JUDITH BRAUN
AKA: Judith Weinman/Weinperson (1983-95)
b. Albany, New York, 1947
Lived New York City 1994-2018
Currently lives in upstate New York.
SOLO and 2 person EXHIBITIONS
2024 "I'm Bad", Kiddie Pool, Albany, NY
2023 "Beyond Ritual", The Re Institute, Millerton, NY (2 person)
NADA Foreland, Catskill, NY, with gallery.albany (2 person)
2022 "My Pleasure", Opalka Gallery, Russell Sage College, Albany, NY
2019 "Two Bitches Are Better than One", Maples Rugs, New York, NY
2016 "Homeostasis", McKenzie Fine Art, New York, NY
"Crazy Bitch", Simuvac Projects, Brooklyn, NY
2014 Art Brussels, BE, solo booth with Joe Sheftel Gallery
2013 "May I Draw", Joe Sheftel Gallery, New York, NY
2012 "Diamond Dust", Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA
2009 "Bicameral Symmetries", Galerie Conrads, Düsseldorf, DE
2008 "Symmetrical Procedures", Fruit and Flower Deli, New York, NY
(as Weinman/Weinperson)
1992 "Sacred Order of the Burning Bush", Arena, New York, NY
"He’s Good In Bed", Boulevard Project Space, Albany, NY
1991 "Six Good Cases for Manslaughter", Columbia University, New York, NY
1990 "Read My Pussy", Souyun Yi Gallery, New York, NY
1989 "Reflecting on My White Shelf", Jagendorf Bacchi, New York, NY
1988 "White Girl Makes Her Case", White Columns, New York, NY
1988 "White Girl Paintings", On the Wall Gallery, New York, NY
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 "100 Women of Spirit", Zürcher Gallery, New York, NY
"Hot Mess: A Collaboration Installation", Laura Mesaros Gallery, Univ of West Virginia, Morgantown, WV
"Among Friends", Metaphor Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2023 "Boundaries Edge", Techne Art Center, Oceanside, CA
"Black & White", Bernay Fine Art, Great Barrington, MA
"Tag, You're It, Exquisite Corpse", Opalka Gallery, Albany Public Library, Albany, NY
"The Familiar Unknown", Bernay Fine Art, Great Barrington, MA
"Holiday Show", LABspace, Hillsdale, NY
2022 "Mountain High, Valley Low, LABspace, Hillsdale, NY
"11 Women of Spirit", Zürcher Gallery, New York, NY
"Ephemerally Occupied", Shaker Heritage Society, Albany, NY
"Lemon Sky", Lemon Sky Projects, Kingston, NY
2020 "Affinities and Outliers", from the collection of the University at Albany Art Museum, Albany, NY
"Infinite Uncertainties", Opalka Gallery, Russell Sage College, Albany, NY
"The Beginning of Everything", University of Minnesota, MN
2019 "Wild Cards: Weinpersonally Yours", LABspace, Hillsdale, NY, 2 person
2018 "Out of Line", September Gallery, Hudson, NY
"Celestial Mechanics", Artwork Advisory, New York, NY
2015 "Nature/Nurture", Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids, MI, ARTPRIZE #7
"Kaleidoscopic", Royal Society of American Art, Brooklyn, NY.
