Curriculum Vitae
Deborah Remington 1930 - 2010
Born June 25, Haddonfield, New Jersey
Died April 21, Moorestown, New Jersey
EDUCATION
1955 BFA, California School of Fine Arts
(became the San Francisco Art Institute in 1961)
SELECTED SOLO SHOWS
2021 Deborah Remington: Five Decades. Bortolami Gallery, New York, NY. May 1 - June 12
Deborah Remington:Early Drawings. Craig Starr Gallery, New York, NY. May 4 - July 30
2018 Deborah Remington: The 90s. Kimmerich Gallery, Berlin.
February 23-April 21
2016 Deborah Remington Drawings: 1949-2006. Parrasch/Heijnen Gallery, Los Angeles, California.Organized in collaboration with Jay Gorney. October 15–November
Deborah Remington: A Selection of Paintings and Drawings. Dennis Kimmerich Gallery, Berlin, Germany. Chicago Expo, Booth 718. September 22–25
Deborah Remington: 1972–1982. Organized in collaboration with Jay Gorney. Galerie Kimmerich, Berlin, Germany. February 27–April 23
2015 Deborah Remington: 1963–1983. Wallspace Gallery, New York, New York. June 26–August 7
2012 Deborah Remington: Selected Works from 1964–1975. David Richard Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico. June 29–August 11, 2012
2001 Mitchell Algus Gallery, New York, New York
1992 Galerie Darthea Speyer, Paris
1987 Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Los Angeles, California
1986 Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, New York
1985 Ianuzzi Gallery, Phoenix, Arizona
1984 Oakland Museum of Art, Oakland, California
Adams-Middleton Gallery, Dallas, Texas
Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, California
Main Gallery, San Jose State University, San Jose, California
1983 Ramon Osuna Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, California
1982 Mary Ryan Gallery, New York, New York
1980 Bonfoey Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio
1979 Michael Berger Gallery, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
1978 Art Gallery, Miami Dade Comm. College, South Campus, Miami, FL
1977 Hamilton Gallery, New York, New York
Portland Center for the Visual Arts, Portland, Oregon
UMKC Gallery of Art, University of Missouri, Kansas City, Missouri
1976 Pyramid Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Zolla-Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
1974 Bykert Gallery, New York, New York
Brooke Alexander, Inc., New York, New York
Michael Berger Gallery, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
1973 Pyramid Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Galerie Darthea Speyer, Paris
1972 Bykert Gallery, New York, New York
1971 Gallerie Darthea Speyer, Paris
Obelisk Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
1969 Bykert Gallery, New York, New York
1968 Galerie Darthea Speyer, Paris
1967 Bykert Gallery, New York, New York
1965 Dilexi Gallery, San Francisco, California
1964 San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, California
1963 Dilexi Gallery, San Francisco, California
1962 Dilexi Gallery, San Francisco, California
SELECTED GROUP SHOWS
2023 Action, Gesture, Paint: Women Artists and Global Abstraction 1940-70, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK. February 9 - May 7 (Forthcoming).
2023 Women and Abstraction, Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts. January 28 - July 31 (Forthcoming).
2022 Ways of Freedom: Jackson Pollock to Maria Lassnig, Albertina Modern, Vienna, Austria. October 15 - 22 January (2023).
2022 The Shape of Freedom. Museum Barberini, Postdam, Germany. June 4 - September 25.
2021 12 Artists: A Tribute to Klaus Kertess' Bykert Gallery 1966-75. David Nolan Gallery, New York, NY. June 30 - July 30
2019 Or Both, curated by Mia Locks, The Galleries at Moore College of Art and Design, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, September 28 – December 7.
Davina Semo and Deborah Remington, Parts & Labor Beacon, Beacon, New York, July 13 – September 29.
Totems and Phenomenology, curated by Laura Whitcomb, Parrasch Heijnen Gallery, Los Angeles, California, June 22 – August 10.
The Expressionist Figure, curated by Fari Nzinga and Don Desmett, Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, Michigan, January 19 – May 5.
2018 Difference Engine, curated by Tina Kukielski and Cory Arcangel, Lisson Gallery, New York, June 28–August 10, 2018
Class Reunion: Works from the Gaby and Wilhelm Schurmann Collection, Museum Modener Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna, Austria. June 23, 2018 – November 11, 2018.
Beyond Boundaries: Feminine Forms, curated by Laurel McLaughlin and Mechella Yezernitskaya, Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, September 28, 2017– January 28, 2018; Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, September 15, 2017–March 18, 2018.
2017 Jean Conner, Wally Hedrick, Deborah Remington and Frank Williams, Karma Gallery, New York, November 12–December 22, 2017.
Sunlight arrives only at its proper hour, curated by Mitchell Algus and Olivia Shao, 356 South Mission, Los Angeles, June 3–July 30, 2017.
The Coffins of Paa Joe and the Pursuit of Happiness, Jack Shainman Gallery, Kinderhook, New York, June 24, 2017–March 1, 2018.
Masterclass: Major Works from the Twentieth Century, George Adams/Pavel Zoubok, New York, March 2–April 8, 2017.
2016 Women of Abstract Expressionism, Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado, June 12–September 25,2016. Traveled to Mint Museum, Charlotte, North Carolina, October 22, 2016–January 22, 2017; Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, California, February 18–May 28, 2017.
2015 Is/Isn’t: Art on the Verge of Abstraction, George Adams Gallery, New York, New York, December 8, 2015–February 29, 2016.
Expanding Perceptions: Deborah Remington, Beverly Pepper, and Jack Goldstein, Marlborough Chelsea, New York, New York, October 30, 2015–December 23, 2016.
Transcendence: Abstraction & Symbolism in the American West, Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Logan, Utah, September 23, 2015¬–December 10, 2016.
Tamarind Institute and the Rebirth of Lithography. Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, Illinois, August 28–December 12, 2015
Frieze New York, Wallspace Gallery, New York, New York, May 14–17, 2015.
Metro Show NYC, David Richard Contemporary, Santa Fe, New Mexico, January 22–25, 2015.
2014 A Drawing Show, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, New York, October 4–November 29, 2014.
Fertile Ground: Art and Community in California, Oakland Art Museum, Oakland, California, September 20, 2014–April 12, 2015.
The Avant-Garde Collection. Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, California, September 7, 2014–January 4, 2015.
Gesture Then and Now: The Legacy of Abstract Expressionism, David Richard Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, January 24–March 23, 2014.
Metro Show NYC, David Richard Contemporary, Santa Fe, New Mexico, January 22–26, 2014.
2013 Holiday Group Show, David Richard Contemporary, Santa Fe, New Mexico, December 2013.
Metro Show, NYC, David Richard Contemporary, Santa Fe, New Mexico, January 24–27, 2013.
2012 Abstract Expressionism, David Richard Contemporary, Santa Fe, New Mexico, October 5–December 12, 2012.
2011 Bay Area Abstraction: 1945–1965, David Richard Contemporary, Santa Fe, New Mexico, November 11–December 31, 2011.
Bella Pacifica: Bay Area Abstraction 1946–1963, Nyehaus Gallery, New York, New York,January 11–February 5, 2011.
2010 Psychedelic: Optical & Visionary Art Since the 1960s, San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio,
Texas, March 13–August 1, 2010. Traveled to Telfair Museum of Art in Savannah, Georgia, March 4–May 30, 2011.
2008 The Artist’s Mark: Then and Now, Sirolli Fine Art, New York, New York, March 17–April 12, 2008.
Printed in Omaha: A Retrospective Exhibition of the UNO Print Workshop, University of Nebraska at Omaha, Nebraska, February 29–April 5, 2008.
2007 Paths to the Press: Printmaking and American Women Artists 1910–1960, Mary & Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, September 23–December 11, 2005...
The Abstract Impulse: Fifty Years of Abstraction at the National Academy 1956–2006, National Academy Museum, New York, New York, September 18, 2007–January 6, 2008.
... Traveled to Marion Koogler McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas, January 31–April 2, 2006; Louisiana State University Museum of Art, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, July 22, 2006–January 7, 2007; Mariana Kistler Beach Museum of Art, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, October 21–December 18, 2007; and the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, New York, New York, January 23–March 28, 2008.
182nd Annual Exhibition, National Academy Museum, New York, New York, May 16–June 24, 2007.
2005 Disegno, 180th Annual Exhibition. National Academy Museum, New York, May 25–July 3, 2005.
2004 Contemporary Prints from the Collection, National Academy of Design Museum, New York, New York, July 2–September 26, 2004.
2003 178th Annual Exhibition, National Academy of Design Museum, New York, New York, May 2– June 15, 2003.
2002 Parallels and Intersections: Art/Women/California, 1950–2000, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California, June 29–October 22, 2002.
2001 The Stamp of Impulse: Abstract Expressionist Prints. Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, Massachusetts, April 21–June 17, 2001. Traveled to Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio, November 18, 2001–January 27, 2002; Amon–Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas, March 2–May12, 2002; and the Mary & Leigh Block Museum of Art Evanston, Illinois, January 16–March 16, 2003.
2000 Reconstructing Abstraction, Mitchell Algus Gallery, New York, New York, April 12–May 13, 2000.
Armory Show, Mitchell Algus Gallery, New York, New York, February 24–28, 2000.
175th Annual Exhibition, National Academy Museum, New York, New York, February 9 – March 26, 2000.
1994 The Print Club of Cleveland Publication Prints 1924–1994: 75th Anniversary Exhibition, Cleveland
Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio, March 9–June 26, 1994.
1993 Trieannale des Ameriques, Maubeuge, France, April 24–June 30, 1993.
1990 The 6 Gallery 1954–1957, Natsoulas Noveloso Gallery, Davis, California, January 12–February 28, 1990.
1989 41st Annual Purchase Exhibition, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, New York, November 13–December 10, 1989.
The Question of Drawing, South Campus Art Gallery, Miami Dade College, Miami, Florida, January 6–February 6, 1989. Traveled to Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, Indiana, July 22–September 10, 1989; University Art Gallery, Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana, September 24–October 29, 1989; Gallery of Fine Arts, Edison Community College, Fort Myers, Florida, November 10–December 22, 1989; University Art Gallery, University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee, January 22–March l, 1990; and Pensacola Museum of Art, Pensacola, Florida, May 11– June 22, 1990.
1988 40th Annual Purchase Exhibition, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, November 14–December 11, 1988.
1987 39th Annual Purchase Exhibition, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York,November, 16–December 13, 1987.
Fall Invitational. The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut, September 26, 1987– January 3, 1988.
1985 American Art: American Women, Stamford Museum, Stanford, Connecticut, December 15, 1985– February 23, 1986.
1984 The Dilexi Years: 1958–1970, Oakland Museum of Art, Oakland, California, October 13–December 16, 1984.
La part des femmes dans l’art contemporain, Gallery Municipale, Ville de Vitry-Sur-Seine, France, March 1984.
1981 LIS ’81: International Exhibition of Drawings, National Gallery of Modern Art, Lisbon, Portugal, October, 30–November 30, 1981
The New Spiritualism: Transcendent Images in Painting and Sculpture, Oscarsson Hood Gallery, New York, New York, September 9–26, 1981. Traveled to Jorgensen Gallery, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut, November 16–December 13, 1981; and Robert Hull Fleming Museum, The University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont, February 4–March 29, 1982.
New Dimensions in Drawing, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut, May 2–September 6, 1981.
1977 New in the 70’s, University Art Museum, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, August 21–September 25, 1977.
41st Annual National Mid-Year Show, Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio, July 2–August 28, 1977.
Drawings of the 70’s, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, March 9¬–May 1, 1977.
1976 Three Artists: Three Viewpoints, Museum of North Texas State University, Denton, Texas, September 24–October 14, 1976.
Painting and Sculpture in California: The Modern Era, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California, September 3¬–November 21, 1976. Traveled to National Collection of Fine Arts, Washington, D.C., May 20–September 11, 1977.
Drawing Today in New York, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana September 2–23, 1976. Traveled to Rice University, Houston, Texas, October 8–November 19, 1976; Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, January 10–February 16, 1977; University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, February 27–March 11, 1977; Oklahoma Arts Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, April 15–May 15, 1977; and Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, Ohio, June 3–August 21, 1977.
Drawing Now: 10 Artists, SoHo Center for Visual Arts, New York, New York, June 3–26, 1976.
American Artists ’76: A Celebration, Marion Koogler McNay Art Institute, San Antonio, Texas, May 23–July 31, 1976.
1975 Painting Endures, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Massachusetts, May 2–June 23, 1975.
Image, Color, and Form: Recent Paintings by Eleven Americans, Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio, January 12–February 9, 1975.
1974 71st American Exhibition, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, June 15–August 11, 1974.
Woman’s Work: American Art, Museum of the Philadelphia Civic Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, April 28–May 26, 1974.
1973 A Period of Exploration: San Francisco, 1945–1950. Oakland Museum, Oakland, California, September 4–November 4, 1973.
1971 Drawings by New York Artists, Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, Utah, November 28, 1970–January 12, 1971. Traveled to Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington,
March 3–26, 1972; University Art Collection, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, May 10–June 12, 1972; and Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, July 2–August 6, 1973.
1970 L’art vivant aux États-Unis, Fondation Maeght, Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France, July 16– September 30, 1970.
American Painting 1970, Virginia Museum, Richmond, Virginia, May 4–June 7, 1970.
Painting and Sculpture Today, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana, April 21–June 1, 1970.
1968 Art on Paper. Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, North Carolina, November 17–December 18, 1968
The Art of Organic Form, Museum of Natural History, Washington, D.C., June 15–July 31, 1968.
Art Vivant 1965–1968, Fondation Maeght, Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France, April 13–June 30, 1968.
1967 University of Illinois Biennial, Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, Illinois, March 5–April 9, 1967.
Recent Acquisitions, Whitney Museum, New York, New York, April 20–May15, 1966.
1966 2ème Salon International des Galeries Pilotes, Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Palais de Rumine,Lausanne, Switzerland, June 12–October 2, 1966.
1965 Whitney Museum Painting Annual, New York, New York, December 8, 1965–January 30, 1967. Also exhibited in the Annual in 1967 and 1972.
Art ’65: Lesser Known and Unknown Painters: Young American Sculpture—East to West, American Express Pavilion, New York World’s Fair, New York, April 19–October 17, 1965.
Some Aspects of California Painting and Sculpture, La Jolla Museum, La Jolla, California, February 28–April 11, 1965.
1962 Drawings from West Coast America, Auckland Museum, New Zealand, October 1962.
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
1956 San Francisco Museum of Art Painting Annual, San Francisco, California, March 29–May 6, 1956... Also exhibited in the Annual in 1960, 1961, 1963, 1964, and 1965
Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, San Francisco, California
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
Auckland Museum, Auckland, New Zealand
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, University of California, Berkeley, California
Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris
Boymans Museum, Rotterdam, Holland
Bryn Mawr College Art Gallery, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania
Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Centre d’Art et de Culture Georges Pompidou, Paris
Charles & Dorothy Clark Collection
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio
Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio
Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, Delaware
Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado
Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, Indiana
Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, Fine Arts Museum, University of California, Los Angeles
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, Indiana
Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, New Jersey
Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Champagne, Illinois
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Museum of Art, Indianapolis, Indiana
Museum of Art, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico
Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, California
National Academy of Design, New York, New York
New York Public Library, New York, New York
Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, California
Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Logan, Utah
Oakland Museum of Art, Oakland, California
Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Phoenix Museum of Art, Phoenix, Arizona
Rollins College Cornell Fine Arts Museum (The Alfond Collection of Contemporary Art), Winter Park, FL
Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, Florida
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.
The Greenstein Lab, Seattle, OR
The State Museum of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio
University of Texas-Pan American’s Permanent Collection, Austin, Texas
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut
Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, North Carolina
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York
Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, Massachusetts
AWARDS
Archives of American Art Interviews, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., 2004
National Academy of Design, New York, Benjamin Altman Prize for Painting, 178th Annual Exhibition, 2003
Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, 1999
Elected to the National Academy of Design, 1999
American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, Hassam, Speicher, Betts, and Symons Purchase Fund, 1988
Guggenheim Fellowship, 1984
National Endowment Fellowship, 1979
Tamarind Fellowship, Artist-in-Residence, Fall 1973
Archives of American Art Interviews, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., 1972