Carole A. Feuerman is acknowledged as one of the world’s most prominent hyperrealist sculptors. Born in Connecticut, raised and trained in New York, Feuerman has had six museum retrospectives to date and has been included in exhibitions at The State Hermitage, The Palazzo Strozzi Foundation, the Kunstmuseum Ahlen and the Circulo de Bellas Artes. There are currently three full-colored monographs about her work: Carole A. Feuerman: Sculpture, published by Hudson Hills Press which is now in its second edition, and Carole A. Feuerman: La Scultura Incontra la Realta by Gabriele Caioni, which is available in both Italian and English. Feuerman’s sculpture “Grande Catalina” was also featured in A History of Western Art, by Antony Mason and John T. Spike and published by Abrams Books.

Spanning four decades, Feuerman’s prolific career has developed her reputation across a variety of media. Working in resin, marble and bronze, she has distinguished her skill in each medium by defining and recreating the human condition. Feuerman sculpts life-size, monumental and miniature works, painting them with hundreds of layers before achieving human-like tones. Her resin sculptures employ her signature trompe-l’oeil technique to construct all clothing and accessories used to achieve her hyperrealist perfection. Eyes, teeth, hair, wrinkles and skin texture are meticulously rendered to give the viewer the impression of a living, breathing human being. Separate to her resin works, Feuerman has also introduced her own unique methodology of sculpting with molten metal that she calls “Painting with Fire”.

The past two decades have been immensely important to Feuerman’s career. She was granted her first retrospective at the Queens Museum in 1987, followed by her second retrospective, three years later at the Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art in 2000. In 2004, her sculpture “Sunburn” was featured in the highly acclaimed group exhibition “An American Odyssey, 1945/1980: Debating Modernism”, which was curated by Stephen C. Foster and opened at the Circulo de Bellas Artes in Madrid, Spain. The exhibition surveyed over one hundred works of iconic American artists and travelled to Salamanca and Coruna before coming to New York in 2005. The New York Times and the New Yorker, among others, reviewed the exhibition. The same year featured Feuerman's third retrospective entitled “Resin to Bronze Topographies” at the City University of New York. In 2007, she had a solo show entitled “By the Sea” at the Pavilion Paradiso at the Venice Biennale, which drew a quarter-million visitors. The exhibition showcased her monumental sculptures “Survival of Serena” and "Grande Catalina” prominently at the entrance to the Biennale. Simultaneous to the Biennale, Feuerman was included in OPEN 2007, an international sculpture exhibition in Venice, as well as a solo show entitled “Lust and Desires” at Art-St-Urban in Lucerne, Switzerland. Following these successes, she had a major solo exhibition in Florence’s prestigious Moretti Galleries and was the featured artist in “46 XX”, an exhibition of four American female artists at Moscow’s Na Solyanke State Gallery. Her next retrospective, held in 2008, was at The Archeological Museum in Fiesole, Italy, followed by inclusion in “Art and Illusion: Masterpieces of trompe-l’oeil from Antiquity to the Present” at the Palazzo Strozzi Foundation. The year closed with her fifth retrospective “Silence-Passion-Expression” at the Amarillo Art Museum in Texas, which was nominated by the AISEI for the best Monographic Exhibition for 2008-2009. In 2009, Feuerman had a New York solo show entitled “Swimmers, Bathers, Nudes” at Jim Kempner Fine Art in Chelsea. In 2010, Feuerman’s sculpture “Monumental Shower” was exhibited in “Intimacy, Bathing in Art” alongside works by ninety artists including Edgar Degas, Pierre Bonnard, Luise Bourgeois, Fernando Botero, David Hockney and Joseph Beuys at the Kunstmuseum Ahlen in Germany. During the fall of 2010, Feuerman exhibited in her sixth retrospective, entitled “Earth Water Air Fire”, at the El Paso Museum of Art. The exhibition showcased fifty-two works and premiered her video and sculptural installations. Following the close of the exhibition, the museum’s members voted on four of Feuerman’s large-scale works in which “Summer” was chosen for purchase into their permanent collection.

Among the notable awards Feuerman has received are the Amelia Peabody, the Betty Parsons Award, the Lorenzo de Medici Prize and First Prizes at the 2008 Beijing Biennale, Austrian Biennale and the Beijing Olympic Fine Arts. Her work is included in the selected collections of His Majesty the Emperor of Japan, President Bill Clinton and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, Soviet statesman Mikhail Gorbachev, the Forbes Magazine Art Collection, and the Caldic Collection. Feuerman’s work is also included in the permanent collections of over fifteen museums, such as Art-st-Urban, the Bass Museum of Art, the El Paso Museum of Art, the Tampa Museum of Art, the Lowe Art Museum and Grounds for Sculpture. She has taught, lectured and given workshops at many institutions, including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Solomon Guggenheim Museum and Columbia University. Feuerman exhibits worldwide, with representation by more than a dozen prominent galleries.

Several international exhibitions are scheduled for 2011. The first is a solo show opening in April at Galerie Hübner & Hübner in Frankfurt. Group shows at Rarity Gallery in Mykonos, Greece and Louise Alexander Gallery in Porto Cervo, Italy will follow during the summer months. In the fall, Becker Galleries in Vancouver, BC will hold a solo show. Scheduled for 2012 is a solo exhibition in the spring at Jim Kempner Fine Art in New York City.

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