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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.