Rockefeller University, New York City
Rueda Museum, Madrid, Spain
Carolla van den Houghten Modern, New York City
Washington College of Law, Washington, D.C.
Watkins Collection, Washington, D.C.
Washington University, St. Louis
Westminster College, Pennsylvania
Adam Whitney Gallery, Omaha, Nebraska
and others, as well as private collections including
Livingston Biddle, Washington, D.C. (Founding Chair, NEA)
Gunter Blobel, New York City (Nobel Prize winning scientist)
Gary Brost, Buffalo, NY (collector)
Gaumann/Clark, Florida (collectors)
Hank and Carol Goldberg Washington DC (collectors)
Cyrus and Myrtle Katzen, Washington DC (collectors)
Patricia McBride, New York City, (Internationally renowned Ballerina)
Barbara Rose, Madrid (art critic/historian)
Adriano Bigi, Milan (collector)
and others
CURATORIAL AND/OR ORGANIZATION OF EXHIBITIONS (partial listing):
1999 - The 43rd, 44th, 45th, 46th, 47th, 48th , 49th, 50th , 51st, 52nd, 53rd, 54th, 55th, Chautauqua
current National Exhibition of American Art: brought nationally recognized figures to select each of these exhibitions including
Kim Levin, (President Honoraire of the International Association of Art Critics, author of Beyond Modernism: Essays on Art from the ‘70s and ‘80s (Harper Collins), and Editor of Beyond Walls and Wars: Art, Politics, and Multiculturalism (Midmarch
Press), Fellow for the Annenberg/Getty Arts Journalism Program
Jim Kempner, (Founder, Jim Kempner Fine Art, NYC)
Kim Foster, (Director, Founder, Kim foster Gallery, NYC – Chelsea)
Denise Bibro (Director, Founder Denise bibro Fine Art, NYC – Chelsea)
Rachel Vancelete (Director, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, NYY – Chelsea)
Louis Grachos (Director, Site Santa Fe, New Mexico; Albright Knox Museum, Buffalo)
Robert Storr (Curator of Contemporary Art, Museum of Modern Art, NYC, organizer of American Pavilion for the 2007 Venice Biennale)
Stephen Westfall (Painter, critic Art In America)
Donald Kuspit (critic/author)
Michael Gitlitz (Associate Director, Marlborough Gallery, NYC)
Barbara Rose (critic/art historian/author)
Julian Zugazagoitia (Director, Museo del Barrio, NYC)
Barbara Luderowski and Michael Olinyk (Director/Chief Curator, Mattress Factory Museum of Art, Pittsburgh)
2006 - Coordinator, Rotunda Gallery, Katzen Center for the Arts
2012 Organized several dozen exhibitions since 2006, a sampling of which includes:
4-5 annual exhibitions of works by AU MFA students annually
Annual undergraduate painting, studio and graphic design exhibitions
Katzen Corridor exhibition of works by AU full-time and adjunct faculty (recruitment support)
Various curated exhibitions and installations such as Interrupted Life, an exhibition of works
addressing the issue of incarcerated mothers in the US and their children; Studio Art Centers
International, Florence Faculty Exhibition, an exhibition of works by faculty from the Florence,
Italy based Studio Art Centers International Program; and other curated exhibitons
2012 Abstraction in America: The 1970’s and 1980’s, in association with the Albright-Knox Museum, Buffalo, NY and Strohl Art Center, Chautauqua, NY
Curated exhibition of works by seminal artists in conjunction with the Albright Knox Gallery in Buffalo. Artists included:
Mel Bochner Charles Clough Richard Diebenkorn
Nancy Graves Keith Haring Bryan Hunt
Robert Mangold Beverley Pepper Peter Plagens
David Reed Susan Rothenberg Richard Serra
Donald Sultan Andrew Topolski Mia Westerlund
2011 Bilateral Trace: Four Emerging Artists From Iran, Bellowe Gallery, Chautauqua, NY
In conjunction with Chautauqua's week six theme on Iran, Iran: “Cradle of Culture –
Middle East as Powder Keg” curated exhibition of works by four young artists from Iran – all
women under the age of 30. Participating artist Hedieh Javanshir Ilchi (AU MFA graduate, May 2011) also be gave a lecture on her work and the exhibition. Others included in the exhibition were Roshanak Tehrani, Sepideh Salehi and Leila Pourkhani. Also on the lecture platform this week were Azae Nafisi (author Reading Lolita in Tehran) and Robin Wright (Ed. 'The Iran Primer').
