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