| SOLO EXHIBITIONS | |
| 2014 | Krampf Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey |
| 2013 | Sonnabend Gallery, New York |
| 2012 | Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris |
| 2010 | Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn, NY, Metamorphosis: Rona Pondick Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Editions Space, Salzburg, Rona Pondick: The Metamorphosis of an Object |
| 2009 | Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, Massachusetts, Rona Pondick: The Metamorphosis of an Object Howard Yezerkski Gallery, Boston |
| 2008 | TR3, Ljubljana, Slovenia, Rona Pondick, Head in Tree and other works 1999–2008 Die Internationale Stiftung Mozarteum, Salzburg, Austria, Rona Pondick |
| 2006 | Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg Sonnabend Gallery, New York |
| 2004 | Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, Cleveland, Ohio Akira Ikeda Gallery, Taura, Japan, Rona Pondick, 1987–2001 |
| 2003 | Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, Sculpture 1992–2003 |
| 2002-03 | DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, Massachusetts Groninger Museum, Groningen, Netherlands |
| 2002 | Galleria d’Arte Moderna Bologna, Bologna, Italy Sonnabend Gallery, New York Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris |
| 2001 | Patricia Faure Gallery, Santa Monica, California |
| 1999 | Rupertinum Museum für moderne und zeitgenössische Kunst, Salzburg, Positionenreihe 7 |
| 1998 | Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston |
| 1997 | Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, tree head room |
| 1996-97 | Brooklyn Museum of Art, Lobby Project, Brooklyn, New York, Mine |
| 1996 | Brooklyn Academy of Music, Next Wave Festival (site: Brooklyn Museum of Art), Brooklyn, New York, Mine (conceived and directed by Rona Pondick and Robert Feintuch; collaborators: Sara Rudner, Jennifer Tipton, and William Matthews) Susan Inglett, I. C. Editions, New York Patricia Faure Gallery, Santa Monica, California Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston |
| 1995 | Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio, New Art 4 Jose Freire Fine Art, New York |
| 1993 | Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston Jose Freire Fine Art, New York |
| 1992 | The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Pink and Brown Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris Transepoca, Milan |
| 1991 | Beaver College Art Gallery, Glenside, Pennsylvania, Scrap, a site-specific installation Asher-Faure Gallery, Los Angeles fiction/nonfiction, New York, Foot and Mouth |
| 1990 | Asher-Faure Gallery, Los Angeles, mamamamama |
| 1989 | The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Currents fiction/nonfiction, New York, Bed Milk Shoe Hillman Holland Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia |
| 1988 | Sculpture Center, New York, Beds fiction/nonfiction, New York |
| GROUP EXHIBITIONS | |
| 2015 | Bruce Silverstein Gallery, New York, de-FORMATIONS National Academy Museum, New York, SELF: Portraits of the Artists in Their Absence New York Academy of Art, New York, Beautiful Beast |
| 2014 | Red Bull Studios, New York, Spaced Out: Migration to the Interior National Academy Museum, New York, Beyond the Classical: Imagining the Ideal Across Time Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, State University of New York at New Paltz, New York, Dick Polich: Transforming Metal into Art Museum of Biblical Art, New York, Back to Eden, Contemporary Artists Wander the Garden Ca’Pesaro, Galleria Internazionale d’Arte Moderna, Venic, Italy, From Rauschenberg to Jeff Koons Leila Heller Gallery, New York, Look at Me: Portraiture from Manet to the Present (traveled to Southampton Arts Center, Southampton, NY) National Academy Museum, New York, The Paradox of Sculpture |
| 2013-14 | Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, Massachusetts, You are Here |
| 2013 | Centre Pompidou, Paris, Donation Florence et Daniel Guerlain Armory Art Gallery at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, Two Trees: Rona Pondick and Jennifer Steinkamp Dedalus Foundation, Industry City, and The Brooklyn Rail, Brooklyn, NY, Come Together: Surviving Sandy Ca’Pesaro, Galleria Internazionale d’Arte Moderna, Venice, Italy, The Sonnabend Collection Krampf Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey RH Gallery, New York, A Discourse on Plants |
| 2012 | Brand New Gallery, Milan, Italy, Changing States of Matter Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA, Do Not Destroy: Trees, Art, and Jewish Thought |
| 2011-12 | Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Everyday Disturbances |
| 2011 | Sonnabend Gallery, New York, One Room Show The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, Venice, Italy, Ileana Sonnabend: An Italian Portrait Chelsea Art Museum, New York, Highlighs of CAM Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, New York, Circa 1986 Galerie im Traklhaus, Salzburg, Austria, Froschbärfant und andere Tiere in der Kunst Pera Museum, Istanbul, Turkey, Fundamentally Yours: Visual Art and Neuroscience Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, Naked Macao Museum of Art, Macao, China, Speaking with Hands Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, Never Let Me Go |
| 2010 | Royal Institution of Australia, The Science Exchange, Adelaide, Australia, The Uncanny Valley Sonnabend Gallery, New York Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, North Carolina, Odd Bodies: Selections from the Permanent Collection |
| 2009-11 | Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan, Speaking with Hands |
| 2009-10 | Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan, Medicine and Art: Imagining a Future for Life and Love |
| 2009 | Fundament Foundation, park De Oude Warande, Tilburg, The Netherlands, Stardust Sonnabend Gallery, New York Daelim Contemporary Art Museum, Seoul, Korea, The Buhl Collection: Speaking with Hands |
| 2008 | Sonnabend Gallery, New York Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, Massachusetts, Human Nature(s) Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, New York, Origins Sonsbeek 2008, Arnhem, Netherlands, Sonsbeek 2008: Grandeur Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille, Lille, France, Goya. Les Caprices & Chapman, Morimura, Pondick, Schutte Cultural Services of the French Embassy, New York, The Florence and Daniel Guerlain Collection: Dessins |
| 2007 | Sonnabend Gallery, New York Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Exposures: The Contemporary Self-Portrait Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, Unnatural: Neeta Madahar and Rona Pondick Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Uncontained |
| 2006 | Ursula Blickle Stiftung, Kraichtal, Germany, Eccentrics CAM Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey, Ego Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg |
| 2005 | Chelsea Art Museum, New York, Francisco de Goya: Los Caprichos and Here Comes the Bogey-Man Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, New York, Figure It Out Fondation pour l’art contemporain Claudine et Jean-Marc Salomon, Annecy, France, Collection 2 Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, Head Count Sonnabend Gallery, New York Kunst der Gegenwart Sammlung Essl, Vienna, Austria, Visions of America: Contemporary Art from the Essl Collection and the Sonnabend Collection |
| 2004 | Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, Some of Their Parts Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, Ohio, Making the Body in Contemporary Sculpture Galerie St. Etienne, New York, Animals and Us: The Animal in Contemporary Art Sonnabend Gallery, New York |
| 2003 | DaimlerChrysler, Berlin, A Dialogue of Two Collections: Ileana Sonnabend, New York and DaimlerChrysler Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Skulptur 03 Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany, Triennial 9 Form and Contents: Corporal Identity—Body Language (traveled to Museum of Arts and Design, New York) Jacksonville Museum of Modern Art, Jacksonville, Florida, Skin: Contemporary Views of the Body Sonnabend Gallery, New York |
| 2002 | Tang Museum, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York, From Pop to Now: Selections from the Sonnabend Collection (traveled to Wexner Center for the Arts, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio) Deutsche Bank, New York, Text/Textile Sonnabend Gallery, New York |
| 2001 | Yale University School of Art, New Haven, Connecticut, Alumni Choice |
| 2000 | Sonnabend Gallery, New York, Sculpture Biennale d’art contemporain de Lyon, Lyon, France, Sharing Exoticism Koldo Mitxelena Cultural Centre, Donostia–San Sebastian, Spain, Acts of Resistance Sonnabend Gallery, New York, Anniversary Exhibition Torch Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands, Blondies and Brownies |
| 1999 | Kunsthaus Mürzzuschlag, Mürzzuschlag, Austria, Der Anagrammatische Körper (in cooperation with Neue Galerie Landesmuseum Joanneum Graz; traveled to Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany) Center for Curatorial Studies Museum, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, Calendar 2000 Parsons School of Design, New York, Drawing in the Present Speed Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky, The Body in Question: Tracing, Displacing and Remaking the Human Figure in Contemporary Art PaineWeber Art Gallery, New York, Comfort Zone: Furniture by Artists |
| 1998 | Susan Inglett, I. C. Editions, New York, Multiples + Editions The Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, Contemporary Sculpture and Sculptors’ Drawings Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, North Carolina, Art on Paper Groninger Museum, Groningen, Netherlands, What Remains MCMLXXXXVII Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, Inner Eye: Contemporary Art from the Marc and Livia Straus Collection (traveled to Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, Tennessee; Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, Georgia; Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia) Landesgalerie Oberösterreich Landesmuseum, Linz, Austria, Sculpture Figure Women: Forms of Representation of the Female Body (traveled to Kunstsammlungen, Chemnitz, Germany) MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Mirror Images: Women, Surrealism, and Self-Representation (traveled to Miami Art Museum, Miami, Florida; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco) Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, From Head to Toe: Concepts of the Body in Twentieth-Century Art |
| 1997 | Patricia Faure Gallery, Santa Monica, California, Lust 2nd Johannesburg Biennale, Johannesburg, South Africa, Alternating Currents Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, No Small Feet Caren Golden Fine Art, New York, Frankensteinian Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, Sous le manteau Contemporary Art Museum, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, New Grounds: Prints and Multiples |
| 1996 | Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, Millennium Eve Dress (traveled to Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, Ohio) The Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, The Persistence of Pop Florida State University Museum of Fine Arts, Tallahassee, Florida, Body Language John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, Florida, Embedded Metaphor (traveled to Dalhousie Art Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia; Western Washington University, Bellingham, Washington; Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine; Virginia Beach Center for the Arts, Virginia Beach, Virginia; Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut) Hand Workshop Art Center, Richmond, Virginia, B.A.B.Y. UCLA at the Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center, Los Angeles, Sexual Politics: Judy Chicago’s Dinner Party in Feminist Art History Jewish Museum, New York, Too Jewish? Challenging Traditional Identities (traveled to Jewish Museum, San Francisco; UCLA at the Armand Hammer Museum and Cultural Center, Los Angeles; Contemporary Museum, Baltimore) The Institute for Contemporary Art (Clocktower Gallery), New York, Home/Salon (Salon of the Present) University Galleries, Illinois State University, Normal, Illinois, Frankenstein |
| 1995 | Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Altered and Irrational The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Intersections: The Personal and the Social in the Permanent Collection Armory, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, The Figure/The Body: American Art 1945–1995 New Jersey Center for the Visual Arts, Summit, New Jersey, The Outer Layer Elga Wimmer, New York, Women on the Verge (Fluxus and Not) Galerie Enrico Navarra, Paris, Autour de Roger Vivier (traveled to Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Japan) The South Bank Centre, London, Fetishism: Visualizing Power and Desire (traveled to Brighton Museum and Art Gallery, Brighton; Nottingham Castle Museum and Art Gallery, Nottingham; The Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, University of East Anglia, Norwich) Configura 2, Erfurt, Germany, Dialog der Kulturen Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg and Paris, The Muse? Transforming the Image of Women in Contemporary Art The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut, Inside Out: Psychological Self-Portraiture Rosemont College Art Gallery, Rosemont, Pennsylvania, Foundations: Underwear/Under Where? Herter Art Gallery, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts, Imperfect (traveled to Tyler Art Gallery, Philadelphia) Huntington Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, Object Lessons: Feminine Dialogue with the Surreal Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, Robert Feintuch, John O’Reilly, Rona Pondick |
| 1994 | Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, North Carolina, Thirteenth Annual Exhibition of Art on Paper Stedelijk Museum Bureau, Amsterdam, Netherlands, Puber Alles (Why Am I Who I Am?) Turman Gallery, Indiana State University, Terre Haute, Indiana, Object Bodies UCLA Wight Gallery, Los Angeles, Bad Girls The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut, In the Lineage of Eva Hesse |
| 1993 | Palazzo della Stelline, Milan, Normality as Art Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany, Über-Leben Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, Legend in My Living Room William Weston Clark Emison Art Center, DePauw University, Greencastle, Indiana, Object Bodies The Drawing Center, New York, Return of the Cadavre Exquis Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana, Regarding Masculinity Art Finds: Marsha Fogel Gallery, East Hampton, New York, Venice Comes to the Hamptons Biennale di Venezia, Venice, “I Love You More Than My Own Death: A Melodrama in Parts by Pedro Almodovar” Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut, Yale Collects Yale Exit Art, New York, 1920 Elisabeth Kaufman, Basel, Switzerland, Korper I, Annette Messager, Giuseppe Penone, Rona Pondick, Wilfried Riess, Klaudia Schifferle, Anselm Stalder The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut, Fall from Fashion Thread Waxing Space, New York, I Am the Enunciator |
