Biography
Sarah Haviland’s abstract-figurative sculptures and installations have been exhibited in NYC, nationally, and internationally in museums, nonprofit galleries, and private collections. Her public sculptures have been presented in parks and educational settings in six states, including permanent bronze commissions at Grounds for Sculpture in Hamilton, NJ, and NYU Langone Medical Center, NYC. Honors and awards include numerous grants and artist residencies. Haviland earned an MFA from Hunter College and a BA from Yale University. She lectures independently and teaches at the Borough of Manhattan Community College, City University of New York. In Fall 2018, she is teaching and pursuing creative research in Taiwan with a US Fulbright Scholar Award.
Artist’s Background
by Rosemary Cohane Erpf, PhD
Sarah Haviland's early work was always image-driven; figures, houses, yards, and trees took shape in painted sculptural constructions. After Yale, when Haviland was in graduate school at Hunter College, her focus was the human form and the physicality of figures in space. Like contemporary artists she admired, including Louise Bourgeois and Kiki Smith, Haviland mined the formal geometries, symbolic meanings, and the personal content that the figure could engender.
In 1993, Haviland moved to Peekskill, New York, where an energetic artists’ community was taking root. Her exposure to feminist art and theory in graduate school led her to fully explore images of women in relation to both public and private self-image. Haviland remains fascinated with the rich iconographical history of women in art, particularly early European madonnas and myth in ancient cultures.
Haviland has also expanded her range by using non-traditional sculptural materials such as wire mesh, using the material’s transparency and linear effects to create volumetric drawings. Since 1991, Haviland has fused human forms with those found in nature, such as winged and tree-like structures.
Sarah Haviland’s work has been seen in numerous individual and group exhibitions in museums and galleries throughout the United States. Since 1985, she has received grants to create new works from several noted agencies, including the New York State Council on the Arts, the New Jersey State Arts Council, Artists Space, Westchester Arts Council, and the National Endowment for the Arts.
RESUME
RECENT AWARDS & FELLOWSHIPS
US Fulbright Scholar Award to Taiwan, Sept. 2018-Jan. 2019
PSC-CUNY Research Award, 2009, 2012, 2015
Special Opportunity Stipend, NYSCA/NYFA, 1998, 2008
NEA Creativity Grant, WAC Installation Commission, 2003
RECENT COMMISSIONS
Flatiron Prow Space Window Installation, New York, NY, curated by Cheryl McGinnis, 2017
National Museum of Marine Science & Technology, International Environmental Art Project,
Keelung, Taiwan, curator Jane Ingram Allen, 2015
Lightscapes, Historic Hudson Valley, Croton, NY, 2015
Ossining Bicentennial Sculpture Exhibition, Ossining, NY, 2013
NYU Langone Medical Musculoskeletal Center, NYC, curator Jodi Moise, 2012
RECENT PUBLIC ART
Beacon 3D Sculpture Installation, Beacon, NY, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017
Collaborative Concepts at Saunders Farm, Garrison, NY, 2017
SculptureNow at The Mount, Lenox, MA, 2015
Highland Falls Sculpture Walk, Highland Falls, NY, 2015
Peekskill Project V, Window Installation, Peekskill, NY, curator Anna Adler, 2012
Artscape, Pittsfield, MA, 2011
Pratt Sculpture Park, Brooklyn, NY, curator David Weinrib, 2010
Governor’s Island, Brooklyn Waterfront Artists’ Coalition, Brooklyn, NY, 2010
Hudson Highlands Land Trust, Garrison, NY, Habitat for Artists, 2010
Fulton-Ferry State Park, Brooklyn Waterfront Artists’ Coalition, Brooklyn, NY, 2009
Historic Huguenot Street, New Paltz, NY, Habitat for Artists, 2009
Peekskill Project I-IV, Peekskill, NY, curators Sue Stoffel, Alison Levy, Livia Straus, 2004-2008
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Gallery 66 Garden, Cold Spring, NY, 2016
BAU Beacon Room, Beacon, NY, 2015
Summit High School, Summit, NJ, 2010
Garden Gallery at the Health Center, Peekskill, NY, 2009
Maxwell Fine Arts Sculpture Garden, Peekskill, NY, 2004
Ceres Project Room, Chelsea, NYC, 2001
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
NYU Langone Medical Musculoskeletal Center, NYC
Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY, NYC
Seven Bridges Foundation, Greenwich, CT
Pratt Sculpture Park, Brooklyn, NY
Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton, NJ
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Howland Cultural Center, “Girlhood,” curator Bibiana Huang Matheis, 2018
Shirley Fiterman Art Center, NYC, “In the Studio: BMCC Art Faculty,” 2018
Hammond Museum, North Salem, NY, “To Sit or Not to Sit,” curator Bibiana Huang Matheis, 2017
Westbeth Gallery, NYC, Sculptors Guild’s “Currently 80,” curated by John Yau, 2017
Haber Space at Central Booking, NYC, “In Harm’s Way,” curated by Maddy Rosenberg, 2016
Akin Library and Museums, Pawling, NY, “Meeting Past,” curated by Bibiana Huang Matheis, 2016
Sculptors Guild at Governors Island, “American Twist,” 2016
Shirley Fiterman Art Center, NYC, “Conference of the Birds,” curated by Brenda Zlamany, 2016
Reeves-Reed Arboretum, Summit, NJ, “The Grass Menagerie,” 2015
Governors Island, NYC, “Transformation: Sculptors Guild on Governors Island,” 2014
BeanRunner Café, Peekskill, NY, “The Rock, the Root, the Foundation,” 2014
Historic Hudson Valley, Croton, NY, “Art of the Pumpkin at the Blaze,” 2013
ArtsWestchester, White Plains, NY, “Placemaking,” 2013
Gallery 66, Cold Spring, NY, “Figuratively Speaking,” 3-person show, 2013
Theo Ganz Gallery, Beacon, NY, “Form and Function,” 2013
Saks Fifth Avenue, Sculptors Guild window display, 2012
PS Project Space, Chelsea, NYC, Hullaballoo Collective “Joie de Vivre,” 2012
Wilderstein, Rhinebeck, NY, “Modern Sculpture & the Romantic Landscape,” 2012
Arts Exchange, White Plains, NY, “Sculpture: On & Off the Wall,” 2012
Fountain Art Fair, 68th St. Armory, NYC, “Hullaballoo Collective,” 2012
Dwight-Englewood School, Englewood, NJ, “Head of School Juried Exhibit,” 2011
Griffin Court, 10th Ave./54th St., NYC, “Tranquility,” curator Deborah Davis, 2011
Chesterwood, MA, “Contemporary Sculpture at Chesterwood 2010,” juror Richard Klein, 2010
Chashama 112 Times Square, New York, NY, “Habitat for Artists Recycled Drawings,” 2010
Exit Art, ecoartspace Benefit, New York, NY, “What Matters Most?” 2010
Work Space Harlem, New York, NY, “Recycling the Studio,” 2010
GAGA Arts Center, Garnerville, NY, “Garnerworld,” curator David Laxman, 2009
Yonkers Riverfront Library, Yonkers, NY, “Ceramic Expressions,” 2008
WCC Gallery, Valhalla, NY, “Common Ground: Proposals for Public Art,” 2007
The Studio, Armonk, NY, “Contemporary Selections,” 2007
Maxwell Fine Arts Sculpture Garden, Peekskill, NY, “Conversations,” 2006
Concordia College Gallery, Bronxville, NY, “Before & After: Imagining Public Art,” 2005
Rockland Center for the Arts, West Nyack, NY, “Sculpture in the Park,” 2004
Burlington County College Sculpture Garden, Pemberton, NJ, juror Claudia Gould, 2003
PRINT / WEB FEATURES & PUBLICATIONS
Georgette Gouveia, “Taking Flight: Birds Inspire the Latest Phase in Sculptor’s Career,” WAG Magazine, Westchester, NY, Dec. 1, 2015
Dana Ter, “Art and Nature Together at Last,” Taipei Times, June 15, 2015
Temple U. Dance Dept. Blog, “The Outlet Dance Project,” October 20, 2014
Susan Hodara, “A Village’s Bicentennial Celebrated in Sculpture,” New York Times, May 31, 2013
Jennifer Weeks, “Art Alfresco: NJ’s Grounds for Sculpture,” Northern New England Journey, July/Aug., 2011
Co-Author with Anru Lee, “Public Space, Public World: An Interdisciplinary Project in Art and Anthropology,” published in New Visions in Public Art, by Council for Cultural Affairs, Taiwan, 2008
Presentation video, Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton, NJ, 2007
Levine and Rob Cardillo, A Guide to the Great Gardens of the Philadelphia Region, 2007
Jane Ingram Allen, “Expanding Space/Engaging Viewers: Mirrors in Contemporary Sculpture,” Sculpture, web special, Vol. 23, No. 9, Nov. 2004
Cover + 9-page spread, 25th anniversary issue, Kalliope: A Journal of Women’s Literature &Art, 2003
EDUCATION
MFA, Combined Media, Hunter College, NYC
Skowhegan School, Skowhegan, ME
BA, Distinction in Art, cum laude, Yale University, New Haven, CT
Yale-Norfolk Program, Norfolk, CT
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