1928 - 2011
ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2019 “Small Paintings 1999-2001,” Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York, NY
“Pat Passlof: The Brush Is The Finger of the Brain,” The Milton Resnick and
Pat Passlof Foundation, New York, NY
“Pat Passlof: Fifty Years on Paper,” New York Studio School (through Jan. 2020)
2014 "Pat Passlof: Painting from the 1950s," Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York, NY
2012 "Pat Passlof: Selections 1948-2011," Black Mountain
College Museum, Asheville, NC
"Pat Passlof: Selections 1948-2011," Western Carolina
University, Cullowhee, NC
2011 "Recent Paintings 2005 - 2011," Elizabeth Harris Gallery,
New York, NY
2005 Elizabeth Harris Gallery, NewYork, NY
2002 Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York, NY
2001 College of Staten Island/CUNY, Staten Island, NY
2000 Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York, NY
1998 Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York, NY
1996 Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York, NY
1993 Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York, NY
1978 Landmark Gallery, New York, NY
1974 Landmark Gallery, New York, NY
1973 Forrest Gallery, Milwaukee, WI.
1965 Feiner Gallery, New York, NY.
1964 Feiner Gallery, New York, NY.
1963 Globe Gallery, New York, NY.
1962 Globe Gallery, New York, NY.
1961 Green Gallery, New York, NY.
1952 Circle Gallery, Detroit, MI.
TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
1959 March Gallery, New York, NY
1957 March Gallery, New York, NY
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019 “Montauk Highway III: Postwar Abstraction in the Hamptons,” Eric Firestone Gallery
East Hampton, New York
2017 “Making Space: Women Artists and Postwar Abstraction”, Museum of Modern Art, NY
“Inventing Downtown: Artists-Run Galleries in New York City, 1952–1965,”
Grey Art Gallery, NYU, NYC
2012-13 "To be a Lady: forty-five women in the arts," 1285 Avenue of the America Gallery, New York, NY, curated
by Jason Andrew
2011 "Black Mountain College and Its Legacy," LorettaHoward Gallery, New York, NY, curated by Robert S.
Mattison and Loretta Howard
"Color Study," Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, NC
2009 "Club Without Walls," Butler's Fine Art, East Hampton, NY
2008 "The Shape of Imagination: Women of Black Mountain Collage", Black Mountain Collage
Museum & Art Center, Asheville, NC
2006 "Greetings From Balck Mountain College", curated by Robert Godfrey, Bridgette Mayer Gallery,
Philadelphia, PA
"The 181st Annual: An Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary American Art", National Academy
Museum, New York, NY
2004 "Ground - Field - Surface", Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY
2003 "A Bend in the Road: Paintings and Works on Paper by JakeBerthot, Philip Guston, Bill Jensen, Pat
Passlof, Milton Resnick, and Myron Stout", curated by Kathy and Jim Muehlemann, Maier
Museum of Art, Randolph-Macon Woman's College, Lynchburg, VA
"Summer Color", Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York, NY
2002 "Black Mountain College, An American Adventure", curated by Vincent Katz, Museo Nacional
Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid
"Painting: A Passionate Response", curated by Michael Walls, The Painting Center, New York, NY
2001 "Artist Couples", Katherina Rich Perlow Gallery, New York, NY
2000 "Intuitive Abstract Painting", curated by Nancy Einreinhofer, Ben Shahn Galleries, William
Patterson University, Wayne, NJ
"American Academy of Arts and Letters Invitational Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture", New York, NY
"Generation II: A Survey of Woman Artists at the Millennium", A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY
1999 "Material Abstraction", Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York, NY
1997 "Crossing the Threshold", traveling exhibition curated byBernice Steinbaum, Steinbaum Krauss
Gallery, New York, NY
1997 "American Academy Invitational Exhibition of Painting & Sculpture", American Academy of
Arts & Letters, New York, NY.
1994 "Spellbound", Blondies Contemporary Art, New York, NY
1993 "Figuration '93", 55 Mercer Street Gallery, New York, NY
1992 "Paths to Discovery - The New York School: Works on Paper from the 1950s and 1960's",
Sidney Mishkin Gallery of Baruch College/CUNY, New York, NY
"Figure Variations", Kathryn Sermas Gallery, New York, NY, December 1991-January 1992
1991 "Selection: The New York School: Works on Paper from the 1950's and 1960s, Elston Fine Arts,
New York, NY
"The Nude: Drawings by New York School Artists circa 1930-1950", Twining Gallery, New York, NY
1989 Jack Tilton Gallery, New York, NY
1987 "New York-Beijing", Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA, traveling toHong Kong Arts Festival, Shanghai
Art Museum and Beijing Art Museum
1986 "Art from the City University of New York: Approaches to Abstraction", Shanghai, China
"Portraits", Sorkin Gallery, New York, NY
1985 "Naked Paint", Newhouse Gallery, Snug Harbor, NY
"Survival of the Fittest", Ingber Gallery, New York, NY
"The Gathering of the Avant-Garde: The Lower East Side 1950-1970", Kenkeleba House Gallery,
New York, NY
1984 "Synergy Artists", Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, NY, traveling exhibition (1984-86)
1983 "Paint as Image", Ben Shahn Galleries, The William Patterson College of New Jersey, Patterson, NJ
"Abstract Painting 1960-1969", P.S. 1, Long Island City, NY, curated by Richard Bellamy
"Paint as Image", Max Hutchinson Gallery, New York, NY
1982 "Print Show", Ingber Gallery, New York, NY
"Artists' Choice", Gruenebaum Gallery, New York, NY
1976 "Works On Paper", Neuberger Museum, Purchase, NY, (1976-77)
"Works On Paper", Wichita Falls Museum, Wichita, KS
"Four Painters: Oversize Paintings", University Art Gallery, State University of New York
at Binghamton, Binghamton, NY
1975 "Color, Light and Image - An International Invitational", Interart Center, New York, NY, 1975-6
"Works On Paper", Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
1974 "Works On Paper", Summit Art Center, Summit, NJ
"Works by Women", Weatherspoon Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC;
travelled to Kresge Art Center Gallery, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
1970 Roswell Museum, Roswell, NM
1961 Gallery Group Show, Green Gallery, New York, NY
1960 Reuben Gallery, New York, NY
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ARTICLES BY THE ARTIST
2000 "Painting", The Painters Series, Green Hill Center for North
Carolina Art, Greensboro, NC, pp 7-8
1989 "1948", Art Journal, December 1989, p 229
1986 "Nostalgia", Issue: A Journal for Artists, #5, Winter, 1986,
pp 2-5
1975 "Artist's Statement", Artforum, September 1975, pp 30, 32
INTERVIEWS
2002 - "Pat Passlof, An Interview with Albert Depas", Creative Insight, Fall
AWARDS AND HONORS
2006 Edwin P. Palmer Memorial Prize, 181st Annual Invitational
Exhibition of Contemporary American Art, National Academy Museum, New York, NY
2000 Award of Merit for Painting, American Academy of Arts and
Letters, New York, New York
1999 Guggenheim Fellowship
Scholar Incentive Award/CSI
1990 Scholar Incentive Award/CSI.
1989 Scholar Incentive Award/CSI.
1970 Resident Artist's Grant, Roswell Museum and Art Center,
Roswell, NM.
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Birla Museum, Calcutta, India
CIBA-Geigy Collection, Ardsley, NY
Collections for the State Department
Corcoran Gallery, Washington, DC
Cranbrook Academy Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI
Marquette University, Haggerty Museum of Art, Milwaukee, WI
Milwaukee Art Center, Milwaukee, WI
Roswell Museum, Roswell, NM
Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC
EDUCATION
1951 - - BFA, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI
1948-1950 Private study with Willem de Kooning, New York, NY
Summer 1948 Black Mountain College, NC, study with: Josef Albers, Buckminster Fuller, M.C. Richards, Merce Cunningham, Willem de Kooning
1946-1948 Queens College, New York, NY, study towards BA
TEACHING
1983-2010 College of Staten Island, CUNY, Staten Island, NY
1972-83 Richmond College, CUNY, Staten Island, NY