American, 1940–2022

 

Education 

Smith College, BA, Art, 1962
Boston University, School of Fine & Applied Art, BFA, 1967
Hunter College, MA, Painting, 1972

 

Group Exhibitions   (*Catalogue)

*Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, Annual Survey
of American Painting, 1971–72

Museum of Modern Art, Penthouse, March 1972

*ldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, CT, Reflections 1971–72

*Kunsthaus, Hamburg, Germany, American Women Artists, April 1972

*Vassar College Art Gallery, New American/Abstract Painting, May 1972

*Indianapolis Museum of Art, Painting and Sculpture Today, May 1973

*Stamford Museum, CT, The Return to Gesture, May 1973

*New York Cultural Center, January 1973

*Wadsworth Atheneum, MATRIX, Hartford, CT, November 1975

 John Weber Gallery, New York, NY, December 1975

 State Museum, Ghent, Belgium, May 1976

*Soho Center for the Visual Arts: Drawing Now: 10 Artists, June 1976

 Galerie Swart, Amsterdam, Holland, October 1976

*Centre Cultural Americain, Paris, France, Paperworks: 3 from New York, October–November 1976

Museum of Art, Penn State University, PA, The Material Dominant,
January–April 1977

Rush Rhees Art Gallery, University of Rochester, NY, Drawing Structure, January–February 1977

Chicago Art Institute, Drawings of the 70s, March–April 1977

New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ, Artworks by Nine Americans, April–June 1977

*Kassel, West Germany, documenta 6, June–October 1977

Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, Extraordinary Women,
July 22–September 20, 1977

*Studio Marconi, Milan, Italy, Aphoto, November–December 1977

Madison Art Center, Madison, WI, Works on Paper by Contemporary Artists, December 4, 1977–January 15, 1978

*Gina Kaigukau, Tokyo, Japan, February 27–March 11, 1978

Galeria L’Astoria, Rome, Italy, Aphoto, February 1978

Metropolitan Museum of Art, Permanent Collection of Twentieth-Century Drawings on View, February 1978

*International Cultural Center, Antwerp, Belgium, March 1978

Galerie Camomille, Brussels, Belgium, September–October 1978

Galerie Lange, Vienna, Austria, Kuntsmart, 1978

*Ackland Art Museum, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,
Drawings about Drawing Today, January 28–March 11, 1979

*International Cultural Center, Antwerp, Belgium, Biennale del la Critique, September–November 1979

*Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels, Belgium, Biennale del la Critique, December 1979–January 1980

*Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, LA, November 1–23, 1980

PS1, New York, NY, February 15–April 5, 1981

Light Gallery, New York, NY, March 6–April 14, 1984

Galerie Mukai, Tokyo, Japan, June 1984

*Gallery at the Plaza, Security Pacific National Bank, Los Angeles, CA,
Self-Portraits by Women Artists, January 26–April 7, 1985

Academy of Arts, Honolulu, HI, Artists Self-Portraits, September 11–
October 27, 1985

Light Gallery, New York, NY, New Portraiture, May 1–June 14, 1986

*High Museum, Atlanta, GA, First Person Singular, Self-Portrait Photography, 1840–1987, January 1987–March 1988

Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY, Personae: Contemporary Portraiture and Self-Portraiture, September 10–November 5, 1989

Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, Head-on/The Modernist Portrait, Artist’s Choice: Chuck Close, January 10–March 19, 1991

Lannan Foundation, Los Angeles, CA, Head-on/The Modernist Portrait, June 25–September 7, 1991

*Fogg Museum of Art, Boston, MA, About Face—Artists’ Portraits in Photography 1850–1997, July 19–October 19, 1997

San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA, Alternating Currents: American Art in the Age of Technology, Selections from the Permanent Collection of the Whitney Museum, April 6–October 18, 1998

Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL, Apposite Opposites: Photography from the MCA Collection, March 27–August 1, 1999

Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA, GET THE PICTURE: Recent Photography Acquisitions, November 16, 1999–January 9, 2000

Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, NC, Making Pictures: Contemporary American Photography, 2000

*Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, Visions from America,
June 27–September 22, 2002

Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA, Physical Presence: Photographs from the Collection, January 16–March 21, 2004

Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, TN, Sum Parts: From the Permanent Collection, 2004

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, Building and Breaking the Grid, 1962–2002, September 17, 2005–January 8, 2006

Honolulu Museum of Art, Honolulu, HI, Graphic Cabinet #3: Face to Face, October 23, 2008–March 22, 2009

Lowe Art Museum, Miami, FL, Through the Lens: Photography from the Permanent Collection, June 27–October 4, 2009

Eleanor D. Wilson Museum, Hollins, VA, The Fleeting Glimpse, September 16–December 4, 2010

New York Public Library, New York, NY, Recollection: Thirty Years of Photography at the New York Public Library, September 29, 2010
–January 2, 2011

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA, The Fleeting Glimpse, January 15, 2011–April 3, 2011

National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., The Serial Portrait: Photography and Identity in the Last One Hundred Years, September 30–December 31, 2012

Regis Center for Art, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, The House
We Built: Feminist Art Then and Now, January 22–February 23, 2013

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX, Self, Model, and Self as Other,
July 12–September 28, 2013

Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA, Sitting for History: Exploring Self-Identity Through Portraiture, July 27, 2013–January 12, 2014

Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA, Take One: Contemporary Photographs, April 25, 2015–August 9, 2015

Tufts University Art Gallery, Medford, MA, Mortal Things: Portraits Look Back and Forth, September 14–December 4, 2016

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, Human Interest: Portraits
from the Whitney’s Collection, April 2, 2016–April 2, 2017

Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL, Groundings, November 3, 2018– May 12, 2019

University of California, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA, Inside the Magnetic Fields: Surrealism @ 100, November 5–20, 2019

Williams College Museum of Art, Williamsburg, MA, possible selves: queer foto vernaculars, December 14, 2018–April 14, 2019

Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL, Tableau and Transformation: Photography from the Permanent Collection, June 20–October 20, 2019

Guggenheim, New York, NY, Artistic License: Six Takes on the Guggenheim Collection, May 24, 2019–January 12, 2020

Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, NC, Exploring Movement in the Collection,  March 6–May 25, 2020

 

One-Artist Exhibitions   (*Catalogue)

A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY, November 1972, April 1974, April 1976,
and November 1977

Rhode Island University, Kingston, RI, March 1973

*Wadsworth Atheneum, MATRIX, Hartford, CT, November 1975

Galerie Swart, Amsterdam, Holland, October 1976

*International Cultural Center, Antwerp, Belgium, March 1978

Galerie Camomille, Brussels, Belgium, September–October 1978

*Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, LA, November 1–23, 1980

PS1, New York, NY, February 15–April 5, 1981

Light Gallery, New York, NY, March 6–April 14, 1984

Galerie Mukai, Tokyo, Japan, June 1984

Reviews (*Art Reproduced)

Alloway, Lawrence. “Institution: Whitney Annual.” Artforum, March 1973.

Anderson, Laurie. Art News, January 1973.

Bongard, Willi. Art Aktuell, Summer 1977.

*The Bulletin, Brussels. “Blythe Bohnen.” October 6, 1978.

*Crimp, Douglas. Art International, February 1973.

*Dallier, Aline. Opus International no. 50.

Dutch, J.M. “Dix Jeunes Americains.” La Libre Belgique, June 22, 1976.

Francblin, Catherine. Art Press, Paris, December 1976.

Gibson, Michael. Herald Tribune, Paris, October 9, 1976.

Glueck, Grace. New York Times, June 25, 1972.

Glueck, Grace. New York Times, May 26, 1974.

Glueck, Grace. New York Times, March 30, 1984.

*Heineman, Susan. Artforum, September 1974.

Info Artitudes. “Three from New York/Paperworks.” October 1976.

Kingsley, April, Art International, Summer 1974.

Kuspit, Donald. “Blythe Bohnen at Light.” Art in America, December 1984.

Lubell, Ellen. Arts Magazine, February 1973.

Lubell, Ellen. Arts Magazine, September 1974.

*Lubell, Ellen. Arts Magazine, June 1976.

Maine, Stephen. “Building and Breaking the Grid, 1962–2002.” Art on Paper, November 2005.

Morris, Margaret. Minneapolis Tribune, September 10, 1977.

*Naimer, Lucille. Arts Magazine, March 1972.

New York Times, June 1976 and March 30, 1977.

*Newsletter of the John Weber Gallery, April 1976.

Ratcliff, Carter. “Whitney Annual, Part One.” Artforum, April 1972.

*Rose, Barbara. Vogue, December 1974.

Spiegel, Multer-Documenta, November 26, 1977.

Tanana, Kougin. “The Artists’ Earnest Intention.” Mainichi Newspaper, October 1976.

Volfin, Larie-Claude. Nouvelles Literaires, October 14, 1976.

*Wooster, Ann-Sargent. Artforum, June 1976.

Zimmer, William. “This Is Not a Pipe.” Soho Weekly News, December 18, 1977.

 

Articles

Alloway, Lawrence. “Blythe Bohnen.” Artforum, November 1976.

Alloway, Lawrence. “Blythe Bohnen.” Catalogue for Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, LA, 1980.

Bell, Jane. “Drawing Now: 10 Artists.” Arts Magazine, June 1976.

Bijutsu Techo 36, no. 531 (September 1984): 126–9.

Camera Mainichi, Japan. “Blythe Bohnen—Study in Forms.” April 4, 1984, 39–45.

Dallier, Aline. “Des Plasticiennes Americains.” Peintures-Cahiers Theoriques
10–11, 1975.

Data Magazine, Milan, Italy. “Blythe Bohnen.” Winter 1974–75.

Fischer, A.M. “Der Graphit-Stift in Verbindung mit dem Fotoapparat.” Kuntsmagazin, no. 4, 1977.

Heine, Ellen. “Blythe Bohnen.” Arts Magazine, November 1980.

Moss, Jacqueline. “Anatomy of a Brushstroke.” Christian Science Monitor, January 14, 1974.

Tannenbaum, Judy. “Blythe Bohnen: The Knowing Kinesthetic Form.”
Arts Magazine, June 1977.

Wackerbarth, Hors. “Kunst und Medien, Materialien zur Documenta 6.” Kassel, 1977.

 

Books

Crist, Steve, ed. The Polaroid Book, Selections from the Polaroid Collections
of Photography. Taschen, 2004 (illus. p. 255).

Handy, Ellen, ed. Reflections in a Glass Eye. Boston, NY: Bullfinch Press, 1999 (illus. p. 165).

Hinson, Tom E., ed. Catalogue of Photography: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1996 (illus. p. 99).

Lucie-Smith, Edward. Art of the Seventies. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1980 (illus. p. 38).

Rotzler, Willy. Constructive Concepts: The History of Constructive Art from Cubism to the Present. Zurich, Switzerland: ABC Editions, 1977 (illus. index).

Thorson, Victoria, and Wendy Shore, eds. Great Drawings of All Time: The Twentieth Century. Vol. II. Shorewood/Talisman Press, 1981 (illus. p. 517).

Whitney Museum of Art. 20th Century American Drawings: Five Years of Acquisitions. New York, NY: Whitney Museum of Art, 1978.

Wolf, Sylvia, ed. Visions from America. Prestel Press and Whitney Museum
of Art: 2002 (illus. p. 119).

 

Public Commissions 

Wall mural, ceramic tile relief, 15 x 30 ft., Library for the Blind/Record Storage Center, Trenton, NJ, 1980–82

 

Public Collections

Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA

Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH

Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT

Allen Art Museum, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH

Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, NC 

Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD

Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY

Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburg, PA

Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

Chase Manhattan Bank

Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA

Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH

Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Dallas, TX

Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO

Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit, MI

Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY

Heublein Inc., West Hartford, CT

High Museum, Atlanta, GA

Honolulu Academy of Arts, Honolulu, HI

Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN

International Center of Photography, New York, NY

J.B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY

Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers, NJ

Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, NY

Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE

Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, TX

Lannan Foundation, Los Angeles, CA

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA

Lowe Art Museum, Miami, FL

McCrory Corporation, New York, NY

Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY

Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, TN

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI

Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN

Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS

Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX

Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA

National Gallery of Art, Osaka, Japan

National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY

New York Public Library, New York, NY

Newark Museum, Newark, NJ

Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA

Norton Gallery of Art, West Palm Beach, FL

NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale, Fort Lauderdale, FL

Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL

Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA

Polaroid Collection, Boston, MA

Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR

Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ

Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL

San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA

San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA

Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA

Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA

State Museum of New Jersey, Trenton, NJ

St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO

Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA

Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL

UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA

University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI

Vassar College Art Museum, Poughkeepsie, NY

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA

Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT

Wellesley College Art Museum, Wellesley, MA

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA

Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA