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JOSHUA NEUSTEIN
Born 1940, Danzig Poland
Lives and works in New York, NY
 
Education
City College New York  BA 1961
Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY 
Teaching at Bezalel Academy  1975-79

Prizes

Jerusalem Prize 1972
Sandberg Prize 1974
Guggenheim Fellowship 1986
Pollock Krasner Fellowship
Israel Pavillion  Venice Biennale 1995

JOSHUA NEUSTEIN SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2012 UNTITLED, New York, NY (forthcoming)
  Road Piece Installation, Haus der Acunts, Munich, Germany, cur. by Philipp Kaiser and Miwon Kwon
  Drawing in the Margins, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
  Independent Fair Untitled NY Gallery  solo show
2011 Joshua Neustein / Sergej Jensen / N. Dash, UNTITLED, New York, NY
2009 Qumran, Julie M. Gallery, Toronto, CA, cur. Erica Segal
  Margins, Royal Museum, Ontario, CAN
2007 Bubble Wrap, Gal-On Gallery, Tel Aviv, IL
2006 Boiling Point, Kollek Stadium, Jerusalem, IL
2005 Luftkissen, Sherring Art Space, Berlin, DE
2001 Flags – Markers, Venice Biennale, IT, cur. by Doron Polack
2000 Domestic Tranquility Bne Brak, Hertzliya Museum of Art, Hertzliya, IL
1998 Drawings of Change, Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong, PRC, cur. by Manon Slome
  Polish Forests, Magnetic Fields, Carbon Copies, Rose Art Museum, Waltham, MA, US, cur. by Susan Stoops and Wendy Shafir
1997 Geographiestunde, Andreas Weiss Gallerie, Berlin, DE
1996 Carbon Series, Magnetic Field Drawings, Berlin Shafir Gallery, New York, NY, US
  Recent Rust Metal Maps and Bubble Wrap Maps, Noga Gallery, Tel Aviv, IL
  Light on the Ashes, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston Salem, NC, US
1995 Magnetic Drawings, Wynn Kramarsky Exhibition Space, New York, NY, US, cur. by Wendy Shafir
  The Possessed Library (David Koresh), Venice Biennale Israeli Pavilion, Venice, IT
1994 The Carbon Series, Sara Levi Gallery, Tel Aviv, IL
1993 The Carbon Series, Still Life on the Border, Grey Art Gallery, New York, NY, US, cur. by Tom Sokolowsky
  Early and Late Works by Joshua Neustein, Bertha Urdang Gallery, New York, NY, US
1992 The Carbon Series, Albright Know Gallery, Buffalo, NY, US, cur. by Douglas Schultz
1989-90 Territory/Territory, Congregation Rodeph Shalom, Philadelphia Museum of Judaica, Philadelphia, PA, US
1987 Joshua Neustein, Maps, Exit Art, New York, NY, US
1984 Gallery X+, Brussels, BE
  The Hidden Drawings, Givon Gallery, Tel Aviv, IL
1983 Joshua Neustein: The Bethlehem Series
1980-83 Herbert F. Johnson Museum, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, US
  Three Paper Works by Joshua Neustein, Saint Peter’s Church, A Congregation of the Lutheran Church in America in America, NY, US, cur. by Judith Neaman
  Joshua Neustein’s Maps, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, IL
  Drawings 1983, de Menasce Gallery, Israel Museum, IL
1980 Where are the Miami Indians, City Beautiful Council, Dayton, OH, US
1979 Nistar, Givon Gallery, Tel Aviv, IL
1978 Neustein: Recent Works, Velar Gallery, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, US
  Neustein, Folded Canvases, Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY, US
1977 Neustein – Ten Years of Works on Paper, Tel Aviv Museum, Tel Aviv, IL,  cur. by Sarah Breitberg
1975 Dogma, Yodfat Gallery, Tel Aviv, IL
1974 Joshua Neustein Drawings 1970-1973, Bertha Urdang Gallery, New York, NY, US
1973 Two Installation Projects: The Sound of Pine Cones Opening in the Sun and Hay Bales, Hay Bindings, Yodfat Gallery, Tel Aviv, IL
1972 Jerusalem River Project, Gallerie Yvon Lambert, Paris, FR
1971 Travel Art, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, UK
   
