Dorman describes his works, "I want to know how the past lives in the present. When I use cut-outs from old books and maps, I’m aware that their meaning is from another time period, so that meaning therefore lives in an altered way in a contemporary context. What does this engraving of the gears of a cotton gin mean to us now? And what happens in our eyes and minds when it’s paired with the spiral forms from a diagram of the cell structure of the cotton plant? What does an 1890 map fragment mean in a world where we have GPS? These physical paper artifacts are folded into who we are now, yet we are forgetting our connection to them.”
CV
EEDUCATION
BA, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
MFA, Queens College, Flushing, NY
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 Ryan Lee Gallery — New York, NY, "Idyll~Idol"
2022 Winter Garden Gallery at Brookfield Place — New York, NY, "In the Presence"
2021 Second Street Gallery — Charlottesville, VA, "How Strange It Is To Be Anything At All"
2020 Welch School of Art at GSU — Atlanta, GA, "Higher Ground"
2019 George Billis Gallery -- Los Angeles, CA
2018 John Martin Gallery -- London, England, "Reliquary"
2016 One New York Plaza — 12 Window Installation sponsored by Brookfield Arts
2015 John Martin Gallery — London, England, “Hypnogagia”
2014 Ryan Lee Gallery — New York, NY, “Whorled”
2013 Animations screening with live musicians at LMCC’s River to River festival. “The Violin”: films created for Anna Clyne’s suite. DVD release in 2014
2012 John Martin Gallery — London, UK, “The Naming of Things”
2012 Koplin Del Rio Gallery -- Los Angeles, CA, “The Missing Pages of the Sea”
2011 Mary Ryan Gallery — New York, NY, “Lost Divers”
2010 George Billis Gallery — Los Angeles, CA
2009 Mary Ryan Gallery — New York, NY, “Josh Dorman: New Paintings”
2008 Craft and Folk Art Museum — Los Angeles, CA, “Within Four Miles: The World of Josh Dorman”
2008 George Billis Gallery —Los Angeles, CA
2008 Mary Ryan Gallery — New York, NY, “Babel”
2007 George Billis Gallery — Los Angeles, CA
2007 Oxbow Gallery — Northampton, MA
2007 Pierogi — Brooklyn, NY
2007 Hallwalls — Buffalo, NY
2005 George Billis Gallery — Los Angeles, CA
2005 Cal State Long Beach — Long Beach, CA, "Lost Travels"
2005 Lake George Arts Project — Lake George, NY
2005 Galerie Francoise — Baltimore, MD
2004 CUE Art Foundation — New York, NY, selected by Paul Auster
2003 55 Mercer Gallery — New York, NY
2003 St. George's School — Hunter Gallery, Newport, RI
2002 Quincy University Gallery — Quincy, Il, “New Works on Old Paper”
2001 55 Mercer Gallery — New York, NY
2001 Wolf Group — New York, NY
2000 Allen Sheppard Gallery — Piermont, NY
2000 55 Mercer Gallery — New York, NY
1996 Galerie Francoise — Baltimore, MD, (two-person show with Joan Snyder)
1995 Baltimore City Hall — Baltimore, MD, (two-person show with Mary Flinn)
1995 Resurgam Gallery — Baltimore, MD
1995 Gallery M — Baltimore, MD
SELECTED GROUP SHOWS
2023 DC Moore Gallery — New York, NY, "Come a Little Closer"
2017 Century House Historical Society — Rosendale, NY, Eotechnic Sensorium: An outdoor installation show at the Brookfield Arts — New York, NY Rock, Paper, Scissors. Curated by Tom Kotik
2016 Grace Building and One Liberty Plaza — A travelling exhibit
2016 Koplin del Rio Gallery — Seattle, WA. Identity Insight: Unfolding the Visual Narrative
2014 Tambaran Gallery — New York, NY
2014 Bates College Museum of Art — Lewiston, ME, Convergence: Jazz, Films and the Visual Arts
2014 Torrance Art Museum — Torrance, CA, “A Virtual Mapping Show”, curated by James Scarborough
2013 Katonah Museum — Katonah, NY, “Remix: Selections from the International Collage Center”
2013 Prographica — Seattle, WA, “Landscape Described”
2013 Koplin Del Rio — Los Angeles, CA, “Wunderkammer Show”
2012 Pavel Zoubok Gallery — New York, NY “I’ll Take You There”
2012 Daum Museum of Contemporary Art — Sedalia, MO, “Selections from the International Collage Center”
2012 Swarthmore College — Swarthmore, PA, Wildly Human
2011 The Tang Museum — Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY, “Alumni Invitational” (Four person show)
2011 ACA Galleries — New York, NY, “Fragments: Modern and Contemporary Collage, 1915- 2011”
2011 Bucknell University — Lewisburg, PA, “Selections from the International Collage Center”
2010 John Martin Gallery — London, UK, “Cabinet”
2010 Weatherspoon Art Museum — University of North Carolina, Greensboro, “Art on Paper 2010: the 41st Exhibition,” through February 2011
2010 Katonah Museum of Art — Katonah, NY, “Mapping: Memory and Motion in Contemporary Art,” through 2011
2010 Mary Ryan Gallery — New York, NY, “Heads or Tails”
2009 Christopher Henry Gallery — New York, NY, “The Map as Art,” curated by Kitty Harmon, author of The Map as Art: Contemporary Artists Explore Cartography, Princeton Architectural Press, 2009
2007 Pavel Zoubok Gallery, NY; The Palmer Museum of Art, Penn State University — “The Art of Collage”
2007 Chicago Cultural Center — Chicago, IL, “Here, There, Everywhere”
2007 Lehman College Art Gallery — Bronx, NY, “Bits and Pieces: The Collage Impulse”
2007 Skidmore College — Schick Gallery, Saratoga Springs, NY
2006 Sacred Heart University Gallery — Fairfield, CT, "The Elements: Fire," curated by Sophia Geva
2006 Hunter College Gallery — New York, NY, "Personal Geographies," curated by Joanna Lindenbaum
2006 Bronx River Art Center — Bronx, NY, "Seeing is Believing," curated by Brett Rollins
2006 Trierenberg Corporate Kunsthalle — Traun, Austria, "New Art, New York: Reflections on the Human Condition," curated by Margaret Mathews-Berenson
