Exhibitions

Selected Solo Shows

2006: James Pernotto: MEME, BIAA –Trumbull, Howland, Ohio
1995: The Fall, McDonough Museum of Art, Youngstown State University, Ohio.
1993: History Paintings, SPACES, Cleveland, Ohio. Curator, Susan Channing
1993: Chapel Perilous, The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio.
1990: Sunrise-Sunset, The Madison Arts Center, Wisconsin. Curator, Rene Barilleaux
1989: Stupid as a Painter, William Busta Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio
1986: Personal Odyssey, George Gund Gallery, Ohio Arts Council, Columbus, Curator, Susan de Pasqualle
1985: Entropy, SPACES, Cleveland, Ohio. Curator, Jane Farver
1983: Exterminator-Survivor, Nexus Gallery, Youngstown, Oh, Curator, Ed Leffingwell
1981: Walking the Line In Between Heaven and Hell, Barbara Fendrick Gallery, Washington, D.C.
1981: Love Hurts, The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio.
1980: Gone Wild, Barbara Fendrick Gallery, Washington, D.C.
1980: Jim Pernotto and Sam Gilliam, Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio.
1976: “Jim Pernotto”, The Madison Arts Center, Wisconsin.

Selected Group Exhibitions

2007,2005,2004: National Midyear Painting Exhibition, The Butler Institute of American Art, Ohio, invited
2003, 2000: Works on Paper, Jean Pettibone, The Armory, New York City
1999: Millennium Exhibition, The Alternative Museum, New York City, Curator, Gino Rodriguez
1998: Joe Wilfer Show: collaborations in paper, Plattsburgh Art Museum, State University of New York and the Elvehjem Museum at The University of Wisconsin-Madison.
1997: 4th Biennial Alumni Exhibition, Hopkins Hall Gallery, The Ohio State University
1996: Paper, Art & the Book, Center for Book Arts, New York City, Curator, Brian Hannon
1996: Grand Traditions, The Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, Mississippi.
1995: The Illustrated Book, Center for Book Arts, New York City, Curator, Brian Hannon
1989: Coming of Age: Twenty-One Years of Collecting, Madison Art Center
1988: The May Show, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio.
1987: New Directions from PS1, Kaufman Astoria Studios, Queens, New York, Curator, Allan Frumkin
1987: National and International Studio Artists at PS1, The Clocktower, New York City.
1986: New Talent, Perimeter Gallery, Chicago Illinois.
1984: Three Dimensional Paintings, Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio
1983: Ohio Selections III, The New Gallery now Cleveland Museum of Contemporary Art, Curator, Janus Small
1982: Renaissance Revisited, The Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, Pa. Curator, Anne Jarmush
1982: New Directions, Marianne Dezon Gallery, Chicago, Illinois.
1982: Dynamix, Cincinnati Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, Curators, Nina Felshin, Robert Stearn
1982: New Directions; The Commodities Corporation Art Collection, Fort Lauderdale Museum, Florida, Princeton University Museum, NJ, Curator, Prof. Sam Hunter
1981: American Cities, Barbara Fendrick Gallery, Washington, D.C.
1981: Five Decades: Alumni of Art, The Elvehjem Museum, The University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wi 1981: Fourth International Conference of Papermakers, Boston College, Mass.
1980: Large Works on Paper, Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York City.
1980: New Talent, Washington project for the Arts, Washington, D.C. Curator, Walter Hopps.
1980: Contradictions, Barbara Fendrick Gallery, Washington, D.C.
1980: Elements of Art - Texture, The Arlington Arts Center, Arlington, Virginia, Curator, David Tannous
1979: Handmade Paper, Florence Duhl Gallery, New York City
1979: Paper Works of the Seventies, Alice Simsar Gallery, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
1978: Wisconsin Biennale, The Madison Arts Center, Wisconsin.
1978: Large Works on Paper, Michael Lord Gallery, Milwaukee, Wisconson
1977: The Handmade Paper Object, Santa Barbara Museum; The Oakland Museum; The Boston Contemporary Museum; The Cornell University Museum; the Jacksonville Museum, Florida, Curator, Richard Kubiak
1977: Paper as Medium, The Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition, Curator, Jane Farmer
1976: North American Hand Papermaking, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Missouri Botanical Gardens Library, Center for Book Arts, New York, the Creative Arts Workshop in New Haven, and the Beersheva Visual Arts Center in Israel, Curator, Richard Minsky

Education

The Ohio State University, B.F.A. Cum Laude
University of Wisconsin, Madison, M.F.A., Henry Vilas Fellow

Fellowships/Awards

1994: The Arts Mid-West/ NEA Regional Visual Artists Fellowship, Painting
1993: Ohio Arts Council Visual Arts Fellowship, Painting
1987: OAC, The Institute of Art and Urban Resources, PS1 International Studio Program, New York

Selected Collections

Chicago Art Institute
The New York Public Library
The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio
The Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, WI
The Chasen Museum of Art, Madison, Wisconsin
The World Bank, Washington, DC
The Mississippi Museum of Art
The Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, Indiana
Sydney and Francis Lewis Collection, Virginia Museum of Art, Richmond, Virginia
The Commodities Corporation Art Collection, Princeton, NJ, purchased by Sam Hunter *Catalog
The Ponderosa Corporation Collection, Cincinnati, Ohio *Catalog
The Chemical Bank of New York
The Chase Manhattan Bank Art Collection
The Corrugated Container Corporation Collection, Cleveland, Ohio
Norwest Bank Collection, Minneapolis, Minnesota
The Chase Bank Art Collection, Cincinnati, Ohio
The Wriston Art Center, Lawrence University, Appleton, WI
Vista Foods Art Collection, Bronx, NY
Nanette Lepore Fashions Art Collection, NY
The Eiler Collection, Madison, WI
Belk Corporation Art Collection, Charlotte, NC




Selected Bibliography

2006: Marquis Who’s Who in America
2006: MEME, catalog with essays by John Noga, Rene Barilleaux and Louis Zona
2006: Northeast Ohio Times, PBS45/49 documentary with host Jody Miller
2006: Variations on a MEME, The Akron Beacon Journal by Dorothy Shinn
2006: Pernotto Exhibit at Butler Museum of Art, The Vindicator by L. Crow
1996: Visual Arts Fellowship Archive Project. National Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C.
1993: “Chapel Perilous”, Dialogue, an Art Journal, by Frank Polite
1990: “James Pernotto”, Art Muscle Magazine, by Gregory F.X. Conniff
1989: “Who’s Who in American Art”, Jacques Cattell Press
1988: “New York Art Review”, by Les Kranz, Macmillan Publishers
1986: “Odysseys”, Columbus Dispatch, by Jacqueline Hall
1986: “Play as Art”, Dialogue, an Art Journal, by Dr. Louis Zona
1984: “Exploding Color”, Dialogue, an Art Journal, by Carolyn Krauss
1983: “Realism Expressed as a Sign of the Times”, Cleveland Plain Dealer, by Helen Cullinan
1983: “Air Conditioned Imagery”, Dialogue, an Art Journal, by Geraldine Wojno Keifer
1982: “Pernotto at Fendrick”, Art in America, by David Tannous
1982: Handmade Paper Today, by Turner and Skiold
1982: “Exploding Art at C.A.C.”, Cincinnati Inquirer, by Owen Finsden
1981: “Steelyard Stories”, Washington Post, by Joann Lewis
1981: “Windows”, Washington Post Magazine, by Bob Arnebeck
1980: “Pernotto at Fendrick”, Washington Star, by Benjamin Forgey
1879: New York Times, by Grace Glueck
1978: Papermaking, by Jules Heller, Watson-Guptill Publishers
1978: “Paper Revolution”, Visual Dialogue Magazine, by Richard Kubiak
1977: “A Revolution in Paper”, American Artist Magazine
1975: Pulp and Paper Magazine, by Bruce Wineberg

Lectures and Workshops

Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh
Cleveland Institute of Art, Papermaking
Colorado State University, Ft. Colins, Chuck Close: Editions
Huntington Museum of Art, West Virginia, Chuck Close: Editions
Kent State University, Ohio, Experimental Approaches to Printmaking
Madison Arts Center, Wisconsin
McDonough Museum of Art, Ohio, Printmaking in the United States
Parsons School of Design at Lake Placid, Papermaking
Philadelphia College of Art, Prints & Paper
Southwest Louisiana State University Lafayette, Chuck Close: Editions
The Center for Book Arts, New York City, Illustrated Books
The Ohio State University, Pushing Paper
The Vern Rifee Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio, Separate Realities
Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia
University of Maryland, Papermaking
Manhattan Graphics Center, Drypoint and Engraving
National Arts Club, Gramercy Park, NYC, Fine Art Prints

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