Judy Pfaff
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
2008 Inaugural Exhibition, Paperworks, Year of the Dog, Pig, Rat, Etc., Installation, Esther Massry Gallery, The College of Saint Rose, Albany, NY, September-November
Judy Pfaff: Very Recent Work, Bellas Artes Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, August
2007 “. . . all of the above”, Installation, Rice University Art Gallery, Houston, TX, February - April, (catalog)
Judy Pfaff: New Prints and Drawings, Samuel Dorsky Musuem of Art, SUNY New Paltz, NY, February - April, (catalog)
2006 “Buckets of Rain”, Installation, Ameringer Yohe Fine Art, New York, NY, September - October, (catalog)
2005 Judy Pfaff Recent Works on Paper, Lemberg Gallery, Ferndale, MI, December 2005 - January 2006
Judy Pfaff / Works on Paper, Sears-Peyton Gallery, New York, NY. October - December
Judy Pfaff / New Prints, Elena Zang Gallery, Shady (Woodstock), NY. April - May
Judy Pfaff: Installations, Prints & Drawings, Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH, February - April
Regina, Commissioned set design for American Symphony Orchestra, Fisher Center, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, July - August.
2004 Judy Pfaff: Installations, Prints & Drawings, Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, OH, September - December
Judy Pfaff: Recent Work, Bellas Artes Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, July - August
“En Restauro”, Installation, Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) Ramp Projects, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, May - August
Judy Pfaff: Recent Prints and Drawings, Ulster County Community College, Stone Ridge, NY. April - May
2003 “Neither Here Nor There”, Ameringer & Yohe Fine Art, New York, NY, September - October
Judy Pfaff: New Work, Robischon Gallery, Denver, CO, May - June
2002 Judy Pfaff: Chapel and Brook, Bellas Artes, Santa Fe, NM, August - September
2-D: An Installation of Works on Paper, Sarah Moody Gallery of Art, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, April - June
“The Squares of Savannah”, Installation, Pinnacle Gallery, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA, January - March
2001 The Art of Judy Pfaff, Elvehjem Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin-Madison, April - August, (catalog)
Photogravures, Flanders Gallery, Minneapolis, MN, March - April
2000 New Drawings, Robischon Gallery, Denver, CO, October - December
Transforming Traditions, Schneider Museum of Art, Southern Oregon University, Ashland, OR, October - January, (catalog)
“If I had a Boat”, Installation, Elvehjem Museum of Art, Madison, WI, September 2000 - September 2001 (catalog)
New Work, Bellas Artes, Santa Fe, NM, June - August
“Notes on Light and Color”, Installation, Jaffe Friede & Strauss Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, May (catalog)
1999 “Ya - Wa”, Commission for ODS Tower, Portland, OR
Drawings and Prints, Karen McCready Fine Art, New York, NY, January - February
New Prints, Susanne Hilberry Gallery, Detroit, MI, August - September
“Notes on Light and Shadow”, Installation, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah. October - March, 2000
Drawings & Prints, Robischon Gallery, Denver, CO, October
1998 “Corona de Espinhos”, Installation in 1998 Bienal de Sao Paulo, USA Representative, Sao Paulo, Brazil, October - December, (catalog)
“Cha”, Drawings Installation, Galerie Deux, Tokyo, Japan, May - August
Judy Pfaff: Sculpture and Drawings, Bellas Artes, Santa Fe, NM, July - August
“Jardin De Los Cuervos”, Installation, Bellas Artes, Santa Fe, NM, October - December
1997 “Round Hole Square Peg”, Installation, Andre Emmerich Gallery, NY, September - October
Recent Drawings, Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site, Cornish, NH, June - July
“Untitled”, Installation of Drawings, Adobe Krow Archives Gallery, Bakersfield, CA, April - May
1996 New Prints, Drawings and Sculpture, Susanne Hilberry Gallery, Birmingham, MI. September - October
Judy Pfaff: New Work, Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York, NY, September - October
Judy Pfaff: New Work, Bellas Artes Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, June - August
1995 “Elephant, Installation, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, January - March, (catalog)
Judy Pfaff: Prints, Elvehjem Museum of Art, Mayer Gallery, Madison, WI, May - August
Mixed Media Works on Paper, Linda Farris Gallery, Seattle, WA. July - July
Sculpture and Drawings, Bellas Artes Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, June - August
“Ear to Ear”, Installation, Alyce de Roulet Williamson Gallery, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA, October - December
1994 “Cirque, CIRQUE”, Commission, Pennsylvania Convention Center Art Program. Philadelphia, PA
“Aquavitae”, Commission sponsored by Art in Public Places for the Miami Beach Police and Court Facility, Miami Beach, FL
“Cielo Requerdo”, Installation in Landscape as Metaphor, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH, October 1994 - January 1995
Judy Pfaff: New Works on Paper, Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York, NY, June - July
“Cielo”, Installation in Landscape as Metaphor, Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO, May - September Lobby Sculpture Exhibit at the Community Gallery, Brooklyn Union Gas Company, Brooklyn, NY, April - September.
1993 Judy Pfaff: Recent Sculpture and Drawings, Nancy Drysdale Gallery, Washington, DC.
“Corpo Onbrosso”, Installation for Inaugural Exhibition, The Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY. January - March
1992 “Zygmunt”, Collaborative Installation in Incisions/Collisions/Juxtapositions: Judy Pfaff & Ursula von Rydingsvard, The Cultural Space, New York and Neuberger Museum of Art, SUNY Purchase, NY
“Sweet Water, Heat Lightning”, GTE Commission, Irving , TX
“Flusso E Riflusso”, Installation, Max Protetch Gallery, New York, NY, May
1991 The Fabric Workshop, Philadelphia, PA
“Bandas de Acero”, Installation, Morris Gallery of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Judy Pfaff, Susanne Hilberry Gallery, Birmingham, MI, February - March
1990 Judy Pfaff: Sculpture and Works on Paper, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH, November - January
Equinox, Max Protetch Gallery, New York, NY, September - October
Dana Art Center, Loyola University, New Orleans, LA September - October
Prints & Drawings, The College of Saint Rose Gallery, Albany, NY, February - March
Dessins, Thomas Solomon?s Garage, Los Angeles, CA
1989 Currents 41, Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, MO, October
1988 “Forefront”, Installation,The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC / Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, NY, November 1988 - January 1989. (catalog)
10,000 Things, Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, NY. November - December (catalog)
New Work, New York, Carnegie Mellon University Art Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA, June - July
Six of One, Half A Dozen of Another, Crown Point Press, San Francisco, CA, May - July
1987 ” N.Y.C.-B.Q.E.”, Installation, Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, (catalog)
“11211″, Installation in Art in the Anchorage, sponsored by Creative Time, Brooklyn Bridge, New York, NY
Susanne Hilberry Gallery, Birmingham, MI, January - March
1986 Indoor/Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition, El Bohio, New York, NY
Autonomous Objects, Knight Gallery, Spirit Square Center for the Arts, Charlotte, NC. September - November, (catalog)
“Superette”, Installation in Wall Works, John Weber Gallery, New York, NY, June, (catalog)
“Apples and Oranges”, Installation, Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, NY, May
1985 “The Italians”, Installation in Figurative Sculpture, Susanne Hilberry Gallery, Birmingham, MI.
