B.A. Sarah Lawrence College
B.F.A. and M.F.A. Otis College of Art and Design


Selected Solo Exhibitions


2008 “Nagas Installations”, San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts, San Angelo, Texas

2005 “Naga Installation”, Dorfman Projects, New York, New York

2004 “Bells”, New Gallery, Houston, Texas

           “Reeds”, Vered Gallery, East Hampton, New York

2002 “Grand Octopus”, Hammarskjold Plaza, New York, New York

2001 “Octopus Installation”, Longhouse Reserve, East Hampton, New York

2000 “Bells and Octopi”, Las Vegas Art Museum, Las Vegas, Nevada (catalog)

1998 “Amazona”, Donahue/Sosinski Art, New York, New York

1997 Bergen Museum Of Art and Science, Paramus, New Jersey

           Art et Industrie, New York, New York

1996 Vered Gallery, East Hampton, New York

1995 Vered Gallery, East Hampton, New York

1994 Vered Gallery, East Hampton, New York

1993 “Endangered Species”, E.M. Donahue Gallery, New York (catalog)

1991 Vered Gallery, East Hampton, New York

1990 Art et Industrie, New York, New York (catalog)

1989 Art et Industrie, New York, New York

1987 Benson Gallery, Bridgehampton, New York

           Large Scale Sculpture, Robert Moses Plaza at Lincoln Center, New York, New York

           Schreiber-Cutler Gallery, New York, New York

1983 "Gateway Series", Queens Museum, Flushing, New York

           "Gateway Series", 55 Mercer Street Invitational Exhibition, New York, New York

1981 “Leonard Street Series”, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

1980 "The Initiation", Institute for Art & Urban Resources, P.S.1, Long Island City, New York

           “The Midnight Dream Series”, Security Pacific Plaza. Los Angeles, California

1979 “The Chime series”, Touchstone Gallery, New York, New York

           “The Chime series”, Janus Gallery, Venice, California

           "OO”, University of California, Irvine, California

1978 "ZEU", Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California

           Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, California

1977 "The Tomb", California State University, Los Angeles, California

           “Walls”, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, California

1976 “Sand Sculpture”, Stevenson Palluel Gallery, Paris, France

           “Gates”, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, California

1975 “Sand Sculpture”, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, California

1974 “Sand Sculpture”, Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, California

1973 Suzanne Saxe Gallery, San Francisco, California

           “Wall Pieces”, Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, California

1971 “Paintings”, Ankrum Gallery, Los Angeles, California

           “Paintings”, Mary Moore Gallery, La Jolla, California

1970 “Paintings”, Ankrum Gallery, Los Angeles, California

1969 “Paintings”, Ankrum Gallery, Los Angeles, California



Selected Group Exhibitions


2007 “Flowers”, Dale Chihuly Gloria Kisch Vered Gallery, East Hampton, New York

2003 “Mercurial”, Williamsburg Art & Historical Center (Kisch, Kawata, Rothbart)

           Works On Paper, Whipple Art Gallery, Marshall, Minnesota

           “The Hand In Art” Stone Quarry Hill, Art Park, New York

2002 Art Sites, Greenport, New York (Mac Wells)

2000 Survey of Acquisitions, Biennale of Sidney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Australia

1998 Group Exhibition, Dorothy Blau Gallery, Miami, Florida

           Anniversary Exhibition, Art et Industrie, New York, New York

1997 Summer Exhibition, Dorothy Blau Gallery, Miami, Florida

           "Love and Human Touch", Jacob Javits Center, New York, New York

           Saks Fifth Avenue Windows, New York, New York

           "Mayflowers", Special Projects, New York, New York

1996 Reopening Exhibition - Dorothy Blau Gallery, Miami, Florida

1995 Opening Exhibition, Art & Industrie, New York, New York

           "Made in L.A, prints of Cirrus Editions", Los Angeles County Museum Of Art

1994 Vered Gallery, East Hampton, New York

           “Design for Living”, Post-war furniture from the Permanent Collection,

           Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia

           “Bergdorf Goodman Fifth Avenue Windows”, New York, New York

           ”Mirrors” Second Parrish Art Museum Design Biennial, Southampton, New York (catalog)

           100th Anniversary Exhibition, Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado

           "Whimsey In Art", Bergen Museum of Art, Paramus, New Jersey

1993 "Art and Application", Turbulence Gallery, New York, New York (catalog)

           Vered Gallery, East Hampton, New York

           The Rocker, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, New York, New York (book)

           Harmon-Meek Gallery, Naples, Florida

           "Women Artist from the Harmon-Meek Gallery", Florida Southern College, Lakeland, Florida

1991 Bergdorf Goodman Fifth Avenue Windows, New York, New York

           Barney’s Windows, New York, New York

           Choice, AIR Gallery, Invitational Exhibition, New York, New York

           Collector’s Choice Exhibition, Vered Gallery, East Hampton, New York

1990 “Art, the Universal Language”, Inaugural Exhibition, Rempire Gallery, New York, New York

           Art et Industrie, New York, New York

           Artists for China, Institute for Art & Urban Resources,P.S.1, Long Island City, New York

           Kass/Meridian Gallery, Chicago, Illinois

           "Painted Metal", City Without Walls, Newark, New Jersey

           Vered Gallery, East Hampton, New York

1989 "American Art", Centrum Sztuki Wsbotczesnej, Warsaw, Poland

           Art et Industrie, New York, New York

           "Democracy 4 China", Blum Helman Gallery, New York, New York

           "Show Your Metal", Long Island University Brooklyn, New York

1988 "East Side-West Side, Artists from Two Coasts", Helander Gallery, Palm Beach, Florida

           Gruenebaum Gallery, New York, New York

           "The Legacy of Surrealism in Contemporary Art", Patterson College, New Jersey (catalog)

           "Work of the Spirit", Ceres Gallery, New York, New York

1987 "A Southern California Collection", Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, California

           "Big Waves", Dramatis Personae Gallery, New York, New York

           Elizabeth Houston Street Space, sponsored by AREA, New York, New York

           Exit 13 Sculpture Site, Union, New Jersey

           Pietrasanta Gallery, New York, New York

1986 "Contemporary Primitivism", University of Colorado, Colorado Springs,

           "Illuminations/Art of the Future", Art et Industrie, New York, New York

           "Inaugural Exhibition", Schreiber Cutler Gallery, New York, New York

           "New Work/New York", Helander Gallery, Palm Beach, Florida

           "Review of Acquisitions Since 1980", Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, Connecticut

           Soho Center for Visual Artists, New York (Kisch, Wenzel)

           "Tribute Celebration Touchstone", New York, New York (catalog)

1985 "Sculpture Objects & Related Drawings", Art Palace, New York, New York

1982 "Sculpture in Architecture", Germans Van Eck Gallery, New York, New York

1980 "A Quadrille Four Sculptors by Invitation", Robert Elkon Gallery, New York, New York

           "Janus in San Diego", California State University at San Diego, California (catalog)

           The Organization of Independent Artists, Wards’ Island, New York

           “A Midsummer’s Dream” Security Pacific Plaza, Los Angeles, California

1979 "Recent Acquisitions", Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado

           "10 Sculptors Outdoors", California State at San Bernardino, California (catalog)

           "Three Sculptors and the Wall", Janus Gallery, Venice, California

           "Visual/Musical Permutations", University of California, Irvine, California

1978 "Artists Support Candidates”, Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California

           "Five Sculptors in Honor of the 100th Anniversary of Los Angeles, L.A. Mall, California

           "Patterns/Structure/Grids", California State, San Bernardino, California

           "Proposal for Children’s Museum", Baxter Gallery, Pasadena, California

           "Grids”, Robert Freidus Gallery, New York, New York

           "Southern California Artists", Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California

