Education
1999 Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR
1986 B.A., Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY
1984 Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
Solo Exhibitions
2021 Where We Meet Ourselves, Yi Gallery, Industry City, Brooklyn, NY
2018 Brattleboro Museum, Brattleboro, VT
2016 HUE[S]PACE, Odetta, Brooklyn, NY
2016 LAND, AIR, PLACE, Project, NY, NY
2016 LANDSCAPE AS TIME, 57 W 57th Arts, NY, NY
2016 FICTION (WITH ONLY DAYLIGHT BETWEEN US), traveling: Dayton, OH; Heidelberg, Germany; Angelika Studios, High Wycombe, UK; Elgin Community College, Chicago, IL; ODETTA, Brooklyn, NY
2013 MAT/tam, Palazzo Costa, Mantova, Italy, curated by Lucio Pozzi
2012 DESIRE LINES, Blank Space Art, NY, NY
2009 BALANCING ACT, Blank Space, NY, NY
2008 BOUNDARY, eo Art Lab, Chester, CT
2007 OPENING TO PERCEPTION, Franklin 54, New York, NY
Group Exhibitions
2021 EMBODY, Ely Center of Contemporary Art, New Haven, CT
2021 (DE)CODING, Visual Arts Center of NJ, Summit, NJ
2020 LIMINAL SPACE, Karen Imperial Fine Art, Palo Alto, CA
2019 A CLEARING: NEW WORK BY SHARON BRANT & DEBRA RAMSAY, KeyProjects Art Space, Long Island City, NY
2018 BLACK BOX, Saarlandisches Künstlerhaus, Saarbrücken, DE
2018 EXQUISITE PALETTE, Tacit Galleries, Melbourne, AU
2018 REDUCTIVE NON OBJECTIVE, Philadelphia, PA
2017 CHROMOTOPIA, Tacit Galleries, Melbourne, AU
2017 EXTENDED PROCESS, Saturation Point Projects, Deptford, UK
2017 RE-INSTITUTE, Millerton, NY
2017 THREE SHELF REDDER, 325 Space, Ridgewood, Queens
2017 OPPLER, Transmitter, Brooklyn, NY
2016 LAND, AIR, SPACE, ProjectARTspace, NY, NY
2016 57 W 57th Arts, NY, NY
2015 VOLUME 2 BLACK & WHITE, Schema Projects, Brooklyn, NY
2015 ABSTRACTION, Art Garage, Cheshire, CT
2015 ALEX PAIK & DEBRA RAMSAY, Tiger Strikes Asteroid Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2015 TERRITORY OF ABSTRACTION, Pentimenti Gallery, PA
2015 MATERIAL ATTRACTION, NYIT School of Architecture and Design, New York, NY
2014 LANDSCAPE AS TIME, Hansel & Gretel Picture Garden/Pocket Utopia, NY, NY
2014 THE BRUCENNIAL, The Bruce High Quality Foundation, NY, NY
2014 MADE IN PAINT, Golden Foundation, New Berlin, NY
2014 DOPPLER SHIFT, Visual Arts Center of NJ, Summit, NJ
2013 SESSION ONE, Pocket Utopia Gallery, NY, NY, curated by Austin Thomas
2013 RITUALS OF EXHIBITION II, H Gallery, Chiang Mai, Thailand
2013 DOPPLER STOP, Parallel Art Space, Brooklyn, NY
2013 DUAL ZONES, Key Projects Art Space, New York, NY
2013 ANONYMOUS DRAWINGS 2013, Galerie Nord/Kunstverein Tiergarten, Berlin, Germany
2013 RITUALS OF EXHIBITION, Phayao, Thailand, curated by Giles Ryder and Gilbert Hsiao
2012 ENCAUSTIC WORKS BIENNIAL ’12, The Gallery at R & F, Kingston, NY
2012 TEMPORARY ART MANTO, curated/organized by Lucio Pozzi and Annarosa Buttarelli, Italy
2012 MAKING ROOM, Institute Library, New Haven, CT
2012 DOPPLER STOP, traveling group show: Rotterdam, Amsterdam, Berlin, Zagreb, Grimshaw-Gudewicz Art Gallery, Jackson Arts Center, Fall River, MA
2012 TEXTILITY, Visual Arts Center of NJ, Summit, NJ
2011 VISUAL PHRASING, Maloney Art Gallery, College of Saint Elizabeth, Morristown, NJ
2011 AN EXCHANGE WITH SOL LEWITT, Mass MoCA, North Adams, MA
2010 ILLUSIVE BALANCE: TRANSCENDENTAL PATTERN AND LAYERED SURFACE, Mabel Smith Douglass Library at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
2010 ENCAUSTIC INVITATIONAL, Westchester Community College Center for the Arts, White Plains, NY
2009 32nd SMALL WORKS, NYU Washington Square East Gallery, Daniel Ferris, Juror, NY
2009 IN THE MIDDLE, eo Art Lab, Chester, CT
2009 Metaphor Contemporary, Brooklyn, NY
2008 SMALL PACKAGES 14, Cumberland Gallery, Nashville, TN
2008 GROUP EXPERIMENT, eo Art Lab, Chester, CT
2008 CALCULATING ART: MATHEMATICS IN THE VISUAL FIELD, Maloney Gallery, College of St. Elizabeth, Morristown, NJ, Virginia Butera, PhD curator
2007 12 x 12, Conrad Wilde Gallery, Tucson, AZ
2007 Cumberland Gallery, Nashville, TN
2007 MOSTLY WHITE, Franklin 54 Gallery, NY, NY
2007 FROM MINIMUM TO MAXIMUM, Lascano Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
2007 NATIONAL ENCAUSTIC CONFERENCE, Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA
2007 2ND ANNUAL ENCAUSTIC INVITATIONAL, Conrad Wilde Gallery, Tucson, AZ
2006 Lascano Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
2005 Incognito, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA
2005 Franklin 54 Gallery, NY, NY
2005 Rochford & Messick Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM
2005 Haddad Lascano Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
2005 Guild Hall Members Exhibition, East Hampton, NY
2005 Sara Nightingale Gallery, Water Mill, NY
2005 Group Show, Hudson Opera House, Hudson, NY
2004 Haddad Lascano Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
2004 Looking In Looking Out, Paul Mellon Arts Center, Wallingford, CT
2004 Abstraction, Graphics Gallery, NY, NY
2002 Catcalls, NYC Urban Experience Museum, NY, NY
2000 George Waters Gallery, Elmira College, Elmira, NY
2000 Corvallis Arts Center, Corvallis, OR
1998 Sitka Invitational, Portland, OR
1998 Regional Invitational, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR
1997 Landscape Invitational, Sunbird Gallery, Bend, OR
1996 16th Annual Northwest International, Whatcom Museum, Bellingham, WA
1995 Of the Nature of Water, Corvallis Arts Center, Corvallis, OR
1994 All Oregon Art Annual, Oregon State Fair, Salem, OR
1994 Love and the Body Politic, Women’s Caucus for Art, Beaverton, OR
1993 Celebrating the Instinctual Self, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR
1993 Issues of Color and Gender, Tarleton State University, Stephenville, TX
1992 Depth and Diversity in Recent American Art, Bemus Point, NY
1992 Newport Visual Arts Center, Newport, OR
Residencies
2016 Albers Foundation Residency, Bethany, CT
2013 Golden Family Foundation, New Berlin, NY
2012 BAU Institute, Otranto, Italy
Selected Collections
Golden Foundation, New Berlin, NY
Ritz-Carlton, Dubai
Alliance Bernstein, New York, NY
Queens Hospital Center, Queens, NY
9/11 Memorial Museum, New York, NY
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