Biography
She has received Individual Artist Fellowships from the Ohio Arts Council and Arts Midwest. She has been a resident artist at the
Contemporary Artist's Center in Massachusetts (‘94), at the Yaddo colony in New York (holding the Louise Bourgeois Endowed Residency
(‘96), the Kohler Arts/Industry program in Wisconsin (‘00) and the Art and Technology Residency at Wexner Center for the Arts (’09 & ‘20).
She has been a visiting artist at The Ohio State University, with Richard Harned at the Aichi University of Education, Aichi, Japan, Tokyo Glass
Art Institute,Tokyo, Japan and at the Forest of Creation, Kanazu, Japan.
In 2000 she installed a permanent public sculpture of the rooftop of the SPACES gallery in Cleveland, Ohio. Bead Game, an outdoor sculpture,
was installed in Kingston, NY as part of the Kingston Biennial in 2003. Solo shows include, As Wishes Still Helped, at the Columbus Museum of
Art in 2005 and These Things Still Travel Along Wires at the Springfield Museum of Art in 2006 and Run Back Home at the Ingenuity Festival
in Cleveland.
Palay's audio recording, An Introduction to Inequalities, was heard in the Sound Art Limo, curated by Holly Crawford, at the 2007 Melbourne
International Arts Festival, Melbourne, Australia.
Palay is currently a showing Last American Summer, a virtual video installation presented in The Box by Wexner Center Film/Video program.
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Education
M.F.A.,Milton Avery Graduate School for the Arts, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, 2000
B.F.A., The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, 1993
Solo & Two-Person Exhibitions
2007
Run Back Home, Ingenuity Fest, Cleveland, OH (installation as part of 4-day festival)
2006
These Things Still Travel Along Wires, Springfield Museum of Art, Springfield, OH
2005
As Wishing Still Helped, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH
2004
How Nature Works, Weston Gallery, Cincinnati, OH (with Richard Harned)
2003
Willard Wankelman Gallery, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH
2002
Acme Art, Columbus, OH
2001
The Sculpture Center, Cleveland, OH
2000
Kuhn Fine Arts Gallery, The Ohio State University at Marion, Marion, OH
1998
Romantic Geometry, A.R.C. Gallery, Raw Space, Chicago, IL
1997
Strange Voice, Acme Art Co., Columbus, OH
1996
Rough Draft, Hopkins Gallery, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH (with Richard Harned)
1993
Low Molasses, sculpture installation at Belmont Casket Building, Columbus, OH
1992
Wexner Center for the Arts, site-specific neon installation, Columbus, OH
Selected Group Exhibitions
2007
Ideas Into Objects, Weston Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
Man and Beast, Meyers School for the Arts, University of Akron, OH
An Introduction to Inequalities, Sound Art Limo curated by Holly Crawford, Contemporary Art Festival, Melbourne, Australia
2003
Kingston Sculpture Biennial 5, Arts Society of Kingston, Kingston, NY
2002
48 Hrs, Lake Erie College, Painesville, OH
1998
Ohio Perspectives, O.A.C. Gallery, Riffe Center, Columbus, OH; traveled to Akron Museum of Art, Akron, OH
1997
Intelligent Life, SPACES, Cleveland, OH
William Busta Gallery, Cleveland, OH
Intelligent Life, SPACES, Cleveland, OH
Ar(t)hropoda, Hopkins Gallery, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
Neon to the Tenth, ArtSpace, Lima, OH
1996
William Busta Gallery, Cleveland, OH
Neon & Light Invitational, Stock Pavilion, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
Orbits of Minor Planets, Hastings College Art Gallery, Hastings, NE
1995
25th Bradley Print National, Heuser Art Center, Bradley University, Peoria, IL
1994
Pilchuck Glass School Auction Exhibition, Seattle, WA
Light Works, Contemporary Artists Center, North Adams, MA
Designed to Wear, The Oregon School of Arts and Crafts, Portland, OR
1993
Glass Axis Midwest Juried Exhibition, Bryan Gallery, Bowling Green State University, OH
Songs of the Furnace, Hopkins Hall Gallery, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
Public Collections and Installations
Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH
Rooftop Spaces (installed in 2000) Spaces Gallery, Cleveland, OH
Honors and Awards
Ohio Arts Council, Individual Artist Fellowship, 2005
Sugarman Foundation, Artist Fellowship, 2004
Art in Public Places commission (postponed), Dublin Arts Center, Dublin, OH, 2002
Ohio Arts Council, Artist's Project Award, 2001
Yaddo, Louise Bourgeois Endowed Residency, 1997
Arts Midwest-NEA Regional, Art works Fund (with Hastings College), 1995
Arts Midwest-NEA Regional, Individual Artist Fellowship, 1995
Ohio Arts Council, Individual Artist Fellowship, 1995
Ohio Arts Council, Professional Development Assistance Award, 1994
Contemporary Artists Center, Walter Hopps Grant, 1994
Pilchuck Glass School, Scholarship, 1992
Selected Lectures, Panels and Residencies
Panelist, Ohio Arts Council, Special Projects Grant, 2010
Panelist, Cleveland Partnership for the Arts, Fellowship Award, 2009
Resident Artist, Wexner Center for the Arts - Art and Technology program, Columbus, OH 2009 -10
Panelist, Ohio Arts Council, Arts Innovation Grant, 2007
Panelist, Culture Works, Montgomery County, OH 2006
Panelist, Ohio Arts Council, Arts Innovation Grant, 2006
Panelist, Ohio Arts Council, Arts Innovation Grant, 2005
Panelist, Ohio Arts Council, Artist's Projects, 2002
Faculty, Advanced Sculpture, Ohio State University, 2002
Resident Artist Kohler Iron Foundry, Arts / Industry Program, John Michael Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, WI, 2000
Faculty, EZRA Studio, Installation Sculpture Workshop, Kanazu Forest of Creation, Kanazu, Japan 2000
Visiting Artist, Aichi University of Education, Aichi, Japan, 1998 and 2000
Visiting Artist, Tokyo Glass Art Institute, Tokyo Japan, 2000
Resident Artist, Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY, 1997
Artist in Residence, Sommer Atelier, Leipzig, Germany, 1995
Lecturer and Panelist, Glass Art Society 25th Conference, Asheville, NC, May, 1995
Resident Artist, Contemporary Artists Center, North Adams, MA, 1994
Bibliography
Joe Huston, Lisa Dush and Ethel Rakin, As Wishes Still Helped (catalogue), Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH, 2005
Melissa Starker, Columbus Alive (review), Columbus, OH, September 7, 20045
Jud Yalkut, "A&C Visuals," Dayton City Paper, Dayton, OH, June 1-7, 2005
Barbara Tennenbaum, How Nature Works (catalogue), Weston Gallery, 2004
Craig Wales, "A Marriage of Styles," Cin Weekly, Cincinatti, OH, June 30, 2004
Judy Pfaff and David Levi Strauss, Kingston Sculpture Biennial 5 (catalogue), Arts Society of Kingston, Kingston, NY, 2003
Jonathan Athens, The Dublin News (review), Dublin, OH, September 25, 2002
Christopher Painter, The Other Paper (review), Columbus, OH, September, 2002
Christopher A. Yates, The Columbus Dispatch (review), Columbus, OH, March 24, 2002
Douglas Max Utter, Cleveland Free Times (review), Cleveland, OH, April 5, 2001
UNESCO - Klinikum Fulda, "Licht und Bewusstsein 2001" (calendar), Berlin, Germany, 2001
Amy Sparks, "Village On the Roof," The Cleveland Free Times, Cleveland OH, April 11, 2000
E. Foster, "The Up and Comers," Columbus Monthly Magazine, Columbus, OH, August, 1999
Jaqueline Hall, The Columbus Dispatch (review), Columbus, OH, November 22, 1998
Brian Lindamood, "Fragile Reflections," Columbus Alive, Columbus, OH, October 15, 1998
Henry Halem, Ohio Perspectives: Reflections in Glass (catalogue), The Ohio Arts Council Riffe Gallery and Akron Museum of Art, 1998
Stephen Litt, The Cleveland Plain Dealer (review), Cleveland, OH, October 2, 1997
Kay Koeninger, The Columbus Dispatch (review), Columbus, OH, September 21, 1997
Kay Koeninger, The Columbus Dispatch (review), Columbus, OH, August 4, 1996
Michael Atwood, "A Class in Neon Sheds Light on Artistic Expression," The Ohio State Lantern, Columbus OH, April 11, 1996
Xan Palay and Richard Harned, " In Context," Glass, Number 58, Winter 1995
Other
Sound from The Image of the City featured on “All Things Considered”, National Public Radio , June 6, 2006
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