SYLVIA SLEIGH

Born 1916, Llandudno, Wales

Died 2010, New York, NY

EDUCATION
Brighton School of Art, Brighton, Sussex, England

GRANTS AND AWARDS

Lifetime Achievement Award, Women’s Caucus for Art, 2011
Distinguished Artist Award for Lifetime Achievement, College Art Association, 2008

Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, 1985
National Endowment for the Arts, Visual Artists Fellowship, 1982

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

National Portrait Gallery, London
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH

Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY

The Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY
Mills College, Oakland, CA

Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI

National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC

Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR

Rowan University Art Gallery, Glassboro, NJ
The David and Alfred Smart Museum, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL

University of Missouri-St. Louis, St. Louis, MO
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA
Housatonic Museum of Art, Bridgeport, CT
Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2013    Sylvia Sleigh: Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, England

2013    Sylvia Sleigh: CAPC Musee d’art Contemporian de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France

2012     Sylvia Sleigh: Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, Switzerland

2012     Sylvia Sleigh: Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, Noway

2011    Sylvia Sleigh: Invitation to a Voyage: The Hudson River at Fishkill, 1979-99, The Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY

2010    Sylvia Sleigh: Working at Home, Freymond-Guth & Co. Fine Arts, Zurich, Switzerland

2009    Sylvia Sleigh, I-20 Gallery, New York, NY

2007    Sylvia Sleigh, I-20 Gallery, New York, NY

2006    Sylvia Sleigh: Invitation to a Voyage, The Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY

2005    Sylvia Sleigh: Portraits and Group Portraits, Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, , Staten Island, NY

2004    Sylvia Sleigh: New Work and Portraits of Critics, SOHO20 Chelsea, New York, NY

2001    “  An Unnerving Romanticism:” The Art of Sylvia Sleigh and Lawrence Alloway, Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA

1999    Sylvia Sleigh: Invitation to a Voyage, Deven Golden Fine Art, New York, NY

1995        Invitation to a Voyage and Other Works, Sonia Zaks Gallery, Chicago, IL

1994        Sylvia Sleigh: New Paintings, Stiebel Modern, New York, NY

1992        Sylvia Sleigh: Paintings from the 1970s, Stiebel Modern, New York, NY

1990        Sylvia Sleigh: Invitation to a Voyage and Other Works, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI; Ball State University Art Gallery, Muncie, IN; Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH

1985        Sylvia Sleigh: Drawings, SOHO 20 Gallery, New York, NY
Invitation to a Voyage: The Hudson River at Fishkill, G.W. Einstein Company, Inc., New York, NY

              Sylvia Sleigh: Nudes and Portraits, Zaks Gallery, Chicago, IL

1983       Sylvia Sleigh Paints Lawrence Alloway, G.W. Einstein Company, Inc., New York, NY

1982        Sylvia Sleigh: Portraits at the New School, The New School Associates, New York, NY

1981        Sylvia Sleigh, Gallery 210, University of Missouri, St. Louis, MO

1980        Sylvia Sleigh, Gallery 609, Denver, CO

              Sylvia Sleigh, Marianne Deson Gallery, Chicago, IL

             Sylvia Sleigh: Paintings 1970-79, Canton Art Institute, Canton, OH; Ball State University Art Gallery, Muncie, IN; Hiestand Gallery, Miami University,                                    Oxford, OH

                Sylvia Sleigh: Recent Paintings, G.W. Einstein Company, Inc., New York, NY

               Sylvia Sleigh: Stones and Flowers: Paintings and Watercolors, SOHO 20 Gallery, New York, NY

1979           Sylvia Sleigh: Portraits, Lowenstein Library Gallery, Fordham University, New York, NY

1978           Sylvia Sleigh: Portraits, Housatonic Community College, Bridgeport, CT

              Sylvia Sleigh, A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY

1977         Sylvia Sleigh: Exhibition of Paintings, Turman Gallery, Indiana State University, Terre Haute, IN; Dittmar Gallery, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL

             Sylvia Sleigh: Stones and Flowers, Paul Klapper Library, Queens College, City University, Flushing, NY

1976         Sylvia Sleigh, Hopkins Hall, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH

            Sylvia Sleigh, Kirkland Art Center, Clinton, NY; Cortland College, State University of New York, Cortland,     NY

           Sylvia Sleigh, MATRIX 23, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT

            Sylvia Sleigh, Deson-Zaks Gallery, Chicago, IL

             Sylvia Sleigh, A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY

1975         Sylvia Sleigh: Paintings, The New School Associates, , New York, NY

1974         Sylvia Sleigh: Portraits and Nudes, A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY

             Sylvia Sleigh (Women Artists Series, Year 4), The Mabel Smith Douglass Library, Douglass College, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ

                  Sylvia Sleigh, Fine Arts Center, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI
        Sylvia Sleigh, Jacobs Ladder Gallery, Washington, DC

1973       Sylvia Sleigh, SOHO 20 Gallery, New York, NY

1972        Sylvia Sleigh: New Paintings, Lerner-Misrachi Gallery, New York, NY

1971        Sylvia Sleigh: The Investiture of Charles, Prince of Wales, 1969, Hemingway Galleries, New York, NY

1969        Sylvia Sleigh, Hemingway Galleries, New York, NY

1968        Sylvia Sleigh, Hemingway Galleries, New York, NY

1965        Sylvia Sleigh, Byron Gallery, New York, NY

1963        Paintings by Sylvia Sleigh, New Gallery, Bennington College, Bennington, VT

1962        Statues in the Crystal Palace Gardens: Paintings by Sylvia Sleigh, The Trafford Gallery, London, England

1953        Sylvia Sleigh, Kensington Art Gallery, London, England