Walton Ford

WALTON FORD Artist Bio

Born in Larchmont, New York, 1960
Lives and works in Great Barrington, MA

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2008
PAUL KASMIN GALLERY, New York, NY

2007
"Tigers of Wrath: Watercolors by Walton Ford"
NORTON MUSEUM OF ART, West Palm Beach, Florida (Summer 2007). SAN ANTONIO MUSEUM OF ART, San Antonio, Texas (Fall 2007-Winter 2008)

2006
"Tigers of Wrath: Watercolors by Walton Ford," BROOKLYN MUSEUM, Brooklyn, New York.
"Walton Ford: Works on Paper," John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, California.

2005
PAUL KASMIN GALLERY, New York.

2004
"Bitter Gulfs," PAUL KASMIN GALLERY at 511, New York.
NEW BRITAIN MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART, New Britain, Connecticut.
MICHAEL KOHN GALLERY, Los Angeles.

2002
PAUL KASMIN GALLERY, New York.

2000
PAUL KASMIN GALLERY, New York.
"Brutal Beauty," BOWDOIN COLLEGE MUSEUM OF ART, Maine.

1999
UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUM, CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, Long Beach, California.
KOHN-TURNER GALLERY, Los Angeles, California.

1998
PAUL KASMIN GALLERY, New York.
ASPEN ART MUSEUM, Aspen, Colorado.

1997
"Walton Ford," SOUTHEASTERN CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART, North Carolina.
PAUL KASMIN GALLERY, New York.

1993
"Procrustean Beds," NICOLE KLAGSBRUN GALLERY, New York, in collaboration with
MICHAEL KLEIN, INC., New York.
THE CONTEMPORARY ARTS CENTER, Cincinnati, Ohio.
VIRGINIA BEACH CENTER FOR THE ARTS, Virginia Beach, Virginia.

1991
BESS CUTLER GALLERY, Santa Monica, California.
BESS CUTLER GALLERY, New York.

1990
"The Blood Remembers," BESS CUTLER GALLERY, New York.

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2008
"Wunderkammer: A Century of Curiosities," MOMA, New York, NY

2006
"Going Ape: Confronting Animals in Contemporary Art," DeCORDOVA MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE PARK, Lincoln, MA.
"Rare Specimen," THE ARSENAL GALLERY, New York, NY.

2005
"Social Realisms," THE PARK SCHOOL, Brooklandville, MD.

2004
"For the Birds," ARTSPACE, New Haven, CT.
"Political Nature," THE WHITNEY MUSEUM, New York, NY.
"Natural Histories: Realism Revisited," SCOTTSDALE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART, Scottsdale, AZ.
"Animals & Us: The Animal in Contemporary Art," THE GALERIE ST. ETIENNE, New York.
"Birdspace: A Post-Audubon Artists Aviary," traveling exhibition, CONTEMPORARY ART CENTER, New Orleans; NORTON MUSEUM OF ART, West Palm Beach; THE HUDSON RIVER MUSEUM, Yonkers, NY; MCDONOUGH MUSEUM OF ART, Youngstown, OH; TUCSON MUSEUM OF ART, Tucson.

2003
"Creatures That Stir, Symbol & Satire in Animals of Imagination," PALO ALTO ART CENTER, California.
"The Great Drawing Show" MICHAEL KOHN GALLERY, Los Angeles.

2002
"One Thousand Words," JOHN MICHAEL KOHLER ARTS CENTER, Sheboygan, WI.
"Acquiring Taste," REAL ART WAYS, Hartford, CT.
"Resisting Categories: Prints," THE GALLERY OF SOUTH ORANGE, South Orange, NJ.
"Hot and New in 2002," KATONAH MUSEUM OF ART, Katonah, New York.

2001
"Natural Histories: Artists Forage in Science and Nature," SCHMIDT CENTER GALLERY,
FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY, Boca Raton, FL.

2000
"Deja Vu: Reworking the Past," KATONAH MUSEUM OF ART, Katonah, New York.

1999
"Collectors Gallery XXXIII," THE McNAY GALLERY, San Antonio, Texas.
"The Great Drawing Show 1550 - 1999" KOHN TURNER GALLERY, Los Angeles, CA.
"Summer Show: 1999," PAUL KASMIN GALLERY, New York.
"Armory Show," The ARMORY SHOW 1999, New York.

1998
"Wild Thing: Artists Views of the Animal World," JOHN BERGGRUEN GALLERY, San
Francisco, California.

1997
"Summer," PAUL KASMIN GALLERY, New York.
"Animal Tales: Contemporary Bestiary and Animal Painting," WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART AT CHAMPION, Connecticut.

1996
"Landscapes," PAUL KASMIN GALLERY, New York.
"Heroic Painting," S.E.C.C.A., curated by Susan Lubowsky, Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
"Classics Revisited," WINSTON WACHTER FINE ART, New York.

1995
"Next of Kin," LIST VISUAL ARTS CENTER, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
"A Vital Matrix," DOMESTIC SETTING, Los Angeles, California.
"Walton Ford, Jimmie Durham," HO GALLERY, Hong Kong.
"Americana," GRAND SALON, New York.

1994
"Ashley Bickerton, Jimmie Durham, Walton Ford, Jeff Wall," NICOLE KLAGSBRUN GALLERY,
New York.
"Points of Interest, Points of Departure," JOHN BERGGRUEN GALLERY, San Francisco, CA.
"American Landscape," MICHAEL KLEIN, INC., New York.
"History 101: The Re-Search for Family," curated by Mel Watkin. FORUM FOR CONTEMPORARY ART, St. Louis, Missouri.

1993
"Living with Art: the collection of Ellyn & Saul Dennison," THE MORRIS MUSEUM, Morristown, New Jersey.
"Kurswechsel," MICHAEL KLEIN, INC. at Transart Exhibitions, Cologne, Germany.

1992
"The Landscape as Stage," curated by Meyer Raphael Rubinstein, LOCKS GALLERY, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

1991
"Junge Americanische und Deutsche Malerei," GALERIE SCHULZE, Cologne, Germany.
"Artists Books from A to B: Contemporary Artists= Books," CENTER FOR ARTS BOOKS EXHIBITION, Harper Collins, New York.
"In the Looking Glass: Contemporary Narrative Paintings," MINT MUSEUM OF ART, Charlotte, North Carolina.
BESS CUTLER GALLERY, New York.

1990
"A Sense of Place," MONTGOMERY MUSEUM OF FINE ART, Montgomery, Alabama.
"Critical Revisions," curated by Lois Nesbitt, BESS CUTLER GALLERY, New York.
"Collectors= Choice of Emerging Artists - 1990," VERED GALLERY, East Hampton, New York.
"Brut 90," WHITE COLUMNS, New York.

1989
"American Pi(e)," BESS CUTLER GALLERY, New York.

1988
"Un Regard Autre," FARIDEH CADOT GALLERY, Paris, France.


SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

2008
George, Lynell "Animal Behavior" LA TIMES, March 16, 2008
Sand, Olivia "Walton Ford" ASIAN ART, April 2008
Cohen, David "Back to Basics" NY SUN, May 22, 2008
Colman, David "Jokes From The Family Album" NY TIMES, June 8, 2008
Panero, James "Gallery Chronicle" THE NEW CRITERION, June, 2008
Landi, Anne "Walton Ford's Not-so-Peaceable Kingdom" FINE ART CONNOISSEUR, June, 2008
"Brute Soul-Recent Paintings by Walton Ford" HARPERS BIZARRE, August 2008
Bryant, Eric "Walton Ford" ARTnews, October, 2008
Hirsch, Faye "King of the Beasts" ART IN AMERICA, October, 2008

2007
Wendt, William "Walton Ford", MEN'S JOURNALl, May 2007
Hawgood, Alex "Beastie Boy" NEW YORK TIMES, September 16, 2007
Garnier, Jean Michel "Walton Ford's Pancha Tantra" LA RESERVE, October 2007
Zeitz, Lisa "Dschungelbuch" ARCHITECTURAL DIGEST (Germany) October 30, 2007
"La Jungla Animada en Papel" EL PAIS.COM, October 9, 2007

2006
Rogovoy, Seth.. "The Natural." BERKSHIRE LIVING, November/December 2006
Genocchio, Benjamin. "Art In Review," NEW YORK TIMES, November 24, 2006
Froelich, Leopold. "Fordism," STOP SMILING, November 2006.
NEW YORKER, November 20, 2006
"Goings On About Town," THE NEW YORKER, November 13, 2006
Yablonsky, Linda. "Monstrous Infant, Fevered Elephant Embody Beauty in Brooklyn." BLOOMBERG.COM
Budick, Ariella. "Art That=s Larger than Life." NEWSDAY.COM, November 12, 2006
"If You Do One Thing..." TIME OUT NEW YORK, November 2-8, 2006
Finkelstein, Alix. "A Tiger Roars in Brooklyn," THE NEW YORK SUN, November 2, 2006
Sunday Arts and Leisure, NEW YORK TIMES, October 29, 2006
Sketchbook, THE NEW YORKER, August 28, 2006
Goodbody, Bridget, "The Redemption of History," ART ON PAPER, May/June 2006
Enright, Robert. "Misadventures Along the Nature Trail" BORDER CROSSINGS, March 2006

2005
Conley, Kevin. "Built Ford Tough," MEN'S VOGUE, Fall 2005
"Nature Without Nurture," THE NEW YORK SUN, June 25, 2005.
Grant, Annette. "America the Beautifully Absurd," THE NEW YORK TIMES, May 22.
Yanofsky, Anna. "Force of nature," TIMEOUT NEW YORK, May 19-25.
"A Naturalist Painter Evokes Legends of the Past." THE NEW YORK TIMES, January 10.
Color Reproduction, THE NEW YORK TIMES, December 16.
The Sydney and Walda Besthoff Collection, "New Art in an Old City/3", New Orleans: 2005.
Frazier, Ian. "Hog's Wild," THE NEW YORKER, Dec 12,2005.

2004
Marshall, Julia. "Metaphor in Art, Thought, and Learning," SEMIOTICS AND VISUAL CULTURE, SIGHTS, SIGNS, AND SIGNIFICANCE, 2004.
Marshall, Julia. "Articulates Images: Bringing the Pictures of Science and Natural History into the Art Curriculum," STUDIES IN ART EDUCATION: A JOURNAL OF ISSUES AND RESEARCH IN ART EDUCATION, 2004.
Highet, Alistair. "Animal Planet." PREVIEW CONNECTICUT, January.
Genocchio, Benjamin. "Not Only Watching,; Painting and Sculpting; Too," THE NEW YORK TIMES, February.
"Ford the Explorer," FORBES, FYI, Spring 2004.
Steingarten, Jeffrey. "To Kill a Woodcock," VOGUE, March. (Color Reproduction)
Color Reproduction. ART FORUM, May.
Color Reproduction. ART IN AMERICA, May.
"Where to Buy Walton Ford," MICHAEL KOHN GALLERY, May 28.
Haus, Mary. "Birds That Sing a Different Tune" ARTNEWS, June.
"Walton, Ford," THE NEW YORKER, June 14-21
"Walton Ford, Bitter Gulfs," TIME OUT NEW YORK, June 24 B July 1.
Cyphers Wright, Jeffrey. "Catch at Your Own Risk" OFFOFFOFF.COM, July.
Grosz, David. "Gallery-Going," THE NEW YORK SUN, Review, July 1.
Mar, Alex. "Paper Trail, The Drawings Collector Who=s Got the Art World Talking," NEW
YORK MAGAZINE, July 19.
Color Reproduction, VOGUE, October.
Erikson, Matthew. "Strong Statements Underlie Visual Vividness of Walton Ford," THE HARTFORD COURANT, November 30.
Color Reproduction, "Carl and Mary Siegel," ELLE DECOR, December 2004 - January 2005.

