Stephen Westfall
Born 1953, Schenectady, NY
Lives and works in New York
EDUCATION
1978 MFA, University of California, Santa Barbara
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2011 Los Angeles, George Lawson Gallery, Paintings, August 3 - September 3
New York, Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., Seraphim: Paintings and works on paper, April 26 – June 11
2010 San Francisco, George Lawson Gallery, The Rome Prize: Recent Painting, October
Rome, Italy, American Academy, Pavimentazione sul Muro, March 12 – April 23
2009 San Francisco, Room for Paper, Recent Gouaches, May 28 – June 27
St. Gallen, Switzerland, Wilma Lock, Stephen Westfall: New Y(W)ork, March 2 – May 9
2008 New York, Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., Stephen Westfall: New Works, October 30 – December 20
2007 Richmond, VA, Solvent Space, Stephen Westfall, October 12 – December 1
2006 New York, Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., Stephen Westfall: New Paintings, March 16 – April 22
2005 St. Gallen, Switzerland, Wilma Lock, Stephen Westfall: Recent Paintings, March 3 – May 7
San Francisco, Aurobora Press, Stephen Westfall: New Monotypes, January 17 – February 28
Brooklyn, NY, Bruno Marina Gallery, New Works on Paper, November 16 – January 15
2004 Munich, Germany, Paal Kunst & Konzept, Stephen Westfall, October 15 – November 16.
Paris, France, Galerie Zurcher, Stephen Westfall: Paintings, September 4 – 29
2003 Brooklyn, NY, Bruno Marina Gallery, Stephen Westfall, October 2 - November 16
San Francisco, CA, Aurobora Press, Stephen Westfall: New Monotypes, September 29 - November 8
New York, Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., Stephen Westfall: New Paintings 2002-2003, September 25 - November 1
2002 St. Gallen, Switzerland, Wilma Lock, Stephen Westfall: New Paintings, May 29 - July 7
2001 Munich, Germany, Galerie Paal, Stephen Westfall, October 28 - December 1
New York, Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., Stephen Westfall: New Paintings, April 26 - June 2
2000 Hamilton, NY, Colgate University, Gallery of the Department of Art and Art History, Five Paintings: Stephen Westfall,
October 11 - November 14
1999 Munich, Germany, Galerie Paal, Stephen Westfall: Neue Arbeiten, October 26 - December 22
Cullowhee, NC, Belk Gallery at Western Carolina University, Stephen Westfall: Abstract Journey, A Twenty Year Survey,
August 23 - September 22, (catalogue)
St. Gallen, Switzerland, Wilma Lock, Stephen Westfall: New Paintings, May 29 - July 7
New York, Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., Stephen Westfall: New Paintings, February 25 -March 27
1998 Paris, France, Galerie Zurcher, Stephen Westfall, October 16 - November 15
1997 Munich, Germany, Galerie Paal, Stephen Westfall: Neue Bilder, September 12 - October 24
Paris, France, Galerie Zurcher, Stephen Westfall, February 4 - March 8
1996 St. Gallen, Switzerland, Galerie Wilma Lock
Munich, Germany, Galerie Paal, Stephen Westfall, April 30 - June 22
1995 New York, Andre Emmerich Gallery, Stephen Westfall: New Paintings, October 12 - November 4
1994 St. Gallen, Switzerland, Galerie Wilma Lock
Munich, Germany, Galerie Paal
1993 New York, Daniel Newburg Gallery
New York, Erik Stark Gallery
1991 New York, Daniel Newburg Gallery
New York, Pretto Berland Hall
1990 New York, Daniel Newburg Gallery
Philadelphia, PA, Lawrence Olivier Gallery
1988 New York, Daniel Newburg Gallery
1987 New York, Daniel Newburg Gallery
1984 New York, Tracey Garet Gallery
1978 Santa Barbara, CA, University Art Museum, University of California at Santa Barbara
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2011 New York, NY, Allegra LaViola Gallery, Draw the Line, June 29 – August 6, 2011
New York, NY, Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., Ghost in the Machine: curated by Stephen Westfall, June 23 – August 19
New York, NY, Zürcher Studio, Reverie: curated by Stephen Westfall, May 23 - July 3
Berlin, Germany, Galerie oqbo, American Abstract Artists International / 75th Anniversary, May 14 – June 10
New York, NY, OK Harris, American Abstract Artists / 75th Anniversary, May 21 – July 15
New York, NY, Sue Scott Gallery, Paper A-Z, March 16 – April 22
Ithaca, NY, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, American Abstract Artists, January 22 – March 20
2010 New Brunswick, NJ, Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers, Welcome Back Show, September 1 – September 18
New York, Lennon, Weinberg, Inc. Ends and Means, April 8 – May 28
2009 Brooklyn and New York, NY, Janet Kurnatowski Gallery and Lohin Geduld Gallery, Color-Time-Space,
curated by Kim Uchiyama and Joanne Freeman. September 10 - October 11
Brooklyn, NY, HKJB, Personal Abstraction, May 1 – May 3
Los Angeles, CA, ACME, The Ballad That Becomes An Anthem, March 21 – April 18
2008 New York, Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., Flow Chart, July 8 – August 15
New York, 33 Bond Gallery, The Idea of Nature, June 12 – July 31
New York, Spanierman Modern, Present Tense, June 12 – August 2
"One of a Kind; Monoprints, Monotypes", The Gallery, Spencertown Academy Arts Center, Spencertown, NY
2007 New York, Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., Taking Shape, July 12 – September 15
Sommerville, NJ, Raritan Valley Community College, Lateral Attitudes, January 29 – February 22, (catalogue.
New Brunswick, NJ, Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers, Welcome Back Show, September 6 – 29
New York, Rubin Museum of Art, Written on the Wind: The Flag Project, September 14 – February 11, 2008 (catalogue)
Clinton Corners, NY, Rose Burlingham Fine Art at Lindsey Brown Upstate Studio, The Fall Dutch Barn Show, October 7-9
New York, NY, Lennon, Weinberg, Inc,. Paper, December 15 – January 26, 2008
2006 Houston, TX, Wade Wilson Art, Close Proximity: Works of Intimate Scale, November 3 – December 22
Tampa, FL, Blue Acier Inc., Entre Chien et Loup, October 7 – December 2
Houston, TX, Wade Wilson Art, ArtHouston: Introductions, July 8 – August 5
New York, Howard Scott Gallery, White II: An Exhibition of White Paintings, February 9 – March 11
New York, Wooster Arts Space, Sharon Brant, Edward Shalala, Stephen Westfall, March 1 – March 25
Prien am Chiemsee, Germany, Galerie im Alten Rathaus, Stille Abstraktion: Minimalismus von Internationalem Rang,
March 25 – May 1 (catalogue)
2005 New York, Metaphor Contemporary Art, IDEAL: Selections from the American Abstract Artists, curated by Rene Lynch,
June 23 – July 24
New York, Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., Group Exhibition: Gallery Artists, June 24 –August 12
New York, Kouros Gallery, Watercurrents 2005, selected by Carolyn Harris, July 27 – August 19,
(brochure with essay by Stephen Westfall)
Newburgh, NY, Yellow Bird Gallery, Optical Simulations, American Abstract Artists, curated by Jill Conner,
September 10 – November 12
2004 San Jose, Costa Rica, The Galeria Nacional of the Museo de Los Ninos, Negative Space, curated by Pamela Lawton,
October 5-27, (catalogue)
New York, The Painting Center, Anxiety, curated by Davide Sharpe and Jimmy Wright, November 2-27 (catalogue)
New York, Pace Wildenstein, Art for a Landmine Free World, Silent Auction, October
New York, NY, DC Moore Gallery, The Art of the Definite, curated by Helen Miranda Wilson, November 30 – December 30
Kingston, RI, Fine Arts Center Galleries, University of Rhode Island, Abstraction Pure & Impure, curated by Judith Tolnick,
October 12-December 8
New York, Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., Toys in the Attic, curated by Stephanie Theodore, June 18- August 20
New York, The Vermont Studio Center at 55 Mercer Street Gallery, Slightly Off Center: 14 Artists, June 15 - July 10
