ONE-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2006 Purnati Center for the Arts, Bali, Indonesia, Vista Series
2003 Marlboro College, Marlboro, Vermont, Sampler Series
2000 Karen McCready Fine Art, New York, NY, New Drawings/Project Room
1998 Karen McCready Fine Art, New York, NY, Calypso Series
1996 Karen McCready Fine Art, New York, NY, Survey: 1992-96
1995 Karen McCready Fine Art, New York, NY, Cobå Series
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2015 Thompson Giroux Gallery, Chatham, NY, En Masse II
2014 Thompson Giroux Gallery, Chatham, NY, En Masse
2014 Pierogi Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition
2014 Thompson Giroux Gallery, Chatham, NY, Friend of a Friend
2014 Pratt Institute, Steuben Gallery, MFA Alumni Exhibition, curated by Honey Ramka Gallery
2013 Pierogi Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, Unhinged
2013 Thompson Giroux Gallery, Chatham, NY, Friend of a Friend, Gallery Selections
2012 GO Brooklyn/ Brooklyn Museum Open Studios
2012 The Center Gallery, Fordham University, Faculty Spotlight: Goldstein, Ruble, Sheehan
2012 BCB Gallery, Hudson, NY, NADA Art Fair and Gallery Walk
2012 Thompson Giroux Gallery, Chatham, NY, Restructuring Signs and Symbols
2012 The Cornell Cooperative Agro-forestry Extension and Greene County Cultural Council, NY, Whale Oil to Whole Foods: Artists exploring the economic and ecological history of the Hudson Valley curated by Christy Rupp and Fawn Potash, Catskill, NY
2011 Pierogi Gallery Project Space, Brooklyn, NY, Carleen Sheehan: Convertibles
2011 BCB Gallery, Hudson, NY, Project room: Scrambles Series
2011 BRIK Gallery, Catskill, NY, …Artists of the Hudson Valley
2010 Kathleen Cullen Gallery, New York, NY, Carleen Sheehan: Scrambles Series
2010 Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY, The Exceptions and the Exceptionals: The Schafler Gallery at 25, curated by Eleanor Moretta
2009 Deutsche Bank, New York, NY, Interchange, curated by Liz Christensen
2009 Fredric Petzel Gallery, New York, NY, Artseen: NY Foundation for the Arts Benefit
2007 The Center Gallery, Fordham University at Lincoln Center, New York, NY, Visual Arts Faculty
2007 Kent State University, Kent, OH, Drawing on Edge
2007 Spencertown Academy, Spencertown, NY, Contemporary Drawing
2007 National Arts Club, New York, NY, Belfast-NewYork
2006 Komaneka Gallery, Ubud, Bali, Indonesia, Continuous Painting for the Village of Ubud
2005 Maynard ArtSpace, Boston, MA, Painting Now
2004 The Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA, Pierogi Gallery Artists
2004 Illinois State University, University Galleries, Normal, IL, 200 Drawings, curated by Annie Herron and Barry Blinderman (excat)
2004 University Art Museum, University at Albany, Albany, NY, Pierogi: The Flatfiles
2003 Carlsbad Museum and Art Center, Carlsbad, NM, New Work, New York, New Mexico, curated by Annie Herron (excat)
2003 Metaphor Fine Art, Brooklyn, NY, Paper 2003
2003 University of Southern Maine, Gorham, ME, Pierogi Flatfiles
2003 Millay Colony for the Arts, Austerlitz, NY, Art at Steepletop
2002 Fishtank Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, Nathaniel Lieb, Carleen Sheehan, Mary Temple, curated by Susan Hamburger
2002 Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, NH, New York, New Work, Now
2001 Block Artspace, Kansas City, MO, Pierogi Gallery Artists
2001 Millay Colony for the Arts, Steepletop, NY, Art at Steepletop
2000 Karen McCready Fine Art, NY, Six Abstract Painters
2000 Karen McCready Fine Art, NY, at Art Expo Chicago
2000 Pierogi Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, Superduper New York
2000 Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA, Multiple Sensations
2000 POST Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, Haulin’ Ass
1999 Karen McCready Fine Art and Jan Abrams Fine Art, NewYork, NY, Carleen Sheehan, Jan Tyniec & Christina Craigo
1999 Kyoto-Seika University, International House, Kyoto, Japan, Ukiyo-e Works
1999 Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, South Hadley, MA, Colleagues
1999 Smith College, Northampton, MA, Five-College Drawing Faculty
1999 Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA, 1999 Pierogi Flatfiles
1999 Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY, Art-for-Park Benefit
1998 Kunstlerhaus, Vienna, Austria, New York Art on Paper
1998 Karen McCready Fine Art, NY, at the New York Print Fair, New York, NY
1998 Karen McCready Fine Art, NY, at Chicago Art Expo Chicago
1998 Patricia Sweetow Gallery, San Francisco, CA, Works on paper