“Gu,Choki, Pa”, Installation in Vernacular Abstraction, Spiral Wacoal Art Center, Tokyo, Japan. August - October, (catalog)
“Prototypes”, Installation in A New Beginning, Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY February - May (catalog)
1984 “Untitled”, Commissioned installation, Spokane City Hall Foyer, Spokane, WA
Recent Work, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, March - April
1983 “3D”, Installation, Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, NY
“Wind Devil”, Commissioned Set Design for Nina Weiner & Dance Company, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, NY
“Untitled”, Installation in The Sixth Day: A Survey of Recent Developments in Figurative Sculpture, The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Installation and Collages, Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, NY, January
1982 “Either War”, Installation in Art Venture/XL Biennale de Venezia, Venice, Italy
“Boa”, Installation, University Art Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
“Untitled”, Installation in Collages and Construction, Hallwalls, Buffalo, NY, September - November, (catalog in conjunction with Albright-Knox Art Gallery)
“Rock / Paper / Scissors”, Installation, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY. September - October, (catalog)
“Four Minute Mile”, Installation in Guy Goodwin, Bill Jensen, Louise Fishman, Stuart Diamond, Judy Pfaff, Suzanne Lemberg Usdan Gallery, Bennington College, Bennington, VT, March - April
1981 “Untitled”, Installation in Body Language: Figurative Aspects of Recent Art, 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
“Ziggurat”, Installation in Zeitgenossische Kunst seit 1939, curated by Kaspir Konig, Museen Stadt Koln, Cologne, Germany, (catalog)
“Dragon”, Installation in Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
“Rorschach”, Installation in Installations, Collages and Drawings, The John & Mabel Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL, Polk Museum, Lakeland, FL, Museum of Art & Sciences, Daytona Beach, FL, (catalog)
“Kabuki”, Installation in Directions 1981, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, February - May, (catalog)
1980 “Quintana Roo”, Installation in Walls!, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH, (catalog)
“Deepwater”, Installation, Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, NY
“Red Hot”, Installation in Watercolors, P.S. 1 Museum, Long Island City, NY
“Charms”, Installation in Extensions: Jennifer Bartlett, Lynda Benglis, Robert Longo, Judy Pfaff, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX, January - March, (catalog)
1979 “Untitled”, Installation in Judy Pfaff, Martha Boyden, Arlene Bayer, Eugenia Cucalon Gallery, New York, NY
“Reinventing The Wheel”, Installation in 10 Artists / Artists Space, Neuberger Museum, SUNY Purchase, NY, (catalog)
“Schohaire”, Installation in Pfaff, Provisor, Stikas, Wells, Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, NY
“Mixed Emotions”, Installation in Food / Frameworks, Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, NY
“Untitled”, Installation in Canal Street, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY
1978 Artists Space, New York, NY
“Prototypes”, Installation, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, April
1977 “The World Is Flat”, Installation, Theater Gallery, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL
“La Ciudad De Los Angeles”, Installation in Faculty Exhibition, School of Art and Design, Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
“Untitled”, Installation in 14 Women Artists, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
“Untitled”, Installation in Space Window: Man in Space and Space in Art, Woods-Gerry Gallery, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, (catalog)
1976 “Brier”, Installation, Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
“Charlemagne”, Installation in Approaching Painting, Part III, Hallwalls, Buffalo, NY
“Untitled”, Installation in New Work / New York, Fine Arts Gallery, California State University, Los Angeles, CA, (catalog)
1975 “J.A.S.O.N. / J.A.S.O.N.”, Artists Space, New York, NY
“Blue Wabe In 2″ ,Installation in Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, (catalog)
“W.S.S.F.”, Installation Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
Selected Group Exhibitions
2007 Decades: Featuring Judy Pfaff, Robischon Gallery, Denver, CO, January - February
2006 Ron Gorchov, Judy Pfaff, John Torreano, Sussane Hilberry Gallery, Detroit, MI, March - April
3D: An Exhibition of Contemporary Sculpture, Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio. May - July
2005 Nine Contemporary Sculptors: Fellows of the Saint-Gaudens Memorial, The UBS Art Gallery, September - December
Judy Pfaff, Jane Rosen, Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA. April, * installation “Capella”
Collage signs & surfaces, Pavel Zoubok Gallery, New York, NY. April - May
2004 Collage: The Art of Attachment, Elena Zang Gallery, Shady (Woodstock), NY, October
Group Exhibition of Paintings & Sculpture, Heritage Bank of Commerce, San Jose, CA, August.
Watercolors, Dorsky Gallery/ Curatorial Programs, Long Island City, NY
Judy Pfaff and Gregg Coniff: Camera and Ink, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI. May - August
A Method Toward a Means, Savannah Gallery, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA. March - May
Judy Pfaff / Peregrine Honig, Byron C. Cohen Gallery for Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO. January - February
2003 From Surface to Form: Rosen, Morris, Pfaff, William Traver Gallery, Seattle, WA, April
New Gallery Artists: Judy Pfaff and Harry Kramer, Ameringer Yohe Fine Art, The Gallery Center, Boca Raton, FL, April - May
Drawings: Squeak Carnwath, Jane Rosen, Judy Pfaff, Sears - Peyton Gallery, New York, NY, May
2002 Good Things Come in Small Packages, Ameringer/Yohe, New York, NY, November - December New Faces, Robert Kidd Gallery, Birmingham, MS, August
The Belles of Amherst: Contemporary Women Artists, Mead Art Museum, Amherst, MA. May - September
The 177th Annual, National Academy of Design, New York, NY, May - June
American Academy Invitational Exhibition of Painting & Sculpture, The American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY, March - April
Darkness and Brightness, Sears-Peyton-Gallery, New York, NY. January - February
2001 Art Is For The Spirit, Duetsche Bank, New York, NY, December 2001 - January 2002
Rupture and Revision: Collage in America, Pavel Zoubok, Inc, New York, NY, November - January 2002
Yale Alumni, New Haven, CT, October
Art Transplant, British Artists in New York, British Consul-General’s Residence, New York, NY, October - Catolog essay by Irving Sandler.
Mostly Black and White: Photography and Works on Paper, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR, October
Beauty Without Regret, Bellas Artes Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, June - August
Conversations from the Heart: Paintings, Sculpture, Drawings, The Educational Alliance Gallery, New York, NY, February - March
Shadow Dancing, D’Amelio/Torres Gallery, New York, NY, January - February
2000 Judy Pfaff, Mary Frank, Joan Snyder, Elena Zang Gallery, Shady (Woodstock), NY
The Likeness of Being, D.C. Moore Gallery, New York, NY
THE END: An Independent Vision of Contemporary Culture, 1982-2000, Exit Art, New York, NY
Can Chaos Have a Theory: Robert Frank, Elizabeth Murray, Judy Pfaff, Keith Sonnier, Daniel Spoerri, Pratt Institute Brooklyn and Pratt Manhattan Gallery, NY
Construction Site: Chamberlain, Pfaff, Stella, Ameringer - Howard Gallery, New York, NY, June - July
Welded! Sculpture of the Twentieth Century, Neuberger Museum, SUNY Purchase, NY, April - August
Beyond the Press: Innovations in Print, Hand Workshop Art Center, Richmond, VA, January - March
Works from the Studio, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR, January - February
Recent Prints, Robischon Gallery, Denver, CO, January - February
Grants & Awards
2006 Barnett and Annalee Newman Foundation Fellowship
2004 MacArthur Fellowship
2003 Nancy Graves Foundation Grant
2002 Award of Merit Gold Medal for Sculpture: American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York
1999 Honorary Doctorate Pratt Institute. NY
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 Bibliography
2007 Eleanor Heartney, Helaine Posner and Nancy Princenthal, After the Revolution: Women Who Transformed Contemporary Art, Prestel Press
2006 Steven Watson, catalog essay for “Buckets of Rain”, Ameringer Yohe Fine Art, New York, NY
2004 Irving Sandler, “Judy Pfaff: Tracking the Cosmos”, Hudson Hills Press.
2003 Irving Sandler. Judy Pfaff. Hudson Hills Press in association with Elvehjem Museum of Art.
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 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