TWO AND THREE PERSON EXHIBITIONS
SELECT AWARDS AND RECOGNITION
2022 | Albany Center Gallery SELECT Award
2022 | Yasuo Kuniyoshi Award for Sustained Excellence, Woodstock Art Assoc. & Mus.
2020 | Best in Show, Fence Select, Ian Berry, The Tang Teaching Museum, Juror
2019 | Martha Boschen Award, Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation
2019 | Finalist, The Hopper Prize
2018 | Best in Show, The Laffer Gallery, Laura Von Rosk, Juror
2018 | Alumni Jurors Award, State University of NY Jean Shin, Curator
2015 | The Hyde Collection Purchase Prize, The Hyde Collection
2014 | Albany Center Gallery Award in Honor of Les Orbach, Stephen Westfall, Juror
2010 | Best in Show, 14th Annual Juried Show, Columbia Co Council on the Arts
2008 | First Prize, 12th Annual Juried Show, Columbia Co. Council on the Arts
2005 | Clement Greenberg Award, Midyear Exhibition., Butler Institute of American Art
2002 | Individual Artists Grant, New York Foundation for the Arts
2000 | Juror’s Award, Mohawk Hudson Regional, Xu Bing, Juror
2000 | Purchase Prize, Schenectady Museum
2000 | Purchase Prize, State University Museum, Albany, NY
1998 | Individual Artist Grant, New York Foundation for the Arts
1994 | First Prize, 4th Annual Exhibition, Spencertown Academy
1992 | First Prize, 2nd Annual Exhibition, Spencertown Academy
1998 | SOS Grant, New York Foundation for the Arts
1996 | SOS Grant, New York Foundation for the Arts
1993 | SOS Grant, New York Foundation for the Arts
1992 | SOS Grant, New York Foundation for the Arts
1977-1983 | Nessa Cohen Memorial Award (2x), Elizabeth Carstairs Merit Scholarship, Board of Control Special Scholarship (2x), Art Students League of NY, NY
2023 | Garage Gallery, Beacon, NY (Forthcoming, August, 2023)
2022 | Clement Gallery, Troy, NY
2021 | The Hallway at Second ST Studios, Troy, NY
2020 | Pulp Gallery, Holyoke, MA
2019 | Upstate Invitational, Laffer Gallery, Schuylerville, NY
2019 | Beyond Limits, Albany Center Gallery, Albany, NY
2018 | Narrative, Concepto Gallery, Hudson, NY
2016 | Mohawk Hudson Invitational, Albany Center Gallery, Albany, NY
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 | Main Gallery, The Art Center of the Capital Region, Troy, NY
2023 | Woodstock Art Association & Museum, Woodstock, NY (Forthcoming, June)
2022 | Courthouse Gallery, Lake George, NY
2016 | Word & Image, Davis Orton Gallery, Hudson, NY
2013 | Fern Apfel, The Chatham Bookstore, Chatham, NY
2011 | Studio Wall, The Art Center of the Capital Region, Troy, NY
2007 | The Book Pictures, The Hotchkiss School, Lakeville, CT
2007 | Inks & Collages, Café Gallery, Old Chatham, NY
2002 | Museum Peace: Reflections on a Collection, Columbia Co. Museum, Kinderhook
2002 | Museum Peace: Reflections on a Collection, Hudson Opera House, Hudson, NY
2000 | Daily Grace, The Shaker Museum & Library, Old Chatham, NY
1999 | Daily Grace, Berkshire Community College, Pittsfield, MA
1999 | Daily Grace, Westfield State College, Westfield, MA
1997 | North Pointe Center for the Arts, Kinderhook, NY
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022 | Upstate Artists 11th Annual, Juried, Eliz. Dubben, Laffer Gallery, Schuylerville, NY
A Circle of Horizon Lines, Woodstock Art Museum, Jess Wilcox, Juror
Mountain High, Valley Low, LABspace, Hillsdale, NY
Radius 50: Woodstock Art Museum, Jayne Drost Johnson, Juror, The Ice House
Risk & Experimentation, Woodstock Art Museum, Seph Rodney, Art critic, Author
Painting at Night, Collarworks Gallery & Mother/Artist Podcast, Troy, NY
Largeness Writ Small, Woodstock Art Assoc & Museum, Buzz Spector, Juror
Tip of the Tongue, Gallery 263, Cambridge, MA
InstaSelect V2: Mark Borghi Gallery, Sag Harbor, NY
2021 | In, On, Of Paper, Presented by Zeuxis, There Space, NY, NY
Pieced Together, Albany Public Library, Curated by Opalka Gallery, Albany, NY
One in a Year, The Painting Center, NY, NY
The Vision of Care, Woodstock Art Ass. & Museum, Robert Shane, Juror
Artists of the Mohawk Hudson Region, Albany International Airport, Albany, NY
Fence Select, The Art Center, Troy, NY, Dan Cameron, Juror
Holiday Show, Labspace, Hillsdale, NY
2020 | Making a Way, South Bend Museum of Art, South Bend, Indiana
Making a Way, Salem State University, Salem, MA
Fish & Dish: A Fresh Take on Still Life, WoodstockMus., Jason Andrew, Juror
Artists of the Mohawk Hudson Region, Albany Institute of History & Art, Albany, NY, Susan Cross, Mass MoCA, Juror
Biblio Spectaculum, Main ST Arts, Clifton Springs, NY, Scott McCarney, Juror
National Juried Exhibition, First Street Gallery, NY, NY, Andrew Arnot, Tibor de Nagy, Juror
From the Pages 2, Paradigm Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
National Prize Show, Cambridge, MA Art Assoc., Sharon Butler, Two Coats of Paint, Juror
Fence Select, The Art Center, Troy, NY, Ian Berry, Juror
A Different Kind of Now, Woodstock Art Assoc & Museum, Douglas Culhane, Juror
So Close, Side x Side Contemporary, Virtual Exhibition
Shown from Afar: Art during the Pandemic, Womenswork.art
About What’s Going On, Hopkinton Center for the Arts, Hopkinton, MA
2019 | Nine by Nine, Pulp Gallery, Holyoke, MA
Ear to the Ground, Ely Center for Contemporary Art, New Haven, CT, Julie Torres, Juror
Upstate Invitational, Laffer Gallery, Schuylerville, NY
En Masse, Thompson Giroux Gallery, Chatham, NY
2018 | Home, Collar Works Gallery, Troy, NY, Cara Manes, MOMA, Juror
Upstate Artists, Laffer Gallery, Schuylersville, NY, Laura Von Rosk, Juror
Artists of the Mohawk Hudson Region, SUNY Albany Museum, Jean Shin, Juror
2017 | Undercurrents, Samuel Dorsky Mus of Art, Livia Strauss, Hudson Valley MOCA What’s Leaping in your Heart, Collarworks Gallery, Alex. Foradas, MassMoCA
2016 | Reclamation, Collar Works Gallery, Troy, NY, Ian Berry, Tang Teaching Museum
Recent Acquisitions, The Hyde Collection, Glens Falls, NY
2015 | The Arkell Museum Juried Art Show, The Arkell Museum, Canajoharie, NY
Give & Take: Decentralization Individual Artist Grant Recipients, Catskill, NY
2014 | Worlds of Wonder, Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz, NY, Ian Berry, Juror
Small & Seductive: Contemporary Art from the Institutes Collection, Albany Inst.
Artists of the Mohawk Hudson Region, Albany Institute, NY Stephen Westfall, Juror
2013 | Out of Print, Albany Public Library, Albany, NYJudie Gilmore, Curator
2012 | TYPO: Artists using the Alphabet as Visual Language, Greene Co. Arts, Catskill
2011 | Hudson River Contemporary, Boscobel House, Garrison, NY
2010 | Eye Rhymes, The Tang Teaching Museum & Gallery, Saratoga Springs, NY
The Imagined Word, Albany International Airport, Albany, NY
2009 | The Collage Show, Spencertown Academy, Spencertown, NY
First Annual Juried Exhibition, Columbia Co. Council on the Arts, Hudson, NY
2005 | Midyear Exhibition, Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio
2001 | Work: Shaker Design & Recent Art, The Tang Teaching Museum, NY
Recent Acquisitions, Schenectady Museum, Schenectady, NY
Artists of the Mohawk Hudson Region, The Schenectady Museum
2000 | Artists of the Mohawk Hudson Region, Univ of Albany Art Mus, NY Xu Bing, Juror
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Painting at Night an Artist /Mother Podcast Exhibition Catalogue, 2022
Painting by Night at Collar Works profiles Mothers as Artists, Times Union, by Amy Griffen, July 13, 2022
Juror Talk, Seph Rodney, Woodstock Art Assoc. & Museum, You Tube, June 23, 2022
Fern Apfel at the Lake George Arts Project, Look TV, by Dayna Peck, April 1, 2022
Lake George Artist Paints the Loving & Speechlessness of Heartache, North Country Public Radio, by Monica Sandreczki, April 2, 2022
Abstraction & Narration Fold Together in New Exhibit, Saratoga Today, March 10, 2022
Art Seen Magazine, The Curator’s Salon, Spring 2022 (Forthcoming)
WMHT/PBS: A house for Arts: February 10, 2021
Fish & Dish: A Fresh take on Still Life, Art Valley: Art & Culture in the Hudson Valley, April 10, 2020
Fish & Dish: Paul Smart, Woodstock Times, March 5, 2020
Dispatches: Stories from Four Gallery Destinations: Art on the Outskirts: Western Mass’s Edgy Scene, Art in New England Magazine, Sept-Oct 2019: The Gallery Issue, p. 42-44
Create Magazine, Spring 2019
Ken Ragsdale at LGAP & Upstate Invitational at Laffer Gallery, dbgetvisual.blogspot.com, November 23, 2019
Glue Sticks & Growth: Artist & Alumna Fern T. Apfel reflects on inspiration and taking one’s time, TheLittleRebellion.com by Joshua Goberdhan, Dec. 6, 2018
On Exhibit: Artists of the Mohawk Region set at University Art Museum by Indiana Nash, The Daily Gazette, Schenectady, NY, Dec. 5, 2018
Invitational Show features often challenging work of four gifted artists by William Jaeger, Times Union, Albany, NY, June 2016
Fern Apfel: Painting, type and Ambiguity by Jesse DeGroodt, The Chatham Press, Sept. 2013
Hudson River Contemporary: Works on Paper. Catalogue. 2011
Objects of Inspiration by David Brickman, Metroland, September 5-11, 2002
Berrry, Ian. Work: Shaker design & Recent Art. Published by The Tang Teaching Museum & Art Gallery, Saratoga Springs, NY, May 6, 2001
Apfel Opens Windows of the Mind by Maxine Brinkley, The Chatham Courier, 1993
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
The Hyde Collection, Glens Falls, NY
The Tang Teaching Museum & Art Gallery, Saratoga Springs, NY
The Albany Institute of History & Art, Albany, NY
The University Art Museum, SUNY Albany, Albany, NY
The Shaker Museum & Library, Old Chatham, NY
The Columbia County Historical Society & Museum, Kinderhook, NY
The Art Students League of NY, NY
Kidder Peabody & Co., NY, NY
EDUCATION
The Art Students League of NY, NY
The State University of New York at New Paltz