ABOUT THE ARTIST

Ellen Wiener is a visual artist whose primary subjects revolve around literary themes, landscape and the expansive qualities of reading. She has lived on the North Fork of Long Island since 1989.

Her work can be found in the permanent public collections at;

Cooper-Hewitt Museum, The Smithsonian, Yale Arts Library Special Collections, The Staats Bibliothek- Berlin, Smith College Museum, Hood Museum, Parrish Art Museum, Albright-Knox Museum, Rosenwald Collection, Reed College, Swarthmore College, Sweet Briar College, Washington University, Maslow Collection, Bainbridge Museum and in many private collections.

She has been included in over 100 exhibitions including; PS1-Moma, The Center for Book Arts, The National Academy, Parrish Museum, Hudson River Museum, Heckscher Museum, Princeton Theological Society, Islip Art Museum, Long Island Museum, Stony Brook Museum, Hood Museum, Vanderbilt University, The New York Botanical Gardens- for the Poetry  Society of America, Constellation Studios, VSOP Gallery, , Central Booking Gallery, Indiana University Library, Lori Bookstein Gallery, San Francisco Public Library, University of Iowa Center for the Book, 23 Sandy,  Abecedarian Gallery, Minnesota Center for the Book Arts, Cincinnati Public Library, Denver Public Library, Marriot Library Utah, Emory University, Art Sites, Art on Paper Pier 36,  Lafayette College, East End Arts, Glen Hansen Gallery.

Faculty positions have included; Princeton, Dartmouth, Sarah Lawrence Writer’s Institute, Stony Brook SUNY, Queens CUNY, University New Mexico, Suffolk Community College, St Mary’s College, Sweet Briar College, LSU.

She has studied at; The Royal Botanical Society Kew, London, The New York Botanical Garden, The Morgan Library-Rare Books School of the University of Virginia, The Center for Book Arts, The New School, Queens College CUNY & Bennington College.