joan banach

background and credits

—Lives and works in New York

—Attended Brooklyn College; studied with Lee Bontecou, Harry Holtzman, Sylvia Stone

—Enrico Donati Foundation Fellowship, 1986

—Visiting Artist, Bennington College, Vermont, October 1999

—John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship for Painting, 2000

—Guest artist for “Painting Today,” The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, March 2008, May 2010, March 2012

—Participating artist in 5 x 20 x 20. A talk at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, May 21, 2009, moderated by Christian Rattemayer and presented in conjunction with “Compass in Hand,” selections from the Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection

—Appointed to The Beijing DeTao Masters Academy, Shanghai Institute of Visual Arts, China, 2012

—Included in MDC (Mario Diacono 100), a limited edition book of 100 numbered copies, with entries by 100 artist participants, celebrating Mario Diacono’s 85^th birthday. Published by Danilo Montanari Editore, Ravenna, Italy, in concert with Luigi Marimotti and the Collezione Marimotti, November 2014.

—Contributing artist to Salvage #2 – Awaiting the Furies. A quarterly edited by China Miéville and Rosie Warren, (London: Salvage Publications) November 2015. Three Investigations: Mnemosyne (2006), Grassland (2011-15), and Splash Page (2007), p. 145-158, in color and black and white.

SELECTED SOLO AND GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2018 —Ghost Story, The Painter’s Gallery, Fleischmann’s, New York, Spring (in preparation).

2017 —Phantom, The Painter’s Gallery, Fleischmann’s, New York, curated by Wanda Siedlecka, (online photographic discourse), December.

—Joan Banach and André Kruysen, The Fields Sculpture Park, Art Omi, Ghent, New York, (2 person presentation curated by Folkert de Jong), May 27-Sept 1.

—Gemeentemuseum den Haag, The Netherlands; Sandbox, a large-scale collaborative sculptural installation created over the course of 2015 to 2017 with Lee Bontecou, Feb 25-July 2.

2013 —The Studio of Joan Banach, an artist presentation for No. 8 by arrangement with the Robert Miller Gallery, New York, November 11 and 16.

—ArtTable talk at the residence of Betsy Wittenborn Miller, by arrangement with the Robert Miller Gallery, New York, Sept 24.

—5 Rooms, Robert Miller Gallery, NY, June 12-Aug 5 (5 person exhibition with Justin Allen, Joan Banach, Mark Fox, Yayoi Kusama, C.K. Rajan)

2012 —Masters Presentation, Beijing DeTao Academy and the Shanghai Institute of Visual Art, Shanghai, China, September (Inter-disciplinary review)

—Brucennial 2012, a project of The Bruce High Quality Foundation and Vito Schnabel, 159 Bleecker Street, New York, Feb 29 – April 20 (Biennial)

2011 —Chain Letter, Samson Gallery, Boston, July 16-Aug 25. An exhibition conceived by the Los Angeles based artist/writers Christian Cummings and Doug Harvey. Exhibition sites included the cities of New York, London, Paris, Johannesburg, Philadelphia, Boston, Seoul, San Francisco, Zurich, and Los Angeles (group)

—Works on Paper (2nd Annual Invitational Exhibition), Danese Gallery, New York, Jan 7-Feb 5 (group)

2010 —Cowgirls 3, curated by Rich Timperio (Sideshow Gallery, Williamsburg, Brooklyn), BRIK Gallery, Catskill, NY, Aug 14 -Sept 19 (group) 

—Myths of the Near Future, Nicole Fiacco Gallery, Hudson, NY, June 12 – July 19 (group)

—Brucennial 2010: Miseducation, organized by The Bruce High Quality Foundation, New York, Feb 24-May 22 (Biennial)

—(Re)Visions, Nicole Fiacco Gallery, Hudson, NY, January (four-person)

2009 —Joan Banach: Monuments of Ur, Nicole Fiacco Gallery, Hudson, NY, May 30-July 7 (solo)

2008 —Joan Banach - Citizen, Laurel Gitlen/Small A Projects, New York, Nov 14-Dec 21 (solo)

—Détournement of Pictures from the Past, University of California, Berkeley, December (Special project presentation)

—The Future as Disruption (curated by Rashida Bumbray and Matthew Lyons), The Kitchen, New York, June 18 – Aug 1 (group)

—Disarmory, The Open Gallery, 201 Mulberry Street, New York, March 28-30

(group show, installation, performance; tabloid)

2007 —Phantom, an exhibition of paintings on paper and polaroid stills from film noir, The Painters Storefront Gallery, Fleischmanns, NY, Sept 15-Oct 15 (solo; artist’s book)

—Aporia:Aporia, LACE, Los Angeles, June 13-Aug 19 (group; coloring book)

—Aporia/Heuristics, The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts Gallery, New York, April 1-May 25 (group; catalogue)

2005 —Modern Stories: Narrative Prints from the Rutgers Archives for Printmaking

Studios, Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, April 17-July 31 (group; catalogue)

