Sheila Elias, Oil Painting Photo Collage Assemblage Feminist Pop Art Miami Artist Sheila Elias, 1992

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Titled: Calabash Hand signed, dated and titled.

Sheila Elias (born in Chicago, Illinois) is an American artist. Her work is … more Titled: Calabash Hand signed, dated and titled.

Sheila Elias (born in Chicago, Illinois) is an American artist. Her work is Neo Expressionist, Feminist Pop Art. Her works have been featured in exhibitions across North America and at the Liberty show at the Louvre Museum in Paris.
Elias graduated from the Art Institute of Chicago, lives and works in Miami, Florida and in New York City. As an artist and art historian, Elias works with the layers of life and art history, seeking in it a connection between art aesthetics and social consciousness. She has exhibited with diverse artists, Larry Rivers, Bob Stanley, Ford Crull, Sol LeWitt, Mark Tobey, Walter Darby Bannard, Clyde Butcher. Her work spans the disciplines of painting, digital mixed media, sculpture, installation and performance.
Her inspiration to be an artist began with the work that Matisse created (La Cirque) in the library of the Art Institute of Chicago. Paul Wieghardt (from the Bauhaus School in Germany), was her art teacher at SAIC. She was influenced by the Marisol, Claes Oldenburg and Jean Dubuffet. Her sculptures also reveal the influence of Andy Warhol and Robert Rauschenberg. We also have a work from her Pompidou Series (1979-1981) built around the X in the raw, exposed architecture of the Centre Georges Pompidou in the center of Paris designed by Richard Rodgers and Renzo Piano.

Select Exhibitions:
Museo Vault in Wynwood Art District, Miami
Coral Springs Museum of Art, Sheila Elias: Somewhere-Anywhere, Coral Springs, Fla.
Lila G. Martinez Gallery, Cambridge, Mass.
“Painted Pixels” Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, FL (Solo Exhibition)
“Salon Series” The Sagamore Hotel, Miami Beach, FL (Group Exhibition)
“The Invisible Woman” Concrete Space, Doral, FL (Group Exhibition)
“eye-Pad” Silvana Facchini Gallery, Wynwood, Miami, FL
“Jewels” Buccellati, Bal Harbour, FL
“Chai Contemporary” Jewish Museum, Miami Beach, FL
“Tribute to Africa” Silvana Facchini Gallery, Wynwood, Miami, FL
The Bakehouse Art Complex, Wynwood, Miami, FL
Apple Store “iPaint on my iPad,” Chicago, IL
The Multicultural Arts Center, Cambridge, Mass.
The Napoleon Grand Salon at The Deauville Hotel, Miami Beach, Fla.
Bass Museum, "I Wanna Be Loved by You: Photographs of Marilyn Monroe," Miami Beach, Fla.
Boca Raton Museum of Art
Norton Museum of Art
Bass Museum, Miami Beach, Fla.
Jewish Museum of Florida
Kim Foster Gallery, "Beyond the Camera...," New York, NY
Silvana Facchini Gallery, "Living in Miami," Miami, Fla.
South Florida / Art Center, "Reconnect," Miami Beach, Fla.
Maryland Federation of Art, "Art on Paper 2001"
Corcoran Gallery, Annapolis, MD, juror David C. Levy
Veneto Gallery, Miami, Fla.
Margulies Taplin Gallery, Bay Harbour, Fla.
"Secret Gardens," Travelling Exhibition, Lowe Art Museum, Miami, Fla.
Public Art Program, City of Orlando, Fla.
Lowe Museum, University of Miami, Fla.
Art and Culture Center of Hollywood, Hollywood, Fla.
Bernard Biderman Gallery, New York, NY
Metro Dade Cultural Resource Center, Miami, Fla.
Huntsville Museum of Art
New England Center for Contemporary Art
San Diego Art Institute, CA
Anne Jaffe Gallery, Bay Harbour, Fla.
Ratner Gallery, Chicago, IL
Santa Monica Heritage Museum, Los Angeles, Calif.
Paula Allan Gallery, New York, NY.
Otis Parsons School of Design, "Hollywood: Portrait of the Stars" California
Louvre, Institute des Decoratifs, "Liberty: the Official Exhibitions Centenary
of the Statue of Liberty", Louvre Institut des Decoratifs, Paris, France
New York Public Library, New York, NY
Gallery Q, Tokyo, Japan
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
New York University, Loeb Gallery, New York, NY
Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, Calif.
Danville Museum of Fine Arts, Danville, Virginia
Alex Rosenberg Gallery, New York, NY
New York University, New York, NY
Stella Polaris Gallery, Los Angeles, Calif. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
Pictogram Gallery, East Village, NY
California State University,Northridge, Calif.
Institute for Contemporary Arts, Korea
Focus International, "American Woman in Art", Nairobi, Kenya
Laguna Beach Museum of Art, OCCA, Long Beach, Calif.
Gallery One, Fort Worth, Texas, juror: Dr. William Otton
Marcel Janco-Dada Museum, Ein Hod, Israel
Rutgers University, NJ
Arizona State University, Ariz.
American Academy of Fine Arts and Letters, New York, NY

Select public collections

Frost Art Museum, Miami, Fla.
American Bankers Inc., Miami, Fla.
Capital Bank, Los Angeles, CA; Miami, Fla.
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY.
Chase Manhattan Bank Collection, New York, NY.
First Los Angeles Bank Collection, Los Angeles, Calif.
Kunsan Contemporary Museum, Korea.
Miami Dade Community College, Miami, Fla.
Paramount Pictures, Los Angeles, Calif.
Security Pacific Bank Collection, Los Angeles, Calif.
Vesti Corporation, Boston, Massachusetts.
University of Michigan, Dearborn, Mich.
Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, Fla.
Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Miami, Fla.
American Bankers Life Assurance Company of Florida.
Artforum Culture Foundation, Thessaloniki. less