Joan Witek
Born in New York, NY, USA, 1943
Lived and worked in New York, NY, USA & Mexico
Died in Mexico, 2026
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2021Museum Wilhelm Morgner, Soest, Germany
2020Minus Space, Brooklyn, New York, USA
2015Deborah Berke Partners, New York, USA
2015Jason McCoy Gallery, New York, USA
2006Rice Paper Drawings, Atea Ring Gallery, Westport, New York, USA
2005Pentimenti, Philadelphia, PA, USA
2003Kouros Gallery, New York, USA
2003Bartha Contemporary, London, UK
2002Atea Ring Gallery, Westport, New York, USA
2001Black Translations, CDS Gallery, New York, USA
2000Black to Black, Bartha Contemporary, London, UK
2000New Paintings, Sean Scully studio, New York, USA
1997Wynn Kramarsky, New York, USA
1993Paintings and Drawings 1970's - 1990's, Kendall Campus Art Gallery, Miami Dade Com. College, Miami, Florida, USA
1988John Davis Gallery, New York, USA
1987John Davis Gallery, New York, USA
1985Rosa Esman Gallery, New York, USA
1984Rosa Esman Gallery, New York, USA
1984Paintings 1980-1983, Drawings 1976-1984, Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
1975Ames Gallery, New York, USA
1974Squareworks, Lowe Art Gallery, Hofstra University, New York, USA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023Selected works from the Sammlung Schroth, DRJ Art Projects, Berlin, Germany
2022Ninth Street and Beyond: 70 Years of Women in Abstraction, Hunter Dunbar Projects, New York, USA
2020Positive Negative: Joan Witek, Jonathan Ryan Storm, Seamus Heidenreich, Massey Klein Gallery, New York, USA
2018Crossroads: Carnegie Museum of Art's Collection, 1945 to Now, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
2018Judith Dolnick, Hermine Ford, Libby Hartle, Joan Witek, Salon Zürcher, Zürcher Gallery, New York, USA
2017Painting Black, Stiung Konzeptuelle Kunst, Soest, Germany
2016Band: Pat Badt, Bettina Blohm, Marthe Keller, Julie Shapiro, Kim Uchiyama and Joan Witek, The Painting Center, New York, NY
2016Black & White: Modern and Contemporary Positions: José de Cree, Joanne Dugan, Yvonne Estrada, Richard Fleischner, Oliver Gagliani, Yun Gee, Tara Geer, Judy Glantzman, Lorrie Goulet, Jacqueline Gourevitch, André Gregory, Peter Heywood, Virva Hinnemo, Marc Hom, Kenneth Josephson, Frederick Kiesler, Lee Krasner, Kathleen Kucka, Nick Lamia, Jungjin Lee, Christiane Löhr, Lisbeth McCoy, Robert Motherwell, Keiko Narahashi, Victoria Neel, George Negroponte, Jackson Pollock, Ryan Sawyer, Hunt Slonem, Bob Thompson, Joan Witek, Tamara Zahaykevich. Jason McCoy Gallery, New York, USA
2015Merton Simpson Gallery, New York, USA
2015Bushwick, Brooklyn, New York, USA
2015Beacon Gallery, Beacon, New York, USA
2015Bernard Jacobson Gallery, NY, USA
2015UBS Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2014Arbeiten auf Papier (Works on Paper), Bartha Contemporary, London, UK
2014Werner Klein Gallery at von Bartha Collection, Basel, Switzerland
2014Kunst im Bunker: Collection of Carl-Jurgen Schroth, Soest, Germany
2014Hermine Ford and Joan Witek, Outlet Fine Art, Bushwick, New York, USA
2014Group show, Gallerie Kim Behm, Frankfurt, Germany
2014Between a Place and Candy: New Works in Pattern and Repetition and Motif by 15 Artists, Matteawan Gallery, Beacon, New York, USA
2014Albright-Knox Museum, Buffalo, New York, USA
2014Galerie Kim Behm, Frankfurt, Germany
2014Arshile Gorky and a Selection of Contemporary Drawings, Outlet Gallery, Brooklyn, New York, USA
2014Works on Paper by Gallery Artist, Bartha Contemporary/ Werner Klein Gallery, von Bartha Collection, Basel, Switzerland
2013New Acquisitions V, Farben - Colours, Kunstmuseum Wilhelm-Morgner-Haus, Soest, Germany
2012Drawings and Prints from the Sammlung Schroth, Wilhelm-Morgner-Haus, Soest, Germany
2012Information, Sammlung Schroth, Kloster Wedinghausen, Arnsberg, Germany
2012New Work IV, Information, Sammlung Schroth, Kloster Wedinghausen, Arnsberg, Germany
2012New Acquisitions III, Light-Space, Sammlung Schroth, Soest, Germany
2012Zeichnungen und Drucke, Sammlung Schroth Museum, Wilhelm Morgner Haus, Soest, Germany
2011New Acquisitions III, Light – Space, Sammlung Schroth, Soest, Germany
2011Drawn/Taped/Burned: Abstraction on Paper, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, New York, USA
2010Black and White, Gallerie Weinberger, Copenhagen, Denmark
2009Permanent Collection exhibition, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, USA
2009Gallery Artists, Bartha Contemporary, London, UK
2009New York/New Drawings, 1946-2007(Nueva York El Papel de las Ultimas Vanguardias,) Museo de Arte Contemporaneo Esteban Vicente, Segovia, Spain
2008Bartha Contemporary, London, UK
2008Visible Places: Works on Paper by Women, San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, California, USA
2008Dimensions in Nature: New Acquisitions, 2006-2008, San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, California, USA
2008The Natalie & Irving Forman Collection of Works on Paper, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, USA
2007Permanent exhibition galleries, Metropolitan Museum, New York, USA
2007Back to the Future, Mead Art Museum, Amherst, Massachusetts, USA
2006Art Amsterdam Kunst Rai Fair, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2006Paper, Kouros Gallery, New York, USA
2005The Natalie & Irving Forman Collection, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, USA
2005Bartha Contemporary, London, UK
2004Black & White, Galerie von Bartha, Basel, Switzerland
2003Fine Lines, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, California, USA
2003IN TIME: Works by Six Contemporary Artists & Selected Chinese Works of Art. Ben Janssens Oriental Art, London, UK
2003Recent Acquisitions: Works on Paper, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
2003Exhibit of permanent collection, Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts, USA
2003Exhibition, Atea Ring Gallery, Westport, New York, USA
2002560 Broadway Space, New York, NY, USA Margins of Abstractions, Kouros Gallery, New York, USA
2002Enkaustikos, Wax As A Contemporary Medium, Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
2002Art on Paper Fair, Royal College of Art, Gallery Bartha Contemporary, London, UK
2002San Francisco International Art Exposition, San Francisco, California, USA
2002Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
2000Tresardi Foundation, Milan, Italy
1999Encaustic Works, Watermark/Cargo Gallery, The Gallery at R&F, Kingston, New York, USA
1999Die Kunst der Linie (The Art of the Line), Landesmuseum, Linz, Austria
1999Women And Geometric Abstraction, Pratt, Manhattan & Schafler Galleries, Brooklyn, New York, USA
1999Waxing Poetic: Encaustic Art in America, Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, New Jersey, USA
1999Workshop Artists, Garner Tullis, New York, USA
1999Planes of Color, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, Washington, USA
1998Garner Tullis: The Art of Collaboration, Associated Artists of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
1998Paintings from the Permanent Collection, Kendall Campus Art Gallery, Miami, Florida, USA
1997Drawing Is Another Kind of Language: Recent American Drawings from a New York Private Collection Harvard University Museums: Sackler Gallery, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
1997-01Exhibition travel to: Akademie der Bildenden Kunste, Vienna, Austria; Kunstmuseum, Winterthur, Switzerland; Kunst-Museum Ahlen, Germany; Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Germany; Fonds Regional d'Art Contemporain and Musee de Picardie, Amiens, France; Parrish Art Museum, East Hampton, New York, USA; Lyman Allyn Art Museum, New London, Connecticut, USA; Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA; The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii
1997Painted Black, Broad Center, New York Law School, New York, USA
1997The Whole World in a Small Painting, Trans-Hudson Gallery, New York, USA
1997World View, Rosenberg & Kaufman Fine Art, New York, USA
1997Aer the Fall: Aspects of Abstract Painting Since 1970, Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, Staten Island, New York, USA
1996Partners in Printmaking: Works from SOLO Impression, Nat'l Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington D.C, USA
1995Recent Acquisitions, Kendall Campus Art Gallery, Kendall, Florida, USA
1995Basic Marks: Black & White Painting, Stephen Rosenberg Gallery, New York, USA
1994Paintings & Drawings from the Permanent Collection, Kendall Campus Art Gallery, Miami, Florida, USA
1994Paper Under Pressure, Ackland Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
1993Maura Sheehan, Helen Cevern Gallery, New York, USA
1992Slow Art: Painting in New York Now, P.S. 1 Museum, New York, USA
1991Drawings, Pamela Auchincloss Gallery, New York, USA
1991Towards a New Museum: Recent Acquisitions in the Dept. of Painting and Sculpture, 1985-1991, SFMOMA, San Francisco, California, USA
1987Paintings, Pamela Auchincloss Gallery, Santa Barbara, California, USA
1986Gallery Artists, John Davis Gallery, New York, USA
Selected Public Collections
Ackland Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, USA
Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, Arkansas, USA
Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama, USA
Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine, USA
Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine, USA
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Kendall Campus Art Gallery, Miami-Dade Com. Col., Miami, Florida, USA
Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts, USA
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
MIT-List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Segovia, Spain
Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California, USA
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C, USA
National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington D.C, USA
San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, California, USA
Santa Barbara Museum, Santa Barbara, California, USA
University Art Museum, UCLA, Santa Barbara, California, USA
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Selected Bibliography
2011New Acquisitions III, Light – Space, Sammlung Schroth
2011Drawn/Taped/Burned: Abstraction on Paper, Katonah Museum
2009Eliz. Finch et al., New York/New Drawings 1946-2007, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo Esteban Vicente, Segovia
2009The Pollock-Krasner Foundation. Grantee Image Collection
2009Werner Kramarsky's New York drawing collection
2008560 Broadway: A New York Drawing Collection at Work, The Natalie & Irving Forman Collection of Works on Paper
2008Lilly Wei, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo
1991-06Amy Eshoo (ed.), Fih Floor Foundation, New Haven: Yale University Press
2006Cynthia Schira, Joan Witek at Atea Ring, Plattsburg: Press-Republican
2005The Natalie and Irving Forman Collection, Lilly Wei/ Louis Grachos, Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, New York, p. 148
2002Deidre Stein Greben, Margins of Abstraction, Kouros, Art News, November
2002Recent Acquisitions, A Selection: 2001-2002 Bulletin, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2002, p. 44
2002Robin Caudell, Atea Ring Gallery in Westport, Art for The Thoughtful, Press-Republication, July
2002R.B. Strauss, Ancient Medium Explored Again, Daily News, Philadelphia, 5/4/02
2001Grace Glueck, Joan Witek, The New York Times, 2/9
2001Lilly Wei, Joan Witek, CDS, Art News, June
2001The New Yorker, Art, Joan Witek, 2/19 & 2/26
2001Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Minimal-Concept. Symposium, Husum: Verlag der Kunst
2000Lilly Wei, Joan Witek New Paintings, privately published
2000Stephano Pasquini, Man Ray, Duchamp, Joan Witek and Others, NY Arts, March
1999The Art of the Line, Foreword by Peter Assmann Landesmuseum, Linz, Austria. pp 116-117 ill.
1999Holland Cotter, Out Of Town, Montclair Art Museum, New York Times, Gail Stavitsky, Waxing Poetic: Encaustic Art in America, Montclair Art Museum, NJ, cat. nos. 66 (ill.) & 67
1998David Carrier, Garner Tullis and the Art of Collaboration, Garner Tullis, Plate 155