Born in Brooklyn, New York in 1952, Rona Pondick studied at Yale University School of Art and received her MFA in 1977. She lives and works in New York City.
Since 1984 she has had 53 solo exhibitions of her work in museums and galleries internationally, including Galleria d’Arte Moderna Bologna, Groninger Museum, Rupertinum Museum, Cincinnati Art Museum, Worcester Art Museum, DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Cranbrook Art Museum, Israel Museum, and Upper Belvedere, among others.
Her sculptures have been included in over 250 group exhibitions, including numerous biennales worldwide: the Whitney Biennial, Lyon Biennale, Johannesburg Biennale, Sonsbeek, and Venice Biennale.
Pondick has participated in group exhibitions at museums internationally including the Mori Art Museum, Peggy Guggenheim Foundation, Museo de Arte Contemporânea de Serralves, Ca’Pesaro, Centre Pompidou, Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille, Pera Museum, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Walker Art Center, among many others.
Her work is currently in the collections of 53 institutions worldwide including the Whitney Museum of American Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Morgan Library & Museum, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, LACMA, MOCA Los Angeles, Nasher Sculpture Center, SFMOMA, Art Institute of Chicago, High Museum of Art, Centre Pompidou, The Belvedere, and The Israel Museum.
Rona Pondick has received numerous awards and grants, including the American Academy of Arts and Letters Purchase Award, Anonymous Was A Woman, the Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship, and the Guggenheim Fellowship, among others.