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
89-14 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 Installation: Photron, with Loudwig van Ludens, United Methodist Church, Berlin
2023 Installation: FRIEDA, 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
Window installation. Lancaster Ave, Philadelphia
2017 A Player to Be Named Later, a Dear Volunteers collaboration with
Tra Bouscaren, LoLa38, Philadelphia
Dear Volunteers, AC Institute, New York, NY
a Dear Volunteers collaboration with Tra Bouscaren
2016 You Doom Chunx, a Dear Volunteers collaboration with Tra Bouscaren,
Unsmoke Systems Artspace, Braddock, PA
Dear Volunteers, a Dear Volunteers collaboration with Tra Bouscaren,
Whittier College, Green Leaf Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Neon Robot Iceberg, a Dear Volunteers collaboration with Tra Bouscaren,
Fort Mason Center for Art and Culture, San Francisco, CA
Daft Affect, a Dear Volunteers collaboration with Tra Bouscaren
TR Gallery, Berkeley, CA
2013 My Future Ex, site-specific installation, Dear Volunteers collaboration, Buffalo,
2012 Untitled Installation, The Annenberg Center for Performing Arts,
Philadelphia
2003 John Schlesinger, Front Gallery, American Academy in Rome, Rome, Italy
2001 John Schlesinger, Quotidian Gallery, San Francisco, CA
John Schlesinger, Williamsburg Art NeXus, Brooklyn, NY
1996 John Schlesinger, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina,
1996 Writing Pictures, Julie Saul Gallery, New York, NY (catalogue)
1995 Fragmented Images, The Alternative Museum, New York, NY
1994 Working the Blade: Jacob Kass/John Schlesinger, The Tampa Art Museum,
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021 Sculpture in the Glen, Philadelphia
2019 Selections from CFEVAs 2018 Fellows, Cherry Street Pier, Philadelphia
2018 Wonkfest Tra Bouscaren, Max Rain, and John Schlesinger
CICA Experimental Film and Video Exhibition, CICA Museum, Korea
2013 My Future Ex installation at University of Buffalo Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
2011 Vox VII, Vox Populi, Philadelphia, PA
2011 Hive/Cave, Pageant, Philadelphia, PA
2011 Duets, DCCA, Wilmington, DE
1996 Out takes, Obscure Selections by Gallery Artists, Julie Saul Gallery, New York, NY
1992 More Than One Photography: Work Since 1980...Museum of Modern Art, New York
Group Exhibition, Blum Helman Warehouse, New York
1992 Voyeurism, Jayne H. Baum Gallery, New York
Cannibal Eyes, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts (catalogue)
Addressing the Forbidden, Brighton Festival, Edinburgh, Scotland
1991 The Body in Question, Burden Gallery, New York (catalogue)
Moving Light, Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin
Erotic Desire, Centrum Voor Fotographie, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
1990 The Big Picture: Selections from the Permanent Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Wagner, Berman, Schlesinger, Lieberman & Saul Gallery, New York
Photography: 1980’s—Discovery and Invention, curated by J. Smith, Basel Art Fair, Switzerland
The Indomitable Spirit: Photographers and Friends United Against AIDS, International Center for Photography, New York and Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery (catalogue)
The Photography of Invention, The National Museum of American Art, the Walker Art Center,
Sequence (Con) Sequence, Bard College, Annandale, New York
1989 Unbesehen, Kampnagel 3, Hamburg, FDR
1987 Poetic Injury, Alternative Museum, New York
Recent Acquisitions, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
This is Not a Photograph, John and Mabel Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, Florida
1986 Stills: From Cinema and Video into Photography, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle
The Real Big Picture, The Queens Museum, New York
1985 Figures, Spaces, and Structures, 1972-83, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
PUBLICATIONS AND REVIEWS
2018 Art Blog, review by Miles Orville, Philadelphia
2018 Lola 38 catalog, Philadelphia
2003 Catalog, American Academy in Rome
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
2000 Art in America, “Artworld”, a description of Louis Comfort Tiffany Award, March
New York Times, review of “Snapshots” at Aldrich Museum, by Sarah Boxer
1999 Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, Award Catalogue
1997 Art in America, “Writing Pictures” photo with review by Eileen Myles, March
Art News, “The Image of the Hand” photo with article by Barbara Pollack, March
1996 Writing Pictures, a catalogue by John Schlesinger, essay by Linda Yablonsky,
The New York Observer, “Secret Codes: A Touch of Noir” review by A.D. Coleman, Sept. 30
1993 Blind Spot, premier issue
Art in America, “Complex Vision”, article by Paul Smith, March
Future Safe, donated photographs in pamphlet about estate planning for artists with HIV
1992 White Columns Catalogue, “Update 92”, essay by Bill Arning
MIT Catalogue, “Cannibal Eyes”, essay by Ron Platt
1991 Art News, “Wagner, Berman, Schlesinger”, review by Richard Woodward, January
1987 Art News, review by Mary Haus
1986 The New York Times, review by Andy Grundberg, July 11
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
American Academy in Rome
Allen Memorial Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Bill Arning, New York
Bonni Benrubi, New York
Blue Mountain Center
Henry Buhl, New York
Brooklyn Museum, New York
Carnegie Museum of Art
Dallas Museum of Fine Arts
Deutsche Bank, AG, FDR
Richard Flood, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Barry Friedman, New York
General Mills, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Hamburg Kunsthalle, Hamburg, FDR
Houston Museum of Fine Arts
Lehigh University Gallery
The MacDowell Colony
Minneapolis Institute of Art
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Oberlin College Art Museum, Ohio
Princeton University, New Jersey
Aaron Siskind Foundation
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Tampa Art Museum
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
EDUCATION
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Philosophy and Photography, BA; Art Education, BS, 1980
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, MFA (Interdisciplinary Art), Certificate in TBM, 2012
CONTACT, WEBSITE AND BLOGS
Email: jschlesinger99@hotmail.com
Website: http://www.johnschlesinger.net
Instagram: @johnschlesinger