Education
University of Texas, Austin - sculpture. (MFA)
University of Texas, San Antonio - sculpture and drawing.
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis - neon and glass.
University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana - sculpture. (BFA)
Grants and Awards (Selected)
Kenan Research Grant, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA. 2003, 2005, 2007
North Carolina Arts Council Artists Fellowship Award. 1996-1997
Research Grant, University Research Council, Appalachian State University. 1995-1996
Southern Arts Federation/National Endowment for the Arts Regional Artists Fellowship. 1993
Research and Productive Scholarship Grant, University of South Carolina.
Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant. 1992
Solo Exhibitions (Selected)
One System+Another System=Something Else, Beland Gallery, Essex Art Center, 2016
Lawrence, MA.
Iterations and the Chambered Nautilus, Messiah College, Grantham, PA. 2012
In the Spirit of the Chambered Nautilus, NK Gallery, Boston, MA 2011
Boundaries and Infinities, BF Annex, Boston, MA. 2005
Mute/Mutations: The Bed Project and Other Recent Work, I-Space, Chicago, IL. 2003
Therese Zemlin: Recent Works, American Museum of Papermaking, Atlanta, GA
The Bed Project and Other Related Work by Therese Zemlin, Ganser Art Gallery,
Millersville University, Millersville, PA.
Unconditional Silence: Pattern and Membrane, Trustman Art Gallery, 2001
Simmons College, Boston MA.
Visiting Faculty Exhibition, Jewett Art Center Gallery, Wellesely College,
Wellesley MA.
Birmingham-Southern College Kennedy Art Center Gallery, Birmingham AL. 1998
Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville, VA.
Vortex and Dialogue : New and Recent Work by Therese Zemlin, Handworkshop, 1996
Virginia Center for the Craft Arts, Richmond VA.
Vortex and Dialogue : New and Recent Work by Therese Zemlin, University of South
Carolina at Spartanburg Art Gallery, Spartanburg, SC.
Art Currents 14: Therese Zemlin, Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC. 1993
New Sculpture, Holden Gallery, Warren Wilson College, Swannanoa, NC. 1992
Increased Surface Area, Cecelia Coker Bell Gallery, Coker College, Hartsville, SC.
Therese Zemlin: Cross-Structural Sculpture, Artemesia Gallery, Chicago, IL. 1990
Group Exhibitions (Selected)
Return to the Place You Already Are, Two-person exhibition with Bob Erickson, printmaker, 2019
Gelb Gallery, Phillips Academy, Andover MA.
HallSpace Drawing Project, 2018. HallSpace Gallery, Dorchester MA 2018
Selfies: 50 at 50, invitational, southwest Craft Center, San Antonio, TX. 2015
HallSpace Drawing Project, 2015. HallSpace Gallery, Dorchester MA 2015
The Book in Extremis, invitational, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis MN 2015
Paper!, Lost Coast Culture Machine, Fort Bragg, CA 2010
High Fiber, Conrad Wilde Gallery, Tucson, AZ. 2009
Alphabet Project 3, Essex Art Center, Lawrence, MA., curated by Gayle Caruso and Cathy McLaurin.
Community of Artists Juried Exhibition, Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, MA.
Juried by museum staff.
Massachusetts Artists 2009, Brush Art Gallery, Lowell, MA. Juried by Nick Capasso,
Curator DeCordova Museum in Lincoln, MA.
Edge; Artspace Gallery, ArtSpace-Maynard Art Center, Maynard, MA. Juried by
Dawn Southworth and Dana Salvo, owners of Clark Gallery in Lincoln, MA.
Endoskeletal/Exoskeletal: Sculpture with Armature, Tower Fine Arts Gallery, SUNY, Brockport. 2008
Curated by Jennifer Hecker, sculpture faculty.
Material Difference: Soft Sculpture and Wall Works, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL. 2006
curated by Polly Ullrich.
Summer Group Show, BF Annex, Boston, MA. 2005
Collected Evidence: Regeneration and Containment: Therese Zemlin, Phyllis McGibbon, 2004
and Tanja Softic¢. New Art Center, Newtonville, MA.
