Selected Exhibitions
2024
interplay: Surface Design Association Student & Member Show, Dairy Barn Arts Center, Athens, OH
2023
Material Language: Contemporary Quilts by Robin Schwalb, Hammond Museum & Japanese Stroll Garden, North Salem, NY
ROOTS: Work by Members of Textile Study Group of New York, El Barrio Artspace, New York, NY
CONNECTIONS, Ceres Gallery, New York, NY
2021
Fall Into Layers, Blue Door Art Gallery, Yonkers, NY
Fibers of Change: The John M. Walsh III Collection, Arnot Art Gallery, Elmira, NY
Never Forget: Quilts from the 9/11 Memorial & Museum, National Quilt Museum, Paducah, KY
Abstract Design in American Quilts at 50: New York Nexus, International Quilt Museum, Lincoln, NE
2020
Deeds Not Words: Celebrating 100 Years of Women’s Suffrage, National Quilt Museum, Paducah, KY (Traveled to 9 venues)
40 x 40 @ 40: New Work by the Manhattan Quilters Guild, Iowa Quilt Museum, Winterset, IA (Traveled to 6 venues)
The Gold Standard of Fiber and Textile Art, Westbeth Gallery, New York, NY
2018
RISE, Noho M55 Gallery, New York, NY
2017
Soul of New York City, Tokyo Quilt Stitch Show, Tokyo (sponsored by Nihon Vogue, Traveled to 3 venues)
RED: An exhibition by the Textile Study Group of New York, Noho M55 Gallery, New York, NY
Quilt National, Dairy Barn Arts Center, Athens, OH
2016
Here and There: Work by the Manhattan Quilters Guild, National Quilt Museum, Paducah, KY
2015
Semper Tedium: The Slow Art of Quiltmaking, Escorxador Gallery, Sitges, Spain
2014
Semper Tedium: The Slow Art of Quiltmaking, Morris Museum, Morristown, NJ
2013
Quilt National, The Dairy Barn Arts Center, Athens, OH
2012
Art Quilt Elements, Wayne Art Center, Wayne, PA
Outside/Inside the Box, Crane Arts Building, Philadelphia, PA
2011
Crossing Lines: The Many Faces of Fiber, Courtyard Gallery, World Financial Center, New York, NY
Material Witnesses, Art Quilt Gallery, New York, NY (Traveled to 4 venues)
2009
Economies of Scale, Phoenix Gallery, New York, NY
2008
Playing with a Full Deck, Visions Quilt Art Gallery, San Diego, CA
2007
Quilt National, The Dairy Barn Arts Center, Athens, OH (Traveled to 6 venues)
Metrotextural, Art Quilt Gallery, New York, NY (Traveled to 9 venues)
2006
Material Speaks: The New Quilt, Esther M. Klein Gallery, University City Science Center, Philadelphia, PA
2005
Quilt National, The Dairy Barn Arts Center, Athens, OH (Traveled to 7 venues)
2004
Fiber for the Future, A.I.R. Gallery II, New York, NY
Talking Quilts, American Folk Art Museum, New York, NY
Quilts: Traditional, Contemporary and the Deviant, Penn State University Gallery, State College, PA
2003
Fiber-Optics: Women Artists Working with Textiles, Bklyn College Art Gallery @ Bklyn War Memorial, Bklyn, NY
Language Arts: Text as Imagery, San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles, San Jose, CA
FIBRATIONS!: Works by Members of AQN/NY, Noho Gallery, New York, NY
2002
Stitching Justice: Unlocking Our Hearts, Minds and Souls, The Nathan Cummings Foundation, New York, NY
Six Continents of Quilts: The American Craft Museum Collection, UBS/Paine Webber Gallery, New York, NY
Dancing Between the Semicolons, Leonard Pearlstein Gallery, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA
Time Squared, American International Quilt Festival, Houston, TX (Traveled to 9 venues)
2001
Quilt National, The Dairy Barn Arts Center, Athens, OH (Traveled to 13 venues)
Living Tradition: Present-day American Quilts, Textile Museum, Tilburg, Netherlands
2000
The Artist as Quiltmaker IX, Firelands Association for the Visual Arts, Oberlin, OH
Crossover Quilts, Mixed Media Contemporary Quilts, Pennsylvania School of Art & Design, Lancaster, PA
1999
Visual Text, Frog Hollow Vermont State Craft Center, Burlington, VT
Seeing Yellow, New England Quilt Museum, Lowell, MA
Extraordinary Stitches: the art of fiber and thread, JC Epstein Museum Gallery, W. Bloomfield, MI
Quilt National, Dairy Barn Arts Center, Athens, OH. (Traveled to 9 venues)
1998
9 x 9 x 3, American Craft Museum, New York, NY
Invention and Diversity In Textile Art, The Trenton City Museum, Trenton, NJ
Edge to Edge: Selections from Studio Art Quilt Associates, Museum of American Folk Art, New York, NY
YardWorks, Houston International Quilt Festival, Houston, TX (Traveled to 10 venues)
1997
Strata Various: Art Quilts by the Manhattan Quilters Guild, Wave Hill, Bronx, NY
Up in the Air: UFO Quilt Invitational, Roswell Museum and Art Center, Roswell, NM
Quilt National, The Dairy Barn Arts Center, Athens, OH (Traveled to 8 venues)
1996
Visions: Quilt San Diego, Museum of San Diego History, San Diego, CA
Chatauqua International for Fiber Art, Adams Art Gallery, Dunkirk, NY
Five Perspectives: American Art Quilts in Moscow, All-Russia Museum of Decorative, Applied & Folk Art, Moscow, Russia
1995
Broadway Haiku, Museum of the American Quilters Society, Paducah, KY (Traveled to 7 venues)
fiber95, Textile Arts Centre, Chicago, IL
Quilt National, The Dairy Barn Arts Center, Athens, OH (Traveled to 6 venues)
Full Deck: Art Quilts, Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC (Traveled to 25 venues)
1994
Quilted Visions: Modern Quilts with Jewish Themes, Yeshiva University Museum, New York, NY
Innovative Traditions, The Museums at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY
1993
The Artist and the Quilt, Janice Charach Epstein Gallery, West Bloomfield, MI
Contemporary American Quilts, Crafts Council Gallery, London, England (Traveled to 5 venues)
Quilt National, The Dairy Barn Arts Center, Athens, OH
Artists + Language, Society for Contemporary Crafts, Pittsburgh, PA
1992
Material Pleasures, Rosemont College, Rosemont, PA
Tactile Architecture, Decatur House, Washington, DC
1991
Essences and Presences, Brownson Art Gallery, Manhattanville College, Purchase, NY (Curator)
Quilts Move Into the 21st Century, Cultural Affairs Gallery, New York, NY
Quilt National, The Dairy Barn Arts Center, Athens, OH
Citiquilts, Great American Quilt Festival 3, New York, NY
Quilt Innovators, Gallery Elena, Taos, NM
1990
The Art Quilt, Park Avenue Atrium, New York, NY
Quilts Redefined, Sybaris Gallery, Royal Oak, MI
Quilt Art: The New Decade, Kunsthallen, Brandts Klaedefabrik, Odense, Denmark
1989
Manhattan Quilters Guild: Quilts for an Urban Landscape, The Arsenal Gallery, New York, NY
Quilt National, The Dairy Barn Arts Center, Athens, OH (Traveled to 10 venues) (catalog)
1988
Needle Expressions, County Arts Center, Bloomington, IL
1987
The Quiltmaker as Artist: 9 Artists from New York, Addison/Ripley Gallery, Washington, DC
Quilt National, The Dairy Barn Arts Center, Athens, OH (Traveled to 11 venues)
Pieceworks 2, Atlanta, GA (Traveled to 9 venues)
Selected Awards and Honors
2005 Quilts Japan Prize, Quilt National
2000 Juror's Award, The Artist as Quiltmaker IX
1992 Juror's Award, Tactile Architecture
1989 Empire State Crafts Alliance Grant
1989 Award of Excellence, Quilt National
Collections
9/11 Memorial & Museum, New York, NY
Capelin Communications, New York, NY
John M. Walsh III Collection, Elmira, NY
International Quilt Museum, Lincoln, NE
Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY
Museum of Quilts and Textiles, San Jose, CA
Ropes and Gray, Boston, MA
Visions Museum of Textile Art, San Diego, CA
Private Collections
Publications
2023
With Christopher Alessandrini and Stephanie Wuertz, "The Wandering Eye: On The Met's First Mobile Exhibition, "Tales from the Vaults over the Years and across Continents, Louis Pelletier and Rachel Stoeltje, editors (FIAF)
2020
"A View from the Projection Booth," www.metmuseum.org/perspectives/articles
2019
With Lois Martin, "A Brief History of the Textile Study Group of New York 1977-2019," The Language of Making: Visual Voices from the Textile Study Group of New York (TSGNY)
1998
With Lois Martin, "A Brief History of the Textile Study Group of New York," 9 x 9 x 3
1991
Essences and Presences: Art Quilts (Manhattanville College)
Selected Bibliography
2023
Roots (Textile Study Group of New York)
CONNECTIONS (Textile Study Group of New York)
2021
Marin F. Hanson, editor, Abstract Design in American Quilts at 50, (International Quilt Museum)
Manhattan Quilters Guild, 40 x 40 @ 40: New Works by the Manhattan Quilters Guild (MQG)
2020
Meg Cox, “Spotlight on the Manhattan Quilt Guild,” Quilting Arts (December/January 2021)
Sandra Sider & Pamela Weeks, Deeds Not Words: Celebrating 100 Years of Women’s Suffrage (Schiffer Publishing)
2017
RED: An exhibition by the Textile Study Group of New York (thesohobookie.com)
Quilt National 2017: The Best of Contemporary Quilts (M. Young & Associates, Inc.)
2015
Marion McCrindle, "Patchwork Festival - Sitges," British Patchwork & Quilting, June
"Semper Tedium: The Slow Art of Quiltmaking" Patchwork Professional, March
SQUARE: An exhibition of works by members of the Textile Study Group of New York (TSGNY)
2014
Mark Lipinski, "Semper Tedium, What I Learned (and you can, too!)," www.slowstitching.com, (July 28)
Ralph J. Bellantoni, "Slow and Easy Does It: The Gradual Masterpieces of Art Quilters," Daily Record (July 11)
Dan Bischoff, "Stitching together a message," The Sunday Star-Ledger (July 6)
2013
Sara Impey, Text in Textile Art (Batsford)
2012
Sandra Sider, The Studio Quilt, No. 11: Semper Tedium: The Slow Art of Quiltmaking
2010
Ray Hemachandra, senior editor, 500 Art Quilts: An Inspiring Collection of Contemporary Work (Lark Books)
2010
Sandra Sider, Pioneering Quilt Artists, 1960-1980: A New Direction in American Art (Photoart Publishing)
2008
Kate Lenkowsky, Contemporary Quilt Art: An Introduction and Guide (Indiana University Press)
2007
Jacqueline M. Atkins, Quilting Transformed: Leaders in Contemporary Quilting in the United States--The 20th Century and Beyond (Nihon Vogue, Tokyo)
2005
Six Continents of Quilts: The Museum of Arts & Design Collection, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan
2004
Stacy C. Hollander, "Talking Quilts," Folk Art (Spring/Summer)
Susan Mowery Kieffer, editor, Fiberarts Design Book 7 (Lark Books)
Susan Kieffer, "Curtains: Making Cents of Time and Money," Fiberarts (Jan/Feb)
2003
Nancy Maisak, "Grandmother Never Put Together This Kind of Bed-Warmer," The New York Times (April 24)
Jack Fischer, "The text part of textiles revealed in 'Language Arts' quilt show," San Jose Mercury News (Feb. 12)
2000
Julianna Mahley, "Quilts of the Future: A Symposium," Fiberarts (Sept/Oct)
Deidre Mullervy, "Yardworks," Americanstyle (Fall)
1999
Nancy Orban, editor, Fiberarts Design Book 6 (Lark Books)
Global Reach: Robin Schwalb,Canadian Surfacing Journal (Spring)
1998
Sandra Sider, "Robin Schwalb's Language Arts: Combining Words and Quilting," Fiberarts (November)
Phyllis George, Living With Quilts: Fifty Great American Quilts (G & T Publishing, NY)
1997
Robert Shaw, The Art Quilt (Hugh Lauter Levin Associates, Inc.)
Patricia Malarcher, "Contemporary Depth in Art Quilt Show," The New York Times, (December 14)
Muriel Silberstein-Storfer with Mablen Jones, Doing ART Together (Harry N. Abrams Inc., Publishers)
Juliet Bawden, Appliqué Style (Cassell, London)
1996
Tatyana Stepanova, "New York - Moskva," Podmoskovniye Izvestiya [Moscow] (April 4)
1995
Grace Cohen Grossman, Jewish Art (Hugh Lauter Levin Associates, Inc.)
Linda McGreevy, "Art Quilts: Playing with a Full Deck," Surface Design Journal (Fall 1995)
Emiko Toda Loeb, "Haiku Quilts," Quilts Japan (September)
Lois Martin, "The Making of Quilts; The Maker of Quilts," American Craft (June/July)
Nancy Ruhling, "Broadway Haiku: Poetry inspires quilt makers," New York Newsday (May 11)
Verna Suit and Sue Pierce, Art Quilts: Playing With a Full Deck (Pomegranate Artbooks)
1993
J. Mahley, "Needle Expresssions: A Metamorphosis," The Flying Needle (August)
Contemporary American Quilts (Crafts Council, London)
Naomi Ichikawa, "Three People Making Quilts," Patchwork Quilt Tsushin (April)
Artists + Language, The Society for Contemporary Crafts (catalog)
Donald Miller, "The Beauty of Words," Pittsburgh Post Gazette (February 5)
1992
Jean Ray Laury, Imagery on Fabric (C & T Publishing, Lafayette, CA)
Paula Nadelstern, “Robin Schwalb--Brooklyn Quilt Artist with a Fascination for Language,” Quilting International (July)
1991
Patricia Malarcher, "Quilts Meant for a Wall On Exhibit in Purchase," The New York Times, Westchester Weekly, (Dec. 8)
Nancy Orban, editor, Fiberarts Design Book 4 (Lark Books, Asheville, North Carolina)
Text and Textiles: A Portfolio, Fiberarts (Summer)
Paula Nadelstern, "Citiquilts: A Show of Diversity," The Clarion (Spring)
1990
Joy Hakanson Colby, "Quilty Pleasures," The Detroit News, (August 25)
1989
Nancy Roe, editor, New Quilts: Interpretations and Innovations (Quilt National)
1988
Ann Bradley, "Symbol/Speak: A New Quilt Language," Quilting USA (April)
1987
Kate Matthews, editor, The Fiberarts Design Book III (Lark Books, Asheville, North Carolina)
Education
B. A., State University of New York Binghamton, 1974
Classes and Workshops
1997 Kerr Grabowski: Spontaneous Screen Printing, Peters Valley School of Crafts, Sandyston, NJ
1993 Arturo Alonzo Sandoval: Alternative Materials for Quiltmaking, Quilt/Surface Design Symposium, Columbus, OH
1991 Linda MacDonald: Fabric Dyeing, Quilt/Surface Design Symposium, Columbus, OH
1990 Richard Daehnert: Imagery Transfer to Fabric, Quilt/Surface Design Symposium, Columbus, OH
1989 Mickey Lawler: Fabric Dyeing, New York, NY
1989 Katherine Knauer: Stenciling, New York, NY
1989 Gerald Marks: Photo Silk-screen Printing, 1981-82, 1988-89, The New School, NY, NY
1971 Françoise Grossen: Weaving, Brooklyn Museum Art School, Brooklyn, NY