John Torreano
John Torreano in his studio [previous page]
John Torreano 1972, at Artist Space
John Torreano, installation view at Paula Cooper Gallery, 1974
John Torreano — Thomas Brambilla gallery John Torreano, installation view at Susan Caldwell Gallery, 1975
John Torreano — Thomas Brambilla gallery John Torreano with Jay Gorney, Rafael Ferrer, Grace Hartigan, John Willenbecher, Ron Gorchov and Robert Murray at Hamilton Gallery, 1979
John Torreano and Barbara Schwartz, installation view at Artist Space, 1979
John Torreano — Thomas Brambilla gallery John Torreano, “Untitled, 1979”, permanent collection Museum Contemporary ArtChicago, glass jewels and acrylic on wood, 152 x 15cm
John Torreano — Thomas Brambilla gallery John Torreano — Thomas Brambilla gallery John Torreano, installation view of Wave Hill, 1982 [previous page]
John Torreano, installation view of Wave Hill, 1982 and detail
John Torreano — Thomas Brambilla gallery John Torreano, installation view at Patricia Hamilton NY, 1982-1983
John Torreano, “100 Diamonds, 1987” installation view at Jamie Wolfe Gallery
John Torreano — Thomas Brambilla gallery John Torreano, “Giant Gem, 1989” installation view
John Torreano, “Mega-Gem, 1989” installation view at Chicago Pier, Chicago
John Torreano, “Mega-Gem, 1989” installation view at permanent collection of Indianapolis Museum of Art IMA, Indiana
John Torreano — Thomas Brambilla gallery John Torreano, “Little animals of the world, 1993” installation view
John Torreano — Thomas Brambilla gallery John Torreano, “Material Wood, 1999” installation view at Nerman Museum, Kansas, USA
John Torreano — Thomas Brambilla gallery John Torreano, “Looking Close Looking Far, 2008” installation view at Wayne University, Detroit, Michigan
John Torreano — Thomas Brambilla gallery John Torreano, “Dark Matters Everywhere, 2013” installation view at Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati
John Torreano — Thomas Brambilla gallery John Torreano, “Ghost Gems, 1989” installation view at permanent collection Parrish Museum, WalterMill, NY, 2014
John Torreano, installation view of “39 Years” group show at Susanne Hilberry Gallery, Michigan, 2015
John Torreano — Thomas Brambilla gallery John Torreano — Thomas Brambilla gallery John Torreano, “Gold gems balls, 2018” installation view at The Drawing Room, East Hampton, NY and detail
John Torreano — Thomas Brambilla gallery John Torreano, “Dark Matters Without Time, 2018” installation view at Lasley Heller Gallery, NYC
John Torreano — Thomas Brambilla gallery John Torreano — Thomas Brambilla gallery John Torreano, “Column Paintings, 2019”, installation view, at Thomas Brambilla gallery
John Torreano — Thomas Brambilla gallery John Torreano, “Wedding, 20019”, acrylic gems and paint on wood, 243 x 30 x 15 cm and detail
John Torreano — Thomas Brambilla gallery John Torreano, “Gold DM, 2019”, acrylic paint on wood, 91 x 15 x 17 cm
John Torreano — Thomas Brambilla gallery John Torreano — Thomas Brambilla gallery John Torreano, “Column Paintings, 2019”, installation view, at Thomas Brambilla gallery [previous page]
John Torreano, “Dark, 1997”, acrylic paint and acrylic gems on wood, 243 x 30 x 15 cm approx.
John Torreano — Thomas Brambilla gallery John Torreano, “Phathalo, 2019”, acrylic gems and paint on wood, 132 x 19x 10 cm
John Torreano — Thomas Brambilla gallery John Torreano, “Column Paintings, 2019”, installation view, at Thomas Brambilla gallery
John Torreano — Thomas Brambilla gallery John Torreano — Thomas Brambilla gallery John Torreano, “Column Paintings, 2019”, installation view, at Thomas Brambilla gallery [previous page]
John Torreano, “Wood column with gold leafed holes, 2018”, gold leaf on pine, 182.8 x 25.4 x 12.7 cm
John Torreano, “Sergeant with Gunmedals, 2017”, acrylic paint and acrylic gems on wood, 182.8 x 22.8 x 11.4 cm
John Torreano — Thomas Brambilla gallery John Torreano, “Column Paintings, 2019”, installation view, at Thomas Brambilla gallery
John Torreano — Thomas Brambilla gallery John Torreano, “Androgyny, 2019”, acrylic gems and paint on wood, 182 x 25 x 11 cm
John Torreano — Thomas Brambilla gallery John Torreano — Thomas Brambilla gallery John Torreano (b. 1941, Michigan) is an American artist, best known for John Torreano: Wall Constructions and Gems, Jean Albano Gallery, Adair Margo Gallery, El Paso, TX utilizing faceted gems in a variety of mediums and methods in order to Chicago John Torreano: Natural Models and Material Illusions, Corcoran Gallery create “movement oriented perception” in his works. 2009 of Art, Washington, DC Torreano grew up in a large Catholic family and this has influenced his Remembering: Neighborhoods and Factories, Flint, Michigan, Wagner John Torreano: Recent Work, Shea & Beker Gallery, New York artistic practice; he always uses of jewels serving as a metaphor for vigil Gallery Space, New York University, New York John Torreano: Oxygems, Scott Hanson Gallery, New York lights. Other religious influences appear in his pieces as well while in recent 2008 John Orreano: Oxygems, Arthur Rogers Gallery, New Orleans years his paintings have used gems to create space-like constellations. Looking Close, Looking Far: Artworks by John Torreano, Elaine L. Jacob John Torreano: Oxygems, Helander Gallery, Palm Beach, FL Throughout his career, Torreano has investigated the properties of real Gallery, Wayne State University Art Galleries, Detroit (catalogue) 1988 and fake gemstones in the differing contexts of lighting, placement and 2007 Diamond Vases (installation), Museum of Modern Art, New York materials. Artist Richard Artschwager described Torreano’s works as Feature Inc., New York John Torreano: Gems, Stars and Perpetual Thinking, Grand Rapids Art „paintings that stand still and make you move“. 2005 Museum, Grand Rapids, MI Torreano’s works have been exhibited in several museums and institutions, Armory Art Center, West Palm Beach, FL 1987 amog all: Whitney Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2004 100 Diamonds, Jamie Wolf Gallery, New York the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Feature Inc., New York Tyler Gallery, Temple University, Philadelphia Washington DC, the Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis and many 2003 Elizabeth McDonald Gallery, New York others. His series of paintings titled “TV Bulge” were featured in the 1969 Center for Creative Studies, Detroit, MI Adair Margo Gallery, El Paso, TX Whitney Biennial. 2002 1986 Feature Inc., New York Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles Biography 2001 1985 John Torreano (b. 1941, Michigan) lives and works in New York City. Kimball Hall, New York University, New York Fine Arts Gallery, Mott Community College, Flint, MI Littlejohn Contemporary New York Dart Gallery, Chicago Education 2000 Baskerville & Watson Gallery, New York 1967 Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, NM 1984 Ohio State University, Columbus, OH; MFA Susanne Hilberry Gallery, Birmingham, MI Suzanne Hilberry Gallery, Birmingham, MI 1963 Littlejohn Contemporary Gallery, New York 1983 Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI; BFA Willoughby Sharpe Gallery, New York Patricia Hamilton Gallery, New York 1961 New Work, Jean Albano Gallery, Chicago 1982 Flint Community Junior College, Flint, MI; AA Joseph Nease Gallery, Kansas City, MO Suzanne Hilberry Gallery, Birmingham, MI 1999 1981 Selected solo exhibitions John Torreano: Material World, Johnson County Community College Patricia Hamilton Gallery, New York 2020 Gallery of Art, Overland Park, KS. Young Hoffman Gallery, Chicago Upcoming solo show, Museo Ettore Fico, Turin, Italy. The Columns: A Choreography of Perceptions, Butler Institute of 1980 Upcoming solo show, Parris Museum, Southampton, NY American Art, Youngstown, OH Carl Solway Gallery, New York 2019 Paintings, Oddballs, and Wallgems, Atlantic Center of the Arts, New 1979 Columns Paintings, Thomas Brambilla Gallery, Bergamo, Italy. Smyrna Beach, FL Droll/Kolbert Gallery, New York Stars on the ground: works by John Torreano, Barrick Museum of Art, 80 Washington Square East Galleries, New York University, New York Texas Gallery, Houston Las Vegas. 1997 1977 2018 Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN Droll/Kolbert Gallery, New York Gold Gems Balls, The Drawing Room, East Hampton NY. Gargoyles and Gals, 80 Washington Square East Galleries, New York Nancy Lurie Gallery, Chicago Dark Matters Without Time, Lesley Heller Gallery, New York, NY. University, New York 1976 2017 1996 Bykert Gallery, New York Abu Dhabi: Color and Material, Reflection and Apparition Photographs, Columns and Gems, Jean Albano Gallery, Chicago 1975 John Torreano, NYUAD New York, 19 WsqN, NY, NY. 1995 John Doyle Gallery, Chicago Dark Matters Without Time, NYU Department of Art and Art Professions, Dale Chihuly/John Torreano, Adair Margo Gallery, El Paso, TX 1974 Barney Building, 34 Stuyvesant, NY, NY. 1994 Artist’s Space, New York 2016 Columns, Wallgems and Deep Drill Paintings, Jean Albano Gallery, Central Cadillac Company, Cleveland, OH John Torreano: Above Below and Below Below Projects Space, Chicago 1971 NYUAD Saadiyat Island Abu Dhabi, UAE Columns, Wallgems and Deep Drill Paintings, Tavelli Gallery, Aspen, CO Paley Gallery, San Francisco 2014-15 1993 1968 John Torreano, Susanne Hilberry Gallery, Ferndale, MI John Torreano: Highlights, Helander Gallery, Nw York The Whitney Museum School, New York Ghost Gems, Parrish Museum, Southampton, NY Every Gem a Hand Held Star, Norton Museum of Art, Palm Beach, FL 2013 Polyhedral Series, Tavelli Gallery, Aspen, CO Selected Group Exhibitions Dark Matters Everywhere: Paintings, Prints & Sculpture, Carl Solway 1992 2018 Gallery, Cincinnati. Ghost Gems, McCarren Airport Commission, Las Vegas, NV Winter Salon, The Drawing Room, East Hampton, New York Feature Inc., New York. Metaphors and Oxymorons, Hypo Bank, New York (catalogue) Putting for Pleasure and Politics-The Spiral Galaxy with Two Black Holes 2012 1990 Open Studios New York University Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi UAE More Scapes, Denver Art Museum; curated by Julie Augur Shea & Beker Gallery, New York “725” Group Art Exhibit, Whaling Museum, Sag Harbor NY Stars on Broadway!, Broadway Windows, New York Dart Gallery, Chicago Looking Up Looking Out, The Whaling Museum, Sag Harbor NY 2011 1989 Take Home a Nude New York Academy of Art, New York NY
John Torreano — Thomas Brambilla gallery Spirit of Place, Drawing Room Gallery, East Hampton NY If I Was the Cousin of My Mother’s Sister’s Son, Gallery Bar, New York Unexpected Selections from the Martin Z. Margulies Collection: Art Spring Forward Drawing Room Gallery, East Hampton NY Populate This Form,Feature Inc., New York from 1985 to the Present,Art Museum at Florida International University, Frankenstein, TMC International, Sag Harbor NY Commons Gallery, New York University, New York Miami Art Southampton Jean Albano Gallery, Southampton NY Pulp Fictions, Ferenbalm-Gurbru Station, Karlsruhe, Germany Paintings and Objects: A Way of Thinking, Galerie Susanne Hojriis, 2017 International Shoebox Sculpture Exhibition, University of Hawaii Art Copenhagen; curated by Julie Sass. It was a Pleasure to Burn by the Sun that Never Sets, Spring/Break Art Gallery, Honolulu Archipelago: An Intimate Immensity, Museum of Contemporary Art, Show at 4 Times Square, NY Art at Straus: NYU Steinhardt Artists at the Joseph and Gwendolyn Denver Summer Papers, curated by John Torreano and Kevin Teare, Sag Harbor Straus Institute for the Advanced Study of Law & Justice, New York; Beyond Bounds 2002: Shine, Johnson County Community College Gallery NY curated by Nancy Barton and Michael Cohen of Art, Overland Park, KS. Anchor, A Whale of a Show, Sag Harbor Whaling Museum, Sag Harbor Mixed Greens: Artists Chooose Artists on the East End, Parrish Art Blobs, Wiggles and Dots, Webs and Crustillations, Work Space, New York Artists Run New York: the Seventies, Jean-Paul Najar Foundation Dubai, Museum, Southampton, NY Pilchuck Glass Auction,Seattle Westin Hotel, Seattle UAE Aligning with Beauty, Varley Art Gallery, Unionville, ONT, Canada 9/11: Abstract Art, Studio 18 Gallery, New York 2016 2008 9/11 Rochester Museum of Art, Rochester, MN A Hard Nut Containing the Whole Tree, J & C Showspace Presents, Sag American Academy Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts, American In Context: Pattern in Contemporary Printmaking,” Zimmer Art Museum, Harbor, NY Academy of Arts and Letters, New York Rutgers University, New Brunswick,NJ. 2015 Inaugural 2008, Cuadro Fine Art Gallery, Dubai, UAE 2001 Thirty Nine Years-Memorial for Suzanne, Suzanne Hilberry Gallery, 2007 Shoes or No Shoes? Het Museum Voor Schoene Kunsten, Ghent, Belgium Ferndale MI Neointegrity, Derek Eller Gallery, New York Whimsey, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR Tiniest Art, Pavel Zoubok Gallery, New York, NY 2006 Reflections: Fifteenth Anniversary Show, Jean Albano Gallery, Chicago Arts Faculty: The Exhibition Arts Center, NYUAD, Abu Dhabi, UAE SITE Unseen 4, Site Santa Fe, NM From the Ashes, Fireplace Room, New York; curated by Willoughby Sharp Artists of the Year: 2014’s Greatest Hits, The Curator Gallery, NY, NY Ron Gorchov, Judy Pfaff, John Torreano, Susanne Hilberry Gallery, Donut Shop Four, Whatcomb Museum, Bellingham, WA 2014 Ferndale, MI Space Oddity, Joseph Nease Gallery, Kansas City, MO Five Centuries of Printmakers, The Curator Gallery, NY, NY The Downtown Show, Grey Art Gallery, New York University, New York Salad Days, Bill Maynes Gallery, New York; curated by Michael St. John Abstractly Speaking: Painting and Sculpture from the Parrish 2005 Another, once again, many times more., Feature Inc., New York Permanent Collection, Parrish Art Museum, Watermill, NY John Torreano: The Drawers, Headbones Gallery, Toronto Een goed in de weg staande tafel, Galerie Van Gelder, Amsterdam; Let’s Go Let Go, 33 Orchard Street, New York, NY 5th Annual RxArt Ball, New York curated by Jack Jaeger A Whale of a Show, The Sag Harbor Whaling Museum, Sag Harbor, NY CCS at 100: Woodward Lecture Alumni, Center for Creative Studies, All That Glitters, Pavel Zoubok Gallery, New York New Dimensions in Sculpture, Jean Albano Gallery, Chicago, Ill Detroit, MI 2000 Art Hamptons, Jean Albano Gallery, Southampton, NY The O Show, Shore Institute of the Contemporary Arts, Long Branch, NJ; John Torreano/Alan Wiener, Feature Inc., New York 2013 Kresge Foundation Open the pod bay doors Hal, Feature Inc., New York Recent Acquisitions, Parrish Art Museum, Watermill, NY Gallery, Ramapo College, Mahwah, NJ; curated by MatCH-Art. ANP: City Projects, Galerie S & H De Buck, Ghent, Belgium Primary Sources: Documenting SVA and the New York Art World 1966- The sun rises in the evening., Feature Inc., New York Hairy Forearm’s Self-Referral, Feature Inc., New York 1985, Visual Arts Gallery, 601 W. 26th St, New York, NY 2004 Big Bang: An Art Exhibition Celebrating Art of Our Time, Rochester Art Sculpture After Artschwager, David Nolan Gallery, New York, NY A Very Liquid Heaven, Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore Center, Rochester, MN Made in Sag Harbor, Whaling Museum, Sag Harbor, NY College, Saratoga Springs, NY Grok Terence McKenna Dead, Feature Inc., New York Illuminators, OK Harris Gallery New York, NY SITE Unseen 3, Site Santa Fe, NM James Brinsfield, Rachel Hayes, John Torreano, Joseph Nease Gallery, Inaugural Exhibition ART HOUSE 429, West Palm Beach, FL Move, Rochester Museum of Art, Rochester, MN Kansas City, MO Illuminators, OK Harris, New York Up and Off the Wall, d.u.m.b.o. Arts Center, Brooklyn, NY; curated by CigArt4: Where There’s Smoke, South Texas Institute for the Arts, Corpus 2012 Donald Sulta Christi, TX Reinventing Landscape, Sidney Mishkin Gallery, Baruch College, New Faculty Exhibition, Pless Hall, New York University, New York Donut Shop Two, Russell Street Theater, Portland, OR York Transformation: Through the Glass Door, Faculty Exhibition, Department The 7th International Shoebox Exhibition, University of Hawaii Art 2011 of Art and Art Gallery, Honolulu, HI Put Up or Shut Up, New York Academy of Art, New York Professions, New York University, New York. 1999 Inaugural Exhibition, Corzine Fine Art, Los Angeles Breaking Boundaries, Atlantic Center for the Arts, ISE Cultural Foundation, Fifteen, New York Foundation for the Arts, Lobby Gallery, Deutsche Bank, Alchemy, 7Eleven Gallery, New York New York New York 2010 2003 Gallery Artists, Feature Inc., New York One and Three Quarters of an Inch, a one-week exhibition at the former Convergence: Martyn Bouskila and John Torreano, Center Galleries, Postmark: An Abstract Effect, SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM (catalogue) Convent at St. Cecelia’s Parish,Brooklyn, curated by Peter Clough College for Creative Studies, Detroit,MI. CigArt, Rare, New York I Am the Cosmos, New Jersey State Museum, Trenton NJ; curated by Sara All That Glitters, Islip Art Museum, East Islip, New York; curated by Karen Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Collection, Weisman Lynn Henry Shaw (catalogue) Museum of Art, Los Angeles Make Yourself at Home, 7Eleven Gallery, New York Fresh! A Summer Exhibition of Glass, Heller Gallery, New York Beyond Bounds, Beyond Borders, Johnson County Community College The Jewel Thief, The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Polarities, Lobby Gallery, Durst Organization, New York Gallery of Art, Overland Park, KS. Gallery, Saratoga Springs, NY, curated by Ian Berry and Jessica Stockholder 25th Anniversary Celebration, Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA Heroines and Heroes: An Idiosyncratic Anthology of International Art, Plucking the Rainbow, Nina Fruedenheim Gallery, Buffalo, NY Small-Scale Sculpture, Feature Inc., New York New York Fifty Works for Maryland: Collecting the Vogel Way,” Academy Art Pilchuck Glass Exhibition, Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood, WA Tour #7, Art In General, New York; subsequent tour Museum, Easton, MD 2002 1998 Selections from the MCA Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, RxArt Ball, Barney’s New York Co-Op, New York Painting, Feature Inc., New York Chicago Red as a Color for Exploration and Expression, Gerald Peters Gallery, Acts of Faith, Abraham Lubelski Gallery, New York 2009 Santa Fe, NM Doodle, Gallery 605, New York
John Torreano — Thomas Brambilla gallery 1997 Mel Kendrick/David Lloyd/John Torreano, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Brilliant Color, Baskerville & Watson, New York Two of a Kind, Jean Albano Gallery, Chicago Angeles 1983 Edge of Chaos, Fotouhi Gallery, New York; curated by John Torreano and With the Grain: Contemporary Painting, Whitney Museum of American Three-Dimensional Photographs, Castelli Graphics, New York James Drake Art, New York The Decorative Movement, Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, MA Ornament and Landscape: On the Nature of Artifice, Apex Art, New Painting Between the Paradigms Part IV: A Category of Objects As Yet 1982 York; curated by Tom Huhn Unnamed, Penine Hart Gallery, New York. You Are a Beauty – You Are a Jewel, Specta-Color Board, Times Square, Inaugural Exhibition, Gallery 605, New York Post Minimalism 1979–1990: An Extended Harvest, Genovese Gallery, New York; organized by the Public Art Fund Silver and Gold, Jean Albano Gallery, Chicago Boston New Perspectives, Wave Hill, Bronx, NY 1996 Contemporary Classics, Bess Cutler Gallery, New York 1981 Getting Physical: New American Abstraction, Johnson County Pilchuck 20th Anniversary Glass Exhibition, Sea-Tac International 35 Artists Return to Artists Space, Artists Space, New York Community College Gallery of Art, Overland Park, KS Airport & William Traver Gallery, Seattle, WA Decorative Sculpture, Sculpture Center, New York Altered and Irrational: Selections from the Permanent Collection, John Torreano, James Drake, Herb Ritts, Arthur Roger Gallery, New Energie New York, Espace Lyonnais d’Art Contemporain, Lyon, France Whitney Museum of American Art, NewYork Orleans, LA 1980 Wood Works, Adam Baumgold Fine Art, New York 1989 Trois Dimensions, Americains, Gillespie-Laage-Salomon, Paris Art for Today, Diana Aceti Fine Arts, New York and Sag Harbor Micro Sculpture, Fine Arts Center, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI Three-Dimensional Painting, Contemporary Art Museum, Chicago Painting in an Expanding Field, Bennington College, Bennington, VT American Pop Culture Today III, La Foret Museum, Tokyo, Japan I-80, Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NB 1995 Faux Arts: Surface Illusions and Simulated Materials in Recent Art, La The Fiftieth Anniversary Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, Painting Outside Painting, Corcoran Biennial Exhibition of Art, Corcoran Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA New York Invitational, Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence, RI Gallery of Art, Washington, DC Small Paintings, Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, NY Painting in Relief, Whitney Museum of American Art Downtown, New York Wood Work, One Champion Plaza, Stamford, CT The Case for Plywood, Luise Ross Gallery, New York Watercolor Exhibition, P.S.1 Institute for Art and Urban Resources, New 25 Years, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles Homewood: The Nature of Objects, Procter Art Center, Bard College, York NYU Faculty Show, Apex Art, New York Annadale-on-Hudson, NY 1979 Open Your Heart, Cristinerose Gallery, New York Simple in Appearance, Marc Richards Gallery, Los Angeles Pittura Ambiente, Palazzo Reale, Milan 1994 Small & Stellar, Ruth Siegel Gallery, New York Ten Artists/Artists Space, Neuberger Museum, Purchase, NY Nine Sculptors and Their