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  John Mendelsohn
Selective Biography
  Solo Exhibitions

2003 Cheryl Pelavin Fine Arts, New York
1997 Penny Liebman Contemporary Art, New York
1994 Fairfield University, Fairfield, CT
1994 Nuyorican Poets Cafe, New York
1988 Michael Walls Gallery, New York
1983 Concord Gallery, New York
1982 Hal Bromm Gallery, New York
1977 Artists Space, New York
1977 University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI

Selected Group Exhibitions

1999
"Harum Scarum", MCC Gallery, Marymount Manhattan College, New York

1998
Faculty Exhibition, Fairfield University, Fairfield, CT

1997
"The Whole World in One Small Painting", Trans Hudson Gallery, New York

1996
"Separate Tables", Helen Harwood Gallery, New York

1993
"Nine Artists from 14 Harrison St.", curated by Edward Albee, Alphirst Gallery, New York

1991
"Take Five", Stephanie Theodore Gallery, New York

1990
"Somewhere", curated by Robert Mahoney, Lintas Worldwide, New York

1989
"Interiors", curated by Robert Mahoney, Bard College, Rhinecliff, NY

Michael Walls Gallery, New York, NY

1988
"Sequential and Diaristic Drawings", Michael Walls Gallery, New York

1987
"The Artful Traveler", BMW Gallery, New York

"Landscapes: Real and Imagined", The Squibb Gallery, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ

1986
"1976-1986, Ten Years of Collecting Contemporary American Art: Selections from the Edward R. Downe, Jr. Collection", Wellesley College Museum, Wellesley, MA

1984
Venice Biennale, "Paradise Lost/Paradise Regained: American Visions of the New Decade", U.S. Pavilion, organized by The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York

1982
"Compassionate Images", curated by Paul Krainak, Herron School of Art, Indianapolis, IN
"A Selection from the Hospital Drawings", P.S. 1, Queens, NY

1981
"U.S. Art Now", Nordiska Kompanient, Stockholm, Sweden

1979
"Imitation of Life", University of Hartford, Hartford, CT

1975
Michael Walls Gallery, New York, NY

1971
"Independent Study Program Exhibition", Whitney Museum of American Art, New York


Awards

1987 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship

Education

Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, MFA, 1974
Columbia University, New York, BA, 1971
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York Independent Study Program, 1971

Selected Bibliography

Albee, Edward, Nine Artists from 14 Harrison St. (catalogue), Alphirst Gallery, New York, 1993

Hedberg, Lars Peder, U.S. Art Now, (catalogue), Stockholm, 1981

Johnson, Ken, "John Mendelsohn at Michael Walls", Art in America, Jan. 1989

Klein, Ellen Lee, "Sequential and Diarist Drawings, Arts Magazine, May, 1988

Krainak, Paul, Compassionate Images (catalog), Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, 1982

Mahoney, Robert, "The Alice Paintings", Arts Magazine, Sept. 1988

Raynor, Vivian, "'Real and Imagined Landscapes at the Squibb Gallery", New York Times, New Jersey Edition, July 19,1987

Robinson, Walter, Artnet Magazine (artnet.com), October, 1998

Stroh, Suzanne, High Impact and The Downe Collection, 1976-1986 Ten Years of Collecting Contemporary Art- Selections from the Edward R. Downe, Jr. Collection (catalogue), Wellsley College Museum, Wellesley, MA, 1986 (reproduction)

Tucker, Marcia, Paradise Lost, Parndise Regained: American Visions of The New Decade (catalogue), Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, 1984



Collections

The New Museum of Contemporary Art
B.M.W. of North America
USX Corporation
Price, Waterhouse
Davis, Polk and Wardwell
Jan Eric Lowenadler
Edward R. Downe, Jr.
Daniel Jacobs
Eugene Gorman
Laura Skoler