Background

Sylvie G. Covey was born in France and studied graphic arts at the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Arts Decoratifs in Paris (1973-1976). While traveling around the world, she studied art in Indonesia and Japan, and moved to New York City in late 1977. She became a US citizen in 1989. She printed at the Art Students League, where she was a teaching assistant in printmaking for seven years. (1977-1984).

She also printed on and off at the Blackburn Printmaking Workshop for over ten years.

In the United States, she has earned a BA from SUNY Empire State College (1993) and a MFA in Graphics Summa cum Laude from CUNY Hunter College, New York, (1996).

Work Experience

Since 1980, Sylvie G. Covey is the proprietor of printmaking studio located in midtown, Manhattan, where she pursues her work in all media, and currently concentrates on combining digital and photographic techniques with printmaking.

She has taught printmaking at the Art Students league of New York since 1995 and at the Art Center of Northern New Jersey since 1998. She was a Master printer at Hunter College (1994-1997) where she taught photo etching and experiments in Graphics. She also taught printmaking at Manhattan Graphics Center and at the Newark Museum. She now teaches digital and photo techniques in Printmaking for the BFA Program at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York since 2000.

Exhibitions

Her work is exhibited in numerous galleries and museums in the United States and abroad. She had solo exhibitions at the Maison Francaise of Columbia University (1987-1992), and at chashama Gallery in Times Square, NYC (2003.) In 1999 and 2001 she had solo exhibitions at Denise Cade Gallery in Manhattan. Her work is included in all the faculty exhibitions where she teaches. In Europe she exhibited also at Katia Granoff Gallery in Paris, France (1975), the Salon d'Automne du Grand Palais in Paris, France (1988), the Museum of Modern Art in Ljubjana, Slovenia (1987-1991), the Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow, Poland (1997-2000, 2001, 2003), the City Art Gallery in Czestochowa in Poland (1997, 2003), the Graphic Constellation '97 in Graz, Austria, the Consumentar '98 and 2001 in Nuremberg, Germany, and the Black print Studio in Dublin, Ireland (2004) among others. In South America her prints were exhibited in 1999 at the Museo d'Arte Moderna in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and in Asia at the Ino-cho Paper Museum in Kochi, Japan and at the Museum of Sapporo, Japan. (1999-2000). In the US her work was included in the Museum of the City of New York (2002).

Collections, grants