J. John Priola

 

Born Denver, Colorado 1960


EDUCATION:

1987 M.F.A. Photography, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco

1984 B.A. Fine Art, with Honors, Metropolitan State College, Denver


SOLO  EXHIBITIONS:

2008    GALLERY PAULE ANGLIM, San Francisco, CA

2005    GALLERY PAULE ANGLIM, San Francisco, CA

2003    GALLERY PAULE ANGLIM, San Francisco, CA

            SCHNIEDER GALLERY, Chicago, IL “Dwell”

2000 FRAENKEL GALLERY, San Francisco, CA

            FAY GOLD GALLERY, Atlanta, GA

1999 FAY GOLD GALLERY, Atlanta, GA

            G. GIBSON GALLERY, Seattle WA “Once Removed”

1997 FRAENKEL GALLERY, San Francisco, CA "Saved"

            PULLIAM DEFFENBAUGH GALLERY, Portland, OR "Paradise"

1996 MARC FOXX GALLERY, Santa Monica, CA

1994 FRAENKEL GALLERY, San Francisco, "Paradise"

            PAUL KOPEIKIN GALLERY, Los Angeles, CA

1991 INTERSECTION FOR THE ARTS, San Francisco, "My Darling Sweetheart"


SELECTED  EXHIBITIONS:

2007JANE VOORHEES ZIMMERLI ART MUSEUM, New Brunswick, NJ “A New Reality: Black-and-White Photography In Contemporary Art”

UNIVERSITY OF IOWA MUSEUM OF ART, Iowa City, IA, “Picturing Eden”

MUSEUM OF PHOTOGRAPHIC ARTS, San Diego, CA, “Picturing Eden”

2006GEORGE EASTMAN HOUSE/INTERNATIONAL MUSEUM OF PHOTOGRAPHY AND FILM, Rochester, NY, “Picturing Eden”

2003   CALIFORNIA COLLEGE OF THE ARTS, San Francisco, CA, “The Grey Area, Uncertain Images”

2002WINSTON WACHTER FINE ARTS, New York, "Horses - A History in Art"

DOMESTIC  FURNITURE, Los Angeles

           WALTER McBEAN GALLERY, San Francisco CA, “Lost and Found”

           ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO, Chicago IL, “Object as Subject”

           Galleria D'art Moderna Bologna, "La natura della natura morta."

           FRIENDS OF PHOTOGRAPHY, San Francisco, CA “Beyond Boundaries”

           ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO, Chicago IL, “Crossing The Line”

           LACMA, Los Angeles, CA; “Made in California”

           THE CONTEMPORARY, Atlanta, GA, “Precious: the Pathos and Pleasure of Kitsch”

           FRAENKEL GALLERY, San Francisco, "About Faces"

           CAL STATE UNIVERSITY LONG BEACH, Long Beach, CA “Beyond Boundaries”

           SANTA BARBARA CONTEMPORARY ARTS FORUM, Santa Barbara, CA “Beyond Boundaries”

1999FRAENKEL GALLERY, San Francisco, "20Twenty"

1998FRAENKEL GALLERY, San Francisco, "Dust Breeding"

1997CENTER FOR THE ARTS, San Francisco CA, "Bay Area Now"

           JACKSON FINE ART, Atlanta GA, "Food, Glorious Food"

1996SCHIRN KUNSTHALLE, Frankfurt, "Prospect 96"

           CENTER FOR PHOTOGRAPHIC ART, Carmel

1995   JULIE SAUL GALLERY, New York, "Choices"

LEHMAN COLLEGE, Bronx, "Fact, Fiction and Truth"

UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUM , Berkeley, "In a Different Light"

FRIENDS OF PHOTOGRAPHY, San Francisco, "The Inscrutable Object"

BARRETT HOUSE GALLERIES, New York, "Photowork '95"

NORA ECCLES MUSEUM, Utah, "5th Biennial Photography Exhibition"

1993CLARK AND CO. GALLERY, Washington, DC, "True Phallacy-The Myth of Male Power"

EYE GALLERY, San Francisco, “Queerly Defined”

DIVERSE WORKS, Houston, "Without"

1992NEW LANGTON ARTS, San Francisco, "501,272"

THE LAB, San Francisco, "Without"

CASE GALLERY, Skidmore College, New York, "Insight: Out"

GRANT GALLERY, Denver

ZEN CENTER GUEST HOUSE, San Francisco, "Still Lives"

1991SAN FRANCISCO ARTS COMMISSION GALLERY, San Francisco, "Chain Reaction VII"

CALIFORNIA MUSEUM OF ART, Luther Burbank Center, "California Small Works"

OBUDAI GALERIA, Budapest, Hungary, "Fresh Squeezed"

SF CAMERAWORK, San Francisco, "Beyond Belief"

SOUTHERN EXPOSURE GALLERY at Project Artaud, San Francisco, "Viscera"

INTERSECTION FOR THE ARTS, San Francisco, "Photo Works"

1990ANDREA RUGGIERI GALLERY, Washington,  DC., "The Great American Fax Attack"

1989INTERSECTION FOR THE ARTS, San Francisco, Tableaux Vivant

1988VORPAL GALLERY, San Francisco, "Environments"

1987FORT MASON, San Francisco, "Masters of Fine Arts Exhibition"

