Carole A. Feuerman is an American superrealist sculptor born in Hartford, Connecticut in 1945. Feuerman is best known for her figurative sculptures depicting swimmers and dancers. She is the only woman to sculpt in this style creating both indoor and outdoor works that are painted lifelike.

During the emergence of postmodernism in the mid-seventies, Feuerman drew inspiration from past images and stylistic elements. At the time, she was involved in creating 3D illustrations for magazine covers and world tour books, featuring rock stars like the Rolling Stones and Alice Cooper. In 1975, she did her first life casting for the cover of the National Lampoon.

In the late 1970s, Feuerman began creating fragmented erotic works, adding a new dimension of complexity to her art. She is fundamentally a narrative artist, infusing her sculptures with symbolic meaning and storytelling elements. Her works go beyond what fools the eye, inviting viewers to complete the story. In the 1980s, theorized by postmodernist thought, she began to create full-figure realistic sculptures.

Her passion for water and the ocean stems from her childhood memories spent at the beach. Feuerman describes the sensation of water droplets on her skin after swimming, and the intricate patterns they formed as captivating. The beach became her sanctuary—a place of escape and tranquility. It was during a beach outing with her children that she encountered a swimmer with water droplets streaming down her face, radiating a sense of pride and accomplishment. This encounter served as the catalyst for her first swimmer sculpture titled Catalina (1978).

Exhibitions include Park Ave and Central Park in New York, Art D'Egypte in Cairo, the Smithsonian Institution's National Portrait Gallery in Washington D.C., the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, and the Palazzo Strozzi Palace in Florence. Her sculptures are in the permanent collections of thirty-four museums, the cities of Sunnyvale, CA and Peekskill, NY. Feuerman’s works are featured in the private collections of Steven A. Cohen, Former President Clinton, Dr. Henry Kissinger, and Malcolm Forbes, among others. Additionally, she has taught, lectured, and given workshops at institutions like the Guggenheim Museum and the Metropolitan Museum.

In recognition of her contributions to the arts, Feuerman has received the Lifetime Achievement 'Goddess Artemis'; Award from the European American Women's Council (EAWC), First Prize at the Huan Tai Hu Museum in Changzhou, China, Best in Show in Beijing, China, the Amelia Peabody Award, First Prize at the Beijing Biennale, and the Medici Award in Florence, Italy. In 2011, she founded the Carole A. Feuerman Sculpture Foundation. She lives and works in New York.

Art Association Memberships:
Learning Through the Arts: Guggenheim Museum
Whitney Museum of Art
National Women Caucus for Art
International Women’s Forum
International Sculpture Center
World Leadership Forum
Cultural Council
College Art Association
Metropolitan Museum
Sculptors Guild
Americans for the Arts Directory of Woman's Leadership, Lower Manhattan

Art Association Exhibitions (limit of 20 solo and 20 group)
*Selected solo exhibitions

2023
Crossing the Sea, Fondazione Made in Cloister, Naples, IT
Sea Idylls, POPA, Park Avenue, New York, NY, USA

2022
The Importance of Being Human, Medici Museum of Art, Trumbull, Ohio, USA
Reflections of the Soul, Monumental and Life-Sized Sculptures, Saint-Tropez, FR
Venice Boat Show, Arsenale, Venice, IT

2021
Carole A. Feuerman, Galleria d’Arte Moderna, GAM, Rome, IT; Dancers, Terrazza del Pincio, Rome, IT

2020
Las Esculturas Realistas de Carole Feuerman, Osthaus Museum, Museumsplatz 1, Hagen, DE
Hyper-Realism Sculpture, La Boverie, Liège, BE

2017
Monumental Dancer and Beyond the Golden Mean, Tampa Museum of Art, FL, USA

2016
Iconic Works, Huan Tai Hu Museum, Changzhou, Jiangsu Province, CN
Body of Work, DeLand Museum of Art, DeLand, FL, US
Carole A. Feuerman, Body as a Work of Art: Museum of Health, an Affiliate of the Smithsonian Institution,
Houston, TX
Swimmers: Carole Feuerman, Mass MOCA, Artist Book Foundation, North Adams, MA
Monumental Dancer and Beyond the Golden Mean, 2017, Tampa Museum of Art, FL

2015
Carole A. Feuerman, Swimming By The Harbour, Ocean Terminal Forecourt, Hong Kong, CN

2014
The Double Diver, Dedication of Carole Feuerman’s Sculpture to the City of Sunnyvale, Sunnyvale, CA

2012
Survival of Serena, Central Park, Department of Parks and Recreation, New York, NY
The Golden Mean, Riverfront Green Park, MOCA, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill,
NY

2010
Earth, Water, Air, Fire, El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, TX

2009
Maxima, Roman Theater Museum of Archaeology, Fiesole, Florence, IT
East Meets West, Art St. Urban Museum & Sculpture Garden, Lucerne, CH

2008
Silence, Passion, Expression : The Sculpture of Carole Feuerman, Amarillo Museum of Art, Amarillo, TX

2007
Bellezza E Beressaze In: By the Sea, Curated by John T. Spike, European Council of Art Foundation, In Paradiso Gallery, Venice, IT
Lust and Desire, Erotic Sculptures from 1979 – 2006, Art St. Urban Museum & Sculpture Park, Lucerne,CN

2005
Resin to Bronze Topographies, Queensborough Community College, CUNY, Bayside, NY

2000
From Studio to Foundry: Three Decades of Sculpture by Carole A. Feuerman, Southern Alleghenies
Museum of Art, Loretto, PA

1993
Wet Is Wonderful, International Swimming Hall of Fame Gallery, Fort Lauderdale, FL

1986
Sculpture 1981–1986, Queens Museum of Art, Flushing, NY

1980
Fragments Part I, Hansen Gallery, The Fuller Building, New York, NY

1979
Art 10 ’79, Basel Art Fair, Basel, CH

1978
Fragments, Rated X, MJS Gallery, Fort Worth, TX

*Selected group exhibitions

2023
Forever Is Now, Art D’ Egypte, Giza, EG

2022
Hyperréalisme. Ceci n’est pas un corps, Musée Maillol, Paris, FR

2021
Corpus Domini. Dal corpo glorioso alle rovine dell’anima, Palazzo Reale, Milan, IT

2019
Reshaped Reality – 50 Years of Hyperrealist Sculpture, Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall, Taipei, TWN

2015
21C Hyperrealism, Daejeon Museum of Art, Daejeon, KR
Poydras Corridor Sculpture Exhibition, The Helis Foundation, Poydras Corridor, New Orleans, LA, US

2013
The Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution,
Washington, D.C., US

2012
Body Double: The Figure in Contemporary Sculpture, Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park, Grand
Rapids, Michigan, US

2009
Art and Illusion: Masterpieces of Trompe-l’œil from Antiquity to the Present, Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, IT

2008
Third Beijing International Biennial Exhibition, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, CN

2007
OPEN2007, International Exhibition of Sculptures and Installations, Arte Communications, Mostra delCinema, Lido, Venice, IT

2006
International Austrian Biennale, Ausstellungszentrum Heft Museum, Hüttenberg, AT

2005
Florence Biennale of Contemporary Art, Fortezza da Basso, Florence, IT

2003
Selections from the Permanent Collection, Bass Museum of Art, Miami, Florida, US

2002
International Austrian Biennale, Ausstellungszentrum Heft Museum, Hüttenberg, AT

1991
Three Artists: Carole Feuerman, Andy Warhol, and Scott Kilgore, Bistborno Gallery, Malmö, SE

1985
The Real Thing, The North Miami Museum and Art Center, Miami, Florida, US

1982
Painting & Sculpture, Selections from the Permanent Collection, The Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Ligonier, PA, US

1979
National Association of Women Artists Group Show, Jacob Javits Convention Center, New York, US

Art Schools (where was a student and/or teacher)(*Student)

Temple University, PA
Hofstra University, NY
School of Visual Arts, NY

Styles, Subjects, Mediums:
Hyperrealistic life-size sculptures

Awards/Special Recognition:
*Selected

2022
Lifetime Achievement Award, Athens, GR

2019
Special Honor Award, 2nd Jiangsu, Changzhou, CN

2016
Best in Show, Huan Tai Hu Museum, Changzhou, CN

2012
Save the Arts Museum’s Choice Award, USA
Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition, The National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution,
Washington, D.C., USA

2008
First Prize, Third International Art Biennale, Beijing, CN
First Prize, Beijing Olympic Fine Arts Exhibition, CN

2007
Best of America, National Arts Competition, USA

2006
Achievement Award, Cadillac & Hummer, 2nd International Biennale of Austria, Ausstellungszentrum
Heft, AT

2002
Prize of Honor, Ausstellungszentrum Heft, AT
Winner, 1st Guilin Yuzi Paradise International Sculpture Awards, Guangxi, CN

2001
Lorenzo de’ Medici Prize, Florence, IT

2000
Finalist, World Trade Center Competition, NY, USA

1995
The 2nd Fujisankei Sculpture Biennale, Hakone Open-Air Museum, Kanagawa, JP

1982
Amelia Peabody Sculpture Award, NY, USA

1981
Charles D. Murphy Sculpture Award, NY, USA

1980
First Prize, National Sculpture Competition, NY, USA

1970
Betty Parsons Sculpture Award, NY, USA

Deography: Where lived and worked:

New York, NY

Museums where art is in permanent collection:
*Selected Public Collections

City of Peekskill, Peekskill, NY, USA
City of Sunnyvale, CA, USA
Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, FL, USA
Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA
Muscarelle Museum of Art, Williamsburg, VA, USA
Boca Raton Museum of Art, FL, USA
Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH, USA
Huan Tai Hu Museum, Changzhou, CN
El Paso Museum of Art, TX, USA
Tampa Museum of Art, FL, USA
Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, FL, USA
Fort Lauderdale Museum of Art, FL, USA
Miami Children’s Museum, FL, USA
Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, FL, USA
The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, RU
Amarillo Museum of Art, TX, USA
CUNY Museum of Art, Queens, NY, US
Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Loretto, PA, USA
Art-st-Urban Museum and Sculpture Park, Lucerne, CH
Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, US
Appalachian State University, Boone, NC, USA
DeLand Museum of Art, DeLand, FL, USA
Albright College, Freedman Gallery, Reading, PA, USA
Vin & Spritcentralen Museet, Stockholm, SE
SE Union Exhibition Hall, Changchun World Sculpture Park, Changchun, CN
Peace River Botanical & Sculpture Gardens, Punta Gorda, FL, USA
Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton, NJ, USA
Conrad Hilton, New York Midtown, NY, USA
Net App Inc., Sunnyvale, CA, USA
President Mikhail S. Gorbachev Foundation, Moscow, RU
Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Sidney Bestoff, K&B Plaza, New Orleans, LA, USA
Forbes Magazine Collection, New York, NY, USA
Apollon Art Research Foundation, Mihail Chemiakin, RU
Good Samaritan Medical Center, West Palm Beach, FL, USA
The Atlantic Foundation, Hamilton, NJ, USA
Joop van Caldenborgh, Boijmans Van Beuningen Museum, Caldic Collection, Rotterdam, NL
The Burton P. & Judith B. Resnick Foundation, New York, NY, USA
Aaron Podhurst, Pérez Art Museum, Miami, FL, USA
Alexandre Grendene Bartelle, Porto Alegre, BR
Medici Museum of Art, Warren, OH, USA

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Submission name: Carole A. Feuerman