SPECIAL PROJECTS AND SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2012 To the Ends of the Earth, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, US
  Connected / Verbunden, Kunstverein Villa 1912, Kroepelin, DE
2011 Paper Trails: Selected Works from the Collection, 1934-2001, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
  Nature Nation, Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem, IL
  West End, Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem, IL, cur. Raphie Etgar
2010 The Right to Protest, Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem, IL, cur. Raphie Etgar
2009 Nature Nation, Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem, IL, cur. Raphie Etgar
2005 Poles Apart, Venice Biennale Maritime Museum, Venice, IT, cur. by Doron Polack
2004 What Did I Forget, Petach Tikva Museum, Petach Tikva, IL, cur. by Drorit Gur Arye
2003 Anxiety Fanning the Fear, Chelsea Art Museum, New York, NY, US
  Good Morning America, Zilka Gallery, Wesleyan University, Middleton, CT, US, cur. by Nina Felshin
2002 Tree, JCC, New York, NY
2001 Love at First Sight, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, ILDangerous Beauty, Rose Gallery, New York, NY, US, cur. by Manon Slome
2000 The End, Exit Art, New York, NY, US, cur. by Manon Slome
1999 The Aquarelle in Israeli Art, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, IL, cur. by Mira Perry Lehmann
1998 From One Root, Rose Art Museum, Waltham, MA, US
1997 The Blind Library, Beit Ariela Municipal Library, Tel Aviv, IL
1995 The Tent that Tore Itself to Pieces, Tel Hai Symposium
  Tantalus, Artists’ Museum Mitzpe Ramon, Negev region, IL
1993 The Wedding, Artists’ Museum, Lodz, PL
  Words and People, Artists’ Museum, Lodz, PL
1992 Look Who’s Talking, The Wedding, Schauspielhaus, Dusseldorf, DE
1989 Blind Patriot of the Sun, Dutch TV
  Gold Shit (an environmental action project), Streets of major cities in Israel, Rio de Janeiro, and New York
1988 Upon One of the Mountains, Genia Shreiber University Art Gallery, Tel Aviv, IL
  Israeli Artists, Images Gallery, Stockbridge, MA, US
1987 Immigrants and Refugees/Heroes or Villains, Exit Art, New York, NY, US
1984 The Rational Factor in Works b Israeli Artists, Haifa Museum of Modern Art, IL
  The Disciplined Spirit, Exit Art, New York, NY, US
1983 Still Life, Tel Hai International Symposium, Lebanon/Israeli border cur. by Ammon Barzel
1982 Lauri Anderson, Farrell Brickhouse, Scott Burton, Denise Freen, Woldgang Liab, Joshua Neustein, Lucio Pozzi, Maritin Puryear, Haim Steinbach, Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence, RI, USTorn Paper Works, Stadlische Kunsthalle, Dusseldorf, DE
1981 New Directions: Torn Paper Works, Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, NY, USA
  Heidi Gluck, Joshua Neustein, David Reed, Joel Shapiro, Richard Tuttle, Bertha Urdang Gallery, New York, NY, US
1978-76 Territorial Imperative (performance), Golan Heights, Krusa, DK; Belfast, IE; Documenta, Kassel, DE
1973 The Birth of Language, Stick Piece (action for documentation), artist’s studio, Jerusalem, IL
1972 Picture Plane (action for documentation), artist’s studio, Jerusalem, IL
1971 Barrier Piece, Israeli Museum, Jerusalem, IL
1970 Jerusalem River Project, Israeli Museum, Jerusalem, IL
  Road Piece, Tel Aviv Museum, Tel Aviv, IL
1969 Boots, artist’s house, Jerusalem, IL
1968 Rainwater, artist’s house, Jerusalem, IL