ABOUT

Judy Fox 2018

2018

Judy Fox 2023

2023

JUDY FOX

Sculptor

Senior Critic, New York Academy of Art

BIOGRAPHY

Judy Fox is a sculptor who lives and works in the Hudson Valley. Her work has received awards from The National Endowment for the Arts, Anonymous was a Woman, The American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Guggenheim Foundation. She has been a speaker and visiting artist at various institutions and conferences in the U.S. and abroad, and is currently a professor and Senior Critic at the New York Academy of Art. She is represented by Nancy Hoffman Gallery in New York City.

As an undergraduate Fox studied biology and sculpture at Yale and Skowhegan. She received an MA in Art History and Conservation from the Institute of Fine Arts at NYU. Studying the ways that various historical styles of representation displayed the beliefs and values of artists and their societies, she recognized a power in human imagery that was untapped at the time. Polychrome statuary of the gothic period inspired her to develop her signature style of precise portraiture and layered color, which she used to shine a contemporary light on specific icons of cultural histories.

Fox began showing her work in the East Village in the1980's as a pioneer of painted figuration, rendering nude children in mythological poses and period coiffure. While her work became known internationally for its diverse subjects and feminist approach, the figures have since met with ambivalence in the American art world, as nudity, sexuality, and race became increasingly controversial.

Judy Fox's more recent work has included surrealist life forms that are infused with human emotion. She continues to explore biological imperatives and the uncomfortable coexistence of our animal and cultural natures.

 

CURRICULUM VITAE

EDUCATION

1983
Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, New York, NY: M.A. in Art History and Conservation
1978
Yale University, New Haven CT: B.A. in Studio Art
1976
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME
1974
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2023
Judy Fox, Harvest, Nancy Hoffman Gallery, NY
2020
Judy Fox, Nancy Hoffman Gallery Booth, ADAA The Art Show, NY
2019
Garden, Nancy Hoffman Gallery, NY
2013
Power Play, 21C Museum Hotel, Cincinnati, OH
2012
Out of Water, P.P.O.W., NY
2010
Legendary Beings, The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI
2008
Judy Fox, Ace Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA
2007
Snow White and the Seven Sins, P.P.O.W., NY
2005
Power Figures, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris
Judy Fox, Skulpturen 1988-2004, Galerie im Traklhaus, Salzburg, Austria
Power Figures, P.P.O.W., NY
2001
Love & War, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygen, WI
God Lover, P.P.O.W., NY
2000
Show Girls, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
Satyr’s Daughters, P.P.O.W., NY
1998
Olympia, Ace Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Child’s Play, Rupertinum, Salzburg, Austria
1997
Naked Heroes, Kunsthalle im Palazzo, Leistal, Switzerland
1996
Sphinx Chapel, P.P.O.W., NY
Premasculine, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Prefeminine, Gallery Joe, Philadelphia, PA
1994
Judy Fox, Christine König Galerie, Vienna, Austria
1993
The Virgin Mary, Saint Theresa, and Cinderella, P.P.O.W., New York, NY
1989
Judy Fox, Carlo Lamagna Gallery, NY
1987
Judy Fox, Four Sculptures, Bruno Fachetti Gallery, NY
1977
Yale University Art and Architecture Gallery, New Haven, CT

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2022
Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts, American Academy of Arts and Letters, NY
2021
Wilde Kindheit, Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz, Austria
2019
The Figure, Nancy Hoffman Gallery, NY
2018
Figurative Symposium Exhibition, Arrowmont School, Gatlinburg, TN
The Nature Lab, LABspace, Hillsdale, NY
2017
Et Dieu Créa La Femme / La Maison Guerlain, Paris, France
Body of Work, Honolulu Museum of Art
2016
NY, NY: Clay, Clay Art Center, Port Chester, NY
2015
Beastly Beauty, Wilkinson Hall at New York Academy of Art, NY
2014
A Clay Bestiary, Hunterdon Art Museum, NJ
The Human Condition, Chazen Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin, Madison
2013
The Distaff Side, The Granary, Sharon, CT
Clay Bodies: Contemporary International Figurative Sculpture. Barry Friedman Ltd, NY
2011
Push Play, NCECA Invitational, Bellevue Arts Museum, WA
Claybodies; Reinterpreting the Figure , Hunterdon Museum, NJ
Angels and Urchins; 400 years of Child Portraiture, Kunsthalle Krems, Austria
2010
A Show of Heads, Cinema Gallery, Urbana, IL
Taiwan Ceramic Biennale Exhibition , Taipei County Yingge Ceramics Museum
Invitational Exhibition, American Academy of Arts and Letters, NY
Reflection II, Kunstforum Solothurn, Switzerland
2009
Bods: Rethinking the figure, Robert Kidd Gallery, Birmingham, MI
Seeing the Figure Anew, Doyle Arts Pavilion, Orange Coast College, Costa Mesa, CA
2008
Female Forms & Facets, Central Connecticut State University, New Britain
2006
New Old Masters/Nowi Dawni Mistrzow, National Museum, Gdansk, Poland
Looking Now, 21C Museum Louisville, KY
Why the Nude? Contemporary Approaches, Art Student's League, NYC
Complicit, University of Virginia Art Museum, Charlottesville
An Assessment of Contemporary Figuration, David Klein Gallery, Birmingham, MI
2005
Figur Skulptur, Sammlung Essl, Vienna, Austria
2004
179th Annual Exhibition, National Academy Museum, NYC
Uncanny, Tate, Liverpool, England; MUMOK, Vienna
Revelation, A fresh look at Contemporary Collections, Mint Mueum, Charlotte, NC
2003
Corporal Identity, Museum Fur Angewandte Kunst; Frankfort; Museum of Arts and Design, NY
Concentus, National Museum of Decorative Arts, Oslo, Norway
2002
Other Bodies, Speed Museum, Louisville, KY
Invitational Exhibition, American Academy of Arts and Letters, NY
Translations/Transgressions, Fine Arts Center, University of Rhode Island, RI
2001
Crafting Identity, Mint Museum, Tryon Center for Visual Art, Charlotte, NC
2000
Collector’s Choice, Exit Art, New York, NY
Olympia Redux, The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI
The End: An Independent Vision of Contemporary Culture, Exit Art, New York, NY
Ceramic National 2000, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY
Oh Baby! Exhibit A, NY
1999
Twenty-six American Artists, Campo & Campo, Antwerp, Belgium
1998
Here: Artists’ Interventions at the Aldrich Museum, Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT
Knowing Children, David Beitzel Gallery, New York, NY
Selections from the Permanent Collection , California Center for the Arts, Escondido, CA
Figur/Skulptur/Weiblich, Museum Linz, Austria
A Delicate Condition, Kent Gallery, NY
1997-98
To Be Real, Center for the Arts, Yerba Buena Gardens, San Francisco
1997
Countenance: Face, Head and Portrait in Contemporary Art, Galerie Ropac, Salzburg
My Little Pretty: Images of Girls by Contemporary Women Artists, MCA, Chicago, IL
Angel, Angel, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria
Small World Images of Children, Thomas Barry Fine Arts, Minneapolis
Figure and Fragility, Franklin Parrasch, New York, NY
1996
Narcissism: Artists Reflect Themselves, California Center for the Arts, Escondido, CA
B.A.B.Y., Hand Workshop, Richmond, VA; Virginia Beach Museum of Art, VA
The Imaginary Beings , Exit Art/The First World, New York, NY
1995
Identita e Alterita, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
Judy Fox/Inez van Lamsveerde , Kunst-Werke Berlin, Germany
Imperfect, Herter Art Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
Portrait of Our Times, Revolution, Ferndale, MI
1994
Maria Anna Dewes, Judy Fox, Inez van Lamsweerde, Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich
The Body Human, Nohra Haime Gallery, New York, NY
Faces of Faith, The Jewish Museum, Washington, DC
1993
Embody-The Photograph and the Figure, Proctor Arts Center, Bard College,
Annandale, NY Untitled, Ronald Feldman Gallery, New York, NY
/M'Aidez/Mayday, Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York, NY
Dolls in Contemporary Art, Metaphor for Personal Identity, Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI
1992
Fever, Exit Art/The First World, New York, NY
Group Exhibition, Blum Helman Warehouse, New York, NY
Little Women, Little Men (Markers of Diminished Lives), White Columns, NYC
1991
Dead Heroes, Disfigured Love, Lorence·Monk Gallery, New York, NY
American Art Today; New Directions, Florida International University Art Museum, Miami
Forbidden Games, Jack Tilton Gallery, New York, NY
1990
Diverse Representations, The Morris Museum, Morristown, NJ
Critic’s Choice; Jon Yau , Washburn Gallery, New York, NY
1989
The Age of Women, Jack Tilton Gallery, New York, NY
1985
The East Village Art Collection, The Palladium, New York, NY
Young Masters of the East Village, Limbo Gallery, New York, NY

TEACHING

2009, 2010, 2014 - present
New York Academy of Art; Faculty
2020
New Masters Academy, on line
2002, 2004, 2005, 2008, 2013 -2019
New York Academy of Art Master Class
1998, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2007-2011
Sommerakademie fur Bildende Kunst, Salzburg, Austria
1994
School of Visual Arts, NY
1992
Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia
1990-1992
Yale University, New Haven, CT

VISITING ARTIST, LECTURES, JURY

2019
New York Academy of Art, NY; lecture
2018
Figurative Association symposium: The Human Form, Arrowmont School, Gatlinburg, TN
2014
New York Academy of Art, Judy Fox & Joel Shapiro; discussion.
2013
Fullbright Screening Committee, Sculpture and Installation
Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton; lecture
Maryland Institute Rinehart School of Graduate Sculpture: Visiting Artist and lecture
2012
New York Academy of Art, NY; Visiting Artist and lecture
2010
Hartford College of Art; Visiting Artist and lecture
NCECA Conference, Philadelphia; Demonstrator
2009
University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Visiting Artist and lecture
2008
Central Connecticut State University, New Britain; Visiting Artist and lecture
New York Academy of Art, NY: lecture
2007
Sante Fe Clay, NM: workshop
Montana State University, Missoula; Visiting Artist and lecture
University of Nebraska, Lincoln; Visiting Artist and lecture
2006
Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art, Toronto; lecture
Lyme Academy of Art, CT; Visiting Artist and lecture
2005
Boston University; Visiting Artist and lecture
2004
SUNY Purchase, NY; Visiting Artist and lecture
2003
Museum of Arts and Design, Lecture
Oslo International Ceramics Symposium; Keynote Speaker, panel
Philadelphia Academy of the Fine Arts; lecture, contest judge
2002
University of Texas at Austin; lecture
University of South Florida in Tampa; lecture
Mount Royal School of the Maryland Institute of Art, Baltimore, MD; visiting artist and lecture
2001
Montclair State University, VA; visiting artist and lecture
Bennington College, NY; visiting artist and lecture
Rhode Island School of Design; visiting artist and lecture
2000
New York Academy of Art, NY; lecture
Everson Museum, Syracuse, NY; panel
Women In Ceramics Conference; lecture
Rhode Island School of Design: lecture
1998
Rupertinum, Salzburg, Austria; lecture
1997
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL; lecture
1996
International Sculpture Center Conference, Providence, RI; panel
Brandeis University, Waltham, MA; visiting artist and lecture
National Academy of Design, New York, NY; panel
1994
Amherst College; artist’s studio presentation
Akademie der Bildenden Kunst, Vienna, Austria; lecture
1992
Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA; Visiting Artist and lecture
1989
Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT; Visiting Artist and lecture
Empire State Program, New York, NY; Visiting Artist and lecture

AWARDS, GRANTS, AND COMMISSIONS

2022
Arts and Letters Award, American Academy of Arts and Letters
2009
New York Foundation for the Arts grant
2008
Alex J. Ettl Grant, National Sculpture Society, NYC
2006
Residency: Yaddo, Saratoga, NY
2006, 2004, 2003, 2002, 1999
Residency: The MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH
2006
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
2006
Alex J. Ettl Award, National Academy of Design, NYC
2002
Purchase Award, The American Academy of Arts and Letters
2002
Anonymous Was a Woman
1994, 1988
National Endowment for The Arts,
1993
Commission: Townsend Harris Hall, City College of New York
1978
Jonathan Edwards Arts Award: Yale University, New Haven, CT

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

BOOKS AND CATALOGS

2022

Córdova, C., The Figure in Clay: a Guide to Capturing the Human Form for Ceramic Artists; Glouchester: Quarry Books,pp.15, 48-49, 72, 95,136-137.

2021
Kindheit, exhibition catalogue, Hemma Schmutz et al
2017
Mels Boom, "Judy Fox" Het Grote K Boek 2
2016
Judith Schwartz, In Our Backyard, Clay Art Center, catalogue p.31
2014
Margaret McCann, ed. The Figure: Painting, Drawing, and Sculpture
2014
Russell Panczenko, ccurator The Human Condition, exhibition catalogue, Chazen Museum of Art, Madison, WI
2013
Melva Bucksbaum, Joan Simon, ed. The Distaff Side, exhibition catalogue
2012
Linda Kopp, ed. The Best of 500 Ceramics: Celebrating a Decade in Clay
Judy Fox, Out Of Water, Catalogue, P.P.O.W
2008
Judith Schwartz, Confrontational Ceramics,
2006
Karlheinz Essl, Andrea Hoffer, figure/sculpture, exhibition catalogue
2005
Barbara Wally, ed. Judy Fox/ Skulpturen Sculpture 1990-2005.134pp. Internationale Sommerakademie, Salzburg
2004
Veronica Gunter, 500 Figures in Clay: Ceramic Artists Celebrate the Human Form , V1, pp. 216-217
2003
Francesca Alfano Miglietti, Extreme Bodies: The Use and Abuse of the Body in Art Skira Editore
David Ebony et al, Curve/The Female Nude Now, pp. 96-97
2000
Mary Douglas, ed Allan Chasinoff Ceramic Collection,Mint Museum, pp. 83,88
1999
Catalogue, Twenty-six American Artists, Campo & Campo, Antwerp, Belgium
1997
Exhibition Catalogue, My Little Pretty: Images of Girls by Contemporary Women Artists , Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Theresa Georgen, "Zwischen den Welten, Judy Fox" Jahreskatalog, Kunsthalle im Palazzo
Esther Maria Jungo, "Einleitende Bemerkungen zu Judy Fox," Jahreskatalog, Kunsthalle Palazzo

ARTICLES AND REVIEWS

2023
Tanya Sichynsky, Cooking, The Veggie, NY Times on line, Oct 12
Sarah LaDuke, Round Table interview, WAMC radio, Oct 6
Jonathan Goodman, "Judy Fox, Harvest" Brooklyn Rail, Sept 29
Ilsy Jeon, "Vulnerable Cultivars: Harvest at Nancy Hoffman Gallery", MoCA/NY, Sept 25
Brainard Carey, "Judy Fox" interview, Museum of Invisible Art, WYBC Yale radio, Sept 21
2020
David Ebony, 10 Highlights of The Art Show 2020, snapSHOT, March 3
2019
Sandra Evertson, Interview feature, Where Women Create
Alex Jovanovitch, "Judy Fox at Nancy Hoffman Gallery", Artforum International, Summer
Perspectives, "Judy Fox: Sculptor" Issues in Science and Technology, Winter
2016
Mels Boom, "Inspiratie", Die Kleine K, April
2015
Steve Shaheen "Sculptors on Sculpture:Part I" Blouin Art Info, March 5
Peter Plagens, "Beautiful Beast" Wall Street Journal, Feb 27
Daniel Maidman,"Metaphysical Unease as a Result of Biological Disturbance", Huffington Post, Feb 24
Wolfram Ladda. "Judy Fox", New Ceramics , Jan.
2014
Steph Chapman, "Judy Fox" Faint April/May
2013
Jan Castro, "Judy Fox; Out of Water", Ceramics: Art and Perception, March
Katherine Nonemaker & Laurier Hampton, "Judy Fox" Open Lab magazine, Spring
2012
Stephanie Palumbo, "Into the Deep", O Magazine, Nov p.34
2010
Gail Gregg, "Nothing Like the Real Thing", ARTnews, Dec. p. 68
Jodie Shull, "Judy Fox", Sculpture Review, Fall
2008
Anne Tahinci, "Removing the Fig Leaf: Todays's Nudity in the American Public Eye," Sculpture Review Summer
Stephen Maine, "Judy Fox at P.P.O.W", Art in America, March
2007
Roberta Smith, "Judy Fox: Snow White and the Seven Sins," NY Times, Nov 23
"Judy Fox's Snow White and the Seven Sins'", blackbookmag.com
Judy Fox: "Snow White and the Seven Sins", villagevoice.com
Donald Kuspit, "Not a Fairy Tale" artnet.com, November
2005
Jan Riley, Review, Sculpture, July/Aug
Ken Johnson, "Judy Fox, "Power Figures" New York Times, March 4
Barbara Wally, "Innocence and Magic," Keramic Magazin, Oct/Nov
Almuth Spiegler, "Jungfrau und Kinderkrieger", Die Presse, Aug 1
Erika Mayr-Oering, "Welt der Kinder", Salzburger Nachricten, July 9
2004
Cynthia Nadelman, "Middle-Aged Gods and Giant Babies", Artnews, Dec
2000
AKTIVIST, December 2000, pp. 22-23
Genevieve Breerett, Le Corps Perdue, Dans Les Images, Le Monde, May 7
Carol Diehl, Figures in Limbo, Art In America, November 2000
Susan Canning, Review, Sculpture, September
Leslie Shaw, "Judy Fox at P.P.O.W.", The New York Art World, April
Christopher Reardon, "Fox's Fables," ARTnews, June 2000, p. 160
Bill Arning, "Judy Fox's Strange Beings," American Ceramics, Vol. 13, no. 3, Spring 2000
Walter Robinson, Review, "Weekend Update," artnet.com, March 30
1999
Johanna Hofleitner, Review, Flash Art, May-June
1998
Beth Cooney, "Artists' Interventions," The Advocate & Greenwich Time, Sept 13
Stefanie Ramp, "It's All Here," Fairfield County Weekly, September 24-30
Kathy Kaplan, Chicago Tribune Magazine, Part 2: Home Design, April 5, p. 25
1997
Robert Schiess, "Zitieren, verfremden und verklären," Basellardschaftliche Zeitung, Apr 28
Tom Czasar, Review, Sculpture, April, p. 58
1996
Robin Rice, "Madonna as Child," Philadelphia City Paper, December 27-January 2,
Gerard Brown, "Commercial Antidote," Philadelphia Weekly, December 25, pp. 34-35
Nancy Princenthal, "Judy Fox at P.P.O.W.," Art in America, October, pp. 120-121
Mia Fineman, "Judy Fox at P.P.O.W.," Artnet Magazine, May
1995
Christian Kravagna, "Judy Fox at Christine Konig," Artforum, September, p. 99
Tom Czasar, Review, Sculpture, September-October, p. 39
Rainer Metzger, "Judy Fox at Christine König," Kunstforum International, May, p. 421
Johanna Hofleitner, "Judy Fox at Christine König," Flash Art, May, p.122
"Judy Fox," Neue Bildende Kunst, February,
1994
Erwin.Melchart, "In Wiens Galerie Christine König: Judy Fox," Krone, December
Justin Hoffman, "Kinder-Skulpturen," Die Presse Schaufenster, December 15
Gabrielle Kala, "Mythen und Tabus," Die Furche December 8,
Rainer Metzger, "Mythen und Märchenprinzen," Der Standard Wirtschaft, Dec 2, p. 39
Francesca Alfano Miglietti, "Judy Fox," Virus, Numero 3, November, pp. 54-56
Elisabeth Rath, "Phantasmen des Vollkommenen," Salzburger Nachrichten, May 30, p.7
Stefan Weber, "Das Reale zeigt sich erst im Riß," SVZ, May 31, p. 21
Werner Thuswaldner, "Künstler geben Anstöße zu weitreichenden Reflexionen," Salzburger Nachrichten, April 22, p. 8
Daniele Pabinger, "Ewig lockt die Perfektion," SVZ, April 21, p. 21
Doris Krumpl, "Eine große Nase in Tokyo und andere Ideale," Der Standard, May 4,
Justin Hoffman, "Zwischen den Geschlechtern," Suddeutsche Zeitung, #114, May 19,
Robert Taplin, "Dead or Alive: Molds, Modelling and Mimesis in Representational Sculpture," Sculpture, May/June (cover)
Robert Taplin, "Judy Fox at P.P.O.W.," Art in America, May, pp. 117-118
1993
Peter Plagens, "Summing Up Doom and Gloom," Newsweek, January 25,
1992
Elizabeth Hess, "Give Me Fever," The Village Voice, December 29,
Michael Kimmelman, “Promising Start at a New Location," The New York Times, December 18
Amei Wallach, "Reinventing Art for the 90’s," New York Newsday, December 11,
1991
Helen Kohen, "Women Artists Illustrate New Directions," The Miami Herald, January 13
1990
Ken Johnson, "Judy Fox at Carlo Lamagna," Art In America, May
Margaret Moorman, "The Age of Women," ARTnews, February
Elizabeth Rogers, "Judy Fox,Carlo Lamagna Gallery," Cover, February
1989
Michael Kimmelman, "The Age of Women," The New York Times, May 22

SELECTED COLLECTIONS

Albertina, Vienna
Suzanne Deal Booth Collection
California Center for the Arts, Escondido, CA
Honolulu Museum of Art, Honolulu, HI
City College of New York
21C Museum Hotel
Margulies Collection, Miami, FL
Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC
Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna
Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY
   

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