Provincetown, MA, Fine Arts Work Center, Exhibition for Jurors, June 11 – June 22
New York, Douglas Elliman Gallery, Intersections, May 11 - July 15
New York, Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., Group Show, January
Brooklyn, NY, N3 Project Space, Eccentric Spaces: The Fiction of Place, January 4 - 11
2002 Easton, PA, The Richard A. and Rissa W. Grossman Gallery, Lafayette College, Working the Grid, curated by Howard Scott,
June 9 - August 10
New York, National Academy of Design Museum, 177th Annual Invitational Exhibition, May 1 - June 9
New York, American Academy of Arts and Letters, Invitational Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, March 4 - April 7
New York, Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New Year New York New Work, January 19 – February 16
Philadelphia, PA, Locks Gallery, The Tipping Point, January 12 - February 28
2001 Brooklyn, NY, Rico, Stephen Westfall & Sheila Kramer, November 8
Santa Fe, NM, Bellas Artes Gallery, Beauty Without Regret, curated by Robert Kushner, June 28 - August 4
New York, Hunter College, Times Square Gallery, Abstraction and Immanence, curated by Vincent Longo and Laura Sue Phillips,
February 22 - April 7
2000 New York, New York, Studio Schoo,. Painting Abstraction, March 2 – April 8
1999 Ridgefield, CT, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Selected Work from the 1998-99
Manhattan Exhibition Season, September 26, 1999 - January 9, 2000
New York, Dorsky Gallery, OM, curated by Joe Fyfe, February 16 - April 3
New York, The Educational Alliance, Ernest Rubenstein Gallery, Compliments, January 7 - February 4
1998 Munich, Kunstbunker Tumulka, Munchen - New York
London, England, Wigmore Fine Art, Real Fiction
New York, Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., Utz: A Collected Exhibition, curated with Stephanie Theodore, February 6 - March 7
1997 Staten Island, NY, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, After the Fall: Aspects of Abstract Painting After 1970, curated by Lilly Wei
New York, Condeso Lawler Gallery, Abstraction Index
Saint-Etienne, Musee d'art moderne, Abstraction/abstractions, geometries provisoires
Paris, Galerie Zurcher, FIAC
1996 New York, TZ ART and Co., Bare Bones
Switzerland, Musee Cantonale La-Chaux-De-Fonds, Trois Collections d'Artistes, Martin Disler, Gunther Forg, Oliver Mosset
Munich, Germany, Galerie Paal, Radikale Malerei
New York, Room, Balancing Act
1995 New York, Elga Wimmer Gallery, Minimal Optimal
New York, Apex Art, The Uninvited - Bill Barrette, Rico Espinet, Brian Wood
New York, Andre Zarre Gallery, Critics as Artists
Baltimore, MD, C. Grimaldis Gallery, Geometric Abstraction
New York, Andre Emmerich Gallery, Contemplative Geometry
1994 Paris, Galerie Zurcher, Geometry en Question
Zurich, Switzerland, Galerie Schlegel, The Conservative Vocabulary, An American Vision
New York, Dru Arstark, Whateva
l993 New York, Snyder Gallery, Uses of Geometry
New York, Stark Gallery, New Grid Paintings
New York, Daniel Newburg Gallery, Basel Art Fair
New York, Salvatore Ala Gallery, Paintings
Paris, France, Paul Goyannes and Long Island City, NY, Tennisport, Jours tranquilles a Clichy, curated by Alain Kirili
1992 New York, Marilyn Pearl Gallery, Geometric Strategies
New York, Thread Waxing Space, Behind Bars, curated by Meg O'Rourke
New York, Diane Brown Gallery, Works on Paper
1991 New York, Sidney Janis Gallery, Conceptual Abstraction
Monchengadbach, Germany, Galerie Lohrl, 18 Artists From New York
New York, Vrej Baghoomian Gallery, Figuring Abstraction
New York, Trenkman Gallery, Just Painting, curated by Saul Ostrow
New York, John Good Gallery, Processing Syntax
New York, Marilyn Pearl Gallery, Post War Geometric Concepts, 1945-1990
1990 Santa Monica, CA, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, The Ends of Paintings: The Edges of Abstractions
