EDUCATION
1969 Hunter College, New York City, MA in painting
1966 – 1967 Institute of Design, Chicago, one year graduate study in photo & film
1966 Brown University, Providence, BA in art (painting and writing)
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019 "Retrospective," Westbeth Gallery, New York, NY
2018 Galerie Metanoia, Paris, France
2017 Sideshow Gallery, Williamsburgh, Brooklyn, NY
2014 Andre Zarre Gallery, New York City
2013 Sideshow Gallery, Williamsburgh, Brooklyn, NY
2003 Gallery Camino Real, Boca Raton
1997 Andre Zarre Gallery, New York City
1996 The Courthouse Gallery of Anthology Film Archive, New York City
1995 “Kunstmuhle,” “next” kunst verein International Studio and Exhibition, Graz, Austria
1994 Adelphi University, Garden City, Long Island
1994 55 Mercer Gallery, New York City
1993 55 Mercer Gallery, New York City (January)
1993 55 Mercer Gallery, New York City (October)
1993 The Painting Center, New York City (October) (Co – founder of the Painting center)
1988 Ruggiero - Henis Gallery, New York City
1982 Ericson Gallery, New York City
1973 Pyramid Gallery, Ann Arbor
1967 Armour Gallery, Chicago
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2016 Mishkin Gallery, Baruch College, NYC, curated by Richard Timperio
2016 Sideshow Nation IV, Thru the Rabbit Hole, Sideshow Gallery, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
2015 Mishkin Gallery, Baruch College, NYC, curated by Richard Timperio
2015 Sideshow Nation III, Circle the Wagons, Sideshow Gallery, Williamsburg, Brooklyn Paperazzi, Janet Kurnatowski Gallery, NYC
2014 Andre Zarre Gallery, 40th Anniversary Exhibition
2014 21 and Counting, The Painting Center
2014 Sideshow Nation II, the Alamo, Sideshow Gallery, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
2014 Paperazzi, Janet Kurnatowski Gallery, NYC
2013 Surviving Sandy, Industry City, Brooklyn, curator, Phong Bui
2013 NurtureArt Benefit, Bernarducci Meisel Gallery, NYC, curators, Lamensdorf, Panero, SmithStewart, and Tribe, October, 2013
2013 Sideshow Nation, Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn
2012 Bushwick Open Studios, 1013 Grand Street, Brooklyn
2012 What Only Paint Can Do, Triangle Arts Assoc., Brooklyn; curator Karen Wilkin
2012 Mic Check, Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn
2011 It's All Good, Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn
2010 Bushwick Open Studios, 1013 Grand Street, Brooklyn
2001 Charles Cowles Gallery, NYC
1996 Old City Hall, Prague, Czech., “Sentient,” artists from the Graz International Studio
1995 Andre Zarre Gallery, NYC, “Paper and Canvas,” (other artists in show incl. Frances Barth, Ellen Lanyon, Loren Munk, Doug Ohlson, Marjorie Strider, Joan Thorne, Thornton Willis)
1995 Leubsdorf Gallery, Hunter College, NYC, “News, Surprises, Nostalgia” (other artists in show: Alice Aycock, Frances Barth, Arlene Bayer, Howard Buchwald, Jean Fineberg, Mike Glier, Anita Janoff - Katjanelson, Mel Kendrick, Scott Pfaffman, Alan Sonfist, Carolee Thea, Joan Thorne, Clover Vail, Barbara Zucker)
1995 Blondies Contemporary Art, NYC
1994 Andre Zarre Gallery, NYC, “Thru Thick and Thin” (other artists in show incl. S. Delaunay, Hazlitt, Ohlson, Lanyon, Pereira, Strider, Xceron)
1994 Blondies Contemporary Art, NYC
1994 55 Mercer Gallery, New York City, “Friends”
1993 Paolo Baldacci Gallery, NYC
1993 Art Initiatives at NY Law School Gallery, NYC, “Visual Evidence”
1993 The Painting Center, NYC, “The Preview Show”
1991 The Right Bank Gallery, Williamsburg, Brooklyn;
1991 Brand Name Damages Gallery, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
1989 Ledis Flam Gallery, NYC, “Paintings I Like” (five artists, incl. Amy Sillman, Peter Acheson)
1988 Triangle Artists Workshop, Pine Plains, New York
1987 Kouros Gallery, NYC, “Knowing What I Like”; curator, John Bernard Myers
1985 Peder Bonnier, Inc., NYC
1985 Northside Arts and Industries, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
1984 Peder Bonnier, Inc., NYC
1983 Painting Space 122, NYC, “Jump — Four Painters”
1982 “New New York”, Phoenix Museum of Modern Art, Coral Gables Metropolitan Museum, Florida State University Art Gallery; curator, Albert Stewart (other artists incl. Amenoff, Basquiat, Fischl, Kendrick, Sherman)
1981 Neill Gallery, NYC, “Cloudworks”; curator, Peter Frank
1981 Ericson Gallery, NYC
1981 626 Space, NYC (performance)
1980 Hunter Gallery, Hunter College, NYC, “Frames”, curator, Dorothy Zeidman
1980 “Small Works”, Wash. Sq. East Galleries, NYU, NYC, curator, Patterson Sims, Whitney Mus.
