Stefanie Nagorka
Stefanie Nagorka was born in 1954, Munich Germany, to American parents, and grew up in Germany, Turkey, Rumania and the United States She moved to New York in 1970 and attended Pratt Institute, receiving a BFA in 1974 and an MFA in 1979. She has lived and worked in New Jersey since 1985.
Stefanie Nagorka received a 2007 Fellowship from the NJ State Council on the Arts. Her work is in such public collections as the Brooklyn Museum, The Fogg Art Gallery at Yale, Art Omi, NJ State Museum at Trenton, Jersey City Museum and The Arkansas Contemporary Arts Center at Little Rock. Stefanie Nagorka has had 11 solo shows in NYC and NJ. Her work appears often in group shows in and out of NYC, and is widely covered in the press, with articles, interviews and reviews in The New York Times, The Washington Post, More Magazine, New York Magazine, ArtNet.com, The Village Voice, Art News, and NPR’s All Things Considered,
Stefanie Nagorka’s work grows out of modernist aesthetics and conceptual practices. In 2007 she completed a US tour for her project “Aisle Studio”, building temporary sculptures in the aisles of large home improvement centers in all 50 states.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2007 Aisle Studio, Weiss Gallery, MKA, Montclair, NJ
2005 Aisle Studio Tour, curated by Lisa Hatchedoorian, Rowan University Gallery, Glassboro, NJ
2003 Home Depot Tour, Johnson & Johnson Corporate Gallery, New Brnswick, NJ
Home Depot Tour, Bertone Gallery, Montclair, NJ
2002 Home Depot Home, Debs & Company, New York, NY
2000 CMU, Debs & Company, New York, NY
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2007 Home Girls, curated by M. Murphy, Jersey City U. Gallery, JC, NJ
2006 Newark Between Us, curated by Rupert Ravens, 744 Broad St.Newark NJ
Point of Purchase, curated by Gretchen Wagner, Dumbo Arts Center, Bklyn, NY
Out There, curated by Beth Venn & Allison Baker, Newark Museum, Newark, NJ
2005 Facing Newark, curated by Rupert Ravens,1 Wash. Pk Pl, Newark NJ
2003 Forging Memorial Art for Public Memory, Rutgers U. Art Library, New Brunswick, NJ
2002 25th Anniversary Selections Show, Drawing Center, New York, NY
Dialog: Stefanie Nagorka & Claire McConaghy”, Art Resources Transfer, NY, NY
Women’s Work, The State Museum at Trenton, Trenton, NJ
2000 Modules, The Fields Sculpture Park, Art Omi, Ghent, NY
Pierogi 2000, Flatfiles Travel to LA, Post Gallery, LA, CA
1999-2000 Art on the Waterfront, Peninsula Park Sculpture Project, Liberty State Park, NJ
1999 Stars of Track and Field, Debs * Company, New York, NY
1998 Field Work, The Seventh Floor Gallery, New York, NY
1997 The Serial Attitude, Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA
Very Large Array, Debs & Company, New York, NY
Current undercurrent; Working in Brooklyn, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
Flatfiles, Pierogi 2000 Travels, The Gasworks, London; Corner House, Manchester, England
1994 Small Works, Sculpture Center, New York, NY
1991 Selections ’91, The Drawing Center, New York, NY
Drawing 13 x 11 inches
Drawing 13 x 11 inches
Drawing 12 x 12 inches
by artist Adam Simon
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