BIOGRAPHY
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| DEBORAH KASS | |
| 1952 | Born in San Antonio, TX |
| Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY | |
| Solo Exhibtions | |
| 2016 | Deborah Kass: Day After Day, Neuberg Museum of Art SPACE I 42, New York, NY |
| Deborah Kass: Art Histories, Brand New Gallery, Milan, IT | |
| 2015 | No Kidding, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, NY |
| OY/YO, Brooklyn, Bridge Park, Brooklyn, NY | |
| Deborah Kass, America’s Most Wanted, Sargent's Daughters, New York, NY | |
| 2014 | Deborah Kass: Feel Good Paintings for Feel Bad Times, Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA |
| 2013 | My Elvis +, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, NY |
| 2012 | Deborah Kass: Before and Happily Ever After, a Mid-Career Retrospective, Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA |
| 2010 | MORE feel good paintings for feel bad times, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, NY |
| 2007 | Feel good paintings for feel bad times, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, NY |
| 2001 | Deborah Kass: The Warhol Project, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC |
| 2000 | Deborah Kass: The Warhol Project, University Art Museum, University of California at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA; Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, Houston, TX |
| 1999 | Deborah Kass: The Warhol Project, Newcombe Art Gallery, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA |
| 1998 | Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA |
| 1996 | My Andy: a retrospective, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art and Design, Kansas City, MO |
| 1995 | My Andy: a retrospective, Jose Freire Fine Art, New York, NY |
| My Andy: a retrospective, Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA | |
| 1994 | Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA |
| 1993 | Chairman Ma, Jose Freire Fine Art, New York, NY |
| Chairman Ma, Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA | |
| 1992 | The Jewish Jackie Series and My Elvis, Fiction/No Fiction New York, NY |
| The Jewish Jackie Series, Simon Watson Gallery, New York, NY | |
| 1990 | Simon Watson Gallery, New York, NY |
| 1988 | Scott Hanson Gallery, New York, NY |
| 1986 | Baskerville and Watson Gallery, New York, NY |
| 1984 | Baskerville and Watson Gallery, New York, NY |
| 1982 | Zolla/Lieberman Gallery Chicago, IL |
| 1972 | Barnhardt Gallery, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY |
| Group Exhibitions | |
| 2017 | True Lies, curated by Simon Cole, Night Gallery, Los Angels, CA |
| Pride of Place: The Making of Contemporary Art in New Orleans, NOMA New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA | |
| 2016 | I See Myself in You: Selections from the Collection, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY |
| Human Interest: Portrait's from the Whitney Collection, curated by Scott Rothkopf, Whitney Museum of American Art, NY | |
| No Man's Land, Women Artists from the Rubell Family Collection, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C. | |
| The Conversation Continues: Highlights from the James Cottrel and Joseph Lovett Collection, Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL | |
| Tomorrow Never Happens, Samek Art Museum, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA | |
| A Deeper Dive, Leslie Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, New York, NY | |
| Art Aids America, Bronx Museum, Bronx, NY | |
| Hard Love, Martos Gallery, New York, NY | |
| Smile, Shine Gallery, New York, NY | |
| Introspective, Braven Lee Programs New York, NY | |
| 2015 | No Man’s Land, Women Artists from the Rubell Family Collection, The Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL |
| Eye Pop: The Celebrity Gaze, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, DC | |
| Art Aids America, Tacoma Museum, Tacoma, WA | |
| Kanibalizm? Cannibalism? On Appopriation in Art, Zacheta-National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, PL | |
| Headstrong, Adam Baumgold Gallery New York, NY | |
| Once Upon a Time and Now, LGBT Community Center, New York, NY | |
| 2014 | Global Positioning Systems, Pérez Art Museum, Miami, FL |
| Spaced Out: Migration to the Interior, Red Bull Studios, New York,NY | |
| Bloodflames Revisited, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, NY | |
| 2013 | Come Together: Surviving Sandy, Year 1, Industry City, Brooklyn, NY |
| I, You, We, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY | |
| TEXTURES: The Written Word in Contemporary Art, ACA Galleries, New York, NY | |
| Beg, Borrow, and Steal, Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA | |
| 2012 | Regarding Warhol: Sixty Artists, Fifty Years, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY |
| Sculpted Matter, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, NY | |
| We The People, The Rauschenberg Foundation, New York, NY | |
| Larger Than Life: A Century of Hollywood, Jewish Museum, Wien, AT | |
| 2011 | Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY |
| Seeing Gertrude Stein: Five Stories, The Contemporary Jewish Museum San Francisco, CA; National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC | |
| American Chambers: Post 90s American Art, Gyeongnam Art Museum, Changwon City, S. KR | |
| The Pittsburgh Biennial, The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA | |
| Identity Crisis: Authenticity, Attribution and Appropriation, The Heckscher Museum of Artm Huntington, NY | |
| The Deconstructive Impulse, Neuberger Museum of Art, New York, NY | |
| January White Sale, Loretta Howard Gallery, New York, NY | |
| 2010 | Shifting the Gaze: Painting and Feminism, The Jewish Museum, New York, NY |
| Hide/Seek: Desire, Difference, and the Invention of the Modern American Portrait, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC | |
| At the Edge, Portsmouth Museum of Fine Art, Portsmouth, NH | |
| Thanks for Being With Us: Contemporary Art from the Douglas Nielsen Collection, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ | |
| Shrewd: The Smart and Sassy Survey of American Women Artists, The Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, NE | |
| Think Pink, Gavlak Gallery, Palm Beach, FL | |
| Look Again, Marlborough Chelsea, New York, NY | |
| 2009 | Beg Borrow and Steal, Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL |
| Just What Are They Saying, Jonathan Ferrara Gallery, New Orleans, LA | |
| The Female Gaze, Chein & Read, New York, NY | |
| Lover, On Stellar Rays, New York, NY | |
| sh[OUT], Glasgow Gallery of Modern Art (GoMA), Glasgow, UK | |
| Note to Self,Schroeder Romero, New York, NY | |
| Great Women Artists: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, New York, NY | |
| 2008 | Art, Image, and Warhol Connections, The Jewish Museum, New York, NY |
| Just Different, COBRA Museum of Modern Art, Amstelveen, NL | |
| Thirtieth Anniversary Exhibition, Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA | |
| Twisted into Recognition: Clichés of Jews and Others, Spertus Museum, Chicago, IL | |
| Typisch!, Jewish Museum Berlin, Berlin, DE | |
| 2007 | What F Word?, Cynthia Broan Gallery, New York, NY |
| Culture and Continuity: The Jewish Journey, The Jewish Museum, New York, NY | |
| 2006 | The Eighth Square, The Ludwig Museum, Cologne, DE |
| 2005 | American Art: 1960 - Present, Selections From the Permanent Collection, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC |
| Appropriate Appropriation, Gray Kapernekas Gallery, New York, NY | |
| Co-Conspirators: Artists and Collectors, The James Cottrell and Joe Lovett Collection, Chelsea Museum, New York, NY; Samuel Dorksy Museum, New York, NY | |
| Trade, White Columns, New York, NY | |
| Upstarts and Matriarchs: Jewish Women Artists and the Transformation of American Art, Mizel Center for Arts and Culture, Denver, CO | |
| Very Early Pictures, Arcadia University Art Gallery, Glenside, PA; Luckman Gallery, California State University, Los Angeles, CA | |
| 2004 | Open House: Working in Brooklyn, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY |
| Likeness: Artists’ Portraits of Artists by Other Artists, ICI, California College of Arts, Wattis Institute, San Francisco, CA; McColl Center for Visual Art, Charlotte, NC; Institute for Contemporary Art, Boston, MA; Dalhousie University Art Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia, CA; University Art Museum, California State University at Long Beach, Long Beach, CA; Illingworth Kerr Gallery, Alberta College of Art & Design, Calgary, Alberta, CA; Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, Virginia Beach, VA | |
| Disturbing the Peace, Danese Gallery, New York, NY | |
| Muse, Leslie Tonkonow Gallery, New York, NY | |
| Co-Conspirators: Artists and Collectors, The James Cottrell and Joe Lovett Collection, Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL | |
| 2003 | Influence, Anxiety and Gratitude, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA |
| Crimes and Misdemeanors: Politics in U.S. Art of the 1980’s, Cincinnati Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, OH | |
| The Recurrent Haunting Ghost, Reflections of Marcel Duchamp in Modern and Contemporary Art, Francis M. Nauman Fine Art, New York, NY | |
| 2002 | Queer Visualities, Stony Brook University Art Gallery, Stony Brook, NY |
| 2001 | A Family Album: Brooklyn Collection, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY |
| Voice, Image, Gesture: Selections from The Jewish Museum’s Collection 1945- 2000, The Jewish Museum, New York, NY | |
| Contemporary Art and Celebrity Culture, Betty Rymer Gallery, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL | |
| Recasting the Past: Beneath the Hollywood Tinsel, Main Art Gallery, Cal State University, Fullerton, CA | |
| 2000 | Revealing and Concealing: Portraits and Cultural Identity, Skirball Museum, Los Angeles, CA |
| Déjà vu: Reworking the Past, Katonah Museum, Katonah, NY | |
| 1999 | Fifteen, Deutsche Bank Foundation for the Arts, New York, NY |
| The Perpetual Well: Contemporary Art from the Collection of the Jewish Museum, The Jewish Museum, New York, NY; Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL; Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery and Sculpture Garden, University of Nebraska, Lincon, NE; Parrish Museum, South Hampton, NY; Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, WV | |
| Culture and Continuity: The Jewish Journey, The Jewish Museum, New York, NY | |
| A.R.T. Press Portfolio, David Adamson Gallery, Washington, D.C. | |
| 1998 | In Your Face, The Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA |
| Conversation: Patricia Cronin and Deborah Kass, Art Transfer Resouce, New York, NY | |
| 5729-5756: Contemporary Artists Welcome the New Year, The Jewish Museum List Graphic Commission, Journey, The Jewish Museum, New York, NY | |
| Art on Paper, The Weatherspoon Gallery of Art, Greensboro, NC | |
| 1997 | The Prophecy of Pop, New Orleans Contemporary Art Center New Orleans, LA |
| Identity Crisis: Self Portraiture at the End of the Century, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI; Aspen Museum, Aspen, CO | |
| 1996 | Too Jewish?: Challenging Traditional Identities, The Jewish Museum, New York NY; The Jewish Museum, Philadelphia, PA; The Contemporary, Baltimore, MD; The Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA; UCLA at the t the Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA |
| Now Here: Incandescent, Louisiana Museum of Art, Humlebaek, DK | |
| Real Fake, Neuberger Museum of Art, Suny Purchase, Purchase, NY | |
| Gender, Fucked, Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA | |
| 1995 | In a Different Light, University Art Gallery, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA |
| On Beauty, Regina Gallery, RU | |
| Pervert, University of California at Irvine, Irvine, CA | |
| Imperfect, Herter Art Gallery, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Amherst, MA; Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA | |
| Semblances, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY | |
| 1994 | 2 X IMMORTAL: Elvis + Marilyn, McDaris Exhibition Group, Memphis, TN; Institute of Contemporary Arts, Boston, MA; Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX; Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC; The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH; The Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK; Columbus Museum of Art, OH; Tennessee St. Museum, Nashville, TN; San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA; Honolulu Academy of Arts, Honolulu, HA |
| Democratic Vistas: 50 Years of American Art from Regional Collections, State University of New York at Albany, Albany, NY | |
| Stonewall 25: Imaginings of the Gay Past, Celebrating the Gay Present, White Columns, New York, NY | |
| Pride in Our Diveristy, Colonial House Hotel, New York, NY | |
| Absence, Activism & The Body Politic, Fischbach Gallery, New York, NY | |
| Exhibition and Sale for ICI‘s 20th Anniversary, Sonnabend Gallery, New York, NY | |
| Working Around Warhol, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA | |
| Bad Girls West, Wight Art Gallery, University of California, Los Angeles, CA | |
| 1993 | Ciphers of Identity, University of Maryland, Baltimore / Baltimore County Fine Arts Gallery, Cantonville, MD; Ronald Feldman Gallery, New York, NY; Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA; Woodruff Arts Center, Atlanta, GA; University of California at Irvine, Irvine, CA; Kemper Museum of Art and Design, Kansas City, MO |
| Regarding Masculinity, Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA | |
| Collecting for the 21st Century: Recent Acquisitions and Promised Gifts, Jewish Museum, New York, NY | |
| I Love You More Than My Own Death, A Melodrama In Parts By Pedro Almodovar, Zitelle Guidecca, The Venice Biennial - Slittamenti, Venice, IT | |
| Cutting Bait, Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago, IL | |
| I Am The Enunciator, Thread Waxing Space, New York, NY | |
| 1992 | The New American Flag, Max Protech Gallery, New York, NY |
| Shapeshifters, Amy Lipton Gallery, New York, NY | |
| Fear of Painting, Arthur Roger Gallery, New York, NY | |
| In Your Face: Politics of the Body and Personal Knowledge, A.C. Project Room, New York, NY | |
| Painting Culture, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA | |
| Selections, Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA | |
| 1991 | Painting Culture, fiction/nonfiction, NY |
| Rope, Galeria Fernando Alcolea, Barcelona, ES | |
| Out Art, Saint Lawrence University, Saint Lawrence, NY | |
| Someone or Somebody, Myers / Bloom Gallery, Santa Monica, CA | |
| Something Pithier and More Psychological, Simon Watson Gallery, New York, NY | |
| Just What Is It That Makes Today‘s Homes So Different, So Appealing?, Hyde Museum, Glenns Falls, NY | |
| 1990 | The Last Laugh: Irony, Humor, Self-Mockery and Derision, Massimo Audiello Gallery, New York, NY |
| Fragments, Parts and Wholes: The Body in Culture, White Columns, New York, NY | |
| 1989 | Young New York, Bellarte, Helsinki, FI; Turku, FI |
| The Mirror in Which Two Are Seen as One, Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ | |
| Painting Between the Paradigms-Part One: Between Awareness and Desire, Galerie Rahmel, Cologne, DE | |
| Erotophobia: A Forum on Contemporary Sexuality, Simon Watson Gallery, New York, NY | |
| 1988 | Meaningful Geometry, Postmasters Gallery, New York, NY |
| Five Corners of Abstraction, Jacob Javits Center, New York, NY | |
| Combination Prints, New Jersey Center for the Visual Arts, Summit, NJ | |
| Gallery Selections, Scott Hanson Gallery, New York, NY | |
| 1987 | Dreams of the Alchemist, Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, OH |
| Romantic Science, One Penn Plaza, New York, NY | |
| Suzanne Joelson, Claudia Hart, Deborah Kass, Pat Steir, Four Walls, Hoboken, NJ | |
| Major Acquisitions, Small Appliances, Solo Gallery, New York, NY | |
| 1986 | A Radical Plurality, Ben Shahn Galleries, William Patterson College, Wayne, NJ |
| Two-Person Exhibition, Turnbull Lutjeans Kogan Gallery, Costa Mesa, CA | |
| 1985 | Six Painters, Zilka Gallery, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT |
| 1984 | The New Expressive Landscape, Sordoni Gallery, Wilkes College, Wilkes-Barre, PA |
| Fantastic Landscape, Exit Art, New York, NY | |
| Two-Person Exhibition, Turnbull Lutjeans Kogan Gallery, Costa Mesa, CA | |
| 1982 | Two-Person Exhibition, Baskerville and Watson Gallery, New York, NY |
| Red, Stefanotti Gallery, New York, NY | |
| Landscape / Cityscape, Josef Gallery, New York, NY | |
| Nature As Image and Metaphor, Greene Space, New York, NY | |
| Critical Perspectives, P.S.1 Museum, Long Island City, NY | |
| 1981 | Black Paint / Dark Thoughts, Pratt Manhattan Center, New York, NY |
| Drawings at the Mudd Club, The Mudd Club, New York, NY | |
| Drawing Show, Stefanotti Gallery, New York, NY | |
| 1980 | First Person singular: Recent Self Portraiture, Pratt Manhattan Center, New York, NY; Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY |
| 1979 | Artists by Artists, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY |
| Collections | |
| Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA | |
| Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY | |
| Chemical Bank, New York, NY | |
| Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH | |
| Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT | |
| First Bank of Minneapolis, Minneapolis, MN | |
| Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, IN | |
| Glickenhaus Company, New York, NY | |
| The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY | |
| Harvard/Fogg Art Museum, Boston, MA | |
| The Jewish Museum, New York, NY | |
| La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA | |
| LACMA Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA | |
| McCrory Corporation, New York, NY | |
| The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY | |
| Mobil Oil Corporation, New York, NY | |
| Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA | |
| The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY | |
| National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC | |
| New Museum, New York, NY | |
| New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA | |
| The Norton Family Foundation, Santa Monica, CA | |
| Pérez Art Museum Miami, FL | |
| The Progressive Corporation, Cleveland, OH | |
| The Prudential Life Insurance Company of America, NJ | |
| Salomen Brothers, New York, NY | |
| St. Petersburg Museum, St. Petersburg, FL | |
| The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY | |
| The Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of NC at Greensboro, Greenboro, NC | |
| The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY | |
| The Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick, NJ | |