| 1992 | MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Corporal Politics Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Effected Desire Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany, Spielholle, Aesthetics and Violence Fullerton Art Gallery, California State University, Fullerton, California, Bedroom Eyes: Room with a View Heckscher Museum, Huntington, New York, The Edge of Childhood AB Galerie, Paris, Erotiques Thread Waxing Space, New York, Mssr. B’s Curio Shop Barbara Toll Fine Arts, New York, Hands and Eyes (Modeled Sculpture) fiction/nonfiction, New York, The Whole Part: John Coplans, Rona Pondick, and John Wesley Kunsthalle, New York, Psycho The Gallery of the Art Institute of Chicago, Power Play |
| 1991 | Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1991 Whitney Biennial Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, New York, Experiencing Sculpture: The Figurative Presence in America, 1870–1990 Solo Press, New York, Sense and Sensibility Blum Helman Warehouse, New York, Plastic Fantastic Lover (Object A) Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, The Childhood Show Galería Fernando Alcolea, Barcelona, Rope Jack Tilton Gallery, New York, Forbidden Games The Hyde Collection, Glen Falls, New York, Just What Is It That Makes Today’s Homes So Different, So Appealing? |
| 1990 | Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Vertigo II Greenberg/Wilson Gallery, New York, Collaborations Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, Vertigo Asher-Faure Gallery, Los Angeles, The Home Show Morris Museum, Morristown, New Jersey, Diverse Representations Emily Sorkin Gallery, New York, Body, Once Removed Jack Tilton Gallery, New York, Detritus: Transformation and Construction Marc Richards Gallery, Los Angeles, Spellbound White Columns, New York, Fragments, Parts, and Wholes: The Body and Culture |
| 1989 | Hillwood Art Gallery, CW Post Campus, Long Island University, Brookville, New York, and BlumHelman Warehouse, New York, Lines of Vision: Drawings by Contemporary Women Asher/Faure Gallery, Los Angeles, Summer Group Show fiction/nonfiction, New York, Invitational with Gallery Artists Doug Milford Gallery, New York, Invitational Simon Watson Gallery, New York, Erotophobia: A Forum in Contemporary Sexuality Emily Sorkin Gallery, New York, Form and Fetish Fine Arts Museum of Long Island, Hempstead, New York, On the Cutting Edge Greenberg/Wilson Gallery, New York, Towards Form |
| 1988 | Santa Barbara Museum of Art, University of California at Santa Barbara, California, Collaborations in Monotype: Garner Tullis Workshop (traveled to Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, University of Texas, Austin; Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio) New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, Girls Night Out (Femininity as Masquerade) Simon Watson Gallery, New York, Invitational White Columns, New York, Sculpture 1988: A Salon of Small-Scale Work Lyman-Allyn Art Museum, New London, Connecticut, New Artists/New Drawings Galerie Alfred Kren, Cologne, Germany, The Other New York: Sculpture by Maureen Connor, Rona Pondick, and Kate Ritson |
| 1987 | Sculpture Center, New York, Small Works Zabriskie, New York, Summer of 1987 fiction/nonfiction, New York, Contemplating Things: A Sculpture Group Show in Two Parts; Part One: Polly Apfelbaum, Jill Levine, and Rona Pondick Zabriskie, New York, Peter Flaccus, Helen Miranda Wilson, and Rona Pondick Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio, The Level of Volume |
| 1986 | Sculpture Center, New York, Emerging Sculptors: 1986 Jack Tilton Gallery, New York, Invitational Richard Green Gallery, New York, Transformations John Davis Gallery, Akron, Ohio, Invitational Parsons School of Design, New York, Sculptors’ ’ Drawings |
| 1985 | Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, New Jersey, Mystery Show Rosa Esman Gallery, New York, Friends of the Gallery Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania, Working with Wood |
| 1984 | Madeleine Carter Fine Arts, Brookline, Massachusetts, Exhibition One: Jill Levine, Marilyn Levin, Rona Pondick Rosa Esman Gallery, New York, Exceptional and New Prospect Park, Brooklyn, New York, Bronze Sculpture |
| AWARDS and GRANTS | |
| 2000 | Cultural Department of the City of Salzburg, Kunstlerhaus |
| 1999 | Bogliasco Foundation Fellowship |
| 1996 | Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship |
| 1992 | Guggenheim Fellowship |
| 1991 | Mid-Atlantic Arts Grant |
| 1988 | Art Matters Inc. New York State Council on the Arts (for Beds installation) Artists Space Grant |
| 1985 | Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation Grant |
| 1977 | Fannie B. Pardee Prize in Sculpture |
