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DAISY YOUNGBLOOD

1945 Born September 14 in Asheville, NC
1963-1966 Attends Richmond Professional Institute, VA
1967 Moves to New York City with then husband Joe Haske and son Youngblood Haske
1974 Daughter Savannah Haske born
1979 Joins Willard Gallery, New York, NY
1984 Moves to Costa Rica and meets Tom Sather
1986 Daughter Budhi Sather born
1991 Moves to Bisbee, Arizona
1993 Joins McKee Gallery, New York
1999 Moves to Santa Fe, New Mexico
2003 Receives John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellowship
Moves to Costa Rica

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

1979 Willard Gallery, New York, NY
1981 Willard Gallery
1983 Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
1985 Barbara Gladstone Gallery
1991 Tom Cugliani Gallery, New York
1992 Beaver College Art Gallery, Glenside, PA
1993 McKee Gallery, New York
1996 University Gallery, Fine Arts Center, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
1999 McKee Gallery
2004-2005 McKee Gallery
2004-2007 Standing Gorilla, Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, Coral Gables, FL
2015 McKee Gallery

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

1981 Figuratively Speaking, Institute for Contemporary Art, P.S. 1, Long Island City, NY
1982 John Torreano / Daisy Youngblood, Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis, MO
Animals in American Art 1880s-1980s, Nassau County Museum of Fine Art, Roslyn Harbor, NY
1983 American Clay Artists: Philadelphia ’83, The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA
The Sixth Day, Bergman Gallery, The Renaissance Society, University of Chicago, IL
Inside / Out, Bronx River Restoration Art Center, NY
Personification, Carreiro Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston
Sculpture Now, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond
1984 Painting and Sculpture Today, Indianapolis Museum of Art, IN
Beauties and Beasts, Pratt Manhattan Center Gallery, Pratt Institute, New York, NY
Modern Masks, Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris, New York
50 Artists / 50 States, Fuller Goldeen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1985 Memento Mori, Goldie Paley Gallery, Moore College of Art, Philadelphia
In the Eye of the Beholder, College Art Gallery, SUNY, New Paltz, NY
The Figure Renewed, Freedman Gallery, Albright College, Reading, PA
Not Just Black and White, City Gallery, New York
1986 Memento Mori, Centro Cultural / Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City, Mexico
1987 Standing Ground: Sculpture by American Women, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH
1988 Painting and Sculpting by Candidates of Art Awards and Exhibition of Work by Newly Elected Members and Recipients of Awards, American Academy and Institute of Arts & Letters, New York
1990 Nature’s Materials, North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks
1993 Here’s Looking at Me: Contemporary Self-Portrait, Espace Lyonnais d’Art, Contemporain, Lyon, France
1995 Next of Kin: Looking at the Great Apes, List Visual Arts Center, MIT, Cambridge
1996 A Labor of Love, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
1997 Strong Spirits, Dorothy Uber Bryan Gallery, Fine Arts Center, Bowling Green State University, OH
Figure and Fragility, Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York
The Changing Image, Claudia Gian Ferrari Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy
1998 The Edward R. Broida Collection: A Selection of Works, Orlando Museum of Art, FL
1999 Powder, The Aspen Art Museum, CO
2000 The Likeness of Being, DC Moore Gallery, New York
Patricia Faure Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
American Art Today: Fantasies & Curiosities, The Art Museum at Florida International University, Miami
Symbols of Survival: Animal Sculpture In Recent Art, Dorsky Gallery, New York
Allan Chasanoff Ceramic Collection, Mint Museum of Craft and Design, Charlotte, NC
NEW works, McKee Gallery, New York
Sculpture 2000, Lyman Allyn Art Museum, New London, CT
2002-2003 Lugar(es): la urbe y lo contemporáneo, (Place(s), the Metropolis and the Contemporary), Acervo artístico Fundación Televisa, Museo Nacional de Arte, Mexico City, Mexico
Aviary, Edward Thorp Gallery, New York
2003 Magic Markers: Objects of Transformation, Des Moines Art Center, IA
2004 Bare Clay, Ceramic Nudes in 20th Century Art, Garth Clark Gallery, New York
2005 Explorations in Bronze, Degas and New Mexico Sculptors, Museum of Fine Arts, Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe
To See the Magic, Galerie Albrecht, Munich, Germany
Zoo Story: An Exhibition of Animals in Art – For the Young and the Young at Heart, Fisher Landau Center for Art, Long Island City
From the Neck Up, Franklin Parrasch Gallery
2006 Against the Grain: Contemporary Art from the Edward R. Broida Collection, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
2007 Early Signs, McKee Gallery
2008-2009 Origins, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY
2009 Art at Fairchild, Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, Coral Gables, FL
2010 Sculpture, McKee Gallery
2012 The Female Gaze: Women Artists Making their World, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia

MUSEUM COLLECTIONS

Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, Coral Gables, FL
Greenville Museum of Art, NC
Honolulu Museum of Art, Spalding House, HI
Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, TX
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, State University of New York
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA
Georgia and David K. Welles Sculpture Garden, The Toledo Museum of Art, OH

CATALOGUES

Richard Flood, The Sixth Day, Renaissance Society, University of Chicago, IL, 1983.
Julie Boyd, Sculpture Now, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, 1983.
Susan Lubowsky, Modern Masks, Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris, New York, NY, 1984.
Helen Ferrulli, Painting and Sculpture Today, Indianapolis Museum of Art, IN, 1984.
Ellen Schwartz, Beauties and Beasts, Pratt Manhattan Center Gallery, Pratt Institute, New York, 1984.
Judith Tannenbaum, The Figure Renewed, Freedman Gallery, Albright College, Reading, PA, 1985.
Richard Flood, Memento Mori, Goldie Paley Gallery, Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, PA, 1985.
Sarah Rogers-Lafferty, Standing Ground: Sculpture by American Women, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH, 1987.
Laurel Reuter, Nature’s Materials, North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, 1990.
Paula Marincola, Daisy Youngblood, essay by Judith Stein, Beaver College Art Gallery, Glenside, PA, 1992.
Ron Platt, Next of Kin: Looking at the Great Apes, essays by Tommy L. Lott, Harriet Ritro, List Visual Arts Center, MIT, Cambridge, 1995.
Regina Coppola, Daisy Youngblood, University Gallery, Fine Arts Center, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1996.
Marcia Tucker, A Labor of Love, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, 1996.
Robert Taplin, Strong Spirits, Dorothy Uber Bryan Gallery, Fine Arts Center, Bowling Green State University, OH, 1997.
Anthony Iannacci, The Changing Image, Claudia Gian Ferrari Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy, 1997.
Sue Scott, The Edward R. Broida Collection: A Selection of Works, Orlando Museum of Art, FL, 1998.
Julie Graham and Maria Friedrich, Powder, essay by Francesco Bonami, The Aspen Art Museum, CO, 1999.
Dahlia Morgan, American Art Today: Fantasies & Curiosities, essay by Dominique Nahas, The Art Museum at Florida International, University, Miami, 2000.
Allan Chasanoff Ceramic Collection, essays by Garth Clark, Carol E. Mayer, Barbara Perry, Todd D. Smith, and E. Michael Whittington, Mint Museum of Craft and Design, Charlotte, NC, 2000.
José Luis Barrios, Lugar(es) la urbe y lo contemporáneo, (Place(s), the Metropolis and the Contemporary), Acervo artístico Fundación Televisa, Museo Nacional de Arte, Mexico City, Mexico, 2002.
Magic Markers: Objects of Transformation, Essays by Jeff Fleming, Stanley Cavell, and Malcolm Warner, Des Moines Art Center, IA, 2003.
A Selection of Works 1975-2003, statements by Maria Friedrich, Daisy Youngblood and Tom Sather, McKee Gallery, New York, 2004.
Ann Temkin, Against the Grain: Contemporary Art from the Edward R. Broida Collection, essay by John Elderfield, Interview with Edward R. Broida by Ann Temkin, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2006.
Marc J. Straus, Origins, essay by John Newsom, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY, 2008-2009.

REVIEWS AND ARTICLES

William Zimmer, “Stalking Heads,” SOHO Weekly News, October 18, 1979.
Grace Glueck, “Art: The Beasts of Daisy Youngblood,” The New York Times, October 19, 1979.
Kay Larson, “Pluto’s Retreat: Reaching the Necro-Nadir,” The Village Voice, October 22, 1979.
Prudence Carlson, “Daisy Youngblood at Willard,” Art in America, February 1980.
Vivien Raynor, “Corporation Builds a Collection That Stresses Youth,” The New York Times, February 3, 1980.
Michael Donahue, “Wealth of Images Dot Modern Show,” Memphis Press Scimitar, December 4, 1980.
Robert Merrit, “A New Bestiary (Virginia Museum),” Richmond Times-Dispatch, January 2, 1981.
Ann Schoenfeld, Review of Willard Gallery Show, Arts Magazine, June 1981.
Matthew Collings, “Nothing Deep,” Artscribe, August 1981.
Deborah C. Phillips, Review of Willard Gallery show, ARTnews, September 1981.
Ann Schoenfeld, Review of Willard Gallery show, Art Press, September – October 1981.
Kay Larson, “Sculpting Figuratively,” New York Magazine, November 16, 1981.
John Perreault, “Food for Figure,” SOHO Weekly News, November 25, 1981.
Janice Parente and Phyllis Stigliano, “Animals in American Art: 1880’s-1980’s” (Catalogue text)
Vivien Raynor, “Art: Zabriskie Offers a Sculpture Twin Bill,” The New York Times, January 29, 1982.
Regan Upshaw, “‘Figuratively Sculpting,’ at P.S.1,” Art in America, March 1982.
Grace Glueck, “A Critic’s Guide to the Outdoor Sculpture Shows,” The New York Times, June 11, 1982.
Peter Schjeldahl, “Situations,” The Village Voice, June 22, 1982.
Grace Glueck, “Daisy Youngblood,” The New York Times, December 23, 1983.
Jeanne Silverthorne, “Reviews: Daisy Youngblood,” ARTFORUM, March 1984.
Stephen Westfall, “Daisy Youngblood,” Arts Magazine, March 1984.
Gerritt Henry, “Daisy Youngblood at Barbara Gladstone,” Art in America, April 1984.
Michael Brenson, “Art: ‘Modern Masks,’ An Assembly of Sculpture on Display,” The New York Times,
December 28, 1984.
Mikhail Horowitz, “Behold, Clay Comes of Age,” Sunday Freeman, Kingston, NY, March 31, 1985.
Gary Indiana, “Framing Creatures,” The Village Voice, May 7, 1985.
Jean Fisher, “Daisy Youngblood,” ARTFORUM, October 1985.
“Banking on Art,” American Craft, February – March 1988.
Gretchen Adkins, “Daisy Youngblood: Offerings to the Forces Beyond,” American Ceramics, Fall 1989.
Mary Jones, “Daisy Youngblood,” Arts Magazine, Summer 1991.
Janet Koplos, “An Anatomy of Melancholy,” Art in America, October 1991.
Eileen Neff, “Daisy Youngblood,” ARTFORUM, May 1992.
George Melrod, “Daisy Youngblood,” American Ceramics, Volume II, No. I, 1993.
Patricia C. Phillips, “Daisy Youngblood,” ARTFORUM, November 1993.
Joanne Silver, “MIT exhibit explores our kinship with ‘Apes’,” The Boston Herald, October 13,1995.
Robert Taylor, “Gorillas in Our Midst,” The Boston Globe, November 16, 1995.
Vicki Croke, “The Draw of the Wild,” The Boston Globe, November 25, 1995.
Sally Vallongo, “Seven Female Sculptors Display ‘Strong Spirits’ in BGSU Exhibit,” The Blade, November 1997.
Everett, “McKee Gallery,” NY Arts, Vol. 3, No. 4, April 1999.
Grace Glueck, “Daisy Youngblood,” The New York Times, May 7, 1999.
Alexi Worth, “Goings On About Town ‘Daisy Youngblood’,” The New Yorker, May 10 & 31, 1999.
Mario Naves, “Three-Inch Heads, Not Without Sentiment,” The New York Observer, May 31, 1999.
Kathleen Whitney, “Arizona & New Mexico: American Sculpture Tour,” Sculpture, July – August 1999.
David Frankel, “Daisy Youngblood McKee Gallery,” ARTFORUM, October 1999.
Eleanor Heartney, “Daisy Youngblood at David McKee,” Art in America, November 1999.
Lisa McGinley, “Monumental Effort,” The Day, November 14, 1999.
Robin Cembalest, “The Woman in the Mirror,” Elle, January 2000.
Rachel Youens, “The Likeness of Being, Contemporary Self-Portraits by 60 Women,” NY Arts, Vol. 5 No. 1, January 2000.
Grace Glueck, “’The Likeness of Being’: Contemporary Self-Portraits by 60 Women,” The New York Times,
January 21, 2000.
Joel Silverstein, “Women Painters: Gender Identity and the Integration of Paint into Feminism,” Review, February 1, 2000.
“The Likeness of Being,” ARTnewspaper.com, Winter 2000.
Joyce B. Korotkin, “The Likeness of Being,” The New York Art World, February 2000.
Carol Diehl, “The Likeness of Being,” ARTnews, April 2000.
David Cohen, “Gallery – Goings,” Arts & Letters, The New York Sun, May 6, 2004.
Ken Johnson, “Is Sculpture Too Free for Its Own Good?,” The New York Times, May 7, 2004.
David Cohen, “Daisy Youngblood,” artcritical.com, Gallery Going, (A version first appeared in The New
York Sun, May 6, 2004), [web page]; http://www.artcritical.com/DavidCohen/SUN51.htm. [Accessed,
May 11, 2004].
Mario Naves, “Victim of Minimalism Triumphs With Bold Ceramic Sculpture,” The New York Observer,
May 17, 2004.
Ken Johnson, “Daisy Youngblood,” Galleries: 57th Street, Art Guide, The New York Times, May 14 & 21, 2004.
Jan Riley, “New York, Daisy Youngblood, McKee Gallery,” Sculpture, December 2004.
Justen Ladda, “The Nature of Nature,” Interview, New Ceramics, September/October 2007.
Garth Clark, “The Death of Craft,” CRAFTS, Janurary-Februrary 2009.