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JOE MANCUSO Education 1980 MFA, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN. 1977 BFA, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO. Selected Solo Exhibitions 2014 Because You’re Mine, Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston, TX. 2012 Anodyne, Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston, TX. 2010 Trace, Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston, TX. 2009 Lush Life, Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston, TX. 2008 Still Still Life, Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston, TX. “Untitled” And The Minimalist Aesthetic, El Paso Museum of Art, TX. 2005 AR/ Contemporary, Milan, Italy. 2004 Particles, Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston, TX. 2002 Mandala, Field, Still Life, Galveston Arts Center, Galveston, TX. Arabesque, Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston, TX. 2001 Concrete Abstractions, Pillsbury & Peters Fine Art, Dallas, TX. 2000 Drawings and Working Drawings, University of Houston Downtown, Houston, TX. 1998 Posttension, Glassell School of Art, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX. 1997 Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston, TX. 1996 Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston, TX. 1994 The Jung Center, Houston, TX. 1991 The Council for the Visual and Performing Arts, The University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, TX. Selected Group Exhibitions 2014 Alongside, Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston, TX. 2010 Elevated, Barbara Davis Gallery at Rottet Studio, Los Angeles, CA. 2003 Sergio Tossi Arte Contemporanea, Florence, Italy (catalogue). Alchemy, Arkansas State University, Jonesboro, AR.
2002 Positional Play, collaboration with James von Minor, Grinnell College, Grinnell, IA.
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Longview Museum of Fine Arts, Longview, TX. 2001 New Orleans Triennial, (catalogue) New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA. 2000 Crossing State Lines: Texas Art from the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, TX (catalogue). Joe Mancuso, Brian Portman and William Steen, Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston, TX. Barbara Andrus / Joe Mancuso, Gallery at UTA, (catalogue), University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX. 1999 Joe Mancuso and Steve Murphy, Transco Tower, Houston, TX. DAS LEBEN IST EINE BAUSTELLE, Galerie Rottoff, Karlsruhe, Federal Republic of Germany. Phoenix Triennial, Phoenix Art Museum, (catalogue), Phoenix, AZ. Sculpture, Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston, TX. 1997 Art Cologne, Cologne, Germany, represented by Galerie Rottoff, Karlsruhe, Germany. Simply Beautiful, Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, TX. Flora Bella, Galveston Arts Center, Galveston, TX. 1995 Common Ground, A Collaboration between James von Minor and Joe Mancuso, School 33 Art Center, Baltimore, MD. Material + Spirit, Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston, TX. The Texas Collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston: Texas Modern and Postmodern, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX, curated by Allison de Lima Greene. 1995 Texas Abstract: New Painting in the Nineties, Art Pace, San Antonio, TX. The McKinney Avenue Contemporary, curated by Francis Colpitt, Dallas, TX. Simple Things, (catalogue), Arlington Museum of Art, Arlington, TX. 1993 Process, Strategy, Irony, Diverse Works, curated by Aaron Parazette, (catalogue), Houston, TX. Low Tech, Center for Research in Contemporary Art, curated by Dalton Maroney (catalogue), University of Texas Arlington, Arlington, TX. Essentials, Glassell School of Art, curated by Joe Havel, Houston, TX. 1992 Richard Lodwig, Joe Mancuso & John Swanger, Kiyo Higashi Gallery, Los Angeles, CA. Edward Albee’s Other Eye, Selections from the Albee Collection, Hillwood Art Museum, (catalogue), Brookville, NY. Darkenss and Light, Blaffer Gallery, curated by Liz Ward, (catalogue), University of Houston, Houston, TX. 1990 Small Works, 80 Square East Gallery, New York University, New York , NY. Selected Bibliogrphy
2004 Johnson, Patricia C. “Particles”, Houston Chronicle, October 23, 2004. 2002 Pierre, Amanda, “Drake, Grinell, Sponser Innovative Art”, Des Moines Register, November 10, 2002. Johnson, Patricia C., “Installations find Common Ground”, Houston Chronicle. Roberts, Anne, “Joe Mancuso: Mandala. Field, & Still Life", Galveston Arts Center, Art Lies, Summer 2002. 2001 Colpitt, Francis. “Southern Sensibilities” Art in America, November 2001. “In der Galerie Rottlof,” Birkenrinde und Betoni” Karlsruhe, June 2001. Wilour, Clint, “An Obsession with Compulsion”, Art Lies, Summer 2001. 2000 Greene, Alison de Lima, “Texas: 150 Works from the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston,” The Museum of Fine Arts Houston Press, 2000. Hutchinson, Collin, “Joe Mancuso, New Work,” Art Lies, Fall 2000. Johnson, Patricia C, “Exhibits Craft Alternate Reality,” Houston Chronicle, September 2000. Anspon, Catherine D., “Joe Mancuso, Brian Portman, William Steen", Art News, April 2000. 1998 Olsen, Valerie, “Posttension: A Compelling Refinment by Joe Mancuso,” The Glassell School of Art of The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX, September 1998.
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Pelty, Kate, “Joe Mancuso at the Glassell,” Art Lies, Fall 1998. Rubin, David, “1998 Phoenix Triennial,” Phoenix Art Museum, August 1998. Johnson, Patricia C, “Concrete Turns Lyrical in Mancuso’s Art,” Houston Chronicle, September 16, 1998. Kalil, Susie, “Concrete Abstractions,” Houston Press, October 1, 1998. 1996 Friis-‐Hansen, Dana, “Not So Simple Pleasures,” Simply Beautiful catalogue, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX. Anspon, Catherine, “Houston’s Art Haven,” Public News, October 29, 1996. Selected Collections Breco Holdings, Inc., Houston, TX El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, TX Exxon Mobile, Houston, TX Galerie Rottloff, Karlsruhe, Germany Hilton Americas, Houston, TX Jacobs Engineering, Houston, TX Lime Rock Corporation, Houston, TX MidFirst, Phoenix, AZ Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX Neiman Marcus, Dallas, TX Royal Bank of Scotland, Houston, TX Schnizius & Vaughan, Houston, TX The Welch Foundation, Houston, TX The Finger Companies, Houston, TX The SBC Collection, San Antonio, TX Tudor Pickoring, Houston, TX University of Houston, Downtown, Houston, TX