RICHARD BLOES
Born in Waterloo, Iowa, in 1951
Lives in Lake Carmel, New York
Education
1977 University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa; MFA
1976 University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa; MA
1973 University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa; BFA
One-Person Exhibitions
2016 “Metro Card Merry-Go-Round +3, We All Fall Down”, Envoy Enterprises, New York
2013 “Reading Chair For Don Quixote Reading”, Feature, New York
2005 “Chair Back,” Feature Inc., New York
2002 Feature Inc., New York
2000 Feature Inc., New York
1997 “Sound of the chair we thought we used,” Feature Inc., New York
1995 Feature Inc., New York
1993 “Traveler,” Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH
1990 “Time Spans,” East End Art Center, Riverhead, NY
“Time Spans,” Feature, New York
“Meet the Makers: Richard Bloes,” New York Public Library, Donnell Media Center, New York; presentation
1989 “Dissolved Light,” American Museum of the Moving Image, Astoria, NY
1987 Port Washington Public Library, Port Washington, NY
1984 “Land Slide,” P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY
Selected Group Exhibitions
2015 “Tonal Vision”, White Box Art Center, New York
“Can You Move It All Up One Inch”, Arthelix, Brooklyn
2013-14 Nov.-Jan., “Anti-Academy”, John Hansard Gallery, University of Southampton
Highfield, Southampton, England
2013 “Richard Bloes and Jennifer Sirey,” Feature Inc.
2010 “Skulture,” Feature Inc., New York
2009 “State of the Union: Contemporary Craft in Dialogue,” Philadelphia Art Alliance
2009 Summer show, Feature Inc., New York
2006 “Engaging Technology: A History and Future of Intermedia,” Ball State University Museum of Art, Muncie, IN
“The Chair, Reconsidered,” Sun Valley Center for the Arts, Sun Valley, ID
“GADGET: Mechanics and Motion in Contemporary Art,” Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH
“Review: vidéos et films de la collection Pierre Huber,” Le Magasin Centre Nationale d’Art Contemporain de Grenoble, Grenoble, France
2001 “Intermedia,” Cincinnati Art Galleries, Cincinnati, OH
“White Light,” University Galleries, Illinois State University, Normal IL; Herron Gallery, Herron School of Art, Indianapolis IN
1998 “Pudding,” Feature Inc., New York
1997 Chicago Art Expo, installation May 9–12
1996 “Sculpture Incorporating Photography: Richard Bloes, Rachel Harrison, David Moreno,” Feature Inc., New York
1993 “Video Installations,” Sculpture Center, New York (catalog: text by Laura J. Hoptman)
“Let the great constellation of flickering ashes be heard.,” Feature, New York
1992 “Things That Go Bump in the Night,” PBCC Museum, Palm Beach, FL
“Performance, Video & Film,” Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York
1991 “3rd Emerging Expression Biennial,” Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY
1990 Berlin Film Festival, Berlin, Germany
1989 “Techno/logical Imagination,” Intermedia Arts, Minneapolis, MN
Interactivity Festival, Madison Art Center, Madison, WI
3rd Image Forum Experimental Festival, Tokyo & Osaka
1988 22nd Annual NY Film and Video Exposition, New York
University of Iowa, Colloquim & Workshop, Iowa City, IA
1987 Three Rivers Arts Festival, Pittsburgh, PA
21st Annual NY Film and Video Exposition, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
1986 World Wide Video Festival, Den Haag, the Netherlands
“NYC Museum Employees Show,” sponsored by PASTA
“New York Foundation Video Fellows,” New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
1985 The Kitchen, New York
“Grand Video,” Art Music, New York
19th Annual NY Film and Video Exposition, New York
1984 “So There, Orwell 1984,” New Orleans World’s Fair, New Orleans, LA; Laforet Museum, Tokyo (1985)
“Abstract and Processed Tapes,” P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY
“Four Videotapes,” New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
1983 6th Tokyo Video Festival, Special Distinction Award, Tokyo
9th Annual Ithaca Video Festival, Ithaca, NY
1981 Anthology Film Archives, New York
1980 Anthology Film Archives, New York
1977 The Kitchen, New York
1976 Film Forum, New York
Ann Arbor Film Festival, Ann Arbor, MI
Selected Bibliography
2006 Andrews, Betsy. Review, Idaho Mountain Express, 14 June
2005 Johnson, Ken. Review, New York Times, 10 June, E44
1997 Chavoya, C. Ondine. Notes for Chicago Art Expo, May
Taubin, Amy. Village Voice, Choices, 13 May, 8
1995 Taubin, Amy. Village Voice, Choices, 30 May, 3
1993 Reisman, David. Tema Celeste, Spring, 90
Taubin, Amy. Village Voice, Choices, 2 February, 68
1990 Adams, Brooks. Art in Amercia, November, 202
Reisman, David. Artscribe, November/December, 85
Harrison, Helen A., New York Times, Long Island section, 29 July
Taubin, Amy. Village Voice, Choices, 25 May, 100
Goings On About Town, New Yorker, 4 June, 18
1989 Fuyka, Tetsuo. “Manhattan Videoscape, Richard Bloes,” Esquire, Japanese edition, October, 172– 173
Taubin, Amy. Village Voice, Choices, 4 July, 54
1984 Wooster, Ann-Sargent. “Electronic Sunshine,” East Village Eye, April
Wooster, Ann-Sargent. Village Voice, Choices, 22–28 February
Wooster, Ann-Sargent. Village Voice, Choices, 25–31 July
Wooster, Ann-Sargent. Village Voice, Choices, 8–14 August
1976 Mekas, Jonas. “Movie Journal,” Soho Weekly News, 14 October
Publication of Writings and Reproductions of Artwork
1985 Eye 13, unbound artists book, collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN (photograph)
Grand Video, screening sponsored by Art Music, NY
1983 Afterimage, 5 November–2 December (installation proposal)
Grants and Awards
2010 Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant
2000 Experimental TV Center Finishing Funds grant
1994 Guggenheim Fellowship
1990 New York State Council on the Arts Individual Artist grant (video installation)
1988 New York State Council on the Arts Individual Artist grant (video installation)
1987 NEA fellowship (New Genres)
1985 New York Foundation for the Arts grant (Video)
1984 MacDowell Colony Fellowship
Jerome Foundation grant
1983 Media Bureau Finishing Funds grant (NYSCA/The Kitchen