Biography & Bibliography 1932 Born NYC 1963-1970 Lived Madrid, Spain 1970-present Lives and works in NYC and Easthampton, NY EDUCATION 1970-1972 Pratt Institute, New York City, M.F.A. 1961-1963 Pratt Institute, New York City, B.F.A. 1958-1959 Art Student’s League, New York, City 1949-1952 Cooper Union Art School, New York City, Diploma SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2019: A Necessary Elaboration Alexander Gray Assoc. NYC Basel Art Fair, Basel , Switzerland 2016: Joan Semmel, Alexander Gray Associates, New York, NY* 2016: Joan Semmel, Frieze Masters, London, UK 2015: Joan Semmel:Across Five Decades,Alexander Gray Associates, New York, NY 2013 : Bronx Museum, NYC Alexander Gray Associates, NYC Basel Art Fair, Basel Switzerland 2011: Alexander Gray Associates, NYC Kabinett Show Miami, Basel Miami,FL 2008: Solitaire:--- Wexner Center for Contemporary Art, Columbus, Ohio 2003: Mitchell Algus Gallery 2000: Jersey City Museum, NJ 1999: Mitchell Algus Gallery , NYC 1998: Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, NY 1993 Pratt Manhattan Center, NYC; Bypass, NYC, 1992: SUNY, Albany, NY; Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY, 1991: Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, SC 1989: East Hampton Center for Contemporary Art, East Hampton, 1987: Gruenebaum Gallery, NYC; 1986: University of Missouri, St. Louis, MS; 1984:112 Greene Street, NYC ; 1981: Douglass College Women's Series, New Brunswick, NJ; 1981: Lerner-Heller Gallery, NYC; 1979: Lerner-Heller Gallery, NYC; 1978: Jorgenson Museum,University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT; Lerner-Heller Gallery, NYC; 1977: Lerner-Heller Gallery, NYC; Pelham Von Stoffler Gallery, Houston, TX; 1975: Lerner-Heller Gallery, NYC; 1973: 141 Prince St. Gallery NYC ; 1969: Juana Mordo Gallery, Madrid,Spain 1968: Bonino Gallery, Buenos Aires,Argentina; Museum of Plastic Arts, Montevideo, Uruguay; Ateneo de Madrid, Madrid, Spain SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2018: In The Cut Stadgalerie Saarbrucken 2017:Aging Pride, Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna Secret Garden:, Untitled Space, New York, NY Painting the Visible: American Women Realists, Bernaducci Meisel Gallery, New York, NY Hope and Hazard: A Comedy of Eros, curated by Eric Fischl, Hall Art Foundation, Reading, VT 2016:Olympia, Galerie Patrick Seguin, Paris , France Coming to Power- 25 Years of Xplicit Art By Women, Maccarone Gallery, New York, NY The Female Gaze, Part II: Women Look at Men, Cheim and Read Gallery, New York, NY Skins: Body as Matter and Process, Garth Greenan Gallery, New York, NY Human Interest: Portraits from the Whitney’s Collection, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY Black Sheep Feminism: The Art of Sexual Politics, Dallas Contemporary, Dallas, TX 2015: Selfies and Portraits of East End, Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, NY 2014: Robert Gober: The Heart is Not a Metaphor, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY Expanding the Field of Painting, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA Face Value: Portraiture in the Age of Abstraction, The National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC 2013 Skin Trade PPOW NYC Me, Myself, Naked Paula Modersohn-Becker Museum, Bremen, Germany 2012 Remix Chrysler Museum, Norfolk , Virginia Pairings the Orange County Museum of Art, CA Miami Basel, Miami FL 2011: Glee, Blum and Poe, Los Angeles, CA 2010: Real(ists), Ringling College of Art & Design, Sarasota,FL Shifting the Gaze, The Jewish Museum, NYC 2008:Rebelle MMKA( Museum voor Moderne Kunst Arnhem) The Female Gaze Cheim & Read New Adquisitions Guild Hall Museum Easthampton,NY 2007: Wack! ___ ,MOCA Los Angeles, CA The Women’s Museum, Washington,DC PS ! New York,NY Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada Dangerous Beauty Chelsea Museum, NYC Palazzo Delle Arti, Napoli, Italy The Naked Portrait National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh ,Scotland and Compton Verney,England Singularity In The Communal Tide, Pierro Gallery of South Orange, NJ All The More Real, The Parrish Museum of Art, South Hampton, NY Aspects of Realism Jason McCoy Gallery, NYC 2006 :America/America Blanton Museum of Art Austin TX How American Women Invented Postmodernism, Rutgers Univ, New Brunswick NJ Invitational Exhib. Of Contemp American Art The National Academy Museum,NYC Bearings: The Female Figure PS 122 NY,NY Splash, ACA Gallery, NYC Why the Nude? Contemporary Approaches The Art Student’s League, NYC 2005: Upstarts & Matriarchs Mizel Arts Center, Denver,CO 2004: NYC DFN gallery,NYC 2003: Woman On Woman, The White Box, New York City Counterparts: the Self-portraiture of Joan Semmel and JohnCoplans, The Berry Art Galleries Ramapo College of NJ, Mahwah, NJ Through the Looking Glass: Women and Self- Representation in Contemporary Art Palmer Museum of Art, University Park, PA Transgressive Women, (Yayoi Kusama,Lee Lozano,Ana Mendieta, and Joan Semmel,The Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX 2002: Personal and Political Guild Hall Museum, EastHampton, NY 2001: Acquisitions 1999-2000 The Parrish Art Museum,Southampton, NY To Be A Mirror curated by Jonathan Lasker, Eugene Binder Long Island City, NY 2000:The Figure:The Other Side Of Modernism, Newhouse Center of Contemporary Art, Snug Harbor, NY, curated by Lily Wei International Armory Show, NYC DFN Gallery, NYC Five Artists 31 Grand, Brooklyn,NY 1999: Mathew Marks gallery, NYC curated by Robert Gober The International Armory Show, NYC Treatment: Women's Bodies Dinnerware Gallery,Tucson, AZ 1996: Sexual Politics Armand Hammer Museum, Berkely, CA; 1994: New Jersey Arts Annual, New Jersey State Museum, Trenton,NJ; 1993: Coming to Power, David Zwirner Gallery, NYC; Songs of Retribution, Richard Anderson Gallery, NYC; Self-Portrait: The Changing Self, NJ Center for Visual Arts, Summit, NJ; 1992: Narrative Paintings, Vered Gallery, Easthampton, NY; 1991: Designing Women, Douglass College, New Brunswick, NJ; 1990: At The Water's Edge , Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL ; Nahan Contemporary, NYC; Gender and Representation, Zoller Gallery, Univ.of PA; 1989: Lines of Vision Blum Hellman Warehouse, NYC; 1988: Contemporary Nudes One Penn Plaza, NYC; Just Like A Woman, Greenville County Musem of Art, Greenville,NC 1987: New York, New Venue, Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC; 1986: Guerilla Girls Exhibition, The Palladium, NYC; 1985: Variations On A Theme: Figurative Painting, Brainard Art Gallery SUNY; Contemporary Figure Drawing, Minneapolis College Of Art and Design, Minneapolis, MN 1984:The Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville,SC ; 1983:Portraits, Concord Gallery, NYC; 20 Outstanding Alumni, Pratt Invitational, NYC; 1981: Heresies Benefit, Grey Art Gallery, NYC; 1980: Thirty Years of American Figure Painting, Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA; Contemporary Naturalism, Nassau County Musem, Roslyn, NY; 1979: Feministiche Kunst International, Haags, Gemeentemuseum The Hague, Netherlands; New Aquisitions, Newport Beach Museum, Newport Beach, 1978: Drawing Today-Aspects of Change, Hecksher Museum, Huntington, NY 1977 Contemporary Women. Content And Consciousness The Brooklyn Museum,NYC Nothing But Nudes, Whitney Museum (downtown), NYC 1976: A Patriotic Show, Lerner Heller Gallery, NYC 1975: Soho Visual Arts Center, NYC, two person ; 1974: Contemporary Reflections, Larry Aldrich Museum Ridgefield, Conn. Realisms Douglas Drake Gallery, Kansas City, Kansas; 1969: Concurso Nacional, Madrid, Spain; Juana Mordo Gallery, Madrid, Spain; 1966: Museum of Modern Art, Barcelona , Spain; SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS Tate Modern, London, UK Rose Museum, Brandeis University, MA Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, Philadelphia, PA Whitney Museum of American Art, NY Museum Of Plastic Arts, Montevideo, Uruguay Larry Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield , Connecticut Museum of Fine Art, Houston ,Texas Capitol Records, Los Angeles, California Allan Stone collection, New York City Best Products, Richmond, Virginia Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas, Austin Texas Newport Beach Museum, Newport Beach, California Douglass College, New Brunswick, New Jersey SUNY, Albany, New York Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Virginia New Jersey State Museum of Art, Trenton, New Jersey Museum of Women In The Arts, Washington, D.C. Greenville County Museum, Greenville, South Carolina. Davidson Collection, Art Institute of Chicago The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY The Jocelyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska The Guild Hall Museum, EastHampton, NY The Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY GRANTS & AWARDS 2013: Women Caucus for Art Lifetime Achievement Award 2008: Anonymous Was a Woman Award 1996: Richard Florsheim Art Fund Grant 1985: National Endowment for the Arts Grant 1985: Distinguished Alumnus Award, Cooper Union 1980: Yaddo Residency 1980: National Endowment for the Arts Grant 1977: Macdowell Colony Residency l975: EPDA Grant 1975: CAPS Grant TEACHING: 2000: International Summer Academy of Fine Arts Salzburg, Austria 1978-2000:Rutgers University, Mason Gross School of the Arts, New Brunswick, New Jersey 1991: Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture 1976-1978:Brooklyn Museum Art School, Brooklyn, NY JURIES: 2000: Massachusetts Cultural Council Artists Grants Panel in Painting 1993,1990: New Jersey State Council on the Arts, Painting jury 1983: National Endowment for the Arts, Washington D.C. Painting Jury CURATED: 2000: Private Worlds Art In General, New York , NY 1977: Contemporary Women: Content & Consciousness Brooklyn Museum, Bklyn, NY SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY 2011 Kreimer, Julian Art In America July27 Joan Semmel-Reviews Johnson, Ken The New York Times May 5, Pollack,,Barbera Artnet.com April 22, reprods. Goings On About Town:Art The New Yorker April 29 Burton, Johanna Reviews Joan Semmel Alexander Gray Artforum summer Fateman, Johanna , Critics Picks Joan Semmel Artforum, repro, May 1 Aldler, Alexander Joan Semmel Paintings The Huffington Post repros April 27 Time Out Critics Picks repro The New Yorker April 29 2010: Rosenberg, Karen A Raucous Reflection on Identity: Jewish and Feminine, TheYork Times Sept. 10, p.C26 Wei, Lily The Great American Male Nude Art News Dec. color, reprod. P. 82 2009: Salisbury, Brittany The Female Gaze. Women Look at Women Artforum July Smith, Roberta The Female Gaze:Women Look at Women the New York Times, August 21, Art In Review 2008: Meyers , Richard Its Not Me Solitaire catalogue Yale University Press color repros Molesworth, Helen Introduction Solitaire catalogue 2007: Falkenberg,Merrill All The More Real pg.16, 86,87 color Repros The Parrish Art Museum Slome, Manon Dangerous Beauty pg. 62, 63 color Repro. GruppMondadori.spa Hammer, Martin The Naked Portrait pg. 8,92,67-8 94, color Repros.The National Galleries of Scotland Edinborough, Scotland Cotter,Holland The New York Times Eamining The Art of Feminism As itFirst Took Shape. Friday March 9 pg E33 Frame, Alan Fahrenheit Arte Contemporaneo Pure Percepcion, Joan Semmel Diciembre-Enero color Reprod. Page 40F Meyers, Richard Wack! Art and the Feminist Revolution p375,6 Repro color plates Pg.140 141 biopage296 repro. MIT Press Cambridge,Mass. 2006: Johnson, Ken The New York Times May 31st 181st Annual ,An Invitational Survey of Contemporary Art Art Review page E5, Carlozzi, Annette DiMeo American Art Since 1900 Joan Semmel published by Blanton Museum of Art p.268-269 color repros. 2004: Berlind, Robert Art In America Bonnet, Marie-Jo Les Femmes Dans L'Art Editions de la Martiniere, reprod. Color p.160,161 2003: Johnson, Ken The New York Times May 16, p.E35 Tannenbaum, Alan New York in the 70's P. 69 Repro, Feierabend Berlag, Ohg, Berlin, Germany 2002: Cotter, Holland Two Nods to Feminism, Long Snubbed By Curators, The New York Times October 11, P. E 35 Weinreich, Regina Personal And Political, The Easthampton Star, Doss, Erika 20th Century American Art Oxford History of Art Series , Oxford University Press, England color repro. 2001: Reckitt, (editor) Art and Feminism (Themes &Movements Phaidon Press London color repro. 2000: Hills, Patricia Modern Art in the USA Issues & Controversies of the 20th Century Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ Blk & Wht. Repro p . 318, 401. Schwabsky, Barry New York Times Body As Mannequin, Reinterpreted 2 blk& wht reprod. Sunday May 21 Bischoff, Dan Sunday Star-Ledger Bodies In Motion & Joan Semmel: Recent Paintings Sunday, April 9, section 4 Kaiman, Fred Home News Tribune She's No Dummy Blk & Wht Repro Apr 21 1999: Bankowsky, Jack Art Forum Best of the 90s Editors Note, Revision Quest December p.29 Kino, Carol, Art In America, Joan Semmel at Mitchell Algus color reprod. p.137 Siegel, Katy Art Forum , Best of the 90’s December 2 color repros. p141 Smith, Roberta, The New York Times Annie Albers, Robert Beck, Cady Noland, JoanSemmel, Nancy Shaver Aug.6 p. E40, Aug. 27 B&W repro. p.E 37 Schjeldahl, Peter, The New Yorker Selective Affinities Sept. 6 , p. 86-87, Color repro. Saltz, Jerry The Village Voice Annie Albers, Robert Beck, Cady Noland,Joan Semmel, NancyShaver July 27, p.31. B&W repro Griffin, Tim Time Out Annie Albers, Robert Beck, Cady Noland, Joan Semmel August19-26 p. 57 color reproduction 1998: Borzello, Frances, Seeing Ourselves, A History of Women's Self-Portraiture, Thames and Hudson Ltd., London, England, pg. 159,161 , color reproduction 1998: Cottingham, Laura, Gesture and Self-Representation: The Art Of Joan Semmel catalogue for exhibition Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, NY 9 color, 2 Blk &Wht repro. McCarthy, David, The Nude In American Painting 1950-1980,, Feminist Interventions: Sylvia Sleigh & Joan Semmel, Cambridge Univ. Press, 4 B&W reproductions pgs. 1,14,15,17,18,20,147-83,186; 175-149,150,151,152,182, 176,172-77,180,181,182,165,148, 166-167, 1996: Meskimmon, Marsha, The Art Of Reflection-Women Artists' Self-Portraiture, In The Twentieth Century, Scarlet Press, London, & Columbia University Press, NY, color reproduction on cover,1-3,7,196. 1995: Marter, Joan, Joan Semmel's Nudes Women's Art Journal, Vol.16 cover repro 28 3 B&W, 2 color. Lippard, Lucy, The Pink Glass Swan , The New Press, N.Y. B&W Repro. P. 73. 1994: Frueh ,Joanna The Body Through Women's Eyes The Power Of Feminist Art, edited by Norma Broude & Mary Garrard, color reproductions pgs. 200- 201, 207, Abrams, N.Y. Frueh, Joanna,The Erotic as Social Security Art Journal Vol. 53 #1 B&W Repr 67, 69 Hammond, Harmony, Cultural Amnesia, Art Papers, Nov- Dec. B&W Reprod. 9 1993: Raven, Arlene,Wake Up Call , The Village Voice March 9 Heartney, Eleanor, Joan Semmel Art In America , Dec, P. 102-103 Color Reprod. 1989: Collishan Van Wagoner,Judy, Lines of Vision, Hudson Hills 102-103 Color Repro. Slivka, Rose , From The Studio The Easthampton Star, July 20, reprod B&W II Storr, Robert, Joan Semmel catalogue East Hampton Center of Contemporary Art 1988: Westfall, Stephen, Joan Semmel at Gruenebaum Art In America, NY, January 137 color reprod. Grimes, Nancy, Facts Of Life Art News December 12 B&W Reprod. Heartney, Eleanor,A Necessary Transgression New Art Examiner Nov22 B&W 1987: Holder, Marcya The Primal Scene, Feminist Art Criticism, edited by JoannaFrueh, Cassandra Langer. and Arlene Raven reproduction Figurative Painting-Joan Semmel, Helicon Nine, Winter 86-87 4.40-45 , 3 color 5B&W 1985: Sims, Lowery S.,Moment of Truth, Connoisseur, March 30, color Reprod. 1984: Glueck, Grace, The New York Times, May 4, C7 Henry, Gerrit, Joan Semmel at 112 Greene Street Art In America, Nov. Color Marter, Joan Joan Semmel's Portraits-Personal Confrontations" Arts May 104-106 B&W Moorman, Margaret, Joan Semmel Art News, September, 82, B&W Sims, Lowery S., catalogue, 112 Greene Street, May 1982: Rubinstein,Charlotte Streier, American Women Artists, Avon Paper. NY 390-392 B&W 1980: Alloway, Lawrence,Joan Semmel catologue essay Bass, Ruth, Joan Semmel (Lerner- Heller), Art News, January 172 B&W Kingsley, April & Semmel,Joan, Sexual Imagery In Women's Art The Woman's Art Journal., Vol #1 , reprod. B&W Kuspit, Donald, Joan Semmel at Lerner Heller, Art In America, March 122-3 color Tatransky, Valentine, Flashart, #94-95, Jan/Feb, 31 B&W Reprod 1979: Hammond, Harmony, A Sense of Touch The New Art Examiner, 4 , B&W Munro, Eleanor, The Originals, Simon & Schuster, NY Portfolio II color repro Contemporary Artists, St. Martin's Press, NY October, B&W Perrault,John, The Soho Weekly News, November 22, 19 1978: Alloway, Lawrence, The Nation, April 22 Kingsley, April, The Village Voice, May 1 Perrault, John The Soho Weekly News, April 27, B&W Raynor, Vivian, The New York Times , April 1977:Lubell, Ellen, An Interview With Joan Semmel, Womanart , P. 29 B&W Tannenbaum, Judith, Arts, P. 35 B&W Moser, Charlotte, Art News, December, 101 1976: Lippard, Lucy, From The Center, Dutton, NY, 7, 36, 69, B&W 1975: Alloway, Lawrence, The Nation, May 24, 636 Battcock, Gregory Super-Realism, Dutton, NY, 310, B&W Gruen, John, The Soho News, May 15, B&W Kincaid, Jamaica, MS Magazine, January, color Repr Semmel, Joan, Art; A Woman's Sensibility, edited by Miriam Schapiro, CA . Tannenbaum, Judith, Arts , October 7, B&W 1974: Alliata, Virginia, Bolaffearte, Rome, Italy, March 68-9 color Reprods. Holder, Marcya Changes, February Sieberling, Dorothy, "The Female View Of Erotica", New York, February 11, p. 63 1973:Alloway, Lawrence, The Nation, June 4, Deak, Edith, Erotic Formal Factors Art-Rite, July, B&W Perrault, John, The Village Voice, May 17, Picard, Lil Brief Aus New York, Kuntsforum International, DM10, 192, VIDEOS: 2003: Panetta Damien, White Box Interviews 1998: Cottingham, Laura, Not For Sale 1995: Tschinkel, Paul, Joan Semmel-A Passion For Painting Art NY, CUNY TV Tschinkel, Paul, Joan Semmel Paints A Portrait Art NY, CUNY TV 1990: Joan Semmel, Visiting Artist University of Colorado at Boulder 1989: Joan Semmel Artist Artbeat #4 LTV 1978: Joan Semmel Art Now, Queens College 1974: Joan Semmel Art Now, Queens College