Ellen Driscoll

Ellen Driscoll’s work encompasses sculpture, drawing, and public art. Recent public installations include CartOURgraphy for Middle College High School, Night to Day at the International High School in Queens, Here and Away at the Sarasota National Cemetery, and Bower with Joyce Hwang and Matt Hume at Artpark, which was commissioned by Mary Miss’s City as Living Laboratory. Her work has also exhibited in museums and galleries, including Whitney Museum at Phillip Morris (NY), Museo di Storia Naturale dell’ Accademia dei Fisiocritici (Italy), Lesley Heller Gallery (NY), Smack Mellon (NY), Green Street Gallery (MA), Art 101 (NY), University of Michigan Museum of Art, and New Langton Arts (CA), among others. Driscoll’s awards include fellowships from Guggenheim Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, Bunting Institute, New York Foundation for the Arts, Massachusetts Council on the Arts, LEF Foundation, Rhode Island Foundation, Anonymous Was a Woman, and a Fine Arts Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Her work is in major collections, including Metropolitan Museum of Art (NY), Detroit Institute of Art, Hood Museum of Art (MA), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Whitney Museum of Art (NY), among others. Driscoll received an MA in fine arts from Wesleyan University and an MFA in sculpture from Columbia University. She is currently a visiting professor of sculpture at Bard College and was awarded the Outstanding Educator of the Year award for 2018 from International Sculpture Center.