EDUCATION
1984	MFA, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL (Painting)
1980	BFA, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL (Drawing)
GRANTS AND RESIDENCIES
2007	The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Inc., New York, NY
2006	Stock 20, Taichung, Taiwan
2005	Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT (Full Fellowship Award)
2004	American Artists Abroad, Art in Embassies, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
2003	Weir Farm Trust, Wilton, CT
2002	Ballinglen Arts Foundation, County Mayo, Ireland
	Cill Rialaig Project, County Kerry, Ireland
	Heinrich Böll Residency, County Mayo, Ireland
2000	The Basil H. Alkazzi Award, USA
	Ballinglen Arts Foundation, County Mayo, Ireland
1997	The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Inc., New York, NY
1995	Ucross Foundation, Clearmont, Wyoming
1994	Mid Atlantic/NEA Regional Fellowship (Painting)
1993	Oberpfälzer Künstlerhaus, Schwandorf, Germany (VCCA Exchange Program)
1991	Camargo Foundation, Cassis, France
1990	Millay Colony, Austerlitz, NY
	VCCA, Sweet Briar, VA
1988	Art Matters Inc., NY
	Bronx Museum's Artist in the Marketplace Program, Bronx, NY
	Ruth Chenven Foundation, New York, NY
1986	Artist Fellowship, Florida State Arts Council, FL
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2006	Gulf Coast Museum of Art, Largo, FL
2005	Weir Farm Trust, Wilton, CT
	Von Liebig Art Center, Naples, FL
2004	gescheidle, Chicago, IL
	Okaloosa-Walton College, Niceville, FL
2003	gescheidle, Chicago, IL
2002	Lyons Wier Gallery, New York, NY
2001	Museo de las Americas, Old San Juan, Puerto Rico
2000	Kathryn Markel Fine Arts, New York, NY
	Galerie Industria, Wuppertal, Germany ('98, '96, '94, '92)
	Hammond Gallery, Fitchburg College, MA
1999	Rosemont College, Lawrence, PA
	Concordia College, Bronxville, NY
1998	Cathy Clayton Gallery, Tampa, FL ('93)
	The Forum Gallery, Jamestown Community College, NY ('92)
1997	Centro Cultural Costarricense Norteamericano, San Jose, Costa Rica (Catalog)
1996	University of Rochester, Rochester, NY
1995	The Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL
	Educational Testing Service, Princeton, NJ
1993	University of Tampa, Lee Scarfone Gallery, FL (Catalog)
1990	The Deland Museum of Art, Deland, FL (Catalog)
1987	Fine Arts Museum of Long Island, Hempstead, NY (Catalog)
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2007	Works on Paper, DFN Gallery, New York, NY
	TINY, Whitney Art Works, Portland, ME (curator Bruce Brown)
	Paved Paradise, Allen Gallery, New York, NY
	Have a Seat! The Beylerian Collection……, Museum of Arts & Design, New York, NY
	Layering Space, Reconstructing Time - Collage, Kleinert/James Art Center, Woodstock, NY
	On Your Mark, Spencertown Academy Arts Center, Spencertown, NY
	Helen Brough and Josette Urso, Allen Gallery, New York, NY
	New York at Night, DFN Gallery, New York, NY
	Works on Paper Benefit, Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn, NY (also 2006)
2006	The Woods, DFN Gallery, New York, NY
	The Maine Landscape, gWatson Gallery, Stonington, Maine
	Artists in Rural Ireland: …..at the Ballinglen Arts Found. Concord Art Assoc., Concord, MA
2005	Water, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, Maine
	One View/Two Visions, Leepa-Rattner Museum of Art, Tarpon Springs, FL
	NY Metro, Clarion University Art Gallery, Clarion, PA
2004	NYC, DFN Gallery, New York, NY
	Home for the Holidays, Kerrigan-Campbell art + projects, New York, NY
	Art in Embassies Program, Dublin, Ireland
	WATERCOLOR, DFN Gallery, New York, NY
	Art in Embassies Program, Zagred, Croatia (Catalog)
	Incognito, Santa Monica Museum of Art, CA
2003	Art in Embassies Program, Phnom Penh, Cambodia (Catalog) and Brunel (Catalog)
	Abstracting the Domestic Landscape, The Beaker Gallery, Tampa, FL
	THE BURBS, DFN Gallery, New York, NY
	HALCYON DAYS, Kerrigan-Campbell art + projects, New York, NY
2001	SnowGlobe Invitational, Lyons Wier Gallery, Chicago, IL
	Winter Invitational, The Painting Center, New York, NY
	Art in Embassies Program, Ankara, Turkey (Catalog)
	Landscape Show, Lyons Wier Gallery, Chicago, IL
	The Sum of the Parts, The Armory Art Center, West Palm Beach, FL
	Josette Urso & Shawn Dulaney, Museum West, San Francisco, CA
2000	Good Business is the Best Art, Bronx Museum of the Arts, NY ('96, '90, '88)
1999	Small Things Come in Good Packages, Kathryn Markel Fine Arts, New York, NY
	Group Show, LewAllen Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM
	Contemporary Visions, GE, Fairfield, CT
	Landscape of the Lower Hudson Valley, Allen Sheppard Gallery, New York, NY
	Art in Embassies Program, Ashgabat, Turkmenistan
	U.S. Artists in Cadaques, Loft Nota Bene, Cadaques, Spain ('95)
	20th Anniversary Retrospective, Barbara Gillman Gallery, Miami, FL
1998	Animal Magnetism, New York Law School, New York, NY (LMCC)
	Collage, Simon Gallery, Morristown, NJ
1997	The Art Exchange/ Robert Gilson Fine Art, New York, NY
	Hung out to Dry, Steinbaum-Krauss Gallery, New York, NY
	Landscape as Metaphor, Raritan Valley Community College, NJ
1996	Group Show, Federal Reserve Bank, New York, NY ( LMCC)
1995	Lost and Found, Nabisco Foods Gallery, East Hanover, NJ
	20th Anniversary Exhibition, City Without Walls, Newark, NJ
1994	Conversation Pieces, Madelyn Jordon Gallery, New York, NY
1993	Josette Urso & Kurt Haas, Galerie A-16, Zurich, Switzerland
1992	Group Show, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, NYC ('90,'88) (Catalog: Rizzoli, NY)
1991	ART NYC USA, Ancien Musee des Automates, Paris, France
	Collage Unglued, Center for Contemporary Art, Miami, FL
1990	From the Streets of New York, Seibu Corporation, Tokyo, Japan
	Two Person Exhibition, Zimmerman-Saturn Gallery, Nashville, TN
1989	Image = Color, Henry Feiwel Gallery, New York, NY
1988	Influences of the Untaught, The Drawing Center, New York, NY
	Heat Wave, Paul Bridgewater Gallery, New York, NY
	Real Democracy, White Columns, New York, NY
1987	Young Americans, Amerika Haus/ American Embassy, Köln, Germany
SELECTED PERMANENT COLLECTIONS
	Springfield Museum of Art, Springfield, OH
	Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC
	The Tampa Museum of Art, FL
	Fine Arts Museum of Long Island, NY
	University of South Florida Museum of Art, FL
	The Gulf Coast Museum of Art, FL
	Polk Museum of Art, FL
	The Deland Museum of Art, FL
	U.S. Department of State, Washington, D.C.
	Centro Cultural Costarricense Norteamericano, San Jose, Costa Rica
	Federal Reserve Bank, NY
	Poynter Institute, FL
	The Maitland Museum of Art, FL
	The Ballinglen Archive, Ballycastle, County Mayo, Ireland
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2006	Desk Diary, U.S. Department of State “Seeing Triple/Intimate Landscapes, Urban Ghosts and Oils Larger Than Life”, Megan Voeller, Tampa Weekly Planet, Mar 15-21 “Big Apple in a Small Tableau”, Robert Bianchi, Tampa Bay Illustrated, Mar “Painters Demonstrate Diversity in Style and....”, Kevin Costello, Sarasota Herald Trib,Feb
2005	Abstract Painting: Concepts and Techniques, Vicky Perry, Watson & Guptill Pub., NYC The Woodlands of Branchville, The Short List, Cathy Ross, Connecticut Magazine, Mar Landescapes, Lennie Bennett, The St. Petersburg Times, Feb Looking at Art Roundabout, Mark Ormond, Gulfshore Life Magazine, Jan
2003	The New York Art World, Short List - The Burbs, Lily Faust, Sept "City Focus: Chicago. Cutting-Edge Hip to Blue Chip", Margaret Hawkins, ARTnews, Apr "'Domestic Abstractions Helping to ……. ", Kevin Costello, Sarasota Herald Tribune, Apr "Turkey Embassy Shows American Fiber Art", Jane la Ferla, Fiberarts, Jan/Feb
2000	"Really Unreal," Leon Nigrosh, The Worcester Phoenix, Nov
1999	"Inspired Artistry in a Show of Collage," Victoria Donohoe, Philadelphia Inquirer, Mar
1998	New American Paintings, Michael Lash, Open Studios Press, Feb., No. 14 Talking Visions: Multicultural Feminism in a Transnational Age, edited by Ella Shohat, forward by Marsha Tucker, MIT & The New Museum of Contemporary Art, NY
1997	"Josette Urso," catalog essay by Cindy Nemser
1996	"Urso in Control of Familiar & Fantastic," Joan Altabe, Sarasota Herald-Tribune, May
1995	The Message in the Media," Phyllis Braff, NY Times, Apr
1994	"Passages: Josette Urso's Mind Garden," catalog essay by Robert Mahoney, Mar
1993	"Josette Urso," J. Murphy, Art Papers, Atlanta, July/Aug
1992	"Well Known Artists Join the Crowd .........,"Vivien Raynor, NY Times, June The Rocker, Bernice Steinbaum, Rizzoli International Publications, NY
1991	From 5 Choreographers 13 Works," Jennifer Dunning, NY Times, Apr "Brutalität Hinter der Oberfläche," Sc., W-Zeitung, Wuppertal, Germany , Dec
1990	"Elements of Style," Mary Ann Marger, St. Petersburg Times, Mar
1989	"The New Age of Corporate Art," Bonnie Barrett Stretch, ARTnews, Jan
1988	"Four Young Artists Take a Variety of Paths," Phyllis Braff, NY Times, Dec
1987	"A Show of Balance," Karin Lipson, New York Newsday, Dec
1986	"Kunst Schlagt Brucken," Karen M. Erdtmann, Kolner Stadt-Anzeiger, Nov "A Juried Show that Explores the Contemporary," Phyllis Braff, NY Times, Nov
SELECTED PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2008	Panelist, Studio Art Session: Contemporary Collage, College Art Association, Dallas, Texas Instructor, Cooper Union, New York, NY (1998 - present)
2007	Lecture, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada Visiting Artist, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA Instructor, Art New England, Bennington College, Bennington, VT      (2005/ 2004/ 2003/ 2001/ 1999) Panelist: ATOA, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY Master Artist Workshop, The Arts Center, Orange, VA
2006	Master Artist Workshop, The Arts Center, St. Petersburg, Fl ( also 2004, 2002)
2005	Visiting Artist, Ringling School of Art, Sarasota, FL Lecture, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL
2004	Visiting Artist, Reyum School of Art, Phnom Penh, Cambodia Lecture, Royal University of Fine Arts, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
2000	Master Artist Workshop, The Armory Art Center, West Palm Beach, FL Studio Talk with students from Drew University, Madison, NJ
1999	Studio Talk with students from Nova Scotia College of Art & Design, Halifax,Canada
1998	Visiting Resident Artist, Pyramid Atlantic, Riverdale, MD Advisory Committee, Ruth Chenven Foundation, New York, NY (3 years) Visiting Artist, Jamestown Community College, Jamestown, NY (also 1992)
1996	2-D Grant Advisory Committee, Maryland State Arts Council, Baltimore, MD
1994	Instructor, Marymount Manhattan College, New York, NY Costume Design, Sean Curren & Kathy Wildberger for Dance Theater Workshop      and MOMA Family Festival, New York, NY
1990	Instructor, The Art Center, 92nd Street YMHA, New York, NY (1988 - 1990) Instructor, Chautauqua School of Art, Chautauqua, NY (summers 1985 - 1990) Instructor, Union County College, Cranford, NJ
1988	Panelist, “Influences of the Untaught with Benny Andrews”, The Drawing Center, New York, NY

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