EDUCATION

2000-2003       Hunter College, New York, NY - MFA Studio Art, Combined Media

1998-1999       Empire State Studio Program, SUNY, New York, NY

1994-1998       Plattsburgh State University, SUNY, Plattsburgh, NY, B.A. Painting and Printmaking

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2009 (April 2-30)

Emerging Artist Exhibition Series, Barbara Walters Gallery at Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY

2008 (October 30 - December 12)

Faux Pas, Flimflams & Obliterations, Galería Fruela, Madrid, Spain

2006

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

SELECTED ART EXHIBITIONS

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

2000-2002

Open Studios, Hunter College, MFA Building, New York

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

Juried Exhibition, Plattsburgh State University, Plattsburgh, NY

1996

Works from the Vatican, Print Exhibition, Myers Fine Arts Building, Plattsburgh State University, Plattsburgh, NY

ACTIVIST PERFORMANCE*

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

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.

 July 2002

Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Deer Isle, ME: 2-week residency regarding the function of paper in costume design and sculpture; casting, mold making, armature building; use of cotton & abaca fibers.

AWARDS RECEIVED

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

2007

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

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