1952 Born in San Antonio, TX
Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY
Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Board of Directors
Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program, Board Member
Oregon College of Art and Craft, Doctor of Arts, Honoris Causa
EDUCATION
1974 BFA, Painting, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
1972 Whitney Museum Independent Studies Program, New York, NY
68-70 Art Students League, New York, NY
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025 Deborah Kass: The Art History Paintings 1989-1992, Salon 94, New York, NY
2024 Deborah Kass: Two for Sondheim, New York City Center, New York, NY
2022 OY/YO, Weitzman National Museum of American History, Philadelphia, PA
2020 Painting and Sculpture, Kavi Gupta Gallery, Chicago, IL
S, M, L, Gavlak Gallery, Palm Beach, FL
OY/YO, Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA (permanent)
2019 OY/YO, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY (permanent)
2017 OY/YO, North 6th Street Ferry Landing, Williamsburg, Brooklyn NY
2016 Art Histories, Brand New Gallery, Milan, IT
Deborah Kass: Day After Day, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY
Deborah Kass: Day After Day, Neuberger Museum of Art, SPACE 42, New York, NY
2015 No Kidding, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, NY
OY/YO, Brooklyn Bridge Park, Brooklyn, NY
America’s Most Wanted, 1998-1999, Sargent’s Daughters, New York, NY
2014 feel good paintings for feel bad times, Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2013 My Elvis +, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, NY
2012 Deborah Kass: Before and Happily Ever After, a Mid-Career Retrospective, Andy
Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA (catalogue)
2010 MORE feel good paintings for feel bad times, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, NY
2007 feel good paintings for feel bad times, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, NY Paul
Kasmin Gallery, Armory Show, New York, NY
2001 Deborah Kass: The Warhol Project, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North
Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC
2000 Deborah Kass: The Warhol Project, University Art Museum, University of California
at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA
Deborah Kass: The Warhol Project, Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, Houston, TX
1999 Deborah Kass: The Warhol Project, Newcombe Art Gallery, Tulane University, New
Orleans, LA, (traveling, catalogue)
1998 Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA
1996 My Andy: a retrospective, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art and Design,
Kansas City, MO, (catalogue)
1995 My Andy: a retrospective, Jose Freire Fine Art, New York, NY,
My Andy: a retrospective, Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA
1994 Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA
1993 Chairman Ma, Jose Freire Fine Art, New York, NY
Chairman Ma, Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA
1992 The Jewish Jackie Series and My Elvis, fiction/nonfiction, New York, NY
The Jewish Jackie Series, Simon Watson, New York, NY
1990 Simon Watson Gallery, New York, NY
1988 Scott Hanson Gallery, New York, NY (catalogue)
1986 Baskerville and Watson Gallery, New York, NY
1984 Baskerville and Watson Gallery, New York, NY
1982 Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL
1972 Barnhardt Gallery, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 Engaging with History: Works from the Collection, The Jewish Museum, New York, NY
The Block Collects, Block Museum, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
Focus Group, Feldman Gallery, New York, NY
Feel good spins for feel bad time, NFT project, ARSNL, New York, NY
The Bunker Artspace, Friends and Family, West Palm Beach, FL
Hollywood Dream Bubble: Ed Ruscha’s Influence in Los Angeles and Beyond, The Hole, Los Angeles, CA
45 From the 45th, Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2023 Gertrude Stein/ Pablo Picasso the Invention Of Language, Musee du Luxembourg, Paris, France
Tender Loving Care: Contemporary Art from the Collection, Museum Fine Arts Boston
He Said/She Said, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
88 Years: A Survey of Contemporary American Art, LaiSun Keane, Boston, MA
From the Vault: Post-War to Contemporary Art, New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT
A Place of Memory, Helen Day Art Center, Stowe, VT
Roar!, Jim Kempner Fine Art, New York, NY
22-23 Borrow and Steal: Appropriation from the Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Saint Petersburg, FL
2022 We Fancy: A Legacy of LGBTQIA+ Artists at the League, Art Students League of New York, NY
A Kaleidoscopic View: Recent Prints From Graphicstudio, The Print Center, Philadelphia, PA
Carpets, BravinLee Programs, New York, NY
A Maze Zanine, Amaze Zaning, A-Mezzaning, Meza-9, David Zwirner, New York, NY
True Colors: Picturing Identity, The Art Museum of WVU, Morgantown, WV
Sculpture Milwaukee, curated by Theaster Gates and Michelle Grabner, Milwaukee, WI
21-22 Omniscient: Queer Documentation in an Image Culture, Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, New York, NY
2021 Fall Preview, Rosenbaum Contemporary, Boca Raton, FL
Eye to I: Self-Portraits from 1900 to Today, Albuquerque Museum, NM
The Big Picture, Ryan Lee Gallery, New York, NY
ONLINE: 7 Decades: 42 Artists, Jim Kempner Fine Art, New York, NY
2020 Scenes From the Collection, The Jewish Museum, New York, NY
Rethink America, David Benrimon Fine Art, New York, NY
Ministry of Truth: 1984/2020, Art at a Time Like This, New York, NY
Robert Indiana: A Legacy of Love, McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX
Nasty Women, GAVLAK Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Wordsmiths, Craven Contemporary, Kent, CT
Life During Wartime: Art in the Age of Coronavirus, USF Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, FL,
curated by Christian Viveros-Fauné (online)
The Written Word, Kavi Gupta, Chicago, IL (online)
Radical Optimism, Kavi Gupta, Chicago, IL (online)
How Can We Think of Art at a Time Like This? curated by Barbara Pollock and Anne Verhallen,
Art at a Time Like This, (online)
2019 Inaugural Exhibition, Rubell Museum, Miami, FL
To Reclaim, Kavi Gupta, Chicago, IL (online)
Every Woman Biennial, La MaMa Galleria, New York, NY
Pop Culture: Selections from the Fredrick R. Weisman Art Foundation, Ronald H. Silverman
Fine Arts Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Wide World of Sports, Eric Firestone Gallery, East Hampton, NY
About Face: Stonewall Revolt and the New Queer, Wrightwood 659, Chicago IL
For Freedoms: Where Do We Go From Here?, International Center of Photography, New York, NY
Notebook, 56 Henry, New York, NY, curated by Joanne Greenbaum
Off the Wall, Hudson Yards, New York, NY, curated by Culture Corps
Queer Forms, Katherine E. Nash Gallery at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, curated by
Howard Oransky
Stonewall 50, Brown Foundation Gallery, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX
Transamerica/n: Gender, Identity, Appearance Today, McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX
2018 Room for Play, Heather Gaudio Fine Art,” New Canaan, CT
Scenes From The Collection, The Jewish Museum, New York, NY
Something to Say: Brooklyn Hi-Art! Machine, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
True Colors, Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, NY
2017 Artists Need to Create on the Same Scale that Society has the Capacity to Destroy, Mana
Contemporary, Jersey City, NJ
Power of Art: Cleveland Clinic Collection, Center For Design, Cleveland, OH (catalogue)
Text Me: How We Live in Language, Museum of Design, Atlanta, GA
Anger Management, Pop-Up Store Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
Pride of Place, New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA
True Lies, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, curated by Simon Cole
2016 I See Myself in You: Selections from the Collection, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
Human Interest: Portrait’s from the Whitney’s Collection, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY,
curated by Scott Rothkopf
The Conversation Continues: Highlights from the James Cottrell and Joseph Lovett Collection, Orlando
Museum of Art, Orlando, FL
Tomorrow Never Happens, SAMEK ART MUSEUM, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA
A Deeper Dive, Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, New York, NY, curated by
Jonathan David Katz and Andrew Barron
Smile!, Shin Gallery, New York, NY, curated by Jenny Mushkin Goldman
Art AIDS America, Bronx Museum, Bronx, NY, curated by Jonthan David Katz and Rock Hushka
Hard Love, Martos Gallery, New York, NY, curated by Barry Blinderman
Introspective, Bravin Lee Programs, New York, NY
2015 No Man’s Land, Women Artists from the Rubell Family Collection, The Rubell Family Collection, Miami, Fl
Eye Pop: The Celebrity Gaze, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
Art Aids America, Tacoma Museum, Tacoma, WA D, curated by Jonathan David Katz and Rock Hushka
Kanibalizm? Cannibalism? On Appropriation in Art, Zachęta—National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland
Marks Made: Prints by American Women Artists from the 1960s to the Present, Museum of Fine Arts,
St. Petersburg, FL (catalogue)
Headstrong, Adam Baumgold Gallery, New York, NY
Once Upon a Time and Now, LGBT Community Center, New York, NY
2014 Global Positioning Systems, Pérez Art Museum Miami, FL
Spaced Out: Migration to the Interior, Red Bull Studios, New York, curated by Phong, Bui
Blood Flames Revisted, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, curated by Phong Bui
2013 Come Together: Surviving Sandy, Year 1, Industry City, Brooklyn, New York, curated by Phong Bui.
I, You, We, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
TEXTURES: The Written Word in Contemporary Art, ACA Galleries, New York, NY
Beg, Borrow, and Steal, Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA
2012 Regarding Warhol: Sixty Artists, Fifty Years, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (catalogue)
Sculpted Matter, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, NY
We The People, The Rauschenberg Foundation, New York, NY, curated by Alison Ginera, Jonathan Horowitz
and Anna McCarthy
Larger Than Life: A Century of Hollywood, Jewish Museum Vienna, Austria
2011 Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture, Brooklyn Museum, NY (through February 2012)
Seeing Gertrude Stein: Five Stories, The Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA and the National
Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC (catalogue)
American Chambers: Post 90s American Art, Gyeongnam Art Museum, Changwon City, S. Korea,
curated by Iris Moon
The Pittsburgh Biennial, The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA curated by Eric Shiner
Mixed Messages, La MaMa Gallery, New York, NY
Identity Crisis: Authenticity, Attribution and Appropriation, The Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, NY
The Deconstructive Impulse, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY (catalogue)
January White Sale, Loretta Howard Gallery, New York, NY, curated by Beth Rudin DeWoody (catalogue)
2010 Shifting the Gaze: Painting and Feminism, The Jewish Museum, New York, NY curated by Daniel Belasco
Hide/Seek: Desire, Difference, and the Invention of the Modern American Portrait, National Portrait
Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC curated by Jonathan Katz (catalogue)
At the Edge, Portsmouth Museum of Fine Art, Portsmouth, NH
Thanks for Being With Us: Contemporary Art from the Douglas Nielsen Collection, The Tucson Museum
of Art, Tucson, AZ (catalogue)
Shrewd: The Smart and Sassy Survey of American Women Artists, The Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, NE
Think Pink, Gavlak Gallery, Palm Beach, FL, curated by Beth Rudin DeWoody
Look Again, Marlborough, Chelsea, New York, NY (catalogue)
2009 Beg Borrow and Steal, Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL (catalogue)
Just What Are They Saying, Jonathan Ferrara Gallery, New Orleans, LA, curated by Beth Rudin DeWoody
The Female Gaze, Cheim & Read, New York, NY
Lover, On Stellar Rays, New York, NY, curated by Kate Gilmore
sh[OUT], Glasgow Museums Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow, Scotland (catalogue)
Note to Self, Schroeder Romero, New York, NY
Great Women Artists: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY,
curated by Thom Collins
2008 Art, Image, and Warhol Connections, The Jewish Museum, New York, NY
Just Different!, Cobra Museum of Modern Art, Amstelveen, Netherlands, curated by Frank Wagner
Thirtieth Anniversary Exhibition, Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA
Twisted into Recognition: Clichés of Jews and Others, Spertus Museum, Chicago, IL
typisch!, Jewish Museum Berlin, Berlin, Germany
2007 What F Word?, Cynthia Broan Gallery, New York, NY, curated by Carol Cole Levin
Culture and Continuity: The Jewish Journey, The Jewish Museum, New York, NY
2006 The Eighth Square, The Ludwig Museum, Cologne, Germany, curated by Kasper Konig and Frank Wagner
2005 American Art: 1960 - Present, Selections From the Permanent Collection, Weatherspoon Art Museum,
Greensboro, NC
Appropriate Appropriation, Gray Kapernekas Gallery, New York, NY
Co-Conspirators: Artists and Collectors, The James Cottrell and Joe Lovett Collection, Chelsea Museum,
New York, NY and Samuel Dorksy Museum, New Paltz, NY, curated by Sue Scott
Trade, White Columns, New York, NY, curated by Matthew Higgs
Upstarts and Matriarchs: Jewish Women Artists and the Transformation of American Art, Mizel Center for
Arts and Culture, Denver, CO
Very Early Pictures, Arcadia University Art Gallery, Glenside, PA, traveling to Luckman Gallery,
California State University, Los Angeles, CA
2004 Open House: Working in Brooklyn, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY, curated by Charlotta
Kotik and Tumelo Mosaka
Likeness: Artists’ Portraits of Artists by Other Artists, (2004-2006), co-organized by CCA Wattis Institute
New York, and circulated by iCI, curated by Mathew Higgs. Traveled to: California College of Arts,
Wattis Institute, San Francisco, CA; McColl Center for Visual Art, Charlotte, NC; Institute for
Contemporary Art, Boston, MA; Dalhousie University Art Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada;
University Art Museum, California State University at Long Beach, Long Beach, CA; Illingworth
Kerr Gallery, Alberta College of Art & Design, Calgary, Alberta, Canada; Contemporary Art
Center of Virginia, Virginia Beach, VA (catalogue)
Disturbing the Peace, Danese Gallery, New York, NY
Muse, Leslie Tonkonow Gallery, New York, NY
Co-Conspirators: Artists and Collectors, The James Cottrell and Joe Lovett Collection, Orlando
Museum of Art, Orlando, FL, curated by Sue Scott
2003 Influence, Anxiety and Gratitude, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA, curated by Bill Arning
Crimes and Misdemeanors: Politics in U.S. Art of the 1980’s, Cincinnati Contemporary Art Center,
Cincinnati, OH, curated by Thom Collins
The Recurrent Haunting Ghost, Reflections of Marcel Duchamp in Modern and Contemporary Art,
Francis M. Naumann Fine Art, New York, NY
2002 Queer Visualities, Stony Brook University Art Gallery, Stony Brook, NY, curated by Carl Pope
2001 A Family Album: Brooklyn Collectsù, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
Voice, Image, Gesture: Selections from The Jewish Museum’s Collection 1945-2000, The Jewish
Museum, New York, NY
Contemporary Art and Celebrity Culture, Betty Rymer Gallery, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL
Recasting the Past: Beneath the Hollywood Tinsel, Main Art Gallery, Cal State University, Fullerton, CA
2000 Revealing and Concealing: Portraits and Cultural Identity, Skirball Museum, Los Angeles, CA, (catalogue)
Deja vu: Reworking the Past, Katonah Museum, Katonah, NY, curated by Barbara Bloemink
1999 Fifteen, curated by Walter Robinson for New York Foundation for the Arts, Deutsche Bank, New York, NY
The Perpetual Well: Contemporary Art from the Collection of the Jewish Museum, The Jewish Museum,
New York, NY. Traveled to: Harn Museum Of Art, University of Florida Gainesville, FL; Sheldon
Memorial Art Gallery and Sculpture Garden, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE; Parrish Museum,
South Hampton, NY; Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, WV, (catalogue)
Culture and Continuity: The Jewish Journey, The Jewish Museum, New York, NY
A.R.T. Press Portfolio, David Adamson Gallery, Washington, D.C.
1998 In Your Face, The Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA
Conversation: Patricia Cronin and Deborah Kass, Art Transfer Resouce, New York, NY
5729-5756: Contemporary Artists Welcome the New Year, The Jewish Museum List Graphic Commisssion,
The Jewish Museum, New York, NY
Art on Paper, The Weatherspoon Gallery of Art, Greenboro, NC
1997 The Prophecy of Pop, New Orleans Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, LA, curated by John Goode
Identity Crisis: Self Portraiture at the End of the Century, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI, curated by
Dean Sobel; Traveled to Aspen Museum, Aspen, CO (catalogue)
1996 Too Jewish?: Challenging Traditional Identities, The Jewish Museum, New York, NY, curated by
Norman Kleeblatt; Traveled to The Jewish Museum, Philadelphia, PA; The Contemporary, Baltimore,
MD; The Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA; UCLA at the Armand Hammer Museum of Art and
Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA, (catalogue)
NowHere: Incandescent, curated by Laura Cottingham, Louisiana Museum of Art, Humlebaek, Denmark
(catalogue)
Real Fake, Neuberger Museum of Art, SUNY Purchase, Purchase, NY
Gender, Fucked, Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA
Seoul International Art Fair, Seoul, Korea, curated by Thelma Golden
1995 In a Different Light, University Art Gallery, University of California at Berkeley, Berkley CA, curated by
Nayland Blake and Lawrence Rinder (catalogue)
On Beauty, Regina Gallery, Moscow, curated by Dan Cameron
Face Forward: Self-Portraiture in Contemporary Art, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
Curated by Maureen Sherlock
Pervert, University of California at Irvine, Irvine, CA, curated by Catherine Lord (catalogue)
Imperfect, Herter Art Gallery, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Amherst, MA, curated by
Jerry Kearns. Traveled to Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA (catalogue)
Semblances, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
1994 2 X IMMORTAL: Elvis + Marilyn, McDaris Exhibition Group, Memphis, TN, curated by Wendy McDaris.
Traveled to: Institute of Contemporary Arts, Boston, MA; Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX;
Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC; The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH; The Philbrook
Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK; Columbus Museum of Art, OH; Tennessee St. Museum, Nashville, TN;
San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA; Honolulu Academy of Arts, Honolulu, HA (catalogue)
Democratic Vistas: 50 Years of American Art from Regional Collections, State University of New York
at Albany, Albany, NY (catalogue)
Stonewall 25: Imaginings of the Gay Past, Celebrating the Gay Present, White Columns, New York, NY,
curated by Bill Arning
Pride in Our Diveristy, Colonial House Hotel, New York, NY, curated by Ronny Cohen
Absence, Activism & The Body Politic, Fischbach Gallery, New York, NY, curated by Joseph R. Wolin
Exhibition and Sale for ICI’s 20th Anniversary, Sonnabend Gallery, New York, NY, curated by Dan Cameron
Working Around Warhol, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA, curated by Murray Horne
Bad Girls West, Wight Art Gallery, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, curated
by Marcia Tanner and Marcia Tucker (catalogue)
1993 Ciphers of Identity, University of Maryland, Baltimore / Baltimore County Fine Arts Gallery, Cantonville, MD,
curated by Maurice Berger. Traveled to: Ronald Feldman Gallery, New York, NY; Contemporary Arts
Center, New Orleans, LA; Woodruff Arts Center, Atlanta, GA; University of California at Irvine,
Irvine, CA; Kemper Museum of Art and Design, Kansas City, MO (catalogue)
Regarding Masculinity, Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA
Collecting for the 21st Century: Recent Acquisitions and Promised Gifts, Jewish Museum, New York, NY
I Love You More Than My Own Death, A Melodrama In Parts By Pedro Almodovar, Zitelle Guidecca, The
Venice Biennial, Slittamenti, Venice, ITALY, curated by Christian Leigh
Cutting Bait, Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago, IL
I Am The Enunciator, Thread Waxing Space, New York, NY, curated by Christian Leigh
1992 The New American Flag, Max Protech Gallery, New York, NY
Shapeshifters, Amy Lipton Gallery, New York, NY
Fear of Painting, Arthur Roger Gallery, New York, NY, curated by Dan Cameron
In Your Face: Politics of the Body and Personal Knowledge, A.C. Project Room, New York, NY
Painting Culture, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA
Selections, Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA
1991 Painting Culture, fiction/nonfiction, New York, NY
Rope, Galeria Fernando Alcolea, Barcelona, SPAIN, curated by Christian Leigh
Out Art, Saint Lawrence University, Saint Lawrence, NY, curated by Nan Goldin
Someone or Somebody, Myers / Bloom Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Something Pithier and More Psychological, Simon Watson Gallery, New York, NY
Just What Is It That Makes Today’s Homes So Different, So Appealing?, Hyde Museum, Glenns Falls, NY,
curated by Dan Cameron (catalogue)
1990 The Last Laugh: Irony, Humor, Self-Mockery and Derision, Massimo Audiello Gallery, New York, NY
curated by Collins and Milazzo
Fragments, Parts and Wholes: The Body in Culture, White Columns, New York, NY, curated by Saul Ostrow
1989 Young New York, Bellarte, Helsinki, Finland; Traveled to Turku, Finland
The Mirror in Which Two Are Seen as One, Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ, curated by Andrea Belag
Painting Between the Paradigms-Part One: Between Awareness and Desire, Galerie Rahmel, Cologne,
Germany, curated by Saul Ostrow
Erotophobia: A Forum on Contemporary Sexuality, Simon Watson Gallery, New York, NY
1988 Meaningful Geometry, Postmasters Gallery, New York, NY
Five Corners of Abstraction, Jacob Javits Center, New York, NY, curated by Bill Arning
Combination Prints, New Jersey Center for the Visual Arts, Summit, NJ
Gallery Selections, Scott Hanson Gallery, New York, NY
1987 Dreams of the Alchemist, Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
Romantic Science, One Penn Plaza, New York, NY, curated by Stephen Westfall
Suzanne Joelson, Claudia Hart, Deborah Kass, Pat Steir, Four Walls, Hoboken, NJ
Major Acquisitions, Small Appliances, Solo Gallery, New York, NY, curated by Dan Cameron
1986 A Radical Plurality, Ben Shahn Galleries, William Patterson College, Wayne, NJ
Two-Person Exhibition, Turnbull Lutjeans Kogan Gallery, Costa Mesa, CA
1985 Six Painters, Zilka Gallery, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, curated by Jean Feinberg
1984 The New Expressive Landscape, Sordoni Gallery, Wilkes College, Wilkes-Barre, PA
Fantastic Landscape, Exit Art, New York, NY
Two-Person Exhibition, Turnbull Lutjeans Kogan Gallery, Costa Mesa, CA
1982 Two-Person Exhibition, Baskerville and Watson Gallery, New York, NY
Red, Stefanotti Gallery, New York, NY
Landscape / Cityscape, Josef Gallery, New York, NY, curated by Carole Ann Klonarides
Nature As Image and Metaphor, Greene Space, New York, NY (under the auspices of the Women’s
Caucus for Art)
Critical Perspectives, P.S.1 Museum, Long Island City, NY, curated by Ronny Cohen
1981 Black Paint / Dark Thoughts, Pratt Manhattan Center, New York, NY, curated by Ellen Schwartz
Drawings at the Mudd Club, The Mudd Club, New York, NY, curated by Kenny Scharf and Keith Harring
Drawing Show, Stefanotti Gallery, New York, NY
1980 First Person singular: Recent Self Portraiture, Pratt Manhattan Center, New York, NY;
Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY, curated by Ellen Schwartz and Paul Schimmel
1979 Artists by Artists, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
AWARDS GRANTS HONORS
2017 Jewish Museum Annual Purim Gala Cultural Honoree
2016 Neuberger Museum of Art, Passionate Artist Award
2015 Oregon College of Art and Craft, Doctor of Arts, Honoris Causa
Coalition for the Homeless, Art Walk Honoree
2014 New York Foundation for the Arts, Hall of Fame Inductee 1996 Art Matters Inc. Grant
1992 Art Matters Inc. Grant
1991 New York State Foundation for the Arts, Fellowship in Painting 1987 National Endowment
for the Arts, Painting
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
Chemical Bank, New York, NY
Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH
Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT
First Bank of Minneapolis, Minneapolis, MN
Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, IN
Glickenhaus Company, New York, NY
Hammer Museum. Los Angeles, CA
Harvard/Fogg Art Museum, Boston, MA
Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
Jewish Museum, New York, NY
La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA
Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, New York, NY
Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Los Angeles, CA
McCrory Corporation, New York, NY
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Mobil Oil Corporation, New York, NY
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC
National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC
New Museum, New York, NY
New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA
Norton Family Foundation, Santa Monica, CA
Pérez Art Museum Miami, FL
Progressive Corporation, Cleveland, OH
Prudential Life Insurance, NJ
Salomon Brothers, New York, NY
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
St. Petersburg Museum, St. Petersburg, FL
Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greenboro, NC
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
SPECIAL PROJECTS
2020 “Enough of Trump” Campaign for People For the American Way.
2019 “Nobody Puts Baby in the Corner,” T-Shirt, Artists for Dignity For All
2018 “Andy Warhol: The Culture of Now.” WarholxWhitney episode 1, Whitney Museum of American
Art. November 5. Web video.
“Don’t Stop” 50 Artists Design a Cover for New York Magazine.
“Vote: Your Life Depends on it” Billboard for the project For Freedoms.
Zing Magazine issue 25, illustration project
10th Annual Latke Festival, Brooklyn Museum, guest judge
2016 “VOTE HILLARY” Official Commemorative Print for the Democratic Convention
2014 Visual AIDS’ third annual benefit print, “Enough Already”
2012 BAM 150 Celebration fund raising print
2011 New Museum and Art Production Fund, “After Hours: Murals on the Bowery”
2010 ACRIA: Aids Community Research Initiative of America Fundraising Print “The Cube Show,”
IMG MGMT Series, artfagcity.com
2008 Art Production Fund Vote pin
2004 “Deborah Kass: After Andy,” segment for Gallery HD for Voom High Definition TV
2002 “Enough About Me,” Momenta Art, Brooklyn, NY, curator
2000 “America’s Most Wanted” online project for The Robert Shiffler Foundation, Dayton, OH,
curated by Barry Rosenberg
1997 Astraea Foundation First Annual Fund Raising Print, New York, NY
1996 The Jewish Museum Annual Vera List Print Edition, New York, NY
1994 “Off the Streets and Into the Studio: Cultural Politics Theory and Practice,”College Art
Association Conference, New York, NY, organizer and moderator
1992 “Painting Culture,” UC Irvine Gallery, Irvine CA, curator
1991 “Representation and Value: What Role Will the Languages of Feminism Play in the Artworld of the
Nineties?” in collaboration with The Drawing Center, presented at The Great Hall at
Cooper Union, New York, NY, organizer
TEACHING, LECTURES AND PANELS
2019 “Art Forum: a Conversation with Deborah Kass and Lisa Dennison, Moderated by Doug Kass,”
High Ridge Country Club, Palm Beach, FL
“Dialogue and Discourse: Eric Marcus in Conversation with Ross Bleckner and Deborah Kass,”
The Jewish Museum, New York, NY
“The Place of Art in Placemaking,” City of Tomorrow: Real Estate, Architecture & Design Summit,
92nd Street Y, New York, NY
2016 “Lapidus Lecture: Deborah Kass,” Princeton University, Princeton, NJ.
2014 “Contemporary Talks: Deborah Kass,” Atlanta Contemporary Art Center Columbia University, NY,
Visiting Artist, Graduate Program
14–05 Yale University, Senior Critic, M.F.A. Painting Department, New Haven, CT
2012 Insert MET Panel
2007 “Painting in New York, Then and Now,” National Academy Museum, New York, NY, panelist
“Double X Art,” organized by Ad Hoc Vox, Brooklyn Fireproof, Brooklyn, NY, panelist
2006 Yale University, Critic M.F.A. Painting Department, New Haven, CT
2003 New York University, New York, NY, Visiting Artist, Graduate Program
“The Legacy of Andy Warhol,” Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, NY, Panelist
“Women in the Art World,” National Academy of Design, New York, NY, Panelist
2001 Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC,
“Artist Symposium with Deborah Kass”
2000 Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, Visiting Artist, Graduate Program, photography
The Katonah Museum, Katonah, NY, “Looking Backwards While Moving Forward,” panelist
1999 The Newcomb Art Gallery, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, “The Warhol Project,” lecture
The Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, RI, “My Andy,” lecture Philadelphia
Museum of Art, “Q&A (Queer & Artist),” panelist
Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, LA, “The 1999 Louisiana Open,” juror and lecture
The Armory, NY, NY, “Simon Says Armory Show Tour,” lecture
SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz, NY, “Dead Warhol: Andy Warhol’s Posthumous Reputation”, panelist
School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, Fifth Year Travelling Scholarship, juror
1998 New Museum, NY, NY, panelist New York University, lecture
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, “Facing the Dogs,” lecture series
1997 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME, resident artist
Sotheby’s, “Andy Warhol’s Influence On Contemporary Art,” panelist
New York University, New York, NY, graduate seminar, fall semester
Tyler School of Art of Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, lecture and critiques
Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, MD, “Jewish Jackies, Jewish Barbies, Jewish Princesses:
Exploding The Myths," Dialogue with Rabbi Avis D. Miller
1996 The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, “Seminars with Artists,” lecture
Institute of Fine Art at New York University, New York, NY, “Artists at the Institute,” lecture
The Jewish Museum, New York, NY, “Too Ethnic: Identity and Its Relationship to the Visual Arts,” panelist
1995 State University of New York at Purchase, Purchase, NY, graduate seminar lectur Cincinnati Art Museum,
Cincinnati, OH, Rhoda Mayerson Lectures on Contemporary Art
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, lecture
Columbia University, New York, NY, graduate seminar lecture
Barnard College, New York, NY, lecture
New York University, New York, NY, lecture
Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, PA, lecture
University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Amherst, MA, graduate and senior critique, lecture
Penn State University, University Park, PA, “The Contemporary Scholarship on Lesbian and
Gay Lives Lecture Series,” lecture
Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD, junior and senior critique, lecture
1994 State University of New York at Purchase, Purchase, NY, visiting artist, fall semester Rhode Island
School of Design, Providence, RI, final senior critique
Maryland Institute of Art, Baltimore, MD, junior critique
Tyler School of Art of Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, “Changing the Context:
Artists Who Curate,” panelist
1993 School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, Visiting Artist with seniors and graduates, spring semester
School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, “Four Painters Program” with seniors and graduates,
fall semester
University of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA, senior critique and lecture Kansas City Art Institute,
Kansas City, MO, senior critique and lecture
The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, “Artists on Abstract Art,
The Geometric Tradition,” panelist
The New School for Social Research, New York, NY, “Voices of Women Artists:
Continuity and Change,” panelist
1992 California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA, lecture
Otis Art Institute of Parsons School of Design, Los Angeles, CA, lecture
Artists Talk on Art, New York, NY, “Sugar Daddy: The Genetics of Oedipus,” panelist Thread Waxing
Space, New York, NY, “Supermodern Art,” panelist
State University of New York at Purchase, Purchase, NY, “Artists Intentions,” panelist
Thread Waxing Space, New York, NY, “Look Who’s Talking: Questions of Standards,
Values and Criteria,” panelist
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, “Excluded Voices: Challenging Homophobia
and Sexism,” panelist
1991 Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, senior and graduates, winter, spring and fall semesters
1990 Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, “Distinguished Visiting Artist” with seniors and graduates,
spring semester
Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, lecture
1989 Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, senior and graduates critique
Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, graduate critique
1988 Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY, lecture
1987 Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, senior critique
1986 Maryland Institute of Art, Royal Graduate Department, Baltimore, MD, visiting artist and graduate critique
1985 Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, senior critique
University of California at Irvine, Irvine, CA, lecture
1980 University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, lecture
1987 College of Mount St. Vincent, Riverdale, NY, senior critique