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EDUCATION
1991 Master of Fine Arts (Terminal Degree), Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Elkins Park,PA, Sculpture Major. Mattress Ring outdoor implacement MFA Thesis at Former Nike Missile Control Site, Valley Forge, PA.
1989 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Scholarship. Skowhegan, ME.
1987 Continuing Education, Parsons School of Design. New York, NY
1986 Summer Filmmaking Intensive Certificate, New York University.
1985 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY, Painting Major. Climb-in It Works BFA Thesis, Exhibition of paintings, drawings and installation.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2024 capillar: Bill Schuck + Itty NeuhausSchuck, curated by Henry Klimowicz, The Re Institute, Millerton, NY
2024 Transgressing Lands: Eleven Artists Reimagine a Horizon, curated by Cristina d’Gennaro and Ashley Chapman, The Boiler at ELM Foundation, Brooklyn, NY; group show
2023 The Mirror Blue Night, curated by Patrick Neal, Undercroft Gallery, Church of the Heavenly Rest, New York, NY; group show
2021 Collective Consciousness: New Work by SUNY New Paltz Art Faculty at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, curated by Karlyn Benson
2020 BronxArtSpace, Bronx, NY, Parad(ai)xe (paradox and paradise), curated by Fan Zhongming - Postponed due to COVID
2020 Ann Street Gallery; Newburgh, NY; In-Touch, installation of 6 videos and 20+ drawings as part of changed iteration of Influenced by Nature
2020 Holland Tunnel Gallery Newburgh, NY, Group show, Brush Painting One Hand Knows What the Other Wants
2020 .edu: Art Faculty of the Hudson Valley, curated by Amy Lipton, Debut of video installation Am I Mist or am I Mountain
2020 Kradale Corporate Headquaters Gallery, White Plains, NY; Influenced by Nature, group show
2019 Rockefeller Institute for Governance, Albany, NY, Holding up the Last Iceberg in SUNY faculty show
2018 Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn, NY, , Sublimation: An Iceberg’s Story, solo show. Video projection of Icylla: The Last Iceberg’s Story, plus 30’ panorama that hung freely in the space of Greenland iceberg that I shot and altered significantly by scratching away the surface to reveal a lost paradise under the glacier.
2018 Hammond Museum & Japanese Stroll Garden, North Salem, NY, ebb…, 3 person show reinstallation of Greenland panorama reconfigured added lights behind and an 8' x 14 painted awning, new title Learning to Die in the Arctic (thanks for title to R. Scranton)
2018 LabSpace Hillsdale, NY, Nature Lab group show
2018 Ann Street Gallery, Newburgh, NY, Anthropocene group show
2017 Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz, NY, Intimately Unfamiliar, group show
2017 Tower Fine Arts Gallery, SUNY Brockport, NY, Thinking About Drawing, group show
2016 National Academy of Sciences, Arctic Week, Washington, DC, Monumental Melt (result of Arctic Fulbright 2016)
2016 Tellus Innovation Arena, Linnanmaa Campus, University of Oulu, Fulbright Finland, Ice See Level solo show
2015 Bergen Gallery, Bergen Community College, NJ Tipping Points, Artists Respond to the Climate Crises, in conjunction with Paris COP21, group show
2015 Hudson Beach Glass Gallery, curator Carl Van Brunt, Beacon, NY – I C LVL 1st Monument to an Iceberg solo show (results of preliminary Greenland trip)
2015 Katonah Museum, Katonah, NY, (curator Eva Respini Museum of Modern Art NYC) – Line Describing a Cone group show, installed unFathom video installation
2014 Pierogi Gallery, Brooklyn, NY – XX Anniversary group show
2014 Dorsky Curatorial Projects, small group show curated by Jill Conner, Queens, NY – Thaw
2014 Dedulus Foundation, curator Phong Bui, Brooklyn, NY – Come Together: Surviving Sandy
2013 111 Front Street Gallery, group show curated by Jill Conner, Brooklyn, NY – AS|AP installation of Void Orb (results of 2010 Fulbright in Newfoundland)
2012 Esther Massry Gallery, College of St. Rose, 3 person show, Albany, NY – BiPolar Journeys To the Ends of the Earth results of 2010 Fulbright in Newfoundland
2011 Pierogi Gallery, Brooklyn, NY – twin twin, 10 year anniversary of 9/11
2009 Dorsky Museum, New Paltz, NY – Ecotones and Transition Zones, group show
2009 Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte, Venice Italy – My.Memento.Vid video festival
2009 Kingston Sculpture Biennial, Kingston, NY – Icebergboats on the Hudson
2007-08 Stadthaus, Ulm, Germany – Home for Haus, solo show
2006 Handwerker Gallery, Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY – Common Ground, solo show
2005 Black and White Gallery, Brooklyn, NY – Itty Neuhaus Strata, solo show (reviewed in Sculpture Magazine)
2004 Islip Art Museum, Carriage House, Islip, NY – Fathom video installation in Site Specifics (reviewed in The New York Times)
2003 Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY – Slip large-scale video installation in Landslide group show (Slip reviewed in The Brooklyn Rail)
2003 Museo Ebraico, Venice, Italy – Markers IV: The Wandering Library, artist's book, Squeeze, in conjunction with Venice Biennial
2003 Black and White Gallery, Brooklyn, NY – Incredible Lightness of Being, group show
2003 SculptureCenter Gallery, Long Island City – Lucky Draw, group show
2001 Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo, NY – Squeeze, one of two solo shows (reviewed in The Buffalo News)
2000 Byrdcliff Arts Colony, Woodstock, NY – Utopia/Dystopia, outdoor group show
2000 Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, NY – Elements, group show
2000 State of Art Gallery, Brooklyn, NY – Inscape, group show
1999 St. Michael’s College, Colchester, VT – Spout, permanent installation
1999 Flipside, Brooklyn, NY Low Light, four light-based installations
1998 Abington Art Center, Abington, PA – Dimensions Variable, large scale installation
1997 The Sculpture Center, NYC – A Bigger Container, solo show (reviewed in The New York Times)
1997 Salena Gallery, Long Island University, Brooklyn, NY – Reunion, sculptors’ drawings
1995 Black & Herron Space, NYC – Ooze, group show
1995 The Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT – Living with Contemporary Art, group show (several reviews)
1995 Munson Williams Proctor Institute, Utica, NY – Celebrating 20 Years of Sculpture Space, group show
1995 Long Island University, Brooklyn, NY – Six Sculptors, outdoor show
1995 Exit Art, NYC – Way Cool group show
1995 The Sculpture Center, NYC – Emerging Sculptors VIII, 4 person show
1995 The Kitchen, NYC – built sets, props & performed for Annual Dance Improv Festival, collaboration with two dancers and a musician
1994 PS1 Museum, Long Island City, NY – International Studio Program, group show
1994 Sculpture Center at Roosevelt Island, NYC – Outdoor Sculpture Show 5 sculptors (reviewed in The New York Times)
1993 Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City – Sculptors of the Next Century group show
1992 Artists’ Space, NYC – The Rope Show group show
1992 One Main Street, Brooklyn, NY – To Civilize A Space solo installation
1991 Nike Missile Control Center, Valley Forge, PA – Mattress Ring, MFA Thesis Show, solo installation
SELECTED RESIDENCIES/AWARDS
2024 Stephen Pace Residency at the Fine Arts Work Center; Provincetown, MA. Two months.
2020 Just Me and the Mountain: To Paint Chinese Peaks in Winter, postponed due to COVID
2019 Fifth International Tao Hau Tan Artists’ Residency, Anhui Province, China. Three weeks.
2019 SUNY New Paltz Research + Creative Award for Chinese Brush Painting in a Strange Landscape
2018-19 MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH – artist’s residency. Three weeks.
2018 Residency Skaftfell Center for Visual Art in northeastern Iceland– artist’s residency. Three weeks.
2017 SUNY New Paltz Research and Creative Award for Birth of an Iceberg Disko Island, Greenland
2016 Autonomous Ocean Systems Lab, Memorial University, St. John’s, Newfoundland: imaging icebergs above + below for 3D prints at New Paltz Innovation Lab, 6 week host stay for Fulbright, on Labrador Sea
2016 SUNY New Paltz Research and Creative Award for Icylla: The Last Iceberg’s Story Vatnajökull glacial lagoon, Iceland (permission granted to use in 2017)
2015-16 Fulbright Arctic Initiative – with 16 other scholars collaborate on Arctic themes: water, infrastructure/health, energy
2015 SUNY New Paltz Research and Creative Award to attend Climate Days conference Ilullisat, Greenland
2014 SUNY New Paltz Research and Creative Award “seed grant” for Hands at Work Antarctica Project to film at Ice Core Laboratory, Denver, Co (for future National Science Foundation proposal (projected Astral Summer 2017)
2013 Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY – one month artists' residency
2011 Fulbright Scholar Award Current Shift: Shifting Perspectives, 4 month Research/Lecture fellowship in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
2011 Artist in Residence through Parks Canada, Gros Morne National Park Discovery Centre, Woody Point, Newfoundland. Two months.
2011 MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH – artists' residency
2011 SUNY New Paltz Research and Creative Award for Vertical Void project
2010 MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH – artists' residency. One month
2010 SUNY New Paltz Research and Creative Award for Current Shift project
2009 SUNY New Paltz Research and Creative Award for Current Shift project
2008 United University Professions Individual Development Award for Current Shift, iceberg visual research in Newfoundland
2008 SUNY New Paltz Research and Creative Award for Current Shift project
2006 The Experimental Television Center's Presentation Funds for Ithaca College project
2006 United University Professions Individual Development Award for video editting classes
2006 Artist's Residency, Stadthaus, Ulm, Germany
2006 SUNY New Paltz Research and Creative Award for Home für Haus project
2005 SUNY New Paltz Research and Creative Award to Iceland for iceberg research
2005 SUNY New Paltz Pre-Tenure Fellowship Leave to Slovenia
2004 SUNY New Paltz Research and Creative Projects Award – to Newfoundland and Labrador for iceberg research
2003 NYFA New York Foundation for the Arts, SOS Special Opportunity Stipends Program
2003 Cuts and Burns Video Editing Residency, Outpost and Momenta Art – to edit Slip videos
2003 SUNY New Paltz Research and Creative Projects Award – Iceland glacial crevasse research
2003 United University Professions Individual Development Award – to Iceland
2002 Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY – one month artists' residency
2001 New York State Council on the Arts – through Hallwalls for Squeeze
2001 National Endowment for the Arts – through Hallwalls for Squeeze
2001 Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts – through Hallwalls for Squeeze
2000 Strammür Art Colony, Hafnarfjodur, Iceland – summer residency
1998 St Michael’s College Residency, Colchester, VT – summer residency
1997 Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY – two month artists' residency
1996 Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY – one month artists' residency
1994 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, awarded by Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner estates
1994 Sculpture Space, Utica, NY – two month artists' residency
1993 PS 1 Museum National Studio Program, New York, NY – one year studio award
1992 Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA – seven-month residency
1992 MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH – (declined) artists' residency
1991 Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA – seven-month residency
1991 Millay Colony, Austerlitz, NY – one month artists' residency
1988 Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT – six week residency
1985 Ida B. Haskell Travelling Fellowship from Pratt Institute to a graduating senior – two months research karst landscapes in China exploring traditional mountain landscapes and their miniature counterparts, Pen Jing.
INTERVIEWS
Susan Hoffman Fishman, Imaging Icebergs interview with me in Artists & Climate Change, online journal April 21, 2021.
Beth Wilson, Itty Neuhaus on her Work Chronogram Portfolio, January 2008.
Julie Carr, Beauty in the Beast - Julie Carr interviews Itty Neuhaus, Movement Research Journal #11, Fall 1995: 6. Picture
SELECTED REVIEWS
Karen Bjornland, "Going to Extremes... for their Art" Daily Gazette – Capital Region, Feb 3, 2013.
Beth Wilson, "Itty Neuhaus on her Work" Chronogram Portfolio, January 2008.
Dr. Ulricke Ritter, "The Conscience of the artist. The American Land-Art artist Itty Neuhaus installs History in the City of Ulm" Kunst-Spectrum.de, Jan 11, 2008.
Jürgen Kanold, "Stone by Stone" (transl.) Südwest Presse Ulm, Sept 10, 2007.
Karen Annemaier, "About One Person Who Did Not Make it Out [in Time]" (transl.), Schwäbische Zeitung, Sept 7, 2007.
no author, "Itty Neuhaus Hunts for her German Roots" (transl.) Schwäbische Zeitung, Sept 5, 2007.
Roland Mayer, "The Barbara Statue over Deep Water"(transl.) Neu Ulmer Zeitung, Sept 4, 2007.
Jürgen Kanold, "Traces of the Homeland" (transl.) Südwest Presse Ulm, Sept 3, 2007.
Karla Nieraad, "Itty Neuhaus in Ulm" Against Forgetting – For Democracy (translation from German), December 2006.
Roland Mayer, "Barbara aus Stein im Haus am Fluss" Neu Ulmer Zeitung, July 14, 2006.
Monika Höna, "Ein Schreibtisch erzählt Geschichten" Ulmer Kulturspiegel, July 26, 2006.
Jill Conner, “Brooklyn, Itty Neuhaus, Black and White Gallery” Sculpture Magazine, October 2005: 74. Vol. 24 No. 8.
Helen A. Harrison, “Beautiful and No Water Required” The New York Times, Sunday, 11 July 2004: Arts & Leisure 11.
John Hawke, “Landslide: Smack Mellon Through October 19” The Brooklyn Rail, October 2003: 10-11.
Richard Huntington, “Inner Space” Buffalo News, 20 July 2001: Gusto: 1.
Daniel Baird, “Inscape” The Brooklyn Rail On-Line, Summer 2000, n.p.
Jennifer Dalton, “Low Light” Review, 15 Jan. 1999: 30-31.
Jane Ingram Allen, “Career Maquette” Sculpture Magazine, Feb. 1998: 41-48. pictures.
Grace Glueck, “A Bigger Container” The New York Times, 12 Sept. 1997: C25.
Barbara Pollack, “Bringing Home the Bread” Art News, March 1996: 29. picture.
William Zimmer, “Adventurous Homeowners, Modern Look” The New York Times, 3 Dec. 1995: C1. picture.
Julie Carr, “Beauty in the Beast - Julie Carr interviews Itty Neuhaus” Movement Research Performance Journal #11, Fall 1995: 6. pictures.
Holland Cotter, “Sculpture Not Meant to Last Forever” New York Times, 18 Aug. 1995: C1. picture.
Holland Cotter, “Sculpture Under the Sky: Free Daring and Soon Departed” New York Times, 26 Aug. 1994: C1.
VISITING ARTIST PRESENTATIONS
2017 One Arctic, Many Visions; Peace in the Arctic Conference, University of Trømso; Trømso, Norway
2015 Open to the Sky BHA Sukkoh, Beacon, NY Ice-Carving Jam: the Shape of Impermanence
2013 Foundations in Art: Theory and Education FATE PostHaus Conference presented paper Unlearning with the Field Guide borrowing from the sciences as a substitute for the traditional sketchbook
2011 Visiting Fulbright Scholar, Visual Arts Program, Sir Wilfred Grenfell College, Memorial University of Newfoundland. Co-taught New Media Course once a week 5 hour class for a month. Senior BFA exhibit critiques
2011 Stop-motion animation workshops with Foundation classes at Nova Scotia College of the Arts, Halifax, Nova Scotia
2011 Visiting Artist at Trout River high school senior art class Matter Mural in which students made a mosaic out of organic material. Six visits
2007 Exhibit walk-through and Q+A with my father, whose emigration from Nazi Germany was the subject of the 3 year project, Stadthaus, Ulm, Germany Home fur Haus
2006 Lecturer, Ithaca College Art Department Light Fantastic Lecture Series
2005 Lecturer, SUNY New Paltz Student Art Alliance Lecture Series, Itty Neuhaus: Installation Artist
2005 Lecturer, Montclair State University, Itty Neuhaus: Sculptor
2005 Lecturer, Gallery of Contemporary Art, Celje, Slovenia – Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York’s Other Art Scene
2005 Lecturer, University of Ljubljana, Academies of Fine Arts and Design, Slovenia – Itty Neuhaus: Installation Artist
2003 Guest Artist, Rhode Island School of Design – Gallery lecture at Smack Mellon installation
2002 Guest Artist, Art Department, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY – NYC Gallery Tour and Lectures
1998 Visiting Artist, Sculpture Department, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY – Guest Critiques and Slide Lecture
1997 Artist-in-Residence, Alfred University, Alfred, NY, Light and Shadow Lecture Series – Project with the Glass Department and a collaborative project with students from all departments making shadow-casting containers and a mural of shadows drawn on the wall.
1995 Guest Artist, Sculpture Department, School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, MA. Students visit my studio
1995 Guest Artist, Graduate Sculpture Dept, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA. Students visit my studio
1994 Guest Artist, Graduate Sculpture Dept, Tyler School of Art, Elkins Park, PA. Students visited my studio
1993 Guest Artist, Sculpture Department, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island. Junior and Senior Final Critiques
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2006– Current position: Associate Professor, Art Department, State University of New York at New Paltz, NY.
Technology-based Foundation Art Position. Design Form, Visual Thinking: Drawing I and II, Senior Art Seminar, Figure Drawing, CAPs BSVA
Graduate classes of my own design:
Every Body Tells a Story, a Grad Selected Topics, the body in contemporary art and craft;
New York, New York: A critical introduction to contemporary art movements Grad students contextualized their work in relation to current art movements. We went to a different gallery neighborhood each visit to get the “lay of the land” of the NYC art world. Taught 3x 1.0
2017-18 SUNY New Paltz Sabbatical (Fulbright Arctic Initiative, solo show at Kentler Gallery). 1.0 year
2010-11 SUNY New Paltz Sabbatical (Fulbright in Newfoundland). 1.0
2012–14 Coordinator of Foundation (First Year) Art, State University of New York at New Paltz, NY.
2005 Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, Academies of Fine Arts and Design. Co-taught Three Dimensional Design for Second Year Industrial Design Majors.
2005 SUNY New Paltz Pre-Tenure Fellowship Leave to Slovenia for cave research. .5 year
2000–06 Assistant Professor, Art Department, State University of New York at New Paltz, NY. Technology-based Foundation Art Position.
Position. Integrated Design I and II, Visual Thinking: Drawing I and I, Senior Art Seminar, New York, New York: A critical introduction to contemporary art movements 1.0 fulltime
1999–00 Visiting Assistant Professor, Foundation Department, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY. Three Dimensional Design and Drawing.
Three-Dimensional Design and Drawing 1.0 year
1998 Visiting Adjunct Professor, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI. Out of the Muck–How Structures Take Shape. Advanced Sculpture. Self-titled vernacular architecture and installation course.
1997–99 Visiting Adjunct Professor, New York University, New York, NY. Fundamentals of Sculpture. Welding, woodworking, plaster modeling and contemporary art issues.
1991 Senior Lecturer, Computer Graphics Department, University of the Arts; Philadelphia, PA ,br /> Computer Graphics I, II, III. Conducted intensive computer graphics seminars. .50 adjunct
1990–91 Part-time Faculty, Sculpture Department, Tyler School of Art, Temple University; Elkins Park, PA. Foundation 3D Design. (in addition to technical assistantship)
1990–91 Woodshop Technical Assistantship, Tyler School of Art, Temple University; Elkins Park, PA.
1988–99 Visiting Adjunct Professor, School of Professional Studies, Pratt Institute; New York, NY. Courses and seminars: Mac Competency, Photoshop, Illustrator and Quark.
1987–99 Consultant to corporations, design firms and artists – computer graphics artist and trainer.
1983–86 Production Assistant, special effects, pyrotechnics, props, animal wrangler for film and television.