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Marlene Siff has exhibited in museums and galleries throughout
the United States and abroad, including the U.S. Capitol
Building, Washington DC (2011), Columbia/Barnard University, NY
(2011), Katonah Museum of Art, NY (2009), the B’nai B’rith
Klutznick National Jewish Museum, Washington, DC (1998), the
Aldrich Museum, CT (1992), and Galerie Musée in Nagoya, Japan
(1994). Her work has been sought out by major corporate and
private collections around the United States, most recently for
the Nevin Welcome Center at Cornell University. She was featured
in an episode of Creative Women Today, on CT Cablevision (2010),
and selected to appear in Years in the Making, a documentary
film by Martin West (2009). Siff was born and raised in the
Bronx. She graduated from the eponymous High School of Music and
Art in New York (now Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music
& Art and Performing Arts located near Lincoln Center), and went
on to major in art at Hunter College, where she received her
B.A. and was elected to Kappa Pi, the International Honorary Art
Fraternity.
Education
Hunter College, New York City – B.A., 1957, Concentration: Fine
Arts
High School of Music & Art, New York City – 1953, Concentration:
Art
Solo Exhibitions
2012 Walsh Art Gallery at Fairfield University, Fairfield, CT,
Elements Of Peace
2010 Creative Women Today, CT Cablevision Channel 88 and Charter
Channel 21CTV
30 minute TV program sponsored by The National League of
American Pen Women, Fairfield County Branch, CT
2010 Katonah Museum of Art Online Gallery, Katonah, NY
2009 Katonah Museum Artists’ Association, Private Studio Tour,
Westport, CT
2007 Walter Wickiser Gallery, New York, NY
2005 Rosenthal Gallery at Rich Forum, Stamford, CT
1999 The Lobby Gallery of The Durst Organization, Descriptive
Geometries NY, NY
1999 National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
1998 Mitchells, Westport, CT
1995 Westport Arts Center, Lobby Gallery, Westport, CT
1995 Park Place, Stamford, CT
1994 Temple Israel, Westport, CT
1993 Bergdorf Goodman, New York, NY
1990 Connecticut National Bank Headquarters, Norwalk, CT
1989 Paul Mellon Art Center at Choate Rosemary Hall,
Wallingford, CT
(Centennial Celebration)
1987 Connecticut Public Television Gallery 24, Hartford, CT
1987 Segal Gallery, New York, NY
Group Exhibitions
2014 Westport Arts Center, Westport, CT, Art Café Artists Talks,
2014 SOLOS Exhibition
2014 Upstream People Gallery, Omaha, NE, 16th Annual
Judeo-Christian Juried Online International Art Exhibition,
(Juror, Laurence Bradshaw, Prof. of Art, Univ. of Nebraska)
2014 Art Addiction Online Gallery, MAB3 / Art Addiction Media 3.
Art Biennial 2014-2016
2014 Art Addiction Online Gallery, COLLAGE / Art Addiction
Annual 2014-2015
2014 Limner Gallery, Hudson, NY, Neoteric Abstract, SlowArt
Productions
2014 Westport Arts Center, Westport CT, SOLOS 2014, (Juror
Patricia Hickson)
2014 Embraer Executive Jets, Executive Showroom, Melbourne, FL,
"History and Geography", February 1, 2014 - May 31, 2014
2013 Art Basel - Miami Beach, FL, Red Dot Art Fair, (exhibitor
Art Essex Gallery)
2013 The Premium Lounge of American Airlines, British Airways
and Iberia Airlines, Central Terminal E (E Concourse), Miami
International Airport, Miami, FL, (sponsored by Embler Art
Gallery), November 2013 - March 2014
2013 See.Me, Angel Orensanz Foundation, New York, New York, The
Story of the Creative
2013 Chautauqua Institution, Chautauqua, NY, 56th Annual
Chautauqua Exhibition of Contemporary Art, (Juror, Janne Siren,
Director of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery)
2013 Limner Gallery, Hudson, NY, Art Biologic, SlowArt
Productions
2012 Flinn Gallery, Greenwich, CT, Local Color, Defying
Boundaries (Juror, Diana Kamin, Curator at Whitney Museum, NYC)
2012 National Steinbeck Center Museum, Salinas, CA, Honoring
Women's Rights: Visual Voices Together (Jurors, Dr. Joyce Aiken,
Dr. Ruth Weisberg and Patricia Rodriguez)
2012 The Times Square Billboard Premier Event, Art Takes Times
Square, Times Square, New York City (click to view)
2012 Katonah Museum of Art, (viewing at Stamford Artists
Association, Stamford, CT), Total Recall, (Juror, Leslee Asch,
Executive Director, Silvermine Arts Center, New Canaan, CT)
2012 Upstream People Gallery, Omaha, NE, 14th Annual
Contemporary Art Juried Online International Art Exhibition,
(Juror, Laurence Bradshaw, Prof. of Art, Univ. of Nebraska)
2012 Bendheim Gallery, Greenwich CT, 95th Annual Juried
Exhibition, (Juror, Marla Prather, Curator Nineteenth Century,
Modern and Contemporary Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art)
2012 Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY, Art to the Point:
Tri-State Juried Exhibition, (Juror, Donald Sultan)
2012 Upstream People Gallery, Omaha NE, 14th Annual All Media
Juried Online International Art Exhibition, (Juror, Laurence
Bradshaw, Prof. of Art, Univ. of Nebraska)
2011 Upstream People Gallery, Omaha NE, 13th Annual Painting,
Drawing, Photography and Print Juried Online International Art
Exhibition, (Juror, Laurence Bradshaw, Prof. of Art, Univ. of
Nebraska)
2011 Upstream People Gallery, Omaha NE, 11th Annual Summer All
Media Juried Online Int'l Exhibition
2011 Housatonic Museum of Art, Bridgeport, CT, Splash, (Juror,
Marianne Brunson Frisch)
2011 ArtsWestchester, White Plains, NY, A Spin on Green
2011 Art About Town, Westport, CT
2011 Fairfield Public Library, Bruce S. Kershner Gallery,
Fairfield, CT, Dialogue in Color, (Juror, Adrienne Ruger
Conzelman, ARC Fine Art, LLC)
2011 Kraft Center, Columbia University, New York, NY, JWAN Nat'l
Juried Exhibition, Sanctuaries In Time, (Juror, Dr. Maya
Balakirsky Katz, PhD., Prof. Art History, Touro College)
2010 Upstream People Gallery, Omaha NE, 8th Annual Color:
Bold/Subtle Juried Online Int'l Exhibition
2010 Westport Arts Center, Westport, CT Summer, (Juror,
Alexandra Munroe, Senior Curator Asian Art at Solomon R.
Guggenheim Museum, NY)
2010 Flinn Gallery, Greenwich, CT Juxtapositions, (Juror, Neil
Watson, Executive Director of the Katonah Museum of Art,
Katonah, NY)
2010 Upstream People Gallery, Omaha NE, 12th Annual Juried
Online Int'l Exhibition
2009 Walter Wickiser Gallery, New York, NY, Dreams and Metaphors
2009 Northern Westchester Hospital, Mt. Kisco, NY, Katonah
Museum Art Association, Exhibition #15
2009 Westport Historical Society, Sheffer Gallery, Westport, CT
2009 Westport Historical Society, Westport, CT, Hidden Garden
Tour (also included studio tour)
2009 Westport Historical Society, Westport, CT, Documentary
Film, Years In The Making (first showing)
2009 Calvin Charles Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
2009 Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY, Contemporary
Confrontations, (Juror, Nan Rosenthal, retired Senior Consultant
Contemporary Art Metropolitan Museum of Art)
2009 National September 11th Memorial Museum, Artists Registry
Virtual Art Gallery
2008 Calvin Charles Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
2008 Toronto International Art Fair, Toronto, Canada
2008 The Lichtenstein Center for the Arts, Pittsfield, MA
2008 Walter Wickiser Gallery, New York, NY
2008 The Barnum Museum, Bridgeport, CT
