Polly Giragosian
2251 Route 209, Wurtsboro, NY 12790
Email: giragosian.polly@gmail.com
Education
University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, Master of Fine Arts
Smith College, Northampton, MA, Bachelor of Arts
|École des Beaux Arts, Paris, Junior Year Abroad
RESIDENCIES
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME
Vermont Studio Colony, Johnson, VT
Solo Exhibitions
Flotsam & Jetsam, Mixed Media Work of Polly Giragosian, Mindy Ross Gallery, SUNY Orange, Newburgh, NY April – May 2022
Group Exhibitions
Roots, El Barrio Artspace PS 109, New York, NY, March – April, 2023
Threading the Needle, Mann Library Gallery, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, May – Sept. 2023
Lines Let Loose, Wired Gallery, High Falls, NY, Dec. 2017-April 2018
Angeloch Gallery, Woodstock, NY, Alumni Exhibition, May 2017
Dear Mother Nature, Dorsky Museum, SUNY New Paltz, June – November, 2012
Illuminations, Center Arts Gallery, SUNY Orange Newburgh (juried), Feb-May 2011
Input/Output: Faculty Art Exhibition, Loft Gallery, SUNY Orange, April 2010
Green Mountain Hooked Rugs, Vermont College, Randolph, VT, May 2010
Funky Abstraction, Elsa Mott Ives Gallery, New York, NY, May 2002
Bursting at the Sides, Lower East Side Tenement Museum, New York, NY, Fall, 2001
Romance of the Open Road, Lincoln Road Gallery, Miami, FL, December 1999- January 2000
Stitching Outside the Lines, Rowe Arts Gallery, Charlotte, NC, March 1999
Chiaroscuro, Smack Mellon Studios, Brooklyn, NY, September – October 1998
The Human Habit, William King Regional Arts Center, Abingdon, VA, July –Sept. 1998
Objects and Delusion, Smack Mellon Studio, October 1996
Bags and Baggage, New Form/ New Function, Arrowmont, Gatlinburg, TN, March-May 1996
Chautauqua International for Fiber Art, Adams Art Gallery, Dunkirk, NY, Summer 1996
American Drawing Biennial V, Muscarelle Museum of Art, Williamsburg, VA Feb. 1996
New Mexico/Arizona, Tucson Pima Arts Council Gallery, November – December 1995
Skirting the Decorative, Harbor Gallery, UMASS/ Boston, March-April 1995
Encompassing Women, Perspectives on Process, Central Arts Collective, Tucson, AZ, Oct. 1994
PUBLICATIONS
“Dear Mother Nature” at the Dorsky, Chronogram, July 26, 2012
“Apologies, Offerings and Celebrations: Dear Mother Nature at the Dorsky, Roll Magazine, August 2012.
Artnet.com, “The Abstract Imperative”, Charlie Finch (www.artnetcom), July 1, 2002
Women’s Wear Daily, “Garment Art,” February 6, 2002
The Armenian Mirror Spectator, Daphne Abeel, “Giragosian’s Exhibit Highlights Garment Industry,” December 15,2001.
Miami New Times, January 6, 2000
The Miami Herald, “The Link between Hobos and Temps,” December 17,/1999, p. 4G
The Loafer, “’Human Habit’ Opens at William King Center,” June 30, 1998, p. 6.
Bristol Herald Courier/ Virginia Tennessean “National sculpture Show on Display at WKRAC Examines “the Human Habit,’” July 9, 1998, p. 3D.
Abingdon Virginian, June 14, 1998, p. 6
Fiberarts magazine, “Chautauqua International for Fiber Art 1996, p. 60, Jan/Feb 1997
Post Journal, Jamestown, New York, Robert W. Plyler, “Fiber Works Challenge Thoughts, Feelings.” July 20, 1996.
Tucson Weekly Margaret Regan, “Women’s Work” October 13, 1994.