1998 Trans Hudson Gallery, New York, NY, Tight:SphinctericArhatship
1998 450 Broadway Gallery, New York, NY, LINK, curated by Susan Hamburger
1998 Bard College, Rheinbeck, NY, Pierogi Goes to College
1998 Vassar College Art Gallery, Poughkeepsie, NY, Works on Paper from the Pierogi Gallery
1997 The Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY, Current Undercurrent
1997 Karen McCready Fine Art, NY at the Art Chicago Exposition, Chicago, IL
1997 Karen McCready Fine Art & the NY Downtown Arts Festival, First Look Project (excat)
1997 Karen McCready Fine Art, NY, New York Print Fair, New York, NY
1997 The Art Exchange Show, Annie Herron Productions, 60 Broad St., New York, NY
1997 Visual Arts Museum, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY, Possessions II, curated by Milton Glaser
1997 The Gasworks, London, England & The Cornerhouse Gallery, Manchester, England, New York Drawers
1997 Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Art on Paper
1996 Rupert Goldsworthy Gallery, Berlin, Germany, Works on Paper by Ten NY Artists Holy
1996 Karen McCready Fine Art, NY at the Art Chicago Exposition, Chicago, IL
1996 Karen McCready Fine Art, NY at the New York Print Fair, New York, NY
1996 Holy Ghost Church, Brooklyn, NY Holy Ghost Salon, curated by Annie Herron
1995 Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, Collector's Circle Viewing
1995 Eighth Floor Gallery, New York, NY, Quelques Fleurs, curated by Annie Herron
1995 Ronald Feldman Fine Art, New York, NY, Other Rooms
1995 Karen McCready Fine Art, NY at the Art Chicago Exposition, Chicago, IL
1995 Karen McCready Fine Art, NY at the New York Print Fair, New York, NY
1994 Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY, Recent Acquistions
1994 92nd Street Y, New York, NY, School of the Arts Faculty Exhibition
1993 Jill Newhouse Drawings, New York, NY, Judith Cotton, Sue Johnson, Carleen Sheehan
1993 The Asia Society, New York, NY, A Life in Six Episodes
1993 Hunter College, Leubsdorf Gallery, NY, Faculty Selections '93
1992 Herron Test Site Gallery, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, Salon of the Mating Spiders
1992 Tie Factory, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New Icons: David Kramer, Dexter Buell, Carleen Sheehan, curated by Will Eno
1992 Artist's Space, New York, NY, Neurotic Art Show, curated by Four Walls, Brooklyn
1990 New Waterfront Museum, Fulton Landing, Brooklyn, NY, Archetype
1990 Gowanus Arts Exchange, Brooklyn, Carleen Sheehan: Baubles Series
1989 Pratt Manhattan Gallery, NY & Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, The Exceptions & the Exceptionals, curated by Corinne Roberts
1985 Universidad de Santander, Santander, Spain, “Pinturas de la Cuevas de El Castillo”
FELLOWSHIPS/AWARDS
2014 The Artic Circle Autumn 2015 Expedition, Artist’s Residency
2013 Finalist, ArtBridge, Kingston, NY, public artwork installation project
2012 Mellon Challenge Grant for exhibition and collaborative projects for Rockslide Sky, The Center Gallery and The Lipani Gallery, Fordham University at Lincoln Center, NY
2009 Mellon Challenge Grant for exhibition, Radiant, The Center Gallery, Fordham University at Lincoln Center
2007 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship
2006 Bali Purnati Center for the Arts, Bali, Indonesia, Residency Fellowship
2004 Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist’s Fellowship
2002 Mount Holyoke College Faculty Travel Grant, Buddhist Murals in Bhutan
2001 Mount Holyoke College Faculty Travel Grant, Mural Painting in Northern Italy
2000 Mount Holyoke College Faculty Travel Grant, Mosaic Patterning: Morocco/Spain
1999 Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York, NY, Visual Artist’s Grant
1999 Mount Holyoke College Faculty Travel Grant to Kyoto-Seika Univ., Kyoto, Japan
1996 The MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH, Residency Fellowship
1995 Millay Colony for the Arts, Austerlitz, NY, Residency Fellowship
1995 Virginia Center for the Arts, Sweet Briar, VA, Residency Fellowship
1994 Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY, Residency Fellowship
1994 The MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH, Residency Fellowship
1988 Pratt Institute, Graduate Painting Fellowship, Brooklyn, NY
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2015 Borrowed Landscape, Butler Gallery, Fordham University at Lincoln Center, NY
2012 Rockslide Sky, Center Gallery, Fordham University at Lincoln Center, NY
2011 Soundview Murals, Soundview Magnet School for the Arts, Bronx, NY
2011 Contemporary Drawing, Jill Newhouse Gallery, New York, NY
2009 Radiant, Center Gallery, Fordham University at Lincoln Center, NY
2006 Collaborative Project, Continuous Painting for the Village of Ubud, Ubud, Bali, Indonesia
2003 Karl Jensen: Pulpit, installation, Abbey Chapel, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA
PANELS, REVIEW COMMITTEES
2013-14 Fulbright Grants National Screening Committee, Fulbright-Hays Program, United States Department of State
2009-14 Fordham University Academic Assessment Coordinator for Visual Arts
2007-12 Immigrant Artist Mentor Program, New York Foundation for the Arts, New York, NY
2003-04 Outdoor Sculpture Selection Committee, Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, South Hadley, MA
2003 Panelist, The Arts and the Environment, The Center for Environmental Literacy, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA
2003 Panelist, Visual Literacy Series: The Nature and Culture of the Visual, Weissman Center for Leadership, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley MA
2001 Panelist, Visual Literacy Series: Architecture and Public Space in the Third Millennium, Weissman Center for Leadership, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley MA
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
The Brooklyn Museum
National Resource Defense Council
The Center for Philanthropy, University of Indiana
Citibank
Becton, Dickinson and Company
Standard Federal
JP Morgan Chase
Villanova University
Rosemont College
The Bali-Purnati Foundation for the Arts
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2013 excat, The Center Gallery, Fordham University, NY, Rockslide Sky
2012 Albany Times-Union, Critic’s Choice: Thompson Giroux Gallery, Restructuring Signs and Symbols (illus.)
2012 The Huffington Post, Arts and Culture Section, It’s about Time..., 8/31
2009 DB Artmag, Deutsche Bank Collection, Interchange: Making it in New York, Vol. 55
2009 excat, Deutsche Bank, NY, Making It in New York, curated by Liz Christensen
2006 Bali TV at Komaneka Gallery, Carleen Sheehan discusses collaborative work
2006 Planet Blogger, Denpasar, Bali, Continuous Painting in Ubud
2006 Korantempo, Jakarta, Visual Dialogue: New York-Bali
2006 Bali Post, Denpasar, Bali, Collaboration: New York-Bali
2005 excat, Illinois University Galleries, Normal, Illinois, 200 Drawings, curated by Annie Herron
2004 excat, Carlsbad Museum & Art Center, Carlsbad, NM, New Work, New York, New Mexico, curated by Annie Herron
2003 Roger Boyce, Art in America, Carleen Sheehan at Marlboro College
2003 Roger Boyce, Art New England, Carleen Sheehan: Sampler Series, Aug/Sept
2003 College Street Journal, Abbey Chapel to Host "Heavy-Metal Rococo" Karl Jensen Sculpture, interview with the curator, September 26, 2003
2000 Ken Johnson, The New York Times, Six Abstract Painters at Karen McCready, July 29
1999 Gloria Russel, Art New England, Mount Holyoke College Faculty Artists, February
1998 Jennifer Dalton, Review Magazine, Link at 450 Broadway, March
1997 Susan Hamburger, Waterfront Week, Current Undercurrent at the Brooklyn Museum
1996 excat, essay by Claire Daigle, Karen McCready Fine Art, Carleen Sheehan 1992-96
1992 excat, essay by Will Eno, Icons for the 21st Century, Or, New Findings from the Tuna Industry: Artwork by Dexter Buell, David Kramer, Dan McCarthy, Todd Pittman and Carleen Sheehan. The Tie Factory, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
TEACHING/ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
2007–present FORDHAM UNIVERSITY, Dept. of Theatre and Visual Arts, New York, NY
2011-12 FORDHAM UNIVERSITY, Bronx, NY, Program Director, Visual Arts at Rose Hill
2006-07 FASHION INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, New York, NY, Fine Art Department
1998-06 MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE, South Hadley, MA, Visiting Artist/Assistant Professor
1993-98 THE SCHOOL OF VISUAL ARTS, New York, NY, Adjunct Professor
1994-98 92nd STREET Y SCHOOL OF THE ARTS, New York, NY, Adjunct Instructor
1997-98 PARSONS SCHOOL OF DESIGN, New York, NY, Adjunct Professor
1997-98 STUDIO IN A SCHOOL, New York, NY, Artist Educator
1994 LEAP (Learning Through an Expanded Arts Program), New York, NY, Artist/Educator in New York City Schools
ADDITIONAL PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
1986-94 JILL NEWHOUSE GALLERY, New York, NY, Gallery Director
1984-86 DOUBLEDAY & CO. PUBLISHERS, New York, NY, Editorial Assistant, Illustrated Books
EDUCATION
1989 M.F.A. Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
1984 B.F.A. Villanova University, Philadelphia, PA