Education
MFA Painting, Queens College of The City University of New York
BA cum laude Art, The State University of New York at Albany
Individual Exhibitions
2018 Translucence, Gallery 72, Office of Cultural Affairs, City of Atlanta, GA
2015 Honeycomb, LaGrange Museum of Art, LaGrange, GA
2015 Upended, Neuer Worpsweder Kunstverein, Worpswede, Germany
2012 Emergency Orange, M55 Art, LIC, NY
2012 Under and Over, BOA gallery Atlanta, GA
2009 Everything is Optional, Whitespace, Atlanta, GA
2006 Circling. Centre for Recent Drawing, London, UK
2006 Red Eye Love, Plus Gallery, Denver CO
2006 Notes to Self, Ferst Center for the Arts, GA Tech, Atlanta GA
2005 It’s All In My Head, Hartsfield- Jackson International Airport, Atlanta GA
2005 Up to My Eyeballs Ty Stokes Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2004 Gestures, Antalya Cultur Centre, Antalya. Turkey
2004 New Work, Ty Stokes Gallery, Atlanta. GA
2003 New Work, Saltworks Gallery,Atlanta, GA
2002 The Arrangement of Things, Coach Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2001 Punto di Fuga [Vanishing Point], Universita Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Venice,
2000 After Painting, Laredo Center for the Arts, Laredo, TX
1999 Retracings, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
1999 Retracing Retracing , Resource Forum, Atlanta, GA
1999 Into the Blue, Solomon Projects, Atlanta, GA
1998 In Retrospect: Paintings From the Last Decade, Buckhead Plaza, Atlanta
1996 Quaternity, Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA
1995 Forecasts, Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Cheekwood Fine Arts Center, Nashville, TN
Hudgins Center, Duluth, GA
1994 Between Heaven and Earth, The Autrey Mill Project, Alpharetta, GA.
1993 Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, GA
1989 Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA
1988 Art Institute of Pittsburgh, PA
1987 Omni Gallery, Atlanta , GA
1987 Berry College, Rome, GA
1986 Philip Morris Gallery, Richmond, VA
1986 Catholic University, Washington, D.C.
1986 Double Gallery, Norfolk, VA
1985 Sarah Y. Rentschler Gallery, New York City
1985 Long Island University Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
1983 Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, NY
1993 The Johnson Factory, Johnson City, NY
1982 Smedley’s Gallery, Ithaca, NY
1981 Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Group Exhibitions
2017 Group Show, Ille Arts, Amagansett, New York
2017 Unanswered Letter with Lenka Clayton, Fabric Workshop And Museum, Philadelphia, PA
2016 Painting Symposium, Mark Rothko Centre, Daugavpils, Latvia
2016 Academy/Academia Marietta Cobb Museum of Art, Marietta, GA
2015 Rooted, Many Cantor Center, New York City, NY
2015 Selections from the Permanent Collection, MOCA GA, Atlanta, GA
2014 The New Museum, New York, NY. Draftsmen’s Congress. with Pawel Althamer
2013 kleineaberKunst, Neuer Worpsweder Kunstverein, Worpswede, Germany
2012 Billboard Project, Atlanta, GA
2011 C-Flow, Elevate Atlanta, Office of Cultural Affairs, Atlanta, GA
2011 Flux Projects, Atlanta, GA
2010 5 +15 + 5, Ateilerhaus Bahnhof Sagehorn, Oyten, Germany
2010 From Padies, Galerie 22, Toulouse, France
2009 Majestic Sunrise, The Rialto ,Atlanta, GA
2007 Genius Loci, Soranzo Cappello Palace, Venice, Italy
2007 Viva Frieda, Whitespace Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2007 Drawings, City Gallery East , Atlanta, GA
2006 Color, Space 301 , Mobile, Alabama
2005 Drawing Conclusions, Rialto curated by Karen Comer Lowe , Atlanta
2004 Shenzhen Biennial, Guan Shanyue Art Museum, PR China
2004 Multiple Views, Madelyn Jordan Fine Arts, Scarsdale , NY
2002 Shenzhen Biennial, Guan Shanyue Art Museum, PR China
2002 Kunsthaus Invitational, Heidenheim, Germany
2001 New Orleans Triennial,Installation, New Orleans Museum of Art, LA
2000 Collaborating Couples, Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, GA
1997 Tragic Wake: The Legacy of Slavery and the African Diaspora in Contemporary American Art, Spirit Square, Charlotte, NC
1996 Grace and Violence, Olympic Village, Atlanta, GA
1996 Gone With the Wind, Taboo, Chastain Gallery , City of Atlanta
1994 Kay Garvey Gallery, Chicago, IL
1994 Martha Keats Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
1993 GreenSpace, Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA;
1992 Atlanta Biennial, Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta,
1988 Bowery Gallery, New York City
1987 Vistas:The Panoramic Landscape, GW Einstein Gallery, NYC, NY
1987 Landscape, 22 Wooster Street, New York City
1986 New York Artists Reynolds/Minor Gallery, Richmond, VA
1986 Peninsula Fine Arts Center, Newport News, VA (two-person)
1984 New Scapes: Land and City/States of Mind, One Penn Plaza, NYC
1980 Goldwin Ternback Museum, Flushing, Queens, NY
Book
2013 She’s Got What It Takes: American Women Artists in Dialogue.
Published by Charta Art Books, Milan, Italy.
Journal
2018 Deanna Sirlin: New Collages in Black Renaissance/Renaissance Noire published by the
Institute of African American Affairs at New York University, New York, NY
Collaborative Projects
Lenka Clayton, Unanswered Letter, Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA 2017
Vinnie Murphy, The Vincent Project, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 1991
Chris Kraus, Readings From The Diaries of Hugo Ball ,St Marks Poetry Project , NYC, NY 1983
Ronald Tavel set design and installation “The Understudy” Cornell University Ithaca, NY 1980
Grants And Honors
2017 Individual Artist Grant, Fulton County Arts Council, Georgia
2016 State Department Grant, United States of America
2016 Rothko Foundation International Painting Symposium Artist in Residence
2012 Mini-Grant, City of Milton, GA to make art with the community
2010 Creative Capital Warhol Foundation Award for Art Writing Mentor
Program working with Hayden Herrera
2009 Artist in Residence, Padies Chateau, Lempaut , France
2008 Futlon County Arts Council, Small And Emerging Arts Organizations Grant
2002 Artist in Residence, Nuremberg, Germany
2002 Artist in Residence ,Kunsthaus Project- Heidenheim, Germany
2002 Artist in Communities Grant, Fulton County Arts Council, Atlanta
1994 Individual Artist Grant, Georgia Council for the Arts
1992 Artist Project Grant, BCA, City of Atlanta
1987 Artists’ Space Grant, New York City
1983 Yaddo Foundation, Saratoga Springs, NY
Selected Collections
Mark Rothko Centre, Daugavpils, Latvia
Shenzhen Insitute of Fine Arts, Shenzhen, PR China
Universita Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Venice, Italy
Kunsthaus Nu?rnberg,Nu?rnberg ,Germany
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
Museum of Contemporary Art Georgia, Atlanta, GA
Macon Museum of Arts and Sciences, Macon, G
Atlanta Gas Light, Atlanta, GA
Georgia Pacific, Atlanta, GA
United Airlines, Dulles Airport, Washington, D.C.
General Electric, Atlanta, GA
CSX Corporation, Richmond, VA
Southern Progressive, Birmingham, AL
THW and Associates, San Diego, CA
Penny McCall Foundation, New York, NY
McKinsey and Co., Atlanta, GA
Egleston Hospital, Atlanta, GA
Citihome Developers, Atlanta, GA
Trouttman-Sanders, Atlanta, GA
Childress Klein, Atlanta, GA
Hewitt and Associates, Atlanta, GA
Larson-Juhl, Atlanta, GA
Colorchrome, Atlanta,GA
Casas, Benjamin, and White LLC Atlanta, GA
Wells Corporation, Minneapolis, MN
Georgia Power, Atlanta, GA
Hartsfield Jackson International Airport, Atlanta, GA
Herman Miller, Atlanta, GA
Pope and Land, Atlanta, GA
Cousins Properties, Atlanta, GA
