SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS / PUBLIC COMMISSIONS
| 2024 | "Birch Bark," permanent installation, lobby, Yue-Kong Pao Hall of Visual and Performing Arts, Purdue University, West Lafayette IN |
| 2022 | STUDIO VISIT WITH MERLE TEMKIN, Curator Varia Serova, zephymaize and veriaserr, virtual galleries, website: zephyrandmaize.com |
| 2021-2014 | "Trees," permanent installation, "Lincoln Center Kitchen," David Geffen Hall, Lincoln Center, New York NY |
| 2009 | "She," Public Art Commission, permanent outdoor sculpture, Park Hagalil, Israel "Merle Temkin, Fingerprints," Chicago Cultural Center, IL |
| 2000 | "Personal Markings," Art Resources Transfer, Inc., New York NY / Saint Peter's Church, New York NY |
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
| 2023 | "Focus on Painting", University Museums, University of Delaware, Newark DE |
"ONE NATION, With Liberty and Justice for All," Dr. Bernard Heller Museum, Hebrew Union College — Jewish Institute of Religion, New York NY, catalogue |
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| 2022 | "MAGICAL THINKING, Superstitions and Other Tenacious Notions," Dr. Bernard Heller Museum, Hebrew Union College — Jewish Institute of Religion, New York NY, catalogue |
| 2020 | "Open Storage: RAM Showcases Ceramics, Fiber & Regional Archives," Racine Art Museum, Racine WI |
| 2019 | "Art@50Plus," Islip Art Museum, East Islip NY |
"ECHOES: From There to Here," Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco CA |
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"Prime Time," Islip Art Museum, East Islip NY |
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| 2018 | "All Things Natural," Five Points Gallery, Torrington CT |
"Experession of Self," International Independant Art Fair NYC, St. Martin's Episcopal Church, New York NY |
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"She is," One Art Space, New York NY, catalogue |
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| 2017 | "Wustum Generations," Racine Art Museum, Racine WI |
"Reunion II," Woman Made Gallery, Chicago IL | |
| 2016 | "New Acquisitions 2016," David Owsley Museum of Art, Muncie IN |
"Cut, Fold and Form," Racine Art Museum, Racine WI | |
| 2015 | "Natural Allusions," Addison/Ripley Fine Art, Washington DC |
| 2014 | "Art in Brooklyn / Art in New York," featured artist, online blog |
| 2013-14 | "International Plain Notebook Project," Beit Ha'ir Urban Culture Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel |
| 2012 | "High Fiber: Recent Large Scale Acquisitions in Fiber," Racine Art Museum, Racine WI |
| 2009 | "Exuberant Pattern," Center for the Arts, Towson University, Towson MD "Brighten Life, Get Ahead," Hana Art Gallery, Seoul, Korea "Cutters," Leubsdorf Art Gallery Hunter College, New York NY / Hunterdon Art Museum, Clinton, NJ "Scientific," Garcia Gallery, Jersey City Museum, Jersey City NJ |
| 2007 | "Punchbowl," Metaphor Contemporary Art Gallery, Brooklyn NY |
| 2006 | "Surveillance," Jersey City Museum NJ "RISD Biennial NYC," Exit Art, New York NY |
| 2005 | "Scratching the Surface: Abstraction Now," Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, Wilmington DE |
| 2004 | "Trace Elements," Kristen Frederickson Contemporary Art, New York NY "Art on Paper 2004," Weatherspoon Art Museum, U of North Carolina, Greensboro NC |
| 2003 | "Corporal Identity – Body Language," 9th Triennial for Form and Content – Museum of Arts & Design, New York NY / museum fur angewandte kunst, Frankfurt, Offenbach, Germany "Pins and Needles," John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan WI |
| 2001 | "Body Language," Islip Art Museum, East Islip NY "Imprints, Punctures & Other Pointed Maneuverings," Fine Arts Galleries, University of Rhode Island, Kingston RI |
| 2001 | "Body Work," The Work Space, New York NY |
| 2000 | "Blurred Boundaries," Arts Center of the Capital Region, Troy NY |
SELECTED AWARDS / RESIDENCIES
| 2010 | Pollock-Krasner Foundation Award |
| 2003 | Vermont Studio Center, VSC Award |
| 2002 | Vermont Studio Center, Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Award New York Foundation for the Arts |
| 2001 | Richard Florsheim Art Fund, Museum Purchase Award Pollock-Krasner Foundation Award |
SELECTED MUSEUM COLLECTIONS
David Owsley Museum of Art, Ball State University, Muncie IN
DePaul Art Museum, DePaul University, Chicago IL
Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University, Bloomington IN
Illinois State Museum, Springfield IL
Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
Jersey City Museum, Jersey City NJ, collection acquired by Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick NJ
Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence RI
Museum of Arts & Design, New York NY
Park Hagalil, Municipality of Karmiel, Israel
Purdue Galleries, Purdue University, West Lafayette IN
Racine Art Museum, Racine WI
The Art Museum, State University of New York, Potsdam NY
UB Art Galleries, University of Buffalo, Buffalo NY
University Museum of Contemporary Art, University of Massachusetts Amherst
University Museums, University of Delaware, Newark DE
EDUCATION
M.F.A. Painting, San Francisco Art Institute
B.F.A. Sculpture, Chicago Art Institute
Rhode Island School of Design
SELECTED MONOGRAPHS / SOLO EXHIBITION CATALOGUES & REVIEWS
Good, Liz, Fiberarts, Summer 2006, vol. 33, no. 1," Prime Time," p. 12
Law & Order: Criminal Intent, NBC Universal Network Television, "Slither," episode 11, January 15, 2006
Martin, Lois, "Extreme Scrutiny," Surface Design / Winter 2003, vol. 27, no. 2, pp. 22–25, monograph
Merle Temkin Personal Markings, September 2000, A.R.T. Press, New York NY, catalogue
Merle Temkin: Portfolio Collection, vol. 36, essays by Lois Martin, Dominique Nahas, Telos Art Publishing, Brighton Media Centre, Brighton, England, 2005, book
Nance, Kevin, Art exhibit redefines handmade, "Merle Temkin's Fingerprints at Cultural Center," Chicago Sun Times, January 17, 2007, p. 41
RISDxyz, Fall/Winter 2013, "Changing Times"
Salomon, Gigi / Rodrigo, "Tribeca: Looking at Gentrification from the Artists' Perspective," New York NY, April 7, 2011, video, artist interview
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Adamson, Glenn / Piche Jr., Tom, "Blurred Boundaries," Arts Center of the Capital Region, Troy NY 2001, catalogue
Auer, James, Cue, "Sheboygan Center Draws Accolades on Own Terms," Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, November 25, 2003, p. 1E
Birmingham, Mary, "Cutters," Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery at Hunter College / Hunterdon Art Museum, February 8 - June 7, 2009, catalogue
Bischoff, Dan, "Psst...somebody's watching you," The Sunday Star Ledger, Jersey City NJ, Feb. 12, 2006
DiNoto, Andrea, "Corporal Identity," American Craft, April / May 2004, vol. 64, no. 2, pp. 50-55
Firman, Sandra, Q, Artpark: 1974-1984, University at Buffalo Art Galleries, NY / Princeton Architectural Press, NY, 2010, book
Jenkins, Mark, "In the galleries: Rooted in nature but not always natural," The Washington Post, March 6, 2015
Lamonti, Giulia / Badagliacca, Vanessa, from original Heresies issue 13, "Earthkeeping / Earthshaking: Arte Feminismos e Ecologia," EGEAC, Galeria Quadrum, Lisbon, Portugal, October 2020, catalog
Ilse-Neuman, Ursula / McFadden, David Revere, "Corporal Identity - Body Language," 9th Triennial for Form and Content - USA and Germany, Museum of Arts & Design, New York, museum fur angewandte kunst, Offenbach, Germany, June 2003, book
MacAdam, Barbara A., Reviews, "Corporal Identity- Body Language," Museum of Arts & Design,
Art News, April 2004, vol. 103, no. 4, p. 112
Norris, Doug, "Five Artists Make Their Points Known," Review, Arts and Living, South County Independent, Kingston RI, Feb. 28, 2002, p. 1
Platt, Ron, "Art on Paper 2004," University of North Carolina at Greensboro, catalogue
RISD Biennial NYC 2006, Exit Art, NYC, catalogue
Sozanski, Edward, Art, "Healthy Abstraction," The Philadelphia Inquirer, May 6, 2005, W27
Van Siclen, Bill, Art, Scene, Art, "Beneath surface at URI," Live, The Providence Journal, February 21-24, 2002, p. 12
SELECTED WORK FEATURED IN PUBLICATIONS
American Craft: December 2000 / January 2001, Gallery, p.75
Art in New York City, IIAFNYC, online blog, May 1, 2018
Art in New York City, Selected Artist - Merle Temkin, online blog, June 2014
Arts & Culture, Fall 2009, Towson University, brochure, p.3
Fiberarts, January / February 2001, vol. 27, no. 4, Shows and Exhibitions, p.63
Manual: Polychrome, Issue 10, Portfolio, ed. Sarah Ganz Blythe, published by Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art, Providence RI, April 2018, p.29
RAM Annual Contributors Report 2012, Racine Art Museum, Racine WI p.14
R.I.S.D. Views, Portfolio: Winter 2001, p.26
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, A Biannual Magazine Fall 2017, class notes, p. 50