Education
School of Fine Arts, Yale University, BFA – Painting
Awards and Grants (Selected)
2010 Tri-State Artist Competition, Hammond Museum, North Salem, NY
2003 Weir Farm Visiting Artist Grant, Weir Farm Trust, Wilton, CT
1998 Grumbacher Gold Medallion Award Connecticut Women Artists, New Britian Museum, New Britian, CT Juried by Judy Chicago
1997 The A.S.W Award (Major Award for Painting) Art of the Northeast U.S.A, Silvermine Guild Arts Center, New Canaan, CT
1992 Regional Fellowship in Painting for Visual Arts, New England Foundation for the Arts/National Endowment for the Arts
1982 Fourth Annual Faber Birren Award for Distinctive and Creative Expression with Color, The Faber Birren National Color Award Show, Stamford Art Association, Stamford, CT – Juried by John Baur of the Whitney Museum
1976 Purchase Award – Watercolor Division, 1st Prize, 1976 Fairfield Chamber of Commerce Exhibition, Juried by Joseph Hirschorn and Revington Arthur.
1970 Grumbacher Award, Mixed Media 21st New England Exhibition, Silvermine Guild Arts Center, New Canaan, CT
1969 Mixed Media, 1st Prize 20th Anniversary New England Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, Silvermine Guild Arts Center Canaan, CT – Juried by John Baur of the Whitney Museum
One Person Exhibitions (Selected)
2013 Dresses of Long Ago, The Shed, Brooklyn, NY
2013 Retrospective: Delving forward and backward, UCONN Stamford Art Gallery, Stamford, CT
2012 Obsolete Elegance: A Tribute to JWK, Silvermine Arts Center, New Canaan, CT
2005 My Own History of Art, Silvermine Guild Arts Center, New Canaan, CT
2002 My Dress of Long Ago, Directors Choice: Silvermine Guild Arts Center, New Canaan, CT
2001 One Person Exhibit, Nan Mulford Galllery, Rockland, ME
1998 The Forest, Silvermine Guild Arts Center, New Canaan, CT
1998 The Forest, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, ME
1998 Gifts (with Lucy Sallick) Portside Gallery, Rowayton Arts Center, Rowayton, CT
1993 Connections: An Exhibition of Two Friends, Silvermine Guild Arts Center, New Canaan, CT
1993 A Ten Year Retrospective, Hurlbutt Gallery, Friends of the Greenwich Library, Greenwich, CT
1991 Following the Grain, SOHO 20 Gallery, New York, NY
1988 Southern Memories, SOHO 20 Gallery, New York, NY
1988 Southern Memories – Northern Dreams (with Lucy Sallick), Lyme Academy of Fine Arts, Lyme, CT
1986 Eddy Rocks Continued – Tenants Harbor, Maine, University of Bridgeport, Bernhard Center for Arts & Humanities, Carlson Gallery, Bridgeport, CT
1984 Open Boxes, SOHO 20 Gallery Invitational Space, New York, NY
1984 Eddy Rocks – Tenants Harbor, Maine, Silvermine Guild Arts Center, New Canaan, CT
1982 Constance Kiermaier – Recent Work, Discovery Museum, Bridgeport, CT
1982 On Balance – Collages by Constance Kiermaier, Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, CT
1981 President’s Choice, Woods Gerry Gallery, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
Group Exhibitions
2008 59th Annual Art of the Northeast, Silvermine Guild Arts Center, New Canaan, CT
2008 12=ONE, A collaboration on Concepts Mentored by Constance Kiermaier, Flinn Gallery, Greenwich, CT
2007 States of Connecticut, Westport Arts Center, Westport, CT
2003-04 Word Image, Westport Arts Center, Westport, CT
2003 Weir Farm Visiting Artists, Housatonic Museum, Bridgeport, CT (catalogue)
2003 The Common Thread, Discovering Fiber in Contemporary Art, Westport Arts Center, Westport, CT
2002 5th Annual American Print Biennial, Marsh Art Gallery, The University of Richmond Museum, Richmond, VA
2001 Connecticut Women Artists, Discovery Museum, Bridgeport, CT
2000 New Art Annual 2000, Stamford Museum, Stamford, CT
2000 New Mulford Gallery, Rockport, ME
1999 Davidson and Daughters, Portland, ME
1998 Connecticut Women Artists Juried Show, New Britian Museum, New Britian, CT
1998 Portland Museum Biennial, Portland, ME
1997 Studio Work, Between the Muse Gallery, Rockland, ME
