• SOLO SHOW | In Formation at 575 Madison

    SOLO SHOW | In Formation at 575 Madison

    Photo Credit: Paul Takeuchi

    575 Madison is a corporate space curated by Matthew Lopez Jensen. Open 7 days a week. The show will be up through March.

    Reception: Saturday, November 5, 3-6pm - Artist Talk at 4pm

    In Formation

    Work by Shanti Grumbine

    A story in the newspaper is as much a weaving as any piece of fabric; histories, quotes, perspectives, backgrounds, observations, and predictions are set together in such a way that reality becomes suspended in its form. Every published article is then a window into another world made conveniently viewable from a distance.

    The works of Shanti Grumbine are as captivating as they are critical of the material from which they are constructed. Newspaper pages, particularly those of The New York Times, offer a familiar, if not iconic, form for the viewer to enter the work. However, upon close inspection, we realize how little information remains from the original artifact. Grumbine spends hundreds of painstaking hours meticulously extracting words and shapes to expose the underlying structure of the medium. The newspaper has, in the most literal sense, become a window.

    The ghostly images of high-end products appearing in many pieces on exhibit have an added resonance on Madison Avenue, as they can be found for sale only blocks away. Works like Melt, Reach, and the nine-paneled Tiffany and The Shower of Gold (After the Myth of Danae), all illustrate the tension caused by using the tragedies of climate change and war as a delivery system for marketing luxury goods.

    There is a physicality to these intricate works that is hard to miss. Grumbine has created something structural out of material designed to be ephemeral. So it makes sense to learn that Grumbine has extensive experience as a performance artist, dancer, sculptor, and rock climber, all very physical pursuits. Yet it remains hard to imagine why an artist would design such a painstaking process to create work. Surprisingly, the works were a form of art therapy, devised to help the artist’s mind and body recover from a severe case of untreated Lyme disease. Grumbine went from dangling off rocky outcroppings by her fingertips to hardly being able to hold a pencil in a matter of months. “Even reading was hard because of the cognitive effects of the Lyme. So, the newspapers became both freedom and instigation. I became hyperaware of the paper as a marketable mechanism and object, whose structure perpetuates contradictory value systems.”

    Perhaps the most intimate works in the show are the small-scale depictions of windows, gates, and breezeblocks. The beautifully layered works of gel pen and ink wash, highlight overlooked architectural elements that serve as both protection from and access to the outside world. When viewed in the same context as Grumbine’s works with newspapers, the connections become obvious. Once again we are on the outside of something ornate and strong, gazing inwards and contemplating the lives of those on the other side.

    Text by Matthew Lopez Jensen

  • GROUP SHOW | Points of Return at Hudson House

    GROUP SHOW | Points of Return at Hudson House


    Points of Return:


    Shanti Grumbine, Pat McCarthy, and Padma Rajendran


    River Valley Arts Collective at Hudson House

    824 Warren Street in Hudson, NY 12534



    September 25 – October 22, 2022
    Saturdays and Sundays 12 - 6pm and by appointment

    River Valley Arts Collective is pleased to announce Points of Return, a group exhibition in which the movement from and back to a place of origin unites variegated work by Shanti Grumbine, Pat McCarthy, and Padma Rajendran.



    Along commutes and perambulations, Grumbine collects bits of detritus and chronicles the road markings and architectural features of her surroundings. She then meticulously reproduces the industrial relics through careful craft techniques such as weaving and felting. By creating multiple iterations of the same form, Grumbine transforms the monotony of quotidian travel into meditations on the cultural values assigned to objects, modes of production and consumption, and how public indications of climate change, economic segregation, and devotion are as ubiquitous as they are commonly overlooked.

  • AWARD | 2020 NYSCA/NYFA Fellow in Printmaking/Drawing/Book Arts

    AWARD | 2020 NYSCA/NYFA Fellow in Printmaking/Drawing/Book Arts

    Honored to be a 2020 NYSCA/NYFA Fellow with an unrestricted $7,000 grant!!!

