SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2022

Prayer Flags - Good Will Wishers, curator Marlena Vaccaro, Carter Burden Gallery, NYC


2017

Upcycled Tubes: Assert, Defend, Surrender and Youngsters, curator: Marlena Vaccaro, Carter Burden Gallery, NYC

2016

Puppy Powwow, part of ReUse, ReDuce, RePurpose: The Art of ReFuse, curator: Anne Trauben, Drawing Rooms, Jersey City, NJ
 
Play Attention! pop up exhibit, The Clemente open studios guest artist, NYC

2008
Play Attention! Main GalleryPort Washington Public Library, NY

2003
Aspects of the Female Experience, Gibson Gallery, State University of New York, Potsdam

2001
match, paper, chisel, stone, open studio, NYC

2000
Aspects of the Female Experience, Pierro Gallery, South Orange, NJ

1992
Deliverance, Alternative Space Gallery, Ramapo College, NJ


SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024

Art Lives Here: Collecting, curated by Connie Lee, Westbeth Gallery, NYC


Play, curated by Marlena Vaccaro, Carter Burden Gallery, NYC


Among Friends 4, Metaphor Gallery, NYC


Addition / Subtraction, curators: Denise Penizzotto & Keena Gonzalez, Church of St. Paul the Apostle, NYC


2023

Everything as It Is, curated by Marlena Vaccaro, Carter Burden Gallery, NYC


The Fragile Beautiful Earth, curated by Beth Barry, Gallery Sitka South, Newport, RI


Women Celebrate Women, curated by Yvonne Lamar Rogers & Rolinda Ramos, El Barrio Artspace, NYC


2022

Sensing Woman, curated by Christina Massey, C-24 Gallery, NYC


Among Friends 3, curated by Alexandra Rutsch Brock, Beth Dary & Patricia Fabricant, Artists Equity Gallery, NYC


A Conversation Between Women, curated by Connie Lee,  Art Lives Here, NYC


2021

Don't Shut Up, curated by Susan Grabel & Stefany Benson, Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, NYC


Home Room: Live and In Person, curated by Audra Lambert, Chashama Art Space, NYC


Living With Art, curated by Connie Lee, Art Lives Here, NYC


2020

Women Celebrate Women, curated by Yvonne Lamar Rogers & Rolinda Ramos, El Barrio Artspace, NYC


2019

ReVISION2, Edison Price Lighting Gallery, Long Island City, NY
 
Among Friends/Entre Amigos, curated by Alexandra Rutsch Brock, Beth Dary & Patricia Fabricant, Clemente Soto Velez Cultural & Educational Center, NYC

2018
Atmospheric Perspectives: Contemporary Approaches to a Traditional Technique, curator: Christina Massey, Chashama Art Space, NYC

NYC Trash! Past, Present, & Future, curator: Bill Scanga, City Reliquary Museum, Brooklyn, NY

Revision, Edison Price Lighting Gallery, Long Island City, NY

Sideshow Nation VI, The Greatest Show on Earth, Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn NY

The Big Small Show, curator: Anne Trauben, Drawing Rooms, Jersey City, NJ

2017
Deck The Walls, curator: Dee Shapiro, Trask Gallery, National Arts Club, NYC

Bosom Bodies, curator: Beth Gersh-Nesic, SIA Gallery, Peekskill, NY

Women Under Siege, curator: Susan Grabel, Ceres Gallery, NYC

Duality: Glimpses of the Other Side, curator: Scott Bluedorn, Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY

ME, MY SELFIE AND I, curators: Rick Krieger and Jim Furlong, Hudson Guild Gallery, NYC

Off The Walls, curator: Willie Cole, GCCA Gallery, Catskill, NY
 
Sideshow Nation V: Thru the Rabbit Hole 2, Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2016
Chewing Tar, curator: Linda Griggs, Hampden Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Sideshow Nation IV: Thru the Rabbit Hole, Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2015
Dog, curator: Yuko Nii, WAH Center, Brooklyn, NY

Speaking Volumes...and Voids, curator: Anne Stanner, Governors Island, NYC

Sideshow Nation III, Circle the Wagons, Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

New Work City, curator: Julie Torres, Momenta Art, Brooklyn, NY

2014
TIME FRAMES MARKING TIME, Westbeth Gallery, NYC

Sideshow Nation ll at the Alamo, Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2013
Dog, Dog, Cat! Art at First, NYC

Portraits of Fern, curator: Jason Adrews, Norte Maar, Bushwick, NY

2012
Garbage Revisited: Art from Dross, curator: Karen Shaw, Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY

Toys & Toons, curator: Lawrence Cappiello, AGNJ Gallery, NJ

Hullabaloo Collective: Joie de Vivre, PS Project Space, Chelsea, NYC

2011
TOYS, curator: Asha Ganpat, Studio Theater Gallery, Middlesex County College, NJ

Art from Detritus: Upcycling with Imagination, Curated by Vernita Nemec, Williamsburg Art & Historical Center, Brooklyn, NY

2010
Upcycled, Ernest Rubestein Gallery, NYC

2009
Our Present Planet, curator: Rachael Faillace, The Mikhail Zakin Gallery, Demarest, NJ

2008
Her-steria, curator: Faye Ran, Next Art Gallery, Metropolitan  College, NYC

2007
Ten By Ten, curators: Ofri Cnaani, Ayelet Danielle, Makor Gallery, NYC

2006
Wandering, curator: Anat Litwin, Makor Gallery, NYC

Break the Mold: Honoring Walt Zucker, Ernest Rubestein Gallery, NYC

The Art of Sensuality, curator: Alina Preciado, Chelsea Art Museum, NYC

2005
Wiggle & Wave, two-person show, curator: Alexandra de Luise, Queens College Art Center, NYC

Matzo Files, flat file gallery, NYC.

Art from Detritus, curator: Elisca JeansonneGallery Merz, Sag Harbor, NY

2004
Superheroine, curator: Deepanjana Danda, Gallery OneTwentyEight, NYC

Art from Detritus, curator: Vernita Nemic, Synagogue for the Arts, NYC

Synopsis@10, Pierro Gallery, South Orange, NJ

2003
Contents Under Pressure, two-person show, curator: Maria Spector, Queens Theater, NYC

2002
Penumbra@Ocean County College, group show, Toms River, NJ

The Flag Project, Culpepper Gallery, Henry Street Settlement, NYC

Snapshot, Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, MD; Aldrich Museum of Art, Ridgefield, CT

2001
Figure / Disfigure, curator: Judith Tolnick, University of Rhode Island

1999
Ms. Foundation Space, curator: Tanya Selvaratnam, NYC

1997
From Inhibition to Inspiration, two person show, Westchester Institute, Mount Kisco, NY

Personal Space, curator: Laurie Sheridan, CWNY Gallery, NYC
In Visible, Visual Field, Rhinebeck, NY

1996
Group Show, Visual Field, Rhinebeck, NY

Shifting Identities, Window installation, CB's Gallery, NYC

Pulse Points, juried by Gaines Reynolds Clore, Ticknor Gallery, Cambridge, MA



SELECTED PERFORMANCES
2024

Tour Public Statues of Women with Ms. Muscle, 6-mile walk in Manhattan to visit 6 monuments that commemorate historical women, NYC


Ms. Muscle Welcomes You and Embrace Yourself with Ms. Muscle, Every Woman Biennial, La MaMa Galleria, NYC


2023

Fluxus? Panel with Performances, Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, SI, NYC


One of the Day de Dada Art Nurses at Figment Festival, Snug Harbor, SI, NYC


2022

One of the Day de Dada Wish Sisters at Figment Festival, Snug Harbor, SI, NYC


2021

Ephemeral Procedures with the Day de Dada Art Nurses, part of Art in Odd Places 2021: NORMAL, curated by Furusho Von Puttkammer, NYC


2020

Ms. Muscle at Home, curator Audra Lambert, part of HOME ROOM Performance Art Series hosted by Radiator Gallery on Instagram Live


Learn Baby Sign Language, HOTEL DADA Fluxfest, Online 2020


Day de Dada Zoom performances: Introduction to Face Yoga, Facial Expression Reading Challenge, and How to Send Mail Art Through the Postal Service


Pick One, guerrilla Art Nurse performances at The Getty, "Have You Seen My Boson" reading, and various spontaneous collaborations at Fluxfest, California


2019

Roar with Ms. Muscle, part of Art in Odd Places 2019: INVISIBLE curated by LuLu LoLo, NYC

Potato Tale Reading, Tap 100 times, Shake Your Clothes Off, and various spontaneous collaborations at FluxFest, Toronto, Canada
One of the Day de Dada Art Nurses at Figment Festival, Roosevelt Island, NYC

2017
Ms. Muscle Greets her Fans at the Après Avant Garde Festival, Staten Island Ferry, NYC
 
One of the Day de Dada Wish Sisters at the Wishing Well, at Performance Art on the Farm, curator: Marcy B. Freedman, Saunders Farm, Garrison, NY
 
Ms Muscle performance at EVEnt exhibition at Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
 
2016
Celebrating 100 years of Dada as Cautionistra at "Lumen," a night-time art festival, Atlantic Salt, SI, NYC
 
One of the Day de Dada Art Nurses in "Performancy Forum: glitch/heal OR gore/harm" at Panoply Place, Brooklyn
 
2015
What Do You Wish? wish collecting at the Culture Lounge, Staten Island Ferry Terminal, NYC
 
One of the Day de Dada Art Nurses at "Lumen," a night-time art festival, Snug Harbor, SI, NYC
 
2014
One of the Day de Dada Wish Sisters at "Lumen," a night-time art festival, Atlantic Salt, SI, NYC

2012
Build Something Out of Plastic Bottles at "FluxUs - FluxYou" performance event, part of FluxfestNYC

2011
Hula Hoop Camera performance part of the FluxFest "Flux Zig Zag" event, Staten Island Ferry and environs, NYC

2010
Ms Muscle performance at "Glow" event, Staten Island Museum, NYC

2007
Muscle performance at "A Place At The Table" event, Brooklyn Museum, NYC

Food for Thought performance piece, Martini Red, NYC

2006
Rattled performance piece, Makor Center, NYC

Moma Dada Dada Dance performance piece, ETG Café, NYC

Rattle Round performance piece, Le Petite Versailles garden, NYC

PUBLIC ART
2018
Plastic Bottle Succulent Garden, outdoor installation, The Point Campus for Arts and The Environment, Bronx, NY

2016
TRUE NORTH, curator: Mary Pinto, A Permanent Exhibition for The Fortune Society, Queens, NY (Prayer Flags - Good Will Wishers)
2012
Perpetual Energy, curators: Ursula Clark, Richard Brachman, Tyrome Tripoli, 30th Annual BWAC Outdoor Sculpture Show, East River State Park, Brooklyn, NY (Plastic Bottle Pyramid, collaborative sculpture with Sung Jin Oh)

2009
Tree Gems, collaborative outdoor intallation with Thea Lanzisero, First Presbyterian Church green space, NYC.
Tree Gems variations installed at Reeves-Reed Arboretum, Summit, NJ and Liberty State Park, NJ

2007
Tossed & Found, curator: Eileen Heckerling, Art in Public Places outdoor exhibit, Stamford, CT (File Cycle)


CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2014
TIME FRAMES MARKING TIME, a multi-media exhibition featuring the work of 19 artists who engage time as a palpable presence, co-curated with Elisa Decker, exhibiting artists: Mara Alper, Fran Beallor, Stefan Beltzig, Elisa Decker, Gwen Fabricant, Liza Folman, Tony Foster, Ellen Grossman, Valerie Huhn, Suzanne Kelser, Gwyneth Leech, Barbara Lubliner, John Mendelsohn, Elaine Norman, Jeffrey Allen Price, Ronnie Seiden-Moss, Drew Shiflett, Linda Stillman, Tamara Wyndham, Westbeth Gallery, NYC

2013
Dog, Dog, Cat!,exhibit celebrates the bond humans share with all living creatures by focusing on the special connection with the two most popular animal companions, co-curated with Barbara Sherman, exhibiting artists: Emil Alzamora, Fran Beallor, Fred Gutzeit, Sarah Hauser, Barbara Lubliner, Chris Kateff, Diana Kurz, and Barbara Sherman, Art at First, NY

2010
Upcycled, artwork created out of plastic post-consumer waste, exhibiting artists: Olivia Kaufman-Rovira, Bernard Klevickas, Barbara Lubliner, Shari Mendelson, Janet Nolan, Ilene Sunshine, and Tyrome Tripoli, Ernest Rubestein Gallery, NYC

2008
Art & Alchemy, exhibit featuring four artists who use found materials, exhibiting artists: Carol Goebel, Linda Stillman, Elyse Taylor, and Dan Walker, NEXT Gallery, Metropolitan Collenge of New York.