Printers, Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston Invitational, Shea & Beker Gallery, New York From Allen to Zucker, Texas Gallery, Houston Michigan Directions: Flint Area Artists, Flint Institute of Art, Flint, MI Summer Group Show, Dart Gallery, Chicago Max Hutchison Gallery, New York Wood Works, Adam Baumgold Fine Art, New York Dale Chihuly / John Torreano, Adair Margo Gallery, El Paso, TX Small Works, Art Latitude, New York Solo Impressions, College of Wooster Art Museum, Wooster, MA Restructure/Subverting the Grid, New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, Young America: Painters of the 1970s, exhibition organized by the New Transparency and Metaphor, California Crafts Museum, San Francisco Summit, NJ Museum of Contemporary Art, New York; traveled to Italy, Denmark, and Putt-Modernism, Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA Inaugural Exhibition, Helander Gallery, New York Eastern Europe James Drake, John Torreano, and Dan Rizzie. Arthur Roger Gallery, New Scatter, Shea & Beker Gallery, New York 1978 Orleans 10 Gallery Artists, Nina Freudenheim Gallery, New York O.I.A. at Bleecker Renaissance, Fine Art Galleries, University of South 1993 1988 Florida, Tampa, FL The Pet Show, Helander Gallery, New York Pilchuck: An Exhibition for Contemporary Glass Sculpture, Walter EBEE GEEBEES, Nancy Lurie Gallery, Chicago All That Glitters, Champion Gallery, Stamford, CT Gallery, Santa Monica, CA Private Myths: Unearthing of Contemporary Art, Queens Museum, 1992 Group Exhibition, Dart Gallery, Chicago Queens, NY New York 4 X 4 Providence, Kristina Wasserman Gallery, Providence, RI Reunion, Artsource Gallery, Flint, MI Eleven Artists, Georgia State University Art Gallery, Athens, GA Obscure Objects of Desire, Helander Gallery, New York An Exhibition of Art Treasures from Time Now, Genovese Gallery, American Art 1950 – Present, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York Putt-Modernism, Artists Space, New York Boston Thick Paint, Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, Chicago Profiles II: On Paper, Arlington Museum of Art, Arlington, TX Artschwager: His Peers and Persuasion, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York; 1977 Summer Group Show, Helander Gallery, Palm Beach, FL Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles. Work from the Collection of Dorothy and Herbert Vogel, University of Three Amigos, Helander Gallery, Palm Beach, FL Computers and Art, Gallery of Science and Art, New York Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI. 1991 New York in Glass, Linda Farris Gallery, Seattle Group Exhibition, Dart Space Window, Bell Gallery, List Art Building, Brown University, Pleasure, Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo, NY Gallery, Chicago Providence, RI 100% Rag: Works on Paper, Helander Gallery, New York Jack Goldstein, John Obuck, David Storey, John Torreano, Dart Gallery, A Painting Show, Institute for Art and Urban Resources, P.S.1, Long Island Nancy Drysdale Gallery, Washington, DC New York City, NY On Paper, Adair Margo Gallery, El Paso, TX Celebration: 11th Anniversary Group Exhibition, Susan Hilberry Gallery, Four Artists, 99 Grand Street Gallery, New York Cruciformed: Images of the Cross Since 1980, Cleveland Center for Birmingham, MI Kilcawley Center Art Gallery, Youngstown, OH Droll/Kolbert Gallery, New Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH Small-Scale Work, Scott Hanson Gallery, New York York Glass: Material in the Service of Meaning, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, 1987 Recent Paintings, Andre Zarre Gallery, New York WA America, America, Amalfi-Arte, Foundation Villa Rufolo, Ravello, Italy Faculty Exhibition, SUNY Purchase, Purchase, NY Spectrum Time/Frame 4: Retakes – Prints and Drawings by 6 Computers and Art: Image Processing, Everson Museum, Syracuse, NY Recent Works on Paper by Contemporary American Artists, Madison Canadian and 6 American Artists, Extension Gallery, Toronto Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Collection, Pennsylvania Art Gallery, Madison, WI Non-Narrative Pictures, Helander Gallery, Palm Beach, FL Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia. Six Artists, Andre Zarre Gallery, New York State of the Art 1991: A Biennial National Watercolor Invitational, 1984 1976 Parkland College, Champaign, IL Five Painters in New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York Hallwalls Gallery, Buffalo, NY Group Show: Paintings and Monotypes, Shea & Bornstein Gallery, Santa A Decade of New Art, Artists Space, New York Ten Approaches to the Decorative, Alessandro Gallery, New York Monica, CA American Art Since 1970, traveling exhibition organized by the Whitney Johnson Gallery, Middlebury College, VT 1990 Museum of American Art, NewYork 1975
John Torreano — Thomas Brambilla gallery Faculty Exhibition, SUNY Purchase, Purchase, NY Master of ceremonies, Creative Time’s 15th Anniversary Halloween Party, UK Richard Artschwager, Robert Gordon, John Torreano, Joe Zucker, Brooklyn Bridge Dibujar Lo Que Vemos, Spanish version of same book. Laurence King Bykert Gallery, New York Anchorage, Brooklyn Publishing, UK 2008 Texas Gallery, Houston 1987 Susan Caldwell Gallery, New York Producer and master of ceremonies, “An Evening with John Torreano and Selected Bibliography 96 Grand Street, New York Friends,” gala benefit for 1974 Creative, Time, New York 2009 Looking Close, Looking Far, exhibition catalogue with text by Donald Marilyn Lenowsky/Elizabeth Murray/John Torreano, Paula Cooper Solo performance, benefit for Gay Men’s Health Crisis, Jayne H. Baum Kuspit, Wayne State Gallery, New York Gallery, New York University, Detroit, MI 1973 1985 2007 Kuspit, Donald. Review, Artforum, November Drawings and Other Works, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York Solo stand-up performance, “Mike’s Talent Show,” produced by Michael 2006 Carlozzi, Annette DiMeo, and Kelly Baum, eds. Blanton Museum of Plaques with Gems, Wabash Gallery, Chicago Smith, 8BC, New York Art: American Art Since 1972 1984 1900, Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, Invitational Exhibition, Butler Institute of Art, Youngstown, OH A Special Event! solo performance at the Pink Door for the Center on 302–303 New American Abstract Painting, Madison Art Center, Madison, WI Contemporary Art, Seattle 2005 Helander, Bruce. “Torreano’s Starlight Serenade,” Art of the Times, 1971 Solo stand-up performance, benefit for the Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, March, 16–17 Lyrical Abstraction, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT NY 2004 Church, Amanda. “John Torreano, Gina Magid, Jesse Bransford and New Work, New York, Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, Columbus, OH Master of ceremonies and stand-up performance, benefit for Artists Space, Lorenzo de Los Angeles,” 1969 New York Flash Art, March/April, 62 Whitney Annual Exhibition of American Art, Whitney Museum of The Critics’ Voices, produced by Douglas Blau, White Columns, New York 2001 Rizzoli, Giovanni. “John Torreano,” Bomb, Spring, 60–61 American Art, New York (reproductions) Film and Video 1999 Thorson, Alice. “Crossing Gems with Art,” Kansas City Star, 25 April, Performances and Public Appearances J:1–3 2002 1992 Cotter, Holland. Review, New York Times, 17 April 2015 Evening with John Torreano, Artists Talk on Art, New York 1991 Adams, Brooks. “Scarred Diamonds,” ARTnews, February, 120–125 Hypnagogs, Imagination and the Un-Obtained Object, Suzanne Hilberry As Dr. Roman Blakein Betty and the Ocean, directed by Sean Ackerman, 1989 Barbiero, Daniel. Review, New Art Examiner, Summer Gallery, Ferndale, MI New York University, New York. 2014 As The Florist and writer and voice for “We’ve Broken Up for Good Again” in Grants and Awards Artists Talk on Art: Humor in Art, A panel discussion: John Torreano, Steve The Cloud of Unknowing, directed by Richard Sylvarnes (A Hal Hartley True Gianakos, Mike Fiction Pictures Production) 2014 New York Abu Dhabi University Grant, NYUAD, UAE Cockrill and Jim Kempner with Molly Barnes as Moderator, New York Law 1985 2013 New York Abu Dhabi University Grant, NYUAD, UAE School, NY, NY John Torreano: Art World Wizard, four-minute video produced by MICA-TV 2009 University Council Visual Arts Initiative Award, NYU 2013 1983 2003 The Nancy Graves Foundation Grant for Visual Artists I Could Write a Book, Faculty Showcase, NYUAD, Abu Dhabi The Live Show, four performances as The Guy, Artists Television Network 1997 Painting in the Round, School of Education Research Challenge Fund, 7th Film-Makers’ Cooperative Benefit Concert & Art Auction, As MC Channel B New York University, New York Santos Party House, New York, NY 1991 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation fellowship 2012 Selected Projects, Publications, and Reproductions of Artwork 1989 National Endowment for the Arts fellowship John Torreano Presents a Variety Show, The Gershwin Hotel, NY, NY 1982 National Endowment for the Arts fellowship 2010 2010 1979 Creative Arts for Public Service Program Variety Show,” The Gershwin Hotel, New York Upfront, Feature Inc., New York 2003 Community Service +John Torreano: Painter, Woodward Lecture Series, College of Creative Writing 2015 Studies, Detroit, MI Donation of a Chair for Chairs for a Cause, for Annual Summer of Giving 2002 2013 Program, Hamptons Self Expression, Molly Barnes Brown Bag talk series, Roger Smith Hotel, The Dot, the Gem, the Universe, John Torreano, Dark Matters Magazine, Southampton NY New York Everywhere, Art Works Publishing, NY Donation of Steel Diamonds 1982, for Eileen’s Angels at Project MostEstia’s, Artists Talk on Art, Phoenix Gallery, New York 2011 Sag Harbor, NY Dale Chihuly, The National Arts Club Gold Medal Presentation, New York The Lion..for 100 Drawings exhibit in Saratoga 2014 Sex, Love, Art and Things In Between, Live from the Living Room, Gershwin 2010 Momenta Art- Donation, Brooklyn, NY Hotel, New York; a Neke Carson & Michael Weiner presentation Curated and wrote catalogue essay for an exhibition entitled In the Mind on Anderson Ranch Donation, Aspen, CO 2001 the Paper a the Parrish Art Museum, Southhampton, NY Glass America 2001, Heller Gallery, New York Wagner School of Professional Service. It included NYU MFA and BFA 2013 Psychoanalysis and the Arts, IPTAR Clinical Center, New York students and alumni. Sag Harbor Whaling Museum, Sag Harbor, NY An Evening of Stories on Sex and Money, The Moth at Nell’s, New York Wrote catalogue essay for exhibition The Lion Inside, for a drawing 2010 1999 exhibition at the Tang Pilchuck Glass School’s 32nd Annual Auction, Seattle, WA Showcase performance, Raw Space, New York Museum entitled, Twice Drawn, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs NY Anderson Ranch arts center Annual Auction 2010, Aspen CO 1996 2007 Artists Against Abuse, 15th Annual Gala in support of The Retreat For Solo stand-up performance, Glass Art Society Conference, Boston Drawing By Seeing, A “how to” book on drawing, Abrams, US and Laurence Domestic Violence Services, 1988 King Publishing, East Hampton, NY
John Torreano — Thomas Brambilla gallery 2006 Honorary Committee Member of the Blue Ocean Institute 2006 Member of the Groundswell Honorary Advisory Board 2006 2005 Serious Moonlighting 2005, Cranbrook Academy of Art Scholarship, Academy and Museum Programs fundraiser. (A 9/11 Memorial Cross.) The Auction and Glassblowers Ball 2005, Urban Glass, Brooklyn, NY (A glass vessel) Every Child is a Star, The Children’s Expressions Project: Benefiting Children Through Art, Edwin Gould Services for Children and Families, New York, NY (Worked with foster children to make a painting which was then auctioned off to raise money for the foster care program.) “Hot Hot Hot” Westmark School for Special Children Fundraiser, Van Nuys, CA March ’05 2004 SITE Unseen 3, Site Santa Fe, NM April ’04 three small “Space Paintings” Love4Sale, Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, CO a “Wounded Heart” 2003 Other Contributions Tribeca Film Festival Award I was invited by Chairperson Jane Rosenthal to design one of the awards for the Tribeca Film Festival, New York, NY WTC 9/11 Memorial Proposal, I submitted a design for the memorial, New York, NY Tibet House Benefit Auction at Christies, New York, NY November ’03 a “Snub-nosed Painting” City Arts 35th Annual Benefit and Awards Ceremony, New York, NY a “Ball Cross” sculpture Serious Moonlight, Cranbrook Academy of Art and Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI, July .03 a “Memorial Cross” The RX Art Ball, D&G Showroom, New York, NY “Wall Ball Sculpture” 25th Annual Pilchuck Glass Auction, Westin Hotel, Seattle, WA November ’03 a “Glass Diamond” sculpture 2002 The Art Ball, RxArt, Barneys New York Co-Op, NYC - a “Lucky Ball” Beyond Bounds2002. Shine, Johnson County Community College, Overland Park, KA October 2002- a silver painting Pilchuck Glass Auction, Seattle Westin Hotel, Seattle, WA October Artists Against Abuse Plate Auction, The Retreat, East Hampton, NY a decorated plate Flights of Fantasy, Larchmont Yacht Club, Larchmont, NY - a sculpture Atlantic Center for the Arts Breaking Boundaries: Exploration and Collaboration, The Atlantic Center for the Arts- a drawing ARTWALK NY- Studio visit and Lecture Museum of Fine Arts, The University of Montana- a sculpture Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego- a painting Blaffer Gallery, The Art Museum of the University of Houston- a sculpture The Children’s Museum of the Arts- Bridgehampton NY a sculpture The Art Ball, RxArt, Barneys New York Co-Op, NYC a “Lucky Ball” Beyond Bounds 2002, Johnson County Community College, Overland Park, KA October 2001 Pilchuck Glass Auction, Seattle Westin Hotel, Seattle, WA October 2000 Momenta Art Benefit raffle at White Columns- a sculpture City Arts 2000- three sculptures
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