Rona Pondick’s "Pine Marten" Acquired by the Addison Gallery of American Art

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Rona Pondick, Pine Marten, 2000–01, stainless steel, edition of 6 + 1 AP, 9 x 18 7/8 x 6 3/4 in; 22.86 x 47.94 x 17.14 cm

Rona Pondick’s Pine Marten (2000–01) has entered the permanent collection of the Addison Gallery of American Art at Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts. Founded in 1931, the Addison holds a collection of more than 29,000 works spanning American art from the eighteenth century to the present.

Cast in stainless steel, Pine Marten combines casts of the artist’s head and hand with an animal form, creating an uncanny hybrid that unsettles distinctions between human and animal. Its highly polished surface reflects the viewer and surrounding environment, drawing them into the sculpture’s exploration of bodily transformation and unstable identity. The work belongs to Pondick’s series of animal-human hybrids, which she began developing in the late 1990s.

Since its creation, Pine Marten has appeared in numerous exhibitions across the United States and Europe, including presentations at Sonnabend Gallery, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, the Galleria d’Arte Moderna in Bologna, the Groninger Museum, Cranbrook Art Museum, and the Worcester Art Museum.

Rona Pondick’s "Lead Bed" Acquired by the McNay Art Museum

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Rona Pondick, Lead Bed, 1987-88, wood, bronze, lead, and satin pillow, 11 x 24 1/2 x 72 1/2 in | 27.94 x 62.23 x 184.15 cm

Nunu Fine Art is pleased to announce that Rona Pondick’s “Lead Bed” (1987-88) has been acquired by the McNay Art Museum. 
 
In this work, somewhere between sculpture and assemblage, a sheet of flattened lead sits folded atop two planks of wood, folded inwards at its top right corner. The addition of a pillow with a white satin case on one end of this otherwise unassuming construction places it in a recognizable context, allowing the viewer to identify the everyday object lent by its title. The surface of the metal sheet is uneven, giving the impression that it was placed onto the wooden planks below it with ease, in the haste of an early morning. The fold in its corner acts as an invitation to climb inside for a moment of respite. Disrupting the bed’s inviting quality is an oblong object laid atop the satin pillowcase, an unidentifiable scrap of gnarled brass. “Lead Bed” is an early example of Pondick’s engagement with the uncanny and psychologically charged in her work, qualities that she would later explore through use of bodily fragments such as shoes, teeth, and even casts of her own head. 
 
Rona Pondick was born in Brooklyn, NY in 1952 and gained an MFA from Yale University in 1977. She was recently featured in "Bellmer Nauman Pondick: Material Desire," an exhibition at Nunu Fine Art New York which placed a selection of her sculptures in conversation with Hans Bellmer’s vintage photographs and Bruce Nauman’s early video works. In addition, the artist’s work is included in the collections of 52 institutions worldwide, including the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City and Centre Pompidou in Paris, among others. 

Rona Pondick’s Dog on view at Sonnabend Collection Mantova

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Dog, 1998-2001, yellow stainless steel, edition of 6 + 1 AP, 28 x 16 1/2 x 32 in

Nunu Fine Art is delighted to share that Rona Pondick’s Dog is currently on view at the Sonnabend Collection Foundation, which opened at the Palazzo della Ragione in Mantua, Italy, on November 29, 2025. The Sonnabend Collection has traveled extensively for many years to museums across Italy, Portugal, Canada, and the United States, and has now found a permanent home in Mantua. Shaped by the visionary gallerist Ileana Sonnabend together with Michael Sonnabend and Antonio Homem, the collection bridges American and European art, presenting some of the most significant works of the 20th century. Housed in the historic heart of Mantua, it celebrates the power of art to transcend borders and illuminate our time.

Rona Pondick’s Dog will be presented beginning in early March in the group exhibition Ascendancy: The Self in Contemporary Art at the Mattatuck Museum in Waterbury, Connecticut. The work is shown courtesy of the Sonnabend Collection and Nunu Fine Art. Curated by Camilo Alvarez, the exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue.

Rona Pondick's Prairie Dog acquired by the Portland Museum of Art

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Rona Pondick, Prairie Dog, 2011-13, stainless steel, edition of 3 + 1 AP, 4 1/4 x 7 3/4 x 4 3/4 in, 10.8 x 19.68 x 12.06 cm.

Nunu Fine Art is excited to share that Rona Pondick's Prairie Dog has been acquired by the Portland Museum of Art in Portland, Maine through a generous gift from Antonio Homem.

Since she came to prominence in the late 1980’s, the New York-based artist has worked with fragments that evoke the body—such as shoes, baby bottles, and teeth—reconfigured into new psychologically provocative wholes. In the late 1990s, she produced the first of her hybrid sculptures that marry her own body parts with those of animals and trees. In Prairie Dog, Pondick continues this exploration of the human body as a site for metamorphosis and hybridity. The sculpture fuses human and animal parts into an ambiguous form that resists easy categorization. Cast in stainless steel, the reflective surface invites the viewer to reflect on the fluid boundaries between body and environment, self and other.

In 2021, Nunu Fine Art Taipei presented Rona Pondick: Sculpture, the artist's first solo exhibition in Asia.

Rona Pondick's Wallaby currently on view at Walker Art Center

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Rona Pondick, Wallaby, 2007-12, stainless steel, edition of 3 + 1 AP, 24 x 44 3/8 x 10 7/8 in (60.96 x 112.71 x 27.62 cm). All images credit to the artist.

Nunu Fine Art is thrilled to announce that Rona Pondick's Wallaby is currently on view in the Walker Art Center's exhibition, Sculpture Court. Sculpture Court brings together the works of nearly 40 artists who "radically reimagined what it means to represent the body, through a range of materials, scales, and formal interpretations." The exhibition explores—and derives its name from—the concept of the "sculpture court," transforming its Perlman Gallery to resemble the airy courtyards and gardens that have historically served as forums to present sculptural works since the 16th century. 

Curated by Henriette Huldisch, with Laurel Rand-Lewis, Huldsich shares that "the Walker's contemporary interpretation [of the historical sculpture court] takes visitors on a brief tour through the radical changes in representing the human figure over the course of the 20th century.”

Sculpture Court | Duration: October 18, 2025 - September 6, 2026 | Venue: Waker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN | Opening Hours: Wed, Fri - Sun 10 AM - 5 PM, Thurs 10 AM - 9 PM

Rona Pondick's Untitled Tree currently on view at Cornell University’s Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art

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Rona Pondick, Untitled Tree, 1997, Cast-aluminum, Unique, Tree 180 x 180 x 168 in (457.2 x 457.2 x 426.72 cm) 3 x 4 x 4 1/2 in (7.62 x 10.16 x 11.43 cm) Collection of the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 2025. Gift of Sherry Vogel Mallin, Class of 1955, and Joel Mallin, Class of 1955

 

Nunu Fine Art is pleased to congratulate Rona Pondick on the recent installation of “Untitled Tree” at Cornell University’s Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art.

“Untitled Tree,” a cast-aluminum sculpture created in 1997, will sit on the southwest lawn next to the I.M. Pei Building as part of the museum’s permanent collection.

Rona Pondick's "Dog" Included in the Sonnabend Collection Foundation

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Rona Pondick, “Dog (yellow stainless steel)”, 1998-2001, Yellow stainless steel, Edition of 6 + 1 AP, 28 x 16 1/2 x 32 in (71.12 x 41.91 x 81.28 cm)

Nunu Fine Art (Taipei/ New York) is thrilled to share that “Dog”, by Rona Pondick, is included in the Sonnabend Collection Foundation, opening at the Pallazo della Ragione, Mantua, Italy, on Saturday, November 29, 2025.

The Sonnabend Collection has been traveling for many years to various museums in Italy, Portugal, Canada, the U.S., and is now set to reside in Mantova. The collection, shaped by a visionary gallerist Ileana Sonnabend, her husband Michael Sonnabend, and Antonio Homem, bridges American and European art, showcasing some of the most important works of the 20th century. Housed in the heart of Mantua, this collection celebrates the power of art to transcend borders and illuminates our time.

“Let it GROW Again!” Wins Czech ICOM Committee Prize for Best International Exhibition

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Rona Pondick, Slim Jack, 2011-22, Patinated bronze, 47 x 24 x 27 in (119.38 x 60.96 x 68.58 cm)

We are honored to announce that the group exhibition Let it GROW Again! featuring Rona Pondick as a participating artist, has been awarded the Czech ICOM Committee Prize, recognizing it as the Best International Exhibition of the Year. 

The exhibition was co-curated by a Czech organizing institution in collaboration with the Belvedere Museum in Vienna, Austria. It centered on the “tree”—a symbol of deep significance throughout art history—exploring its mythology, symbolism, and environmental dimensions. Through the intersection of art and nature, the exhibition offered a profound reflection on a millennia-long dialogue between the two. 

