Elise Kaufman received her M.F.A. from Queens College, CUNY, and her B.F.A. from Pratt Institute. She is currently an Adjunct Associate Professor of Art at Pratt Institute. She has also held faculty positions at Parsons School of Design and Kingsborough Community College (C.U.N.Y.), both in New York City.
One and Two Person Exhibitions
11
2020
​Ballinglen Art Museum and Gallery, Ballycastle, Co. Mayo, Ireland
2019
​​ The Gallery at the Wellfleet Public Library, Wellfleet, MA
2011
​​Shore Galleries, Provincetown, MA
2010
​​Shore Galleries, Provincetown, MA
2009
​Bruno Marina Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2009
​The Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, NY
2006
​ArtSpace Gallery, New Haven, CT
2005
​The Kentler International Drawing Space Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2005
​The Irish Arts Center, New York, NY
2003
Kate Ganz Gallery, New York, NY
1992
Ledisflam Gallery, New York, NY
1990
​The United Arts Club, Dublin, Ireland
Selected Group Exhibitions
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2015
“The Kentler Gallery at 25 years,” Peninsula Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2011
“Residue,” Mills Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts,
Boston, MA
2011
“Eastern Shores,” Hillwood Art Museum, C.W. Post
College, Brookville, NY
2011
“Marked Differences,” Kentler International Drawing Space Brooklyn, NY
2010
“Artist Invitational,” FotoFoto Gallery, Huntington, NY
2010
“Convectus 1”, ArtSpace Gallery, New Haven, CT
2010
“Degrees of Density,” The Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR
2009
​“Degrees of Density,” Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn, NY
2008
“Summer Group Show,” Esmond-Wright Gallery, Provincetown, MA
2008
​“The Persistence of Line,” Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn, NY
2008
​“The Salon Show,” Bruno Marina Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2007
“Working in Brooklyn: Selections from the Kentler Flat Files” Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, NY
2005
“Summer Show,” Bruno Marina Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2005
“Open House – Brooklyn Artists”The Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
2003
“Superstructures: Artists and Architecture” ArtSpace Gallery, New Haven, CT
2002
19e. Salon des Arts de Saint-Maurice, Espace Delacroix, St. Maurice, France
2001
2e. Marche d’Art Contemporain Les Cerqueux-sous-Passavant, France
1998
“Dystopia”, Roebling Hall Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
1997
“Faculty Work: Parsons School of Design” The New School for Social Research, New York,NY
1996
“National Drawing Invitational” The Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AK
1995
“Home Is Where...,” The Weatherspoon Art Gallery, U. of N. Carolina, Greensboro
1995
“Invitational Benefit Exhibition and Auction for P.S. 41”
1995
Loeb Student Center, New York University, New York, NY
1995
“Foundation Faculty at Pratt”, Pratt Manhattan Gallery, New York, NY  ​
1994
​“National Juried Competition” Provincetown Art Association & Museum, Provincetown, MA
1994
“First Annual Juried Competition”, The Essex Art Center, Lawrence, MA
1993
​“Forced Entry”, Ceres Gallery, New York, NY
1993
“New Work, New York”, The Albright-Knox Museum, Buffalo, NY
1992
“E-Venti parte 1, and “E-Venti, parte 2” Pino Molica Gallery, Rome, Italy and Molica Gallery, New York
1992
“Los Artistes Del Rectoria” Centre D’Arte Del Rectoria, Sant Pere De Vila Magor, Spain
1991
“The Artists’ Book”, The Islip Art Museum, Islip, NY
2018
Foundation Faculty Exhibition, The Shaffler Gallery, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
Public Collections
  • The Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR
  • The Birmingham Art Museum, Birmingham, AL                                         
  • The Boise Art Museum, Boise, ID                                           
  • The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY                                      
  • The Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, Cedar Rapids, IA                                
  • The Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE                                 
  • The Fogg Art Museum (Harvard University), Cambridge, MA                             
  • The Weatherspoon Art Gallery, U. of N. Carolina, Greensboro, NC
Bibliography
Applegate, Barbara/ Widenor, Marsha, “Eastern Shores”,(exhibition catalogue), Hillwood Art Museum, Brookville, NY  2011
                                           
Buxton, Elinor, “Urban Landscapes”, (exhibition catalogue) ArtSpace, New Haven, Ct, 2004
                                           
Flynn, Gerard, “Artist Elise Kaufman on Old Ireland And the Modern Eclipse of Tradition”, The Irish Emigrant, February 23, 2005, pg. 2
                                           
Hickey, Christine, “In Focus: Elise Kaufman,” The Irish Voice, March 23-29, 2005, pg. 20
                                           
Holmes, Steven, “Residue”, (exhibition essay) Mills Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA 2011
                                           
Kochheiser, Thomas, “Home Is Where”, (exhibition catalog) Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, NC, 1995
                                          
Kotik, Charlotta, “The Persistence of Line”, (exhibition catalog) Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn, NY, 2008
                                           
Kotik, Charlotta, “Open House”, (exhibition catalog) The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY, 2004
                                           
O’Hanlon, Ray, “Artist’s Work Depicts a Disappearing Ireland,” The Irish Echo, Feb. 9-15, 2005, pp. 20-22

Seavitt-Nordensen, Catherine, “Marginal Streets, Elise Kaufman: works on mylar”, Plot: The Magazine of the Graduate Landscape Architecture Program of the Spitzer School of Architecture, City College of New York, Vol. 1, Spring 2012, pp. 18-19
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Symmes, Marilyn, “ Degrees of Density”, (exhibition catalogue) Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn, NY   2009
                                           
Waddell, Roberta, “Marked Differences”, (exhibition catalogue) Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn, NY   2011
                                            
Wolfe, Townsend, “National Drawing Invitational”, (exhibition catalog), Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR, 1996
Professional
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2015 - Current
Visiting Professor Assistant of Art, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn NY
2015
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Art, Kingsborough Community College (City University of New York), Brooklyn NY
2010 - 2014
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Art, Dowling College, Oakdale, NY
1993 - 1999
​Adjunct Assistant Professor of Art, Parsons School of Design, NY
1994 - 1996
Visiting Professor of Art, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
Residencies / Fellowships
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2019
The Cow House Studies, artist in residence, Enniscorthy, Co. Wexford, Ireland
2013 - 2014
Ballinglen Arts Foundation- 2 year fellowship, Ireland 
1991
Centre D’Arte Dal Rectoria, Sant Pere de Vila Magor, Spain​
Lecture & Visiting Artist Engagements
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2018
​​​Visiting Artist, The Cooper Union, Department of Architecture, New York
2018
Visiting Artist, The Cooper Union (School of Architecture), New York, NY
2015
​​Visiting Artist, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA
2014 - 2015
​Visiting Artist, The Brooklyn Friends School, Brooklyn, NY
1998
​​"Halfway to Heaven: Changes in Island Womens’ Lives - A
Continuing Exploration”, video & lecture presentation
The Irish Scholars Roundtable Lecture Series, Columbia University, New York, NY
1995
​“Halfway to Heaven: Changes in Island Women’s Lives,”
Video and lecture presentation, American/Canadian Irish Studies Joint Conference, Queens University, Belfast, N. Ireland
Published Work
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2012
“The Magical Atmosphere: Carmen Cicero at Work”, Provincetown Arts Magazine, 2012-2013 (annual issue), pp. 77-78
2010
“Who’s Afraid of a Few Naked Ladies? The works of Tony Vevers
And Willa Mamet”, The Cape Cod Arts Review, June 2010
University Degrees
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1992
M.F.A., Queens College, City University of NY
1985
​B.F.A., Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY