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LESLIE BENDER
Da Vinci Way, New Paltz, NY 12561
845-670-2027
benderleslie@gmail.com
https//:www.lesliebender.com
Areas of Interest: Painting, Printmaking, Drawing, Murals, and Theater
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022 James Cox Gallery, Willow, NY One woman exhibition “White Magic”
2016 Miss Porters School Farmington CT
2013 Shahinian Fine Arts, Rhinebeck, NY
2012 Miss Porters School Farmington CT
2010 The Doghouse Gallery Saugerties, NY Printmaking
2008 James Cox Gallery, Willow, NY
1991 James Cox Gallery, Willow, NY
2000 Coffey Gallery, Kingston, NY
1998 R & F Encaustics, Kingston, NY
1997 Ulster County Community College, Stone Ridge, NY
SELECTED MUSEUM EXHIBITIONS
2014 Woodstock Artists Association Museum, Woodstock, NY “Passage”
2009 Samuel Dorsky Museum at SUNY New Paltz MFA Show
2008 Woodstock Artists Association and Museum, Woodstock, NY
1995~8 New York State Museum, Albany, New York Mohawk-Hudson Regional
1998 Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia
1991 Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, NY
“New York Series IX: Message to the Future”
1988 Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY “Committed to Print”
1988 Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Canada “Committed to Print”
1988 Peace Museum, Chicago, Illinois “Committed to Print”
1988 New York State Museum, Albany, NY “Committed to Print”
1984 Whitney Museum of American Art, NY, NY “MetaManhattan”
SELECTED 2 – 3 PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2019 Riverside Art Galleries, Garrison Art Center, Garrison NY
2006-12 Albert Shahinian Fine Art, Poughkeepsie, NY
2011 BAG, Brooklyn NY Group Show
2011 Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY
2006-09 Windham Fine Arts, Windham, NY
2006 Chase/Randall Gallery, Andes, NY
SELECTED GROUP SHOWS
2019, 2020 Kingston Annual, Kingston NY
2018 Howland Cultural Center, Beacon NY “Circus! @The Howland, The Art of Balance”
2018 Green Kill Gallery, Kingston, NY
2017 “Reclaim! Remain! Rebuild! Posters on Affordable Housing, Gentrification & Resistance” Los Angeles, CA (political Stencils from the Reagan protest era)
2013 Ulster County Community College, Stone Ridge, NY “Cut & Paste”
2012 Mad Dooley Gallery, Beacon NY
2012 Albert Shahinian Fine Arts, Rhinebeck, NY
2011 Masters on Main, Catskill, NY “Earth Scrolls” Installation
EXHIBITS I CURATED
2019 “Art Journeys Through Time”, Green Kill, Kingston NY
Exhibition addressing Domestic Violence by four senior women artists survivors
PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS
2022 PowerPoint presentations of my life’s artwork to public audiences in libraries in my county. I explain the meaning of the artworks, including the family violence which has affected my life.
This project was made possible through a Jumpstart Grant administered by Arts Mid-Hudson, funded by the Statewide Community Regrants Program of the New York State Council on the Arts and supported by the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.
MURAL PROJECTS: COORDINATOR, DESIGNER & TEACHER
2001 P.E.A.CE. Mural Project, Family Partnership Building, Poughkeepsie, NY, sponsored by Vassar College
1981-’83 CityArts Workshop Inc, NYC
1978-’79 CETA funded Murals Project, Middlesex County, New Jersey
TEACHING and VISITING ARTIST EXPERIENCE
2021 Private classes
2019 Ulster County Community College Adult Education Art Instructor
2019 Mount Saint Mary’s College, L.I.F.E. Adult Education, Newburgh, NY
2012 Miss Porters School, Farmington, Ct Visiting Artist, Guest Lecturer
1985-’86 Artist-In-The Schools Program, NYC
PUBLIC and MUSEUM COLLECTIONS
Museum of Modern Art, NYC, NY
Fairview Art Museum, Springville, Utah
Dutchess Community College, Hyde Park, NY
Fyns Grafiske Vaerksted, Odense, Denmark
Woodstock Historical Society, Woodstock, NY
Kaatsbaan International Dance Center, Tivoli, NY
AWARDS, RESIDENCIES, GRANTS
2022 NYSCA/NYFA Artist with Disabilities Grant
2022 Jumpstart Grant, Arts Mid-Hudson
2016 NYFA Artist as Entrepreneur Boot camp, Roxbury, NY
2012, ’09 Spring Semester Prescott Visiting Artist, Miss Porters School, Farmington, Connecticut
2007-’09 Sojourner Truth Fellowship, SUNY New Paltz, NY
2000 Virginia Center for the Creative Arts Residency
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS & REVIEWS
Roll Magazine 2014 “Leslie Bender Wows at WAAM”
Angry Graphics, Peregrine Books
On the Wall: Four Decades of Community Murals in New York City 2009
Committed to Print, Museum of Modern Art. 1986
New York Times, 10/7/82
Education:
2009 SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz, NY MFA, Printmaking
1975 Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY BFA Fine Arts
1995 Cobalt Studios, White Lake, NY Graduate degree, scenic painting
1966-’75 Art Students League
Da Vinci Way, New Paltz, NY 12561
845-670-2027
benderleslie@gmail.com
https//:www.lesliebender.com
Areas of Interest: Painting, Printmaking, Drawing, Murals, and Theater
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022 James Cox Gallery, Willow, NY One woman exhibition “White Magic”
2016 Miss Porters School Farmington CT
2013 Shahinian Fine Arts, Rhinebeck, NY
2012 Miss Porters School Farmington CT
2010 The Doghouse Gallery Saugerties, NY Printmaking
2008 James Cox Gallery, Willow, NY
1991 James Cox Gallery, Willow, NY
2000 Coffey Gallery, Kingston, NY
1998 R & F Encaustics, Kingston, NY
1997 Ulster County Community College, Stone Ridge, NY
SELECTED MUSEUM EXHIBITIONS
2014 Woodstock Artists Association Museum, Woodstock, NY “Passage”
2009 Samuel Dorsky Museum at SUNY New Paltz MFA Show
2008 Woodstock Artists Association and Museum, Woodstock, NY
1995~8 New York State Museum, Albany, New York Mohawk-Hudson Regional
1998 Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia
1991 Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, NY
“New York Series IX: Message to the Future”
1988 Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY “Committed to Print”
1988 Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Canada “Committed to Print”
1988 Peace Museum, Chicago, Illinois “Committed to Print”
1988 New York State Museum, Albany, NY “Committed to Print”
1984 Whitney Museum of American Art, NY, NY “MetaManhattan”
SELECTED 2 – 3 PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2019 Riverside Art Galleries, Garrison Art Center, Garrison NY
2006-12 Albert Shahinian Fine Art, Poughkeepsie, NY
2011 BAG, Brooklyn NY Group Show
2011 Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY
2006-09 Windham Fine Arts, Windham, NY
2006 Chase/Randall Gallery, Andes, NY
SELECTED GROUP SHOWS
2019, 2020 Kingston Annual, Kingston NY
2018 Howland Cultural Center, Beacon NY “Circus! @The Howland, The Art of Balance”
2018 Green Kill Gallery, Kingston, NY
2017 “Reclaim! Remain! Rebuild! Posters on Affordable Housing, Gentrification & Resistance” Los Angeles, CA (political Stencils from the Reagan protest era)
2013 Ulster County Community College, Stone Ridge, NY “Cut & Paste”
2012 Mad Dooley Gallery, Beacon NY
2012 Albert Shahinian Fine Arts, Rhinebeck, NY
2011 Masters on Main, Catskill, NY “Earth Scrolls” Installation
EXHIBITS I CURATED
2019 “Art Journeys Through Time”, Green Kill, Kingston NY
Exhibition addressing Domestic Violence by four senior women artists survivors
PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS
2022 PowerPoint presentations of my life’s artwork to public audiences in libraries in my county. I explain the meaning of the artworks, including the family violence which has affected my life.
This project was made possible through a Jumpstart Grant administered by Arts Mid-Hudson, funded by the Statewide Community Regrants Program of the New York State Council on the Arts and supported by the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.
MURAL PROJECTS: COORDINATOR, DESIGNER & TEACHER
2001 P.E.A.CE. Mural Project, Family Partnership Building, Poughkeepsie, NY, sponsored by Vassar College
1981-’83 CityArts Workshop Inc, NYC
1978-’79 CETA funded Murals Project, Middlesex County, New Jersey
TEACHING and VISITING ARTIST EXPERIENCE
2021 Private classes
2019 Ulster County Community College Adult Education Art Instructor
2019 Mount Saint Mary’s College, L.I.F.E. Adult Education, Newburgh, NY
2012 Miss Porters School, Farmington, Ct Visiting Artist, Guest Lecturer
1985-’86 Artist-In-The Schools Program, NYC
PUBLIC and MUSEUM COLLECTIONS
Museum of Modern Art, NYC, NY
Fairview Art Museum, Springville, Utah
Dutchess Community College, Hyde Park, NY
Fyns Grafiske Vaerksted, Odense, Denmark
Woodstock Historical Society, Woodstock, NY
Kaatsbaan International Dance Center, Tivoli, NY
AWARDS, RESIDENCIES, GRANTS
2022 NYSCA/NYFA Artist with Disabilities Grant
2022 Jumpstart Grant, Arts Mid-Hudson
2016 NYFA Artist as Entrepreneur Boot camp, Roxbury, NY
2012, ’09 Spring Semester Prescott Visiting Artist, Miss Porters School, Farmington, Connecticut
2007-’09 Sojourner Truth Fellowship, SUNY New Paltz, NY
2000 Virginia Center for the Creative Arts Residency
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS & REVIEWS
Roll Magazine 2014 “Leslie Bender Wows at WAAM”
Angry Graphics, Peregrine Books
On the Wall: Four Decades of Community Murals in New York City 2009
Committed to Print, Museum of Modern Art. 1986
New York Times, 10/7/82
Education:
2009 SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz, NY MFA, Printmaking
1975 Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY BFA Fine Arts
1995 Cobalt Studios, White Lake, NY Graduate degree, scenic painting
1966-’75 Art Students League