2005 The Painting Center — New York, NY, "Crossing the Line," curated by Cathy Diamond
2005 Lohin-Geduld Gallery — New York, NY, "Vista," (Four person show)
2005 Julie Heller Gallery — Provincetown, MA
2005 Islip Art Museum — Islip, NY, "The Nature of Things"
2005 Lehman College Gallery — Bronx, NY, "The City"
2004 Geoffrey Young Gallery — Great Barrington, MA, "Full Disclosure"
2004 The Drawing Center — New York, NY, "Playpen" (as part of Austin Thomas' Perch Project)
2004 The National Academy Museum — New York, NY, “179th Exhibition of Contemporary Art”
2003 Geoffrey Young Gallery — Great Barrington, MA, "The New Topography"
2002 Rotunda Gallery — Brooklyn, NY, "What Happened in Lime Mills?"
2002 Santa Ana College Gallery — Santa Ana, CA, "Pulp Friction"
2002 "Structure & Situation" — travelling show, Los Angeles, CA
2001 Julie Heller Gallery — Provincetown, MA
2000 The Balcony Gallery, Kaufman Cultural Center — New York, NY, "Apparitions"
2000 Exhibition Space 156 — Williamsburg, Brooklyn
2000 Rotunda Gallery — Brooklyn, NY, "Wunderkammer Show"
2000 Barbara Ann Levy Gallery — Fire Island, NY
2000 55 Mercer Gallery — New York, NY, "The Poetry of Earth," curated by William Corbett
1999 Makor Gallery — New York, NY, "Elemental Sources," curated by Lance Esplund
1999 Gomez Gallery — Baltimore, MD
1997 Elena Zang Gallery — Woodstock, NY, "Small Works"
1997 Cork Gallery at Lincoln Center — New York, NY
1996 Bowery Gallery, — New York, NY, Gabriel Laderman, juror
1996 80 Washington Square Gallery — New York, NY, Edward Thorp, juror
1996 Denise Bibro — New York, NY, "Poetic, Romantic, Expressionist", Michael Walls, juror
1995 "Semaphore" — New York, NY, curated by Bill Bace, mounted in TriBeCa warehouse
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Minneapolis Institute of Art -- Minneapolis, MN
Boca Raton Museum of Art -- Boca Raton, FL
Butler Institute of American Art — Youngstown, OH
International Collage Center — Milton, PA
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center — New York, NY
Memory Bridge Foundation — Chicago, IL
MGM Springfield -- Springfield, MA
The Naples Museum — Naples, FL
Ozer Group — Wellesley, MA
Progressive Auto Insurance — Chicago, IL
Springfield Art Museum — Springfield, MO
Wellington Management Company — Boston, MA
RESIDENCIES, GRANTS & VISITING ARTIST LECTURES
2016 Platte Clove Residency — Tannersville, NY
2013 Art Omi — Ghent, NY
2013 I-Park — Plantsville, CT (awarded residency)
2011 Weir Farm Artist Residency — Wilton, CT
2010 NYFA (New York Foundation for the Arts) — Grant in the Drawing Category
2010 Joyce Dutka Foundation Grant — New York, NY
2009 Yaddo, August Residency (Avery Foundation Fellow) — Saratoga Springs, NY
2009 Saltonstall -- Ithaca, NY (awarded residency)
2007 Mass Art Graduate MFA Program — Boston, MA, Visiting artist lecture and critiques
2006 Skidmore College — Saratoga Springs, NY, Visiting artist lecture
2006 Yaddo — August residency, Saratoga Springs, NY
2005 Manchester College — Manchester, CT, Visiting artist lecture
2005 Riverdale Art Association — New York, NY, Artist lecture
2005 Islip Museum — Islip, NY, Gallery talk and slide lecture
2004 Yaddo — June residency, Saratoga Springs, NY
2004 Maryland Institute College of Art — Baltimore, MD, Visiting artist lecture and critiques
2004 55 Mercer Gallery — Curator of “A Bestiary,” Exhibition of 16 emerging artists, New York
2001 St. Georges School — Newport, RI, Visiting artist lecture
2001 Balcony Gallery — Curator of four exhibitions at Merkin Concert Hall, New York, NY
2001 55 Mercer Gallery — Curator of “Fire Works,” Exhibition of eight artists, New York, NY
1998 Millay Colony — Milton and Sally Avery Fellow, Austerlitz, NY
1998 Studios Midwest — Galesburg, IL, Fellowship Award
1992 Vermont Studio Center -- Johnson, VT
1992 Rider College -- Princeton, NJ, Visiting artist lecture
1992 Studio Assistant to the artist Joan Snyder
1992 Coordinator, Visiting Artist Lecture Series, Queens College M.F.A. Program
GRANTS, RESIDENCIES, & VISITING ARTIST LECTURES
2023 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant
2019 MacDowell Colony — Peterborough, NH
2016 Platt Clove Residency— Tannersville, NY
2013 Art Omi — Ghent, NY
2013 I-Park — Plantsville, CT (awarded residency)
2011 Weir Farm Artist Residency — Wilton, CT
2010 NYFA (New York Foundation for the Arts) — Grant in the Drawing Category
2010 Joyce Dutka Foundation Grant — New York, NY
2009 Yaddo, August Residency (Avery Foundation Fellow) — Saratoga Springs, NY
2009 Saltonstall -- Ithaca, NY (awarded residency)
2007 Mass Art Graduate MFA Program — Boston, MA, Visiting artist lecture and critiques
2006 Skidmore College — Saratoga Springs, NY, Visiting artist lecture
2006 Yaddo — August residency, Saratoga Springs, NY
2005 Manchester College — Manchester, CT, Visiting artist lecture
2005 Riverdale Art Association — New York, NY, Artist lecture
2005 Islip Museum — Islip, NY, Gallery talk and slide lecture
2004 Yaddo — June residency, Saratoga Springs, NY
2004 Maryland Institute College of Art — Baltimore, MD, Visiting artist lecture and critiques
2004 55 Mercer Gallery — Curator of “A Bestiary,” Exhibition of 16 emerging artists, New York, NY
2001 St. Georges School — Newport, RI, Visiting artist lecture
2001 Balcony Gallery — Curator of four exhibitions at Merkin Concert Hall, New York, NY
2001 55 Mercer Gallery — Curator of “Fire Works,” Exhibition of eight artists, New York, NY
1998 Millay Colony — Milton and Sally Avery Fellow, Austerlitz, NY
1998 Studios Midwet — Galesburg, IL, Fellowship Award
1992 Vermont Studio Center -- Johnson, VT
1992 Rider College — Princeton, NJ, Visiting artist lecture
1992 Studio Assistant to the artist Joan Snyder
1992 Coordinator, Visiting Artist Lecture Series, Queens College M.F.A. Program
COLLECTIONS
The Tang Teaching Museum at Skidmore College — Saratoga Springs, NY
Minneapolis Institute of Art -- Minneapolis, MN (link)
Addison Gallery of American Art -- Andover, MA
Boca Raton Museum of Art -- Boca Raton, FL
Butler Institute of American Art — Youngstown, OH
