CAROLE FEUERMAN

ARTIST BIO & STATEMENT

Carole Feuerman, born in 1945 in Hartford, Connecticut, is an acclaimed American hyper-realist sculptor celebrated for her lifelike figurative works depicting swimmers and dancers. Renowned as the only woman sculpting in this superrealist style, Feuerman creates both indoor and outdoor pieces using bronze, resin, and marble, often focusing on water-themed painted bronze sculptures. Residing in New York and Florida, she operates studios in Manhattan and Jersey City and founded the Carole A. Feuerman Sculpture Foundation in 2011 to promote the arts.

With a career spanning over four decades, Feuerman has earned global recognition through six museum retrospectives and exhibitions at prestigious venues such as the Venice Biennale, the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, The State Hermitage, The Palazzo Strozzi Foundation, The Kunstmuseum Ahlen, and the Circulo de Bellas Artes. Her numerous accolades include the Amelia Peabody Award, the Betty Parsons Award, the Lorenzo de Medici Prize, first prizes at the Austrian and Florence Biennales, Best in Show at the 2008 Beijing Biennale, and the 2013 Save the Arts Museum’s Choice Award for Sculpture.

Feuerman's sculptures have been publicly displayed as part of the Venice Bienneale, Paris Olympics, POPA at Park Avenue, NYC; Southstreet Seaport, NYC, Cloister Foundation, Naples, Italy; Saint Tropez, Medici Museum of Art and are featured in prominent collections worldwide, including Grounds for Sculpture, the El Paso Museum of Art, the Boca Raton Museum of Art, the Bass Museum, Art-st-Urban, the Forbes Magazine Collection, the Caldic Collection, and the Credit Suisse Collection. Her contributions to the art world are chronicled in two full-color monographs published by Hudson Hills Press, a third by The Artist Book Foundation in 2014, and La Scultura Incontra la Realtà by Gabriele Caioni, available in both English and Italian. Additionally, her iconic sculpture Grande Catalina is featured in A History of Western Art by Antony Mason and John T. Spike, a widely translated work published by Abrams Books.

Frozen in time, Feuerman’s sculptures of women stand as powerful icons, reflecting both the artist’s identity and the universal feminine spirit. As a female artist, she explores the challenges of navigating life and the art world, expressing struggles and triumphs through her work. Her resin figures, adorned with water droplets frozen mid-motion and soft eyelashes poised in thought, embody the courage and fear that shape human experience. During a period of emotional struggle, Feuerman found inspiration in a swimmer emerging confidently from the water, igniting her desire to portray not only strength and resilience but also her own journey of self-discovery. Her life-size sculptures resonate deeply, portraying themes of perseverance, balance, and triumph. Feuerman’s ability to capture these moments of vulnerability and resolve lends her work a timeless, universal appeal.