Julia Fish

(American, born 1950)

trace 1: after threshold, southeast [spectrum: yellow] by julia fish

Julia Fish

Trace 1: after Threshold, SouthEast [Spectrum: Yellow], 2013

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lumine iii — northwest [ parhelion ] by julia fish

Julia Fish

Lumine III — NorthWest [ Parhelion ], 2014–2015

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trace 2 : after threshold, southeast - two [ spectrum : orange with grey ] by julia fish

Julia Fish

Trace 2 : after Threshold, SouthEast - Two [ spectrum : orange with grey ], 2016

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test for red—leaked in dark days, after threshold — score for six plans [ spectrum east to west ] by julia fish

Julia Fish

Test for red—leaked in dark days, after Threshold — score for six Plans [ spectrum east to west ], 2021–2022

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Biography

Timeline

1950
Born in Toledo, USA
1976
Earned a BFA from the Pacific Northwest College of Art Portland, USA
1982
Earned a MFA from The Maryland Institute, College of Art Baltimore, USA
1986
Received a NEA / Arts Midwest Visual Artist Fellowship
1987
Received a Art Matters, Inc., New York, USA
1991
Received a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award
1993
Received a National Endowment for the Arts, Visual Artist Fellowship, Painting
1997
Received a Campus Research Board Grant, University of Illinois at Chicago • Research in Rome, Italy
2000 - 2001
Received a UIC Research Award in the Arts, Architecture and Humanities • Research in Austria, Italy, Slovenia, Germany
2001 - 2003
Received a Cal Arts / Alpert and Ucross Residency Prize, California / Wyoming

Exhibitions

2019
Julia Fish Selected Exhibitions in 2019:
Julia Fish: bound by spectrum / selected work, 2009 – 2019, DePaul Art Museum, Chicago, IL (solo exhibition)
Rehearsal, Screen Share Video Gallery, Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts, Chicago, IL
2017
Julia Fish Selected Exhibitions in 2017:
Threshold II, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL (solo exhibition)
Selected Work, James Harris Gallery, Seattle, WA (solo exhibition)
floret, David Nolan Gallery, New York, NY (solo exhibition)
Piezo, DEMO Projects, Springfield, IL
Small Works Group Show, Lora Schlesigner Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2016
Julia Fish Selected Exhibitions in 2016:
drawing ROOM: Curated by Markus Dochantschi, David Nolan Gallery, New York, NY
Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
Chicago and Vicinity, Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago, IL
Rhona Hoffman - 40 Years: Part 1, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL
House-Warming, Adds Donna, Chicago, IL
2015
Julia Fish Selected Exhibitions in 2015:
Threshold, David Nolan Gallery, New York, NY (solo exhibition)
Let Us Celebrate While Youth Lingers and Ideas Flow: Archives 1915-2015, The Renaissance Society / Gray Center Lab, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Soft Eyes, whitespace, Atlanta, GA
Imagining Space: Constructions of Text and Geometry, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL
Painting is Not Doomed to Repeat Itself, Hollis Taggart Gallery, New York, NY
Apparitions: Frottages and Rubbings from 1860 to Now, The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA; Traveled 2015 - 2016 to Menil Collection, Houston, TX
2013
Federica Schiavo Gallery, Rome, Italy
2012
Anagram City Golden, Chicago, USA
Rarely Seen Contemporary Works on Paper, Art Institute of Chicago, USA
Group Summer Exhibition, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, USA
Michael Grabner: The INOVA Survey, INOVA/Kenilworth, Milwaukee, USA
PNCA Alumni Exhibition, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, USA
duckrabbit, ADDS DONNA, Chicago, USA
Julia Fish, Anthony Pearson, Shane Campbell-Lincoln Park, Chicago, USA
2011
Julia Fish : eight drawings : seeing double, Times Club, Iowa City, USA (solo)
Contemporary Collecting : The Judith Neisser Collection, Art Institute of Chicago, USA
Two-Fold, The Suburban, Oak Park, USA
PaperTails, NYU / 80 Washington Square East Gallery, New York, USA
2010
Selected studies + drawings: 1996 – 2010, Gallery 2.5 / University Galleries, Illinois State University, Normal, USA (solo)
Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
2009
Picturing the Studio, Sullivan Galleries, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, USA
Modern and Contemporary Works on Paper, Art Institute of Chicago, USA
2008
Between: Stairs and Landings – works on paper, 2006 – 2007, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, USA
June Spiezer: A Post-1960’s Collection of Chicago Art, H.F. Johnson Gallery at Carthage College, Kenosha, USA

Public Collections

The Art Institute of Chicago, IL, USA
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL, USA
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA
The Harold Washington Library Center, Chicago, IL, USA
The Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, IL, USA
The Illinois State Museum, Springfield, IL, USA
The State of Oregon
Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
University of Chicago Booth Collection, Chicago, IL

Literature

2012
Warnock, Molly. Painting’s Place, Art in America, March 2013. Pg 116-121.
2011
Asper, Colleen, and Greenbaum, Ethan. Two-Fold, The Suburban, Oak Park, IL : catalogue to the exhibition
Berry, Ian and Shear, Jack, Editors. Twice Drawn : Modern and Contemporary Drawings in Context, The Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Prestel / Munich, London, New York
Rondeau, James. Contemporary Collecting : The Judith Neisser Collection, Art Institute of Chicago, Yale U. Press.
Wright, Maggie. PaperTails, NYU / 80 WSE Gallery, New York, NY, catalogue to the exhibition.
2010
Bonami, Francesco, and Carrion-Murayari, Gary. 2010 - Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, distributed by Yale University Press, New Haven
Bovee, Katherine. Interview with Julia Fish: Untitled, PNCA OnLine Magazine, No. 2
Fish, Julia, with introduction by James Cahn. Podcast : Society for Contemporary Art / Art Institute of Chicagox
Fish, Julia. Julia Fish : Hermitage. Whitney Focus / Video, Whitney Museum of American Art; Pierce Jackson, producer
Fressola, Michael J. “The 2010 Whitney Biennial,” SI Live, February 27
Fox, Dan. “Whitney Biennial 2010” Frieze Magazine, May 2010
McKenzie, Duncan, and Richard Holland. Interview with Julia Fish: Bad At Sports, Episode 242
Rondeau, James, and Kirshner, Judith Russi. Contemporary Collecting: The Donna and Howard Stone Collection, Art Institute of Chicago.
2008
Artner, Alan. “In the Galleries,” Chicago Tribune, May 16
Camper, Fred. “Julia Fish – Between: Stairs and Landings,” Chicago Reader, May 15
Eshoo, Amy, Editor. 560 Broadway: a New York drawing collection at work, 1991-2006, Fifth Floor Foundation, New York and Yale University Press, New Haven and London
TRACEY: Simon Downs, Russ Marshall, Phil Sawdon, Andy Selby, Jane Tormey, Editors: Drawing Now - Between the Lines of Contemporary Art, I.B.Tauris & Co., _London
2007
Finch, Richard D., and Veda M. Rives. Marks from the Matrix, Normal Editions Workshop, Collaborative Limited Edition Prints, 1976-2006, Illinois State University Vroom, Christopher. “Spotlight, Dialogue with Curator Stephanie Smith,” Artadia / Insider Newsletter Winter, 2007
2006
Artner, Alan. “Drawings sketch process of creating art,” Chicago Tribune, December 21
2005
Fish, Julia. “1614 N. Hermitage Avenue” in Chicago Architecture: Histories, Revisions, Alternatives edited by Charles Waldheim and Katerina Ruedi Ray, University of Chicago Press
Myers, Terry R. “ Julia Fish – Painting as House and Home,” Anthony Grant, Inc., New York : exhibition brochure
2004
Anger, Jenny. “Paul Klee and the Decorative in Modern Art,” Cambridge University Press
Elms, Anthony, Editor. “Julia Fish, floor [ floret ]” White Walls, TerraForm, artist pages, April
2002
Artner, Alan. “For Fish, home a matter of form,” Chicago Tribune, June 28, Sec. 7:32
Camper, Fred. “Critic’s Choice,” Chicago Reader, July 26, Sec. 2: 21
Pichler, Karlheinz. “Das ermalter Eigenheim,” Neue Vorarlberger Tagezeitung, Okt.12 K:39
Yood, James. “Julia Fish • Rhona Hoffman Gallery,” Artforum, October:129
Zdanovics, Olga. “Reviews / Midwest • Chicago, Illinois” Art Papers Magazine, Nov-Dec.: 60
2001
Charmelo, Julie. “Doppelganger” Northern Illinois University Gallery, Chicago, IL : catalogue
Doe, Donald and Wright, Lesley. “Patient Process,” Faulconer Gallery, Grinnell College, IA : catalogue
Greenwald, LouAnne. “In Between Art and Architecture” MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles, CA : Exhibition brochure
Lockwood, Wes. “Patient Process,” New Art Examiner, May- June:101
Pagel, David. “Exhibition Accents a Modern Masterpiece” Los Angeles Times, March 24, F:18