VARUJAN BOGHOSIAN BORN 1926 New Britain, Connecticut
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VARUJAN BOGHOSIAN BORN 1926 New Britain, Connecticut EDUCATION 1956–59 Yale University School of Art and Architecture, New Haven, CT; (B.F.A. 1957, M.F.A. 1959) 1948–50 Vesper George School of Art, Boston, MA 1946–48 Central Connecticut Teachers College, New Britain, CT MILITARY SERVICE 1944–46 United States Navy TEACHING POSITIONS 1984 MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH; Co-Chairman, Chairman of the Board of Trustees 1982 MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH; Member of the Board of Trustees 1968–96 Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH; Professor of Art (appointed George Frederick Jewitt Professor of Art, 1982) 1964–68 Brown University, Providence, RI; Associate Professor, Department of Art History 1962–64 Yale University, New Haven, CT; Instructor in Drawing, School of Art and Architecture 1961 Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY; Instructor in Foundation Courses 1959–64 Cooper Union, New York; Assistant Professor, Advanced Drawing, Two- and Three-Dimensional Design 1958–59 University of Florida, Gainesville, FL; Instructor in Drawing and Painting, School of Architecture ONE-PERSON EXHIBITIONS 2013 Varujan Boghosian, Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH 2013 Eye Heart Duchamp, Lori Bookstein Fine Art, New York 2009 Constructions and Collages, Lori Bookstein Fine Art, New York 2009 Varujan Boghosian, Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA 2008 Berta Walker Gallery, Provincetown, MA 2007 Berta Walker Gallery, Provincetown, MA 2007 A Survey: Collages, Watercolors and Sculpture, Big Town Gallery, Rochester, VT 2006 Berta Walker Gallery, Provincetown, MA 2004 Constructions, Joan Washburn, New York 1999 Berry Hill Galleries, New York 1997 Berry Hill Galleries, New York 1992 David Winton Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence, RI 1992 Norton Gallery of Art, Palm Beach, FL 1991 Claude Bernard Gallery, New York 1988 Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT 1988 The Century Association, New York 1987 Wiggin Gallery, Boston Public Library, Boston, MA 1987 Center Gallery, Bucknell University, Lewisberg, PA 1986 American Academy in Rome, Italy 1983 Van Buren/Brazelton/Cutting Gallery, Cambridge, MA 1980 Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA 1978–88 Long Point Gallery, Provincetown, MA 1975 Robinson Galleries, Houston, TX 1972–99 Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA 1972 Jorgensen Gallery, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 1972 Thorne Art Gallery, Keene State College, Keene, NH 1970 The Art Club of Chicago, Chicago, IL 1970 J.L. Hudson Gallery, Detroit, MI 1969–88 Cordier and Ekstrom, New York 1968 Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 1966 H.C.E. Gallery, Provincetown, MA 1966 Harbor Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Boston, MA 1963–66 Stable Gallery, New York 1962 R.M. Light Company, Boston, MA 1950–65 Swetzoff Gallery, Boston, MA SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2013 Heavy Metal, Lori Bookstein Fine Art, New York 2013 [Mostly] White, Lori Bookstein Fine Art, New York 2012 “Summer Edition” — Lori Bookstein Fine Art, NY, June— August 2011 Group 2011, Lori Bookstein Fine Art, New York 2011 On the Wall/Off the Wall, Lori Bookstein Fine Art, New York 2011 Summer Paper, Lori Bookstein Fine Art, New York 2011 Remix: Selections from the ICC, International Collage Center, Milton, PA 2010 2010 Collectors Show and Sale, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR 2009 Berta Walker Gallery, Provincetown, MA (three-person show with Charles Hawthorne and Paul Resika) 2009 Lenore Gray Gallery, Providence, RI (two-person show with John Udvardy) 2009 Big Town Gallery, Rochester, VT 2008 Gallery Selections, Lori Bookstein Fine Art, New York 2008 What Matters Most... John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI 2007 Anniversary: Ten Years of Gallery Art and Artists, Lori Bookstein Fine Art, New York 2006 Works on Paper, Lori Bookstein Fine Art, New York (two-person show with Paul Resika) 2004 Berta Walker Gallery, Provincetown, MA (two-person show with Paul Resika) 2002 Five in Collage, Lori Bookstein Fine Art, New York 1988 Hopkins Center 25th Anniversary Exhibition: Artists-in-Residence at Dartmouth, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 1986 Exhibition of Work by Newly elected Members and Recipients of Awards, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York 1976–77 Boites, Musee d’Art Moderne de la ville de Paris and Maison de la Culture de Rennes, France 1975 21 American Fulbright Artists, The Institute of International Education, New York 1968 The Door Show, Cordier & Ekstrom Gallery, New York 1966 The Box Show, Byron Gallery, New York 1966 The Poetic Image, Hanover Gallery, London, England 1964 The Artist’s Reality: An International Sculpture Exhibition, The New School Art Gallery, New York 1956 Painters and Sculptors of Promise, Alan Gallery, New York 1953 Group Show, Obelisco Gallery, Rome, Italy AWARDS AND PRIZES 1991 Saint Botolph Club Foundation Award 1986 Elected member, American Academy & Institute of Arts/Letters 1985 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship 1975 Sculptor in Residence, American Academy in Rome 1972 National Institute of Arts and Letters Award 1968 Artist in Residence, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 1966–67 Sculptor in Residence, American Academy in Rome 1967 First Prize, Drawing Category, Providence Art Club 1966 Howard Foundation Fellowship 1961 United States Department Specialists Grant 1961 Watercolor Prize, Boston Arts Festival 1958 Watercolor Prize, Portland Arts Festival 1958 First Prize, Drawing Category, New Haven, CT 1953 Fulbright Grant for Painting, Italy PUBLICATIONS 1989 Doty, Robert M., Varujan Boghosian: A Retrospective, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, NH 1968 Orpheus, A Collection of Ten Woodcuts 1951 Orpheus, A Portfolio of Woodcuts, Reprinted with Additional Blocks and Poems in 1959 PRESS 2014 Reiter, Mark. “Found Objects Inspire ‘sculptor-assembler’ Varujan Boghosian,” The Blade, Jan 26, toledoblade.com. 2014 Wilkin, Karen, “Altered States: Varujan Boghosian at the Toledo Museum of Art,” The Wall Street Journal, May 7, D4 2010 Esplund, Lance, “Art that Defies Definition,” The Wall Street Journal, January, wsj.com. 2010 Wilkin, Karen, “At the Galleries,” The Hudson Review, Vol. LXIII, No. 1, Spring, hudsonreview.com 2009 Busa, Christopher, “Varujan Boghosian: The Artist as Orpheus.” Provincetown Arts, Pg. 34-42. 2009 Drake, Gillian, “Varujan Boghosian,” Cape Cod Artists’ Registry, July. 2009 Drake, Gillian, “Varujan Boghosian: A Poet without Words,” Provincetown Arts, July 24, pg. 54-56. 2004 Goodman, Jonathan, “Varujan Boghosian at Joan Washburn,” Art in America, December. 1989 Hart, Jeffrey, “The Vergil of Things,” National Review, October. 1988 Kimmelman, Michael, Excerpt from “Uptown, Novices and Modern Masters,” The New York Times, February 26. 1970 “The Mythmaker,” Time, February 9. PUBLIC COLLECTIONS Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA Albright – Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL The Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, CA The Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, NH Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY Honolulu Academy of Arts, Honolulu, HI Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN University of Kentucky Art Museum, Lexington, KY University Gallery, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Amherst, MA The Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, CT The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT The New York Public Library, New York, NY The Newark Museum, Newark, NJ Neuberger Museum, Purchase, NY Norton Gallery of Art, West Palm Beach, FL Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA Vassar College Art Gallery, Poughkeepsie, NY Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT.