VITA OF ANITA HUFFINGTON



Born : December 25, 1934 in Baltimore, Maryland
Anita Huffington lived and worked in New York City before moving to a log cabin in the woods of the Arkansas Ozarks.

Education

Attended the University of North Carolina, Bennington College, and the University of South Florida. BA. and M.F.A. from the City College of New York.

Selected Exhibitions
  • 1975 One person show, C.U.N.Y. Graduate Center, New York, NY
  • 1976 International Women's Art Festival, New York, NY
  • 1978 Northwest Arkansas Artists Exhibit, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR
  • 1979-81 Delta Art Exhibition, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR
  • 1981 Two person show, Territorial Restoration Gallery, Little Rock, AR
  • 1981-83 Group shows, HarrisGallery, Houston, TX
  • 1982 Sculptural Arts Museum's Great Garden Sculpture Show, Atlanta, GA One person show, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR
  • 1986 One person show, "Stone Poems," Valley House Gallery, Dallas, TX
  • 1988 "Third Annual Invitational," Benton Gallery, Southampton, NY
  • 1988-92 Group shows, M. A. Doran Gallery, Tulsa, OK
  • 1988-92 "A Select Gathering,' Kornbluth Gallery, Fair Lawn, NJ
  • 1989 Two person show, Kornbluth Gallery, Fair Lawn, NJ; One person show, "Of Goddesses," Benton Gallery, Southampton, NY; "Figure as Form," Benton Gallery, Southampton. NY
  • 1989-95 The Art Show, 7th Regiment Armory, New York, NY (Valley House Gallery)
  • 1990 One person show, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR; Two person show, Fort Smith Art Center Benefit, Fort Smith. AR
  • 1992 Salon De Mars, Champ de Mars, Paris, France Two person show with painter J.O. Buckley, Senator and Mrs. David Pryor and group sponsored, Little Rock, AR; Women Artists in Arkansas, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR
  • 1992-98 U.S. Artists, Pennsylvania Academy, Philadelphia, PA (Valley House Gallery)
  • 1993-94 AR Texas, Dallas Convention Center, Dallas, TX (Valley House Gallery)
  • 1994 One person show, "Earth Spirit," O'Hara Gallery, New York, NY; 40th Anniversary Exhibition, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, TX
  • 1995 Two person show, "Introductions VI," Lisa Kurts Gallery, Memphis, TN; Art Communication International, Virtuosity, 7th Regiment Armory, Juried Exhibition, New York, NY
  • 1995~96 Art Fair Seattle, Seattle, WA (Kurts-Bingham Gallery)
  • 1996 Art Miami, art fair, Miami Beach Convention Center, Miami, FL (ValleyHouse Gallery); Three person show, "Trilogy," Louis Stern Gallery, West Hollywood, CA; One person show, "Ancestors," OHara Gallery, New York, NY; Three person show, Triangle Gallery, San Francisco, CA; 35th Anniversary Show, Triangle Gallery, San Francisco, CA;
  • 1997 One person show, "Out of Time," University of Central Arkansas, Conway, AR; The Art Show. 7th Regiment Armory, New York, NY (Valley House Gallery); American Academy Invitational Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
  • 1997 "Body and Soul: Contemporary Southern Figures," Columbus Museum, Columbus, GA and Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS; Exhibition of Work by Newly Elected Members and Recipients of Honors and Awards, American Academy of Arts and Letters. New York, NY
  • 1998 Art Miami, art fair, Miami Beach Convention Center, Miami. FL (O'Hara Gallery); The Art Show, 7th Regiment Armory, New York. NY (O'Hara Gallery; "The Figure in 20th Century Sculpture," Two Sculptors, Inc., New York. NY; "Selections from the Inventory," O'Hara Gallery, New York, NY; "Body and Soul: Contemporary Southern Figures," Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, AL and Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens, Jacksonville, FL; Installation of sculpture, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR; "The Figure: An Invitational Exhibition," Valley House Gallery, Dallas. TX; One person show, "Anita Huffington, Stone & Bronze Sculpture," Triangle Gallery San Francisco, CA;
  • 1998-1999 Palm Beach Invitational Art & Design Fair (Lisa Kurts Gallery)
  • 1999 The Art Show, 7th Regiment Armory, New York, NY (O'Hara Gallery; One person show, "The Shape of Time," O'Hara Gallery, New York, NY; "Director's Choice," Triangle Gallery, San Francisco, CA; One person show, "Ages," Lisa Kurts Gallery, Memphis, TN

    Selected Articles and Videos:

  • Video, "A Visit with Anita Huffington, Sculptor," Fayetteville Open Channel, 1981.
  • Video, "Anita Huffington," Arkansas Traveler, Arkansas Educational Television, 1989
  • Holly Hunt Kost, "Anita Huffington: Reflections of the Magna Mater," The Grapevine. Fayetteville, Arkansas, April 10, 1985.
  • Virginia Watson-Jones, Contemporary American Women Sculptors, Phoenix: The Oryx Press, 1986. pages 3OO-3O1. illustration.
  • Mike Solomon, "Strong Benton Show, Hutfington Sculptures," The East Hampton Star, East Hampton, Long Island, New York, August 24, 1989.
  • Kathleen Harper, "An Absence of Guile, Anita Huffington Sculpture," Spectrum, Little Rock, Arkansas, April 15-28, 1990.
  • Anita Huffington Sculpture: Stone and Bronze, Demeter and Persephone, exhibition catalogue, The Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, Arkansas, 1990.
  • Leslie Peacock, `The Unearthed and Ethereal," Arkansas Times, Little Rock, Arkansas, November 12, 1992.
  • Amei Wallach, "A Fair of the Best in Gallery Art," New York Newsday, New York, February 26, 1993.
  • Dena Merriam, "A Dialogue with Stone: The Torsos of Anita Huffington," Sculpture Review, New York, First Quarter 1993, pages 6-12, photographs by David Finn.
  • Holland Cotter, "Art in Review: Critic's Choice," N.Y. Times, March 22, 1996, p. 227.
  • Mark Daniel Cohen, "The Figure in 20th Century Art," Review, The Critical State of Visual Art in New York, New York, New York, March 15, 1998.
  • Lynn Fisher, "Ozark Inspiration," Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Little Rock, Arkansas, June 23, 1998.
  • Mark Daniel Cohen, "Anita Huffington The Shape of Time: Mixing Memory And Desire," Review, The Critical State of Visual Art in New York, New York, March 1 , 1999.
  • Susan Marquez, "Anita Huffington at Triangle Gallery," World Sculpture News, Hong Kong,Vol. 5, No. 1 , Winter, 1999.

    Awards and Grants

  • 1992 Fellowship, awarded in recognition of artistic accomplishment, Arkansas Arts Council
  • 1996 La Napoule Art Foundation Residency, La Napoule, France
  • 1997 Jimmy Ernst Award in Art, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY