MARGARET COGSWELL
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AWARDS AND HONORS
| 2024 | Tree of Life Foundation award |
| 2019 | The Lucile Walton Fellow at the University of Virginia ArtLab, Mountain Lake Biological Station, Giles County, VA |
| 2017-18 | Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant |
| 2014 | Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant |
| 2009 | John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship Award in Fine Arts |
| 2007 | New York Foundation for the Arts, Artist's Fellowship in Sculpture. |
| 1993 | New York Foundation for the Arts, Artist's Fellowship in Sculpture. |
| 1991-92 | Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant |
| 1987-88 | Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant |
SOLO EXHIBITIONS (selected):
| 2024 | KARASU TO ISSYO NI KAERIMASYO/ RIVER OF MEMORIES Nokogirini Gallery, mhProjects, Ichinomiya, Japan. |
| 2020-19 | VIEWS FROM A PUDDLE,mhProjects, New York City, NY |
| 2019 | MOVING THE WATER(S): RIVER FUGUES & POEMS, Madelon Powers Art Gallery, East Stroudsburg University of PA, East Stroudsburg, PA |
| 2018 | MOVING THE WATER(S): ASHOKAN FUGUES, ART Lab Gallery, Columbus State University, Columbus, GA. |
| 2017 | MOVING THE WATER(S): CROTON FUGUES, Art in the Corner Room, Mid-Manhattan Library of New York Public Library, New York, NY. |
| 2016 | MOVING THE WATER(S): ASHOKAN FUGUES, Kleinart /James Center for the Arts, Woodstock, NY |
| 2014 | WATER SOUNDINGS, Solo Exhibition of two video installations: Zhujiajiao River Poems and Ashokan Fugues, and works on paper. Zendai Zhujiajiao Art Museum, Zhujiajiao, China |
| 2014 | RIVER FUGUES: MOVING THE WATER(S): Ashokan Fugues and Wyoming River Fugues, CUE Art Foundation, New York, New York. |
| 2012 | WYOMING RIVER FUGUES, Art Museum, University of WY, Laramie. CUYAHOGA FUGUES RE-VISITED, SPACES GALLERY, Cleveland, OH |
| 2009 | RIVER FUGUES, DePree Art Center, Hope College, Holland, MI. |
| 2008 | MISSISSIPPI RIVER FUGUES, Art Museum of University of Memphis, TN |
| 2006 | BUFFALO FUGUES, Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo, NY |
| 2003 | CUYAHOGA FUGUES, SPACES Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio. |
| 1999 | THIRST, Syrup Factory, Kansas City, MO |
| 1993 | MEMENTO MORI, Utatsuyama Temple, Kanazawa, Japan. |
| 1992 | INSIDE YOKNAPATAWPHA, Middlebury College, Vermont. |
| 1991 | MARGARET COGSWELL – SCULPTURE, Rathbone Gallery, Albany, New York. |
| 1989 | WAITING (AND REMEMBERING), 55 Mercer Street Gallery, New York, NY. |
| 1983-1980 | FLYING BUTTRESSES, Three Sculptures by Margaret Cogswell from The Arthur M. Sackler Collections, Curated by Dorothy Miller, Rockefeller University, NY, NY |
| 1979 | MARGARET COGSWELL – SCULPTURE, Three Sculptures from The Arthur M. Sackler Collections, Mercer County Community College,Trenton, New Jersey |
TWO-PERSON & GROUP EXHIBITIONS (selected):
| 2024 | TIDAL SHIFT: WORK FROM THE SEARPORT ECOARTS RESIDENCY, UNE Art Gallery, Biddeford, Maine. (works on paper) |
| 2024 | SALON ZURCHER, 11 WOMEN OF SPIRIT – Part 9, A Satellite fair of Frieze New York. (selected works on paper) |
| 2024 | SALON ZURCHER, 100 WOMEN OF SPIRIT –June 2024 |
| 2023 | This Earth: Notes and Observations by Montello Foundation Artists, Concord Art, Concord, MA (works on paper) Focus on the Flatfiles: Views from Red Hook, Curated by Maureen McNeil, Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn, NY |
| 2022 | Views from a Puddle #1- 2019 included in: IN THE ELEMENTS: SELECTIONS FROM THE FLATFILES exhibition, Curated by Sallie Mize. Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn, NY. |
| 2022 | Red Hook Harbor Soundings #3 -2015 included in: IN THE ELEMENTS: SELECTIONS FROM THE KENTLER FLATFILES exhibition. Curated by Sallie Mize. Illges Gallery, Columbus State University, GA |
| 2022 | Unsettling into Dusk – 2022 (mixed media on paper) FRAGILE RAINBOW: TRAVERSING HABITATS, curated by Sue Spaid for EcoArt space, Williamsburg Art and Historical Center, Brooklyn, NY |
| 2018 | ASHOKAN FUGUES — MAGICIAN VIDEO in 20/20 Hindsight= 40 years at SPACES Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio. |
| ASHOKAN FUGUES for Reservoir group exhibition at The Apple Barn, Callicoon, NY.(mixed-media installation and drawing) | |
