WENDY COLLIN SORIN
(b. Cleveland, Ohio)
1008 Starlight Drive
Durham, North Carolina 27707
EDUCATION
The Cleveland Institute of Art — Cleveland, Ohio (Bachelor of Fine Arts, Printmaking, 1993)
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
- 1999-02
- Kent State University, Assistant Professor, Department of Art
PUBLICATIONS
- 2013
- Sleepingfish 12; Calamari Press
- 2006
- “Silver Apples of the Moon” (essay for chapbook); Cleveland State University Poetry Center
- addendum, “Foreign Affairs” bilingual catalogue (project coordinator)
- 2004
- “Foreign Affairs: The Ohio and Dresden Residency Exchange – A Print Retrospective”
- 2002
- “An American Avant Garde: Second Wave” (exhibition catalogue); The Ohio State University
- “Connections: Ohio Artists Abroad” (exhibition catalogue): Ohio Arts Council
ARTIST BOOKS
- 2009
- None of the Above; Minnesota Center for Book Arts
- 2007
- Vispoeologie: Winter Book 2007; Minnesota Center for Book Arts; visual poetry anthology
- 2005
- name cloud; with John M. Bennett; fabelhaft press, Cleveland/ Luna Bisonte Prods, Columbus. OH
- TELLTHISMUCH; with Carlos M. Luis; Runaway Spoon Press, Port Charlotte, FL
- 2004
- P.S. At Least We Died Trying to Make You in the Backseat of a Taxidermist; with Derek White; calamari press; New York City
- 2003
- ABZU; with Michael Basinski; Runaway Spoon Press; Port Charlotte, FL
- 2002
- Ghost of a Chance; poem by Robert Miltner; paper by Gwen Cooper; letterpress by Carolyn Fraser; Zygote Press/Idlewild Press
- 2001
- Strange Things Begin to Happen When a Meteor Crashes in the Arizona Desert; with Michael Basinski; typography/publisher luigi-bob drake; Burning Press, Lakewood, OH
CURATING
- 2007/8
- Connections II: Ohio Artists Abroad; Riffe Gallery; Columbus
- 2003-6
- Project Director, co-curator, catalogue writer & editor: “Foreign Affairs: The Ohio and Dresden Residency Exchange – A Print Retrospective”; Cleveland State University Gallery; Fisher Gallery, Otterbein College; Staendehaus, Dresden.
- 2000
- The Poetic Image; Zygote Press Gallery
- 1999
- The Visual Word: Poets and Artists in Collaboration; Zygote Press Gallery
FILM/VIDEO
- 2010
- Seventh Annual UNCG New Music Festival; Greensboro, NC; Strange Things Begin to Happen When a Meteor Crashes in the Arizona Desert; composer Mark Engebretson; video of drawings (book, film)
- 2005-8
- film: W the Movie (with filmmaker Alfred Eaker); Visual Design/ Art, Associate Producer, actor
- 2009
- Skip City International Digital Cinema Festival; Japan
- New York International Independent Film & Video Festival (New York City; Los Angeles)
COMMISSIONS
- 2013
- “Formica Now”; Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH
- 2005
- COSE (Council of Small Enterprises) – Business Plan Challenge Grant Awards
- 2004
- HeightsArts Gallery, Cleveland Heights, OH – First Annual Patron Print
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2015 Artists at Golden Belt; OFF THE RADAR: METHOD; Durham, NC
Carolina Wellness Institute; Hillsborough, NC; “Between the Lines”
2014 Allenton Gallery; Durham Art Guild; Durham, NC; “Order & Motion”
- 2012
- ANDRE aka EUC Gallery; UNC-Greensboro; “a curious alphabet”
- 2007
- William Busta Gallery, Cleveland; “Safety Nets: New Drawings”
- 2001
- Zygote Press Gallery, Cleveland; Virginia Weiss Gallery, Empire State College, Buffalo, NY
“Strange Things Begin to Happen When a Meteor Crashes in the Arizona Desert”
- 1999
- Sykes Art Gallery, Millersville University, Millersville, PA;”these forms are visible to the eye that needs”
- Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA — “Forgiveness” (with poems by Ted Lardner)
- 1996
- Hartford Public Library, Hartford, CT — “First Annual Wallace Stevens Birthday Bash”
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2016 Miriam Preston Block Gallery; Raleigh, NC; “Excavations From
Nothingness” (two-person show)
2015 At Home Gallery; Greensboro, NC; Holiday show
Derek Hess Gallery; Cleveland, OH; “Gojira: An Artistic Celebration of
Godzilla”
- 2014
- Durham Art Guild; 60th Annual Juried Art Exhibition
- Through This Lens; Durham, NC; “Whether”
- “Riffe Gallery; Columbus, OH; “Sky High”
- Visual Art Exchange; Raleigh, NC; “BESERK!”
- 2013
- “Formica Now”; Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH (invitational)
- “Whether”; Phyllis Weston Gallery, Cincinnati, OH (two-person show)
- “Unfettered”; Visual Art Exchange, Raleigh, NC
- 2012
- “Time and Place”; *Urban Arts Space, Columbus, OH; Staendehaus Dresden; Germany
- 2010
- Ohio & Dresden Printmakers Portfolio Exchange Project
- 2009
- Riffe Gallery, Columbus, OH; “Visual Dialogues”
- 2008
- Yale University, New Haven, CT; “Metaphor Taking Shape: Poetry, Art and the Book”
- 2007
- Terra Gallery, “Amanda Julca and Wendy Collin Sorin: From There to Here”; Columbus, OH
- 2006
- New Gallery Concert Series; Community Music Center; Boston, MA; Visual Poetry;
- 2004
- HeightsArts; “Four Extraordinary Books”
- Cleveland State University Gallery; Fisher Gallery, Otterbein College;
- “Foreign Affairs: The Ohio and Dresden Residency Exchange – A Print Retrospective”
- 2003
- Zygote Press Gallery – “Four”
- 2002
- Riffe Gallery, Columbus, OH; SPACES, Cleveland; Weston Art Gallery, Cincinnati
- “Connections: “Ohio Artists Abroad”
- 2000
- Silvermine Guild Arts Center, New Canaan, CT — “23rd National Print Biennial 2000”
- Zygote Press Gallery –“The Poetic Image”
- Gallery 138, Kent, OH — “com(PROMISE)” (2-person show)
- The McDonough Museum of Art, Youngstown, OH — “Works on Paper”
- 1999
- Zygote Press — “Hypothetical Digs” (2-person show)
- Zygote Press — “The Visual Word: Poets and Artists in Collaboration”
- 1997
- William Busta Gallery — “Diaries, Dilemmas, Digressions, Obsessions” (2-person show)
- 1996
- Corning Gallery, The Cleveland Museum of Natural History; “Bound and Unbound: Explorations in Nature” (3-person show)
- Firelands Association of the Visual Arts — Oberlin, OH — “Artists’ Marks” (4-person show)
- Fine Arts Association of Willoughby – OH — “Boundaries Uncharted” (2-person show)
- 1995
- Coburn Gallery,Ashland University; Ashland, OH ;”Under Pressure: Four Ohio Printmakers”(invitational)
ARTICLES & REVIEWS
- 2009
- “A Talent Expressed from an Early Age” (Dan Tranberg)
- 2005
- The Cleveland Plain Dealer, November; “COSE is sold on arts as business” (Carolyn Jack)
- 2002
- “Portfolio” (Dialogue Magazine, September/October)
- “Making Connections” (Frank Green, Northern Ohio Live, September)
- 2000
- “Illuminating Poetry Through Her Art” (The Cleveland Jewish News, May 12)
HONORS & AWARDS
- 2003
- Ohio Arts Council project grant through the U. S. Department of Education (“Foreign Affairs: The Ohio and Dresden Residency Exchange – A Print Exhibition (exhibition and catalogue)
- 2000
- Ohio Arts Council project grant (collaborative book project)
- Ohio Arts Council five-week artist residency (Grafikwerkstatt, Dresden, Germany)
- Rembrandt Graphics Award — 23rd National Print Biennial, New Canaan, CT
- “Works On Paper” — McDonough Museum of Art (award)
PERMANENT COLLECTIONS
- The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry, Miami Beach, FL
- Progressive Insurance Company
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, New Haven, CT
- The Cleveland Institute of Art, artists’ book collection
- Kent State University, artists’ book collection
- Ashland University, Ashland, OH
- Hahn Loeser & Parks LLP
- Ohio Building Commission, Vern Riffe Center, Columbus, OH
- Millersville University, Millersville, PA
- University Hospitals of Cleveland
- City of Raleigh, NC; Municipal Art Collection
- numerous public and private collections