New York, Daniel Newburg Gallery, Group Show
Philadelphia, PA, Lawrence Olivier Gallery, Abstract Painting
New York, Sandra Gering Gallery, Specific Metaphysics
1989 Boston, Thomas Segal Gallery, Expressive Geometries
San Francisco, CA, Terrain, John McCracken, Olivier Mosset, Stephen Westfall
Santa Barbara, CA, University Art Museum at the University of California at Santa Barbara, Abstract Options,
curated by Phyllis Plous
Milwaukee, WI, Milwaukee Museum of Art, Currents 6:Abstraction
Allentown, PA, Muhlenberg College, Small Works, New Abstract Painting
Santa Barbara, CA, University Art Museum, University of California, Neo York
Newcastle, England, Newcastle Polytechnic, Newcastle Salutes New York
Chicago, IL, Block Art Galleries, Northwestern University, Santa Clara de Saisset Museum
l988 New York, Shea & Becker Gallery, Works on Paper
Chicago, IL, Dart Gallery and New York, Scott Hanson Gallery, Formal
New York, IGT, The Four Corners of Abstract Painting, curated by Bill Arning
1987 New York, Fiction/Nonfiction Gallery
New York, Daniel Newburg Gallery, D'Ornamentation, curated by Paul Groot
Zurich, Zurich Forum
New York, Outer Limit Gallery, Art Across the River
New York, Elisabeth McDonald Gallery, The Four Corners of Abstraction
Kansas City, MO, Kansas City Art Institute
1986 New York, Postmasters Gallery, Paintings and Objects
Pittsburgh, PA, Carnegie Mellon University Art Gallery and Chicago, IL, Paul Klein Gallery, Abstraction/Abstraction
New York, Massimo Audiello Gallery, Red
New York, Rosa Esman Gallery, Abstraction Rediscovered
New York, Philip Dash Gallery, Movements
New York, Daniel Newburg Gallery, From the Gallery
New York, Pratt Manhattan Gallery, Spirit Tracks: Large Abstract Drawings
1985 New York, Cash/Newhouse Gallery, Final: Love, curated by Collins & Milazzo
New York, Mo David Gallery, Critics and Dealers
New York, Marilyn Pearl Gallery, Humanist Abstraction: Geometric Painting of the 50s and 80s
New York, Holly Solomon Gallery, 57th St. Between A & D
New York, Grey Art Gallery, New York University, Precious
1984 Milwaukee, WI, Milwaukee Museum of Art, Currents 6: Abstraction
Allentown, PA, Muhlenberg College, Small Works, New Abstract Painting
Santa Barbara, CA, University Art Museum, University of California, Neo York
England, Newcastle Polytechnic, Newcastle Salutes New York
1980 Los Angeles, CA, Institute of Contemporary Art, Abstraction 1980
1978 Chicago, IL, West Hubbard Gallery
1974 Edward Thorpe Gallery, New Talent
TEACHING POSITIONS
Assistant Professor of Painting, Rutgers University, NJ
Bard College, Annandale-on-the-Hudson, NY
Distinguished Visiting Artist, Colgate University, Hamilton, NY
Resident Artist, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
School of Visual Art, New York, NY
AWARDS AND GRANTS
2009-10 Rome Prize Fellowship
2007 Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship
2006 Nancy Graves Foundation Grant
2005 Class of 1932 Fellow of the Council of Humanities, Princeton University
2002 Academy Award in Painting, American Academy of Arts & Letters
American Academy of Arts and Letters
1993 National Endowment for the Arts
1989 National Endowment for the Arts
1988 New York State Council on the Arts
1987 National Endowment for the Arts
1986 New York State Council on the Arts
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Albertina Museum, Vienna,
Austria Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
Bon Marche, Paris, France
Kemper Museum, Kansas City, MO
The Library of Congress, Washington, DC
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark
Microsoft, Seattle, WA
Munson Williams Proctor Institute, Utica, NY
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Rubin Museum, New York, NY
University Art Museum, University of California at Santa Barbara, CA
Whitney Museum, New York, NY