Judy Pfaff
Biography
Born
1946 London, England
Education
1973 MFA, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
1971 BFA, Washington University, Saint Louis, Missouri
1970 Norfolk Summer School of Music and Art, Norfolk, Connecticut
1968 Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, Illinois
1965 Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan
SELECTED INSTALLATIONS AND SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2010 Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Judy Pfaff: Five Decades, Ameringer-McEnery-Yohe, New York, NY
Judy Pfaff: I Dwell in Possibility, Tayloe Piggott Gallery, Jackson, WY
Judy Pfaff, David Weinberg Gallery, Chicago, IL
Judy Pfaff: Texas National Juror, Reavley Gallery in the Cole Art Center, Stephen F. Austin State
University, Nacogdoches, TX
2009 Judy Pfaff: Sculptures, Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI
Judy Pfaff: Constructed Paper, Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
Judy Pfaff: Paper, Ameringer Yohe Fine Art, New York, NY
Judy Pfaff: Wild Rose, Installation. Massry Center for the Arts, The College of Saint Rose, Albany, NY
2008 Paperworks, Year of the Dog, Pig, Rat, Etc., Installation, Esther Massry
Gallery, The College of Saint Rose, Albany, NY
Judy Pfaff: Very Recent Work, Bellas Artes Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2007 . . . all of the above, Installation, Rice University Art Gallery, Houston, TX (catalog)
Judy Pfaff: New Prints and Drawings, Samuel Dorsky Musuem of Art, SUNY New Paltz, NY (catalog)
2006 Buckets of Rain, Installation, Ameringer-Yohe Fine Art, New York, NY (catalog)
2005 Judy Pfaff – Jane Rosen, Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Judy Pfaff: Installations, Prints & Drawings, Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH.
2004 Judy Pfaff: Installations, Prints & Drawing,. Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, OH.
Judy Pfaff: Recent Work, Bellas Artes Gallery, Santa Fe, NM.
En Restauro Installation, Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) Ramp Projects,
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.
Judy Pfaff: Recent Prints and Drawings, Ulster County Community College, Stone Ridge, NY.
2003 Neither Here Nor There, Installation, Ameringer/Yohe Gallery, New York, NY.
Judy Pfaff: New Work, Robischon Gallery, Denver, CO.
2002 Judy Pfaff: Chapel and Brook, Bellas Artes, Santa Fe, NM.
2-D: An Installation of Works on Paper, Sarah Moody Gallery of Art, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL.
The Squares of Savannah, Installation(Contemporary Masters Exhibition Series),
Pinnacle Gallery, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savanna, GA.
2001 The Art of Judy Pfaff, Elvehjem Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Photogravures, Flanders Gallery, Minneapolis, MN.
2000 New Drawings, Robischon Gallery, Denver, CO.
Transforming Traditions, Schneider Museum of Art, Southern Oregon University Ashland, OR.
If I Had a Boat, Installation, Elvehjem Museum of Art, Madison, WI.
New Work, Bellas Artes, Santa Fe, NM.
Notes on Light and Color, Installation, Jaffe Friede & Strauss Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH.
1999 Yâ – Wa, Commission for ODS Tower, Portland, OR.
Drawings and Prints, Karen McCready Fine Art, New York, NY.
New Prints, Susanne Hilberry Gallery, Detroit, MI.
Notes on Light and Shadow,Installation, Presage of Passage, Museum of Art, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT.
Drawings and Prints.Robischon Gallery, Denver, CO.
1998 Corona de Espinhos, Installation, 1998 Bienal de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Cha, DrawingsInstallation, Galerie Deux, Tokyo, Japan,
Judy Pfaff: Sculpture and Drawings, Installation, Bellas Artes, Santa Fe, NM.
Jardin De Los Cuervos,Installation, Bellas Artes, Santa Fe, NM.
1997 Round Hole Square Peg, Installation, Andre Emmerich Gallery, NY.
Recent Drawings, Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site, Cornish, NH.
