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SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2009
Turkish Delight, Emerging Artist Exhibition Series, Barbara Walters Gallery at Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY (April 2-30)

2008
Obliterations, Galería Fruela, Madrid, Spain, (October 30 - December 5)

2006
Patterned Faux Pas & Other Obliterations, Charleston Heights Art Center Gallery, Las Vegas, NV, Nov 24 2006-Feb 11 2007

SELECTED ART EXHIBITIONS

2010
Fuzzy Logic, Thompson Gallery, Cambridge School at Weston, Weston, MA, April 9-June17.

2009
Strictly Regulated, Corridor Gallery, curated by Nina Ziefvert, Brooklyn, NY, Sept 27-Nov 7.

X, Mixed Greens 10th Anniversary Exhibition, curated by Heather Darcy Bhandari and Courtney Strimple, New York, NY ( July 9–Aug 14)

Windows Brooklyn, Home & Haven Storefront, curated by Sara Jones, Andrea Wenglowskyj & Leah Gauthier, Brooklyn, NY, June 6-13.

2008
Arte Santander (with Galería Fruela), Santander, Spain

tART Summer Show, Rabbithole Gallery, Dumbo, Brooklyn, NY

2007
Evolve Dissolve, Go North Gallery: A Space for Contemporary Art, curated by Joe Millar, Beacon, NY

About Face, Contemporary Portraiture, curated by Paddy Johnson & Danielle Mysliwiec, General Electric World Headquarters, Fairfield, Connecticut

Visual Reiterations: Recent Work by Anne Polashenski and Yasuko Fujioka, curated by Juliana Driever, International Resource Center (IRC), Flushing Library, Queens, NY    

2006
Cultural Redress: Reinterpreting Fashions from the Index of America Design, Queens Library Gallery, Jamaica, NY        

Drawing the Line Against Domestic Violence, 26 + Helen Mills Theater, New York

tART Spring Salon Exhibition & Benefit Auction for Creative Time, New York

2005
tART Fall Salon Exhibition & Benefit Auction-Earthquake Relief, New York, NY

The Space Between, Mixed Greens, New York, NY

Inside Out, Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna, FL

Magic Realism: Project Diversity, Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York

2003
Three Faces of Anne, MFA Thesis Show, Times Square Gallery, New York, NY

1999
Juxtapositions, Burke Gallery, Plattsburgh, New York

Open Studios, Empire Gallery, New York, NY

1998
Open Studios, Empire Gallery, New York, NY

Plattsburgh State Undergraduate Thesis Exhibition, Burke Gallery, Plattsburgh, New York

1997
Bookends: Bicoastal Portfolio Exchange between Plattsburgh State University and San Francisco State University

US/Canadian Print Exchange, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada

Women’s Narratives, Print Exhibition, Hawkins Hall, Plattsburgh State University, Plattsburgh, NY

ACTIVIST PERFORMANCE*

2008
Get Mad, performance in Chelsea, NY on Sept 13, Collaboration between Brainstormers & the Guerrilla Girls

Get Mad, A Day of Performance at the Bronx Museum, May 17, Collaboration between Brainstormers & the Guerrilla Girls

2007
Scene & Herd, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Funding made possible by the Puffin Foundation

2006
How Good Are You?, Activist Performance across from the Armory Art Fair, NYC

2005
Point, Activist Performance in response to opening of PS1 Greater New York Show, NYC

*Brainstormers is a 4-member performance collaborative including: Maria Dumlao, Elaine Kaufmann, Danielle Mysliwiec and Anne Polashenski

RESIDENCIES

July - Aug 2010
The Art Factory, Bialystok, Poland - 2 month residency

April 2008
Fundación Valparaiso, Mojacar, Spain - One month residency

March 2007
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Amherst, VA - One month residency

May 2005
Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna, FL - Selected to work with Jane Hammond

Nov. 2003
A Papermaker’s Tour of Thailand & Myanmar (Burma): 3-week residency through Carriage House Paper mill researching/making handmade Thai & Burmese paper.

AWARDS RECEIVED

2009           
Rotunda Gallery Artist of the Month June 2009, BRIC Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, New York

2007
Puffin Foundation Fellowship for Brainstormers Brooklyn Museum Performance

Fellowship to attend Virginia Center for the Creative Arts

1996
Winkel Printmaking Internship, awarded by Plattsburgh State University

1997
Teacher’s Assistant to Intro. Painting Seminar, awarded by Plattsburgh State University

PUBLICATIONS

2007
Brainstormers Gallery Guide: Scene & Herd, Vol 2, May 2007

The Cutting Edge and The Corporate Agenda,” Women & Environments International Magazine, Published by the Women and Gender Studies Institute at the University of Toronto, Spring Edition

Brainstormers Report Photo Essay, Women’s Studies Quarterly, “Activisms,” Vol. 35, Spring Edition - Women’s Studies Quarterly is an educational project of the Feminist Press at CUNY and the Center for the Study of Women and Society at The Graduate Center, City University of New York.

2006
Brainstormers Gallery Guide: Chelsea Issue, Vol 1, March 2006

SELECTED REVIEWS AND ARTICLES

2009   
On Being Brainstormers, by Yona Zeldis McDonough, NYFA Current, www.nyfa.org, July 29, 2009.

Artist of the Month: Anne Polashenski by Carolyn Yates, BRIConline Rotunda Gallery, www.bricartsmedia.org, June 2009.

2008
The Brainstormers, by Warren Fry, The Brooklyn Rail, November 2008

2007
White Walls, Glass Ceiling, by Ben Davis, Artnet, March 13th 2007

Keep Feeling Obliteration: Anne Polashenski dynamically reinterprets the art of camouflage, by Erika Pope, www.lasvegascitylife.com, January, 18th 2007

2006
Re-examining Culture Through Our Clothing, Jo-Anne Raskin, Queens Tribune, October 20, 2006

Cultural Redress: Reinterpreting Fashions from the Index of American Design, by Juliana Driever, Curator, Brochure for 2006 exhibition at Queens Library Gallery, Jamaica, NY

The AFC Emerging Artist Summer Series: The Art of Anne Polashenski, Art Fag City, August 16, 2006

Brainstorming The Armory, by Rob Carter, the Pit (Mixed Greens Blog), March 13, 2006

Special Report: There is a Hole, by Paddy Johnson, Art Fag City, March 2006

2005
The Space Between, by Yoko Yamazaki, New-York-Art.com, August 2006 <Click here for English Translation>

Protesters: P.S.1 Show Biased Against Women, by Amy Zimmer, Cover of Metro, NY, March 14, 2005.

Artists Protest Greater New York, by Walter Robinson, Artnet News, March 15, 2005.

LECTURES

2009
Plattsburgh State University, Anne Polashenski: Artist & Activist, 2 October 2009, Plattsburgh, NY

2008
Old Westbury College, State University of New York, 6 November 2008, Hicksville, NY

2007
Hunter College, City University of New York, 14 November 2007, New York, NY

2006
Charleston Heights Art Center Gallery, 15 December 2006, Las Vegas, NV

EDUCATION

Hunter College, New York, NY - MFA Studio Art, Combined Media

Empire State Studio Program, SUNY, New York, NY

Plattsburgh State University, SUNY, Plattsburgh, NY, B.A. Painting and Printmaking