Judy Pfaff
Biography
1946 Born in London, United Kindgom
Lives and works in Kingston and Tivoli, New York
Formation
1965 Wayne State University, Detroit, MI
1968 Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, IL
1970 Norfolk Summer School of Music and Art, Norfolk, CO
1971 BFA, Washington University, Saint Louis, MO
1973 MFA, Yale University, New Haven, CT
1999 Honorary Doctorate, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
Selected Solo Exhibitions
Judy Pfaff: Paper, Ameringer Yohe Fine Art, New York, NY
2008 Inaugural Exhibition, Paperworks, Year of the Dog, Pig, Rat, Etc., 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, Rice University Art Gallery, Houston, TX
Judy Pfaff: New Prints and Drawings, Samuel Dorsky Musuem of Art, SUNY New Paltz, NY
2006 Buckets of Rain, Ameringer Yohe Fine Art, New York, NY
2005 Judy Pfaff Recent Works on Paper, Lemberg Gallery, Ferndale, MI
Judy Pfaff / Works on Paper, Sears-Peyton Gallery, New York, NY
Judy Pfaff / New Prints, Elena Zang Gallery, Shady (Woodstock), NY
Judy Pfaff: Installations, Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH
Regina, Fisher Center, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
2004 Judy Pfaff: Installations, Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
Judy Pfaff: Recent Work, Bellas Artes Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
En Restauro, 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, Ameringer & Yohe Fine Art, 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, Pinnacle Gallery, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, 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, Elvehjem Museum of Art, Madison, WI
New Work, Bellas Artes, Santa Fe, NM
Notes on Light and Color, Jaffe Friede & Strauss Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
1999 Ya - 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, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT
Drawings & Prints, Robischon Gallery, Denver, CO
1998 Corona de Espinhos, Sao Paulo Biennial, USA Representative, Sao Paulo
Cha, Drawings Installation, Galerie Deux, Tokyo
Judy Pfaff: Sculpture and Drawings, Bellas Artes, Santa Fe, NM
Jardin De Los Cuervos, Bellas Artes, Santa Fe, NM
1997 Round Hole Square Peg, 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, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
Judy Pfaff: Prints, Elvehjem Museum of Art, Mayer Gallery, Madison, WI
Mixed Media Works on Paper, Linda Farris Gallery, Seattle, WA
Sculpture and Drawings, Bellas Artes Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Ear to Ear, Alyce de Roulet Williamson Gallery, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA
1994 Cirque, CIRQUE, 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, FL
Cielo Requerdo, Landscape as Metaphor, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH
Judy Pfaff: New Works on Paper, Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York, NY
Cielo, Landscape as Metaphor, Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
Lobby Sculpture Exhibit at the Community Gallery, Brooklyn Union Gas Company, Brooklyn, NY
1993 Judy Pfaff: Recent Sculpture and Drawings, Nancy Drysdale Gallery, Washington, DC
Corpo Onbrosso, Installation for Inaugural Exhibition, The Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
1992 Zygmunt, Incisions/Collisions/Juxtapositions: Judy Pfaff & Ursula von Rydingsvard, The
Cultural Space, New York 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, 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
1989 Currents 41, Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, MO
1988 Forefront, The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC / Holly Solomon
Gallery, New York, NY
10,000 Things, Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, NY
New Work, New York, Carnegie Mellon University Art Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
Six of One, Half A Dozen of Another, Crown Point Press, San Francisco, CA
1987 N.Y.C.-B.Q.E., Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
11211, Art in the Anchorage, sponsored by Creative Time, Brooklyn Bridge, New York, NY
Susanne Hilberry Gallery, Birmingham, MI
1986 Indoor/Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition, El Bohio, New York, NY
Autonomous Objects, Knight Gallery, Spirit Square Center for the Arts, Charlotte, NC
Superette, Wall Works, John Weber Gallery, New York, NY
Apples and Oranges, Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, NY
1985 The Italians, Figurative Sculpture, Susanne Hilberry Gallery, Birmingham, MI
Gu,Choki, Pa, Vernacular Abstraction, Spiral Wacoal Art Center, Tokyo
Prototypes, A New Beginning, Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY
1984 Untitled, Spokane City Hall Foyer, Spokane, WA
Recent Work, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1983 3D, Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, NY
Wind Devil, Nina Weiner & Dance Company, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, NY
Untitled, The Sixth Day: A Survey of Recent Developments in Figurative Sculpture, The Renaissance Society at the
University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Installation and Collages, Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, NY
1982 Either War, Art Venture/XL Biennale de Venezia, Venice
Boa, University Art Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
Untitled, Collages and Construction, Hallwalls, Buffalo, NY
Rock / Paper / Scissors, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Four Minute Mile, Guy Goodwin, Bill Jensen, Louise Fishman, Stuart Diamond, Judy Pfaff, Suzanne Lemberg Usdan Gallery,
Bennington College, Bennington, VT
1981 Untitled, Body Language: Figurative Aspects of Recent Art, Hayden Gallery, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Cambridge, MA; The Fort Worth Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX; University of South Florida Art Gallery, Tampa, FL;
Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH
Ziggurat, Zeitgenossische Kunst seit 1939, Museen Stadt Koln, Cologne
Dragon, Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Rorschach, Installations, Collages and Drawings, The John & Mabel Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL, Polk Museum,
Lakeland, FL, Museum of Art & Sciences, Daytona Beach, FL
Kabuki, Directions 1981, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
1980 Quintana Roo, Walls!, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH, (catalog)
Deepwater, Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, NY
Red Hot, Watercolors, P.S. 1 Museum, Long Island City, NY
Charms, Extensions: Jennifer Bartlett, Lynda Benglis, Robert Longo, Judy Pfaff, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX
1979 Untitled, Judy Pfaff, Martha Boyden, Arlene Bayer, Eugenia Cucalon Gallery, New York, NY
Reinventing The Wheel, 10 Artists / Artists Space, Neuberger Museum, SUNY Purchase, NY
Schohaire, Pfaff, Provisor, Stikas, Wells, Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, NY
Mixed Emotions, Food / Frameworks, Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, NY
Untitled, Canal Street, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY
1978 Artists Space, New York, NY
Prototypes, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1977 The World Is Flat, Theater Gallery, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL
La Ciudad De Los Angeles, Faculty Exhibition, School of Art and Design, Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
Untitled, 14 Women Artists, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
Untitled, Space Window: Man in Space and Space in Art, Woods-Gerry Gallery, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
1976 Brier, Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
Charlemagne, Approaching Painting, Part III, Hallwalls, Buffalo, NY
Untitled, New Work / New York, Fine Arts Gallery, California State University, Los Angeles, CA
1975 J.A.S.O.N. / J.A.S.O.N., Artists Space, New York, NY
Blue Wabe In 2, Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
W.S.S.F., Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
1974 Webb and Parsons Gallery, New Canaan, CT
1973 Razor Gallery, New York, NY
Selected Group Exhibitions
2010 Oeuvres sur papier, Galerie Jean-Luc & Takako Richard, Paris
2009 NY Masters, Galerie Jean-Luc & Takako Richard, Paris
2007 Decades : Featuring Judy Pfaff, Robischon Gallery, Denver, CO
2006 Ron Gorchov, Judy Pfaff, John Torreano, Sussane Hilberry Gallery, Detroit, MI
3D: An Exhibition of Contemporary Sculpture, Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
2005 Nine Contemporary Sculptors : Fellows of the Saint-Gaudens Memorial, The USB Art
Gallery
Judy Pfaff, Jane Rosen, Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Collage signs & surfaces, Pavel Zoubok Gallery, New York, NY
2004 Collage : The Art of Attachment, Elena Zang Gallery, Shady (Woodstock), NY
Group Exhibition of Paintings & Sculpture, Heritage Bank of Commerce, San Jose, CA
Watercolours, 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
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 Kremer, Ameringer Yohe Fine Art, The Gallery Center, Boca Raton, FL
Drawings : Squeak Carnwath, Jane Rosen, Judy Pfaff, Sears-Peyton Gallery, New York, NY
2002 Good Things Come in Small Packages, Ameringer Yohe Fine Art, New York, NY
New Faces, Robert Kidd Gallery, Birmingham, MS
The Belles of Amherst : Contemporary Women Artists, Mead Art Museum, Amherst, MA
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
Darkness and Brightness, Sears-Peyton Gallery, New York, NY
2001 Art is for the spirit, Deutsche 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, Portland, OR
Beauty Without Regret, Bellas Artes Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Conversations from the Heart : Paintings, Sculpture, Drawings, The Educational Alliance, Gallery, New York, 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, D.C. Moore Gallery, New York, NY
THE END : An Independant 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, NY
Construction Site : Chamberlain, Pfaff, Stella, Ameringer-Howard Gallery, New York, NY
Welded ! Sculpture of the Twentieth Century, Neuberger Museum, SUNY Purchase, 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
Selected Bibliography
Eleanor Heartney, Helaine Posner and Nancy Princenthal, After the Revolution: Women Who Transformed Contemporary Art, Prestel Press, 2007
Steven Watson, catalog essay for "Buckets of Rain", Ameringer Yohe Fine Art, New York, NY, 2006
Irving Sandler, "Judy Pfaff: Tracking the Cosmos", Hudson Hills Press, 2004
Irving Sandler. Judy Pfaff. Hudson Hills Press, New York in association with Elvehjem Museum of Art, 2003
Judith van Baron, catalog essay for "Squares of Savannah", Savannah College of Art and Design, 2002
Rob van Erve, "If not White, What then", catalog essay for Notes on Light and Color, Dartmouth College, 2000
Pedro Cuperman, "Beside the Visible: Judy Pfaff", catalog essay for Presage of Passage, Brigham Young University Museum of Art, 1999
Miranda McClintic, "Outside/Inside Landscapes", catalog essay for Bienal de Sao Paolo, Brazil, 1998
Carl Belz, "Judy Pfaff: Elephant", catalog essay for Elephant, Brandeis University, 1995
Roberta Smith, "Notes on Stone, Scissor, Paper", catalog essay for Gu, Choki, Pa, Wacoal Art Center "Spiral", Tokyo, 1986
Selected Commissions
2005 Regina, set design for American Symphony Orchestra, Fisher Center, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
2000 Ya-Wa, ODS Tower, Wright Runsted Developer Commission Portland, OR
1997 The Private Eye in Public Park, Lasalle Partners at Nations Bank Plaza, Charolette, NC
1994 Cirque, CIRQUE, Pennsylvania Convention Center Public Art Project, Philadelphia, PA
1991 Sweet Water-Heat Lighting, GTE Corporation, Irving, TX
1985 Gu, Choki, Pa, Installation Commission : Vernacular Abstaction Wacoal, Tokyo
1983 Set Design Commission : Wind Devil, Nina Weiner and Dancers, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn , NY
Selected Private & Public Collections
Albright Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit, MI
The High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
MOMA, NY
National Museum of Women in the Arts, WA
Sammlung Ludwig, Aachen
Whitney Museum of American Art, NY
Christo
Agnes Gund
Robert Freidus
Sol Le Witt
Steve Martin
Randolpho Rocha
James Rosenquist
Norton Simon
Awards & Grants
2006 Barnett and Annalee Newman Foundation Fellowship
2004 MacArthur Fellowship
2003 Nancy Graves Foundation Grant
2002 Award of Merit Gold Medal for Sculpture : American Academy of Arts and Letters, NY
1999 Honorary Doctorate Pratt Institute, New York
1997 Fellow of the Saint Gaudens Memorial
1986 National Endowment for the Arts, Sculpture
1984 Bessie Award, Set Design - 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