JOHN SCHLESINGER

Philadelphia

AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS AND RESIDENCIES

2019 CFEVA Visual Artist’s Fellowship, Peter Benoliel Fellow
2002 John Armstrong Chaloner Rome Prize Fellowship in the Visual Arts Peter S. Reed Foundation Award
2000’s VCCA residencies (2)
2000 Aaron Siskind Fellowship
1999 Louis Comfort Tiffany Award
1998 Evelyn Stefansson Nef Fellow, The MacDowell Colony
1990’s MacDowell Residencies (5)
1992 Yaddo Residency
1992 Aaron Siskind Fellowship
1989-14 Blue Mountain Center Residencies (4), Blue Mountain, NY
1988 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship (also 1986)
1983 Bush Foundation Fellowship

SOLO AND TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2023 Frankensteinway, an ongoing Installation, 5 perf. with Taji Ra’oof Nah (TR7) and musicians
2023 In memory of Everett Beauregard, United Methodist Church, Berlin
2023 Installation: Phototron, with Loudwig van Ludens, United Methodist Church, Berlin
2023 Installation: FRIEDAcommunity, Philadelphia
2022 If you lived here..., you’d be home now, Artbox, Philadelphia
2022 Untitled Installation, with Loudwig van Ludens, Artloft and studio, Berlin
2021 After the Fall. Cherry Street Pier, Philadelphia
2020 Untitled Installation, CFEVA, Philadelphia
2019 …the player to be named later, VisArts Center, Rockville, Md
2018 Basement installation, Lola 38, Philadelphia
2018 Window installation. Lancaster Ave, Philadelphia
2017 A Player to be Named Later, a Dear Volunteers collaboration with Tra Bouscaren, LoLa38, Philadelphia
2017 Dear Volunteers, AC Institute, New York, NY, collaboration with Tra Bouscaren
2016 You Doom Chunx, a Dear Volunteers collaboration with Tra Bouscaren, Unsmoke Systems Artspace, Braddock, PA
2016 Dear Volunteers, a Dear Volunteers collaboration with Tra Bouscaren, Whittier College, Green Leaf Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2016 Neon Robot Iceberg, a Dear Volunteers collaboration with Tra Bouscaren, Fort Mason Center for Art and Culture, San Francisco, CA

2022 Untitled Installation, with Loudwig van Ludens, Artloft and studio, Berlin

2021 After the Fall. Cherry Street Pier, Philadelphia

2020 Untitled Installation, CFEVA, Philadelphia

2019 …the player to be named later, VisArts Center, Rockville, Md

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2021 Sculpture in the Glen, Philadelphia

2022 Inliquid Gallery Benefit, Philadelphia

2019 Selections from CFEVAs 2018 Fellows, Cherry Street Pier, Philadelphia

2018 Wonkfest Tra Bouscaren, Max Rain, and John Schlesinger

2018 CICA Experimental Film and Video Exhibition, CICA Museum, Korea

PUBLICATIONS AND REVIEWS

2018 Art Blog, review by Miles Orville, Philadelphia

2018 Lola 38 Catalog, Philadelphia

2003 Catalog, American Academy in Rome

2001 Pandemic: Facing AIDS, Umbrage Editions, edited and curated by Nan Richardson, Spring

2001 Art Issues, “San Francisco e-Mail: Burtynsky, Schlesinger, Nimoy”, Mark Van Proyen, Summer

SELECTED COLLECTIONS

American Academy in Rome

Allen Memorial Museum

Art Institute of Chicago

Bill Arning, New York

Bonni Benrubi, New York

EDUCATION

University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Philosophy and Photography, BA; Art Education, BS, 1980

University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, MFA (Interdisciplinary Art), Certificate in TBM, 2012