2007 Art Now Fair, Miami Beach, FL
2007 Toronto International Art Fair, Toronto, Canada
2007 Bendheim Gallery, Greenwich, CT (Juror, Dede Young, Curator
Neuberger Museum)
2006 Kenneth Raymond Gallery, Boca Raton, FL
2005 Kenneth Raymond Gallery, Boca Raton, FL
2004 Hall-Brooke Behavioral Health Services Art Show, Westport,
CT
2004 Kenneth Raymond Gallery, Boca Raton, FL
2003 Kenneth Raymond Gallery, Boca Raton, FL
2003 River Road Gallery, Wilton, CT
2002 Kenneth Raymond Gallery, Boca Raton, FL
2002 River Road Gallery, Wilton, CT
2001 Kenneth Raymond Gallery, Boca Raton, FL
2000 Studio Tour, Sponsored by the Westport Arts Center,
Westport, CT
1998 B’nai B’rith Klutznick National Jewish Museum, Washington,
DC
1996 Whitney Gallery, Westport, CT
1995 Reece Gallery, New York, NY
1995 Share Gallery, Funibashi, Japan
1995 Chesebrough Pond's Gallery, Westport Arts Center, Westport,
CT
1994 Galerie Début, Nagoya, Japan
1994 Galerie Musée, Nagoya, Japan
1994 Wave Gallery, New Canaan, CT
1994 Joel Kessler Fine Arts, Miami Beach, FL
1994 Art Miami International Exposition, Miami Beach, FL
1994 Boston Corporate Art, Boston, MA
1993 American Society of Interior Designers National
Headquarters, Washington, DC
1993 The Michael Stone Collection, McLean, VA
1993 Funding Center, Alexandria, VA
1993 International Cancer Alliance at the National Institutes of
Health, Bethesda, MD
1993 Galerie Début, Nagoya, Japan
1993 Wave Gallery, New Canaan, CT
1993 Joel Kessler Fine Arts, Miami Beach, FL
1992 The Michael Stone Collection, Washington, DC
1992 American Society of Interior Designers, National
Headquarters, Washington, DC
1992 Funding Center, Alexandria, VA
1992 Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT
1991 Chesebrough Pond's Gallery, Westport Arts Center, Westport,
CT
1991 Galerie Seven, Danbury, CT
1991 The Aldrich Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT
1990 Exhibition in Connecticut State Capital Building sponsored
by Connecticut, Commission on the Arts
1987 Chesebrough Pond's Gallery, Westport Arts Center, Westport,
CT
1986 Chesebrough Pond's Gallery, Westport Arts Center, Westport,
CT
1985 Chesebrough Pond's Gallery, Westport Arts Center, Westport,
CT
1984 Chesebrough Pond's Gallery, Westport Arts Center, Westport,
CT
Museum Collections
B’nai B’rith Klutznick National Jewish Museum (Permanent
Collection), Washington, DC
Corporate Collections & Commissions
Schiff Hardin LLP, New York NY
US Congressman Jim Himes' Office in the Capitol Building,
Washington DC
Cornell Plantations’ Brian C. Nevin Welcome Center, Cornell
University, Ithaca, NY
Dickstein, Shapiro, Morin & Oshinsky LLP, New York, NY
Pennie & Edmonds, New York, NY
Dial Corporation, Phoenix, AZ
Lenox, Inc., Princeton, NJ
Hale and Dorr, Boston, MA
Katzen Investments, Altamont Springs, FL
Temple Israel, Westport, CT
WSAA, Inc., Westport, CT
Fairfield First Bank and Trust Co., Norwalk, CT
Alcide Corporation, Norwalk, CT
Wilton Executive Campus, Wilton, CT
C. R. Gibson Co., Norwalk, CT
Cannon Mills, New York, NY
J. C. Penney, New York, NY
Stauffer Chemical, Westport, CT
Easter Seal Foundation, New York, NY
J. P. Stevens, Inc., New York, NY
Staples High School, Westport, CT
Publications
The Club Collection, A Catalogue of Fine Art, 2013, presented by
Embler Art Gallery
Catalogue Raisonné, Marlene Siff, 2012, published by remram
ritings.
Marlene Siff: Metaphors & Messages, solo exhibition catalogue,
2007, Walter Wickiser Gallery, New York, NY
Bibliography
2013 See.Me Website Homepage Profile, painting "The Great
Mystery That Surrounds Us"
selected for special feature on homepage of website.
