NENE HUMPHREY
564 Sackett Street Brooklyn, NY. 11217
P: 917-892-7987
E: humphreynene27@gmail.com
www.nenehumphrey.com
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| 2023 | This Like a Dream Keeps Other Time, Workshop Performance,Theater Mitu, Brooklyn, NY |
| 2023 | This Like a Dream Keeps Other Time V1, Catskill Art Space, Livingston Manor, NY * essay by Cristina Albu |
| 2018 | Transmission, with Mallory Catlett, Simon Harding. Lesley Heller Gallery, NYC, NY, * essay by Nancy Princenthal |
| 2017 | Fieldwork, Performance with Ramona Todoca, Rudolf, Costin, Catherine McCurry, McNay Museum, San Antonio, TX |
| 2016 | In Center, Video Gallery, Lesley Heller Workshop, NYC, NY Circling the Center, Performance, Directed by Mallory Catlett, 3-Legged Dog Art and Technology Center, NYC. |
| 2014 | if you were to peer into the mourner’s skull, Installation and Performance, BRIC House Gallery, |
| 2013 | Everything that happens, Performance in collaboration with Roberto C. Lange, Cantabile Youth Singers, Elana Sharkova Director, New Directions Series, Carriage House Theater, Montalvo Art Center: Saratoga, CA Nene Humphrey, Lesley Heller Gallery, NYC Proteus Gowanus, In Center Video and Panel in collaboration Dr. Joseph LeDoux, Brooklyn, NY Dixon Place Theater, NYC: Circling the Center Performance |
| 2011 | In Center, McNay Art Museum; Frost Octagon Video Gallery, San Antonio, TX, Circling the Center Video Performance, Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn, NY |
| 2010 | Nene Humphrey, Circling the Center, Installation and Performance, Sharadin Art Gallery, University of Pennsylvania, Kutztown, Pa 2009 Nene Humphrey, Pinnacle Gallery, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA |
| 2009 | The Plain Sense of Things, Lesley Heller Gallery, NYC |
| 2007 | Lesley Heller Gallery, NYC |
| 2005 | Islip Art Museum, Long Island, NY Ogden Museum, New Orleans, LA |
| 2004 | Weaving Geographies, Pei Ling Chan Gallery, Savannah College of Art & Design, Savannah, GA* |
| 2002 | Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, Miss.* Kiang Gallery, Atlanta, GA Ogden Museum, New Orleans, LA Breneau University, Gainesville, GA |
| 1999 | Common Touch, Katonah Museum, Katonah, NY, curated by Susan Edwards* Sandler Hudson Gallery, Atlanta, GA Salem College Art Gallery, Winston-Salem, North Carolina |
| 1998 | A Wild Patience, Colorado University Art Galleries, Boulder, CO, curated by Susan Krane |
| 1996 | The Tree Beyond Its Leaves, Sandler Hudson Gallery, Atlanta, Ga.*essay by Nancy Princenthal. |
| 1993 | Around the Edge, Halsey Gallery, College of Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina, traveling to University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida* |
| 1992 | Winthrop Gallery, Winthrop University, Rock Hill, South Carolina Sandler Hudson Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia |
| 1990 | McIntosh Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia |
| 1988 | Waterworks Art Center, Salisbury, North Carolina Small Works, Sculpture Center: Gallery Two, New York, NY |
| 1986 | Breathing Walls, Alternative Museum, Matrix Gallery, New York, NY, curated by Jane Farer |
| 1985 | Situations, Allen Priebe Gallery, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh, Wisconsin* |
| 1984 | Passages, Haggar Center, St. Mary's College, Notre Dame, Indiana |
| 1983 | Emily Lowe Gallery, Hofstra University, Hempstead, New York |
| 1981 | Medieval Landscape,55 Mercer Gallery, New York, New York |
| 2022 | Last, Dora Maar Gallery, Menerbes, France |
| 2021 | Built: Sculptural Art from the Permanent Collection. Ogden Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA |
| 2020 | Hostile Terrain 94, HUB-Robeson Center, Penn State, PA In Union Remotely, Shaker Museum. Mount Lebanon, New Lebanon, NY |
| 2019 | In the Presence of Absence, curated by Jillian Steinhauer, Elizabeth Foundation Project Gallery, NYC, NY* Labyrinths of the Mind, curated by Sara Lynn Henry, Woodstock Byrdcliffe Gallery, Woodstock, NY* |
| 2017 | Sentimental Ornamentation, curated by Michele Bosak, Fed Gallery, Kendall College of Art and Design, Ferris State Univ. Grand Rapids, MI Post-Election, curated by Kate Gilmore and Kristen Dodge, September Gallery, Hudson, NY |
| 2016 | Well Travelled, Rush Arts Corridor Gallery, Brooklyn, NY Splotch curated by Eileen Jeng, Lesley Heller Workspace, NYC, NY |
| 2015 | Sampling, curated by Dara Meyers-Kingsley, Pavel Zoubok Gallery, New York, NY A Random Meander, Robert Henry Gallery, Bushwick, NY |
| 2014 | Sleuthing the Mind, Pratt Manhattan Gallery NYC, curated by Ellen K. Levy, This Music Crept by Me upon the Waters, Lesley Heller Gallery, NYC Bric Biennial Downtown Edition, Vol.1, BRIC Arts Media, Brooklyn, NY Gowanus Artists, Old Stone House, Brooklyn, NY |
| 2012 | Full Spectrum: Prints from the Brandywine Workshop: Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA Emergence & Structure, Grossman Gallery, Lafayette College, Miami Dade College, Miami, FL, University of Florida, Gainesville. FL * Seeing Ourselves, Muse/Center of Photography and The Moving Image, New York, NY. * |
| 2011 | Migrations, Proteus Gowanus Gallery, Brooklyn, NY An Exchange with Sol Lewitt, curated by Regine Bash Cabinet, Brooklyn, NY and Mass MOCA, North Adams, MA Marked Differences, curated by Roberta Wadell, Brooklyn, NY Myself, Sheppard Fine Arts Gallery, University of Nevada, Reno, curated by Marjorie Vecchio* |
| 2010 | ArtPark: 1974–84, UB Art Gallery, Center for the Arts, SUNY Buffalo, NY* The National Academy of Design Invitational Exhibition, New York, NY Anatomical /Microbial /Microcosms, Central Booking, Brooklyn, NY |
| 2009 | The Last Book, curated by Luis Camanzer, National Library of Argentina, Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| 2008 | Works on Paper from the Contemporary Collection, High Museum, Atlanta, Ga. |
| 2007 | Radius. Metaphor Gallery, Brooklyn, NY “Phenomenal” Spaces, Cleveland, Ohio |
| 2006 | “Some Assembly Required: Extreme Evolutions, Mead Museum, Amherst, Mass* “181 National Academy Invitational, New York, NY * “Threads of Memory, Dorsky Gallery, NYC, NY* “Couples” Palmer Museum, Univ .of Pa.* |
| 2005 | “Traveler”, Dalton Gallery, Agnes Scott College, Atlanta, GA “Three Points of View” Heriard-Cimino Gallery, New Orleans.LA. |
| 2004 | “Thinking in Line-A survey of Contemporary Drawing”, University Gallery, Univ. of Florida, Gainesville. Curated by John L. Moore & Ron Janowich* “Striking Comparisons” Museum of Contemporary Art, Atlanta, Ga. “Reduce/Reuse/Rexamine” Rotunda Gallery, NYC.NY. |
| 2003 | "Site/Insight" PS1/MOMA, New York, NY Curated by Agnes Gund |
| 2002 | "Nene Humphrey, Mary Campbell”, Art Resources Transfer, New York, NY "Sew Fine" Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY. Curated by Karen Shaw* "Domestic Traces". Dorsky Gallery, NYC. (Three-person exhibit) Curated by Margaret Matthews-Berenson* Prints from the Vermont Studio Press”, Robert Hull Flemming Museum, Burlington, VT Havana Biennial, Havana Cuba |
| 2000 | "Months and Moons", ACA Gallery, New York, N.Y. "Nene Humphrey/Benny Andrews: The Art of Family”, Ogden Museum, University of New Orleans, New Orleans, La. And The Hotchkiss School, Lakeville, Ct. Curated by Rick Gruber* |
