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SOLO EXHIBITIONS

 

2004    Mitchell Algus Gallery, New York

1996    Richard Anderson Fine Arts, New York

1991    A Conversation with Roccoco Mirrors, A/D, New York

1990    Studio Space, Simon Watson, New York

1989    Barbara Toll Fine Arts, New York

1986    New Paintings, Barbara Toll Fine Arts, New York

1984    The Science of Beauty, Barbara Toll Fine Arts, New York

1981    Barbara Toll Fine Arts, New York

 

Selected Group Exhibitions

2006    The Woods, DFN Gallery, New York, NY
2005    Life and Limb, Feigen Contemporary, NY (organized by David Humphrey

2002    Super Natural Playground, Marella Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy

2001    Self-Made Men, D. C. Moore Gallery, NY

2000    Private Worlds, Art in General, NY

The Figure: Another Side of Modernism, Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art at Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, NY

Revealing and Concealing: Portraits & Identity, Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles, Ca.

            The Nude and Narrative, PPOW Gallery, NY

1999    Foreign Bodies, Foreign Beings, The German Hygiene Museum, Dresden, Germany

            Skin, The Deste Foundation, Athens, Greece   

            Bridges and Boundaries: African Americans and American Jews, The

Jewish Museum, New York, travelling to the Muscarelle Museum,Williamsburg, Va., Atlanta Historical Society,Atlanta, National Civil Rights Museum, Memphis, and University Gallery.Amherst, Ma.

1996    Too Jewish? Challenging Traditional Identities, The Jewish Museum, New York Traveling to San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Baltimore

            A Millenium Celebration, The Fabric Workshop, Philadelphia

            Being Human, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

1995    Inside Out, Psychological Self-Portraiture, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CN

In the Flesh, The Albright Gallery, Reading, PA, and The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CN (1996)

1994    …It’s How You Play the Game, Exit Art/The First World, New York

            46th Annual American Academy Purchase Exhibition, The American

            Academy of Arts and Letters, New York

The Second Parish Art Museum Design Biennial: Mirrors, The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton

1993    Any Given Day. John Post Lee Gallery, New York

Building a Collection: The Department of Contemporary Art, Museum of Fine Art, Boston

            American Academy Invitational Exhibition of Painting & Sculpture, The

            American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York

1992    Slow Art, organized by Alanna Hess, P. S. 1. Museum, L. I. C., New York

            Tattoo Collection, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York,

1991    (Dis)member, Traditional Values/Simon Watson, New York

            Kardon, Brokish, Kliavang, Wingate Gallery, New York

1990    Fragments, Parts, Wholes; The Body and Culture, organized by Saul Ostrow, White Columns, New York

            Spellbound, organized by Christian Leigh, Marc Richards Gallery, Los Angeles

            Portraits, Althea Viafora Gallery, New York

1990    Body and Soil, Fernando Alcolea Gallery, Barcelona, Spain

1989    Erotophobia, Simon Watson, New York 1988

            Life-Like, organized by Marvin Heiferman, Lorence-Monk Gallery, New York

            Untitled (Slime), Simon Watson, New York

1987    Monsters: The Phenomena of Dispassion, organized by Maria Reidelbach and the artist, Barbara Toll Fine Arts, New York

1986    Public and Private: American Prints Today, The 24th National Print

            Exhibition, The Brooklyn Museum, New York

            Painting and Sculpture Today: 1986, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana

            Nude, Naked, Museum of Modern Art, Print Gallery, New York

            1976-1986 10 Years of Collecting Contemporary Art: Selections from

            the Edward R. Downe, Jr. Collection, Wellesley College Museum,Wellesley, MA

1985    Nude, Naked, Stripped, organized by Dana Friis-Hansen, List Art Center MIT, Cambridge, MA

1983    Prints from Blocks: Gaugin to Now, The Museum of Modern Art

 

Education

1973    Whitney Museum Independent Study Program

1973    Yale University, BA–Cum Laude

 

Awards

1998    John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship

1991    Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation—Grant

1987    New York Foundation on the Arts—Grant

 

Selected Articles

Rubinstein, Raphael      Dennis Kardon at Mitchell Algus, Art in America, June 2004 (illus.)

Johnson, Ken               Art in Review, The New York Times, March 6 2004

Mahoney, Robert         Dennis Kardon, Richard Anderson Fine Arts, Time Out

                                    New York, march 13-20, 1996

Karmel, Pepe               Art in Review, The New York Times, March 22, 1996

Smith, P.C.       Dennis Kardon at Richard Anderson, Art in America, July 1996 (illus.)

Humphrey, David         New York Fax, Art Issues, summer 1996 (illus.)

Unauthored                  A Conversation with Simon Watson, Dennis Kardon, and Chuck Close,                                                Balcon #7, 1991, p. 156 (illus.)

Mahoney, Robert         Dennis Kardon, A/D, Arts Magazine, Sept. 1991, p.83

Decter, Joshua              Kardon, Brokish, Kliavang, Arts Magazine, Apr. 1991

Westfall, Stephen          Dennis Kardon at Barbara Toll, Art in America, October l989; p. 216 (illus.)

Brody, Jacqueline         New Editions: Dennis Kardon–Critical Mass, The Print  Collector’s Newsletter, Jan-Feb, 1988,Vol. XVIII-No. 6; p. 218

Hart, Claudia                Monsters: The Phenomena of Dispassion, Artscribe No. 63 p. 74-75

Maschal, Richard          Downe Collection Packs a Punch, The Charlotte Observer,

                                    Sunday, February 22, l987: p. 4F, (illus.)

Silverman, Andrea        Dennis Kardon, Artnews, September l986: Vol. 85/     No. 7, p. 125 (illus.)

Brody, Jacqueline         New Editions: Dennis Kardon–Charlotte’s Gaze,

The  Print Collectors Newsletter, Sept-Oct l985,Vol. XVI-No. 4; p. 141

Meyer, Jon       Works on Paper, Arts, May l983, p. 9

Bleckner, Ross Transcendent Anti-Fetishism, Artforum, March l979    (illus.)

           

Catalogues

Jeanne Greenberg         Super Natural Playground, Marella Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy

Wei, Lilly                      The Figure: Another Side of Modernism, Newhouse Cultural Center, S.I., NY

Gilbert, Barbara            Revealing & Concealing:: Portraits & Identity, Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA

Gilbert, Andrea Skin, The Deste Foundation, Athens, Greece

Hürliman, Annemarie    Foreign Bodies, Foreign Beings, The German Hygiene Museum,                                                         Dresden, Germany

Kleeblatt, Norman        Too Jewish? Challenging Traditional Identities, The Jewish Museum, New York ,Traveling to San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Baltimore

Snyder, Jill  In the Flesh, The Albright Gallery, Reading, PA, and The Aldrich

                                   Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CN (1996)

Strauss, Mark J.           Inside Out, Psychological Self-Portraiture, Ridgefield, CN, 1995

Cunnick, Elizabeth        A/D at the Peter Joseph Gallery, New York, 1992

Zaya, Octavio               Body and Soil, Fernando Alcolea Gallery, Barcelona, Spain, 1990

Fine, Ruth E.                The 1980’s: Prints from the Collection of Joshua P. Smith, The National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., December 17, 1979–April 8 l990

(unauthored)                 1976–1986 10 Years of Collecting Contemporary Art: Selections from the Edward R. Downe, Jr. Collection, Wellesley College Museum, Wellesley, Massachusetts l986

Walker, Barry              Public and Private: American Prints Today, The 24th                                                                      National Print Exhibition, Brooklyn Museum, Feb–Apr l986

Friis-Hansen, Dana       Nude, Naked, Stripped, MIT, Cambridge; December 1985–February l986

Walker, Barry              The American Artist as Printmaker: 23rd National Print Exhibition, The Brooklyn Museum, October l983–January l984

Castleman, Riva            Prints from Blocks: Gaugin to Now, The Museum of  Modern Art, New York l983

 

Selected Public Collections

            The Skirball Cultural Center

            The Jewish Museum

            J.V. Speed Museum

            Los Angeles County Museum of  Art

            Boston Museum of Fine  Art

            Walker Art Center

            The New Museum

            Museum of Modern Art

            Metropolitan Museum

            Des Moines Art Center

            Indiana University Art Museum

            University of Iowa Museum of Art

            Brooklyn Museum

            New York Public Library

            Chase Manhattan Bank

            Prudential Insurance Company

            Peat, Marwich, Mitchel & Company

            Edward R. Downe, Jr. Collection

            National Museum of American Art

            Fogg Art Museum

 

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

1997–

2005    Instructor, 3rd Year Representational Painting, School of Visual Arts, New York

2003–

2005    Instructor, Foundation Painting, SVA, New York

2002    Visiting Artist, spring semester, Tyler Art School, Philadelphia

1999    Instructor, Drawing Workshop, NYU, New York

 

 

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