VIJA DOKS

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vijadoks@yahoo.com
www.vijadoks.com

One or Two-Person Exhibitions

2023 – “Ar’n’t I a Woman?” solo show, Guild Gallery II at Hudson Guild’s Fulton Center, NYC
            “Vai es neesmu sieviete?” solo show, Dzelzava Cultural Center, Dzelzava, Latvia
2022 - “About Women,” three-person show, Carter Burden Gallery, NYC
2021 - “On the Wall: Doggie Parade,” Carter Burden Gallery, NYC
2019 - "Animal Instincts," two-person show, Carter Burden Gallery, NYC.
2018 - "On the Wall," featured artist, Carter Burden Gallery, NYC.
2006-2007 - One Person Show, Brooklyn Parsonage Latvian Center, Brooklyn, N.Y.
2005 - One Person Show, private showing corresponding to Alyson Richman’s Swedish Tango book party,
            NYC.

Selective Group Exhibitions

2024 – “Resolutions,” Carter Burden Gallery, NYC.
2023 – “The Portrait Show,” icebox4, Brooklyn, N.Y.
            "Small Works Show,” Carter Burden Gallery, NYC.
            “Hudson Guild Gallery 75th Anniversary Show,” Hudson Guild, NYC
            “Second Act,” Hudson Guild, NYC
2022 - "Small Works Show,” Carter Burden Gallery, NYC.
           "JAM," Hudson Guild, NYC.
2021 - “Rewriting Herstory,” Drawing Rooms, Jersey City, NJ [online exhibit]
2020 - “Artists Choice,” Carter Burden Gallery, NYC
           “Consolations III,” Carter Burden Gallery, NYC [online exhibit]
           “The Big Show: All Animals Welcome,” Drawing Rooms, Jersey City, NJ
           “Postcard Show,” Printed Matter, St. Mark’s Place Window Display, NYC2019 - " Carrying Light," XV Latvian             Song & Dance Festival Art Exh., Toronto, Canada
            "Somewhere We Landed," Drawing Rooms, Jersey City, NJ
            "Transgression," Hudson Guild, NYC
            "Small Works Show," Carter Burden Gallery, NYC.
2019 - “Carrying Light,” XV Latvian Song and Dance Festival, Toronto, Canada
            “Somewhere We Landed,” Drawing Rooms, Jersey City NJ
            “Transgression,” Hudson Guild, NYC
2018 -"On the Wall," featured artist, Carter Burden Gallery, NYC.
            "Small Works Show," Carter Burden Gallery, NYC.
            "JAM," Hudson Guild, NYC.
2017 - "Me, My Selfie and I," Rick Krieger & Jim Furlong, curators, Hudson Guild, NYC.
            "Et Tu, Art Brute?" Andrew Edlin Gallery, NYC.
            "Call for Action," Kustera Projects, Brooklyn, N.Y.
2016 - "The Somewhere Project," exhibit, Jim Furlong, curator, Hudson Guild, NYC.
2015 - "Wish You Were Here", A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY.
2014 - Supreme Court Judges Portraits, LLAGNY Conference 1-14-2014 NYU, NYC. "Art Amnesty: Bob and              Roberta Smith," PS1, NYC.
2013 - "5D" Fashion Moda, Stephen Eins, curator, Peekskill, NY.
2011 - “6x6x2011,” Rochester Contemporary Art Center, Rochester, N.Y.
2010 - CurateNYC, juried exhibit, Rush Gallery & other NYC venues, NYC.
2008 – “It’s Not Easy” curated by Social Environmental Aesthetics, Exit Art, NYC.
2008 – Thirty-First Small Works Show – Richard Witter of OK Harris, Juror, 80Washington Sq. East Galleries,
            NYC.
2007 - Salon Show, About Glamour, Brooklyn, N.Y.
2003 – Douglas Dibble Invitational Auction, Hunter College, NYC. 2002 - Group Show, Hudson Guild Gallery, NYC. 2001 – “Counting Coup : Artists Revisit Florida,” Stephan Eins, curator, Theater for the New City, NYC. 2000-2001-              “Many Colored Artworks,” Queens Museum of Art, Queens, N.Y.
2000- “Impressions/Expressions,” WSAC Juried Show, Cork Gallery at Lincoln Center, NYC.
1999- Twenty-Second Small Works Show- Ronald Feldman, Juror, 80 Washington Sq. East Galleries, NYC.
1994 – “Post-Modern Botanicals,” 808 Penn Modern, Pittsburgh, PA.
1993 - Group Show, l’Escola Massana, Barcelona, Spain.

Education

· School of Visual Arts, NYC. Studied painting under Georgia Marsh, Nancy Chunn and Judith Linhares.
· Columbia University, MS in Library Service with Honors, NYC.
· Western Michigan University, BA. Graduated Magna Cum Laude, English major.

Work Experience

2005- 2016 - Reference Librarian, Baker & McKenzie, NYC
1988-2005  - Head of Reference, Coudert Brothers, NYC.
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Artist’s Collaborations, Writings and other exposure

Cover art, “Digging a Moose from the Snow,” by Skaidrite Stelzer, Finishing Line Press, 2021
Artwork in “Literary Veganism: An Online Journal,”January 2021
Portraits of Tennessee women in collaboration with singer, songwriter Candace Corrigan, 2018.
"Cartoon" Law Lines, Oct 28, 2015, http://www.llagny.org/lawlines
"Of Research" Law Lines, Oct 29, 2014, http://www.llagny.org/lawlines
"Interview with Vija Doks" with Rachael Moller, 35 Law Lines 21, Spring 2012.
"Red Ibis" painting included in "The Oranges," dir. Julian Farino, 2012.
Letts Eat: A Latvian Cartoon Cookbook, assisted by Sadira Stelzer. New York, 1995.
“There and Back Again.” Fiction Forum 5 (Summer 1993): 14.
“Untitled.” Paragraph VI (Winter/Spring 1992): 15.

Other

Born in Bad Reichenhalle, Germany of Latvian parents. Raised in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Lives in NYC.