SOLO EXHIBITIONS ___________-------- -----_______

 
2008_Ruinations, Selby Gallery, Ringling School of Art and Design, Sarasota, Florida.
 2007_Accumulated Mysteries: Sculptural Work by Leslie Fry,
_____Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, Brattleboro, Vermont.
 2004_Cast-Offs: Girls, Riddles, Fate, Firehouse Gallery, Burlington, Vermont.
 2002_TransPlants, Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
 1997_The Gingerbread Museum, Exquisite Corpse Artsite, Burlington, Vermont.
 1996_Recent Work: Arts/Industry, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan,
_____Wisconsin.
 1990_Monoprints, Francis Colburn Gallery, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont.
 1988_Sculpture, The Penson Gallery, New York, New York.
 1987_Relief Sculpture, The Albany Academy Gallery, Albany, New York.
 1982_Limbo, The Robert Hull Fleming Museum, Burlington, Vermont.
 1977_Bodywork, La Galerie Suzele Carle, Montréal, Québec.
  
 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS_____-----_______

 
2008_Drawing Beyond the Plane,Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, Florida.
 2006_Amor Eterno,Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, Florida.
_____Unrestricted, Florida Craftsmen Gallery, St. Petersburg, Florida.
2005_Florida Focus: Tampa Bay, Gulf Coast Museum of Art, Largo, Florida.
_____Riverbend Sculpture Biennial, Owensboro Museum of Fine Art,
_____Owensboro, Kentucky.
2004_Art at Northlake Park, City of Orlando Sculpture Program, Orlando, Florida.
_____2004-2005.
 2003_Hybrids, Wave Hill, Bronx, New York.
_____Leslie Fry / Burk Uzzle, Mira Mar Gallery, Sarasota, Florida.
_____Efflorescence, Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin.
 2002_Florida Visual Arts Fellowships Exhibition 2001-2002, traveling exhibition
_____through 2003.
 2001_Uncommon Threads: Contemporary Artists and Clothing, Herbert F. Johnson
_____Museum, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.
_____UnderCurrent/OverView, Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, Florida.
1999_Botanica: Contemporary Art and the World of Plants, traveling exhibition
_____through 2001.
_____Femmes, Corps et Âme, Couvent des Cordeliers, Paris, France.
 1998_After Eden: Garden Varieties in Contemporary Art, Middlebury College Museum
_____of Art, Middlebury, Vermont.
_____Post-Pastoral: New Images of the New England Landscape, Hood Museum of
_____Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire.
1996_Femmes, Corps et Âme, Musée de la Civilisation, Québec, Québec.
_____Incestuous, Thread Waxing Space, New York, New York. Curators: Carter Kustera
_____and Tiong Ang.
_____Casts of Character: The Factory and Beyond, Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan,
_____Wisconsin.
_____Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, Berkshire Museum, Stockbridge,
_____Massachusetts. Curator: Dan Cameron.
 1995_Cherchez La Femme, Kuntshaus, Hamburg, Germany.
_____A Distinct Grace, Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, Colorado.
1994_Disembodied: Clothing Forms in Contemporary Sculpture, The Fleming Museum,
_____Burlington, Vermont.
_____Corpus, Centre des Arts Visuels, Montréal, Québec.
1993_Empty Dress: Clothing as Surrogate in Recent Art. Traveling exhibition _____through 1996. Curator: Nina Felshin.
_____1920, The Subtlety of Subversion, The Continuity of Intervention,
_____Exit Art, New York, New York.
_____Artists Select, Artists Space, New York, New York.
_____States of the Art, A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY. Juror: Lowery Sims,
_____Metropolitan Museum of Art.
 1991_Drawings, Erector Square Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut. Juror: Howardena
_____Pindell.
 1990_Works on Paper, The Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, Massachusets.
_____Juror: Charlotta Kotick, Brooklyn Museum.
_____Arte de los Noventa, El Instituto de Cultura de Yucatan, Merida, Mexico.
1989_New Dimensions Art Exhibit, Galeria La Merced, Maracaibo, Venezuela.
_____Contemporary Sculpture at Chesterwood, Chesterwood, Stockbridge,
_____Massachusetts.
_____Clay Works, The Rice Gallery, Albany Institute of History and Art, Albany,
_____New York.
_____Small Works, Amos Eno Gallery, New York, New York. Juror: Sharon Jacques,
_____Museum of Modern Art.
 1988_Dolls by Artists: Fetish Objects, Textile Arts Centre, Chicago, Illinois. Juror:
_____Joyce Scott
_____Monoprints, Image Gallery, Stockbridge, Massachusetts.
  


COMMISSIONS ________________-------------_______

 
Wild Life Sculpture Search. Boca Ciega Millennium Park, Seminole, Florida. Pinellas County Cultural Affairs. 2007.

 Broward Public Art and Design Program: Large-scale wall reliefs for four libraries. Fort Lauderdale, Florida. 2005.

Quercus Emancipation. Site-specific sculpture for Wave Hill, Bronx, New York. 2003.

 Mermaid House. Housing Vermont. 84 North Avenue, Burlington, Vermont. 2003.

 Pomerleau Neighborhood Park. Chosen with architect Steven Schenker, by Burlington Public Art Committee. Burlington, Vermont. 1999.

 Step Dress. Edition of ten cast-glass sculpture/awards created for the non-profit organization, First Step. New York City. 1998.

 Pear.16’ steel sculpture covered and surrounded by growing vegetables, created with community groups. John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin. Summer 1996.

 Medée. Installation created for a performance by Marthe Mercure. Musée d’Art Contemporain, Montréal, Québec. February 1981.

HONORS AND AWARDS ___________-------------_____

 
Firehouse Center for the Arts, Burlington, Vermont, Artist-in-Residence, 2004.

 Florida State Individual Artist Fellowship, 2001.

 Women and Minorities Print Project, Ringling School of Art and Design, Sarasota, Florida. Artist-in-Residence, January 2000.

 Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass Village, Colorado. Fellowship, March 1998.

 Fundacion Valparaiso, Almeria, Spain. Fellowship, January 1998.

 Ragdale Foundation, Lake Forest, Illinois. Fellowship,1997.

 John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin. Artist-in-Residence, May 1996.

 Arts/Industry Program, Kohler Company, Kohler, Wisconsin, 1996.

 Vermont Council on the Arts Development Grant. 1992.

 Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, New York. Fellowship, March 1991.

 The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Sweet Briar, Virginia. Fellowship,1990.

 The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, New York, New York. Grant for 1989.

 Blue Mountain Center, Blue Mountain Lake, New York. Fellowships in 1989, 1988, and 2006.

 The Millay Colony for the Arts, Austerlitz, New York. Fellowship, October 1987.

COLLECTIONS _________________-------------_______

 
Whole Foods Market Art Collection, Sarasota, Florida.

 The Gulf Coast Museum, Largo, Florida.

 The Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, Florida.

 Robert Hull Fleming Museum, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont.

 John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin.

 Kohler Company, Kohler, Wisconsin.




SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY ________---------_______

 
Arlene Distler, “Accumulated Mysteries: Leslie Fry,” Art New England,
August/September 2007.

 Lennie Bennett, "Wild Art,"St. Petersburg Times, April 2, 2007.

 Ann Albritton, "Leslie Fry,"Sculpture Magazine, November 2003.

 Grace Glueck, "Silo Meets Satellite Dish," New York Times, September 4,1998.

Eleanor Heartney, essay for After Eden: Garden Varieties in Contemporary Art, Middlebury College Museum of Art, 1998.

 Nina Parris, “The Gingerbread Museum: Installation by Leslie Fry,” Art New England, Feb./March 1998.

 Akiko Kotani and Bernard Freydberg, “Crossover in the Arts,” Fiberarts, Summer 1997.

 Hajo Schiff, “Feminismus, Trivialitat und Kunsterkenntnis,” Taz Hamburg, January 4, 1996.

 Leslie Fry, contribution to “Women’s Work,” in Art Journal: “Clothing as Subject,” Spring 1995.

 Nancy Smith, “Empty Dress, Loaded Images,” Ms. Magazine, December 1993.

 Richard Brown, “Leslie Fry: Recent Work,” Art New England, May 1986.

 Pierre-A. Larocque, “Sculptures-Masques” (interview with Leslie Stevenson Fry), Le Baroque, cahier 3, Montréal, Québec, November 1977.

  

EDUCATION ___________------________-------_______

 
Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, Bard College, Annandale, NY. M.F.A. 1993.

 University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont. Dean's List, B.A. 1975.

 Central School of Art and Design, London, England. 1973-74.