Los Angeles, California, USA
Education
MFA, Claremont Graduate University, California
BA, University of California, Santa Cruz
Solo Exhibitions
2007
“Alternative Landscape”, 140 sqm Gallery, Shanghai, China
“Mirage Garden Part 6”, South Beauty Garden, Shanghai, China (in collaboration with Jian-Jun Zhang)
2005
“Garden of Wishing Trees”, Maiden Lane Exhibition Space, New York, New York, USA (in collaboration with Jian-Jun Zhang)
2002
Museum of the Shenzhen Art Institute, Shenzhen, China
Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
2000
“Elemental Spring”, The Room With a View Gallery, Shanghai, China
1989
“Sayan”, Intersection for the Arts Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA
1988
“Il Segreto Nascosto Sotto i Rami”, P.S.1, New York, New York, USA
1987
“Cala dell’ Elefante”, P.S.1, New York, New York, USA
“Morteratsch”, P.S.1, New York, New York, USA
“Pantelleria”, P.S.1, New York, New York, USA
1985
“Romantic Notations”, Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles, California, USA
“Sculpture as Fountains”, 3rd Street Mall, Santa Monica, California, USA
1984
“Installation/Corrugations”, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, California, USA
1977
“Fiber”, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2009
“Miniature Artists’ Books”, part of the 4th Baku Biennial, Azerbaijan Museum, Baku, Azerbaijan
“Ink Society”, Sunshine International Museum, Song Zhuang, Beijing, China
“In-Situ: A Dialog with Space and Time”, River South Art Center, Shanghai, China
“Contemporary Ink Painting 2009: Shanghai New Ink Painting Art Exhibition”, Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China
“A Starting Point: Intrude 366 - Dynamics of Change and Growth”, Zendai Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China
2008
“3rd XiHu International Sculpture Exhibition”, Hangzhou, China
“HongKou Stones” part of “Intrude: Art & Life 366”, Zendai Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China
“Inaugural Exhibit Volume 2” Uwantart Gallery, Shanghai, China
2007
“3rd International Art Festival”, Rajamangala University, Poh-Chang, Bangkok, Thailand
“Language/Environment”, Museum of Contemporary Art Beijing, Beijing, China
2006
“Entry Gate: Chinese Aesthetics of Heterogeneity”, 1st Envisage, Museum of Contemporary Art Shanghai, Shanghai, China
“Close to Home”, BlockParty Brooklyn, New York, USA
2005
“100 Years of Chinese Sculpture”, Shanghai Sculpture Center, Shanghai, China
“1st International Sculpture Biennale”, Xu Jia Hui Park, Shanghai, China
“Poles Apart Poles Together: Markers V”, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
2004
“Artists Do a Book”, Plum Blossoms Gallery, New York, New York, USA
“A Grain of Dust A Drop of Water”, The 5th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, Korea
“Urban Sculptures for Shanghai Pudong”, (Finalists), Urban Design Museum of Shanghai, Shanghai, China
“Urban Sculptures for Shanghai Pudong”, (Semifinalists), New International Center, Shanghai, China
2003
“Milestones for Peace”, Stadtmuseum Wiesbaden, Germany
“5=1”, L.A. Artcore Gallery, Los Angeles, California, USA
2002
“Markers”, Orensanz Art Center, New York, New York, USA
“Wegziehen” (“movingAway”), Speicherstadt Galerie, Hamburg, Germany
“Markers II”, EAM Gallery, Kassel, Germany
“Wegziehen” (“movingAway”), Kommunale Galerie Wilmersdorf, Berlin, Germany
2001
“2nd XiHu International Sculpture Exhibition”, Hangzhou, China
“Wegziehen” (“movingAway”), Frauen Museum, Bonn, Germany
“Markers”, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
“Milestones for Peace”, Weill Art Gallery, New York, New York, USA
“Markers”, Givataim Teatre, Tel Aviv, Israel
2000
“Construction in Process VII: This Earth is a Flower”, The International Artists’ Museum, Lodz, Poland
“Cow Parade”, New York, New York, USA
“Milestones for Peace”, Jerusalem Art Festival, Jerusalem, Israel
“Gallery Artists”, The Room With a View Gallery, Shanghai, China
“The International Artists’ Museum in New York”, 83 Mercer Gallery, New York, New York, USA
1998
“Venice Art Walk”, Venice, California, USA
1997
“Sculpture Show”, Connemara Conservancy, Dallas, Texas, USA
“Collaborations”, 3rd Avenue Gallery, Brooklyn, New York, USA
“Global Focus”, Peace Museum, Detroit, Michigan, USA
1996
“Global Focus”, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington DC, USA
1995
“Global Focus”, Fourth World Conference on Women, Beijing, China
“Global Focus”, Elite Gallery, Moscow, Russia
“File No. 1: Conceptual Documents for Impossible Art”, SoHo, New York, USA
1994
“Get Back”, Kohn Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, California, USA
1993
“93NY50”, Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, New York, USA
1992
“The Art Mall: A Social Space (Proposals)”, The New Museum, New York, New York, USA
1990
“1990 Snug Harbor Sculpture Festival”, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, New York, USA
1989
“Communities: Recent Works by Los Angeles Artists”, Korean Cultural Service Gallery, Los Angeles, California, USA
“Every Fourteen Minutes”, Tortue Gallery, Los Angeles, California, USA
1988
“National and International Studio Program Exhibition”, P.S.1, New York, New York, USA
1987
“Sculpture Garden”, Arts Festival of Atlanta, Georgia, USA
“National and International Studio Program Exhibition”, P.S.1, New York, New York, USA
1986
“Open Studios”, P.S.1, New York, New York, USA
“The Column: Metaphor and Motif”, Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA
“Showcase ’86”, University Gallery, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, USA
Gallery Artists, Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles, California, USA
1985
“Art as Theater”, Tim Walker and Associates, Los Angeles, California, USA
“Romantic Notations: He/She”, Sculpture Garden, California State University, Dominguez Hills, USA
1984
Gallery Artists, Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles, California, USA
1983
“Installation”, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, California, USA
“Wonderful Things”, Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles, California, USA
“Booooart”, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, California, USA
“Claremont at Irvine”, University of California, Irvine, USA
1982
“Edelstein - 4”, Gensler and Associates, Los Angeles, California, USA
Gallery Artists, Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles, California, USA
1981
“Open Studios: Downtown Artists”, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles,
California, USA
1980
“Cardboard Art”, Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles, California, USA
Gallery Artists, Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles, California, USA
“Open Studios: Downtown Artists”, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, California, USA
1979
“Mind Over Matter”, Women’s Building, Los Angeles, California, USA
“Open Studios: Downtown Artists”, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, California, USA
1978
“10 Artists”, Vision Gallery, Laguna Beach, California, USA
1977
“Fiber Sculpture”, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA
1975
“Premonitions”, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA
Permanent Collections
Azerbaijan Museum, Baku, Azerbaijan
Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China
Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
Hangzhou Municipal Administration, Hangzhou, China
National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington DC, USA
The Muzeum Kolei Waskotorowej, The Small-Gauge Railroad Museum, Wenecja, Poland
Dow Jones Company, Princeton, New Jersey, USA
The Connemara Conservancy, Dallas, Texas, USA
The Djerassi Foundation, California, USA
Grants/Honors/Fellowships
1997
-The Connemara Conservancy, Dallas, Texas, Fellowship
1996
-The Djerassi Foundation, California, Fellowship
1994
-The Djerassi Foundation, California, The Gustavo Nicolich Fellowship
1991
The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, New York, Grant
The Rockefeller Foundation, Villa Serbelloni, Bellagio, Italy, Fellowship
The MacDowell Colony, New Hampshire, Fellowship
1990
The Kittredge Fund, Maine, Grant
1989
Artists Space, New York, Grant
1988
Art Matters Inc, New York, Grant
Artists Space, New York, Grant
1987
The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, New York, Grant
Studio Artist, P.S.1, New York
Artists Space, New York, Grant
1986
Studio Artist, P.S.1, New York
1985
“Sculpture as Fountains”, Foundation for Art Resources, Los Angeles, California, Grant
1984
Claremont Graduate University, California, Grant
1979
CETA, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, California
Publications
2009
“West Lake International Sculpture Invitational Exhibition 2008”, catalog, Hangzhou
Municipal Government and China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, China
“The Story of Shanghai - The Faded Memory of the Area, History and a Moving Moment”, Moment Magazine, Denise Wu, September, Shanghai, China
“In-Situ: A Dialog with Space and Time”, catalog, River South Art Center, Shanghai, China
“Contemporary Ink Painting 2009: Shanghai New Ink Painting Art Exhibition”, review, Wen Hui Bao, May 13, Shanghai, China
“Contemporary Ink Painting 2009: Shanghai New Ink Painting Art Exhibition”, catalog, Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China
“Tribute to the ghetto”, Shanghai Daily: Sunday Vibe, Nancy Zhang, April 26, Shanghai, China
“An Advocate of Nature - An Interview with Barbara Edelstein”), dszg.com, www.dszg.com/comment/cnews_show.asp?id=3330, January 13, China
2008
“The Mirage Garden”, The Hilton Style Magazine @ Yalong Bay, Sanya, China
“Uwantart Gallery”, review, Oriental Morning Post, June 1, Shanghai, China
“Inaugural Exhibit Volume 2”, catalog, Uwantart Gallery, Shanghai, China
2007
“Zhang Jianjun and Barbara Edelstein: A Studio Visit”, ArtZineChina.com, Joan Lebold Cohen, September, English: http://new.artzinechina.com/display_vol_aid486_en.html,
Chinese: http://new.artzinechina.com/display_vol_aid486_cn.html
“Language/Environment”, catalog, Museum of Contemporary Art Beijing, Beijing, China.
“Report from Shanghai I”, Art in America, Richard Vine, May, New York, USA
2006
“Socrates Sculpture Park” (20 Years), Baker & Mestrovic, editors, Socrates Sculpture Park, New York, USA
“Entry Gate: Chinese Aesthetics of Heterogeneity”, 1st Envisage, catalog, Museum of Contemporary Art Shanghai, Shanghai, China
2005
“In Artistic Heaven”, China Daily, Beijing Weekend, Xiao, Changyan, September 2, Beijing, China, www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2005-09/02/content_474423.htm.
“Report from Korea I”, Art in America, Eleanor Heartney, September, New York, USA
2004
“Focus on the Viewer: The Fifth Gwangju Biennial”, NY Arts, Thalia Vrachopoulos, November/December, New York, USA, nyartsmagazine.com/articles.php?aid=746
“Two Biennials, Two Models: GwangJu and Lodz”, The Brooklyn Rail, Robert C. Morgan, November, Brooklyn, New York, USA, www.thebrooklynrail.org/arts/nov04/biennials.html
“Report from Gwangju 2004”, artnet.com, Michael Rush, November, New York, USA, www.artnet.com/Magazine/features/rush/rush10-19-04.asp
“Gwangju Biennial: Focus on the Viewer”, Art Fairs International, Thalia Vrachopoulos,November, New York, USA, www.artfairsinternational.com/thalia.html
“Gwangju Biennial 2004”, Art China, Yi, Lasong, Volume 3, Number 6/2004, November 2004, Shanghai, China
“12 Million Dollars to Make an Art Utopia”, Art Collection Contemporary (Artco), Sheng Tian Zheng, October, Taipei, Taiwan
“Eternal Harmony: Sculptures by Barbara Edelstein”, Art China, Britta Erickson, Volume 3, Number 6/2004, November 2004, Shanghai, China
“2004 Gwangju Biennale: A Grain of Dust A Drop of Water” Special Feature,Wolganmisool, Hwang, Suk Kwon, October 2004, Seoul, Korea
“Gwangju Biennale 2004: A Grain of Dust A Drop of Water”, catalog, Gwangju, Korea
“Take it of leaf it: Asian works brought to book... and vice versa”, South China Sunday Morning Post, Val Wang, September 26, 2004, China
2004
“Urban Sculptures for Shanghai Pudong”, Shanghai Morning Post, Xu, Bin Zhong & Chen, Jie, June 15, Shanghai, China
“Eternal Harmony: Sculptures by Barbara Edelstein”, Quality Magazine, Britta Erickson, March, Shanghai, China
2003
“Report from China”, Art in America, Richard Vine, September, New York, USA
“Recent Installations in China: Jian-Jun Zhang and Barbara Edelstein”, Sculpture, Robert C. Morgan, May, USA
“Vestiges of Time / Elemental Spring: Zhang Jian-Jun and Barbara Edelstein in Guangdong”,
Yishu Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art, Aida Yuen Wong, March, Taiwan
“2001
West Lake International Sculpture Exhibition”, catalog, Hangzhou Municipal Government, Hangzhou, China
2002
“Markers II”, catalog, EAM Gallery, Kassel, Germany
“Bei null anfangen müssen”, taz, Helene Burbrowski, August 29, Hamburg, Germany.