  • GROUP SHOW | NO MAN SPIRITS OUR DUST

    GROUP SHOW | NO MAN SPIRITS OUR DUST

    No man spirits our dust
    5-50 Gallery
    5-50 51st Ave.
    Long Island City, NY
    Opening Reception, January 11, 7-10pm
    Hours: Wednesday - Sunday,10am - 5pm

    Featuring works by Roxanne Jackson, Shanti Grumbine, Radka Salcmannova, Christine Laquet, Marcus Kenney,and Malado Baldwin

    Curated by Sarah Walko

  • AWARD | BRICworkspace Residency

    I'm pleased to be awarded a summer workspace residency at BRIC.

    Open Studios: August 1, 2018, 6-9pm

  • GROUP SHOW | SUMMER READING

    GROUP SHOW | SUMMER READING

    June 14 - September 8, 2018 at Woskob Family Gallery at Penn State University, State College, PA

    Opening in June—the season of leisure reading and scholastic book challenges—we present an exhibition of works by contemporary artists who take creative approaches to text and the book. Artistic approaches represented in the exhibition range from investigating artist’s books as a structure, exploring storytelling in visual art, mining the narrative possibilities of language, and looking at the object-ness of material in circulation. Works by Tauba Auerbach, Lenka Clayton, Erik Den Breejen, Lesley Dill, Joy Drury Cox, Colette Fu, Skye Gilkerson, Shanti Grumbine, Travis Head, Meg Hitchcock, Nina Katchadourian, Michael Mandiberg, Jill Moser & Charles Bernstein, Diane Samuels, Ward Shelley, Cassie Tompkins, Breanne Trammell, Anne Vieux, and Dan Walsh.

  • GROUP SHOW | I'M YER VIRGIL

    GROUP SHOW | I'M YER VIRGIL

    April 12 - April 20, 2018 at Super Dutchess Gallery, 53 Orchard Street, LES, NY
    Closing Reception: Friday, April 20, 5-7pm
    Curated by Amanda Nedham and Kyle Hittmeier

    I’m yer Virgil turns toward contemporary artists as guides to help us navigate the landscape of the new American psyche focusing on the state of limbo....The work of Jessica Gaddis, Shanti Grumbine, Arghavan Khosravi, David Temchulla, Clement Valla, Ambera Wellmann, and Wei Xiaoguang disrupt a United States of America whose rational sensibility has increasingly become sacrificed in an economy of woe and aggression. Shaped by their individual experiences and socio­political upbringings, the artists refute the notion of staying idle in a country where rules of participation are changing. These Virgils encourage us to turn away from this dark landscape that at times feels inescapable by illuminating new paths. Whether it’s navigating immigrated identity, challenging iconic history, or addressing female desire in the public sphere, all these artists are defining the contemporary American zeitgeist.

  • PUBLICATION | INTERVIEW WITH OTHER PEOPLE'S PIXELS

    PUBLICATION | INTERVIEW WITH OTHER PEOPLE'S PIXELS
  • PUBLIC EVENT | PILGRIMAGE AND POETRY

    PUBLIC EVENT | PILGRIMAGE AND POETRY

    Saturday, November 4th, 2017 4-5pm at the Roswell Museum and Art Center

    Roswell Artist-in-Residence, Shanti Grumbine, has invited two distinguished poets, Colette LaBouff and Richard Greenfield, to read their works in dialogue with her solo show, pilgrim, approaching wordlessness. All three artists touch on the intersection between the natural and made worlds, engage material language and topography, and find transcendence in mundane objects and moments.

  • SOLO SHOW | PILGRIM, APPROACHING WORDLESSNESS

    SOLO SHOW | PILGRIM, APPROACHING WORDLESSNESS

    Roswell Artist-In-Residence
    Shanti Grumbine
    Roswell Museum and Art Center
    pilgrim, approaching wordlessness

    September 23 - November 5, 2017
    Friday, September 22, 5:30, artist talk and reception

  • SOLO SHOW | ZEROING

    SOLO SHOW | ZEROING

    Zeroing at Smack Mellon
    Opening reception: March 11, 5-8pm
    Show runs March 11 - April 23, 2017
    Gallery Hours: Wed - Sun, 12-6pm

  • GROUP SHOW | HISTORY OF THE PRESENT

    GROUP SHOW | HISTORY OF THE PRESENT

    Osilas Gallery at Concordia College, Bronxville, NY

    Opening Reception Thursday, March 16th at 7 pm

    Exhibition runs March 16 – April 22

    This contemporary art exhibition addresses complex narratives and the shapeshifting mappings of time, space and power. Awareness of time and history becomes plastic, as artists reorganize the past and reconfigure power structures of the present. The familiar is presented as the unfamiliar, as an inversion of the American narrative is retold and reorganized. Featured artists: Rose DeSiano, Shanti Grumbine, Valerie Hegarty, James Raczkowski and Melissa Vandenberg. Curated by Sarah Rowe and Rachel Sydlowski.

  • PUBLIC EVENT | PERFORMING GEOMETRIES

    PUBLIC EVENT | PERFORMING GEOMETRIES

    March 26, 2017, 3:00-4:30pm
    Performing Geometries
    A Performative Reading by Shanti Grumbine, accompanied by guitarist Ofir Ganon, and Short Film Screening by Tatiana Istomina followed by a Conversation with the Artists and Exhibition Curator, Gabriel de Guzman

    Seating will be limited
    RSVP 718-937-6317 or rsvp: dgcpgallery@gmail.com

  • GROUP SHOW | DISARMING GEOMETRIES

    GROUP SHOW | DISARMING GEOMETRIES

    January 15 – March 26, 2017
    Dorsky Gallery
    Disarming Geometries
    Featuring the work of hannes bend, Glenn Fischer, Shanti Grumbine, Nicholas Hamilton, Samantha Holmes, Maria Hupfield,Tatiana Istomina, Glendalys Medina, Mitch Paster, Armita Raafat, Martyna Szczesna, Ryan Turley, & Christine Wong Yap

    Curated by Gabriel de Guzman
    Opening Reception: Sunday, January 15, 2017, 2-5 pm

    Disarming Geometries features artists who apply abstraction and geometry as organizing or fragmenting tools for processing those unsettling characteristics of contemporary life.

  • AWARD | ROSWELL ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE PROGRAM FELLOWSHIP

    I am please to be awarded a year long fellowship at RAIR, Roswell, NM for the year of 2017!!!

  • PUBLICATION | PREGAME MAGAZINE INTERVIEW

    PUBLICATION | PREGAME MAGAZINE INTERVIEW
  • AWARD | SMACK MELLON HOT PICK 2016

    AWARD | SMACK MELLON HOT PICK 2016

    Pleased to be chosen as one of Smack Mellon's Hot Picks, 2016.

  • PUBLICATION | THE COASTAL POST INTERVIEW

    PUBLICATION | THE COASTAL POST INTERVIEW
  • AWARD | SALTONSTALL FOUNDATION ARTIST RESIDENCY

    AWARD | SALTONSTALL FOUNDATION ARTIST RESIDENCY

    I'm excited to keep working on my project The Last Color: A Reliquary at Saltonstall this summer!

  • AWARD | THE SANTO FOUNDATION INDIVIDUAL ARTIST GRANT

    I was awarded an individual artist grant from the Santo Foundation.

  • GROUP SHOW | THE FLAT FILES AT TSA NY

    GROUP SHOW | THE FLAT FILES AT TSA NY

    The Flat Files: Year Three
    Group Show of 2-D work selected by TSA
    December 11, 2015 - January 3, 2016

  • AWARD | LABA FELLOWSHIP 2015-2016

    I am pleased to be awarded with a LABA fellowship for 2015-2016 where I will develop a project based on secular study of ancient Jewish texts.

  • GROUP SHOW | IMPOSSIBLE GEOMETRIES

    GROUP SHOW | IMPOSSIBLE GEOMETRIES

    Group Show at Field Projects curated by Lauren Haynes
    526 W 26th Street, #807
    November 5 - December 19
    Open Thursday - Saturday, 12-6pm

  • GROUP SHOW | MAKER MARKS

    Maker Marks: a group show at Temporary Storage Gallery, Brooklyn Fireproof, Bushwick

    Featuring work by: Man Bartlett, Ghost of a Dream, Shanti Grumbine, Jessie Henson, Delanie Jenkins, Lindsey Landfried, David X. Levine, Joe Nanashe and Amanda Tiller.

    September 8 - October 9
    Opening Reception: September 11, 6-10pm

  • AWARD | WOMEN'S STUDIO WORKSHOP RESIDENCY

    Ora Schneider Artist in Residence at Women's Studio Workshop
    August 24 - September 19

    Solo Show: Undone, July 31 - September 1

    Artist Talk: September 1 @ 6:30pm

  • GROUP SHOW | BRONX CALLING: THE THIRD AIM BIENNIAL

    GROUP SHOW | BRONX CALLING: THE THIRD AIM BIENNIAL

    Bronx Calling: The Third AIM Biennial at the Bronx Museum

    Curated by Bronx-based artists Hatuey Ramos-Fermín and Laura Napier, Bronx Calling: The Third AIM Biennial features the work of seventy-two emerging artists engaged in the Artist in the Marketplace (AIM) Program (classes of 2014 and 2015).

    July 9 - September 20, 2015

  • PUBLICATION | BEAUTIFUL/DECAY MAGAZINE

    PUBLICATION | BEAUTIFUL/DECAY MAGAZINE

    Beautiful/Decay Write Up, May 13, 2015
    beautifuldecay.com

  • PUBLICATION | DAILY SERVING

    Daily Serving Interview with Ashley Stull, March 9, 2015

    Click Here

  • AWARD | VERMONT STUDIO CENTER ARTIST RESIDENCY

    I have been awarded a Marshall Frankel Fellowship for Chicago Artists and SAIC Alumni to the Vermont Studio Center for the month of March, 2015

  • REVIEW | TIMES UNION PRESS

    Times Union Press for Mot Juste, January 15, 2015

    Click Here

  • GROUP SHOW | MOT JUSTE

    GROUP SHOW | MOT JUSTE

    Mot Juste: A celebration of text and language in contemporary visual arts
    Mandeville Gallery in the Nott Memorial at Union College, Schenectady, NY
    January 3 - March 15, 2015
    With Michael Scoggins, Alex Gingrow, Sujin Lee, Bang-Guel Han, William Powhida and Cui Fei
    Featuring contemporary artists using letters, words, and language to convey satirical humor, opinions, both political and personal, question linguistic meaning and examine communication.

  • TWO PERSON SHOW | UNHEARD

    Two-Person Exhibition with Hannah Smith Allen at Pratt Munson Williams Proctor

    Unheard
    School of Art Gallery, Pratt MWP, Utica, NY
    October 3 - 31, 2014
    We appropriate images from the media in order to question the aesthetics of journalism and the rift between civilian life and tragedy abroad... addressing how the vehicles of media and relics of war simultaneously inform and mystify our understanding of political events.
    Organized to run in conjunction with the 4th annual “I Am Unspoken”
    Human Rights Film Festival in Utica, NY.

  • GROUP SHOW | NO MORE PLACE

    Group Exhibition at Gallery Aferro

    No More Place
    A group show about the degradation / disassociation of personal, domestic and cultural geographies.
    93 Market Street
    Newark, NJ, 07102
    October 9 - October 19, 2014

  • AWARD | ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE OTA, TOKYO

    Artist in Residence 2014, Ota, Tokyo

    I have been invited to participate in the 2014 AIR program, Ota Tokyo from September 23 - October 15.

  • GROUP SHOW | STATES OF SECURITY

    3-Person Show at KMOCA, Kingston, NY

    States of Security
    With Craig J. Barber and Marian Schoettle
    April 5 - April 26
    Open Saturdays from 12-4pm

  • AWARD | YADDO ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE

    I was awarded a residency at Yaddo for the month of April 2014.