2007
A Place At The Table, feminist event, performance curator, performance artists: The Brazilian Sisters, Vernita N'Cognita, Hey Viv, Mindy Levokove, Tamara Wyndham, Barbara Lubliner, Mary Campbell, Milenka Berengolc, Artleen Schloss and Phoebe Legere, Brooklyn Museum, NYC

2006
Break the Mold: Honoring Walt Zucker, exhibit to honor master mold maker, educator, and artist Walt Zucker, exhibiting artists: Tom Otterness, Kiki Smith, Mary Ting, Roy Kortick, Ailene Fields, Barbara Lubliner, Meryl Meisler, Kate Moon, Sidney Simon, Trudell, Eileen Weitzman, and Walt Zucker, Ernest Rubestein Gallery, NYC


 
LECTURES and PRESENTATIONS
2023

The Art of Telling Our Stories: Artist Panel for Women's History Month, presented by Women of Culture, Salmagundi Club, NYC


2022

Artist Talk: Barbara Lubliner at Sensing Woman 2022, C24 Gallery, NYC


Moderator and organizer, Two Practices: Art & Therapy, Artists Talk On Art, online panel


2021

Women Sculptors & the Female Figure, online workshop sponsored by Sculptors Alliance


2020

Upcycle Art – Castoffs: Plastic, Cardboard, and Found Objects, online course sponsored by Sculptors Alliance


2015-2019
Creative Sculpture Workshops (Working with Plastics, Sculpture and Women), sponsored by Sculptors Alliance, held at Mulberry Street Library, Ottendorfer Library, Thompson Square Library, McBurney Y, Mid-Manhattan Library and Soho Broadway Initiative, NYC

2016
Picture Journal Pages, workshop presented at the Carter Burden/Leonard Covello Center in East Harlem, NYC


Transforming Plastic Bottles into Art, workshop presented at the 7th annual Earth Day Expo at the Montefiore Medical Center, NYC

2011-2013
Upcycled Art Workshops, co-led with Bernard Klevickas, at various venues, Educational Alliance, Queens Libraries, the New York Hall of Science, and Socrates Sculpture Park. 

2003
Aspects of the Female Experience, Visiting Artist, SUNY, Potsdam

2001
Moderator and co-organizer with Maddy Rosenberg, The Book as Art, Artists Talk On Art, NYC

2000
Moderator and co-organizer with Elizabeth Riley, Strategies for Survival – Artists who live off Their Work, Aritists Talk On Art, NYC

1998
Studio presentation to 92nd Street Y Art Tour, NYC

1997
Panel Member, Feminism in the Art World: Dead or Alive? (or Does Anyone Still Call Themselves a Feminist Artist?), Artists Talk On Art, NYC

1993
Aspects of Experience, Workshop presented to high school students, The Dalton School, NYC

You've come a long way ..., Work exploring life cycle issues presented to the Women's Caucus for Art, NYC

RESIDENCIES
2023

Openings Residency, Lake George, NY


2018

One of the Day de Dada Art Nurses performing ephemeral procedures as part of Dadabloge, in residence at Mobius, Boston, MA

2016
Summer Artist-in-Residence at the Carter Burden/Leonard Covello Center in East Harlem, NYC

2006
Makor Collaborative Artistic Community: Continuing Residency Program, NYC

2005
Makor Artists-in-Residence, NYC


PUBLICATIONS
1998
Women Artists Datebook published by the Syracuse Cultural Workers

1997
Women Artists Datebook published by the Syracuse Cultural Workers


EDUCATION 
B.F.A. Boston University School of Fine Arts
National Academy of Design School of Fine Arts, study with Barbara Lekberg and Gabriel Koren