Biography:
A major figure in what has been called both new expressionism and the figurative expressionism movement, Richard Bosman's arresting images are often enigmatic and disturbing. He utilizes a single-frame, stop-action technique derived from both film and the comic strip. Many of Bosman's paintings and prints capture and freeze moments of fear and catastrophe. Rough, imperfect compositions and vivid textures give underlying emotional content both to his narrative and his more calm seascape subjects. Like his paintings, his prints are often drawn from popular sources such as comic books and and adventure novels, and present scenes from remembered or imagined stories. The images seem familiar and allow viewers to recognize just how much they have become part of modern life. Though these works present recognizable images, they are not particularly realistic, preferring to exaggerate for emphasis and to draw attention to their fictiveness. Rather than slices of life, they are life served up as a dessert or an appetizer.
In addition to the Elvehjem Museum, Bosman's works have been shown at the 1988 Venice Biennale, The Museum of Modern Art (NY), the Metropolitan Museum of Art (NY), The Walker Art Center (Minneapolois), The Toledo Museum of Art, the University of Maine Museum, the Brooklyn Museum, Vassar College (Poughkeepsie, NY), the University of Connecticut, Storrs, the Fairfield University Gallery (Fairfield, CT), the Rhode Island School of Design Print Gallery (Providence), the Mandeville Gallery, University of California, San Diego, the University of Michigan Museum of Art (Ann Arbor), Weber State College (Ogdon, UT), Washington University, St. Louis; University of Kansas, Lawrence, Tulane University (New Orleans), the Columbus Museum (Columbus, GA), The University of Illinois, Chicago, the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Neuberger Museum, Purchase, NY and the Fort Wayne Art Museum (Indiana); his works have also been shown in galleries in NY, San Francisco, London, Milan, Munich, Valencia, Madrid, Osaka, and Tokyo. His works are in the permanent collections of, among others, the Albright-Knox Gallery, the Bibliothèque Nationale (Paris), the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Metropolitan Museum of Art (NY), the Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles), The Museum of Modern Art (NY), the Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Walker Art Center, the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Elvehjem Museum (Madison).
Bibliography: Andrew Stevens, Prints of Richard Bosman: 1978-1988 (Madison: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 1989).
Résumé:
SELECTED ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2007 “Rough Terrain”, Elizabeth Harris Gallery , New York , NY
2005 "New Paintings", Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, MA
2004 "Richard Bosman", Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York, NY
2004 "Richard Bosman", Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2003 "Richard Bosman", Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York, NY
2003 "Just Below the Surface: Current and Early Relief Prints", Solo Impression Inc, New York, NY
1996 "Prints by Richard Bosman From the Collection of Wilson Nolen, The Century Association, New York, NY
1995 "Prints by Richard Bosman", Quartet Editions, Chicago, IL
1994 "Richard Bosman: Fragments", Brooke Alexander Gallery, New York, NY
1993 "Richard Bosman: Nocturnes; New Paintings", Thimmesh Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
1992 "Richard Bosman", Galleria Toselli, Milan
1991 "Richard Bosman", Brooke Alexander Gallery, New York, NY
1991 "Richard Bosman, Holzshnitte und Radierungen 1980-1989", Galerie Biedermann, Munich
1990 "Richard Bosman", Galeria La Maquina Espanola, Madrid
1990 "Richard Bosman: Recent Paintings", John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1989 "Richard Bosman", The Contemporary Art Gallery, Seibu, Tokyo and Osaka
1989 "Richard Bosman", Brooke Alexander, New York, NY
1989 "Richard Bosman, Gifts of the Sea", Mandeville Gallery, University of California, San Diego
1989 "Richard Bosman Prints 1978-1988", Elvehjem Museum of Art, Univ. of WI-Madison
1988 Galerie Lucien Bilinelli, Brussels
1988 Asher/Faure, Los Angeles, CA
1988 Galeria Temple, Valencia, Spain
1987 Brooke Alexander Gallery, New York, NY
1987 Sala Parpallo, Valencia Spain
1987 Dart Gallery, Chicago, IL
1986 John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1986 Brooke Alexander Gallery, New York, NY
1986 Galeria Toselli, Milan
1985 Asher/Faure Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1985 "Richard Bosman Prints", Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH
1985 "Richard Bosman Prints", Blond Fine Art, London
1984 "Shipwreck: A Narrative", Brooke Alexander, New York, NY
1984 Dart Gallery, Chicago, IL
1984 Brooke Alexander Gallery, New York, NY
1983 The Mayor Gallery, London
1983 Reconnaissance, Melbourne
1983 Brooke Alexander Gallery, New York, NY
1982 "Focus: Richard Bosman", The Fort Worth Art Museum, Ft. Worth, TX
1982 Brooke Alexander Gallery, New York, NY
1982 Dart Gallery, Chicago, IL
1981 Brooke Alexander, New York, NY
1980 Brooke Alexander, New York, NY
TWO PERSON EXHIBITION
1996 "Close to the Surface - The Expressionist Prints of Eduard Munch and Richard Bosman", The Columbus Museum, Columbus, GA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2004 "Contemporary Painting: Curated by Alex Katz", Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME
2004 "Nature", Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2002 "Solo Impression", Print Publisher's Spotlight, Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA
2002 "The Sea, the Sea....", Art Upstairs @ GHB, East Hampton, NY
2001 "Hidden Identity", Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York, NY
2000 "The Figure, Another Side of Modernism", curated by Lily Wei, Snugharbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, NY
1998 "Beyond the Mountain, Contemporary Landscapes", curated by Michael Klein
1996 "Thinking Print: Books to Billboards", The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
1994 Brooke Alexander, New York, NY
1994 Hartman and Company, La Jolla, CA
1993 "Animals", curated by Molly Barnes and James Knowles, The Roger Smith Hotel, New York, NY
1993 "Sea Fever", Transamerica Pyramid Lobby, San Francisco, CA
1993 "Sculpture and Multiples", Brooke Alexander, New York, NY
1991 American Academy of Arts & Letters Purchase Exhibition, New York, NY
1990 "Images of Death in Contemporary Art", Patrick & Beatrice Haggerty Museum of Art, Milwaukee, WI
1989 "Richard Bosman, Barbara Ess, Mark Tansey, Michael Zwack", Galeria La Macquina Espanola, Madrid
1989 "First Impressions", Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, traveled to the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Neuberger Museum, Purchase, NY
1988 "Works on Paper", Curt Marcus Gallery, New York, NY
1988 "Prints in Parts", Crown Point Press, New York, NY
1987 "Sammlung Thomas: Kunst aus den achtziger Jahren", A Art 11 Forum Thomas, Munich
1986 "Selected Works from MOCA's Lowen Collection", Mandeville Gallery, University of California, San Diego, CA
1986 "Public & Private: American Prints Today", The Brooklyn Museum
1986 "Donald Baechler, Richard Bosman, Donald Lipski", Galerie Montenay-Delsol, Paris
1986 "Painting & Sculpture Today, 1986", Indianapolis Museum of Art
1986 "Face It", Anders Tornberg gallery, Lund, Sweden
1985 "State of War", Seattle Art Museum
1984 "Narrative Art", Museo Tamayo, Mexico City
1984 "International Survey of Contemporary Painting and Sculpture", The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
1984 "New Narrative Painting, Selections from the Metropolitan Museum of Art"
1984 "Paradise Lost/Paradise Regained, American Visions of the New Decade", Venice Bienale
1984 "The Human Condition", San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Biennial III, San Francisco
1984 "American Neo-Expressionism", Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT
1984"Images & Impressions", Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
1984"Pressures of the Hand, Expressionist Impulses in Recent America Art", Brainerd Art Gallery, State University of Arts and Science, Potsdam, NY
1983 "The End of the World, Contemporary Visions of the Apocalypse", The New Museum of contemporary Art, New York, NY
1983 "Back to the USA" Kunstmuseum, Luzern
1983 "New York Painting Today", Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh
1983 "Turbulences", American Center, Paris
1983 "The American Artist as Printmaker: 23rd National Exhibit", The Brooklyn Museum
1983 "Prints from Blocks, Gauguin to Now", Museum of Modern Art, New York
1983 "New York I Dag-Arbejder Pa Papir", Nordjyllands Kunstmuseum, Aalborg, Sweden
1982 "Body Language", Hayden Gallery, M.I.T., Cambridge, MA
1982 "New York Now", Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hanover, Germany
1982 "The Image Scavengers", Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
1982 "New Figuration in America", Milwaukee Art Museum
1982 "Painting and Sculpture Today, 1982", Indianapolis Museum of Art
1982 "74th American Exhibition", Art Institute of Chicago
1982 "Projects: Artist's Books", Museum of Modern Art, New York
1982 "Block Prints", The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
1982 "Awards in the Visual Arts 1", National Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C.; traveled to Des Moines Art Center; Denver Art Museum
1982 "Focus on the Figure: 20 Years", The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
1981 "22nd National Print Exhibition", The Brooklyn Museum, NY
1981 "Real Life Magazine Presents", Nigel Greenwood, Inc., London
1981 "Represent, Representation, Representative", Brooke Alexander, New York
1980
"Illustration & Allegory", Brooke Alexander, New York
1980 "The Times Square Show", Times Square, New York
PUBLICATIONS
1987 The Captivity Narrative of Hannah Duston, Related by Cotton Mather, John Greenleaf Whitter, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Henry David Thoreau, Woodcuts by Richard Bosman, published by The Arion Press, San Francisco
1985 Grasping at Emptiness, Poems by John Giorno, Drawings by Richard Bosman, published by the Kulchur Fondation, New York
1982 Exit the Face, Poems by Ted Greenwald, Drawings by Richard Bosman, Published by the Museum of Modern Art, New York
AWARDS
1994 Guggenheim Fellowship
1981 Awards in the Visual Arts
EDUCATION
1964-1969 The Bryam Shaw School of Painting and Drawing, London
1969-1971 The New York Studio School, New York
1970 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Australian National Gallery, Canberra, Australia
Baltimore Museum of Art
Bibliotheque National, Paris
Eli Broad Family Foundation, Los Angeles
The Brooklyn Museum
Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA
Colby College, Waterville, ME
The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu
Des Moines Arts Center
Detroit Institute of Art
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Huntington Art Gallery, University of Texas
Indianapolis Museum of Art
IV AM, Valencia, Spain
Lannan Foundation, Los Angeles
Library of Congress, Washington D.C.
Memphis Brooks Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Milwaukee Art Museum
Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Museo Tamayo, Mexico City
Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Museum of Modern Art, New York
National Museum of American Art, Washington, DC
New York Public Library, New York
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
Renaissance Society, Chicago
Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, NC
Wesleyan University, Division Art Center, Middletown, CT
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven
