Ellen Koment

Recent recipient of the 2018 Gottlieb Foundation Artist Grant.
Originally a New Yorker, a graduate of the Cooper Union Art School and UC Berkeley, I now live and work in Santa Fe, NM.
After a long career painting and exhibiting in the Bay Area, including inclusion in the exhibit "New Painters" at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, I now work primarily with encaustic, and have been exhibiting in this medium for twenty years. I have been recently represented in three books and several magazines..including an article on Encaustic and Creativity in "Encaustic in the 21st Century", and a cover story in the Woven Tale Press recent publication.

MA in Fine Art, UC Berkeley
BFA The Cooper Union Art School, NYC
HS of Music and Art, NYC

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITS
David Rothermel Contemporary, Santa Fe 2016,1017
Karan Ruhlen Gallery, Santa Fe, 2013
Box Gallery, Santa Fe, July, 2010
Box Gallery, Santa Fe, 2008
Waxlander Gallery, Santa Fe, 2005
Waxlander Gallery, Santa Fe, 2004
Helix Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, 2000
Ebert Gallery, San Francisco, 1997,
Ebert Gallery, San Francisco, 1995
Cynthia Woody Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona, January 1997
Ebert Gallery, San Francisco, California 1995
Vita Gallery, Portland, Oregon 1994
Shapiro Jameson Gallery, San Francisco, California 1991
Phoenix College Art Gallery, Phoenix, Arizona1991
J. Nobleit Gallery, Sonoma, California 1990, 1988, 1987
Clatsop College Gallery, Astoria, Oregon 1987
Piper Sonoma, Healdsburg, California 1986
Solano College Gallery, Fairfield, California 1984
The Annex Gallery, Santa Rosa, California 1983
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Karen Ruhlen Gallery, Santa Fe, 2013
“Miniatures and More”, Albuquerque Museum 2012
“Waxed”, Island Museum of Art, San Juan Island, WA, 2012
Gallery Nord, San Antonio, TX 2012 (honorable mention)
Karan Ruhlen Gallery, Santa Fe, NM 2012
“Waxworks”, Portland, OR 2011
Zane Bennett Contemporary, Santa Fe,NM 2009
Originals 2007, Harwood Museum of Art, Taos, NM 2007
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