| 2015 | SOUNDINGS, Margaret Cogswell and Ellen Driscoll, Kentler International Drawing Space, Red Hook Brooklyn, New York City, NY |
| RIVER POEMS: EAST TO WEST, Works by Stephen Chesley and Margaret Cogswell, Gallery West, West Columbia, South Carolina. | |
| JAPAN-U.S. ART EXCHANGE EXHIBITION “WORKS ON PAPER 2015”, Kanazawa Yuwaku Sousaku no Mori Center for Crafts and Culture and Kanazawa Citizen’s Art Center, Kanazawa, Japan (Group) | |
| 2013 | THIRST, drawing and video, 1999, Proteus Gowanus Gallery and Reading Room, Brooklyn, New York. |
| JAPAN-US ART EXCHANGE EXHIBITION WORKS ON PAPER 2013, Tokyo and Kanazawa, Japan | |
| HUDSON RIVER FUGUES, LUMENS Video Festival, Staten Island, NY. (video) | |
| 2012 | SHADOWS TRACES UNDERCURRENTS, a Mapping Spectral Traces group exhibition, Katherine E. Nash Gallery, Minneapolis, Minnesota. (Selections from Mississippi River Fugues mixed-media installation) |
| HUDSON RIVER FUGUES in PEEKSKILL PROJECT V exhibition, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, New York. | |
| 2011 | WHAT ELSE IS THERE? (2004), video screening at Cheltenham Poetry Festival, Meantime Gallery, Cheltenham, UK |
| TURBULENCE (PRE-WAR), 2003 mixed-media drawing included in Japan-U.S. Art Exchange Exhibition 2011, Works on Paper, Bunkyo Civic Center, Tokyo, Japan | |
| 2009-2010 | HUDSON RIVER FUGUES, site-specific installation for Lives of the Hudson exhibition at the Tang Museum, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY |
| Rising Tide/Taking Control, Sculpture and drawing in *EYE/WORLD* exhibition at Triple Candie gallery, New York City, NY. | |
| 2008 | RIVER FUGUES for Envisioning Change exhibition, Chicago Field Museum, Chicago, Ill. Curated by Randy Rosenberg. (mixed-media installation) artworksforchange.org |
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RIVER FUGUES for Envisioning Change exhibition, Ministry of Culture, Monaco. Curated by Randy Rosenberg. (mixed-media installation) | |
| 2007 | RIVER FUGUES, for Envisioning Change exhibition, BOZAR Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels, Belgium. Curated by Randy Rosenberg. (mixed-media installation) artworksforchange.org |
| 2005 | HUDSON WEATHER FUGUES for Meteorological Phenomena exhibition, Wave Hill, Bronx, NY. (site-specific mixed-media installation) |
| “YOU CAN, IT MAY BE, LEAD ME TO WHAT I SEEK…” (W. B. Yeats), for Dimensions Variable; Site-Fixed, Cambridge Arts Council, MA. (mixed-media installation) | |
| WHAT ELSE IS THERE? Installation with video (2004) for *Women’s Work* exhibition at Time and Space, Ltd., Hudson, NY | |
| 2002 | SITINGS / SIGHTINGS for Memorabilia at Goliath Visual Space, Brooklyn, New York. (Site-specific / mixed-media installation) |
| RE-LOCATIONS, Gallery Korea, New York, New York. (sculptural installations) | |
| DRAWING THE LINE, Fredericksburg Center for the Creative Arts, VA. (mixed-media sculpture) | |
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DRAWING THE LINE, James Monroe Center, Mary Washington College, Fredericksburg, VA (mixed-media sculpture) | |
| 2001 | THIRST (ELEGY FOR ESTHER) for Carriage House Installations, Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY (mixed-media/site-specific installation) |
| 1999 | ORACLE (ANTICIPATING DELPHI) for American Sentences, Sponsored Reality Showcase, Union City, NJ. (mixed-media/site-specific installation) |
| BENEFIT AUCTION INVITATIONAL EXHIBITION, Attleboro Museum of Art, Attleboro, Mass. | |
| 1998 | FIRE AND ICE / ART AND TECHNOLOGY, Attleboro Museum of Art, Attleboro, MA |
| VISITING ARTISTS FACULTY - CHAUTAUQUA SCHOOL OF VISUAL ARTS, Chautauqua Center for the Visual Arts, Chautauqua Institution, Chautauqua, NY. (Drawings) | |
| FORM AND SPACE, Hunterdon Museum of Art, Clinton, New Jersey. (mixed media installation) | |
| DRAWN FROM NATURE, Dalton Galleries, Agnes Scott College, Decatur, GA. | |
| 1996 | FORM AND LONGING: AN EXHIBITION OF SCULPTURE BY MARGARET COGSWELL AND JILL VINEY, Joyce Goldstein Gallery, New York, NY |
| SUBJECTIVE VISION, at the Kipp Gallery of Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, PA | |
| COGSWELL, COGSWELL, AND JAKAB, Foreman Gallery, Hartwick College, Oneonta, NY. | |
| THE PARRISH ART MUSEUM’S THIRTY-FIFTH JURIED EXHIBITION. Jurors: Lisa Phillips, Jack Tilton and Penny McCall. The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY. (mixed-media sculpture) | |
| 1995 | THE PARTHENON AND OTHER MYTHOLOGIES, The Blum Gallery, College of the Atlantic, Bar Harbor, Maine. (Collaborative site-specific installation with painter/brother, James Cogswell) |
| THE PARTHENON AND OTHER MYTHOLOGIES, The Parthenon Museum, Nashville, Tennessee. (Collaborative site-specific installation with painter/brother, James Cogswell) | |
| MEMENTO MORI, for In Three Dimensions: Women Sculptors Of The '90's, Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, Staten Island, NY | |
| 1994 | VISITING FACULTY EXHIBITION, Grossman Gallery, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA |
| 1993 | WOMEN AND WOOD: METAPHOR IN FORM, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, New York. Curated by Corinne Robins (sculpture) |
| DRAWINGS FROM 55 FERRIS STREET, Wynn Kramarsky Gallery, New York, New York. Curated by Frederieke Taylor | |
| DRAWING '93’, Gallery 17, Kanazawa, Japan. | |
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DRAWINGS FROM 55 FERRIS STREET, Jessica Berwind Gallery,
Philadelphia, PA. | |
| 1992 | TWO SCULPTORS: GARY JUSTIS AND MARGARET COGSWELL, Sharadin Art Gallery, Kutztown University, Pennsylvania. |
| BEYOND THE SURFACE, NACAN Sculpture Court, Albany, NY (two person) | |
| SCULPTURE FIELDS AT SAGAPONACK CLOSE, Long Island, New York. | |
| 55 FERRIS STREET SHOW, Brooklyn, New York. (Curated by Frederieke Taylor) | |
| 1991 | CROSS CURRENTS IN SCULPTURE, Korean Cultural Center, New York, NY |
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GEOMETRIC WOOD STRUCTURES, 148 Duane Street Gallery, New York, NY. | |
| 1990 | CONTEMPORARY SCULPTURE AT CHESTERWOOD - 1990, Chesterwood Museum, Stockbridge, Massachusetts. |
| IMAGE, OBJECT ABSTRACTED, CUNY, Mid-Town Gallery, NY, NY. | |
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OUT OF ABSTRACTION, Islip Art Museum, East Islip, New York. | |
| 1989 | EXCELLENCE ’89, Texas Sculpture Association’s National Exhibition at Plaza of the Americas, Dallas, Texas. |
| 1988 | SCULPTURE, MARGARET COGSWELL AND CLAIRE LEIBERMAN, P. S. 122 Gallery, New York, NY. |
| CANDOR OF FORM, World Trade Center, NYC, NY. | |
| 1983 | FLYING BUTTRESSES, Three Sculptures by Margaret Cogswell from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, on Extended Loan to Queensborough Community College, N.Y. |
| 1982 | FESTIVAL D'AUTOMNE, Georges Pompidou Centre, Paris, France. Portions of video documentation from "Floored", a collaborative production with dancer, Lisa Fox, at the Kitchen, New York City, New York in 1981 |
| SAILING TO BYZANTIUM, for Wards Island Sculpture Show, New York, NY (site-specific outdoor installation) | |
| 198l | FLOORED, at The Kitchen, New York, New York. (Site-specific installation for collaborative performance with dancer, Lisa Fox) |
| 1980 | THE HUNT, Site-specific installation for collaborative performance with dancer, Lisa Fox at LA ROCA, NYC, NY. archive.thekitchen.org/ |
RESIDENCIES (selected):
| 2019 | The University of Virginia ArtLab Residency Program at Mountain Lake Biological Station, |
| 2018 | The Visiting Artists and Scholars in Residency Program, Department of Art, Columbus State University, Columbus, Georgia. |
| 2014 | Artist-in-Residence, Zendai Zhujiajiao Art Museum, Zhujiajiao, China. |
| 2012 | SPACES WORLD ARTIST PROGRAM, 10TH ANNIVERSARY Artist-in-Residence and Exhibition, SPACES, Cleveland, Ohio. |
| 2011 | Artist-in-Residence, Ucross Art Foundation, Clearmont, Wyoming. (1 mo.) |
| 2010-12 | Artist-in-Residence and exhibition, Art Museum, University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming. |
| 2007-8 | Artist-in-Residence and exhibition, Art Museum, University of Memphis, TN |
| 2006 | Artist-in-Residence and exhibition, Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center, Buffalo, NY |
| 2003 | Artist-in-Residence and exhibition, SPACES, Cleveland, Ohio. |
| 1998 | Artist-in-Residence, Chautauqua School of Art, Chautauqua Institution, Chautauqua, NY. (summer program) |
| 1997 | Artist-in-Residence, Four Sculptors' Program, The School of the Museum of Fine Arts/Tufts University, Boston, Mass.
Artist-in-Residence and exhibition, College of the Atlantic, Bar Harbor, ME. |
| 1992 | Artist-in-Residence and exhibition, Middlebury College, Vermont.
Artist-in-Residence and exhibition, University of Hawaii-at-Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii. |
SELECTED LECTURES / INTERVIEWS:
| 2025 | F.L.O.W. Presents: Moving the Water(s)-Ashokan Fugues. Morton Memorial Library, Pine Hill, New York. (Sponsored by Catskill Watershed Corporation) |
| 2024 | Yale University Radio Museum of Nonvisible Art. museumofnonvisibleart.com/interviews/margaret-cogswell/ |
| 2022 | A Sense of Place / Reflections on Place, Landscape and Memory. Lecture presentation for the Provost Colloquium Series at East Stroudsburg University in PA. (February 23, 2022) vimeo.com/688382021 |
| 2021 | The Magical History of Moving Water in NYC Lecture presented by New York City Department of Records and Information Services. (Zoom-May 27, 2021) www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nBbzZevxSY |
| 2021 | River Fugues Lecture presentation for the Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design (DJCAD), University of Dundee's PhD Seminar Series, University of Dundee, Scotland. |
| 2019 | River Fugues presentation for The Lucile Walton Fellow Lecture, The University of Virginia ArtLab Residency Program, Mountain Lake Biological Station, VA |
| 2019 | Moving the Water(S): River Fugues & Poems Lecture in conjunction with solo exhibition at Madelon Powers Art Gallery, East Stroudsburg University of PA, East Stroudsburg, PA Watch here: esumediasite.passhe.edu |
| 2014 | River Fugues and Zhujiajiao River Poems lecture, Shanghai Himalayas Art Museum, Shanghai, China. (October 18, 2015) |
| 2014 | River Fugues lecture and critiques, Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, Chongqing, China. |
| 2012 | Wyoming River Fugues lecture at University of Wyoming Art Museum symposium: Never Drink Water Downstream: Factual Tales and Artful Musings on Wyoming’s Water. November 2012 |
| 2012 | Interview – Margaret Cogswell at Art Museum of University of Wyoming regarding Wyoming River Fugues solo exhibition. uwyo.edu/artmuseum/exhibitions/archives/2012/margaret-cogswell-wyoming-river-fugues/index.html and youtube.com/watch?v=c70aXM-y-b8 |
| 2011 | River Fugues, Ucross Art Foundation Artist-in-Residence lecture for Association of Academic Women of the University of Wyoming, Ucross Art Foundation, Clearmont, Wyoming. |
| 2011 | New River Fugues, a work-in-progress. Lecture and video presentation at Bridging the Gaps: Collaborations for Sustainability, 2011 New River Symposium. Concord University, Athens, West Virginia. |
| 2011 | Thirst and Yeats: The Genesis of River Fugues. Lecture and video presentation at Mapping Spectral Traces IV in Dublin, Ireland (May 2011) |
| 2011 | River Fugues, Lecture and video presentation at 'Catchment' Workshop presented by PLaCE Research Centre, University of Western England, Bristol. |
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Margaret Cogswell
Open Rivers: Rethinking Water, Place & Community,
University of Minnesota 20th Edition of Open Rivers features
River Fugues, Winter 2022. openrivers.lib.umn.edu/article/river-fugues/
Eleanor Heartney, Harvey Hixs, John Massier, Tom Sleigh, Wang Nanming
and Lilly Wei
RIVER FUGUES: Margaret Cogswell
A compilation of essays and photo documentation of installations
and drawings from 2002-2018. Made possible with a grant from
Pollock-Krasner Foundation. December 2018.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Cogswell
EDUCATION:
| 1982 | Master of Fine Arts in Sculpture, Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey. |
| 1974-76 | Sculpture Department, University of Hawaii-at-Manoa. |
| 1969 | Bachelor of Arts in English Literature, Rhodes College, Memphis, TN |
PERSONAL:
Born: Memphis, Tennessee
Lived in Japan from age 1-13.
Returned to Japan to teach in 1972-73; 1993-94.