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Donald Moffett
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American
, born 1955)
Donald Moffett
You, You, You,
1990
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Timeline
1955
Born in San Antonio, TX
1988
Art Matters, Inc., Grant
1991 - 1994
Appointment to Artist Advisory Board of the New Museum of Contemporary Art
1992 - 1994
Adjunct Professor, Yale University, Graduate School of Art
1996
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY Lecture
Cooper Hewitt Museum, New York, NY Lecture
Yale University, Graduate School of Art Lecture and Crits
1997
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY Panel
2003
Wexner Center, Columbus, OH, “Image Stream” Symposium Speaker
2004
Skowhegan School, Skowhegan, Maine, Resident Faculty (Summer)
Bachelor of Arts in Art and Biology, Trinity University, San Antonio, TX
Lives and works in New York City
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Exhibitions
2015
Head, Lora Reynolds, Austin, TX (solo)
The Triumph of Love: Beth Rudin DeWoody Collects, Norton Museum, West Palm Beach, FL.
Offsite, Seven Artists in Two Rooms, curated by James Shalom, Exhibition Pop-up Space, 195 Chrystie Street, New York, NY
2014
Pictures, Before and After – an Exhibition for Douglas Crimp, Galerie Buchholz, Berlin
Bloodflames Revisited, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, NY
NYC Makers: The MAD Biennial, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY
Unbound: Contemporary Art After Frida Kahlo, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, IL
Pace Gems: Selections from the Linda Pace Foundation Premanent Collection, The Linda Pace Foundation Gallery, San Antonio, TX
A Chromatic Loss, Bortolami Gallery, New York, NY
2013
Come Together: Surviving Sandy, Year 1, Dedalus Foundation, Brooklyn Rail, NY
personal, political, mysterious, Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin,TX
personal, political, mysterious, Flag Art Foundation, New York, NY
Expanding the Field of Painting, The Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, ICA Collection, Boston, MA.
Playing with Process: Experimental Prints at the MFAH, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX.
Tell It To My Heart: Collected by Julie Ault, Museum fur Genenwartskunst Basel, Switzerland, travelled to Culturgest, Lisbon and Artists Space, New York, NY.
NYC 1993: Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star, New Museum, New York, NY, travels to The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis: June 30 – September 30, 2012; Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston: November 15, 2012 – march 3, 2013.
Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
I, You, We, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Swing State, curated by Jane Kim, New York, NY
Old Black, Team Gallery, New York, NY
2012
Radiant Future and Mr. Gay in the USA, Columbus College of Art and Design, Columbus, OH (solo)
The Radiant Future, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY
This Will Have Been: Art, Love & Politics in the 1980’s, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Stretching Painting, curated by Veronica Roberts, Galerie Lelong, New York, NY
Too Old for Toys, Too Young for Boys, OHWOW, Los Angeles, CA
2011
Anthony Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco (solo)
2010
25 Years / 25 Works, Wessel + O’Connor Fine Arts, Lambertville, NJ
Pittsburgh, PA, The Andy Warhol Museum, survey exhibition, 2010. Travels to Houston, Contemporary Arts Museum, 2012, and to other venues
ACT UP New York: Activism, Art, and the AIDS Crisis 1987 - 1993, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, October 15 - December 23, 2009.
2009
En Todas Partes: Políticas LGBTQ En El Arte, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
2008
The Collection and Then Some, Modern Art Museum of Forth Worth, Fort Worth, TX
Person of the Crowd: The Contemporary Art of Flânerie, curated by Thom Collins, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY
Easy Clean, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
2007
GUTTED, Anthony Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA (solo)
Mangle Me, Marianne Boesky FIAC 2007 project, Paris, France (solo)
Fleisch, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England (solo)
Crimes of Omission, Institute of Contemporary Art University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Sparkle Then Fade, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA
Impeach, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
2006
The Last Time They Met, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England
Trifecta, Bellwether Gallery, New York, NY
The Eighth Square: Gender, Life and Desire in Art since 1960, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
ex.05.03.06103, The Cartin Collection, Hartford, CT
Ten Year Anniversary Exhibition, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England
2005
Hippie Shit, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Around About Abstraction, Weatherspoon Art Museum, NC
2004
Seeing Other People, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York
The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY
Hidden Histories, The New Art Gallery, Walsall, England
Paintings from a Hole, Anthony Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA (solo)
D.C., Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England (solo)
2003
The Extravagant Vein, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Image Stream, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH
puddle-wonderful, Artemis Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, New York, NY
Site Specific, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
International Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
Donald Moffett: What Barbara Jordan Wore, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL (solo)
Paintings, Marc Foxx, Los Angeles, CA
VAPOR, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY, (Organized by Donald Moffett)
2002
Life, Death, Love, Hate, Pleasure, Pain: Selected Works from the MCA Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Interstate, Texas Fine Arts Association/ The Jones Center for Contemporary Arts, Austin, TX
Penetration, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY
What Barbara Jordan Wore (part I), Texas Gallery, Houston, TX (solo)
2001
The Inward Eye: Transcendence in Contemporary Art, Contemporary Arts Museum (CAM), Houston, TX
Snap! Photography from the Collection, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT
Camera Works, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY
Standfast Dick and Jane, The Project, Dublin, Ireland
American, Postmasters, New York, NY
Mr. Gay In the USA, Anthony Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA (solo)
Power Up, with Sister Kent, organized by Julie Ault, UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
More, Nicole Klagsbrun, New York, NY
The Sea and the Sky, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, Ireland and Beaver College Art Gallery, Glenside, PA
Drawing, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England
Photography About Photography, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, NY
“00”, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY
Dope, American Fine Arts, New York, NY
Marc Foxx, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
2000
The Incremental Commandments, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England (solo)
1999
Monochrome, Patrick Gallery, New York, NY
Drawings, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, NY
Finesilver Gallery, San Antonio, TX, with Jesse Amado
Cathedral of St. John the Divine, New York, NY (solo)
1998
Sculpture from the Garden, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
AIDS World, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland
Mysterious Voyages: Exploring the Subject of Photography, Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, MD
WACK-O: Extreme Politics & the Poster, curated by Donald Moffett, St. Lawrence University, Canton, NY
Public Notice, Exit Art, New York, NY
Blue NY, Beaver College of Art, Glenside, PA (solo)
1997
Power Up, with Sister Corita Kent, organized by Julie Ault, Wadsworth Atheneum: Matrix 134, Hartford, CT
Marc Foxx, Los Angeles, CA
1996
Jay Gorney Modern Art, New York, NY (solo)
Fifteen Paintings, Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA
Bare Bones, TZ Art, New York, NY
1995
The Masculine Masquerade: Masculinity and Representation, M.I.T. List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA
In a Different Light, University Art Museum, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
Temporarily Possessed: The Semi-Permanent Collection, New Museum, New York, NY
The Social Fabric, Beaver College Art Gallery, Glenside, PA
1994
Works on Paper: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris, New York, NY
Don’t Leave Me This Way: Art in the Age of AIDS, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia
1993
Whitney Biennial 1993, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Recent Acquisitions, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Prospect 1993, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany
Fawbush Gallery, New York, NY
Structural Damage, with Joel Otterson, Gary Simmons, and Charles LeDray, Blum Helman Warehouse, New York, NY
Promises, Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NY
The Wor(l)d, curated by Laura Cottingham, Foundation Cartier Pour L’Art, Jouy-en-Josas, France
Dissent, Difference and the Body Politic, Portland Fine Arts Museum, Portland, OR
Object Choice, Hallwalls, Rochester, NY
1992
Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY
Gegendarstellung, Kunstverein in Hamburg, Germany
Group Material’s AIDS Timeline, Whitney Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY
Wet Holes, Wessel O’Connor Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Simon Watson, New York, NY (solo)
Texas Gallery, Houston, TX (solo)
Someone or Somebody, Meyers/Bloom, Los Angeles, CA
Erotic Desire, Perspektief Centre for Photography, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Situation, New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA
When Objects Dream and Talk in Their Sleep, Jack Tilton Gallery, New York, NY
(Dis)member, Simon Watson, New York, NY
1991
The Interrupted Life, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY
Nayland Blake, Ross Bleckner, Donald Moffett, Simon Watson, New York, NY
Oh-Oh-Harder-Oh-Oh, Wessel O’Connor Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Over the Sofa, Into the Street, NGBK, Berlin, Germany
Eros/Thanatos—Death and Desire, Tom Cugliani Gallery, New York, NY
The Indomitable Spirit, The International Center of Photography, New York, NY
Critical Realism, Perspektief Centre of Photography, Rotterdam
1990
Fine Arts Gallery, U.B.C., Vancouver, B.C. Canada with Felix Gonzales-Torres
Looking at a Revolution, Simon Watson, New York, NY
1989
Homo Art: I Love It When You Call Me Names, Wessel O’Connor Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Founded BUREAU, a trans-disciplinary studio
To Probe and To Push: Artists of Provocation, Wessel O’Connor Gallery, New York, NY
Erotophobia: A Forum on Sexuality, Simon Watson, New York, NY
Group Material: AIDS and Democracy, Dia Art Foundation, New York, NY
1988
Founding Member of Gran Fury, an AIDS activist collective
Vollbild, The Full-Blown Picture, NGBK, Berlin, Germany, and Berne, Switzerland
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Literature
2008
Holmes, Steven, ed. Festschrift: Selections from a Collection. Hartford, Connecticut: Leo, 2008.
2005
Patterson, Tom, “Angles on Abstraction,” Winston-Salem Journal, June 26, 2005.
2004
Powhida, William. “Seeing Other People at Marianne Boesky Gallery,” The Brooklyn Rail, September 2004.
Johnson, Ken. “Review; The Hamptons, A Playground For Creativity”, New York Times, August 6, 2004.
Krygowski, Jill Martinez. “Artworker of the week #36: Donald Moffett at Stephen Friedman Gallery, London,” Kultureflash. interview conducted by Jill Martinez Krygowski, July 14, 2004.
Coomer, Martin. “Review: Donald Moffett,” Time Out London, July 7-14, 2004
“The Best D.C. Art isn’t in D.C.,” Greg.org, July 13, 2004
Cotter, Holland. The New York Times, February 21, 2003.
Levin, Kim. “Review,” The Village Voice, March 5, 2003.
“Review,” The New Yorker, March 17, 2003.
Gehlawat, Monika. “Donald Moffett,” Contemporary, Issue 58, December 2003.
Rubenstein, Raphael. “8 Painters: New Work,” Art in America, November 2003.
2003
Molesworth, Helen. Image Stream. Wexner Center for the Arts, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, 2003.
Williams, Gregory. “Review,” Artforum, May 2003.
Camper, Fred. “Review,” Chicago Reader, June 7, 2002.
Cotter, Holland. “Review: VAPOR,” The New York Times, April 5, 2002.
Artner, Alan G. “Barbara Jordan Steps Front, Center in Moffett Installation,” Chicago Tribune, June 6, 2002.
Hawkins, Margaret. “Fashion of Forthrightness,” Chicago Sun-Times, June 9, 2002.
“Museum Showcases Famed Congresswoman,” Telegraph, August 21, 2002
“New Art Exhibit Showcases Famed Congresswoman,” Daily Herald, August 21, 2002
Lewis, Jim, and Elizabeth A.T. Smith. Donald Moffett: What Barbara Jordan Wore. Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois, 2002
2002
The Inward Eye: Transcendence in Contemporary Art. Lynn M. Herbert with essays by Klaus Ottman and Peter Schjeldahl, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas, 2002
West, Cassandra. “Political Icon Hailed; Domestic Icon Assailed,” Chicago Tribune, July 9, 2002.
2001
Withers, Rachel. Artforum, January 2001.
Bonetti, David, “Moffett’s outlook on US Gay Life,” San Francisco Chronicle, November 24, 2001.
LaBelle, Charles. Frieze, May 2000.
2000
Gonzales, Ken. Art Issues, summer 2000.
Newhouse, Kristina. Artext, No. 70 August-October 2000.
Colpitt, Frances. Art in America, March 2000.
Eggerer, Thomas. Texte zur Kunst, June 2000.
Hainly, Bruce. “Sister Acts”, Artforum, January 2000.
Herbert, Martin. Time Out London, November 8, 2000.
Aletti, Vince. “Choice”, Village Voice, March 7, 2000.
Henry, Max. “Gotham Dispatch”, Artnet,com, March 3, 2000.
Hegarty, Laurence. New Art Examiner, Summer 1999.
Goldsworthy, Rupert. “Plastic Casters”, Artnet.com, Summer 1999.
Johnson, Ken. New York Times, August 13, 1999.
Cotter, Holland. New York Times, July 23, 1999.
1999
Arning, Bill. Time Out New York, August 5-12, 1999.
1997
Donahue, Victoria. Philadelphia Inquirer, October 5, 1997.
Sozanski, Edward J. Philadelphia Inquirer, October 10, 1997.
Rice, Robin. Philadelphia City Paper, October 17, 1997.
Brown, Gerald. Philadelphia Weekly, September 24, 1997.
Der Frankfurter Engel (The Frankfurt Angel) Mahnmal Homosexuellenverfolgurg; Eichborn; Frankfurt, Germany 1997.
Torchia, Richard. Blue [NY]. Beaver College Art Gallery and Donald Moffett, Glenside, Pennsylvania, 1997
1996
Paparoni, Demetrio. “Redefined Abstraction”, Tema Celeste, Autumn 1996.
Atkins, Robert. “Goodbye Lesbian/Gay History”, Art Journal, December 1, 1996.
1995
Atkins, Robert, “Very Queer Indeed”, Village Voice, January 31, 1995.
1994
Smith, Roberta. “From Media to Metaphor”, The New York Times, show at Grey Art Gallery.
Cotter, Holland. “Art after Stonewall: 12 Artists Interviewed,” Art in America, June 1994.
Watney, Simon. “Aphrodite of the Future”, Artforum, April 1994.
Hess, Elizabeth. “No Way Out”, Village Voice, February 22, 1994.
Watney, Simon. “Memorializing AIDS: The Work of Ross Bleckner,” Parkett, no. 38.
Harris, William. “Urgent Images”, Artnews, May 1993.
1993
Cottingham, Laura. “The Pleasure Principle”, Frieze, May 1993.
1992
Zimmer, William. “Promises”, New York Times, show at Jersey City Museum.
Glueck, Grace. New York Observer, September 21, 1992.
Ellenzweig, Allen. The Homoerotic Photograph: Durieu/Delacroix to Mapplethorpe. New York: Columbia University Press, 1992.
Feinstein, Rochelle. “The Reverse of Capital”, Arts, December 1992.
Donahue, John. “Wet Your Whistle: Donald Moffett’s Double Header”, Outweek, Jan., #84
Mahoney, Robert. Arts, April 1991.
New Yorker, “Donald Moffett”, February 18, 1991.
1991
Schjeldahl, Peter. “Death Warmed Over”, Village Voice, October 15, 1991.
Nesbitt, Lois. Artforum, May 1991.
Moffett, Donald, and Felix Gonzalez Torres. Donald Moffett & Felix Gonzalez Torres – Strange Ways: Here We Come., essay by Scott Watson, University of British Columbia Fine Arts Gallery, British Columbia, 1990.
1990
Donahue, John. “Fund Me”, Outweek, June, #51.
Sokolowski, Thomas. “Iconophobic Anonymous” Artforum, Summer 1990.
Crimp, Douglas, and Rolston, Adam. AIDSDEMOGRAPHICS. Seattle: Bay Press.
Wulffen, Thomas. “Kunst und scwule Kutler in den USA”, Kunstforum, April/May 1990.
Democracy: A Project for Group Material, Brian Wallis, ed., DIA Art Foundation, Discussions in Contemporary Culture, No. 5; Bay Press: Seattle.
Smith, Roberta. New York Times, February 16, 1990.
1989
Cooper, Dennis. Artforum, September 1989.
Dechter, Joshua. Arts, September 1989.
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