JOSEPH HUGHES
Born 1941 Moundsville, WV
Since 1967 living in San Francisco, CA
SELECTED ONE-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2008 Room for Painting Room for Paper, San Francisco, CA
2006 Takada Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2004 HDG Gallery, Wheeling, WV
2004 Takada Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2002 Shasta College, Redding, CA
2002 The Vedro Collection, Atlantic Beach, FL
1998 Takada Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1993 Takada Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1989 Delf Norona Museum, Moundsville, WV
1987 Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1982 Bluxome Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1979 Shirley Cerf Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1975 Grapestake Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1974 Studio Space, New York, NY
1972 Hank Baum Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1970 Graphics Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1967 Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, WV
1966 Jerome Ringer Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
1966 Oglebay Institute Gallery, Wheeling, WV
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2007 “Color Based Paintings III,"
Bergner + Job Galerie, Mainz, Germany
2006 “Sixteen International Artists: Small Works," Bus Dori, Tokyo, Japan
2005 “Abstraction: Spirit and Space," Hearst Art Gallery, St. Mary’s College, Moraga, CA
2004 “The Beyer Collection: Albers, Hughes, Johns, Noguchi, et al,"
Shasta College Art Gallery, Redding, CA
2003 “Selections from the Permanent Collection," Avampato Discovery Museum, Charleston, WV
2002 “Painted Color," Chac Mool Gallery, West Hollywood, CA
2000 “Minimalism Then and Now," Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA
2000 “Current Painting," Galerij S65, Art Chicago 2000, Chicago, IL
2000 “Carl Andre/Sculpture; Joseph Hughes/Painting," Takada Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1999 “Takada Gallery Artists: Hughes, Mangold, Marden, Martin, et al," Shasta College Art Gallery, Redding, CA
1998 “Color-Based Painting: The Root of the Actual,"
Jan Maiden Fine Art, Columbus, OH (Catalog)
1998 “Restraint: Andre, Buren, Hughes, Mangold, Martin, Ryman,"
Takada Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1996 “Recent Acquisitions,"
West Virginia State Museum, Charleston, WV
1995 “Hiroshima Memorial: 1945-1995,"
Fukuya Art Gallery, Hiroshima, Japan
1995 “Twelve International Painters," Galerij S65, Flanders Expo, Ghent, Belgium
1989 “Paint: Seven Bay Area Painters,” Mincher/Wilcox Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1989 “An Exhibition of Miniatures,” Harleen and Allen Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
1987 “Paintings Without Pictures: Eight Abstract Painters," 165 Eighth Street, San Francisco, CA
1985 “California Directions in Painting," Visual Arts Center of Alaska, Anchorage, AK (Catalog)
1982 “Recent Color: Five Painters," Foster Goldstrom Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1982 “New Abstraction," Bluxome Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1981 “New Painting," Shirley Cerf Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1979 “Three Abstract Painters," Shirley Cerf Galley, San Francisco, CA
1975 “Recent Paintings," Grapestake Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1973 “Contemporary Annual," Nevada Art Museum, Reno, NV
1972 “Small Works Annual," San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
1972 “Fifteenth Annual," Downey Museum of Art, Downey, CA
1970 “Works on Paper: California Artists," Graphics Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1968 “Jurors Choice: Six Artists," Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, WV
1967 “Current West Virginia Painting and Sculpture,"
Sunrise Museum, Charleston, WV
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Baker, Kenneth. “Hughes Paintings at Takada,” San Francisco Chronicle, September 16, 2006.
Baker, Kenneth. “Joseph Hughes at Takada,” San Francisco Chronicle, October 30, 2004.
Lawson, George. “Joseph Hughes and Color Painting," Joseph Hughes: Paintings 1972-2002, San Francisco, CA, 2002.
Lavino, James. “The Image of Color," Joseph Hughes: Paintings 1972-2002, San Francisco, CA, 2002.
Bonetti, David. “Berkeley Museum: Showing Off Its Assets,” San Francisco Chronicle, March 4, 2001.
Weinstock, Nino & Verleg, Richter. “Radical Painting,” Radical Painting und Prasenz der Farbe, Dusseldorf, 2001.
Lewallen, Constance. “Minimalism Then and Now,” Look (Berkeley Art Museum), Fall, 2000.
Kokot, Sharon. “Colors Speak for Themselves,” Columbus Dispatch, April 11, 1999.
Schieber, Curtis. “Radical Concrete’s Rock-Solid Modernism,” Dialogue, March/April, 1999.
Clark, Margaret Anne. “Painting as Meditation,” Artviews, October, 1998.
Bonetti, David. “Taking Abstraction to Ground Zero,”
San Francisco Examiner, April 12, 1996.
Baker, Kenneth. “Joseph Hughes at Takada,” San Francisco Chronicle, October 21, 1993.
Bonetti, David. “Art: At the Galleries,” San Francisco Examiner, September 22, 1989.
Baker, Kenneth. “Abstracts with Depth, Complexity,” San Francisco Chronicle, September 21, 1989.
Brunson, Jamie. “Bay Area’s Response to Postmodernist Abstraction,” Visions, Spring, 1989.
Baker, Kenneth. “Displays of Paintings, Not Pictures,” San Francisco Chronicle, September 19, 1988.
Anonymous. “In Brief,” L.A. Art Scene, July/August, 1987.
Gardner, Colin. “The Art Galleries/La Cienega Area,” Los Angeles Times, June 19, 1987.
Albright, Thomas. “Joseph Hughes,” Art in the San Francisco Bay Area: 1945-1980, 1985
Cebulski, Frank. “Color As Perception,” Art Week, January 22, 1983.
Albright, Thomas. “Personal, Fresh Approaches,” San Francisco Chronicle, January 13, 1983.
Albright, Thomas. “Colorful Canvases,” San Francisco Chronicle, February 27, 1982.
Albright, Thomas. “San Francisco,” Art News, January, 1976.
Dunham, Judith L. “Joseph Hughes’ Dual Series,” Art Week, November 22, 1975.
Albright, Thomas. “Catching the Art Critic Off Garde,” San Francisco Chronicle, November 15, 1975.
Bowles, Jerry. “Young Artists Leave Big Sur for Big Apple,” Staten Island Advance, June 2, 1974.
Albright, Thomas. The Way It Was: San Francisco,” Art Gallery, October, 1972.
Fried, Alexander. “The Lively Arts,” San Francisco Examiner, August 17, 1972.
Albright, Thomas. “Hughes’ Studies in Colors,” San Francisco Chronicle, August 3, 1972.
Albright, Thomas. “Fragile Watercolor Abstractions,” San Francisco Chronicle, August 21, 1970.
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Amoco Corporation, Denver, CO
Apoteksbolaget Art Society, Stockholm, Sweden
Avampato Discovery Museum, Charleston, WV
Bank of America, San Francisco, CA
Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA
Castor Kyobashi, Tokyo, Japan
C.G. Jung Institutes, Los Angeles and San Francisco, CA
Clear Channel Broadcasting, San Francisco, CA
Delf Norona Museum, Moundsville, WV
General Electric Capital Corp., Stamford, CT
Greene County Historical Museum, Waynesburg, PA
Hearst Art Gallery, St. Mary’s College, Moraga, CA
Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, WV
Marshall University, Huntington, WV
Mount Shasta Zen Center, Mount Shasta, CA
Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA
Oglebay Museum, Wheeling, WV
St. John’s Unitarian Church, Cincinnati, OH
State National Bank, El Paso, TX
Staten Island Museum, New York, NY
University of Illinois, Chicago, IL
West Virginia State Museum, Charleston, WV
EDUCATION, HONORS AND AWARDS
BA, Marshall University, 1964
Magna Cum Laude/ Honors in Art and English Literature
West Virginia General Fellowship
West Virginia Board of Education Fellowship
University of London, 1964
Graduate Tutorial Honors
University of Cincinnati, 1964-65
NDEA Graduate Fellowship
MA, Marshall University, 1967
Graduate Teaching Assistantship
Who’s Who in American Art (New York, 1984)
Men of Distinction (Cambridge, 1985)