| 1999 | "Head to Toe: Impressing the Body”, University Gallery, Univ. of Mass. Amherst, Mass. Curated by Donna Harkavey and Margaret Mathews-Berenson "Millennium Messages" org. by SITES, Washington, D.C. traveling to Everson Museum of Art, N.Y., Miami Univ. Art Museum, Ohio, Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, L.I. Curated by Bobbi Coller* |
| 1998 | “Nene Humphrey, Grace Knowleton”, Workspace Gallery, NYC. curated by Lesley Heller |
| 1996 | “Close to Home”, Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx, N.Y.* “The Art Exchange Show” Denise Gordon Co., New York, N.Y |
| 1995 | "Essence and Persuasion, the Power of Black and White”, Anderson Gallery, Buffalo, NY "Object Lessons: Feminine dialogues with the surreal”, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, Mass. curated by Jeffrey Keough and Ann Wilson Lloyd* "New South, Old South”, Winthrop University Gallery, Rock Hill, S.C. "In Three Dimensions: Women Sculptors of the 90's", Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, Staten Island, N.Y.* |
| 1994 | Project Room Installation with Ellen Driscoll, Threadwaxing Space, New York, N.Y. "Fabricated Nature," Boise Art Museum, Boise Idaho and traveling* "Sculpture Southeast", South Carolina Art Museum, Columbia, S.C.* |
| 1993 | "Idiocognito", OIA/Police Building, New York, N.Y. and William Patterson College, Wayne, N.J.* "Drawings from 55 Ferris Street", curated by Frederike Taylor, Jessica Berwind Gallery, Philadelphia, P.A. and Wynn Kramersky Gallery, New York, N.Y. |
| 1992 | "55 Ferris II," 55 Ferris Street, Brooklyn, New York. Curated by Frederike Taylor, essay by Nancy Princenthal* "Art on Paper," Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro North Carolina* "Embracing the Void," Valencia College, Orlando, Florida. Curated Judith Page* |
| 1991 | "Stark Contrast," Trenkmann Gallery, New York, New York "Art of Our Times," High Museum, Atlanta, Georgia. Curated by Susan Krane |
| 1990 | "Sculptor's Drawings," East Hampton Center for Contemporary Art, Long Island, New York. Curated by Jennifer Cross* "The Art of Drawing," Lehman College, Bronx, New York. Curated by Jane Farver* "Recent Acquisitions," High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia "Small Works, Cast Iron," Sculpture Center, New York, New York "Work on Paper: Contemporary American Drawings," High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia* "Collector's Exhibition," Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, Arkansas |
| 1989 | "Lines of Vision. Drawings by Contemporary Women," Hillwood Art Gallery, Long Island University, Brookville, New York, Blum Helman Warehouse, and traveling internationally. Curated by Dr. Judy C. Van Wagner* "Objects/Figures," East Hampton Center for Contemporary Art, East Hampton, New York. Curated by Jennifer Cross* "Installation," Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, Georgia "Nene Humphrey/Phillipe Bent," Leslie Cecil Gallery, New York, New York |
| 1988 | "Scale (small)," Rosa Esman Gallery, New York, New York "Sculpture as Companion," Henry Feiwel Gallery, New York, New York "Group Show," John Davis Gallery, New York, New York "Black, Grey, White," Henry Feiwel Gallery, New York, New York "Sculpture '88," White Columns, New York, New York "Selections," Siegeltuch Gallery, New York, New York |
| 1987 | "Three Sculptors," AIR Gallery, New York, New York "The Blue Angel," Longwood Arts Center, Bronx, New York, traveled to Space 111, Birmingham, Alabama and AIR Gallery, New York, New York* "Small Scale Sculpture/Large Scale Sculpture," Atlanta College of Art, Atlanta, Georgia* |
| 1987 | "Nature into Form," Oscarsson Siegeltuch Gallery, New York, New York |
| 1985 | "Earth, Water, Light," Interart de St. Amand Gallery, New York, New York "The Totemic Impulse," Gallery Schweitzer, Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
| 1984 | "Sculptors Drawings," Sculpture Center, New York, New York |
| 1983 | "Sculpture," Greene Space Gallery, New York, New York, traveled to Visual Arts Gallery, SUNY at Purchase, New York* |
| 1982 | "Sealed Orders," Mercer Union Gallery, Toronto, Canada |
| 1981 | "Ambiance/Stimuli," Alternative Museum, New York, New York* "Ritual and Landscape," Touchstone Gallery, New York, New York |
| 1980 | "Inaugural Show," Touchstone Gallery, New York, New York |
| 1978-9 | "Group Show", Touchstone Gallery, New York, New York |
| 1984 | "Passages," Haggar Center, St. Mary's College, Notre Dame, Indiana "Red Road for Atlanta," Piedmont Park, A.A.F., Atlanta, Georgia |
| 1983 | "Roadrise/Resting Space," Art on the Beach, Battery Park, New York, sponsored by Creative Time, Inc. "Unending Roads," Mitchel Field, Hofstra University, Hempstead, New York |
| 1981 | "Meadow Passage/Forest House," Morris Museum, Morristown, New Jersey* |
| 1980 | "Enclosed Garden/Landscape," Artpark, Lewiston, New York* "Four Mountains for a Grove of Trees," Ward's Island, New York, sponsored by A.R.E.A.* |
| 2024 | Ceilia & Wally Gilbert Artist-in -Residence Program, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring, NY |
| 2023 | Artitst-at-Home Grant, Theater Mitu, Brooklyn, NY |
| 2021 | Watermill Foundation, Watermill, NY |
| 2019 | Brown Foundation Fellowship: Dora Maar House, Menerbes, France, MFAH, Houston, TX |
| 2016 | Agnes Gund Foundation Grant for Circling the Center Performance. |
| 2012 | Montalvo Artist Fellowship, Montalvo, CA |
| 2011 | MacDowell Colony Fellowship |
| 2010 | Agnes Gund Foundation Grant for Video Production, New York, NY Artist Residency Grant for project production, Sharadin Art Gallery, Univ.of Pa, Kutztown, Pa |
| 2009 | Brown Foundation Fellowship, Dora Maar, House, France, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, TX |
| 2008 | Patricia and Jerre Mangione Fellowship, MacDowell Colony, NH |
| 2007 | Smithsonian Institution Artist Research Fellowship |
| 2003 | Asian Cultural Council Artist Grant |
| 2001 | Berkshire Taconic Foundation Individual Artist Grant |
| 1999 | Anonymous Was a Woman Award Hambidge Center, CRG Corporation Fellowship, Rabun Gap, Georgia |
| 1986 | Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship, Bellagio, Italy |
| 1983 | National Endowment for the Arts, Individual Artist Grant |
| 1982 | Karolyi Foundation Fellowship, Vence, France |
| 1978 | MacDowell Colony Fellowship, NH |
Selected Bibliography:
Cover Art for Heads Together album by Gelsey Bell, 2024
Nene Humphrey, Art and Artists, Smithsonian Library, Washington, DC, 2023, http://www.sil.si.edu/DigitalCollections
Nene Humphrey Papers, Special Collections Library, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 2023 https://www.library.wisc.edu/specialcollections/
Evie Cross, Grieving Through Participatory Art: Alternative Spaces and Rituals, pp.99-108, Lucerna: UMKC Interdisciplinary Research Journal, Kansas City, MO, 2023
Nene Humphrey, Art and Artists, Smithsonian Library, Washington, DC, 2023, http://www.sil.si.edu/DigitalCollections
Aggie, Directed by Catherine Gund, Aubin Pictures, 2020, https://aggiefilm.com/watch/
Nene Humphrey, Pandemic Sound Scrolls, Scoundrel Time online journal, June 11, 2020, https://scoundreltime.com/pandemic-sound-scrolls/
Louis Bury, Materializing Memory and Trauma, Hyperallergic online magazine, May 4, 2019
Mario Naves, A Labyrinth worth getting lost in, The New Criterion, vol.37,no.10,June 2019
Wendy Richmond, Good Grief, Communication Arts Magazine, January/February 2019
