Joan Reutershan
Lives in Brooklyn, NY and works in Long Island City, NY
Art Education
2017 BFA in Studio Art summa cum laude, Hunter College, City University of New York, New York, NY
2014 MA in Art History, Hunter College, CUNY, New York, NY
Thesis: Richard Diebenkorn and Current Conversations on Abstract Painting
Installation
2022 Fort Greene Park, Brooklyn, NY, Marked! Preserve Tree Canopy in Fort Greene Park, created for Friends of Fort Greene Park, Brooklyn, NY
Solo Exhibitions
2021
9D (@studioninedee), HighLowCrowGo!, curated by Karen Rosenkrantz, New York, NY
2020
Mariboe Gallery at Swig Arts Center, BKNY Street View Redux, curated by Joyce Chen, Hightstown, NJ
Gallery at One River School of Art and Design, BKNY Street View, curated by Cassandra Basile, Woodbury, LI, NY
2011
Main Gallery at Port Washington Public Library, Peripheral Vision: New York City Paintings, Port Washington, NY
2010
Grace Institute Gallery, Vertical Terrain: New York City Paintings, New York, NY
2009
Florida School of the Arts Main Gallery, New York at Eye Level: Paintings and Photographs, Palatka, FL
2008
Watchung Arts Center, Chromatic New York, Watchung, NJ
2007
Art at First, Adjacencies: Cityscapes of Brooklyn and Manhattan, New York, NY
2005
Gallery Three at A.R.T. New York, Arrangements: Paintings of Brooklyn and Manhattan, Brooklyn, NY
Three-Person Exhibition
2023
Riverside Gallery, Abstraction, Layers and Perception, with Joyce Pommer and Sabrina Puppin), curated by Chunbum Park, Hackensack, NJ
2021
5-50 Gallery, MaterialX, with Lauren Packard and Qinza Nahm, curated by Hilary Doyle and Catherine Haggarty, Long Island City, NY
Group Exhibitions
2024
Honey Badger Motel Art Gallery, Group Show, curated by William Curry, Brooklyn, NY
2023
Warehouse 1-10/ Magnetic Laboratorium, Dark Sky Land, co-curated by Catherine de Maria and Marisela La Grave, Magdalena, NM
Aqua Art Miami, Odetta Gallery Group Show, curated by Ellen Hackl Fagan, Miami, Florida
Danville Museum of Fine Arts and History, Visions, curated by Tina Cornely, Danville, VA
KolonieWeddingBla-BlaProjektraum, Exquisite Codes Berlin, curated by Ellen Hackl Fagan, Berlin, Germany
Dodumu Gallery (online) Color Field: Blue
2022
The Jersey City Armory, Office Space Gallery SLC, at Art Fair 14C, 4th Edition, curated by Albert Abdul-Barr Wang and Bryce Chatwin, Jersey City, NJ
Box Factory Gallery, Omen Amen, curated by Kiera Stuart, Ridgewood, Queens, NY
Fayette Street Space, Bushwick Street Art NYC, Bushwick, Brooklyn, NY
Culture Lab LIC, A Queens Spring Art Affair, Long Island City, NY
Odetta Digital Gallery, Serious Play (Summer 2022) Spinning Plates (Winter 2022), Flow (Fall 2021), Refresh (Summer 2021) curated by Ellen Hackl Fagan, on Artsy.net with SHIM Art Network
Kleinert/James Center for the Arts, Byrdcliffe Artists in Residence 2021, Woodstock, NY
Art at First, Creatives Create, New York, NY
2021
The Glass Gallery at Mana Contemporary, Feminist Praxis, Office Space Gallery SLC at Art Fair 14C, curated by Albert Abdul-Barr Wang and Bryce Chatwin, Jersey City, NJ
Odetta Digital Gallery, Page Turner (Spring 2021), Refresh (Summer 2021), Flow (Fall 2021) curated by Ellen Hackl Fagan, on Artsy.net with SHIM Art Network Long Island City Artists Association, Drawings in a Time of Renewal, LIC-A’s 2nd Annual Drawing Exhibition, curated by Carol Crawford & Jorge Posada, Drawing Room 2, Mixed-Media Drawing
Dodumu Gallery (online) Color Field: Green
2020
SHRINE Gallery, Group Show Open Call online exhibition Room 5, NY, NY (Joan Reutershan Slide 6)
2019
Gallery Cubed, Under the Magnifying Glass, curated by Claudia Bitran, Brooklyn, NY
2018
Kleinert/James Center for the Arts, Relief: Byrdcliffe Artists in Residence 2018, curated by James Adelman and Oscar Buitrago, Woodstock, NY
2018
Sideshow Gallery, Slideshow Nation VI: The Greatest Show on Earth! Brooklyn, NY
2017
Leubsdorf Gallery, Hunter College BFA Degree Exhibition, curated by Carrie Moyer, New York, NY
2016
International Print Center, Printfest, New York, NY
Art Gallery at St. Joseph’s College, “Plus Ca Change,” curated by Maribeth Flynn, Brooklyn, NY
2015
Sideshow Gallery, Sideshow Nation III: Thru the Rabbit Hole!!!, Brooklyn, NY
2014
Sideshow Gallery, Sideshow Nation II: At the Alamo, Brooklyn, NY
2013
City Without Walls [cWOW] Gallery, Diptych, Triptych and Multiples, curated by Shira Toren, Newark, NJ
Chashama Midtown Gallery, chaNorth 2012 Residency Alumni Exhibition, New York, NY
2012
The Painting Center, Natural/Constructed Spaces, curated by Galen Cheney and Marianne Van Lent, New York, NY
Art Gallery at St. Joseph’s College, Prelude Exhibition, curated by Wendy Burke, Brooklyn, NY
TRA Gallery, The Color Blue, Brooklyn, NY
Fountain Art Fair New York, Hullabaloo Collective, New York, NY
Art Gallery at St.Joseph’s College, There’s a Story Here, curated by Stacey Temple, Brooklyn, NY
Jadite Gallery, Groupshow, curated by Jorge Valdez, New York, NY
Sideshow Gallery, MIC: CHECK, Brooklyn, NY
2011
Ernest Rubenstein Gallery, The Urban Situation, curated by John Baber, New York, NY
Tillies of Brooklyn Art Gallery, A Sense of Place, curated by Doug Madill,Brooklyn, NY
TRA Gallery, Represent Brooklyn, curated by Kennis Baptiste, Brooklyn, NY
2010
Gallery 61, New York Institute of Technology, Urbanessence, curated by Jennifer Mitchell, New York, NY
South Oxford Space Garden Gallery, Genius Loci, curated by
Maribeth Flynn, Brooklyn, NY
2009
TRA Gallery / Classon Walls, Summer at Sonya, Brooklyn, NY
Crane Street Studios, New York Armory Arts Week at Crane Street Studios, Long Island City, NY
2008
Gallery of Tower 49, Spring Group Show, New York, NY
SS Lilac Gallery at Pier 40, From the Lilac, New York, NY
2007-08
CB Richard Ellis at 140 Broadway, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council-
CBRE Downtown Cityscape Exhibit, New York, NY
2007
Flinn Gallery, Emerging Artists, Greenwich, CT
Eleven-Ten Gallery, Gallery Stroll Preview Show, Brooklyn, NY
Art at First, New York, NY: Visions of the City, New York, NY
2006
Brooklyn Arts Council, Third Wave--Brooklyn in Transition, Brooklyn, NY
CB Richard Ellis at 140 Broadway, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council- CBRE Downtown Cityscape Exhibit, New York, NY
Gallery 6, Gateway National Park, A Primary Exhibition, Queens, NY
2005
Eleven-Ten Gallery, Small Works Winter Show, Brooklyn, NY
Simon Liu Gallery, Brooklyn Reborn, Brooklyn, NY
Gallery 402, The Great Outdoors: A Summer Show, New York, NY
Eleven-Ten Gallery, SONYA Stroll Preview Show, Brooklyn, NY
Cork Gallery, Lincoln Center, Annual ASL Awards Show, New York, NY
2004
Brooklyn Waterfront Artist’s Coalition, Solo Show, Brooklyn, NY
Collections
Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn, NY: Paintings #28 and #29 in Remarked Upon Book by Robin Ross
Grace Institute, New York, NY
Private Collections in the US and Germany
Awards/ Grants/ Residencies
2021
Byrdcliffe Art Colony, Woodstock, NY, Artist Residency
2020
Guest Artist, Mariboe Art Gallery, Hightstown, NJ
2019
Vermont Studio Center Full Fellowship, Johnson, VT, Artist Residency
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts Fellowship, Amherst, VA, Artist Residency
2018
Byrdcliffe Art Colony, Woodstock, NY, Artist Residency
2017
Departmental Honors in Fine Arts, Hunter College Department of Art and Art History, New York, NY
Presidential Graduation Award, Hunter College, New York, NY
2015-17
Kossak Painting Fellow, Hunter College Department of Art and Art History, New York, NY
2012
chaNorth at Spruce Farm, Pine Plains, NY, Artist Residency
2009
Oberpfaelzer Kuenstlerhaus, Schwandorf, Germany, Artist Residency
2007, 2005
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts Fellowship, Artist Residency
2005
Award of Excellence, Manhattan Arts International Small Works Competition
2003
Marchutz School Fellowship, Aix-en-Provence, France
Artist talks and Interviews
2023
Artist talk with curator and co-director Kat Ryals of Paradice Palase on Instagram Live October 18, 2023.
2022
Emerging Artists Collective, Interview—Joan Reutershan (August 2022)
Artist talk with curator and educator Joyce Chen, Mariboe Art Gallery, Hightstown, New Jersey, in conjunction with the exhibition BKNY Street View 2
Artist Talk with Gallery Director Cassandra Basile, One River School of Art and Design, Woodbury New York, in conjunction with the exhibition BKNY Street View
Curatorial and Art Writing
2013
Co-curated with William C. Agee et al., Sanford Wurmfeld: Color Visions 1966-2013, Hunter College Times Square Gallery, New York, NY, 2013
Catalog essay “From Gravity to Levity: Sanford Wurmfeld’s Recent Watercolor Paintings” in Sanford Wurmfeld: Color Visions 1966-2013, exhibition catalog (New York: Hunter College Times Square Gallery, 2013), 124-130.
Bibliography
2021
Preparing for Open Studios at Byrdcliffe in Woodstock, Daily Freeman, Kingston ,NY, July 13, 2021, updated July 24, 2021.
2020
Solo Exhibition at Woodbury Gallery, Syosset Advance (Garden City, NY), February 26, 2020.
2019
Adelman, James and Oscar Buitrago, introduction to RELIEF: Byrdcliffe Artists-in-Residence 2018, exhibition catalog, April-May, images p16.
2017
Beattie, Drew, catalog essay for Concurrency, Hunter College BFA Degree Exhibition, City University of New York, exhibition catalog, June 2017, np.
2013
Bischoff, Dan, Over and Over: Review of Diptych, Triptych and Multiples at cWOW Gallery, The Sunday Star-Ledger (Newark), NJ, March 10, 2013, Section IV, 6.
#166: Flatbush Ave/ Bergen St (Brooklyn), oil on canvas, 30 x 24 in., 2008, reproduced in Roth, Robert and Carletta Joy Walker, eds And Then, Vol. 17, 2013, 85.
2011
AAC Welcomes Joan Reutershan, The Port Washington Public Library, No. 270, October 201
Horner, James, A Diverse Look at Urban Life: Review of “The Urban Situation,’ Ernest Rubenstein Gallery at the Educational Alliance, Manhattan Fine Arts Examiner, February 21
2009
Biederer, Franziska, Stadt der vielen Pasteltone, Die Rundschau Schwandorf, August 2
Poscharsky-Ziegler, Anastasia, New Yorker Wolkenkratzer in der Oberpfalz, Der Neue Tag, July 25
2008
Doane, Naomi, ed., ‘“Evening Reflections” by Joan Reutershan,’ cover image, Fort Greene Newsletter, November
2007
“Emerging Artists” Closes Flinn’s Season, Greenwich Citizen, May 4
2006
Harvey, Phillip, Profile: Third Wave Artists in their own Words, Nat Creole Magazine, No3, Nov/Dec
BAC Gallery Presents Third Wave: The Planet of Brooklyn Transitions, October
Hartenstein, S., A Sneak Peek into an Urban Landscape, The Wave, Feb 17
Memberships
NYC Crit Club; Long Island City Artists Association; College Art Association; Robert Blackburn Print Studio