BARBARA WEISSBERGER

Studio: Hoboken, NJ
   

 


AWARDS and FELLOWSHIPS

    Guggenheim Fellowship 2007

Virginia Center for the Arts, Heinz Foundation Fellow 2005,
and Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Fellow 2000

Montana Artists Refuge, 2004, 2003

Yaddo, Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Fellow, 2000

MacDowell Colony, 1999, 1997
   

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

  2008 Hallwalls, Are we just going to stand and watch this?, catalog, Buffalo, NY
  2007 Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Muscle-licious!, Pittsburgh, PA
  2005 Capsule Gallery, "My Hamburger", New York, NY more info>
  2002 HEREart, "fearfactor", New York, NY
    Holter Museum of Art, Nicholson Gallery, Helena, MT
  1999 Edward Williams Gallery, Fairleigh Dickinson University, Hackensack, NJ
  1998 Tribes Gallery, "100% Fat", New York, NY
   

 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

  2007

SCOPE Miami, with Dean Project, Miami, FL

   

Artspace New Haven, flatfile, New Haven, CT

    Artist Image Resource, Pittsburgh, PA, Cut, Copy, Fold
    LaVie, Pittsburgh, PA, A Slipping Glimpse
  2006

Spaces, Ceveland, OH Mis-demeanor

    McDonough Museum of Art, Youngstown, OH, Figures of Thinking: Convergences in Contemporary Culture,(Two-year traveling exhibition) (upcoming Fall 2006). catalog, Vicky Clark and Sandhini Poddar, published by Pamela Auchincloss Arts Management and the University of Richmond Museums, University of Washington Press. more info>>
  2005 Mattress Factory, Gestures, Pittsburgh, PA   more info>>
    Richard A. Peeler Art Center at DePauw University, Indiana Fall 05, Figures of Thinking: Convergences in Contemporary Culture
    Art Fair Tokyo, Capsule Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
    Kunst 05 Zurich, Capsule Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland
    The Matzo Files, Exhibition in Honor of Passover, New York, NY
  2004 Pelham Art Center, Terrible Danger Ahead!, Pelham, NY more info>>
    Schroeder Romero, Watch What We Say, Brooklyn, NY more info>>
    Illinois State University at Normal, Repulsion, Normal, IL more info>>
    The Frisbee Art Fair, Capsule Gallery, Miami, FL
  2003 IT Space, Art During Wartime, New York, NY
  2002 2002 DUMBO Arts Center, Man Walks Into A Room, (wall drawing titled FEARFACTOR II), Brooklyn, NY more info>>
    HEREart, Return to the Battle of the Ironclads, New York, NY
  1999 White Columns, Outer Boroughs, New York, NY
    PS1 Institute for Contemporary Art, 100 Drawings, Long Island City, NY more info>>
    Malca Fine Art, Black or White, New York, NY
   

 

VIEWING PROGRAMS

   

Pierogi 2000

   

Artists Space

   

White Columns Curated Artists Registry

   

The Drawing Center

   

 

APPOINTMENTS

    Univeristy of Pittsburgh, Studio Art Department
Visiting Lecturer, Fall 2006 to present, part-time faculty Fall 2004 to Spring 2006
    New York University, Tisch School of the Arts, New York, NY
Adjunct Faculty, 1997 to 2004
   

 

REVIEWS
   

Angle ( online journal), Issue 29, November/December 2006, "The Thinkers", review of Figures of Thinking: Convergences in Contemporary Cultures, by Douglas Max Utter

Cleveland Free Times, December 20-26, 2006, "Discomfort Levels", review by Michael Gill of "Misdemeanor" at Spaces Gallery, Cleveland

Pittsburgh Post Gazette, October 26, 2006, “’Figures’ A Bold Contemporary Show”, review by Mary Thomas of Figures of Thinking: Convergences in Contemporary Culture,  at the McDonough Museum

Pittsburgh Post Gazette, February 8, 2006, “Diverse Directions Evident in Exhibit by Pitt Art Faculty”, review by Mary Thomas of University of Pittsburgh Faculty Exhibition

ART PAPERS, November/December 2005, review by Jennie Klein of Gestures, Mattress Factory

Pittsburgh Post Gazette, July 18, 2005, “Sweeping ‘Gestures’ Brings Together Powerful Images”, review by Mary Thomas of Gestures, Mattress Factory

Artweek, "A Sequence of Choices," review by H.J. Wilson of Chain Reaction IV,

December 17, 1988, Volume 19, Number 4

 

   

 

EDUCATION

    San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA, MFA, 1989
Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, BA, Studio Art 1982
Oberlin College, Oberlin OH