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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

OPP Interviews Shanti Grumbine

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

Featured Artist, July 2016

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

Interview by Ryan Turley on The Last Color: A Reliquary

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

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

The Flat Files: Year Three
Group Show of 2-D work selected by TSA
December 11, 2015 - January 3, 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 at Field Projects curated by Lauren Haynes
526 W 26th Street, #807
November 5 - December 19
Open Thursday - Saturday, 12-6pm

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

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

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

Beautiful/Decay Write Up, May 13, 2015
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Daily Serving Interview with Ashley Stull, March 9, 2015

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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

Times Union Press for Mot Juste, January 15, 2015

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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 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 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

Artist in Residence 2014, Ota, Tokyo

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

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

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

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.

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.

Artist in the Marketplace 2014

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

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

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

Hyperallergic Review of The Glittering Point by Sarah Walko

Hyperallergic

Les Femmes Folles Interview

Les Femmes Folles

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

I was awarded an AIR Gallery Fellowship for 2012-2013

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

NYFA MARK '11 recipient for Woodstock, NY.