Sabrina Puppin — Riverside Gallery

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Bio:

Ms. Sabrina Puppin is an internationally exhibited visual artist. Many renowned venues internationally have showcased Ms. Puppin’s work, including Satellite Art Show in Miami, SHIM Gallery, Cluster Gallery and BWAC Galleries in New York, and galleries and museums in Qatar, Germany, Russia, China, Israel, and India. She received the 1st Donatello Prize, 2023 and named by Effetto Arte Foundation one of the 50 artists to invest in. She participated at the 4th Bienal de Arte Barcelona at Museu Europeu D’Art Modern, 2022 and won the International Paris Prize 2022 for her artistic merit. She was chosen to represent the Italian contemporary art in 2020 by the Italian Embassy in Qatar and awarded a solo show at Al Gassar Gallery, Doha, Qatar. Qatar Museums granted her a personal retrospective at the Fire Station galleries, Doha, Qatar. She was awarded showcase in the 2018 national juried art show COLOR by the juror Marcela Guerrero, Assistant Curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art. In 2013, Ms. Puppin was guest artist at the celebration of the 300th anniversary of the founding of Saint Petersburg, Russia at the Gorohovaya 6 Gallery. Additionally, she has exhibited twice (2002, 2003) at the Lalit Kala Akademi, India’s government-run national academy of fine art. Her work is held in collections in Argentina, Ecuador, Germany, Greece, Italy, Japan, Qatar, Russia, Switzerland, the UK, and the USA.

Ms. Puppin work has been selected to be part of the 2023 Florence Biennale.

Ms. Puppin is the recipient of several highly prestigious residencies. She was selected as Artist-in-Residence for Expo 2015, representing Qatar at the prestigious event in Milan, Italy. Also, she was awarded two residencies at the Center for Contemporary Arts Afghanistan, Kabul, Afghanistan, in 2013 and 2014. The residencies were organized by the Turquoise Mountain Institute, and funded by the Qatar Museums Authority.

Ms. Puppin has collaborated with leading international artists including Ayesha Gamiet (UK), Khadim Ali (Pakistan), Adam Williamson (UK) and Rachel Gadsden (UK). Ms. Puppin’s work has featured in major publications including FACT, Qatar Tribune, The Peninsula, Sur La Terre, Gulf Times, Art International Contemporary Magazine, Time Out., and Al Jazeera Media Network

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Statement:

My work is an investigation of my observation of reality and the distorted perception I have of that reality. The world as seen and known begins to dematerialize and the underlying spatial relationships disappear. I suggest that reality and perception are two sides of the same coin in the way they interweave and coexist; as perception arises uniquely for each individual who is observing part of reality. The work is a negotiation between structure (vessel) and surface (fluid space), where the structure is the static and analytic (rational) component and the painted surface is the energetic and spontaneous (expressionist) component. As a choreographer, I organize color’s movement within space. The space’s proportions frame the action of color in a very unique and unexpected way, amplifying or shrinking different aspect of the painting. Through the use of hyper-colorful, shining, and overwhelming abstract arrangements, I depict and investigate the distorted perception of the reality around me, aiming to express my feelings and daydreams through work that wants to be felt, walked in front of, stared at, and dwelt on, rather than merely be illustrative.

With my painting I seek to reinstate the primacy of form and color as formal elements in works composed according to aesthetic principles. My work is about the individual perception of reality obtained through visual meditation. I do not want to add noise in a world already so disturbingly loud. I want to add pleasant sounds, a music which helps to relax, meditate, and find strength to continue to live. The need for positive emotions in the world today has never been greater. My work surely cannot change the world, but just wants to create a visionary space where the viewer can live in and be dazed by unpredictable optical effects.

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CV:

Education:

2018: MFA Fine Arts, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY, USA

2008: Ph.D. Interdisciplinary Studies, Specialization in African Art Studies (Dissertation on Contemporary African Women Artists); Union Institute and University, Cincinnati, OH, USA

2003: M.A. Art History and Anthropology, Vermont College, Union Institute and University, Montpelier, VT, USA (Master’s Thesis: Masks as a World Phenomenon)

2002: B.A. Art History and Art Studio (double major); Vermont College, Norwich University, Montpelier, VT, USA

1999: Dip: Painting and Drawing, Neue Kunst Schule, Zurich, Switzerland

Solo Exhibitions:

2020 Enclosed Realities, Fire Station, Qatar Museums, Doha, Qatar

POP UP, Eiwan Al Gassar Gallery, Doha, Qatar (chosen by Italian government to represent Italian contemporary arts in occasion of the Italian Contemporary Art Day)

2019 Containing the Uncontainable, Flatiron Project Space, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY, USA

Sabrina Puppin Presents …, SVA, New York, NY, USA

Is It Real?, The Cluster Gallery, New York, NY, USA

Fluid Perceptions, The Corridor Gallery, Grand Hyatt, Doha, Qatar.

Visual Meditations, Chashama Gallery, New York, NY, USA

2018 Distorted Reality, The Cluster Gallery, New York, NY, USA

American Dream, presented by The Durst Organization and Chashama, Lobby Gallery, New York, NY, USA

2004 Sabrina Puppin, All India Arts & Craft Society, Rafi Marg, New Delhi, India

1999 Sabrina Puppin- Solo Exhibition, Spektakel 2000 Gallerie, Oberursel, Germany

1996 Solo Exhibition, American Women Club Frankfurt Gallery, Oberursel, Germany

Group Exihbitions:

2022 4th International Bienal Barcelona, MEAM Museu Europeu d’Art Modern, Barcelona, Spain

City Rhyme, StartaArta Gallery, New York, NY, USA

Jigsaw Snap, StartaArta Gallery, New York, NY, USA

The Elements – Wind,Fire, Earth, Sky, Sea, at the BWAC, New York, NY, USA

2021 Fall 2.0, BWAC Gallery, New York, NY, USA

The Sky Continues Beatiful, BWAC Gallery, New York, NY, USA

The Way I See It, online show on BWAC Artsy site https://www.artsy.net/brooklynwaterfront-artist-coalition

2020 Abstract and Abstracted: Our Reality, Fantasy, Perception, and Imagination, Riverside Gallery, Hackensack, NJ, USA

Wide Open, Juried by Paulina Pobocha, associate curator MOMA NY, curated by Alicia Degenet and Stephanie Norberg, at the BWAC, New York, NY, USA

ART from the Inside, curated by Steven Weiss and Leslie Connito, at the BWAC, New York, NY, USA

2019 15th Annual Small Works Show, Juried by John Gagné, 440 Gallery, New York, NY, USA

Dare Small, The Cluster Gallery, New York, NY, USA

2018 Magic Plastic Lounge, curated by Dana Robinson and Sarah Malekzadeh, Satellite Art Show, Basel Art Miami 2018, Miami, FL, USA

14th Annual Small Work Show, juror Nicole Kaack, 440 Gallery, New York, NY, USA

GOS 2018 Small Work, The Cluster Gallery, New York, NY, USA

COLOR, juror Marcela Guerrero (assistant curator Whitney Museum), curated by Katrina Jeffries and Alicia Degener, Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Council, New York, NY, USA

Tactics, Works, Terms, Forms, Statements, curated by Kari Conte, New York City, NY, USA

Perceptual Coding, SVA Chelsea Gallery, New York City, NY, USA

SHIM Invitational 6, curated by Wilson Duggan, Shim Arthelix Gallery, New York, NY, USA

Greatest Show on Earth, Side Show Gallery, New York, NY, USA

2017 AAAAAAAAAAAAAH!, Pop-Up Show, Space Heater Gallery, New York, NY, USA

Grand Saloon Show, Greenpoint Gallery, New York, NY, USA

BWYL, Rema Hort Mann Foundation, New York, NY, USA

2009 Summer at Home Exhibition, Waqif Art Center, Doha, Qatar

2007 Art Exhibition, Qatar Academy, Doha, Qatar

2005 AICGS, American Institute for Contemporary German Studies, Washington DC, USA

Group Show, Embassy of India, Washington DC

2004 Triennial, Lalit Kala Academy, New Delhi, India