Sandra DeSando
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Sandra DeSando
1968 BA Art, William Paterson University
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SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021 Puzzlement, Dvora Gallery, Jersey City, NJ
2018 In the Swim, Islands and Streams, Novado Gallery, Jersey City, NJ
2016 The Nature of Things, Drawing Rooms, Jersey City NJ
2015 Learning to Live with What We Create, Kommendantenhaus, Dilsberg, Germany
2014 Just Looking, Drawing Rooms, Jersey City, NJ
2006 Sandra DeSando, Jersey City, John Meager Rotunda Gallery, NJ
2005 Sandra DeSando, William Paterson University, Wayne, NJ
2003 Falling into Grace, Learning Spirit Gallery, Jersey City, NJ
2002 Homecoming, Windows on Columbus, Jersey City, NJ
1990 Liquid Assets, Newark, Newark Museum, Newark, NJ
1989 Faces and Figures, SOHO20, New York, NY
1989 Branch + Root, Hass Gallery, Bloomsburg University, Bloomsburg,
1989 It Escapes Me, Tompkin Gallery, Cedar Crest College, Allentown, PA
TWO AND THREE PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2019 When March Is Scarcely There, St Paul’s Art, Jersey City, NJ
2018 Sandra DeSando, David French, 109 Columbus, Jersey City, NJ
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019 After Stonewall, 1969-1989, Grey Gallery of Art, NYU, NY, NY
2019 Identities, Rahway Gallery, Rahway, NJ
2018 1970’s The Blossoming of a Queer Enlightenment, Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, NYC
2017 Expanding Vision: 50 Years of Collecting, Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, NYC
2017 Expanding Matrix, Amelie A. Wallace Gallery, SUNY Old Westbury, NY
2017 A World Where We Belong, Dineen Hull Gallery, Hudson County Community College, Jersey City, NJ
2017 Seeing and Being the Tree, Eileen Kaminsky Family Foundation, MANA Contemporary, Jersey City, NJ
2014 Pin It Up, MANA Contemporary, Curated by Drawing Rooms, Jersey City, NJ
2002 Artist to Artist, Ace Museum for Contemporary Art, Curator Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation, New York, NY
1998 Memory and Loss, Mary Anthony Galleries, New York, NY
1997 Seeing Jazz: Artists and Writers on Jazz, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC
1997 -98 Smithsonian National traveling exhibition Janice McNeil, Deborah Macanic, Marquette Folley-Cooper)
1997 Alternate Voices, MANA Fine Arts, Jersey City, NJ
1996 Cycles and Recycles: A Regeneration, Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ
1985 The Night the Palladium Apologized, Guerrilla Girls at the Palladium, New York, NY
1983 EVENTS: En Foco/The Heresies Collective, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Eileen S. Kaminsky Family Foundation, New York, NY
Franklin Furnace, New York, NY
Isaac W. Bernheim Foundation, Louisville, KY
Kultursttiftung, Rhein-Nackar-Kreis, Dilsberg Germany
Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, New York, NY
New York Historical Society, New York, NY
Telfair Museum, Savannah, GA
Williamsburg Art Center. Brooklyn, NY
GRANTS
1990 The Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation, Redondo Beach, CA
1996 The E.D. Foundation, Port Washington, NY
1995 Pollock-Krasner Foundation, New York, NY
1994 Flintridge Foundation Fellow, Pasadena, CA
RESIDENCIES
2017 Eileen S. Kaminsky Family Foundation at Mana Contemporary, Jersey City, NJ
2015 Kulturstiftung Rhein-Neckar-Kreis, Dilsberg, Germany
1995 Sharpe-Walentas Foundation, New York, NY
1994 Djerasssi Resident Artist Program, Woodside, CA
1990 The Isaac W. Bernheim Foundation, Clermont, KY
1990 YADDO, Saratoga Springs, NY
1994 Kate Millett, The Farm, Poughkeepsie, NY
BIBLIOGRAPHY
David Mosca, Jersey City Artists's Multi-Panel Works Reflect the Origins and Nature of the Universe, Jersey Journal, May 2nd, 2021
Jonathan Weinberg, ed, “After Stonewall, 1969-1989,” co-published by Rizzoli Electa and The Columbus Museum of Art, 2019
Pustorino, James, ed, “Sandra DeSando: in the swim, islands and streams,” Victory Hall Press, 2018
Jannie Wolff, An Abundant Life, Becoming the Tree, Notes from The City, Sunday May 27, 2018, www.JannieSusan.blogspot.com
Sharpe-Walentas Foundation, “Artist to Artists: A Decade of the Space Program,” 190, 191, 2002
Harmony Hammond, “Lesbian Art in America: A Contemporary History”. Rizzoli International, 47, 2000
Elizabeth Goldson, “Seeing Jazz: Artists and Writers on Jazz,” Smithsonian Museum of Art. Chronicle Books in association with the Smithsonian Institution’s Traveling Exhibition Services, 129, 1997
Lucy R. Lippard, The Pink Glass Swan: essays on feminist art, The New Press, 67, 241, 1995
The Heresies Collective, “Heresies: A Feminist Publication on Art and Politics,” Vol. 1, No 3, 41; Vol. 3, No 4, 82, 83, 84
New Museum of Contemporary Art, EVENTS En Foco: Heresies Collective, 1983