SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2022 The Desert through the Eyes of New York’s Female Creators, Museo Del Desierto, Saltillo, Mexico.
2022 Glory and FreedomUkraine and for the world, Landislav Sutnar Gallery, Pilsen, Czech Republic
2021 Ascend, Green Door Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
2021 Our Connection with Nature, Earth Day, Gallery Sitka, Shirley, Massachusetts
2021 80’s Legends,H215-WestBeth, New York, NY
2021 Fragile Earth, New York Artist Circle, Online Exhibition,New York, NY
2020-2021 New York Responds :The First Six Months, Museum of the City of New York, NY
2020 -2021 Prayers for the Pandemic, Drawing Rooms, Jersey City, New Jersey
2020 Art in Isolation, North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, North Dakota
2020 USPS Art Project, Ely Center of Contemporary Art, Collaborators- Jeanine Osborne-Teressa Valla, New Haven, Connecticut
2020 USPS Art Project, Pelham Art Center, Collaborators José Luis Ortiz Téllez-Teressa Valla, Pelham, NY
2020 20/20 Vision, Holland Tunnel Newburgh, Newburgh, New York
2020 Art House Hotel-Artist in Residence Exhibition, Live painting with jazz trio Josh Richman
2019Green Mountain Tableau, Davis Center Gallery, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont
2019Family Art Exhibition, La Mama La Galleria, New York, NY
2019 Man on the Moon -50 Years After, The Project Gallery, Athens Greece
2018 Made in New York, Avelan’Arts, Lavelanet, France
2018 Small Works, Mishkin Gallery, New York, NY
2018 Et tu, Art Brute? Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York, NY
2018 The Greatest Show on Earth, Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2018 Visual Aids, Gallery 524, New York, NY
2017-2018 Snap to Grid, Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, CA
2017-2018 The Kleinert/James Center for the Arts, Woodstock, NY
2017 XAIL - College Workshop, Campeche, Mexico
2017 Hope: An Exhibit of Uncertain Faith, Gallery at W83, New York, NY
2017 Solarized Central Park, Alumni House, University of Vermont, VT
2017 Sideshow Nation - Thru the Rabbit Hole, Sideshow, Brooklyn, NY
2017 Unnatural Election, Puffin Cultural Forum, Teaneck, NJ
2017 Unnatural Election, Out North Gallery, Anchorage, Alaska.
2016-2017 Unnatural Election, Kimmel Gallery, New York University, NY
2016-2017 Family, La Mama La Galleria, New York, NY
2016 “Now Be Here #2” Tenth Anniversary of the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art. Participated in a group portrait marking a moment in history. New York based, Brooklyn museum collection artist Shinique Smith and Schoenstadt working with noted photographer Paola Kudacki, captured the group portrait.
2016 Palette Series - Alumni, Davis Art Center, Burlington, VT
2016 Snap to Grid, Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, CA
2015 Sideshow Nation 111, Brooklyn, NY
2014 Artist Project Space, New York, NY
2013 Arisings-Yoko Ono, Palazzo Bembo, Venice Italy
2013 Above and Below, Art Market, Provincetown, Massachusetts
2012 Interweave, Able Gallery, New York, NY
2012 Oasis, Le Pavé D'Orsay, Paris, France
2012 Exploring the Visual, Visual Arts Gallery, India Habitat Centre and M.E.C Art Gallery, New Delhi, India
2011 Act in Response: Santa Fe Speaks, Santa Fe Art Institute, New Mexico
2011 Reflections of Generosity, Arts and Culture Center, Heidelberg, Germany
2011 FRACKING: Art and Activism, Exit Art-Social Environmental Aesthetics, New York, NY
2011 Small Works, The Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA
2010 Arteon in Motion, La Mama La Galleria, New York, NY
2010 Small Works, The Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA
2010 Collective Singular, Annex Gallery-Denver Biennial, Denver, Colorado
2010 Visual Aids, Zieher Smith Gallery, New York, NY
2009 Encounter: Art in Action, Tribeca Performance Center, Pace University, New York, NY
2009 It's a Wonderful Life, Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2009 Visual Aids, Metro Pictures, New York, NY
2009 Masters' Mystery, Florida International University/ Miami, Florida
2008 Transforming the River of Culture, Tribeca Performance Center, Pace University, New York, NY
2008 It's Not Easy, Exit Art-Social Environmental Aesthetics, New York, NY
2008 FIGMENT, Vital Symbols of Humanity, Governors Island, New York, NY
2008 Broadthinking, ABC no Rio, New York, NY
2008 PEACE, Sideshow Gallery, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY
2005-2008 New York Center for Arts and Media, Mentoring/Critique
2007 Redemptive Culture, Tribeca Performance Center, Pace University, New York, NY
2007 Visual Aids, James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY
2007 Transforming Spaces, Messiah College, Pennsylvania
2007 The World that Ought to Be, Tribeca Performing Arts Center, New York, NY
2007 War is Over, SIDESHOW, Williamsburg, New York, NY
2006 7Arts Studio, Spinning Joy II, Wilmington, Delaware
2006 PS 11, Spinning Joy, Long Island City, New York, NY
2005-2006 Movement in Art, Hudson Guild Gallery, New York, NY
2005 Masters’ Mystery, Florida International University/ Miami, Florida
2005 Visual Aids, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY
2005 Birds of a Feather Flock, Tribes Gallery, New York, NY
2005 Katherine Dianich, Brattleboro, Vermont
2005 I-20 Gallery, New York, NY
2005 Hopkins Fine Art, Scottsdale, Arizona
2004 Brent Sikkema Gallery, New York , NY
2004 Womankind, Lafayette College, Easton, PA
2003 Multiple Memorials-Mary Miss,Viridian Gallery, New York, NY
2003 Unoccupied Territories, Gallery K&S, Berlin, Germany
2003 Notebook, Pinkard Gallery, Maryland Institute College of Art, Maryland
2002 Engager, Gallery X, New York, NY
2002 9/11, Refuge, Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico
2002 JOY X-2, Parallels Gallery, Philadelphia, Penn.
2002 Unity Canvas, Williamsburg Art and Historical Society, Brooklyn, NY
2002 Life of the City, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
2002 Reactions: A Global Response to 9/11 Attacks, Exit Art, New York, NY
2002 HERE IS NEW YORK, New York, NY
2001 September 11 Photo Project, SoHo, New York, NY
2001 T. W. Wood Gallery, Vermont College, Montpelier, Vermont
2001 Provincetown Museum and Art Association, Provincetown, Massachusetts
2001 Aljira: A Center for Contemporary Art, Newark, NJ
2001 Crime Rate, Bullet Space, New York, NY
2000 Xtreme Xteriors Xhibition, Gallery X, New York, NY
2000 Provincetown Museum and Art Association, Provincetown, Massachusetts
1999 Orensanz Angel Foundation, Arts Genesis, New York, NY
1999 University of Northumbria, Newcastle upon Tyne, England
1999 Perspectives, Atelier Collectivo in Olinda, Pernambuco, Brazil
1999 Salon, Chameleon, Newburyport, Massachusetts
1999 Plan for Peace, The Times Square Lobby, New York, NY
1999 In the Spirit of Compassion,Whitebox Gallery, New York, NY
1998 Dearte Magik, Easton, PA
1998 Visual Aids, Rove Gallery, New York, NY
1998 Night of 1000 Drawings, Artist Space, New York, NY
1998 Provincetown Museum and Art Association, Provincetown, Massachusetts
1998 George Billis, New York, NY
1998 Art Around the Park, Tompkins Square Park, New York, NY
1997 Night of 1000 Drawings, Artist Space, New York, NY
1997 Graffiti Alternatives, NYCHA 2000 Mural projects, Tweed Gallery, New York, NY
1996 Salon D’Imagination, Boston, MA
1995 After Image,450 B’way Gallery, New York, NY
1995 Art Around the Park, Tompkins Square, New York, NY
1994 Choosing Your Partner, Uppsala’s Cultural Board, Uppsala, Sweden
1994 Europa, Instituto de Artes Visuais, Palacio Pommel, Lisbon, Portugal
1994 Monumental Propaganda,World Financial Center, New York, NY
1993 Over 100, Gallery Onetwentyeight, New York, NY
1993 Ecstatic Dimensions, Alleycat Gallery, New York, NY
1993 Portrait Painting Marathon, Alley Cat Gallery, New York, NY
1993 Women’s Art, Women’s Lives, Women’s Issues, New York Commission on the Status of Women, Tweed Gallery, New York, NY
1993 Spirit Space, Foster-Goldstrom, New York, NY
1993 The Matchbook Show,CBGB’s 313 Gallery, New York, NY
1993 Color Explosion, La Mama La Galleria, New York, NY
1999 Evento, Ape Gallery, New York, NY
1991 Spherical Signs, Kampo Cultural Center, New York, NY
1991 Evocation, Home for Contemporary Theater and Art, New York, NY
1991 Visual Aids, Clocktower Theater and Art, New York, NY
1991 Works on Paper, Glass Art Gallery, New York , NY
1991 A Bid of Love, Sotheby’s, New York, NY
1991 Annual Award Grant Recipient’s Exhibition, Ezra Jack-Keats Memorial Award, Lincoln Center, New York, NY
1990 Berlin Wall, Max Fish, New York, NY
1990 Twelfth Annual Small Work Show, 80 Washington Square East Galleries, New York, NY
MUSEUM EXHIBITIONS
2014 Art Exhibition of Self Portraits, Museum of New Art, Detroit, Michigan
2011-2012 Exposition de Pinas, Museum Dabawenyo, Davao City, Philippines
2005 Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, New York
2003 Considering Peace, Sato Museum, Tokyo, Japan
2002 Large Works Show, Provincetown Museum and Art Association, Massachusetts
2001 DOCUMENT-USA, Museum of New Art, Detroit, Michigan
2001 Snapshot, organized by the Contemporary Museum, Maryland, travelling to Arcadia University and Aldrich Museum, Connecticut
1999 Woman of the World, Diverse Perspectives, American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY
1999 Hajduszoboszlo Museum of Modern Art, Hungary
INSTALLATIONS
2000 Xtreme Xteriors Xhibition, Marcus Garvey Park, Public Installation, Gallery X, New York, NY
1999 Perspectives, Atelier Collectivo in Olinda, Pernambuco, Brazil
1999 Perspectives, Onetwentyeight, New York, NY
1994 Eurosculpture-Pod Perfect,Carhaix, France
1994 Art Around the Park,Tompkins Square Park, New York, NY
VIDEO
1998 Jackson Pollock Show, Art Scene, New York, NY
1990 Images/Art, Video documentary-Lace Revealed, New York, NY
1990 Pollock Meets Picasso, New York, NY
LECTURES/WORKSHOPS/ ARTIST IN RESIDENCE
2017 Visiting Artist, Collage Workshops, XAIL, Campeche, Mexico
2017 Panelist - Marymount, New York, NY
2010-2018 Artist in Residence/Teaching Artist - Learning through the Expanded Arts Program, Program Development/Workshops, Painting, Sculpture, Multimedia, Puppet Making, Bookmaking, Murals, Collage, Metropolitan New York
2008 Artist in Residence - Project GLOW, Drawing Workshops, Agua Azul, Honduras
2008 Panelist - Art and Faith, The Center for Faith and Works, Redeemer, New York, NY
2005-2008 New York Center for Arts and Media - mentoring students who attended University of Chicago, Cooper Union, UC Santa Barbara, Bethel University, Marymount Manhattan, Brandeis University, NYU
2007 International Arts Movement Conference, TriBeCa Performing Arts Center, Pace University, NY (panel coordinator/moderator, portfolio review)
2001 Experimental Drawing, Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, New York, NY1999 Women of the World: Diverse Perspectives, Presentation of Sculpture with Poetry, American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY
1998-1999 Fables and Myths, Mural Workshops, City of New York, New York, NY
1998-2001 Arts Genesis/Annenberg Foundation, Artist in Residence, Developed and presented workshops integrating arts into academics utilizing the Multiple Intelligence theory by Howard Gardner, Harvard.
1997 Graffiti Alternative-NYCHA, 2000, Mural Project, Facilitated community collaborative mural making, Selected and presented in City Hall, New York, NY
1994 Carnegie Hall Visiting Artist, Developed and facilitated workshops to prepare students to hear music through a visual process, Workshop titled, “Abstraction of Art through Music, Nature and Mathematics.” Students processed visual elements to create drawings while listening to select pieces of music which they then heard at Carnegie Hall, New York, NY
PUBLIC ART/MURALS
2008 Vital Symbols of Humanity, Governors Island, NY
2003 New York City Marathon Banner project, New York, NY
1997 Graffiti Alternative-NYCHA 2000 Mural Project, New York, NY
1996 City Arts- Tree of Life, New York, NY
1996 New York Cares, Public Mural, P.S. 67, New York, NY
RELATED ARTISTIC EXPERIENCE
2002 The Elementary Principles,(Colorized version),Opera, Costuming, New York, NY
1987 New York City Ballet, Costuming, New York
MUSEUMS AND PERMANENT COLLECTIONS
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
National September 11 Memorial and Museum, World Trade Center, New York, NY
Smithsonian Institution, American Art, ATOA Archive, Washington DC
Museum of Art and Origin, New York, NY
Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop,New York, NY Tribes Gallery, New York, NY
Davis Center Art, Burlington, VT
New York Public Library, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Collection, The September 11 Photo Project
Museum of the City of New York, New York, NY
Library of Congress, Here is New York, Washington, DC
Library of Congress, The September 11 Digital Archive, Teressa Valla included in “Voices of 9/11,” Washington, DC
Library of Congress, Witness and Response: September 11 Acquisition, Exit Art, included in Print and Photography Division, Washington, DC
New England Center for Contemporary Art, Brooklyn, Connecticut
Paterson Museum, Paterson, NJ
Mid Hudson Arts and Science Center, Poughkeepsie, New York, NY
AWARDS/GRANTS/FELLOWSHIPS
2017 Ninth Wave, Campeche, Mexico
2016 Arquetopia, Puebla, Mexico
2014 Byrdcliffe Colony, Jackson Pollock Fellow, Woodstock, NY
2007-2008 Pollock-Krasner Foundation, New York, NY
2008 Open Art Residency Fellowship, Pezonisi, Greece
2006 Fundacion Valparaiso Fellowship, Mojacar, Spain
2006 Chashama, New York, NY
2006 Who's Who in American Art
2004 Who’s Who of American Women
2002 Mellon Foundation, CAA Fellowship
2002 New York Foundation for the Arts, and the New York Arts Recovery Fund
2001 Santa Fe Art Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico
2000-2001 Annenberg Challenge Grant, Artist in Residence
1998 International Who’s Who of Contemporary Achievement
1998 The E.D. Foundation
1997-1998 Who’s Who of American Women
1994 The E.D. Foundation
1994 Prague Painters Fellowship, Praha, Czech Republic
1994 EuroSculpture, American Representative, Carhaix, France
1991 Vermont Studio Center Fellowship, Johnson, VT
1997-1998 Ezra Jack Keats Memorial Award
1987-1988 Art Students League, New York, NY
1987 Studio Art School of the Aegean, Samos Greece
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY AND CATALOGS
2012 M.E.C Art Gallery. Exploring the Visual. India, M.E.C Art Gallery, 2012, pp. 102-03.
2012 Wei, Lilly. “Dreams of Art and Life.”
2005 Shapiro, Gary. "The Pleasures of Urban Gardening." The New York Sun, 1 Sept.
2002 George, Alice R., Gilles Peress, Michael Shulan, and Charles Traub, editors. Here is New York: A Democracy of Photographs. New York, Scalo.
2001 ABC News, Santa Fe Art Institute artist Residency, Relief - interviewed about individual efforts to support crisis, October 29
2001 Santa Fe Offers Respite for Artists, The New York Times, October
2001 Santa Fe Art Institute Helps Some New Yorkers, Journal North, New Mexico, October 9
2001 Biennale Internazionale Dell'Arte Contemporanea. 3rd ed., Florence, Arte Studio, 2001, p. 630
2001 Frank Craven, A walk through the studio, Channel 57, New York, NY
2000 Andrew Mcdonnell, Word Business, New York.
1999 Diarro de Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil, July 15
1999 Jornal do Comercio, Recife, Brazil, The Day is Short II, July 6
1999 Brazilian TV Globo Network-Video, Jornal do Comercio, Diario de Pernambuco, July
1999 Art Community, The BRAZILIANS, New York, October
1994 Berating Euro-Sculptures: 200 artistes exposent dans la vallée D'hyères. Le Telegramme, France, July
1994 Partrig Goarnig, Le Telegramme, France, July
1994 Sculptures tous azimuts, Ouest-France, July
1990 Sotheby’s Catalog,A Bid of Love, March 6
1990 Dr. George Preston, Europa, January
1990 Marilyn Becker, Manhattan Arts
1990 Claude Lesaur, Art Speak, New York, NY
1990 Dorothy Hall, Park East, New York, NY
EDUCATION
University of Vermont, BS
New York University, Graduate Studies
Studio Art School of the Aegean, Samos, Greece
Art Students League, New York, NY