Education
1998 University of Arizona Tucson, Arizona Master of Fine Arts
1997 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture Skowhegan, Maine
1994 Rhode Island School of Design Providence, Rhode Island Bachelor of Fine Arts


Selected Awards & Honors
2006 Pollock-Krasner Individual Artist Grant
2005-2006 Workspace Program, Dieu Donné Papermill, New York, New York
2004-2005 The Space Program, The Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation, New York, New York
2003-2004 Artist’s Studio Residency & Emerging Artist Fellowship
Smack-Mellon Studios, Brooklyn, New York
2001 Artist’s Residency
Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, Nebraska
2000 Visual Arts Special Residency
Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, Massachusetts
1998-1999 Visual Arts Fellow
Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, Massachusetts


Selected Group Exhibitions
2006
“The Hannukah Project: Works of Light by Eight Contemporary Artists”
The Jewish Museum, New York, NY
"Out of Line: Drawings from the Collection of Sherry and Joel Mallin", Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
“Crafty”, Sandra and David Bakalar Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art,

2005
“ArtReview 25: Emerging Artists in America” Phillips de Pury, New York, New York
“Greater NY” PS1/MoMA, Long Island City, New York
Heavenly, or A Slice of White” Leubsdorf Gallery, Hunter College, New York, New York

2004-2005
"Semiprecious" Project for the Public Art Fund
Metrotech Commons, Brooklyn, New York

2004
"Hello Chelsea" Bellwether Gallery, New York, NY
“Open House: Working in Brooklyn” Brooklyn Museum of Art Brooklyn, New York

2003 “Stroke” Schroeder-Romero Gallery, Brooklyn, New York

2002
“Next Next” curated by Dan Cameron
The Next Wave Festival, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, New York
“She’s Crafty” White Columns, New York
“Made In Brooklyn” Wythe Studio, Brooklyn, New York
“Frigid” Bellwether Gallery, Brooklyn, New York

2001
“Pattern and Decoration” The Mills Building Gallery, San Francisco, California

2000
“The Drawing Show” curated by Ellen Gallagher
Mills Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, Massachusetts

1999
“Beyond the Print: Selections from the Permanent Collection”
Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, Arizona


Solo Exhibitions
2004 “Objects of Virtue”, Bellwether Gallery, New York, New York
2000 Hudson D. Walker Gallery, Provincetown, Massachusetts


Publications
“From Carved Creatures to Disneyland Rugs” Ken Johnson, The Boston Globe, September 24, 2006
“Kirsten Hassenfeld” Gae Savannah, Sculpture Magazine, May 2005
“New Paper Sculpture” Merrily Kerr, Art on Paper, March/April 2005
“Presence of Light” Jill Conne, Sculpture Magazine, March 2005
“The ArtReview 25: Emerging US Artists” Daniel Kunitz and Joao Ribas, ArtReview v3n3, 2005
“Kirsten Hassenfeld” Katie Stone, Frieze, January/February 2005
“I Dos and Don’ts” Project for The New York Times Magazine, January16, 2005
“Kirsten Hassenfeld, Bellwether” Michele C. Cone, ARTnews, January 2005
“Kirsten Hassenfeld at Bellwether” Matthew Guy Nichols, Art in America, November 2004
“Kirsten Hassenfeld, Objects of Virtue” Jennifer Coates, TimeOut New York, October 7, 2004
"Kirsten Hassenfeld, Critics Pick" Martha Schwendener, Artforum.com, September 2004
“Opulence as Thin as Paper", Sheila Pepe, Gay City News, September 30, 2004
“Show World: Kirsten Hassenfeld” Jane Harris, The Village Voice, September 24th, 2004
“Kirsten Hassenfeld: Objects of Virtue” Julie Morton, New York Press, September 22, 2004
"Kirsten Hassenfeld" Tony Moxham, Interview Magazine, September 9, 2004
“Open House: Working in Brooklyn” Joe Hill, Contemporary, issue 65
“Borough Hall” Jerry Saltz, The Village Voice, May 5, 2004
“Frigid” Megan Heuer, Art Seen, The Brooklyn Rail, April 2002
“Frigid” Martha Schwendener, TimeOut New York, January 24, 2002
“Winners in BCA Exhibit Drawn, But Not by Chance” Christine Temin The Boston Globe, May 24, 2000
“Fellowship of Artists” K.C. Meyers, The Cape Cod Times, March 18, 1999




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