JOSH AZZARELLA
Born:
1978 Ohio
Lives and works in New York
Solo Exhibitions:
2008 DCKT Contemporary, New York, NY
Kavi Gupta Gallery, Chicago, IL
Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville, VA
2007 Lawrimore Project, Seattle WA
2006 2006 Emerging Artist Award Exhibition, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT
Lisa Boyle Gallery, Chicago, IL
2002 Millworks Gallery, Akron OH
2001 Myers School of Art, University of Akron, Akron, OH
Group Exhibitions:
2008 Cancelled, Erased, and Removed, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, NY
Say Good-bye to…, Clifford Art Gallery, Colgate University, Hamilton, NY
Speaking to the Unspeakable, Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, CA
The Terrible Twos: A Lawrimore Project Biennial, Lawrimore Project, Seattle, WA
Decline, TheHeder Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
2007-08 A New Reality: Black-and-White Photography in Contemporary Art, Jane Voorhees Zimmerli
Art Museum, New Brunswick, NJ; Walsh Art Gallery at Fairfield University, Fairfield, CT
2007 Noorderzon Performing Arts Festival, Groningen, Netherlands
Crash, Pause, Rewind, Missoula Art Museum, Missoula, MT
2006 Home: Living With Contemporary Art, Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art, Indianapolis, IN
Some Things ..., Lisa Boyle Gallery, Chicago, IL
Coming Home, Emily Davis Gallery, University of Akron, Akron, OH
New Images, New Image Gallery, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA
The 9th Annual Activating The Medium Festival, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA &
Cuesta College, San Luis Obispo, CA
New Media/New Work, New Media Caucus of the College Art Association, Boston, MA
Crash. Pause. Rewind., Western Bridge, Seattle, WA
2005 Disputed Territories, City Without Walls Gallery, Newark, NJ
1st Year Out, Temple University, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA
AtoD, Gallery 1f, Brooklyn, NY
Spring Video Show, 7hz, San Francisco, CA
New Jersey Fine Art Annual, Montclair Museum of Art, Montclair, Montclair, NJ
Athens Video Art Festival, Athens, Greece
Digital Visions, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
2004 The Odds, City Without Walls Gallery, Newark NJ
Dimensions, Shane House Gallery, Tucson AZ
New Screen Broadcasting, FL
1800 Frames, City Without Walls gallery, Newark NJ
First Look, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, NY
Seton Hall University / City Without Walls gallery, Newark NJ
MFA Thesis Exhibition, Mason Gross School of the Arts, New Brunswick, NJ
Members Show, City Without Walls gallery, Newark NJ
2003 Graduate Student/ Faculty Group Exhibition, Mason Gross School of the Arts, New Brunswick, NJ
2002 1st Year Graduate Group Exhibition, Mason Gross School of the Arts, New Brunswick, NJ
Nor Jea Galleries, Akron, OH
2001 Fuel Studios, Cuyahoga Falls, OH
2000 Juried Student Show, Myers School of Art, University of Akron, Akron, OH
Members Exhibition, Spaces Gallery, Cleveland, OH
1999 273.15 K, Millworks Ice and Coal Complex, Akron, OH
Collections:
Western Bridge, Seattle, WA
JP Morgan Chase, New York, NY
Bibliography:
2008 Tillitt, Scott, “E--project: Altered States”, Photo District News, September.
“Goings On About Town, Art – Galleries – Downtown”, The New Yorker, May 19.
Wright, Jeffrey Cyphers. “Ring around the New Museum district: You can get anything you want in
the Lower East Side”, Chelsea Now, May 9-15.
Morgenthau, Josh. “Fresh Kills + Josh Azzarella”, The Brooklyn Rail, May.
Davis, Ben. “Josh Azzarella: Gone Missing”, The Village Voice, April 16-22.
Dannatt, Adrian. “What’s missing from this picture?: New York artist Josh Azzarella rewrites history”,
The Art Newspaper, April.
Reverend Jen. “Diary of an Art Star”, Artnet.com, March 31.
Robinson, Walter. “Artnet News”, Artnet.com, March 19.
Hackett, Regina. “What to Make of a Diminished Thing”, SeattlePI.com.
2007 Bischoff, Dan. “Provocative Rutgers exhibit brings out the falseness of image-making”, The Star
Ledger, September 13.
Hackett, Regina. “Lawrimore Project knows a good thing when it sees it”, SeattlePI.com, March 8.
Strosnider, Luke. “Seattle: Lawrimore Project”, Touching Harms the Art, March 6.
Bryant, Elizabeth. “This Month in Seattle: Some Notes”, Art Dish, March 4.
Barnes, Nancy. “Taking Risks in Ridgefield”, ArtNews, January.
2006 Velasco, David. “Scene and Herd”, Artforum.com, December 12.
Tyson, Josh. “Some Things Which are Funny, and SomeThings Which are Quite Serious”, Time Out
Chicago, Issue 77: August 17–23.
Graves, Jen. “Say It Isn't So”, The Stranger, January 26 – February 1.
Ng, Moses Edited by Sylvia Borda. University of British Columbia, "Digital Visions: 2005"
Education:
2004 MFA, Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
2002 BFA, Concentration in Photography and Printmaking, Meyers School of Art, University of Akron
Awards & Grants:
2006 Emerging Artist Award, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT
2003 Fassbender Award for Excellence in Photography