Ilona Granet - Biography/Bibliography

2012 Biography and Exhibition Update

2012-02-05T20:54:00.013-05:00

February 8 – March 20
"Getting From Here to There: Images In and AboutTransition"
Curated by Robert G. Edelman
AFP Gallery, Fuller Building, 41 East 57th St., 7thfloor, New York, (212) 230-1003

February 23rd - March 31st
Disband Performance
"You. Me. We. She."
Fleisher/Ollman Gallery
1616 Walnut Street Suite 100
Philadelphia, 19103

Summer
MacDowell Colony with Disband

2011 Biography and Exhibition Update

2011-12-17T03:56:00.008-05:00

"ART, ACCESS & DECAY, NY 1975-1985"
Subliminal Projects Gallery
1331 W Sunset Blvd
Los Angeles, CA
April 2nd - April 30th, 2011
Curated by Peter Frank & Lisa Kahane

2010 Biography and Exhibition Update

2010-04-05T17:00:00.010-04:00

April 10 – June 12
Jamaica Flux: Workspaces & Windows 2010
"Art as Action"

2009 Biography and Exhibition Update

2009-09-21T12:47:00.003-04:00

August 1, 2009
Disband in South Korea, Disband was invited to show and perform in the Incheon Women Artists Biennale. http://iwabiennale.org/2009_new/eng/main/main.php

March 26, 2009
"Fight the Power!"
Armand Bartos Fine Arts
25 E. 73rd St. 4th floor
NYC, NY 10021
Opening: 6pm-8pm.on March 26, Show: March 27-April 25

Bibliography updates all

2009-09-21T12:45:00.006-04:00

July 30, 2009
The Korea Times, Arts and Living
Spotlight on Women Artists at Incheon Biennale
By Cathy Rose A. Garcia
Staff Reporter

Biography 2011 and previous

2009-01-02T11:55:00.001-05:00

Biography

	Born, Brooklyn, New York
Education
	BFA, Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA.
	Columbia College, Chicago, IL, Dance
	Chicago Academy of Music, Chicago, IL.
	MFA, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL.
Exhibitions - Residency - Fellowships - Awards - Lecturer
2011	Subliminal Projects. "Art, Access & Decay." Peter Frank & Lisa Kahane: curators. 6 signs & performance videos.
	Tyler School of Art. "Victory for Tyler." Works on Paper. Judged alumni.
	Fellowship MacDowell Summer Residency.
2010	Jamaica Flux. Queens, NY. Heng-Gil Han, curator. April -August. Four signs installed outdoors, 2 indoors. Outdoor signs extended until spring 2011.
2009	Also see Ilona Granet Blog: http://ilonagranet.blogspot.com/ for the latest updates
	Disband in South Korea, Disband was invited to show and perform in the Incheon Women Artists Biennale. August 1
	"Fight the Power!" Armand Bartos Fine Arts 25 E. 73rd St. 4th floor NYC, NY 10021 Opening: 6pm-8pm.on March 26, Show: March 27-April 25
2008
	Performance "Wack! Show" : Disband Opening Reception. 2pm PS1, Contemporary Art Center Queens, N.Y. Feb 17
	One Woman Show, a mini retrospective New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art, New Harmony, Indiana. March-April
	Visiting Artist, University of Southern Indiana, Evansville, In. April 2008
	One Woman Show, a mini retrospective New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art, New Harmony, Indiana March-April
	University of North Texas Art Gallery DISBAND performance group videos, featuring Ilona Granet, Donna Hennes, Diane Torr and Martha Wilson. Feb 17 - May 12
	"Collection, Cultures & Collaborations" University of North Texas Art Gallery, Permanent Collection An interactive module featuring interviews with artists, students, art historians, viewers & collectors. Scholarly research, text, and educational programs. Jan-March
	Performance at P.S.1 MOMA, Contemporary Art Center "WACK!: Art and the Feminist Revolution," 30th Anniversary Reunion of DISBAND performance group, featuring Ilona Granet, Donna Hennes, Diane Torr and Martha Wilson. Feb 17
2007
	"Text Messages," Adam Goldbaum Gallery, NYC, group show
2006
	"The Food Show: The Hungry Eye," Chelsea Art Museum Home of the Miotte Foundation, New York, NY
	"The A list," Paper Magazine - also online Artists and designers display, and write about, their favorite letter "A." April 26 PDF of the article
	Visiting Artist / Lecturer, Lincoln University, Lincoln, England
	Visiting Artist / Lecturer, Winchester University, Winchester, England
	Artist in Residency Fellowship, Schloss Plueschow, Germany
2005
	Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation award
	Artist in Residency Fellowship, VCCA, Virgina (two visits)
2004
	Ono Galerie, Bern, Switzerland
	"Safe Signs and War Signs," ONO Bühne Galerie, Kramgasse, Bern
2003
	"Safe," The Gunk Foundation, Lower Manhattan streets, NYC: Signs and Flags. (ongoing into 2004)
	New School for Social Reseach, taught creative drawing and painting.
2002
	"To the Flag: Taking Liberties," Three Rivers Arts Festival Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA.
2000
	Artist in Residence, Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY
	"Picturing the Modern Amazon," New Museum of Contemporary Art in SoHo, New York, NY
	Bus stop billboards, "Children and Violence", Los Angeles CA, Fall, project with World Studio Foundation, mentoring collaboration with teenage artists.
	"The End Show" a history of Exit Art, at Exit Art, New York, NY
	Two Painting Commissions.
1999
	"Paradise," Exit Art, New York, NY
	Visiting Artist, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, fall term.
1998
	One Person Exhibition, "At the Sign of the Blue Blood", P-P-0-W, New York, NY
	"Re: Duchamp," curated by Mike Bidlo, Abraham Lubellsky Gallery, New York, NY
1997
	"Girls! Girls! Girls!", Tricia Collins Grand Salon, New York, NY
	Exit Art, New York, NY
1996
	Artist in Residence, Ragdale, Chicago, IL
	Artist in Residence, University of Southern Indiana. Evansville, IN
	Artist in Residence, Custom Signs, Sheridan, WY
	Artist in Residence, Artist Refuge, Basin, Montana
	Teaching Position, Drawing Instructor, "Intensive Drawing", Fordham University, New York, NY
1995
	"Reinventing the Emblem," Yale Art Museum
	Artist in Residence, Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY
	Visiting Artist and Lecturer, University of Montclair. Montclair, NJ
1994
	"Disorderly Conduct," Hobart and William Smith College, NY, Carlton College, MN
	"Visions from the Lower East Side," curated by Helen Wexler. Henry Street Settlement, New York, NY
	Yale University Library, New Haven, CT
	Commissioned by Central Park Conservancy, "Save the Grass," New York, NY
	"In-Sites: Lower East Side Artists Re-Think Neighborhood Spaces," Henry Street Settlement, New York
	"Revolutionary Power of Women's Laughter," Hobart and William Smith College. additional venues to be announced, curated by Jo Anna Isaac
	Artist in Residence, Peace Museum and Domestic Violence Shelters
1993-4
	"What are the Signs?", The Peace Museum, Chicago, IL
	Artist in Residence, U-Cross, Wyoming
1993
	"Women at War," LedisFIam. New York, NY
	"1920:The Subtlety of Subversion-The Continuity of Intervention," Exit Art, New York, NY
	"Disorderly Conduct." P-P-0-W, Inc.
1992
	Artist in Residence, Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY
	"Art For Your Collection," Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design. Providence, Rhode Island
	"Re-Play," Gahlberg Gallery, Arts Center, College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, IL
	"Sexual Harassment: A Dialogue," Triplex Gallery, Borough of Manhattan Community College, New York, NY
	"From America'9 Studio-Drawing New Conclusions," Betty Rymer Gallery, The Art Institute. Chicago, IL
	"In Praise of Folly," John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
	"The Power of the City/City of Power," The Whitney Museum of American Art
	Down-town at Federal Reserve Plaza, New York, NY
	"Goodbye to Apple Pie: Contemporary Artists View Family in Crisis," De Cordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln. MA
1991
	The Rockefeller Foundation - Bellagio Fellowship, Bellagio, Italy
	"No Laughing Matter," curated by Nina Felshin for ICL travelling exhibit
	Cultural Space, New York, NY
	"Hands Off," The New School for Social Research, New York, NY
	"The Art of Advocacy," The Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT
	"Original Sin," Hillwood Art Museum, CW Post Campus, Brookeville. NY
	"The Abortion Project," Simon Watson, New York, NY
	"The Abortion Project," Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT
	"Visual Art in Prospect Park," Prospect Park, Brooklyn, NY, June-October
	"Outspoken Women," Intermedia Arts, Minneapolis, MN. 1989
	Susan B. Anthony Award (The National Organization for Women (New York City Chapter)
	"Urban Images," Madison Art Center, Madison, WI
	"Power Struggle," Spaces, Cleveland, OH
	One-Person Exhibition, "Public Works," PPOW. NY
	"Collabroative Artworks," Cork Gallery, Avery Fisher Hall. Lincoln Center, produced by Andrev Veijkovic
1990
	"Flaneur/Flaneuse: Out for a Stroll," Barbara Fendrick Gallery, May, New York, NY
	"Word as Image," Milwaukee Art Museum. June 15-August 26. Milwaukee, WI
	"Images of Death in Contemporary Art," The Patrick and Beatrice Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University, March 22-June 3, 1990, Milwaukee. WI
	"Selections from P.P.O.W, NYC," June I through July 8, Weatherspoon Art Gallery
	The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC
1988
	"Committed to Print," Museum of Modem Art (organized traveling exhibit) N.Y., NY University Art Galleries.Davton Ohio, Oct. 30-Dec. 15, The Peace Museum. Chicago, IL. March 3-May 31, 1989, Glenbow Museum, Calgary. Canada, Sept. 23-Nov. 19, 1989, New York State Museum, Albany, NY, Dec. 16, 1989-Feb. 11, 1990, Spencer Museum of Art, The University of Kansas, Lawrence. KN. March 25-May 6, 1990, Newport Harbor Art Museum July 20-Sept. 30, 1990

	"All the News That's Fit For Prints," Richmond, VA
	Two-Person Exhibition, Bread and Roses Cultural Center, Erika Rothenberg and Ilona Granet, New York, NY
	"Vital Signs," One Main Street Windows, Brooklyn, NY
	"All the News That's Fit For Prints," Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX
	"The Debt," Exit Art, New York, NY
	"The All Male Feminist Art Show," The New Waterfront Museum. Brooklyn, NY
	Commission, ABC TV/Capital Cities Corporation, New York, NY
1987
	"All the News That's Fit For Prints," P.P.O.W New York, NY
	"All the News That's Fit For Prints," 1199 Gallery, New York, NY
	Two-Person Exhibition, P.P.O.W., New York, NY
	"Madness in America," Elizabeth Galasso Fine Art Leasing, Ossining, NY
	"Modem Living," Jeffrey Linden Gallery, Hollywood, CA
1986
	"Concensus:Today's Art in an Overpopulated City," Exit Art, New York, NY
1984-6
	NYSCA, New York State Council on the Arts grant for Emily Post street signs
	"Disarming Images," Curated by Nina Felshin, Travelling Exhibition
1984
	"Oracle," performance, Exit Art, New York, New York, NY
1984
	"American Women (part II)," Sidney Janis Gallery, N.Y., NY
1983
	"The Revolultionary Power of Women's Laughter," Max Protech Gallery, NY
1982
	"The Beast Show," P.S. 1, Long Island Citv, NY, Curated by Richard Flood.
	"Atomic Salon," Ronald Feldman Gallery, NY
1980
	"Manifesto Show," curated by Colen Fitzgibbon & Jenny Holzer
	"The Real Estate Show," Curated by Alan Moore
	"The Suitcase Show," Curated by Mike Glier
	"The Ten Last Years of Book Arts," Franklin Furnace. N.Y., NY, Curated by Ingrid Sischy
	"Photos Lie," The Kitchen. N.Y., NY, Curated by Ingrid Sischy
1979
	"Doctors and Dentists," Curated by Robin Winters, New York, NY
Performances
	1973-1985 Ilona Granet performed live, both solo and with: Jerry Saltz, Contemporary Mesuum, Chicago Michael Smith, New York, NY Disband (Late '70s), with Martha Wilson, Ingrid Sischy, Donna Henes, and Diane Torr
	"Potato Wolf TV," Colab, New York, NY, With Peter Fend, and solo
	In addition Ms. Granet has performed at the Kitchen, The Performing Garage, The Mudd Club, and Danceteria in New York City. She also performed in Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, and in Italy

Bibliography 2009 and previous

2009-01-01T12:41:00.002-05:00

2009
	"The Korea Times, Arts and Living" "Spotlight on Women Artists at Incheon Biennale" By Cathy Rose A. Garcia, Staff Reporter July 30, 2009.
2007
	Article, illustrated, "Art In America," by Lucy Lippard, summer 2007.
	Stephen Maine, "Letter by Letter, Word by Word," "New York Sun," June 21, Arts & Letters, p.22. "Are You Mice Or Men?" (reproduction) "One of the standouts is "Are Your Mice or Men?" from the underknown Ilona Granet." "Text Messages," Adam Baumgold Gallery, NYC, group show.
2004
	Helen Lagger, "Ilona Granet," "Ensuite," Bern, Switzerland.
2001
	Helena Reckitt & Peggy Phelan, "Art & Feminism," Phaidon Press, New York.
2000
	Roberta Smith, "Shaking up Stereotypes With Muscles," "New York Times," April 7.
	"New York Magazine review" of "Picturing the Modern Amazon," The New Museum of Contemporary Art, spring 2000.
	Barbara Pollack, "Art News" review of "Picturing the Modern Amazon," The New Museum of Contemporary Art, spring 2000.
	Roberta Smith, "Shaking Up Stereotypes With Muscles, Lot's of Them," review of "Picturing the Modern Amazon," The New Museum of Contemporary Art, "New York Times," Friday April 7, page E39.
	Kim Levin, "Voice Choices, The Short List," review of "Picturing the Modern Amazon," "The Village Voice," April 18th, page 96.
1999
	Robert Edelman, "Miss America, Ilona Granet, Where Nuance Meets Boldness," article, 'Cover Magazine," Spring, page 20.
	Gene Robertson, and Craig McDanile, illustrated textbook article, "Painting as a Language," published by Harcourt College.
1998
	Levin, Kim, "Voice Art Choices, Recommended," December 8, 1998.
1997
	Phaidon Press, "Suffragettes and She-Wolves," reproductions.
1995
	Tama Starr, "Eve's Revenge," reproduction, published by Harcourt Brace, Co., page 153.
	Jo Anna Isaac, "The Revolutionary Power of Women's Laughter," reproduction.
1994
	Illustration, "The New Yorker," October 15.
	Hyde, Janet Shibley, "Understanding Human Sexuality," reproduction, published by McGraw Hill.
	Review, "Chicago Sun-Times," reproduction, August 19.
	Review, "Museum Views," reproduction, October.
	Review, "The Peace Release," reproduction, Volume 2, Summer.
	Review, "Violence Prevention," Illinois Council for the Prevention of Violence, Volume 1, No. 5, reproduction, Fall.
	"Project: Graphic Agitation," reproductions, Phaidon Press, London.
1993
	"Museum School News," School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Spring 1993.
	Goldfarb, Myra Yellin. "Funny Girls confront feminism at Maria Feliz," "The Morning Call," October 3.
	Smith, Roberta, "Arts and Leisure," "The New York Times," August.
1992
	Reproduction, "Glamour note," "Glamour Magazine," February, pg. 92.
	Pasternak, Anne R. "Creating An Exhibition: The Abortion Project," reproduction, Art New England, February/March, pgs 22-23, 56.
	Catalogue. "Replay," published by The William E.Gahlberg Gallery, Arts Center, College of Dupage, Glen Ellyn, IL.
	Cathy MacDonald, "Frighteningly Funny," "The Daily News," Nova Scotia, reproduction, March 5th.
	Elissa Barnard, "American Activist Art No Laughing Matter," "The Mail-Star," March 6th, pg C8.
1991
	Alice Yeager Kaplan, "French in Action," reproduction, "Artforum," February, pg 19.
	Betty Tyler, "Artists of Protest," Fairpress, section D, June 6.
	"Catty Art," "Acorn Press Weekend Magazine," May 15-16.
	Carolee Ross, "Advocacy art gets airing at Aldrich Museum," "The Advocate and Greenwich Time," June 30.
	Susan Elan, "Culture That Confronts," County Advocate, June 27, pg 21.
	Catalogue, "The Art of Advocacy," published by the Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT.
	Catalogue, "The Refco Collection," published by Refco Group Ltd., Chicago, IL.
	Mariella Bisson, "The Art of Prospect Park," Public Art Review, Issue 5, Vol. 5, Spring/Summer, pg. 10.
	Catalogue, "No Laughing Matter," Curated by Nina Felshin, published by Independent Curators Incorporated, NY.
1990
	Eleanore Heartney, "Art in America," exhibition review, January 1990, p. 162.
	Robert Mahoney, "Arts," exhibition review, January 1990, p. 104.
	James Lewis, "Artforum," exhibition review, January 1990, p. 140.
	Edward Waisms, cover, exhibition review, February 1990, p. 16.
	Catalogue, "Images of Death in Contemporary Art," The Patrick and Beatrice Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI, 1990.
	Catalogue, "Artpark Visual Arts Program Catalog," Artpark, Lewiston, NY.
1989
	"Opinionated Art at Spaces," "The Plain Dealer," June 2, p. 12.
	"Taboo Topics Subject at Spaces," "The Plain Dealer," June 15.
	Catalogue,"Power Struggle," Spaces, Cleveland, Ohio.
	Katherine Rogers, "Instincto Animale?, Wrong, Callers say," Wisconsin State Journal, July 28.
	George Kiosk, "Public art purchases open Pandora's Box," editorial in Wisconsin State Journal, Aug. 5, 1989, p. 7A.
	"Controversy Corridor, September 1988-September 1989," First Bank Systems, Minneapolis, MN.
	John Byrum, exhibition review, "Power Struggle," "New Art Examiner," September 1989.
	Judd Tully, "United States, The custodians of First Bank System's art collection are asking employees to talk back," "Art & Auction," October 1989, p. 222.
	Review, "New Yorker," November 6, p. 24.
	Elizabeth Hess, "The Village Voice," "Shock Gallery," Nov. 7, 1989. p. 81.
	Ruth Bass, "Art Talk," exhibition review December 1989.
	Lucy Lippard, "Both Sides Now [A Reprise]," "Heresies," no. 24, p. 31, 1989.
	Catalogue, "Visual Arts Program Catalog '89", reproduction pg 8 & 9, Artpark, Lewiston. NY.
1988
	Catalogue, "Committed to Print," Museum of Modem Art, N.Y., NY.
	Jere Hester, "But is it Art? Provocative Street Signs Spark Board Debate," review, "Battery News," February 16, p. 87.
	Peg Tyre, "Street Sign," review, Fast Track New York, March 7, pg. 32.
	Jenny Cowley, "Pavement Curb on the Pests," "The Mail on Sunday," London, March 13, p. 8.
	"Personalien," "Der Spiegel," April, p. 264.
	Linda Werner Seligson, "Yorker Taming Big Apple: Granet's works are signs of times," review, "York Daily News," April 5.
	Peter Truell, "Bewildered by Third World Debt? Would a Picture Make it Clearer?," "The Wall Street Journal," June 27.
	"Choices," "The Village Voice," June 28.
	Elizabeth Hess, "On the Money," "The Village Voice," June 28.
	"Street Smart Signs," "Glamour," July, p. 41.
	Photograph, "Pittsburgh Post Gazette," August 17, p. 2.
	Shirley Marlow, "Artist Wants to Blow the Whistle on Sidewalk Wolves," "Los Angeles Times," August 17, P. 2.
	"If you must leer. do so silently," "The Times of India," New Delhi, August 18.
	Nally Bellati, "Un Invito Alla Civilita: Per le strade di New York," "Gran Harpers Bazaar," Italy, August, p. 118.
	David Rothenberg, "Looking Out," "Chelsea News," September 1-7, p. 4.
	Don Broderick, "Cave men go ape over sign for sexists," "New York Post," September 2.
	Review, "York Sunday News," September 11, p. E I.
	"One gal's crusade: Okay, you creeps - cool the catcalls!," "Weekly World News," September 27, P. 35.
	Review, "The Village Voice," October 18.
	Beth Mayer Schoen, "It's a Jungle Out There," The Ms. Reporter, "Ms. Magazine," November p. 83.
	Laura Morice, "Inside," "Mademoiselle," December, p. 66.
	Review, "In These Times," vol. 13, no. 17, Morris, EL., March 22-28, p. 4.
1987
	Choices, The Village Voice, June 23.
	Elizabeth Hess, "Faux Foe," review, The Village Voice, June 30. p. 82.
	Kate Linker, review, "Artforum," October.
	Project Pages, "Artforum," September, pp. 96-99.
1985
	Catalogue. "Critical Messages: The Use of Public Media for Political Art by Women," Artemisia Gallery/Fund, Chicago, IL.
	Suzanne Muchnic, "Apocalyptic Visions on View," Los Angeles Times Art Review, July 6.
1984
	Nina Felshin, "Disarming Images Art for Nuclear Disarmament," Adama Books, New York.
1983
	Donald Kuspit, "Gallery Leftism," review "Vanguar," November, p. 22.
	Catalogue, "Sex. Performance. and the 80's," Franklin Furnace, New York, NY.
1982
	"Missiles for Minors," review, "The Village Voice," June 15.