1997 Art of the Northeast USA, New Canaan, CT (catalogue)
1996 18th Annual Juried Exhibition, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, ME (catalogue)
1995 Screens and Sculpture, Westport Arts Center, Westport, CT
1994 Versions of Childhood – Autobiographical Fragments, ARTSPACE, New Haven, CT
1994 16 Connecticut Women Artists, The Slater Memorial Museum, Norwich, CT
1993 The Unique Print, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, ME
1993 The Choice of Painting: Recent Work by 1992 Fellows of the New England Foundation for the Arts, Lyman Allyn Art Museum, New London, CT (catalogue)
1992 NEA/NEFA Regional Fellowship Recipients in the Visual Arts, Boston Center of the Arts, Mills Gallery, Boston, MA
1989 Connecticut Collage, 100 Pearl Street Gallery, Hartford, CT (catalogue)
1987 A Generation of Vision, Fairfield University Gallery, Fairfield, CT
1986 Self Portraits, G.W. Einstein Gallery, New York, NY
1986 Art in a Box: Hommage to Joseph Cornell, Silvermine Guild for the Arts, New Canaan, CT
1984 Artists Choice, Maples Gallery, Fairleigh Dickinson University, NJ
1982 Connecticut Watercolor Society Exhibition, Barnum Museum, Bridgeport, CT
1981 Down East on Paper, Westport Town Hall Gallery, Westport, CT
1980 National Society of Painters in Casein and Acrylic, National Academy of Fine Arts, New York, NY
1980 The Corporate Collections, Museum of Art, Science and Industry, Bridgeport, CT
1977 New Work, Genesis Gallery, New York, NY
1976 Eighth Southern New England, Fairfield University, Fairfield, CT
1976 Alumni Invitational Exhibition, Yale School of Fine Arts, Yale University, New Haven, CT
Public Collections (selected)
Xerox Corporation, Greenwich, CT
General Electric, Company, Fairfield, CT
Marketing Corporation of America, Westport, CT
Town of Fairfield Collection, Fairfield, CT
Aaron Green Associates, New York, NY
Westport Library Collection, Westport, CT
Charles Zanda Design, Greenwich, CT
Norwalk Community College Collection, Norwalk, CT
Housatonic Museum, Bridgeport, CT
Private Collections (selected)
Mrs. David Prager, New York, NY
Mr. and Mrs. Carlo Querce, Fiesole, Florence, Italy
Mrs. Robert Warner, Washington, DC
Mr. and Mrs. Vance Harrison, Sarasota, FL
Mrs. James Pendry, Winnetka, IL
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Jacobs, Rockport, ME
Ms. Helen During, Weston, CT
Mr. and Mrs. John Ames, Camden, ME
Mr. and Mrs. Carl Muller, London, England
Madame Aude De Rochebouet, Paris, France
Mr. and Mrs. James Burke, New York, NY
Mrs. Lucy Sallick, Westport, CT
Ms. Eve Ingalls, Princeton, NJ
Mr. James Pendry, Westport, CT
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Eddy, Camden, ME
Mr. and Mrs. Giorgio Cavalieri, Milan, Italy
Mr. Nicolo Querce, Milan, Italy
Organizations
Member SOHO 20
Board Member, Silvermine Guild Center for the Arts, 1980-1988
Member Alumni Board (1973-74), Yale School of Fine Arts
Westport Council of the Arts
Teaching
Darien Arts Center, Darien, CT
Norwalk Community College, Norwalk, CT
Lyme Academy of Fine Arts, Lyme, CT
Hope House Painting Workshop, Tenants Harbor, ME (summers)
Rowayton Arts Center, Rowayton, CT
Bibliography
Edward Allen Beem, Maine Times, (Portland, ME), November 19, 1998
Deborah W. Seisagall, New York Times, December 27, 1998
Pat Davidson Reef, Sun Journal, (Lewiston, ME), November 20, 1998
Betty Tyler, Norwalk Hour (CT), May 8, 1997
Phillip Isaacson, Maine Sunday Telegram (Portland), May 11, 1997
Bess Liebson, New York Times, February 14, 1993
Beth DuFresne, New London Day, Week of February 11-17, 1993
William Zimmer, New York Times, March 14, 1993
Kate Jennings, Art New England, November 1990
Vivian Raynor, New York Times, Sunday, August 8, 1980, page CN-20
Bernard Hanson, Hartford Courant (Hartford, CT), September 20, 1979, pg. 8
Martha Scott, Bridgeport Post (Bridgeport, CT), Art Review, September 9, 1979
Publications
To Be On An Island, 1980, Down East Publications, Poetry, Constance Kiermaier
