Deborah Kass
BORN 1952 San Antonio, TX

EDUCATION
1974 BFA (Painting), Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
1972 Whitney Museum Independent Studies Program, New York, NY
1968-70 Art Students League, New York, NY

ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2001 Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC,
“Deborah Kass: The Warhol Project”
2000 University Art Museum, University of California at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, “Deborah
Kass: The Warhol Project”
Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, Houston, TX, “Deborah Kass: The Warhol Project”
1999 Newcombe Art Gallery, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, “Deborah Kass: The Warhol
Project (traveling, catalogue)
1998 Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA
1996 Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art and Design, Kansas City, MO, “My Andy: a
retrospective” (catalogue)
1995 Jose Freire Fine Art, New York, NY, “My Andy: a retrospective”
Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA
1994 Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA
1993 Jose Freire Fine Art, New York, NY, “Chairman Ma”
Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA
1992 fiction/nonfiction, New York, NY, “The Jewish Jackie Series and My Elvis”
Simon Watson, New York, NY, “The Jewish Jackie Series”
1990 Simon Watson Gallery, New York, NY
1988 Scott Hanson Gallery, New York, NY (catalogue)
1986 Baskerville and Watson Gallery, New York, NY
1984 Baskerville and Watson Gallery, New York, NY
1982 Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL
1972 Barnhardt Gallery, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2004 “Open House: Working in Brooklyn”, Brooklyn Museum of Art. Brooklyn, NY, curated by
Charlotta Kotik and Tumelo Mosaka
“Likeness: Artists’ Portraits of Artists by Other Artisits”, California College of Arts and Crafts,
San Francisco, CA, curated by Mathew Higgs, traveling
2003 “Influence, Anxiety and Gratitude”, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA. curated by
Bill Arning
“Crimes and Misdemeanors: Politics in U.S. Art of the 1980’s” Cincinnati Contemporary Art
Center, Cincinnati, OH, curated by Thom Collins
“The Recurrent Haunting Ghost, Reflections of Marcel Duchamp in Modern and Contemporay
Art”, Francis M. Naumann Fine Art, New York, NY
2002 “Queer Visualities”, Stony Brook University Art Gallery, Stony Brook, NY, curated by Carl
Pope
2001 “A Family Album: Brooklyn Collects”, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
“Voice, Image, Gesture: Selections from The Jewish Museum’s Collection. 1945-2000”, The
Jewish Museum, New York, NY
“Contemporary Art and Celebrity Culture”, Betty Rymer Gallery, School of the Art Institute of
Chicago, Chicago, IL
“Recasting the Past: Beneath the Hollywood Tinsel”, Main Art Gallery, Cal StateUniversity,
Fullerton, CA
2000 “Revealing and Concealing: Portraits and Cultural Identity”, Skirball Museum, Los Angeles,
CA, (cat.)
“Deja vu: Reworking the Past”, Katonah Museum, Katonah, NY, curated by Barbara Bloemink
1999 “Fifteen”, curated by Walter Robinson for New York Foundation for the Arts, Deutsche Bank,
NY, NY
“The Perpetual Well: Contemporary Art from the Collection of the Jewish Museum”, The Jewish
Museum, New York, NY (traveling to Harn Museum Of Art, University of Florida Gainesville,
FL, Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery and Sculpture Garden, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE,
Parrish Museum, South Hampton, NY, and Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, WV), (cat.)
“Culture and Continuity: The Jewish Journey”, The Jewish Museum, New York, NY
“A.R.T. Press Portfolio,” David Adamson Gallery, Washington, D.C.
1998 “In Your Face”, The Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA
“Conversation: Patricia Cronin and Deborah Kass”, Art Transfer Resouce, New York, NY
“5729-5756: Contemporary Artists Welcome the New Year- The Jewish Museum List Graphic
Commisssion”, The Jewish Museum, New York NY
“Art on Paper” The Weatherspoon Gallery of Art, Greenboro, NC
1997 “The Prophecy of Pop”, New Orleans Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, LA, curated by
John Goode
“Identity Crisis: Self Portraiture at the End of the Century”, Milwaukee Art Museum,
Milwaukee, WI, curated by Dean Sobel, traveling to Aspen Museum, Aspen, CO (cat.)
1996 “Too Jewish?: Challenging Traditional Identities”, The Jewish Museum, New York, NY, curated
by Norman Kleeblatt (traveling to The Jewish Museum, Philadelphia, PA; The Contemporary,
Baltimore, MD; The Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA; UCLA at the Armand Hammer
Museum of Art and Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA - cat.)
“NowHere: Incandescent”, curated by Laura Cottingham, Louisiana Museum of Art, Humlebaek,
DENMARK (cat.)
“Real Fake”, Neuberger Museum of Art, SUNY Purchase, Purchase, NY
“Gender, Fucked”, Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA
1995 “In a Different Light”, University Art Gallery, University of California at Berkeley, Berkley CA,
curated by Nayland Blake and Lawrence Rinder (cat.)
“Face Forward: Self-Portraiture in Contemporary Art”, John Michael Kohler Arts Center,
Sheboygan, WI, curated by Maureen Sherlock
“Pervert”, University of California at Irvine, Irvine, CA, curated by Catherine Lord (cat.)
“Imperfect”, Herter Art Gallery, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Amherst, MA, curated
by Jerry Kearns (traveling to Tyler School of Art, Temple University,Philadelphia, PA - cat.)
“Semblances”, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
1994 “2 X IMMORTAL: Elvis + Marilyn”, McDaris Exhibition Group, Memphis, TN, curated by
Wendy McDaris (traveling to Institute of Contemporary Arts, Boston, MA; Contemporary Arts
Museum, Houston, TX; Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC; The Cleveland Museum of Art,
Cleveland, OH; The Philbrook Museum f Art, Tulsa, OK; Columbus Museum of Art, OH;
Tennessee St. Museum, Nashville, TN; San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA; Honolulu
Academy of Arts, Honolulu, HA - cat.)
“Democratic Vistas: 50 Years of American Art from Regional Collections”, State University of
New York at Albany, Albany, NY (cat.)
“Stonewall 25: Imaginings of the Gay Past, Celebrating the Gay Present”, White Columns, New
York, NY, curated by Bill Arning
“Pride in Our Diveristy”, Colonial House Hotel, New York, NY, curated by Ronny Cohen
“Absence, Activism & The Body Politic”, Fischbach Gallery, New York, NY, curated by Joseph
R. Wolin
“Exhibition and Sale for ICI’s 20th Anniversary”, Sonnabend Gallery, New York, NY, curated
by Dan Cameron
“Working Around Warhol”, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA, curated by Murray
Horne
“Bad Girls West”, Wight Art Gallery, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, curated by
Marcia Tanner and Marcia Tucker (cat.)
1993 “Ciphers of Identity”, University of Maryland, Baltimore / Baltimore County Fine Arts Gallery,
Cantonville, MD, curated by Maurice Berger (traveled: Ronald Feldman Gallery, New York,
NY; Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA; Woodruff Arts Center, Atlanta, GA,
University of Califomia at Irvine, Irvine, CA; Kemper Museum of Art and Design, Kansas City,
MO - cat.)
“Regarding Masculinity”, Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA
“Collecting for the 21st Century: Recent Acquisitions and Promised Gifts”, Jewish Museum,
New York, NY
“I Love You More Than My Own Death, A Melodrama In Parts By Pedro Allmodovar”, Zitelle
Guidecca, The Venice Biennial - Slittamenti, Venice, ITALY, curated by Christian Leigh
“Cutting Bait”, Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago, IL
“I Am The Enunciator”, Thread Waxing Space, New York, NY, curated by Christian Leigh
1992 “The New American Flag”, Max Protech Gallery, New York, NY
“Shapeshifters”, Amy Lipton Gallery, New York, NY
“Fear of Painting”, Arthur Roger Gallery, New York, NY, curated by Dan
Cameron
“In Your Face: Politics of the Body and Personal Knowledge”, A.C. Project Room, New York,
NY
“Painting Culture”, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA
“Selections”, Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA
1991 ‘Painting Culture”, fiction/nonfiction”, NY
“Rope”, Galeria Fernando Alcolea, Barcelona, SPAIN, curated by Christian Leigh
“Out Art”, Saint Lawrence University, Saint Lawrence, NY, curated by Nan
Goldin
“Someone or Somebody”, Myers / Bloom Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
“Something Pithier and More Psychological”, Simon Watson Gallery, New York, NY
“Just What Is It That Makes Today’s Homes So Different, So Appealing?”, Hyde Museum,
Glenns Falls, NY, curated by Dan Cameron (cat.)
