CHERYL M. GROSS

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Brooklyn, N.Y.,  Jersey City, N.J., 07304

 

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

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PRATT INSTITUTE, Brooklyn, NY

Adjunct Professor with C.C.E., Communications Design Department, Undergraduate Department

School of Design, 1996 - Present.

• Teach drawing, traditional & digital illustration, mixed media, and painting.

• Develop new courses and course sections such as New Directions in Illustration.

• Serve on the Faculty Peer Committee that oversees promotions within the department.

• Conduct annual portfolio reviews of incoming freshmen.

• Treasurer of the Academic Senate.

• Chair of the Academic Concerns and Support Committee

• Committee of Academic Standards for the School of Art and Design.

Foundation Instructor , Department of Professional Studies' Pre-College program, 1998 -Present.

•   Teach drawing, digital illustration, painting, 3-D, and portfolio development

•   Develop new courses, such as Digital Illustration, Portfolio & Online Portfolio.

•   Supervise graduate assistants.

 

Bloomfield College, Bloomfield, NJ

• Motion Graphics

• Computer Imaging

• Drawing

• Art of the Sketchbook, Zine Culture, tangible and virtual

• Capstone Advisor

 

EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENCE

 

PRATT INSTITUTE, Brooklyn, NY,

M.F.A. in New Forms, Department of Fine Art with Distinction, (GPA: 3.885

PRATT INSTITUTE, Brooklyn, NY, 1995

B.F.A. in Communications Design , (GPA: 3.95)

•   Twice Awarded "Highest Honors Pratt Circle Award for Outstanding Academic Achievement" and "Outstanding Merit Award in Illustration."

 

UNITED DIGITAL ARTISTS, New York City, 1998-1999

•   Completed numerous workshops on all aspects of the Adobe suite of software programs including Adobe Photoshop & Illustrator.

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ARTS STUDENTS LEAGUE, New York, New York, 1976-77

•   Studied painting, portraiture, and life drawing.

SCHOOL OF VISUAL ARTS, New York, New York, 1971-72

•  Completed Foundation courses.

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

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2023-Commit to Memory: The Precipice of Extinction, Louis L. Redding Gallery, Wilmington, Delaware

2023- BoxingBabes & Cowgirls, Curated by Midori Yoshimoto, Harold B. Lemmerman Gallery, New Jersey City University, Jersey City, NJ

2022- Commit to Memory: The Precipice of Extinction, Curated by Guy-Serge Emmanuel Dobbs Hall, University of New Haven, New Haven, Ct.

2015 Minerva Gallery, Asheville, N.C,

2009 Arts Council of Princeton Gallery, Princeton, NJ

2003 LunarBase Gallery, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY

2001 LunarBase Gallery, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY

1999 Cooper Gallery, Jersey City, NJ

1996 Windows On Flatbush, Brooklyn, NY

1989 B-1 Gallery, Santa Monica, Ca.

1989 Bratton Gallery, East Village, NYC

1998 Chiaroscuro Gallery, Chicago, Ill

 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

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2024-Exploring Our Connections, Montclair Museum, Montclair, NJ

2024-Newark Arts Festival, Newark, NJ

2024-Home Is Where The Heart Is, Art House Productions, Jersey City, NJ

2024-BUYART: within reach, Tanya Weddemire Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2024-Portrait Show, Halsey Gallery, Newark, NJ

2024-Infancia, Curated By Amelia Shields, MANA Contemporary, Jersey City, NJ

2024-Art on Paper Show, MK Apothecary Gallery, Collinswood, NJ

2023-Monmouth Museum, Lincroft, NJ

2023-Menagerie, Curated by Kristine Go, MK Apothecary Gallery, Collinswood, NJ

2023-The Flag Project, Rockefeller Center, New York, NY

2022-Resilient 11, Curated by Ivy Brown, Jersey City, NJ

2022-Curators Choice 2022, Jersey City, NJ

2022-Black & White to Magnificent Color!, Curated by Alpana Mittal, Watchung Arts Center, Watchung, NJ

2022-Through the Clouds, Curated by Catalina Aranguren, Mary Waltham, Sonya Lee, On-line

2022-Exquisit Corpse Group Show, Nimbus Art Center at the Lively/The Firmament Gallery, Jersey City, NJ

2021-Art Fair 14c, Jersey City, New Jersey

2021- Night Visions, Curated by Patchogue Arts Council. Museum of Contemporary Art L.I.

2021-Renaissance Art House Productions, Jersey City, NJ

2021-RETURN! 150 Bay, Jersey City, NJ, Donna Kessinger Curator

2021-Precarious Joys, Outlander Gallery, Jersey City, NJ

2021-Shim Art Network (Artsy)

2021-JOY!! On-line Exhibition, Christy E. O’Connor, Curator, Art Hustle

2021-The Village Voice, Dominion, https://www.villagevoice.com/2021/04/26/arts-dominion/

2021-Empowering, Juried Show, Jersey City, NJ, Curated by Danielle Scott

2020-43rd Annual Juried Show, Monmouth Museum, Jersey City, NJ, Curated by Christy E. O'Connor and Campbell Grade

2020-Jerseyscapes 111, Jersey City, NJ, Curated by Kristen DeAngelis

2020-Serious Whimsey, St. Peters University, Jersey City, NJ, Curated by Beatrice Mady

2020-Zebra Poetry Film Festival, Berlin Germany

2020-VideoBardo International Festival of Video Poetry

2020-CADAF On-Line Festival, 2020

2020-After The Pandemic, Artifact Gallery, NYC Curated by Serge Gregorian

2020-Candence Video Poetry Festival 2020

2020-Commit to Memory: The Precipice of Extinction, Two Person Show, Eonta Space, Jersey City, NJ

2020-Save Art Space, Los Angeles, Ca Curator: Patrick Day

2020-Glimpse The Sketchbook Show, Aferro Gallery, Newark, NJ

2020-Red, Novado Gallery, Jersey City, NJ

2019-The Big Show-All Animals Welcome, Drawing Rooms, Jersey City, NJ

2019-Revisiting Jerseyscapes, NJCU, Jersey City, NJ, Curated by Midori Yoshimoto, P.H.D.

2019-Art Fair Jersey City, NJ

2019-Wherefore Art Thou Show, West Village Gallery, Jersey City, NJ

2019-ESKFF Show, Art House Productions, Jersey City, NJ

2019-Art House Productions, Jersey City, NJ

2019-Deep Space, Jersey City, NJ

2018-Animal Instinct, One Art Space, Curators: ArtDogNYC, Mother Pigeon Public Space, New York, NY

 

2017 A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY,

2017 Debtfair, Whitney Biennial,

2017 SUPERWOMAN! 107 Bowers Gallery, Jersey City, NJ

2017 Emerge Gallery, Saugerties, NY

2016 POL!T!CO: Art & The Humanities, SOPAC, NJ

2015 Drawing Rooms, Jersey City Studio Tour, Jersey City, NJ

2015 2 Person Show, Artist-In-Residency, Kommandantenhaus, Dilsberg, Germany

2013 Drawing Rooms, Jersey City Studio Tour, Jersey City, NJ

2013 Minerva Gallery, Asheville, N.C

2012 Saarlandische Gallery (Virtual Boarders), Berlin, Germany

2012 Virtual Boarders, Heidelberg, Germany

2012 White Box Gallery, Tribute To Ai WeiWei, NYC

2011 Chelsea Art Museum, Occupy Wall Street, NYC

2011 Museum Of broken Relationships, London Exhibition, Zagreb, Croatia

2011 Poets House, NYC

2011 Minerva Gallery, Asheville, North Carolina

2011 Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn, NY

2009 August Art, London

2008 "Snap to Grid," Los Angeles Center for Digital Art (LACDA)

2008 "It's Not Easy," Exit Art, NYC

2008 Princeton Council for the Arts, Faculty Show, Princeton NJ

2007 Eclectic Gad, L-2 Kontemporary, Los Angeles, CA

2006 What Have You Got To Say? Mana Fine Arts, Jersey City, NJ

2006 "Draw_ drawing_2," The Foundry Gallery, London Biennale

2004 "Art-Novo Sibirrsk," Collaboration with Anaximander, Novosibirsk Art Museum, Siberia

2003 "The Red Show," Cheryl Hazen Gallery, New York, NY

2002 LunarBase Gallery, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY

2002 "Prevailing the Human Spirit," Society of Illustrators, Traveling Group Exhibition, New York, NY

2001 LunarBase Gallery, Brooklyn NY

2000 Art of the Century, Museum of the City of New York, New York, NY

1999 Museum of the City of New York, Recent Acquisitions, New York, NY

1999 Assemblage Show, Cooper Gallery, Jersey City, NJ.

1998 Cooper Gallery, 2-person show, Jersey City, NJ

1992 Riverside Museum, Riverside, CA

1992 ABC NO RIO, New York, NY

1989 City of Brea Gallery, Brea, CA

1988 Laforet Harajuku Museum, Tokyo, Japan

1985 The New Museum, Small Works, New York, NY

1983, 1984, 1985, and 1985 The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY. Four juried shows:

1984 Visual Arts Museum, New York, NY

1985 Brooklyn Arts & Cultural Association, Brooklyn, NY

 

FREELANCE ILLUSTRATION WORK

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2021- Oyedrum, Volume 4, On-line Feminist Platform; Broadsided Press; Tub The Movie; Hadassah Magazine; American Theater Magazine; A&E Television; American Express; Goldman Sachs; Bureau for At-Risk Youth; Crown Publishing; Gianettion & Meredith; Gralla Publications; Harper & Case; Life Magazine; NBC TV; Middleberg-Middleton; Paramount Pictures; Random House; Sony Classical Records; Stein & Day Publishing; USA Today; Woody Allen's Zelig; Young & Rubican; Grey Advertising; Baldwin Park Latino Festival, 2007; Elmore Magazine; Discover Magazine; The Whale Sound; A cappella Zoo; Dinosaur Bees; Muzzle Magazine; Talkingwriting.com; The Mom Egg; Contrary Magazine, Blog Section; Fringe magazine; Lowbrow Press; CynicalTimes.Org; Ares Management (PSSI Account); Pedestal Magazine; The Fluid Raven; ArtsDistrict Florida; Glint Literary Journal; Business Bear Press; The Village Voice, Art's Dominion, R.C. Baker

 

BOOKS PUBLISHED

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2018- Elephants, collaboration with Nicelle Davis, Business Bear Press

2015- In The Circus of You, collaboration with Nicelle Davis, Rose Metal Press

2014- The Z Factor

2014- Drawings From The Z Factor, Victory Hall Press

2013- Becoming Judas, Red Hen Press

2011- Circe, author Nicelle Davis, Lowbrow Press

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RESIDENCIES

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2022-JCMAP Residency Award, Dept. of Cultural Affairs, Jersey City, NJ

2018- 2020-ESKFF, Eileen Kaminsky Family Foundation, MANA Contemporary, Jersey City, Four time recipient

2015- Artist-In-Residency Program, Rhein-Neckar-Kreis, Dilsberg, Germany

1997- Artist-In-Residency, Kunstlerhaus, Saarbruken, Germany

 

ANIMATON /MOTION GRAPHICS /FESTIVALS

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2020 Zebra Poetry Video Film Festival, Berlin, Germany

2020 Cadence Poetry Film Festival, Seattle, Washington

2018 +The Institute (for Experimental Arts), Athens, Greece

2017 Like Festival Of Contemporary Literature, Kosice, Slovakia

2017 Festival Silêncio, Lisbon, Portugal

2017 JUTEBACK Poetry Film Festival

2016 Zebra Poetry Film Festival, Münster, Germany

2015 Ó Bhéal Poetry Film Festival, Competition Winner, Cork, Ireland

2015 Open Air Short Film Festival, Dot Dot Dot, Vienna, Austria

2015 Cooler Lumpur 2015, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

2015 Stadthaus Poetry Fesitval, Münster, Germany

2015 Freies (Free) Museum, Berlin, Germany

2015 International Poetry film festival, Oslo, Norway

2104 Cyclop Video Poetry Festival, Kyiv, Ukraine

2014 Tarp Festival, Vilnius, Lithuania

2014 Ó Bhéal Poetry Film Competition, Cork, Ireland

2014 Zebra Poetry Film Festival, Berlin, Germany

2014 VideoBardo, International Videopoem Festival, Buenos Aires, Argentina

2014 Poetry Felix Festival/Filmpoem, Antwerp, Belgium

2014 Poesiefestival, Berlin, Germany

2014 ReVersed Poetry Film Festival, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

2013 Ó Bhéal International Poetry-Film Festival, Cork, Ireland

2013 The Body Electric Poetry Film Festival, Fort Collins, Colorado

2013 Filmpoem, Dunbar, Scotland,

2012 International Short film Festival Berlin, Berlin, Germany

2012 Zebra Poetry Film Festival,  Berlin, Germany

2011 35th International San Francisco LGBT Film Festival

2011 Oasis Independent Movie Night, Lancaster, Ca

2009 Salon, Asheville, North Carolina

2007 Television: "Digital Shorts," Time Warner Cable

2006 CAF Film Festival: Jersey City Council for the Arts, Jersey City, NJ

2006 Hell On Reels, Astoria, NY

2006 The Tank, TriBeCa, NYC

2007 Tampa University Film Fest

2006 Mana Fine Arts, NJ

2006 Vidiotoc Viral Video Festival, Toronto, Canada

 

COLLECTIONS

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Hoboken Historical Museum 

Eileen Kaminsky Family Foundation

Leslie Lohman Museum Of Gay And Lesbian Art

Rhein-Neckar-Kreis, Heidelberg, Germany

IWA, Institute For Women And Art Directory, Rutgers University, NJ

Poets House, New York, New York

Museum of Broken Relationships, Zagreb, Croatia

Atlantic Richfield Corporation

Riverside Museum

The Museum of The City of New York

Mississippi Museum of Art

Independence Savings Bank

NASDAQ

Prime Time Magazine

Capital Records

American Kennel Club

Amy Mandel / The Mandel Foundation

Angus Vail

Katina Rodis

 

AWARDS & RECOGNITION

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2022-JCAC Individual Artist Fellowship, Jersey City, NJ

2019 Faculty Development Fund Full Recipient, Pratt Institute

2015 Ó Bhéal Poetry Film Competition, Competition Winner,

Cork, Ireland,

2015 Honorable Mention Neutral Density Photography Award,

2014 Finalist Elizabeth Hulings Foundation,

2012 Recipient Faculty Development Grant, Pratt Institute,

1998 100 New York Painters, Schiffler Publishing

2002 DOGNY (Dog New York), Sponsored by the American Kennel Club. Winner of two stipends & work auctioned at Sotheby's,

1998 New American Paintings, Mid-Atlantic Edition,

1991 Department of Health & Cultural Affairs, NYC, Anti-Smoking Campaign,

 

REVIEWS

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Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung, 2 articles; The New York Times: Arts & Leisure, Circuits Sections; Village Voice; Details Magazine; SOHO Weekly News; The Phoenix Art Scene; California Gallery Guide; Art News; San Diego Arts; Florida Times Herald; Newsday; Jersey Journal; NJ Savvy Living; Hudson Current; Saarbruken Zeitung; NJ Journal; A cappella Zoo; New York Quarterly; The Pedestal Magazine; Dilberg Presse;   Moving Poems; Connotation Press; Atticus Review; Portland Book Review; Chicago Book Review; LockEight; Goodreads; Portland Book Review; Chicago Book Review: Today's Book Review; The Collagist; Largehearted Boy; The Los Angeles Review; Ghost Ocean Magazine; DecomP Literary Magazine; Glint Magazine; Boston Review; NJ.Com; Jersey City Times, Tris McCall; Everything Jersey City, Colleen Morrison; The Jersey Journal, David Mosca; Jersey City Times, Exquisite Corpse Show, Tris McCall; Black & White to Magnificent Color!, Watchung Arts Center, Watchung, NJ, Curated by Alpana Mittal, Review Tris McCall; Drama, Anxiety and Beauty at Art Fair 14c, Tris McCall, Jersey Journal; CanvasRebel.com; NJARTS, Portrait Show, Tris McCall