HARRY ROSEMAN
EDUCATION
1973 Assistant to artist Tony Smith
1969-72 Assistant to artist Joseph Cornell
1968 B.F.A. Pratt Institute
GALLERY REPRESENTATION
Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, MO
Gallery Joe, Philadelphia, PA
Davis & Langdale Company, New York City, NY
Kayafas Gallery, Boston, MA
TEACHING
1981-present Vassar College, Professor of Art
SELECTED ONE-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2014 “Clay Cloth Sculptures and Works on Paper,” Davis and Langdale Company, New York, NY
2009 “Utopia Parkway: A Photographic Portrait of Joseph Cornell,” Davis and Langdale Company, New York, NY
2008 “Woven Walls,” A 360 degree drawing installation,Kleinert/James Art Center, Woodstock, NY
2007 “Davis & Langdale Company, Inc. New York, NY
“100 Most Popular Colors,” Gallery Kayafas, Boston, MA
“Draped and Wrapped and Covered,” Leslie Heller Gallery, New York, NY
2006 “Pictures of Things,” Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, MO
2004 “Director’s Cut,” www.Aperture.org, web exhibition curated by Ellen Harris, Director of Aperture Foundation
2003 “Harry Roseman: Photographs,” Ellen Elizabeth Gallery, Harwich Port, MA
“Cloth: Sculptures, Photographs, Drawings,” Davis & Langdale Company,
NewYork, NY
“A Selection of Photographs of Joseph Cornell,” Davis & Langdale Company New York, NY
2002 “Gravity,” Gallery Joe, Philadelphia, PA
2001 “Draped, Wrapped & Covered: Photographs,” The Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine, New York, NY
1999 “Harry Roseman: Photographs: Call and Response,” Davis & Langdale Company, New York, NY
“Utopia Observed: A Photographic Portrait of Joseph Cornell by Harry Rose man,” Menil Collection, Houston, TX
1997 “Inside the Box: A Photographic Portrait of Joseph Cornell by Harry Roseman,”
Davis and Langdale Company, New York, NY
1996 “Harry Roseman: Recent Work,” Gallery Joe, Philadelphia, PA
“Harry Roseman: Sculptures,” Davis & Langdale Company, New York, NY
1994 “Harry Roseman: Drawings,” Davis & Langdale Company, New York, NY
“Harry Roseman: New Work,” 55 Mercer Street Gallery, New York, NY
“Harry Roseman: Selected Work 1968-1988,” Gallery Joe, Philadelphia, PA
1993 “Harry Roseman: Recent Work,” Davis & Langdale Company,” New York, NY
1989 “Harry Roseman: Weave Drawings,” Davis & Langdale Company,” New York, NY
1987 “Harry Roseman: Sculptures,” Davis & Langdale Company,” New York, NY
1986 “Harry Roseman: Collages,” Davis & Langdale Company,” New York, NY
1984 “Harry Roseman: Recent Work,” Barbara Mathes Gallery, New York, NY
“Harry Roseman,” Dart Gallery, Chicago, IL
1983 “Harry Roseman: Contemporary Bronzes,” The University Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 “Picturesque,” Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, MO
2022 “Wonder Things,” Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, MO
2021 “Foto Fest,” Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, MO
2020 “Crafting the Lens,” Atrium Gallery, Online Exclusive
2017 “People, Places, and Things,” Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, MO
2015 “Wintry Mix,” Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, MO
“2015 Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts,” American Academy of Arts and Letters, NY
2012 “5: Artists: On Paper,” Davis and Langdale Company, New York, NY
2009 “Photography Group Installation,” Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, MO
2008 “Small Works,” Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, MO
“People and Places,” Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, MO
2007 “Body / Spirit,” Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, MO
2006 “Will Mentor, Joyce Robins, Harry Roseman, Gary Stephan,” Lesley Miller Gallery, New York, NY
2006-1981 Annual Group Exhibitions, Davis & Langdale Company, New York, NY
2005 “Reading Objects 2005 USB Art Gallery,” Samuel Dorsky Museum, SUNY at New Paltz, “MTA Arts for Transit, Celebrating 20 years of Public Art, ”
New York, NY
2004 “179th Annual: An Invitation Exhibition of Contemporary American Art,” National Academy of Design, New York, NY
2003 “Boxing Clever: A Centennial Re-Evaluation of Joseph Cornell,” University of Essex, Colchester, United Kingdom
2002 “Suspend and Levitate,” Suzanne H. Arnold Art Gallery, Lebanon Valley College, PA
“Past to Present: Recent Acquisitions, Promised Gifts, and Extended Loans,
1998-2000,” Samual Dorsky Museum, SUNY at New Paltz, New York, NY
“Works on Paper,” Davis & Langdale, New York, NY
2001 “In the Lake,” Malca Fine Arts, New York, NY
2000 “Photographs by Painters, Sculptors and Photographers, Lennon Weinberg,
New York, NY
“Collage,” Gallery West, Suffolk Community College, Brentwood, NY
1999 “Correspondence,” Vassar College Center Gallery, Poughkeepsie, NY
“Drawing Rules,” Gallery Joe, Pennsylvania, PA
1998 “Increments: Harry Roseman and Joy Taylor,” Marist College Art Gallery, Poughkeepsie, NY
1996 “Colleagues,” Vassar College Faculty Arts at Woodstock Guild, Woodstock, NY
“Hudson Valley/Catskill Mountains Regional Exhibition: In this Time and Place,” Museum of Art, State University of New York at New Paltz, NY
1995 “Artists View the Suburban Landscape,” The Gallery at Shepard Hall, City College of New York
“Hudson Valley Artists 95: Domestic Policy,” Museum of Art, State University of New York at New Paltz, NY
“Gallery Selections,” Barbara Mathes, New York, NY
“A Good Likeness: Portraits by Contemporary Sculptors,” Gallery Joe,
Philadelphia, PA
1994 “Art en Route: MTA/Art for Transit,” Paine Webber Gallery, New York, NY
“Friends,” 55 Mercer Street Gallery, New York, NY
“Patterns and Exotica: Images on Paper,” Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, MO
1993 “Studio to Site: Public Art in New York City,” Sidney Mishkin Gallery,
Baruch College, New York, NY
1991 “Recent Acquisitions, Part Two, 1950-1991,” Achenbach Foundation for
Graphic Arts, San Francisco, CA
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, CA
Addison Gallery of American Art, Philips Academy, Andover, MA
The Beacon Companies, Boston, MA
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York, NY
Cincinnati Museum of Art, Ohio
The Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, NY
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego/La Jolla, CA
Levi Strauss Corporation, San Francisco, CA
The Menil Collection, Houston, TX
Philadelphia Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA
Rhode Island School of Design, Museum of Fine Art, Providence, RI
Museum of Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM
Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
COMMISSIONS
2001 “Curtain Wall,” John F. Kennedy International Airport, International Terminal, Arrivals Corridor, 600 foot relief sculpture, New York, NY
1996 “Four Horses,” Rockland Community College, outdoor free-standing sculptures comprised of four dispersed elements, Spring Valley, NY
1990 J.P. Morgan & Company, Inc. and Metropolitan Transit Authority, New York: Wall Street Subway Station, 40 foot polychrome bronze relief, New York, NY
GRANTS AND AWARDS
2013 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, Creative Arts Category
2003 Curriculum Development Grant from the AT&T Foundation
Publication Grant, Vassar College
2002 Carolyn Grant Endowment Fund Grant
2001 New York City Municipal Art Society, 1 of 3 to win the 2001 Outstanding Public Art Project Award
1996 Research Grant, Vassar College
1990 Dutchess County Executive Arts Award for Art in Public Places
1989 Finishing Grant from Vassar College for video documentary, “The Unseen World of Public Art: The Artist’s Aspect”
1986-87 Dutchess Arts Fund Individual Artist’s Fellowship
1986 Research Grant, Vassar College
1985 Mellon Grant, Vassar College
1983 Best Scupture Award, “Small works 1983,” University of Massachusetts,
Amherst, MA
1982 Creative Artists Public Service Program Grant (C.A.P.S.)
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2013 Flanagan, Nina, “Guggenheim Fellowship Spotlights Two Faculty Members,” Vassar Quarterly 109, no. 2, Spring/Summer 2013
2005 Catalogue for “Reading Objects Nov. 9 - Dec. 11,” reproduction of Mr. Damery’s house plus 2 poems in response to the sculpture by Pauline Uchmanowicz and Robin Arnold, Samual Dorsky Museum at New Paltz, New York, NY
2004 Naves, Mario, “Conflict of Interest,” New York Observer, May 31
2003 Cohen, David, “Cloth at Davis & Langdale Gallery,” The New York Sun, May 29
2002 Taplin, Robert, “Harry Roseman at Gallery Joe,” Art in America, September
“Art World: Awards,” Art in America, April
2001 Butwin, David, “Terminal Bliss -- New York’s JFK,”
United Airlines - Hemi spheres, August
Ruhling, Nancy A., “A Walk in the Clouds: Artist’s Airport Installation Looks Skyward in Spirit,” Newsday, July 27
Bohlen, Celestine, “Being Met at the Airport by New Art,” New York Times,
May 24
Pabalan, Melissa L., “Art in the Air,” Arts & Antiques, May
2000 Winum, Jessica, “Vassar Today,” Vassar, Summer
1999 Bernhard, Emery, “Private Process, Public Art,” Vassar Views, June
Vogel, Carol, “Inside Art,” New York Times, February 12
1998 Lempka, Wayne, “Marist Exhibit Brilliantly Blends Contrasting Styles,”
Poughkeepsie Journal, March 5
1996 Taplin, Robert, “LeDray’s Microcraft,” Art in America, September
O’Corozine, Rich, “In this Time and Place: Hudson Valley Artist Exhibit at the College,” The Herald, July 18
“Harry Roseman at Davis & Langdale,” Review, vol. 1, num. 1, April 1
1994 “Notes from the Underground,” The New Yorker, September 5
Grimes, William, “Raising Artistic Sites of Riders in Nether and Upper Regions,” The New York Times, August 22
Sozanski, Edward J., “Small Space, Little Sculptures, Big Impressions,” The Philadelphia Inquirer, April 1
Mirkil, Helen, “Sculpture Specialists Gallery Joe present Harry Roseman,”
Art Matters, March
1993 Heartney, Eleanor, “Harry Roseman at Davis & Langdale,” Art in America, October
1991 Cox, Amie, “Underground Art,” Dutchess, May/June
1990 “Subscape,” The New Yorker, May 28
van Dyk, Deirdre, “A Bit at a Time, Underground Art,” The New York Observer, May 7
1989 Massad Sheridan, Dixie, “Blockbuster,” Vassar Quarterly, Spring
1988 Hunter, Susan F., “ Soft Sell is a Hard-Core Examination of Sex and Art,”
The Atlanta Journal/The Atlanta Constitution, May 7
Pennella, Florence, “China Through an Artist’s Eyes,” Poughkeepsie Journal, March 27
1987 Hershenson, Roberta, The New York Observer, November 30
1986 Smith, Amanda, Dancemagazine, September
Hamilton, Louise, “Intimate Distance,” Say! Arts New York, June
Russell, John, The New York Times, April 25
Dunning, Jennifer, “The Dance: Soft Sell,” The New York Times, April 21
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
1991-95 Metropolitan Transit Authority Art Advisory Committee
1990 The Unseen World of Public Art: The Artist’s Aspect, video documentary
co-directed and co-produced with Ken Robinson
1986 Soft Sell, performance project conceived by Roseman with choreographer
Marta Renzi and poet Daniel Wolff; large sculptures for set by Roseman,
performed at La Mama, New York, NY
1982-84 Participated in the reorganization of the studio art curriculum at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, and in the establishment of the college’s first
studio art major
1973 Consultant for Joseph Cornell Memorial Exhibition, Queens County Arts and
Cultural Center (The Queens Museum), Flushing, NY
PUBLICATIONS
2004 Verdone, Jules “Man in a Box,” Time Out, Dec. 18 2003-Jan. 1, 2004
“Cornell at the Window,” Harry Roseman, published
Museum of Modern Art Film Screening Schedule, photograph published
1999 Willard, Nancy, “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice: A Conversation with
Harry Roseman, Assistant to Joseph Cornell,” Michigan Quarterly Review, Winter
10 photographs by artist published
1998 Blair, Lindsay, “Joseph Cornell’s Vision of Spiritual Order,” Reaktion Books.
2 photographs published
1997 Solomon, Deborah, Utopia Parkway: The Life and Work of Joseph Cornell, Farrar, Strauss, & Giroux
4 photographs and frontispiece published
Solomon, Deborah, “Joseph Cornell’s Utopia,” Newsday, April 6
3 photographs published
1988 Sequoia, Literary Magazine, Stanford University, Winter
9 photographic self-portraits published