           "The Other Things Artists Make", Municipal Gallery, Los Angeles, California

           Zola Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, Illinois

1977 "Contemporary Miniatures", California State University, Los Angeles, California

           "Current Directions in Southern Californian Art", Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art,

           Los Angeles, California

           "Painters of California", Palm Springs Museum, Palm Springs, California

           "24 California Women Artists", College Art Gallery, Cerritos, California

1976 "Recent International Forms in Art", Biennale of Sydney, Art Gallery of

           New South Wales, Sydney, Australia (catalog)

1975 "Drawings by Venice Artists", Tortue Gallery, Los Angeles, California

           "Drawings", Morgan Thomas Gallery, Los Angeles, California

           "The Permanent Collection", Downey Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California

1974 Art Museum Council Exhibition, Los Angeles County Art Museum

           "Copper, Sand & Feather", Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, California

           Foster-White Gallery, Seattle, Washington

           Ruth Schafner Gallery, Los Angeles, California

           Salon RR Los Angeles, California

1973 "Female Sexuality Female Identity," Womenspace, Los Angeles, California

           Art Museum Council Exhibition, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California

           "Color ’73", Brand Art Center, Glendale, California

           "Opening Invitational Exhibition", Womenspace, Los Angeles, California

           “Eight Los Angeles Women Artists” Santa Monica City College, Santa Monica, California

1971 “Paintings” Ankrum Gallery, Los Angeles, California

           “Paintings” Mary Moore Gallery, La Jolla, California

           “Gloria Kisch/Faiya Fredman” San Diego Jewish Community Center Gallery, California

1970 “Introductions’70”, Downey Museum Of Art, Downey, California

           “Small Image Exhibition” Faulkner Memorial Gallery, Santa Barbara, California

           “New acquisitions” Joseph Hirschhorn Palm Springs Museum, California

1969 Long Beach Museum Of Art Annual, Long Beach, California

           “Paintings”, Ankrum Gallery, Los Angeles, California

1968 National Orange Show (Painting Prize), California



Selected Public and Corporate Collections


Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California

Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, California

Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, California

Gallery of New South Wales, Sidney, Australia

Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut

Vassar College of Art Museum, Poughkeepsie, New York

Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles, California

Downey Museum Of Art, Downey, California

Centrum Sztuki Wsbotczesnej, Warsaw, Poland

Neuberger Museum, Purchase, New York

Equitable Corporation, New York, New York

Security Pacific Bank, Los Angeles, California

Hartz Mountain Industries, Secaucus, New Jersey

Best Product Corporation, Richmond, Virginia

Community Bank, Holyoke, Massachusetts

Bergen Museum of Art, Paramus, New Jersey

Soho Grand Hotel, New York, New York

Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado

San Angelo Museum Of Art, San Angelo, Texas


Selected Bibliography


“Art Furniture Beyond Form and Function”, Pronto, Osaka, Japan, 1989

“Art Unveiled”, Architectural Lighting (cover), December 1990

Albright, Thomas, “Review of Suzanne Saxe Gallery Exhibition”, San Francisco Chronicle, 1973

           ARTWEEK, 17 November 1973 (Photo)

           San Francisco Chronicle, November 1973

Ballatore, Sandy, Arts Magazine, October 1979, Vol. 54, #2, pgs. 19 (Photo)

           “From Self to Cosmos”, ARTWEEK, 7 January 1976 (Photo)

           “Physically Explored”, ARTWEEK, July 1975

Baker, Naomi “Good Caliber Marks Exhibition By Two Artists”, San Diego Evening Tribune January 1971 (Photo)

           “A World of Verticality”, ARTWEEK, 12 October 1974 (Photo)

Bousset, Maiten, “Gloria Kisch, Stevenson et Paullel”, Quotidien de Paris, 20 March 1976

Braff, Phyllis, The New York Times, Sunday, 25 October 1992

Brennan, Barry, “The Weird, Weird World Of...”, Evening Outlook, 5 October 1974

           “Kisch Sculpture”, Evening Outlook, 31 January 1976 (Photo)

