VERA MANZI-SCHACHT
EDUCATION:
MFA Hunter College Graduate School, New York, N.Y
BA (Sculpture) Queens College, C U N Y Flushing, N. Y
A.A.S. Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, N.Y.
SPECIALIZED AND ADVANCED STUDIES:
The National Academy of Fine Arts
The New York Academy of Fine Arts
The New School University
The Sculpture Center School
The Circolo School, Pietrasanta, Italy
GRANTS AND SCHOLARSHIPS:
Shuster Thesis Award (Art History Grant) Hunter Graduate School
The Regina A. Quick Center for the Arts, Artist in Residence
Queensborough Community College Art Gallery, Artist Honorarium Grant:
P.S.I - Museum of Modern Art: Artist in Residence Fellowship
New York State Council on the Arts: Grand Army Arch Exhibit,
Creative Time –US Custom House: Artist in Residence Fellowship
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:
Ceramic Expressions: Tempietto, Yonkers Riverfront Library, October 2 – November 2, 2008
In-Site Exhibit: Ste. Foy, Governors Island, Officers Porch. May – October 12, 2008
QCC Gallery: Esclarmonde, permanent installation Queensborough Community College, Bayside, N.Y.
Seraph Font, Commission: The New Church, Swedenborgian, East 35th St. N.Y. 2008
Self-Contained-Stockholm Now Supermarket, The Swedish Arts Council. Stockholm, February, 2008
Cologne Art Fair, Sculptors Guild, Koln, Germany, 2007 (images)
Installation with Portal, Gallery 61, Columbus Circle, NYC - New York Institute of Technology, 2007
Sculpture Forum, White Plains Courthouse, 2006-2008
Six Decades of the Sculptors Guild, Hillwood Art Museum, Old Westbury, N.Y., 2006
Transformations, Nassau C.College, Uniondale, N.Y., 2005
Summer Invitational, AIR Gallery, Chelsea, N.Y., 2004
Safir Commission, Aruba, 2003
One Person Retrospective - Manzi-Schacht, The Regina A. Quick Center for the Art, Olana, N.Y. 2000
Queensborough Community College Art Gallery, Bayside, N.Y. 2000
Light Exhibit, Islip Art Museum, Islip, N.Y.1999
173 Annual Exhibit, National Academy Museum of Fine Art, 5th Ave., N.Y. 1998.
National Sculpture Society, Esclarmonde, Americas Tower Lobby, Avenue of the Americas, N.Y.,1995
Seraph/Borromini, The Montclair Museum of Art, 1993
Arsenal Exhibit, Installation, The Arsenal, Central Park Department of Parks, 1987
P.S. 122, Installation: Mark Russell, Curator, 1987
Consumer Art, ABC NoRio, 1986
Seraph Installation, Longwood Arts Gallery, Bronx, N.Y. 1986
Five Sculptors, Memorial Arch, Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn, N.Y. 1985
The Arch Show: Four Sculptors, Memorial Arch, Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn, N.Y 1984
Luce, Crisafulli/Accademia dell’Arte, Italy, 1983
The Light Exhibit, Islip Museum of Art 1982
On and Off the Wall, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, N.Y.C.
Installations II, Pratt Institute Gallery, Brooklyn, N.Y.,1981
Artists Documentation, Queens Museum, Queens, N.Y., 1981
Artists of New York, Lawrence Alloway, curator., S U N Y Stony Brook Art Gallery N.Y. ,1979
Queens Museum Juried Exhibit, Robert Pincus Witten, curator, Queens Museum 1979
Small Works, Nobe Gallery, West 57th St., N.Y., 1979
One Person Exhibit: Manzi-Schacht: Campione Building, Campione Building,, Park Avenue, N.Y.
Open Studios in May, P.S.1 (MoMA) Long Island City, N.Y. Artist in Residence Fellowship 1977
Lumination, Nobe Gallery, West 57th St. N.Y. 1977
Custom and Culture, Creative Time, U.S. Custom House, 1977
A Month of Sundays, P.S.1 (MoMA) Artist in Residence Fellowship 1976
PUBLICATIONS AND REVIEWS:
Sculpture Magazine, William Ganis, 2007.
The Islip Bulletin 1999
Garden State Press, 1992
“Four Italian-American Artists” Ch. 31 1990
The New York Times 1986
“Artists Today” WKRB 90.9 FM1985
The New York Times 1983
WNYC AM November 1983
The New York Times 1982
Artnews 1980
Newday (photo) Oct. 1980
Art Forum 1980
DOCUMENTATION OF QUEENS ARTIS Queens Council on the Arts, 1980
HISTORY OF CREATIVE TIME (photo)
Artnews 1980
Sveriges TV 1 Sweden “The Mirror” 1977
Soho News 1977
“Straight Talk” WOR-TV 1977
The New Yorker 1977
The New York Times 1977
“As It Is” WCBS – TV 1979
“All Things Considered” WNYC FM 1978
COMMISSIONS:
Seifer Residence, Aruba
The New Church-Swedenborgian, NYC
Raguse Residence, Chicago, Illinois
Rosone Residence, Little Silver, N.J.
Priscilla Costello, Toronto, Canada
Cutrona Residence, Point Pleasant, N.J.
Robert Manzi, Hartford, Connecticut
Anthony and Ann Rosone, Totowa, N.J.
D'Achille Residence, Holmdel, N.J.
Francoise Leton, Wavrielle, Belgium and New York
Robin Coscia, Rumson, N.J.