JOHN SALVEST
Born: Kearny, NJ Resides: Jonesboro, AR
Education
1983 MFA, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
1979 MA, English, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
1977 BA, Duke University, Durham, NC
Awards/Honors
2010 Middle East Studies Travel Grant (Egypt), Arkansas State University, Jonesboro, AR
2008 Middle East Studies Travel Grant (Turkey), Arkansas State University, Jonesboro, AR
2006 Kays Foundation Grant, The Kays Foundation, Jonesboro, AR
2004 Public Art Network’s 2004 Public Art Year in Review, Americans for the Arts, Washington, DC
2003 Middle East Studies Travel Grant (Tunisia), Arkansas State University, Jonesboro, AR
2001 Faculty Research Grant, Arkansas State University, Jonesboro, AR (also 1998, 95)
2000 National Endowment for the Arts Selection Panelist for Museum Grants, Washington, DC
1998 Pollock-Krasner Grant, Pollock-Krasner Foundation, New York, NY
1993 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Award in Sculpture
1992 Arkansas Arts Council Fellowship Award in Sculpture
1991 NEA-Regional Artists Project Grant, Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, LA
1988 New Jersey State Council on the Arts Fellowship Award
Fellowship Award, Rutgers Center for Innovative Printmaking, New Brunswick, NJ
Public Art Projects
2011 IOU/USA, Penn Valley/Memorial Hill Park, Kansas City, MO
2006 Atlanta Hartsfield International Airport, Atlanta, GA
2003 Cannon Center for the Performing Arts, Memphis, TN
2002 American State Bank, Jonesboro, AR
2001 Memphis/Shelby County Public Library, Memphis, TN
Selected One-Person Exhibitions / Installations
2011 New Cornucopia and the Big IOU, Grand Arts, Kansas City, MO
2010 Consumo Ergo Sum, Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, TN
2009 Not Myself Lately, Morgan Lehman Gallery, New York, NY
2008 John Salvest at Morgan Lehman Gallery, Pulse Contemporary Art Fair, New York, NY
2007 Il Memoriale del Fango, Florence Biennale of Contemporary Art, Florence, Italy
2006 No Time for Sorrow, Morgan Lehman Gallery, New York, NY
2005 FLY etc., Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami, FL
2002 New Glory, Cheekwood Museum of Art, Nashville, TN
John Salvest: TEXTure, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR
2000 Undercurrent, Rudolph Projects, New York, NY
Undercurrent, Rudolph Poissant Gallery, Houston, TX
1999 John Salvest: Time on His Hands, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ
Words To Live By, Arkansas State University, Jonesboro, AR
Busy Hands, Southwest Texas State University, San Marcos, TX
1998 Nothing Endures, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY
Kindling, Smoky Hill River Festival, Salina, KS
1997 Meditation 7.21, Forum for Contemporary Art, St. Louis, MO
John Salvest: Recent Work, Rudolph Poissant Gallery, Houston, TX
1996 Inventory, City Gallery at Chastain, Atlanta, GA
1995 John Salvest: Sculpture, Salina Art Center, Salina, KS
ExtraOrdinary Objects, DePauw University, Greencastle, IN
1993 John Salvest: New Work, I Space, Chicago, IL
Black River, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Little Rock, AR
1992 Kafka Kaffee Kalendar, Kansas City Artists Coalition, Kansas City, MO
1991 The Myth of Sisyphus, Lincoln American Tower, Memphis, TN
1989 Boxes, Coup de Grace Gallery, New York, NY
John Salvest: Recent Work, Memphis Center for Contemporary Art, Memphis, TN
Selected Group Exhibitions
2011 Prospect 2 Projects, Jonathan Ferrara Gallery, New Orleans, LA
Flag Day, Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY
Legacy Exhibition, Winthrop Rockefeller Institute, Petit Jean Mountain, Morrilton, AR
Connections, Baum Gallery, University of Central Arkansas, Conway, AR
2010 Delta National Small Prints Exhibition, Bradbury Gallery, Arkansas State University, Jonesboro, AR
Opening Ceremony, Morgan Lehman Gallery, New York, NY
Local Flavors, Memphis College of Art, Memphis, TN
We Between the Lines, Morgan Lehman Gallery, New York, NY
Bestiary, Wassaic Project at Maxon Mills, Wassaic, NY
2009 Interrobang, SPACE Gallery, Portland, ME
Delta National Small Prints Exhibition, Bradbury Gallery, Arkansas State University, Jonesboro, AR
2008 Flocks & Feathers: Birds in Science, Culture and Art, Everhart Museum, Scranton, PA
Modern Art. Modern Lives. Then + Now, Austin Museum of Art, Austin, TX
Interactions/Interruptions, Memphis College of Art, Memphis, TN
Sexy Time, Morgan Lehman Gallery, New York, NY
Made in America, Peel Gallery, Houston, TX
2007 Promised Land, Morgan Lehman Gallery, New York, NY
I Want Candy, The Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY
Show #13, And/Or Gallery, Dallas, TX
Annual Delta Exhibition, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR (also 2003, 01, 1999, 97, 96, 95, 94, 92)
50/50: Fifty Years of the Delta Art Exhibition, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR
2006 Past Imperfect: Future Tense, New Center for Contemporary Art, Louisville, KY
A Timely Response, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami, FL
Au Courant, National Gallery of the Cayman Islands, Georgetown, Grand Cayman Island
Adelman, Christensen, Salvest, Ubias, Rudolph Projects, Houston, TX
Horizons, Bradbury Gallery, Arkansas State University, Jonesboro, AR
2005 What Business Are You In?, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA
South X East: Contemporary Southeastern Art, Art Galleries, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL
Riverbend Sculpture Biennial, Owensboro Museum of Art, Owensboro, KY
Sweet Basil, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami, FL
2004 Birdspace: A Post-Audubon Artists Aviary, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA. Traveled to
Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL and The Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY
Brown v. Topeka, National Civil Rights Museum, Memphis, TN
Southeastern Juried Exhibition, Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, AL
Findings, Diboll Gallery, Loyola University, New Orleans, LA
Critical Mass, Art Gallery, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX
2003 Harper College National Art Exhibition, Harper College, Palatine, IL
Public Art Projects: The Cannon Center for the Performing Arts, Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, TN
Selections from the Permanent Collection, Peeler Art Center, DePauw University, Greencastle, IN
2002 Side By Side, Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, TN
Snapshot, Aldrich Museum of Art, Ridgefield, CT
Bree-koh-lahzh, Rudolph Projects, Houston, TX
MOAK 2002, Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, MO
100 New Jersey Artists Make Prints, New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ
2001 Perspectives, Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, TN
Daily Life, Rudolph Projects, Houston, TX
All About Paint, University of Memphis Art Museum, Memphis, TN
New American Talent 17, Jones Center for Contemporary Art, Austin, TX
2000 Red Clay Survey of Contemporary Southern Art, Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, AL
Snapshot, Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, MD
27th Juried Exhibition, Allentown Museum of Art, Allentown, PA
Texas National, Stephen F. Austin University, Nacogdoches, TX
1999 Big Muddy: Too Thick to Drink, Too Thin to Plow, Zolla-Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL
Southeastern Triennial, Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, AL
3 Divided by 2, Baum Gallery, University of Central Arkansas, Conway, AR
The Other Book, Cleveland State University Art Gallery, Cleveland, OH
1998 New Orleans Triennial, New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA
MAX:98, University of Memphis Art Museum, Memphis, TN
Imaginary Friend, Rupert Goldsworthy Gallery, New York, NY
Found, Ledbetter Lusk Gallery, Memphis, TN
Ticking, Webb Gallery, Waxahachie, TX
Art of the Multiple, Marshall Arts, Memphis, TN
1997 Obsessions, SPACES Contemporary Art Center, Cleveland, OH
X Marks the Spot, University of Memphis Art Museum, Memphis, TN
New American Talent 13, Jones Center for Contemporary Art, Austin, TX
1996 Southeastern Triennial, Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, AL
LaGrange National, Lamar Dodd Art Center, LaGrange, GA
Tree as Icon, Ledbetter Lusk Gallery, Memphis, TN
New American Talent 12, Austin Museum of Art, Austin, TX
1995 Tijd Tekens (Marking Time), Gallery Quartair, The Hague, Netherlands
Seven Deadly Sins, University of Arkansas at Little Rock Galleries, Little Rock, AR
John Salvest & Les Christensen, Clough-Hansen Gallery, Rhodes College, Memphis, TN
1994 Little Things, Art in General, New York, NY
Self-Possessed, Austin Museum of Art, Austin, TX
Southern Invitational, Memphis College of Art, Memphis, TN
Multiples, Cooper Street Gallery, Memphis, TN
1993 National Showcase Exhibition, Alternative Museum, New York, NY
Contacts/Proofs, Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ
Windows of the Dream, Exhibition of Temporary Public Art Projects, Memphis, TN
1992 Brooks Biennial, Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, TN
Assemblage, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC
New Jersey Arts Annual, Noyes Museum, Oceanvill e, NJ
The Sleeping Beauty, CB’s 313 Gallery, New York, NY
1991 National Sculpture Exhibition, DeLand Museum of Art, DeLand, FL
New Jersey Artists Series, Morris Museum, Morristown, NJ
Sculpture Invitational, Forum Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
Prints, Drawings & Photographs, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR
1990 Selections, Artists Space, New York, NY
Multiples, Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA
New Life, Coup de Grace Gallery, New York, NY
Revelations, Aljira Center for Contemporary Art, Newark, NJ
Curation
Art from the Netherlands, Arkansas State University, Jonesboro, AR, 1996
Domestic Disturbance, Salina Art Center, Salina, KS, 2001
New Orleans Triennial, New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA, 2001
Kim Levin: Notes and Itineraries, Delta Axis @ Marshall Arts, Memphis, TN, 2003
Traveled to Ronald Feldman Gallery, New York, NY, 2006, Haas & Mayer Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland, 2006; Ludwig Museum, Budapest, Hungary, 2007; Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland, 2008; Royal College of Art, London, England, 2009
True Grit, Salina Art Center, Salina, KS, 2010
Traveled to Bradbury Gallery, Arkansas State University, Jonesboro, AR, 2010
Selected Bibliography
Allgardh, Sophie. “En Kritikers Arbetsdag,” Paletten, Number 2/2009, pp. 22-27.
Amy, Michael. “John Salvest at Morgan Lehman,” Art in America, January 2007, pp. 140-1.
Anthes, Bill. “John Salvest: TEXTure,” Art Papers, September/October 2002, p. 37.
Anthes, Bill. “The Hidden Significance of a Clothespin,” NUMBER: 44, Spring 2003, pp. 13-14.
Bookhardt, D. Eric. “Found and Lost,” New Orleans Gambit Weekly, 9 November 2004, p. 36.
Baker, R.C. “Best in Show: No Time for Sorrow,” The Village Voice, 7-13 June 2006, p. 83.
Baker, R.C. “Best in Show: Promised Land,” The Village Voice, 18-24 July 2007, p. 51.
Bland, Bartholomew. I Want Candy: The Sweet Stuff in American Art. Yonkers, NY: The Hudson River Museum, 2007.
Connors, Thomas. Review, Sculpture, January/February 1994, p. 54.
Duffy, Robert. “A Study in Contrasting Sensibilities,” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 9 February 1997, pp. C4 & 7.
Dugan, Cory. “Art Infinitum,” Memphis Flyer, 19 February 1998, pp. 33 & 35.
Dugan, Cory. “Playful Sculpture Brings Public & Private Spaces Together,” Memphis Commercial Appeal, 7 March
2004, pp. F1 & 4.
Falkowski, Andrew. “Big Muddy: Too Thick to Drink, Too Thin to Plow,” New Art Examiner, October 1999, p. 44.
Feaster, Felicia. Inventory: John Salvest & Michael Banicki. Atlanta, Georgia: City Gallery at Chastain, 1996.
Feaster, Felicia. “There’s No Business Like Show Business,” Creative Loafing Atlanta, 17 February 2005, p. 47.
Fox, Catherine. “Doing Business,” Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 20 February 2005, p. L10.
French, Christopher. “John Salvest: Undercurrent,” ArtLies, Summer 2000, p. 74.
Goodrich, John. “Sweet Seduction in Varied Forms,” The New York Sun, 2 August 2007, p. 50.
Hall, David. “Kim Levin: Itineraries,” Art Papers, March/April 2004, p. 43.
Irvine, Madeline. Review, Austin American-Statesman, 10 June 1996, p. E8.
Johnson, Ken. “Postcards from Cutting Edge of Downtown’s Art Scene,” New York Times, 18 January 2006, p. E3.
Johnson, Patricia. “Emotion, Hidden Issues Come Forward in Show,” Houston Chronicle, 6 June 2000, p. D1.
Kessinger, Jeff. Interview with John Salvest, SECAC Review, Vol. 12., No. 1, 1991, pp. 27-32.
Kotik, Charlotta. 1998 New Orleans Triennial. New Orleans, Louisiana: New Orleans Museum of Art, 1998.
Lennie, Janaki. “Bree-koh-lahzh,” ArtLies, Fall 2002, pp. 82-83.
Levin, Kim. John Salvest: Time on His Hands. Phoenix, Arizona: Phoenix Art Museum, 1999.
Levin, Kim. “On Notes and Itineraries: A Statement,” Framework, Number 10/June 2009, pp. 36-39.
Linn, John. “John Salvest: Black River,” Art Papers, May/June 1993, p. 40.
McCarthy, David. John Salvest, New Art Examiner, May 1994, pp. 50-51.
McGowan, Robert. Review, Art Papers, May/June 1994, pp. 62-63.
Melkisethian, Angela. “Commissions: Cannon Center for the Performing Arts,” Sculpture, July/August 2004, p. 27.
Morgan, Cynthia & D. McCarthy. Tijd Tekens. The Hague, The Netherlands: Galerie Quartair, 1995.
Plante, Michael. “Southern Discomfort,” Art in America, March 1999, pp.67-69.
Reeve, Charles. “Clashes of Civilization,” ArtLies, Winter 2005, p. 40.
Rubin, David. Birdspace: A Post-Audubon Artists Aviary. New Orleans, LA: Contemporary Arts Center, 2004.
Rubinstein, Raphael. “Critic’s Beat,” Art in America, March 2006, p. 55.
Schwendener, Martha. “Art in Review: Promised Land,” New York Times, 20 July 2007, p. E29.
Salvest, John et al. Composition Book. Salina, Kansas: Salina Art Center, 1995.
Steiner, Urs. “Rollenstauch (Role Reversal),” Neue Zurcher Zeitung, 23 June 2006, p. 44.
Storr, Robert. New American Talent 13. Austin, Texas: Texas Fine Arts Association, 1997.
Trieschmann, Werner. “Junk Jewels,” Arkansas Democrat Gazette, 28 April 2002, pp. E1-2.
Weeden, John. “MAX: 98 Review,” NUMBER: 35, Fall 1998, p.17.
Wilbur, Debra. Studio View: John Salvest, New Art Examiner, March 1998, p. 47.
