Renata Stein: Lost & Found - Artist Resume

 

Renata Stein grew up in an East European family of Displaced Persons in Germany and arrived in New York from Berlin as a visiting scholar in 1983. She is a mixed media artist, sculptor, curator, and translator whose work has been shown at a variety of venues.

Selected Solo Shows

Residency Exhibit

Institut für alles Mögliche, Berlin, Germany, 2011

Transformations

Synagogue for the Arts, New York, NY, 2005

Home/land: Artists, Immigrations and Identity 

Residency; taught classes; group show; solo show

Society for Contemporary Craft, Pittsburgh, PA, 2003

 

Assemblages and Constructions: Artwork by Renata Stein

Fairleigh Dickinson University, Madison, NJ, 2002

Selected Group Shows 

Out of the Shadows

Carter Burden Gallery, New York, NY, 2026

 

Rooted: The Ecological Duality of Nature and Jewish Identity

Manny Cantor Center, New York, NY, 2015

 

Art of Detritus: Recycling with Imagination

Viridian Artists, New York, NY, 2015

Finalist, International Jewish Artists of the Year Award

Christie’s London, sponsored by Ben Uri Gallery, London, United Kingdom, 2007

Selected Reviews

  

"Renata Stein. From Word to Image: Visual Midrash"

Bridges: A Jewish Feminist Journal, Vol.14, No.2, Indiana University Press, Autumn 2009

"Complex Identities: Jewish Consciousness in the Twentieth Century"

Matthew Baigell, Milly Heyd (editors), Rutgers University Press, 2001

“A Legacy of Trauma and Transcendence”

John Mendelssohn, The Jewish Week, 1995

“Zeitgenössische Kunst in der Cathedral St. John’s the Divine”

Sabine Russ, Aufbau, 1995

“Out of Conflict Creation”

Esther Iverem, Newsday, 1993

Pictured: Renata Stein - East of Eden

Mixed media

10" x 12 1/4" x 15"

2016