           “Gloria Kisch”, Evening Outlook, 5 October 1974

Burchett, Debra, “Sculpture”, (LAICA) Journal, 31 January 1976 (Photo)

Cha, Sun, Standard Times, 10 July 2008 San Angelo Texas

Chambers, Christopher, “A Private Garden Of The Mind”, dart international, No. 18,

           Spring/Summer 2006, Vol. 9 #1 (Photo)

Clothier, Peter,” Gloria Kisch at Janus”, Art in America, February 1980, (Photo)

Clurman, Irene, “Primitives Go Astray in Tribal Art”, Rocky Mountain News,1986 (Photo)

Cummings, Mary, “Nouveau Nest”, Southampton Press, 11 April 1991

           Dan’s Papers, East Hampton, New York, 15 March 1991 (Photo)

Chapline, Claudia “Women Artists”, Woman Magazine.

           “Woman Artists” Womanspace Journal #3 summer 1977

Dinner, R. Gregory, Art World, 1 November - 15 December 1979, Vol. 4, #3

East Hampton Star, 10 October 1991 (Photo)

East Hampton Star, 9 August 1991 (Photo)

Fasolino, Elizabeth, “Everything Old Is New Again”, East Hampton Star, 3 January 2008 (Photos)

Filler, Martin, “Country Classics Meets Modern Art" (The Lannan Collection),

           House & Garden Magazine, October 1982 (Photos)

Frank, Peter,“Cirrus Gallery Exhibition”, Artforum, February 1978, Vol.XVI, #6 (Photo)

Gelber, Eric, Sculpture Magazine, April 2006, Volume 25 #3 (Photo)

Gibson, Michael, ”Gloria Kisch, Stevenson et Palluel”, International Herald Tribune, 20 March 1976

Glowienke, Carl, "Diverse Sculpture", ARTWEEK 2 June 1979 Vol.10 #21

Groocock Gwendolen, Southampton Press, “The Business Of Art”, 12 April 2007, (Photo)

Hampton Magazine, “Vanity Thy Name”, 6 July 1990 (Photo)

Hazlitt, Gordon, “Venice: Unique Among Bohemias”, ARTnews, January 1980, (Photo)

Howell, Betse, “Sculpture Vibrates at Janus Gallery”, Los Angeles Herald Examiner,

           22 September 1979 (Photo)

           “Rock Steel Sculpture Vibrates at Janus Gallery”, Evening Outlook, 22 September 1979

Interior Design, September 2004, Page 226 (Photo)

International Furniture Design for the ’90’s
. PBS International, Library of

           Applied Design, 1991 (Photo pages. 177, 219) (book)

Drohojowska, Hunter-Philip, “Prints of the city”, Los Angeles Times, 15 October 1995

Johnson, Siri Carol, East Hampton Independent, 10 May 1995

Kalm, James, “THE BELLS”, N.Y. ARTS, Vol. 9 no.1/2, Jan/Feb 2004 (Photo) pg 85

Kienholz, Lyn, Los Angeles Art and Artists: 1940-1980. California International Arts

           Foundation, Los Angeles, California 2008 (book)

King, Barbara, “Em Bistro”, Los Angeles Times, 31 March 2005 (Photo)

King, Pamela, “Westside Art Finally Takes a Trip Downtown”,

           Los Angeles Herald Examiner, 22 October 1978 (Photo)

Kisch, Gloria, “A Statement”, La Mamelle, summer issue, 1975 (Photo)

Krause, Joy, Milwaukee Journal, July 1981 (Photo)

Larson, Kay, Village Voice, 26 November 1979

Lewis, Louise, “Sound and Structure”, ARTWEEK, 22 September 1979, Vol.10, #3

           "Art Experience For Participation", ARTWEEK, 23 Dec 1978 (Photo)