2014 "Off the Wall: for Sol LeWitt", New Mexico State University, NM
"A Transatlantic Affair", Museu de Arte do Rio, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, curator Inti Guerrero
Sharjah Art Festival, Sharjah, UAE
NADA, New York, NY with Joe Sheftel Gallery
"Choices: Works on Paper", Galerie Conrads, Düsseldorf, DE
"Copietas", Valentine, Bushwick, NY
"Genesis Forward Battery", HKJB Projects, Bushwick, NY
"Pencils Down", Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto, CA
2013 " Migratory Marks", Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, Summit, NJ
"Peekskill Project V", Peekskill, NY
"Graphite", Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN
NADA, Miami, FL, with Joe Sheftel Gallery,
"Jew York", UNTITLED, New York, NY
"Drawing Now", Art fair, Paris, FR, with Galerie Conrads
2012 "Lucie Fontaine: Estate", Marianne Boesky, New York, NY, curator Nicola Trezzi
"Lightness, Being", Brooklyn Gallery, Red Hook, NY, curator Trong Nguyen
"Wearwithall", Quick Fun Gallery, E. Hampton, NY
"Pressing Matter", Parallel Art Space, Bushwick, NY
"More or Less", Albany International Airport Gallery, Albany, NY
"Contemplation and Conjecture", Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
2011 "What About This?" Galerie Andreas Huber, Vienna, AT curator Raimundas Malasauskas
"Photo Finish", Tulips and Roses Gallery, Brussels, curator Raimundas Malasauskas
"After School Special", University at Albany, NY, curator Ken Johnson
"So Happy Together", Norte Maar, Bushwick, NY, curator Julie Torres
"Wavelength", Storefront, Bushwick, NY, curator Jason Andrews
2010 "La Chat Grenouille" Unosunove, Milano, IT, curator Raimundas Malasauskas
"Santa", Frosch and Portmann, New York, NY
"Portable Caves", HKJB Projects, Greenpoint, NY
"Atmospheres", Galerie Pangée, Montreal, Canada
2009 "Fruit and Flower Deli in Exile", DUVE, Berlin, DE
"Eternal Return", Nurture Art, New York, NY
Frieze Art Fair, London, UK with Tulips & Roses Gallery
"La Chat Grenouille", Tulips & Roses Gallery, curator Raimundas Malasauskas
"Personal Abstractions", HKJB Projects, Brooklyn, NY
Art Brussels, Brussels, BE, with Galerie Conrads
NADA Miami, FL, with Fruit & Flower Deli
Artissima, Turino, Italy, with Fruit & Flower Deli
"Moonlight Show", Fruit & Flower Deli, Brussels, BE
Art Brussels, Brussels, BE, with Fruit & Flower Deli
Serial Meditations, Nurture Art, Brooklyn, NY
"Awakenings", Spattered Columns, New York, NY
"Estrella Levante, SOS 4.8", with Fruit and Flower Deli, Murcia, SP, curator Jota Castro
"Paper Exhibition", Artists Space, New York, NY, curator Raimundas Malasauska
2007 Pierogi Flatfiles, Pierogi 2000, Brooklyn, NY
Momenta Art, Benefit, Brooklyn, NY
2004 University Art Museum, Pierogi Flatfiles Selected Works, Albany, NY
(as Weinman/Weinperson)
1994 American Fine Arts Benefit, American Fine Arts, , New York
"Bad Girls", New Museum of Contemporary Art, NY, Curator Marcia Tucker
Annual Benefit, White Columns, New York, NY
1993 Return of the Cadavre Exquis, The Drawing Center, , New York, NY
"Getting to Know You: Sexual Insurrection and Resistance", Kunstlerhaus Bethanien
Berlin, DE.
"Getting to Know You: Sexual Insurrection and Resistance," Leipzig Art Museum,
Leipzig, DE.
"Contacts/Proofs", Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ, Curator Gary Sangster
Annual Benefit, White Columns, New York, NY
1992 "By Any Means Necessary", Printed Matter, New York, NY
21st Century Foxes, Rebecca Cooper Fine Arts, New York, NY
Annual Benefit, White Columns, , New York, NY
1991 Art in General, New York, NY, Curator Holly Block
"Original Sin", CW Post, Long Island University, NY, Curator Casandra Langer
1990 "Selections",Drawing Center, New York, NY, Curator Ann Philbin.
"Invitational", Hyde Museum, Glens Falls, NY
1989 "Update", White Columns, New York, NY
"Reflex", On The Wall Gallery, New York, NY
1988 "Democracy: Cultural Participation", Group Material, Dia Art Foundation, New York, NY
1987 "Interplay", Rice Gallery, Albany Institute of Art, Albany, NY, Curator Debra Balkan
"The Home Show", Schacht Fine Art Center, Troy, NY, Curator Ken Johnson
FINGERPRINT COMMISSIONS
2020 "Fingering #36", Mazda, Cologne, DE
2018 "Fingering #34", Bristol Myers Squibb, New York, NY
2017 "Fingering #33", Private residence, San Francisco, CA
"Fingering #32", Norwegian Cruise Ship, Joy, launches China
2016 "Fingering #31", Northeast Michigan Center for the Arts, Alpena, MI
"Fingering #30", Anthropologie, London Design Week, London, UK
"Fingering #29", Wythe Hotel, Brooklyn, NY
"Fingering #27", Chevron Corp, Parkview Green, Beijing, China
2015 "Fingering #26", Lululemon, The Hub event center, New York, NY
"Fingering #24", Bloomberg Philanthropies, New York, NY
"Fingering #23", Maples Rugs, New York, NY
2014 Women’s Olympic Snowboard Team, for Burton
2013 "Fingering #17", Maples Rugs, New York, NY
2012 "Fingering #13", Maples Rugs, New York, NY
"Fingering #12", Maples Rugs, New York, NY
AWARDS AND HONORS
2017 Adolf and Esther Gottlieb Foundation Grant
2017 Tree of Life Foundation Artist Grant
2015 Frey Foundation Seed Grant
2013 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant
2013 New York Artist’s Fellowship Grant
2010 Nominee for Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant
TALKS / INTERVIEWS / FILM
2022 "In Their Studios" - Converstation with Meg Hitchcock
Collarworks Radio - Conversation with Justin Baker
Radio Interview - Sanctuary for Independent Media, conversation with Andrea Cunliffe
2020 Interview, "In Conversation with Judith Braun", by Fleur Adderley, ARCCA Magazine, June, 2020
2018 Documentary Commercial for Bristol Myers Squib, New York City, NY
Public Talk - "What Good Is My Cake if I Can’t Eat It", College of St. Rose, Albany, NY
2017 Documentary Film - "More Art Upstairs", documentary film produced by Jody Hassett Sanchez
2016 Film - Anthropologie, London Design Week
Film - Havas Worldwide
2015 Film - Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids, MI
Public Talk - "Making Lemonade", The Hub, Lululemon, New York, NY
Film - "Invisible Darkness", Chevron, Beijing, China
2014 Private Talk - Bloomberg Philanthropies, New York, NY
Public Talk - Art Brussels, The Stage, Brussels, BE
Public Talk - State University of New Mexico, gallery talk
Student Talk - Kent Place School, Summit, NJ, student lecture
Panelist, book launch: "Two Selves: Susan Silas, Joy Episalla", Momenta Art, Brooklyn, NY
Video Interview and Blog, Mommy.com, by Susan Silas and Chrysanne Stathacos
2012 Public Talk, Arts and Culture Talks, University Art Museum, University at Albany, NY
Public Talk - "Diamond Dust", Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA
2011 Student Talk - New York Studio School
2010 Interview, "Survival in New York: An Interview with Artist Judith Braun", Art F City, November 10
Yale Radio Interviews, Parts 1-2
Public Video Screening - "The Art of Self Absorption", video and talk, Muse Fuse, Bushwick, NY
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2022 Robert R. Shane, "Judith Braun: My Pleasure", BROOKLYN RAIL, March 2022
Indiana Nash, "My Pleasure", The Daily Gazette, March 31, 2022
2020 "The Best Statement-Making Entry Ways...", VOGUE LIVING, AU, Nov 5, 2020
2019 FUKT Magazine, Systems, Issue #18, Systems (BOOK)
2018 “Newfields: A Place for Nature and Art”, Indianapolis Museum of Art (BOOK)
2016 Art Critical, THE REVIEW PANEL, Brooklyn Public Library, Homeostasis and Crazy Bitch, Panelists, Rob Storr, Kara Rooney, Lance Esplund, David Cohen.
2016 Taney Roniger, “Judith Braun, Homeostasis and Crazy Bitch”, BROOKLYN RAIL, May 3, 2016
2016 Thomas Micchelli, “Fearless Symmetries, Judith Braun’s Carbon-Based Art Forms, HYPERALLERGIC, April 9, 2016
2014 Thomas Micchelli, “Vanishing Virtuosity: Seven Artists, Seven Drawings,” HYPERALLERGIC, November 23, 2014
2013 Roberta Smith, “Judith Braun: ‘May I Draw", NEW YORK TIMES, April 5. 2013
2013 Sarah Urist Green, “Graphite”. Indianapolis, IN: Indianapolis Museum of Art (CATALOGUE)
2013 Hannah Yudkin, “Lines of Spontaneous Jagged Contours” HYPERALLERGIC, April 17, 2013
2013 Karen Garratt, “Judith Braun: An Act of Investigation Through Drawing.” ARTLYST, April, 2013
2013 James Panero, "Gallery Chronicle", THE NEW CRITERION, April , 2013
2013 Charles Schultz, "Lightness, Being", BROOKLYN RAIL, 2013
2012 Sam Parker, "All the World at Your Fingertips, Painter Judith Braun's Fingerings Series", Huffington Post UK, Nov 6, 2012
2011 ARGE, ed. “East by Southwest: Curated byVienna”. Nürnberg: Verlag für moderne Kunst (CATALOGUE)
2011 Audrey Cottin, Charlie & Sabrina, "Qui l’eut Cru?" Paris: Éditions du Jeu de Paume, 2011. (CATALOGUE)
2010 Doug Ashford, Sabrina Locks and Julie Ault. “Show & Tell: A Chronicle of Group Material”, London: Four Corners Books (BOOK)
2012 Claire Staebler, “Les Yeux grands fermés.” ROVEN 2 (Fall 2009/Winter 2010): 9-13 (BOOK)
2009 Georg Imdahl, “Symmetrische Esoterik.” ARTNET.DE, Front page, February 19, 2009
2009 David Grosz, "The Paper Exhibition,” MODERN PAINTERS, May, 2009
2009 Emily Warner, "Personal Abstraction", BOMB, May, 2009
2009 Anna Gritz, "Paper Exhibition", FRIEZE, March 13, 2009
2008 Nicola Trezzi, FLASH ART, Vol XLI No 262, Oct, 2008
2000 Laura Cottingham, “Seeing Through the Seventies: Essays on Feminism and Art”, Amsterdam: G+B Arts International, 2000 (BOOK)
1999 Brain Wallis, ed., “Democracy: A Project By Group Material,” Seattle: Bay Press
1995 Robin Kahn, ed., “Time Capsule: A Concise Encyclopedia by Women Artists”. New York: Creative Time and SOS International, 1995 (BOOK)
1994 Marcia Tucker, “Bad Girls”. New York: New Museum of Contemporary Art, (CATALOGUE)
1994 Robin Kahn, “Promotional Copy”, New York: SOS International and Mimi Somberby (BOOK)
1993 Jane Philbrick, ed., “The Return of the Cadavre Exquis”, New York, The Drawing Center, (CATALOGUE)
1992 Dean McNeil and Christoph Tannert, “Getting to Know You: Sexual Insurrection and Resistance”, Berlin, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, (CATALOGUE)
1990 Roberta Smith, “Reviews/Art: Echoes of 60’s and 70’s Among the Young and Little Known”, NEW YORK TIMES, November 30, 1990
1990 Kim Levin, Village Voice Choices, Vol XXXV No. 42, Oct 16, 1990
COLLECTIONS
Estate of Pat Hearn
Estate of Penny McCall
University at Albany Museum, Albany, NY
Morgan Stanley, New York, NY
Lululemon Athletica, New York, NY
Bristol Myers Squib
Chevron, Beijing
College of Notre Dame
EDUCATION
1983 MFA University at Albany, Albany, NY
1982 MA University at Albany, Albany, NY
1979 BFA Empire State College, Albany, NY
1967 AAS Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, NY
TEACHING
2023-24 Intermediate Drawing Professor, University at Albany, Albany, NY
1985-92 Figure Drawing Professor, College of St. Rose, Albany, NY
1994-95 Figure Drawing Instructor, Wood Toby Coburn School of Design, New York, NY
1980-83 Assistant Professor Drawing and Painting, University at Albany, Albany, NY
VIDEO
2010 -present "Edirp and Ecidujerp, Forever", Episodic Archive of 7 videos on Vimeo and YouTube
You Tube channel: Judith Braun
PROJECTS
1993 "Weinpersonally Yours", series of 52 weekly postcard mailings
REALITY TV
2010 Contestant on first season “Work of Art”, Bravo TV