In its official statement, the jury remarked: 

“The intensive partnership with the leading Austrian art museum in Vienna's Belvedere resulted in an exceptionally ambitious exhibition project that explored the motif of the tree – an extraordinarily significant symbol in art history. The exhibition brought its mythology, rich symbolism, and role as a source of inspiration closer to the viewer. It became a celebration of the thousand-year symbiosis of art and nature, while at the same time prompting urgent reflections on environmental protection.” 

Rona Pondick Featured in NYU’s Grey Art Museum Exhibition

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Anonymous Was A Woman: The First 25 Years, celebrates recipients of the titular grant supporting mid-career women artists in the United States.

Reflecting on a quarter century of artistic achievement, the exhibition showcases works by past awardees (1996–2020) and traces the development of contemporary art practice over the last twenty-five years, addressing issues of identity and community; the position of women artists in society; the shifting value of craft; the changing possibilities for installation and time-based media; as well as the many uses of anonymity.

Rona Pondick, whose work is featured in the exhibition, has used her own body to create self-portraits in various materials—such as the colored molded resin of Magenta Swimming in Yellow—that are at once deeply personal and anonymizing.

Anonymous Was A Woman: The First 25 Years
| Duration: April 1–July 19, 2025
| Venue: Grey Art Museum, New York University
| Opening Hour: Tuesday - Saturday 11 am–6 pm

 

Rona Pondick,“Magenta Swimming in Yellow” (detail), 2015–17. Pigmented resin and acrylic sculpture, 14 × 17 × 17 in | 35.6 x 43.2 x 43.2 cm
Private collection, Boston. Courtesy the artist and Steven Zevitas Gallery, Boston.

 

Rona Pondick Featured in 'Forest of Dreams: Contemporary Tree Sculpture' at Frederik Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park

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Nestled within the heart of nature's splendor, Frederik Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park is a harmonious fusion of art and the outdoors. The recent group exhibition, 'Forest of Dreams: Contemporary Tree Sculpture' (October 20, 2023 - February 25, 2024), features New York-based artist Rona Pondick, along with 14 other artists, including Louise Bourgeois.

By delving into Rona Pondick's bronze works, 'Fukien Tea' and 'Double Azalea,' visitors are encouraged to discover sculptures resembling and inspired by trees and to explore the symbolism of trees. The artist has cast these trees in bronze, replacing their pomes or tips with minuscule self-portrait heads or hands, resulting in primal and disquieting assemblages. These sculptures trace the artist’s enduring fascination with physical and psychic transformation.

New York-Based Artist Rona Pondick's Works Added to Museum Collections

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Muskrat (2002-05) is in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago,  Chicago, Illinois

Milkman (1989) and Sourballs  (1995) are in the collection of the Mc Nay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas

Red Platter (21) (1994) and Mouth #66 are in the collection of the Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, Texas

"Tilted Yellow" by Rona Pondick displayed at the Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, Texas, USA

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Rona pondick, Tilted Yellow, 2014-2018
, Pigmented resin and acrylic, 8 x 22 1/8 x 22 1/8 inches (20.3 x 56.2 x 56.2 cm) 

Rona Pondick's sculpture "Tilted Yellow" is currently on view, till Aug 27, at the Blanton Museum of Art in Austin, Texas, showcasing the museum's latest contemporary acquisitions. The exhibition also includes works by Holly Coulis, Julia Wachtel, Ingrid Calame.

Since 2013 and firstly shown in 2018, Pondick turned her focus from stainless steel to color along with resin and acrylic as new materials for her ongoing sculptural explorations into metamorphosis. "Tilted Yellow" (2014-2018) marks one of her first works using them.
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With processes involving hand modeling, carving, casting, and 3D computer scanning, "Tilted Yellow" presents a translucent, illuminating, and bizarrely beautiful yellow casting of her own head, evoking a self-portrait, slumber, or introspection—a testament to Pondick's unwavering determination to push the boundaries of materials and identities.

5 sculptures and one work on paper by Rona Pondick have entered the Collection of the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, New York

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pigmented resin and acrylic，14.5 x 20 x 21.5 cm｜5.7 x 7.9 x 8.5 inches (Courtesy of the artist)

The artwork by American artist Rona Pondick has become a part of the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art's collection in New York. The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, located at Cornell University, was established in 1973. Since its inception, the museum has welcomed visitors free of charge. It continually strives to fulfill its cultural and educational responsibility by serving a broad and diverse audience.