  • GROUP SHOW | ALL THE NEWS THAT'S FIT TO PRINT

    Group Show at CCA, Sante Fe, NM

    All the News That's Fit to Print
    Center for Contemporary Art, Sante Fe, NM
    January 24 – March 30, 2014
    Guest curated by Santa Fe-based artist Donna Ruff, this exhibition features a national roster of artists who, like her, incorporate the New York Times in their work. The exhibition features drawings, textiles, sculpture, and multi-media incarnations of the world's newspaper of record from A.J. Bocchino, Adam Simon, Donna Ruff, Elissa Levy, Francesca Pastine, Fred Tomaselli, Guy Richards Smit, Lauren DiCioccio, Pat Boas, and Shanti Grumbine.

  • AWARD | WAVE HILL WINTER WORKSPACE

    2014 Wave Hill Winter Residency

    I will be an artist in residence at Wave Hill in the Bronx from February 19th through March 31st, 2014.

  • AWARD | ARTIST IN THE MARKETPLACE

    Artist in the Marketplace 2014

    I will be participating in the AIM program at the Bronx Museum starting in January, 2014.

  • ART FAIR | EMERGE

    My work will be represented by Present Company at the Emerge Art Fair in DC from October 3 - 6, 2013

  • AWARD | BEMIS CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART

    I will be an artist in residence from October through December, 2013 at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art

  • REVIEW | HYPERALLERGIC

    Hyperallergic Review of The Glittering Point by Sarah Walko

    Hyperallergic

  • PUBLICATION | LES FEMMES FOLLES

    Les Femmes Folles Interview

    Les Femmes Folles

  • SOLOW SHOW | THE GLITTERING POINT

    The Glittering Point
    A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
    From June 27 - July 21, 2012
    Opening Reception June 27, 6-9 pm

  • GROUP SHOW | SCREEN PLAY

    Screen Play: Hudson Valley Artists 2013
    The Dorsky Museum, SUNY New Paltz
    Group Show Curated by Daniel Belasco
    From June 22 - November 10, 2013
    Opening Reception: June 22, 5-7pm

  • GROUP SHOW

    NYFA MARK Exhibition
    Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY
    Curated by Beth Giacummo
    June 16 - September 1, 2013
    Opening Reception: July 21, 1-4pm

  • SOLO SHOW | KENOSIS

    Kenosis: Recent Work by Shanti Grumbine
    Muroff Kotler Gallery at SUNY Ulster, Stone Ridge, NY
    February 1, 2013 - February 22, 2013
    Opening Reception: February 1, 2013 from 5 - 7pm

  • GROUP SHOW | ART AND POLITICS: SEE IT NOW!

    Art and Politics: See It Now!
    Hewitt Gallery, Marymount Manhattan College, 221 East 71st Street, NY, NY
    Curated by Hallie Cohen
    From January 30 - February 21, 2013
    Opening Reception: February 7, 6-8pm

  • AWARD | UCROSS FOUNDATION

    I will be attending the Ucross Foundation Residency for the month of April, 2013.

  • SOLO SHOW | SCORE

    Shanti Grumbine: Score
    Mariboe Gallery at the Peddie School Swig Arts Center, Hightstown, NJ
    January 11, 2013 - February 8, 2013
    Opening Reception, January 11, 2013 from 6:30 - 8pm
    Gallery Talk at 7pm

  • GROUP SHOW | THE AIR GALLERY 10TH BIENNIAL

    The A.I.R. Gallery 10th Biennial
    A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
    Juried by Ingrid Schaffner of the ICA in Philadelphia
    December 6, 2012 to January 5, 2013
    Opening Reception: Thursday, December 6, 2012 from 6-9pm

  • GROUP SHOW | WHAT CAN'T BE CURED MUST BE ENDURED

    What Can't Be Cured Must Be Endured
    Group Show curated by Anonda Bell
    Paul Robeson Gallery, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ
    My sculpture, The Unsayable, will be on view
    Dates: September 4, 2012 - January 9, 2013
    Opening Reception: September 13, 2012, 5pm-7pm

  • AWARD | MILLAY COLONY ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE

    I will be at the Millay Colony working on more paper-cuts and drawings for the month of October.

  • GROUP SHOW | READ BETWEEN THE LINES

    Read Between the Lines
    Group show curated by Micaela Giovonotti
    Lower East Side Printshop, 306 W. 37th Street 6th Floor, New York, NY
    Dates: September 12 - November 4, 2012
    Opening Reception: September 26, 2012, 6pm - 8pm

  • REVIEW | HYPERALLERGIC

    Please click Here to read a review in Hyperallergic, by Brendan Carroll of the recent show Tabula Rasa at Curious Matter, curated by Aimee Burg in Jersey City. My work from the "Kenosis" series is mentioned.

  • INTERVIEW

    Click Here to watch an excerpt of me introducing my first "Kenotic Times Score" and call and response performance: Koran Burning, NATO Blunder
    The interview and video was done by ArtIsArtists during the group show re/spond/re/peat, curated by Audra Wolowiec at the Soapbox Gallery over the summer.

  • GROUP SHOW | TABULA RASA

    Tabula Rasa
    Group Show Curated by Aimee Burg
    Curious Matter, Jersey City, NJ
    Dates: August 19 - September 16
    Two pieces from the Kenosis series will be on view.

  • GROUP SHOW | EVERYTHING IS NOT ALL THERE IS

    Everything Is Not All There Is
    Curated by Nicole Caruth
    3-Person Show with Naomi Reis and Julian Wellisz
    Dates: July 11 - September 9 at the Lower East Side Printshop 306, W. 37th Street, Fl 6
    Opening Reception: Wednesday, July 18th from 6-8pm

  • GROUP SHOW | IPCNY NEW PRINTS 2012 SUMMER

    New Prints2012/Summer Show at IPCNY, juried by Shazia Sikander.
    My silkscreen print Hurricane Irene Makes Landfall, NY Times, August 28, 2011 was selected.
    Show Dates: Thursday, May 24 - Friday, July 27, 2012
    Public Opening Reception: Thursday, May 31 from 6 to 8pm.

  • GROUP SHOW | RESPOND REPEAT

    re/spond/re/peat, curated by Audra Wolowiec
    Group show at Soapbox Gallery, 636 Dean Street, Brooklyn
    Opening Reception: June 8, 6-8pm
    Closing Reception: June 20, 6:30pm
    I will be performing on June 20th

  • AWARD | AIR GALLERY FELLOWSHIP

    I was awarded an AIR Gallery Fellowship for 2012-2013

  • GROUP SHOW |

    Lower East Side Printshop Spring Exhibition
    Curated by Rachel Gladfelter
    Lower East Side Printshop, Inc.
    306 West 37th Street, 6th Floor
    Dates: March 12 - May 9
    Artist Reception: Wednesday, April 25, 6-8pm

  • GROUP SHOW

    Made in NY 2012
    Juried by Sydney Waller and Richard Kegler
    The Schweinfurth Art Center, Auburn, NY
    Dates: March 31 - May 20
    Opening Reception: March 31

  • GROUP SHOW

    NYFA MARK 11 Showcase, Kleinert/James Art Center, Woodstock, NY, 2012
    Dates: March 31 - April 29
    Opening Reception: March 31

  • GROUP SHOW

    Water
    Juried by Portia Munson
    Muroff Kotler Visual Arts Gallery
    SUNY Ulster, Stone Ridge, NY
    Dates: March 9 - April 13
    Opening Reception: March 9, 6-8pm

  • AWARD | NYFA SOS GRANT

    Strategic Opportunity Stipends Program through NYFA and the New York State Council on the Arts, administered in Mid-Hudson by Garrison Art Center.

  • AWARD | LOWER EAST SIDE PRINTSHOP KEYHOLDER RESIDENCY

    I have been awarded a LES Printshop Keyholder Residency for 2011-2012 starting October 1st, 2011.

  • GROUP SHOW

    Celebration of the Arts: Corridors (Artist Windows)
    I will have new sculptural work as part of COTA in the windows of "Mixture" on Main Street, New Paltz from September 8th through October 10th, 2011

  • GROUP SHOW | ERASER

    Eraser: curated by Rachel Furnari
    Magnan-Metz
    521 W. 26th St
    New York, NY
    Show Opens: June 2nd
    Opening Reception: June 16th 2011.
    Selections from "Kenosis" will be on view
    www.magnanmetz.com

  • AWARD | NYFA MARK '11

    NYFA MARK '11 recipient for Woodstock, NY.