RONA PONDICK
BIOGRAPHY
RONA PONDICK (b. 1952, Brooklyn, NY) studied at Yale University School of Art and received her MFA in 1977. She lives and works in New York City. Since 1984, she has had over 45 solo exhibitions of her work in museums and galleries internationally, including Galleria d’Arte Moderna Bologna, Italy; Groninger Museum, Groningen, Netherlands; Rupertinum Museum für moderne und zeitgenössische Kunst, Salbzburg, Austria; Cleveland Art Museum; Cincinnati Art Museum; Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts; DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park Lincoln, Massachusetts; Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan; and the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, among others.
Her sculptures have been included in over 200 group exhibitions, including numerous biennials worldwide: the Whitney Biennial, Lyon Biennale, Johannesburg Biennale, Sonsbeek, and Venice Biennale. Her work is in the collections of many institutions worldwide including the Whitney Museum of American Art (New York, NY); Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, CT); The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, NY); The Morgan Library & Museum (New York, NY); Brooklyn Museum of Art (Brooklyn, NY), Philadelphia Museum of Art (Philadelphia, PA), Los Angeles County Museum of Modern Art (Los Angeles, CA); Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles, CA); Nasher Sculpture Center (Dallas, TX); San Francisco Museum of Art (San Francisco, CA); New Orleans Museum of Art Sculpture Garden (New Orleans, LA); Toledo Museum of Art (Toledo, OH); The Nelson-Atkins Museum (Kansas City, MO); Carnegie Museum of Art (Pittsburgh, PA); Fondation pour l’art Contemporain Claudine et Jean-Marc Salomon (Annecy, France); Ursula Blickle Stiftung (Kraichtal, Germany); Centre Pompidou (Paris, France); and The Israel Museum (Jerusalem, Israel).
Rona Pondick has received numerous awards and grants, including Anonymous Was A Woman, the Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship, Guggenheim Fellowship, Cultural Department of the City of Salzburg, Kunstlerhaus, Bogliasco Foundation Fellowship, Mid-Atlantic Arts Grant, and others.
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