Polly Apfelbaum, a New York-based artist, has been showing her artwork in New York City as well as abroad since her first solo show in New York in 1986. In the past five years, Apfelbaum had solo exhibitions in London, England; Santa Monica, CA; Richmond, VA; Vienna, Austria; New York, NY; St. Louis, MO; and Boston, MA. She has also been recently involved in several group exhibitions in New York, NY; Bombay, India; Buffalo, NY; Toronto, Canada; London, England; Pittsburgh, PA; Lodz, Poland; and Valencia, Spain. Her work is included in collections throughout the country. She has received several grants and awards from various institutions such as the Guggenheim Fellowship; an Academy Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Richard Diebenkorn Fellowship; a Joan Mitchell Fellowship; an Artist’s Fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts; an Anonymous Was a Women Award and a Pollack-Krasner Foundation Grant.