Carole Feuerman

Feuerman grew up in New York. From an early age, she was deterred from being an artist. She attended the School of Visual Arts in New York City to begin her career as an illustrator using her first and middle name, Carole Jean,[5] illustrating for The New York Times[6] and created album covers for Alice Cooper and the Rolling Stones.[7] During the 1970s she started experimenting with different types of media. Feuerman was hired by National Lampoon and created the sculpture "Nose to the Grindstone" that was used as the cover art of the November 1975 issue.[8]

In 1981, Feuerman exhibited at the Heckscher Museum in Long Island, New York. Next she exhibited her works at Fordham University. Following that she participated in the Learning through Arts Program conducted by the Guggenheim Museum.[7]

In 1989, Feuerman began to work her first marketing campaign with Absolut Vodka. Absolut Vodka's marketing plan was to push advertising in other areas of the world by commissioning world famous American artists. Feuerman created life-sized, hyper-realistic figures that she mounted on flatbed trucks enclosed in glass. The trucks traversed the streets of Los Angeles, Chicago, Miami, and Manhattan.[9]

Hyperrealistic sculpture The Midpoint, at the 2017 Venice Biennale

In 2008, Feuerman was commissioned by Seward Johnson and the Sculpture Foundation to create a painted bronze sculpture installation for the permanent collection of Grounds for Sculpture.[10]

In May 2012, Feuerman installed her monumental sculpture Survival of Serena, with New York City's Department of Parks and Recreation.[11] It next debuted at the 2017 Venice Biennale.[12]

In 2012, Feuerman's sculpture called Quan, a monumental painted bronze sculpture of a woman balancing on top of a polished stainless steel ball, was featured at the Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park in Grand Rapids, Michigan as part of the group show Body Double: The Figure in Contemporary Sculpture.[13]

Her 16-foot (4.9 m) bronze diver titled The Golden Mean was exhibited at Riverfront Green Park, courtesy of the Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art in Peekskill, New York[14] was unveiled in September 2012. A video documentary on the five-year creation of the work has been posted online.[15] In 2013, The City of Peekskill announced the acquisition of the sculpture as a permanent monument to the town. A second one in the edition of three was exhibited in the 2013 Venice Biennale.[16]

In May 2014, NetApp unveiled a commission by Feuerman titled Double Diver, and later gifted it to the city of Sunnyvale, California.[17] The sculpture is 36' high and weighs 2½ tons.[17]

In 2015, Feuerman had solo exhibitions in Hong Kong,[18] Frankfurt,[19] Korea, New York, Miami, and Chicago. She was part of a group show Love at the Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art.[20] Two of her sculptures, DurgaMa and Leda and the Swan, were included in the 2015 Venice Biennale at Palazzo Mora.[21]

In 2017, Global Art Affairs Foundation organized a solo show called 'Personal Structures – Open Borders', one of many exhibitions surrounding the Venice Biennale, where Feuerman has had a presence for decades.[22]

In the summer of 2018, Feuerman had a solo exhibition in Knokke-Heist, Belgium, as part of the 25th Edition of Sculpture Link. The exhibition featured eleven of her outdoor public works, including the sculpture entitled The Midpoint.[23][24][25] She had a solo show at GAM - Rome Galleria d'Moderna, 'From La Biennale di Venezia & Open to Rome". October 28 - January 30, 2022.[26][27][28] Feuerman is part of a group exhibition at Palazzo Real called 'DOMINI Dal corpo glorioso alle rovine dell'anma.[29] Her sculpture 'City Slicker' was exhibited in the second edition of the Mers-les-Bains de la sculpture, organized by their Cultural Service.

She has two sculptures, Catalina and The General's Daughter included in a traveling group show that started in Bilbao, Spain and has traveled to eight museums.[30]