Current to 2000

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS / PUBLIC COMMISSIONS

2024

"Birch Bark," permanent installation, lobby, Yue-Kong Pao Hall of Visual and Performing Arts, Purdue University, West Lafayette IN

2022

STUDIO VISIT WITH MERLE TEMKIN, Curator Varia Serova, zephymaize and veriaserr, virtual galleries, website: zephyrandmaize.com

2021-2014

"Trees," permanent installation, "Lincoln Center Kitchen," David Geffen Hall, Lincoln Center, New York NY

2009

"She," Public Art Commission, permanent outdoor sculpture, Park Hagalil, Israel

"Merle Temkin, Fingerprints," Chicago Cultural Center, IL

2000

"Personal Markings," Art Resources Transfer, Inc., New York NY / Saint Peter's Church, New York NY

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2023

"Focus on Painting", University Museums, University of Delaware, Newark DE

"ONE NATION, With Liberty and Justice for All," Dr. Bernard Heller Museum, Hebrew Union College — Jewish Institute of Religion, New York NY, catalogue

2022

"MAGICAL THINKING, Superstitions and Other Tenacious Notions," Dr. Bernard Heller Museum, Hebrew Union College — Jewish Institute of Religion, New York NY, catalogue

2020

"Open Storage: RAM Showcases Ceramics, Fiber & Regional Archives," Racine Art Museum, Racine WI

2019

"Art@50Plus," Islip Art Museum, East Islip NY

"ECHOES: From There to Here," Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco CA

"Prime Time," Islip Art Museum, East Islip NY

2018

"All Things Natural," Five Points Gallery, Torrington CT

"Experession of Self," International Independant Art Fair NYC, St. Martin's Episcopal Church, New York NY

"She is," One Art Space, New York NY, catalogue

2017

"Wustum Generations," Racine Art Museum, Racine WI

"Reunion II," Woman Made Gallery, Chicago IL

2016

"New Acquisitions 2016," David Owsley Museum of Art, Muncie IN

"Cut, Fold and Form," Racine Art Museum, Racine WI

2015

"Natural Allusions," Addison/Ripley Fine Art, Washington DC

2014

"Art in Brooklyn / Art in New York," featured artist, online blog

2013-14

"International Plain Notebook Project," Beit Ha'ir Urban Culture Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel

2012

"High Fiber: Recent Large Scale Acquisitions in Fiber," Racine Art Museum, Racine WI

2009

"Exuberant Pattern," Center for the Arts, Towson University, Towson MD

"Brighten Life, Get Ahead," Hana Art Gallery, Seoul, Korea

"Cutters," Leubsdorf Art Gallery Hunter College, New York NY / Hunterdon Art Museum, Clinton, NJ

"Scientific," Garcia Gallery, Jersey City Museum, Jersey City NJ

2007

"Punchbowl," Metaphor Contemporary Art Gallery, Brooklyn NY

2006

"Surveillance," Jersey City Museum NJ

"RISD Biennial NYC," Exit Art, New York NY

2005

"Scratching the Surface: Abstraction Now," Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, Wilmington DE

2004

"Trace Elements," Kristen Frederickson Contemporary Art, New York NY

"Art on Paper 2004," Weatherspoon Art Museum, U of North Carolina, Greensboro NC

2003

"Corporal Identity – Body Language," 9th Triennial for Form and Content – Museum of Arts & Design, New York NY / museum fur angewandte kunst, Frankfurt, Offenbach, Germany

"Pins and Needles," John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan WI

2001

"Body Language," Islip Art Museum, East Islip NY

"Imprints, Punctures & Other Pointed Maneuverings," Fine Arts Galleries, University of Rhode Island, Kingston RI

2001

"Body Work," The Work Space, New York NY

2000

"Blurred Boundaries," Arts Center of the Capital Region, Troy NY

SELECTED AWARDS / RESIDENCIES

2010

Pollock-Krasner Foundation Award

2003

Vermont Studio Center, VSC Award

2002

Vermont Studio Center, Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Award

New York Foundation for the Arts

2001

Richard Florsheim Art Fund, Museum Purchase Award

Pollock-Krasner Foundation Award

SELECTED MUSEUM COLLECTIONS

David Owsley Museum of Art, Ball State University, Muncie IN

DePaul Art Museum, DePaul University, Chicago IL

Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University, Bloomington IN

Illinois State Museum, Springfield IL

Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel

Jersey City Museum, Jersey City NJ, collection acquired by Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick NJ

Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence RI

Museum of Arts & Design, New York NY

Park Hagalil, Municipality of Karmiel, Israel

Purdue Galleries, Purdue University, West Lafayette IN

Racine Art Museum, Racine WI

The Art Museum, State University of New York, Potsdam NY

UB Art Galleries, University of Buffalo, Buffalo NY

University Museum of Contemporary Art, University of Massachusetts Amherst

University Museums, University of Delaware, Newark DE

EDUCATION

M.F.A. Painting, San Francisco Art Institute

B.F.A. Sculpture, Chicago Art Institute

Rhode Island School of Design

SELECTED MONOGRAPHS / SOLO EXHIBITION CATALOGUES & REVIEWS

Good, Liz, Fiberarts, Summer 2006, vol. 33, no. 1," Prime Time," p. 12

Law & Order: Criminal Intent, NBC Universal Network Television, "Slither," episode 11, January 15, 2006

Martin, Lois, "Extreme Scrutiny," Surface Design / Winter 2003, vol. 27, no. 2, pp. 22–25, monograph

Merle Temkin Personal Markings, September 2000, A.R.T. Press, New York NY, catalogue

Merle Temkin: Portfolio Collection, vol. 36, essays by Lois Martin, Dominique Nahas, Telos Art Publishing, Brighton Media Centre, Brighton, England, 2005, book

Nance, Kevin, Art exhibit redefines handmade, "Merle Temkin's Fingerprints at Cultural Center," Chicago Sun Times, January 17, 2007, p. 41

RISDxyz, Fall/Winter 2013, "Changing Times"

Salomon, Gigi / Rodrigo, "Tribeca: Looking at Gentrification from the Artists' Perspective," New York NY, April 7, 2011, video, artist interview

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

Adamson, Glenn / Piche Jr., Tom, "Blurred Boundaries," Arts Center of the Capital Region, Troy NY 2001, catalogue

Auer, James, Cue, "Sheboygan Center Draws Accolades on Own Terms," Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, November 25, 2003, p. 1E

Birmingham, Mary, "Cutters," Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery at Hunter College / Hunterdon Art Museum, February 8 - June 7, 2009, catalogue

Bischoff, Dan, "Psst...somebody's watching you," The Sunday Star Ledger, Jersey City NJ, Feb. 12, 2006

DiNoto, Andrea, "Corporal Identity," American Craft, April / May 2004, vol. 64, no. 2, pp. 50-55

Firman, Sandra, Q, Artpark: 1974-1984, University at Buffalo Art Galleries, NY / Princeton Architectural Press, NY, 2010, book

Jenkins, Mark, "In the galleries: Rooted in nature but not always natural," The Washington Post, March 6, 2015

Lamonti, Giulia / Badagliacca, Vanessa, from original Heresies issue 13, "Earthkeeping / Earthshaking: Arte Feminismos e Ecologia," EGEAC, Galeria Quadrum, Lisbon, Portugal, October 2020, catalog

Ilse-Neuman, Ursula / McFadden, David Revere, "Corporal Identity - Body Language," 9th Triennial for Form and Content - USA and Germany, Museum of Arts & Design, New York, museum fur angewandte kunst, Offenbach, Germany, June 2003, book

MacAdam, Barbara A., Reviews, "Corporal Identity- Body Language," Museum of Arts & Design,

Art News, April 2004, vol. 103, no. 4, p. 112

Norris, Doug, "Five Artists Make Their Points Known," Review, Arts and Living, South County Independent, Kingston RI, Feb. 28, 2002, p. 1

Platt, Ron, "Art on Paper 2004," University of North Carolina at Greensboro, catalogue

RISD Biennial NYC 2006, Exit Art, NYC, catalogue

Sozanski, Edward, Art, "Healthy Abstraction," The Philadelphia Inquirer, May 6, 2005, W27

Van Siclen, Bill, Art, Scene, Art, "Beneath surface at URI," Live, The Providence Journal, February 21-24, 2002, p. 12

SELECTED WORK FEATURED IN PUBLICATIONS

American Craft: December 2000 / January 2001, Gallery, p.75

Art in New York City, IIAFNYC, online blog, May 1, 2018

Art in New York City, Selected Artist - Merle Temkin, online blog, June 2014

Arts & Culture, Fall 2009, Towson University, brochure, p.3

Fiberarts, January / February 2001, vol. 27, no. 4, Shows and Exhibitions, p.63

Manual: Polychrome, Issue 10, Portfolio, ed. Sarah Ganz Blythe, published by Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art, Providence RI, April 2018, p.29

RAM Annual Contributors Report 2012, Racine Art Museum, Racine WI p.14

R.I.S.D. Views, Portfolio: Winter 2001, p.26

School of the Art Institute of Chicago, A Biannual Magazine Fall 2017, class notes, p. 50