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Biography

Born 1954. Lives and works in New York.

Education

1979 M.F.A., Nova Scotia College of Art & Design, Halifax.
1976/77 B.A., Harvard College, Cambridge, MA.

Residencies and Awards

1994 Lecturer in art and photography, Department of Architecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA.
1988-89 Visiting faculty, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York.
1988 Visiting faculty, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia. Artist's Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts.
1987-88 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship.
1985-92 Faculty, Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle.
1984-85 Artist's Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts.

Individual Exhibitions

2000 Forest, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, and Thirtieth Street Station, Philadelphia; part of Wall Power group exhibition. Catalog.
1999 Canal, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York.
1998 Canal, Galerie Nelson, Paris.
1997 Nevada, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York.
1995 Pioneering Mattawa and Obituary, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York. Pioneering Mattawa, Galerie Nelson, Paris.
1992 Pioneering Mattawa, Emily Carr College of Art and Design, Vancouver, British Columbia. Catalog. Columbia College, Chicago.
1988 Pioneering Mattawa, Bertha Urdang Gallery, New York. Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle.
1984 Five Farms, Snohomish River Flood Plain, Gallery of Photography, Dublin. Five Farms, Snohomish River Flood Plain, Bertha Urdang Gallery, New York.
1980 Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA.
1979 Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Group Exhibitions

1999 Views from the Edge of the World, Marlborough Gallery, New York. Blind Spot, Issue 12, Robert Mann Gallery, New York.
1998 Breaking Ground, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York.
1996 Crossing the Frontier: Photographs of the Developing West, 1849 to the Present, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Catalog. Traveled: Yale New Haven, Connecticut; Phoenix Art Museum, Arizona; Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography. Recaptured Nature, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York.
1996-97 Landscape and Curiosity, The Photographer's Gallery, London.
1995-96 New Photography11, Museum of modern Art, New York.
1993 Within Memory, Montage 93, Rochester, New York. Catalog. Traveled: Addison Gallery, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA.
1992 Museum of Modern Art, New York Photography without Apology, Emily Carr College of Art and Design, Vancouver, British Columbia.
1991 In Public Seattle, Seattle Arts Commission.
1990 Approaches: Art in Public Places Proposals and Models, University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
1989 The Human Presence, A+A Gallery, Yale University School of Art, New Haven, Connecticut.
1987 Recent Acquisitions, Museum of Modern Art, New York.
1985 Long-Term Observation: New Serial Photography, State University of New York, Old Westbury.

Commissioned Projects

1997-98 Artranspennine 98 (commissioned artwork), Tate Gallery Liverpool, in collaboration with The Henry Moore Sculpture Trust, Leeds, England.
1995 Thames-Hudson Project (commissioned proposal), Public Art Development Trust, London.
1993-96 Nevada State Library/Archives Project (commissioned artwork for permanent installation), Nevada State Council on the Arts, Reno.
1991 The Founding of Seattle (commissioned artwork for temporary installation), Seattle Arts Commission; part of In Public: Seattle, a citywide exhibition of public projects.
1988 Artwork/Network Project (commissioned proposal), Seattle Arts Commission.
1984 Northwest Documents Project (commissioned artwork for the city's permanent collection), Seattle Arts Commission.

Public Collections

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
City of Seattle, Public Art Collection.
City of Tacoma, Public Art Collection.
Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Museum of Modern Art, New York.
State of Nevada, Public Art Collection, Carson City.

Bibliography

"Joseph Bartscherer." Blind Spot Photography 12 (fall 1998-winter 1999).
McDonough, Tom. "Joseph Bartscherer at Marian Goodman Gallery." Art in America (February 1998).
Princenthal, Nancy. "Joseph Bartscherer at Marian Goodman Gallery." Art in America (November 1995).
Rabinowitz, Cay-Sophie. "Cay-Sophie Rabinowitz visits Joseph Bartscherer." Art Papers (May-June 1999).
Stevens, Mark. "Stieglitz Revealed." New York. (October 2, 1995).
Tannenbaum, Judith. Joesph Bartscherer: Forest. Philadelphia: Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, 2000. Exhibition catalog.
Tarantino, Michael. "Outside Ourselves: Joseph Bartscherer's Canal." Unpublished essay commissioned for "Artranspennine 98," 1999.

Contact the Artist

Marian Goodman Gallery
24 West 57th Street
New York, NY 10019

Tel 212- 977-7160
Fax 212-581-5187
goodman@mariangoodman.com

 

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