Wendy Collin Sorin

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Selected Resume

WENDY COLLIN SORIN
(b. Cleveland, Ohio)
500 North Duke Street 
#55-102
Durham, North Carolina 27701
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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
2017-19
The Carrack Modern Art Gallery; Durham
Board member; Curatorial Committee (chair)
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
2021
Raleigh Fine Arts Society: A Virtual Retrospective
Meredith College Archives; Raleigh, NC
2020
The Sketchbook Project; Brooklyn Art Library; Brooklyn, NY
Durham Art Guild; Annual Juried Show
Mail-in Gallery; Artspace; Raleigh, NC
2018
Prama Gallery, Parma, OH; Insta_gratification_the_show
Reinberger Gallery; The Cleveland Institute of Art; Alumni Exhibition; Cleveland, OH
Betty Ray McCain Gallery; North Carolina Artists Exhibition; Raleigh, NC
North Carolina School of Science and Math; Spring Exhibition; Durham, NC
Jay Street Studio; A Hundred Paths: The Sketchbook Show; Brooklyn, NY
2017
The Carnegie; Covington, KY; “text & subtext & big deal”
The Maria V. Howard Arts Center; Rocky Mount, NC; Annual Juried Art Show
Artists Archive of the Western Reserve; Cleveland, OH; “NewCelle”
2016
Miriam Preston Block Gallery; Raleigh, NC; “Excavations From Nothingness” (two-person show)
Durham Art Guild; “61st Annual Juried Exhibition”
Craven Allen Gallery; Durham, NC
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
GALLERY REPRESENTATION

Craven Allen Gallery,  Durham, NC

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