Joel Shapiro

Joel Shapiro (left) on the occasion of his exhibition opening in the Museum Ludwig in Cologne on February 25, 2011

Untitled (1996). Israel Museum , Jerusalem

Joel Shapiro (born 1941 in New York City ) is an American visual artist .

Life

Shapiro grew up in New York City. In 1964 he completed his Bachelor of Arts (BA) at the University of New York , and in 1969 his Master of Arts (MA) there. From 1965 to 1967 he served as a volunteer in the Peace Corps in India. As early as 1970 he was able to participate in the annual Contemporary American Sculpture exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art , New York. In 1976 he represented the United States at the 37th Venice Biennale , in 1980 at the 39th. 1977 Shapiro took part in documenta 6 in Kassel, as well as in documenta 7 in 1982 . Today his works are represented in numerous international collections. Shapiro lives and works in New York City. He is married to the artist Ellen Phelan.

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Shapiro is known for his expansive sculptures made of cast iron or bronze (and also wood), which are made of beam-shaped elements - at first glance random - seem to be welded together and unstable. Shapiro developed his formal language in the 1970s when dealing with minimalism . Since the 1980s, the human figure has become a recurring theme for him, which he captures - in a strongly stylized form - mostly in a state of movement or in a pose. Wherever they remind of a certain posture, his sculptures can appeal to the viewer's emotions. Of his more than 20 works in public space, two of his bronzes can be found in Germany: Untitled (1994) in front of Quartier 205, Berlin , and Untitled (1996/99) in the Cologne Sculpture Park . One of his best-known works in public space is the sculpture in front of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC

Awards

• 1975 Visual Arts Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts (USA)
• 1984 Brandeis University Creative Arts Award
• 1986 Skowhegan Medal for Sculpture
• 1990 Order of Merit for Sculpture, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters , New York
• In 1994 appointed a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Liberal Arts
• 1998 appointed to the American Academy of Arts and Letters , New York
• 2012 elected member ( NA ) of the National Academy of Design , New York

Solo exhibitions (selection)

A catalog was published for the exhibitions marked with "K".

• 1970 Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
• 1973 PS1 Contemporary Art Center , New York City
• 1976 Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago ^K
• 1980 Whitechapel Art Gallery, London / Museum Haus Lange, Krefeld / Moderna Museet, Stockholm ^K
• 1981 The Israel Museum, Jerusalem ^K
• 1982–1984 Whitney Museum of American Art, New York / Dallas Museum of Fine Arts / Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto / San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art ^K
• 1985–1986 Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam / Art Museum Düsseldorf / State Art Hall, Baden-Baden ^K
• 1986 Seattle Art Museum
• 1987 Painted Wood - Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden, Washington DC ^K
• 1988 Recent Sculptures and Drawings - Cleveland Museum of Art ^K
• 1989 Playing with Human Geometry: Joel Shapiro's Sculpture, The Toledo Museum of Art
• 1990 Sculpture & Graphics 1985-1990 - Museum Varberg ^K ; Tracing the Figure - Des Moines Art Center ^K.
• 1990–1991 IVAM Centro Julio Gonzalez, Valencia / Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek / Kunsthalle Zürich / Musee des Beaux-Arts, Calais ^K
• 1991 Joel Shapiro: Selected Drawings, Center for the Fine Arts, Miami ^K
• 1995–1996 Outdoors - The Walker Arts Center, Minneapolis / Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art , Kansas City ^K (first major exhibition on the bronzes)
• 1997 Sculpture in Clay, Plaster, Wood, Iron and Bronze - 1971-1997 - Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover Massachusetts
• 1997/1998 Sculptures 1993 - 1997 - House of Art, Munich / Barlach HALLE K, Hamburg ^K
• 1999 Roma - American Academy, Rome, and spread across the city; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
• 1999–2000 Sculptures 1974-1999 - Yorkshire Sculpture Park , Wakefield
• 2000–2001 Spoleto Festival USA, Charleston / McNay Art Museum, San Antonio / Denver Art Museum
• 2001 Joel Shapiro on the Roof - Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
• 2004 Middlebury College Museum of Art
• 2008 Gana Art Center, Seoul; Minneapolis Institute of Arts (Minnesota)
• 2011 Museum Ludwig , Cologne

Collections (selection)

• Museum of Modern Art , New York
• Whitney Museum of American Art , New York
• Museum of Fine Arts, Houston , Texas
• Tate Britain , London
• Peggy Guggenheim Collection , Venice
• Kiasma - Museum of Contemporary Art , Helsinki
• Tel Aviv Museum of Art
• Israel Museum , Jerusalem
• Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden , Washington, DC
• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum , Washington, DC
• Kunsthaus Zurich
• Louisiana Museum of Modern Art , Humlebaek
• Moderna Museet , Stockholm
• Center Georges Pompidou , Paris
• National Gallery of Australia , Canberra
• Stedelijk Museum , Amsterdam
• Beeldenroute Westersiegel , Rotterdam
• Yorkshire Sculpture Park

literature

• Julia Friedrich (Ed.): Joel Shapiro. Strzelecki Books, Cologne 2011, ISBN 978-3-942680-08-0
• Hubertus Gaßner : Joel Shapiro: Sculptures 1993–1997. Haus der Kunst, Munich 1997 (also contains an overview of works from 1973 to 1991, an exhibition directory and a bibliography. Texts in German and English)
• Hendel Teicher: Joel Shapiro: Sculpture and Drawings. Harry N. Abrams Verlag, 1998 (overview of his work from 1968 to 1997, with numerous illustrations, in English)

Web links

Commons : Joel Shapiro  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Joel Shapiro in the catalog of the German National Library
• Joel Shapiro . Gana Art Gallery [with u. a. Biography, images of several recent works and exhibition directory]
• Joel Shapiro . La Louver Gallery, Venice, California [with detailed exhibition directory and images of several recent works]

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Notable returned Peace Corps Volunteers in Arts and Literature ( Memento of the original from December 10, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Peace Corps  
2. ↑ Two figures, 1994 - Joel Shapiro ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Sculpture in Berlin  
3. ↑ Joel Shapiro . Sculpture Park Cologne
4. ↑ Joel Shapiro ( Memento of the original from June 3, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . La Louver Gallery, Venice, California  
5. ↑ nationalacademy.org: Living Academicians "S" / Shapiro, Joel, NA 2012 ( Memento of the original from March 20, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on July 15, 2015)  
6. ↑ Joel Shapiro ( Memento of the original from January 28, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Gana Art Gallery