Fairfield Living, October 2013, "Fairfield Art Galleries" by
Kendra Guilfoile
The Chautauquan Daily, weekend edition July 6 & 7, 2013,
"In VACI's 56th Annual, 'a quiet, confident sense of
excellence'" by Anthony Bannon
The Chautuaquan Daily, Monday June 24, 2013,
“Albright-Knox Director Brings Nordic Influence to Chautauqua
56th Annual”, by Paige Cooperstein
"Bound" Exhibition Catalogue, Women's Caucus for the Arts,
Phoenix Gallery, New York, NY, Janauary 30, 2013,
Juror: Cora Rosevear, Curator, Painting and Sculpture
Department, Museum of Modern Art, New York
The Connecticut Post, cover of Sunday Pulse, September 17, 2012,
“Artist Siff’s hopes for world peace embodied in “Elements” by
Phyllis Boros
VENÜ Magazine, September/October Issue, 2012, "Artist Explores
Elements of Peace" by Nancy Helle
Greenwich Time/Stamford Advocate: Pulse, June 17, 2012, "Artists
make memories in "Total Recall" by Scott Gargan
newstimes.com, June 14, 2012, "Artists make memories in "Total
Recall" exhibit in Stamford" by Scott Gargan
Marlene Siff (catalogue raisonné) 2012, published by remram
ritings
International Contemporary Artists Vol IV 2012
Arts Westchester/This and That by JL, February 9, 2012,
"Curator's Choice" by Janet Langsam
International Contemporary Artists Vol III 2011
myartspace.com, 2011
CT Post, Sunday, January 30, 2011, "Artist with a Cause: War,
peace subjects of great importance to Westport artist Siff"
by Phyllis Boros (click to read)
Westport Magazine, January/February 2011, "Honoring the Fallen
Heroes of Afghanistan: Westport artist's work installed in
nation's capitol" (click to read)
Westport News, November 10, 2010, "Westport artist uses flag
motif in tribute to fallen heroes" (click to read)
Westport Minuteman, October 28, 2010, "Artist's Commemorative
Work, 'Fallen Heroes/Afghanistan' slated for US
Congressman Jim Himes' Office in the Capital Building" (click to
read)
WestportNow.com, October 18, 2010, "Westporter's Afghanistan War
Work Heads to Washington" (click to read)
Westport Arts Center, “Summer” August 25, 2010, Artist's Talk
Westport News, February 26, 2010, "Siff Among Creative Women
Today"
Creative Women Today, 2010, CT Cablevision channel 88 – 30
minute TV program sponsored by The National League of American
Pen Women
Documentary Film, 2009, Years in the Making (film opening)
Bowtie 6, Norwalk, CT
Documentary Film, 2008, Years in the Making, Westport/Weston, CT
At Hunter, Winter 2008, "Class Notes"
Minuteman, November 8, 2007, "Creativity of Westport Artist Who
Live Long and Prosper" by Bonnie Adler
Westport News, September 8, 2007, "Artists to Be Featured in
Documentary"
Westport News, May 25, 2007, “Marlene Siff Work On View in NYC”
Fairfield County Weekly, February 9–15, 2006, “Your Art Here”
Break A Leg (Radio Interview), Stamford, CT, November 2005
Minuteman, October 13, 2005, “Westporter Combines Artistic
Talent with Business, Family”
Westport News, October 12, 2005, “Marlene Siff Work on View in
Stamford”
Westport News, April 30, 2004 “Mothers Day Art Show at
Hall-Brooke”
Who’s Who in America – Millenium Edition – 2000
Who’s Who in America – Regional and Topical Register, 2000
Who's Who of American Women, 2000
Who's Who In the East, 2000
Minuteman, April 27, 2000 "Westport Art Center's Studio Tour of
17 Artists"
Westport News, April 21, 2000
National Jewish Museum – The Jewish Calendar, 1998–1999
April/May
Westport News, February 13, 1998, "Till Death Do Us Part"
CT Post, August 10, 1997 "Suicide Bombings Spur Westport Artist"
by Phyllis Boros
Home (Magazine Supplement to The Advocate and Greenwich Times),
September 7,1997 "Marrying art with ingenuity"
by Lisa Pierce Brennig
Minuteman, June 25, 1997
The Advocate and Greenwich Times, June 1, 1997
Westport News, May 28, 1997, "Memorial Honors Victim of War" by
Elizabeth Gershaman
The Advocate and Greenwich Times, May 25, 1997, "In Memoriam:
Westport Artist Commemorates Israeli Suicide
Bombings" by Lisa Breunig
Shalom, May 1997 "Westport Artist's Work Selected for Permanent
Museum Collection in D.C."
