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JUDY PFAFF

Miss Dworkin
2003
Ink, oilstick, encaustic and doily on Japanese paper
125 3/8 x 53 3/8 inches
318.5 x 135.6 cm

Judy Pfaff

Born in London, England, 1946

Education

1965	Wayne State University, Detroit, MI
1968	Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, IL
1970	Norfolk Summer School of Music and Art, Norfolk, CT
1971	BFA, Washington University, Saint Louis, MO
1973	MFA, Yale University, New Haven, CT

Grants and Awards

2006	Barnett and Annalee Newman Foundation Award
2004	MacArthur Fellowship (Genius Award)
2003	Nancy Graves Foundation Grant
2002	Award of Merit Medal for Sculpture, American Academy of Arts and Letters, NY
	American Academy of Design, NY
1999	Honorary Doctorate, Pratt Institute. NY
1998	U.S. Representative for the Bienal de Sao Paulo
	Distinguished Alumni Award, Washington University
1997	Fellow of the Saint Gaudens Memorial
1986	National Endowment for the Arts, Sculpture
1984	Bessie Award, Set Design for “Wind Devil,” BAM Production by Nina Weiner Dance Company
1983	Guggenheim Fellowship, Sculpture
1979	National Endowment for the Arts, Sculpture
1976	Creative Artist Public Services, Sculpture

Selected Public Collections

Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY

The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY

The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI

High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA

Elvehjem Museum of Art, Madison, WI

The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

Installations and Solo Exhibitions

2007	Judy Pfaff: …all of the above, installation, Rice Gallery, Rice University, Houston, TX, February 1 – April 1.
	Judy Pfaff: New Prints and Drawings, Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, SUNY New Paltz, NY, February 10 – April 7.
2006	Judy Pfaff: Buckets of Rain, installation, Ameringer & Yohe Fine Art, New York, NY. September 7 – October 7.
2005	Judy Pfaff, Jane Rosen, Braunstein / Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA. April 2 – 30.
2004	Judy Pfaff: Installations, Prints & Drawings, Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, OH. September 10 – December 1.
	Judy Pfaff: Recent Work, Bellas Artes Gallery, Santa Fe, NM. July 10 – August 14.
	En Restauro, installation, Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) Ramp Projects, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA. May 1 – August 1.
2003	Neither Here Nor There, installation, Ameringer & Yohe Fine Art, New York, NY. September 4 – October 10.
	Judy Pfaff: New Work, Robischon Gallery, Denver, CO. May 8 – June 21.
2002	Judy Pfaff: Chapel and Brook, Bellas Artes Gallery, Santa Fe, NM. August 13 – September 14.
	2-D: An Installation of Works on Paper, Sarah Moody Gallery of Art, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL. April 18 – June 21.
	The Squares of Savannah, installation, Contemporary Masters Exhibition Series, curated by Judith Von, Baron Pinnacle Gallery, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA. January 14 – March 11.
2001	If I Had a Boat, installation, The Art of Judy Pfaff, Elvehjem Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin – Madison, curated by Russell Panczenko, April 28 – August 12. (catalogue)
2000	New Drawings, Robischon Gallery, Denver, CO. October 28 – December 30.
	Transforming Traditions, Schneider Museum of Art, curated by Sanford Shaman, Southern Oregon University, Ashland, OR. October 20 – January 20, 2001. (catalogue)
	New Work, Bellas Artes Gallery, Santa Fe, NM. June 15 – August 5.
	Notes on Light and Color, installation, Jaffe-Friede & Strauss Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH. April 4 – May 7. (catalogue)
1999	Yâ – Wa, commission, ODS Tower, Portland, OR.
	Drawings and Prints, Karen McCready Fine Art, New York, NY. January 14 – February 27.
	New Prints, Susanne Hilberry Gallery, Birmingham, MI. August 11 – September 11.
	Notes on Light and Shadow, installation in Presage of Passage, Museum of Art, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT. November 3 – March 18, 2000.*
	Drawings and Prints, Robischon Gallery, Denver, CO. October 27.
1998	Coroa de Espinhos, installation in 24th International Bienal de São Paulo, USA Representative, curated by Miranda McClintic, São Paulo, Brazil. October 4 – December 13. (catalogue)
	Cha Drawings, installation, Galerie Deux, Tokyo, Japan. May 22 – August 5.
	Judy Pfaff: Sculpture and Drawings, Bellas Artes Gallery, Santa Fe, NM. July 2 – August 17.
	Jardín de los Cuervos, installation, Bellas Artes Gallery, Santa Fe, NM. October 4 – December 13.
1997	Round Hole, Square Peg, installation, André Emmerich Gallery, New York, NY. September 4 – October 4.
	Recent Drawings, Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site, Cornish, NH. June 7 – July 6.
	Untitled, installation of drawings, Adobe Krow Archives, AKA Gallery, Bakersfield, CA. April 5 – May 3.
1996	New Prints, Drawings and Sculpture, Susanne Hilberry Gallery, Birmingham, MI. September 17 – October 26.
	Judy Pfaff: New Work, André Emmerich Gallery, New York, NY. September 4 – October 4.
	Judy Pfaff: New Work, Bellas Artes Gallery, Santa Fe, NM. June 27 – August 10.
	Ear to Ear, installation, Alyce de Roulet Williamson Gallery, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA. October 8 – December 17.
1995	Elephant, installation, Rose Art Museum, curated by Carl Beltz, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA. January 26 – March 5. (catalogue)*
	Judy Pfaff: Prints, Elvehjem Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin – Madison, Madison, WI. May 12 – August 12.
	Madison Print Club, Madison, WI, February – May.
	Mixed Media Works on Paper, Linda Farris Gallery, Seattle, WA. July 6 – July 30.
	Sculpture and Drawings, Bellas Artes Gallery, Santa Fe, NM. June 30 – August 5.
1994	cirque, CIRQUE, commission, Pennsylvania Convention Center, Philadelphia, PA.
	Aquavitae, commission sponsored by Art in Public Places, Miami Beach Police and Court Facility, Miami Beach, FL.
	Cielo Requerdo, installation in Landscape as Metaphor, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH. October 16 – January 8, 1995.*
	Judy Pfaff: New Works on Paper, Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York, NY. June 7 – July 15.
	Cielo, installation in Landscape as Metaphor, curated by Martin Friedman, Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO. May 14 – September 11.*
	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 27 – March 13.
1992	Zygmunt, collaborative installation in Incisions / Collisions / Juxtapositions: Judy Pfaff & Ursula von Rydingsvard, curated by Papo Colo and Jeannette Ingberman, Life After Post-modernism series at The Cultural Space, New York.
	Sweet Water, Heat Lightning, commission, GTE, Irving, TX.
	Flusso é Riflusso, installation, Max Protetch Gallery, New York, NY. May 18 – 24.
1991	Judy Pfaff, The Fabric Workshop, Philadelphia, PA. June 28 – September 28.
	Bandas de Acero, installation, Morris Gallery of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA. June 28 – August 11.
	Judy Pfaff, Susanne Hilberry Gallery, Birmingham, MI. February 23 – March 30.
1990	Judy Pfaff: Sculpture and Works on Paper, Dana Art Center, Loyola University, New Orleans, LA. September 17 – October 12. Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH. November 16 – January 18, 1991.
	Equinox, Max Protetch Gallery, New York, NY. September 22 – October 27.
	Prints & Drawings, The College of Saint Rose Gallery, Albany, NY. February 25 – March 25.
	Dessins, Thomas Solomon’s Garage, Los Angeles, CA.
1989	Currents 41, Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, MO. October 26 – January 7, 1990.
1988	Forefront: Judy Pfaff, installation, The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC. November 21 – January 22, 1989. (catalogue)
	10,000 Things, Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, NY. November 11 – December 3. (catalogue)
	New Work, New York, Carnegie Mellon University Art Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA. June 4 – July 3.
	Six of One, Half A Dozen of Another, Crown Point Press, San Francisco, CA. May 14 – July 2.
1987	N.Y.C.-B.Q.E., installation, Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY. April 10 – July 5. (catalogue)*
	11211, installation in Art in the Anchorage, sponsored by Creative Time, Brooklyn Bridge, Brooklyn, NY. June – July.
	Susanne Hilberry Gallery, Birmingham, MI. January 31 – March 28.
1986	Indoor/Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition, El Bohio, New York, NY.*
1986	Autonomous Objects, Knight Gallery, Spirit Square Center for the Arts, Charlotte, NC. September 12 – November 8. (catalogue)
	Superette, installation in Wall Works, John Weber Gallery, New York, NY. June 7 – 28. (catalogue)*
	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, curated by Roberta Smith, Spiral / Wacoal Art Center, Tokyo, Japan. August 5 – October 15. (catalogue)*
	Prototypes, installation in A New Beginning, Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY. February 3 – May 5. (catalogue)*
1984	Untitled, commissioned installation, Spokane City Hall Foyer, Spokane, WA.
	Recent Work, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA. March 14 – April 14.
1983	3-D, 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. May 8 – June 15.*
	Installation and Collages, Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, NY. January 8 – 29.
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 24 – November 14. (catalogue in conjunction with Albright-Knox Art Gallery).*
	Rock / Paper / Scissors, installation, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY. September 17 – October 30. (catalogue)
	Four Minute Mile, installation in Guy Goodwin, Bill Jensen, Louise Fishman, Stuart Diamond, Judy Pfaff, Suzanne Lemberg Usdan Gallery, Bennington College, Bennington, VT. March 16 – April 6.*
1981	Untitled, installation in Body Language: Figurative Aspects of Recent Art, curated by Roberta Smith, Hayden Gallery, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, October 2 – December 24; The Fort Worth Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX, September 11 – October 24, 1982; University of South Florida Art Gallery, Tampa, FL, November 12 – December 17, 1982; Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH, January 13 – February 27, 1983.*
	Ziggurat, installation in Zeitgenossische Kunst seit 1939, curated by Kaspir Konig, Museen der Stadt Köln, Cologne, Germany. (catalogue)*
	Dragon, installation in Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY. January 20 – April 5.*
	Rorschach, installation in Installations, Collages and Drawings, John & Mabel Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL. July 16 – August 30; Polk Museum, Lakeland, FL. September 18 – October 16; Museum of Arts & Sciences, Daytona Beach, FL. October 23 – November 22. (catalogue)
1981	Kabuki, installation in Directions 1981, (Formula Atlantic), curated by Miranda McClintic, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. February 12 – May 3. (catalogue)*
1980	Quintana Roo, installation in Walls!, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH. (catalogue)*
	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 20 – March 2. (catalogue)
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 of Art, SUNY, Purchase, NY. (catalogue)*
	Schohaire, installation in Pfaff, Provisor, Stikas, Wells, Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, NY.*
	Mixed Emotions, installation in Food / Framework, Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, NY.*
1979	Untitled, installation in Canal Street, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY.*
1978	Prototypes, installation, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions Gallery, curated by Jill Giegerich, Los Angeles, CA. April 10 – 29.
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, California 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. (catalogue)*
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, curated by Michael Auping, Fine Arts Gallery, California State University, Los Angeles, CA. (catalogue)*
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. February 4 – April 9. (catalogue)*
	W.S.S.F., installation Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.
1974	Webb and Parsons Gallery, New Canaan, CT.
1973	Razor Gallery, New York, NY.

Judy Pfaff

Education

Grants and Awards

Selected Public Collections

Installations and Solo Exhibitions

Judy Pfaff

Judy Pfaff to speak at Skowhegan TALKS Lecture Series

Judy Pfaff

Construction Zone

Judy Pfaff at Indiana University Visiting Artist Program

Judy Pfaff at the Kentucky School of Art Visiting Artist Program

Judy Pfaff named a USA Rasmuson Fellow

Judy Pfaff

Slash: Paper Under the Knife

Judy Pfaff: New Prints