2003 —Tot Zo Fer/Up to Now (A farewell presentation from the collection curated by

Rudi Fuchs), The Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, May 31-Dec 31 (survey; catalogue raisonné)

2002 —Into the Woods, Julie Saul Gallery, New York, June 28-Aug 16 (group)

2001 —Hidden Identity, Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York, Jan 4-Feb 3 (group)

2000 —Another Side of Modernism: The Human Figure in Painting from 1950 to the Present (curated by Lilly Wei with John Yau, Alexi Worth and Robert Bunkin), Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, New York, June 4, 2000-Jan 21, 2001 (group; catalogue)

—Joan Banach, Ansuya Blom, Robert Wilson (Drawings from the Stedelijk

Collection), Kabinet Over Holland, The Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Sept 16-Dec 11 (three person)

—Private Worlds, Art in General, New York (curated by Joan Semmel and Arnold Mesches), May 31-July 8 (group)

1999 —Works on Paper, Bobbie Greenfield Gallery, Bergamot Station, Los Angeles, November (group)

—Recent Acquisitions, The Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Jan-April (survey)

1998    —Joan Banach, Mario Diacono Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts, Sept 12-Oct 10 (solo; catalogue)

—Figures and Fragments: Peintures, Dessins, Sculptures et Gravures, Galerie Lelong, Zurich, Feb 7-March 5 (group)

1997 —Focus USA: Joan Banach/Dan Asher, Galerie Lelong, Zurich, Sept 19-

Nov 15 (two person; broadside)

—One Great Jones, New York, June-August 15 (group)

—Joan Banach, One Great Jones, New York, April-May (solo)

1996 —Salon des Tree, organized by Austin Ackles and Mary Jones, Belvedere Castle, Central Park, New York, June 12 (one-day group installation)

—Swag and Puddle (curated by Janice Krasnow and Mary Jones), Lesley Heller/The Work Space Gallery, New York, March-May (group)

1995 —Artswalk New York (To Benefit Coalition for the Homeless), The Puck Building, New York, November. (group)

—Small Format Abstract Paintings, Bill Maynes Contemporary Art, New York, Sept-Oct. (group; chapbook)

1993 —Rowles Studio, Hudson, NY, July 14-Aug 29 (group)

—Works on Paper (curated by André Emmerich), The Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, Mass., Sept 25-Nov 5 (group; catalogue)

1984 —Gimpel Weitzenhoffer Gallery, New York, September (solo)

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

Critical Writing, Reviews, and Notices

• Folkert de Jong, Joan Banach and André Kruysen, a gallery talk at The Fields Annual Summer Exhibition, Ghent, NY, May 27, 2017.
• Banach, Joan, A Peripatetic Atlas of the Sandbox (2015-2017). An atlas of image coagulates documenting the development of a sandbox – a collaborative sculptural installation conceived and created by Lee Bontecou and Joan Banach for the Gemeentemuseum den Haag. The atlas consists of developmental photographs of the sandbox, illustrations from varied sources, with drawings, annotations, and reference captions. The atlas is published by the Gemeentemuseum den Haag in English and Dutch, (London: Koenig Books and The Netherlands: Hannibal, p. 98-123, February 2017.
• Melius, Jeremy, Living with the Void, ibid., p. 31.
• Appel, Karel, Entretien avec Hans-Ulrich Obrist (2003), in Karel Appel – L’art est une fête!, exhibition catalogue (Paris: Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris), Anthologie 1990-2006, third excerpt, p. 115, in English, February 2017.
• Micchelli, Thomas. The Conversation; Nuances of Art Reviewing, with Michael Shaw, Podcast episode 132, Los Angeles, March 2016.
• Ebony, David. Lee Bontecou’s Inventions: An Interview with Joan Banach, Yale @RTbooks, Posted by Yale University Press, February 26, 2014.
• Kane, Tim. Think Visually: Mythologies of the Near Future, The Times Union, Albany, New York, July 8, 2010, illustrated (review).
• Represented in the collection, and included in the library and archive of the Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia, Italy, directed by the scholar, gallerist and writer Mario Diacono.
The online catalogue can be accessed at www.collezionemaramotti.org.
• Burket, Brent. The Brucennial: Piece by Piece, hyperallergenic.com, March 17, 2010 (online review).
• Rattemayer, Christian. The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2009, p. 86 (catalogue raisonné).
• Ashton, Dore. Joan Banach Through a Glass Darkly. (unpublished essay), September 2009.
• Pozzi, Lucio. Articulo Pozzi - New York, Il Giornale dell’Arte, Turin, September 2009 (review).
• Butler, Sharon, Joan Banach: GeoAb with a Shot of Vulgarity Please, online review at twocoatsofpaint.blogspot.com, posted March 2009.
• Micchelli, Thomas, Joan Banach: Citizen, Artseen, The Brooklyn Rail, February 2009, p. 48 (review).
• Citizen – Picture of the Week, artcritical.com, weekend of November 22-23, 2008.
• Rosenberg, Karen, The Future as Disruption, Art in Review, The New York Times, August 1, 2008, p. E29 (review).
• Amir, Yaelle, Smoke in the Kitchen, Art/Slant, July 15, 2008 (review).
• The Future as Disruption, The Imagist, July 2008, (review).
• Chamberlain, Colby, The Future As Disruption, Artforum Critic’s Picks, July 2008 (review).
• Wagner, James, DisArmory, James Wagner.com, Culture Pundits, May 8, 2008 (review).
• Melius, Jeremy, In Flagrante, The DisArmory Newspaper, DB Foundation, New York, Vol. 1, March 28-30, 2008, p. 7 (newsprint tabloid; illustrated).
• Marcus, David, Armory Show Ripoff, The DisArmory Newspaper, DB Foundation, New York, Vol. 1, March 28-30, 2008, p. 1.
• Russell, Christopher, Aporia : Aporia, Artus Magazine, Los Angeles, November 2007, p. 16. (review)
• Byrum, Greta and Daou, Annabel, Impossibility Made Easy, LACE, Los Angeles, July 2007. (catalogue)
• Myers, Holly. Artists are Limited Only by Imagination at Los Angeles Contemporary exhibitions, Around the Galleries, Los Angeles Times, July 20, 2007. (review)
• Aanwinsten/Acquisitions 1993 – 2003, The Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, p. 146, color illustrations no. 2 and 3, p. 383. (catalogue raisonné)
• Marcus, David. Aporia, Artseen, The Brooklyn Rail, May 2006, p. 30. (review)
• Kley, Elisabeth. Aporia, TimeOut Magazine, issue 551, April 20-26, 2006. (review)
• Byrum, Greta. Pattern Recognition: Fragment Study, and Byrum, Greta and Daou, Annabel, Diagrammatic Substitution: Storyboard, Heuristics, (New York: The Elizabeth Foundation and dB Foundation), April 2006, p. 6-9 and p. 12-13 respectively. (catalogue)
• Obrist, Hans Ulrich, An interview with Karel Appel, Amsterdam, May 2003, p. 7. Transcript by Nicolas Boutoux at the Karel Appel Foundation Archive, Amsterdam. In French. (unpublished).
• Wei, Lilly. The Figure: Another Side of Modernism, Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, New York, 2001, p. 5-8, 37 (color illustration), 158, 202. (catalogue)
• Johnson, Ken. Hidden Identity, New York Times, January 26, 2001, p. E38. (review)
• DeRevisor, featured artist for issue no. 5/2000, Amsterdam. Cover image in color; black and white illustrations p. 4, 35, 41, 49, 62. (Dutch literary journal)
• Glueck, Grace. Private Worlds, New York Times, June 12, 2000. (review)
• Johnson, Ken. Another Side of Modernism, New York Times, July 24, 2000. (review)
• Lloyd, Ann Wilson. Paintings by Joan Banach at Mario Diacono, Art in America, February 1999, p. 116. (review)
• Garber, Randy. Paintings by Joan Banach at Mario Diacono, Artsmedia Magazine, Boston, winter issue, 1998-1999, p. 22 (illustrated review)
• Diacono, Mario. Beauty and the Past, October 1998. Translated from the Italian by Marguerite Shore, n.p. (catalogue)
• Affentranger-Kirchrath, Angelika, Dan Asher und Joan Banach at Galerie Lelong, Artis Magazine, November 1997, p. 57. (review)
• Kraft, Martin, Barocke Visionen Joan Banach, Tages-Anzeiger Zuritip, October 10, 1997, p. 47. (illustrated review)
• Pozzi, Lucio. Una pittura che non sera mai visibile su Internet, Il Giornale Dell’Arte, no. 153, March 1997, p. 66. (illustrated)
• Nahas, Dominique. Joan Banach at One Great Jones, Review Magazine, New York , May 15, 1997, p. 5-6. (review)
• Collaboration with Harry Holtzman in his Lyme, Connecticut studio on the re-creation of Mondrian’s unique studio “Wall Works”; colored squares mounted on large scale white panels using Holtzman’s photographs of Mondrian’s studio as compositional guides. (Work on this project was photographed by Joan Banach. These photographs are in color slide format, Banach library.) Summer 1985.
• Holtzman, Harry, Tempest in a Teapot, ca. 1976 (essay, unpublished typescript in the Holtzman Estate archives).

OWNLIFE PRESS PUBLICATIONS

A studio imprint created in April 2007 for occasional publications that serve as explications of my work and interests. The publications are in unique handmade and limited print and portfolio editions. Ownlifepress.com is a site devoted to these publications currently in construction.

MUSEUM AND SPECIAL COLLECTIONS

Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York

Collezione Marimotti, Emilia, Italy

David and Audrey Mirvish Collection, Toronto

The High Museum of Art, Atlanta

Museum of Modern Art, New York

The Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam

The Zimmerli Museum (Rutgers Printmaking Archives)

The Karel Appel Foundation, Amsterdam