J O S E P H S A N T O R E
www.josephsantore.com
josephsantore@yahoo.com
Born: December 15, 1945, Philadelphia, PA
Lives: New York City, NY
EDUCATION
Philadelphia College of Art, BFA, 1969
University of Arizona, MFA, candidate 1970-71
Yale University, New Haven, CT, MFA , 1971-73
AWARDS
American Academy of Arts and Letters Purchase Award 2010
I.G. Nelson Prize and Joseph S. Isidor Medal for Painting, 184th Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Art, National Academy of Design 2009
Emil & Dines Carlsen Award for Best Still Life, 182nd Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Art, National Academy of Design, 2007
Peter S. Read Foundation Grant, 2005
Benjamin Altman Figure Painting Prize, 172nd Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Art, National Academy of Design, 1997
The National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, 1993-94
American Academy & Institute of Arts & Letters, 1989
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fund Fellowship Grant, 1988-89
Ingram Merrill Foundation Award in Painting, 1988
New York Foundation of the Arts Fellowship, 1985
Alice Kimball Traveling Fellowship, Yale University 1973-74
ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2017 Joseph Santore “Watercolors and Drawings” New York Studio School, New York, NY
2009 Joseph Santore “Recent Work” Lohin-Geduld Gallery, New York City, New York
2001 “Joseph Santore: Works on Paper”, Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY
2000 “Joseph Santore: The Making of A Painting”, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ
1997 “A Survey of Paintings and Drawings”, Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA
1995 “The Drawings of Joseph Santore”, New York Studio School, New York, NY
1993 Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY
1990 Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY
1987 Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY
1984 Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY
1982 Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY
1973 Yale University, New Haven, CT
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019
“Parent Portraits” May 11 – June 8, 2019, Westbeth Gallery, New York, NY
2017
“Body Language: Figuration in Modern and Contemporary Art” February 25 – July 9, 2017, Tucson Museum of Art. Tucson Arizona
2016
“Fall Forward” Faculty and Staff Show, Fisher Studio Arts Building, Bard College
“Hey You! ~ Who Me?” Yale School of Art’s 32 Edgewood Gallery, Curated by Robert Storr
“Face Facts or Headspace” New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting, and Sculpture
2015
“Present Tense” Fall 2015 Faculty Staff Show,Fisher Studio Arts Building Gallery, Bard College
“Selfie” Marymount College Gallery, New York, NY
2014
“The City As Subject” Westbeth Gallery, New York, NY
“We Are Here” Bard College, Faculty Show, Annandale-On-Hudson, NY
2013
“The House We Live In” Bard College, Faculty Show, Annandale On-Hudson, NY
2011
“First in Translation: Works on paper by New York Studio School Faculty” New York Studio School, New York, NY
“Local Produce” Bard College, Faculty Show, Annandale-On-Hudson, NY
“Refocusing the Spotlight : Twenty-one American Painters” Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, NY
2010
“American Academy Invitational Exhibition Of Visual Arts” The American Academy Of Arts And Letters, New York, NY
2009
“Telling Stories: Paintings from the Permanent Collection, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, Arizona
“The 184th Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Art” National Academy of Design, New York, NY
“Drawings, Anyone? Recent Acquisitions from the Eleanor and Henry Hitchcock Foundation”, Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado
2007
“The 182nd Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Art” National Academy of Design, New York, NY
“Legacy & Recollection,” The Philoctetes Center for The Multidisciplinary Study Of Imagination, New York, NY
2005
“About Faces: Portraits Past and Present,” Staten Island Museum, Staten Island, NY
“Disegno: 180th Annual Exhibition,” National Academy of Design, New York, NY
40th Anniversary exhibition, New York Studio School, New York, NY
“Food” Summer Exhibition, Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY
“The 180th Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Art”, National Academy of Design, New York, NY
“Multiflorous” A Spring Affair, Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY
2004
“Contemporary New York,” J. Johnson Gallery, Jacksonville Beach, FL
“Transforming the Page: Line, Washes, and Smudges-An exhibition of drawings by National academicians,” Curated by William Bailey, NA, National Academy Museum, New York, NY
“Gallery Group Exhibition,” Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY
2003
“178th Annual Exhibition,” National Academy of Design, New York, NY
“Portraiture Salon Style”, Diamantina Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
“Gallery Group Exhibition”, Edward Thorp Gallery, New York
2002
“The Artist’s Eye: Jane Freilicher as Curator”, National Academy
Museum, New York, NY
“Imaginative Affinities: Echos of Edwin Dickinson in
“Contemporary American Painting”, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
2001
“Alumni Choice: An Exhibition of Works on Paper” Yale University, New Haven, CT
“176th Annual Exhibition”, National Academy of Design, New York, NY
2000
“The Figure: Another Side of Modernism,” Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, New York
1999
“Kinds of Drawing; New York – North Carolina,” Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, North Carolina
“174th Annual Exhibition”, The National Academy of Design, New York
1998
“Drawing Plus One”, New York Studio School, New York, NY
“Gallery Group Exhibition”, Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY
“Master of the Masters: MFA Fine Arts Faculty of the School of Visual Arts,
1983-1998
The Butler Institute of American Art,
Youngstown, OH “Contemporary Selections From the National Academy At Silvermine, Silvermine Guild Galleries, New Canaan, CT
1997
“Gallery Group Exhibition”, Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY”Intimate Universe (Revisited)”, Robert Steele Gallery, New York
“172nd Annual Exhibition”, The National Academy of Design, New York
“The Figure Revisited” The Gallery at Hasting-on-Hudson, Hudson, NY
1996
“American Still Life”, The Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, Colorado
“Painting Faculty Exhibition”, New York Studio School
1995
“A Gift of Vision: The William and Susan Small Collection”, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, Arizona
“170th Annual Exhibition of the National Academy of Design”, New York
“Summer Gallery Group”, Edward Thorp Gallery, New York
“Visions of Order”, Mercury Gallery, Boston, MA
1994-95
“Winter Gallery Group”, Edward Thorp Gallery, New York
1994
“Fifty Nifty Pictures & Objects”, A H I Gallery, New York
“Summer Group”, Edward Thorp Gallery, New York
“Waterworks”, Edward Thorp Gallery, New York
1993
“Skowhegan ‘93”, Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine
“Drawings, 30 Anniversary Exhibition to benefit the Foundation for Contemporary Performance Art”, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York,NY
“A Moment Becomes Eternity: Flowers as Image”, Bergen Museum of Arts and Sciences, New Jersey
“Yale Collects Yale”, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
“Formative Past: Present Form”, New York Studio School, NY
“Gallery Group Exhibition”, Edward Thorp Gallery, NY
1992
Center for the Arts, “Collector’s Choice”, Vero Beach, FL
Tucson Museum of Art, “Big Ideas, Monumental Works”, Tucson, AZ
Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY, “Gallery Group”
The Gallery, 30 Bond St., New York, NY, “People”
1991
“Whitney Biennial”, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
“Summer”, Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY
1990
“Art for your Collection”, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
“Summer”, Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY
“Objects on the Edge: Contemporary Still Life”, Rosa Esman Gallery, New York, NY
1989
“Face-Off”, Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY
“Summer”, Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY
“Paintings and Sculpture by Candidates for Art Awards”, American Academy & Institute of Arts & Letters, New York, NY
1988
Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY
1987
EHCCA, East Hampton Center For Contemporary Art, East Hampton, NY “Drawings from the Figure”, Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY
1986
Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY
1985
Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY
“Exotica: Paintings & Works on Paper”, Stephen Rosenberg Gallery, New York, NY
“Innovative Still Life”, Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, NY
1984
“Winter Group”, Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY
“Summer Group”, Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY
“New Vistas: Contemporary American Landscapes,” Travelling to:
Ben Shahn Galleries, The William Paterson College of New Jersey ,Wayne , NJ, October 12 – November 16
1983
The Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY
Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ
Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY
1980
Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY
1977
Trenton State College, NJ, Faculty Show
1973
Yale University, “Eight Painters”
1971
University of Tennessee Drawing Show Ball State Academy Drawing Show
1969
Philadelphia College of Art
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Ken Johnson, Art In Review, The New York Times, December 11, 2009,
Joseph Santore, “Recent Work” Lohin Geduld Gallery, New York, NY
Ken Johnson, Art In Review, The New York Times, 178th Annual Exhibition, National Academy of Design, June 6, 2003
Ken Johnson, Art In Review, The New York Times, “The Figure: Another Side of Modernism,” The Newhouse Center fro Contemporary Art, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, NY, Nov. 9, 2001
Ken Johnson, Art in Review, The New York Times, Joseph Santore and Shawn Spencer at Edward Thorp Gallery, NYC, NY, November 9, 2001
Nilsen, Richard, “A Museums Hidden Treasure”, Arizona Republic, September 24, 2001
Shinn, Dorothy, “Show disproves adage ‘Those who can’t…'”, The Beacon Journal,April 12, 1998, p. D3
Sandstrom, Karen, “Exhibit captures a place in memory”, The Plain Dealer, April 30, 1998, pp. 1-E and 4-E
Sozanski, Edward J., “Traditional fare rendered unconventionally”, The Philadelphia Inquirer, June 27, 1997, p. 40, illus.
Mangravite, Andrew, “The Tautness of Truth”, Philadelphia Forum, June 19, 1997
Smith, Roberta “Also Of Note”, “The Drawings of Joseph Santore”,The New York Times, December, 29, 1995
Carrier, David, “New York Autumn exhibitions”, Aurlington Magazine Stapen, Nancy. “Living Arts”, “Visions of Order”, The Boston Globe, October 5, 1995
Tager, Alisa, “Patrick Dunfey, Joseph Santore”, Artnews, Sept, 1993 p. 162-3
Watkins, Eileen, “Review”, Star-Ledger, July 4, 1993
Tate, Haines Sprunt, “At Home with the paradoxical, the ambiguous and the random”, Maine Times, Sept 10, 1993
Johnson, Ken. “Report from New York” Art in America, June 1991, pp. 45- 51.
McEvilley, Thomas. “New York: The Whitney Biennial”, Artforum,Summer 1991, p. 98-101.
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PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Cincinnati Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio
Chase Manhattan Bank, New York
Hunter Museum of Art, Chattanooga, TN
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
National Academy of Design, New York
Phoenix Art museum, Phoenix, AZ
Rhode Island School of Design, Woods – Gerry Gallery, Providence, RI
Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO.
Maier Museum, Randolph-Macon Woman’s College, Lynchburg, Virginia
Figge Art Museum, Davenport, Iowa