Polly Apfelbaum
"The Potential of Women", 2017
Gouache on paper
11 x 8.5 inches (21.6 x 27.9 cm)
Courtesy of the Artist and Frith St Gallery

Selected by Lynn Zelevansky

Polly Apfelbaum graduated from the Tyler School of Art, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania. She has exhibited consistently since her first solo show 1986. Her work has recently been recognized with a Pew Center for Arts Grant, a Creative Capital Award, and the 2012 Rome Prize at the American Academy. She has also received a Joan Mitchell Grant, The Diebenkorn Fellowship, a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, an Anonymous Was a Woman Grant, and a Guggenheim Fellowship.

Recent solo exhibitions include: "These Boots Are Made For Walking" Frith St Gallery, London, “Waiting For the UFO's (a space between a landscape and a bunch of flowers)” at the Kemper Museum, Kansas City, and the Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK; “Happiness Runs” at Belvedere 21 in Vienna, Austria.

She is represented in numerous collections including: Brooklyn Museum of Art, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA, Dallas Museum of Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. She is represented by Frith St Gallery, London UK, and Galerie Nacht St Stephen, Vienna, Austria.