JAKUPSIL

Joel Shapiro received his B.A. in 1964, and his M.A. in 1969 from New York University. Since his first solo exhibition in 1970, Shapiro's work has been the subject of more than 160 solo exhibitions and retrospectives. Significant earlier solo exhibitions include the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis and Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City which co-organized and exhibited Joel Shapiro: Outdoors, the first major outdoor exhibition of the artist's bronzes (1995-96); Joel Shapiro organized by IVAM Centro Julio Gonzalez, Valencia, Spain that later traveled to the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark, Kunsthalle Zurich and Musee des Beaux-Arts, Calais, France (1990-91); Joel Shapiro, an exhibition of drawings and sculpture, was organized by the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam and later exhibited at the Kunsthaus Düsseldorf and Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden, Germany (1985-86); a major mid-career survey organized by The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York with subsequent venues at the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto and San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art (1982-84); and Joel Shapiro: Sculpture and Drawing at The Whitechapel Art Gallery, London that later traveled to the Museum Haus Lange, Krefeld, Germany and Moderna Museet, Stockholm (1980).

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Joel Shapiro was granted the Chevalier dans l'order des Arts et des Lettres, France in 2005. In 2004, he was awarded the American Foundation for AIDS Research Award of Excellence for Artistic Contributions to the Fight Against AIDS, Dallas, Texas Art Resources and the Transfer DUC Honor, New York. Shapiro was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1998 and to the Swedish Royal Academy of Art in 1994. Throughout his career, he has been honored with numerous awards including an Award of Merit Medal for Sculpture given by the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, NY (1990); Skowhegan Medal for Sculpture (1986); Brandeis University Creative Arts Award (1984); and the Visual Art Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts (1975). In addition, Mr. Shapiro's work has regularly been exhibited in prestigious group exhibitions such as the Whitney Biennial, NY (1977, 1979, 1981, 1989), Documenta in Kassel, Germany (1977, 1982), and the Venice Biennale (1980).

Education

1964 B.A., New York University, New York, NY

1969 M.A., New York University, New York, NY

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SELECTED SOLO SHOWS (2015~)​

2019 Joel Shapiro: Plaster Sculptures 1971-2014, Part I, Craig F. Starr Gallery, New York

          Joel Shapiro: Plaster Sculptures 1971-2014, Part II, Craig F. Starr Gallery, New York

2018 Joel Shapiro: Plaster, Paper, Wood, and Wire, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT

          Joel Shapiro, Kasmin Sculpture Garden, New York

          Joel Shapiro: The Bronzes, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Wisconsin

          Joel Shapiro, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York

2017 Joel Shapiro, Pace London, London, England

          Joel Shapiro: Floor Wall Ceiling, Kunstmuseum, Winterthur, Switzerland

2016 Joel Shapiro, The Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, TX

          Joel Shapiro, Dominique Lévy, New York, NY

2015 Joel Shapiro: Wood Plaster Bronze, Galerie Karsten Greve, Cologne, Germany

​AWARDS

2013 Outstanding Contribution to the Arts Award, Americans for the Arts, New York, NY

2004 Award of Excellence for Artistic Contributions to the Fight Against AIDS, American Foundation for AIDS Research, Dallas, TX

1986 Skowhegan Medal for Sculpture, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Madison, ME 1975 Visual Arts Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts, Washington, D.C.

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COLLECTIONS

The Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, NC The Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA Albany Institute of History and Art, New York, NY Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, NY Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto The Art Institute of Chicago, IL Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, TX Ball State University Museum of Art, Muncie, IN The Baltimore Museum of Art, MD BILBAO Ría 2000, Lasesarre Park, Barakaldo, Spain Birmingham Museum of Art, AL British Museum, London, UK Eli Broad Foundation, Los Angeles, CA Brooklyn Museum, New York, NY The Chase Manhattan Collection, New York, NY Centre Pompidou, Paris Cincinnati Art Museum, OH The Cleveland Museum of Art, OH Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME Communaute de Communes de L’Agglomeration Orleanaise, Orléans, France The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Dallas Museum of Art, TX Davidson College, NC The Denver Art Museum, CO, The Principal Riverwalk, Des Moines, IA The Rachofsky House, Dallas, TX The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL Rockefeller University, New York, NY Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA The Saint Louis Art Museum, MO Skulpturenpark Köln, Cologne, Germany Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam Storm King Art Center, New Windsor, New York, NY Tate, London, UK Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel The Toledo Museum of Art, OH United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, D.C. University of Chicago, IL University of Cincinnati, OH University of Massachusetts, Amherst University of Nebraska, Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery and Sculpture Garden, Lincoln, NE Walker Art Center, MN Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT