Deborah Kass

(American, b.1952)

Deborah Kass, is a confident Contemporary New York Artist. Her sometime humorous artwork is a playful display of words with reflective meanings that are very popular with our clients and collectors. ENOUGH-ALREADY; you will appreciate her work and love living among it.

Kass currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York

Artwork

Education

• 1974
• BFA, Painting, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
• 1972
• Whitney Museum Independent Studies Program, New York, NY
• 1968
• Art Students League, New York, NY

Resumé

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

• 2010
• MORE feel good paintings for feel bad times, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, NY
• 2007
• feel good paintings for feel bad times, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, NY
• Paul Kasmin Gallery, Armory Show, New York, NY
• 2001
• Deborah Kass: The Warhol Project, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC
• 2000
• Deborah Kass: The Warhol Project, University Art Museum, University of California at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA
• Deborah Kass: The Warhol Project, Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, Houston, TX
• 1999
• Deborah Kass: The Warhol Project, Newcombe Art Gallery, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, (traveling, catalog)
• 1998
• Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA
• 1996
• My Andy: a retrospective, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art and Design, Kansas City, MO, (catalog)
• 1995
• My Andy: a retrospective, Jose Freire Fine Art, New York, NY,
• My Andy: a retrospective, Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA
• 1994
• Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA
• 1993
• Chairman Ma, Jose Freire Fine Art, New York, NY
• Chairman Ma, Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA
• 1992
• The Jewish Jackie Series and My Elvis, fiction/nonfiction, New York, NY
• The Jewish Jackie Series, Simon Watson, New York, NY
• 1990
• Simon Watson Gallery, New York, NY
• 1988
• Scott Hanson Gallery, New York, NY (catalog)
• 1986
• Baskerville and Watson Gallery, New York, NY
• 1984
• Baskerville and Watson Gallery, New York, NY
• 1982
• Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL
• 1972
• Barnhardt Gallery, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

• 2011
• The Pittsburgh Biennial, The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA curated by Eric Shiner
• Identity Crisis: Authenticity, Attribution and Appropriation, The Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, NY
• The Deconstructive Impulse, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY
• Seeing Gertrude Stein: Five Stories, The Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA
• National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
• 2010
• Shifting the Gaze: Painting and Feminism, The Jewish Museum, New York, NY curated by Daniel Belasco
• HIDE/SEEK: Desire, Difference, and the Invention of the Modern American Portrait, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC curated by Jonathan Katz
• At the Edge, Portsmouth Museum of Fine Art, Portsmouth, NH
• Thanks for Being With Us: Contemporary Art from the Douglas Nielsen Collection, The Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ
• Shrewd: The Smart and Sassy Survey of American Women Artists, The Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, NE
• Think Pink, Gavlak Gallery, Palm Beach, FL, curated by Beth Rudin DeWoody
• Look Again, Marlborough Chelsea, New York, NY
• 2009 Beg Borrow and Steal, Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL
• Just What Are They Saying, Jonathan Ferrara Gallery, New Orleans, LA, curated by Beth Rudin DeWoody
• The Female Gaze, Cheim & Read, New York, NY
• Lover, On Stellar Rays, New York, NY, curated by Kate Gilmore
• sh[OUT], Glasgow Museums Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow, Scotland (catalog)
• Note to Self, Schroeder Romero, New York, NY
• Great Women Artists: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY, curated by Thom Collins
• 2008
• Art, Image, and Warhol Connections, The Jewish Museum, New York, NY
• Just Different!, Cobra Museum of Modern Art, Amstelveen, Netherlands, curated by Frank Wagner
• Thirtieth Anniversary Exhibition, Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA
• Twisted into Recognition: Clichés of Jews and Others, Spertus Museum, Chicago, IL
• typisch!, Jewish Museum Berlin, Berlin, Germany
• 2007
• What F Word?, Cynthia Broan Gallery, New York, NY, curated by Carol Cole Levin
• 2006
• The Eighth Square, The Ludwig Museum, Cologne, Germany, curated by Kasper Konig and Frank Wagner
• 2005
• American Art: 1960-Present, Selections From the Permanent Collection, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC
• Appropriate Appropriation, Gray Kapernekas Gallery, New York, NY
• Co-Conspirators: Artists and Collectors, The James Cottrell and Joe Lovett Collection, Chelsea Museum, New York, NY and Samuel Dorksy Museum, New Paltz, NY, curated by Sue Scott
• Trade, White Columns, New York, NY, curated by Matthew Higgs
• Very Early Pictures, Arcadia University Art Gallery, Glenside, PA, traveling to Luckman Gallery, California State University, Los Angeles, CA
• 2004
• Open House: Working in Brooklyn, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY, curated by Charlotta Kotik and Tumelo Mosaka
• Likeness: Artists’ Portraits of Artists by Other Artisits, (2004-2006), co-organized by CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, and iCI, New York, and circulated by iCI, curated by Mathew Higgs. Traveled to: California College of Arts, Wattis Institute, San Francisco, CA; McColl Center for Visual Art, Charlotte, NC; Institute for Contemporary Art, Boston, MA; Dalhousie University Art Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada; University Art Museum, California State University at Long Beach, Long Beach, CA; Illingworth Kerr Gallery, Alberta College of Art & Design, Calgary, Alberta, Canada; Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, Virginia Beach, VA (catalog)
• Disturbing the Peace, Danese Gallery, New York, NY
• Muse, Leslie Tonkonow Gallery, New York, NY
• Co-Conspirators: Artists and Collectors, The James Cottrell and Joe Lovett Collection, Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL, curated by Sue Scott
• 2003
• Influence, Anxiety and Gratitude, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA, curated by Bill Arning
• Crimes and Misdemeanors: Politics in U.S. Art of the 1980’s, Cincinnati Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, OH, curated by Thom Collins
• The Recurrent Haunting Ghost, Reflections of Marcel Duchamp in Modern and Contemporay Art, Francis M. Naumann Fine Art, New York, NY
• 2002
• Queer Visualities, Stony Brook University Art Gallery, Stony Brook, NY, curated by Carl Pope
• 2001
• A Family Album: Brooklyn Collectsù, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
• Contemporary Art and Celebrity Culture, Betty Rymer Gallery, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
• Recasting the Past: Beneath the Hollywood Tinsel, Main Art Gallery, Cal State University, Fullerton, CA
• 2000
• Revealing and Concealing: Portraits and Cultural Identity, Skirball Museum, Los Angeles, CA, (catalog)
• Deja vu: Reworking the Past, Katonah Museum, Katonah, NY, curated by Barbara Bloemink
• 1999
• Fifteen, curated by Walter Robinson for New York Foundation for the Arts, Deutsche Bank, NY, NY
• The Perpetual Well: Contemporary Art from the Collection of the Jewish Museum, The Jewish Museum, New York, NY.
• Traveled to: Harn Museum Of Art, University of Florida Gainesville, FL
• Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery and Sculpture Garden, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE
• Parrish Museum, South Hampton, NY; Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, WV, (catalog)
• 1998
• In Your Face, The Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA
• Conversation: Patricia Cronin and Deborah Kass, Art Transfer Resouce, New York, NY
• Art on Paper, The Weatherspoon Gallery of Art, Greenboro, NC
• 1997
• The Prophecy of Pop, New Orleans Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, LA, curated by John Goode
• Identity Crisis: Self Portraiture at the End of the Century, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI, curated by Dean Sobel, traveling to Aspen Museum, Aspen, CO (catalog)
• 1996
• “Too Jewish?: Challenging Traditional Identities” The Jewish Museum, New York, NY, curated by Norman Kleeblatt.
• Traveled to: The Jewish Museum, Philadelphia, PA
• The Contemporary, Baltimore, MD
• The Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA; UCLA
• Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA, (catalog)
• NowHere: Incandescent, curated by Laura Cottingham, Louisiana Museum of Art, Humlebaek, DENMARK (catalog)
• Real Fake, Neuberger Museum of Art, SUNY Purchase, Purchase, NY
• Gender, Fucked, Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA
• Seoul International Art Fair, Seoul, Korea, curated by Thelma Golden
• 1995
• In a Different Light, University Art Gallery, University of California at Berkeley, Berkley CA, curated by Nayland Blake and Lawrence Rinder (catalog)
• On Beauty, Regina Gallery, Moscow, curated by Dan Cameron
• Face Forward: Self-Portraiture in Contemporary Art, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI, curated by Maureen Sherlock
• Pervert, University of California at Irvine, Irvine, CA, curated by Catherine Lord (catalog)
• Imperfect, Herter Art Gallery, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Amherst, MA, curated by Jerry Kearns. Traveled to Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA (catalog)
• Semblances, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
• 1994
• 2 X IMMORTAL: Elvis + Marilyn, McDaris Exhibition Group, Memphis, TN, curated by Wendy McDaris
• Traveled to: Institute of Contemporary Arts, Boston, MA
• Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX
• Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC
• The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
• The Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK
• Columbus Museum of Art, OH
• Tennessee St. Museum, Nashville, TN
• San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
• Honolulu Academy of Arts, Honolulu, HI (catalog)
• Democratic Vistas: 50 Years of American Art from Regional Collections, State University of New York at Albany, Albany, NY (catalog)
• Stonewall 25: Imaginings of the Gay Past, Celebrating the Gay Present, White Columns, New York, NY, curated by Bill Arning
• Absence, Activism & The Body Politic, Fischbach Gallery, New York, NY, curated by Joseph R. Wolin
• Working Around Warhol, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA, curated by Murray Horne
• Bad Girls West, Wight Art Gallery, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, curated by Marcia Tanner and Marcia Tucker (catalog)
• 1993
• Ciphers of Identity, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Baltimore County Fine Arts Gallery, Cantonville, MD, curated by Maurice Berger.
• Traveled to: Ronald Feldman Gallery, New York, NY; Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA; Woodruff Arts Center, Atlanta, GA;
• University of California at Irvine, Irvine, CA; Kemper Museum of Art and Design, Kansas City, MO (catalog)
• Regarding Masculinity, Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA
• Collecting for the 21st Century: Recent Acquisitions and Promised Gifts, Jewish Museum, New York, NY
• I Love You More Than My Own Death, A Melodrama In Parts By Pedro Almodovar, Zitelle Guidecca, The Venice Biennial, Slittamenti, Venice, ITALY, curated by Christian Leigh
• I Am The Enunciator, Thread Waxing Space, New York, NY, curated by Christian Leigh
• 1992
• The New American Flag, Max Protech Gallery, New York, NY
• Shapeshifters, Amy Lipton Gallery, New York, NY
• Fear of Painting, Arthur Roger Gallery, New York, NY, curated by Dan Cameron
• In Your Face: Politics of the Body and Personal Knowledge, A.C. Project Room, New York, NY
• Painting Culture, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA
• 1991
• Painting Culture, fiction/nonfiction, New York, NY
• Rope, Galeria Fernando Alcolea, Barcelona, SPAIN, curated by Christian Leigh
• Out Art, Saint Lawrence University, Saint Lawrence, NY, curated by Nan Goldin
• Someone or Somebody, Myers / Bloom Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
• Something Pithier and More Psychological, Simon Watson Gallery, New York, NY
• Just What Is It That Makes Today’s Homes So Different, So Appealing?, Hyde Museum, Glenns Falls, NY, curated by Dan Cameron (catalog)
• 1990
• The Last Laugh: Irony, Humor, Self-Mockery and Derision, Massimo Audiello Gallery, New York, NY, curated by Collins and Milazzo
• Fragments, Parts and Wholes: The Body in Culture, White Columns, New York, NY, curated by Saul Ostrow
• 1989
• Young New York, Bellarte, Helsinki, FINLAND (traveled: Turku, FINLAND)
• The Mirror in Which Two Are Seen as One, Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ, curated by Andrea Belag
• Painting Between the Paradigms-Part One: Between Awareness and Desire, Galerie Rahmel, Cologne, GERMANY, curated by Saul Ostrow
• Erotophobia: A Forum on Contemporary Sexuality, Simon Watson Gallery, New York, NY
• 1988
• Meaningful Geometry, Postmasters Gallery, New York, NY
• Five Corners of Abstraction, Jacob Javits Center, New York, NY, curated by Bill Arning
• 1987
• Dreams of the Alchemist, Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
• Romantic Science, One Penn Plaza, New York, NY, curated by Stephen Westfall
• Major Acquisitions, Small Appliances, Solo Gallery, New York, NY, curated by Dan Cameron
• 1986
• A Radical Plurality, Ben Shahn Galleries, William Patterson College, Wayne, NJ
• 1985
• Six Painters, Zilka Gallery, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, curated by Jean Feinberg
• 1984
• The New Expressive Landscape, Sordoni Gallery, Wilkes College, Wilkes-Barre, PA
• Fantastic Landscape, Exit Art, New York, NY
• 1982
• Two-Person Exhibition, Baskerville and Watson Gallery, New York, NY
• Red, Stefanotti Gallery, New York, NY
• Landscape / Cityscape, Josef Gallery, New York, NY, curated by Carole Ann Klonarides
• Nature As Image and Metaphor, Greene Space, New York, NY (under the auspices of the Women’s Caucus for Art)
• Critical Perspectives, P.S.1 Museum, Long Island City, NY, curated by Ronny Cohen
• 1981
• Drawings at the Mudd Club, The Mudd Club, New York, NY, curated by Kenny Scharf and Keith Harring
• Drawing Show, Stefanotti Gallery, New York, NY
• 1980
• First Person singular: Recent Self Portraiture, Pratt Manhattan Center, New York, NY Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY, curated by Ellen Schwartz and Paul Schimmel
• 1979
• Artists by Artists, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

AWARDS & GRANTS

• 1996
• Art Matters Inc. Grant
• 1992
• Art Matters Inc. Grant
• 1991
• New York State Foundation for the Arts, Fellowship in Painting
• 1987
• National Endowment for the Arts, Painting

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

• Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
• Chemical Bank, New York, NY
• Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH
• First Bank of Minneapolis, Minneapolis, MN
• Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, IN
• Glickenhaus Company, New York, NY
• The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
• The Jewish Museum, New York, NY
• La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA
• McCrory Corporation, New York, NY
• Mobil Oil Corporation, New York, NY
• Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA
• The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
• New Museum, New York, NY
• New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA
• The Norton Family Foundation, Santa Monica, CA
• Pacific Bell, Los Angeles, CA
• The Progressive Corporation, Cleveland, OH
• Prudential Bache, New York, NY
• The Prudential Life Insurance Company of America, NJ
• Salomen Brothers, New York, NY
• The Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick, NJ
• The Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of NC at Greensboro, Greenboro, NC
• The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY