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RESUME // downloadable resume 
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| Solo Exhibitions |
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| October 2004 |
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Annie Wharton: Pixie, Ambrosino Gallery, North Miami, FL |
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| November 2001 |
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Annie Wharton: Pusher (Performance and Temporary Installation), Kirishima Open-Air Museum, Kirishima, Japan |
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| June 2001 |
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Annie Wharton: Pucker, Kevin Bruk Gallery, Miami, FL |
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| February 1999 |
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Annie Wharton: Plastic Theater, The Wolfsonian-Florida International University Museum, Miami Beach, FL |
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| Other Selected Exhibitions |
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| December 2005 |
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Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami Beach Convention Center, Miami Beach (with Ambrosino Gallery, Miami, FL)
Pink is For Miami, Edge Zones, Miami, FL (Curated by Genaro Ambrosino, Gallerist, Ambrosino Gallery, Miami, FL)
The Yard @ Casa Lin, Casa Lin, Miami, FL (Curated by Joshua Levine, Artist and Curator, Brooklyn, NY) |
| October 2005 |
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Occurrences: Artist Crossroads - Los Angeles, Chicago, Miami Caracas, New York and Buenos Aires, Sydiart Studios, Chicago, IL (Curated by Milagros Bello, Independent Curator and Art Journalist) |
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| December 2004 |
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Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami Beach Convention Center, Miami Beach (with Ambrosino Gallery, Miami)
New Art Dealers Alliance (NADA) Contemporary Art Fair, Ice Palace, Miami (with Suite 106 Gallery, New York) |
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| August 2004 |
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Opposites, Suite 106 Gallery, New York, NY |
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| March 2004 |
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Freestyle, Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles, California (curated by David Mather, Independent Curator and former Gallery Director, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Los Angeles) |
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| December 2003 |
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Beautiful Pressure, Rocket Projects, Miami, FL
-Scope Art Fair, Townhouse Hotel, Miami Beach, FL (curated by Jeanna Yoo, Yoo Projects, San Francisco) |
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| June 2003 |
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Annie Wharton/Gabriel Delponte: Plastic Surgery, Sara Nightingale Gallery, Water Mill, NY |
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| January 2003 |
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Manifest Destiny, DACRA's Madonna Building, Miami, FL (curated by Anat Ebgi, Independent Curator from NY) |
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| September 2002 |
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Art Forum Berlin, Messe Berlin, Germany (with Suite 106)
The No Show Against Discrimination, Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Coral Gables, FL |
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| June 2002 |
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The Miami Alphabet, Miami Dade Public Library, Miami, FL (curated by Helen Kohen and Barbara Young) |
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| April 2002 |
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globe>miami<island, Museum of Contemporary Art DC, Washington, DC (curated by Robert Chambers, Artist/Independent Curator) |
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| December 2001 |
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globe>miami<island, Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, FL |
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| December 2001 |
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Fast Forward Miami Contemporary Art Fair, Nash Hotel, Miami Beach, FL (with Kevin Bruk) |
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| February 2001 |
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Girls on Top, Galerie Valerie Cueto, Paris, France |
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| December 2000 |
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Making Art in Miami: Travels in Hyper Reality, Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, FL (curated by Bonnie Clearwater,
Director and Chief Curator) |
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| April 2000 |
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Mount Miami, Tel Aviv Artists' Studios, Tel Aviv, Israel (curated by Tami Katz-Freiman, Independent Curator from Tel Aviv) |
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| January 2000 |
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Departing Perspectives, Former Espirito Santo Bank Building, Miami (curated by Fredric Snitzer, Fredric Snitzer Gallery,
Coral Gables) |
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| July 1998 |
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2x2, Ground Level, Miami Beach, FL |
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| May 1998 |
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Featuring Florida '98, Ringling Museum, Sarasota, FL (curated by Paolo Columbo, Director, Centre d'Art Contemporain, Geneva,
Switzerland/Curator of 1999 Istanbul Biennial) |
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| April 1998 |
