SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022
Jack Ginsberg Centre for Book Arts, Wits Art Museum, Johannesburg, South Africa:
Creative Research (with Julie Chen & Veronika Shaepers)
2020
Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY: Read Me. Like a Book. 30 Years of Dobbin Books
2014
Galerie Druck & Buch, Vienna, Austria: Reality is as thin as paper.
2013
FUGA Galeria, Budapest, Hungary: Memory Palace
Hungarian Jewish Archive, Budapest: Archive Installation/Intervention
2011
Stadtbibliothek Reutlingen, Germany: Hand. Voice. Paper.
2010
At Home Gallery, Samorin, Slovakia: Nothing Is, Until Uttered in a Clear Voice
2009
Petöfi Irodalmi (Literature) Museum, Budapest: Three-Minute Stories
2008
Galerie Druck & Buch, Tübingen, Germany
2007
Brooklyn Public Library Gallery: Women’s Work
2006
Galerie N & n, Budapest: Home Sweet Home
Columbia College Gallery, Chicago: Politics In Paper
2005
Whanki Museum, Seoul, Korea
2003
La Galería – Haus der Kunst, Guadelajara, Mexico
2002
Western Michigan University Gallery, Kalamazoo
2001
Center for Book Arts Gallery, NYC: Collaborations in South Africa
2000
Temple Judea Museum, Elkins Park, PA: From Darkness into Light
1999
University of Pennsylvania, Rosenwald Gallery: Look Books
Brooklyn Public Library Gallery: Look Books
1998
HarperCollins Exhibition Space, NYC: Dobbin Books
Enciklopédia Kiadó, Budapest
1997
The Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Ontario,Canada
Le Chaufaud Musée, Percé, Québec: Une Percée
NSA Gallery, Durban, South Africa
1996
Saint Peter’s Church, NYC: Solo installation
1995
Prieto Gallery, Mills College, Oakland, CA: Dobbin Books
1994
HarperCollins Exhibition Space, NYC: Dobbin Books
István Király Muzeum, Hungary
Museum of Applied Arts, Budapest: Solo Installation
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
Environmental Design Library, UC Berkeley, CA: The Book as Witness
Center for Book Arts Gallery, NYC: Hello Thank You Come In
Galerie Druck & Buch, Vienna: Best of 2023
2023
Galerie Druck & Buch, Vienna: Thread - Fabric - Paper...And Back Again!
Gallery 2, University of Johannesburg: Matterings Mutterings
Galerie Druck & Buch, Vienna: Mapping
2022
Stanford University Library, Palo Alto, CA: Materialia Lumina, the CODEX 75
Smithsonian Museum of Africa Art, DC: Dihangara Uhanga, in exhibition (through 2023)
Bainbridge Art Museum, Sherry Grover Gallery, WA: Shapes of Things to Come
2021
Galerie Druck & Buch, Vienna: The Body and the Book
Klingspor Museum, Offenbach, Germany: Born in the USA
Galerie Druck & Buch, Vienna: Best of 2020
2020
Galerie Druck & Buch, Vienna: 2 x 25, 25th anniversary exhibition
Swarthmore McCabe Library, PA: Paperless Artists’ Books in the Collection
2019
Juntao First National Book Art Exhibition, Haining, China (curated by Tan Tan, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing)
Environmental Design Library, UC Berkeley, CA: Book As Place: Visions of the Built Environment (Julie Chen, curator)
Mark Twain Library, Redding CT: Freed Formats: the book reconsidered, traveling exhibition (with catalog)
International Print Center New York: Pulled in Brooklyn
Jack Ginsberg Centre for Book Arts, Johannesburg, SA: opening exhibition
2018
Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery, Philadelphia: Fertile Ground (curated by Mark Dimunation, Chief of Special Collections, Library of Congress & John Caperton, Curator, The Print Center, Phila), (Prize)
NY Transit Museum, NYC: Navigating New York
International Print Center New York, NYC: Paper→Pulp Transformation
Center for Book Arts Gallery, NYC, Minneapolis & San Francisco: Freud on the Couch – Psyche in the Book (with catalog)
2017
UJ Art Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa: Booknesses, Artists’ Books from the Jack Ginsberg Collection (authored an essay in the catalog)
Brooks Museum, Memphis, TN: In Honor of Dolph Smith
Museum der Arbeit, Hamburg, Germany: Galerie Druck & Buch exhibition
Opposition & Artists’ Books, Rutgers Univ. Library, New Brunswick, NJ (curated by Michael Joseph, Rare Book Librarian)
2016
Grolier Club, NYC: Artists & Others: The Imaginative French Book, 2000-2015
University of Washington Special Collections, Seattle: Just One Look
Galerie Druck & Buch, Vienna, Austria: Freud
Center for Book Arts Gallery, NYC: Sense(LESS): Perceptual Explorations
2015
Smithsonian Museum of African Art, DC: Artist Books and Africa
Center for Book Arts Gallery, NY: Embraced: The International Community
Minnesota Center for the Book: The Contained Narrative
2014
Center for Book Arts Gallery, NY: Behind the Personal Library: Collectors Creating the Canon
Museo della Carta a della Filligrana, Fabriano, Italy: Contemporary Watermarks
ARTSPACE, New Haven, CT: Connecticut (un)Bound
Pace University, NY & Casper College, Wyoming: Handmade/Homemade
Galerie Druck & Buch, Vienna, Austria: Winterschlaf
2013
Museum of Biblical Art, NYC: As Subject and Object
Galerie Druck & Buch, Vienna, Austria: Wien Gebucht: Highlights der Buchkunst seit Dieter Roth.
King Saint Stephen Museum, Székesféhérvár, Hungary: 5th International Artists’ Book Exhibition Invitational.
Texas Woman’s University, Seductive Alchemy
John Rylands Library, Manchester, UK /and traveling show locations: An Inventory of Al-Mutanabbi Street.
2012
Museum of Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing: Diamond Leaves
Johannesburg Art Gallery, S. Africa: Coming of Age 21 Yrs of Artist Proof Studio
Projektraum des Deutschen Künstlerbundes Berlin, Germany: ‘Deutscher Künstlerbund’. ‘Blätterwald – oder die Quintessenz des Buches’.
Hebrew Union College Museum, NYC: Spectrum of Sexuality
Lubeznik Center for the Arts, Michigan City, Indiana: Beaten & Bound
K-Salon, Berlin, Germany: Central Booking in Berlin
Musée de L’Imprimerie, Lyon, France: Quand les Livres S’Amusent
2011
Bildungshaus St. Benedict, Seitenstetten, Austria: MOTHER (2 installations)
Art of the Book Gallery, Yale University, New Haven: The Book as Memorial
Central Booking, NYC: Mapping the Surface
Center for Book Arts Gallery, NYC: Multiplied, Limited, Unique (traveling show)
Vizivzrosi Galeria, Budapest: Julia Vermes’ Artist Book Collection
Catich Gallery, St. Ambroise University, Iowa: Social Commentaries
New Orleans Museum of Art, AL: Artists’ Books
2010
Pratt Manhattan Gallery, NYC: You Are Here–The Psychogeography of the City
PapierWespe Gallery, Vienna, Viertelgalerie, Zwettl, & Paper Museum, Austria: 30 Books from 30 Artists.
Reyes & Davis Gallery, Washington, DC: Novel Abstractions
Chapman University Gallery, CA & La Forum Events Gallery, LA: The Page
2009
2B Gallery, Budapest: Oscillations
Greenpoint IBZ zone, NY: Brooklyn Makes (film projection on building)
Lehman College Gallery, NYC: Rare Editions – The Book as Art
2008
Museum of Arts & Crafts, Itami, Japan: “Your Documents Please”
2007
Milwaukee Institute, Wisconsin: Sacred Text
Center for Book Arts, NY: Black & White & Read
Stadtmuzeum Deggendorf, Germany: Paper Road
2006
King Saint Stephen Museum, Székesféhérvár, Hungary: 4th International Artists’ Book Exhibition
Kyoto Institute of Technology: Artist Books
Papier Muzeum, Steyrermuehl, Austria: Paper
2005
Charite Medizinhistorische Museum, Berlin: The Missing Link
Israel Museum, Jerusalem: Beauty & the Book
Musée du Pays et Val de Charmey, Switzerland: Fifth International Paper Triennial
Center for Book Arts Gallery, NY: 30 Years of Innovation
Hebrew Union College Museum, NYC & Hungarian Cultural Institute, Berlin: Waldsee 1944
Korea: 2nd Seoul Internatl Book Arts exhibition
2004
Korea: 1st Seoul Internatl Book Arts exhibition
Maryland Jewish Museum, Baltimore: Weaving Women’s Words
Brooklyn Museum of Fine Arts: Open House
Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Egypt: International Biennale
Haus der Kunst, La Galería, Guadelajara, Mexico: Doce el doce del doce
2B Gallery, Budapest: Waldsee 1944
2003
Santa Maria Della Scala, Siena, Italy: Paper Road
9th Wexford Artists’ Book Exhibition, Ireland
Adam Baumgold Gallery, NYC: Word Works
Hebrew Union Museum, NY: The Art of Aging
2002
Silicon Gallery, NY: Digital Books
Art On Paper Gallery, Johannesburg: trans’for-ma’tion
2001
Hebrew Union College Museum, New York City: Living in the Moment
Off-Centre Gallery, Bristol, England: Tale of Two Cities
2000
Johannesburg Civic Gallery, South Africa: After New York
Brooklyn Museum of Art: Working in Brooklyn – Artists Books
3rd Biennale of Artists’ Books, Istvan Kiraly Muzeum, Hungary
SELECTED AWARDS
The Isaac Anolic Book Arts Award 2020
Franklin Furnace & The NYC Dept of Cultural Affairs Grant, for the creation of a virtual exhibition website. 2020
European University Flensburg, Germany, Dept Art & Media: Artist Residency, Summer 2017
Keynote Speaker for Booknesses colloquium, Johannesburg, South Africa, Spring 2017
Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, Faculty Development Grants, 2007, 2010, & 2015
US COLLECTIONS
Agnes Gund Collection, NYC
Allen Library, University of Washington, Seattle
Arthur & Mata Jaffe Collection, Boca Raton, FL
Art Institute of Chicago Library, IL
Bainbridge Art Museum, Washington
Baylor University, Central Library, Waco, Texas
Boston Atheneum, MA
Boston Public Library, MA
Bowdoin College Library, Maine
Bowling Green State University, Ohio
Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah
Brooklyn Museum of Arts Library, NYC
Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA
California College of Art, CA
Carlton College, Gould Library, MN
Center for Book Arts Collection, NYC
Cerritos Public Library, CA
Chapman College, Orange, CA
Clark Museum of Art, MA
Cleveland Institute of Art, Gund Library, Ohio
Columbia University, Butler Library & Avery Library, NYC
Dartmouth College, Baker-Berry Library & Sherman Art Library, NH
De Paul University, Chicago
Drake University, Iowa
Duke University Library, Durham, NC
Emory University Woodruff Library, Atlanta, GA
Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster, PA
George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
Indiana University–Purdue University, Indianapolis
Jaffe Center for Book Arts, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton
Kansas State Univ. Hale Library, Manhattan, KS
Lafayette College Library, Eaton, PA
Lawrence University, Appleton, Wisconsin
Letterform Archive, San Francisco, CA
Library of Congress, DC
Long Island University Special Collections, NYC
Massachusetts College of Art Library, Boston
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Library, Boston, MA
Messiah College, Murray Library, Grantham, PA
Metropolitan Museum of Art, Watson Library, NYC
Mills College, Oakland, CA
Museum of Modern Art, Library, NYC
National Museum of African Art, Washington, DC
Nevada Museum of Art, Center for Art & Environment, Reno
Newark Public Library, New Jersey
New York Public Library, Spencer Collection, NYC
Northwestern University Library, Illinois
Oberlin College Special Collections, Ohio
Ohio University, Athens
Otis School of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA
Penn State University, Pennsylvania
Queens College Library, NYC
Rutgers University Library, New Brunswick, NJ
Rhode Island School of Design Library, Providence
Ringling College of Art, Florida
Sackner Archive, Miami, Florida
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library NYC
SCAD Atlanta, GA
Scripps College, CA
St. Johns University, Minnesota
St. Olaf College, Minnesota
Stanford University, Green Library, Palo Alto CA
Swarthmore College Library, PA
Temple Judea Museum, Elkins Park, PA
Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
Toledo Art Museum, Ohio
Tufts University, W. Van Alan Clark Jr. Library, MA
UC Berkeley Bancroft Library & Environmental Design Library, CA
UCLA Arts Library, Los Angeles
UC Santa Barbara, Davidson Library, CA
UC Santa Cruz, McHenry Library, CA
University of Delaware Library
University of Denver, Penrose Library, CO
University of Georgia, Hargrett Library, Athens
University of Indiana, Bloomington
The University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida
University of Michigan Library, Ann Arbor
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
University of New Mexico Library, Albuquerque
University of New Mexico, Valencia
University of Oregon, Eugene
University of PA, Annenberg Library, Philadelphia
University of Pittsburgh, PA
The University of Tulsa, OK
University of Utah, Marriott Library, Salt Lake City, UT
University of Vermont Bailey/Howe Library, Burlington, VT
University of Washington, Saint Louis, MI
University of West Michigan Library, Kalamazoo
University of Wisconsin Art Library, Madison
Virginia Commonwealth University, Cabal Library, Richmond
Wellesley College Library, MA
Wesleyan University Clapp Library, CT
Wheaton College, Wallace Library, Illinois
Whitney Museum Library, NYC
Yale Art Gallery: Chasanoff Bookworks Collection, New Haven, CT
Yale’s Beineke Rare Book Library, New Haven, CT
Yale University, Art of the Book, New Haven
INTERNATIONAL COLLECTIONS
Anna Amalia Bibliothek, Weimar, Germany
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich, Germany
Biblioteca Alexandrina, Egypt
Bibliotheca Librorum apud Artificem, Australia
Bibliotheque Nationale de France, Paris
Bibliothéque Nationale de Luxembourg
Biblitheque Universitaire BCU Lausanne, Switzerland
British Library, London
Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Leipzig, Germany
Deutsches Buch- und Schriftmuseum, Germany
Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel, Germany
István Király Muzeum, Székesfehérvár, Hungary
Jack Ginsberg Centre for Book Arts, Wits Museum, Johannesburg, S. Africa
Julia Vermes Collection, Basel, Switzerland
Kunst- und Museumsbibliothek, Cologne, Germany
Kyoto Institute of Technology, Japan
Leopold-Hoesch Museum, Düren, Germany
Lyrik Kabinett, Munich, Germany
McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa, Ontario, Canada
Memorial University, Queen Elizabeth II Library, Newfoundland, Canada
Museum Center, Baku, Azerbaijan
Museum of Applied Arts, Budapest, Hungary
Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest
Museum für Gestaltung, Zürich, Switzerland
Museum Meermann Westreenianum, The Hague
The Netherlands Nationale Bibliotheek, Koopman Collection, The Hague
Offentliche Universität der Stadt Basel, Switzerland
Osterreichische Nationalbibliothek, Vienna, Austria
Sächsische Landesbibliothek – Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Dresden, Germany
Szabad Iskola, Mór, Hungary
Technikon Natal Art Gallery, Durban, S. Africa
Universitaetsbibliothek, Universitaet für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna, Austria
University of Alberta Library, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Van Abbe Museum, Eidhoven, The Netherlands
Württembergische Landesbibliothek, Stuttgart
SELECTED EMPLOYMENT
Dobbin Mill, NYC: Founding Director of hand papermaking studio, since 1989
Pratt Art Institute, NYC: Professor for “Art of the Book”, 2002 - 2021
Pratt Art Institute, NYC: Coordinator for BOOK minor, 2016 - 2022
Center for Book Arts, NYC: Instructor for papermaking/artist books, 1986-1999
Workshops and visiting artist seminars in the US, South Africa, and Europe, since 1986
EDUCATION
1981 School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: Sculpture
1980 Princeton University: BA Cum Laude in Art History, Program of Visual Arts
NOT-FOR-PROFIT
Trustee of the Board of The Ampersand Foundation, 1997 – 2017
US Representative of The Ampersand Foundation, since 2017
Director of Alma-on-Dobbin since 2005
Director for The Booklyn Artist Alliance, 2006 – 2017
Director for the Center for Book Arts, NYC 2007 – 2017