EXHIBITION HISTORY
Dennis Kardon
b. 1950
2 Charlton St. 12L
New York, NY 10014
INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS
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2024 Transgressions, Lubov Gallery, New York
2021 Strange Waters, Massimo De Carlo Gallery, London
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2016 Fred Valentine Gallery, New York
2015 iPad Paintings, Techonomy, curated by
Elena Sisto, New York
2013 Seeing Through Surfaces, Garrison
Art Center, Garrison, NY
2008 Mitchell Algus Gallery, New York
2004 Mitchell Algus Gallery, New York
1996 Richard Anderson Fine Arts, New York
1991 A Conversation with Rococo Mirrors,
A/D, New York
1990 Studio Space, Simon Watson, New York
1989 Barbara Toll Fine Arts, New York
1986 New Paintings, Barbara Toll Fine Arts,
New York
1984 The Science of Beauty, Barbara Toll
Fine Arts, New York
1981 Barbara Toll Fine Arts, New York
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022 Pictus Porrectus, curated by Alison Gingeras and Dodie Kazanjian, Isaac Bell House, Newport, RI,
2022 In Bloom, Piece Unique, Paris
2020 London Collective - Dennis Kardon and Matthew Monahan, Vortic Collect, Massimo De Carlo, London, UK
Painting is Painting’s Favorite Food
South Etna Gallery, Montauk, NY
Curated by Alison Gingeras
2016 Within Reach (with Alexi Worth), Emily
Davis Gallery, Myers School of Art,
U of Akron, OH curated by Matthew
Kolodziej
Beautiful Objects, Jeffrey Leder Gallery,
curated by Patrick Neal, NY
Introspective, BravinLee Programs, NY
Shaky Ground, Leslye Heller Gallery,
NY, curated by Dominick Lombardi
2015 Who, Leslye Heller Gallery, NY
Uncanny/Figure, Dorsky Gallery
Curatorial Programs, curated by
Lilly Wei, LIC, NY
2014 American Academy of Arts and Letters
Invitational Exhibition, NY
2013 Thanks (Organized by Adam Parker
Smith), Lu Magnus Gallery, NY
2009 That’s All Folks, Stadshallen, Bruges
2009 Octet, Pera Museum, Istanbul
2008 Twisted into Recognition. Clichés of
Jewsand Others, Jüdisches
Museum, Berlin (Travels to Spertus
Institute, Chicago,2009 Jewish
Museum, Vienna, and in 2010 to
JewishMuseum, Munich)
2007 In My Solitude, Aeroplastics
Contemporary, Brussels
2005 Life and Limb, Feigen Contemporary, NY
(organized by David Humphrey)
2002 Super Natural Playground, Marella Arte
Contemporanea, Milan, Italy
2001 Self-Made Men, D. C. Moore Gallery, NY
2000 Private Worlds, Art in General, NY
The Figure: Another Side of Modernism,
Newhouse Center for Contemporary
Art at Snug Harbor Cultural Center,
Staten Island, NY
Revealing and Concealing: Portraits &
Identity, Skirball Cultural Center,
Los Angeles, CA
The Nude and Narrative, PPOW Gallery,
NY
1999 Foreign Bodies, Foreign Beings, The
German Hygiene Museum, Dresden,
Germany
Skin, The Deste Foundation, Athens, Gr.
Bridges and Boundaries: African
Americans and American Jews, The
Jewish Museum, NY, travelling to the
Muscarelle Museum, Williamsburg,
Va., Atlanta Historical Society,
Atlanta, National Civil Rights
Museum, Memphis, and
University Gallery, Amherst, MA
1996 Too Jewish? Challenging Traditional
Identities, The Jewish Museum, New
York Traveling to San Francisco, Los
Angeles, and Baltimore
A Millenium Celebration, The Fabric
Workshop, Philadelphia
Being Human, Museum of Fine Arts,
Boston
1995 Inside Out, Psychological Self-
Portraiture, The Aldrich Museum
of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CN
In the Flesh, The Albright Gallery,
Reading, PA, and The Aldrich
Museum of Contemporary Art,
Ridgefield, CN (1996)
1994 …It’s How You Play the Game, Exit Art/
The First World, New York
46th Annual American Academy
Purchase Exhibition, The American
Academy of Arts and Letters, NY
The Second Parish Art Museum Design
Biennial: Mirrors, The Parrish
Art Museum, Southampton
1993 Any Given Day. John Post Lee Gallery,
New York
Building a Collection: The Department of
Contemporary Art, Museum of Fine
Art, Boston
American Academy Invitational Exhibition
of Painting & Sculpture, The
American Academy of Arts and
Letters, New York
1992 Slow Art, organized by Alanna Hess,
PS1 Museum, L. I. C., New York
1992 Tattoo Collection, Andrea Rosen Gallery,
New York,
1991 (Dis)member, Traditional Values/Simon
Watson, New York
Kardon, Brokish, Kliavang, Wingate
Gallery, New York
1990 Fragments, Parts, Wholes; The Body
and Culture, organized by
Saul Ostrow, White Columns, NY
Spellbound, organized by Christian
Leigh Marc Richards Gallery, L.A.
Portraits, Althea Viafora Gallery, NY
1990 Body and Soil, Fernando Alcolea Gallery
Barcelona, Spain
1989 Erotophobia, Simon Watson, NY 1988
Life-Like, organized by Marvin
Heiferman Lorence-Monk Gallery, NY
Untitled (Slime), Simon Watson, NY
1987 Monsters: The Phenomena of Dispassion
organized by Maria Reidelbach and
the artist, Barbara Toll Fine Arts, NY
1986 Public and Private: American Prints
Today, The 24th National Print
Exhibition, The Brooklyn Museum, NY
Painting and Sculpture Today: 1986,
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Nude, Naked, Museum of Modern Art,
Print Gallery, New York
1976-1986 10 Years of Collecting
Contemporary Art: Selections from
the Edward R. Downe, Jr. Collection,
Wellesley College Museum,
Wellesley, MA
1985 Nude, Naked, Stripped, organized by
Dana Friis-Hansen,
List Art Center MIT, Cambridge, MA
1983 Prints from Blocks: Gaugin to Now,
The Museum of Modern Art
EDUCATION
1973 Whitney Museum Independent Study
Program
1973 Yale University, BA–Cum Laude
AWARDS
1998 Guggenheim Fellowship
1991 Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant
1987 New York Foundation on the Arts Grant
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TEACHING EXPERIENCE
1997–
2010 Instructor, 3rd Year Representational
Painting, School of Visual Arts, NY
2003–
Now Instructor, Foundation Painting, SVA, NY
2002 Visiting Artist, spring semester, Tyler Art
School, Philadelphia
1999 Instructor, Drawing Workshop, NYU, NY
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SELECTED ARTICLES
Kazakina, Katya
At 69, Painter Dennis Kardon’s Career Was
at a Standstill. Then a Big Gallery Came Calling, Artnet, September, 2023 review
Turner, Anderson
Within Reach, Akron Beacon Journal,
September, 2016 review
Cohen, David
Dennis Kardon at Valentine,
Artcritical.com, April 2016 review
Fyfe, Joe
Dennis Kardon at Mitchell Algus, Art in
America, December 2008 (illus.) review
Rubinstein, R.
Dennis Kardon at Mitchell Algus, Art in
America, June 2004 (illus.) review
Johnson, Ken
Art in Review, The New York Times,
March 6 2004
Mahoney, Robert
Dennis Kardon, Richard Anderson,
Time Out New York, march 13-20, 1996
Karmel, Pepe
Art in Review, The New York Times,
March 22, 1996
Smith, P.C.
Dennis Kardon at Richard Anderson,
Art in America, July 1996 (illus.)
Humphrey, David
New York Fax, Art Issues, summer 1996
(illus.)
Unauthored
A Conversation with Simon Watson,
Dennis Kardon, and Chuck Close,
Balcon #7, 1991, p. 156 (illus.)
Mahoney, Robert
Dennis Kardon, A/D, Arts Magazine,
Sept. 1991, p.83
Decter, Joshua
Kardon, Brokish, Kliavang,
Arts Magazine, Apr. 1991
Westfall, Stephen
Dennis Kardon at Barbara Toll,
Art in America, October l989; (illus.)
Brody, Jacqueline
New Editions: Dennis Kardon–Critical
Mass, The Print Collector’s Newsletter,
Jan-Feb, 1988, Vol. XVIII-No. 6;
Hart, Claudia
Monsters: The Phenomena of
Dispassion, Artscribe No. 63
Maschal, Richard
Downe Collection Packs a Punch,
The Charlotte Observer,
Sunday, February 22, l987: (illus.)
Silverman, Andrea
Dennis Kardon, Artnews,
September l986: Vol. 85/ No. 7, (illus.)
Brody, Jacqueline
New Editions: Dennis Kardon–
Charlotte’s Gaze, The Print
Collectors Newsletter, Sept-Oct l985,
Vol. XVI-No. 4
Meyer, Jon
Works on Paper, Arts, May l983,
Bleckner, Ross
Transcendent Anti-Fetishism, Artforum,
March l979 (illus.)
SELECTED CATALOGS
De Wilde, Michel That’s All Folks,
Stadshallen, Bruges
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Anker, Suzanne Octet, Pera Museum,
Istanbul
Greenberg, Jeanne Super Natural
Contemporanea, Milan, It
Wei, Lilly The Figure: Another Side
of Modernism, Newhouse
Cultural Center, S.I., NY
Gilbert, Barbara Revealing & Concealing:
Portraits & Identity,
Skirball Cultural Center,
Los Angeles, CA
Gilbert, Andrea Skin, The Deste
Foundation, Athens, Gr.
Hürliman, A. Foreign Bodies, Foreign
Beings, The German
Hygiene Museum,
Dresden, Germany
Kleeblatt, Norman Too Jewish? Challenging
Traditional Identities, The
Jewish Museum, NY,
Traveling to San
Francisco, Los Angeles,
and Baltimore
Snyder, Jill In the Flesh, The
Albright Gallery, Reading,
PA, and The Aldrich
Museum of Contemporary
Art, Ridgefield, CN (1996)
Strauss, Mark J. Inside Out, Psychological
Self-Portraiture, Aldrich
Museum of
Contemporary Art,
Ridgefield, CN, 1995
Cunnick, Elizabeth A/D at the Peter Joseph
Gallery, New York, 1992
Zaya, Octavio Body and Soil, Fernando
Alcolea Gallery,
Barcelona, Spain, 1990
Fine, Ruth E. The 1980’s: Prints from
the Collection of Joshua
P. Smith, The National
Gallery of Art,
Washington, D.C.,
December 17, 1979–
April 8 l990
(unauthored) 1976–1986 10 Years of
Collecting Contemporary
Art: Selections from the
Edward R. Downe, Jr.
Collection, Wellesley
College Museum,
Wellesley, MA l986
Walker, Barry Public and Private:
American Prints Today,
The 24th National Print
Exhibition, Brooklyn
Museum, Feb–Apr l986
Friis-Hansen, Dana Nude, Naked, Stripped,
MIT, Cambridge;
Dec.1985–Feb. l986
Walker, Barry The American Artist as
Printmaker: 23rd National
Print Exhibition,
The Brooklyn Museum,
Oct. l983–Jan. l984
Castleman, Riva Prints from Blocks:
Gaugin to Now, The
Museum of Modern Art,
New York l983
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
The Jocelyn Museum
The Neuberger Museum
The Skirball Cultural Center
The Jewish Museum
J.B. Speed Museum
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Boston Museum of Fine \ Art
Walker Art Center
The New Museum
Museum of Modern Art
Metropolitan Museum
Des Moines Art Center
Indiana University Art Museum
University of Iowa Museum of Art
Brooklyn Museum
New York Public Library
Chase Manhattan Bank
Prudential Insurance Company
Peat, Marwich, Mitchel & Company
Edward R. Downe, Jr. Collection
National Museum of American Art
Fogg Art Museum
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