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Born

1946 London, England


Education

1965 Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan
1968 Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, Illinois
1970 Norfolk Summer School of Music and Art, Norfolk, Connecticut
1971 BFA, Washington University, Saint Louis, Missouri
1973 MFA, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
1999 Honorary Doctorate, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York


Solo Exhibitions/Installations

2003 Judy Pfaff: Neither Here Nor There, Ameringer & Yohe Fine Art, New York, NY, September - October

2002 Judy Pfaff: Squares of Savannah, Pinnacle Gallery, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA, January - March

2001 Judy Pfaff: If I Had A Boat

2000 Judy Pfaff: Babylon, Elvehjem Musem of Art, curated by Russell Panczenko, September - September 2001
Judy Pfaff: Bellas Artes, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Judy Pfaff: Notes on Light and Color, Dartmouth College, May 2-17

1999 Judy Pfaff: Drawings and Prints, Karen McCready Fine Art, New York, New York January 14 - February 27
Judy Pfaff : New Prints, Susanne Hilberry Gallery, Detroit, Michigan August 11 - September 11
Judy Pfaff: Notes on Light and Shadow, Installation Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah. October - March, 2000
Judy Pfaff: Drawings and Prints, Robischon Gallery, Denver, Colorado October 27

1998 1998 Bienal de Sao Paulo, U.S A. Representative: Curator, Miranda McClintic, Sao Paulo, Brazil, Oct. 4 - Dec. 13
Judy Pfaff: Drawings, Gallery Deux, Tokyo, Japan, May 22
Judy Pfaff: Sculpture and Drawings, Bellas Artes, Santa Fe, New Mexico, June - July
Jardin De Los Cuervos: Installation, Bellas Artes, Santa Fe, New Mexico, August

1997 Judy Pfaff: Round Hole Square Peg, Andre Emmerich Gallery, NY. Sept. 4-Oct. 4
Judy Pfaff, Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site, Cornish, NH. June 7-July 6
Judy Pfaff: An Installation of Drawings, Adobe Krow Archives, Bakersfield, CA. April 5-May 13

1996 Judy Pfaff: New Prints, Drawings and Sculpture, Susanne Hilberry Gallery, Birmingham, MI. Sept. 17-Oct. 26
Judy Pfaff, Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York, NY. September
Judy Pfaff: New Work, Bellas Artes Gallery, Santa Fe, NM. August
Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site, Cornish, NH

1995 Elephant, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA. January - February
Madison Print Club, Madison, WI. February- May (??)
Prints, Elvehjem Museum of Art, Madison, WI. May - August
Recent Drawings, Linda Farris Gallery, Seattle, WA. July
Recent Drawings, Bellas Artes Gallery, Santa Fe, NM. July
Ear to Ear, Alyce de Roulet Williamson Gallery, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA. October - December

1994 Cirque, CIRQUE, Pennsylvania Convention Center Art Program. Large-scale public art commission, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Aqua vitae: Art in Public Places, Commission for the Miami Beach Police and court facility , Miami Beach, Florida
Cielo: Landscape as Metaphor, Curated by Martin Friedman. Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO. May - September
Installation: Cielo Requerdo, Landscape as Metaphor. Columbus Museum of Art , Columbus,OH. October - March 1995
New Works on Paper, Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York, NY. June 7 - July 15
Ernie, 1991, Lobby Sculpture Exhibit at the Community Gallery, Brooklyn Union Gas Company, Brooklyn, NY. April - September 1994

1993 Judy Pfaff: Recent Sculpture and Drawings, Nancy Drysdale Gallery, Washington, DC
Corpo Onbroso [Judy Pfaff: Inaugural Exhibition], The Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

1992 Flusso E Riflusso, Max Protetch Gallery, New York, NY
Zygmunt: Judy Pfaff & Ursula von Rydingsvard, collaborative installation at The Cultural Space, curated by Papo Colo and Jennette Ingberman.
Life After Post-Modernism

1991 Judy Pfaff, The Fabric Workshop, Philadelphia, PA
Installation: Bandas de Acero, Morris Gallery of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Judy Pfaff, Susanne Hilberry Gallery, Birmingham, MI
Eric Fischl/Judy Pfaff, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH

1990 Judy Pfaff: Equinox, Max Protetch Gallery, New York, NY
Judy Pfaff: Prints & Drawings, The College of Saint Rose Gallery, Albany, NY
Judy Pfaff: Dessins, Thomas Solomon's Garage, Los Angeles, CA
Judy Pfaff: Sculpture and Works on Paper, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH
Judy Pfaff, Dana Art Center, Loyola University, New Orleans, LA

1989 Currents 41: Judy Pfaff, Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, MO

1988 Judy Pfaff: 10,000 Things, Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, NY
Forefront: Judy Pfaff, The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC/Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, NY
Six of One, Half A Dozen of Another, Crown Point Press, San Francisco, CA; New York, NY; Carnegie Mellon University Art Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA

1987 Biennial Exhibition, Installation: N.Y.C.-B.Q.E., Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Art in the Anchorage, Installation: 11211, Creative Time, Brooklyn Bridge, New York, NY
Judy Pfaff, Susanne Hilberry Gallery, Birmingham, MI

1986 Apples and Oranges, Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, NY
Wall Works, Installation: Superette, John Weber Gallery, New York, NY
Indoor / Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition, Installation: Untitled, El Bohio, New York, NY
Autonomous Objects, Knight Gallery, Spirit Square Center for the Arts, Charlotte, NC

1985 A New Beginning, Installation: Prototypes, Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY
Vernacular Abstraction, Installation: Gu, Choki, Pa, Wacoal Art Center "Spiral", Tokyo, Japan
Figurative Sculpture, Installation: The Italians, Susanne Hilberry Gallery, MI

1984 Celebration, Spokane City Hall Foyer, Spokane, WA
Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1983 3D, Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, NY
Wind Devil, Set Design for Nina Weiner & Dance Company, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, NY
Installation: Deep Water, Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, NY
The Sixth Day: A Survey of Recent Developments in Figurative Sculpture, The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Judy Pfaff: Installation and Collages, Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, NY

1982 Art Venture/XL Biennale de Venezia, Installation: Either War, Venice, Italy
Guy Goodwin, Bill Jensen, Louise Fishman, Stuart Diamond, Judy Pfaff, Installation: Four Minute Mile, Suzanne Lemberg Usdan Gallery, Bennington College, Bennington, VT
Installation: Boa, University Art Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
Installation: Rock / Paper / Scissors, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Collages and Constructions, Installation: Untitled, Hallwalls, Buffalo, NY (catalog in conjunction with Albright-Knox Art Gallery)

1981 Judy Pfaff: Installations, Collages and Drawings, Installation: Rorschach, The John & Mabel Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL; Polk Museum, Lakeland, FL; Museum of Art & Sciences, Daytona Beach, FL *
Zeitgenossische Kunst seit 1939, Installation: Ziggurat, Museen Stadt Koln, Cologne, Germany *
Biennial Exhibition, Installation: Dragon, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Directions 1981, Installation: Kabuki (Formula Atlantic), Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC *
Body Language: Figurative Aspects of Recent Art, Installation: Untitled, Hayden Gallery, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA; The Fort Worth Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX; University of South Florida Art Gallery, Tampa, FL; Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH

1980 Extensions: Jennifer Bartlett, Lynda Benglis, Robert Longo, Judy Pfaff, Installation: Charms, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX *
Walls!, Installation: Quintana Roo, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH
Deepwater, Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, NY
Watercolors, Installation: Red Hot, P.S. 1 Museum, Long Island City, NY

1979 Judy Pfaff, Martha Boyden, Arlene Bayer, Installation: Untitled, Eugenia Cucalon Gallery, New York, NY
10 Artists / Artists Space, Installation: Reinventing The Wheel, Neuberger Museum, SUNY Purchase, NY *
Pfaff, Provisor, Stikas, Wells, Installation: Schohaire, Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, NY
Food / Frameworks, Installation: Mixed Emotions, Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, NY
Canal Street, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY

1978 Sculptural Perspectives: Small Sculpture of the Seventies, Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA
Installation: Prototypes, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Artists Space, New York, NY

1977 Installation: The World Is Flat, Theater Gallery, University of South Florida,Tampa, FL
Faculty Exhibition, Installation: La Ciudad De Los Angeles, School of Art and Design, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA *
14 Women Artists, Installation: La Ciudad De Los Angeles, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
Space Window, Woods-Gerry Gallery, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI *

1976 Installation: Brier, Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
Approaching Painting, Part III, Installation: Charlemagne, Hallwalls, Buffalo, NY
New York / New York, Fine Arts Gallery, California State University, Los Angeles, CA *

1975 J.A.S.O.N. / J.A.S.O.N., Artists Space, New York, NY
Biennial Exhibition, Installation: Blue Wabe In 2, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY *
Installation: W.S.S.F., Ohio State University, Columbus, OH

1974 Webb and Parsons Gallery, New Caanan, CT

1973 Razor Gallery, New York, NY



Selected Group Exhibitions

2000 THE END: An independent Vision of Contemporary Culture, 1982-200 Exit Art, New York City
The Likeness of Being, D.C. Moore Gallery, Curated by Judith Stein, New York City
Works from the Studio Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland Oregaon. Jan.6-Feb12
Beyond the Press: Innovations in Print, Hand Workshop, Art Center Richmond , Virginia
Judy Pfaff: Recent Prints, Robischon Gallery, Denver, Colorado Jan 5- Feb26

1999 Jane Hammond and Judy Pfaff, Byron Cohen Gallery, Kansas City Missouri
Stella, Pfaff, Sugarman Tatunz, New York, New York February 2- March 20 Curated by Steve Davis
Women in Print, Jim Kempner Fine Art. New York, New York. March 6- April 11
Off the Wall, Ashville Art Museum, Ashville, North Carolina. Curated by Michael Klein
Indoor Group Show, Elaina Zhang Gallery, Shady (Woodstock), NY



Selected Bibliography

2004 Irving Sandler, "Judy Pfaff: Tracking the Cosmos", Hudson Hills Press.

2002 Judith van Baron, catalog essay for Squares of Savannah, Savannah College of Art and Design

2000 Rob van Erve, "If not White, What then", catalog essay for Notes on Light and Color, Dartmouth College

1999 Pedro Cuperman, "Beside the Visible: Judy Pfaff", catalog essay for Presage of Passage, Brigham Young University Museum of Art

1998 Miranda McClintic, "Outside/Inside Landscapes", catalog essay for Bienal de Sao Paolo, Brazil

1995 Carl Belz, "Judy Pfaff: Elephant", catalog essay for Elephant, Brandeis University

1986 Roberta Smith, "Notes on Stone, Scissor, Paper", catalog essay for Gu, Choki, Pa, Wacoal Art Center "Spiral", Tokyo



Selected Commissions

2000 "Ta Wa" ODS Tower, Wright Runsted Developer Commission Portland, Oregon
1997 The Private Eye In Public Park, Lasalle Partners at Nations Bank Plaza, Charolette, N.C. January 31 - October 31
1994 Cirque, CIRQUE, Pennsylvania Convention Center Public Art Project, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Aqua Vitae Miami Beach Art in Public Places, Miami Beach Police Station, Miami Beach, Florida
1991 Sweet Water-Heat Lightning GTE Corporation, Irving, Texas
1985 Gu, Choki, Pa, Installation Commission: Vernacular Abstaction Wacoal, Tokyo, Japan
1983 Set Design Commission: Wind Devil, Nina Weiner and Dancers, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, New YorK


Selected Public & Private Collections

  Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, New York
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York
Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit, Michigan
The High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia
Museum of Modern Art, New York
National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC
Sammlung Ludwig, Aachen
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Christo
Agnes Gund
Robert Freidus
Sol Le Witt
Steve Martin
Randolpho Rocha
James Rosenquist
Norton Simon


Grants & Awards

1999 Honorary Doctorate Pratt Institute. New York
1997 Fellow of the Saint Gaudens Memorial
1986 National Endowment for the Arts, Sculpture
1984 Bessie Award, Set Design for "Wind Devil," BAM Productionby Nina Weiner Dance Company
1983 Guggenheim Fellowship, Sculpture
1979 National Endowment for the Arts, Sculpture
1976 Creative Artist Public Services, Sculpture


Selected Academic Positions

2000 Artist-in-Residence Dartmouth College, April 4 - May 7, 2000
Visiting Artist Reed Colllege, Portland Oregon

1999 Richard B. Fisher Professor of Art and Co Chair of the Art Department,Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
Lecture, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington
Artist in Residence Pilchuck Glass School. Stanwood Washington
Mater Class, Yale University School of Art and Architecture, Graduate Painting Program, New Haven, Connecticut

1998 Professor of Art and Co Chair of the Art Department, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
Visiting Artist, California State University, CA.
Lecture, Clackmas Community College, Oregon City, Oregon [April]
Lecture, CAA Conference, Toronto, Canada [February]Moderator Sylvia Netzer.

1997 Professor of Art and Co-Chair of the Art Department, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York

1996 Professor of Art and Co-Chair of the Art Department, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
Lecture, SUNY - New Paltz, Art Lecture Series, New Paltz, NY [March]

1995 Professor of Art and Co-Chair of the Art Department, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
Richard B. Fisher Professor in the Arts, MFA Program, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
Lecture, Rose Art Museum, Waltham,Massachusetts [February]
Open Class, Rose Art Museum, Waltham, Massachusetts [February]
Lecture, Elvehjem Museum (with Tandem Press), Madison, Wisconsin [March]
Lecture, Queens College, MFA Lecture Series, Queens, New York [May]
Lecture, Katonah Museum, Lecture Series, Katonah, New York [April]
Visiting Artist, Summer Arts, Bakersfield, California [July]
Visiting Artist, Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY [July]
Visiting Artist, Castle Hill Truro Center for the Arts, Truro, Massachusetts [August]
Lecture, Bard Center for Curatorial Studies, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY [September]
Visiting Artist, "MOMA at the New School - A Lecture/Workshop Series, NYC [September]
Lecture, Claremont Graduate School, Claremont, CA [October]

1994 Professor of Visual Arts (Sculpture), Columbia University, New York
Interview with Charlotta Kotik, Artists Talk On Art Series, Fulcrum Gallery, New York, New York [November]
Visiting Artist, Institute of American Indian Arts, Santa Fe New Mexico [December]
Lecture, Art and Art History Department Lecture Series, Colgate University, Hamilton, New York [November]
Symposium, Landscape As Metaphor Exhibition, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio [October]
Studio Visit, Orlando Art Museum, New York [October]
John Eastman, Jr., Endowed Chair (co-holder with James Lunand Robert Gober), Resident Artist and Faculty, Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, Maine
Visiting Artist, Department of Art Studio Graduate Studies, Stanford University, California [May]
Seminars with Artists Program, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York [Winter Series]
The Annual Artist Interview Program, Interview by Irving Sandler, Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, Delaware [April]
Visiting Artist, Brandeis University, Department of Fine Arts, Waltham, Massachusetts [March]
Panelist, Public and Private Sculpture Discussion, Queens Museum, New York [March]
Studio Visit, Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York [February]
Studio Visit, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, New York [February]
Panelist, "The Crit: A Crit," College Arts Association Conference, New York [February]
Juror, Guggenheim Fellowship Competition, New York [February]

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