
| Claudia DeMonte makes "Female Fetishes" out of wood and pewter that are both precious and powerful. In covering forms taken from everyday life with shiny, metal trinkets, DeMonte transforms the mundane into the extraordinary. Claudia DeMonte has an extensive international exhibition record, including exhibitions in Tokyo, Sweden, the Netherlands, Thailand and Spain. Her work has also been collected by numerous museums such as the Brooklyn Museum of Art and the Corcoran Gallery of Art. Claudia DeMonte lives in New York. |
![]() "Female Fetish: Tennis Racket," pewter on wood, 27 x 11 x 2 inches, 2005 |
![]() "Female Fetish: Coffee Pot," pewter on wood, 7 x 8 x 6 inches, 2006 |
![]() Teddy Bear pewter on wood 1996 |
![]() "Female Fetish: Shoe" pewter on wood 2006 |
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EDUCATION
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| 1971 | MFA Catholic University of America |
| 1969 | BFA College of Notre Dame of Maryland |
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HONORS, GRANTS & AWARDS
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| 1999 | Anchorage Foundation of Texas Creative and Performing Arts Award Grant, University of Maryland |
| 1998 | Agnes Gund Foundation New Mexico Arts, City of Socorro Sculpture Commission |
| 1989 | New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, Sculpture Ariana Foundation for the Arts, Percent for Art |
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TEACHING
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| Tenured Full Professor, Art Department, University of Maryland, Distinguished Scholar/Teacher | |
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COMISSIONS
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| 2004 | We Are One, Sculpture Commission with Ed McGowin, Mauker Multicultural Center, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA |
| 1998 | New Mexico Arts, Socorro, N.M., Sculpture Comission |
| 1997 | New York City Department of Cultural Affairs Percent for Art, Sculpture Commission for Queens Supreme Court |
| 1995 | New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, Percent for Art, Ceramic Mural Commission, P.S. 51, Queens, NY |
| 1992 | New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, Commission for the Clarendon Public Library, Brooklyn, NY Visitors Park Commission, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia |
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SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
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| 2008 | Real Beauty, The Kasser Family Exhibitions, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, NY |
| 2007 |
Empowered Objects, June Kelly Gallery, New York, NY |
| 2007 |
Mapping Beauty: 3 Decades of Installation, Makan, Amman, Jordan |
| 2006 | Claudia DeMonte: A Silhouette, Selected Work, 1976-2005, University of Maryland, College Park, MD |
| 2004 | Gerduberg Cultural Center, Reykjavik, Iceland |
| 2004 | A Woman's World, Claudia DeMonte: 1976-2004, Salem Fine Arts Center, Salem College, Winston-Salem, NC |
| 2003 | Female Fetishes, International Museum of Women, Presidio Officers Club, San Francisco, CA |
| 2003 | Claudia DeMonte: A Retrospective, Spring Hill College, Mobile, AL |
| 2003 | Female Fetishes, International Museum of Women, Presidio Officers Club, San Francisco, CA |
| 2002 | Claudia DeMonte: Female Fetishes, Museum of the Southwest, Midland, TX |
| 2001 | Claudia DeMonte: Retrospective,Rosemont College, PA |
| 2001 | Site Specific 2001, Islip Art Museum, New York |
| 2000 | Claudio Demonte, Female Implements, Flint Institute of Art, MI |
| 1999 | Female Fetishes, Gallerie Liesbeth Lips, Rotterdam, The Netherlands |
| 1998 | Retrospective, Chokladfabriken, Maimo, Sweden |
| 1997 | Genkan Gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
| 1997 | Silpakorn University, Bangkok, Thailand |
| 1996 | Leedy Voulkos Gallery, Kansas City, MO |
| 1996 | Panorama Gallery, Barcelona, Spain |
| 1995 | Xochipilli Gallery, Birmingham, MI |
| 1994 | Barbara Gillman Gallery, Miami Beach, FL |
| 1993 | Nina Freudheim Gallery, Buffalo, NY |
| 1992 | Jones Troyer Gallery, Washington, D.C. |
| 1992 | Barbara Gillman Gallery, Miami Beach, FL |
| 1991 | Gallerie 86, Lodz, Poland |
| 1991 | Arsenal Gallery, Central Park, NY, NY |
| 1990 | Barbara Gillman Gallery, Miami Beach, FL |
| 1990 | Gillman Baker Gallery, Boca Raton, FL |
| 1989 | Gracie Mansion Gallery, NY, NY |
| 1989 | Xochipilli Gallery, Birmingham, MI |
| 1988 | Jones Troyer Fitzpatrick, Washington, D.C. |
| 1987 | Brentwood Gallery, St. Louis, MO |
| 1987 | Jamaica Art Center, Jamaica, NY |
| 1987 | Gracie Mansion Gallery, NY, NY |
| 1986 | Installation, Grey Gallery, NYU, NY |
| 1985 | Stamford Museum, Stamford, CT |
| 1985 | 121 Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium |
| 1985 | Joyce Goldman Gallery, Montreal, Canada |
| 1985 | Queens Museum, Queens, NY |
| 1985 | University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY |
| 1984 | Gracie Mansion Gallery, NY, NY |
| 1983 | Russell Sage Gallery, Albany, NY |
| 1982 | Shipka Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria |
| 1982 | 500 Exposition Gallery, Dallas, TX |
| 1982 | Webb & Parsons Gallery, New Canaan, CT |
| 1981 | Marion Locks Gallery, Philidelphia, PA |
| 1980 | Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS |
| 1980 | Fort Worth Museum, Fort Worth, TX |
| 1980 | Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI |
| 1979 | Marianne Deson Gallery, Chicago, IL |
| 1978 | TRADE PIECE, Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, LA; Baltimore Museum of Art; Cranbrook Academy of Art; Franklin Furnace, NY; American Cultural Center, Paris. |
| 1977 | Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. |
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SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
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| 2003-ongoing | Women of the World: A Global Collection of Art, a travelling exhibition curated by Claudia DeMonte |
| 2007 | 15th Anniversary Exhibition, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL |
| 2006 | Claudia DeMonte & Ed McGowin: A Couple of Litchfield County Artists, Silo: Hunt Hill Farm Trust, New Milford, CT |
| 2004 | Ed McGowin & Claudia DeMonte, Osuna Art Gallery, Bethesda, MD |
| 2003 | Emergence: Women Artists in the New Millennium, Northern Indiana Arts Association, William J. Bachman Gallery, Munster, IN |
| 2003 | The New York Scene, Galerie Liesbeth Lips, Rotterdam, The Netherlands |
| 2002 | Woman Image, Images of Woman, A National Juried Show by Claudia DeMonte, The Gallery at Dodds Hall, University of New Haven, CT |
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SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Fine Arts Museum of the South, AL |
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312 440 0770 fax 312 440 3103 |
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