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Solo Exhibitions

 

2013

  • New Work, Hunter Gallery, St George’s School, Newport, RI
2009
  • Snowblind, Grimshaw – Gudewicz Gallery, Bristol Community College, Fall River, MA
2006
  • Installation, Bannister Gallery, Rhode Island College, Providence, RI
2001
  • Women in the Visual Arts, Installed at Perishable Theater, Providence, RI, curated by Gallery Agniel
1999
  • New Work, Four Corners Art Center Gallery, Tiverton, RI
1995
  • Cristin Searles, East Side Gallery, New York, NY

 

Selected Group Exhibitions

2018

  • Fiber/Paper/Love, Beard and Weil Galleries, Wheaton College, Norton, MA
2015
  • Nimble Obscurity, Machines with Magnets, Pawtucket , RI
2011
  • YES!, Inaugural Show,  Buonaccorsi – Agniel Gallery, Providence, RI
2010
  • 10 from 10: The Director’s Cut, 10 Artists from the Gallery’s First 10 Years,  Grimshaw – Gudewicz Gallery, Bristol Community College, Fall River, MA
2005
  • Cristin Searles & Martabel Wasserman, Gallery Agniel, Providence, RI
2004
  • 3-D Rhode Island: Selections of Contemporary Sculpture, Newport Art Museum, Newport, RI, curated by Nancy Grinnell
  • Fabric of Light: Nina Cinelli, Cristin Searles, Esther Solondz & Cynthia Treen, David Winton Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence, RI
2003
  • Body of Work: a survey of contemporary art in Providence, Installed at the former Najarian Funeral Home, Providence, RI, curated by Gallery Agniel
2002
  • Cristin Searles & Nina Cinelli, Installed at Firehouse 13, Providence, RI, curated by Gallery Agniel
  • She left behind no note, five women sculptors, Rhode Island Foundation Gallery, Providence, RI, curated by Gallery Agniel
1998
  • New Work, three person show with Susannah Strong & Amy Campagna, Island Arts, Newport, RI
  • Dames, wallcovering installation, collaboration with Amy Campagna, The Arcade, Providence, RI
1997
  • Parlour Tart , wallcovering installation, collaboration with Amy Campagna, Sarah Doyle Gallery, Brown University, Providence, RI
  • Pucker, site specific installation, stair coverings, Four Corners Art Center Gallery, Tiverton, RI
  • New Work, two person show with Cali Almy, Four Corners Art Center Gallery, Tiverton, RI
1996
  • MFA Special Projects, Part Two, Visual Arts Gallery, New York, NY
1995
  • Flash, site specific rooftop installation, curator, organizer, exhibitor, 571 West 26th Street, New York, NY
  • By Virtue of Excellence, Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence, RI, curated by the RI Committee of The National Museum of Women in the Arts
  • Vessels, Sarah Doyle Gallery, Brown University, Providence, RI
1994
  • The Organism Proposes, Arthur B. Mazmanian Gallery, Framingham College, Framingham, MA
1993
  • End Show, Contemporary Artists Center Gallery, North Adams, MA
1992
  • Thesis Show, Emerson Gallery, Hamilton College, Clinton, NY

 

Education

  • 1996    School of Visual Arts, New York, NY, Master of Fine Arts, Sculpture
  • 1992    Hamilton College, Clinton, NY, BA Studio Art with Honors, Sculpture

 

Lectures

  • 2003    The Museum of the Rhode Island School of Design, Artists Speak Program Fall 2003, panel presentation of work by
    Cristin Searles, Monica Shinn and Jungil Hong

 

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