petersburg Times, March 23
1991 Higuchi, Shoichiro. Water as Environmental Art, Kashiwashobo Publishing Company, Tokyo, Japan
1991 Berman, Avis. "Public Sculpture's New Look," Art News, Vol. 90, No. 7 September
1991 Castagliola, M.E. "Elyn Zimmerman: Sanctuary, " Art Papers, September - October
1992 Senie, Harriet, Contemporary Public Sculpture, Oxford University Press
1992 Princenthal, Nancy. "Review of Exhibitions," Art in America, November
1992 Beardsley, John. "Museum Landscapes: More Space for Sculpture," Landscaping Architecture, January
1994 Morris, Philip. "Grand Opening," Southern Accents, September/October
1996 Hartney, Elenor. "Review of Exhibitions," Art in America, March
1996 Sandler, Irving. Art of the Postmodern Era, Harper Collins
1997 Hummer, Tracey. "Interview with Elyn Zimmerman," Sculpture, May/June
1998 Lieberman, Clair. “Stone Sculpture”, Sculpture, February
1998 Frank, Peter. “New Sculpture”, LA Weekly, June
2001 Lin, Jeremy. “Unrealized Projects”, Surface, March
2002 Emory, David. “World Trade Center Art Works Destroyed”, Art in America, January
2002 Ruas, Charles. “Review of Exhibitions”, ArtNews, January
2002 Feinstein, Roni. “Review of Exhibitions”, Art in America, March
2003 Castleberry, May. New World’s Old World, Publisher, NY
2003 Leffingwell, Edward. "Review of Exhibitions," Art in America, October
2005 Melkisethian, Angela. “Elyn Zimmerman,” Sculpture, March.
2008 Yilang, Zhu. “The Sculpture Olympics,” Sculpture, November.
2008 Falkeinstein, Michelle. “Showing Our Best Side,” Art News, Summer 2008.
2009 Van Uffelen, Chris. 1000X Landscape Architecture, Verlagshaus Braun
2009 “Microparks Everywhere”, New York Magazine, August 10 – 17.
2009 Cohen, Particia, “Employing Art Along with Ambasssadors”, New York Times, June 27.
