EDUCATION
- Rhode Island School of Design, M.F.A. in Sculpture
- Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Graduate Studies
- University of Wisconsin-Madison, B.S. in Art
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
- 2006
- University Art Gallery, "Ad Hunc Locum", California State University, Chico, CA
- 2006
- Stephen Wirtz Gallery, "However Often: Drawings" San Francisco, CA
- 2005
- Stephen Wirtz Gallery, "BookWORKS", San Francisco, CA
- Stephen Wirtz Gallery, "At This Place", San Francisco, CA
- 2003
- Stephen Wirtz Gallery, "Things Go Round", San Francisco, CA
- Littlejohn Contemporary, "Ignotum per Ignotius" new work , New York, NY
- 2000
- Stephen Wirtz Gallery, "White Elephant", San Francisco, CA
- 1998
- Stephen Wirtz Gallery, "untidy", San Francisco, CA
- California Museum of Art, "Diction", Santa Rosa, CA
- 1996
- Stephen Wirtz Gallery, "Plaything", San Francisco, CA
- 1995
- Littlejohn/Sternau Gallery, "Lucy Puls Recent Work", New York, NY
- 1994
- Stephen Wirtz Gallery, "Recent Work", San Francisco, CA
- 1993
- Stephen Wirtz Gallery, "More Edidici (To Learn By Heart)", San Francisco, CA
- 1991
- Stephen Wirtz Gallery, "Edidici (To Learn By Heart)", San Francisco, CA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
- 2008
- UPCOMING Aspen Art Museum, "Anderson Ranch at the Aspen Art Museum", Aspen, CO
- Block Gallery, "Judy", Sacramento, CA, www.blockdowtown.com
- Block Gallery, "Mark", Sacramento , CA, www.blockdowtown.com
- 2007
- The Jewish Museum, "Repairing the World: Contemporary Ritual Art", New York, NY
- 2006
- "What Comes Around", Arts Benicia Gallery, Benicia, CA
- Pence Gallery, "Local Delivery", Davis, CA
- Intersection for the Arts, "Terror?", San Francisco, CA
- Nelson Art Gallery, "Flatlanders", UC-Davis, Davis, CA
- Parallel Projects@NYDC, "Chapter Two: a show of objects", New York, NY
- Bedford Gallery, "See Jane Run", Walnut Creek, CA
- Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery, "Image as Object", Porter College, UCSC, Santa Cruz, CA
- 2005
- University Library Art Gallery, "Worth a Thousand Words: The Book as Image", Sonoma State University, Sonoma, CA
- Stephen Wirtz Gallery "Rrose Selavy", San Francisco
- The Contempoary Jewish Museum, "Scents of Purpose: Artist Interpret the Spice Box", San Francisco, CA
- John Natsoulas Gallery, "Western Biennale of Fine Art", Davis, CA
- 2004
- Signal66, "BARELY LEGAL: Danger", Washington DC
- Diablo Valley College Art Gallery, "Politics", Pleasant Hill, CA
- Stephen Wirtz Gallery, "What's Doin'" San Francisco, CA
- University Art Gallery, "Danger", California State University, Chico CA
- Littlejohn Contemporary, "Rotating Summer Exhibition", New York, NY
- Off the Preserve, di Rosa Preserve annex space, "Danger", Napa, CA
- Pasadena Museum of California "the not-so still life: A Century of California Painting and Sculpture", Pasadena, CA
- 2003
- Ulrich Museum of Art, "Not So Cute and Cuddly: Dolls and Stuffed Toys in Contempory Art", Wichita, Kansas
- Kirkland Art Center, "Well Heeled: Artists Who Use Shoes As A Muse", Kirkland, WA
- Littlejohn Contemporary, "Summer Group Show", New York, NY
- Delta Center for the Arts, "Danger", San Joaquin Delta College, Stockton, CA
- 2002
- Bedford Gallery, "Shikishi: Gifts of Art for the New Year", Walnut Creek, CA
- Woods-Gerry Gallery, "First Triennial Sculpture Exhibition", Providence, RI
- San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, "Portrait Obscured", San Jose, CA
- Oakland Art Gallery, "Visual Alchemy 1: Laurie Reid, Lucy Puls, Alan Rath, and Mari Andrews" Oakland, CA
- 2000
- San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, "The Darker Side of Playland: Childhood Imagery from the Logan Collection"
- San Francisco Camerawork, "Timekeepers", San Francisco, CA
- San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, "This is Not a Book", San Jose, CA
- 1999
- Frederieke Taylor/ TZí Art, "Shoes, Shoes, Shoes", New York, NY
- Refusalon, "Domesticated", San Francisco, CA
- Walter Phillips Gallery, "The Peoples Plastic Princess", Banff Centre for the Arts, Alberta Canada
- Louis Stern Fine Art, "The Child Within: Innocence and Anxiety in Contemporary Art", Los Angeles, CA
- Graystone Gallery, "From Head to Toe", San Francisco, CA
- Museum of Art and History, "Altered: The Animal in Contemporary Art", Santa Cruz, CA
- 1998
- B and D Contemporanea, "Alter Status", Milan, Italy
- RARE, "California Current", New York, NY
- 1996/7
- Monique Knowlton Gallery, "The Importance of Toys", New York, NY
- 1996
- Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, "Acquiring Minds: Contemporary Art in SantaBarbara", Santa Barbara, CA
- 1995
- Corcoran Gallery of Art, "The Persuasiveness of Memory", Washington, D.C.
- Sherry Frumkin Gallery, "The Whole is Greater then the Sum of it's Parts: The Art of Repetition", Santa Monica, CA
- Nora Haime Gallery, "Wax", New York, NY
- 1994
- Sculpture Center, "Small Works", New York, NY
- California Center for the Arts Museum, "Wildlife", Escondido, CA
- Stephen Wirtz Gallery, "Summer Sculpture Exhibition", San Francisco, CA
- UCLA Wight Art Gallery, "Bad Girls West", Los Angeles, CA
- American Academy of Arts and Letters, "American Academy Invitational Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture", New York, NY
- 1993
- San Jose ICA, "Beyond the Written Word", San Jose, CA
- Mark Moore Gallery, "Kink", Santa Monica, CA
- Diverse Works, "Without", Houston, TX
- Palo Alto Cultural Center, "The Portrait As Shoe", Palo Alto, CA
- Ohlone College Art Gallery, "Go Figure", Fremont, CA
- 1992
- The Lab, "Without", San Francisco, CA
- Shea and Bornstein, "Voices", Santa Monica, CA
- Sculpture Center, "The Wall Project", New York, NY
- Oakland Museum, "Images Transformed", Oakland, CA
- 1991
- Transamerica Building Gallery, "Diverse Directions: Deborah Butterfield, Viola Frey,Mildred Howard, Hung Lui,
- Lucy Puls, Judith Shea", San Francisco, CA
- Falkirk Cultural Center, "Lingua Franca", San Rafael, CA
- 1990
- Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery, Hunter College, "Formulation and Representation: Recent Abstract Sculpture", New York, NY
- 1989
- E.M. Donahue Gallery, "Summer '89", New York, NY
- Ruggierio Henis Gallery, "Mixed Messages", New York, NY
- 1988
- Sculpture Center, "Emerging Sculptors", New York, NY
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
- Tim Foster, "Not Only, But Also: Lucy Puls in Sacramento", Midtown Monthly, pages 16-17, April 2008
- Susan Wooldridge, "Lucy Puls at CSU Chico" Artweek, page 14, Volume 39, Issue 1 February 2008
- Kenneth Baker, "Puls and Anderson at Wirtz", San Francisco Chronicle, Page E10, November 18, 2006
- Morris, "Image as Object at Mary Porter Sesnon Gallery", Artweek, pages 14-15, Volume 37, Issue 4, May 2006
- Glen Helfan, "Lucy Puls". Artforum, XLIII, No. 10, Pages 330-331, Summer 2005
- Laura Janku, "Lucy Puls", Sculpture, pages 73-74, January/February 2004, Vol.23, Number1
- Ulrich Museum of Art, "Not So Cute and Cuddly: Dolls and Stuffed Toys in Contempoary Art", ISBN 1-887883-5 pages 80-83
- Landauer, Gerdts, Trenton, "the not so still life: a century of California Painting and Sculpture", University of California Press, 2003, San Jose Museum of Art, ISBN 0-520-23937-7
- Harry Roche, "Lucy Puls at Stephen Wirtz Gallery", Artweek, pages 14-15, Volume 34, Issue 6, July/August 2003
- Glen Helfan, "Lucy Puls". Artforum Online, Critics Picks, May 16, 2003
- Jesse Hamlin, "Old Record Albums Echo in Puls' Work", San Francisco Chronicle, Pages D1 and D17, May 9, 2003
- Mark Johnstone and Leslie Abound Holzman, Epicenter: San Francisco Bay Area Art Now, Chronicle Books, 2002, ISBN 0-8118-3541-3
- Berin Golonu, At The Galleries: "Lucy Puls", Flash Art, page 48, Volume XXXIII, Number 213, Summer 2000
- Amanda Jones, "Block Party", Surface, Chaos Theory Issue, 2000, Number 24, Page 42
- Sarah Coleman, "Timekeepers at SF Camerawork", Artweek,pages 14-15, Volume 21,Issue 7/8, July/August 2000
- Kenneth Baker, "Lucy Puls 'White Elephant' ", San Francisco Chronicle, page b1, February 26, 2000
- David Hunt, "Lucy Puls, Stephen Wirtz Gallery", Sculpture, pages 58-59, October 1998
- Kenneth Baker, "Lucy Puls 'untidy' Show Has Some Neat Meanings", San Francisco Chronicle, page C1 3 26, 1998
- Paul Richard, "Retrieved 'Memory' ", The Washington Post, May 21, 1995
- Joanna Shaw-Eagle, "Finding Their Own Way From Path of Master", The Washington Times, 1995
- Paul Richard, "Retrieved 'Memory' ", The Washington Post, May 21, 1995
- Jamie Brunson, "Lucy Puls at Stephen Wirtz", Art Issues, P.34, Jan-Feb 1995
- Jeff Kelly, "Memory Improper", Lucy Puls exhibition catalogue, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, 1995
- Marcia Tanner, "Rapere Flanneum (Taking the Veil)", Lucy Puls exhibition catalogue, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, 1995
- Alfred Jan, "Artist Lucy Puls Topples Barbie", ArtistWriter, Volume 3.10, November, 1994
- M.A. Greenstein, "Our Baddies, Our Selves", Visions, page, 14-17, Fall 1994
- Kenneth Baker, "Sculptor Puls Builds Blocks of Memory", San Francisco Chronicle, page E1, October 22, 1994
- Robert L. Pincus, "Art Center Show a Wild Look at Animals", San Diego Union Tribune, October 2, 1994
- Katina Huston, "Things Being What They Are", Visions, Spring 1994
- Leslie Green, "Lucy Puls Sculpts Truth", Surreal Underground Entertainment, page 6, Fall 1993
- Kenneth Baker, "New Bay Area Art Belies Instability", San Francisco Chronicle, page 39, March 14, 1993
- Kenneth Baker, Art Defies Show's Limiting Title", San Francisco Chronicle, page C5, May 9, 1992
- David Bonetti, "Conceptual Art By The Book", San Francisco Examiner, April 24, 1992
- David Bonetti, "From Flower Power to Chain of Events", San Francisco Examiner, page B-5, October 29, 1991
- Kenneth Baker, "Puls and Smith at Stephen Wirtz", San Francisco Chronicle, page E-4, October 23, 1991
- Kenneth Baker, "A Proper Women's Show at Transamerica", San Francisco Chronicle, page C-6, May 11, 1991
- Frank Cebulski, "Old and Whispered Secrets", Artweek, April 18, 1991
- Mark Levy, "Freezing Freud and Other Nasty Games", Art International, Winter 1991
- Victoria Dalkey, "The Sound of Distant Echos", Sacramento Bee, Encore Magazine, Dec. 22,1990
- Mark Levy, "Lucy Puls", Artspace, vol. 4, no. 6, September/October 1990
- Kenneth Baker, "New Wirtz Space", San Francisco Chronicle, March 22, 1990
- Michael Brenson, "Four Sculptors", New York Times, January 6, 1989
- Dorothy Burkhart, "Triton's Show Sparkles", San Jose Mercury News, October 14, 1988
- Kenneth Baker, "Lucy in the Studio with Fiberglass", San Francisco Chronicle, July 17, 1988