Abstraction in America: The 1940’s to the 1960’s, in association with the Albright-Knox Museum, Buffalo, NY and Strohl Art Center, Chautauqua, NY
Curated exhibition of works by seminal 20th Century artists in conjunction with the Albright Knox Gallery in Buffalo. Artists included:
Milton Avery Louise Bourgeois Dorothy Dehner
Sam Francis Adolph Gottlieb Philip Guston
Hans Hofmann Paul Jenkins Alfred Jensen
Jasper Johns Franz Kline Lee Krasner
Beatrice Mandelman Ary Stillman Mark Tobey
Cy Twombly
The Contemporary Printmaker, Fowler-Kellogg Art Center, Chautauqua, NY
Included works by Alex Katz, Polly Apfelbaum, Charlie Hewitt, and former AU faculty members Katja Oxman and Tom Raneses
2010 Photographs by Steve McCurry, Chautauqua, NY
McCurry is probably most well known for his famous photograph “Afghan Woman”
2009 Cuba Connections, Belowe Gallery, Strohl Art Center, Chautauqua Institution
Works by five Cuban artists in association with the Racela Educational foundation in Kansas City, Missouri. Prints produced by Taller Exp de Grafica, Havana (Taller was established with the help of Che Guevarra).
Last Stand: National Geographic Photographs by Annie Griffiths Belt, Gallo Family
Galleries, Chautauqua Institution. Photos of locations of disappearing wilderness areas of the United States by this nationally renowned National Geographic photographer.
Director’s Choice: Tribal Art – Aboriginal Art from the Franks Tribe Collection
Gallo Family Gallery, Chautauqua, NY
Aboriginal masks and sculpture from places ranging from Papua, New Guinea, Congo and
Ivory Coast to Easter Isle, Mexico and Peru; from Japan, Australia and Nepal to the Mound
Builders of Kentucky
Chautauqua School of Art: Celebrating 100 Years, Logan Galleries, Chautauqua, NY
Vintage Photographs from the Chautauqua Institution Archives
12 x 12 x 100 One Hundred Works by Chautauqua School of Art Alumni celebrating the
Centennial of the school, Gallo Family Gallery, Chautauqua, NY
Welded Steel by Lee Tribe, Melvin Johnson Sculpture Garden, Chautauqua Institution
Five large scale sculptures by British sculptor Lee Tribe
Site specific installation by Roberley Bell
Melvin Johnson Sculpture Garden, Chautauqua Institution
Large scale, site specific installation by this nationally recognized sculptor
Curator, Rotunda Gallery, Katzen Arts Center
Two fall exhibitions of works by AU MFA students (on sabbatical spring semester)
2007 Truth, Beauty (and Other Dirty Words)
Sculpture by Ron Desmett and Kathleen Mulcahy, Chautauqua Center for the Visual Arts Galleries, Chautauqua Institution, in conjunction with Pittsburgh Glass. Catalogue for the
exhibition included essays by Sarah Nichols, Chief Curator, Carnegie Museum of Art.
Works on paper by 6 artists from Katherine Markel and Lohin Geduld Galleries in Chelsea New York City. Chautauqua Center for the Visual Arts Galleries, Chautauqua
Institution.
The View from Here, retrospective exhibition of the work of Gloria Plevin.
Logan Galleries, Chautauqua, NY
Six Over Seventy
In a culture obsessed with youth, this exhibition presents works by 6 artists over the age of seventy
2006 The Black and White Show
Multi media group exhibition
Chautauqua Center for the Visual Arts Galleries, Chautauqua Institution
Photos of New Orleans Jazz Musicians: 1940-Present
Worked with Rene Grayre, Director Robert Steele Gallery in Chelsea, to present this exhibition at Logan Galleries, Chautauqua, NY
American Artists in Umbria: Works by Margaret Grimes, Judy Glantzman, Judy Harvest, Betsey Garand, Barbara Schwartz, Louise Hamlin and others. Sala di Tres Archi, Corciano
Polarities: Perception, Play and Loveable Monsters
Works by Jeremy Long (AU Italy MFA Alumnus), Lindsay Rogers (AU MFA Alumnus), and Luis Silva Chautauqua Center for the Visual Arts Galleries, Chautauqua Institution
The Portrait in Contemporary Art
Chautauqua Center for the Visual Arts Galleries, Chautauqua Institution
Rita Argen Auerbach: Celebrating 25 Years of Painting
Logan Galleries, Chautauqua, NY
Selected Exhibitions curated and/or organized the following exhibitions 2005 and earlier (partial listing):
Fire and Clay: Contemporary Chinese Ceramics
Logan Galleries, Chautauqua Institution
Stanley Lewis Logan Galleries, Chautauqua Institution
The Art of Craft In America, Chautauqua Center for the Visual Arts (exhibition included major works by nationally recognized artists in ceramics, metal, wood, glass)
Tom Raneses: Paintings and Prints, Logan Galleries, Chautauqua Institution
Spirituality and the Palm, works by Italian artist Rossella Vasta, Chautauqua Center for the Visual Arts
The Nature of Space - Contemporary American Landscape
Chautauqua Center for the Visual Arts. Margaret Grimes, Ying Li, Clayton Merrell,
Christopher Semergeiff
Jeff Greenham Logan Galleries, Chautauqua Institution
Under Pressure: Prints From Two Palms Press, Chautauqua Center for the Visual Arts,
Chautauqua, NY (Mel Bochner, Chuck Close, Tara Donavan, Caroll Dunham, Sol Lewitt, David
Row, Jessica Stockholder, Terry Winters, Pedro Barbeito)
Paolo Lataioli, Saving Center Cities from the Car City planning exhibition including
Architectural drawings, plans, notes and models by Italian architect Paolo Lataioli for projects in
various Italian cities as well as Washington, DC. Logan Galleries, Chautauqua Institution.
Long Term Commitment, EJ Vaughn Associates, New York City, (Gregory Amenoff, Mary
Hambleton, Robert Storr, Bill Jensen, Katherine Porter, Charles Hewitt, Rosemarie Castoro,
Rackstraw Downes, Sam Gilliam, Barbara Schwartz, Elena Sisto, Glenn Goldberg, Gary
Stephan, Jake Berthot, Judy Glantzman)
Edgardo Abbozzo Watkins Gallery, Washington, DC
Catherine Murphy and Vija Celmins Watkins Gallery, Washington, DC
Andrew Forge, Drawings and Paintings, NY Studio School Galleries
William Tucker, Oversize Drawings, NY Studio School Galleries
Sculpture by George Spaventa, NY Studio School Galleries
Sculpture by Sidney Geist, NY Studio School Galleries
Gretna Campbell, Louis Finkelstein, Nel Blaine, NY Studio School Galleries
Forced Proximity Group exhibition (with catalogue) of paintings, drawings, sculpture and
digitally based media by Washington area artists.
Watkins Gallery, Washington, DC
Eight In Dialogue Group exhibition (with catalogue) of paintings, drawings, sculpture and
digitally based media by 8 emerging Washington area artists.
Watkins Gallery, Washington, DC
In Praise of Space
Co-curated exhibition with Robert Godfrey and wrote catalogue essay. Included works by
19th and 20th Century American painters Thomas Cole, Jasper Francis Cropsey, John
Frederick Kensett, William Sydney Mount, Gretna Campbell, Louis Finkelstein, Rackstraw Downes, Jane Wilson, Jane Freilicher, Paul Georges, Neil Welliver and others.
Corcoran Gallery of American Art, Washington, DC
George McNeil: The 1980’s
Watkins Gallery, Washington, DC
Form, Space, Structure: Works by William Tucker, Garth Evans, John Walker and others
NY Studio School Galleries
On Color: Harriet Schorr
Prince Street Gallery, NYC
Photography Invitational
Logan Galleries, Chautauqua, NY
The Landscape Revisited: From Maine to Key West
Works by Martha Alpert, Robert Henry, Stanley Lewis, David Lund, Raoul Middleman, Paul
Resika, Kim Uchiyama, Gina Werfel, Sally Amster, Stephen Brown, Gretna Campbell.
Gaumann Cicchino Gallery, Ft. Lauderdale
NY Studio School Galleries, NYC
Watkins Gallery, Washington, DC
Washington Area MFA Programs, in association with the College Art Association of America Annual Meeting Organized exhibition of works by MFA students from American University, Maryland Institute College of Art, Virginia Commonwealth University, Howard University, Catholic University, George Washington University and Towson State University
More than 100 student exhibitions and installations at undergraduate through graduate levels in institutional and alternative spaces as well as the Chautauqua School of Art,
American University, The New York Studio School and the American University visual arts programs in Italy over the past 25 years. Various locations in New York City, Washington, DC, Corciano and Rome, Italy, as well as other locations
Numerous Scholarship Benefit Exhibitions Logan Galleries, Chautauqua Institution; NY Studio School Galleries (NYC), American University and others
SELECTED LECTURES, SYMPOSIA AND COLLOQUIA:
2012 Don Kimes: 1970's to 2012 The Chautauqua Institution, Chautauqua NY.
The Presence of Absence Connecticut State University, Danbury, Connecticut. (April 2012)
Humor and Art American University, Washington, DC
Organized colloquium series which included Jim Kempner (Jim Kempner Fine Art, NYC), and artists Charlie Hewitt and Matt Kenyon
2011 Chance Meets Necessity: The Work of Carol Goldberg, Montclair State University,
New Jersey
Invited by critic Donald Kuspit to participate on a panel about Goldberg.
Panelists included:
Glenn Harper (Editor, Sculpture Magazine, Director International Sculpture Center)
Don Kimes (Artist, Professor of Studio Art, American University)
Donald Kuspit (Distinguished University Professor emeritus of Art History and
Philosophy, SUNY Stonybrook, senior critic New York Academy of Art)
Lenore Miller, Director Luther W. Brady Art Gallery, George Washington University
Interruptio, Pallazzo Maidoff, Florence, Italy
Book Presentation, in association with the publication of the Book “Interruptio” including essays by artists (including myself), psychiatrists, scientists and poets on
the concept of interruption as a catalyst for creative activity.
Art and Soul, Hall of Philosophy Lecture Platform, Chautauqua Institution, Chautauqua, NY
Speaker in week long symposium on the arts.
Interruption, Transformation and the Creative Act has subsequently been presented on numerous NPR radio stations nationally. It is included in the Chautauqua Institution “Great Lectures Library”
Participants in the week long symposium including:
Vivienne Benesch (Faculty, Julliard)
Jean Pierre Bonnefoux (former dance with the Paris Ballet, Director North Carolina Ballet Company)
Timothy Muffett (Conductor)
Don Kimes (Artist represented by Denise Bibro Fine Art, NYC)
Rocco Landesman (Director, National Endowment for the Arts)
Jay Lesinger (Opera Director)
More than 1,000 in the audience for each talk.
Life After Your Art Degree, Carnegie Mellon University
On line talk and discussion with Carnegie Mellon University art students.
My Teacher’s and Their Teachers: Hofmann, Krasner and de Kooning to 2011,
Chautauqua Institution
Abstraction in America: 1940’s to 1960’s, Gave a series of 7 talks at Chautauqua Institution on the emergence of abstraction and the shift of the center of the art world
from Paris to New York.
World Onstage: How Creative Property is Carved Out Chautauqua Theater Company
Speaker about the idea of intellectual property was the topic of discussion. This event
focused on playwright Molly Smith Metzler’s “Carve,” performed in the New Play Workshop Festival.
Visiting Critic, New York Studio School MFA program, NYC
Visiting Critic, Connecticut State University MFA program, Danbury, CT
2010 Interruptio, Extra Moenia, Todi, Italy
Book Presentation, in association with the publication of the Book “Interruptio” I including essays by artists (including myself), psychiatrists, scientists and poets on the concept of interruption as a catalyst for creative activity.
Visiting Artist Lecture series American University, Washington, DC
Organized fall lecture series with Robert Storr (Dean, Yale School of Art), Judy Glantzman (faculty, Rhode Island School of Design), Susanna Coffey (faculty Art Institute of Chicago) and others.
2009 Art in the Public Realm, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh
Open discussion with Dr. Elaine King, Professor of Contemporary Art and Critical Theory, Carnegie Mellon University.
2008 Landscape, Really? Logan Galleries, Chautauqua Institution
Clayton Merrell, Associate Professor of Art, Carnegie Mellon University
Margaret Grimes, Professor of Art, Connecticut State University
Chris Semergeiff, Associate Professor of Art, SUNY Stonybrook
Ying Li, Professor of Art, Haverford College
2007 The State of Arts Education in the US, Syracuse University Lubin House, New York, NY
Participants included:
Brent Assink Executive Director, San Francisco Symphony
Eric Gibson Leisure & Arts Features Editor, The Wall Street Journal, former executive editor of ARTnews
Don Kimes Professor of Art, American University, Artistic Director in the Visual Arts, Chautauqua Institution
Brian Kulick Artistic Director, Classic Stage Company
Marlena Malas Voice Chair, Chautauqua Music School, faculty member Manhattan
School of Music, Julliard, Curtis Institute, and joins the Washington
Opera with Placido Domingo in the training of young artists
Ethan McSweeney Co-artistic director of the Chautauqua Theater Company. 2001 Tony nomination, 2001 Outer Critics Circle and Drama Desk awards
for Best Revival (The Best Man)
Mario Mercado Arts Editor of Travel + Leisure magazine, former Director of Programs of the Kurt Weill Foundation for Music in New York
James Oestreich - classical music editor The New York Times, author of The New York Times Essential Library of Classical Music
Carlin Romano Critic-at-Large, Chronicle of Higher Education, literary critic Philadelphia Inquirer.
2006 The Drawings of Peter De Francia NY Studio School Galleries, NYC
Don Kimes, discussant
Carole Robb, discussant
David Cohen (Editor ArtCritical.com/curator)
2005 The Visual Arts: Where Are We Now? Chautauqua Institution
Don Kimes, Professor of Art, American University
Stephen Westfall, Artist/Critic Art in America
Saul Ostrow, Dean Cleveland Institute of Art
Elaine King, Author/Curator and Professor of Critical Theory, Carnegie Mellon
University
Clayton Merrell, Visual Arts Faculty, Carnegie Mellon University
2003 The Visual Arts: Images as the Human Signature Chautauqua Institution
Organized lecture component of week visual arts colloquium presented at Chautauqua Institution including lectures by:
Thomas West, Founder, Digital Publishers, Ltd.
Peter Stern Chairman/President, Storm King Art Center, NY (internationally regarded outdoor sculpture park)
David Finn photographer and book publisher
Toshiko Takaezu Internationally renowned ceramicist
Don Kimes Professor of Art, American University; Artistic Director in the Visual
Arts Chautauqua Institution
Attendance for the week: approximately 17,000
2002 Art in Action: Artistic Expression and Social Responsibility Bratton Theater, Chautauqua Institution:
Carl Kurlander screenwriter for "St. Elmo's Fire", TV writer/producer
Jay Lesinger Artistic director Chautauqua Opera; has presented "Tosca,"
"Macbeth", "The Merry Widow" and many others from New York to
California, and has directed operas seen across the country and in
Europe
Mary Whitaker Musician and member of orchestra for Tony Award-winning musical
"Thoroughly Modern Millie", Member of The American Composers
Orchestra, STX Ensemble, among others
Scott McVay President, Chautauqua Institution, Founder Dodge Foundation,
Advisory Board Storm King Art Center, NY
Don Kimes Artist and Artistic Director, The Chautauqua School of Art, Professor
of Art American University
2001 A Critical Dialogue: Dance and Painting Liz Lerman Dance Project
Smith Wilkes Amphitheater, Chautauqua Institution Presentation, including Kimes’ 96” x 240” mixed media on steel piece “Fragment”, in conjunction with Liz Lerman Dance Project of NYC.
2000 Modernism & Post-Modernism: Russian Art at the End of the Millennium Fondo del Sol Museum of Art, Washington, D.C.
Museum Director Marc Zuver, artists Vitaly Komar (of Komar & Melamid) and Don Kimes
1999 Painting Outside Painting: Is There a Cutting Edge? In conjunction with the Corcoran Biennial.
Panel discussion with:
Robert Storr MOMA Curator Contemporary Painting and Drawing
Terrie Sultan curator, Corcoran Biennial
Barbara Rose author/critic
John Torreano Artist, Professor of Art, NYU
Leslie Wayne Biennial participating Artist
Don Kimes Artist, Professor of Art, American University
1998 What Happened to the Washington School? American University
Panel discussion with:
Artists Sam Gilliam, Yuriko Yamaguchi and Don Kimes
critic/author Barbara Rose
curators Alice Denney (founder Washington Museum of Modern Art) and Willem de Looper (curator, Phillips Collection)
1997 The Sculpture of Beverly Pepper Academy of Fine Arts, Perugia, Italy
Artists Beverly Pepper, Rossella Vasta and Don Kimes, critic/author Barbara Rose, Academia di Bellas Artes Pietro Vannucci Director Edgardo Abbozzo
1996 Pluralism - Who Gets Seen? What Gets Said? What Gets Heard?
In conjunction with the College Art Association Annual Meeting.
Michael Brenson (NY Times critic)
Kinshasha Conwill (Director, Studio Museum of Harlem)
Robert Storr (Museum of Modern Art Curator)
Glenn Ligon (artist)
Inverna Lockpez (Director Intar Museum of Latin American Art)
1995 Art in the Age of Information American University
Artists Dennis Ashbaugh, Al Held, Nik Williams
critics Barbara Rose and Peter Plagens
1994 De Kooning: Generational Perspectives (in conjunction with National Gallery of Art de Kooning exhibition) –
Louis Finkelstein (artist/critic)
Irving Sandler (critic/author)
Barbara Rose (critic/author),
Don Kimes (artist)
Mark Stevens (art critic, Newsweek)
1988 The University and the Arts Connecticut State University
Robert Storr contributing editor Art in America, Dean, New York Studio School
Evelyn Smith Connecticut commission on the Arts
Martin Bresnick composer, Yale University faculty
Don Kimes artist
1983 Matisse (In conjunction with Museum of Modern Art, NYC Matisse Retrospective)
Sculptor William Tucker
author/critic Dore Ashton
curator John Elderfield
artist Mercedes Matter
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