John Ahearn

Binghampton, New York, 1951 -

BiographyLives and works in New York1973 B.F.A. Cornell University, Ithaca NYOne-Person Exhibitions2001 Pan Chiao, Alexander and Bonin, New York2000 Sculpture from East 100th Street, part II,Alexander and Bonin, New York1998Sculpture from East 100th Street, Alexander and Bonin, New York1995John Ahearn, A Decade of Figurative Sculpture, University Art Gallery, University of California, San Diego1993Sculpture by John Ahearn and Rigoberto Torres: The South Bronx Hall of Fame and Other Realities, Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery of Reed College, Portland, OR and travelling to the Arizona State University Art Museum, TempeFriends and Neighbors: The Art of John Ahearn and Rigoberto Torres, The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD and travelling to the Lehman College Art Gallery, City University of New York, Bronx, NY1992John Ahearn and Rigoberto Torres: Face to Face, Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, DCMakiki-Kalihi-Manoa, Life Casting in Honolulu, The Honolulu Advertiser Gallery1991South Bronx Hall of Fame, Sculpture by John Ahearn and Rigoberto Torres, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston; Witte de With, Rotterdam; The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati; The Contemporary Museum, HonoluluJohn Ahearn, Sculpture 1988-1991, Brooke Alexander, New York1990John Ahearn, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO1988John Ahearn, Brooke Alexander, New York1986John Ahearn with Rigoberto Torres, Brooke Alexander, New York1985John Ahearn and Rigoberto Torres: Portraits from the Bronx: Life Casts from 1979 to Present, The Bronx Museum of Art, NY, Community GalleryInvestigations 12: John Ahearn with Rigoberto Torres: Sculpture, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia1984John Ahearn and Rigoberto Torres, Brooke Alexander, New York1983John Ahearn with Rigoberto Torres: Recent Sculpture from Dawson Street, Brooke Alexander, New York1982John Ahearn, Galerie Rudolf Zwirner, Cologne, Germany1979South Bronx Hall of Fame, Fashion Moda, moved to the Con Edison Building, Bronx, NY, Bronx Museum Satellite GallerySelected Bibliography: MonographsKramer, Janet. Whose Art is It? Durham & London: Duke University Press/Public Planet Books, 1994Goldstein, Richard, Michael Ventura and Marilyn A. Zeitlin. South Bronx Hall of Fame: John Ahearn/Rigoberto Torres. Houston: Contemporary Arts Museum, 1991Selected Bibliography: Reviews and articles2000Glueck, Grace. "John Ahearn: Sculpture From East 100th Street, Part II." The New York Times (July 7, 2000): E311998Taplin, Robert. "John Ahearn at Alexander and Bonin." Art in America 86, no. 11 (November 1998): 124-251994Heartney, Eleanor. "South Bronx Portraits." Art in America (January 1994): 37-391993"Forty-Second Street Art Project." New Yorker (September 20, 1993): 291992Kuspit, Donald. "John Ahearn/ Rigoberto Torres." Artforum (January 1992): 1101991Barnett, Catherine. "The Sculptor's `Models Are the Stars'." New York Newsday (March 6, 1991): 99-1001989Morgan, Robert C. "John Ahearn." Arts (February 1989): 99-1001988Hess, Elizabeth. "Working the Street." Village Voice (November 29, 1988)1987Smith, Paul. "John Ahearn with Rigoberto Torres at Brooke Alexander." Art in America (February 1987): 1531986Brenson, Michael. "John Ahearn." The New York Times (November 7, 1986)Larson, Kay. "Body and Soul." New York (February 10, 1986): 721984Wolff, Theodore F. "The Home Forum: Neighbors as Art." The Christian Science Monitor (September 13, 1984): 471983Glueck, Grace. "John Ahearn and Rigoberto Torres." The New York Times (July 1, 1983)1982de Ak, Edit. "John Ahearn, 'We Are Family' 877 Intervale Avenue, The Bronx." Artforum (November 1982)1980Goldstein, Richard. "First Radical Art Show." Village Voice XXV, no. 24 (June 16, 1980): 1, 31-32Robinson, Walter. "John Ahearn at Fashion Moda." Art in America (January 1980): 108Selected Public CollectionsBaltimore Museum of ArtMuseum of Fine Arts, BostonBrooklyn Museum of Art, NYAustralian National Gallery, CanberraArt Institute of ChicagoMuseum of Contemporary Art, ChicagoContemporary Arts Center, CincinnatiMuseum Ludwig, CologneDallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TXGreenville County Art Museum, SCMuseum of Contemporary Art, Iowa CityHerbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NYBucknell University, Lewisburg, PAEli Broad Family Foundation, Los AngelesMuseum of Contemporary Art, Los AngelesMilwaukee Art MuseumThe Newark Museum, NJCity College of New YorkMetropolitan Museum of Art, New YorkStudio Museum in Harlem, New YorkCarnegie Museum of Art, PittsburghWitte de With, RotterdamSt. Louis Art MuseumArizona State University, TempeThe Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC John Ahearn's exhibitions at Alexander and BoninNovember 30, 2001 - January 12, 2002: Pan ChiaoJune 3 - July 28, 2000: Sculpture from East 100th Street, part IISeptember 12 - October 24, 1998: Sculpture from East 100th Street

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