2003
"Walton Ford," ART:21, 2003.
Schwendener, Martha. ARTFORUM, Review, January.
Gilhooley, Derren, "Nature's Way," HARPER'S & QUEENS, color reproduction, January.
Gilmore, Jonathan. TEMA CELESTE, Review, January/February.
Color Reproduction, ARCHITECTURAL DIGEST, May.
Worthington, Nanci, "Walton Ford, Artist," THE ARTFUL MIND, June.
Color Reproduction, THE NEW YORKER, August 11.
Markey, Kevin. "First Encounters," ORION, November/ December.

2002
"Acquiring Taste," REAL ART WAYS, color reproduction, 2002.
"Survival of the Fittest," VIEWS, THE RHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN, Spring,.
Color Reproduction, NEW YORKER, January 14.
Color Reproduction, THE NEW YORKER, January 21.
"Walton Ford," ART ON PAPER, March-April.
McNally, Owen. "Teams Bring Embarrassment Of Riches to RAW," THE HARTFORD COURANT,
March 31.
Rosoff, Patricia. "Acquired Tastes?,:" THE HARTFORD ADVOCATE, April 4.
"One Thousand Words," exhibition summary listed in mailing by JOHN MICHAEL KOHLER ARTS CENTER.
"One Thousand Words," exhibition summary listed in mailing by JOHN MICHAEL KOHLER ARTS CENTER (includes Ford image).
"One Thousand Words= focuses on Arts Centers theme of storytelling," SHEBOYGAN PRESS, June 2.
"Once Upon a Time' Event to Kick of Summer of Storytelling Programs," SHEBOYGAN PRESS, June 16.
Holmes, Steven. "Acquiring Taste." REAL ART CENTER. Exhibition catalogue.
Slouka, Mark. "A Year Later, Notes on America=s Intimations of Mortality,"
Color Reproduction, HARPER'S MAGAZINE, September.
Listing and Color Reproduction, NEW YORK MAGAZINE, September 9.
Katz, Steven. "Walton Ford: Tigers of Wrath, Horses of Instruction," NEWS FROM ABRAMS, October.
"Walton Ford," ART IN AMERICA, October 22.
Jacobson, Mark. "Nature Boy," NEW YORK MAGAZINE, October 21.
"Walton Ford," THE NEW YORKER, October 29.
"Walton Ford," THE NEW YORK SUN, October 22.
Gleuck, Grace. THE NEW YORK TIMES, November 8.

2001
Leffingwell, Edward. Review, ART IN AMERICA, January.
Long, Andrew. "Man and Beasts," DEPARTURES, March/April.
Color Reproduction, NEW YORKER, October 8.
"FAU exhibit to present contemporary views of science, environment," SUN-SENTINEL, Novemeber 5.
Schudel, Matt. "Natural Selections," SUN-SENTINEL, November 18.

