Oona Stern

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the sound of grass growing; 2005
the sound of grass growing; 2005
In 2008, Ms Stern was awarded a Antarctic Artists' and Writers' Program residency by the National Science Foundation, and spent the beginning of 2009 studying ice on the Antarctic continent. She has received Pollock-Krasner grants in 1999 and 2002, a NYFA Fellowship in 2003, an Artists' Space Independent Project Grant in 2005, and Manhattan Community Arts Fund Grants in 2005 and 2008.

Other residencies include the Arctic Circle 2011, the Edward Albee Foundation, Dieu Donné Papermill, and the LMCC Workspace at 120 Broadway, NYC. Ms Stern has taught or lectured at several colleges and universities, including Middlebury College, VT, Fashion Institute of Technology, NY, the University of Rhode Island, and the Massachusetts College of Art, Boston.
stone curtain wall, 1999
stone curtain wall, 1999
model for dreamy, 2003
model for dreamy, 2003
welcome (MIT), 2001
welcome (MIT), 2001
reSurfacing (window), 2002
reSurfacing (window), 2002
Oona Stern has been exhibiting drawings and installations internationally since receiving a MFA from The School of Visual Arts in the late ‘90’s. She has had solo shows at Galerie Reinhard Hauff in Stuttgart, Diaz Contemporary in Toronto, White Columns and Elizabeth Harris Gallery in New York City. Her work has been shown at Feature Inc, Von Lintel Gallery, Sara Meltzer Gallery, The Drawing Center, and the Islip Art Museum, as well as university venues including the MIT List Visual Arts Center, Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia, The University of Rhode Island, and The University of Alabama. Public installations have included the sound of grass growing, at the Bloomberg headquarters in NY, and reSurfacing, a street intervention ongoing since 2005 at the parking kiosk under the Zigfield marquee on 54th ST, NYC. In 2009 island path was installed summer-long on Governor's Island, and deDomination was recently installed in the NYC subway.

Oona Stern lives and works in New York City.
untitled (wall pavers), 2004
untitled (wall pavers), 2004
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