Education:

BFA Painting, Hunter College, New York City
MA Painting, Hunter College, New York City
Director Emeritus, Mt. Royal School of Art, MICA

Solo Exhibitions:

         

    • 2025     447 SPACE, New York FRANCES BARTH A Painting Conversation: 55 Years
    • 2020 and 2021
      • Recent Paintings: Virtual Online Gallery Silas Von Morisse Gallery, New York
    • 2017-18
      • Silas Von Morisse Gallery, New York
    • 2012
      • Sundaram Tagore Gallery, Hong Kong
    • 2011
      • Sundaram Tagore Gallery, Los Angeles
      • Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta GA
    • 2010
      • Sundaram Tagore Gallery, New York
    • 2009
      • Hostetter Gallery, Pingry School, Martinsville, New Jersey
    • 2006
      • New York Studio School Gallery, New York City
    • 2005
      • Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire
    • 2002
      • Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
    • 2000
      • Donahue Sosinski, New York
    • 1999
      • Moravian College, Pennsylvania
    • 1998
      • Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
    • 1997
      • Donahue / Sosinski Fine Art, New York City
    • 1995
      • Millersville University, Pennsylvania
      • Jan Cicero Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
    • 1994
      • E.M. Donahue Gallery, New York City83
      • University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Herter Art Gallery
    • 1991
      • Tenri Cultural Institute of New York, New York City
    • 1989
      • Tomoko Liguori Gallery, New York City
    • 1988
      • Tomoko Liguori Gallery, New York City
    • 1985
      • Jan Cicero Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
      • Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, New York
    • 1983
      • Susan Caldwell, Inc., New York City
      • ” Russian Abecedary,” Jersey City Museum, New Jersey
    • 1981
      • Susan Caldwell, Inc., New York City
      • Jan Cicero Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
    • 1980
      • Susan Caldwell, Inc., New York City
    • 1979
      • Susan Caldwell, Inc., New York City
    • 1978
      • Susan Caldwell, Inc., New York City
    • 1976
      • Susan Caldwell, Inc., New York City
    • 1975
      • Susan Caldwell, Inc., New York City
    • 1974
      • Susan Caldwell, Inc., New York City

Selected Group Exhibitions:

  • 2024
    • “191st Annual Academy Style” The National Academy of Design June 20-Sept. 14.
    • “Variations -Selections from the Benefit Print Project.” Lehman College Art Gallery Feb 7-May 4.

    • (re)FOCUS THEN: 81 Artists Revisited, 50 Years Later.        Moore College of Art Galleries PA

  • 2022
    • Exposition No. 120 (maybe). Oct. 15/Nov 19 2022. at Balice Hertling Galerie, Paris
  • 2021
    • e pluribus: Out of Many
      190th Annual Exhibition National Academy
      September 23, 2021
    • American Painting: The Eighties, Revisited. March 12-July 11, 2021. Organized by the Cincinnati Art Museum, Guest Curator Kate Bonansinga
    • Stone Soup, Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta
  • 2019
    • Please recall to me everything you have thought of  curated by Eve Fowler, Moran Moran LA
    • Summer group, the annex, Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta
    • “Sustained Investigations: Frances Barth, Cicely Cottingham, Joanne Howard, Kaare Rafoss,” Ramapo College Art Galleries
    • “please recall to me everything you have thought of,” Morán Morán, Los Angeles (curated by Eve Fowler)
  • 2018
    • “Frances Barth, David Goerk, Carin Riley, Owen Schuh,” Daquino Monaco, NYC
    • “Jam Session,” NeueHouse, NYC (curated by Ella Marder)
  • 2017
    • “Sitings/Citings,” Lennon Weinberg Gallery, NYC
    • “The State of New York Painting,” Kingsborough Art Museum, NY (curated by Michael Walls)
  • 2015
    • “august geometry,” Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta, GA
    • “Frontiers Reimagined,” 56th Venice Biennale, Museo di Palazzo Grimani
    • “Bold Abstractions,” Dallas Museum of Art, TX
    • “Community of Influence,” Spencer Brownstone Gallery, New York
  • 2014
    • “In Residence: Contemporary Artists at Dartmouth,” Hood Museum of Art, Hanover, NH
    • “The Annual 2014: Redefining Tradition,” The National Academy, NY
  • 2013
    • “Inside Out: A Group Show,” Sundaram Tagore Gallery, Gillman Barracks, Singapore
  • 2012
    • “Six Pack: Working Abs,” Illges Gallery, Columbus State University, GA
    • “From Process to Protest: Recent Gifts by Women Academicians,” The National Academy, NY
    • The American Academy of Arts and Letters invitational, NY
    • “Summer Group Show: Installment 2,” Sundaram Tagore Gallery, New York
    • “What Only Paint Can Do,” Triangle Arts Association, Front Street Galleries, NY
  • 2011
    • “Refocussing the spotlight: 21 American Painters,” Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo NY (curated by Michael Walls)
    • “Perspectives, Nine Women, Nine Views,” Sundaram Tagore Gallery, New York
  • 2010
    • “Decameron,” New York Studio School Gallery, New York
    • “New Creative Constructs,” Sundaram Tagore Gallery, New York
  • 2009
    • “Here & Now,” Sundaram Tagore Gallery, New York
    • “Seven Women/Seven Stories: New work from historically significant woman painters,” Sundaram Tagore Gallery, Los Angeles
    • “Extreme Possibilities: New Modernist Paradigms,” The Painting Center, New York (curated by Karen Wilkin)
    • “Centennial Celebration Exhibit,” Newark Museum, selections from the Permanent Collections: American Contemporary Art, Newark, New Jersey
  • 2007
    • “Colors,” Sundaram Tagore Gallery, New York
    • “Luxe, calme and volupte,” Marsha Wood Gallery, Atlanta (curated by Joanne Mattera)
    • “Land Force,” Sabina Lee Gallery, Los Angeles (curated by John L.Moore.)
    • “Agents of Change: Women, Art, and Intellect,” Ceres Gallery, New York (curated by Dr. Leslie King-Hammond.)
  • 2006
    • “Surface Tension,” Sundaram Tagore Gallery, New York, NY
    • “Dragon Veins,” Contemporary Art Museum, University of South Florida, Tampa
  • 2004
    • American Academy of Arts and Letters, NY, NY
  • 2003
    • Jan Cicero Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
  • 2002
    • “Drawing Show” Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
    • “Prints from Vermont Studio Center Press,” Robert Hull Fleming Museum,
    • Burlington, Vermont
    • Andre Zarre Gallery, New York
  • 2001
    • “Painting Abstraction II,” New York Studio School, New York
    • Montserrat College Art Gallery, MA, three person exhibition
    • Jan Cicero Gallery, Chicago
    • Donahue / Sosinski Fine Art, New York
    • Eastern Connecticut State University
  • 2000
    • “2000,” Donahue / Sosinski Fine Art, New York
  • 1999
    • Jan Cicero Gallery, Chicago
    • “Dimension,” Agnes Scott College Atlanta, Georgia (curated by Cathy Byrd.)
    • “Drawing in the Present Tense,” Art Gallery, Parsons, New York City, (Traveling: North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks; Illinois Univ., Normal Illinois.
    • American Academy Invitational, New York City, purchase award
    • ” The Pulled Image,” Helen Day Art Center, Stowe, Vermont
    • Jan Cicero Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
    • ” Revision,” NEXUS, Atlanta, Georgia
    • Donahue / Sosinski Fine Art, New York
    • Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
    • “Landscape as Abstraction,” James Graham & Sons, NYC, Trans-Hudson Gallery, NYC
    • “After the Fall: Aspects of Abstract Painting Since 1970”,
    • Snug Harbor Cultural Center, New York (curated by Lilly Wei)
  • 1998
    • “In Honor of Tibet,” Donahue / Sosinski Fine Art, New York
  • 1996
    • “Undoing Geometry”, Manhattan Community College, NYC (curated by Michael Chisolm)
    • Charles Cowles Gallery, New York City
    • Montserrat College of Art, Massachusetts
    • Gallery One, Toronto, Canada, “Inner Landscapes: 16xONE”
    • Smith College Drawing Exhibit, Northampton, Massachusetts
    • Jan Cicero Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
    • E.M. Donahue Gallery, New York City
  • 1995
    • Yale University, “Faculty Works on Paper,” New Haven, Connecticut
    • Andre Zarre Gallery, New York City
    • Hunter College Art Gallery, New York City
    • LaVigie, “Art Contemporain,” Nimes, France
    • Jan Cicero Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
    • The New York Studio School, New York City
  • 1994
    • Andre Zarre Gallery, New York City
    • Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, New York
  • 1993
    • Andre Zarre Gallery, New York City
  • 1992
    • Jan Cicero Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
    • ” Abstract Painting: The 90’s,” Andre Emmerich Gallery, NYC (curated by Barbara Rose.)
    • ” 1×7″, Andre Zarre Gallery, New York City
  • 1991
    • Bennington College, Bennington, Vermont
    • Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, New York
  • 1990
    • “Works On Paper,” Tomoko Liguori Gallery, NYC (with Gregory Amenoff, Hugh O’Donnell)
    • Jan Cicero Gallery, Chicago, Illinois (with Peter Plagens)
    • ” Contemporary Prints,” Tomoko Liguori Gallery, New York City
    • ” Art On Paper,” Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
  • 1989
    • Permanent Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
    • ” Recent Paintings,” Andre Zarre Gallery, New York City
    • ” Abstractions, Past and Present,” Andre Zarre Gallery, New York City
    • ” Gallery Artists,” Tomoko Liguori Gallery, New York City
    • ” Scale, Space, Structure,” Ben Shahn Galleries, William Patterson College, Wayne, New Jersey (curated by Nancy Einreinhofer)
    • ” Contemporary Landscape: Five Views,” The Waterworks Visual Arts Center, Salisbury, North Carolina (curated by John L. Moore; catalogue essay, William Zimmer)
    • ” Drawings,” Tomoko Liguori Gallery, New York City
  • 1988
    • “Four Painters,” Andre Zarre Gallery, New York City
    • ” Paintings & Sculpture,” American Academy & Institute of Arts and Letters, New York City
  • 1987
    • Concordia College Library Gallery (organized by E. Agee), New York
    • Yale University Art & Architecture Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut
    • Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, New York
    • Permanent Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
    • ” New Aspects of Abstraction,” Jan Cicero Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
    • Orion Editions, New York City
    • Jersey City 10th Anniversary Exhibit, Montclair Art Museum, New Jersey
  • 1986
    • Jersey City Museum 10th Anniversary Exhibit, New Jersey
    • ” Natural Desire,” David Beitzel Fine Arts, New York City
    • ” Constructed in Jersey City: Paintings & Sculpture,” Summit Art Center, New Jersey Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, New York
    • ” Artists at Hunter…,” Hunter College Gallery, New York City (catalogue: M.S. Duffy)
  • 1985
    • “Painting and Sculpture Today 1984,” Indianapolis Museum, Indiana
    • ” The Gathering of the Avant-Garde, The Lower East Side 1948-70,”
    • Kenkelaba Gallery, New York City
    • ” Abstract Painting, Redefined,” (Traveling: Meisel Gallery, New York City; Munson Williams
    • Proctor, Utica, NY; Danforth Museum; Bucknell University; Stonybrook Fine Art
    • Center, Long Island (curated by Cie Goulet, Catalogue with Carter Ratcliff):
    • ” Between Painting and Sculpture,” Evanston Art Center, Illinois
    • ” Painting 1985,” Pam Adler Gallery, New York City
    • ” Constructures: New Perimetrics in Abstract Painting,” Nohra Haime Gallery, New York City
    • (curated and catalogue by Peter Frank)
    • ” Exuberant Painting,” 100 Church Street, New York City
    • ” Abstract Paintings – An Invitational Exhibit,” Irit Krygier Gallery, Los Angeles
    • ” A Decade of Visual Arts at Princeton, 1975-85,” Princeton University, New Jersey (catalogue: J. Seawright and H. Senie)
  • 1984
    • “Gallery Artists,” Susan Caldwell Gallery, New York City
    • Jan Cicero Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
  • 1983
    • “Seven American Artists,” Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio (curated and catalogue by John L. Moore)
    • ” Selected Gallery Artists,” Susan Caldwell, Inc., New York City
    • ” Selected Large Paintings,” Robison Art Gallery, Rutgers U., Newark, New Jersey
    • Yale School of Art, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
  • 1982
    • “Book Art,” D.W. Gallery, Dallas, Texas
    • ” Selected Gallery Artists,” Susan Caldwell, Inc., New York City
    • ” The Book as Art,” Sarah Lawrence College; Franklin Furnace, NY
  • 1981
    • “75th Anniversary Benefit Exhibition for the Lighthouse,” Susan Caldwell, Inc., NYC
    • ” Paper Work,” Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, New York
    • ” New Art II: Surfaces/Textures,” Museum of Modern Art, New York City
    • ” Recent Acquisitions: Drawings,” Museum of Modern Art, New York City
    • ” Four Painters,” Jan Cicero Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
    • ” Russia,” two-person exhibition with Andy Warhol, Anderson Gallery, Virginia
    • Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia (curated by Michael Walls.)
    • ” Faculty Exhibit,” Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, New York
  • 1979
    • “American Paintings of the 1970’s,” Traveling exhibition curated by Linda Cathcart:
    • Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York; Newport Harbor Art Museum,
    • Newport, California; The Oakland Museum, California; Cincinnati Art Museum,
    • Ohio; Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christie, Texas; Krannert Museum, University of Illinois
    • ” Generation – Twenty Abstract Painters Born in U.S. Between 1929 and 1946, An Invitational Exhibition,” Susan Caldwell, Inc., New York City
    • ” Abstraction in the 70’s,” Nielsen Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
    • ” Some Abstract Paintings,” William Patterson College, Wayne, New Jersey (curated and catalogue by Barbara Toll)
    • ” Collecting Contemporary Art,” J.B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky
    • ” Frances Barth, Drawings, Dan George, Sculpture,” Suzanne Lemberg Usdan Gallery, Bennington College, Bennington, Vermont
    • ” American Painting: The Eighties,” Grey Art Gallery, New York University, New York (curated by Barbara Rose; catalogue, Barbara Rose, Vista Press)
    • ” First Exhibition,” Toni Birckhead Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio
  • 1978
    • “San Francisco/Los Angeles/New York: A Three Part Series,” (with Donna Dennis and
    • Gordon Matta Clark), San Francisco Art Institute, CA (catalogue by Helene Fried)
    • ” Eight Abstract Painters,” Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania (curated by Suzanne Delehanty; catalogue by Dore Ashton)
    • ” Talent,” Thomas Segal Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
    • ” Drawing Made Material,” Hayden Corridor Gallery, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts
  • 1977
    • “Gallery Group Show,” Susan Caldwell, Inc., New York City
    • ” The Geometry of Color,” Andre Zarre Gallery, New York City
    • ” Critics’ Choice: Loan Exhibition of Contemporary Paintings from the New York Gallery
    • Season, 1976-77,” The Joe and Emily Lowe Art Gallery, Syracuse University, NY
    • ” Contemporary Art in Atlanta Collections: Paintings and Drawings,” The High Museum of
    • Art, Atlanta, Georgia (catalogue by C.V. Poling)
    • ” Artists at Bennington, Visual Arts Faculty 1932-76,” Bennington College Art Museum,
    • Bennington, Vermont (catalogue by E.C. Goosen)
  • 1975
    • Princeton University Art Museum, faculty exhibit, Princeton, New Jersey
    • Susan Caldwell, Inc., New York City
  • 1974
    • Trenton State College, Trenton, New Jersey
    • ” Drawings and Paintings,” Susan Caldwell, Inc., New York City
    • Neilsen Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
    • ” Women’s Work-American Art ‘74,” Philadelphia Civic Center, Pennsylvania
  • 1973
    • “Three New York Artists,” (with Harvey Quaytman and Bernard Kirschenbaum),
    • Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
    • Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City
    • Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
  • 1972
    • Painting Annual, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City
    • Warren Benedek Gallery, New York City
    • ” John Baldessari, Frances Barth, Richard Jackson, Barbara Munger, Gary Stephan”
    • Houston Museum of Contemporary Art, Texas (catalogue by J. Belloli)
    • The New Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio
  • 1970
    • Group Print Show, Moore College of Art, Pennsylvania

Set Design:

  • 1991
    • “Tunes,” Pacific Northwest Ballet, Seattle, Washington
  • 1988
    • “Hide and Seek,” Jennifer Muller/The Works. Guest choreographed by Lynne Taylor-Corbett. Performed at The Joyce Theater, New York City
  • 1986
    • ” Escape,” Atlanta Ballet. Choreographed by Lynne Taylor-Corbett. Allen Shawn, composer; Judanna Lynn, costumes. Atlanta, Georgia
  • 1984
    • “Tunes,” Louisville Ballet. Choreographed by Lynne Taylor-Corbett. Charles Strouse, Composer; Judanna Lynn, costumes. Performed at Louisville Center for the Performing Arts, Kentucky; BCBC, Brooklyn, NY (1985)

Performances:

  • 2018
    • Theatrical reading with 7 actors of Barth’s script for the graphic novel “Ginger Smith and Billy Gee”, done January 23 at Silas Von Morisse gallery, NY
    • Theatrical reading with 2 actors and projected video of “End of the Day, End of the Day,” on April 18, at Triangle Arts Association, NY
  • 1976
    • Appeared in “Kristina Talking Pictures”, film by Yvonne Rainer
  • 1970
    • Performed with Joan Jonas; Judy Padow
  • 1969
    • Performed in Yvonne Rainer’s “Rose Fractions,” “North East Passing,” and “Trio A, or The Mind is a Muscle, Part I.” Billy Rose Theater, Broadway, New York
  • 1968
    • Performed in Yvonne Rainer’s “Performance Fractions or Composite.” Lincoln Center
    • Performing Arts Library, New York City

Video:

  • 2020
    • “Dreaming Tango” a new short film by Frances Barth primiered Aug.26 at Anthology Film Archives NYC
    • “Cock Robin” has received an award of the Filmmatic Short Screenplay Awards, Studio City, CA, and also has prompted an invitation for Frances to participate in the Nostos Screenwriting Retreat in Tuscany.
  • 2018
    • “The Audition,” HD video, color, TRT: 06:09
      Interview/documentary of an actor speaking about auditioning for acting roles as a major part of an actor’s life. This video is a movie in a movie-shooting a self tape, conducting an interview about shooting an audition, and shooting a video about the shooting of the self tape. Actors do so many auditions in relation to the small percentage of castings-and this became part of the soul of the short doc/interview.
      Premiered May 2019 at Ethnografilm Festival, Paris. Official Selection of The Sunrise Film Festival, Nova Scotia, Sept. 2019.
  • 2017
    • “Regina B,” a New HD video with animated section; TRT: 12:29 color. A film by Frances Barth. “Regina B” is a portrait of the painter Regina Bogat. It focuses on her work in the 1960’s in NY, her participation in the 10th Street Gallery scene, her studios on Division Street in Chinatown and on the Bowery with Mark Rothko, James Brooks, Ray Parker, and other artists.
      Premiered in Amsterdam at The New Renaissance Film Festival, March 2, 2018
      Nominated for Best International Documentary, won Honorable Mention
      Official Selection for The New York Short Film Festival, November 2018
      Official Selection Sunrise Film Festival, Sept. 2019
  • 2016
    • “Jonnie in the Lake TRT: 09:12 © 2016 Frances Barth, a SAG film. A magical experience for 9 year old Jonnie who travels to an underwater city and meets his new friend Azimer. This animation is hand drawn and based on an original script by Frances Barth, with voice over by Ron Nakahara and David Asta, and includes video performance by Valerie Charles.
      “Jonnie in the Lake” involved hand drawing images to animate, roto-scope, and edit a portion of the downtown performance artist Valerie Charles’ live performance “DuAnne Does Hollywood” as the new character “Azimer” in this animated video.
      The screenplay is original with a portion of ‘DuAnne’ included in the dialogue. The decision to hand draw all the images was done in order to retain the feel of the ‘hand’ in the imagery.
      Premiered at The New York Short Film Festival, November 2016; Won Best Animated Short
      Premiered in Canada at The Sunrise Film Festival, Nova Scotia, November 2016; nominated for Best Short Film
      Premiered in South America at the Findecoin Film Festival, Venezuela, 2018
      Official Selection, Portoviejo Film Festival, Ecuador
      Official Selection, Salto Independent Film Festival, Uruguay
  • 2015
    • “No No Boy,” HD video, TRT 06:01 color and black and white.
      Adapted from the play “No No Boy” by Ken Narasaki. This film takes place in 1946 just after World War II. The three characters in this short have had different experiences as Japanese American citizens of the US from their internment, and whether they enlisted or refused to fight in World War II.
  • 2013
    • “Regina,” HD video, TRT: 12:25 color and black and white. A film by Frances Barth.
      “Regina” is a portrait of the painter Regina Bogat. It focuses on her work in the 1960’s in NY, her participation in the 10th Street Gallery scene, her studios on Division Street in Chinatown and on the Bowery with Mark Rothko, James Brooks, Ray Parker, and other artists. WORLD PREMIERE: Marfa Film Festival 2014
    • “Jersey Tango,” HD video, TRT: 04:11 color. A film by Frances Barth.
      “Jersey Tango” is a short story about a couple who spend too much time apart. These characters try to find a way to be together.
  • 2007
    • “End of the Day, End of the Day,” animation/video, TRT: 09:34 DVD/color and black and white. A film by Frances Barth.
      This animation/video is set just after 9/11 and involves the daily commute at the end of the day of a husband and wife. The car ride shows a passenger side view of New Jersey along the Hudson river;with voice over dialogue. The animation is mostly hand drawn, with a digitally animated section that accompanies the opening monologue.

Book Publication:

  • 2016
    • Ginger Smith and Bill Gee
      Graphic Novel, Color, 72 pages, 6″x9″
      © Frances Barth 2016, released January 10, 2017 on Amazon and Barnes and Nobel.
      “In this singular abstracted land, six characters drive forward the story in “Ginger Smith and Billy Gee” by the painter Frances Barth. In the family of a graphic novel, but also like a graphic poem, this is a book in two acts and an Afterword, with interspersed dreams of the main character Ginger.
      It turns its focus cinematically on the darkly comic relationship developing between Ginger, a painter, and Billy, an aspiring writer, after Ginger is dumped by Billy’s best friend. Four other characters contriibute to the richness of the story. Hiker 1 and Hiker 2 are like figures in a Greek Chorus commenting on the action and entering and leaving the story line, and Male and Female add a Freudian coda to the proceedings.
      This is a winsome and jaunty artist tale, humorous, poetic and symbolic. A full color book with all original drawings and text.”

Awards:

  • 2017 The Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant
  • 2011 Elected into the National Academy
  • 2006 Anonymous Was a Woman Grant
  • 2004 American Academy of Arts and Letters Purchase Award
  • 1999 American Academy of Arts and Letters Purchase Award
  • 1995 Joan Mitchell Award
  • 1993 Adolphe and Esther Gottlieb Individual Support Grant
  • 1987 New Jersey State Council on the Arts Grant
  • 1982 National Endowment for the Arts Grant
  • 1977 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship
  • 1974 National Endowment for the Arts Grant
  • 1973 Creative Artists Public Service Grant (CAPS)

Selected Collections:

  • The Cincinnati Art Museum
  • 195 Broadway Corporation, New York
  • Akron Art Institute, Ohio
  • Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
  • American Can Company, Greenwich, Connecticut
  • Amerada Hess Corporation, New York
  • Cameron Iron Works, Houston, Texas
  • Chase Manhattan Bank, New York
  • Coudert Brothers, New York
  • Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Texas
  • First National Bank of Houston, Texas
  • Hood Muesum of Art, Dartmouth University, Hanover, New Hampshire
  • Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
  • Humana Inc., Louisville, Kentucky
  • IBM Corporation, New York
  • Isham, Lincoln & Beale, Chicago, Illinois
  • Lehman Brothers, New York and Chicago
  • Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
  • Midwest Museum of American Art, Elkhart, Indiana
  • Moravian College, Bethlehem, PA
  • The Milwaukee Art Center, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
  • Mobil Oil Corporation, New York
  • Museum of Modern Art, New York
  • Paul Haim Foundation, Paris, France
  • Prudential Insurance Company, New Jersey
  • Security Pacific National Bank, Los Angeles, California
  • Swiss Bank Corporation, New York
  • Tucson Museum of Art. AZ
  • Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
  • Wellesley College, Davis Museum, MA

Bibliography:

  • 2025 Frances Barth, A Painting Conversation 55 Years.  Essays by Karen Wilkin and Frances Barth
  • 2018
  • 2017
  • 2015
    • Cullum, Jerry, “Math is beautiful in quirky “august geometry” at Marcia Wood Gallery,” Arts ATL, August 26, 2015
    • “Frontiers Reimagined,” (catalogue) 56th Venice Biennale, Museo di Palazzo Grimani
    • Brettell, Rick, “DMA Abstraction Exhibition Mixes it Up,” Dallas Morning News, March 6, 2015
  • 2014
    • “The Annual 2014: Redefining Tradition,” (catalogue) The National Academy, NY
    • Kahl, Amelia B. “In Residence: Contemporary Artists at Dartmouth,” (catalogue) Hood Museum of Art, Darthmouth College, editors: Michael R. Taylor and Gerald Auten
  • 2012

    The Four Corners of Painting By Richard Kalina

    https://brooklynrail.org/2012/12/artseen/the-four-corners-of-painting/

  • 2011
    • Frank, Peter, “Haiku Review: Frances Barth,” Huffington Post April 23
    • Cullum, Jerry, Frances Barth at Marcia Wood Gallery, ArtscriticATL.com, March 18
    • Naves, Mario, Too Much Art blog, April 8
  • 2010
    • Wilkin, Karen, “Frances Barth,” (catalogue) Sundaram Tagore Gallery, NY
    • Waltemath, Joan, “Frances Barth, Scale, Economy, Form,” The Brooklyn Rail, February
    • Naves, Mario; Yau,John; Waltemath, Joan; moderator David Cohen in “The Review Panel,” January 29 live panel review and audio file, National Academy Museum and School of Fine Arts, NY
  • 2009
    • Wilkin, Karen, “Extreme Possibilities,” (catalogue) The Painting Center, NY
  • 2007
    • Wood, Marcia, “click/shift/enter,” catalogue 2007
    • Wilkin, Karen, “At the Galleries,” The Hudson Review, Vol.59 No.4 Winter, pages 621-628.
  • 2006
    • Wilkin, Karen, “Barth Ranges Wide,”, Art in America, Oct 2006
    • Naves, Mario, “Arthur Dove at Alexandre Gallery and Frances Barth at The New York Studio School,” The New York Observer, June 11, 2006
    • Wei, Lilly, “Dragon Veins,” (catalogue) USFCAM, Tampa, FL
    • Bennett, Lennie, “East-West Connections,” Tampabay.com Jan.22, 2006
  • 2005
    • O’Brien, Barbara, “Being and Belief: The Paintings of Frances Barth,” (catalogue,) Dartmouth College, NH
  • 2002
    • Cullum, Jerry, “Expanding the Possibilities of Paper,” The Atlanta Journal-Constitution,
    • Friday, Nov. 15, 2002
  • 2001
    • O’Brien, Barbara, “Beneath the Surface,” catalogue by Montserrat College of Art
  • 2000
    • Moos, David, “Dimension,” Art Papers, Mar./Apr. p.33-4.
    • Naves, Mario, N.Y. Observer Nov.13, p.16.
    • Johnson, Ken, The New York Times, Nov.
    • Cassidy, Victor, “Prairie Smoke,” ArtNet.com; magazine reviews 9-19-00
    • Zimmer, Bill, CT.N.Y.Times, Sunday, February 13.
  • 1999
    • Radycki, Diane, Frances Barth, Geological Time: Paintings,(catalogue), Moravian College, PA
    • Negroponte, G; Shepherd, R., Drawing in the Present Tense, Parsons School of
    • Art, New York, (catalogue.)
    • Cullum, Jerry, “Exploring Many Dimensions,” The Atlanta Journal,
    • Friday, September 24, 1999
  • 1998
    • Byrd, Cathy, “Marcia, Marcia, Marcia,” Creative Loafing (Atlanta), Feb 7, 1998.
    • Wei, L., “Frances Barth”, Art in America, January 1998, page 99.
  • 1997
    • Naves, Mario, “Promising Signs”, The New Criterion, June 1997, pages 48—50.
    • Wilkinson, Jeanne C., “After the Fall: Aspects of Abstract Painting Since 1970”,
    • Review, May 15, 1997, pages 11—12.
    • Robins, Corinne, After The Fall (catalogue), 1997, pages 43—44.
    • Bell, J. Bowyer, Review, May 1, 1997, pages 24—25.
    • Wilkin, Karen, (At the Galleries) Partisan Review I, 1997, page 88.News, Surprise and
    • Nostalgia, (catalogue), Hunter College of CUNY, NY,Leubsdorf Art Gallery.
    • ” A La Vigie — Art Contemporain”, Midi Libre, Lundi 26 Juin.
    • ” Rencontre N° 6 Nimes”, Tendance Sud, Juin.
    • ” Rencontre N° 6″ , Lalades, Juin.
  • 1994
    • Saltz, Jerry, “A Year in the Life: Tropic of Painting”, Art in America, October 1994, page 93.
    • Kalina, Richard, “Frances Barth at E.M. Donahue”, Art in America, October 1994, page 133.
    • Huntington, Richard, “Ideas of Abstraction”, The Buffalo News, Sept. 30, page 21.
    • Smith, Roberta, “Frances Barth,” The New York Times, June 10, page C-18.
    • Welish, Marjorie, Frances Barth 1982-93 (catalogue), University of Massachusetts, Herter Art Gallery.
  • 1992
    • Kramer, Hilton, The New York Observer, December 30-January 6, 1992.
    • Wilkin, Karen, Partisan Review I, 1992, page 111.
  • 1991
    • Huntington, R., The Buffalo News, May 13, page C-8.
  • 1989
    • Thompson, Walter, Art in America, September 1989, page 209.
    • Welish, Marjorie, “Frances Barth-Paintings,” pub. Tomoko Liguori Gallery, NYC.
    • Moore, John L.and Zimmer, William, Contemporary Landscape:Five Views,
    • (catalogue) The Waterworks Visual Arts Center, North Carolina
    • Smith, Roberta, “Galleries Paint a Brighter Picture for Women,”The New York Times April 14, page C-1
    • Smith, Shaw, “Contemporary Landscape: 5 Views,” New Art Examiner, May, page 52.
    • Davis, Suzanne, “Contemporary Landscape,” Atlanta Art Papers, May/June, page 58.
    • Barringer, Paul, “Landscape of Self vs. Picturesque Conventions – A Study in
    • Contrast at the Waterworks,” The Arts Journal, April, page 17.
    • Maschal, Richard, “Landscapes’ Reflections Troubling,” The Charlotte Observer, February 22, page D-2.
  • 1987
    •  
    • Albright Knox Art Gallery, The Painting & Sculpture Collection: Acquisitions Since 1972; Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, 1987.
    • Zimmer, William, “Jersey City Keeps Its Museum Going,” The New York Times, January 4.
    • Smith, Helen C., “Ballet Triumphs With Premiere of Vivid ‘Escape’,” The Atlanta Journal & Constitution, October 16, pages 1-10.
    • Smith, Helen C., “Ballet Premiers Elusive ‘Escape’,” The Atlanta Journal & Constituion, October 11, pages J1-J4.
    • Watkins, Eileen, “Jersey City Museum Lucky to Reach Its 10th Anniversary,” The Sunday Star-Ledger, January 25, Section 4, page 14.
  • 1986
    • Watkins, Eileen, The Sunday Star-Ledger, October 5, Section 4, page 15.
    • Watkins, Eileen, The Sunday Star-Ledger, December 26, page 60.
    • Moodie, E., The Jersey Journal, December 26, page 3.
    • Zimmer, William, The New York Times, September 28, New Jersey section, page 28.
    • Duffy, M.S., Artists at Hunter (catalogue), Hunter College Art Gallery, New York.
  • 1985
    •  
    • Lipson, Newsday, December 27.
    • Heartney, Eleanor, “Abstract Painting Redefined,” Art News, Summer.
    • Glueck, Grace, The New York Times, March 8.
    • Giliberto, Tony, “Abstract Painting Redefined,” New Art Examiner, Summer, page 71.
    • Donnell, Sally, “Frances Barth, Martin Prekop,” New Art Examiner, Summer, page 59.
    • Heymann, John, “Exhibit at Danforth: Abstract Painting Redefined,” Newswest, volume 1, no. 6, September 1.
    • Seawright, J. and Senie, H., A Decade of Visual Arts at Princeton: Faculty 1975-1985
    • (catalogue), The Art Museum at Princeton University, 1985.
    • Frank, P., Constructures: New Perimeters in Abstract Painting (catalogue),
    • Nohra Haime Gallery, New York.
    • Goulet, Cie and Ratcliff, Carter, Abstract Painting Redefined (catalogue),
    • Meisel Gallery, New York, 1985.
  • 1984
    • Woolsey, “Joyous Dance Buoys Finale of New Ballets,” Louisville Times, October 5.
    • Elson, Martha, “New Works, Premiere Keeping the Louisville Ballet on its Toes,” Louisville Times, September.
    • Heilenman, Diane, “Frances Barth’s Perfectionism and Hard Work Show in Her Set,”Louisville Times, September 30.
    • Mootz, William, “Louisville Ballet at Kentucky Center for the Arts: ‘Odalisque,’
    • ‘ Courtly Dances,’ and ‘Tunes’,” Louisville Courier Journal, September.
    • Robins, Corinne, The Pluralist Era, American Art 1968-1981 (Harper & Row, 1984).
    • Ferrulli, H., Painting and Sculpture Today 1984 (Indianapolis Museum of Art )
  • 1983
    •  
    • Handy, Ellen, “Art Reviews,” Arts Magazine, vol. 57, no. 1, June, page 35.
    • Lubell, Ellen, “Frances Barth at Susan Caldwell,” Art in America, vol. 71, no. 1, November, pp 222-223.
    • Moore, John L., Seven American Artists (catalogue), The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio.
  • 1982
    • Oresman, Janice, Lehman Brothers Kuhn Loeb Art Collection (catalogue).
  • 1981
    • Yoskowitz, Robert, “New York Reviews,” Arts Magazine, December, pp. 14-15.
    • Plagens, Peter, Art in America, November, page 12.
    • Glueck, Grace, “Choice Spots for a Gallery Hopping Tour of Soho,” The New York Times, October 16, section C.
    • Sweet, David, “The Decline of Composition,” Artscribe, no. 28, March 31, pages 18-23.
  • 1980
    • Yoskowitz, Robert, Review, Arts Magazine, May, page 31.
    • Walker, J.F., Artscribe, April, pages 16-23.
    • Goldman, Judith, “Printmaking: The Medium Isn’t the Message Anymore,” Art News, March, page 82.
    • Ruhe, B., Art/World, February 15-March 15, page 8.
    • Poroner, P., Artspeak, February 14, page 2.
    • Larson, Kay, Review, The Village Voice, February 11.
    • Merritt, Robert, “Andy Warhol/Frances Barth,” Richmond Times-Dispatch, January 15, page B-7.
  • 1979
    • Smith, Roberta, “Portfolio, A Celebration of Women Artists,” Ambiance, March, pages 84-87.
    • Frank, P., The Village Voice, January 22, page 69.
    • Carlson, P., Review, Art in America, May-June, pages 138-139.
    • Russell, John, The New York Times, February 9, page C-24.
    • Rose, Barbara, American Paintings: The Eighties (catalogue), Vista Press, 1979.
  • 1978
    • Lubell, E., Arts Magazine, March, page 31.
    • Herrera, Hayden, Art in America, July-August, pages 113-114.
    • Frankenstein, A., San Francisco Chronicle, February 2.
    • Louie, R., Artweek, February 25.
    • Danohoe, V., Philadelphia Enquirer, March.
    • Forman, Nessa, “Eight Abstract Painters in Search of Their Roots,” The Sunday Bulletin (Philadelphia), March 26, page 8.
    • Perrone, Jeff, Artforum, March, page 65.
    • Robins, Corinne, “Frances Barth,” Arts Magazine, March, page 6.
    • Zimmer, William, Review, The Soho Weekly News, January 19.
    • Cathcart, Linda, American Paintings of the 1970’s (catalogue), Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, New York.
    • Kramer, Hilton, “A Brave Attempt to Encapsulate a Decade,” The New York Times, December 17.
    • Kline, Kathy, “Painting of the 70’s Exhibit Has Variety,” Courier-Express, December 9.
    • Fried, Helene, San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York (catalogue) San Francisco Art Institute.
    • Ashton, Dore, Eight Abstract Painters (catalogue), Institute of Contemporary Art University of Pennsylvania.
  • 1976
    • Doty, R., Contemporary Images in Watercolor, Akron Art Institute, 1976. Kingsley, April, Review, Soho Weekly News, October 21-27, page 17. Kingsley, April, Review, Soho Weekly News, April. Wahl, Kenneth, Review, Soho Weekly News, November 4, page 20. Smith, Roberta, Artforum, January, page 63. Henry, G., Art News, December, page 122. Goosen, E.C., Artists at Bennington, Visual Arts Faculty, 1932-1976 (catalogue), Bennington College Museum of Art, Bennington, Vermont Poling, C.V., Contemporary Art in Atlanta, Georgia: Paintings and Drawings,1976, The High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia.
  • 1975
    • Frackman, Noel, Review, Arts Magazine, December, pages 17-18.
  • 1974
    • Frank, P., Art News, October, pages 122-123.
    • Robins, Cronne, Review, Art in America, September-October, page 113.
    • Segel, J., “Philadelphia: In Her Own Focus,” Art in America, July-August, pages 99-101.
    • Kingsley, April, Art International, Summer.
    • Gruen, John, Review, Soho Weekly News, May 9, page 14.
    • Frank, P., Soho Weekly News, May 2, page 14.
    • Andre, Michael, Review, Art News, October, page 125.
  • 1973
    • Bowling, Frank, “A Modest Proposal,” Arts Magazine, February, pages 55-59.
    • Bowling, Frank, “Revisions Part 2, Color & Recent Painting,” Arts Magazine, March, pages 47-50.
    • Belloli, J., John Baldessari, Frances Barth, Richard Jackson, Barbara Munger,
    • Gary Stephan (catalogue), Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas, 1972

Teaching:

  • 2004-2014
    • Director, Mt. Royal School of Art, The Maryland Institute College of Art
  • 1986-2004
    • Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT.
    • Professor of painting, drawing, and critical issues.
  • 1986
    • Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY.
    • Full time Professor of painting, spring semester.
  • 1979-1986
    • Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY.
    • Half time position in painting.
  • 1975
    • Princeton University, Princeton, NJ.
    • Three quarter time position in painting, drawing and printmaking.
  • 1974-1975
    • Bennington College, Bennington, VT.
    • Half time position in painting and printmaking.
  • 1973-1974
    • Kingsborough Community College, New York City.
    • Instructor of art history and photography.
  • 1973
    • Lehman College, CUNY, New York City.
    • Instructor of printmaking.
  • 1970-1971
    • Hunter College, New York City. Technical assistant in printmaking.
  • 1970
    • School of Visual Arts, New York City.
    • Substitute teacher, painting and drawing.

Visiting Lectures and Teaching

    • 2014
      • College of St. Rose, Albany, NY
      • Hemera Foundation, Tending Space Mentor
      • Vermont Studio Center, VT
    • 2012
      • Vermont Studio Center, VT
    • 2010
      • Vermont Studio Center, VT
    • 2008
      • Vermont Studio Center, VT
    • 2007
      • Vermont Studio Center, VT
    • 2006
      • Vermont Studio Center, VT
    • 2005
      • Dartmouth College, NH
      • Vermont Studio Center, VT
    • 2004
      • Vermont Studio Center, VT
    • 2003
      • Vermont Studio Center, VT
    • 2002
      • Dartmouth College, NH
      • Vermont Studio Center, VT
    • 2001
      • Pixar Animation Studios, CA1
      • Vermont Studio Center, VT
      • Parsons School of Art, NY
      • Columbia University, School of Architecture, NY
      • Montserrat College of Art, MA
    • 2000
      • University of Minnesota
      • Hampshire College, MA
    • 1999
      • Moravian College, PA
    • 1998
      • Vermont Studio Center, VT
    • 1997
      • Vermont Studio Center, VT
    • 1995
      • Parsons Graduate School, NY (Semester course)
    • 1994
      • University of MA, Amherst.
      • Amherst College, MA
      • Hampshire College, MA
      • Mt. Holyoke, MA
      • Smith College, MA
    • 1992
      • Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY
    • 1990
      • Kent State University, OH
    • 1984
      • State University at Purchase, NY (Semester course)
    • 1983
      • Emory University, Atlanta GA
      • Atlanta College of Art, GA
      • Syracuse University, NY
      • Philadelphia College of Art, PA“Tradition and Art,” with H.Kramer, R.Shattuck, L.Bell, D.Rosand.
    • 1982
      • Yale University, CT
      • Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax
      • Columbia Graduate School
    • 1981
      • Queens College, NY graduate school
    • 1980
      • Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax
      • Yale University, CT
      • Yale University Norfolk summer program, CT
      • Pratt Institute, NY
    • 1979
      • Skowhegan School of Painting, ME
    • 1975
      • UCSD San Diego, CA

Panels

    • 2006
      • “Dragon Veins,” USFCAM, Tampa Fl with David Brody, Emily Cheng, Hongtu Zhang
    • 2003
      • “Minimalism: Two Views,” Yale Norfolk, lecture, with Catherine Murphy.
      • “The Artist’s Touch-An Anachronism?,” The Painting Center, NYC, with Pat Passlof, William Tucker, Robert Morgan, Geoffrey Dorfman.
      • “Whose Past Is it Anyway?,” National Academy of Design, NYC, with Robert Bermelin, Henry Finkelstein, Joe Santore
    • 1999
      • “Three Dimensions of Monochrome: Past and Present,” N.Y. Studio School, with Marcia Hafif, Lily Wei, Richard Kalina
      • “Matisse,” Triangle Artists Workshop, with Jack Flamm, Karen Wilkin, Hilton Kramer, moderator: F.Barth
    • 1983
      • “Tradition and Art,” Pennsylvania College of Art, with R.Shattuck,
      • H.Kramer, D.Rosand, L.Bell. (Prepared lecture and panel.)
    • 1982
      • “Is Painting Dead?” Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax.
    • 1977
      • “Content,” Princeton University , with Roberta Smith, Ed Ruda, Ray Parker, moderator: F.Barth