Rona Pondick’s Monkeys and Head in Tree on View at Belvedere Museum

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American artist Rona Pondick’s metal sculptural work Monkeys was on display in the Carlone Hall of the Upper Belvedere since September. Monkeys, created during 1998-2001, shows several monkeys playing around, while some body parts appear in human forms. The hybrid form of human and monkey reveals suffering among playfulness, demonstrating the artist’s artistic style during this creative period.

In the meantime, Rona Pondick’s Head in Tree is also included in the exhibition Grow: The Tree in Art at the Lower Belvedere. The exhibition is curated by art historian and curator Miroslav Haľák, focusing artworks related to trees to demonstrate the complex connection between human beings and the ecology as well as the various roles trees play in it. Pondick’s Head in Tree, created during 2006-2008, combines the tree form and a human head cast from the artist’s own. It responds to the human-tree hybrid form in art and mythologies, and the complicated relationship between human subjects and flora and fauna in the natural world.

On the exhibition opening on Sept. 22, over 600 VIP guests gathered in the Marble Hall where Pondick’s Head in Tree was on display, enjoying the artist’s artistic creation.

Photo: Johannes Stoll

Rona Pondick’s “Wallaby” and “Cat” on View at Nassau County Museum of Art

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Rona Pondick 作品〈小袋鼠〉（Wallaby）、〈貓〉（Cat）於拿騷美術館展出（照片由藝術家提供）

Leading American contemporary artist Rona Pondick, is scheduled to have her sculpture works exhibited at four major art institutions across the US and Europe in the latter half of 2022. The first exhibition will be “Other Worlds Than This: The Supernatural” in Art at the Nassau County Museum of Art, NY, in which her two sculptural works “Wallaby” and “Cat” joins a number of artworks related to the otherworldly possibilities. The artist is also giving a talk on her artistic career since the mid-1980s.

American artist Rona Pondick will exhibit in five major art institutions in the second half of the 2022

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American leading artist Rona Pondick will exhibits her early works "Monkeys", "Head in Tree" in Lower Belvedere and Upper Belvedere, two of the most privilege art space in Austria. The work "Wallaby" will be in "The Supernatural in Art" group exhibition at Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, NY. From July 23 to November 6th, 2022. Pondick's recent development "Color Sculptures" has been drawing enormous attention in the contemporary scene. Both Zuckerman Museum of Art in Georgia and Hudson Valley MOCA in Peekskill, NY will include her color sculptures in both museums exhibitions.

American sculptor Rona Pondick’s interview with the magazine ODDA

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Rona Pondick is a well-known American sculptor, and the topic of her works revolves around her personal experience of physical imprisonment and freedom of mind. She is known for her hybridized, metaphorical, and shifing approaches to the human body. During the conversation with the famous magazine ODDA, Pondick shares her intenpreiation of time and reficcts on varied aspects of human nature, explaining her view on our world being.

Rona Pondick Added to Collection of “Walker Art Center”

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“Wallaby” had recently been collected by Walker Art Center, one of the most-visited modem and contemporary art muscums in the United States. Walker Art Center is once lumber baron T. B. Walker's private collecti tion. Since he invited the public to visit his collection in 1879, it evolved into the Walker Art Center. This work will be joining other works by top artists such as Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns, Yoko Ono, and Kara Walker in this collection.

New York artist Rona Pondick's sculptures “Head in Tree“ at Nasher Sculpture Center, USA.

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"If you can't defeat the nature, why not join them?"— Rona Pondick

New York artist Rona Pondick's sculptures “Head in Tree” is now exhibiting in the "Nasher Mixtape" group show, in Nasher Sculpture Center, USA.

In late 90s', Rona started to make mold from her own head and combine it with stylized animal and tree bodies that she hand modeled. These hybrid animal/human forms go back to Neolithic times and appear through every period in art history and all kinds of myths.

"Head in Tree" was the first tree/human piece where Rona's head was life-size. The master of materials talked to, Catherine Craft the Nasher Sculpture Center Curator, about this work and said: "In my tree human pieces, the matte and rough surfaces of the bark make a contrast with my smooth, shiny head. Playing on the concept of narcissism, the mirrored surfaces draw viewers into looking at themselves. I like the way these contrasting, contradictory surfaces come together and make metaphoric meanings."