1990 “The Last Laugh: Irony, Humor, Self-Mockery and Derision”, Massimo Audiello Gallery, New
York, NY, curated by Collins and Milazzo
“Fragments, Parts and Wholes: The Body in Culture”, White Columns, New York, NY, curated
by Saul Ostrow
1989 “Young New York”, Bellarte, Helsinki, FINLAND (traveled: Turku, FINLAND)
“The Mirror in Which Two Are Seen as One”, Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ, curated by
Andrea Belag
“Painting Between the Paradigms-Part One: Between Awareness and Desire”, Galerie Rahmel,
Cologne, GERMANY, curated by Saul Ostrow
“Erotophobia: A Forum on Contemporary Sexuality”, Simon Watson Gallery, New York, NY
1988 “Meaningful Geometry”, Postmasters Gallery, New York, NY
“Five Corners of Abstraction”, Jacob Javits Center, New York, NY, curated by Bill Arning
“Combination Prints”, New Jersey Center for the Visual Arts, Summit, NJ
“Gallery Selections”, Scott Hanson Gallery, New York, NY
1987 “Dreams of the Alchemist”, Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
“Romantic Science”, One Penn Plaza, New York, NY, curated by Stephen
Westfall
“Suzanne Joelson, Claudia Hart, Deborah Kass, Pat Steir”, Four Walls, Hoboken, NJ
“Major Acquisitions, Small Appliances”, Solo Gallery, New York, NY, curated by D. Cameron
1986 “A Radical Plurality”, Ben Shahn Galleries, William Patterson College, Wayne,
NJ
“Two-Person Exhibition”, Turnbull Lutjeans Kogan Gallery, Costa Mesa, CA
1985 “Six Painters”, Zilka Gallery, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, curated by Jean Feinberg
1984 “The New Expressive Landscape”, Sordoni Gallery, Wilkes College, Wilkes-Barre, PA
“Fantastic Landscape”, Exit Art, New York, NY
“Two-Person Exhibition”, Turnbull Lutjeans Kogan Gallery, Costa Mesa, CA
1982 “Two-Person Exhibition”, Baskerville and Watson Gallery, New York, NY
“Red”, Stefanotti Gallery, New York, NY
“Landscape / Cityscape”, Josef Gallery, New York, NY, curated by Carole Ann Klonarides
“Nature As Image and Metaphor”, Greene Space, New York, NY (under the auspices of the
Women’s Caucus for Art)
“Critical Perspectives”, P.S.1 Museum, Long Island City, NY, curated by Ronny Cohen
1981 “Black Paint / Dark Thoughts”, Pratt Manhattan Center, New York, NY, curated by Ellen
Schwartz
“Drawings at the Mudd Club”, The Mudd Club, New York, NY, curated by Kenny Scharf and
Keith Harring
“Drawing Show”, Stefanotti Gallery, New York, NY
1980 “First Person singular: Recent Self Portraiture”, Pratt Manhattan Center, New York, NY Pratt
Institute, Brooklyn, NY, curated by Ellen Schwartz and Paul Schimmel
1979 “Artists by Artists”, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

AWARDS AND GRANTS
1996 Art Matters Inc. Grant
1992 Art Matters Inc. Grant
1991 New York State Foundation for the Arts, Fellowship in Painting
1987 National Endowment for the Arts, Painting

SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Chemical Bank, New York, NY
Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH
First Bank of Minneapolis, Minneapolis, MN
Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, IN
Glickenhaus Company, New York, NY
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
The Jewish Museum, New York, NY
La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA
McCrory Corporation, New York, NY
Mobil Oil corporation, New York, NY
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
New Museum, New York, NY
New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA
The Norton Family Foundation, Santa Monica, CA
Pacific Bell, Los Angeles, CA
The Progressive Corporation, Cleveland, OH
Prudential Bache, New York, NY
The Prudential Life Insurance Company of America, NJ
Salomen Brothers, New York, NY
The Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick, NJ
The Weatherspoon Art Mueum, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greenboro, NC
The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2003 Boyarin, Daniel, etc., ed., Queer Theory and the Jewish Question, Columbia University Press,
cover, (illus. C)
McQuaid, Cate, “Something Borrowed”, The Boston Globe, May 30, (illus. C)
Yablonsky, Linda, “To Thine Own Selves Be True”, Artnews, November, (illus.C)
2002 Braff, Phyllis, “Looking at Those Images Again and Again”, The New York Times, November
24, (illus. B/W)
Leavy, Jane, Sandy Koufax, A Lefty’s Legacy, Harper Collins, NY, NY , p.175
Soltes, Ori, American Jewish Painters, University Press of New England
2001 Cronin, Patricia, M/E/A/N/I/N/G/ An Anthology of Artists’ Writings, Theory, and Criticism,
Susan Bee and Mira Schor, eds. “A Conversation on Lesbian Subjectivity and Painting”,Duke
University Press, p.79-86
Dols, Teddi, “My Elvis, De humoristtische herhalingen van Deborah Kass”, Lover, number 2,
June (Amsterdam, HOLLAND)
Schneider, Rebecca, “Hello Dolly Well Hello Dolly: The Theatre and It’s Double”,
Psychoanalysis and Performance, ed. Adrian Kear and Patrick Campbell, Routledge, (illus.p.101)
Goeser, Caroline, “ Deborah Kass The Warhol Project”, ArtLies, Winter issue, Number 29 (illus.
B/W)
D’Sousa, Aruna, ed. Self and History, A Tribute to Linda Nochlin, cover (illus. C), Thames and
Hudson, London, UK, hard/soft
Johnson, Ken, “Wry Skepticism”, The New York Times, July 27
“hot property”, parallax 19, issue 19, University of Leeds, Leeds UK,(cover illus. B/W)
2000 Berkovitch, Ellen, “A Landmark for Lesbian Art”, Pasatiempo, August 11-17,
Braff, Phylliss, “Spiritual Traditions as a Perpetual Well of Inspiration for Art”, The New York
Times, October 15, (illus. C)
Clifford, Katie. “What Makes A Great Painting Great?”, ArtNews, September
Corinne,Tee A. “Sighting Lesbian Artists”,The Lesbian Review of Books,Vol.VI, No.4, Summer
Hammond, Harmony, “Deborah Kass”, Lesbian Art in America: A Contemporary History,
Rizzoli. p.121,124-126, (illus. B/W, C)
Johnson, Patricia C., “Art Review”, Houston Chronicle, November 7, (illus. C)
Pollock, Barbara. “Babe Power”, Art Monthly, April
Saltz, Jerry. “Swish Myth”, The Village Voice, May 16
Slivka, Rose C. S. “From the Studio,”The East Hampton Star, September 28
Weiss,Marion Wolberg, “Art Commentary”, Dan’s Paper, October 13, (illus. B/W)
Willcox, Kathleen. “Deja Vu Exhibit is a ‘Must See’”, Lewisboro Ledger, February 10
Wilson, William. “Deborah Kass Packs Along Personal Politics as She Ventures Into Andy
Warhol Territory”, Los Angeles Times, August 4
Unattributed,“Best Bet Art”, The Santa Barbara Independent, July 27
1999 Berger, Maurice, “Seeing Myself Seeing Myself”, Deborah Kass, The Warhol Project,
Newcombe Art Gallery, Tulane University
Gilman, Sander, Making the Body Beautiful, A Cultural History of Aesthetic Surgery, Princeton
University Press, p. 203-4, (illus. B/W)
Marcus, Greil, “Pop Gun”, World Art, issue 19
Marshall, Keith. “Andy Warhol and Beyond”, The Times-Picayune, March 19
Nochlin, Linda, “Deborah Kass: Portrait of the Artist as Appropriator”, Deborah Kass, The
Warhol Project, Newcombe Art Gallery, Tulane University
Plante, Michael, ed. “Screened Identities, Multiple Repitions and Missed Kisses”, Deborah
Kass, The Warhol Project, Newcombe Art Gallery, Tulane University
Rosenblum, Robert, “Cards of Identity”, Deborah Kass, The Warhol Project, Newcombe Art
Gallery, Tulane University
Saslow, James M., Pictures and Passions, A History of Homosexuality in the Visual Arts,
Viking, p.297-8, (illus, B/W)
Smith, Liz. Jon is On, By Jovi”, Newsday, February 19
Staniszewski, Mary Anne “First Person Plural: The Paintings of Deborah Kass”, Deborah Kass,
The Warhol Project, Newcombe Art Gallery, Tulane University
Watson, Simon. “Simon Says: Collect”, Artnet.com Magazine, December 1
1998 Bright, Deborah, ed. The Passionate Camera, Photography and Bodies of Desire, Routledge, p.
297, 304 (illus. B/W)
Cotter, Holland, “Patricia Cronin and Deborah Kass”, The New York Times, April 17
Kaplan, Caren, “Beyond the Pale: Rearticulating U.S. Jewish Whiteness”, Talking Visions,
Multiculural Feminism in a Transnational Age, ed. Ella Shohat, New Museum of Contemporary
Art, NY, NY and The MIT Press, Cambridge MA, p.469 (illus. B/W)
Raz, Hilda, Intro, The Prairie Schooner Anthology of Contemporary Jewish American Writing,
University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, NB, p.5 (illus., B/W)
On Paper, March-April, Vol.2 No.4, Working Proof”, review (illus., B/W, p.42)