Untitled, Installation of Drawings, Adobe Krow Archives Gallery, Bakersfield, CA.
1996 New Prints, Drawings and Sculpture, Susanne Hilberry Gallery, Birmingham, MI.
Judy Pfaff: New Work, Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York, NY.
Judy Pfaff:New Work. Bellas Artes Gallery, Santa Fe, NM.
1995 Elephant, Installation, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA.
Judy Pfaff: Prints. Elvehjem Museum of Art, Mayer Gallery, Madison, WI.
Madison Print Club, Madison, Wisconsin.
Mixed Media Works on Paper. Linda Farris Gallery, Seattle, WA.
Sculpture and Drawings. Bellas Artes Gallery, Santa Fe, NM.
Ear to Ear, Installation, Alyce de Roulet Williamson Gallery, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA.
1994 Cirque, CIRQUE, Commission, Pennsylvania Convention Center Art Program, Philadelphia, PA.
Aquavitae, Commission sponsored by Art in Public Places for the Miami Beach Police and Court
Facility,Miami Beach, Florida.
Cielo Recuerdo Installation, Landscape as Metaphor, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH
Judy Pfaff: New Works on Paper. Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York, NY.
Cielo, Installation, Landscape as Metaphor, Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO.
1993 Judy Pfaff: Recent Sculpture and Drawings. Nancy Drysdale Gallery, Washington, DC.
Corpo Ombroso, Installation for Inaugural Exhibition, The Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY.
1992 Zygmunt, Collaborative installation, Incisions/Collisions/Juxtapositions: Judy Pfaff & Ursula
von Rydingsvard, Life After Post-modernism, The Cultural Space, NY, and
Neuberger Museum of Art, SUNY Purchase, NY.
Sweet Water, Heat Lightning, GTE Commission, Irving , TX.
Flusso E Riflusso, Installation, Max Protetch Gallery, New York, NY.
1991 The Fabric Workshop, Philadelphia, PA.
Bandas de Acero, Installation, Morris Gallery of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts,
Philadelphia, PA.
Judy Pfaff, Susanne Hilberry Gallery, Birmingham, MI.
1990 Judy Pfaff: Sculpture and Works on Paper, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH.
Equinox, Max Protetch Gallery, New York, NY.
Dana Art Center, Loyola University, New Orleans, LA.
Prints & Drawings, The College of Saint Rose Gallery, Albany, NY.
Dessins, Thomas Solomon’s Garage, Los Angeles, CA.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2010 Judy Pfaff, Nicola Lopez, Suzanne Caporael – Tandem Press, Pace Prints, Chelsea, NYC
Oeuvres sur papier, Galerie Jen-Luc & Takako Richard, Paris, France
2009 UNLIMITED IMPRESSIONS, featuring the work of Karn Kunc, Judy Pfaff and Brian Shure, The Art Gallery, University of Maryland
SLASH Paper Under the Knife, Musuem of Arts and Design, New York, NY
DAUGHTERS OF THE REVOLUTION Women and Collage, Pavel Zoubok Gallery, New York, NY
Sculptors Draw, Lesley Heller Gallery, New York, NY
Exhibiton of Works by Newly Elected Members and Recipients of Honors and Awards, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
2008 Midnight Full of Stars, Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, Summit, NJ.
2007 After the Revolution: Women Who Transformed Contemporary Art, Dorsky Gallery,
Long Island City, NY
Decades: Featuring Judy Pfaff, Robischon Gallery, Denver, CO, January - February
2006 Ron Gorchov, Judy Pfaff, John Torreano, Sussane Hilberry Gallery, Detroit, MI, March - April
3D: An Exhibition of Contemporary Sculpture, Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio. May - July
2004 Collage: The Art of Attachment, Elena Zang Gallery, Shady (Woodstock), NY.
Group Exhibition of Paintings & Sculpture, Heritage Bank of Commerce, San Jose, CA.
Watercolors, Dorsky Gallery/ Curatorial Programs, Long Island City, NY.
Judy Pfaff and Gregg Coniff, Camera and Ink. Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI.
A Method Toward a Means, Savannah Gallery, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA.
2004 Judy Pfaff / Peregrine Honig, Byron C. Cohen Gallery for Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO.
2003 From Surface to Form: Rosen, Morris, Pfaff, William Traver Gallery, Seattle, WA.
New Gallery Artists: Judy Pfaff and Harry Kramer, Ameringer Yohe Fine Art, The Gallery Center,
Boca Raton, FL.
Drawings: Squeak Carnwath, Jane Rosen, Judy Pfaf,. Sears - Peyton Gallery, New York, NY.
Pressure Points: Recent Prints from the Collections of Jordan D. Schittzer and the Jordan and Mina
Schitzer foundation. El Paso, Texas.
Group Show, Elena Zang Gallery, Shady (Woodstock), NY.
2002 Good Things Come in Small Packages, Ameringer/Yohe, New York, NY.
New Faces. Robert Kidd Gallery, Birmingham, MS. August.
The Belles of Amherst: Contemporary Women Artist, Mead Art Museum, Amherst, MA.
Art Chicago 2002, Tandem Press, Chicago, Il.
The 177th Annual, National Academy of Design, New York, NY.
American Academy Invitational Exhibition of Painting & Sculpture,The American Academy
of Arts and Letters, New York, NY.
Art in Context, Schmidt Bigham Gallery, Benefit Exhibiition and Silent Auction, New York, NY.
Darkness and Brightness, Sears-Peyton-Gallery, New York, NY.
Group Show, Elena Zang Gallery, Shady (Woodstock), NY.
2001 Group Show, Elena Zang Gallery, Shady (Woodstock), NY.
Art Is For The Spirit, Duetsche Bank, New York, NY.
Rupture and Revision: Collage in America,Pavel Zoubok, Inc, New York, NY.
Yale Alumni, New Haven, CT.
Art Transplant, British Artists in New York, British Consul-General’s Residence, New York, NY.
Mostly Black and White: Photography and Works on Paper, Elizabeth Leach Gallery,
Beauty Without Regret,Bellas Artes Gallery, Santa Fe, NM.
New Prints 2001, International Print Center New York (IPCNY), New York, NY.
Conversations from the Heart: Paintings, Sculpture, Drawings, The Educational Alliance Gallery, NY.
Shadow Dancing,D’Amelio/Torres Gallery, New York, NY.
2000 Judy Pfaff, Mary Frank, Joan Snyder. Elena Zang Gallery, Shady (Woodstock), NY.
The Likeness of Being. Curated by Judith Stein. D.C. Moore Gallery, New York, NY.
THE END: An Independent Vision of Contemporary Culture, 1982-2000. Exit Art, New York, NY.
Can Chaos Have a Theory: Robert Frank, Elizabeth Murray, Judy Pfaff, Keith Sonnier,
Daniel Spoerri, Pratt Institute Brooklyn and Pratt Manhattan Gallery.
Construction Site: Chamberlain, Pfaff, Stella, Ameringer - Howard Gallery, New York, NY.
Welded! Sculpture of the Twentieth Century, Neuberger Museum, SUNY Purchase, NY.
Studio Arts Faculty Exhibition 2000, Fischer Studio Arts Building, Bard College,
Annandale-on-Hudson, NY.
Beyond the Press: Innovations in Print, Hand Workshop Art Center, Richmond, VA.
Works from the Studio, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR.
Recent Prints, Robischon Gallery, Denver, CO.
1999 Jane Hammond and Judy Pfaff, Byron Cohen Gallery, Kansas City, MO.
Off the Wall, Ashville Art Museum, Ashville, NC.
Indoor Group Show, Elena Zang Gallery, Shady (Woodstock), NY.
Sculptors and Their Environments, Rockland Center for the Arts, West Nyack, NY.
Where the Girls Are: Prints by Women from the DIAS Collection, The Detroit Institute of Arts,
Detroit, MI.
Women in Print, Jim Kempner Fine Art, New York, NY.
Stella, Pfaff, Sugarman, Tatunz, New York, NY.
1998 Recent Acquisitions:Contemporary Prints, The National Museum of American Art, Washington, DC.
Portraits Speak: Chuck Close in Conversation with 27 of His Subjects, Dorfman Projects,
New York, NY.
Artists of the Hudson Valley, Kendall Art and Design, Hudson, NY.
Drawings:Judy Pfaff & Jane Rosen, Kendall Art and Design, Hudson, NY
Pop Abstraction, Museum of American Art, Philadelphia, PA.
Group Show, Elena Zang Gallery, Shady (Woodstock), NY.
1997 Drawn and Quartered, Karen McCready Gallery, New York, NY.
Drawings... An Annual Bi-coastal Invitational,Meyerson & Nowinski, Seattle, WA.
Pieces Speak,Gallery 128, New York, NY.
A Thought Intercepted, California Museum of Art, Santa Rosa, CA.
Before Construction Occurs, Sculptors Drawings,School of Visual Arts, New York, NY.
Flowers, Elena Zang Gallery, Shady (Woodstock), NY.
Thirty-five Years at Crown Point Press: The Artist Prints, San Francisco, CA
Real(ist) Women II, Northwood University, West Palm Beach, CA.
Annual Outdoor Sculpture Show, Elena Zang Gallery, Shady (Woodstock), NY.
1996 Indoor Group Show, Elena Zang Gallery, Shady (Woodstock), NY.
Summer Group Exhibition, Thomas Babeor & Co., La Jolla, CA.
Bard College Group Exhibition, Kanazaawa Ishikawa, Japan.
New VisionOlitski, Judy Pfaff, Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York, NY.
New Art On Paper, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA.
West Meets East, Numark Gallery, Washington, D.C.
1995 Greene County Council for Arts, Catskill, NY.
In Three Dimensions: Women Sculptors of the 90’s, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, NY.
1994 The Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, NY.
Inspired By Nature, Neuberger Museum, SUNY Purchase, Purchase, NY.
Art On Paper, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC.
Three Degrees of Separation, Sonnabend Gallery, New York, NY.
1994 American Academy Invitational Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, American Academy of
Arts and Letters, New York, NY.
Rough Cuts: The Extended Artist’s Notebook, Henry Street Settlement, Abrons Arts Center, NY, NY.
Garden of Sculptural Delights, Exit Art, New York, NY.
1993 Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY.
The Return of the Cadavre Exquis, The Drawing Center, New York, NY.
Reflections on the Center: 25 Years, The Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, OH.
Color Options: Joseph Albers, Alexander Calder, Judy Pfaff, Janet Taylor, William T. Williams,
The Fine Arts Gallery, Westchester Community College, NY.
Spheres of Influence: Artists and Their Students in the Permanent Collection of the Whitney
Museum of American Art, Whitney Museum of American Art at Champion, Stanford, CT.
1993 Scratching the Surface: Between Paper and Printing, The Gallery of the Department of Art
and Art History, Colgate University, New York, NY.
Outdoor Sculpture: Displayed Indoors, Max Protetch, New York, NY.
Table Sculpture, Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York, NY.
Artschwager, Egner, Farber, Goodwin, Gorchov, Jensen, Mitchnick, Morley, Pfaff, Phelan,
Susanne Hilberry Gallery, MI.
Sculptors on Paper, Linda Farris Gallery, Seattle, WA.
Lyric with An Edge, Victoria Munro Fine Arts, New York, NY.
Works on Paper, Max Protetch Gallery, New York, NY.
Help Build Iris House, Manhattan Borough President’s Office, The Women & AIDS Working
Group, New York, NY.
1992 44th Annual Academy-Institute Purchase Exhibition, American Academy and Institute of Arts
and Letters, New York, NY.
Art Against AIDS. “Together for the Cure” Benefit, AmFAR, New York, NY.
BCCDHHHJKNPPRSSW, Miriam & Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, NY, NY.
Process to Presence: Issues in Sculpture 1960-1990, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA.
American Figuration, From the Lilja Collection, Henie Onstad Art Center, Norway.
1991 Sculptors’ Drawings, Bellas Artes, Santa Fe, NM.
Presswork: The Art of Women Printmakers, The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington. D.C.
Stephen Davis, Gianfranco Langatta, Judy Pfaff, Pino Molica, New York.
From A - Z: Prints and Drawings from the Permanent Collection, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, MA. Physicality,Hunter College, City University of New York; University Art Gallery, State
University of New York at Albany; List Art Center, Brown University; Plattsburgh Art
Museum, State University College at Plattsburgh; Roland Gibson Gallery, State University
at Potsdam; University Art Museum, State University at Binghamton
Drawing Conclusions, Installation, Molica guidArte, New York, NY.
25th Anniversary Exhibition, Gloria Luria Gallery, Bay Harbor Islands, FL.
Discarded, The Emerson Gallery at Rockland Center for the Arts, West Nyack, NY.
Contemporary Woodblock Prints,The Leif E. Johnson Memorial Exhibition, Installation,
Edison Community College, Fort Myers, FL.
Glass in the Service of Meaning, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA.
Interactions: Collaborations in the Visual and Performing Arts, Institute of Contemporary Art,
University of Pennsylvania, PA.
1990 Painted Forms: Recent Metal Sculpture,Installation, Whitney Museum of American Art at
Philip Morris, New York, NY.
Eva Hesse, Louise Lawler, Agnes Martin, Melissa Meyer, Judy Pfaff, Kiki Smith, Jackie Winsor,
Installation,Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, NY.
Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, NC.
1990 Seoul Art Festival - Contemporary Paintings on Hanji, Seoul Art Festival Executive Committee, Seoul, Korea.
Mind & Matter, International Art Projects, Chosun Ilbo Gallery, Seoul, Korea; Dowse Art Museum,
Wellington, (Lower Hutt) New Zealand; Metropolitan Museum of Art, Manila, Philippines;
Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan;Hong Kong; National Museum, Kuala Lumpur,
Malaysia; National Museum, Singapore.
Scatter, Shea & Beker, New York, NY.
1990 Diverse Representations, The Morris Museum, Morristown, NJ.
Altered States, Crown Point Press, New York, NY.
The Children’s AIDS Project - A Benefit Exhibition: In Memory of James 1984 – 1988, Daniel
Weinberg Gallery, Santa Monica, CA.
A Decade of American Drawing, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.
Sculptors on Paper, Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE.
On the Move, The Museum of Modern Art Advisory Service, Pfizer Inc., New York, NY.
Immaterial Objects: Works from the Permanent Collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art,
Installation, New York, NY; Albany Museum of Art, Albany, GA; San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA.
GRANTS AND AWARDS
2004 MacArthur Fellowship
2003 Nancy Graves Foundation Grant
2002 Award of Merit Medal for Sculpture, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York
American Academy of Design, New York
1999 Honorary Doctorate, Pratt Institute, New York
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 & PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, New York
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York
Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit, Michigan
The High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia
Elvehjem Museum, Madison, Wisconsin.
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, CA
National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC
Sammlung Ludwig, Aachen
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Jennifer Bartlett
Christo
Agnes Gund
Robert Freidus
Marieluise Hessel
Sol Le Witt
Steve Martin
Randolpho Rocha
James Rosenquist
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