1980 626 Space, NYC (performance)
1980 Artists Space, NYC (performance)
1976 Boston Visual Artists Union Gallery, Boston, “Documents,” Harbor Gallery, Boston
1975 Harbor Gallery, Boston 1974 Nashua (New Hampshire) Arts and Sciences Center
AWARDS
1990 & 1993 Edward Albee Foundation Fellowships
1992 Millay Colony for the Arts
1988 Triangle Artists Workshop
1986 Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant
1978 Wisconsin Arts Board Fellowship NEA US - UK Bicentennial Exchange Grant, alternate
1977 Faculty Research Grants, University of Wisconsin
1975 Faculty Research Grants, Univ. of Massachusetts
COLLECTIONS
The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
Adelphi University, Garden City, NY
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
The American College of Greece, Athens
Royal Film Archive of Belgium, Brussels
CGNA Museum, Philadelphia
Philip Morris, Inc., New York
Becton Dickinson Corp., New Jersey
Sydney and Francis Lewis, Best & Co., Virginia
Edward Albee, Takis Efstathiou, Wilfred Heilbut, Hilton Kramer, James Panero, Timothy Radin
Virgil Thomson, and other private collections
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
http://www.nysun.com/arts/color - and - line/88946/ (review of Andre Zarre exhibition)
http://www.newcriterion.com/posts.cfm/Critic - s - Notebook - for - November - 24 -- 2014 - 7641 (Zarre ex.)
http://www.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/Gallery - chronicle - 7642 (review of 2013 Sideshow ex.)
http://www.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/Gallery - chronicle - 7282
http://www.supremefiction.com/theidea/2012/01/gallery - chronicle - february - 2012.html
http://www.pirihalasz.com/blog.htm?post=834515
What Only Paint Can Do, curated by Karen Wilkin
James Panero, "Appreciation: artist Dana Gordon", blog Supreme Fiction, 1/18/2012, linked in blogs PaintersTable, Art Matters
http://www.supremefiction.com/theidea/2012/01/appreciation - artist - dana - gordon.html
Grace Glueck, “Dana Gordon at Andre Zarre”, New York Times, 11/14 & 11/21/97
New York Magazine - Oct 1996 - Edith Newhall: Dana Gordon — Recent abstract paintings; 10/8 1 1/9. Anthology Courthouse Gallery, 32 Second Ave
“Watchlist”, Der Standard, Vienna, Austria, 9/29/95
“Besuch im Kunstlerhimmel”, K. Hofmann - Sewera, Kleine Zeitung, Graz, Austria, 9/19/95
Hilton Kramer,“In with the Out Crowd”, interview, Artforum, March, 1995
Helen Harrison,“Strong Individual Messages”, on Adelphi solo exhibition, NY Times, 11/27/94
The New Yorker, recommended viewing, solo exhibitions 1988, 1993
New York Magazine - Oct 1993, Edith Newhall: "Dana Gordon — Thick - surfaced, gestural abstract paintings; through 10/23." The Painting Center, 52 Greene St.
NY Magazine, June 1988, Edith Newhall: "Large Scale abstract paintings with broad gestural fields of color, and mysterious allusions"; Ruggiero Henis Gallery, 415 West Broadway
Stephen Paul Miller,“Dana Gordon at Ruggiero - Henis”, COVER, 1982
S. Gill,“Knowing What I Like”, Artnews, Summer, 1987
John Russell,“Knowing What I Like”, NY Times, 2/13/87
Stephen Paul Miller,“Dana Gordon at Ericson”, NY Journal of the Arts, September, 1982
Shelley Rice,“Frames”, Artforum, Summer, 1980
CATALOG ESSAYS
2003 Hilton Kramer, “On the Recent Paintings of Dana Gordon,” Gallery Camino Real, Boca
1995 Christiane Holler, Neue Galerie, Graz, “Introduction”, Kunstmuhle. International Studio Tracy Adler,“Dan
1993 55 Mercer Gallery
1992 Stephen Paul Miller, Paul Rotterdam, Valentin Tatransky, “Dana Gordon, Paintings
1987 John Bernard Myers,“Dana Gordon,” “Knowing What I Like,” Kouros Gallery, NYC
1982 New New York”, Phoenix Museum of Modern Art, Coral Gables Metropolitan Museum, Florida State University Art Gallery
1980 Frames”, Hunter Gallery, New York
Published Writing On Art
The Late 1960s: Working for Tony Smith and George Sugarman", Painters Table, Nov 2014: http://painters - table.com/blog/dana - gordon - tony - smith - george - sugarman#.Vkj7JM5 - 9_8
"Wagner and the Meaning and Effect of Art", The Jerusalem Post Magazine, July 16, 2012: http://www.jpost.com/Magazine/Opinion/Wagner - and - the - meaning - and - effect - of - art
"Pissarro's People", review of exhibition, The Jerusalem Post Magazine, October, 2011: http://danagordon.net/Pissarro_JPost.pdf
"An Intimate Exhibition That Rewards the Keen Eye," Pissarro at the Jewish Museum, the Wall Street Journal, October 17, 2007: http://danagordon.net/wsjpissarro.pdf
"Age on Stage," Alvin Epstein as King Lear, at La Mama, the New York Sun, August 6, 2006: http://danagordon.net/Age_on_Stage_082106_NYSun.pdf
"Justice to Pissarro," feature essay on the artist Camille Pissarro, Commentary Magazine, October 2005: http://danagordon.net/Commentary_article.pdf (republished in Painters Table, internet magazine, 2013, illustrated) http://painters - table.com/blog/justice - pissarro#.VKbTd4vT020
numerous letters to the editor in the NYTimes, many collected here: http://danagordon.net/NYTimes_et_al.html
One - Person Exhibitions Of Avant - Garde Film
(12 films made between 1968 and 1978) Current - the Royal Film Archive of Belgium has collected all Dana Gordon's fi lm materials and is restoring the films digitally.
1996 Anthology Film Archive, New York City
1993 Anthology Film Archive, NYC*
1990 Filmoteca de Catalunya, Barcelona*
1990 Filmoteca Espanola, Madrid*
1990 Arsenal Kino, Berlin*
1990 Dusseldorf Film Institut*
1990 Filmmuseum im Stadmuseum, Munich*
1990 Kinemathek, National Film Museum, Brussels
1989 Anthology Film Archive, NYC
1980 Museum of Modern Art, NYC
1979 Royal Film Archive, Brussels
1979 Swedish Film Institute, Stockholm; State Art Colleges,
1979 Hamburg and Brauschweig, Germany
1979 London Filmmakers Coop, London, England
1979 St. Martins College of Art, London, England
1979 Pacific Film Archive, Un iversity of California Art Museum, Berkeley
1979 San Francisco Cinematheque.
1978 Millenium, NYC
1978 San Francisco Cinematheque
1978 Theatre Vanguard, Los Angeles
1977 Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
1976 Anthology Film Archive, NYC (film/video — 1st museum solo show in NYC of film and video by same artist) *complete two - or three - day retrospectives, eight to twelve films
Film Festivals
1979 FilmLondon — 2nd International Avant - Garde Film Festival, Nat'l Theatre, London, England
1974 EXPRMNTL - 5, Fifth International Experimental Film Competition of the Royal Film Archive of Belgium, Knokke - Heist
1972 - 79 Ann Arbor, Bellevue, et al
Bibliography (Film)
http://danagordon.net/re_experimental_film.html
“Experimentos”, Christina Baulies, LAS NOTICIAS, Barcelona, May 25, 1990
“Los Films de Dana Gordon...”, M. Torriero, EL PAIS, Madrid, May 22, 1990
“...el cineast y pintor Dana Gordon”, AVUI, Barcelona, May 2 3, 1990
“Dana Gordon y su cine 'underground'...”, LA VANGUARDIA, Barcelona, May 23, 1990
Program Essay, Richard Pena, Director, Lincoln Center Film Society, 1990
Program Essay, Christian Pellet, Associate, Anthology Film Archive, 1990
Program Essay, Dana Gordon, Cineprobe, Museum of Modern Art, 1980; Walker Art Center, 1977
“Dana Gordon, Two Films at MOMA”, Marc Waldor, MILLENIUM FILM JOURNAL, 1982
Amy Taubin, SOHO WEEKLY NEWS, 1979
“James Benning and Dana Gordon”, Douglas Edwards, GOSH, Los Angeles, May, 1979
“Dana Gordon Films at Theatre Vanguard”, Linda Gross, LOS ANGELES TIMES, 3/21/78
