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Works by artist Leni Paquet Morante
Leni Morante, Art, Paintings
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LÉNI PAQUET-MORANTE (1962)

BFA Mason Gross School of Art, Rutgers University
Member, National Association of Women Artists
Listed, Women Artists of America National Directory

SOLO EXHIBITS
2024 Kaufman Arcade/Garment District Alliance, New York, NY.
2021/22 Yellow Barn Gallery, Glen Echo, Maryland.
2021 Mercer County Community College; Trenton, NJ
2019 Johnson & Johnson, New Jersey Artists Series, New Brunswick, NJ. “Shallows”
2017 Center for Gender and Sexuality Studies, Princeton, NJ “Atmosphere, Place and Time”
1998 Johnson & Johnson, New Jersey Artists Series, New Brunswick, NJ. “Drawings”
1997 Passaic County Community College, Paterson, NJ
1995 Program in Women’s Studies Gallery, Princeton Univ., NJ “Oasis Series”
1992 Rutgers University, South A&B Gallery, “Sculpture and Drawings” (post-graduation)

AWARDS
2023 Merit Award, NAWA 134th Annual Members Show, NY, NY
2022 Miriam Russo Enders Award, NAWA 133rd Annual Members Show, NY, NY
2022 First Place, Island Life Plein-Air Exhibition, Long Beach Island Foundation, NJ
2020 Best Abstract Painting, Phillips Mill 91st Annual Art Show, New Hope, PA
2016 Purchase Award, “Mercer Artists”, MCCC, Trenton, NJ
1996 Juror’s Merit Award, “Mercer Artists”, MCCC, Trenton, NJ

GRANTS/RESIDENCIES
2024 Vermont Studio Center, Painting
2024 New Jersey State Council on the Arts Grant, Painting
2023 Peters Valley Craft Center, NJSCA Residency Grant – Printmaking
2019 Diderot Grant/Artist Residency, Chateau d’Orquevaux, France
2017 Artist Residency, Lacawac Field Sanctuary; Lake Ariel, PA
1986 Maryland State Arts Council, Artist-in-Education at Walt Whitman High School, MD
1985 Johnson Incentive Grant, NJ
1984 Johnson Foundation Grant, NJ

COMMISSIONS
2005 “Odalisque III” cast bronze, 11” H x 15.5” D, for Intech Corp, Princeton, NJ
1994 “Odalisque II” 25” H x 32” D bronze, for Mr. Seward Johnson, Jr., Key West, FL
1986 Untitled 4’x9’x18” cast bronze for WWHS Parents for Excellence in the Visual Arts, MD

SELECT COLLECTIONS
Schloss Ippenburg, Germany
Bristol-Myers Squibb, Princeton, NJ
Johnson & Johnson Corporate HQ, New Brunswick, NJ
Janssen Pharmaceutica, Hopewell, NJ
Intech Corp, Princeton, NJ
C-Tech Corp, Princeton, NJ
MMS Education, Langhorne, PA
Mercer County Cultural & Heritage Commission, Trenton, NJ

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITS
2023 Drawing Rooms, Jersey City, NJ; Big Small Drawing Show (juried)
2023 Trenton Public Library, Trenton, NJ; Patterns and Rhythms (invitational)
2023 Long Beach Island Foundation, Loveladies, NJ; Water Stories (juried)
2023 One Art Space Gallery, Tribeca, NY; NAWA 134th Annual (Award)
2023 NAWA “From Landscapes to Mindscapes” (juried, online)
2023 NJ Arts Annual, Noyes Museum at Stockton University, Hammonton, NJ. (Sticks and Stones)
2023 NAWA 134rd Annual Members Show At One Art Space, (Tribeca) NY, NY (Award)
2023 Philadelphia Sketch Club, Philadelphia, PA. “Domic DiStefano Memorial Works on Paper Exhibition”.
2022 NAWA 133rd Annual Members Show At One Art Space, (Tribeca) NY, NY (Award)
2022 NJ Arts Annual, NJ State Museum, Trenton, NJ – one year exhibition (Composed Shallow)
2022 Johnson Education Center @ D&R Greenway, Princeton, NJ. “Space to Dream: Nature and Creative Freedom”
2021 Taplin Gallery at Arts Council of Princeton; Princeton, NJ. (Two Person)
2020 Phillips Mill Art Center, PA. “91st Juried Art Show”.
2019 Van Der Plas Gallery, NYC. “Red White Blue”
2018 International Sculpture Center, Hamilton, New Jersey. ISDAY, MEB Open Studios.
2017 Hopewell Winery, “Summer Threads” (invitational)
2017 Ellarslie Open 34, Trenton City Museum, Trenton NJ (juried)
2016-17 Edison Price Lighting Gallery, “Refractions”, Queens, NY (juried)
2016 Tulpehaking Nature Center “Rooted” (juried)
2016 Philadelphia Sketch Club, “153rd Annual Exhibition of Small Oil Paintings” (juried)
2011-18 Art All Night, including 2012 “Artworks Select”
2013 MCCC, “Mercer Artists 2013” (juried)
2012 Artworks, Trenton. Artworks Select (juried)
2005 Arts Council of Princeton “Animagerie” (two-person show) (invitational)
2003 Trenton City Museum “Ellarslie Open” (juried)
2001 Trenton City Museum “Johnson Atelier Open”
1996 Passaic County Community College “Context” (invitational)
1995 Seton Hall University School of Law, Newark, NJ “Alternate Visions”
1995 The Williams Gallery, Princeton, NJ “Summer Salon Show”
1994 City Without Walls, Newark, NJ “19th Members Exhibition”
1994 Johnson Atelier, Mercerville, NJ “Alumni Invitational”
1994 Program in Women’s Studies, Princeton Univ. “Women Artists” (invitational)
1993 W. Wilson School, Princeton Univ/YWCA “A Celebration of Art: Women Artists Part II” (invitational)
1992 W. Wilson School, Princeton Univ/YWCA “A Celebration of Art: Women Artists Part I” (invitational)
1992 B&S Gallery, Williamsport, PA “Four Sculptors” (invitational)
1992 Angel Fire Gallery, Rochester, NY “Salon Show”
1991 Johnson Atelier, Mercerville, NJ “.: Drawings & Sculpture”
1991 Mason Gross School of the Arts “BFA Thesis Exhibition”
1990 Gallery 204, New Brunswick, NJ
1989 Artworks, Trenton, NJ. (juried members show)
1989 Walters Gallery, New Brunswick, NJ
1988 Mercer County Community College, Trenton, NJ
1987 Johnson Atelier, Mercerville, NJ “Charles Flickinger, G. Frederick Morante, Léni Paquet-Morante: Sculpture”
1986 Williams Collection, Princeton, NJ
1985 Johnson Atelier, Mercerville, NJ “John Boyce and Léni Paquet”
1985 21 Bond Gallery, NY, NY, “3-D”
1985 Trenton Arts Commission, Trenton, NJ