Born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1952, Pondick studied at Queens College (B.A. 1974) and at Yale University School of Art (M.F.A. 1977). Pondick’s work has been the subject of exhibitions at the Galleria d’Arte Moderna Bologna, Italy; Groninger Museum, Groningen, Netherlands; Rupertinum Museum für moderne und zeitgenössische Kunst, Salbzburg, Austria; Cleveland Art Museum; Cincinnati Art Museum; Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts; DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, Massachusetts; Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan; and the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, among others. Her sculptures have been included in numerous biennales worldwide, including the Whitney Biennial, Lyon Biennale, Johannesburg Biennale, Sonsbeek, and Venice Biennale. Pondick has participated in group exhibitions at museums internationally including the Mori Art Museum, Tokyo; Peggy Guggenheim Foundation, Venice; Museo de Arte Contemporânea de Serralves, Porto, Portugal; Ca’Pesaro, Galleria Internazionale d’Arte Moderna, Venice; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille, France; Pera Museum, Istanbul; MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts; and the Philadelphia Museum among many others.
Pondick has been the recipient of a number of awards, grants, and fellowships from the Guggenheim, Rockefeller, Bogliasco, Ludwig Vogelstein, and Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundations, the Cultural Department of the city of Salzburg, Art Matters, and New York State Council on the Arts.
Her work is in the collection of many prominent public collections internationally, including the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Brooklyn Museum of Art; Philadelphia Museum of Art; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas; San Francisco Museum of Art; New Orleans Museum of Art (Sculpture Garden); The Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansas City; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; Centre Pompidou, Paris, and Israel Museum, Jerusalem. Pondick lives and works in New York.
Image: Fox; Stainless Steel. | Edition of 6 + 1 AP; 14 ½ x 8 x 38 inches; Courtesy Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, London/Paris/Salzburg; Sonnabend Gallery, New York; Zevitas/Marcus Gallery, Los Angeles; and the artist; 1998-99