“Natural Landscapes and Metropolitan Objects”, The Flame: The Magazine of Claremont Graduate University, Spring, USA
2001
“Wegziehen” (“movingAway”), catalog, Frauen Museum, Bonn, Germany
“Sculptures jazz up serene West Lake: Exhibition hightlights human spirits, love for nature,
thoughts on life”, China Daily, Wang Ling, November 9, China
“Fluct, Vertreibung, Fremdsein”, General Anzeiger, Christina zu Mecklenburg, October 17,
Bonn, Germany.
“Markers: An Outdoor Banner Event of Artists and Poets for Venice Biennale 2001”,
catalog, Doron Polak, International Artists Museum, Israel.
“Report from Poland”, Art in America, Richard Vine, March, USA
“Art News-Shanghai”, Artist Magazine #308, Li Xu, January, Taiwan.
1999
“Impressions of Djerassi Sculpture Park”, “Sculpture in the Environment” anthology, Jian-Jun Zhang, City Environmental Sculpture Association and Shanghai Fine Arts Publishers, China
1997
“Wide Open Canvas”, The Dallas Morning News, Lori Fairchild, March 19, USA
1996
“Impressions of Djerassi Sculpture Park”, Shanghai Artist Information Magazine #54, China
Artists Association, Jian-Jun Zhang, September, China
1995
“In Three Dimensions: Women Sculptors of the ’90’s”, catalog, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, New York, USA
1993
“Socrates Park: 93NY50”, Arti, Monroe Denton, August-September-October, Greece
“Environmental Sculpture”, Abitare, Paola Antonelli, January, Italy
1990
“Snug Harbor Sculpture Festival 1990”, catalog, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island,New York, USA
“New York in Review”, Arts Magazine, Robert Mahoney, November, USA
“The State of the City as Sculptors See It”, New York Times, Michael Brenson, July 27, USA
1988
“Arts Festival of Atlanta: 1987”, catalog, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
“National and International Studio Program: 1987-1988”, catalog, P.S.1, New York, USA
1987
“Space and the People Who Inhabit It”, Manhattan Arts, Edward Rubin, June, New York, USA
“National and International Studio Program: 1986-1987”, catalog, P.S.1, New York, USA
1986
“The Column: Metaphor and Motif”, catalog, Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA
“Showcase ’86”, catalog, University Gallery, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, USA
1985
“Romantic Notations”, Los Angeles Times, Suzanne Muchnic, April 12, USA
“Surf’s Up on Santa Monica Mall”, Los Angeles Times, Suzanne Muchnic, February 14, USA
Santa Monica Evening Outlook, February 13, California, USA
1984
“la parade des arts”, Jardin des Modes, Pierre C. Zins, Juin, Paris, France
1983
cover, The Center Magazine, Santa Barbara, California, USA
1982
“Familial Perceptions”, Artweek, Dr. Betty Brown, California, USA
1980
“Cardboard Art”, Los Angeles Times, William Wilson, June 13, California, USA
