CAROLINE BURTON STUDIO
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2026 Obey the Moon, 490 Atlantic Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2025 The Back of the Moon, LHUCA, Lubbock, TX (traveling exh)
2024 The Back of the Moon, Murray State University, Murray, KY (traveling exh)
2023/24 Way Finding, New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ
2023 Creative Destruction, Beacon, NY
2021 Fold, 490 Atlantic Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2021 Incarnations, Garrison Art Center, Garrison, NY
2017 A rag, A bone, A hank of hair, New Jersey City University, NJ (traveling exh)
2016 A rag, A bone, A hank of hair, Johnson State College, Johnson, VT (traveling exh)
2016 A rag, A bone, A hank of hair II, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
2012 Prey, Accola Griefen Gallery, New York, NY
2009 Enclosed, PDX Contemporary Art Window Project, Portland, OR
2004 Window Works, RealForm Project Space, Brooklyn, NY
1997 Caged Memory, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
1997 Alterations, Elzay Gallery of Art, Ohio Northern University, Ada, OH
1995 New Work, Cooper Gallery, Jersey City, NJ
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2026 Primeval Ground, Westbeth Gallery, New York, NY
2025 Recent Acquisitions: Fine Art, New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ
2025 Right Now It’s All Yellow, Drawing Rooms, Jersey City, NJ
2024 100 Women of Spirit, Zürcher Gallery, New York, NY
2024 New Prints / New Geometry, Corey Daniels Gallery, Wells, ME
2022 Thread Hijack, Hunterdon Art Museum, Clinton, NJ
2022 11 Women of Spirit, Part 6, Zürcher Gallery, New York, NY
2022 Emergence, New Jersey State Museum, NJ
2022 Made in Paint, Sam and Adele Golden Gallery at Golden Artist Colors, New Berlin, NY
2021 Magic, Metaphor Projects, NY
2021 The Essential Line, Art Spaces at Krasdale Corporate Headquarters, White Plains, NY
2020 Ink, Press, Repeat, William Patterson University, Wayne, NJ
2019 Kin, Accola Griefen Fine Art, NY
2019 Pow(h)er, Hudson County Community College, Jersey City, NJ
2019 Just Beneath the Surface, Drawing Rooms, Jersey City, NJ
2019 As for That, Parlour, Jersey City, NJ
2019 New Directions in Fiber Art, Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ
2018 it went like this: the skyline was beautiful on fire, Vermont College of Fine Arts, Montpelier, VT
2017 Black & White, Novado Gallery, Jersey City, NJ
2016 New Drawing New Jersey, Drawing Rooms, Jersey City, NJ
2016 New Jersey Arts Annual, The Noyes Museum of Art, Atlantic City, NJ
2015 Nuanced: open-endedness, capaciousness and other provocative conditions of making,
Dedee Shattuck Gallery, Westport, MA
2015 Barely Imagined Beings, NJC University Gallery, Jersey City, NJ
2014 AXIS, Brentwood Arts Exchange, Brentwood, MD
2013 Paperwork, Trenton City Museum, Trenton, NJ
2012 Pencil Pushed, Ewing Gallery, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
2012 Drawing Beyond, Paul Robeson Center for the Arts, Princeton, NJ
2012 Textility, Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, Summit, NJ
2011 This End UP, WOOLPUNK studios, Jersey City, NJ
2011 An Uncommon Thread, Front Room Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2010 Everything but Paper Prayers, Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA
2009 New Jersey State Council on the Arts Exhibition, Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, Summit, NJ
2008 Inaugural Exhibition, Accola Contemporary, New York, NY
2008 Aqua Wynwood, Accola Contemporary, Miami, FL
2008 Drawings, Pingry School Art Galleries, Martinsville, NJ
2008 Paper in the Wind, RealForm Project Space, Brooklyn, NY
2008 100 Artists Make Prints, Rupert Ravens Contemporary, Newark, NJ
2007 Punch Bowl, Metaphor Contemporary Art, Brooklyn, NY
2007 The Feminine Mystique, Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ
2007 Squared, Ernest Rubenstein Gallery, New York, NY
2006 Knots, New Jersey City University, Jersey City, NJ
2006 Dimension, Art League of Long Island, Dix Hills, NY
2006 Small Works, Bond Gallery, New York, NY
2004 Four paint, L.I.T.M. Jersey City, NJ
2004 Slightly Off Center, 55 Mercer Street Gallery, New York, NY
2003 Built to Form, Victory Hall, Jersey City, NJ
2003 100 New Jersey Artists Make Prints, New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ, Morris Museum, NJ
2002 Transforming, Eyedrum, Atlanta, GA
2002 500 Works on Paper 1922-2002, Gary Snyder Fine Art, New York, NY
2001 Making A Mark, NJ Center for Visual Arts, Summit, NJ
2001 Crossing Boundaries, The Noyes Museum of Art, Oceanville, NJ
2000 New Jersey State Council on the Arts Exhibition, Hunterdon Museum of Art, Clinton, NJ
1999 Memories of the Past / Intimations of the Future, RCIPP, New Brunswick, NJ
1998 La Linea: Dibujos Contemporaneos, Museo de Art, Santo Domingo, DR
1997 Decadence, Art Center on First Street, Jersey City, NJ
1997 Painting Still Happens, City Without Walls, Newark, NJ
1997 Rutgers MFA exhibition, Westbeth Gallery, New York, NY
1997 Rutgers MFA exhibition, Hunter College Gallery, New York, NY
1997 Uncoupled, Rabbet Gallery, New Brunswick, NJ
1996 New Jersey Arts Annual, Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ
1996 Aggressive Export Project, Auckland Institute of Technology, New Zealand
1995 Private Matter, Jersey City State College, Jersey City, NJ
AWARDS / RESIDENCIES / FELLOWSHIPS
2025 Virginia Center for Creative Arts
2024 Soaring Gardens
2023 Virginia Center for Creative Arts
2021 Golden Foundation residency
2019 Vermont Studio Center, VSC fellowship
2018 Vermont Studio Center, partial fellowship
2017 Virginia Center for Creative Arts
2016 Vermont Studio Center, VSC fellowship
2015 Vermont Studio Center, VSC fellowship
2014 Vermont Studio Center, VSC fellowship
2013 Vermont Studio Center, Pollock Krasner fellowship
2012 Virginia Center for Creative Arts
2009 Virginia Center for Creative Arts
2008 New Jersey State Council on the Arts Individual Artist Grant
2006 Vermont Studio Center, VSC fellowship
2005 Virginia Center for Creative Arts, Dodge fellowship
2004 Vermont Studio Center, VSC fellowship
2003 Vermont Studio Center, Dodge fellowship
2003 Virginia Center for Creative Arts, Dodge fellowship
2001 Vermont Studio Center, Dodge fellowship
2000 New Jersey State Council on the Arts Individual Artist Grant
1998 Rutgers Center for Innovative Print and Paper
1997 Austrian Arts Academy summer fellowship
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Ewing Gallery of Art and Architecture, UT, Knoxville, TN
Connecticut College, CT
Duke University Medical Center, NC
Jersey City Museum, NJ
Montclair Art Museum, NJ
Morris Museum, NJ
Museo de Art Moderno, DR
New Jersey Public Library, NJ
Noyes Museum, NJ
Zimmerli Museum, NJ
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Yaniv, Etty, Caroline Burton: Obey the Moon, Art Spiel, 01-23-2026
Yaniv, Etty, Caroline Burton: The Back of the Moon, Art Spiel, 09-22-2025
Yaniv, Etty and Sarah Vogelman. Way Finding: Caroline Burton at the New Jersey State Museum, Art Spiel, 03-18-2024
Brennan, Michael. Caroline Burton’s compelling in-betweenness, Two Coats of Paint, 03-27-2024
McCall, Tris. Caroline Burton: Way Finding, NJ Arts, 03-08-2024
Zürcher, Gwenolee. 100 Women of Spirit, Exh Cat. 2024
Vogelman, Sarah. Way Finding, New Jersey State Museum, Exh. Cat. 2023
McCall, Tris. Adventures in Embroidery: ‘Thread Hijack’ at Hunterdon Art Museum Shows Consistent Creativity, NJ Arts, 10-27, 2022
Rooney, Allison. Blanket Patterns, The Highlands Current, 03-19-2021
Kucer, Kirsten. “The Essential Line, Exh. Cat. 2021
New Jersey State Council on the Arts Fellowship Exhibition, Exh. Cat. 2021
Russell, Carol K. and Judy Wukitsch. New Directions in Fiber Art, Exh. Cat. 2019
Trauben, Anne and James Pustorino. New Drawing New Jersey, Exh Cat. 2016
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Tolnick Champa, Judith. Nuanced, Exh. Cat. 2015
Wilkinson, Don. Be Drawn into Wonder at Shattuck Gallery, South Coast Today, 10-22-2015
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Birmingham, Mary and Joanne Mattera. Textility, Exh. Cat. 2012
Levin-Rojer, Marsha. Drawing Beyond, Exh. Cat. 2012
MacAdam, Barbara, Pencil Pushed, Exh. Cat. 2012
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Kelly, Kate. Di-men-shen, Exh. Cat. 2006
Bischoff, Dan. Mark This Exhibition as One to See, The Star Ledger, Friday, 10-16-2002 il p.27
Brodsky, Judith. 100 New Jersey Artists Make Prints, Exh. Cat. 2002
Making A Mark, Five New Jersey Artists, Exh. Cat. 2001
Adelson, Fred and Hsiao Tu. Crossing Boundaries, Exh. Cat. 2001
New Jersey State Council on the Arts Fellowship Exhibition, Exh. Cat. 2000
Kennedy-Dyne, Eileen. Pro-Arts showcase considered, oh, so 'Decadent, The Jersey Journal, 11-18-1997
Anreus, Alejandro. New Jersey Arts Annual, Exh. Cat. 1996
Watkins, Eileen. Six N.J. Museums Co-hosting Arts Festival, The Star Leger, 06-30-1996
Kenny, Kay. New Direction for Hudson Artist, The Jersey Journal, 09-22-1995 il.p. E10
Juri, Carmen. Beast Within Bared In Art, The Star Leger, 07-11-1994; The Jersey Journal, 08-5-1994
Cogswell, David. Good Timing for a Bad Subject, Hudson Current cover, 07-14-1994 il.p.3
GALLERY REPRESENTATION
Pierogi Flat Files, NY, NY
EDUCATION
MFA. Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers, NJ
BFA. Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH