JOE MAMA-NITZBERG
Born 1965, Santa Clara, California
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
2024 Died and Gone to Hollywood, O-Town House, Los Angeles, CA, curated by Larry Johnson
The Past is an Allied Country, Grant Wahlquist Gallery, Portland, Maine
2022 Affluence = Denial, Billboard Commission for Shandaken Projects, Corner of Eldridge and East Broadway
New York, NY
2021 Classes in Optical Art, Grant Wahlquist Gallery, Portland, Maine
2019 A Study in Temperament, Grant Wahlquist Gallery, Portland, Maine
2018 Things Remembered, 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
SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2026 Settle for a Good Fantasy, Luhring Augustine, New York, NY
John Boskovitch/Larry Johnson/Joe Mama-Nitzberg, Liste Basel, Basel, Switzerland, curated by Scott Cameron Weaver
2025 History Lessons, University Art Museum, University at Albany, Albany, NY
a field of bloom and hum, Tang Museum, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
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
Joe Mama-Nitzberg/Marc Swanson, Carolyn Glasoe Bailey Foundation, Ojai, CA
2018 The Creek Flows into the River (New Art from the Hudson Valley), Walnut Hill, Hudson, NY
Red Thread; Good Grief, Collective, Woodstock, NY
#3 (Sometimes They Come Back), Grant Wahlquist Gallery, Portland, ME
#2, 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,
2009 Quizotic, 1717 Troutman, Brooklyn, NY
2001 Everybody Knows This is Nowhere: An Exhibition in Writing Only, Pulgar, Caracas, Venezuela
(Curated by Bruce Hainley and Siobhan McDevitt)
1999-2008 represents a nine -year period in which Joe Mama-Nitzberg was also a Creative Director in the music industry,
was a commercial photographer and taught at New York University.
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, Pittsburgh 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 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, NY
1995 Dark Memories..., Marc Foxx Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Gander Mountain High, Number 10, South Pasadena, CA
The Big Night (A Show for Colin Gardner), Bradbury Building, Los Angeles
1994 Dirty Pictures, Gramercy Park Int’l/ Chateau Marmont, Los Angeles, CA
Stonewall 25, White Columns, New York, NY
Red Rover, Three Day Weekend, Los Angeles
1993 Zuzuglich, Merz Akademie, Stuttgart, Germany,
SELECT PUBLICATIONS
2026 EDITORS, READ/WATCH/LISTEN, ART FORUM
SCHACHTER, Kenny, Kenny Schachter on…, ARTNET News
2025 JOHNSON/MAMA-NITZBERG, Interview with Larry Johnson, FROG Magazine
2024 EDITORS, Image Contributions 135, SPIKE Art Magazine, Issue 81/82
2021 PIERSON, Jack, The Artist Joe Mama-Nitzberg is Putting His Private Universe on Display, Interview Magazine
2019 MCCORMACK, Chris, LOVEAIDSRIOT, Art Monthly
BRANNON/MAMA-NITZBERG, Interview with Matthew Brannon, FROG Magazine
2017 ROSEN, Sara, Joe Mama-Nitzberg: Picture Not Portrait, Miss Rosen Presents
1998 CLARK, Vicki, Recycling Art History, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh 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, Persona, Schwabe & Co. AG, Verlag, Basel, Switzerland
MARTIN, Timothy, L.A.: Particles and Waves, Studio 246, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany (exhibition publication)
CURATION
2018 Mickey Mouse has grown up a cow, curated by Joe Mama-Nitzberg, University Art Museum, University at Albany, Albany, NY
COLLECTIONS
Walker Art Center
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Tang Teaching Museum, Skidmore College
The Bunker Artspace
RESEDENCIES
2022 Surf Point Foundation, York, ME
AWARDS
2015 Art Matters Grant