Elise Kaufman
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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.
GALLERY LINKS
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Off Main Gallery, Wellfleet, MA
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https://www.offmaingallery.com/artists#/elise-kaufman/
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Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn, NY
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 https://www.kentlergallery.org/Detail/entities/341
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Saatchi Art, Online Gallery
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https://www.saatchiart.com/account/artworks/661740
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EDUCATION
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Masters Fine Arts (M.F.A.) Queens College, City University of NY    ​
​1992
Bachelor of Fine Arts (B.F.A.) Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY                                                    
1985
SOLO and TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
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Off Main Gallery, Wellfleet, MA ​​
2021 
Off Main Gallery, Wellfleet, MA ​​
2020
The Gallery at the Wellfleet Public Library, Wellfleet, MA  ​​
2019
Shore Galleries, Provincetown, MA ​  ​
2010
​Shore Galleries, Provincetown, MA ​​
2009
Shore Galleries, Provincetown, MA ​​
2008
Esmond-Wright, Provincetown, MA ​
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Bruno Marina Gallery, Brooklyn, NY ​​
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Shore Galleries, Provincetown, MA
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​​The Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art,
Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, NY
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​ArtSpace Gallery, New Haven, CT
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The Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn, NY                                      
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2005
The Irish Arts Center, New York, NY
2003
Ledisflam Gallery, New York, NY       ​
1992
The United Arts Club, Dublin, Ireland
1990
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
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“Sallying Forth from a Besieged Place: The Sally Project”, WHEN Studio, Wellfleet, MA
2021
Off Main Gallery, gallery artists group show, Off Main Gallery, Wellfleet, MA
2020
Foundation Faculty Exhibition, The Schafler Gallery, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, N
2020
Foundation Faculty Exhibition, The Schafler Gallery, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
2018
“The Kentler at 25 - Flat Files: the 90s”, The Pennisula Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2015
“Inaugural Exhibition at Rico, Gowanus,” Rico Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2013
“Artists at Rico”, Rico Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
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“Residue”, The Mills Gallery,
Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA
2011
“Eastern Shores”, The Hillwood Art Museum, C.W. Post College, Brookville, NY
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“Marked Differences”, The Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn, NY  ​
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“Degrees of Density II”, Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR ​
2010
“Convectus I”, ArtSpace Gallery, New Haven, CT
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“Artists Invite Artists”, FotoFoto Gallery, Huntington, NY
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“Degrees of Density”, Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn, NY
2009
​“The Persistence of Line”, Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn, NY
2008
“The Salon Show,” Bruno Marina Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
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“The Summer Show”, The Esmond-Wright Gallery, Provincetown, MA
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“Working in Brooklyn: Selections from the Kentler Flat Files” Brooklyn Academy of Music Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2007
“The Summer Show”, Bruno Marina Gallery, Brooklyn, NY                               
2005
“Open House – Brooklyn Artists Working”,                                                  
2005
The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY​
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“Superstructures: Artists and Architecture”, ArtSpace Gallery, New Haven, CT
2003
« 19e. Salon des Arts de Saint-Maurice » L’ Espace Delacroix, St. Maurice, France
2002
« 2e Marche d’Art Contemporain » Gallerie á l’ Hotel de la Ville, Les Cerqueux-sous-Passavant, France
2001
“Dystopia”, Roebling Hall Gallery, Brooklyn, NY                                           
1998
“Faculty Work: Parsons School of Design” The New School for Social Research, New York
1997
“National Drawing Invitational”
The Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AK
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“Home Is Where...”, The Weatherspoon Art Gallery University of N. Carolina Greensboro, Greensboro, NC
1995
“Foundation Faculty of Pratt Institute,” Pratt Manhattan Gallery, New York, NY
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“Invitational Benefit Exhibition”, Loeb Student Center, New York University, New York, NY
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“National Juried Competition”, Provincetown Art Association & Museum Provincetown, MA
1994
“Annual Juried Competition”, The Essex Art Center, Lawrence, MA
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​“Forced Entry”, The Ceres Gallery, New York, NY
1993
“New Work, New York” The Albright-Knox Museum, Buffalo, NY
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“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     ​
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MUSEUM and PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
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The Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, Arkansas
The Ballinglen Art Museum, Ballycastle, County Mayo, Ireland
The Birmingham Art Museum, Birmingham, Alabama
The Boise Art Museum, Boise, Idaho
The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York
The Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, Cedar Rapids, IA
The Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, Delaware
The Fogg Art Museum (Harvard University), Cambridge, MA

The Weatherspoon Art Gallery, U. of N. Carolina, Greensboro, NC
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
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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
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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 – Working in Brooklyn”, (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-Nordenson, Catherine, editor, “The Marginal Street,” Plot: the journal of Graduate Landscape

Architecture Program, Spitzer School of Architecture, City College, NY vol.1/spring 2012, pp18-19


Symmes, Marilyn, “Degrees of Density,” (exhibition catalog), The Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn, NY 2009


Van Der Wende, Andre, “
Elise Kaufman Attempts the Impossible: Mixed Media Works Capture Light and Memory”, The Provincetown Independent, June 9, 2021

Waddell, Roberta, “Marked Differences”, (exhibition catalogue), The Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn, NY 2011


​Wolfe, Townsend, “National Drawing Invitational”, (exhibition catalog), Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AK, 1996
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PUBLISHED WORKS
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“The Magical Atmosphere: Carmen Cicero at work”, Provincetown Arts Magazine, 2012- 2013 (Annual Issue), pp. 77-78
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“Who’s Afraid of a Few Naked Ladies? The Works of Tony Vevers and Willa Mamet”, The Cape Cod Arts Review, June 2010 edition
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​RESIDENCIES, FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS
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Cow House Studios Residency, Enniscorthy, Co. Wexford, Ireland                       
2019
Ballinglen Arts Foundation (The Artist in Rural Ireland) Residency              
Philadelphia, PA/Co. Mayo, Ireland
2015, 2016
Ballinglen Arts Foundation (The Artist in Rural Ireland), Fellowship Award            
Philadelphia, PA/County Mayo, Ireland
2013
Centre D’Arte Dal Rectoria, Sant Pere de Vila Magor, Spain                            ​
1990
Recipient of the Ida C. Haskell Travel Scholarship Award,                                        
Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY  ​
1985
LECTURE AND SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
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“Halfway to Heaven: Changes in Island Women’s Lives A Continuing Exploration” lecture + presentation, The Irish Scholars Roundtable Lecture Series, Columbia University, New York, NY
1998
“Halfway to Heaven: Changes in Island Women’s Lives, ”lecture + presentation, American/Canadian Irish Studies (A.C.I.S.) Joint Conference, Queens University, Belfast, Northern Ireland 
1995
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS & SCHOLARSHIPS
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Adjunct Associate Professor of Art, Foundation Department                 
Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
Current (2015)
Visiting Artist, Dept. of Architecture, The Cooper Union, NY, NY
2018
Visiting Artist, Dept. of Art and Art History, Swarthmore College Swarthmore, PA 
2014
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Art, Dept of Fine Arts                            
Kingsborough Community College (C.U.N.Y.)
2014
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Art, Dept of Fine Arts and Art History        
Dowling College, Oakdale, NY
2010-2014
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Art, Foundation & Photography Dept
​Parsons School of Design, New York, NY
1993-1999
Visiting Instructor, Foundation Department, Brooklyn, NY
1995-1995



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