john ros lives & works in new york, new york & harrisonburg, virginia, us.
e d u c a t i o n
2013 master of fine arts | brooklyn college, city university of new york
2000 bachelor of fine arts | state university of new york at binghamton
s o l o e x h i b i t i o n s
2017 rosefsky gallery, untitled: fa 259 | state university of new york at binghamton, binghamton, new york
2017 DOLPH projects, topaz | london, england
2016 this friday or next friday, archive | brooklyn, new york
2015 se1 bow arts, untitled: se1-49 | london, england
2014 art space project room, untitled: chamberlain | new haven, connecticut
2011 krantz gallery, into the void | jefferson community and technical college, louisville, kentucky
2010 hess gallery, nowhere. | elizabethtown college, pennsylvania
2009 galleryELL, remnant | brooklyn, new york
2008 red mill gallery, unmonumental | vermont studio center, johnson, vermont
2006 perry gallery, reprographic unnumbered | binghamton, new york
2006 martinetti space, appropriations | johnson state college, johnson, vermont
2006 red mill gallery, untitled image | vermont studio center, johnson, vermont
2005 galerie miniet, recent works on paper | venice, florida
2005 perry gallery, new work | binghamton, new york
2004 galerie miniet, on paper | venice, florida
2004 art mission, the processes of knowledge | binghamton, new york
2003 rosefsky gallery, _specious reasoning | state university of new york at binghamton, binghamton, new york
2001 spool mfg., sumus solum quot mentes credant | johnson city, new york, catalogue
2001 bern seiderman gallery, recent paintings | lynbrook, new york
2000 rosefsky gallery, john ros | state university of new york at binghamton, binghamton, new york
1998 bern seiderman gallery, begin | lynbrook, new york
g r o u p e x h i b i t i o n s
2018 *smith house galleries, mealymouthed dexterity | harrisonburg, virginia // upcoming
2018 *swiss cottage gallery, citizen | london, england
2018 *robert n. moore, jr. fine arts gallery, o’more college of design | franklin, tennessee
2018 *DADU, correspondent | nashville, tennessee
2018 **stand4, mechanical reproduction of dust | brooklyn, new york
2017 artworks gallery, emerging & emerged, pt. 2 | harrisonburg, virginia
2017 smith house galleries, members exhibit | harrisonburg, virginia
2017 silvermine arts center, big impressions, small presses | new canaan, connecticut
2017 stand4, artists-in-residence | brooklyn, new york
2017 division of labour, sluice_ fundraising mail art exhibition | london, england
2017 **zuccaire gallery, antiform | state university of new york at stony brook, stony brook, new york
2017 whipple fine arts center, hear for all: activism through prints | umpqua cc, roseburg, oregon
2016 owl’s head, basel ridge: bay ridge art fair | brooklyn, new york
2016 queens college art center, rosenthal library, ATLAS [INDEX] ARCHIVE | queens college, cuny, new york
2016 galleryELL, lineage | new york, new york
2016 sluice_ projects, lion eating poet in the stone den | london, england
2015 sluice_ projects, the missing chapter | london, england
2015 DADU, DADU : conversations | nashville, tennessee
2015 [ space ], salon des refusés by happenstance art | london, england
2015 rochester contemporary art center, 6x6x2015 | rochester, new york
2015 city literary institute, visual arts staff exhibit | london, england
2015 stand @ reich paper, paper | brooklyn, new york
2014 experimental space, aggregate: SIX | long island city, new york
2014 university art museum, alumni exhibition | suny binghamton, binghamton, new york
2014 stand @ greenhouse, landEscape | brooklyn, new york
2014 rochester contemporary art center, 6x6x2014 | rochester, new york
2014 bank gallery, ambivalent | london metropolitan university, london, england, catalogue
2014 oval space, TEDxEastEnd: society beyond borders | london, england
2013 spinach, object abuse | london, england
2013 rochester contemporary art center, 6x6x2013 | rochester, new york
2013 **3walls | brooklyn, new york
2013 show room, 12 | new york, new york, catalogue
2013 village @ gureje, red show | brooklyn, new york
2013 cade art gallery, spin/s: a fluxus festival | anne arundel community college, arnold, maryland
2013 ground.arts, the HOME exhibition | new york, new york
2013 gabarron foundation, two hemispheres | valladolid, spain
2013 NYCAMS, make it work (CAA exhibit) | new york, new york
2013 george mason university, draw(n) out | fairfax, virginia
2012 spool mfg., informal economy | johnson city, new york
2012 brooklyn college, you are here | brooklyn, new york
2012 loudoun house, the 200 | lexington art league, lexington, kentucky
2012 carriage house center for the arts, two hemispheres | the gabarron foundation, new york, new york
2012 billboard art project | quincy, illinois
2012 thompson gallery, strange glue | cambridge school of weston, massachusetts, catalogue
2012 brooklyn college, indefinite whole | brooklyn, new york
2012 zhou b. art center, wet paint | chicago, illinois, catalogue
2012 bowery poetry club, cluster bomb | new york, new york
2011 brooklyn college, double spaced | brooklyn, new york
2011 brooklyn college, free association | brooklyn, new york
2011 *hardee center for the arts, silent spaces | north florida community college, madison, florida
2011 siena art institute, drawing connections | siena, italy, catalogue
2011 galleryELL, transient landscape | governors island, nyc, new york
2011 bartlett gallery, brooklyn takes on alton! | alton, ontario, canada
2011 broome county arts council gallery, collection 2011 | binghamton, new york
2011 guild gallery ii, recyclables | hudson guild fulton center, new york, new york
2011 plaza gallery, earthstewards ii | binghamton city hall, new york
2010 galleryELL, @ the loading dock | brooklyn, new york
2010 loudoun house, art fever | lexington art league, lexington, kentucky
2010 tuohy alumni gallery, word up! | st. joseph’s college, brooklyn, new york
2010 BNYarts, brooklyn navy yard artists group exhibit | brooklyn, new york
2010 allegra laviola gallery, phantasmorganica | new york, new york
2010 seenunseen gallery, earthstewards | oneonta, new york
2010 new arts program, exhibition of small works | kutztown, pennsylvania
2010 greenpoint gallery, annual group exhibit | brooklyn, new york
2010 suny cortland memorial gallery, earthstewards coalition | cortland, new york
2010 plaza gallery, earthstewards coalition | binghamton, new york
2009 gallery gray, tilting at windmills | gallery-gray.com, minneapolis, minnesota
2009 paul robeson galleries, the exquisite corpse | rutgers, newark, new jersey, catalogue
2009 queens museum of art, selections from a book about death | queens, new york
2009 wallace anderson gallery, paper explorations | bridgewater state college, massachusetts
2009 loudoun house, art fever | lexington art league, lexington, kentucky
2009 galleryELL, governors island art fair | governors island, nyc, new york, catalogue
2009 garage gallery, insider/outsider | san diego, california
2009 loudoun house, open | lexington art league, lexington, kentucky
2009 spool mfg., works on paper | johnson city, new york
2008 prince street gallery, off the wall | new york, new york
2008 university art museum, alumni art exhibition | suny binghamton, binghamton, new york
2008 spool mfg., amnesties iii | johnson city, new york
2006 spool mfg., amnesties | johnson city, new york
2006 red mill gallery, resident artist exhibition | vermont studio center, johnson, vermont
2006 *red mill gallery, variations | vermont studio center, johnson, vermont
2006 red mill gallery, church studios exhibition | vermont studio center, johnson, vermont
2006 red mill gallery, johnson winter exhibition | vermont studio center, johnson, vermont
2005 spool mfg., résumé::resume | johnson city, new york
2005 university art museum, alumni exhibition | suny binghamton, binghamton, new york
2005 gallery 213, self portrait show | binghamton, new york
2005 gallery 213, works on paper | binghamton, new york
2004 *pocket, syndicate | binghamton, new york
2004 *pocket, 0 19907 6 | binghamton, new york
2003 rosefsky gallery, ippolito memorial exhibition | binghamton, new york
2003 university art museum, alumni show | suny binghamton, binghamton, new york
2003 plaza gallery, spaces | binghamton, new york
2003 **pocket, artists during war | binghamton, new york
2003 george waters gallery, random selections | elmira college, elmira, new york
2003 gallery 213, print show | binghamton, new york
2002 avenue art gallery, redefining art | endicott, new york
2002 spool mfg., identikit | johnson city, new york
2002 *gallery 120, *you are here | binghamton, new york
2002 gallery 213, re-group | binghamton, new york
2001 gallery 213, figuratively speaking | binghamton, new york
2001 george waters gallery, exchange | elmira college, new york
2000 rosefsky gallery, sculpture | binghamton, new york
2000 rosefsky gallery, figure exhibition | binghamton, new york
1999 fine arts building, the bread & bread show | suny binghamton, binghamton, new york
1999 rosefsky gallery, exhibition of figurative work | binghamton, new york
1999 rosefsky gallery, exhibition of paintings | binghamton, new york
1998 rosefsky gallery, monotype | binghamton, new york
*indicates 2 person exhibition
**indicates 3 person exhibition
a w a r d s , g r a n t s & r e s i d e n c i e s
2018 center for global engagement, jmu, international development grant | harrisonburg, virginia
2018 wampler professor award (for curartorial project), sadah, jmu | harrisonburg, virginia
2018 school of art, design & art history, jmu, professional development award | harrisonburg, virginia
2018 college of visual and performing arts, jmu, professional development award | harrisonburg, virginia
2017 arts council of the valley, advancing the arts grant | harrisonburg, virginia
2017 jmu, school of art, design and art history, professional development award | harrisonburg, virginia
2017 foundation for contemporary arts, emergency grant | new york, new york
2017 stand4, artist-in-residence | brooklyn, new york
2015 lic::cil, residency | long island city, new york
2015 wassaic winter residency & fellowship | wassaic, new york
2014 bow arts se1 residency | london, england
2013 brooklyn college, cerf award in art | brooklyn, new york
2012 brooklyn college, dedalus foundation award nomination | brooklyn, new york
2012 brooklyn college, graduate teaching fellowship | brookyln, new york
2012 brooklyn college, rose goldstein memorial scholarship | brooklyn, new york
2012 brooklyn college, professional development award | brooklyn, new york
2011 brooklyn college, travel stipend | brooklyn, new york
2011 galleryELL, artist-in-residence | governors island, new york
2010 puffin foundation grant | teaneck, new jersey
2010 bornholm residency | simpsonville, kentucky
2006 vermont studio center, stipend & residency | johnson, vermont
2004 art mission, grant | binghamton, new york
2002 vermont studio center, fellowship & residency | johnson, vermont
2000 suny binghamton, foundation award | binghamton, new york
2000 suny binghamton, art museum award | binghamton, new york
1999 suny binghamton, undergraduate research grant | binghamton, new york
1999 suny binghamton, award of outstanding achievement | binghamton, new york
p u b l i c c o l l e c t i o n s
ann inc. | new york, new york
anne arundel community college | arnold, maryland
camden art collection | borough of camden, london, england
center for the study of political graphics | los angeles, california
city of binghamton office of the mayor | binghamton, new york
elizabethtown college | elizabethtown, pennsylvania
gabarron foundation | new york & spain
george mason universiy | fairfax, virginia
hastings-on-hudson public library | hastings-on-hudson, new york
hudon foundation | venice, florida
interference archive | brooklyn, new york
j.crew group | new york, new york
jefferson community and technical college | louisville, kentucky
law offices of frederick r xlander | johnson city, new york
madison art collection, james madison university | harrisonburg, virginia
paul robeson galleries, rutgers | newark, new jersey
state university of new york at stony brook, art department | stony brook, new york
umpqua community college | roseburg, oregon
university art museum, state university of new york at binghamton | binghamton, new york
c u r a t o r i a l p r o j e c t s
2019 duke hall gallery of fine art, southern contemporary artists | harrisonburg, virginia // upcoming
2019 smith house galleries, va-aim group exhibit | harrisonburg, virginia // upcoming
2018 duke hall gallery of fine art, record keepers (co-curator) | harrisonburg, virginia // upcoming
2018 duke hall gallery of fine art, archie rand: the 613 | harrisonburg, virginia // upcoming
2018 stand4, stephanie williams | brooklyn, new york // upcoming
2018 sawhill memorial gallery, sensible, in-sensible | harrisonburg, virginia
2018 duke hall gallery of fine art, coulter/szmagaj: in conversation | harrisonburg, virginia
2018 duke hall gallery of fine art, spaces places things | harrisonburg, virginia
2018 duke hall gallery of fine art, edgar endress: a celestial emporium | harrisonburg, virginia
2017 duke hall gallery of fine art, fahimeh vahdat: call me by my name | harrisonburg, virginia
2017 sawhill memorial gallery, objects & things | harrisonburg, virginia
2016 st francis college, jeannine bardo: solastalgia | brooklyn, new york
2016 sro gallery, …absolutely no inevitability: jo baer, don demauro, marykate maher | brooklyn, ny
2016 galleryELL, altMFA: multi-function | new york, new york
2016 academic, body politic | long island city, new york
2015 galleryELL & studioELL, four: drawing two | new york, new york
2015 galleryELL, sluice_ 2015 art fair | london, england
2015 galleryELL, artists@WAR | london, england
2015 DADU. DADU : conversations | east nashville, tennessee
2015 galleryELL, figur|e|ation | london, england
2014 galleryELL, conversations: exterior–interior | london, england
2014 galleryELL, conversations: /HOME/ | london, england
2014 st francis college, fractured landscape | brooklyn, new york — essay
2014 galleryELL, conversations: space&time | london, england
2014 galleryELL, pleasure & pain | new york, new york — afterword
2012 brooklyn college, you are here | brooklyn, new york
2012 galleryELL, inLINE | brooklyn, new york
2012 brooklyn college, indefinite whole, (co-curator) | brooklyn, new york
2011 galleryELL, transient landscape: visualizing governors island | governors island, new york
2011 spool mfg., “element – progress” | brooklyn, new york, johnson city, new york
2011 galleryELL, proportional | brooklyn, new york
2011 galleryELL, hubbard & staiger @ the vines | brooklyn, new york
2010 galleryELL, @ the loading dock | brooklyn, new york
2010 brooklyn navy yard art group, BNYarts group exhibit | brooklyn navy yard, brooklyn, new york
2009 galleryELL, works-in-progress | brooklyn, new york
2006 perry gallery, lori hinrichsen: multi-process | binghamton, new york
2006 perry gallery, elizabeth kauffman: recent works | binghamton, new york
2000 suny binghamton, university art museum, leon goldin | binghamton, new york
c r i t i c a l w r i t i n g
2016 the artist as citizen… now more than ever, sluice_ magazine | november 2016
2016 title page: jo baer, in the giclee-ed land of the giants, edition of 15 | 2016
2016 the artist as citizen, sluice_ magazine | spring 2016, p. 26-31.
2015 we are ALL new york, galleryELL | 30 november 2015
2015 oy vey! there goes the neighborhood., galleryELL | 16 november 2015
2015 supporting the occupy movement, galleryELL | 17 september 2015
2015 |in-between| agnes martin: development of a belief system, galleryELL | 14 september 2015
2015 a painter who left new york… and never looked back, hyperallergic | 02 june 2015
2015 leon golub’s never-ending fight against the war machine, hyperallergic | 08 april 2015
2015 don de mauro: interview, galleryELL | 09 march 2015
2014 floor grootenhuis @ national academy school, galleryELL | 08 december 2014
2014 richard tuttle @ whitechapel gallery & tate modern, galleryELL | 10 november 2014
2014 radical geometry @ royal academy, galleryELL | 08 september 2014
2014 phyllida barlow @ tate britain commission 2014, galleryELL | 14 july 2014
2014 phillip lai, ‘besides’ @ camden arts centre, galleryELL | 30 june 2014
2014 gerry bibby, ‘combination boiler’ @ the show room, galleryELL | 16 june 2014
2014 richard deacon @ tate britain, galleryELL | 14 april 2014
v i s i t i n g a r t i s t , l e c t u r e r s & p a n e l s
2018 larkin arts, 2018 national juried exhibition juror | harrisonburg, virginia
2018 spitzer art center, 6x6x30 juror | harrisonburg, virginia
2018 DADU, visiting artist | nashville, tennessee
2018 stand4, artist panel discussion | brooklyn, new york
2017 james madison university, sdadh, artist talk: foundations | harrisonburg, virginia
2017 state university of new york at binghamton, visiting artist lecture | binghamton, new york
2017 DOLPH, artist talk | london, england
2017 new york university: steinhardt, visiting artist | new york, new york
2017 stony brook university, salon series: lecture | stony brook, new york
2017 stony brook university, visiting artist: talk & mfa crits | stony brook, new york
2016 queens college arts center, the art of archiving, panelist | queens college, cuny, new york
2016 wassaic artist residency, winter residency juror | wassaic, new york
2016 wassaic artist residency, guest critic | wassaic, new york
2016 altMFA, professional practice lecture | london, england
2016 trestle projects, baseline: artist panel discussion, moderator | brooklyn, new york
2016 7th bay ridge 5th ave storefront art walk (saw), juror | brooklyn, new york
2015 repair the world nyc: heather hart’s barter town presenter | brooklyn, new york
2015 london metropolitan university: post-internet landscapes (pil) round table | london, england
2014 ual: central st. martins: architecture spaces and objects ba reviews | london, england
2013 brooklyn college, department of art: bfa reviews | brooklyn, new york
2013 showroom 170, artist-run initiatives & the diy movement panel discussion | nyc, ny
2013 george mason university, artist talk | fairfax, virginia
2012 brooklyn college, department of art: bfa reviews | brooklyn, new york
2012 hunter college, department of art: focus & motivation | new york, new york
2012 aestetic movement: behance portfolio review | long island city, new york
2012 long island university: post, artist talk | new york, new york
2011 north florida community college, visiting artist | madison, florida
2011 broome cc @ spool mfg., “element progress” curatorial lecture | johnson city, ny
2011 jefferson community and technical college, visiting artist | louisville, kentucky
2010 BNYarts, curatorial lecture | brooklyn, new york
2010 elizabethtown college, visiting artist | elizabethtown, pennsylvania
2005 suny binghamton, alumni art professionals panelist | binghamton, new york
2003 suny binghamton, visiting artist | binghamton, new york
2003 art mission, grant application panelist | binghamton, new york
2001 suny binghamton, visiting artist | binghamton, new york
t e a c h i n g e x p e r i e n c e
2017-present // james madison university, school of art, design & art history, assistant professor of art | harrisonburg, va
2010-present // studioELL, founder & lecturer (as galleryELL 2010-2015) | new york, new york & london, england
2017 // sage usa, instructor | new york, new york
2016-2017 // gmhc, volunteer instructor | new york, new york
2014-2016 // city literary institute, lecturer | london, england
2012-2013 // brooklyn college, cuny, adjunct lecturer & teaching fellow | brooklyn, new york
2008-2009 // nyc high school for inquiry, arts administrator | brookyln, new york
2005 // suny binghamton, adjunct lecturer | binghamton, new york
2000 // hillwood art museum, long island university: post, museum educator | brookville, new york
2000 // national academy school of fine art, teaching assistantship | new york, new york
1998-2000 // suny binghamton, teaching assistant | binghamton, new york
p r o f e s s i o n a l e x p e r i e n c e
2018-present // board of directors, harrisonburg downtown renaissance | harrisonburg, va
2017-present // james madison univesity, duke hall gallery of fine art, director & chief curator | harrisonburg, va
1998-2017 // specialized art services & preparation | new york, new york & london, england
2008-2016 // galleryELL, founder, director & curator | new york, new york
2012-2013 // brooklyn college, graduate art student union, vice president | brooklyn, new york
2012-2013 // smack mellon, internship | brooklyn, new york
2005-2008 // perspectives international, artistic director | new york, new york
2004-2005 // spool mfg., board member | johnson city, new york
2001-2004 // pocket, co-founder & co-director | binghamton, new york
1998-2000 // university art museum, exhibition technician | binghamton, new york
1998-2000 // suny binghamton, art student association, founder & president | binghamton, new york
1998 // smithsonian institution, national museum of american art, curatorial assistant | washington, d.c.
