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HENRIETTA MANTOOTH

studio phone: 917-576-5242
email: mantooth.hb@gmail.com

EXHIBITIONS OF PAINTINGS, DRAWINGS, INSTALLATIONS and PRESENTATIONS

2022 Gold Standard Arts Festival, Goddard Riverside Bernie Wohl Center, NYC *
2022 Goddard Riverside Bernie Wohl Center, NYC, “Women’s Work: The Challenge of Making Our Mark, W.H.A.M. Art Exhibit 2022”
2021 Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, “Per(Sister): Incarcerated Women of the United States”
2020 Ford Foundation Gallery NYC, “Per(Sister): Incarcerated Women of Louisiana”
2020 Kleinert James Center for the Arts, Woodstock, NY, Byrdcliffe Residence Artists
2019 Newcomb Museum, New Orleans, LA, “Per(Sister): Incarcerated Women of Louisiana”
2019 14th Street Event, NYC, “Art in Odd Places”
2019 Kleinert James Center for the Arts, Woodstock, NY, Byrdcliffe Residence Artists
2018 Joan Mitchell Foundation Gallery, NYC, “Dimensions”
2018 Westbeth Gallery, NYC, “Sympathetic Magic”
2018 Kleinert James Center for the Arts, Woodstock, NY, “In the Air: Byrdcliffe Residence Artists”
2018 Sideshow Gallery, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY, “Rabbit Hole”
2017 Critical Practices, 21st Street Projects NYC, “The Displaced” *
2016 Joan Mitchell Center, New Orleans, LA, Community Talk with Slide Presentation *
2016 VOCA-Joan Mitchell Foundation, Museum of the City of NY, Live Interview and Slide Presentation *
2016 School of Visual Arts, NYC, “Sheroes: Three Woman Artists” Talk and Slide Presentation
2015 Greene County Council for the Arts Gallery, Catskill, NY, “Jailbirds and the New Jim Crow” Installation & Public Discussion *
2014 Kleinert-James Art Center, Woodstock, NY, “Jailbirds and Flowers” Installation & Public Discussion *
2014 Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, Summit, NJ, “Women Choose Women Again”
2013 Imogene Holloway Gallery, Saugerties, NY, “Cars” Installation *
2011 KTD Monastery, Woodstock, NY, “Refugee Paintings”
2011 Brooklyn Creative League, Brooklyn, NY
2010 Sideshow Gallery, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY
2009 Sideshow Gallery, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY, “The Hand Knows Everything” *
2006 Studio 9AA, Chelsea Arts Building, NYC, “Mantooth New Work” *
2005 Kleinert-James Art Center, Woodstock, NY, “A Life in Paint” *
2005 Sulkin Secant Gallery, Bergamot Center, Santa Monica, CA
2000 Muroff-Kofler Visual Arts Gallery, Stone Ridge, NY, “Paint and Writing” *
1998 York College Gallery, Queens, NY, “Paintings & Drawings” *
1997 Atlantic Gallery, NYC, “Beginnings” *
1997 Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts, CA
1994 Gallery 1199, NYC *
1992 The Queens Museum of Art, NYC *
1991 The Meadow Brook Gallery, Oakland University, MI, “In the Spirit of Protest” *
1989 American Academy of Arts & Letters, NYC *
1975 Artists Space, NYC *
1963 Fifth International Biennial, Sao Paulo, Brazil
1960 Sao Paulo Museum of Art, Brazil
1958 Museum of Modern Art of Sao Paulo, Brazil
1956 Museum of Modern Art of Bahia, Brazil

* Solo exhibit

MULTIMEDIA FEATURES

2022 Gold Standard Arts Festival, Goddard Riverside Bernie Wohl Center, NYC, screening of “SHU BOX FEATURING THE HUMAN LISTENING AND TALKING MACHINE”
2022 featured in Look, Look, Look, Look, Look Again: Buddhist Wisdom Reflected In 26 Artists by Kevin Townley Jr., Lionheart Press
2017 Art511Mag, Ten Top Artists NYC
2015 70pluslifeatthetop.com Interview and Art Images
2009 Documentary Film, Rogue Films
2008-09 Persimmon Tree, Featured Artist
2007 Ellartexchange.com Artist of the Month

AWARDS

2020 The American Academy of Arts & Letters
2019 Pollack Krasner Grant
2015 Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institute
2013 Pollack Krasner Grant, Sandy Art Loss
2013 New York Foundation for the Arts Grant
2011-13 The Joan Mitchell Foundation, CALL Program Grant
1997 New York Foundation for the Arts, Emergent Forms Award
1996 Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation, NY, Painting Grant Award
1994 The Joan Mitchell Foundation NYC, Painting Award
1989 American Academy of Arts & Letters Painting Award

ARTISTS RESIDENCIES

2019 Byrdcliffe Artist in Residence, Woodstock, NY
2017 Byrdcliffe Artist in Residence, Woodstock, NY
2016 Joan Mitchell Center Residency, New Orleans, LA
2015 Byrdcliffe Artist in Residence, Woodstock, NY
2013 Byrdcliffe Artist in Residence, Woodstock, NY
2009 The Yaddo Corporation Residency, Saratoga Springs, NY
2008 The Sacatar Residency, Bahia, Brazil
2007 The Yaddo Corporation Residency, Saratoga Springs, NY
2006 The Yaddo Corporation Residency, Saratoga Springs, NY
2002 Santa Fe Art Institute, Visiting Artist, Santa Fe, NM
1990 The MacDowell Colony Residency, NH, Dryfus Award
1975-83 University of Illinois, Urbana
1979 University of Indiana, Bloomington

PERFORMANCE AND VISUAL ARTS IN THEATER

2017 VOCA Interview
2014 Audio Recording of Lanford Wilson’s Hot L Baltimore, New York, NY
2004 Film, Kinsey, role of The Poet
1981-02 York College, City University of New York, NY
1971-95 Circle Repertory Company, New York, NY
1993 Video: Henrietta Mantooth
1975-83 University of Illinois, Urbana, IL
1982 78 Theater Lab, New York, NY
1980 Caramoor Music Festival, NY
1979 Juilliard Theater, New York, NY
1972-80 All Angels Theater Troop, New York, NY
1979 University of Indiana, Bloomington, IN
1974 Manhattan Theater Club, New York, NY

PRESS

NY Post, “NYC resident Henrietta Mantooth is still painting the town at 97”, 2022
CBS News, “97-Year-Old Artist Henrietta Mantooth Getting Ready For Gold Standard Arts Festival On Upper West Side”, 2022
The Westside Spirit, “Henrietta Mantooth, 97, to Exhibit at Arts Festival Kick-Off Party,” 2022
Voices in Contemporary Art (VOCA), “ON RISKING DELIGHT: A VOCA TALK WITH HENRIETTA MANTOOTH,” 2017
Featured Interview with Don West, and editorial “One of a Kind,” 70pluslifeatthetop.com, 2015
Charlie Holmes, “Looking Behind the Bars at Prison,” The Daily Mail, Catskill, NY, 2015
WGXC Radio, Interview with Michelle Lewis, Hudson, NY, 2015
Charlie Holmes, “A Life Rehabilitated,” The Daily Mail, Catskill, NY, 2015
“Prison Panel: Behind Bars” Press Release, GCCA, The Daily Mail, Catskill, NY, 2015
Lynn Woods, “Henrietta Mantooth’s Jailbirds and Flowers” Almanac Weekly, October 2014
Paul Smart, “Car Show,” Woodstock Times, 2013
Rebecca Rothbaum, “Life in Paint,” Poughkeepsie Journal, 2005
Paul Smart, “The Accidental Artist,” Woodstock Times, March 2005
“Mantooth at Kleinert Arts Center,” Kingston Freeman, March 2005
“Mantooth at Kleinert,” Catskill Arts Magazine, March 2005
Paul Smart, “Colleague Curation,” Woodstock Times, April 2002
Rick O’Corozine, “Saying It With Feeling,” Woodstock Times, November 2000
Arlene Raven, “Days with Art,” Village Voice, October 1993
Eileen Swift, “Messages Sent Through Art,” Newsday, March 1991
Alastair Gordon, “Different Women, Different Views,” Newsday, March 1991
Joy Hakenson, “Gallery Doors Open Slowly for Woman Artists,” Detroit News, February 1991
Eleanor Munroe, “Originals: American Women Artists,” NYC 1979
“Three Women Painters,” WBAI Interview, December 1975
Mel Gussow review of e.e.cummings “him” scenic design, New York Times, April 1974
Howard Thompson review “Thomas Andros” scenic design, New York Times, June 1973
Village Voice review “Thomas Andros” scenic design, Circle Repertory, June 1973
Nancy Azara “Found Women,” Ms. Magazine, January 1973

EDUCATION

Art Students League, George Grosz Scholarship, New York, NY
Martenot Drawing and Sculpture Studio, Florence, Italy
Andre Lhote Painting Studio, Paris
Sossy Cuylen/da Costa Studios, São Paulo, Brazil
Polakov School of Scenic Design, New York, NY
Circle Repertory Workshop, New York, NY
Joseph Chaikin Theater Workshop, New York, NY
Christine Lavren Theater Workshop, New York, NY
Bill Esper Theater School, New York, NY
University of Missouri at Columbia, BA
University of Mexico City, DF, Spanish Studies
University of Caracas, Venezuela, Arts and Letters in Spanish

(Member Actors Equity and SAG)        (Fluent in Spanish and Portuguese languages)