Dorman describes his works, “The Long View has multiple meanings for me. First and foremost, looking at the earth and humanity in geologic time is a way of coping with the darkness and cruelty of this moment. Secondly, several of the paintings in this show were created over a long expanse– twenty years, in the case of the titular piece. Finally, I shift perspectives constantly and invite you to explore these pictures with a literal long view, by stepping back and zooming in, tilting eyes upward, downward, and in all possible directions.”
CV
Born Baltimore, Maryland, 1966
EDUCATION
1988 BA, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
1992 MFA, Queens College, Flushing, NY
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025 Billis Williams Gallery, Los Angeles, CA. “The Long View”
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”
2019 Ryan Lee Gallery, New York, NY “Retrospective Futurology”
The Welch School of Art and Design, GSU, Atlanta, GA. “Higher Ground”
Longview Museum of Fine Arts, Longview, TX. “ The Memory Bridge” (a view of Dementia)
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”:
2012 John Martin Gallery—London, UK “The Naming of Things”
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”
George Billis Gallery—Los Angeles, CA
Mary Ryan Gallery— New York, NY, “Babel”
2007 Pierogi — Brooklyn, NY
Hallwalls — Buffalo, NY
2005
Cal State Long Beach--Long Beach, CA, "Lost Travels"
Lake George Arts Project — Lake George, NY
Galerie Francoise — Baltimore, MD
2004 CUE Art Foundation — New York, NY, selected by Paul Auster
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025
George Billis Gallery, New York, NY
2024 DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY “Come Closer”
2022 Lockwood Gallery, Kingston, NY “Putting it Together”
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
Koplin del Rio Gallery – Seattle, WA. Identity Insight: Unfolding the Visual Narrative
2014 Torrance Art Museum--- Torrance, CA, “A Virtual Mapping Show”, curated by James Scarborough
Katonah Museum--- Katonah, NY, “Remix: Selections from the International Collage Center”
2012 Pavel Zoubok Gallery--- New York, NY “I’ll Take You There”
Daum Museum of Contemporary Art---Sedalia, MO, “Selections from the International Collage Center”
Swarthmore College—Swarthmore, PA, Wildly Human
2011 The Tang Museum—Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY, “Alumni Invitational” (Four person show)
ACA Galleries—New York, NY, “Fragments: Modern and Contemporary Collage, 1915-2011”
Bucknell University—Lewisburg, PA, “Selections from the International Collage Center”
2010 Weatherspoon Art Museum—University of North Carolina, Greensboro, “Art on Paper 2010: the 41st Exhibition,”Katonah Museum of Art—Katonah, NY, “Mapping: Memory and Motion in Contemporary Art,” through 2011
2009 Pavel Zoubok Gallery, NY; The Palmer Museum of Art, Penn State University—“The Art of Collage”
Chicago Cultural Center—Chicago, IL, “Here, There, Everywhere”
Lehman College Art Gallery – Bronx, NY, “Bits and Pieces: The Collage Impulse”
Skidmore College — Schick Gallery, Saratoga Springs, NY
2006 Sacred Heart University Gallery — Fairfield, CT, "The Elements: Fire," curated by Sophia Gevas
Hunter College Gallery — New York, NY, "Personal Geographies," curated by Joanna Lindenbaum
Bronx River Art Center — Bronx, NY, "Seeing is Believing," curated by Brett Rollins
Trierenberg Corporate Kunsthalle — Traun, Austria, "New Art, New York”
2005 The Painting Center — New York, NY, "Crossing the Line," curated by Cathy Diamond Lohin-Geduld
Gallery — New York, NY, "Vista," (Four person show)
Islip Art Museum — Islip, NY, "The Nature of Things"
2004 Geoffrey Young Gallery — Great Barrington, MA, "Full Disclosure"
The Drawing Center — New York, NY, "Playpen" (as part of Austin Thomas' Perch Project)
The National Academy Museum — New York, NY, “179th Exhibition of Contemporary Art”
2002 Rotunda Gallery — Brooklyn, NY, "What Happened in Lime Mills?"
Santa Ana College Gallery — Santa Ana, CA, "Pulp Friction"
SELECTED GRANTS
2023 Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant
2009 NYFA (New York Foundation for the Arts) Grant in the Drawing Category
Joyce Dutka Foundation Grant — New York, NY
SELECTED RESIDENCIES
2025 The Arctic Circle Residency, Svalbard, North Pole
UCross, UCross, WY
MacDowell, Peterborough, NH
Cill Rialaig, Ballinskelligs, Ireland
2019 MacDowell, Peterborough, NH
2017 Platte Clove Residency---Tannersville, NY
2013 Art Omi ---Ghent, NY
I-Park--Plantsville, CT (awarded residency)
2011 Weir Farm Artist Residency—Wilton, CT
2009 Yaddo, August Residency (Avery Foundation Fellow) — Saratoga Springs, NY Saltonstall –Ithaca, NY (awarded residency)
2006 Yaddo — August residency, Saratoga Springs, NY
2004 Yaddo — June residency, Saratoga Springs, NY
1998 Millay Colony — Milton and Sally Avery Fellow, Austerlitz, NY
Studios Midwest — Galesburg, IL, Fellowship Award
1992 Studio Assistant to the artist Joan Snyder
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Minneapolis Institute of Arts – Minneapolis, MN
Butler Institute of American Art — Youngstown, OH
MGM Casino, Springfield, MA
International Collage Center— Milton, PA
The Naples Museum — Naples, FL
Mattatuck Museum — Waterbury, CT Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center — New York, NY
Memory Bridge Foundation — Chicago, IL
The Boca Raton Museum of Art — Boca Raton, FL Progressive Auto Insurance — Chicago, IL Springfield Art Museum—Springfield, MO
Wellington Management Company — Boston, MA
COMMISSIONS AND PUBLIC ART
Mural for The Green School w CityArts –New York, NY 2025 (90 ft mural)
One New York Plaza---12 Window Installation sponsored by Brookfield Arts Cover Art for Sheet Music to “Masquerade” by Anna Clyne (Paul Revere Design Award 2018)
Animations for The Violin, a DVD/CD release of music by Anna Clyne, containing seven short films (VIA record label).
Screenings and live performances, notably 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 AND VISITING ARTIST LECTURES
2005-present The Spence School — New York, NY
2025 Panel discussion “Mapping” The Drawing Foundation and NYU
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
2004-2006 Mass Art Graduate MFA Program — Boston, MA, Visiting Artist lecture and critiques
Skidmore College — Saratoga Springs, NY, Visiting Artist lecture
Rider College, Princeton, NJ, Visiting Artist lecture
Maryland Institute College of Art — Baltimore, MD, Visiting Artist lecture and critiques
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2024 Root Quarterly feature
2020 Smithsonian Archives of American Art Journal, “On Loss and Seeding”, 6-page spread of paintings and essay based on Charles Burchfield
2017 Numero Cinq Magazine --- interview with Mary Jablonski
2014 The Paris Review --- Dan Piepenbring
NPR’s Bulleseye With Jesse Thorn interview
Installation Magazine --- Profile/interview
Art Critical --- William Corwin
Bomb Magazine ---Interview with Haleigh Collins
ArtFile --- Ashleigh Sisk
Fad Magazine --- VC Maurer
New York Times—Steve Smith (review of animations/concert at Federal Hall, NYC)
American Art Collector Magazine--- John O’Hern
2012 The Los Angeles Times--- Leah Ollman
2010
City Arts—Mario Naves
The Village Voice—Robert Shuster
Time Out New York—Michael Wilson
Harmon, Katherine. The Map as Art: Contemporary Artists Explore Cartography.
2008 Art News—Alex Taylor
The Los Angeles Times—Leah Ollman
2006 Art New England — Lisa Amato, August/September
The New Yorker — Goings On About Town (12/26/06)
The New York Observer — Mario Naves
The Baltimore Sun — Glenn McNatt
2005 The Week Magazine
The Los Angeles Times — Leah Ohlman
L.A. ArtScene — Jody Zellen
The New York Times — "The Nature of Things" at the Islip Art Museum, Helen Harrison
Art Forum online — Critics Picks, John Reed, (CUE Foundation show)
The New Yorker — Goings on About Town, Nov. 15 (CUE Foundation show)
2004
Art in America magazine — Lance Esplund
Auster, Paul, Josh Dorman. CUE Art Foundation, New York, NY, (Exhibition publication)
2002 "Josh Dorman Drawings" (essay) — William Corbett, in Post Road literary journal
Modern Painters magazine — Lance Esplund (Recent Works, 55 Mercer Gallery)
2000 Artnet Magazine — Giovanni Garcia-French (Wunderkammer Show, Rotunda Gallery)
New York Magazine — (Wunderkammer Show, Rotunda Gallery)
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