JOSEPH SMOLINSKI
EDUCATION
MFA, University of Connecticut-Storrs, Storrs, CT, 2001
BFA, University of Wisconsin-River Falls, River Falls, WI, 1994- 99
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2011
From Here On...,The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation Arts Center, Montgomery College, Takoma Park, MD
Invasive Horizon, Swarm Gallery, Oakland, CA
Divided Terrain, Mercy Gallery, Loomis Chaffee School, Windsor, CT
2010
Beginning Of The End, Mixed Greens, New York, NY
2009
HereAfter: Envisioning a Landscape of Tomorrow, Seton Gallery, University of New Haven, CT
Ground Control, Swarm Gallery, Oakland, CA
2008
After The Fall, Mixed Greens, New York, NY
2006
Transmission, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT
2004
Energy Potential, ArtSpace, New Haven, CT
2002
Regeneration, Creative Arts Workshop, New Haven, CT
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2011
1st Alumni Exhibition, Gallery 101, University of Wisconsin River Falls, River Falls, WI
The Nature of Drawing, The Anthony Giordano Gallery, Dowling College, Oakdale, NY
Things Are Expanding, collaborative project with Jessica Schwind, Swarm Gallery, Oakland, CA
2010
Board, Beam, Breath: an investigation of trees, Sun Valley Center for the Arts, Sun Valley, ID
Line Dancing: A Writer’s Choice of Works on Paper, A-Space @ West Cove Studios, West Haven, CT
Beastiary, Maxon Mills, Wassaic, NY
2009
Treemendous, Islip Art Museum, Islip, NY
Dispersion, Artspace, New Haven, CT
Disjointed Terrains, NY Studio Gallery, New York, NY
Uprooted: Group Drawing Show, Ch'I Contemporary Fine Art, Brooklyn, NY
Current Connecticut, Paper New England, Hartford, CT
X: Tenth Anniversary Exhibition, Mixed Greens, New York, NY
Solution, Diverse Works, Houston, TX
Seduced, Guilford Art Center, Guilford, CT
Our Present Planet, The Art School at Old Church, Demarest, NJ
2008
Full Circle: Ten Years of Radius, Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT
TREES: Christopher Elliot, Deborah Weiss and Joseph Smolinski, Flinn Gallery, Greenwich, CT
Badlands, curated by Denise Markonish, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams, MA
Cultivate, Berkshire Botanical Garden, Stockbridge, MA
2007
Connecticut Contemporary, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT
The Elements: AIR, The Gallery of Contemporary Art, Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, CT
Road Trip, Mixed Greens, New York, NY
Convergence: Collaborative and Individual Works By Trifocal Projects, Todd Jokl, Jessica Schwind, Joseph Smolinski, Akus Gallery, Eastern Connecticut State University, Willimantic, CT
Landscape vs. Netscape, Unit B (Gallery), San Antonio, TX
Modeling the Photographic, curated by Saul Ostrow, McDonough Museum of Art, Youngstown, OH
Follies: Allegorical Constructions, OHT Gallery, Boston, MA
2006
Works on Paper, Flux Factory, Long Island City, NY
Endless Forms, Engaging Evolution, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
2005
Dreaming of a More Better Future, curated by Saul Ostrow and Stuart Horodner, Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH
2004
Shifting Affinities, Yale School of Art, Green Hall Gallery, New Haven, CT
Radius, Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT
2003
Vistas: Interventions in a Mediated Landscape, curated by Denise Markonish, Mount Ida College, Newton, MA
Info@Blah, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA
2000
Engraving Centre 1997-2000, Engraving Centre, Thessaloniki, Greece
2000- Interprint 2000, Alsdorfer Kunstverein, Alsdorf, Germany
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2010
Campello, F. Lennox. "Cream of the Curators’ Talk," dcartnews.com, February 27, 2010.
Zucker, Adam. "Joe Smolinski at Mixed Greens," Berkshirefinearts.com, March 22, 2010.
2009
"Joseph Smolinski: Ground Control at Swarm Gallery," Better Living Through Art, curativeprojects.net, June 21, 2009.
Devine, John. "Solution," ART LIES, Issue 62.
Mueller, Kurt. "Solution," Art Papers, June 2009.
Pang, Melanie. "Art Interprets Societal Progress," The Daily Cougar, March 9, 2009.
Hodara, Susan. "Celebrating a Decade of Nurturing Artists on the Verge," The New York Times, January 2, 2009.
Genocchio, Benjamin. "A Show Goes Heavy on a Traditional Medium Yet Feels Fresh," The New York Times, January 2, 2009.
2008
Ostrow, Saul. "Joseph Smolinski, Mixed Greens," Art in America, December 2008.
Bahr, Lynne. "Nature Speaks," Drawing, Fall 2008.
Ostrow, Saul. “High Velocity in Slow Motion,” Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT. (catalog)
Mitchell, John E. “The Wheels On The Tree Go Round And Round,” North Adams Transcript, August 8, 2008.
Guha, Rohin. “Redoing Eden: Joseph Smolinski,” Blackbook Magazine, August 29, 2008.
Smee, Sebastian. “Earth In The Balance,” The Boston Globe, July 4, 2008.
Markonish, Denise. “Badlands: New Horizons In Landscape,” Mass MoCA, June 2008. (catalog)
2007
Genocchio, Benjamin. “A Contemporary Showcase At Wadsworth Atheneum,” The New York Times, June 3, 2007.
2006
Ackerman, Ruthie. “Low-Tech Art In High-Tech Era,” Hartford Courant, May 22, 2006.
2005
“Worlds of Tomorrow,” The Chronicle Telegram, October 21, 2005.
2003
Howards, Ellen. “Taking the Outside In,” artsMEDIA, October 2003.
McQuaid, Cate. “Taming Technology’s Overload with Artful Systems,” The Globe Correspondent, May 2, 2003.
2002
Charles, Eleanor. “The Guide,” The New York Times, August 25, 2002.
AWARDS AND HONORS
2006
The Outpost Cuts and Burns Artist Residency, Brooklyn, NY
2005
Artist in Residence, University of New Haven, West Haven, CT
LECTURES
2010
"Art and the Environment," Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, New Haven, CT
2009
"Artists in Context," Harvard University Symposium, Cambridge, MA
COLLECTIONS
West Collection at SEI
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
Yale University Art Gallery
Born in Minneapolis, MN; Lives and works in New Haven, CT
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MFA, University of Connecticut-Storrs, Storrs, CT, 2001
BFA, University of Wisconsin-River Falls, River Falls, WI, 1994- 99
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2011
From Here On...,The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation Arts Center, Montgomery College, Takoma Park, MD
Invasive Horizon, Swarm Gallery, Oakland, CA
Divided Terrain, Mercy Gallery, Loomis Chaffee School, Windsor, CT
2010
Beginning Of The End, Mixed Greens, New York, NY
2009
HereAfter: Envisioning a Landscape of Tomorrow, Seton Gallery, University of New Haven, CT
Ground Control, Swarm Gallery, Oakland, CA
2008
After The Fall, Mixed Greens, New York, NY
2006
Transmission, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT
2004
Energy Potential, ArtSpace, New Haven, CT
2002
Regeneration, Creative Arts Workshop, New Haven, CT
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2011
1st Alumni Exhibition, Gallery 101, University of Wisconsin River Falls, River Falls, WI
The Nature of Drawing, The Anthony Giordano Gallery, Dowling College, Oakdale, NY
Things Are Expanding, collaborative project with Jessica Schwind, Swarm Gallery, Oakland, CA
2010
Board, Beam, Breath: an investigation of trees, Sun Valley Center for the Arts, Sun Valley, ID
Line Dancing: A Writer’s Choice of Works on Paper, A-Space @ West Cove Studios, West Haven, CT
Beastiary, Maxon Mills, Wassaic, NY
2009
Treemendous, Islip Art Museum, Islip, NY
Dispersion, Artspace, New Haven, CT
Disjointed Terrains, NY Studio Gallery, New York, NY
Uprooted: Group Drawing Show, Ch'I Contemporary Fine Art, Brooklyn, NY
Current Connecticut, Paper New England, Hartford, CT
X: Tenth Anniversary Exhibition, Mixed Greens, New York, NY
Solution, Diverse Works, Houston, TX
Seduced, Guilford Art Center, Guilford, CT
Our Present Planet, The Art School at Old Church, Demarest, NJ
2008
Full Circle: Ten Years of Radius, Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT
TREES: Christopher Elliot, Deborah Weiss and Joseph Smolinski, Flinn Gallery, Greenwich, CT
Badlands, curated by Denise Markonish, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams, MA
Cultivate, Berkshire Botanical Garden, Stockbridge, MA
2007
Connecticut Contemporary, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT
The Elements: AIR, The Gallery of Contemporary Art, Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, CT
Road Trip, Mixed Greens, New York, NY
Convergence: Collaborative and Individual Works By Trifocal Projects, Todd Jokl, Jessica Schwind, Joseph Smolinski, Akus Gallery, Eastern Connecticut State University, Willimantic, CT
Landscape vs. Netscape, Unit B (Gallery), San Antonio, TX
Modeling the Photographic, curated by Saul Ostrow, McDonough Museum of Art, Youngstown, OH
Follies: Allegorical Constructions, OHT Gallery, Boston, MA
2006
Works on Paper, Flux Factory, Long Island City, NY
Endless Forms, Engaging Evolution, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
2005
Dreaming of a More Better Future, curated by Saul Ostrow and Stuart Horodner, Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH
2004
Shifting Affinities, Yale School of Art, Green Hall Gallery, New Haven, CT
Radius, Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT
2003
Vistas: Interventions in a Mediated Landscape, curated by Denise Markonish, Mount Ida College, Newton, MA
Info@Blah, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA
2000
Engraving Centre 1997-2000, Engraving Centre, Thessaloniki, Greece
2000- Interprint 2000, Alsdorfer Kunstverein, Alsdorf, Germany
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2010
Campello, F. Lennox. "Cream of the Curators’ Talk," dcartnews.com, February 27, 2010.
Zucker, Adam. "Joe Smolinski at Mixed Greens," Berkshirefinearts.com, March 22, 2010.
2009
"Joseph Smolinski: Ground Control at Swarm Gallery," Better Living Through Art, curativeprojects.net, June 21, 2009.
Devine, John. "Solution," ART LIES, Issue 62.
Mueller, Kurt. "Solution," Art Papers, June 2009.
Pang, Melanie. "Art Interprets Societal Progress," The Daily Cougar, March 9, 2009.
Hodara, Susan. "Celebrating a Decade of Nurturing Artists on the Verge," The New York Times, January 2, 2009.
Genocchio, Benjamin. "A Show Goes Heavy on a Traditional Medium Yet Feels Fresh," The New York Times, January 2, 2009.
2008
Ostrow, Saul. "Joseph Smolinski, Mixed Greens," Art in America, December 2008.
Bahr, Lynne. "Nature Speaks," Drawing, Fall 2008.
Ostrow, Saul. “High Velocity in Slow Motion,” Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT. (catalog)
Mitchell, John E. “The Wheels On The Tree Go Round And Round,” North Adams Transcript, August 8, 2008.
Guha, Rohin. “Redoing Eden: Joseph Smolinski,” Blackbook Magazine, August 29, 2008.
Smee, Sebastian. “Earth In The Balance,” The Boston Globe, July 4, 2008.
Markonish, Denise. “Badlands: New Horizons In Landscape,” Mass MoCA, June 2008. (catalog)
2007
Genocchio, Benjamin. “A Contemporary Showcase At Wadsworth Atheneum,” The New York Times, June 3, 2007.
2006
Ackerman, Ruthie. “Low-Tech Art In High-Tech Era,” Hartford Courant, May 22, 2006.
2005
“Worlds of Tomorrow,” The Chronicle Telegram, October 21, 2005.
2003
Howards, Ellen. “Taking the Outside In,” artsMEDIA, October 2003.
McQuaid, Cate. “Taming Technology’s Overload with Artful Systems,” The Globe Correspondent, May 2, 2003.
2002
Charles, Eleanor. “The Guide,” The New York Times, August 25, 2002.
AWARDS AND HONORS
2006
The Outpost Cuts and Burns Artist Residency, Brooklyn, NY
2005
Artist in Residence, University of New Haven, West Haven, CT
LECTURES
2010
"Art and the Environment," Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, New Haven, CT
2009
"Artists in Context," Harvard University Symposium, Cambridge, MA
COLLECTIONS
West Collection at SEI
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
Yale University Art Gallery
Born in Minneapolis, MN; Lives and works in New Haven, CT
Download Resume