Yasmin Spiro
www.yasminspiro.com
Born Kingston, Jamaica
Selected Exhibitions
2011 Wavelengths, Honfleur Gallery, Washington, DC June 2010
2011 Sweet and Sour, OZANEAUX Art Space, March 2010
2010 tART @ AIR Gallery, Dumbo, NY August 10
2010 Model Home, Roger Smith Gallery, NY. Suzanne Broughel, Anna Lise Jensen, Elaine
Kaufman, Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow, Sandra Mack-Valencia, Carrie Rubenstein, Asya
Reznikov, Yasmin Spiro. Curated by Nico Wheadon.
2010 Figment: Making and Sharing a Room of Our Own, installation “Mapping the Island”
with tart members, Governor’s Island, NY
2010 Close Encounters Caribbean, Florida Gulf Coast University, Commissioned
Installation, Feb ‘10
2009 tART Women’s Collective, AIR Gallery, NY upcoming August 09
2009 Utopia, Site Specific Installation, Bamboo, Jamaica August 09
2008 Rabbithole Gallery, NYC, tART Group Show
2007/08 Group Show, Chelsea Galleria, Miami, FL (December)
2007 Drawings in Multiples and Singular Sculpture, Five Myles Gallery, Brooklyn NY
2007 RealArtWays Benefit, Hartford, CT
2006 20/20, Chelsea Galleria, Miami, FL
2006 New Possessions, Museum of the Americas, Washington DC, curated by Sarah Clunis
2006 Drawing the Line Against Domestic Violence, Benefit, NY curated by Renee Vara
2006 tART Spring Salon Show and Benefit for Creative Time, NY, tartnyc.org
2006 RealArtWays Benefit, Hartford, CT
2006 The Best of The Lab, (Roger Smith Arts), Yellowbird Gallery, Newburgh, NY
2005 OmniArt 05, Installation “Shack”, Miami, FL (Art Basel Satellite Event)
2005 Fed Up With Being Sweet, tART collective, salon show, NY
2005 No Country is an Island: Issues of Freedom and Diaspora in Caribbean Art
Sept12-Oct20 ’05, Raritan Valley Community College Gallery, NJ
2005 Momenta Art Benefit, Momenta, Apr15- Apr24. White Columns, Apr27-Apr30
2005 Yasmin Spiro and Roberto Visani: Parallel Practices, RogerSmithArts, NY,
Curated by Sara Reisman
2005 OmniArt 2, Miami FL, Installation “Hanging”, (Art Miami)
2004 OmniArt, Miami FL, Installation “Hanging”, (Art Basel)
2004 Young Talent, Chelsea Galleria, Miami, FL
2004 Generation 04, Invitational, AIR Gallery, NY
2003 Deracinate, MFA Solo Thesis Show, Pratt Institute, Stueben East Gallery
2003 MFA Group Thesis Show, Pratt Institute, 14th St. Gallery
2003 Pratt MFA Group Show, Williamsburg Art & Historical Center, Brooklyn, NY
2003 New York Area MFA Exhibition, Hunter College/Times Square Gallery, NY
2003 Symposium, Pratt Institute, Juror: Ken Johnson, Critic, NYTimes
2003 Amigos, Miami, World Art Building: Carlos Betancourt, Albert Chong, Renee Cox,
Sheila Klein, Victoria Gitman, Monica Castillo, Tina Matkovic, Yasmin Spiro
Selected Bibliography
2010 Fort Myers, Florida Weekly, “Close Encounters:Contemporary Art by Caribbean
Women”
2006 http://heartasarenacreativetime.blogspot.com/
2006 Washington Times, Land of Beauty, ‘Despair’, Karen Goldberg Goff
2006 New Possessions: Museum of the Americas, Catalogue
2005 Art News, Yasmin Spiro and Roberto Visani, by Sandra Ban (Sept)
2005 No Country is an Island: Issues of Freedom and Diaspora in Caribbean Art, Catalogue
2005 Arte al Dia, Newspaper, OmniArt
2004 Urbana Magazine, OmniArt
2004 The Miami Herald: The Street, Culture / First impressions
2004 Miami New Times, Young Talent review
2004 Miami New Times, Young Talent review (second)
2003 Pratt Manhattan Gallery, Exhibition Newsletter
2002 The Miami Herald, Art Capsules / ‘New and Ongoing Exhibitions’
Education
M.F.A. Program Fine Arts Pratt Institute, NY
B.F.A. Fine Arts: Painting Highest Honors Pratt Institute, NY
Grants/ Residencies/ Awards etc.
2004 Artist Fellowship, The Vermont Studio Center
2002/2003 Pratt MFA Juried Symposium, Juror: Ken Johnson, NY Times. Visiting
Panelists/Critics: Donald Kuspit, Robert Storr, Mario Navas, David Levi Strauss,
Edward Gomez
2001 Art Education Department Scholarship, Pratt Institute
1999 Internship, Bob Blackburn – The Printmaking Workshop
1997-1999 Pratt Presidential Scholarship
1997-1999 Pratt Merit Scholarship
Lectures & Symposiums
2010 Visiting Artist University Talk, Close Encounters Caribbean, FGCU
2010 Gallery Talk II, Close Encounters Caribbean, FGCU
2010 Gallery Talk I, Close Encounters Caribbean, FGCU
2008 Visiting Artist Talk, Philosophy and Criticism of Art, Adelphi University
2008 Invited Juror and Artist Talk, Led by Thread Exhibition, Target Gallery,
2003 Pratt Symposium, curated by Ken Johnson
Flatfiles/Registries/Membership
Culturehall.com
Re-title.com
Local-artists.org (artistsspace.org)?tART NYC – tartnyc.org
College Art Association – CAA
National Art Education Association – NAEA