MacDonald, Marcy, “Gloria Kisch: Vanity Thy Name”, Hampton Magazine,July 1990 (Photos)

Marshall, Barbara, "High Drama On The Bay", Florida Design, (Photo Pg.210 Vol.7 #4)

McKenzie, Deborah and Michael, “The Art of Living”, Sunstorm Arts Magazine, November 1989 (Photo)

Moss, Susan, “Seven Local Artists at Library Center” ARTWEEK (Photo) 15 January 1973

Moran, Tom, Ocean Front Weekly, 19 September 1979, Vol. 2, #38 (Photos)

Morrow, Suzanne Stark, “A Design for Today”, Architectural Digest, April 1981 (Photo)

Muchnic, Suzanne, “Sculpture at Civic Center Mall”, Los Angeles Times, 23 October 1978

           “Turning Kids Loose in the World of Art”, Los Angeles Times, 14 December 1978

           “Gloria Kisch: The Power of Light and Darkness”, ARTWEEK, April 1977 (Photo)

           “Gloria Kisch: Recent Paintings”, ARTWEEK, 7 January 1977 (Photo)

           "A Museum On A Campus Mall", LOS ANGELES TIMES, 30 April 1979 (Photo)

Mundy, Michael, “Images: Vanity Tables”, Vogue Magazine, June 1990 (Photo) Pg.96

Norklun, Kathi, “Anthropomorphic Wit”, ARTWEEK, 18 December 1982

Pevnick, Stephen, “Review: Milwaukee Art Museum Exhibition”, Art Express, January 1982

Perlmutter, Elizabeth, “Cirrus Gallery Exhibition Review”, ARTnews, March 1976, Vol. 75 #3,

           “Photo”, The News Review, 17 April 2003 (Photo)

           “Photo”, The Suffolk Times, 17 April 2003 (Photo)

Pincus, Robert, “Cirrus Gallery Exhibition”, Los Angeles Times, 24 December 1982

Plagens, Peter,“Cirrus Gallery Group Exhibition Review”, Artforum, November 1974 (Photo)

Preston, Malcolm, “Freed Barriers That Still Confine” Newsday, 19 May 1983, (Photos)

Raven, Arlene, "Upright, The Height and Depth of Sculpture by Gloria Kisch",(Feature article)

           Sculpture Magazine, Vol.17 #8 October 1998 pages 22+25, (Photos)

Raynor, Vivien, “At the Ben Shahn, Surrealism’s Legacy”, The New York Times, 21 February 1988

Renzi, Jen, ”Come right in ”, Interior Design Magazine, September 04 (Photo) page 224

R.I.P. “The Galleries”, Los Angeles Times, 24 December 1982

Rogers, Pat, “Artists open spaces to Curious Visitors”, Southampton Press, 16 October 2003 (Photo)

           “Artist’s work blooms in Flanders”, East Hampton Press, 6 June 2007 (Photo)

           “Artist’s work blooms in Flanders”, Southampton Press, 7 June 2007 (Photo)

Rosenthal, Adrienne, “Wit and Ritual in Works by Ten Artists”, ARTWEEK, 1977

Schipper, Merle, “Gloria Kisch at Cirrus”, Images and Issues, May/June, 1977 (Photo)

Simpson, Joel, “Four Artists”, The Williamsburg Art Center, N.Y ARTS Jan/Feb, 2004

Sculpture Magazine, 2004 Volume 23 #7 “Mercurial”(Photo, Bell #1)

Singerman, Howard, "Sculpture And The Wall", ARTWEEK, 29 Jan 1979 Vol.10 #4

Seldis, Henry, “Trade Fair at Basel, Switzerland”, Los Angeles Times, 13 July 1975

           Los Angeles Times, January 1972 Part IV

           Los Angeles Times, October 1970 “Review Introductions‘70”, Downey Museum of Art (Photo)

           Los Angeles Times, 06 April 1970 “Hirschhorn Boosts Spa Museum”

           Los Angeles Times, 28 November 1969

Slesin, Suzanne, The New York Times, 17 September 1992 (Photo)

           The Sun Sentinel, 2 October 1992

           “The New Therapists”, The Chicago Tribune, 27 September 1992

           “Just a Comfy Couple and Their Objets d’Art”, The New York Times, 14 September 1989 (Photo)

Slivka, Rose, “From the Studio”, East Hampton Star, 8 June 1995 (Photo)

           “From the Studio”, East Hampton Star, 21 November 1991 (Photo)

           “From the Studio”, East Hampton Star, 3 May 1990 (Photo)

           “From the Studio”, East Hampton Star, 30 July 1987

Solov, Joel. Product Design 4, PBC International, Library of Applied Design, 1991

           (Photos Page 109) (Book)

Smith, Barbara, Womanspace Journal Vol.I #2 April/May 1973

S.M.G “Eight Los Angeles Woman Artists”, Womanspace Journal #3,Santa Monica City College 1973

Snyder, Michael, The Record, 24 October 1989

Sprout, Sally, “Bud Shark, Master Printmaker”, Ocular Magazine, 1977,Vol.2, #3

Steinbaum, Bernice, The Rocker, Rizzoli Publications, 1992,Reproduction pages 124, 125 (book)

Tarshis, Jerome, “Better and Better”, ARTnews, February 1974, Vol. 62, #2

Tarzan, Deloris, “Foster-White Group Invitational Exhibition”,The Seattle Times, 30 June 1974

Terbell, Melinda,“The National Scene “A Break for the Artist”, ARTnews, January 1974 Vol.73, #1

Watkins, Eileen, “Tinge Movement”, Star-Ledger, 15 May 1990

Wenzel, Joan, "Les Compositions Totemic de Gloria Kisch", Art Press, July 1984 (Photos)

Weiss, Wolberg Marion,“Dale Chihuly, Gloria Kisch At Vered Gallery”,Dan’s Papers,15 June 2007

Wilson, Barbara, “Gloria Kisch, An Interview”, Current Magazine December/January 1976

           (Photos) Pgs. 49,50.

Wilson, William,

           The Galleries, “A critical Guide”, Los Angeles Times, 21 September 1979

           “Sculpture and the wall”, Art Walk, Los Angeles Times, 19 January 1979

           Los Angeles Times, 2 January 1977 (Photo)

           Art Walk, “Cirrus Gallery Exhibition Review”, Los Angeles Times, 7 October 1977

           Art Walk, Los Angeles Times, 16 January 1976

           Art Walk, Los Angeles Times, 21 February 1975

           Art Walk, Los Angeles Times, 06 September 1974

           Art Walk, Los Angeles Times, 10 March 1973

           Art Walk, “Noted Women Artists Works” Los Angeles Times, 8 March 1973

           Art Walk, Los Angeles Times, 15 January 1973 (Photo)

           Art News, Los Angeles Times, 21 January 1973 “Work of 65 Artists Featured in Womanspace”

           Art Walk, Los Angeles Times, 03 January 1971 (Photo)

           Art Walk, Los Angeles Times, 15 February 1970 (Photo)

Wortz, Melinda, “New Editions”, ARTnews, March 1978, Vol. 77, No. 3

           “Wall Propinquities”, ARTWEEK, 9 February 1974, Vol. 5

           “Goode’s Skies, Objects by Kisch, Redl, Sturman”, ARTWEEK, 7 September 1974, Vol.5, #29



Public Commissions


Three Bells Banner Estrella Hospital, Phoenix, Arizona 2004

Apollo painted steel, stainless, 24'x8'x6', 1986-88, Harmon Meadow Plaza, Secaucus,New Jersey

Dawn stainless steel, 1989; Holyoke Community Bank, Holyoke, Massachusetts

Aesiona bronze/stainless steel, 14'x18'x18', 1984, Harmon Meadow Plaza, Secaucus, New Jersey