Westport News, April 19, 1996
Minuteman, April 17, 1996
The Homesteader, January, 1996, “Why Art? Making a House a Home”
Minuteman, July 6, 1995, "meta•mor•pho•sis opens at Westport
Arts Center"
Westport News, June 28, 1995 "Local Artist to Exhibit at WAC"
Minuteman, June 15, 1995 "Sculpture & Screens exhibited at
Westport Arts Center"
The American Society of Interior Designers Report, Sept/Oct,
1993
The American Society of Interior Designers Report, Jan/Feb, 1993
The New York Times, Connecticut Weekly, December 16, 1990, "Can
Marketers Outsmart Real-Estate Slump?"
by Charlotte Libov
Westport News, October 19, 1990
The Norwalk Hour, October 19, 1990
New England Real Estate Journal, October 5, 1990
Fairpress, October 4, 1990 "Women artists on exhibit" by Betty
Tyler
Westport News, October 3, 1990
The Norwalk Hour, October 3, 1990
Fairfield County Business Journal, October 1, 1990
Westport News, October 18, 1989 "Speaking from the heart with
color" by Betty Tyler
Awards & Honors
artavita, Santa Barbara, CA, 10th Annual Contest, 2014 -
Certificate of Excellence, Juror, Despina Tunberg,
Curator, Art Director and Organizer of World Wide Art La
Catalogue Raisonné Marlene Siff placed in the library of the
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. - 2014
Art Addiction Online Gallery, MAB3 / Art Addiction Media 3. Art
Biennial 2014-2016. Diploma of Excellence/Honorable Award
Art Addiction Online Gallery, COLLAGE / Art Addiction Annual
2014-2015, Diploma of Excellence/Honorable Award
artavita, Santa Barbara, CA, 9th Annual Contest, 2014 -
Honorable Mention
Chautauqua Institution, Chautauqua, NY,
“56th Annual Chautauqua Exhibition of Contemporary Art” (Juror,
Janne Siren, Director of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery) -
2013 Deborah Anderson Award Recipient In Memory of Harold
Anderson
Catalogue Raisonné Marlene Siff placed in the Solomon R.
Guggenheim Museum library - 2013
Catalogue Raisonné Marlene Siff placed in the office of the Yale
University Art Gallery - 2013
Catalogue Raisonné Marlene Siff placed in the Memphis Brooks
Museum of Art library - 2013
Personal letter from Senator Richard Blumenthal regarding solo
exhibition "Elements Of Peace"
- October 17, 2012
Catalogue Raisonné Marlene Siff placed in personal library of
Glen Lowry (Director of MOMA) - 2012
Catalogue Raisonné Marlene Siff placed in Whitney Museum library
- 2012
Catalogue Raisonné Marlene Siff placed in San Francisco Museum
of Modern Art (SFMOMA) library - 2012
Flinn Art Gallery, Greenwich, CT,
Local Color, Defying Boundaries (Juror, Diana Kamin, Curator
Whitney Museum of American Art) – 2012
100th Anniversary Nelda A. Howard Award from the Greenwich Art
Society.
Upstream People Gallery, Omaha, NE,
14th Annual Contemporary Art Juried Online International Art
Exhibition, 2012 - Special Recognition
Art Smart Program for Coleytown Elementary School, Westport, CT,
Chosen by head of program to teach a 4th grade and 2nd grade art
class. 2012
Upstream People Gallery, Omaha NE,
14th Annual All Media Juried Online International Art
Exhibition, 2012 - Special Recognition
Personal letter from CT Congressman Jim Himes regarding painting
"Fallen Heroes/Afghanistan"
- March 10, 2011
Upstream People Gallery, Omaha NE,
13th Annual Painting, Drawing, Photography & Print Juried Online
International Art Exhibition, 2011 - Special Recognition
Personal letter from First Lady Michelle Obama regarding
painting "Fallen Heroes/Afghanistan"
- November 17, 2010
9/11 Memorial Museum Artist's Registry - 2009
Art Advisory Council of the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Award from Connecticut Manufacturers Association for creating
the
“Most Beautiful Working Environment in an Industrial Facility in
1970”
Elected to Kappa Pi – National Honorary Art Fraternity – 1956
High School of Music and Art, New York City – Art Honor Society |
