Claudia Kleefeld

Born in California in 1963

Awards 1994-2004

2004 Artists Talk On Art Award. SOHO20 Chelsea Gallery artist's panel talk and The Lab exhibition. NY

2002 Audrey Hope Shirk Memorial Award. 113th Annual Exhibition. National Association of Women Artists. NY

2002 Susan Kahn Award. 113th Annual Exhibition. National Association of Women Artists. NY

2002 Outstanding Painting Prize, CAA National Prize Show, The Cambridge Art Association. Cambridge, MA

2002 Jurors Award, Book Art Press, New Art International 2002, Juried International Fine Art Publication. Woodstock, NY

1999 Jurors Award, International Contemporary Painting, Erector Square Gallery, New Haven, CT.

1999 Best of Show, Silverhawk Fine Arts Internet Exhibition, Taos, NM.

1999 Donor Award, Northern National Juried Art Competition, Nicolet College Gallery, Rhinelander, WI.

1998 Studio Prize, Woman: In the Broader Sense, St. Louis Artists Guild and the Womans Caucus for Art, St. Louis, MO.

1998 Jurors Award, National Juried Exhibition Celebrating Israels 50th Anniversary, Jewish Community Center, New Haven, CT.

1998 2nd Place, Texas National 98, SFA Gallery, Stephen F. Austin University, Nacogdoches, ...

1987-91
The Bruchion School, student with Jan Saether, Los Angeles, CA.

1986-87
Post Graduate Diploma of Art, The Byam Shaw School of Art, London, England.

1983-85
University of California, Los Angeles, CA. B.A.; Summa Cum Laude.

1983
Pratt Institute of Art and Design, Manhattan, NYC.

1982-83
Hampshire College, Amherst, MA.

SELECTED ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2007 Caplain-Matignon, Paris, France.

2007 Love. Loss and The Ring of Fire, Taos Art Museum, Taos, NM (catalog).

2006 Love. Loss and The Ring of Fire, New Art Center, NYC (catalog).

2003 The Historic Taos Inn, Taos, NM.

2001 The Life of Butterflies, Erie Art Museum, Erie, PA. traveling to Lynne Whites-Shriver Gallery, Taos, NM (catalog).

1996 Victoria Maase Stoll Gallery, Santa Fe, NM.

1993 Joining Duality of Male and Female, Paintings, Text, Movement, Video, A.C.E. Gallery, Vancouver, Canada.

1992 External/Internal, Van Gos Ear, Venice, CA.

1991 Womens Souls, Market Street Gallery, Venice, CA.
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"Patterns of Nature: The Spiral and Interconnectedness" at WomanMade Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA, March/April 2012; "

Patterns of Nature: The Spiral and Interconnectedness" at LA Artcore, Los Angeles, CA, USA, December 2-30, 2012.

"Patterns of Nature: The Spiral and Interconnectedness" Artist Talk at ISEA2012, Sept 24, 2012.

Past Shows: Taos Art Museum227 Paseo del Pueblo del NorteTaos, NM 87571505.758.2690August 26th, 2006

A Russian night In Taos, Invitational Juried Exhibition and Auction

New Art CenterLove, Loss, and the Ring of Fire, 580 Eighth Ave., 5th FloorNew York, NY 10018 212.354.2999, November 28, 2006 December 23, 2006 Opening Reception November 20, 2006

Taos Art Museum: Love, Loss, and the Ring of Fire, 227 Paseo del Pueblo del Norte, Taos, NM 87571 505.758.2690 January 27, 2007 March 4, 2007
Opening reception January 27, 2007