1997 Becker, Robin, “I’m Telling,” The Prairie Schooner, Spring, Vol. 17 #1, p. 216 (cover illus., C.)
Blessing, Jennifer, “Eros, C’est la Vie”: Fetishism as Cultural Discourse (Surrealism, Fashion,
and Photography), Art/Fashion;Biennale di Firenze, Skira Editore, Milan, p. 90 (illus.,B/W)
Davey, Andy, “Davey Does Deborah”, Campaign, June, Sidney, AUSTRALIA, (illus. C, B/W)
Feinstein, Joseph N., “What is “Too Jewish?”, Heritage Southwest Jewish Press, February 7,
(illus. B/W)
Gilman, Sander L., “The Body In Jewish Art,” New Art Examiner, April, p. 20
Horodner, Stuart, and Sanders, Mark, “Warhol is...”, Dazed & Confused, March, (illus. C.)
Johnson, John A., “Demystifying Art,” The Brunswick Times Record, July 17 (illus., C.)
Johnson, Reed, “Culture Clash, Split Identities of Jews in America”, Daily News, March 3,
(illus. B/W)
Knight, Christopher, “‘Too Jewish? Good Query”, Los Angeles Times, February 4, (illus. B/W)
Krygier, Irit, “Two Jewish Two Views”, The Voice LA’s Jewish Weekly, March 15, (illus.B/W)
Lubar, Robert S., “Unmasking Pablo’s Gertrude: Queer Desire and the Subject of Portraiture”,
Art Bulletin, Vol. LXXIX N. 3, March
Mason, Christopher, “Artful Mix,” Elle Decor, Oct/Nov (illus., C p. 268).
Miles, Christopher, “How Jewish is “Too Jewish?”, Detour, February, (illus.B/W)
Nadler,Carol, “Two Scholars Say ‘Welcome To Our Sissy Heritage,’” Forward, June 27, (illus.,
B/W)
Pollack, Barbara, “Once Bitten, Always Buyers,” Art News, Summer, p.62 (illus., C)
Staff, “Too Jewish? Challenging Traditional Identities” To Open at UCLA’s Armand Hammer
Museum of Art and Culture Center”, San Diego Jewish Times, February 20, (illus. B/W)
Walsh, Daniella, “An Opinionated Look at American Jewishness”, The Orange County Register,
February 16, (illus. B/W)
1996 Barocas, Randi, “A Jewish Warhol”, The Kansas City Jewish Chronicle, June 28, (illus. B/W)
Baynard, Ed, “‘My Barbra’, excerpts from a conversation with Deborah Kass”, The Village
Voice, April 2
Ben-David, Calev, “Artistic Identity Crisis”, The Jerusalem Report, May 2
Bloom, Amy, “A Face in the Crowd”, Vogue, December
Bonetti, David, “Challenging Cultural Identities”, San Francisco Examiner, September 25, (illus.
B/W)
Camhi, Leslie, “Jewish Wry”, The Village Voice, April 2, (illus. B/W)
Cembalest, Robin, “Keeping Up With The Whitney: ‘Too Jewish?’ Tries Too Hard”, Forward,
March 22
Elgrably, Jordan, “In Your Faith”, The Los Angeles Times, May 13, (illus. B/W)
Fricke, Harald, “NowHere”, Artforum, November
James, Jamie, “Pop Art (Colour Library)”, Phaidon Press Ltd., (illus. B/W & C.)
Kaufman, Jason Edward, “Too Jewish?”, The Art Newspaper No. 57, March
Kimmelman, Michael, “‘Too Jewish? Jewish Artists Ponder’”, The New York Times, March 8,
(illus. B/W)
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Identities, Catalogue to the Exhibition, Rutgers University Press, (illus. p.10 B/W. p. 21, B/W.
p. 139, C.)
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Linker, Jane, “Art of the Matter”, The Jewish Week, May 24
McPhee, Martha, “Mae West, Our Little Chickadee”, The New York Magazine, November 24,
(illus. C.)
Mendelsohn, John, “America The Beautiful?”, The Jewish Week, March, (illus. B/W)
Myers, Terry R., “NowHere”, World Art, April
Nochlin, Linda, “Forward: The Couturier and the Hasid”, Too Jewish?: Challenging Traditional
Identities, Catalogue to the Exhibition, Rutgers University Press, (p. xix)
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B/W)
Reguer, Sara, “Women in The Bible and Jewish History; Jewish Self-Image”, Jewish Press,
April 12
Rich, Frank, “The ‘Too Jewish’ Question,” The New York Times, (OP-ED), March 16
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Smyth, Cherry, “Damn Fine Art By New Lesbian Artists”, Cassell Press, (illus. B/W)
Span, Paula, “Too Jewish?”, The Washington Post, March 17, (illus. B/W)
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October
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, (illus. B/W)
Bonetti, David, “San Francisco Show and Tell”, Out Magazine, April
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March 17, (illus. B/W)
Cotter, Holland, “Deborah Kass, “My Andy: a retrospective” at Jose Freire”, The New York
Times, March 24
Duncan, Michael, “Report from Berkeley: Queering the Discourse”, Art in America, July
Gimmelson, Deborah, “Art and Commerce”, New York Observer, March 6
Greco, Stephen, “Painting, Sculpture and Videotaping the Town”, Interview, March, (illus. C.)
Helfand, Glen, “Hungry Eye”, San Francisco Weekly, February 1
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Kearns, Jerry, “Imperfect”, Catalogue to the Exhibition, (illus. B/W)
Knight, Christopher, “Shining a ‘Different Light’ on Both Artist and Viewer”, Los Angeles
Times, February 4 (illus. C.)
Levin, Kim, “Art Choices”, The Village Voice, March 21, (illus. B/W)
Lord, Catherine, “Queering The Dead”, Pervert, Catalogue to the Exhibition, Delta Graphics,
(illus. B/W )
Smith Roberta, “Void, Self, Drag, Utopia (And 5 Other Gay Themes)”, The New York Times,
March 26
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137 (illus., B/W)
unsigned, “Art Andymonium”, The New Yorker, March 27
Walsh, Daniella B., “‘Pervert’at UC Irvine”, Artweek, June, (illus. B/W)
Walsh, Daniella B.,“Gays, Lesbians, Put on a Bold Show”, Orange County Register, April 28,
(illus. B/W)
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AtlAnticA, Winter 94/95 (illus. C.)
1994 Avigikos, Jan, “‘Ciphers of Identity’ at Ronald Feldman”, Artforum, March
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Publications, (illus. C.)
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American Art From Regional Collections, Catalogue to the Exhibition, (illus. B/W)
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18
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Times, June 3
Wise, Michael, “Double Yentls, Chanel Kippahs and P.C. Torahs”, Forward, July 1, (illus. B/W)
1993 Cotter, Holland, “Deborah Kass at fiction/nonfiction”, The New York Times, January 15
Cronin, Patricia, “A Conversation on Lesbian Subjectivity and Painting (with Deborah Kass)”,
M/E/A/N/I/N/G, November (#14)
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Papers,
July/August (volume 17,#4), (illus. C.front/back cover)
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B/W)
Kass, Deborah, “Color Me Barbara”, 10 Percent, Winter, (illus. C.)
Langer, Cassandra, “Feminist Art Criticism, An Annotated Bibliography”, Macmillann
Publishing Co., (illus. B/W)
Lipson, Karin, “A Museum Reborn”, New York Newsday, June 11, (illus. B/W)
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The New Voice, October 8,
Morrison, Mandy, “Fresh Paint”, Chicago Reader, June 11, (illus. B/W)
Smith, Liz, “Love Survives Press”, New York Newsday, January 3
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Waddington, Chris, “A Women’s Work is...”, Lagniappe, October 1, (illus. C.)
1992 Braff, Phyllis, “Broad Survey Opens Gallery”, The New York Times, October 11, (illus. B/W)
Cameron, Dan, “Don’t Look Now”, Frieze, January, (illus. C.)
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Cameron, Dan, “The Outlaw Academy”, Art and Auction, May
Cunningham, Michael, “After AIDS - Gay Art Aims At a New Reality”, The New York Times,
April 26
Curtis, Cathy, “Women’s Work: Rich, Shocking”, The Los Angeles Times, October 16
Dubin, Zan, “Painting Themselves Out of a Corner”, The Los Angeles Times, October 10
Glueck, Grace, “SoHo’s Election Year Concept: A New Flag”, The New York Observer,
November 16
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Hirsch, David, “Pop and Personal”, New York Native, December 28
Liu, Catherine, “Diary of the Pop Body: Dandy Darlings and New Pop Strategies”, Flash Art
International, October (illus. C.)
Mifflin, Margot, “Feminism’s New Face”, Art News, November
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Chronicle, (illus. B/W)
Smith, Roberta, “An Angry Young Woman Draws a Bead on Men, The New York Times, May
24 (illus. B/W)
Smith, Roberta, “From New York Painting: Work That Takes Time”, New York Times, May 21
Smith, Roberta, “Women Artists Engage the ‘Enemy’”, The New York Times, August 16, (illus.
C.)
unsigned, “Color Her Barbara”, The New Yorker, December 28
1991 Cottingham, Laura, “Feminism and Painting”, Balcon #7, (illus. C.)
Evans, Stephen, “Painting Culture” at fiction/nonfiction”, NYQ, November 10
Hess, Elizabeth, “Death to the Masters”, The Village Voice, October 22
Kimmelman, Michael, “Painting Culture at fiction/nonfiction”, The New York Times,
November 1
Myles, Eileen, “Deborah Kass at Simon Watson”, Art in America, January, (illus. C.)
1990 Cottingham, Laura, “Subject Matters, Too”, essay for exhibition “Deborah Kass”
Westfall, Stephen, “Subject Matters”, Contemporanea, November, #22, (illus. C.)
1989 Mooreman, Margaret, “Print review”, Art News, January, (illus. C.)
1988 Gilbert-Rolft, Jeremy, “Beyond Absence”, Arts Magazine, October
Mahoney, Robert, “Deborah Kass at Scott Hanson ”, Arts Magazine, September
Mahoney, Robert, “Deborah Kass at Scott Hanson ”, New York Press, November
Morgan, Robert C., “Group Show Review”, Flash Art, May/June
1987 Brenson, Michael, “Richard Bosman”, The New York Times, October 16
Cameron, Dan, “The Season That Almost Wasn’t”, Arts Magazine, January
Nadelman, Cynthia, “Prints”, Art News, October, (illus. C.)
Olander, William, essay for exhibition “2 Painters - Charles Clough and Mimi Thompson”
Saltz, Jerry, “Beyond Boundaries: New York, New Art”, Alfred Van der Mark Editions (illus.
C.)
1986 Cameron, Dan, “Second Nature: New Paintings by Deborah Kass”, Arts Magazine, April, (illus.
C.)
Cohen, Ronny, “Deborah Kass at Baskerville +Watson”, Art Forum International, Summer
(illus. C.)
Westfall, Stephen, “Deborah Kass at Baskerville + Watson”, Art in America, July (illus. C.)
1985 Masheck, Joseph, “Observations on Harking Back”, New Observations, #28 (illus. B/W)
Muchnic, Suzanne, “review”, The Los Angeles Times, May 17, (illus. B/W)
1984 Brenson, Michael, “Deborah Kass at Baskerville + Watson”, The New York Times, January 20,
(illus. B/W)
Dunn, Fontaine,“Deborah Kass at Baskerville + Watson”, Arts Magazine, January, (illus. C.)
Geer, Susan,“Deborah Kass at Turnball, Lutjeans, and Kogan”, Images and Issues, July/August
Henry, Gerrit, “Deborah Kass at Baskerville + Watson”, Art News, February, (illus. B/W)
Howe, Katherine, “Deborah Kass at Baskerville + Watson”, Images and Issues, May/June,
(illus. B/W)
Liebman, Lisa, “Deborah Kass at Baskerville + Watson”, Artforum International, April, (illus.
B/W)
Wilson, William, “Deborah Kass at Turnball, Lutjeans, and Kogan”, The Los Angeles Times,
February 3, (illus. B/W)
1983 Nadelman, Cynthia, “Deborah Kass at Baskerville + Watson”, Art News, September, (illus. C.)
1982 Cohen, Ronny, “Survey of What, How and Why Artists are Drawing So Much Today”, Drawing,
Volume 3, #2, July/August (illus. B/W)
Henry, Gerrit,“Deborah Kass at Baskerville + Watson”, Art News, February
Smith, Roberta,“Energism at Stefanatie”, The Village Voice, May 25
1981 Perrault, John, “review”, SoHo Weekly News, November 24
1980 Staniszewski, Mary Anne, “First Person singular: Recent Self-Portraiture at Pratt Institute”, Art
News, May, (illus. C.)
SPECIAL PROJECTS
2002 “Enough About Me”, Momenta Art, Brooklyn, NY, curator
2000 “America’s Most Wanted” online project for The Robert Shiffler Foundation, Dayton, OH,
curated by Barry Rosenberg
1997 Astraea Foundation First Annual Fund Raising Print, New York, NY
1996 The Jewish Museum Annual Vera List Print Edition, New York, NY
1994 “Off the Streets and Into the Studio: Cultural Politics Theory and Practice”, College Art
Association Conference, New York, NY, organizer and moderator
1992 “Painting Culture”, UC Irvine Gallery, Irvine CA, curator
1991 “Representation and Value: What Role Will the Languages of Feminism Play in the Artworld of
the Nineties?”, Drawing Center and Cooper Union, New York, NY, organizer

TEACHING, LECTURES AND PANELS
2003 New York University, New York, NY, Visiting Artist, Graduate Program
“The Legacy of Andy Warhol”, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, NY, panelist
“Women in the Art World”,National Academy of Design, New York, NY. panelist
2001 Weatherspoon Art Gallery, “Artist Symposium with Deborah Kass”, University of North
Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC
2000 Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, Visiting Artist, Graduate Program,
photography
The Katonah Museum, Katonah, NY “Looking Backwards While Moving Forward,” panelist
1999 The Newcomb Art Gallery, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, “The Warhol Project,” lecture
The Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, RI, “My Andy,” lecture
Philadelphia Museum of Art, “Q&A (Queer & Artist),” panelist
Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, LA, “The 1999 Louisiana Open,” juror and lecture
The Armory, NY, NY, “Simon Says Armory Show Tour,” lecture
SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz, NY “Dead Warhol: Andy Warhol’s Posthumous Reputation”,
panelist
School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, Fifth Year Travelling Scholarship, juror
1998 New Museum, NY, NY, panelist
New York University, lecture
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, “Facing the Dogs” lecture series
1997 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME - resident artist
Sotheby’s - “Andy Warhol’s Influence On Contemporary Art,” panelist
New York University, New York, NY - graduate seminar, fall semester
Tyler School of Art of Temple University, Philadelphia, PA , lecture and critiques
Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, MD - “Jewish Jackies, Jewish Barbies, Jewish Princesses:
Exploding The Myths,” Dialogue with Rabbi Avis D. Miller
1996 The Whitney Museum of American Art - “Seminars with Artists”, lecture
Institute of Fine Art at New York University - “Artists at the Institute”, lecture
The Jewish Museum - “Too Ethnic: Identity and Its Relationship to the Visual Arts”, panelist
1995 State University of New York at Purchase, Purchase, NY - graduate seminar lecture
Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH - Rhoda Mayerson Lectures on Contemporary Art
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA - lecture
Columbia University, New York, NY - graduate seminar lecture
Barnard College, New York, NY - lecture
New York University, New York, NY - lecture
Franklin and Marshall college, Lancaster, PA - lecture
University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Amherst, MA - graduate and senior critique, lecture
Penn State University, University Park, PA - The Contemporary Scholarship on Lesbian and Gay
Lives Lecture Series
Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD - junior and senior critique, lecture
1994 State University of New York at Purchase, Purchase, NY - visiting artist, fall semester
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI - final senior critique
Maryland Institute of Art, Baltimore, MD - junior critique
Tyler School of Art of Temple University, Philadelphia, PA - “Changing the Context: Artists
Who Curate”, panelist
1993 School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL - Visiting Artist with seniors and
graduates, spring semester
School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA - Four Painters Program with seniors and
graduates, fall semester
University of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA - senior critique and lecture
Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO - senior critique and lecture
The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY - “Artists on Abstract Art – The
Geometric Tradition”, panelist
The New School for Social Research, New York, NY - “Voices of Women Artists: Continuity
and Change”, panelist
1992 California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA - lecture
Otis Art Institute of Parsons School of Design, Los Angeles, CA - lecture
Artists Talk on Art, New York, NY - “Sugar Daddy: The Genetics of Oedipus”, panelist
Thread Waxing Space, New York, NY - “Supermodern Art”, panelist
State University of New York at Purchase, Purchase, NY - “Artists Intentions”, panelist
Thread Waxing Space, New York, NY - “Look Who’s Talking: Questions of Standards, Values
and Criteria”, panelist
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN - “Excluded Voices: Challenging Homophobia and
Sexism”, panelist
1991 Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI - senior and graduates, winter, spring and fall
semesters
1990 Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI - Distinguished Visiting Artist with senior and
graduates, spring semester
Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY - lecture
1989 Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI - senior and graduates critique
Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY - graduate critique
1988 Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY - lecture
1987 Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI - senior critique
1986 Maryland Institute of Art, Royal Graduate Department, Baltimore, MD - visiting artist and
graduate critique
1985 Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI - senior critique
University of California at Irvine, Irvine, CA - lecture
1980 University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY - lecture
1987 College of Mount St. Vincent, Riverdale, NY - senior critique