1986WALTER McBEAN GALLERY, San Francisco, "Spring Show," Award (Paul Tomidy)

1984SF CAMERAWORK, San Francisco, "Student show"

1983GRANT STREET ART CENTER, Denver, "Grant Street Invitational"



COLLECTIONS:

METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART New York

ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO

PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART

THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, HOUSTON

MUSEUM OF MODERN ART San Francisco

LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART

UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUM BERKELEY

THE CONTEMPORARY MUSEUM, Honolulu


AWARDS:

2001   THE ART COUNCIL, Juror Award

1998 AARON SISKIND FOUNDATION

1997 PURCHASE AWARD PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART

1986 SPRING SHOW AWARD  from Paul Tomidy, San Francisco Art Institute



PUBLICATIONS:

2006PICTURING EDEN, Deborah Klochko, Anthony Bannon, Steidl Publishing

1998ONCE REMOVED, Portraits by J. John Priola , Monograph, 74 plates, Arena Editions

1996SEVEN SEAS, Japan, June, back pages

ZYZZYVA, Fall/Winter XII, 3/4

GRAPHIS, photography review, New York

1995SEE, A Journal of Visual Culture, Winter, Issue 1:1, pages 18-23, and inside cover

1995THE NEW THEATER REVIEW, A Lincoln Center Publication, Fall, issue no. 14

1994Poliester, “Sick“, AIDS Abstracted, Alisa Tager, Summer, vol. 3 no. 9, p 8-19



SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY:

2000Datebook, Kenneth Baker, San Francisco Chronicle, June 3, p D1, D8

1999Atlanta, Jason Forest, Art Papers Magazine, September / October, page 41

1998Superb viewing David Bonetti, San Francisco Examiner, September 23, page C-19

1997Datebook, Kenneth Baker, San Francisco Chronicle, March 15, p E1

Speak, Memory , Steven Jenkins, Bay Area Reporter,  Vol. 27. No 11, March 13 p. 41

1996Snapshots of LA Photography Market, ART newsletter Vol. XXI. No 24, p. 6

1995Portraits That Use Absence, William Zimmer, The New York Times, October 22, p 16

Contemplating Queer Art, Roberto Freidman, Artweek, August, Vol. 26 # 8, p. 21

In A Different Light review, Michael Duncan, Art In America, July, pages 27-30

1994New Meanings, Susan Kandel, Los Angeles Times, May 26, page F12

San Francisco Fax, Rebecca Solnit, Art Issues, September-October

A New Round, David Bonetti, San Francisco Examiner, July 15, page C-19

Introductions, Steven Jenkins, Artweek, August 4, page 15

Thrill of the New, Roberto Friedman, Bay Area Reporter, July 14, page 33 and 34

Introductions, Trine Miller, Arts Monthly, July, Volume 5 #4, page 5

1993Behind The Fig leaf, Paul Richard, The Washington Post, December 4, page E-1

A look at self-definition, David Bonetti, San Francisco Examiner, June 25, p C-9, C-10

Domestic Grist, Warren Sonbert, San Francisco Sentinel, June 30, pages 38 and 39

Display's...Demand a Closer Look, Nancy Kapitanoff, LA Times-Calendar, January 3

1992Leaving the "white cube", David Bonetti, San Francisco Examiner, November 20, p D-2

501,272 and Counting, Elliot Linwood, Bay Area Reporter, Vol. xxii, No 43 22, p 34, 44

1991This Week, photo-caption, Bay Area Reporter, Vol. XXI No. 27, July 11, page 40

Critics Choice, Harry Roche, San Francisco Bay Guardian, Vol. 25 # 38, June 26, p 80

Severed Heads, Slavery, Exposed Flesh, Glen Hefland, San Francisco's Magazine, The City,

      February, Vol. 2, No. 2, pages 21-22

1988The Changing Ideal, Deborah Irmas, SF Camerawork, Vol. 15 No. 1, Spring, p 7-11

Environments, David Shaw, San Francisco. Bay Guardian, Vol. 22, # 26, April 13, p 28



VISITING ARTIST / LECTURE/ TEACHING

2002 SAN FRANCISCO ART INSTITUTE, adjunct faculty, graduate photography department

    to present

2001SAN FRANCISCO ART INSTITUTE, graduate adjunct faculty

           CALIFORNIA COLLEGE OF ARTS AND CRAFTS,  adjunct faculty

2000CONTEMPORARY ART CENTER, Atlanta GA, Panel discussion in conjunction with Exhibition “Precious: The pathos and Pleasures of Kitsch”

           CALIFORNIA COLLEGE OF ARTS AND CRAFTS, Lecture series, adjunct faculty

1999CALIFORNIA COLLEGE OF ARTS AND CRAFTS, Lecture series, adjunct faculty

           SAN FRANCISCO ART INSTITUTE, adjunct faculty

           SF CAMERAWORK, San Francisco, Lecture program

1997SAN FRANCISCO ART INSTITUTE, adjunct faculty

1996CALIFORNIA COLLEGE OF ARTS AND CRAFTS, Lecture series

1995PRIOLA / WAGNER STUDIO TOUR, Friends of The Friends of Photography

1994UNIVERSITY of CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY, Noon lecture series

SF CAMERAWORK, San Francisco, California

1991METROPOLITAN STATE COLLEGE, Denver

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