COLEEN STERRITT
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Lives and works in Los Angeles

EDUCATION
1979 M.F.A., Sculpture, Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles, CA
1976 B.F.A., Sculpture, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, IL

AWARDS
2006-07 Artist Fellowship, City of Los Angeles (C.O.L.A.), Sculpture
1996 Artist Fellowship, J. Paul Getty Trust Fund for the Visual Arts, Sculpture
1994 Artist Fellowship, Art Matters Inc., New York
1994 Artist-in-Residence, Roswell Museum, Roswell, NM
1986 Artist Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts, Sculpture

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2006 Recent Work, d.e.n. contemporary art, Culver City, CA
Stuck to the World, Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA
2002 Squeezebox, 2900 D, Santa Monica, CA
1996 LASCA Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1996 Up, The Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA
1990 California State University, Los Angeles, Fine Arts Gallery
1988 The King & I, Santa Monica City College, Santa Monica, CA
1987 Pepperdine University, Seaver College Art Gallery, Malibu, CA
1986 Karl Bornstein Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1984 Karl Bornstein Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1983 Mark Quint Gallery, San Diego, CA
1982 Ulrike Kantor Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1981 Mark Quint Gallery, San Diego, CA

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2008 RIPE, d.e.n. contemporary art, Culver City, CA
Sum of Parts, dba256, Pomona, CA
LA-A Survey of Art from Los Angeles, curated by Cathy and David Stone, Center for Contemporary Art, Sacramento, CA
2007 Themes and Variations, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA
C.O.L.A., Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery at Barnsdall Park, Los Angeles, CA
P. Suasion, Warschaw Gallery, San Pedro, CA
2006 Draw, Paper, Scissors, domestic setting, Los Angeles, CA
Otis: Nine Decades of Los Angeles Art, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery
at Barnsdall Park, Los Angeles, CA
2005 Group, Carl Berg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2004 Mark Making, Schneider Museum of Art, So. Oregon University,
Ashland, OR
2002 Recent Sculpture: Marvell, Sterritt, Walker, L.A. Artcore, Los Angeles, CA
Curio, Andrew-Shire Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Emergent Behavior, Brewery Project, Los Angeles, CA
From Sculpture, Irvine Fine Arts Center, Irvine, CA
2001 epitome-n. Katy Crowe and Coleen Sterritt, Harbor College,
Los Angeles, CA
2000 The Group Show, Andrew-Shire Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Eccentric Visions, Hunsaker/Schlesinger Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1999 Drawing the Line, Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery, Scripps College,
Claremont, CA
The Last Spring, Dirt Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1998 Sculpture Project, College of Santa Fe, Santa Fe, New Mexico
L.A. New Art, University of Madrid, Sala de Bellas Artes, Madrid, Spain
1997 L.A. Art Now: Arte Actual de Los Angeles, Universidad Castilla-
La Mancha, Cuenca, Spain
Abstractionists: Katy Crowe and Coleen Sterritt, SITE, Los Angeles,CA
1996 The Empowered Object, Hunsacker/Schlesinger Gallery,
Santa Monica, CA
Drawn From L.A., Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
Living With Art, Andrew Shire Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Sexy: Sensual Abstraction in California, 1950’s-1990’s, Armory Center for
the Arts, Pasadena, CA - traveling exhibition
The Cup and the Teapot: The Extraordinary Diversity of a Simple Form,
The Clark Humanities Museum, Scripps College, Claremont, CA
1995 L.A. Abstracts: Drawings, Schick Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga
Springs, New York
Sexy: Sensual Abstraction in California, 1950’s-1990’s, Contemporary
Artists Collective/Temporary Contemporary, Las Vegas, NV
1994 Five Artists: Work in Progress, Roswell Museum, Roswell, NM
1991 Selections from the Permanent Collection: 1975-91, Museum of
Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
1990 Natural Forces in Los Angeles Sculpture, Los Angeles Municipal Art
Galleries at Barnsdall Park, Los Angeles, CA
1989 Coates Collection, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
Experience-Reordered: L.A. Abstractionists, Allport Gallery, San Francisco CA
1988 Raw Grace, Art Gallery, Otis Art Institute of Parsons School of Design,
Los Angeles, CA
1987 On the Horizon: Emerging in California, Fresno Art Center and Museum,
Fresno, CA
1986 Recent Works: Five Artists, Guggenheim Gallery Chapman College, Orange, CA
1985 Off the Street, Old City Print Shop, Los Angeles, CA
An American Album, Focus International: American Women in Art,
United Nations World Conference on Women, Nairobi, Kenya
1984 A Broad Spectrum: Contemporary Los Angeles Painters and Sculptors,
Design Center of Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
Table Top Sculptures: Studies for Large Scale Works, Mattingly-Baker
Gallery, Dallas, TX
The Cotton Exchange Show, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE),
Critics Choice: Downtown Artists, curated by Joan Hugo, TransAmerica-
Occidental, Los Angeles, CA
1983 Downtown L.A.: Between the Freeways, Palm Springs Desert Museum,
Palm Springs, CA (National traveling exhibition)
Dealers’ Choice, Eaton/Shoen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Miles Above: 19 Return to Otis-Parsons, curated by Miles Forst, Otis Art
Institute of Parsons School of Design, Los Angeles, CA
Flatworks: Non-Three Dimensional Works by Sculptors, Washington Project
for the Arts (WPA), Washington, D.C.
1982 The New Art of Downtown Los Angeles, Illinois State University, Normal, IL; Madison Art Center, Madison WI (traveling)
Estuary Channel Sculpture Project, 12th International Sculpture Conference,
Oakland Museum, Oakand, CA
Small Scale Sculpture: David Bower and Coleen Sterritt, Fine Arts Gallery,
University of Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV
1981 Young Turks, Downtown Gallery/Ron Salgado Fine Arts, Los Angeles, CA
Gallery Artists, Ulrike Kantor Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Drawing: Personal Definitions, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA
Southern California Artists, curated by Barbara Haskell, Los Angeles Institute
of Contemporary Art (LAICA), Los Angeles, CA
1980 Sculpture: Proposals for Downtown Los Angeles, Kirk deGooyer Gallery,
Los Angeles, CA
Downtown L.A. in Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa
Barbara, CA
Installation, Downtown Window Site, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary
Art (LAICA), Los Angeles, CA
In-Sites, The Women’s Building, Los Angeles, CA
1979 Six Downtown Sculptors, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE),
Los Angeles, CA
Sculpture Invitational, Ralph M. Parsons Engineering Co., Pasadena, CA

EXHIBITION CATALOGS, BROCHURES, BOOKS
Ayres, Anne, "As the Clock Ticks,” Charting New Currents, Celebrating Ten Years of Grantmaking by the California Community Foundation, J.Paul Getty Trust Fund for the Visual Arts, 1998
Childs, Carrie,"Coleen Sterritt: Up," Claremont Graduate University, 1996
Couzens, Julia, “Stuck to the World,” Riverside Art Museum, 2006
FitzGibbon, John, "Sexy: Sensual Abstraction in California Art 1950's-1990’s,” Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA, 1996
Hugo, Joan, "Coleen Sterritt: Sculpture," Cal State University Los Angeles,’90
Krumpak, Tom, "Restless Voices: Abstraction from Los Angeles," Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY, 1995
Lillo, Jose Maria, "LA New Art / Arte Actual en Los Angeles,” Universidad Castilla-La Mancha, Cuenca, Spain, 1997
Rubinstein, Charlotte Streifer, American Women Sculptors: A History of Women Working in Three Dimension, G.K. Hall and Co., Boston, 1990

SELECTED REVIEWS/PUBLICATIONS
2007 Amter, Charlie. “Four over 40 on their favorite weekends,” Los Angeles Times, August 23
Mallinson, Constance, “Colleen Sterritt at D.E.N. Contemporary,” Art in America, March
Satorius, Katherine, “Coleen Sterritt at d.e.n. contemporary art,” Artweek, February
2006 Frank, Peter, “Art Pick,” L.A. Weekly, December
Continuing and Recommended, ArtScene, December
2000 Cooper, Jacqueline, “Report from the Trenches: Teaching Fine Art at the
Community College,” New Art Examiner, February
1998 Allen, Jane Ingram, “Inspiration and Renewal: Residencies for Sculptors,”
Sculpture, February
1996 Reed, Michal, “Coleen Sterritt at LASCA,” Artweek, December
1990 Frank, Peter, “Pick of the Week,” L.A. Weekly, October
1988 Donohue, Marlena, “Sculpture Taking Its Lyrical Ease Beyond Gender in
‘Raw Grace’,” L.A. Times, August
Frank, Peter, “Pick of the Week,” L.A. Weekly, August
Frank, Peter, “L.A. Art Seen,” L.A. Weekly, January
1986 Clothier, Peter, “ L.A. Art Seen,” L.A. Weekly, January
Gardner, Colin, “The Galleries,” L.A. Times, January
1984 Gardner, Colin, “Art Throughout the City: Coleen Sterritt,” L.A. Reader,Oct.
Hammond, Pamela, “Coleen Sterritt: New Expressionism,” Images & Issues, March-April
Pincus, Robert, “The Galleries,” L.A. Times, June
Wolf, Leslie, “L.A Art Seen,” L.A. Weekly, June
1983 Ballatore, Sandy, “ The Psychological Tightrope: 1982,” Images & Issues, January-February
Curtis, Cathy, “Up from the South,” Artweek, May
Lugo, Mark, “Nairobi 95: Sculpture by Coleen Sterritt,” San Diego Tribune, September
1982 Drohojowska, Hunter, “Pick of the Week,” L.A. Weekly, January
Drohojowska, Hunter, “Young Turks,” Art Forum, February
Hugo, Joan, “Ambiguous Presences,” Artweek, February
Wilson, William, “The Galleries,” L.A. Times, January
1981 Drohojowska, Hunter, “Urban Art,” L.A. Weekly, May
Drohojowska, Hunter, “Young Turks,” High Performance, Fall
Sutter, Esther, “Mammut, Eine USA Reise,” Kunst Bulletin, Switzerland,
Wilson, William, “Toward a Definition of Post-Modernism,” L.A. Times,
1980 Drohojowska, Hunter, “Pick of the Week,” L.A. Weekly, December
Knight, Christopher, “When Sculpture Goes Public,” Los Angeles Herald
Examiner, December
McCloud, Mac, “On Site,” Artweek, March
1979 Hugo, Joan, “Six Downtown Sculptors,” Artweek, April

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Capitol Group Companies, Los Angeles, New York, London
Carnation Company, Los Angeles
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Scripps College Collection, Claremont, CA

PROFESSIONAL AFFLIATIONS AND ACTIVITIES
"Point-of-view-Talk" Coleen Sterritt discusses the work of Tim Hawkinson, J. Paul Getty Museum, the Getty Center, April 2007
Artist Fellowship Jurist, J. Paul Getty Trust Fund for the Visual Arts, 1993
Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), Board of Directors 1986-92,
Chair 1991-92,Treasurer 1988-90
Performed in “Spalding Gray’s Map of L.A.”, a film by Bruce & Norman Yonemoto,1984
College Art Association
International Sculpture Center

LECTURES
Art Center College of Design
California State University, Fullerton
California State University, Long Beach
The Claremont Graduate University
Otis Art Institute
Pepperdine University
U.C.L.A.
University of Southern California

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
1996-present Long Beach City College, Professor (full-time 1998)
-Faculty Coordinator, Sculpture Program
1988-99 The Claremont Graduate University, Visiting Artist/ Adjunct Professor Painting, Drawing, Sculpture
-Sabbatical Replacement, Core Faculty, 1990-91, 1993-94
1994-98 College of the Canyons, Instructor, Beginning Painting & Drawing
1990 California State University, Long Beach, Collaborative Workshop: Dance
Majors /Art Majors, with Lucinda Childs, Margit Omar, Coleen Sterritt
1989 University of Southern California, Instructor, Inter-Dimensional Design
1987-93 Otis College of Art & Design, Instructor, Intermediate Sculpture
1987-88 Pepperdine University, Instructor, 2 & 3-D Design
1986-87 California State University, Fullerton, Distinguished Visiting Artist,
Drawing & Painting
1985-86 University of Southern California, Cont. Education, Beg. & Interm Drawing
1985 The Claremont Graduate School, Visiting Artist, Painting, Drawing, Sculpture
1983 The Claremont Graduate School, Sculpture Colloquium