International Collage Center — Milton, PA
Mattatuck Museum --Waterbury, CT
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center — New York, NY
Memory Bridge Foundation — Chicago, IL
MGM Springfield -- Springfield, MA
The Naples Museum — Naples, FL
Ozer Group — Wellesley, MA
Progressive Auto Insurance — Chicago, IL
Springfield Art Museum — Springfield, MO
Wellington Management Company — Boston, MA
COMMISSIONS
Cover Design for Masquerade--sheet music by Anna Clyne (Paul Revere award winner for original design)
Animation for song by composer Daniel Mulhern
One New York Plaza — 12 Window Installation sponsored by Brookfield Arts
Animations for The Violin, a DVD/CD release of music by Anna Clyne, containing seven short films (VIA record label). Also, various screenings and live performances, notable at Federal Hall, 2013 as part of River to River Festival
Cover painting for Anna Clyne’s Blue Moth album
Cover painting for Shoulder Season by Ange Mlinko — Coffee House Press
Six paintings for Memory Bridge Foundation accompanying the PBS documentary There Is A Bridge
Mural for Clinton/Washington Subway Station — Brooklyn, NY
Cover painting for Cognitive Neuroscience by Dr. Randall O’Reilly — MIT Press
Murals for Bon Secours Hospital — Baltimore, MD
Cover painting for The Transparent Quartet Needless Kiss album
Cover painting for Starred Wire by Ange Mlinko — Coffee House Press
Cover painting for The Atrocity Paradigm by Claudia Card — Oxford U Press
SELECTED TEACHING
2005-Present The Spence School — New York, NY
2019 California State University, Fresno — Fresno, CA. "Drawing Outside the Box: Hybridity in Contemporary Art" (Summer Arts)
2003 Rider University — Princeton, NJ
1997-2003 Skidmore College — Summer Six Program, Saratoga Springs, NY
2000-2002 City University of New York (NYCTC) — Brooklyn, NY
1999-2001 The Educational Alliance Art School — New York, NY
1998 Nightingale Bamford School — New York, NY
1991-1992 Maspeth Community Center — Maspeth, NY
1991-1992 Queens College — Teaching assistant for undergraduate classes, Flushing, NY
PRESS & BIBLIOGRAPHY
2020 Arts Atlanta
2017 Numero Cinq Magazine -- interview with Mary Jablonski
2014 The Paris Review -- Dan Piepenbring
2014 NPR’s Bulleseye With Jesse Thorn interview
2014 Installation Magazine -- Profile/interview
2014 Art Critical -- William Corwin
2014 Bomb Magazine — Interview with Haleigh Collins
2014 ArtFile -- Ashleigh Sisk
2014 Fad Magazine -- VC Maurer
2014 Thought Catalogue -- Porter Anderson
2014 New York Times — Steve Smith (review of animations/concert at Federal Hall, NYC)
2013 American Art Collector Magazine -- John O’Hern
2012 Art and Auction Magazine
2012 The Los Angeles Times — Leah Ollman
2011 The Post-Star, Saratoga Springs — Doug Gruse
2010 City Arts — Mario Naves
2010 The Village Voice — Robert Shuster
2010 Time Out New York — Michael Wilson
2009 Harmon, Katherine. The Map as Art: Contemporary Artists Explore Cartography. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2009.
2008 Art News — Alex Taylor
2008 The Los Angeles Times — Leah Ollman
2008 Hrushetska, Maryna. Within Four Miles: The World of Josh Dorman. Craft and Folk Art 2008 Museum, Los Angeles, CA, (Exhibition publication)
2006 Art New England — Lisa Amato, August/September
2006 The New Yorker — Goings On About Town (12/26/06)
2006 The New York Observer — Mario Naves
2006 The Baltimore Sun — Glenn McNatt
2005 The Week Magazine
2005 The Buffalo News — Richard Huntington
2005 The Los Angeles Times — Leah Ohlman
2005 L.A. ArtScene — Jody Zellen
2005 Metroland News — Albany, NY
2005 The New York Times — "The Nature of Things" at the Islip Art Museum, Helen Harrison
2005 Art Forum online — Critics Picks, John Reed, (CUE Foundation show)
2005 The New Yorker — Goings on About Town, Nov. 15 (CUE Foundation show)
2005 The New York Observer — Mario Naves, Nov. 22 (CUE Foundation show)
2004 Art in America magazine — Lance Esplund
2004 Newport This Week — Sylvia Smith
2004 The Villager TriBeCa newspaper
2004 Auster, Paul, Josh Dorman. CUE Art Foundation, New York, NY, (Exhibition publication)
2002 Modern Painters magazine — "What Happened in Lime Mills?", Rotunda Gallery
2002 "Josh Dorman Drawings" (essay) — William Corbett, in Post Road literary journal
2001 Modern Painters magazine — Lance Esplund (Recent Works, 55 Mercer Gallery)
2001 "Josh Dorman's New Paintings" (essay) — William Corbett, in All Prose (Zoland Books)
2000 Artnet Magazine — Giovanni Garcia-French (Wunderkammer Show, Rotunda Gallery)
2000 ARTnews — Lily Wei (Wunderkammer Show, Rotunda Gallery)
2000 New York Magazine — (Wunderkammer Show, Rotunda Gallery)
2000 The New York Times — Ken Johnson (The Poetry of Earth, 55 Mercer Gallery)
1999 The New Republic — Jed Perl (The Daily Works: 365 Miniatures, 55 Mercer Gallery)
1999 Review Magazine — Joel Silverstein (Elemental Sources, Makor Gallery)
1997 Review Magazine — Jane Harris (Recent Works, 55 Mercer Gallery)
1996 Baltimore Sun Magazine — John Dorsey (show with Joan Snyder, Galerie Francoise)
1996 Owings Mills Times — Donna Owens (show with Joan Snyder, Galerie Francoise)
1996 Baltimore Magazine — Jim Duffy (show with Joan Snyder, Galerie Francoise)
1995 Maryland Public Television — (show with Mary Flinn, Courtyard Galleries)
1995 Baltimore Sun — John Dorsey (show with Mary Flinn, Courtyard Galleries)
1995 New York Newsday — Amei Wallach (Semaphore show)
1994 Baltimore City Paper — (Gallery M)