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Sky Pape has been elected as a National Academician in the National Academy of Design’s Class of 2025.
The National Academy is the leading honorary society for visual artists and architects in the United States. The formal induction celebration on November 8th, 2025, at the Morgan Library & Museum in New York City, also marked the 200th anniversary of the National Academy’s founding in 1825 as the United States’ first artist- and architect-led organization.
UP NOW:
“Intersecting Realities: Endless Returns, Ever in Flux, Never Complete”
November 10, 2025 – November 1, 2026
45 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, NY
By appointment only.
Contact sky@skypape.com for info.
An exhibition curated by NY Foundation for the Arts in collaboration with Rockefeller Creative Management.
Artists: Anahita Bagheri, Lisa Corinne Davis, Allison Gildersleeve, Meg Lipke, Riad Miah, Anna Ortiz, Sky Pape, Erin M. Riley, Brian Rutenberg, Sarah Walker
An artists’ reception will be held on May 14, 2026. RSVP required. Please contact sky@skypape.com if you would like an invitation to this event.
RECENT: “Curvilinear Abstraction”
McKenzie Fine Art.
155 Orchard Street, New York NY
July 11 through August 15, 2025
Artists: Michelle Benoit, Nancy Blum, Lori Ellison, Pauline Galiana, Lisa Hoke, Jenny Kemp, Mery Lynn McCorkle, Maureen McQuillan, Sky Pape, Jessica Deane Rosner, Katia Santibanez, and Sarah Walker.
Review: Two Coats of Paint, “Widening Circles at McKenzie Fine Art,” by Katarina Wong, August 13, 2025.
Image: Sky Pape, Wheel and Come Again, Ink & acrylic on paper, 22.5″ square. Photo: Pauline Shapiro
RECENT: “Marks in Motion,” at the Bradbury Art Museum, Curated by Ann P. Wagner, Ph.D. March 13th to June 11th, 2025.
Sky Pape was invited as a visiting artist at the museum, delivering a pre-opening presentation on March 13th at BAM, and visiting with the students and faculty of the painting program at Arkansas State University.
Artists : Yasi Alipour, Carlene Munoz, Casey Neumann, Sky Pape, Jaanika Peerna, Susan Schwalb, Daniel Zeller.
Image: Sky Pape, Diamonds and Bones, Flashe, ink & acrylic on paper, 22.5″ square. Photo: Pauline Shapiro
RECENT SOLO EXHIBITION: The Art Show, solo show, Nothing but Time at June Kelly Gallery’s booth. Park Avenue Armory, New York, NY. Organized by the Art Dealers Association of America. October 30th to November 2nd, 2024.
The Art Show Committee, composed of ADAA members, selected Sky Pape’s piece Drift, as “Best in Show Object,” an honor bestowed to “recognize those members whose presentations epitomized the connoisseurship and industry leadership of the ADAA membership.”
Right: Pape’s work featured by the ADAA on Madison Avenue NYC bus shelter, announcing The Art Show.
Swimming Hole Foundation Residency: On Feb 2, 2025, The Swimming Hole Foundation brought together past fellows Matt Nolen, Sky Pape, Lisa Mackie, Emily Noelle Lambert, Julia Randall, Caryn Kreitzer and Debera (Gus) Johnson, to share images, stories and lasting insights from their August 2024 Swimming Hole collaboratory, Exquiste Corpse.
Click here to watch a recording of the presentation.
2024 SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITION: “The Women of the June Kelly Gallery,” Group exhibition, Jan 18 to Feb 27, 2024.
June Kelly Gallery, 166 Mercer St, Floor 3, New York, NY 10012.
Installation image (left to right): Sky Pape (“Diving into the Wreck,” Sumi ink, water. Flashe on paper, 69 inches h x 51.5 in w), Sarah Plimpton (book on pedestal), Debra Priestly (ceramic sculpture), Elizabeth Catlett (marble sculpture).
2023: SOLO EXHIBITION:
Beauty, Marks, and Blemishes
Dec 9, 2023 – Jan 7, 2024
Garrison Art Center, Garrison, NY
23 Garrison’s Landing
Garrison, NY 10524
Read about this in, “The Blemish in the Pattern,” by Alison Rooney for The Highlands Current, Dec 15, 2023
(Image: “The Making of a Poet,” Flashe & gouache on paper, 22.5″h x 30″w)
2022: SOLO EXHIBITION:
Increments & Incidents, at The Garage Art Center in Queens, NY. October 15th – November 20th, 2022.
This exhibition presented recent pieces from Sky Pape’s Anomalies series, with sources of inspiration ranging from dinner plates to astrophysics. Using geometry and patterns, Pape references systems that operate within us, and those within which we exist, addressing themes of perception and uncertainty. Pulsating with irregularities, the human hand is always evident in these structured, intricate compositions. “I’m fascinated by the leaps the mind makes when confronted by something that’s a little off, creating a space for unexpected realizations to arise,” she says.
QUICK READ: “Increments & Incidents: Interview with Artist Sky Pape,” by Meagan Meehan, November 8th, 2022.
Image above: Sky Pape, Receiver, acrylic, ink & acrylic gouache on paper, 22.5″ square. Photo: Pauline Shapiro