Altered States: Printmaking After Modern Technology, Mary K. O'Shaughnessy curator.
Suburuban Fine Arts Center, Highland park, IL.
Fold Here. 3-d paper. Deborah McLeod, curator. Ellipse Art Center, Arlington, VA. 2003
Paper Remix. Edwin T. Ramoran, curator. Dieu Donne Papermill, NYC. 2001-2002
Abstract Craft/The Non-Objective Object. Paula Owen, curator. Southwest School of Art 1999
and Craft, Russell Hill Rogers Gallery, Navarro Campus, San Antonio, TX.
Voices, an invitational group exhibition of work by women. Curated by Bea Aaronson. 1998
Gallery 701, Carolina Pacific Community Foundation, Columbia, SC.
North Carolina Arts Council Film/Video and Visual Artist Fellowships 1996-97, traveling 1997-98
exhibition, organized by the Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC.
Women Artists of North Carolina: Asheville Area, Meredith College, Raleigh, NC. 1997
Therese Zemlin and Marianne Suggs, Catherine Smith Gallery, 1997
Appalachian Statue University, Boone, NC.
Pulp Fusion, Recent Art from the Dieu Donne Papermill. Curated by Mina Takahashi. 1996
Columbia Art Center, Dallas, TX.
Work by artists in the Visiting Artist Program, The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, 1996
Boston, MA.
Signs of Contemporary Art 1988-95. An exhibition of the collection of the South Carolina 1996
Arts Commission, South Carolina State Museum, Columbia, SC.
Five person exhibition at Blue Spiral Gallery, Asheville, NC. 1995
Group exhibition at Columbia College Chicago Center for Book and Paper Arts.
Siteworks, in conjunction with Artista Vista, Columbia, SC. 1994
Handmade: The Year of American Craft in South Carolina, the State Museum, Columbia, SC. 1993
Craft of the Carolinas, curated by John Perreault, Gibbes Museum of Art,
Charleston, SC. (traveled).
Teaching
Faculty Emeritus, Phillips Academy Andover. 2020-present
Phillips Academy, Andover MA, Sculpture, Fibers and Visual Studies. 2002--2020
Tufts University, Medford MA, Instructor for Foundation Drawing. 2000-2002
School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Visiting Faculty,Drawing and Mixed-Media. 2000-2001
Wellesley College, Wellesley MA, Visiting Faculty, 3-D Design. 2001-2002
Appalachian State University, Boone NC, Assistant Professor, Fibers. 1994-2000
University of South Carolina, Columbia, Assistant Professor, head of Fiber Arts. 1991-1994
Artist Residencies
Franz Masereel Centre, Kasterlee, Belgium 2007
Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Minneapolis, MN. 1999
Dieu Donne Papermill, New York, NY. 1995
Great Lakes Art Foundry, Chicago, IL. 1994
Conferences Attended
Invitational symposium on creativity, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts 2009
Mid-America Print Council 2004
Digital Dialogues: Technology and the Hand. Organized by Haystack Mountain 2002
School of Crafts and MIT Media Lab.
Friends of the Dard Hunter Paper Museum, attended 10 annual conferences. 1988-1999
College Art Association, attended 9 annual conferences. 1991-2002
Paper and Book Intensive. 1995 & 2001
Lectures, Gallery Talks, and Workshops (Selected)
Georgia State University, Slide lecture and critiques with graduate students. 2004
Mid-America Print Council, Presentation on digital design and output of 3-d forms. 2004
Paper and Book Intensive, Tooele UT. Sculptural paper and light workshop. 2001
Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Deer Isle, ME. Sculptural paper workshop.
Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA. Print and sculptural paper workshop. 2000 & 2002
Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC. Two week workshop, intro. to papermaking. 2000 & 2003
Pyramid Atlantic, A Center for Printmaking, Hand Papermaking and the Art 1999 & 2001
of the Book, Riverdale, MA. Sculptural paper workshop.
Minneapolis College of Art and Design. Visiting Artist, papermaking.
Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA. Print and sculptural paper workshop.
Friends of the Dard Hunter Paper Museum National Conference, Chicago.
Presentation on digital design and output of 3-d forms.
The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA. Lectures.
University of Wisconsin, River Falls. Visiting Artist.
Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Minneapolis. Sculptural paper workshop.
Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC. Two week workshop, intro. to papermaking. 1998
Rollins College,Winter Park, FL. Lecture, and collaborative print and sculpture workshop.
Pyramid Atlantic, A Center for Printmaking, Hand Papermaking and the Art 1997
of the Book, Riverdale, MA. Sculptural paper workshop.
The Handworkshop,Virginia Center for the Craft Arts, Richmond VA. 1996
The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA. Workshop and lecture.
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Ox-Bow summer school. 1995
Southwest Craft Center, San Antonio TX., sculptural paper workshop.
Columbia College Chicago Center for Book and Paper Arts, paper workshop. 1994
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Ox-Bow summer school. 1994 & 1995
Clemson University, lecture in conjunction with the opening of Craft of the Carolinas.
Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC.. Lecture. 1993
Collections
Dieu Donne Papermill, Inc., New York, NY.
South Carolina Arts Commission, Columbia, SC.
Sykes Wellness Center, Phillips Academy, Andover MA.
Department of Art, Phillips Academy, Andover MA
(private collectors not listed)
Selected Bibliography
Camper, Fred. Critic’s Choice: Therese Zemlin, Chicago Reader, September 26, 2003. Section two, p. 27.
Durgin, Michael. "An Interview with Therese Zemlin," Hand Papermaking, Vol.12, No. 1,
Summer 1997, pp. 9-16.
Durgin, Michael. "Paper in Chicago," Hand Papermaking, Vol.9, No. 2, Winter 1994, p. 16.
Fox, Catherine. With Paper, Shedding Light, Capturing Worlds, The Atlanta Journal Constitution,
Sunday, Oct. 5, 2003.
Hagan, Debbie. Review: Collected Evidence: Regeneration and Containment, Art New England,
August/September 2004, p. 26.
Harris, Patricia, and David Lyons. “Unconditional Silence: Recent Sculpture by Therese Zemlin,”
Surface Design Journal, Vol. 26, No.2, Winter 2002, pp. 50-51.
Kessler, Jane. "American Craft in South Carolina," Fiberarts, Vol. 20, No. 3, Nov/Dec 1993, p.64.
Leach, Mark. "Therese Zemlin," catalogue for a solo exhibition, 'Art currents 14,' Mint Museum of Art,
Charlotte, NC, Nov. 27-Feb. 6, 1994.
Orgill, Roxane. "Sculptural Paper." Hand Papermaking, Vol. 6, No. 1, Summer 1991, pp. 2-6.
Patterson, Tom, "Zemlin's mastery of fiber art: Boring basket-weaving it's not," The Charlotte
Observer, Charlotte, NC, Sunday, Jan. 16, 1994.
Raymond, David, “Therese Zemlin.” Art New England, March/April 2011, p. 64.
Ryan, Dinah. "Therese Zemlin Explores Form," Fiberarts, Vol. 25, No. 4, Jan/Feb 1999, p. 55.
“Selected Paper Artists 2004,” CD-Rom, slides, and booklet, published by Hand Papermaking.
Schuweiler-Daab, Zan. "Therese Zemlin: Microcosm and Metaphor," Fiberarts, Vol. 23, No. 4,
Jan/Feb 1997, p.15.
Schuweiler-Daab, Zan. "Therese Zemlin," essay for a Southern Arts Federation Supplement to
American Craft Magazine, Vol 54, No. 1, Feb./Mar. 1994.
Taylor, Denise. Happenings in the Not-So-Still-of the Night. The Boston Globe West, April 8, 2004.
Ullrich, Polly. “Material Difference,” Essay on Fiber Art collected in Chicago. Published by Friends
of Fiber Art International, distributed by University of Washington Press. Annotation
©2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR