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