Selected Exhibitions and Projects Since 2000

Solo

2024 TBD, Black Family Visual Arts Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH

2023 My Neighbor’s Garden, sculpture commission for the Madison Square Park Conservancy, New York, NY June 26 - December 10

Redhook at Bedford Terrace reinstalled with old and new acquisitions, Smith College Museum of Art,  Northampton, MA, Spring 2022 - Winter 2023

2018 Sheila Pepe: Hot Mess Formalism, deCordova Sculpture Park & Museum, Lincoln, MA (October 18- March 10, 2019)

 Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY (February 16 - May 13)

Bemis Center for the Arts, Omaha, NE.  (June 28 - September 22)

Softly.. before the Supreme Court. Minnesota Museum of American Art, St. Paul, MN (December 2- April 7, 2019)

2017 Sheila Pepe: Hot Mess Formalism, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ. Curator: Gilbert Vicario (catalogue) 

2013 T-7 Pauseway, Art International with PASAJ, Artist’s Space, Istanbul, Turkey

2012 Common Sense Athens, American College of Greece: Deree, Aghia Paraskevi, Greece

2011 Common Sense and Other Things, Carroll and Sons Art Gallery, Boston, MA 

Common Sense, He Said She Said, Oak Park, IL

2010 Simple Drawing (public commission), Arts on the Point, University of Massachusetts, Boston, MA 

2009 Yo Mama, Dust Gallery, Las Vegas, NV

Common Sense (collaboration with curator Elizabeth Dunbar), testsite, Fluent~Collaborative, Austin, TX

2008 Red Hook at Bedford Terrace, Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA (video)

2007  Bus Lines, Drawing Center and River to River Festival’s “Big Draw,” World Financial Center Plaza and Wintergarden, New York, NY

2005 Mind the Gap, University Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA (catalogue)

Hot Lesbian Formalism, Sesnon Gallery, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA

Tunnel, Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ (catalogue)

2004 Bridge and Tunnel, Susan Inglett Gallery, New York, NY

I Love New York, Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, MA 

2003 From Delancey and Clinton, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA

Under the F & G, Visual Art Center of Richmond, VA (catalogue)

2002 Sheila Pepe, Susan Inglett Gallery, New York, NY

Come Fly with Me, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC 

2000 Shrink, Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT (catalogue)

Josephine, Thread Waxing Space, New York, NY (catalogue)

Two and Three-Person

2021 Carrie Moyer & Sheila Pepe: Tabernacles for Trying Times, Museum of Art & Design, New York , NY. (May 22, 2021- Feb 6, 2022)

2020 Carrie Moyer & Sheila Pepe: Tabernacles for Trying Times, Portland Museum of Art, ME  (February 7- August15th) (catalogue)

2016  Carrie Moyer and Sheila Pepe, The Suburban, Milwaukee, WI

2015 Sheila Pepe: A Place for Looking with Paola Ferrario, Fabiola Menchelli and Julie Ryan, Carroll & Sons Art Gallery, Boston, MA

2012 Collaboration with shoe designer Alejandro Ingelmo, High Line Room, The Standard Hotel, for New York Fashion Week, New York, NY

Participant, Inc. Presents Pepe & Puntar’s Lucid Dream Lounge with Special Guests…(with Diana Puntar), Participant, Inc., New York, NY

Untold Stories: Alexandre, Yulim, Sheila Pepe, Tea for Three Curatorial Group, RAM Studios, Milan, Italy 

2011 A Room, in Three Movements: Katy Heinlein, Sheila Pepe and Halsey Rodman, Sue Scott Gallery, New York, NY

2007 Liquid Sky (collaboration with Ball-Nogus Architects), Young Architects Program, MoMA PS1, Long Island City, NY

Group

2023 A Ribbon Runs Through It, Columbus Museum at the University of Columbus, GA

2022 Threading the Needle, The Church, Sag Harbor, New York, curators: Sara Cochran and Eric Fischl

American Stories: Gifts from the Jersey City Museum Collection, Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ

2021 AbStranded: Fiber Abstraction in Contemporary Art, Everson Museum, Syracuse, NY /Covid postponed from 2020

2019 Queer Abstraction, DesMoines Art Center, IA. Curator: Jared Ladesma (April 17-September 8)

Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS (November 21, 2019 - March 8, 2020)

Even Thread Has a Speech, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI. Curator: Shannon Stratton (September 1 - February 2, 2020)

Yoko Ono: Remembering the Future, Everson Museum, Syracuse, NY. Curator: D.J. Hellerman  (August 31 – October 27, 2019)

Give me your hand, dove, so that I may climb into your nest, TEN AT SEVEN at the SJ Weiler Foundation, New York, NY (May 22 - September 30, 2019) (catalogue)

2018 Toward a New Archeology, Dorothy W. Levitt Lobby, Peter Jay Sharp Building, Brooklyn Academy of Music, NY

Objects Like Us, Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT

Women House: Une exposition collective d’artistes femmes, National Museum of Women in Arts, Washington D.C.

2017 Elaine, Let Get the Hell Out of Here, Nicelle Beauchene Gallery, New York, NY. Curator: Ashton Cooper

Without God or Governance, Marinaro Gallery, New York, NY. Curator: Jesse Greenberg

Women House: Une exposition collective d’artistes femmes, Monnaie de Paris, France

2016 Queering Space, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT. Curators: A group of nine http://art.yale.edu/Queeringspace

Ceramics Now, Jane Hartsook Gallery, Greenwich House Pottery, New York, NY (catalogue)

Love, Neiman Gallery, Columbia University, New York, NY. Curator: Rachel Stern

Sew What?, Children’s Museum of the Arts, New York, NY. Curator: Jil Weinstock

Queer Threads, Mills Center for the Arts, Boston, MA. Curator: John Chaich (catalogue)

2015 Fiber: Sculpture 1960–Present, Wexner Center for Contemporary Art, Columbus, OH. Curator: Jenelle Porter (catalogue)

A Tendency Toward Textiles, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI. Curator: Allison Ferris (catalogue)

Sampling, Pavel Zoubok Gallery, New York, NY. Curator: Dara Meyers-Kingsley

2014 Fiber: Sculpture 1960–Present, ICA/Boston, MA. Curator: Jenelle Porter, October 2014 - January 2015 (catalogue)

We Have Never Participated: The 8th Shenzhen Sculpture Biennale, OCAT, Shenzhen, China. Curator: Marko Daniel (catalogue)

Queer Threads, Leslie-Lohman Museum, New York, NY. Curator: John Chaich (catalogue)

2013  Invitational Exhibition of Visual Artists, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY

Come Together: Surviving Sandy, Industry City Brooklyn, NY. Curator: Phong Bui (catalogue)

2012 ARTInRETI: Artistic Practices and Urban Transformation in Piedmont, Cittadellarte–Fondazione Pistoletto, Biella, Italy. Curator: Giorgio Caione (catalogue)

Paper Space: Drawings by Sculptors, Inman Gallery, Houston, TX

B-OUT, Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York, NY. Curator: Scott Hug

Studio Aperti, Ameno, Italy. Curator: Asilo Bianco 

Volta8 (with Sue Scott Gallery), Basel, Switzerland 

2010 Chime In, Artisterium, Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia. Curators: Lydia Matthews and Laurie Lazer (catalogue)

Hand + Made: The Performative Impulse in Art & Craft, Contemporary Art Museum Houston, TX. Curator: Valerie Cassel Oliver (catalogue)

2008 The Future Must Be Sweet: Lower East Side Printshop Celebrates 40 Years, International Print Center New York, NY. Curator: Marilyn S. Kushner (catalogue)

Radical Lace and Subversive Knitting, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ (catalogue)

This Show Needs You, San Jose ICA, CA. Organizers: Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens

Break the Rules!, Manheim Kunstverein, Manheim, Germany (catalogue)

2007 Material Pursuits, Robert Hull Fleming Museum, Burlington, Vermont. Curator: Evelyn C. Hankins (catalogue)

Arte Povera Oggi. Per una nuova arte di guerriglia (Poor Art Today. For a New Guerrilla Art), ESSO Gallery, New York, NY

Shared Women, LACE, Los Angeles, CA 

2006 Radical Lace and Subversive Knitting, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY (catalogue)

When Artists Say We, Artists Space, New York, NY

Decelerate, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MI (catalogue)

New Prints 2005/Winter, International Print Center New York, NY

2003 Project Spaces, Artists Space, New York, NY. Curators: Lauri Firstenberg and Jenn Joy 

2002 The Photogenic, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA. Curator: Ingrid Schafner 

Brooklyn: NextNext Visual Art, Brooklyn Academy of Music, NY. Curator: Dan Cameron

2000 Verging on Real, Wave Hill, Bronx, NY. Curator: Jennifer McGregor (catalogue)

The Energy Inside, Faulconer Gallery, Grinnell College, Grinnell, IA. Curator: Dan Strong  (catalogue)

2000 Greater New York, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY (catalogue)

The End, Exit Art/The First World, New York, NY