JOAN NELSON 1958 Born in Torrence, California EDUCATION: 1981 Received B.F.A. from Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri 1981-82Awarded Max Beckman Memorial Scholarship, Brooklyn Museum School, New York SOLO EXHIBITIONS: 1997 Robert Miller Gallery, New York (Planned for December) 1995 Robert Miller Gallery, New York 1994 John Berggruen, San Francisco 1993 Robert Miller Gallery, New York 1992 Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles 1991 Robert Miller Gallery, New York Freedman Gallery, Albright College, Reading, PA 1990 Robert Miller Gallery, New York Michael Kohn Gallery, Santa Monica, California 1989 Robert Miller Gallery, New York St. Louis Arts Museum, St. Louis, Missouri, "Currents 39" 1988 Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas 1987 Fawbush Gallery, New York Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles 1986 P.P.O.W. Gallery, New York Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles 1985 P.O.W. Gallery, New York GROUP EXHIBITIONS: 1997 The Center for Curatorial Studies Museum, Bard College, NY, Landscape: The Pastoral to the Urban 1997 White Columns, New York, NY, Annual Benefit Event 1997 James Graham & Sons, New York, NY, Landscape as Abrstraction 1994 Associated American Artists, New York, NY, Portfolios 1993 Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, Painters' Prints 1992 Foster Gallery, UW-Eau Claire, The Landscape, Subject of Renewed Scrutiny 1991 New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT, 1991 Invitational 1990 Cirrus, Los Angeles, Joan Nelson /David Austen: New Editions Zoe Gallery, Boston, MA, This Land is Our Land Solo Press/Solo Gallery, New York, Writ in Water Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx, New York, Botanica: The Secret Life of Flowers Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island, Terra Incognita: New Directions in Contemporary Landscape The University Art GAlleries, Wright State University, Dayton OH, Joan Nelson/Gary Stephan Landscapes A/D, New York, The Garden, Spring-Fall, changing installation. Weiner Festwochen, Vienna, Austria, Von der Natur in Der Kunst Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA, Harmony & Discord Witte de With, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, The Ten Artists I was Thinking of on May 3, 1990 at 7:00 o'clock, curated by Jiri Georg Dokoupil. American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, 42nd Annual Academy - Institute Purchase Exhibition 1990 Galeria Leyendecker, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain, Third International Exhibition 1989-91 Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Australia, Romance and Irony in Recent American Art, (originating institution), opened at National Gallery of New Zealand, Wellington, New Zealand then travelled to the Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth; Aukland City Art Gallery, New Zealand; Tampa Museum of Art, FL; Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY. 1989 New York Studio School, New York, N.Y., RePresenting Landscape, curated by Suzanne Boettger Scott Hanson Gallery, New York, The Objective World Gallery Urban, New York, Abstraction as Landscape Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, 300 Years of Still Life Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Landscape Re-Viewed: Contemporary Reflections on a Traditional Theme Whitney at Equitable Center, New York, Nocturnal Visions in Contemporary Painting Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1989 Biennial Exhibition Betsy Rosenfield Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, Landscape Ruth Siegel Gallery Ltd., New York, Landscape: A Travelogue Painted from Memory, Imagination or Reality Kunetsky Most Exhibition Hall, Moscow, USSR, Painting Beyond the Death of Painting, (American Imagistic and Abstract Work), in association with USSR Artists Union and N.Y. Artists in Moscow Richard Green Gallery, Los Angeles, Landscape Constructions, curated by Suzanne Boettger Fuller Gross Gallery, Los Angeles, Topology American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, 41st Annual Purchase Exhibition 1988 BlumHelman Gallery, New York, Jack Barth, Michael Young, Joan Nelson Jan Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, Landscape: Common Ground Loughelton Gallery, New York, Of Another Nature Grace Borgenicht Gallery, New York, Landscape Anthology ACA Gallery, New York, Land 1987 Curt Marcus Gallery, New York, On Paper Greenberg Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri, Between Abstraction and Reality Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, The Great Drawing Show Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta Georgia, New Impressions Jan Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, Joe Fawbush Editions: A Selection The Whitney Museum of American Art, Stamford, Connecticut, The New Romantic Landscape Solomon R, Guggenheim Museum, New York, Emerging Artists: Selections from the Exxon Series, 1975-1986 Kent Fine Art, New York, Fictions 1986 Morris Center, Lafayette College, Easton, PA, Art of the East Village Lang O'Hara Gallery, New York, Small Format Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, Delaware, NYC: New Work 1986 American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, Art Awards Exhibition International Kunstmusee, Zurich, Switzerland, Forum Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, Painting and Sculpture Today: 1986 Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx, New York, Landscape in the Age of Anxiety, (travelled to: Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland. Lorence Monk Gallery, New York, The Manor in the Landscape P.P.O.W. Gallery, New York 1985 Grace Borgenicht Gallery, New York, Summer Invitational Saidye Bronfman Gallery, Montreal, Canada, East Village at the Center Vorpal Gallery, San Francisco, East Village Artists Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, South Carolina, Places Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles, Minimal Representation Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Exxon - Emerging Artists Invitational Christminster Gallery, New York Joe Fawbush Editions, New York, Works on Paper 1984 P.P.O.W. Gallery, New York 1982 Nature Morte Gallery, New York BIBLIOGRAPHY: Books and Catalogues: 1992 Betti, Claudia and Teel Sale. Drawing: A Contemporary Approach. Texas: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc. 1990 Von der Natur in Der Kunst, (exhibition catalogue), Vienna, Austria: Wiener Festwochen. Freeman, Phyllis with Mark Greenberg, Eric Himmel, Andras Landshoff et. al. New Art, New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., p. 146-147. Kuspit, Donald. Joan Nelson, (exhibition catalogue), New York: Robert Miller Gallery. Harmony & Discord: American Landscape Painting Today, Richmond: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Dokoupil, Jiri Georg. Die Zehn Kunstler an die ic am 3. Mai 1990 um 19.00 Uht gedacht habe. (exhibition catalogue), Rotterdam: Witte de With. La Motta, Janice. 1991 Invitational, (exhibition catalogue), New Britain, CT: New Britain Museum of American Art. 1989 Armstrong, Richard and Richard Marshall. 1989 Biennial Exhibition, (exhibition catalogue), New York: Whitney Museum of American Art. Joan Nelson/Currents 39, (brochure), St. Louis, MO: The St. Louis Art Museum. Gratchos, Louis with John Stringer and Richard Martin. Romance and Irony in Recent American Art, (exhibition catalogue), Perth: Art Gallery of Western Australia. Rosenberg, Barry A. Joan Nelson /Gary Stephan Landscapes, (exhibition catalogue), Dayton, OH: The University Art Galleries at Wright State University. 1988 Beckett, Wendy, Contemporary Women Artists, Oxford: Phaidon. Ranta, Rachel. (essay for brochure), Joan Nelson Paintings, Houston, TX: Contemporary Arts Museum. 1987 The New Romantic Landscape, (exhibition catalogue), essay by Chantal Combes, Stamford: Whitney Museum of American Art. Emerging Artists 1978-1986: Selections From the Exxon Series, essay by Diane Waldman, New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. 1985 New Horizons in American Art, (exhibition catalogue), essay by Lisa Dennison, New York: Exxon National Exhibition, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. Periodicals: 1991 Edelman, Robert G. "Paysage recyclé: le paysage dans la peinture américaine contemporaine", Art Press, March, n. 156, pp. 22-29. Honda, Hiromi. "Joan Nelson", Hangwa Geijutsu, n. 71, pp. 156-158. 1990 Larson, Kay. "Back to Nature", New York, April 2, vol. 23, no. 13, p. 63. Curtis, Cathy. "Old Master Landscapes", The Los Angeles Times, March 16, section F, p. 22. Kuspit, Donald. "Joan Nelson: A Strategy of Partial Quotation", (excerpt from catalogue), Art/World, vol. 14, no. 4, 5, 6, February, March, April. Smith, Roberta. (review/art), "Joan Nelson", The New York Times, March 30, p. C24. Kernan, Michael. " A new generation of artists ponder nature's prospects", Smithsonian, April, vol. 21, no. 1, pp. 104-111. Boodro, Michael. "Joan Nelson Second Nature", ARTnews, September, vol. 89, no. 7, pp. 142-147 and cover. 1989 Zimmer, William. "Eva Hesse/Joan Nelson", ARTnews, April, p. 198-199. Johnson, Ken. "Joan Nelson at Robert Miller", Art in America, March, p. 144. Pryor, Kelly. "Back to Nature", Avenue, February, p. 128-137. Glueck, Grace. "The New Romantics Paint the Past", The New York Times, ("The New Season"- magazine supplement), September 10, p. 45, 63, 64. Smith, Roberta. "A Shift in Perspective", Vogue, May, p. 230, 232, 234. Degener, Patricia. "Nelson's Landscapes Hark Back to Old Masters", St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Sunday, March 12, p. 4C. Galligan, Gregory. "Rescripting The Sublime", Art International, Summer, pp. 56-59. Kimmelman, Michael. "So Sad, So Pastoral, So End of the Century", (review/art), The New York Times, October 20, p. C27. "Transforming Landscape", Bijutso Techo, 1989/12, pp. 26, 27, 29, 72. Brenson, Michael. "Straightened Landscapes of a Post-Modern Era", The New York Times, January 13, p. C32. The Paris Review, cover illustration, vol. 31, no. 113, Winter II. 1988 Haus, Mary Ellen. "The Unnatural landscape", ARTnews, vol. 87, no. 1, January, pp. 128-132. Kuspit, Donald. "Joan Nelson; Fawbush Gallery", Artforum, vol. 26, no. 5, January, pp. 113-114. Boettger, Suzaan. "Joan Nelson at Fawbush", Arts, vol. 76, no. 2, February, pp. 141-142. 1988 Mahoney, Robert. review of Blum Helman summer show, "Jack Barth, Joan Nelson, Michael Young", Arts, October, p. 101. McCombie, Mel. "Nature Confronted with Artifice", Artweek, May 14, (Houston, TX publication), vol. 19, no. 19, p. 7. Johnson, Patricia C. "The Dichotomy of Big, Small", Houston Chronicle, May 1, p. 16. Chadwick, Susan. "Artist Paints Revolutionary View of the World", The Houston Post, Sunday, May 8, p. 4F. Loughery, John. "Landscape Painting in the Eighties: April Gornik, Ellen Phelan and Joan Nelson", Arts, May, pp. 44-48. 1987Brenson, Michael. "Are the Whitney's Satellites Out of Orbit?", The New York Times, August 9, section 2, pp. 31-32. Brenson, Michael. "Joan Nelson; Fawbush Gallery", The New York Times, October 2, p. C27. "Album: Joan Nelson", Arts, vol. 62, no. 2, October, pp. 106-107. Cohrs, Timothy. "Joan Nelson; Fawbush Gallery", Arts, vol. 62, no. 3, November, p. 111. Loughery, John. "The New Romantic Landscape", Arts, vol. 62, no. 3, November, p. 107. Curtis, Cathy. "Joan Nelson", (at Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles), Los Angeles Times, December 18, part VI, p. 22. Arts, (illustration used), September, pp. 106-107. 1986Brenson, Michael. "Joan Nelson", (at P.P.O.W. Gallery, New York), The New York Times, February 8, p. C32. Sturtivant, Alfred. "Hearts and Minds", New York Native, no. 152, March 17. Larson, Kay. "New Faces of '86", New York, vol. 19, no. 12, March 24, 1986, pp. 84-85. Goldberg, Shellie R. "Joan Nelson; P.P.O.W.", Art News, vol. 85, no. 5, May 1986, pp. 132-133. McKenna, Kristine. review of exhibition at Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Times, June 13, part VI, p. 17. Indiana, Gary. "The Manor in the Landscape", The Village Voice, December 16, 1986, p. 119. Laurence, Michael. "Joan Nelson", West Hollywood Paper, vol. 1, no. 46, July 3-10. 1985 Raynor, Vivien. "Joan Nelson", (at P.P.O.W. Gallery, New York), The New York Times, February 8, p. C32. Indiana, Gary. "Invitational Exhibition", The Village Voice, June 11, p. 74. "An American Landscape", Bomb, (reproduction of Untitled, 1984), Winter issue, vol. XI, p. 69. 1982 Moufarrege, Nicolas. "Group Show; Nature Morte", Arts, vol. 57, no. 2, October, p. 19. PUBLIC COLLECTIONS: Museum of Modern Art, New York Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, University of Texas at Austin Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA Minneapolis Museum of Art, MN