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Judy Fiskin

Judy Fiskin

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    View works. Judy Fiskin, Untitled, from the series My Trip to New York, 1984-86/2006
    Untitled, from the series My Trip to New York, 1984-86/2006
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    Judy Fiskin (b. Chicago, IL), lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. Fiskin received her Bachelor of Arts from Pomona College (1966), did graduate study work in art history at University of California, Berkeley (1966-67), and received her Master of Arts from University of California, Los Angeles in 1969. Solo exhibitions of her photographs include Judy Fiskin: Some Photographs, 1973 – 1992, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA (1992); Dingbat, Paper Architecture, Minneapolis, MN (1983); Long Beach, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA (1981); Desert Photographs, Castelli Graphics, New York, NY, Arco Center for Visual Arts, Los Angeles, CA (1976); Military Architecture, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA (1975) among others. Selected group exhibitions include It Happened at Pomona: Art at Pomona College 1969 -1973, Pomona College Museum of Art, Claremont, CA (2012); In Focus: Los Angeles 1945 – 1980, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA (2011-12); Civic Virtue: The Impact of the Los Angeles Municipal Gallery and the Watts Towers Arts Center, Barnsdall Art Park, Los Angeles, CA (2011-12); Under the Big Black Sun: California Art 1974 – 1981, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA (2011); Seismic Shift: Lewis Baltz, Joe Deal and California Landscape Photography, 1944 – 1984, UCR/California Museum of Photography, Riverside, CA (2011); The Artist’s Museum, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA (2010); Vortexhibition Polychonica, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA (2010); The View from Here, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA (2010); This Side of Paradise: Los Angeles (1865 – 2008), Musée Nicéphore Niépce, Chalon-sur-Saone, France (2009); Index: Conceptual Art in California from the Permanent Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA (2008); Living Flowers: Ikebana and Contemporary Art, Japanese-American National Museum, Los Angeles, CA (2008); Collecting Collections: Highlights from the Permanent Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA (2008); The Ends of Photography, McDonough Museum of Art, Youngstown State University, Youngstown, OH (2008); Sound Art Limo, AC Institute, New York, NY (2007); Imaging and Imagining California Modern, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA (2007); Los Angeles – Paris – 1955 – 1985, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France (2006); Photos and Phantasy, Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, Malibu, CA (2006); Adams and 21 Eves: Women Photographers from the Vault, University Art Museum, California State University of Long Beach, Long Beach, CA (2004); What We Think When We Think About Ships, LACMALab at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA (2001-02); My Getty Center: Departures: 11 Artists at the Getty, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA (2000); Made in California: Art, Image and Identity 1900-2000, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles CA (2000); Exurbia, Gallery Luisotti, Santa Monica, CA (2000); At the Threshold of the Visible: Miniscule and Small-Scale Art, 1964 – 1996, Art Gallery of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (1998); Inhabited Space, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA (1997); Portraits of Interiors, Studio La Citta, Verona, Italy, Galerie Blancpain, Stepczynski, Geneva, Switzerland (1996); After Art: Rethinking 150 Years of Photography, Friends of Photography Ansel Adams Center, San Francisco, CA , Portland Art Museum, Portland, ME, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA (1995). Video screenings of Fiskin’s video work include The End of Photography, Xcèntric Cinema, CCCB – Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain (2012); Guided Tour, curated by John Baldessari, Fractional Systems, Garage Project II, MAK Center, Los Angeles, CA (2010). Judy's film The End of Photography screened at The National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. in 2017.
     
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    Judy Fiskin

    Untitled, from the series Military Architecture, 1975
    Gelatin silver print
    5 x 7 inches (12.7 x 17.8 cm)
    (Old database: Edition 1 of 6, [blank] of 2 AP APs)
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      Van Doren Waxter is pleased to present Small is Beautiful, an exhibition of small-scale works by 22 artists, both familiar and new faces to the gallery’s program. The exhibition features...
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      August 1 - 30, 2018
      Van Doren Waxter is pleased to present Gaze, a multigenerational group exhibition which explores multidisciplinary approaches to depicting forms found in or related to the natural world. Featured historical and...
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      Judy Fiskin

      The End of Photography and Selected Photographs September 12 - October 27, 2012
      Greenberg Van Doren Gallery is pleased to present Judy Fiskin: The End of Photography and Selected Photographs , a solo exhibition featuring a film and photographs by Judy Fiskin. The...
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      Art Basel Miami Beach

      December 1 - 3, 2022
      Main Booth Marsha Cottrell Karin Davie Moira Dryer Judy Fiskin Helen Frankenthaler Carmen Herrera Vera Molnar Mariah Robertson Dorothea Rockburne Jackie Saccoccio Hedda Sterne Anne Truitt Daisy Youngblood Kabinett Hedda...
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  • Press
    • Judy Fiskin’: ‘The End of Photography’ and Selected Photographs

      The New York Times, October 25, 2012
    • Goings on about town: Art

      The New Yorker, September 24, 2012

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