The sculptor Rona Pondick uses the language of the body and, in particular, casts made from her own body to create fragmented and hybrid forms that are surreal, metaphoric and psychologically suggestive. The process of metamorphosis is at the heart of her work, which presents a contemporary analogue to the storied tradition of mythical hybrids, ranging from Egyptian sphinxes and Greek centaurs to Franz Kafka's giant insect. This is combined with an 'awareness of how gravity, weight, and materiality affect presence', as well as an exploration of process that encompasses hand-sculpting, 3D computer modelling, and traditional metal casting techniques.
In her early works, Pondick used inanimate objects such as beds, shoes and baby bottles to create unsettling anatomical forms, alongside a series of teeth cast from her own mouth and embedded in orafices made of resin, wax and dirt. A 1998 life cast of her head became the basis for flora and fauna hybrids, set atop the gleaming stainless steel bodies of muskrats, dogs, foxes and monkeys or else entrapped in the branches of trees. She has been using variations on the same cast since, altered in size and material for subsequent works. There is a disorienting interplay of scale in her work, such as oversized thumbs that replace arms or minuscule heads that become buds on bonsai trees. In her more recent works, the artist has continued working with hybrid forms, while introducing colour into resin and acrylic casts of her head, many of which are encased in transparent blocks.
Born in Brooklyn, Pondick lives and works in New York. She studied under Richard Serra at the Yale School of Art, where she received her MFA in 1977 and met her partner, the painter Robert Feintuch. She created a site-specific installation, Beds, for the SculptureCenter, New York in 1988, followed by a solo exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston in 1989. Her work has since been shown in solo exhibitions at the Israel Museum, Jerusalem (1992); Brooklyn Museum (1996); Rupertinum, Salzburg (1999); Galleria D'Arte Moderna Bologna and Groninger Museum, Groningen, Netherlands (both 2002); Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan (2003); Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland (2004); and Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn, New York (2010). In 2009, she curated the exhibition Rona Pondick: The Metamorphosis of an Object for the Worcester Art Museum in Massachusetts, placing her own sculptures in conversation with items from the collection dating from 2000 BC to the present. Recent group exhibitions include the High Museum, Atlanta (2020); Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg (2020); Philadelphia Museum of Art (2019); Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille (2019); Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas (2019); and Portland Museum of Art (2019).
2023
Rona Pondick: Selected Work 1998–2022, Thaddaeus Ropac, London, UK
2022
Carlone Contemporary: Rona Pondick, cur. Stella Rollig, Upper Belvedere, Vienna, Austria
Rona Pondick, Marc Straus, New York, NY, USA
2021
Rona Pondick: Sculpture, Nunu Fine Art, Taipei, Taiwan
2019
Rona Pondick: Works 2013–18, Zevitas Marcus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2018
Rona Pondick: Works 2013–18, Marc Straus Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2017
Rona Pondick and Robert Feintuch: Heads, Hands, Feet; Sleeping, Holding, Dreaming, Dying, Bates Museum of Art, Lewiston, ME, USA
Rona Pondick and Robert Feintuch: Heads, Hands, Feet; Sleeping, Holding, Dreaming, Dying, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City, UT
2014
Rona Pondick, Krampf Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey
2013
Rona Pondick, Sonnabend Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2012
Rona Pondick, Sculptures and Drawings, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
2011
Sculpture and Drawing, Sonnabend Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2010
Metamorphosis: Rona Pondick, Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn, NY, USA
Rona Pondick: The Metamorphosis of an Object, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
2009
Rona Pondick, Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, MA, USA
Rona Pondick: The Metamorphosis of an Object, Worcester Art Museum, MA, USA
2008
Rona Pondick, Head in Tree and Other Works 1999–2008, TR3, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Rona Pondick, Die Internationale Stiftung Mozarteum, Salzburg, Austria
2006
Rona Pondick: New Work, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
Sonnabend Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2004
Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, OH, USA
Rona Pondick: 1987–2001, Akira Ikeda Gallery, Taura, Japan
2003
Sculpture 1992–2003, Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI, USA
2002
Galleria D'Arte Moderna, Bologna, Italy
Sonnabend Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Rona Pondick: Sculpture Récentes, Galerie Thaddaues Ropac, Paris, France
DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA, USA
Groninger Museum, Groningen, Netherlands
2001
Patricia Faure Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, USA
1999
Positionenreihe 7, Rupertinum, Salzburg, Austria
1998
Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, MA, USA
1997
tree head room, Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, NY, USA
1996
Mine, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Lobby Project, Brooklyn, NY, USA
Mine, Next Wave Festival, Brooklyn Academy of Music, NY, USA
Susan Inglett, I. C. Editions, New York, NY, USA
Patricia Faure Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, USA
Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, MA, USA
1995
New Art 4, Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH, USA
Jose Freire Fine Art, New York, NY, USA
1993
Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, MA, USA
Jose Freire Fine Art, New York, NY, USA
1992
Pink and Brown, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
Transepoca, Milan, Italy
1991
Scrap, site-specific installation, Beaver College Art Gallery, Glenside, PA, USA
Asher-Faure Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Foot and Mouth, fiction/nonfiction, New York, NY, USA
1990
mamamamama, Asher-Faure Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
1989
Currents, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA, USA
Bed Milk Shoe, fiction/nonfiction, New York, NY, USA
Hillman Holland Gallery, Atlanta, GA, USA
1988
Beds, site-specific installation, SculptureCenter, New York, NY, USA
fiction/nonfiction, New York, NY, USA
2022
The Gravity of Beauty, Zuckerman Museum of Art, Kennesaw State University, GA, USA
Grow. The Tree in Art, Lower Belvedere, Vienna, Austria
Other Worlds Than This, Nassau County Museum, Roslyn Harbor, NY, USA
2021
Selections from the Contemporary Collection, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT, USA
On the Basis of Art: 150 Years of Women at Yale, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT, USA
Nasher Mixtape, Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, TX, USA
2020
On Everyone's Lips: From Pieter Bruegel to Cindy Sherman, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany
30 Years in Paris, Thaddeaus Ropac, Paris Pantin, France
FEM, Nassau County Museum, Roslyn Harbor, NY, USA
Collections Show: Object Lab, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA, USA
Pioneers, Influencers, and Rising Voices: Women in the Collection, High Museum, Atlanta, GA, USA
Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts, American Academy of Arts & Letters, New York, NY, USA
2019
The Sonnabend Collection, Remai Modern, Saskatoon, Canada
Present Tense: Recent Gifts of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA, USA
Le rêve d'être artiste, Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille, France
Selections from the Permanent Collection, Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, TX, USA
Selections from the Portland Museum of Art Collection, Portland Museum of Art, ME, USA
2018
Death is Irrelevant, Hudson Valley MOCA, Peekskill, NY, USA
Unexpected Encounters, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, USA
2017
The Unreliable Narrator, ArtHelix, Brooklyn, NY, USA
2016
I.C. Editions 25th Anniversary Exhibition, Susan Inglett Gallery, New York, NY, USA
The Ileana Sonnabend Collection, Ca'Pesaro, Galleria Internazionale d'Arte Moderna, Venice, Italy
The Sonnabend Collection: Half A Century of European & American Art, Part 1, Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Serralves, Porto, Portugal
Selections from the Permanent Collection, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT, USA
2015
Uncanny/Figure, Dorsky Gallery, Long Island City, NY, USA
Gray Would Be the Color, If I Had A Heart, Marc Strauss Gallery, New York, NY, USA
de-FORMATIONS, Bruce Silverstein Gallery, New York, NY, USA
SELF: Portraits of the Artist in Their Absence, National Academy Museum, New York, NY, USA
Beautiful Beast, New York Academy of Art, NY, USA
2014
Spaced Out: Migration to the Interior, Red Bull Studios, New York, NY, USA
Beyond the Classical: Imagining the Ideal Across Time, National Academy Museum, New York, NY, USA
Dick Polich: Transforming Metal into Art, Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, State University of New York at New Paltz, NY, USA
Back to Eden, Contemporary Artists Wander the Garden, Museum of Biblical Art, New York, NY, USA
From Rauschenberg to Jeff Koons, Ca'Pesaro, Galleria Internazionale d'Arte Moderna, Venice, Italy
Look at Me: Portraiture from Manet to the Present, Leila Heller Gallery, New York, NY; Southampton Arts Center, NY, USA
The Paradox of Sculpture, National Academy Museum, New York, NY, USA
2013
You Are Here, Worcester Art Museum, MA, USA
Donation Florence et Daniel Guerlain, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Two Trees: Rona Pondick and Jennifer Steinkamp, Armory Art Gallery at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA
Come Together: Surviving Sandy, Dedalus Foundation, Industry City and The Brooklyn Rail, Brooklyn, NY, USA
The Sonnabend Collection, Ca'Pesaro, Galleria Internazionale d'Arte Moderna, Venice, Italy
Krampf Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey
A Discourse on Plants, RH Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2012
Changing States of Matter, Brand New Gallery, Milan, Italy
Do Not Destroy: Trees, Art, and Jewish Thought, Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA, USA
2011
One Room Show, Sonnabend Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Notations/Everyday Disturbances, Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA, USA
Ileana Sonnabend: An Italian Portrait, Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, Venice, Italy
Highlights of CAM, Chelsea Art Museum, New York, NY, USA
Circa 1986, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY, USA
Froschbärfant und andere Tiere in der Kunst, Galerie im Traklhaus, Salzburg, Austria
Fundamentally Yours: Visual Art and Neuroscience, Pera Museum, Istanbul, Turkey
Naked, Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, MA, USA
Speaking with Hands, Macao Museum of Art, China
Never Let Me Go, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA
American Dream, Valentina Bonomo Roma, Italy
Simmons Collects: Celebrating Women Artists, Trustman Art Gallery, Simmons College, Boston, MA, USA
The Museum's Collection of Art Since the Mid-20th Century, Worcester Art Museum, MA, USA
2010
The Uncanny Valley, Royal Institution of Australia, The Science Exchange, Adelaide, Australia
Sonnabend Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Odd Bodies: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC, USA
2009
Speaking with Hands, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan
Medicine and Art: Imagining a Future for Life and Love, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Stardust, Fundament Foundation, park De Oude Warande, Tilburg, Netherlands
Sonnabend Gallery, New York, NY, USA
The Buhl Collection: Speaking with Hands, Daelim Contemporary Art Museum, Seoul, Korea
2008
Sonnabend Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Human Nature(s), Worcester Art Museum, MA, USA
Origins, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY, USA
Sonsbeek 2008: Grandeur, Sonsbeek 2008, Arnhem, Netherlands
Goya. Les Caprices & Chapman, Morimura, Pondick, Schutte, Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille, Lille, France
The Florence and Daniel Guerlain Collection: Dessins, Cultural Services of the French Embassy, New York, NY, USA
2007
Sonnabend Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Exposures: The Contemporary Self-Portrait, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
Unnatural: Neeta Madahar and Rona Pondick, Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, MA, USA
Uncontained, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, USA
2006
Eccentrics, Ursula Blickle Stiftung, Kraichtal, Germany
Ego, CAM Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
2005
Francisco de Goya: Los Caprichos and Here comes the Bogey-Man, Chelsea Art Museum, New York, NY, USA
Figure It Out, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, New York, NY, USA
Collection 2, Fondation pour l a’rt contemporain Claudine et Jean-Marc Salmon, Annecy, France
Head Count, Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, MA, USA
Sonnabend Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Visions of America: Contemporary Art from the Essl Collection and the Sonnabend Collection, Kunst Der Gegenwart Sammlung Essl, Vienna, Austria
2004
Some of Their Parts, Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, MA, USA
Making the Body in Contemporary Sculpture, Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH, USA
Animals and Us: The Animal in Contemporary Art, Galerie St. Etienne, New York, NY, USA
Sonnabend Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2003
A Dialogue of Two Collections: Ileana Sonnabend, New York and DaimlerChrysler, Berlin, DaimlerChrysler, Berlin, Germany
Skulptur 03, Galerie Thaddaues Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
Triennial 9, Form and Contents: Corporal Identity – Body Language, Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany; Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY, USA
Skin: Contemporary Views of the Body, Jacksonville Museum of Modern Art, Jacksonville, FL, USA
Sonnabend Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2002
From Pop to Now: Selections from the Sonnabend Collection, Tang Museum, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY, USA; Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH, USA
Text/Textile, Deutsche Bank, New York, NY, USA
Sonnabend Gallery, New York, NY USA
2001
Alumni Choice, Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT, USA
2000
Sculpture, Sonnabend Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Sharing Exoticism, Biennale d'art contemporain de Lyon, Lyon, France
Acts of Resistance, Koldo Mitxelena Cultural Centre, Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain
Anniversary Exhibition, Sonnabend Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Blondies and Brownies, Torch Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands
1999
Der Anagrammatische Korper, Kunsthaus Mürzzuschlag, Mürzzuschlag, Austria; Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany
Calendar 2000, Center for Curatorial Studies Museum, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, USA
Drawing in the Present, Parsons School of Design, New York, NY, USA
The Body in Question: Tracing, Displacing and Remaking the Human Figure in Contemporary Art, Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY, USA
Comfort Zone: Furniture by Artists, PaineWeber Art Gallery, New York, NY, USA
1998
Multiples + Editions, Susan Inglett, I. C. Editions, New York, NY, USA
Contemporary Sculpture and Sculptors' Drawings, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, USA
Art On Paper, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC, USA
What Remains MCMLXXXXVII, Groninger Museum, Groningen, Netherlands
Inner Eye: Contemporary Art from the Marc and Livia Straus Collection, Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL; Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, TN; Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, GA; Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA, USA
Sculpture Figure Women: Forms of Representation of the Female Body, Landesgalerie Oberösterreich Landesmuseum, Linz, Austria; Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz, Chemnitz, Germany
Mirror Image: Women, Surrealism and Self-Representation, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA; Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, USA
From Head to Toe: Concepts of the Body in Twentieth-Century Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA
1997
Lust, Patricia Faure Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, USA
Alternating Currents, 2nd Johannesburg Biennale, Johannesburg, South Africa
No Small Feet, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA
Frankensteinian, Caren Golden Fine Art, New York, NY, USA
Sous le manteau, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
New Grounds: Prints and Multiples, Contemporary Art Museum, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA
1996
Millennium Eve Dress, The Fabric Workshop Museum, Philadelphia, PA; Contemporary Art Center, Cinncinnati, OH, USA
The Persistence of Pop, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, USA
Body Language, Florida State University Museum of Fine Arts, Tallahassee, FL, USA
Embedded Metaphor, John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL; Dalhousie Art Gallery, Halifax, Canada; Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA; Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME; Virginia Beach Center for the Arts, Virginia Beach, VA; Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, USA
B.A.B.Y., Hand Workshop Art Center, Richmond, VA, USA
Sexual Politics: Judy Chicago's Dinner Party in Feminist Art History, UCLA at the Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Too Jewish? Challenging Traditional Identities, Jewish Museum, New York, NY; Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA; UCLA at the Armand Hammer Museum and Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA; The Contemporary, Baltimore, MD, USA
Home/Salon (Salon of the Present), The Institute of Contemporary Art, Clocktower Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Frankenstein, University Galleries, Illinois State University, Normal, IL, USA
1995
Altered and Irrational, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, USA
Intersections: The Personal and the Social in the Permanent Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA
The Figure / The Body: American Art 1945–1995, Armory, Philadelphia, PA, USA
The Outer Layer, New Jersey Center for the Visual Arts, Summit, NJ, USA
Women on the Verge (Fluxus and Not), Elga Wimmer, New York, NY, USA
Autour de Roger Vivier, Galerie Enrico Navarra, Paris, France
Fetishism: Visualising Power and Desire, South Bank Centre, London; Brighton Museum and Art Gallery, Brighton; Nottingham Castle Museum and Art Gallery, Nottingham; Sainsbury Centre for the Visual Arts, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK
Dialog Der Kulturen, Configura 2, Erfurt, Germany
The Muse? Transforming the Image of Women in Contemporary Art, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria; Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
Inside Out: Psychological Self-Portraiture, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT, USA
Foundations: Underwear/Under Where?, Rosemont College Art Gallery, Rosemont, PA, USA
Imperfect, Herter Art Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, PA; Tyler Art Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Object Lessons: Feminine Dialogue with the Surreal, Huntington Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA, USA
Robert Feintuch, John O'Reilly, Rona Pondick, Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, MA, USA
1994
Thirteenth Anuual Exhibition of Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC, USA
Puber Alles (Why Am I Who I Am?), Stedelijk Museum Bureau, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Object Bodies, Turman Gallery, Indiana State University, Terre Haute, IN, USA
Bad Girls, UCLA Wight Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
In the Lineage of Eva Hesse, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT, USA
1993
Normality as Art, Palazzo della Stelline, Milan, Italy
Über-Leben, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany
Legend in My Living Room, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA
Object Bodies, William Weston Clark Emison Art Center, DePauw University, Greencastle, IN, USA
Return of the Cadavre Exquis, Drawing Center, New York, NY, USA
Regarding Masculinity, Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA, USA
Venice Comes to the Hamptons, Art Finds: Marsha Fogel Gallery, East Hampton, NY, USA
I Love You More Than My Own Death: A Melodrama in Parts by Pedro Almodovar, Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
Yale Collects Yale, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT, USA
1920, Exit Art, New York, NY, USA
Korper I, Annette Messager, Giuseppe Penone, Rona Pondick, Wilfried Riess, Klaudia Schifferle, Anselm Stalder, Elisabeth Kaufman, Basel, Switzerland,
Fall From Fashion, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT, USA
I Am the Enunciator, Thread Waxing Space, New York, NY, USA
1992
Corporal Politics, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA, USA
Effected Desire, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Aesthetics and Violence, Spielholle, Frankfurt, Germany
Bedroom Eyes: Room With A View, Fullerton Art Gallery, California State University, Fullerton, CA, USA
The Edge of Childhood, Heckscher Museum, Huntington, NY, USA
Erotiques, AB Galerie, Paris, France
Mssr. B's Curio Shop, Thread Waxing Space, New York, NY, USA
Hands and Eyes (Modeled Sculpture), Barbara Toll Fine Arts, New York, NY, USA
The Whole Part: John Coplans, Rona Pondick, and John Wesley, fiction/nonfiction, New York, NY, USA
Psycho, Kunsthalle, New York, NY, USA
Power Play, Gallery of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
1991
1991 Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of Art, New York, NY, USA
Experiencing Sculpture: The Figurative Presence in America, 1870–1990, Hudson River Museum of American Art, Yonkers, NY, USA
Sense and Sensibility, Solo Press, New York, NY, USA
Plastic Fantastic Lover (Object A), Blum Helman Warehouse, New York, NY, USA
The Childhood Show, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA
Rope, Galería Fernando Alcolea, Barcelona, Spain
Forbidden Games, Jack Tilton Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Just what is it that makes today's homes so different, so appealing?, Hyde Collection, Glen Falls, NY, USA
1990
Vertigo II, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
Collaborations, Greenberg/Wilson Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Vertigo, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
The Home Show, Asher-Faure Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Diverse Representations, Morris Museum, Morristown, NJ, USA
Body, Once Removed, Emily Sorkin Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Detritus: Transformation and Construction, Jack Tilton Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Spellbound, Marc Richards Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Fragments, Parts, and Wholes: The Body and Culture, White Columns, New York, NY, USA
1989
Lines of Vision: Drawings By Contemporary Women, Hillwood Art Gallery, CW Post Campus, Long Island University, Brookville and BlumHelman Warehouse, New York, NY, USA
Summer Group Show, Asher/Faure Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Invitational with Gallery Artists, fiction/nonfiction, New York, NY, USA
Invitational, Doug Milford Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Erotophobia: A Forum in Contemporary Sexuality, Simon Watson Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Form and Fetish, Emily Sorkin Gallery, New York, NY, USA
On the Cutting Edge, Fine Arts Museum of Long Island, Hempstead, NY, USA
Towards Form, Greenberg/Wilson Gallery, New York, NY, USA
1988
Collaborations in Monontype: Garner Tullis Workshop, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, University of California at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA; Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, University of Texas, Austin, TX; Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, USA
Girls Night Out (Femininity as Masquerade), New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY, USA
Invitational, Simon Watson Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Sculpture 1988: A Salon of Small-Scale Work, White Columns, New York, NY, USA
New Artists/New Drawings, Lyman-Allyn Art Museum, New London, CT, USA
The Other New York: Sculpture by Maureen Connor, Rona Pondick, and Kate Ritson, Galerie Alfred Kren, Cologne, Germany
1987
Small Works, Sculpture Center, New York, NY, USA
Summer of 1987, Zabriskie, New York, NY, USA
Contemplating Things: A Sculpture Group Show in Two Parts: Part One: Polly, Apfelbaum, Jill Levine, and Rona Pondick, fiction/nonfiction, New York, NY, USA
Peter Flaccus, Helen Miranda Wilson, and Rona Pondick, Zabriskie, New York, NY, USA
The Level of Volume, Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, OH, USA
1986
Emerging Sculptors: 1986, Sculpture Center, New York, NY, USA
Invitational, Jack Tilton Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Transformations, Richard Green Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Invitational, John Davis Gallery, Akron, OH, USA
Sculptors' Drawings, Parsons School of Design, New York, NY, USA
1985
Mystery Show, Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ, USA
Friends of the Gallery, Rosa Esman Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Working with Wood, Lafayette College, Easton, PA, USA
1984
Exhibition One: Jill Levine, Marilyn Levin, Rona Pondick, Madeleine Carter Fine Arts, Brookline, MA, USA
Exceptional and New, Rosa Esman Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Bronze Sculpture, Prospect Park, Brooklyn, NY, USA
France
Centre Pompidou, Paris
Fondation pour l'art contemporain Claudine et Jean-Marc Salomon, Annecy
Germany
Ursula Blickle Stiftung, Kraichtal
Israel
Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv
Sweden
Rooseum, Malmö
USA
Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH
Art, Design & Architecture Museum, University of California at Santa Barbara, CA
Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois
Bates Museum of Art, Lewiston, ME
Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX
Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York, NY
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
DeCordova Sculpture Park + Museum, Lincoln, MA
Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, IN
Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, NY
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Morgan Library & Museum, New York, NY
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, TX
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO
New Orleans Museum of Art, Sculpture Garden, New Orleans, LA
New York Public Library, New York, NY
Norton Family Foundation, Santa Monica, CA
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME
Progressive Collection, Cleveland, OH
Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Savannah College of Art & Design, Savannah, GA
Simmons College, Boston, MA
Sinai Temple, Los Angeles, CA
Sonnabend Foundation Collection, New York, NY
Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH
United States Information Service, Washington, D.C.
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA
Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
2020
American Academy of Arts and Letters Purchase Award
2016
Anonymous Was A Woman Award
2000
Cultural Department of the City of Salzburg, Kunstlerhaus
1999
Bogliasco Foundation Fellowship
1996
Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship
1992
Guggenheim Fellowship
1991
Mid-Atlantic Arts Grant
1988
Art Matters Inc.
New York State Council on the Arts (for Beds installation)
Artists Space Grant
1985
Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation Grant
1977
Fannie B. Pardee Prize in Sculpture