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JOSEPHINE HALVORSON Born 1981, Brewster, MA Lives and works in New Marlborough and Boston, MA EDUCATION 2007 MFA, Columbia University, New York, NY 2003-4 U.S. Fulbright Fellowship, Vienna, Austria 2003 BFA, The Cooper Union, New York, NY 2002 Yale Summer School of Art and Music, Norfolk, CT SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2021 Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, NM, October 1, 2021 – March 28, 2022 Josephine Halvorson: Five Grounds, Gaa Gallery, Provincetown, MA, July 2 – August 2, 2021 2020 On the Ground, Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York, NY, January 23 – February 29, 2020 2019 Foster Prize Exhibition, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA, August 21, 2019 – January 5, 2020, curated by Ruth Erickson 2017 As I Went Walking, Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York, NY, October 19 – November 22, 2017 2016 Josephine Halvorson: Measures, as the 2016 Outlooks series curated by Nora Lawrence, Storm King Art Center, New Windsor, NY, May 14 – November 13, 2016 2015 Josephine Halvorson: Slow Burn, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston- Salem, NC, March 26 – May 31, 2015, curated by Cora Fisher 2014 À Moly-Sabata, Angle Art Conteporain, St-Paul-Trois-Chateaux, France, September 17 – November 8, 2014 Facings, Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York, NY, January 23 – March 1, 2014 2012 Side By Side, Galerie Nelson-Freeman, Paris, France, November 17, 2012 – January 26, 2013 2011 What Looks Back, Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York, NY, October 21 – December 3, 2011 2009 Clockwise From Window, Monya Rowe, New York, NY, November 7, 2009 – January 16, 2010 Josephine Halvorson, The Volta Show, exhibited by Monya Rowe, New York, NY, March 5 – 8, 2009 2008 Josephine Halvorson, West Gallery, Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York, NY, November 19, 2008 – January 10, 2019 Peintures de Patience, Fondation des États-Unis, Paris, France 2005 Vienna Portraits, Humanities Gallery, The Cooper Union, New York, NY Still Lifes, RKL Gallery, Brooklyn, NY GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2021 You Again, Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY, June 24 – August 21, 2021, curated by Franklin Evans What Looms Large, Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, Amherst, MA, September 14 – TBA 2020 Visionary New England, deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA, October 8, 2020 – March 14, 2021 The Place as Metaphor, Cornell Fine Arts Museum at Rollins College, Winter Park, FL, January 18 – September 6, 2020 2019 Space Heater, Able Baker, Portland, ME, December 6, 2019 – January 12, 2020, curated by Annika Earley The Practice of Everyday Life, Slag Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, April 18 – May 19, 2019 Rios Intermitentes/Intermittent Rivers, XIII Bienal de La Habana/Havana Biennial, Matanzas, Cuba, April 13 – May 21, 2019, curated by Maria Magdalena Campos Pons Those Who Can: Works by Boston University Painting Faculty, Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA, April 5 – May 1, 2019 2018 A Few Conversations Between Women, 808 Gallery at Boston University, Boston, MA, September 4 – 28, 2018 Crosstown Contemporary Art, UMass Amherst, Amherst, MA, July 1 – November 1, 2018, curated by Loretta Yarlow and Sandy Litchfield Excavation, Peter Blum, New York, NY, June 7 – August 31, 2018 Measure (Tree), deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA, June 2, 2018 – July 1, 2019 Fenêtre Jaune Cadmium, Institut Français, Centre Saint-Louis, Rome, May 24 – June 13, 2018 TEFAF Spring 2018, New York, NY, May 4-8, 2018 The Lure of the Dark: Contemporary Painters Conjure the Night, MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA, March 2018 – March 10, 2019 The Case Against Reality, Marinaro, New York, NY, February 22 – April 8, 2018 2017 En Crue, Moly Sabata, Sablons, France, September 16 – October 29, 2017 Immigrancy, Samsøn, Boston, MA, September 8 – November 11, 2017, curated by Camilø Álvårez Gray Matters, Wexner Art Center, Columbus, OH, May 20 – July 30, 2017 Images at Work: L’abstration au quotidian – Volet 1, Abstract Room, Paris, May 20 – 21, 2017 2016 A Way of Living, Apalazzogallery, Brescia, Italy, September 29 – November 15, 2016, curated by Nathalie Provosty and N. Dash Studio Systems, AAR Gallery at the American Academy in Rome, Rome, Italy, May 19 – July 3, 2016, curated by Peter Benson Miller It Was Never Linear…Recent Painting, Sheldon Museum of Art at the University of Nebraska – Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, May 6 – July 31, 2016 Cynthia Daignault: There is nothing I could say that I haven’t thought of before, Stems Gallery, Brussels, Belgium, April 19 – May 28, 2016 2015 Social Ecologies, Rail Curatorial Projects, Industry City, Brooklyn, NY, December 10, 2015 – February 21, 2016, curated by Greg Lindquist Josephine Halvorson, Leslie Hewitt, and Jennie C. Jones, Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York, NY, December 10, 2015 – January 23, 2016 Intimacy in Discourse: Reasonable-Sized Paintings, Mana Contemporary, Jersey City, NJ, October 18 – December 22, 2015, curated by Phong Bui muscular, Kansas, New York, NY, June 27 – July 25, 2015, curated by John McAllister The Guston Effect, Steven Zevitas Gallery, Boston, MA, May 15 – August 15, 2015 Stirring Still, LeRoy Neiman Gallery at Columbia University, New York, NY, April 3 – 29, 2015, organized by Ioana Manolache and Maria Stabio Tracing Shadows, PLATEAU, Seoul, Korea, March 12 – June 7, 2015 Teatro delle Esposizioni #6, French Academy in Rome, Rome, Italy, February 27 – April 12, 2015, curated by Claudio Libero-Pisano and Éric de Chassey Souvenirs de Paris, Peter Freeman, Inc., New York, NY, February 26 – April 4, 2015, curated by Camille Morineau Conversation Piece – Part 1, Fondazione Memmo-Arte Contemporanea, Rome, Italy, February 10 – April 12, 2015, curated by Marcello Smarrelli 2014 Please Enter, Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York, NY, October 23 – December 20, 2014, curated by Beth Rudin deWoody Acquisition Trust: Celebrating Thirty Years of Building a Collection, Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL, October 11 – November 2, 2015 Painter’s Painter: Gifts from Alex Katz, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA, June 14 – November 2, 2014 2014 Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY, March 6 – April 12, 2014 2013 L’Hourloupe, Greenlease Art Gallery, Rockhurst University, Kansas City, MO, September 6 – October 12, 2013, curated by David Rhoades Black Cake, Team Gallery, New York, NY, January 10 – February 16, 2013, curated by Alex Gartenfeld 2012 Still, Frith Street Gallery, London, UK, June 29 – September 15, 2012, curated by Peter Fleissig The Big Picture, Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York, NY, June 8 – July 25, 2012 2011 2011 Artist in Residence Biennial, Ewing Gallery of Art and Architecture at The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, November 10 – December 9, 2011 The Death of Affect, Artblog/Artblog, New York, NY, October 14 – 28, 2011, curated by Fran Holdtrom & Jeffrey Scott Mathews Paper A-Z, Sue Scott Gallery, New York, NY, March 16 – April 22, 2011 Ex Libris, Adam Baumgold Gallery, New York, NY, January 26 – February 26, 2011 2010 Between Picture and Viewer: The Image in Contemporary Painting, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY, November 23 – December 22, 2010 Perceiving Place, Fosdick-Nelson Gallery at Alfred University, Alfred, NY, October 22 – December 1, 2010 Americanana, Hunter College Art Galleries, New York, NY, September 16 – December 4, 2010, curated by Katy Siegal Precarity and the Butter Tower, CTRL, Houston, TX, May 8 – June 19, 2010, curated by Jackie Gendel & Tom McGrath New Work From New York, Golden Gallery, Chicago, IL, curated by Patricia Treib Perceiving Place, Fosdick-Nelson Gallery, Alfred University, Alfred, NY, curated by Stephanie McMahon Fool’s House, LeRoy Neiman Gallery, Columbia University, New York, NY, curated by Nora Griffin Painting and Sculpture, Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York, NY The Image in Contemporary Painting, The School of Visual Arts, New York, NY, curated by Tom Huhn & Isabel Taube Rites Of Passage, 41 Cooper Gallery, The Cooper Union, New York, NY, curated by Thomas Micchelli 2009 Party At Chris's House, Janet Kurnatowski Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, November 20 – December 20, 2009, curated by Phong Bui The Open, Deitch Projects, Long Island City, NY, September 10 – October 25, 2009 Perception As Object, Monya Rowe, New York, NY, January 8 – February 14, 2009 Editions/Artists Book Fair, monoprints exhibited by Sue Scott Gallery, New York, NY What’s Bin Did And What’s Bin Hid, Gallery 106 Green, Brooklyn, NY, curated by Ryan Stedman Hand-In-Hand, Non-Objectif Sud, Tulette, France, curated by Michael Zahn Subverted Genres, Sue Scott Gallery, New York, NY, curated by Gabriela Galati & Rebecca Mirsky Close To Home, Cuchifritos, New York, NY, curated by Melissa Levin & Mike Quinn Breaking Into The Human Race, Great Hall Gallery, The Cooper Union, New York, NY 2008 Lost In Your Eyes, LeRoy Neiman Gallery, Columbia University, New York, NY A Friend Indeed: Contemporary Art And The Academy, Katzen Arts Center, American University, Washington D.C. Union Square, Taxter & Spengemann, New York, NY 2007 The Show's So Nice, Monya Rowe, New York, NY Columbia University MFA Thesis Exhibition, curated by Daniel Bozhkov, Rockefeller Center, New York, NY 2006 Dead Serious, curated by Yola Monakhov, The Leroy Neiman Gallery, Columbia University, New York, NY 2005 Special Collection, curated by Laura Napier, The New York Public Library, New York, NY TEACHING 2016-present Professor of Art and Chair of Graduate Studies in Painting, Boston University, Boston, MA 2014-16 Senior Critic, MFA Program, Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT 2015-16 Visiting Critic, Boston University, Boston, MA 2012-14 Full-Year Critic, MFA Program,
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  • STEPHEN ANTONAKOS Laconia, Greece 1926 — New York 2013

    STEPHEN ANTONAKOS Laconia, Greece 1926 — New York 2013

    STEPHEN ANTONAKOS Laconia, Greece 1926 — New York 2013 Antonakos’s work with neon since 1960 has lent the medium new perceptual and formal meanings in hundreds of gallery and museum exhibitions first in New York and then internationally. His use of spare, complete and incomplete geometric neon forms has ranged from direct 3-D indoor installations to painted Canvases, Walls, the well known back- lit Panels with painted or gold surfaces, his Rooms and Chapels. Starting in the 1970s he installed over 55 architecturally-scaled permanent Public Works in the USA, Europe, Israel, and Japan. Throughout, he conceived work in relation to its site — its scale, proportions, and character — and to the space that it shares with the viewer. He called his art, “real things in real spaces,” intending it to be seen without reference to anything outside the immediate visual and kinetic experience. Colored pencil drawings on paper and vellum, often in series, have been a major, rich practice since the 1950s; as has his extensive work with collage. Other major practices include the conceptual Packages, small-edition Artist’s Books, silver and white Reliefs, prints, and — since 2011 — several series of framed and 3-D Gold Works. Antonakos was born in the small Greek village of Agios Nikolaos in 1926 and moved to New York with his family in 1930. In the late 1940s, after returning from the US Army, he established his first studio in New York’s fur district. From the early 1960s forward, until the end in 2013, he worked in studios in Soho. EXHIBITIONS 2018 to 2019 “Antonakos: The Room Chapel” Curated by Elaine Mehelakes — Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA, May 6, 2018 - May 5, 2019 2018 “Antonakos: Proscenium” Curated by Helaine Posner — Neuberger Museum of Art, SUNY Purchase, NY, Jan.