b i b l i o g r a p h y
2018 // love camden, camden close-up: john ros, interview. july 2018
2018 // issue 9. “untitled 001/b.” dog-ear. spring/summer 2018
2018 // otey, jazmine. “behind the scenes of setting up a gallery in duke hall.” the breeze. 01 march 2018
2017 // mertens, shelby. “annual art: smith house galleries.” daily news-record. 16 december 2017
2017 // mertens, shelby. “new in town.” daily news-record. 15 september 2017
2017 // hendrixson, jedidiah. “zuccaire gallery exhibit features new take on 60s movement.” jedidiahhendrixson.wordpress.com. 21 feb 2017
2017 // bridges, diamond. “antiform gallery review.” sb independent. 21 february 2017
2017 // pietzold, joshua. “changing your perception: ‘antiform’….” sbu happenings. 15 feb 2017
2017 // adams, michael. “campus art centers provide needed entertainment….” the statesman. 05 feb 2017
2017 // norman, emily. “antiform: zuccaire gallery’s first exhibit of the spring semester.” the statesman. 29 jan 2017
2016 // levine, charlie. notes on assemblage: tash kahn & john ros, sluice_ magazine photo essay | autumn 2016, p. 42-49.
2016 // england, karl. sluice_encounters, interview. february 2016
2014 // pawlukowska, kornelia. interview with john ros. may 2014
2014 // thompson, adam. essay for untitled: chamberlain at art space, new haven, connecticut. 25 july 2014.
2013 // himmel, charly. “the dirty dozen.” the brooklyn college kingsman. 17 april 2013
2013 // pollack, barbara. “2013 region mfa exhibit at nycams.” caa. 5 february 2013.
2013 // quarshie, mabinty. “art exhbit draws on themes of time.” connect 2mason. 25 january 2013.
2012 // nixon, j. alexander & himmel, charly. “the transmutation of boylan hall: bc hosts mfa open studios.” the brooklyn college kingsman. 15 november 2012.
2012 // nixon, j. alexander. “artists invade the deans office.” the brooklyn college kingsman. 21 october 2012.
2011 // martin, christopher. “an escape to fine art in new york: galleryELL on governors island.” fierth.com. august.
2011 // ball, sharon. “were the arts part of your week?” broome arts mirror. 23 may.
2010 // stevens, andy. “&.” new york. spool mfg. publishing. 2010.
2009 // gauthier, shawn. “quite the collection.” lonnymag. winter 2009. issue two, p59.
2009 // hendren, harriett. “fund-raiser gives community art fever.” lexington herald-leader 9 october.
2006 // deer cloud, susan. confluence. new york: foot hills publishing, 2006.
2005 // deer cloud, susan. “the dirt in the gallery across from the old whorehouse on state street.” patterson literary review. 34 (2005): 277.
2004 // gendron. john ros: sumus solum quot mentes credant. new york: gendron designs, 2004.
2004 // blackburn, marcia. “february exhibits.” press & sun bulletin 29 january.
2003 // blackburn, marcia. “urban core draws young artists.” press & sun bulletin 10 december.
2003 // hayes, hannah maria. “artists react to war.” press & sun bulletin 2 may, lifestyle, p1.
2003 // zehl, valerie. “struggling in tier not so bad.” press & sun bulletin 7 february, neighbors, p1.
2000 // glover, gail. john ros: exhibition. 30 march. inside binghamton university. march.
2000 // glover, gail. art seniors gear up for solo bfa exhibitions. 13 march. harpur hotline. 14 march.