Ellen Wiener

Ellen Wiener is a visual artist whose prints, paintings and books revolve around themes concerning landscape, reading, myth and the natural sciences.

She has shown and or spoken about her work in such disparate places as The International Medieval Conference, The National Academy of Design, The New York Botanical Gardens, Physics Magazine, the American Antiquarian Society, The Center for Book Arts NYC, The Princeton Theological Seminary, PS 1, and The International Joint Mathematics Conference besides participating in over 100 exhibitions at libraries, museums and galleries in the US and Europe.

She is a MacDowell fellow, and her work has been reviewed in The Brooklyn Rail, The NY Times, Philadelphia Inquirer, Art Forum, Art in America, and The Washington Post.

Her work is in public collections at The Smithsonian/Cooper-Hewitt Museum, The Stats Bibliothek Berlin, Yale University, The Hood Museum, Smith College Art Museum, The Parrish Museum, Albright-Knox, and is featured in many rare book collections.

Faculty positions include Stony Brook, Suffolk Community College, Princeton, Dartmouth, CUNY, UNM, LSU and the Sarah Lawrence Writers Institute.

She has been educated at The Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew London, New York Botanical Gardens, The Rare Book School at The Morgan Library, CUNY Queens, Bennington College.

Ellen and her family have lived on the North Fork since 1989.