Born in Boston, with a childhood in a small New England town, Kunstadt received a BFA, Hartford Art School and continued with postgraduate studies at the Akademie der Bildenen Künste, Munich, Germany. Ten years ago she re-entered a familiar landscape as in her youth, moving to the Hudson Valley, having lived for 35 years in NYC. Recent awards include the 2017 Kuniyoshi Fund Award; Medal of Honor & The Anna Walinska Memorial Award 2023 & 2017, National Association of Women Artists; Award for Excellence 2016, Edward Hopper House Museum & Study Center, Nyack, NY.
StatementAs a collagist, painter, book arts and fiber artist I often invoke a metaphysical quality of contemplation and timelessness. My works on/of paper reference artifacts, antique books, music manuscripts and journals - deconstructing paper and text and using it in metaphorical ways. Process reveals how language can become visual through re-interpretation.
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Exhibitions
2023
PRESSING ON: Homage to Hannah More, Vassar Art Library, Vassar
College, Poughkeepsie, NY
2022
INTERLUDES, The Beacon Room, Beacon Artists Union, Beacon, NY
2018
Carole
Kunstadt: PRESSING ON,
Solo Gallery, Woodstock Artists Association & Museum, Woodstock,
NY
2018
Scripted:
Carole P. Kunstadt,
Union Arts Center, Sparkill, NJ
2016
Spirited
Lines,
Gallery at Lifebridge Sanctuary, Rosendale, NY
2014
Between
The Lines: Works by Carole P. Kunstadt,
Part I, Charter Oak Cultural Center, Hartford, CT
2014
Between
The Lines: Works by Carole P. Kunstadt,
Part II, Clare Gallery, Hartford, CT
2011
Carole
P. Kunstadt – Sacred Poems,
The Interchurch Center, New York, NY
2008
The
Poetics of Collage/Carole P. Kunstadt,
Edward Hopper House Art Center, Nyack, NY
Selected
Group Exhibitions
2024
2nd
Edition, Art Bites Gallery, High Falls, NY, (guest
curator/exhibitor)
10th
International Artist's Book Triennial Vilnius 2024, Book Art Museum,
Vilnius, Lithuania, (travels thru 2025)
Hello
Thank You Come In: 50th
Anniversary Members Exhibition, Center for Book Arts, New York, NY
By
A Thread, Woodstock Artists Association & Museum, Woodstock,
NY
2023
Through
the Eye of the Needle, Hudson Valley Museum of Contemporary Art,
Peekskill, NY
cARTography: alternate routes, Olive Free Library,
Shokan, NY
Works On Paper 2023, Paper Circle, Nelsonville,
OH
Luminous Elsewheres, Westbeth Gallery, New York,
NY
Connections, Textile Study Group Exhibition, Ceres Gallery, New
York, NY
Small Works: FUN/PLAY, Woodstock Artists Association &
Museum, Woodstock, NY
Bound
and Unbound VII, University Libraries, University of South Dakota,
Vermillion, SD
PUTTING
IT TOGETHER 2023, Lockwood Gallery, Kingston, NY
MAGNITUDE
SEVEN, Manifest Creative Research Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
Brand
51, Annual National Juried Exhibition of Works on Paper, Brand
Library and Art Center, Glendale, CA
Mapping,
440 Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Volume
UP, The Painting Center, New York, NY
Art of the Book & Paper,
Rochester Public Library, Rochester, NY, 2nd
Place Award/Paper
2022
In
Praise of Form, Pell Lucy Artists, Piano Craft Gallery, Boston, MA
Putting
It Together 2022, Lockwood Gallery, Kingston, NY
Adorned:
Art Inspired by Fabric and Fashion, Annemarie
Sculpture Garden & Arts Center, Solomons, MD
NAWA:
Then & Now, Monmouth Museum, Lincroft, NJ
Radius 50, Woodstock
Artists Association, Woodstock, NY
The Book as Art, Rochester
Public Library, Rochester, NY, Honorable
Mention
SALLY,
Brickbottom Arts Gallery, Somerville, MA
Welcome Home, Mojo
Supermarket Gallery, Williamsburg, NY
Birds
of a Feather: Abstract Tapestry, KuBeArt Center, Beacon, NY
Brand
50, Annual National Juried Exhibition of Works on Paper,
Brand
Library and Art Center, Glendale, CA
Small
Works: This World We Share, Garrison Art Center, Garrison, NY
2021
Rochester
Public Library, Rochester, NY, The Art of the Book 2021
Bound
and Unbound VI, University Libraries, University of South Dakota,
Vermillion, SD
FOCUS:
The Vision of Care, Woodstock
Artists Association & Museum, Woodstock, NY
Works
on Paper 2021, Paper Circle, Nelsonville, OH
Octagonal:
All Media Exhibition 2021, Octagon Center for the Arts, Ames IA
2020
SMOKESHOW,
Lockwood Gallery, Kingston, NY
If Only: A Feminist Exhibition,
Olive Free Public Library, Shokan, NY
Remembering
the Suffragists, 100 years of Women Voting in the United States,
InLiquid
Art + Design, Philadelphia, PA
The
Feminine Agenda, Womenswork.art, Poughkeepsie, NY
Look
Back in Wonder, Arts Mid-Hudson, Poughkeepsie, NY
TERRA
inFIRMA , The Breman Museum, Atlanta, GA
THIRTY
SEVEN, Edward Hopper House Museum & Study Center, Nyack, NY
The
HeArt of The Book, Loveland Artists Collective, Loveland, CO
2019
FAR
& WIDE, Woodstock Artists Association & Museum, Woodstock, NY
Drawings/Works
on Paper, Invitational - Part Two, Buster Levi Gallery, Cold Spring,
NY
FOCUS:
Illumination, Woodstock Artists Association & Museum, Woodstock,
NY
Freed
Formats: the book reconsidered, Five Points Gallery, Torrington, CT
(travels thru 2019)
On
A Different Page, Mikhail Zakin Gallery, Demarest, NJ
SALLY, The
Old Stone House, Artpoetica Project Space, Gowanus Dredgers
Boathouse,
Brooklyn,
NY (travels through 2022)
PAPER
2019, Silvermine Art Center, New Canaan, CT
Natural
Inclinations: Carole Kunstadt and Marieken Cochius, ARTBAR Gallery,
Kingston, NY (two artist exhibition)
2018
Triennial
2018, ArtsWestchester, White Plains NY
Interfaith
Biennial Exhibition, Dominican University, River Forest, IL, (through
2020)
Books
Undone: altered books in contemporary art, Gallery at Penn College,
Williamsport, PA
The
Book as Art: Flight Edition, Hartsfield – Jackson Atlanta Airport,
Atlanta, GA. (thru 2019)
Opulence:
Not Everything That Glitters Is Gold, The Center for Book Arts, New
York, NY
International
Art of the Book, Rochester Public Library, Rochester, NY, Best
of Show
Fire
in the Belly, Burnette Gallery, Woodstock, NY,
(curator/exhibitor)
2017
Boundless:
Altered Books in Contemporary Art, Hill-Stead Museum, Farmington, CT
(guest curator/exhibitor)
The Book as Art 5.0 : Illuminated,
Decatur Arts Alliance, Periodicals Gallery of the Decatur Library,
Decatur, GA
On
a Different Page, Visual Arts Gallery, New Jersey City University,
Jersey City, NJ
2016
WORD
2016, Hudson Valley Museum of Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY
Between
the Covers: Altered Books in Contemporary Art, Everhart Museum of
Natural History, Science & Art, Scranton, PA
Magnitude
SEVEN, Manifest Creative Research Gallery & Drawing Center,
Cincinnati, OH
NEW
YORK Regional, Manifest Creative Research Gallery & Drawing
Center, Cincinnati, OH
2015
And
The Word Is......, Gershman Gallery, Gershman Hall at the University
of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
The
Book as Art 3.0 No Jacket Required, Decatur Arts Alliance, Gallery at
Art institute Atlanta-Decatur, Decatur, GA
The
Sublime and the Divine, Drawing Rooms, Jersey City, NJ
Public
Collections/Media
Special
Collections Library, Vassar
College, Poughkeepsie, NY
George
J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections & Archives, Bowdoin
College Library, Brunswick, Maine
National
Museum of Women in the Arts, Book Arts Collection, Washington, D.C.
The
Center for Book Arts, Permanent Collection, New York, New York
Baylor
Book Arts Collection, Baylor University, Waco, Texas
Correspondence
Des Arts/Book Art Museum, Permanent Collection, Lodz, Poland
Special
Collections Library, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
PBS/OFF
BOOK Book
Arts mini-documentary series on progressive arts, features Kunstadt
in the segment Transforming
the Sacred
Disregard the following:
and Unbound VII, University Libraries, University of South Dakota,
SEVEN, Manifest Creative Research Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
Brand
51, Annual National Juried Exhibition of Works on Paper, Brand
UP, The Painting Center, New York, NY
Art of the Book & Paper,
and Unbound VI, University Libraries, University of South Dakota,
State
NY
CountryUS
