Thomas Woodruff
Thomas Woodruff (b. 1957)
EDUCATION
1978
Willard Cummings Memorial Prize, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME
1979
BFA, Cooper Union, New York, NY
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2014
The Legends of the Mysterious Rocks, Mark Moore Gallery, Culver City, CA
2012
The Four Temperament Variations, P·P·O·W, New York, NY
2010
Thomas Woodruff: Recent Works, Taylor Bercier Fine Art, New Orleans, LA
Freak Parade, Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI
2009
Freak Parade, Selby Gallery, Ringling College of Art and Design, Sarasota, FL
2008
Solar System (The Turning Heads), P·P·O·W, New York, NY
Freak Parade, Herron School of Art and Design, IUPUI, Indianapolis, IN
2007
Freak Parade, University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach, CA
2006
Freak Parade, University Galleries, Illinois State University, Normal, IL
2002
Nocturnal Missions, Marguerite Ostreicher Fine Arts, LA
2001
Designing Salome, The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI
2000
Apple Cannon, The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI
1999
All Systems GO: Mission Poesy, P·P·O·W, New York, NY
All Systems GO: Mission Anemone, Debs & Co., New York, NY
1998
My Wild Life, Marguerite Oestreicher Fine Arts, New Orleans, LA
1997
Nosegays and Knuckle Sandwiches, The Atlanta College of Art, Atlanta, GA; Huntington Beach Art Center Foundation, Huntington Beach, CA
Apple Canon, P·P·O·W, New York, NY
1995
The Secret Charts, P·P·O·W, New York, NY
Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, SC
1994
Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1993
The QUESTION MARK GIRL – ‘She Looks Towards the Future’ {The Ethnic Variations}, The SWEET and SOUR BABIES {Companion Paintings}, SATINAV {Vanitas Backwards}, P·P·O·W, New York, NY
1992
In a Vivid Array, The Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, MO
After Flash, Parker/Mark Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1991
Loon Ballade, Queens Museum, Queens, NY
Chromatic Aberration, P·P·O·W, New York, NY
1989
Rosabelle, Believe, P·P·O·W, New York, NY
The Spectre of the Rose, White Columns, New York, NY
Hold Still, Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Betsy Rosenfield Gallery, Chicago, IL
1987
SCIENCE FAIR: A cycle of sixty paintings, Alexander Wood Gallery, New York, NY
TWELVE MONTHS: Nudes with objects and words, 56 Bleecker Gallery, Ltd., New York, NY
1985
True to Life Dramas, Taghinia-Milani Gallery, New York, NY
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2017
Tattooed New York, New York Historical Society, New York, NY
2016
Rockwell and Realism in an Abstract World, Norman Rockwell Museum, Stockbridge, MA
Art, AIDS, America, Zuckerman Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA; Bronx Museum of Art, Bronx, NY; Alphawood Gallery, Chicago, IL
2015
HEY Act III, Halle Saint Pierre, Paris, France
Art, AIDS, America, ONE Archives Gallery & Museum, University of Southern California, West Hollywood, CA; Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA
2014
Pressed Flowers, Lesley Heller Workspace, New York, NY
2013
Nocturnes: Romancing the Night, National Arts Club, New York, NY
2011
The Influential’s: SVA Women Alumni invite Artists who have shaped their work, Visual Arts Gallery, New York NY
2008
Bomb Scare, Headquarters Studio, New York, NY
2006
High Drama: Eugene Berman and the Legacy of the Melancholic Sublime, Long Beach Museum, Long Beach, CA
2005
Idols of Perversity, Bellwether, New York, New York
Then as Now, Sordoni Art Gallery, Wilkes University, PA
2004
21, P.P.O.W, New York, NY
6th Annual Realism Invitational, Karen Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Birdspace: A Post-Audubon Artists Aviary, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA; Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL; The Hudson Museum of Art, Yonkers, NY; McDonough Museum of Art, Youngstown, OH; Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ
2003
The Burbs, DFN Gallery, Curated by Rick Davidman, Peter Drake and John Nickle New York, NY
Look Up! Contemplating the Skies, New York Academy of Sciences, New York, NY
2001
Self-Made Men, DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY
2000
Bodies of Resistance, organized by Visual AIDS, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT; NSA Gallery, Durban, South Africa
Apple Corps: Lithographs by Thomas Woodruff, The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI
American Art Today: Fantasies & Curiosities, The Art Museum at Florida International University, Miami, FL
2000 Clowns, University Galleries, Illinois State University, Normal, IL
Fantasies and Curiosities, The Art Museum at Florida International University, Miami, FL
Post Pop, Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, PA
1999
Bodies of Resistance, organized by Visual Aids, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT
Eye on America, Norman Rockwell Museum, Stockbridge, MA
Vanitas: Reflections of Conceit & Desire, Dalton Gallery, Agnes Scott College, Atlanta, GA
Wildflowers, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY
Feast for the Eyes: Contemporary Still Lifes, Museum of Art and Science, Melbourne, FL
Requiem, Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA
1998
Remembering Beauty: The Seductive and Nostalgic Nature of American Landscape, South Bend Regional Museum of Art, South Bend, IN
Wishful Thinking, James Graham & Sons, New York, NY
Divining Nature, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC
Animal Tales: Contemporary Bestiary and Animal Painting, Whitney Museum of American Art at Champion, Stamford, CT
1997
In Memory of Pleasure, The John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
Debs &Co., New York, NY
Devotional Rescue: The Paintings of Laurie Hogin, Fred Stonehouse and Thomas Woodruff, The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH
Art and Provocation: Images from Rebels, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, CO
1996
Annual Summer Watercolor Exhibition, P·P·O·W, New York, NY
Screen Memories, K & E Gallery, New York, NY
Anima Mundi, James Graham & Sons, New York, NY
Menu du Jour, curated by Erin Parish, Silverstein Project Space, New York, NY
New Traditionalists, curated by Maria Porges, University of Oregon Museum of Art, Eugene, OR
Birds!,Thomas Barry Fine Arts, Minneapolis, MN
Wheel of Fortune, Artists Interpret the Tarot, curated by Amy Lipton, Lombard/Freid, NY
1995
Not not (Who’s There?) Part II, New York, NY
Terrestrial Bodies, curated by Christopher Sweet, Zoller Gallery, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
Wheel of Fortune: Artists Interpret the Tarot, curated by Amy Lipton, Lombard/Freid Fine Arts, New York, NY
1994
Fallen Idylls: American Figurative Painting, curated by P·P·O·W and Christopher Sweet, Art Miami, Miami, FL
American Art Today ‘94, Florida International University, Miami, FL
Babies and Bambies, Arti et Amicitae, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Arabesque, P·P·O·W, New York, NY
Truth Be Told: It’s All About Love, Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York, NY
Don’t Leave Me This Way: Art in the Age of AIDS, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia
Intimate Observations, curated by Jennifer Gross, The Baxter Gallery, Maine College of Art, Portland, ME
1993
Beyond Loss: Art in the Era of AIDS, organized by the Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, D.C.
Eye Tattooed America, curated by D.E. Hardy, Ann Nathan Gallery/Objects, Chicago, IL
Stiebel Modern, New York, NY
The Anxious Salon, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA
Urgent Nostalgia, curated by Prudence Roberts, COCA, Seattle, WA
1992-94
From Media to Metaphor: Art About AIDS, curated by Tom Sokolowski and Robert Atkins, Emerson Gallery, Hamilton College, Clinton, NY; Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA; Sharidin Art Gallery, Kutztown, PA; Musee d’Art Contemporain de Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada; Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, FL; Grey Art Gallery and Study Center, NYU, New York, NY
1992
The Language of Flowers, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, NY
Mind and Beast: Contemporary Artists and the Animal Kingdom, curated by Thomas Garver, Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum in Wausau, WI
Romance and Irony in Recent American Art, The Parrish Art Museum, Southhampton, NY
Good Work, The Cooper Union Alumni Relations Department, Cooper Union, New York, NY
Tattoo Collection, Urbi Et Orbi, Paris, France; Daniel Buchholz, Cologne; Andrea Rosen, New York, NY
1991
Personal Mythologies, Marc Richards Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Still Lifes, Jon Oulman Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
1990
NATURE/nature, curated by Linda King and Karen Indeck, Gallery 400, The University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL
To My Valentine, Jon Oulman Gallery, Minneapolis, MI
Paul Benney/Thomas Woodruff, The Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA
White Columns, New York, NY
1989
Landscape, Betsy Rosenfield Gallery, Chicago, IL
Landscape Constructions, Richard Green Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Tavelli Gallery, Aspen, CO
Evening Skies: Artists’ Interpretation of the Cosmos, The Noyes Museum, Oceanville, NJ
Romance & Irony in Recent American Art, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
Update ‘89, White Columns, New York, NY
Objects on the Edge-Contemporary Still Life, Rosa Esman Gallery, New York, NY
1988
The $1,000 Show, John Davis Gallery, New York, NY
Art for Your Collection, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
1987
Fire, Alexander Wood Gallery, New York, NY
Unreal: Conceptual Realism, Alexander Wood Gallery, New York, NY
1986
Oneric, Semaphore Gallery, New York, NY
Drawn and Quartered, White Columns, New York, NY
1985
Tension, Taghinia-Milani Gallery, New York, NY
Works on Paper, Semaphore Gallery, New York, NY
1982
New Drawing in America, The Drawing Center, New York, NY
1981
Selections 14, The Drawing Center, New York, NY
100 Square Feet, Public Illuminations Gallery, New York, NY
1979
One Twelve Workshop, New York, NY
Houghton Gallery, New York, NY
TEACHING
2000-Present
Chairman, Illustration and Cartooning Department, The School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
1988-Present
Thesis Workshop Director, MFA Media Arts Department, The School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
1994
MFA Program, Milton Avery Art Center, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
1983-87
Undergraduate Instructor–Painting and Drawing, The School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
2018
Sharkive Collection, CU Art Museum