Sasha Silverstein

Sasha Silverstein has exhibited in solo and group shows in New York, Germany, Mexico and in Canada where she was part of a museum show at the Edmonton Art Gallery. Residencies include Chateau D’Orquevaux and Emma Lake. Her work is in various prestigious collections.

After earning her BFA from Sarah Lawrence, Silverstein later went on to study at the New York Studio School while earning an MFA in Sculpture from Parsons. She lives in Brooklyn, where she has an active studio. John Adams Griefen, a wonderful abstract painter, was her painting mentor for decades. Her teachers include Poussette-Dart, Sidney Geist, Peter D'Agostino, Jonathan Silver, Jill Nathanson, Ronald Bladen, Isaac Witkin.

Silverstein's many jobs include years as an artist model, art teacher in NYC public schools for 20 years and teaching in various art schools. She was a ghost teacher of sculpture to a couple of well-known painters and worked for many years as an art therapist.

Silverstein received Outstanding Sculpture Award in 1986 and 1988 from the Educational Alliance and Honorable Mention from Karen Wilkin at the Aljira exhibit in Newark, NJ in 2017. In 2000, she was invited as a guest artist in Edmonton Contemporary Artists Society in Canada, where she...

Parsons School of Design/New York Studio School; 1984; M.F.A.Sculpture
Art Students League; 1982
Sarah Lawrence College; 1975; B.F.A.
Semi-private study of painting with John Adams Griefen. 1976 -2001

Museum Exhibitions

2002; Edmonton Art Gallery, ECAS 10th Anniversary

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2016; Ground Floor Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
1999; Spoke the Hub, Brooklyn, New York
1995; Schweich, Germany
1995; La Mama Galleria, Manhattan
1993; Cadena Studio, Manhattan
1989; Educational Alliance, Manhattan

Selected Group Exhibitions
2024-2025; NYSS virtual exhibition, New York
2024; Salon des Refuses, BWAC, Brooklyn, NY
2024; Art on the Avenue, Park Slope
2023-2024, “Salon 81” 81 Leonard Gallery, Tribeca
2023; “Abstracted” Virtual Art Exhibition, Emerge Gallery
2023; New York Studio School Virtual Alumnae Exhibition
2023; Ice box4 Gallery, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
2023; Re Boot 2023, Incubator Studio Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2022;”The Doll Show”, Gallery Gaia, Brooklyn, NY
2022; Epicenter NYC
2022, 2021; Sarah Lawrence College Online Exhibition and Talk
2021; Biafarin, Children Gallerium Art online Exhibition
2021; ArtBlog, Part 32, Art in the Time of Coronavirus
2021; Painting Center Artfile
2021; Flatfile Gallery , 8 x 8, season 3
2021; “At the Table”, Chashama and ASL, Brooklyn
2020; USPS Art Projects, Ely Center for Contemporary Arts, Pelham Art Center
2020; Artblog Virtual Exhibition
2020; New York Studio School online exhibi...