Biography
Carole A. Feuerman is internationally recognized as a pioneer of contemporary superrealist sculpture. For more than fifty years, her figurative sculpture has explored resilience, beauty, strength, and the human condition.
Known for her iconic swimmers, divers, and monumental public artworks, Feuerman captures moments of stillness that reveal both physical presence and emotional depth. Her sculptures have been exhibited in museums, cultural institutions, and public spaces throughout Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and the Americas, including major presentations in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Rome, Paris, and Baku.
A recipient of the International Sculpture Center’s Lifetime Achievement Award, Feuerman’s work is held in numerous public and private collections worldwide. Beyond her artistic practice, she founded the Feuerman Sculpture Foundation, which supports emerging artists through education, exhibitions, and professional development.
She lives and works in New York.
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Carole A. Feuerman is one of the most celebrated and influential figures in contemporary superrealist sculpture. Over a career spanning more than five decades, she has built an international reputation for creating works that combine technical mastery with profound emotional and psychological resonance. Her sculptures transcend realism, using the human figure to explore themes of resilience, balance, transformation, and the enduring strength of the human spirit.
Born in Hartford, Connecticut, and raised in New York, Feuerman studied at the School of Visual Arts, Temple University, and Hofstra University. Before dedicating herself fully to sculpture, she worked as an illustrator and designer, creating artwork for major publications, television networks, musicians, and cultural institutions. Her early experience in drawing and design laid the foundation for the meticulous craftsmanship that would later define her sculptural practice.
Feuerman first gained international recognition through her groundbreaking figurative sculptures, particularly her celebrated swimmers and bathers. These works, characterized by extraordinary detail and emotional subtlety, transformed the language of contemporary realism and established her as a leading voice in figurative art. Rather than depicting idealized beauty alone, her sculptures investigate moments of introspection, vulnerability, perseverance, and renewal.
Throughout her career, Feuerman has continually expanded the possibilities of sculpture through innovation in materials, scale, and presentation. Working in bronze, resin, stainless steel, cast marble, and other media, she creates works ranging from intimate studies to monumental public installations. Her recent Tattooed Mythologies series merges classical mythology with contemporary storytelling, further extending her exploration of identity, symbolism, and human experience.
Her work has been exhibited extensively around the world, including major exhibitions at the Heydar Aliyev Center in Baku, Palazzo Bonaparte in Rome, the Medici Museum of Art, and numerous museums, galleries, and public spaces across Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and the Americas. Her monumental sculptures have appeared in prominent public art exhibitions and installations, including New York’s Park Avenue, the Seaport District, Michigan Avenue in Chicago, Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills, the ParisOlympic Games, Venice, Naples, and other international cultural destinations.
Feuerman’s sculptures are represented in significant public and private collections worldwide. Her contributions to contemporary art have been recognized through numerous awards and honors, including the International Sculpture Center’s Lifetime Achievement Award, one of the field’s highest distinctions.
Beyond her artistic achievements, Feuerman is a dedicated advocate for the arts. In 2011, she founded the Feuerman Sculpture Foundation, a nonprofit organization committed to supporting emerging and underrepresented artists through exhibitions, residencies, educational initiatives, internships, and research grants.
Today, Carole A. Feuerman continues to create ambitious new work while expanding the role of sculpture in public life. Through her commitment to artistic excellence, innovation, and human connection, she has established a lasting legacy as one of the defining sculptors of her generation.
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Temple University, Hofstra University, and the School of Visual Arts
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2026 - Reborn into the Water, Heydar Aliyev Center, Baku, AZ
2026 - I Am Mine, Without Permission, Ethan Cohen Gallery, New York, NY
2026 - Carole A. Feuerman: From Line to Life, QCC Museum, Queens, NY
2026 - Monuments of Stillness, Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL
2025 -The Voice of the Body, Palazzo Bonaparte, Rome, IT
2025 - Feuerman Foundation Sculpture Garden, Medici Museum of Art, Warren, OH
2024 - Diver, Olympics and Paralympics, Olympics Committee, Paris, FR
2023 - Crossing the Sea, Foundation Made in Cloister, Naples, IT
2023 - Sea Idylls, POPA, Park Avenue, New York, NYC, NY
2022 - La voce del corpo, Palazzo Bonaparte, Rome, IT
2021 - Galleria d’Arte Moderna, GAM, Rome, IT
2021- Dancers, Terrazza del Pincio, Rome, IT
2017- Monumental Dancer, the Golden Mean, Tampa Museum of Art, FL
2016- Iconic Works, Huan Tai Hu Museum, Changzhou, Jiangsu, CN
2016- Body of Work, DeLand Museum of Art, DeLand, FL
2016- Two Sculptures, Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL
2016 - Carole A. Feuerman, Body as a Work of Art, Museum of Health. Houston, TX, USA
2015 - Carole A. Feuerman, Swimming by the Harbour, Ocean Terminal Forecourt, Hong Kong, CN
2012 - Survival of Serena, Petrosino Square, Department of Parks and Recreation, New York, NY, USA
2010 - Earth, Water, Air, Fire, El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, TX, USA
2009 - Maxima, Roman Theater of Archaeology, Fiesole, Florence, IT
2008 - Silence, Passion, Expression: The Sculpture of Carole Feuerman, Amarillo Museum of Art, Amarillo, TX, USA
2007 - Bellezza E Beressaze In: By the Sea, European Council of Art Foundation, In Paradiso, Venice, IT
2007 - Carole A. Feuerman, Lust and Desires: Erotic Sculptures (1970–2006), Art-st-urban Museum & Sculpture Park, Lucerne, CH
2005 - Resin to Bronze Topographies, Queensborough Community College, CUNY, NY, USA
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2026 - Bienal Del Agua, Paula Rego Museum, Cascais, PT
2026 - Ceci n'est pas un corps, Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, Québec, CA
2025 - The Real, Surreal and Photoreal, Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn, NY
2025 - Hyperrealism Sculpture, Osaka Culturarium at Tempozan, Osaka, JP
2025 - At Play - Artists & Entertainment, Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn, NY2025 - ZODIAC: Mysterious Power of the Creative, Medici Museum of Art, Warren, OH
2024 - HYPER, Traveling Group Exhibition, GE Divine Feminine, El Paseo, CA
2023 - Forever Is Now III, Art D’Égypte, Giza, EG
2020 - Las Esculturas Realistas, Osthaus Museum, Museumsplatz 1, Hagen, DE
2021 - Corpus Domini. Dal corpo glorioso alle rovine dell’anima, Palazzo Reale, Milan, IT
2015 - Poydras Corridor, The Helis Foundation, Poydras Corridor, New Orleans, LA
2013 - National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
2012 - Body Double: The Figure in Contemporary Sculpture, Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park, Grand Rapids, MI
2009 - Art & Illusion: Masterpieces of Trompe- l’œil from Antiquity to the Present, Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, IT
1992 - Figures of Contemporary Sculpture (1970-1990): Images of Man," traveling exhibition: Isetan Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan; Daimaru Museum, Umeda, Osaka, Japan; Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan
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Glenn R. Fuhrman, NY
William L. Mack, NY
Steven A. Cohen, NY
Mark Parker, OR
Charles Brandes, San Diego, CA
Robert Hurst, CO, & NY, USA
Kathy and Marc LeBaron, Lincoln, NE, USA
Sig Bergamin and Murilo Lomas, BR
Kenneth Lawrence Fisher, CA
Bill Clinton, Former President, Chappaqua, NY
Henry Kissinger, Former Secretary of State, NY
Former Emperor Michinomiya Hirohito, Tokyo, JP
Pierre Cornette de Saint-Cyr, Paris, FR
Andrea Bocelli, Forte De Marmi, IT
Andrei Molchanov, RU
Oskar Metsavaht, BR
Aldo Bensadoun, & Dianne Bibeau, CA,
Dr. Henry Foster, MA, USA
Federico Cuello Camilo, Geneva, CH
Marilia Gabriela Baston de Toledo Cochrane, BR
Ben Daniel Alfons Van Hool, BE
Broos Benoît Ertzberg, BE
Ünlü Menkul Değerler, TR
Alexi Bezobrazov, RU
Abraham Vurnbrand, FL, USA
Richard Shack, FL, USA
Josef and Marliese Meier, CH
Farkhad Akhmedov, Moscow, RU
Alexandre Grendene Bartelle, BR
Sir James Dyson, Wilshire, UK
Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, USA -
Heydar Aliyev Center, Baku, AZ
Ministry of Culture, Cairo, EG
Museum of Modern Art, Cairo, EG
City of Sunnyvale, Sunnyvale, CA
The State Hermitage, St. Petersburg, RU
City of Peekskill, Peekskill, NY
President Mikhail S. Gorbachev
Foundation, Moscow, RU
Joop van Caldenborgh, Boijmans Van Beuningen Museum, Caldic Collection, Rotterdam, NL
El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, TX
Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, FLMuseum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL
Muscarelle Museum of Art, Williamsburg, VA
Boca Raton Museum of Art, FL
Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH
Huan Tai Hu Museum, Changzhou, CN
Tampa Museum of Art, FL
Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, FL
Fort Lauderdale Museum of Art, FL
Miami Children’s Museum, FL
Bass Museum of Art, Miami , FL
Amarillo Museum of Art, TX
QCC Museum of Art, Queens, NY
Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Loretto, PA
Art St. Urban Museum and Sculpture Park, Lucerne, CH
Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
Appalachian State University, Boone, NC
DeLand Museum of Art, DeLand, FL
Albright College, Freedman Gallery, Reading, PA
Vin & Spritcentralen Museet, Stockholm, SE
SE Union Exhibition Hall, Changchun World Sculpture Park, Changchun, CN
Peace River Botanical & Sculpture Gardens, Punta Gorda, FL
Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton, NJ
Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, Los Angeles, CA
Sydney Besthoff, K&B Plaza, New Orleans, LA
Forbes Magazine Collection, NY
Good Samaritan Medical Center, West Palm Beach, FL
Atlantic Foundation, Hamilton, NJ
The Burton P. & Judith B. Resnick Foundation, New York, NY
Aaron Podhurst, Pérez Art Museum, Miami, FL
Alexandre Grendene Bartelle, Porto Alegre, BR
Medici Museum of Art, Warren, OH
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Lifetime Achievement Award, International Sculpture Center, New York, NY2025
Woman of Inspiration – Lifetime Achievement Award, Universal Women’s Network, Calgary, CA
A World Peace Award, Soleil Foundation, Athens, GR2022
Lifetime Achievement Award, Athens, GR2019
Special Honor Award, 2nd Jiangsu, Changzhou, CN2016
Best in Show, Huan Tai Hu Museum, Changzhou, CN2012
Save the Arts Museum’s Choice Award, USA
Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition, The National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, USA2008
First Prize, Third International Art Biennale, Beijing, CN First Prize, Beijing Olympic Fine Arts Exhibition, CN2007
Best of America, National Arts Competition, USA2006
Achievement Award, Cadillac & Hummer, 2nd International Biennale of Austria, Ausstellungszentrum Heft, AT2003
Wall of Tolerance, Rosa Parks, National Campaign for Tolerance, USA2002
Prize of Honor, Ausstellungszentrum Heft, AT Winner, 1st Guilin Yuzi Paradise International Sculpture Awards, Guangxi, CN2001
Lorenzo de Medici Prize, Florence, IT2000
Finalist, World Trade Center Competition, NY, USA1995
The 2nd Fujisankei Sculpture Biennale, Hakone Open-Air Museum, Kanagawa, JP1982
Amelia Peabody Award, NY, USA1981
Charles D. Murphy Sculpture Award, NY, USA1984
Certificate of Recognition by The State of Florida, USA
1st Prize by The Society of Illustrators
Certificate of Excellence in Sculpture, International Art Competition, USA1980
First Prize, National Sculpture Competition, NY, USA1979
Award of Merit, Womanart Gallery, Patricia Keane Mason, NYC, USA1970
Betty Parsons Sculpture Award, NY, USA