GROUP EXHIBITIONS (see below for SOLO exhibitions)
2022-2023 Art = Quilts = Art 2023, Schweinfurth Art Center, Auburn, NY
2023 Thread, Pattern, Form: Work by Members of the Iowa Surface Design Association, University of Northern Iowa
2022, 2023, 2024 A Common Thread, Textile Center of Minnesota
2022 Astrid Hilger Bennett: Charting Seasons, Solo Exhibition, Sanford Museum, Cherokee, IA
2022 INDIGO! Group Exhibition Centered Around a Community Indigo Vat, hosted and curated by Astrid Hilger Bennett, Public Space One, Iowa City, IA
2022 Contemporary Fiber Art: Work by Members of the Iowa Surface Design Association, Clear Lake Arts Center, IA
2022-2023 Quilt Nihon Japan, group exhibition
2022 Textiles and Fiber Art Juried Exhibition, Robert Hillestad Textiles Gallery, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Jan 18-April 22
2021 Paying it Forward, Selections from the Dreaming Quilt Series, Solo Exhibition at the Pumphrey Family Gallery, International Quilt Museum, Lincoln, NE, October – December. Read more, Interview about the Show.
2021 Quilts = Art = Quilts, Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center, Auburn, NY
2020 Women’s Work 2020, Old Courthouse Arts Center, Woodstock, IL
2019 Beyond the Surface, St Louis Artists’ Guild, Clayton, MO
2019 SDA Small Works, Contemporary Art Projects, St Louis, MO
2019 Shibori Mini, International Shibori Symposium, Kongobuji Temple, Mount Koya, Japan
2019 Quilt National ’19, Dairy Barn Arts Center, Athens OH
2019 Fiber Arts IX, Sebastopol Center for the Arts, CA
2019 Fiber Artists of Iowa, Grinnell College Museum of Art, IA
2019 A Common Thread 2019, Textile Arts Center, MN
2018 Art Quilt Elements 2018, Wayne, PA
2018 Shibori Mini, International Shibori Symposium, Arimatsu, Japan
2017 Quilt National ‘17, Dairy Barn Arts Center, OH
2017 Fiber Arts VIII, Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Sebastopol, CA
2017 SDA Small Works: Juried Member Exhibition, Oregon College of Art & Craft, Portland, OR
2017 Quilted Expressions: An Exhibit of Iowa Quilt Artists, Blanden Memorial Art Museum, Fort Dodge, IA
2017 Art Quilts of the Midwest, Iowa Quilt Museum, Winterset, IA
2016 Fantastic Fibers 2016, Yeiser Art Center, Paducah, KY
2015 Quilt National ‘15, Dairy Barn Arts Center, OH
2015 Astrid Hilger Bennett, Colorida Gallery, Lisbon, Portugal
2015 Pushing the Surface, Johnson-Humrickhouse Museum, OH
2014 Local Threads, the Figge Museum of Art, IA, in conjunction with Innovators & Legends, Generations in Textiles & Fiber Art
2014 Common Threads, Kirkwood Community College, IA
2013 Innovations in Fiber, Fiber Art VI, Sebastopol Center for the Arts, CA
2013 Iowa Crafts 41, Charles MacNider Museum of Art, IA
2012 11th Quilt Nihon, Japan, honorable mention
2011 Quilts=Art=Quilts, Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center, NY
2011 Iowa Crafts 40, Charles MacNider Museum of Art, IA
2011 Artquilt Show, ICON Gallery, IA
2011 Merge & Flow, Members’ Show, Surface Design Association Biennial Conference, MN
2011 The Space Between, Juried exhibition at International Quilt Festival, San Diego
2011 Conversations In Stitch, Fiber Artists Coalition, Anderson Art Center, WI
2011 Iowa Sampler, work by five Iowa SDA artists, IA
2010 Contemporary Fiber III, Heritage Gallery, IA
2010 12 Ways of Looking at a Blackbird,” Fiber Artists Coalition, Charlevoix, MI
2010 Some Like it Hot, Fiber Artists Coalition, Simply Art Chicago Loft, IL
2010 Iowa Fiber Artists Exhibition, IA
2009 Iowa Crafts 39, Charles MacNider Museum, IA, Best of Show Award
2009 Artquilts, Olson Larson Gallery, IA
2008 Form Not Function: Quilt Art at the Carnegie, New Harmony, IN
2008 Craft USA 2008, Silvermine Guild Arts Center, CT
2008 Earlville Opera House Gallery, NY
2008 9th Quilt Nihon Exhibition, Japan, Nihon Vogue-Sha Co. Ltd Award
2008 Art Quilt Elements, Wayne Art Center, PA
2007 Form Not Function: Quilt Art at the Carnegie, IN
2007 Quilts=Art=Quilts, Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center, NY, Best of Show award
2007 Quilt National ’07, OH
2007 Astrid Hilger Bennett, Brian Roberts & Joel Smith, Quad City Arts, IL
2007 Quilts: Fiber for Thought, Plains Art Museum, ND
2006 Showcase: An Exhibition by Surface Design Association Representatives, East Carolina University, NC
2006 12th Biennial Artist as Quiltmaker Exhibition, FAVA, OH, Innovation Award
2006 SDA Representatives Exhibition, East Carolina University
2005 Iowa Crafts 37, MacNider Museum, IA , Jurors’ Special Mention, fiber
2005 Quilts=Art=Quilts, NY
2005 Uncovering the Surface, Surface Design Association Members’ Exhibition
2005 Midpoint, Kansas City, MO
2005 Crafts National 39, Zoller Gallery, Penn State University
2005 Sacred Threads, Reynoldsburg, OH
2004 Crafts National 38, Zoller Gallery, Penn State University
2004 Penland Instructors’ Exhibition, Galleries Downtown, Iowa City, IA
2003 Master Quilts Past & Present: Preserving the Voice of America’s Quiltmakers, Faulconer Gallery, Grinnell College, IA. Includes oral history of Bennett’s work on the Alliance for American Quilters’ website.
2003 Art Quilts at the Sedgwick, Philadelphia, PA
2003 Works by Astrid Hilger Bennett & Connie Roberts, Rochester Art Center, MN
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 Kirkwood Community College, Solo Exhibition, Cedar Rapids, IA, December 2023 – January 2024
2023 Color Ways, Solo Exhibition, Burlington Art Center, September 2023
2023 Astrid Hilger Bennett: Sketch + Color = Fabric, US Bank, Iowa City, Iowa, June-September 2023
2021 Paying it Forward, Selections from the Dreaming Quilt Series, Pumphrey Family Gallery, International Quilt Museum, Lincoln, NE, October – December. Read more.
2019 Iowa Artisans Gallery, IA
2018-19 Robert Hillestad Textiles Gallery, University of Nebraska
2016 Quad City Arts, Rock Island, IA
2010 Charles MacNider Museum of Art, IA
2002 Connie Roberts & Astrid Hilger Bennett, Rochester Art Center, MN
2000 Playclothes, collaborative theme clothing, with Connie Roberts, IA
1997 Arts on Grand, Spencer, IA
1996 Iowa City Senior Center, IA
1996 Luther College, IA
1994 Earlham College, IN
1993 University of Iowa, Mabie Theatre Building, IA
1993 Cedar Falls Civic Center, IA
1993 Iowa Wesleyan College, IA
ART IN PUBLIC SETTINGS, PUBLICATIONS, RESIDENCIES
2019 Quilt & TextilKunst Patchwork Professional, German publication, 6/2019
2019 Art Quilt Quarterly, Studio Art Quilt Associates, Issue no. 16
2018 Arrowmont School of Art and Craft Pentaculum 2018
2015 Authored introductory essay on art quilts for Art Quilts of the Midwest, Linzee McCray, University of Iowa Press
2010 Featured Artist in February/March issue of Quilting Arts
2006 Featured in the Gallery Issue of Surface Design, September issue
2004 Fiberarts Design Book VII, Three Conversations plus Title Page
1999 India Café Art Quilt selected for cover of Fiberarts Design Book VI
Public settings include: University of Iowa Hospital & Clinics’ Project Art Collection; Helix Center Biotech Incubator, St Louis, MO; Indiana University at Gary; Iowa City Public Library, Kirkwood Community College, Wellmark Blue Cross of Iowa; Henry B. Tippie College of Business, University of Iowa
EMPLOYMENT / PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
2009 – present: Board Director, President/Co-Chair, Surface Design Association
1994 – 2017: General Manager or Co-owner, Iowa Artisans Gallery, (business sold, retired)
