Arlene Shechet

In 2023, Shechet was elected as a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. This follows many other awards and honors including the Artist Fellowship Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts (1987); the Visual Artist Fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, New York (2004); and the Painters and Sculptors Grant from the Joan Mitchell Foundation, New York (2010), and the CAA Artist Award for Distinguished Body of Work, National Academy Induction, College Art Association (2016), among others. Shechet’s work is held in over fifty public collections worldwide, including The Centre Pompidou, Paris; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California; Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, D.C.; Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, Texas; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota; and Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. She currently lives and works in New York City and The Hudson Valley.