Sarah Rose Sharp, Nene Humphrey at Lesley Heller, online and print, March,2018
Cat Kron, ArtForum Critics Picks, Nene Humphrey, Lesley Heller, ArtForum online, Jan. 22, 2018
Editors Artnews, Nene Humphrey at Lesley Heller, online, Jan. 22, 2018
Sarah Cascone, Must See Shows, Artnet, online, Jan.5, 2018
Brienne, Walsh, How the Artist Nene Humphrey Turned Objects into Mourning, Forbes, online, Jan. 22, 2018
Cassidy Dawn Graves, Art This Week, Bedford and Bowery online, Jan.8,2018
Cristina Albu: Modeling the Psyche: Nene Humphrey’s Multisensory Engagement of Empathetic Entanglement, Afterimage, The journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism, Vol.44, No6, P.15- 20, 2017
Carey Dunne, A Performance Where Victorian Mourning Braiding Meets Neuroscience, Hyperallergic online magazine, Oct. 13, 2016
Art and emotion under the microscope, The Art Newspaper, Oct. 21st, 2016
Kevin Umania, Editor’s Picks: 8 Events to See in New York This Week, Oct. 11, 2016
Gary Pini, 9 Must-See Art Shows Opening this Week, Oct. 12, 2016
Joey Hill, Where the Soul Meets the Body,UMKC University News, Kansas City, MO,2015
Ann Landi, Facing the Blank Canvas, ArtNews, June 2014
Julia Marshall, David M. Donahue; Art-Centered Learning Across the Curriculum (Teachers College Press), Columbia University, 2014, pp.54-58
Surrender to Something Dangerous: A conversation between artists Nancy Davidson and Nene Humphrey June 2013, artcore journal: http://wp.me/p2bkik-lN http://artcorejournal.net
Patricia Rossoff: Innocent Eye: A Passionate Look at Contemporary Art (Tupelo Press November 2013.
Ann Landi, Brain Wave, and ArtNews, June 2009 p.88 Cover Image: detail from The Plain Sense of Things.
Holland Cotter, Weekend Reviews, The New York Times, March 2009
Amy; Eshoo Ed, A New York Drawing Collection at Work 1991-2006. (Yale University Press 2008) with essays by Derrick Cartwright, James Cuno, Elizabeth Finch, Glenn Lowry, Ann Philbin, Jock Reynolds, Townsend Wolfe.
Stanley Staniski, Nene Humphrey: Artist, film produced by Staniski Productions in conjunction with the Ogden Museum, New Orleans, LA. 2005
Helen Harrison, “Site Specifics,’05,” The New York Times, July 10,2005
Nancy Princenthal, “Paper Airplanes, Recent Artist books on Flight and Travel,” Art on Paper, March 2005p.41
Patricia Rosoff, “Nene Humphrey: Carnal Knowledge”, Sculpture Magazine, Dec. 2004
Ken Johnson, “Gathering a Flock of Quirky Grownups”, The New York Times, June 18,2003, p. E32
Ken Johnson, “Domestic Traces", The New York Times, June 1,2001, p. E4
Ariella Budick, "Woman to Woman", Newsday, April 23,2000
Susan H. Edwards, “Common Touch/Nene Humphrey", Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, N.Y. July 1999
Common Touch, A Site-Specific Installation by Nene Humphrey. Videotape directed by Dianna Smith: Scapes Productions, pub. By Katonah Museum of Art, 1999
Agnes Gund, “The Passion of a Collector", Civilization, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Jan.Feb.1999
Tom Patterson, “Handy: Sculptor collaborates with Salem students", Winston-Salem Journal, Feb.7, 1999
Susan Krane, “Nene Humphrey, A Wild Patience", University of Colorado, Boulder, Jan.1998
Dinah Zeiger, “Urge to touch torments viewer at gallery showing", The Denver Post, Jan. 31,1998
"Hand in Hand", Daily Times, Boulder, Colorado, Jan.29, 1998
Jennifer Heath,” Hands", Boulder Planet, Jan.30, 1998
Joe, Miller, “Asking Nene about art", Boulder Weekly, Jan.1998
Michael Rush, “Five Connecticut Artists Turn to Installation", Art New England, Feb./Mar. 1998
William Zimmer, “Honoring Women as Keepers of the Home", The New York Times, Oct.20, 1996 p. 10. N.J. Ed.
Jerry Cullum, “The two sides of domesticity", The Atlanta Constitution, Nov. 15, 1996
Cathy Byrd, “The Tree Beyond its Leaves", Creative Loafing, Atlanta, Ga., Nov. 16, 1996
Suzanne Ramljak, "Carnal Knowledge' Object Lessons, Feminine dialogues with the surreal, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, Jan. 1995, p.5.
Susan Hapgood, "Feminine Strategies", Object Lessons, Feminine dialogues with the surreal, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, Jan. 1995, p.9.
Nancy Stamen, "Feminine Dialogues': a tempest from Oppenheim's teacup", The Boston Sunday Globe, Jan.29, 1995 p.42.
Mary Sherman, “Female artists express their gender ", The Boston Herald, Jan. 25,1995 p. 46.
Cynthia Nadelman, "Recent Drawings by Sculptors: A Common Language", Drawing, July/August 1994 p.25.
Chris Schnoor, “Sculptural Dualities". Reflex, Aug./Sept.p.13
William Zimmer, "Sculpture at Two Displays at Wayne," New York Times, December 5, 1993, p. 16
Eileen Watkins, "Art at WPC," Sunday Star-Ledger, New Jersey, December 5, 1993
Arlene Raven," Days Without Art", Village Voice, October 5, 1993.
Kristina Montvidas-Kutkus, "Dimensions of Slavery Explored", Post and Courier, Charleston, S.C., April 4, 1993.
Janet Kolas, "55 Ferris II," Art in America, February 1993, p. 106
Amy Jinker Lloyd, "Nene Humphrey, Sandler Hudson Gallery," Art in America, December 1992, p. 122
Susan Krane, "Matrix: Nene Humphrey," Winthrop Gallery, Winthrop University, Rockhill, South Carolina, 1992
Jerry Cullum, "'Dream' Objects Probe Landscape of the Emotions," The Atlanta Journal, March 6, 1992, p. F2
Tom Patterson, "Two Exhibits: One Shouts, One Whispers," The Charlotte Observer, September 13, 1992
Judith Page, "Embracing the Void," Valencia College, Orlando, Florida, 1992
William Zimmer, "The Public and Private in Robust Dialogue," New York Times, October 28, 1990
Jennifer Cross, "Sculptor's Drawings," EHCCA, Long Island, New York, 1990
Jane Farver, "The Art of Drawing," Lehman College, Bronx, New York, 1990
Jerry Cullum, "Artists' Styles Contrast Nicely in McIntosh Exhibit of Sculptures, Drawings, Paintings," The Atlanta Journal, April 5, 1990, P.C-6
Carrie Przybilla, Working on Paper, Contemporary American Drawing, (High Museum of Art, Atlanta, 1990)
Karen Lipson, "Dip into these Drawings by Contemporary Women," Newsday, New York, June 9, 1990
Rose C.S. Slivka, "From the Studio," East Hampton Star, September 11, 1990
Dr. Judy C. Van Wagner, Lines of Vision. Drawings by Contemporary Women, with essays by Thomas Leavitt and Judith Wilson (Hudson Hills Press, New York, 1989)
Tom Patterson, "Subtle Images Give Salisbury Show its Power”, Winston-Salem Journal, September 11, 1988, p. 4
Chris Redd, "Nene Humphrey's Modernist Metaphors," The Arts Journal, North Carolina, October 1988, Vol. 14, No. 1, p. 14
Thomasine Bradford, "Small Scale Sculpture/Large Scale Sculpture," Art Papers, Atlanta, Georgia, January/February 1988, Vol. 12, No. 1, p. 49
Juli Carson, Howard McCalebb, and Blue Angel: The Decline of Sexual Stereotypes in Post Feminist Sculpture, (Longwood Art Center, New York, 1987)
Lisa Tuttle, Small Scale Sculpture/Large Scale Sculpture, (Atlanta College of Art, Atlanta, Georgia, 1987)
B. McKenzi "Road is Primary Motif in Nene Humphrey's Art," Atlanta Journal-Constitution, April 13, 1987
Phil Williams, "Nene Humphrey: Recent Drawings and Sculpture," Art Papers, Vol. 11, No. 4, July-August
Eric Siegeltuch, Nene Humphrey: Situations, (University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh, Wisconsin, 1985)
Pat Stenson, "Wisconsin Upbringing Still Inspiring Modernist Artist," Post Crescent, Oshkosh, Wisconsin, March 31, 1985
Karen Heisler, "Sculptor Nene Humphrey Creates Passages," Courier, South Bend, Indiana, summer 1984
Martin Ries, "Ambiance/Stimuli," Re. Dact, An Anthology of Art Criticism, Peter Frank editor, (Willis, Locker, Owens, New York, 1984) p. 141
Michael Perri, "On-Site Sculpture," Art Papers, Vol. 8, No. 3, 1984
Appearances, (sculpture reproduction), Robert Witz editor, No. 10, spring 1984
Janet Heit, Sculpture at Greene Space, curated by Irving Sandler, Corrine Robins, Kathy Goncharov, (New York OIA, 1983)
Art and Artists, (sculpture reproduction), September 1983
Grace Glueck, "Engaging Experiments Transform a Sandy Site," New York Times, July 31, 1983
Kay Larson, "On the Beach," New York Magazine, September 5, 1983
Donald Kuspit, "OIA at Greene Space," Artforum, April 1983
Bruce Eder, "Provocative Modern," Arts Weekly, New York, February 2, 1983
Benny Andrews, Ambiance/Stimuli, (Alternative Museum, New York, 1982)
Linda Shearer, Artists Space: Independent Exhibitions Program, (Artists Space, New York, 1982)
John Caldwell, "Modernism in Morristown," New York Times (New Jersey edition), August 30, 1981
Judith Wilson, "Small-Crafted Warnings," Village Voice, May 26, 1981
Gail Gelburd, Environmental Art Projects 1981, (Morris Museum, New Jersey, 1981)
Janet Heit, "Nene Humphrey: Medieval Landscape," Arts Magazine, June 1981
Richard Huntington, Artpark 1980, (Artpark, Lewiston, New York, 1980)
Vivienne Thaul Wechter, AREA Sculpture-Ward's Island, (AREA Inc, New York, 1980)
Grace Glueck, "Outdoor Sculpture," New York Times, September 11, 1980
Sarah McFadden, "Going Places Part II," Art in America, summer 1980
Carrie Rickey, Kay Larson, "Stalking the Wild Sculpture," Village Voice, June 25, 1980
John Perreault, "Ward's Island," Soho News, June 25, 1980
Richard Huntington, "Artpark," Courier Express, Buffalo, New York, July 13, 1980
Education:
M.A. Goddard College, Boston, Massachusetts 1972
B.A. St. Mary's College, Notre Dame, Indiana 1968
M.F.A. York University, Toronto, Canada 1978
Selected Public Collections:
Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, TX
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
Carlos Museum, Emory University, Atlanta, GA
Robert Hull Fleming Museum, Burlington, VT
The High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
Wilfredo Lam Contemporary Art Center, Havana, Cuba
The Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, Atlanta, GA
Ogden Museum, University of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA
Morris Museum, Morristown,N.J
Haggar Center, St. Mary's College, Notre Dame, IN
Best ProductsInc.Sidney Lewis Collection, Richmond, VA
Herb and Dorothy Vogal Drawing Collection
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Washington University, St Louis, MO
McNay Museum, San Antonio TX.
Xavier University, New Orleans, LA