2000
Arning, Bill. "Walton Ford's Non-Fiction Fiction," BRUTAL BEAUTY, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, 2000.
Franklin Burroughs. "Visions and Revisions," BRUTAL BEAUTY, Bowdoin College Museum of
Art, 2000.
Linton, Meg, "Avatars, the Watercolors of Walton Ford," 2000.
Kazanjian, Dodie. "The Elephant Man," VOGUE, May.
Newhall, Edith. "King of the Beasts," NEW YORK MAGAZINE, May 15.
Vincent, Steven. "Kasmin Shows Walton Ford," ART AND AUCTION, May 15. Illustration, THE NEW YORKER, May 22.
Scobie, Ilka. "Mimesis for the New Millennium," ARTNET.COM, May 24.
Johnson, Ken. "Art in Review," NEW YORK TIMES, May 26.
Varadajan, Tunku. "Allegory on the Nila," FINANCIAL TIMES, May 27.
Color Reproduction, TOWN & COUNTRY, June.
Pedersen, Victoria. "Gallery Go'Round," PAPER MAGAZINE, June.
Johnson, Ken. "Art Guide," NEW YORK TIMES, June 2.
"In Principio Fu L'elefante," AMICA, June 7.
THE NEW YORKER, June 19 & 26.
Dagnini Brey, Ilaria. "memoria d'elefante," ITALIAN ELLE, August.
Gillett, Michele. "The Big Picture," BERKSHIRES WEEK, September 14.
"Brutal Beauty...Artist Walton Ford Exhibits His Largest Collection of Paintings." THE
COASTAL JOURNAL, September 28.
"Bowdoin exhibition puts focus on Ford's bird paintings of '90," WEEKLY ENTERTAINMENT PLANNER, September 28.
Sims, Pat. Inverted Audubon, CASCO BAY WEEKLY, September 28.
East, Ashley. "Brutal Beauty: Where the wild things are," THE BOWDOIN ORIENT, September
29.
Hayt, Elizabeth. "Nature Painting That Looks Unnatural," NEW YORK TIMES, October 15.
Temin, Christine. "Ford's 'Brutal' birds land at the Bowdoin Museum," THE BOSTON GLOBE,
October 25.
Schweitzer, Bibi. "Walton Ford Joins the Ranks," THE GLOBE, October 26.
Isaacson, Philip. "Ford's paintings embrace Audubon - but with a twist," MAINE SUNDAY
TELEGRAM, November 19.

1999
"Avators: The Watercolors of Walton Ford," Exhibition catalogue, UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUM, California State University, Long Beach, 1999.
Kaylan, Melik. "The Natural," TOWN & COUNTRY, January.
Preview "Walton Ford at University Art Museum, California State University," ART NOW GALLERY GUIDE, January .
Ollman, Leah. "A Philosophical Take on Zoology in Walton Ford's Wry Paintings," Art Review,
LOS ANGELES TIMES, March 5.
M.B.. "People are talking about taking flight," VOGUE, April.
Hirsch, Faye. "Working Proof," ART ON PAPER, Vol.3, No. 5, May - June.
Linton, Meg. "Inside the Watercolor World of Walton Ford," JUXTAPOZ, May/June.
Cheever, Susan. "Country House Art Gallery," Jackie & Irving Blum's interior view, ARCHITECTURAL DIGEST, July.
Kazanjian, Dodie. "Animal Magnetism," VOGUE, July.
"Hunting & Gathering: the Luxury List," HOUSE & GARDEN, September.
"Birds in the Hand," ARTnews, October.

1998
Safrani, Shehbaz H., MARQ MAGAZINE, March.
Tully, James. REVIEW, May 1.
Review of Exhibition, THE NEW YORKER, May 11.
Illustration, THE NEW YORKER, November 9.
Gomez, Edward. "Past Is Present", ART & ANTIQUES, December.
Miller, Jamie. "The Critical Nature of Ford," ASPEN MAGAZINE, Midwinter. MUSEUM NEWS, THE ASPEN ART MUSEUM, Winter.

1997
Review of exhibition, THE DAILY NEWS, April 26.
Falkenstein, Michelle. "Shiva's Pets," NEW YORK PRESS, April 28.
Review of exhibition, THE NEW YORKER, April 28- May 5.
Review of exhibition, THE VILLAGE VOICE, April 29.
Schjeldahl, Peter. Review of exhibition, THE VILLAGE VOICE, April 30-May 6.
Wakefield, Neville. "Walton Ford," ELLE DECOR, June/July.
Eugenides, Jeffrey. "Walton Ford," BOMB, Fall.
Frankel, David. Review, ARTFORUM, October.
Rubinstein, Raphael. "Walton Ford at Paul Kasmin," ART IN AMERICA, December.

1996
Schjeldahl, Peter. "Heroism Addiction", "Heroic Painting", exhibition catalogue, Southeastern
Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
Kimmelman, Michael. "History Painting: Yes, Those Enormous Canvases", THE NEW YORK
TIMES, August 30.
Review of exhibition, ART & ANTIQUES, December.

1994
Sangster, Gary, essay from exhibition catalogue, "Rooms," Morris Museum Watkins, Mel and Lucy Lippard. "History 101: The Re-Search for Family," essay from exhibition catalogue, Forum for Contemporary Art.
Duffy, Robert W., Review of exhibition, ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH, January 30.
Cameron, Dan. "Ode to Discernment," FRIEZE, January/February, pp36-40.
Ziolkowski, Thad. "Walton Ford," ARTFORUM, February.
Bayliss, Sarah. "Walton Ford at Nicole Klagsbrun," ART IN AMERICA, May.
Rubinstein, Meyer Raphael. "Walton Ford," ARTNEWS, February and ARTNEWS, Japanese Edition Vol. 1, No. 3, May.
Hakanson Colby, Joy. Review of exhibition, THE DETROIT NEWS, August 11.

1993
Rubinstein, Meyer Raphael. Essay from ex. cat., "The Killing Fields," The Contemporary Art
Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1993.
Rubenstein, Meyer Raphael. "Landscape as Stage," Locks Gallery exhibition pamphlet, 1993.
Wilette, Jean and Mark Leach. Exhibition catalogue, "In the Looking Glass: Contemporary Narrative Painting," Mint Museum of Art, 1993.
Durham, Jimmie. "To be a Pilgrim: Walton Ford," ARTFORUM, January.
Annas, Teresa. "The Two Faces of John James Audubon," THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT, October 11.
Watkins, Eileen. review of exhibition, THE SUNDAY STAR-LEDGER, November 7.

1992
Durham, Jimmie. "To Be a Pilgrim: Walton Ford," ARTFORUM, January.
Levin, Kim, "Choices," THE VILLAGE VOICE, November 9.

1991
Levin, Kim. "Choices," THE VILLAGE VOICE, February 19.
Downe, Edward. "The Top 100 Collectors," ART & ANTIQUES, March.
Maschal, Richard. "Through the Looking Glass," THE CHARLOTTE OBSERVER, July 21.
Redd, Chris. "In the Looking Glass," ART PAPERS, September/October.

1990
Cutler, Bess. "Priorities," 7 DAYS, March 14.
Review of Exhibition, THE NEW YORKER, April 30.
Liu, Catherine. Review of exhibition, ARTFORUM, May.
Mahoney, Robert. Review of exhibition, ARTS, May.
Gilbert, Elizabeth. "Galleries," DOWNTOWN EXPRESS, September 3.

1988
Spector, Nancy. "The Other Man: Alternative Views of Masculinity, The New Museum,"
ARTSCRIBE, January/February.

1987
Raynor, Vivien. "Art: Two Kinds of Pop, Fakery, and Masculinity," THE NEW YORK TIMES,
June 12.
"Un Regard Autre (Group Show) at Farideh Cadot Gallery," DOWNTOWN, October .
Braff, Phyllis. THE NEW YORK TIMES, November 29.

1985
Peterson, Roger Tory. "John Jay Audubon: Predator," March 10.

DOCUMENTARIES

2003
art: 21: Art in the Twenty-First Century, Season Two, PBS

EDUCATION

1982
BFA, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island.
European Honors Program, Rhode Island School of Design, Rome, Italy.

AWARDS

1992 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, Fellowship.
1991 National Endowment for the Arts, Fellowship.
1990 Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation, Grant.
1989 New York Foundation for the Arts, Fellowship. The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Grant.
1988 Art Matters, Inc., Fellowship. The Penny McCall Foundation, Grant.

PUBLIC COLLECTION

DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach.
New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT
Spencer Museum of Art, Kansas
Princeton Art Museum, Princeton, NJ
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Bowdoin College Museum of Art, ME
Alturas Foundation, MA
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT

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