education
| 1979 | MFA, Sculpture, Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles, CA |
| 1976 | BFA, Sculpture, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, IL |
awards
| 2023 | Distinguished Legacy Award, College of Fine & Applied Arts, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| 2019 | ISC Outstanding Educator Award, International Sculpture Center |
| 2016 | John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship |
| 2007 | City of Los Angeles Individual Artist Fellowship (COLA) |
| 1996 | J.Paul Getty Trust Fund for the Visual Arts, California Community Foundation |
| 1994 | Residency, Roswell Artist-in-Residence Program, Roswell, NM |
| 1993 | Art Matters Inc., New York, Individual Fellowship |
| 1986 | National Endowment for the Arts, Individual Fellowship, Sculpture |
solo and two-person exhibitions
| 2021 | Coleen Sterritt: STRUCTURE, Museum of Art & History, Lancaster, CA |
| 2020 | Evenso: Katy Crowe & Coleen Sterritt, L.A. Harbor College Fine Art Gallery, Wilmington, CA |
| 2016 | Coleen Sterritt, Selected Works: 2011-2016, Museum of Art & History, Lancaster, CA. Monograph published Sept. 2018 |
| 2013 | Torque, another year in L.A., Los Angeles, CA |
| 2011 | Rehab, L.A. Harbor College Fine Arts Gallery, Wilmington, CA |
| Blue Patina & a little cluster of love, PØST, Los Angeles, CA | |
| 2009 | Between, CSU Stanislaus, University Art Gallery, Turlock, CA. Catalog |
| 2006 | d.e.n. contemporary art, Culver City, CA |
| Stuck to the World, Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA. Catalog | |
| 2002 | Squeezebox, Storage, Santa Monica Airport, Santa Monica, CA |
| 2021 | eiptome-n. Katy Crowe & Coleen Sterritt, L.A. Harbor College Fine Art Gallery, Wilmington, CA |
| 1997 | Abstractionists: Katy Crowe & Coleen Sterritt, SITE, Los Angeles, CA |
| 1996 | LASCA Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
| Up, The Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA | |
| 1990 | Coleen Sterritt, California State University, Los Angeles, Fine Arts Gallery |
| 1988 | The King & I, Santa Monica City College, Santa Monica, CA |
| 1987 | Seaver College Art Gallery, Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA |
| 1986 | Karl Bornstein Gallery, Santa Monica, CA |
| 1984 | Karl Bornstein Gallery, Santa Monica, CA |
| 1983 | Mark Quint Gallery, San Diego, CA |
| 1982 | Ulrike Kantor Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
| 1981 | Mark Quint Gallery, San Diego, CA |
selected group exhibitions
| 2023 | O Horizon: Art of the Forest Floor, Stuart Haaga Gallery, Descanso Gardens, La Canada Flintridge, CA, curated by Carole Ann Klonarides |
| Alla Prima, @Carole Parker, Altadena, CA | |
| 2022 | Symbiosis, Berkshire Botanical Garden, Stockbridge, MA |
| Where We Are Now, Traywick Contemporary, Berkeley, CA | |
| Material World, Goat, Landers, CA | |
| You’ve Always Been Wrong: Katy Crowe, Ron Linden, Coleen Sterritt, King Studio, Venice, CA |
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| Cup Show, Space Ten, Hawthorne, CA | |
| 2021 | New. Recent., Traywick Contemporary, Berkeley, CA |
| BODIES, T.A.L. (The Art Look), Hawthorne, CA | |
| 2020 | Small is Beautiful, Irvine Fine Art Center, Irvine, CA |
| 2019 | Crosscurrent, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2018 | Practice & Pedagogy, Long Beach Museum X, Long Beach, CA |
| Phantom Lim, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA | |
| Coterie, Custom Cabinets, Los Angeles, CA | |
| Re:Interation, Los Angeles World Airports Art Program, LAX Terminal 1 | |
| 2017 | Khôra, Mt. San Antonio College Art Gallery, Walnut, CA, Catalog |
| The Only Way Out is In, Citrus College Art Gallery, Glendora, CA, Catalog | |
| 2016 | Urbanature, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA |
| 2014 | LA Wood Show, Arena 1 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA |
| 6018 Wilshire, Edward Cella Art & Architecture, Los Angeles, CA | |
| The Evidence Project, Ciara Struwig, Johannesburg, South Africa | |
| 2013 | From the Desert, Hudson/Linc, Los Angeles, CA |
| Decomposition, Curators Lab, Fellows of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, Catalog | |
| 2012 | SCULPTURE (California), another year in L.A., Los Angeles, CA |
| 2011 | DECADE+, Gallery 478, San Pedro, CA |
| Urbanature, online exhibition, www.timesquotidian.com | |
| 2009 | GraceBeautyFortitude, Sophia Louisa Projects with Phantom Galleries LA, Los Angeles, CA |
| New Digs, d.e.n. contemporary, Culver City, CA | |
| Connections, Overtones, Los Angeles, CA | |
| 2008 | Looky See, Ben Maltz Gallery, Otis College of Art & Design, Los Angeles, CA |
| Ripe, d.e.n. contemporary art, Culver City, CA | |
| Sum of Parts, dba256, Pomona, CA | |
| L.A.— A Survey of Art from Los Angeles, Center for Contemporary Art, Sacramento, CA | |
| 2007 | Themes & Variations: New Abstraction in Los Angeles, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA |
| COLA: Individual Artist Fellowships, LA Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA | |
| P. Suasion, Warschaw Gallery, San Pedro, CA | |
| Beyond A Gift of Time, Roswell Museum of Art, Roswell, NM, Catalog | |
| 2006 | Draw, Paper, Scissors, domestic setting, Los Angeles, CA |
| Otis: Nine Decades of Los Angeles Art, LA Municipal Art Gallery,Los Angeles, CA | |
| 2005 | Group, Carl Berg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
| 2004 | Mark Making, Schneider Museum of Art, So. Oregon University, Ashland, OR |
| 2002 | Recent Sculpture: Marvell, Sterritt, Walker, L.A. Artcore, Los Angeles, CA |
| Curio, Andrew-Shire Gallery, Los Angeles, CA | |
| Emergent Behavior, Brewery Project, Los Angeles, CA | |
| From Sculpture, Irvine Fine Arts Center, Irvine, CA | |
| 2000 | The Group Show, Andrew-Shire Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
| Eccentric Visions, Hunsaker/ Schlesinger Gallery, Santa Monica, CA | |
| 1999 | Drawing the Line, Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery, Scripps College, Claremont, CA |
| The Last Spring, Dirt Gallery, Los Angeles, CA | |
| 1998 | Sculpture Project, College of Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM |
| L.A. New Art, University of Madrid, Sala de Bellas Artes, Madrid, Spain | |
| 1997 | L.A. Art Now: Arte Actual de Los Angeles, Universidad Castilla–La Mancha, Cuenca, Spain |
| 1996 | The Empowered Object, Hunsacker/Schlesinger Gallery, Santa Monica, CA |
| Drawn From L.A., Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA | |
| Living With Art, Andrew Shire Gallery, Los Angeles, CA | |
| Sexy: Sensual Abstraction in California, 1950s–1990s, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA (traveling exhibition) | |
| The Cup and the Teapot: The Extraordinary Diversity of a Simple Form, The Clark Humanities Museum, Scripps College, Claremont, CA | |
| 1995 | L.A. Abstracts: Drawings, Schick Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY |
| Sexy: Sensual Abstraction in California, 1950s–1990s, Contemporary Artists Collective/Temporary Contemporary, Las Vegas, NV | |
| 1994 | Five Artists: Work in Progress, Roswell Museum, Roswell, NM |
| 1991 | Selections from the Permanent Collection: 1975-91, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA |
| 1990 | Natural Forces in Los Angeles Sculpture, Los Angeles Municipal Art Galleries at Barnsdall Park, Los Angeles, CA |
| 1989 | Coates Collection, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA |
| Experience-Reordered: L.A.Abstractionists, Allport Gallery, San Francisco CA | |
| 1988 | Raw Grace, Art Gallery, Otis Art Institute of Parsons School of Design, Los Angeles, CA |
| 1987 | On the Horizon: Emerging in California, Fresno Art Center and Museum, Fresno, CA |
| 1986 | Recent Works: Five Artists, Guggenheim Gallery Chapman College, Orange, CA |
| 1985 | Off the Street, Old City Print Shop, Los Angeles, CA |
| An American Album, Focus International: American Women in Art, United Nations World Conference on Women, Nairobi, Kenya | |
| 1984 | A Broad Spectrum: Contemporary Los Angeles Painters and Sculptors, Design Center of Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA |
| Table Top Sculptures: Studies for Large Scale Works, Mattingly-Baker Gallery, Dallas, TX | |
| The Cotton Exchange Show, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions(LACE), Los Angeles, CA | |
| Critics Choice: Downtown Artists, curated by Joan Hugo, TransAmerica-Occidental, Los Angeles, CA | |
| 1983 | Downtown L.A.: Between the Freeways, Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, CA (national traveling exhibition) |
| Dealers’ Choice, Eaton/Shoen Gallery, San Francisco, CA | |
| Miles Above: 19 Return to Otis-Parsons, curated by Miles Forst, Otis Art Institute of Parsons School of Design, Los Angeles, CA | |
| Flatworks: Non-Three Dimensional Works by Sculptors, Washington Project for the Arts (WPA), Washington, D.C. | |
| 1982 | The New Art of Downtown Los Angeles, Illinois State University, Normal, IL; Madison Art Center, Madison, WI (traveling exhibition) |
| Estuary Channel Sculpture Project, 12th International Sculpture Conference, Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA | |
| Small Scale Sculpture: David Bower and Coleen Sterritt, Fine Arts Gallery, University of Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV | |
| 1981 | Young Turks, Downtown Gallery/Ron Salgado Fine Arts, Los Angeles, CA |
| Gallery Artists, Ulrike Kantor Gallery, Los Angeles, CA | |
| Drawing: Personal Definitions, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA | |
| Southern California Artists, curated by Barbara Haskell, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art (LAICA), Los Angeles, CA | |
| 1980 | Sculpture: Proposals for Downtown Los Angeles, Kirk deGooyer Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
| Downtown L.A. in Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA | |
| Installation, Downtown Window Site, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art (LAICA), Los Angeles, CA | |
| In-Sites, The Women’s Building, Los Angeles, CA | |
| 1979 | Six Downtown Sculptors, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), Los Angeles, CA |
| Sculpture Invitational, Ralph M. Parsons Engineering Co., Pasadena, CA |
public and corporate collections
| Anderson Museum of Contemporary Art, Roswell, NM |
| Carnation Company, Los Angeles, CA |
| Capitol Group Companies, Los Angeles, New York, London |
| Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA |
| Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA |
| Museum of Art & History, Lancaster, CA |
| Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA |
| Scripps College Collection, Claremont, CA |
exhibition catalogs, brochures and books
| Mallinson, Constance, "Small is Beautiful", Irvine Fine Art Center, Irvine, CA |
| Ayres, Anne, “As the Clock Ticks”, Charting New Currents, Celebrating Ten Years of Grantmaking by the California Community Foundation, J.Paul Getty Trust Fund for the Visual Arts, 1998 |
| Canty, Scott, “Coleen Sterritt: COLA ’07 Inliidual Artists Fellowships”, Dept. of Cultural Affairs, City of Los Angeles, 2007 |
| Childs, Carrie, “Coleen Sterritt: Up”, Claremont Graduate University, 1996 |
| Couzens, Julia, “Stuck to the World”, Riverside Art Museum, 2006 |
| FitzGibbon, John and Pierre Picot, “Sexy: Sensual Abstraction in California Art 1950's-1990’s”, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA, 1996 |
| Frauchiger, Fritz, “Off the Street”, Old City Print Shop, Los Angeles, 1985 |
| Hertz, Richard, The Beat and the Buzz: Inside the L.A. Art World, Minniola Press, 2009 |
| Hugo, Joan, “Critics Choice: Coleen Sterritt”, TransAmerica Center, Los Angeles, 1984 |
| Hugo, Joan, “Coleen Sterritt: Sculpture”, Cal State University Los Angeles, 1990 |
| Isenberg, Barbara, “Otis-L.A., Nine Decades of Los Angeles Art”, 2006 |
| Klonarides, Carole Ann, et al, Coleen Sterritt: 1977–2017, Griffith Moon Publishing, Santa Monica, CA 2018 |
| Kienholz, Lyn, L.A. Rising: SoCal Artists Before 1980, The California/International Arts Foundation, 2010 |
| Korten, Noel, “Natural Forces in Los Angeles Sculpture”, LA Municipal Art Gallery at Barnsdall Park, 1990 |
| Krumpak, Tom, “Restless Voices: Abstraction from Los Angeles”, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY, 1995 |
| Lillo, Jose Maria, “LA New Art / Arte Actual en Los Angeles”, Universidad Castilla-La Mancha, Cuenca, Spain, 1997 |
| Mallinson, Constance, “Decomposition”, Fellows of Contemporary Art, Curators Lab, 2013 |
| Mallinson, Constance, “Coleen Sterritt- Between”, CSU Stanislaus, University Art Gallery, 2009 |
| Miles, Christopher, Khôra, Mt. San Antonio College Gallery, Griffith Moon Publishing, Santa Monica, CA 2017 |
| Rubinstein, Charlotte Streifer, American Women Sculptors: A History of Women Working in Three Dimension, G.K. Hall and Co., Boston, 1990 |
| Wood, Eve, “The Only Way Out Is In”, Citrus College, 2017 |
publications/selected reviews
| 2019 | Whitney, Kay, “Unpredictable Beauty: A Conversation with Coleen Sterritt,” Sculpture, September/October, 2019 |
| 2017 | Gipe, Larry, Khôra at Mt. San Antonio College Art Gallery, www.artandcakela.com, October 20, 2017 |
| Whitney, Kay, “Coleen Sterritt: Rotation of Facts,” Sculpture, June 2017 | |
| 2013 | Pagel, David, “Coleen Sterritt's 'Torque' rebels subtle ways,” Los Angeles Times, December 20, 2017 |
| 2012 | Frank, Peter, “Coming Out, Going In- Sculpture (California) at Another Year in LA,” Fabrick, issue 17 |
| 2011 | Frank, Peter, "Haiku Review," www.huffingtonpost.com |
| Mallinson, Constance, “Urbanature”, www.timesquotidian.com, January 1, 2011 | |
| 2007 | Frank, Peter, "Themes & Variations at the Torrance Museum," Artweek, November 2007 |
| Mallinson, Constance, “Coleen Sterritt at d.e.n. contemporary,” Art in America, March 2007 | |
| Satorius, Katherine, “Coleen Sterritt at d.e.n. contemporary,” Artweek, February 2007 | |
| 2006 | Frank, Peter, “Pick of the Week,” L.A. Weekly, December 13, 2006 |
| 2000 | Cooper, Jacqueline, “Report from the Trenches: Teaching Fine Art at the Community College,” New Art Examiner, February 2000 |
| 1998 | Allen, Jane Ingram, “Inspiration and Renewal: Residencies for Sculptors,” Sculpture, February 1998 |
| 1996 | Reed, Michal, “Coleen Sterritt at LASCA,” Artweek, December 1996 |
| 1990 | Frank, Peter, “Pick of the Week,” L.A. Weekly, October 18, 1990 |
| 1988 | Donohue, Marlena, “Sculpture Taking Its Lyrical Ease Beyond Gender in ‘Raw Grace’,” Los Angeles Times, August 13, 1988 |
| Frank, Peter, “Pick of the Week,” L.A. Weekly, August 11< | |
| Frank, Peter, “L.A. Art Seen,” L.A. Weekly, January 29 | |
| 1986 | Clothier, Peter, “L.A. Art Seen,” L.A. Weekly, January 31, 1986 |
| Gardner, Colin, “The Galleries”, Los Angeles Times, January 24, 1986 | |
| 1984 | Gardner, Colin, “Art Throughout the City: Coleen Sterritt,” L.A. Reader, October 1984 |
| Hammond, Pamela, “Coleen Sterritt: New Expressionism,” Images & Issues, March–April 1984 | |
| Pincus, Robert, “The Galleries,” Los Angeles Times, June 15, 1984 | |
| Wolf, Leslie, “L.A Art Seen,” L.A. Weekly, June 22, 1984 | |
| 1983 | Ballatore, Sandy, “The Psychological Tightrope: 1982”, Images & Issues, Jan.-Feb. 1983 |
| Curtis, Cathy, “Up from the South,” Artweek, May 28, 1983 | |
| Lugo, Mark, “Nairobi 95: Sculpture by Coleen Sterritt,” San Diego Tribune, September 9, 1983 | |
| 1982 | Drohojowska, Hunter, “Pick of the Week,” L.A. Weekly, January 29, 1982 |
| Drohojowska, Hunter, “Young Turks,” Art Forum, February 1982 | |
| Hugo, Joan, “Ambiguous Presences," Artweek, February 6, 1982 | |
| Wilson, William, “The Galleries,” Los Angeles Times, January 22, 1982 | |
| 1981 | Drohojowska, Hunter, “Urban Art,” L.A. Weekly, May 22, 1982 |
| Drohojowska, Hunter, “Young Turks”, High Performance, Fall 1981 | |
| Sutter, Esther, “Mammut, Eine USA Reise,” Kunst Bulletin, Switzerland | |
| Wilson, William, “Toward a Definition of Post-Modernism”, Los Angeles Times, 1981 | |
| 1980 | Drohojowska, Hunter, “Pick of the Week," L.A. Weekly, December 19, 1980 |
| Knight, Christopher, “When Sculpture Goes Public,” Los Angeles Herald Examiner, December 14, 1980 | |
| McCloud, Mac, “On Site,” Artweek, March 8, 1980 | |
| 1979 | Hugo, Joan, “Six Downtown Sculptors,” Artweek, April 21, 1979 |
| Munchnic, Suzanne, "New York Painter, L.A. Sculptors," Los Angeles Times, April 23, 1979 |
related professional activities
| Juror, ISC Outstanding Educator Award, International Sculpture Center, 2020-2023 |
| Curator, Root Cause, Long Beach City College Art Gallery, 2019 |
| Curator, Coterie, Custom Cabinets, Los Angeles, 2018 |
| Salon Conversation COLA/20, LA Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 2017 |
| Panel Discussion, The Only Way Out Is In, Citrus College Art Gallery, Glendora, CA, 2017 |
| Juror, Roswell Art-in-Residence Program, Roswell, NM, 2016 |
| Juror, California Sculpture Slam, San Luis Obispo Museum, 2013 |
| Curator, Materiality, PØST, 2011 |
| Point-of-view-Talk: Coleen Sterritt Discusses the Work of Tim Hawkinson, J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center, 2007 |
| Juror, J. Paul Getty Trust Fund for the Visual Arts, Artist Fellowships, 1993 |
| Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), Board of Directors 1986-92, Chair 1991-92,Treasurer 1988-90 |
| Performed in Spalding Gray’s Map of L.A., a film by Bruce & Norman Yonemoto, 1984 |
| College Art Association |
| International Sculpture Center |
visiting artist lectures
| Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA |
| Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ |
| California State University, Fullerton, CA |
| California State University, Long Beach, CA |
| Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA |
| Fellows of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA |
| Otis College of Art & Design, Los Angeles, CA |
| Pasadena City College, Pasadena, CA |
| Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA |
| Santa Monica College |
| The J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center |
| University of California, Irvine |
| University of California, Los Angeles |
| University of California, Riverside |
| University of Southern California |
academic positions
| 1996–2021 | Long Beach City College, Professor, Sculpture Program Coordinator. Awarded full-year Sabbatical Leave: 2004–05, 2011–12, 2018–19 |
| 1988–2000 | The Claremont Graduate University, Adjunct Professor Sabbatical Replacement, Core Faculty, (1990–91, 1993–94) |
| 1987–1993 | Otis College of Art & Design, Adjunct Faculty, Sculpture Program |
| 1989 | University of Southern California, Adjunct Faculty |
| 1994–1998 | College of the Canyons, Adjunct Faculty |
| 1990 | California State University, Long Beach, Collaborative Workshop: Dance Majors /Art Majors, with Lucinda Childs, Margit Omar, Coleen Sterritt |
| 1987–1988 | Pepperdine University, Adjunct Faculty |
| 1986–1987 | California State University, Fullerton, Distinguished Visiting Artist |
| 1983, 1985 | The Claremont Graduate School, Visiting Artist |
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