JOE MAMA-NITZBERG
Born 1965, Santa Clara, CA
Lives and works in Catskill, NY
EDUCATION
1995 Master of Fine Arts, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA
1989 Bachelor of Arts, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022 Affluence = Denial, Billboard Commission for Shandaken Projects, Corner of Eldridge and East Broadway NYC
2021 Classes in Optical Art, Grant Wahlquist Gallery, Portland Maine
2019 A Study in Temperament, Grant Wahlquist Gallery, Portland Maine
2018 Things Remembered, Back Gallery Basilica Hudson, Hudson, NY
2017 Picture not Portrait, Grant Wahlquist Gallery, Portland Maine
2015 Joe Mama-Nitzberg, Galerie Catherine Bastide, Brussels, Belgium
1996 SURRENDER, Marc Foxx, Santa Monica, CA
1995 Newish Work, MFA Gallery, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022 The Bunker Art Space 2022 Exhibition, Bunker Art Space, West Palm Beach, FL
2021 From The Archives: White Columns & 112 Greene Street/112 Workshop, 1970-2021…
White Columns, New York, NY, curated by Matthew Higgs
2019 Boyz Keep Swinging, Keyes Art, Sag Harbor, NY, curated by Maynard Monrow
Joe Mama-Nitzberg/Marc Swanson, Carolyn Glasoe Bailey Foundation, Ojai, CA
2018 Red Thread; Good Grief, Collective, Woodstock, NY
The Creek Flows into the River, Walnut Hill Gallery, Hudson, NY
#2, Grant Wahlquist Gallery, Portland, ME
#3 (Sometimes They Come Back), Grant Wahlquist Gallery, Portland, ME
2017 #1, Grant Wahlquist Gallery, Portland, ME
2016 Love 2016, Neiman Gallery at Columbia University, New York, NY
2015 American Masquerade, Prattsville Art Center, Prattsville, NY
2014 Far From Now, Bunker 259, Brooklyn, NY, organized by Regina Rex
Correspondence, PS Hudson, Catskill, NY
2012 B-OUT, Andrew Edlin Gallery, NYC, curated by Scott Hug
2009 Quizotic, 1717 Troutman, Brooklyn, NY
represents a nine -year hiatus in which Joe Mama-Nitzberg was a Creative Director in the music industry, was
a commercial photographer and taught at New York University
2001 Everybody Knows This is Nowhere: An Exhibition in Writing Only, Pulgar, Caracas, Venezuela
(Curated by Bruce Hainley and Siobhan McDevitt)
1999 I Me Mine,Luckman Fine Arts Gallery, California State University, Los Angeles, CA
The Living Theater, Salzberger Kunstverein , Salzburg Austria (catalogue)
1998 Recycling Art History, Pittsburg Center for the Arts (catalogue)
1997 Sunshine and Noir, Art in L.A. 1960-1997, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark (catalogue)
The Shooting Gallery, L.A.C.E., Los Angeles, CA
1996 Joe Mama-Nitzberg and TJ Wilcox, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, NYC
Stream of Consciousness, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA
Studio 246, Marc Foxx, Santa Monica, CA
Persona, The Renaissance Society, University of Chicago, IL, traveled to Kunsthalle, Basel, (catalogue)
Studio 246, Kuenstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
Sampler II, David Zwirner Gallery, New York, curated by Diana Thater
1995 Dark Memories..., Marc Foxx Gallery, Santa Monica, CA. Curated by Larry Johnson
The Big Night (A Show for Colin Gardner), Bradbury Building, Los Angeles
Faggots: A Communique from North America, Centro Cultural Ricardo Rojas, Buenos Aires, Argentina
1994 Dirty Pictures, Gramercy Park Int’l/ Chateau Marmont, Los Angeles CA, curated by Jack Pierson
Stonewall 25, White Columns, New York, curated by Bill Arning
Red Rover, Three Day Weekend, Los Angeles
1993 Zuzuglich, Merz Akademie, Stuttgart, Germany, curated by Christopher Williams
COLLABORATIVE EXHIBITIONS (with Marc Swanson)
2010 Kurt, Seattle Museum of Art, Seattle, WA (curated by Michael Darling)
2009 Dilettantes, Dandies and Divas, Gavlak Projects, West Palm Beach, FL
Other Arrangements, Pacific Design Center, West Hollywood, CA
2008 What Comes Naturally, Fake Estate, NYC
If Love Could Have Saved You.,Bellwether Gallery, NYC
PUBLICATIONS
2021 MAMA-NITZBERG, Joe/PIERSON, Jack, The Artist Joe Mama-Nitzberg Is Putting His Private Universe
on Display, INTERVIEW Magazine
2019 MCCORMACK, Chris, LOVEAIDSRIOT, Art Monthly
LANGEVIN, Julein, Review: “Picture Not Portrait”, Grant Wahlquist Gallery, FROG Magazine
MAMA-NITZBERG, Joe/BRANNON, Matthew, Interview, FROG Magazine
2017 LANGEVIN, JULIEN, Where Critical Tides Meet, The Chart Journal, Spring 2017
ROSEN, Sara, Joe Mama-Nitzberg: Picture Not Portrait, Miss Rosen Presents
1998 CLARK, Vicki. Recycling Art History, Pittsburg Center for the Arts, Pittsburg PA (catalogue)
1997 FERGUSON, Russell. Mike Kelley and the L.A. Art Scene, BIJUTSU TECHO Magazine, February, Vol 49.
1996 BROWN, Elizabeth. Stream of Consciousness, University of California, Santa Barbara (exhibition catalogue)
THATER, Diana. Person, Schwabe & Co. AG, Verlag, Basel, Switzerland
MARTIN, Timothy. L.A.: Particles and Waves, Studio 246, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
CURATION
2018 Mickey Mouse Has Grown Up A Cow, curated by Joe Mama-Nitzberg, University Art Museum, Albany, NY
COLLECTIONS
Walker Art Center
The Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles
AWARDS
Art Matters Grant