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Gramercy International Contemporary Art Fair, Gramercy Hotel, New York, NY (with Ambrosino) |
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| February 1998 |
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Box, Broward Community College Gallery, Davie, FL (curated by Laurence Pamer, Curator, Fort Lauderdale Museum of Art) |
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| January 1998 |
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Gramercy International Contemporary Art Fair, Raleigh Hotel, Miami Beach, FL (with Ambrosino) |
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| December 1997 |
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Gramercy Artists, Ambrosino Gallery, Coral Gables, FL |
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| November 1997 |
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Gramercy International Contemporary Art Fair, Chateau Marmont, Los Angeles (with Ambrosino) |
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| July 1997 |
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Small Works International: 12th Annual Juried Exhibition, Amos Eno Gallery, New York, NY (juried by Andrea Feldman,
Assistant Curator, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY) |
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| May 1997 |
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Annual Student Exhibition, University of Miami Lowe Art Museum, Coral Gables, FL (curated by Bonnie Clearwater) |
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| Commissions / Work In Public And Corporate Art Collections |
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Alison Spear, AIA, Miami, FL
Trump Towers, Sunny Isles, FL
City of Kagoshima Public Art Collection, Kagoshima, Japan
Four Seasons Hotel Corporate Art Collection, Miami, FL
Miami-Dade Public Library, Miami, FL
Neiman Marcus Corporate Art Collection, Orlando and Miami, FL
The Related Group of Florida, Miami and Hollywood, FL
Cre8tiv Juice, Miami Beach, FL
The Sundari Foundation, Miami, FL |
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| Education |
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| December 1998 |
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University of Miami - Bachelor of Fine Arts with Honors (cum laude) Major - Sculpture / Minor - Art History |
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| Grants and Awards |
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| 2001 |
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Miami Beach Sister Cities' Fellowship Award for Visual Artists (Japan), sponsored in part by Florida Dept. of Cultural Affairs, City of Fujisawa, City of Kagoshima, City of Wakayama, City of Tokyo, City of Kyoto, and the Kirishima Open Air Museum. |
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| 1998 |
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Chestler Contemporary Visual Artist Award (Dade Community Foundation) |
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| 1997 |
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Thompson Photo Award (Lowe Art Museum, Miami FL) |
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| 1996 |
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Liquitex $1,000 Student Paint Award |
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| Lectures/Miscellaneous |
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Panelist: Art + Design Review, Florida International University Architecture School (February 2005)
Lecturer: "Annie Wharton: Plastic/Abstract/Impact," University of Miami (November 2003)
Instructor: Abstract Painting - Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami (Summer 2003)
Lecturer/Panelist: "Not a Boy's Club Any More: Women in the Visual Arts," -Scope Art Fair, Standard Downtown, Los Angeles, CA (July 2003)
Panelist/Juror: Miami Beach Cultural Arts Council's Artist-in-Residence (AIR) Program, Miami Beach, FL (May 2003)
Fellow/Lecturer/Exhibitor: Art tour of Japan with Miami Beach Sister Cities program, co-sponsored by Florida Department of Cultural Affairs: Fujisawa, Kagoshima, Kirishima, Kyoto, Tokyo and Wakayama, Japan (October/November 2001)
Lecturer/Panelist: "Painting in the Digital Age," Palm Beach Institute for Contemporary Art, moderated by Amy Cappellazzo (Christie's Head of Contemporary Art), Lake Worth, FL (February 2001)
Co-chair: The Wolfsonian Museum's Programs and Exhibitions Advisory Committee (2000-2001)
Lecturer: "Plastic Theater," The Wolfsonian Museum, Miami Beach, FL (March 1999)
Art Director/Production Designer: "Nothing," a film by Luis Gispert (July 1998)
Juror: Art Center/South Florida New Artist Jury Committee (1996 - 2001) |
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| Selected Bibliography |
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Wharton, Annie. Art.Es (Spain), Work + Word (W+W section invites artists to create 2 pages of their own work and texts for international art magazine)
Stein, Lee. Ocean Drive Magazine, "Annie Wharton: Plastic Fantastic," December, 2004 (photo of artist and work featured)
Bean, Shawn. Florida International Magazine, "The Florida Contemporary," October, 2004 (photo of artist and work featured)
Feinstein, Roni. Art in America, "Miami Report," December, 2003 (photo of "Surge" (2003) featured)
Davis, Nicole. artnet.com, "Art Season in Miami," (Four Seasons Review) November, 2003
Nikolopoulos, Daphne. Florida Architectural Design, "Presidential Suite - At Home with University of Miami President Donna Shalala," March, 2003 (photo of "Cookie Series" (2000) featured)
Ocana, Damarys. The Miami Herald's guide for Art Basel. (photo of "Forge" (2002) featured - also ran in El Nuevo Herald, Miami Herald's Spanish language edition), December 1, 2002
Morgan, Anne Barclay. Sculpture Magazine, "Miami Supports Miami," December 2001
Wallach, Amei. New York Times "In Miami, a Hot Spot of Art, the Temperature's Rising," September 16, 2001 (photo of artist and work featured). Story also ran in International Herald Tribune.
Sirgado, Miguel. El Nuevo Herald, "Annie Wharton, las fronteras de la femineidad" ("The Frontiers of Feminism"), July 8, 2001 (photo of "Pucker" (2001) featured)
Dietsch, Deborah. South Florida Sun-Sentinel, MoCA's Making Art in Miami… Exhibition Review, January 14, 2001 (photo of "Cookie Series" (2000) featured)
Alvarez Bravo, Armando. El Nuevo Herald, Hacer arte en Miami (Making Art in Miami…) Exhibition Review, January 14, 2001
Turner, Elisa. The Herald, "Ticket to Ride," (Making Art in Miami… Exhibition Review) December 20, 2000 (photo of artist and work featured)
Clearwater, Bonnie and Gean Moreno. Exhibition Catalog for Making Art in Miami…
Harper, Paula. Art in America, "Report from Miami: Banking on Art," (Departing Perspectives Exhibition Review) May 2000
Gilerman, Dana. Ha'aretz (Israel), "Snow Job Works Out as Art," (Mount Miami… Exhibition Review) April 13, 2000
Katz-Freiman. Tami, Exhibition Catalog for Mount Miami: American Artists in Tel Aviv, April 2000
Hay, David. New York Times, "The Scene Heats Up Under the Miami Sun," February 27, 2000 (photo of artist and work featured)
Feinstein, Roni. Art in America, "Miami Heats Up," November 1999
Korman, Nina. Miami New Times, "Futurist Female," (Plastic Theater Exhibition Review), May 13-19, 1999 (photo of "Plastic Theatre" (1999) featured)
Fochessati, Matteo. Giornale dell 'Arte (Italy), "El Mostre," (Plastic Theatre Exhibition Review), April 1999
Moreno, Gean. Art Papers, "2x2" Exhibition Review, January/February 1999
Williams, Gayle. Sarasota Arts Review, (Featuring Florida '98 Ringling Museum of Art Exhibition Review), June 1998
Columbo, Paolo and Mark Ormond. Exhibition Catalogue for Featuring Florida '98, May 1998 |
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| Television (Interviews With The Artist) |
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Downtown Dade, Miami Dade Television (MDTV), Miami, Florida - Aired daily from October 10-24, 2004
In a Fix, The Learning Channel (TLC), National distribution - First Airdate: February 9, 2004
Deco Drive, WSVN Channel 7, Miami, Florida - Airdate: July 13, 2001
Downtown Dade, Miami Dade Television (MDTV), Miami, Florida - Aired daily from July 2-13, 2001 |
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| Photographs Of Work Featured Without Editorial |
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Elle Décor (German), artwork featured in fashion editorial, February 2001
Glamour Magazine, artwork featured in fashion editorial, August 2000 |
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Annie Wharton was born in Tallahassee, Florida and lived in Stuttgart, Germany, New York, NY, and Miami Beach, Florida before moving to Los Angeles in late 2005. Her work has been featured in publications that include the New York Times, Art in America, Art Papers, Art.Es (Spain) Ha'aretz (Israel), Giornale dell'Arte (Italy), Glamour, and German Elle. In addition to a wide array of international art fairs, gallery and alternative spaces throughout the US, Israel, Japan and Europe, she's shown her work in group shows at museums such as the Museum of Contemporary Art in Washington, DC, the Ringling Museum of Sarasota, and in Miami at the Lowe Museum the Bass Museum, and the Museum of Contemporary Art and in solo museum exhibits at the Kirishima Open Air Museum in Kirishima, Japan and The Wolfsonian-FIU Museum. Her work is in important private collections throughout the world and can be found in public and corporate collections such as the 4 Seasons Hotels, the Neiman Marcus Collection, Trump Towers, The Related Group, the Miami-Dade Public Library, and the Kagoshima Public Art Collection. Her studio is located in Chinatown in Los Angeles, California 